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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Surely Basic is not responsible for the Commodore being responsive. Java was a total dog on phones for a long time, too.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Fun idea, but the resolution is absurdly low, and as an emissive display it won't be able to block light (show dark things) without trickery or some drawbacks (like tinting the view glass, or requiring all lights to be off). "peop
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
How the mighty have fallen.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The little-sung secret technique for removing dinky laptop stickers is to use a piece of adhesive tape to pull up the remaining gunk. For whatever reason, the stickers seem to be affixed with the most tenacious glue available.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
High-res pixel art is tough - to create, and sometimes to enjoy. When the goal of pixel art is to create something interesting when imposing resolution constraints, the significance of a single pixel is reduced when working with such a high
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
What is the likelihood of this voting machine (or ones like it) being used in an election in 2016? From the article's picture, I see several 8-bit EPROMs in sockets. As much as I love this technology, I would expect that something newe
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The interesting thing is how much TV _hasn't_ changed as a format. The resolution has increased, the aspect ratio has changed, but these are simply parameters. Fundamentally, we're still sending signals that get decoded to form a
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
This would have been better written in Ru- Oh.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
You've described using a phone as a mass storage device.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Increasing resolution makes it _better_, but the same resolution with square RGB arrangements will do a better job for the aforementioned contexts.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
This kind of display is poor at representing hard, orthagonal edges, which drive much of our user interfaces, lots of text rendering, and pixel art.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
"We used to have personal desks, but now we have this “pick whatever spot is available” open area. I dislike it a lot." This fits in line with what nearly everybody I know thinks. Does anyone _actually_ like open-plan offices with
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
It improves surface contact. That it works isn't a myth at all. Many people mistakenly put the blame on dust, thinking that blowing on it remove the dust which made it work. It's not great for it in the long term, though, but hard
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Replacing the battery takes a couple minutes. Many of those carts are still running. The number of decent NES games that used battery saving can be counted on your hands, so to call it a LOT of pain might be exaggerating a little.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The NES cartridge's pin pitch is nonstandard, and making a new slot for it is actually a very expensive endeavor. You can get "close" with standard parts, but the resulting tolerance is extremely low.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The most recent Sega units by ATGames are emulated, and they do an absolutely terrible job. Many of them have the FM sound channels out of tune with the SSG sound channels. It's a great way to get a terrible impression of the games off
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The T43p was built by Lenovo. Check the labels on the bottom.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
If you wait for half a year, I own two rejuvinator units and have used them to restore some tunes. Once I move to the Bay Area I'd be happy to lend them out.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Many PSUs do have bleed resistors, but plenty (especially cheaper ones) will not. More importantly, a damaged PSU may have a non-working bleeder circuit, and you'll only know when you discharge a cap. Hopefully across a resistor, rathe
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Steam itself doesn't force DRM on a developer. As an SDK, it provides a very easy DRM platform to choose to use. They offer it, but it doesn't have to be utilized.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The author of this post gives the impression of being unaware of potential color fringe artifacts that crop up with subpixel rendering. The real design crime is allowing a property like this (or WebKit, for that matter) to ignore the user&#
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
This was an interesting read, but I thought the description of the Von Neuman's architectural decision to address program instructions and data in the same address space was a little hasty - perhaps introducing the Harvard architecture
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Facebook Messenger.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
A little kapton tape tints it to a less irritating and warmer tone.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
A late page of the C ROM data looks like it contains data from Money Idol Exchanger, so I think this game was developed by FACE.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
The problems being described sound like capacitors that have gone bad in the deflection circuitry. In the world of arcade machines, which run CRT monitors for hours on end every day, this failure mode is very common, and it shows as a &quot
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
Never mind that in order to use a voice service, it requires you to speak at a rate slower than many can type, all while demanding that the people in the room hush up so it won't get confused. Repeat if there was a mistake.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
Seconding this. Websites shouldn't push a preference like that on users.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
You can't run the car on it, but many subsystems in any car, automatic or not, can and will run on that sort of machine.

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