The *real* reason is that metro was taking an hour or two to groom himself on every boot . . . they got worried about this even before they discovered what his hair dryer was doing to the power budget on handhelds . . .
calling it "Trash-80" is exactly what that hack deserved; it was significantly behind what most hobbiests at the time would have cobbled together on the same parts budget.
It's tough to choose a favorite design flaw, whether saving four bits by only using 7 video chips instead of 8, even though the character generator had lower case . . . Running the processor bizarrely slow, the same rate as characters appeared on screen, but yanking control away and creating a glitch on the screen with each read or write . . .
My choice, though, is using the same connector for the power supply and video output, toasting the board for those who unwittingly just reached behind to plug them in . . .
So if I have this straight, my wife should be pleased that I don't have a facebook account, as it means I'm faithful, but temper that happiness with putting aside a bit from the grocery money each week for my bail after I'm arrested as a serial killer?
Life was so much simpler before the Internet . . hawk
whether it is the "passing lane" or the "fast lane" is a matter of state law, and varies widely. In most of the West, it is most definitely not a "passing lane."
either way, someone in it below the posted speed limit in good conditions is usually committing an offense of the same level as speeding.
It was a top performance vehicle, and then they had that truly *idiotic* campaign in the 70's of "This is not your father's Oldsmobile."
Uh, bright, guys--your fathrs olds likely had a 455 Rocket V-8.
I still haven't quite forgviven my wife for selling her father's car to a cousin twenty years ago. A 67 or 68 olds 88. OK, so it was brown--but it had the 455 rocket , , ,
How they screwed up Buick is beyond me. Buick was *the* gadget brand for all the coolest new things.
GM didn't deserve to survive turning gadgety Buick and high-performance Oldsmobile into stodgy brands.
remember Hawkins' Second Law: There is no lower bound to human intelligence.
I had a student a ew years ago who worked for a company that overdosed on 80/20. They ranked their customers by sales volume, and informed the bottom 20% that they could take their business elsewherere, as their orders would no longer be accepted.
Uhm, now how do you get new customers, since their starting volume will be below your threshold. And of your, uh, surviving customers, doesnt 80/20 still apply? So dump some more?
I wish I was making this up, but i spent a lot of time with this student.
The problem isn't the number interpreting it, but that it's, as you put it, "debatable.". that's not something lawyers let their clients do--we find ways with known meaning.
Flip the coin on what you're saying: when apple builds a machine in Ireland and sells it to me in Nevada, the state of California is entitled to a piece of the action.
We're not talking about moving taxes on CA activities out of state, but protecting its activity in the entire rest of the world from CA's greedy hands.
Nevada does *not* give these companies a break for which they "qualify"--our tax rate is 0 regardless of size.
There were three versions of the machine known as the model 100--the TRS-80, Olivetti, and I forget the third. There were minor differences between them.
I used to run mine on nicads. I think I got 4 or 6 hours: I forget.
Many folks carved space and jerry-rigged a fifth battery to get 6 volts; I ran on just 4--which gave me longer battery life than on the correct voltage (with that type of CMOS, current dissipation was proportional to voltage).
It never occurred to me before, but it likely would have run on 4.5v from three alkalines, and boosted battery life. I'm not likely to put enough hours on ever again to ever find out . . .
However, when the low pow light came on, instead of 20 minutes, yu had 20 seconds . . .
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>Plus part of the rent goes to buying insurance, further protecting the landlord.
With any insurance company I've ever met, part of zero doesn't buy much coverage . . .
hawk
Yeah.
To blow up a planet like that, you'd need immense power. In fact, you'd need a ship the size of a moon to pull it off . . .
oh, never mind . . .
hawk
Those are the wrong comparisons.
Try:
Time Warner's merger with AOL.
Any fool that bought facebook at IPO . . .
hawk
The *real* reason is that metro was taking an hour or two to groom himself on every boot . . . they got worried about this even before they discovered what his hair dryer was doing to the power budget on handhelds . . .
hawk
I owned a model 1.
calling it "Trash-80" is exactly what that hack deserved; it was significantly behind what most hobbiests at the time would have cobbled together on the same parts budget.
It's tough to choose a favorite design flaw, whether saving four bits by only using 7 video chips instead of 8, even though the character generator had lower case . . . Running the processor bizarrely slow, the same rate as characters appeared on screen, but yanking control away and creating a glitch on the screen with each read or write . . .
