Not really the same thing, since I can connect my Atari or Commodore to a 40 inch TV. I'm not aware of any laptops with that size screens, unless your TV has a VGA in or DVI in. (None of mine do.)
>>>having a big fat keyboard would be kind of annoying these days.....
Good point. Nowadays laptops are outselling desktop PCs since people want mobility. The old single-piece keyboards/computers wouldn't sell well in today's environment, because you needed to chain yourself to a TV to use them.
>>>a combination of AV and party list wherein a party that gets too few constituency seats is awarded top-up seats to compensate.
That breaks the fundamental principal of a representative being the voice of his district. If the people living in Town A vote for a Liberal, and he gets replaced by this new AV+ system by a smaller psrty (say libertarian) then he's not really representing that town's views.
>>>he wasn't charged with theft, he was charged and convicted of Denial of Service
On one of my previous jobs they fired an engineer and he took the schematic with him. We did eventually get it back three weeks later, but I wonder what he would have been charged with if he'd acted like Terry Childs? We had the prototype circuit card in our hands, so would lack-of-a-schematic be Denial of Service? Or theft? Or none of the above?
>>>Theft is when you take away something [an object] that belongs to someone else, with the intention to never return it.
Precisely. Childs denied the owner his property (the passwords) or use of other property (the computers). He deserves every year of that 4 year punishment for being an asshole. There is absolutely no justification for his actions except in the minds of *other* assholes.
Actually in the case of 10.5, they did. It was impossible to make the "update to 10.5" popup go away. Even when I clicked "no" it just kept coming back again and again.
Probably a programming error, but it nevertheless it left me with no choice.
I'd sooner just buy a smaller PC without the bays. Heck, why doesn't anyone make a single piece keyboard like the old Atari 800, or C=64, or Amiga 500?
>>>NGOs and individuals I expect to have ethics, but not corporations.
Revoke corporate licenses.
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Oh I don't know.....
A few years ago my boss wanted to get rid of me (two departments merged and she had too many people), but she couldn't do it because of a signed 6-month contract, and only 1 month had passed. So instead she made-up a bunch of lies (you were watching porn) (no I was not), and other nonsense like saying I was eating too much food at lunchtime. She then used these false claims to file for breach of contract and terminated me.
I would LOVE to sneak into her office, offload some porn from a USB, and then report it. She deserves to get fired for how she treated me.
Another guy I'd like to get revenge upon is the Motel 6 Manager who kicked me out, because he didn't want to give me the 10% sale price the central Atlanta office had applied to my reservation. He too made-up a bunch of lies about how I was yelling at maids (false) and having sex with one of his clerks (hardly-she was not only fat but also ugly).
I'd like to fill his work computer with some porn too.
>>>If Commodore had never gone out of business and kept making Amigas all these years, I doubt the latest models would resemble the original
You're right. They probably would have followed the same path that Apple did..... switching from 68000 to PowerPCs, and then Intel (because their processors are cheaper).
A modern Mac looks nothing like the 1994 or earlier Macs. It's not even the same OS anymore. Likewise a modern Commodore Amiga would not be the same as its original 68000 cousins.
(points to 1985 Amiga showing a slideshow of 80s-era Swimsuit Issues). That's 4000 colors my friend. You sure as hell couldn't recreate this slideshow on an 80s Mac or PC. They were still stuck at black-and-white and 4 or 16 colors, respectively.
And even for games, the 64 color limit on Amiga was still more colors than what my friends' IBM PCs did (4 or 16).
Yeah I know the VGA arrived in 1987, but who could afford the $3000 pricetag??? Nobody. Mac and PC games in the 80s sucked because of the lack of colors (or sound). .
>>>The lightweight nature of the kernel isn't really relevant in a world where your core processor is 100MHz or faster.
Tell that to my PowerMac G4 with its 400 MHz processor. It runs like a snail and plays youtube in slow motion. In contrast AmigaOS at the same speed runs just fine (at full speed). The "lightweightness" of the OS matters.
If it didn't, open source programmers would not have developed Lightweight Ubuntu (lubuntu) OR DSL.
