Amusingly enough, I find myself saying the word "etsee" instead of "et cetera" more often than not. But I have an excuse! *nix operating systems have a directory named "etc", and if you want to refer to that directory, you'd better not try to call it "et cetera", which would be a totally different and probably nonexistent directory.
In other words, this is a case where an abbreviation became a word in its own right.
I often think of it as "etk" because I have a hard time pronouncing c as a "soft c" unless it is immediately before e, i, or y.
Actually, "initialism" and "alphabetism" are synonyms, acronyms are read as words instead of letter-by-letter, and the general term is "abbreviation."
I don't think "abbreviation" has anything to do with the subject. An abbreviation is using, for example, "etc." instead of "etcetera" or "inc." instead of "incorporated".
We also have "DeSmuME" for "DS emulator for ME" and "i18n" for "internationalization"...the term "abbreviation" is very general.
Also, to be super-anal, the long form of "etc." is the Latin et cetera.
^I wish English were more like Spanish (I heard Finnish also has a good correspondence between orthography and pronunciation).
andymac wrote:
Initialisms are read phonetically.
Alphabetisms are read letter by letter.
Acronyms are a set of words that include alphabetisms and initialisms.
I knew I'd missed something
Actually, "initialism" and "alphabetism" are synonyms, acronyms are read as words instead of letter-by-letter, and the general term is "abbreviation."
Did you happen to change the driver or something then restarted and it loaded the new driver?
What driver?
the driver for your integrated graphics card; I remember that once I found I couldn't see 3D graphics in DeSmuME and it turned out to be because I had trusted Windows Update to provide me with the latest drivers. You should rely on the manufacturer or a *good* third party.
I'm impressed with how far 0.9 has come. Just had a play now, I see that NSMB works well with only a few graphical and sound glitches. Seems to run ALMOST full speed but theres no indication to why it's not running 100% for me...
At first, I wondered why it didn't show any 3D objects.
Then I tried setting the renderer from "None" to "OpenGL" and it wouldn't stay there.
Then I figured out that the problem was that my drivers were outdated (I had relied on Windows Update for my shitty integrated graphics drivers), so I downloaded new ones from Intel and now I can say that it looks like by version 1.0 DeSmuME should not only beat the stagnant NO$GBA (first anniversary of latest release coming right up...) but should also be easy to add TAS-ability to.
What you emulate is called a "video game system"; more generally, an emulator is a program that translates the instruction set of the target system into instructions on the host system, like Rosetta on the MacIntels, PearPC, or Snes9X. More sophisticated emulators may include compatibility layers (to translate calls to operating system APIs, as in Wine) or special versions of application frameworks (for example, Mono as a Linux version of the .NET Framework), but these are not by themselves emulators; this is why Wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" even though from the standpoint of the end-user it is functionally equivalent to one, permitting programs for one type of system to run on a different one.
To emulate an SNES on a PC, download an emulator like Snes9X, ZSNES, or BSNES; to actually play a game you will need to download the ROM, and ROMs of copyrighted games for which the copyright holder has not granted permission to freely distribute are illegal to offer or download, though enforcement is extremely lax. Once you have downloaded the ROM, open your emulator, search for the ROM in the Open dialog, and start emulation.
The SNES has sufficiently little power compared to present-day and even rather old PCs to allow emulation at full speed without errors or distortion, though later systems like the PS2 are difficult for older machines to emulate.
For more information on emulators, along with advice relevant to TASVideos, look here: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/Homepages.html#Snes
I'm trying to follow along here, so let's see if I have e'erything right...
A glitch was found that, by an interrupt occurring at the right time, corrupts a register value determining which way the screen can scroll. If this can be made to work at Bubbleman...
What then?
SnatchLock, Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsMemento12 monkeys.
Embarrassingly enough, I *haven't* seen any of them, even though all are well-known.
Anyway, I recommend the eye-opening documentary on Al-Jazeera and the reporting of the early phases of the invasion of Iraq: Control Room.
(I almost said "War Room" but it turns out that's a lulzy documentary about Bill Clinton's rise to power at the dawn of an era when media coverage of elections took a turn for the uninformative and personality-driven at the expense of issues and platforms.)
<OmnipotentEntity> Johannes`, I'd like you to count to one million and skip every prime number and every number divisible by 7 as a demonstration that no one is perfect.
Mediafire also has limitations: exe's will not be processed unless they contain no malicious code. So don't worry about running this, which will produce a text file that will make all your wildest dreams come true.
I suspect that it starts with "1 4 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20"
Maple should be a breeze, something like
print "1";
for (n=4..1000)
if (!isprime(n) and n%7!=0) then print " "+n;
fi
rof
Well that or anything else with primality checking in its standard library (Mathematica, Matlab, MathCad)...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/28/child-maid-trafficking-sp_n_153814.html
Basically, a wealthy Egyptian family that had immigrated to the US takes in as a slave the daughter of an impoverished family that owed some money to them, treats her like an animal and forces her to do household chores for 7 years, gets caught red-handed by social services, and is required to give the girl back pay (minimum wage, or about 76 grand) while the father goes to Club Fed for 3 years and the mother for nearly 2, after which they are to be deported back to Egypt.
Then after the mother returns, she brings other another slave girl, and also the families of these girls, and many others like them, actually think this is a better life for them and scold the girls for telling them otherwise; this situation commonly happens, involving wealthy immigrants from Africa to the developed world and impoverished children brought over from their home countries as slaves.