Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[ParadigmShifter]

That's correct.

C was developed as a kind of abstract assembly language it's very close to how processors operate, but is standardised.

 

[Souron]

Ok heres a question. Im part time in college ok. And in class they made reference to a class I was not in that involved Assembly programming (vs. high-level languages like C) and hexadecimals and pointing to the ceiling tiles. And I think I got lost there cos I did not do that class. I looked it up but it made not much sense to me. Does somebody have a easy-to-understand overview? Just general.

hexadecimal is easy enough to find info on. Even wiki should give a good explanation.

Pointers are hard to communicate briefly. You need to learn C to fully understand them. Or assembly, but C's easier. Their are online tutorials for a quick overview. Wouldn't recommend them for actually learning C though.

I took an assembly course, but its main focus was on the differences between polling and interrupt driven IO. Doesn't sound like you need to know that for the course your in though.

 

[Cutlass]

When I stream a video show, I put it on my TV instead of my PC monitor. So that means 2 browser windows open. When using Firefox for both, I couldn't maximize the video picture and then use my browser on the monitor. It would reduce the other picture size. So I figure that was a FF issue, and installed Opera to try it. But for some reason, when I play the show on Opera maximized, and then click on FF on the other screen, then the show on Opera goes back to small again. Any idea why and ideas about how I can keep the picture full screen and still use the other screen?

 

[Souron]

I suspect the problem is that the video application is waiting for a mouse click anywhere, not necessarily in the picture, in full screen mode in order to shrink to standard size.

If so, the solution would be very hard to impossible. Maybe if Firefox were opened in MSDN debug mode... or if you run it in a virtual machine...

 

[Genocidicbunny]

hexadecimal is easy enough to find info on. Even wiki should give a good explanation.

Pointers are hard to communicate briefly. You need to learn C to fully understand them. Or assembly, but C's easier. Their are online tutorials for a quick overview. Wouldn't recommend them for actually learning C though.

I took an assembly course, but its main focus was on the differences between polling and interrupt driven IO. Doesn't sound like you need to know that for the course your in though.

Pointers are actually not all that hard. A pointer is just an address given a variable name. The address that is contained in the pointer is the address of the data the pointer is pointing at. This data can be anything really, ints, floats, arrays, structs, or even functions. If one knows any kind of programming (no, html and css do not really count) then pointers are a simple matter. Yes, there are some gotchas in using them, but the core concept is pretty danged easy.

When I stream a video show, I put it on my TV instead of my PC monitor. So that means 2 browser windows open. When using Firefox for both, I couldn't maximize the video picture and then use my browser on the monitor. It would reduce the other picture size. So I figure that was a FF issue, and installed Opera to try it. But for some reason, when I play the show on Opera maximized, and then click on FF on the other screen, then the show on Opera goes back to small again. Any idea why and ideas about how I can keep the picture full screen and still use the other screen?

Is it using Flash? If so, there's your problem. When you click anywhere else, the Flash overlay loses focus which causes it to minimize.

EDIT -- QUOTE != EDIT

 

[Zelig]

Is it using Flash? If so, there's your problem. When you click anywhere else, the Flash overlay loses focus which causes it to minimize.

EDIT -- QUOTE != EDIT

This is annoying as heck, but Adobe refuses to change the behaviour. Someone has written some hacked flash dlls to get around this, but it's a hassle every time flash updates, which is pretty often, as it seems to get 45 new critical security vulnerabilities every month.

 

[Cutlass]

OK, so nothing to be done Too bad. Maximized the stream from ABC shown on my TV is almost as good as the TV. Normal size, it's no better on the TV than it is maximized on the monitor.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What is the alt code for a half star. Like they do in reviews.

 

[Turner]

Here you go!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I looked there. I could not find a half-star. only a ★ and a ½ but I thought i searched that wrong

 

[Padma]

They probably use either images or a special character set / font.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I might just use ★★★ ½. Its simpler than messing around with special character sets.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I was going through something and it mentioned that most of their newspaper archives were stored in the JPEG2000 standard. I looked that up. Does anybody really use that wide-spread? Whats the advantage of using it for newspapers?

 

[civ_king]

I was going through something and it mentioned that most of their newspaper archives were stored in the JPEG2000 standard. I looked that up. Does anybody really use that wide-spread? Whats the advantage of using it for newspapers?

Meh, I use Microfiche

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I scanned some things and I got rainbow lines

I messed around a bit in GIMP but wasnt able to fix it. Can anybody else do that, and if so, tell me how to repeat it so I can fix the other scans? (I would have picked another picture but it only did it on this set of scans. I really dont want to redo them all unless I have to)

 

[Birdjaguar]

Bad scanner or bad picture. Probably a picture that doesn't scan well. What is the source of the picture?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My own collection. I know the scanner's bad. I was asking if there was a way to correct it in GIMP.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Since it's black and white just turn the hue down on the whole image, should be something to do that (HSV control).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well theres also other color pictures in the set. If anybody wants I can email it to them (ImageShack would compress them Id think).

 

[PeteAtoms]

How the heck can I get to the bottom of this web page to look at the links at the bottom??

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