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"...require you to think..."

Hmm... Nah... Much easier to dismiss out of hand as 'conspiracy'. Screw that thinking stuff. That's for useless, vegetarian, intellectual four-eyes.

Also, I find your righteous indignation over Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt to be quite humorous. It's like you actually believe they have any more democracy now than before. Wonderful place over there now

So now, instead of just having to worry about your card getting lifted they will also want to chop off your fingers?

No need for the violence. You don't even need to have the victim in the room.

(Do not attempt. Professional Driver on a Closed Course. Do Not Try This at Home. Your Mileage May Vary. Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball.)

...As an interrupt handler it clearly "ripped off" CP/M to the point of being almost identical....

Apparently it was made identical for the purpose of allowing Qdos to reuse Intel's CP/M-8 to CP/M-16 conversion scheme... From here... http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/

My hope was that by making it as easy as possible to port existing 8-bit applications to our 16-bit computer...
Intel had defined rules for translating 8-bit programs into 16-bit programs; CP/M translation compatibility means that when a program's request to CP/M went through the translation, it would become an equivalent request to DOS...
So I made CP/M translation compatibility a fundamental design goal. This required me to create a very specific Application Program Interface that implemented the translation compatibility.

Even back then... Developers, Developers, Developers... ;^)

Where did this idea ever come from? "Everybody knows" that Gates bought QDOS from Kildall and nobody ever claimed that QDOS was a "copy of CP/M," not even Kildall himself. What was in dispute was whether Kildall was literally out to lunch or flying, or whatever, brushing off the meeting and selling a license for what turned out to be a pittance. That's the legend anyway, but he's not here on this planet anymore to defend himself.

FFS. Want to know where DOS came from? Just read Tim Patterson's blog. http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/

He discusses the design differences between the two and why he did what he did.

And if you're really curious and need to feed the inner nerd, go have a look at the CP/M source code.

http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html

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BMO

A few illustrations of my point:

http://www.technollama.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/open_source_communism.jpg

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

http://designora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/communist-android.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NCirDFWL4Q4/TdPQtYogiSI/AAAAAAAAAVs/4bVHzsijPO0/s400/73194-1.png

Explain to me how this one went down. I still don't understand it. Sure, the video isn't gone, but there isn't a single portion of this video that ever touched by the people claiming the copyright. http://antimattertheinsane.blogspot.com/2012/06/wtf-auto-copyright-content-claim-fail.html

ZOMG!

The uncensored first image!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1_KqTNwdljs/UB9ekaCW9GI/AAAAAAAAE78/a-zlhvKSYxU/s1600/tumblr_m8bklfaSGA1qde1h9o1_1280.jpg

And with good reason. No amount of marketing can improve shoddy work.

Marketing can definitely sell shoddy work - or Windows wouldn't be around at all. Linux has better technology, Mac has more polish. Even Os/2 was somewhat better than windows at the time. But marketing rules the masses. Which is why windows prevail, and why many people believe it is "normal" for a computer to crash now and then or need crazy band-aid solutions such as "antivirus software".

this is linux, not apple. not everyone focuses on marketing first.

And with good reason. No amount of marketing can improve shoddy work.

Beware of the second system effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Rewriting code can kill you in the short term.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Or help you in the long term.
http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/08/rewriting-software.html

I recall another similar article about a rewrite of MS Office, and what a mistake it was...

The funny part? There is NO "biblical view of marriage" and in fact many of the great leaders of the bible had multiple wives. In fact most of the "traditions" we have of marriage are less than a century old and the ones that are older than that most would be horrified if they knew where they came from. An example, the throwing of the garter? Came from the middle ages when they would rip the clothes right off the "bride' who was usually outright bought and didn't have shit to say about the whole thing, to "loosen her up" before being drug off to the bedroom. Source.

So while there is plenty of precedent for hiding bigotry with the bible, both slavery and racism were considered defensible by scripture, to say its "biblical tradition" to have a single man and a woman is complete horseshit.

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Sorry, but we're about 6 months from near-UV / visible light curable resin destroying the FMD models. If you use an iPad Retina display as the light source, you only have mechanical jitter in the Z-axis (the boom / base you are raising) and a resolution of .078 mm (the best enthusiast FDM stuff is around .5 mm). You only need one stepper motor and mechanical assembly. You also reduce the amount of custom electronics to drive the head assembly and x & y axis stepper motors.

Currently, Junior Veloso is using DLP projectors to get the light intensity needed (and .05 mm resolution), but an LCD panel with closer to UV LEDs under it would be an even cheaper route. With filters removed on an LCD you have (arbitrarily assigned axes) X-axis at the dot pitch, Y-axis at 1/3 dot pitch, and Z-axis at your stepper motor / mechanical limit.

Lithographic techniques with light curable resins are vastly more scalable as well. Within the work area, there is no increase in time except for the Z-axis height. This means making dozens of duplicates in one pass for small objects or one large piece in the same time span. Further, the software process to turn the 3D model into 2D slices is exceptionally trivial compared with CAM type instructions to move 3 axes and run a pump head. Technically you could farm the object render with a LCD panel, laptop LCD, or tablet out to an auto-refresh webpage with black and white image slices with the stepper motor running on a timer synced with the page refresh...

This is a scene in a montage from 1985's Real Genius. Third screencap down on some random blog. Not saying your dad didn't actually experience this, too, but as soon as I read it, I recognized the scene...

This. Holy shit that hurt to read.

This guy gets paid to write this article that's all over the place? Did he smoke a fattie while writing it or was he just drunk?

