P.S. Also you didn't answer the question: How can Obama BE any more liberal? He's only a few steps away from where Lenin stood on the political spectrum (central planning).
You're aim is poor, because you're targeting the wrong person. I hate corporations. Centralized power of ANY kind, whether it is in a corporation or government, is dangerous to individual liberty. I guess that's why I hated BOTH bush and Øbama.
Why must decisions always be placed in someone else's hands? Why can't I make my OWN decisions of what I want to buy, or wish to work, or desire to live. Bush/Obama both tried to take away my freedom of choice. As if I'm serf.
>>>A country has ALWAYS had the right to fully inspect or seize ANYTHING coming in across its border!
Where in the Constitution was the United States government given that power of unlimited property theft (or limitless imprisonment)??? MY reading of the constitution says the exact opposite (Bill of Rights, sections 5 and 9 and 10).
The irony is that when Jefferson was faced with his own version of the Patriot Act (the 1790s Alien and Sedition Act), he did not immediately reach for the gun. Instead he advised the Member States refuse to enforce the law as unconstitutional, and then he organized the Democrats to take-back the Congress from the Federalists. The act was repealed in 1803.
In contrast Obama RENEWED Bush's act. Hmmm. What we really need is this to kill the Patriot Act:
The "Protect the 9th and 10th Amendments" Act. ----- Proposed Amendment XXVIII. Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-half of the State legislatures declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed. ----- SECTION 2. The Supreme Court will have the authority to review cases, and as part of the ruling declare these cases constitutional or unconstitutional, however the decision by the States (section 1) shall be superior.
Something similar happened to me when I crossed into Canada. I just happened to have water filters in my trunk, and the guy labeled in "commercial products" and refused to let me enter, although I explained it was my own personal items. So I dumped them in a trash barrel and continued through.
He wants to turn the USA into a central, government-run economy (like Cuba is today, or the Soviet Union used to be). How much more liberal can a person be?
>>>It still scares me to see how badly the Bush administration has damaged democracy and the American constitution
Yes George Duh Bush is a git, but Obama signed the Patriot Act Renewal bill, so now he's just as much of a git. Obama should have kept his promise and let the Patriot Act expire. Obama's other broken promises:
1 - Stop snatching people off streets. Provide a Right to fair trial. - (REALITY: We no longer have Miranda rights even for U.S. citizens.) (Can be held indefinitely w/o trial) 2 - Right to Privacy - (They now spy on us via warrantless wiretaps and track our cellphones) (Patriot Act renewed by Obama.) 3 - No interrogation. Close Guantanamo. - (Revoked - now they interrogate American citizens too.) 4 - End the war. - (Now it's been extended two more years.)
So now we've had three shitty presidents in a row.
Now try playing Red Storm Rising, or other keyboard-intensive game, using an emulator. I've tried but because the game was specifically designed for the C64 keyboard's layout, it's nigh-impossible to play on a PC or Mac keyboard. The keys don't match up
The 68000-based Amigas (500,600,2000) crashed all the time, due to lack of an MMU. But the models you were using (A3000 and 4000) had modern CPUs (68020 or higher) with built-in MMUs, and that's why they were so stable.
Maybe you state operates differently, but in my state the government college tuition is about half what a private college charges. The other 40-50% is supported by government funds.
>>>When you buy and/or install Windows, you explicitly give Microsoft permission to [update Firefox]
I doubt that is true, and even if it were it violates multiple U.S. and EU Consumer Protection Laws. The only reason MS gets-away with it is because nobody's bothered to sue them yet & challenge the TOS.
>>>something is obsolete when it falls sufficiently far below current baseline standards.
And who decides those standards? YOU? hahahahaaha. You clearly know nothing about this subject. There are many people using Amigas to surf the web, listen to music, and/or watch videos just as easily as we use our Macs or PCs to do the same tasks. The Amiga exceeds whatever "baseline standards" you have floating in your close-minded brain
>>>By my definition, there were no native PPC Amigas (i.e., from Commodore); those were all 680x0 machines like God intended.
But Commodore(spit) sold the Amiga to other companies, and those other companies followed the Apple Macintosh example: Upgraded from the obsolete 68000-series to the new PowerPC CPUs. These later model Amigas are no longer Commodore(spit)-labeled machines, but they are still Amigas.
In retrospect the death of Commodore may have been one of the best things to happen for Amiga. It freed them from a company that didn't know how to innovate (it just sat on its ass for 7 years, not upgrading the graphics or sound).
That is why you need the 4096 kilobyte external memory upgrade. The internal 64K is used directly by the 6502 CPU while the external memory can be used for caching of webpages, graphics, et cetera.
Well an iPad won't let me play my favorite game - Elite. So that's why I keep my Commodore 64 and Amiga running, even though they are slow as snails. As for MODERN Amigas versus an iPad - I have no idea.
