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    Richest In Hip-hop And Other Genres

    Wow, tough industry.
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    I Need Help

    Correct. The line marks the cathode. In the circuit diagram, the line after the triangle is the cathode. Anode ------|>|----- cathode The arrow points in the direction of the travel.
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    To Go To School Or To Work First?

    I have hired people straight out of Uni. about 80% of the time. They're cheaper, usually more pro-active, and easier to beat into shape than people who have been coding a long time. If they survive the interview then they're fine. Bear in mind that I'm a techie hiring techies, though, a standard...
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    To Go To School Or To Work First?

    I'm a manager in a software company. I've only ever hired one person who did not have a degree (or better), and that's because we were desperate for somebody who knew a particular language. My recommendation would be to get a degree. Two words: garbage collection. Try writing a large...
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    GP2X What Rgba Format Do You Use (non-sdl)?

    Have a look at the first two balloons here: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/dithering/ Alpha-blending suffers from the same kind of banding if accuracy isn't good. In small doses (i.e. a single sprite) then people probably won't notice. If you use it for something much larger...
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    GP2X Optimizing A Routine For Speed

    Off the top of my head: If the putpixel isn't inline, it's going to kill you. Understanding and using pointers for this kind of thing will gain you a lot of speed Loops are faster if they decrement on the ARM (free comparison with zero, effectively) ... but (on the horizontal draws) if the area...
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    GP2X What Rgba Format Do You Use (non-sdl)?

    That one. Everything else is 565 except alpha stuff which is 24+8 bit (avoids some unsightly banding issues).
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    Road Tax Petition

    Blargh, all of the wrong reasons. Petition for UK public transport to be more efficient and cheaper and I'm 100% with you. People use cars too much anyway; personally I have no problem penalising them for doing so... Having said that, the whole "vehicle tracking" thing is just plain disturbing...
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    Whats It Like Over There?

    That's one of the reasons I left the UK and hate going back. The underclass is a serious problem that sooner or later needs to be dealt with. Older people I've chatted with tell me that it works in cycles, with the socialism swinging back across to conservatism. I hope so. Britain was a great...
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    The Best Movie Trailer Ever ??

    They ought to get bonus points for using one of my favourite NiN tracks, at least.
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    GP2X Benchmarking Ram Writes

    The TLB has a cache of 64 translations between virtual and physical addresses (each a 4kb page in this case). If you access something that's not covered by one of those entries the MMU must walk the page table (which the OS has given it access to) to find the translation to the physical address...
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    GP2X Benchmarking Ram Writes

    Gents, if the area is uncached and unbuffered, but the MMU is being used (you're on the 920, so it is) then it's just the TLB in the MMU causing the slowdown. For those without low-level CPU knowledge, it maps between physical and virtual memory addresses and acts as a sort of memory-mapping...
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    The Very Original Current Listening Thread!!

    I am a kloot -- I am a kloot (forget their later albums) Elefant -- The Black Magic Show (better than the earlier album) Stellastar -- Harmonies for the Haunted (ok compared to the previous album) Angels and Airwaves -- We Dont Need to Whisper (Blink 182ish, strangely enough) Fluke -- Risotto...
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    Buying A Pc

    Firsly, I concur with the "get a better PSU" recommendations. Not just because cheap ones are well, crap, but because the better the PSU the better the power conversion ratio. A cheap PSU may be only 40% efficient, whereas a decent one should be >80%... so it'll save you money on electricity...
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    Problems With A Bank Transfer..

    Depends. How long's it been? It takes 3 full days for my monthly pay to go from one bank to another, and that's within the same country. I'd leave at least a week before I started screaming at people.
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