So? It's still the first time a computer could create photorealistic porn.;-) You sure as hell couldn't download the latest Swimsuit Issue or Playboy on an 80s Mac or PC, but it could be done on an Amiga.
>>>As such AmigaOS4 is really just a cloned lookalike that runs old software through emulation.
One could make the same argument about MacOS after they switched from the 68000 to the PowerPCs. (You need an emulator to run the original Mac binaries.)
Or one could conclude that Apple/Commodore had no choice but to switch processors, since the 68000 series had come to a dead end, and not get hung-up about the CPU.
>>>the republicans are spiteful, self-centered assholes who sell out the country
Thank you. I've been waiting for a hate-filled troll to come along and spout a bunch of nonsense (and get modded +5 insightful by other trolls), JUST so I could post the following.
The most racist Party in the whole history of America:
1790s - the Founders abolished importation of slaves, abolished slavery in the north and northwest territories, and banned selling of slaves across state lines. They intended to abolish slavery in the south too but.....
1820s - the South, aka the Democrats, reversed a lot of the laws the Founders had put in place, and adopted a pro-slavery stance, thereby blocking any more progress toward complete abolition.
1860s - the Democrats seceded from the Union because a Republican won the presidency (and because they wanted protect slavery)
1880s - the Democrats invented the idea of Segregation
1910s - Democrat Wilson segregates blacks from the formerly unified army. He also invites the KKK to the White House for the first time.
1950s/60s/70s - the Democrats opposed/ voted against Civil Rights Laws. To quote Senator Byrd: "Rather I should die a thousand times, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels." . That's 150 years of Democrats trying to keep black Americans down. So where does this myth come from that the Democrats are the "good" party and the Republicans are the evil party. Hmmmm.
>>>I never really understood why people make patently false statements that are easily disproven. The majority of Democrats in the House voted against the Patriot Act renewal >>>
Yeah I don't know either why people make patently false statements. Here's the Democrat breakdown on H.R.3961 which shows the majority did NOT vote against the Patriot Act's renewal:
Ayes: 162 Nays: 87
And of course Obama, also a Democrat, could have and should have vetoed it.
At some point? It's the very first sentence: "Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux." You then have to dig further to discover it won't run on all OS 10.x installs..... only the more recent ones.
Lesson learned: Read the newspaper. The companies offered the rebate to ALL their customers..... it's not their fault you did not read the announcement. It was widely disseminated at the time (2001).
>>>Generally the authorities are less of a concern. Generally.
"The authorities" killed over 100 million of their own citizens during the last since 1910..... including countries that were so-called "democratic". I think there's reason to be concerned.
Standard Oil wasn't abusing its monopoly when it was broken-up. It was simply a target for Teddy Roosevelt to aim his gun at - he hated monopolies even ones that were not acting abusive. In fact most historians now say that Standard HAD a monopoly, but lost it, when new competitors rose-up in Texas. So there was no reason for the government to act.
Ma Bell was also broken-up, even though they were not abusing anything.
And then there's the EU case against Microsoft - they were not found to be abusing anything either, but the EU politicians forced them to insert a browser choice screen anyway. It helped them score political points and get re-elected.
>>>your local grocery and liquor stores (haven't you ever noticed how their prices are almost identical on a majority of items?
That's simply not true. I have a local store that charges about 1 dollar more than Walmart does. The local family-owned store charges $2.50 for a frozen meal, while Walmart only asks $1.80. Other stores charge around $2 or $2.25. Prices DO vary.
Yeah fine The whole market is fixed. In fact ya know Ebay? That's fixed too. Sellers manipulate the prices!!!! So let's jsut have government take-over Ebay and set all the prices on your items! You say you want to sell Final Fantasy 7 for approximately $150 (the current going price). Well too bad! The government will force you to sell it for the "fair value" price of $15.
Sound nuts?
Well that's how you sound to me. There is NOT some grand conspiracy. There WAS a cartel amongst CD companies, but the government broke it up, punished them with a ~100 million fine, and now the price is floating again..... just like prices on ebay float. To continue insisting the cartel exists makes you sound like that nutter Alex Jones ("they are poisoning the water with flouride!").
