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I purchased my copy of AF for the Kickstart roms to use with WHDLoad on my real Amiga. It enables me to run most games straight from HD, so no disk swaps :)
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It sounds like your colleague was getting off on that other active ingredient in Red Bull, namely Taurine. Studies have shown that it can have psychoactive effects see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine for a brief mention.
as a side note, I once drank a whole case of 24 Red Bull in the space of a couple of hours, and was tripping my box off.
The uController core looks very interesting from an embedded point of view, as the Thumb instruction set is quite dense as it runs in 16-bit mode. Basically you save 2 bytes per opcode on average.
Compact code is a pre-requisite for embedded work, and Thumb was designed exactly for this task.
I much prefer the ZIP-Stick joysticks on my 'miggy. I've still got three of them, and the switches aren't hard to replace when they break :)
CD32 pads (the official ones anyway) were pretty crap to use as the squared edges really chafe the palms.
A universal controller that I could use on all of my kit doesn't sound that bad at all, it's just a shame it's sony that's patented it :/
@The Fuzzy Wotnot
nah, what's to stop me from killing you before you even try it. Also my neighbours would be joining in at you too because you upset the balance of the community. That is anarchy my friend.
Some might say it was the purest form of Communism (we haven't seen any truly communistic governments on this planet to date, just corrupt dictatorships)
"Constantly referring to them as the Chocolate Factory doesn't help either. That preserves the aura of geekyness and warm fuzzy ideals, and even a slightl level of incompetance."
Have you actually read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? It is a dark story about human greed, not about warm and fuzzy ideals. Kinda sounds like Google to me.....
What is so face-palming about this is the use of BCD in an embedded environment. Not only is the storage of the date in BCD less optimal in size (1 byte in BCD == decimal value up to 99 stored, whereas 1 byte in binary == decimal value up to 255), the code to handle the value would be less optimal too, using more instructions.
Size matters guys :)
Speaking as an aspie myself, I _do_ know right from wrong, but the social problems can work against this. The "Follow my friends" mentality can negate the "This is wrong" feeling, i.e. we are more susceptible to peer pressure than your average person.
I am not saying it should be used as a defence, after all right == right, and wrong == wrong, just that mixing with the wrong crowd can have a detrimental effect on your liberty.
Hmm, off the top of my head...
How about using ASM for the decrypt and check part, just use 64-bit registers instead of RAM. A CC number can easily be stored in 2 64-bit registers in BCD form, and if the OS handles debugging correctly (ie disallows it totally - as it should be on a production server anyway), there would be no way of accessing without patching and changing the signature of the process (making it easy to identify an attack).
Ok InfoSec people, pay me loads of money for that idea.......