Other Computer Trivia

[mals]

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

The average mousepad is eight and three quarters by seven and a half inches.

When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch.

A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The first hard drive available for the Apple had a capacity of 5 megabytes.

In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

A Macintosh LC575 has 182 speaker holes.

[gamefreaks]

A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)

No! Its spelt 'Nybble'!

[The T.I.B.]

double nerd smack down mals!

[mals]

Hey dont blame me I'm just the cut'n'paster

[gamefreaks]

Originally Posted by mals

Hey dont blame me I'm just the cut'n'paster

Can you cut and paste me some code that'll let me use 600K of Texture memory on a NDS without swapping halfway through a render...need to save some for an overhead rotated/scaled map on the bottom screen too? thankee-sai

[psgold67]

Originally Posted by gamefreaks

Can you cut and paste me some code that'll let me use 600K of Texture memory on a NDS without swapping halfway through a render...need to save some for an overhead rotated/scaled map on the bottom screen too? thankee-sai

okay

Ferret is a toolkit for building content-based similarity search
systems for feature-rich data types such as audio, video,
and digital photos. The key component of this toolkit is
a content-based similarity search engine for generic, multi-
feature object representations.This paper describes thefiltering mechanism used in the Ferret toolkit and experi-
mental results with several datasets. The filtering mecha-
nism uses approximation algorithms to generate a candidate
set, and then ranks the objects in the candidate set with
a more sophisticated multi-feature distance measure. The
paper compared two filtering methods: using segment fea-
ture vectors and sketches constructed from segment feature
vectors. Our experimental results show that filtering can
substantially speedup the search process and reduce mem-
ory requirement while maintaining good search quality. To
help systems designers choose the filtering parameters,

ir35 killed my it career

[mals]

^ And I'm the geek

[gamefreaks]

Originally Posted by psgold67

stuff

Ahh...but im not working in Ruby. I use C++.