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MathOnNapkins  1100  In SPC700 HELL                    Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| ^ You've got a point, but what term would one use for something that has source code available. Most people are going to think of the term open source. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I find their estimates for having quantum computers ready and scalable to use in the near future pretty surprising. Even the most opstimistic people in their field usually say about 50 years minimum until they become workable. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Beating Lavos is possible there with a lot of overleveling. I'm not sure how you'd beat him without status protection though. I'm assuming you went back to 600AD and did the Sunken Desert sidequest. After you do that you can go to 1000AD and get Vigil Helms. It's not exactly spelled out, I just thought it was pretty clear they wanted you to lose to Lavos in 12000BC. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Bah. I call shenanigans on YOU. Many girls don't like to go down into a jungle, and I know I don't like to go down into a jungle either. And I can't blame them; who wants to lick balls if you're going to get hair on your tongue? It would be like eating a meatball sub and having hair in it. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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I just want to cry looking at his big shiny dinosaur eyes. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Pointing out differences among us only stirs up hatred. I suggest you stop differentiating between existors and nonexistors immediately before it devolves into all out bigotry.  . |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I recently had a dream about an floating island way up in the sky. I was on a vacation at a resort (on the ground) with my family, except it wasn't my real family. We decided to get on a plane and fly there, yet somehow it was a forbidden land full of traps and we ended up having to fight for our lives. There were towering trees and waterfalls everywhere. I remember talking to some spirit in a rock that seemed friendly. I was trying to ask it for some shoes (since at that point I had lost mine), but it said it didn't know what shoes looked like, and asked me to draw on the stone what they looked like. Somebody warned me it was a trap before i decided to head down into this sandy pit to draw them, and suddenly a blood red cage fell from the sky, almost trapping us, but we leap back before it ensnared us. I do remember it was a beautiful landscape, but definitely forboding. Seems like I had Shadow of the Collossus on my mind.
Later on we somehow escaped from the island and there were some gangster-like types selling cookies back at the resort. They were chocolate sandwich cookies, one of them with brown chocolate frosting, and another with red frosting. I don't know how I knew, but the red ones were like forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Obviously I chose the normal ones, fearing I would lose my soul. In the earlier parts of the dream I was a detective investigating the disappearance of some woman in an apartment complex. I dunno, it was a fun day to dream. All the dreams were dark and moody yet i somehow enjoyed them. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Yeah I know where it (edit: it being the music data, no effing clue where to find Dodongo's Gold) is. I'll dig it up for you when I get home (at work right now)
Generally speaking, the data is divided into track data ($D000 in spc ram), samples ($3C00 in spc ram), code ($800), and most work ram is used from $0 to $3FF. There's other stuff too but I don't quite have names for them yet. As for Dodongo's Gold, I'm pretty sure that's NEONSwift's hack, and he comes here fairly often. Maybe he'll see the thread or you can PM him. (edited by MathOnNapkins on 02-13-07 11:10 PM) |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| For people who don't exist, we sure post a lot in your thread. Explain THAT. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Generally speaking, it seems like no matter what they do, it's FUCKING SLOW. For whatever reason, it's just slow. Even the latest versions do not seem to be suitable for general development, imo.
There's also the lack of pointers, which can make data manipulation a bitch. It lacks function pointers too, which made some applications a living hell to write. I had to... uh... write an abstract class and subclass about 80 different classes to accomplish what would be simple in C. This brings us to the next point... Why does it HAVE to be object oriented? I think java would probably be at least 4x faster without the object overhead. It's already an emulator for a computer that doesn't exist - why add object oriented stuff to make it even slower? Strong typing constraints. In C and C++ sometimes you'll have to recast this or that, but you can change the compiler settings to ignore some things - it just assumes you know what you're doing. In Java you MUST recast anything remotely different to make sure the machinery works. The basic Java classes that are built into the SDK often are very similar, with no apparent reason for using one over the other. Even the documentation doesn't help much in this regard. Just look at how many different inputbuffer-like classes there are. Java applets are often more of a burden than a boon. Loading is too slow, and often java applets fail to load altogether. Flash apps tend to look better and perform better, in my experience. So what's the POINT of a Java applet? So in my mind the one redeeming factor of Java is its crossplatform capabilities. Even this can be problematic when you are doing calculations that would depend upon the system environment. e.g. once I was trying to design a minesweeper game in Java. I had to resize the window but also take into consideration the size of the menu bar. The size of the menu bar varies between Windows XP and windows 2000/98/etc... This caused some funky miscalculations. I didn't even want to try and see what a Mac would produce. So even while trying to be crossplatform it still can cause a programmer huge headaches in ensuring it works across all the "supported" platforms. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| okay... so is it written in straight bytecode or wtf? I quite simply don't believe that.
Oh... another issue with java is memory management. While unused memory is automatically cleaned up for you, getting more memory is a bitch and a half. Last I checked I couldn't go over 10 megabytes of allocated memory without throwing an exception. The only solution I could find on the net was to run it with an extra command line option when you run the virtual machine. Seriously, what the hell is that shit. It should adapt to the machine it is running on and ask the operating system for more memory instead. GUI controls also tend to be unresponsive as hell, especially if you have a lot of them on the screen at once. They might have fixed this in the more recent versions, but last I checked it was still shitty. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Well I will give him some credibility. I started C at a really young age too, like 11, and I was also on a Mac, incidentally. Understanding pointers was just... beyond me for some reason. It didn't make sense without actually working examples I could play around with. It wasn't until I started working with ASM for x86 and 65816 until I finally understood what the hell was going on. No matter how many times I read the descriptions on pointers, it sounded like gibberish to me. But that doesn't give him an excuse not to keep trying... it pays off in the end. Seriously, most textbooks and tutorials describe pointers in a terribly confusing fashion for a beginner. And while I believe that most authors try to make it sound easy, they would be better off using concrete examples than abstractions like mailboxes and slots and shit. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I'll give you that - memory errors in C/C++ are such a common and hard to debug problem that you almost have to create wrapper classes or structs to deal with it. I mean... so much can go wrong it's not funny. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Wow... you actually put the guitar on the correct leg in the second shot. Most people would use their right leg, but it makes it harder to play, actually. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Get ready for sore, calloused, and bloody fingers. (It happens in that order generally speaking.) Though I've never actually made my own fingers bloody, some people don't know when to quit playing. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Does that mean that you won't be checking the board at all?
*celebrates and hurls insults and profanity at Xk's direction* But seriously, why the sudden change? |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| FreeDOS, I demand your avatar be removed, as it is pornographic. Mario is doing something to that P-switch that is better left to the imagination. (And yes, I know you've had it for a while.)
In on topic news, this is a goodbye thread and those usually suck and are usually not permanent anyways. And if Xk is really resigning I hope he has a good reason, like real life issues to deal with (death, accident, other problems). Or maybe he's just tired of doing it. oh well. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| They have too many third party developers. Choosing games can be so confusing when you have more than just Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. |
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