Yes, it's an actual issue. You're much better off reading Ray Beckerman's blog.

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

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I've been enjoying these a lot:
All-Time Favorite Games
CRPG Addict
The Adventure Gamer

The first one covers games from all early types (Spectrum, Amstrad, C64, etc.), and the other two are using DOS but most of their games appeared on other platforms as well. I've been enjoying them all enough that I figured I'd share.

Anyone know of any similar blogs that are active right now?

I've been enjoying these a lot:
All-Time Favorite Games
CRPG Addict
The Adventure Gamer

The first one covers games from all early types (Spectrum, Amstrad, C64, etc.), and the other two are using DOS but most of their games appeared on other platforms as well. I've been enjoying them all enough that I figured I'd share.

Anyone know of any similar blogs that are active right now?

I've been enjoying these a lot:
All-Time Favorite Games
CRPG Addict
The Adventure Gamer

The first one covers games from all early types (Spectrum, Amstrad, C64, etc.), and the other two are using DOS but most of their games appeared on other platforms as well. I've been enjoying them all enough that I figured I'd share.

Anyone know of any similar blogs that are active right now?

Any testing of that sort shouldn't even be permitted until kids are at least 10 as that's about the time when those things start to settle a bit and there's some reliability

I will simply quote what has been written elsewhere:

[T]he correlation between [an IQ] score obtained at 5 and the eventual adult score is probably no more than .5 or so. However, the main limitation seems to be unreliability of any single administration of the test to a child that young. Scores averaged over several administrations are a very good predictor already at a fairly young age. The average of three scores obtained at age 5, 6 and 7 correlates about .85 with adult score. This suggests that while it is difficult to measure a child's IQ in any single sitting, the IQ itself is relatively fixed already by age 7 or so.

While not consistent with your personal family experience, this does highlight the risk of using a single test administration on a young child. (Although a correlation of 0.5 is still not weak).

And of course it's your honest opinion, you were most likely paid for this.

Seriously, just get out.

How far we have come where the marketing campaign for a new product of this scale involves paying someone a living wage to "go out to websites like slashdot and pretend to be a real person who is excited about this new project."

Good grief. FacePalm.

There are shills everywhere though... http://plasticmacca.blogspot.com/2012/04/confessions-of-ex-internet-shill.html

A google search will reveal many others. This is big business??!??!? I wonder if I could be a paid shill... it would have to be for something I actually liked though. Meh.

... the claim is that an increase in CO2 concentrations from about 380 PPM to 600 PPM will cause a "tipping effect" and exponential feedback loop causing catastrophically accelerated global warming.

Is that the scientific consensus? Or your straw man?

Are you really that ignorant of the basic claims of the IPCC and the climate models? You could argue that my numbers are off, but they are in the less than 400 PPM range, which far from "massive quantities" represents atmospheric increases of less than 0.05%. Of course there's not much talk about the tipping point these days, since NASA data indicated that more energy was being released from the atmosphere than the models were using.

One doesn't have to start from scratch to make a barrel --- just drill out an old truck axle:

http://riflemansjournal.blogspot.com/2009/08/history-harry-pope.html

Seems to require some special tools though:

http://firearmsid.com/feature%20articles/rifledbarrelmanuf/barrelmanufacture.htm

Of course, one could always use BSP:

http://www.amazon.com/Expedient-Homemade-Firearms-The-Submachine/dp/0873649834

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2012/07/bunny-bait.html
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2012/07/30/why-wattss-new-paper-is-doomed-to-fail-review/

You're quite right. I should've noticed it wasn't a Famicom cartridge earlier, but only saw the picture and read the description more thoroughly after my post. Ita erat quando hic adveni. English Online computer childrens health Now that you mention it, I completely failed to notice that it wasn't a Famicon cart either. That would've been the obvious thing to point out, had I realized it. *facepalm. Even so, your post was quite interesting, since while I had heard about that ROM, I hadn't seen much info on it prior to this The dumped Zelda proto wasn't a Famicom cart, either.

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What I never got was all those outcries along the lines of "We're not the worlds police" .. yet you have things like this happening more and more English

Horseshit. Can you name a single "right winger" endorsing and promoting a nobility and royalty?

Mencius Moldbug

Wages have been stagnent for all but those at the very top for decades.

But real total compensation has risen over 100% from 1968 to 2008. You just don't see the increase in real wages because tax laws encourage more of your total compensation to go into benefits such as medical insurance.

Even if the specific example may have been blown way out of proportion, I actually see a lot of the plainly-worded outrage as a complete misunderstanding of how the whole DoD acquisition process actually works.

To this end, I once wrote up a notional piece on The Mythical $800 Hammer. :-)

As usual, MM blogs about disappointing product campaigns, while his (mostly insider) anonymous talk about stack ranking and the broken employee review system:

Then suggest me a better word for "accidentally storing large quantities of private user data, including (according to the French) e-mail passwords, while saying that they weren't doing that". http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/04/data-collected-by-google-cars.html

And a bunch of others (year indicates introduction, not shipments):

HP Slate 500, 2009: http://h71016.www7.hp.com/html/Slate/index.asp
CrunchPad, 2008: http://www.esarcasm.com/8319/crunchpad-dead/
Axiotron Modbook 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiotron_Modbook
Knight-Ridder tablet, 1994 : http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2010/09/ipad-like-newspaper-tablet-concept-from.html
Arthur C. Clarke's Newspad: 1968: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3949GAIokg&feature=player_embedded

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