High demand == high price. i.e. They can charge $50 or $60 because you people who need it now now NOW are stupid enough to pay it. Whereas a smart person like msyself simply waits for the "Greatest Hits" version at $20.
AND ALSO you say pressing the discs is cheap, but that's Not the REAL cost of a game. I'd guess 95% of the cost is labor (programmers, artists, etc), and that's what you're paying for.
>>>By your own admission, they overcharged 10$ per CD.
I said nothing of the kind. I said the typical cost of a catalog CD (i.e. not a new release) was $12 and after the cartel was broken up it dropped to $9. Sometimes less. I don't know where you keep inventing this imaginary "10$" because I never said it.
Why should he be left-off? According to the article, "Childs repeatedly refused to hand over administrative passwords to his managers because he was concerned that the passwords would be indiscriminately shared with management and third-party contractors, thereby jeopardizing the security of the network"
That's basically theft of somebody else's property. For example I can't work at a diamond store, lock-up the diamonds in a safe, and then throw away the key so that the store own can't get to his own property. Neither should a sysadmin be able to lock-up computers and deny access to the owner.
And even if Child was correct, that the passwords would be leaked to others and compromise security, so what? It's the city's computers and if they want to screw it up, then so be it. It's their property to use or abuse as they see fit.
They wouldn't have 2 year old browsers if you turned on "automatic updates" like I did for my brother's machine.
Personally I think Mozilla's silent updates are bullshit. If programmers were perfect, it would be okay, but programmers are human and make mistakes which means sometimes the update will kill a browser (or plugin) and make it unusable. It should be up to ME to decide when to update, not some arrogant asshole saying, "I know what's good for you" and ramming it up my ass.
Opera did this to me - forcing me to upgrade from 10.0 to 10.5, and now 10.5 doesn't run anywhere near as well as 10.0 did. You should not "force" people to do something. In fact if you're using that word - force - then you're automatically doing something wrong. People should be allowed to make their own choices.
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Not really the same thing, since I can connect my Atari or Commodore to a 40 inch TV. I'm not aware of any laptops with that size screens, unless your TV has a VGA in or DVI in. (None of mine do.)
>>>having a big fat keyboard would be kind of annoying these days.....
Good point. Nowadays laptops are outselling desktop PCs since people want mobility. The old single-piece keyboards/computers wouldn't sell well in today's environment, because you needed to chain yourself to a TV to use them.
>>>a combination of AV and party list wherein a party that gets too few constituency seats is awarded top-up seats to compensate.
That breaks the fundamental principal of a representative being the voice of his district. If the people living in Town A vote for a Liberal, and he gets replaced by this new AV+ system by a smaller psrty (say libertarian) then he's not really representing that town's views.
>>>he wasn't charged with theft, he was charged and convicted of Denial of Service
On one of my previous jobs they fired an engineer and he took the schematic with him. We did eventually get it back three weeks later, but I wonder what he would have been charged with if he'd acted like Terry Childs? We had the prototype circuit card in our hands, so would lack-of-a-schematic be Denial of Service? Or theft? Or none of the above?
>>>Theft is when you take away something [an object] that belongs to someone else, with the intention to never return it.
Precisely. Childs denied the owner his property (the passwords) or use of other property (the computers). He deserves every year of that 4 year punishment for being an asshole. There is absolutely no justification for his actions except in the minds of *other* assholes.
Like my ex-boss.
Actually in the case of 10.5, they did. It was impossible to make the "update to 10.5" popup go away. Even when I clicked "no" it just kept coming back again and again.
Probably a programming error, but it nevertheless it left me with no choice.
I'd
sooner just buy a smaller PC without the bays. Heck, why doesn't anyone make a single piece keyboard like the old Atari 800, or C=64, or Amiga 500?
>>>NGOs and individuals I expect to have ethics, but not corporations.
Revoke corporate licenses.
Oh I don't know.....
A few years ago my boss wanted to get rid of me (two departments merged and she had too many people), but she couldn't do it because of a signed 6-month contract, and only 1 month had passed. So instead she made-up a bunch of lies (you were watching porn) (no I was not), and other nonsense like saying I was eating too much food at lunchtime. She then used these false claims to file for breach of contract and terminated me.