My choice, though, is using the same connector for the power supply and video output, toasting the board for those who unwittingly just reached behind to plug them in . . .
hawk
So if I have this straight, my wife should be pleased that I don't have a facebook account, as it means I'm faithful, but temper that happiness with putting aside a bit from the grocery money each week for my bail after I'm arrested as a serial killer?
Life was so much simpler before the Internet . .
hawk
So who are you going to believe: someone who needs publicity to sell a book, or you own eyes? :)
hawk
You obviously don't know how to *count* sideays . . .
That's not a "3"' it's "111". (or is it "m"--this right-ending/left-endian thing has confused me since I was U . . .)
hawk
How are you supposed to provide evidence of a transmission sent straight to your brain by the secret industry police that watch you . . .
? :)
hawk
She'll turn into a hen all by herself . . . :)
hawk
"an eye for an eye" was not an injunctive to do violence.
rather, it was a *limit* on the measure of vengeance that could be extracted.
IOW, a descalation, not an escalation
hawk
>until there's something out there that doesn't suck . . .
Well, there's always the Microsoft vacuum cleaner . . . :)
hawk
that, and this does make computer scientists special, as normal folks can only get to 1023 . . . .
hawk
whether it is the "passing lane" or the "fast lane" is a matter of state law, and varies widely. In most of the West, it is most definitely not a "passing lane."
either way, someone in it below the posted speed limit in good conditions is usually committing an offense of the same level as speeding.
hawk
Oldsmobile was a self-inflicted wound.
It was a top performance vehicle, and then they had that truly *idiotic* campaign in the 70's of "This is not your father's Oldsmobile."
Uh, bright, guys--your fathrs olds likely had a 455 Rocket V-8.
I still haven't quite forgviven my wife for selling her father's car to a cousin twenty years ago. A 67 or 68 olds 88. OK, so it was brown--but it had the 455 rocket , , ,
How they screwed up Buick is beyond me. Buick was *the* gadget brand for all the coolest new things.
GM didn't deserve to survive turning gadgety Buick and high-performance Oldsmobile into stodgy brands.
hawk
. . .but they won't be out-innovated by Apple any less, either . . . :)
hawk
sure Windows 8 is taking a risk.
Booting windows has always been a risk.
a risk to your data, a risk to . . .
Practice safe computing: always draw a pentium around your computer before launching windows or otherwise trafficking in demons :)
Hawk
Nah, there's worse.
remember Hawkins' Second Law: There is no lower bound to human intelligence.
I had a student a ew years ago who worked for a company that overdosed on 80/20. They ranked their customers by sales volume, and informed the bottom 20% that they could take their business elsewherere, as their orders would no longer be accepted.
Uhm, now how do you get new customers, since their starting volume will be below your threshold. And of your, uh, surviving customers, doesnt 80/20 still apply? So dump some more?
I wish I was making this up, but i spent a lot of time with this student.
hawk
It's where your lunch money went . .v. :)
hawk
Bah.
Including a keyboard, case, and power supply.
computers for sissies that can't handle a soldering iron.
What's next--put a program in rom so you don't hae to key it in???
humbug
Hawk
The problem isn't the number interpreting it, but that it's, as you put it, "debatable.". that's not something lawyers let their clients do--we find ways with known meaning.
hawk
Flip the coin on what you're saying: when apple builds a machine in Ireland and sells it to me in Nevada, the state of California is entitled to a piece of the action.
We're not talking about moving taxes on CA activities out of state, but protecting its activity in the entire rest of the world from CA's greedy hands.
Nevada does *not* give these companies a break for which they "qualify"--our tax rate is 0 regardless of size.
hawk
Universal?
Netscape and OpenOffice, just off the cuff, used viral licenses while backed by Netscape & Sun
hawk
The model 200 TRS-80 had that screen, too.
There were three versions of the machine known as the model 100--the TRS-80, Olivetti, and I forget the third. There were minor differences between them.
hawk
I used to run mine on nicads. I think I got 4 or 6 hours: I forget.
Many folks carved space and jerry-rigged a fifth battery to get 6 volts; I ran on just 4--which gave me longer battery life than on the correct voltage (with that type of CMOS, current dissipation was proportional to voltage).
It never occurred to me before, but it likely would have run on 4.5v from three alkalines, and boosted battery life. I'm not likely to put enough hours on ever again to ever find out . . .
However, when the low pow light came on, instead of 20 minutes, yu had 20 seconds . . .
hawk