The latest Amiga will be released soon, with a 1500 megahertz PowerPC. So about the same as the first Mac G5, but with a much better operating system.
>>>Quite. It's dead Jim, give it up...How many Amiga systems still work? So 3 other people download it, say WOW, and then never use it again? No doubt I'll be called a troll but really shouldn't you put your mad skillz to a better use? >>>
If Amigas are dead why can I go buy a brand-new system, right now, for less than $1000. If Amigas are dead why is a new model being released in just a few months?
The only thing that's dead here is your curiosity. You'd rather jump to false ASSumptions, rather than GOOGLE for information about the Amiga: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=amiga+os+4.1
You're not a troll. You're just an ignorant boob with a big mouth, and you made yourself look like an idiot with your "Amiga's dead" comment.
>>>an obsolete OS - I think my question has some merit.
Your question makes an invalid assumption, which is why it was labeled "flamebait" or "troll" by moderators. AmigaOS 4.1 is just over 1 year old. You can that "obsolete"? Hardly. It's younger than the Vista, XP or OS X 10.5 operating systems many of us are still using. - And "I didn't know" isn't a defense when you're only a mouseclick away from google: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=amigaos+4.1
The Amiga hardware is a bit slow (~800 megahertz), but then again it's always been a lightweight OS, so it doesn't need much speed. The original Amiga did true multitasking with just 0.25 megabytes of RAM and the modern Amiga OS is just as efficient.
>>>Yellow pixels would presumably light up to help make yellows brigter.
That would explain why Obama's been looking more yellow on my new RGBY television..... but it doesn't represent reality. The source video is calibrated to RGB screens, and showing yellow with the R and G pixels. The addition of an extra yellow phosphor merely distorts the image.
>>>who holds their iPhone 10 inches from their face? Maybe blind people.
(holds up bottle glasses) - I'm half blind you insensitive clod.
j/k. I typically hold phone 6-8 inches from my face, so I can read the tiny text. I don't see what's so unusual about that. BTW I'm amish you insensitive... nah never mind.
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P.S. Also you didn't answer the question: How can Obama BE any more liberal? He's only a few steps away from where Lenin stood on the political spectrum (central planning).
You're aim is poor, because you're targeting the wrong person. I hate corporations. Centralized power of ANY kind, whether it is in a corporation or government, is dangerous to individual liberty. I guess that's why I hated BOTH bush and Øbama.
Why must decisions always be placed in someone else's hands? Why can't I make my OWN decisions of what I want to buy, or wish to work, or desire to live. Bush/Obama both tried to take away my freedom of choice. As if I'm serf.
>>>A country has ALWAYS had the right to fully inspect or seize ANYTHING coming in across its border!
Where in the Constitution was the United States government given that power of unlimited property theft (or limitless imprisonment)??? MY reading of the constitution says the exact opposite (Bill of Rights, sections 5 and 9 and 10).
The irony is that when Jefferson was faced with his own version of the Patriot Act (the 1790s Alien and Sedition Act), he did not immediately reach for the gun. Instead he advised the Member States refuse to enforce the law as unconstitutional, and then he organized the Democrats to take-back the Congress from the Federalists. The act was repealed in 1803.
In contrast Obama RENEWED Bush's act. Hmmm. What we really need is this to kill the Patriot Act:
The "Protect the 9th and 10th Amendments" Act.
----- Proposed Amendment XXVIII.
Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-half of the State legislatures declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed. ----- SECTION 2. The Supreme Court will have the authority to review cases, and as part of the ruling declare these cases constitutional or unconstitutional, however the decision by the States (section 1) shall be superior.
Something similar happened to me when I crossed into Canada. I just happened to have water filters in my trunk, and the guy labeled in "commercial products" and refused to let me enter, although I explained it was my own personal items. So I dumped them in a trash barrel and continued through.
He wants to turn the USA into a central, government-run economy (like Cuba is today, or the Soviet Union used to be). How much more liberal can a person be?
>>>It still scares me to see how badly the Bush administration has damaged democracy and the American constitution
Yes George Duh Bush is a git, but Obama signed the Patriot Act Renewal bill, so now he's just as much of a git. Obama should have kept his promise and let the Patriot Act expire. Obama's other broken promises:
1 - Stop snatching people off streets. Provide a Right to fair trial. - (REALITY: We no longer have Miranda rights even for U.S. citizens.) (Can be held indefinitely w/o trial)
2 - Right to Privacy - (They now spy on us via warrantless wiretaps and track our cellphones) (Patriot Act renewed by Obama.)
3 - No interrogation. Close Guantanamo. - (Revoked - now they interrogate American citizens too.)
4 - End the war. - (Now it's been extended two more years.)
So now we've had three shitty presidents in a row.
Okay.