I would LOVE to sneak into her office, offload some porn from a USB, and then report it. She deserves to get fired for how she treated me.
Another guy I'd like to get revenge upon is the Motel 6 Manager who kicked me out, because he didn't want to give me the 10% sale price the central Atlanta office had applied to my reservation. He too made-up a bunch of lies about how I was yelling at maids (false) and having sex with one of his clerks (hardly-she was not only fat but also ugly).
I'd like to fill his work computer with some porn too.
>>>If Commodore had never gone out of business and kept making Amigas all these years, I doubt the latest models would resemble the original
You're right. They probably would have followed the same path that Apple did..... switching from 68000 to PowerPCs, and then Intel (because their processors are cheaper).
A modern Mac looks nothing like the 1994 or earlier Macs. It's not even the same OS anymore. Likewise a modern Commodore Amiga would not be the same as its original 68000 cousins.
>>>could only display 32 of them simultaneously
(points to 1985 Amiga showing a slideshow of 80s-era Swimsuit Issues). That's 4000 colors my friend. You sure as hell couldn't recreate this slideshow on an 80s Mac or PC. They were still stuck at black-and-white and 4 or 16 colors, respectively.
And even for games, the 64 color limit on Amiga was still more colors than what my friends' IBM PCs did (4 or 16).
Yeah I know the VGA arrived in 1987, but who could afford the $3000 pricetag??? Nobody. Mac and PC games in the 80s sucked because of the lack of colors (or sound).
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>>>The lightweight nature of the kernel isn't really relevant in a world where your core processor is 100MHz or faster.
Tell that to my PowerMac G4 with its 400 MHz processor. It runs like a snail and plays youtube in slow motion. In contrast AmigaOS at the same speed runs just fine (at full speed). The "lightweightness" of the OS matters.
If it didn't, open source programmers would not have developed Lightweight Ubuntu (lubuntu) OR DSL.
>>>HAM is more or less a hack
So? It's still the first time a computer could create photorealistic porn. ;-) You sure as hell couldn't download the latest Swimsuit Issue or Playboy on an 80s Mac or PC, but it could be done on an Amiga.
My friends were jealous. ;-)
>>>As such AmigaOS4 is really just a cloned lookalike that runs old software through emulation.
One could make the same argument about MacOS after they switched from the 68000 to the PowerPCs. (You need an emulator to run the original Mac binaries.)
Or one could conclude that Apple/Commodore had no choice but to switch processors, since the 68000 series had come to a dead end, and not get hung-up about the CPU.
>>>the republicans are spiteful, self-centered assholes who sell out the country
Thank you. I've been waiting for a hate-filled troll to come along and spout a bunch of nonsense (and get modded +5 insightful by other trolls), JUST so I could post the following.
The most racist Party in the whole history of America:
1790s - the Founders abolished importation of slaves, abolished slavery in the north and northwest territories, and banned selling of slaves across state lines. They intended to abolish slavery in the south too but.....
1820s - the South, aka the Democrats, reversed a lot of the laws the Founders had put in place, and adopted a pro-slavery stance, thereby blocking any more progress toward complete abolition.
1860s - the Democrats seceded from the Union because a Republican won the presidency (and because they wanted protect slavery)
1880s - the Democrats invented the idea of Segregation
1910s - Democrat Wilson segregates blacks from the formerly unified army. He also invites the KKK to the White House for the first time.
1950s/60s/70s - the Democrats opposed/ voted against Civil Rights Laws. To quote Senator Byrd: "Rather I should die a thousand times, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels."
.
That's 150 years of Democrats trying to keep black Americans down.
So where does this myth come from that the Democrats are the "good"
party and the Republicans are the evil party. Hmmmm.
>>>I never really understood why people make patently false statements that are easily disproven. The majority of Democrats in the House voted against the Patriot Act renewal
>>>
Yeah I don't know either why people make patently false statements. Here's the Democrat breakdown on H.R.3961 which shows the majority did NOT vote against the Patriot Act's renewal:
Ayes: 162
Nays: 87
And of course Obama, also a Democrat, could have and should have vetoed it.
