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Quote: uses ACK, STX/ETX and SI/SO characters in its serial communication protocol
Don't they all?
I takes me back too. I have written too many "talk to the serial port" implementations!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I not only have to look up ASCII codes frequently, but I had to look up some ESCape sequences recently. 
Marc Clifton wrote: I feel like I'm back in the 80's.
We all float down here.
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The 80's weren't so bad, but the best thing about them was that I was younger.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I was younger, but I wasn't getting l... 
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Let me just check the big movie releases...Star Wars...Terminator...Indiana Jones... Yes, we are back in the 80's 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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The movies were in the 80s and now the stars are in their 80s?
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Attack of the killer tomatoes
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Marc Clifton wrote: Gads, I feel like I'm back in the 80's.
In a way those times never ended. On the PC those things have been burried under abstraction layers and frameworks, but you only have to dig deep enough and they will reappear.The good aspect is, that your code becomes less vulnerable to changes of the underlying layers the closer you get to the hardware. It's great to take functions from 35 year old code and simply use them ecause nothing fundamental has changed.
Just look into QA and you will see how people struggle to keep up with the current conventions of some framework and have little hope that their work lasts longer than to the next version where many things will change again or when the framework dies in favor of the next new thingie.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Marc Clifton wrote: serial communication protocol. Gads, I feel like I'm back in the 80's
Ewww. I mean, like, ick.
The last time I had to write a serial comm application(*), I had to dig out a Win9x era copy of HyperTerminal to help debug. Blech.
(*) I was talking to a GPS widget at 19.2K. In 2012.
<GeezerMoment>
At least with modern Windows you don't need to program UART registers, interrupt controllers, and all that crud like you did back in the DOS days.
</GeezerMoment>
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: At least with modern Windows you don't need to program UART registers, interrupt controllers, and all that crud like you did back in the DOS days.
Except when talking to bill acceptors that use the parity bit to distinguish between command bytes and data bytes.  Most Linux serial port drivers don't even support that, as I learned when writing the interface on a Beaglebone.
What's worse is, this Verifone pinpad, I have to install a USB-COMM driver first, then the Verifone COMM driver. But then again, these things are intended to normally interface with point of sale (aka POS, haha) hardware -- looking at the cash register at the local minimart, there's like 8 serial ports on this thing. Even a parallel port! Geez, I didn't even know they made that hardware anymore.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: looking at the cash register at the local minimart, there's like 8 serial ports on this thing. Even a parallel port! Geez, I didn't even know they made that hardware anymore.
If you take a look at the point of sale hardware used by retailers, they keep it until it breaks. There's probably a lot of 10 year-old stuff out there in mom-and-pop shops.
As far as the number of interfaces goes, I imagine that is to handle accessories: extra printers, bar code scanners, inventory guns, that sort of thing. You could also use the extra interfaces to talk to other registers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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At my local minimart, the cash register has a fan louder than my computer's and produces a cacophony of clicking noises when operated, as if it runs on relays! I don't think it even has a serial port. 
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The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
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Google Voice transcribes incoming voice mails, which can be very handy. However, sometimes it doesn't do a great job. #GoogleFail
Hey, this is your for damage, and I'm going to be very honest with you. I god and the prime minister of music at it at that. you are you I like and I'm going to tell you something you'd come home office in the ad as is in a fancy Pharmacy now, and I'm done getting me course you will ask for station. Lee Dad. I wanted to talk about the issues estate you would not discuss would be great. We should I thought I knew where are you bitch. how you got my phone number, and you can talk to me. I know like the way you wouldn't I'm normally, and I wanted to you about what why you ask what I understand you you you dumb pro, And that is or day. I know they're adding very offensive to me.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It appears that Google has cooked up a new grammatical form of English.
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Its one word summary seems to be:
offensive
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Google Nose[^] was a better invention that this is.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It wasn't an "invention" or "april fools". It was actual, real-life experience with google voice.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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There is actually a medical condition of zero functioning olfactory.
This is not the simple decrease in smell that everyone experiences each year of their life
It is real. It's called ANOSMIA, and can disqualify you from certain types of employment.
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Are you sure it's GV's fault? I've dealt with a few people in my time who speak exactly like that!
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In some cases, it may be the speaker's fault. However, in this case, it was, IMHO, GV's fault.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yeah... well... I still don't get the point of these.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No one does... if we all stop responding, he'll stop posting
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: if we all stop responding, he'll stop posting
While appreciating your optimism, the voice of experience, alas, says: "that's doubtful."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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