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tepples wrote:Did the gecko offer you car insurance?

There's a Gekko in my GameCube. There's a Gekko in your GameCube. Look if you have to.

There is a Gecko in my Mozilla.

I hereby declare this line of humor dead.

The downside is that it needs to trash nearly 32kB of RAM when the sector needs to be cleaned. So I'd probably do that in CHR-RAM, trashing the gfx in the process. So any program using this would have to be prepared to reload several (or all) of it's CHR-RAM banks. Flash devices with little RAM to ...

This is called "ateji" (当て字) and is basically a form of rebus used with kanji. The practice started from the view that it was necessary to have kanji equivalents of foreign loadwords (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_words_of_Portuguese_origin) I guess its used for the same reason you...