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Moore's Law Original Issue Found
Daemon writes "BBC News reports that a copy of the original issue of Electronics magazine in which Moore's Law was first published has been found under the floorboards of a Surrey engineer's home. David Clark had kept copies of the magazine for years, despite pleas from his wife to throw them away." Intel, it seems, has its bounty fulfilled.
THATS why I never throw anything away!
One day its going to pay off big!
Starsucks
Now we have an excuse to keep porn when they invent robot girlfriends for us!
"But darling, someone could want it in 10 years time amd get us alot of money"
"...not all stuck together like that they won't!"
I like muppets.
was probably worth more than the money, by a long shot.
playboy did something similiar, I'd be all set.
Dear Intel and Slashdot,
Nobody Cares!
Signed,
Everybody.
maybe she'll be a bit more ok with my packrat qualities.
that now he has a few quid hes throwing the wife away.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I think I'll keep a copy of this posting. You never know when it might be useful.
-- Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW 301/249-6501 AIM:OgGreeb Digital Marketing Inc., Bowie, MD
I'll make the drop behind the commons at 11pm and you'd better be alone.. No police, or the magazine gets it..!
On a slightly related topic... He said he's using the $10k to pay for his daughters weddings. I want to know where they are getting married and how I can afford a wedding for 5k or less :)
one flight for two from UK to Las Vegas: $1600
two disposable cameras with processing: $30
two bottles of champagne: $200
shotgun wedding from Elvis with the works: $350
pocketing the leftover money to spend on geek toys: priceless
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Me: That stash of magazines under my bed... It's not what it looks like!
Dad: Well, I hope not. Because it looks like you're masturbating to a 35-year old copy of Electronics magazine!
(Credit due to bash.org.)
Fool! He should have held onto it. Moore's Law Law postulates that magazine issues referencing Moore's Law double in value every 18 months.
Just to end all all the "OMG YOUR WRONG" posts that have been occuring , I was meaning that with not the upmost seriousness (IE a joke).
The moral and ethical thing to do as i mentioned would be to give the collection to a library(not local , national preferably) so the colection could be enjoyed by all , for the life of me i have no idea what intel wants to do with it, but i assume its not to put it up for display in the national librarys.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Cost to have someone wed you is minimal.
.the real expense is the bride and then their is not much one can do about that...
Approximating $0 if you have it done where you got the license.
. .
Just say, "No."
KFG
I have Hardcore Pornstars issue 1 (Willamette on cover, Jan. 1970) in pristine condition and in its original shrinkwrap. I thought you might be interested.
Wait -- you said "dual core processors," not "Hardcore Pornstars." Nevermind.
Letter
I agree. IE is a joke.
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
...what i should do with those pokemon cards i kept.....
what....? they used to be popular...!
I used to keep my old Apple II computer magazines religiously. My parents thought I was a packrat, but it came in handy one day.
It was high school graduation and the end-of-the-year literary magazine came out. One of the students had won 2nd place for SciFi writing in the state, and his story was in that magazine. I started reading it and got sick to my stomach... I had read this somewhere before, after an hour searching through the stacks of magazines, I found the 7-year-old issue. When the principal presented the evidence to the guy, he had never heard of the magazine -- he found it on some BBS somewhere and didn't even have to retype it to plagiarize it.
He had used the paper for some simple english paper, but his teachers liked it so much they pressured him to submit it to the writing contest. He didn't have the balls to admit what he did.
On a nicer note, I still have the copy of Softalk that introduced the Apple Lisa. Fun reading!
Who the hell keeps their old trade mags under the floor boards? Isn't that where the porn goes?
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Clearly, you underestimate the eroticism of a good circuit diagram.
for the life of me i have no idea what intel wants to do with it
They're going to collect all copies in existence and burn them, so that when Moore's Law is proved wrong, they'll claim it was just a stupid rumor, like Bill's "640K" quote.
Slashdot: News for nerds. Stuff tha-- MICRO$OFT IS THE DEVIL!!1
"Honey, why do you keep all that old junk?"
"... I keep you, don't I?"
Now that her husband wants a divorce, she's asking a lot more than $10k for alimony.
"You know how much the Department of Sanitation charges just to remove all the garbage my soon-to-be -ex husband collected?"
If you're old enough to get screwed, you should be old enough to get hammered.
I'm sorry, but a true geek would have had each of his beloved Electronics magazines soaked in a deacidification solution, carefully and lovingly dried, and then hermetically sealed in Mylar bags (with acid-free cardboard inserts, which he would have changed out every 3-5 years) and then stored in a cool, dry, dark basement.
A "true geek"? No, my friend, he certainly was not!
Buy one domestically?
CC Licensed Serialized Story and Podcast: Ingenioustries
Fry: "Whoah, whoah, wait, Bender. As long as we're here, why don't we take in some exotic dancing?"
Leela: "Hey, great idea!"
Bender: *gasp* "But those girls don't wear cases! You can see their bare circuits!"
Miss Ampere's Parlour
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
No, $7820
From TFA:
Mr Clark now intends to use the money to help pay for his daughters' weddings. His wife also has some plans for the cash.
Yeah, his wife can dream on...
Tag lost or not installed.
95% of the industry today tends to use MicroSoft Wedding 2005, however, and last I checked, the Home version was around $5K. As recently seen on Slashdot, they recently pulled their Homo version, though -- I dunno which one you might be needing.
While many argue that the GFWL is more flexible and robust than MS Wedding (such as compatibility with gdivorce and gabortion and the equivalent open standards), many girls actually tend to like the lock-in of MS Wedding. That is often the largest setback many men see, but they are often happy to get a license at all -- especially those on Slashdot.
This is why I print out hard copies of slashdot every day. I'm waiting to cash in on my original edition of CmdrTaco calling the iPod lame.
I'm not a smorgasbord.
Obligatory Spaced quote (from memory so don;t moan I got the words wrong):
Daisy: "I'm going down the shops, do you want anything?"
Tim: "i dunno, some porn?"
Daisy: "For the last time, I'm not going to buy you porn, Tim. Why don't you just get it from railway sidings like everyone else?"
Tim: "No, I'm an adult now, I have to leave it there."
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
Sadly, the GNU Wedding license will only let you marry Richard Stallman.
This is a showstopper of a drawback for most people.
-- "It's not stalking if you're married!" My Wife.