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(...) It is possible to get VCRs in the US which can read European tapes (PAL and I think SECAM is another format?). I think these especially started to become popular when the anime genre really started to take off. FUT: lugnet.off-topic.geek Frank (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Newer version of "lego geek code"
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(...) had never bothered to test MSIE with Netscapes's version-- it works. So never mind. I'll just use the Netscape version since it works in both. Unless, that is, someone informs me that the Netscape version doesn't work with earlier versions of (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Newer version of "lego geek code"
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(...) Woohoo! I figured it out... Of course it requires me to dynamically re-format the javascript code depending on what browser you're using (and it'll ONLY work for MSIE and NN). But, it works. I think. I've tested it on Netscape 4.05, and MSIE (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Interesting audio puzzle
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(...) No it was just me, but the "hot" spots were definitely on the floor. In some I could rock very slightly and turn on/off the sound. They were also within a few feet of the subwoofer so it seems like there would have to be some real complex wave (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Interesting audio puzzle
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(...) Umm, did you verify this with two people in the room? One moving about, one sitting still. It could be that the noise wasn't changing, but as you moved about the room, you were moving in and out of zones where the noise was audible. Sounds a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Interesting audio puzzle
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(...) <snip> (...) A couple things that may or may not help, but might be fun... Place a heavy object in one of the places that appears to generate a constant tone, and stand in another such place. How does that affect the tone? "Jump" in place (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Over the weekend I experienced a puzzing thing with my home stereo system. My stereo system includes a powered subwoofer, which started humming when I stepped or stood in various places in my apartment. The stereo was on, but the CD playing was (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 8-bit floating-point number representations?
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(...) <snip> (...) Aah, with your external tables, 0 to 15 would work well. You don't even need to scale it really since the output of your algorithm is just the relative ranking of articles. It would be easy to generate a 0-15 rating for the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 8-bit floating-point number representations?
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(...) Well, basically, whatever is fast and flexible -- whatever that turns out to be. It might even turn out that a fixed-point representation is flexible enough and maybe even faster since it would involve only a single floating- point multiply by (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I was thinking about this some more, and am really wondering what you will be doing with the numbers. If the only computations you need to do with them are comparisons, then once converted they will be extremely cheap to work with (the reason (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've been a pretty serious geek, especially with low level stuff like this. My first real job involved developing a Fortran style formatted I/O for the Apple II which involved digging into the the internal guts of Applesoft BASIC so that we (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Bad news: According to Bas Oskamp <aldjia@freeler.nl> the LDraw parts distribution file, "complete.exe", may contain a virus. I have temporarily made the file unavailable on the ldraw.org web site. Meanwhile the parts distribution is available as a (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow, Frank, I didn't know you geeked like that! All right! (...) It past my bedtime, so I'll have to think more about it another time, but you've definitely given me hope that it could be done pretty efficiently. As a bonus in this case, the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) $veclength = length($v) * 8; It isn't precise, but it's fast -- and a few bits of slop would be perfectly OK here since the slop would be 0-bits. :-) (...) Well, plus, map{} is also almost always slower than looping (especially with use (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) After thinking about this, I realized most compact binary floating point forms don't allow denormalized numbers. The reason is that if one assures that all numbers are normalized, the bit to the left of the decimal point is always a 1, and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) I probably couldn't, no, but a very experienced Java programmer and a good JVM machine could conceivably do better than C. (It's not unheard of for Java to be faster than C for certain types of things.) The big hits would probably be the JVM (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, I can think of several ways of doing it, but since $v might be millions of bits long, we don't really want to get the full list in memory ever. So I guess the simplest way would be to run through the vector, indexing the 1s: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, 8 bit floating point numbers can't implement a very large range of numbers. How many bits of exponent were you planning on? I think conversion would probably actually be pretty easy since you will just take e bits of the exponent from the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Of course I've heard of situations where an interpreter outdid hand crafted assembler. This can occur if the portion of the interpreter necessary to run your code fits in the code cache and the byte codes fit in the data cache when the hand (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Suggested CD-R(W) Burner programs
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(...) CDRWIN isn't the most user-friendly program in the world, and it really isn't designed (or used much) for backing up files. It's mainly a CD copying program. As a matter of fact it was originally known as PSXCopy - I'll leave it to your (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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