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Comment Re: woops - better update my profile :) (Score 2) 22

check my blog...

www.ardiri.com/blog/

I plan to do a new release soon, after palmos - I build a cross platform development library, just like you mentioned called SHARK - a precursor to other dev kits like unity, marmalade and heck, even SDL!? I ported it to over 14 platforms.. even the Sony PSP ;)

I currently focus on IoT - specifically security.

www.riotsecure.se

Comment Re:woops - better update my profile :) (Score 1) 22

You seem to have binaries in your repo. Is that correct? Do you know of any emulator that can run these?

binaries are there for people who still have devices that work! (notice - i even posted full registered (unlocked) binaries so no registration system).
as for emulators? we always had POSE and the PalmSim that was part of the SDK's.. there is also this:

https://cloudpilot-emu.github....

Comment Re: I'd like to see more of this (Score 2) 22

You'd need to find the source code of their libraries as well. Looking through the code, it heavily relies on device/os specific libraries like VgaGetScreenMode which I can only find pointing to other PalmOS software made by Handera (which still exists somehow). Converting this to anything useful for other embedded devices would be easier to rewrite from scratch. Some of the frequency conversion stuff for the audio might be useful, but otherwise this might be best suited for emulating the PalmOS and hardware more than trying to convert it to Arduino/ARM/RISC platforms.

most of the PalmOS libraries are pretty well abstracted.. heck; most of the graphics routined i actually rewrote for the VTech Helio - which is the vtos-gfx/ repository which pretty much uses a pointer to the display which is effectively a framebuffer graphics approach. it would be super easy to port. soon i will release SHARK; our cross platform engine that we built just after the palm os stuff - and that has been ported to iOS, android and a slew of other platforms.

Comment woops - better update my profile :) (Score 4, Informative) 22

i'm now bouncing back and forth between Stockholm (Sweden) and Margaret River (Australia) and my main focus these days is security within the internet of things space :P i plan to release more source code; this is only the tip of the ice berg - yes, there are dependencies on operating system level libraries (Palm, Sony, Handera); but - these are all part of their SDK's, which i do not have permission to release. you'll find our code is pretty well documented (rare).. haha.. i just didn't want this stuff to be lost over time, felt it was better archived for the world somewhere.

Submission + - Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20+ years after release (github.com) 1

ardiri writes: Before the iOS and Android entered the scene; heck, even before the smartphone concept was the handheld personal digital assistant, with the likes of Newton, Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian. Palm OS had a thriving gaming scene; with the likes of emulators and implementations/clones of classics such as LodeRunner, Lemmings, and the classic Game and Watch. written mainlyin C and optimizations in assembler — maybe these games will make their way to the various Arduino like micro-controllers out there; designed for low memory, low processing power environments they would port perfectly.

Comment supporting technology? (Score 0) 36

i surely hope they are not dependent on third party services like google maps as part of the landing process.. they would need to install an infrastructure of sensors, cameras and network communication channels to obtain enough information about the environment as if they were actually there.. otherwise; we'll see planes hit a tree or newly built building that may not be available yet on google maps.

Comment maybe all the smarter; older people quit? (Score 1) 349

and the young and dumb stayed around?

i've been offered positions at google over the years, wasted time with their bullshit interviews and even turned them down a few times - as we get older; we are more inclined to start our own businesses and be entrepreneurs.. it is not a shock that the younger generation of engineers want to work at a company like Google. what they need here is to also bring in relevant data around startups; how many people actually left Google to start their own thing?

Comment subtle easter egg in Caveman (Lemmings clone) (Score 1) 290

I put an easter egg in Caveman (http://mobile1up.com/caveman/) where every day there is a unique unlock code that actually lets you play the first seven levels of Lemmings - complete with music, artwork and sound effects.. it changes on a daily basis - i used to post the unlock codes occasionally on twitter ... if anyone ever reported it to SCEE; they would have a hard time reproducing it, the code wouldn't work by the time they tried it.

Comment Re:why start after the fact? (Score 1) 219

Technically the continuously overwritten ring buffer seems hardly more difficult to implement.

One big problem would be battery life. There was a fatal police shooting recently which the police officers' cameras apparently did not record. One reason I heard was that they have 3-hour batteries which are supposed to last for a 12-hour shift. At the very least you have to keep a charger and spare battery in the patrol car to make continuous recording work. Better if you could actually make a single battery last the whole time and take away any plausible reason for not having a recording.

Comment will it really matter? (Score 2, Insightful) 509

sounds like a PR campaign over something that will be effective.. if you look at any footage of ISIS and these extremists; they are a tad behind when it comes to technology - the social networks should be the one shutting down any propoganda efforts from these guys.. smells like "anonymous" is just riding on the publicity behind these tragic events to get noticed.

Comment Re:If the money is used to hire much better teache (Score 1) 143

You (The US) already spends the most on education per student then any other nation and yet have some of the worst test results.

That may be true, but it's not going to teachers!. (Link describes North Carolina, but I think the same is true elsewhere.)

I don't think "throwing money at it" will make it better. Sure, teachers will take home more money but the test results clearly show this doesnt improve the quality of education.

This study disagrees.

Comment Re:SPOILERS (Score 1) 1233

Explosive test comes up positive in an airport and you wonder why they react strongly? You truly are a fuckwit.

They have false positives. My Ortlieb roller bags tested positive after a month-long bicycling trip. Could have been the construction of the bag, could have been the Tanzanian dirt throughly embedded in everything by then, who knows. It didn't come directly into contact with anything combustible, much less explosive. Apparently soap/lotions can cause false positives. And of course, ammonium nitrate (the explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombings) is more commonly called "fertilizer". So, no, they shouldn't be reacting so strongly. They should know that it's likely a false positive.

Comment Re:Speed based on heat is a feature? (Score 1) 126

A compute rate that varies with temperature would seem to be a bug, rather than a feature. I don't want a GPU that does that. I need repeatable Gazebo simulations.

I think they're talking about the opposite (a temperature that depends on load), which your CPU has probably been doing for a long, long time.

But you've lost this one, anyway; modern Intel processors have Turbo Boost, meaning the performance does indeed depend on temperature. I was scared, too, from a worst-case provisioning perspective in an environment where I can't predict what will be running on other cores. But I've had a couple years to come to terms with it, and in practice, it doesn't actually seem any worse than other factors like last-level cache contention.

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