Keep reading the article. The father claims that they would remove the RFID from her badge only if they ceased criticizing the program and publicly endorsed it or something. If she had just gone along with that offer, plenty of other folks would be complaining about her not standing up for her principles.

Have they actually done any compilation albums? I'm not aware of one, and TFA seems to agree.

Weren't the founding fathers mostly wealthy land and slave owners? I don't think I'm seeing your point.

Caveat: I wasn't part of this project, and don't entirely know what their purpose was or what exactly they meant to communicate by saying that participants at the receiving location could "control the stream interactively." I'm guessing it just means start, stop, pause, fast forward, and rewind or something. You can't just say, "Oh, I can buy an h.264 encoder chip for $10." I mean, you can say it, but it doesn't tell us anything. There are tons of different h.264 encoders of varying qualities, targeted to different applications, and with different design tradeoffs. I cannot say anything about the specifications of these particular h.264 encoders to which you refer, except that encoding to h.264 does not guarantee any particular level or performance or quality. UltraGrid claims to be designed for very low latency. That by itself strongly favors MJPEG encoding over h.264. H.264 is dependent upon latency in order to get most of its benefits.

It's not significantly different, except that there is a slight savings on overhead. G.P. is being kind of weird, and assuming that the higher resolution display would mean that a higher proportion of the 8K image would be stationary, or something.

Decoding is much, much easier than encoding.

They've been training for this for years. The original project was supposed to take place back in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurm:_Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth

You can open them up and clean them out pretty quickly and easily, though. Tangential, but interesting: My current "regular use" NES (Yes, I still play it regularly) is one I found in a gutter in 1998. It works great, though I finally replaced the 72-pin adapter a couple of years ago.

My alarm clock is a cheap digital wristwatch. No cables to fumble with, ever, and I can put in a battery and not worry about it again for five years. If I knock it off my nightstand, it's none the worse for wear.

Is your friend's great grandmother Besse Cooper?

640 kiloHours should be enough for anyone.

The atari VCS has no frame buffer. Each rectangular pixel is calculated in realtime as the screen is drawn. It is tied very closely to the way that CRT screens draw their picture. They scan left-to-right (depending on perspective) drawing complete horizontal lines from top to bottom of the screen. If I recall correctly, the standard background in one of these games could be up to 40 blocks wide. It's (relatively) straightforward to shift those 40 blocks up or down by just not turning them on until a particular scanline. You can't do this with horizontal location, and horizontal positions have to be able to be calculated down to the cycle. This is really hard to do. You also can't change a sprite's color on a single scanline, and the hardware was never originally intended to support multi-color sprites. That only works due to a hack.

To be fair, the lockout chip was removed from the design in the NES 2 (actually, the NES-101). But yeah, as I posted previously, the lockout chip is not really a big deal, and disabling it is not the panacea everyone seems to claim it is. Also, if you install a new 72-pin connector, don't be surprised if the games only work when not pushed down the first several times you use it.

That's a bit of a stretch. The ZIF connector and dusty contacts are the primary culprits in the "need" to blow on NES carts. Sure, the CIC chip causes problems on occasion, but it's not nearly the culprit people make it out to be. You can't blame the CIC, for example, when you get vertical lines on the edges of all of the on-screen sprites, and most of the blinking-light errors just turn into solid light errors once you disable the lockout chip. I have two NES systems, one with a disabled lockout chip and one without. The primary difference I notice is that disabling the lockout chip meant I no longer have to pull tricks with the reset button to get my pirate famicom multicart to work.

http://nesdev.com/ Formerly nesdev.parodius.com This and Zophar are the who main places to go.