Another BBC micro game along similar lines was called (IRC) "Great Britain plc" which was fiendishly difficult, requiring you to figure out (among other things) what interest rates to set to avoid mass unemployment, rioting in the streets etc.
It was the first thing I ever did on a computer - a TRS-80 (probably Model I) in sixth grade, so around 1979-80. It was used in school as an educational tool, where we earnestly worked out the figures needed on a calculator before putting them into the game.
It's served me well for about 4 years now - still gets about 10 days on standby from a full charge on its original battery.
SO & kids all have Samsung feature phones (not sure of the model - they look like Blackberry ripoffs) that take up to 64Gb MicroSD cards and seem quite happy with them. They're still on sale for around â90 (though sometimes on offer for ~â60) and seem to be in short supply, so I assume they're popular.
I did this recently to revive to an old IBM laptop (an N33sx/16, i.e. pre-Thinkpad) with a dying floppy drive. I had two Zip drives, one USB, one parallel, so was able to transfer from a modern PC once I managed to install the DOS driver for the Zip drive via floppy.
Of course it helped that there was still a functional DOS on the laptop from many years ago (DR-DOS 7.03 FTW!).
It's still being taught as an introductory language at my daughter's university - Ada 2005 no less! Just installed GNAT & GPS on her laptop.
Me, I'm an old Fortran jockey (VMS, mostly). There still seem to be a few jobs in it, but nobody interested in me (yet).
Almost right. The following explanation was (I think) originally posted on Slashdot a while back:
If there was no Adam & Eve, there was no Fall, therefore no Original Sin, therefore no need for Jesus (assuming he existed) to die in order to "save" us from said Sin, therefore no "eternal life" - so it destroys the entire basis of their belief system. Or, as someone else pointed out downthread, it boils down to fear of death.
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The recent announcement of a merger between LXDE and Razor-Qt is another nail in the coffin of GTK+3, and should produce something rather lighter than KDE.
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Have you tried running TLP? http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html
He's history's greatest monster! https://frinkiac.com/meme/S04E21/1220535.jpg?b64lines=IEhFJ1MgSElTVE9SWSdTIEdSRUFURVNUCiBNT05TVEVSIQ==
Raspi with Kodi (OSMC is good) does it for me.
No, ReactOS.
You are John Titor and I claim my $5.
Just a correction - it was "Great Britain Limited": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_Ltd
Another BBC micro game along similar lines was called (IRC) "Great Britain plc" which was fiendishly difficult, requiring you to figure out (among other things) what interest rates to set to avoid mass unemployment, rioting in the streets etc.
It was the first thing I ever did on a computer - a TRS-80 (probably Model I) in sixth grade, so around 1979-80. It was used in school as an educational tool, where we earnestly worked out the figures needed on a calculator before putting them into the game.
It's served me well for about 4 years now - still gets about 10 days on standby from a full charge on its original battery. SO & kids all have Samsung feature phones (not sure of the model - they look like Blackberry ripoffs) that take up to 64Gb MicroSD cards and seem quite happy with them. They're still on sale for around â90 (though sometimes on offer for ~â60) and seem to be in short supply, so I assume they're popular.
I did this recently to revive to an old IBM laptop (an N33sx/16, i.e. pre-Thinkpad) with a dying floppy drive. I had two Zip drives, one USB, one parallel, so was able to transfer from a modern PC once I managed to install the DOS driver for the Zip drive via floppy. Of course it helped that there was still a functional DOS on the laptop from many years ago (DR-DOS 7.03 FTW!).
There's quite a good article on the subject here, starting with Benjamin Franklin's notorious pirating: http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/157
They could also run Arachne as a graphical browser: http://www.glennmcc.org/
It's still being taught as an introductory language at my daughter's university - Ada 2005 no less! Just installed GNAT & GPS on her laptop. Me, I'm an old Fortran jockey (VMS, mostly). There still seem to be a few jobs in it, but nobody interested in me (yet).
You could run a word processor under RISC OS on the Pi: http://www.mw-software.com/software/ewtw/ewtw.html
I'm sure I saw an old documentary about this kind of thing happening in the London Underground. Watch out for giant ants...
No, but the Wayback Machine always respects takedown requests. Note that the British Library maintains an archive of UK sites, and still has the speeches in question (from April 2008 onwards):http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080410100951/http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.speeches.page
...for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
Here you go: http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
Also more recently as part of the "Great Lives" series: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/greatlives_20130917-1700a.mp3/
Almost right. The following explanation was (I think) originally posted on Slashdot a while back: If there was no Adam & Eve, there was no Fall, therefore no Original Sin, therefore no need for Jesus (assuming he existed) to die in order to "save" us from said Sin, therefore no "eternal life" - so it destroys the entire basis of their belief system. Or, as someone else pointed out downthread, it boils down to fear of death.
The recent announcement of a merger between LXDE and Razor-Qt is another nail in the coffin of GTK+3, and should produce something rather lighter than KDE.
Where's the downside?
That would be the Memotech MTX 512... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memotech_MTX
No, the answer is robots - and a basic income for everyone.
OOlite (based on Elite, in turn "inspired" by Star Raiders) is probably the nearest thing you'll find on Linux: http://www.oolite.org/