At some point? It's the very first sentence: "Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux." You then have to dig further to discover it won't run on all OS 10.x installs..... only the more recent ones.
Lesson learned: Read the newspaper. The companies offered the rebate to ALL their customers..... it's not their fault you did not read the announcement. It was widely disseminated at the time (2001).
>>>Generally the authorities are less of a concern. Generally.
"The authorities" killed over 100 million of their own citizens during the last since 1910..... including countries that were so-called "democratic". I think there's reason to be concerned.
Standard Oil wasn't abusing its monopoly when it was broken-up. It was simply a target for Teddy Roosevelt to aim his gun at - he hated monopolies even ones that were not acting abusive. In fact most historians now say that Standard HAD a monopoly, but lost it, when new competitors rose-up in Texas. So there was no reason for the government to act.
Ma Bell was also broken-up, even though they were not abusing anything.
And then there's the EU case against Microsoft - they were not found to be abusing anything either, but the EU politicians forced them to insert a browser choice screen anyway. It helped them score political points and get re-elected.
>>>your local grocery and liquor stores (haven't you ever noticed how their prices are almost identical on a majority of items?
That's simply not true. I have a local store that charges about 1 dollar more than Walmart does. The local family-owned store charges $2.50 for a frozen meal, while Walmart only asks $1.80. Other stores charge around $2 or $2.25. Prices DO vary.
Yeah fine The whole market is fixed. In fact ya know Ebay? That's fixed too. Sellers manipulate the prices!!!! So let's jsut have government take-over Ebay and set all the prices on your items! You say you want to sell Final Fantasy 7 for approximately $150 (the current going price). Well too bad! The government will force you to sell it for the "fair value" price of $15.
Sound nuts?
Well that's how you sound to me. There is NOT some grand conspiracy. There WAS a cartel amongst CD companies, but the government broke it up, punished them with a ~100 million fine, and now the price is floating again..... just like prices on ebay float. To continue insisting the cartel exists makes you sound like that nutter Alex Jones ("they are poisoning the water with flouride!").
High demand == high price. i.e. They can charge $50 or $60 because you people who need it now now NOW are stupid enough to pay it. Whereas a smart person like msyself simply waits for the "Greatest Hits" version at $20.
AND ALSO you say pressing the discs is cheap, but that's Not the REAL cost of a game. I'd guess 95% of the cost is labor (programmers, artists, etc), and that's what you're paying for.
>>>By your own admission, they overcharged 10$ per CD.
I said nothing of the kind. I said the typical cost of a catalog CD (i.e. not a new release) was $12 and after the cartel was broken up it dropped to $9. Sometimes less. I don't know where you keep inventing this imaginary "10$" because I never said it.
Why should he be left-off? According to the article, "Childs repeatedly refused to hand over administrative passwords to his managers because he was concerned that the passwords would be indiscriminately shared with management and third-party contractors, thereby jeopardizing the security of the network"
That's basically theft of somebody else's property. For example I can't work at a diamond store, lock-up the diamonds in a safe, and then throw away the key so that the store own can't get to his own property. Neither should a sysadmin be able to lock-up computers and deny access to the owner.
And even if Child was correct, that the passwords would be leaked to others and compromise security, so what? It's the city's computers and if they want to screw it up, then so be it. It's their property to use or abuse as they see fit.
They wouldn't have 2 year old browsers if you turned on "automatic updates" like I did for my brother's machine.
Personally I think Mozilla's silent updates are bullshit. If programmers were perfect, it would be okay, but programmers are human and make mistakes which means sometimes the update will kill a browser (or plugin) and make it unusable. It should be up to ME to decide when to update, not some arrogant asshole saying, "I know what's good for you" and ramming it up my ass.
Opera did this to me - forcing me to upgrade from 10.0 to 10.5, and now 10.5 doesn't run anywhere near as well as 10.0 did. You should not "force" people to do something. In fact if you're using that word - force - then you're automatically doing something wrong. People should be allowed to make their own choices.
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