Now try playing Red Storm Rising, or other keyboard-intensive game, using an emulator. I've tried but because the game was specifically designed for the C64 keyboard's layout, it's nigh-impossible to play on a PC or Mac keyboard. The keys don't match up
The 68000-based Amigas (500,600,2000) crashed all the time, due to lack of an MMU. But the models you were using (A3000 and 4000) had modern CPUs (68020 or higher) with built-in MMUs, and that's why they were so stable.
AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x both have memory protection, same as a modern Mac OS X or Windows 5.x/6.x have memory protection.
3.x was released in 1992
If you reran your numbers using US versus EU I think you'd find it's closer to s 50-50 ratio.
Maybe you state operates differently, but in my state the government college tuition is about half what a private college charges. The other 40-50% is supported by government funds.
>>>because no image file format specifies a black channel.
Yes it does.
>>>When you buy and/or install Windows, you explicitly give Microsoft permission to [update Firefox]
I doubt that is true, and even if it were it violates multiple U.S. and EU Consumer Protection Laws. The only reason MS gets-away with it is because nobody's bothered to sue them yet & challenge the TOS.
Precisely. I had heard KDE would work better on low RAM systems, but in practice it seems to be worse than the default Gnome desktop.
Now I want to try LXDE (Lubuntu) to see how it performs. Supposedly it only needs 160 MB RAM
>>>No memory protection
(cough) (whispers) That hasn't been true since 1992. Per usual the Amiga had this feature before either Mac or PC had it.
>>>something is obsolete when it falls sufficiently far below current baseline standards.
And who decides those standards? YOU? hahahahaaha. You clearly know nothing about this subject. There are many people using Amigas to surf the web, listen to music, and/or watch videos just as easily as we use our Macs or PCs to do the same tasks. The Amiga exceeds whatever "baseline standards" you have floating in your close-minded brain
>>>By my definition, there were no native PPC Amigas (i.e., from Commodore); those were all 680x0 machines like God intended.
But Commodore(spit) sold the Amiga to other companies, and those other companies followed the Apple Macintosh example: Upgraded from the obsolete 68000-series to the new PowerPC CPUs. These later model Amigas are no longer Commodore(spit)-labeled machines, but they are still Amigas.
In retrospect the death of Commodore may have been one of the best things to happen for Amiga. It freed them from a company that didn't know how to innovate (it just sat on its ass for 7 years, not upgrading the graphics or sound).
That is why you need the 4096 kilobyte external memory upgrade. The internal 64K is used directly by the 6502 CPU while the external memory can be used for caching of webpages, graphics, et cetera.
>>>computing power of an Amiga to an iPad?
Well an iPad won't let me play my favorite game - Elite. So that's why I keep my Commodore 64 and Amiga running, even though they are slow as snails. As for MODERN Amigas versus an iPad - I have no idea.
The latest Amiga will be released soon, with a 1500 megahertz PowerPC. So about the same as the first Mac G5, but with a much better operating system.
>>>Quite. It's dead Jim, give it up...How many Amiga systems still work? So 3 other people download it, say WOW, and then never use it again? No doubt I'll be called a troll but really shouldn't you put your mad skillz to a better use?
>>>
If Amigas are dead why can I go buy a brand-new system, right now, for less than $1000. If Amigas are dead why is a new model being released in just a few months?
The only thing that's dead here is your curiosity. You'd rather jump to false ASSumptions, rather than GOOGLE for information about the Amiga: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=amiga+os+4.1
You're not a troll.
You're just an ignorant boob with a big mouth, and
you made yourself look like an idiot with your "Amiga's dead" comment.
>>>an obsolete OS - I think my question has some merit.
Your question makes an invalid assumption, which is why it was labeled "flamebait" or "troll" by moderators. AmigaOS 4.1 is just over 1 year old. You can that "obsolete"? Hardly. It's younger than the Vista, XP or OS X 10.5 operating systems many of us are still using. - And "I didn't know" isn't a defense when you're only a mouseclick away from google: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=amigaos+4.1
The Amiga hardware is a bit slow (~800 megahertz), but then again it's always been a lightweight OS, so it doesn't need much speed. The original Amiga did true multitasking with just 0.25 megabytes of RAM and the modern Amiga OS is just as efficient.
Meanwhile the California government increases their rates 400% and nobody bats an eye
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>>>Yellow pixels would presumably light up to help make yellows brigter.
That would explain why Obama's been looking more yellow on my new RGBY television..... but it doesn't represent reality. The source video is calibrated to RGB screens, and showing yellow with the R and G pixels. The addition of an extra yellow phosphor merely distorts the image.
>>>who holds their iPhone 10 inches from their face? Maybe blind people.
(holds up bottle glasses) - I'm half blind you insensitive clod.
j/k. I typically hold phone 6-8 inches from my face, so I can read the tiny text. I don't see what's so unusual about that. BTW I'm amish you insensitive... nah never mind.