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by peteri 12y ago
Like number 31 price is a bit off but Telco bundle pricing makes it pretty much correct. 31. Build a PDA for less than $250 that actually does something: a) cellular email b) 56-channel TV c) Internet phone.
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by peteri 12y ago
That honestly sounds unlikely as a fare. That's over 40 minutes each way on a time basis (by distance it should be around £6..7) Lets assume you did drive around for over 40 minutes uber would want £3+40*0.32p so they would have charge
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by peteri 12y ago
I think it's probably the bug with the log routine that you're thinking of: http://www.6502.org/source/floats/wozfp2.txt
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by peteri 12y ago
Lets be honest here if you want to listen as the engineer and artist intended[1] then you probably want Yamaha NS10s sat on a mixing desk bridge. See this sound on sound article for more (and why you might want a mixing desk) http:/&#
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by peteri 12y ago
Watch out Three have changed this in the last couple of months. The old "one plan" gave you unlimited tethered data, the new one is 2GB of tethered data. I suspect too many people were going wire free and hammering the network. Mo
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by peteri 12y ago
Most of the 6502 Microsoft basic varieties can be built from the same source code http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46 has lots of the gory details
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by peteri 12y ago
I thought the same thing. When I first started work a couple of drinks at lunchtime was considered normal. At my first employers (Borland UK) back in the late 80s we would go out as a team every 2-3 weeks and get drunk at the companies expe
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by peteri 12y ago
Depends on the patent office, both the German & European patent offices are fairly liberal in allowing software patents. The UK patent office is currently harder to get a pure software patent in. It's certainly possible to get pate
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by peteri 13y ago
Jeff probably has enough "internet fame" to get away with asking folks to audition with a longer project and get good results. Personally I'd be happy with anything that should take less than a day to do, but giving folks acc
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by peteri 13y ago
At the time I seem to recall this was documented as being the SWITCHAR in config.sys certainly by MSDOS3.x this was well known and I seem to recall trying it out on MSDOS 2.x on a commodore pc clone (in Sweden) this would have been around 1
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by peteri 13y ago
Err MSDOS was a rough CP/M clone and CP/M did have drive letters. CP/M picked up some stuff from RSX-11 (pip for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program ) and that's why t
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by peteri 13y ago
I've avoided making these comments (which I agree with) as I'm coming from a UK based background so I was unclear if this a US style resume thing. It badly needs trimming, I found it hard to get a sense of your skills (and which a
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by peteri 13y ago
Need to very careful over this data. For example it was compulsory from the Crimean war (1856) until 1916 for British soldiers not shave above their top lip[1]. In the PDF it is stated that he doesn't exclude military pictures so I sus
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by peteri 13y ago
Hmm over here on this side of the pond a pound symbol means £ not octothorpe / hash / sharp.
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by peteri 13y ago
For talks to user groups where I'm generating new slide decks and demos one piece of advice I was given was reckon on around 1 hour of prep for each minute of speaking time. The successful stuff that I've done seemed to match this
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by peteri 13y ago
I remember buying a copy of OS/2 Warp from Grey Matter in the UK for £5 as a promotional version (required a version of windows to upgrade from IIRC) Sadly the big problem was that it swapped like mad in 4MB which Windows 95 didn'
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by peteri 13y ago
Ladbrokes is one of the UKs largest bookies profits are in the $300M range. Number of active users is 1,010,000 according to their last annual report. I suspect one of the spread betting sites would actually give a more realistic view. (I h
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by peteri 13y ago
I didn't see this in there but support and maintenance is a great recurring spend. For enterprise software this can be 20% of the purchase price, if you give a discount on the software (this can give the purchasing folks a win to take
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by peteri 13y ago
Very true. It's my biggest annoyance with Visual Studio when I write straight C code that the intellisense error checker moans about this. The compiler is of course perfectly happy when it's running in C mode. But then I'm st
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by peteri 13y ago
The mini assembler was in the integer basic ROMS. Prodos didn't support integer basic (hence no mini assembler) but the later enhanced //e roms also had the mini assembler. I have very fond memories of the Apple //e
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by peteri 13y ago
Good about time. The number of times where I have a what technologies should I use do thing X kind of question and there isn't anywhere good to ask. Might be worth looking at OSQA as platform.
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by peteri 13y ago
Sorry this is news folks? Really? See this from 2011/12 from http://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2012/01/microsoft-office... However, the Patriot Act, introduced to protect US national security, can requ
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by peteri 13y ago
Think you're right. The article could with a rewrite as Unicode used to be 16 bit until 1996 (according to Wikipedia) which explains why Java/Windows are really UTF-16 based. The more interesting question is if you're designi
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by peteri 13y ago
Microsoft have already admitted this with respect to office 365. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...
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by peteri 13y ago
Didn't realise that but it kind of makes sense.
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by peteri 13y ago
Simple to fix for three. Change the APN to 3internet from three.co.uk This hasn't caused me any problems on my "one plan" phone, I don't know if this will cause issues on lower tier plans.
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by peteri 13y ago
Three might be worth a look. Should be able to pick up a sim at most mobile phone shops. Note you aren't allow to tether on their pay as you go sims.
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by peteri 13y ago
The Kings Cross example is in part due to the new Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. The newer exit is much nearer to St Pancras so if the test had been the Eurostar entrance then I'm not sure who would have won. Given the location of the new
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by peteri 13y ago
Certainly the silencer design is done by a friend of mine who lives in NZ who already avoids going to the US so I suspect that will stay up for a very long time.
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by peteri 13y ago
That's late for hand coding assembler (and very late for a KIM 1). Last time I did any hand assembly was 81/82 for a ZX81. Graduated to an Apple //e where I wrote my own assembler using the mini-assembler in the integer basic ROM and Apple

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