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by peteri 14y ago
Try Graham Hughes http://www.theodysseyexpedition.com/ he's been to every sovereign state (201 apparently) in the world without flying. Took three years and he's only recently finished.
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by peteri 14y ago
From memory the code moves one invader one pixel[1] each video frame. [1] Might be wrong and it's multple pixels.
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by peteri 14y ago
Nearly correct according to http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/6/19/05641/7357 the initial code was provided by Spider but since NT3.5 it's been mostly (see the article for why I say mostly) MS code in the kernel (and the userland code is
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by peteri 14y ago
I currently think the C compiler vendors have gone too far with this. Although the specification says this behaviour is undefined in practice I used to map the undefined portion to being whatever my hardware did, not whatever the compiler f
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by peteri 14y ago
I just change the APN to 3internet from three.co.uk which gets rid of the censoring. Settings / Wireless and networks More / Mobile networks / Access point names on my Nexus S. So far (nearly two years) no ill effects with billing, I'm on t
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by peteri 14y ago
Last time I went shopping for a machine 1680x1050 was my target resolution for a 17" screen with dual hard drives, I'm still using it four years later (it has had HD upgrade to 2x500gb 7200RPM drives) It happens to have a couple of GeForce
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by peteri 14y ago
Ability to loan is one I'd love, currently I have to break the DRM to let my wife read books we share, we could swap kindles (or share an account) but frankly it's easier to break the DRM. My kindle (international v2) has a small crack in t
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by peteri 14y ago
Early on with kindles before they had the rest of world kindle store you had to buy from the US store (As an early international kindle buyer I had a US account) I migrated to the UK store as some books I wanted were in the UK store but not
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by peteri 14y ago
Or if you were programming on an 8086 in large memory model where int is 16 bit and a pointer is 32 bit (16 bit segment, 16 bit offset) This makes me wonder if anyone ever did a compiler where malloc returned a segment + offset (I think tha
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by peteri 14y ago
Also the casts to (char *) from malloc suggest that the author is a C++ programmer.
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by peteri 14y ago
We did have walled gardens. I had accounts on Compuserve, bix, cix, MCIMail with a college account that did mail with bang path addressing over uucp (this is in 1986/7). Most of the UKs email over uucp came in via the ukc gateway and IIRC I
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by peteri 14y ago
Actually the Window Manager seems to be OK (if a bit blurry). There may be problems with games going full screen for example open-invaders is a few pixels short on my PAL TV so only half of the score characters are visible, dunno if I shoul
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by peteri 14y ago
Very useful when performing integer mathematics... First met it in Brodies Starting Forth I always remember it as 113355 (split it in half) Having gone away to check my memory I notice that he also provides: 1068966896 / 340262731 which is
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by peteri 14y ago
Turbo Pascal was definitely Danish (polydata)
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by peteri 15y ago
For home machines most of them would have been colour by 1982-3. My first paid for job was Turbo Pascal on a CGA PC in 1984 so it was pretty wide spread.
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by peteri 15y ago
Wow, that reads like a pretty good slam dunk for the govt.
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by peteri 15y ago
m.countdown.tfl.gov.uk is the mobile version which last time I looked wasn't obvious from the website.
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by peteri 15y ago
.org is operated by PIR (actually afilias in dublin according to wikipedia) not sure exactly how much leverage the US has over it currently.
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by peteri 15y ago
Yep that would work, just a bit pointless except for nostalgia purposes.
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by peteri 15y ago
The CP/M version was a native compiler. The real limitation with the Z80 version was that recursion required either a compile time switch or annotation on the functions (It's so long ago I can't remember) Somewhere I have a copy of just the
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by peteri 15y ago
The N950 would suit you I suspect, but that is a very limited release for devs only (I presume there will be a WP7 version which might work). I rather liked the N900 I have (keyboard was a little weak though) but what I really miss is the N
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by peteri 15y ago
I read K&R at university in 1986 and found it to be a model of clarity, spent a year supporting Turbo C for Borland when it was first released (that improved my language knowledge no end) Biggest problem was the first Turbo C compiler f
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by peteri 15y ago
I have to say that I think Toni is wrong over symbian. It has the same set of basic problems that Windows Mobile 6.5 had, basically it's a system designed for resistive screens in a capacitive world. Nokia needed to make that decision to ki
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by peteri 15y ago
The locking bit on events is wrong certainly for C#v4 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cburrows/archive/2010/03/30/events-g... and the other entries in the series) for why. Also I've nearly always done the first pattern on Chris Burrows page,
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by peteri 16y ago
This could be a monster screwup, my phone contract has 1GB data limit, for an extra 5GBP (7.5USD) per month I get boosted upto 3GB, the ability to officially use my phone for tethering and a proper HSDPA+ data rate. Since I go off site and
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by peteri 16y ago
stolen from http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-3.ht... Ancient tale. There's this SR-71 Blackbird stooging around Cuba on a top-secret mission, at FL500+ and Mach 2+.... when they get a call requesting them to change
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by peteri 16y ago
Possibly you might do better with job adverts (I presume your audience is tech-heavy). I usually won't click on adsense ads, although if I saw a book on amazon I'd probably buy via a click thru.
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by peteri 16y ago
Probably more importantly isn't the segway but hesco bastion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up-ozEcAX8k Saved lots of lives.