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« on: March 25, 2011, 10:47:07 am »
So how do I make my own?
2357
« on: March 25, 2011, 10:42:36 am »
A way to manipulate individual bits.
And Try/Catch
Use the logical functions to manipulate individual bits, since that's essentially the only way to do it at the Assembly level too.
But I'm curious as to what types of exceptions you'd be catching, since there aren't really a whole lot of errors you can recover from on a z80 calc.
You can't just make a processor suddenly divide into two or something.
I think the iPhone has an app for that...
I wasn't entirely serious with the try/catch. I just wanted to see if it was possible. But as it stands, the only single bit manipulation tools we have are the pxl- commands, and I can't get those to work on anything but the front/back buffers.
2358
« on: March 25, 2011, 09:58:17 am »
It is.
2359
« on: March 25, 2011, 03:45:16 am »
That's what I'm talking about. Also, smaller transistors are ever more leakier, so each transistor needs more power to push the 1s over the higher threashhold, which has to be set above the maximum possible leakage.
2360
« on: March 25, 2011, 03:33:08 am »
And that's what keeps the economy going.
2361
« on: March 25, 2011, 02:45:59 am »
But there is another, far more important reason they created this thing: just to create it.
Science for the sake of science is how we got here today, and that applies to computers. Without that, Omni wouldn't exist.
Also, notice the trend of 3.something GHz clocks and multiples of processors? This is because the chipmakers have hit a wall: they can't make the transistors any smaller before quantum mechanics starts messing with things.
2362
« on: March 25, 2011, 02:26:35 am »
It's not about need, man, it's about want.
Not kidding. At all.
The only people who really need that much power are those in the rendering industry, like Pixar. It doesn't matter for games, because no sane coder is going to write something that needs that much power because that would prevent it from being used by anything/one else.
2363
« on: March 25, 2011, 02:00:00 am »
How this came to be:
One day, at Nvidia, two engineers are racking their brains, trying to figure out the missing ingredient, when one of them has a breakthrough.
"Dude, I know what this thing needs!"
"What?" asks the other engineer.
"More overkill!"
2364
« on: March 24, 2011, 07:32:47 pm »
1470: When a dialoge box comes up on your computer, you press enter on your calc and wonder why nothing's happening.
(I actually did this)
2365
« on: March 24, 2011, 06:51:23 pm »
Which are not as big as 10^(10^100
2366
« on: March 24, 2011, 06:38:03 pm »
512 bit numbers--now those are some bignums. 
2367
« on: March 24, 2011, 06:28:47 pm »
This is Zer0es IV, actually. Have you played it?
Btw, comments on the ReadMe would be highly appreciated
2368
« on: March 24, 2011, 06:19:12 pm »
Wait--that didn't make any sense.
2369
« on: March 24, 2011, 04:50:37 pm »
Why are there three different versions?
2370
« on: March 24, 2011, 04:43:04 pm »
There's a mobile version now?
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