>>>it's not like they are taking your money, out of your wallet.
No they are taking money out of the Chinese government's wallet (and other lenders like Saudi Arabia). The people who will eventually repay that money won't be us, but our children and grandchildren. Jefferson or maybe Madison (forget who) said it is immoral to borrow money from future generations, which is why they bent-over backwards to pay off the government debt as soon as possible. WE should do the same.
Current national debt == ~$130,000 per US home, plus another ~$90,000 in personal debt per home == a not rich country
TRON is better than Disney's other early-80s movie: The Black Hole. Or Herbie Goes Bananas.
I find the reviewer's conclusion "young people lack imagination to picture a world inside a computer" as very odd. If they can watch Yugi-O and other fantasy stuff, why couldn't they extend that same fantasy to the world of Tron too? Imagining a computer with a world inside it (made of artificially intelligent people) is no more a stretch than imagining any other genre, especially with games like Final Fantasy that have lifelike people wondering around "inside" the machine.
(2) I had a two machines that were better, and therefore I wouldn't want the QL even if it had been offered to me. First was the C=128 in 1984(?) with 128k ram, 2 MHz speed, 640x480 graphics, and of course the huge commodore 64 library with music-quality audio and tons of games. THEN I got an Amiga which had similar specs as the QL, but with the Jay-Miner-designed Paula sound chip (SNES quality), Agnus graphics (4000 colors), copper/blitter processing, and preemptive "true" multitasking..... in 1985. Also four times the RAM (512K).
I never looked at the price of the Apple II, but I remember asking my parents to buy me an Atari 800 and it was $299 in 1983. I would be surprised if you could get a Spectrum for less money. The only computer at the time cheaper than that was a C64 at $199 (later dropped to $99). So I still don't know why I'd want a Spectrum. It isn't better technically, nor is it cheaper.:-)
Well then I guess JCPenney had a corporate, continent-wide meeting for their ~100,000 employees to emphasize the importance of proper pricing for no reason at all??? I think you're wrong. - Governments also audit timecards for companies that hold government contracts and fine those companies when errors are discovered. I suppose you will sit there & claim "That doesn't happen" too?
The best C64 programs were zero lines long. They tossed the Commodore ROM in the trash, thereby freeing-up all 64 k of memory, and loaded directly from the 1541 (or 71) disk drive.
"64k should be enough for anybody." With GEOS you can turn your 64k machine into a clone of the original Mac (with WYSIWYG word processing, a trashcan, and everything). My church pastor did all his newsletters on the Commodore=64. And it doesn't cost $4000. More like $400. With music and color!;-)
I guess it was okay for its day, but even an Atari 800 or Apple II would have been better.
The Atari sound chip was not as good as the C64 sound chip, but the Atari had more colors (128) for superior still images (cough - nudie pics). If I didn't have a Commodore, I would sooner have an 8-bit Atari or Apple instead, not a Sinclair. I just don't get the fierce loyalty people have for that machine - it was a bit like owning a Jaguar video console when everyone else had the superior PS1 or N64 models.
BTW my C64 is white. Also it's actually a C128 (twice the speed and memory) and has S-video output for a clean image. Remaking the color scheme was a smart decision by Commodore.
State governments routinely audit stores to verify the price charged at the register matches the price advertised on the sign. When I was at JCP the corporation had been caught twice - once by Pennsylvania in the early 90s and again by Texas in 2002.
When I worked at JcPenney we would waste a day just ticketing items..... and oftentimes did not finish because of customers demanding service. Having signs that automatically update is the quick and labor-saving solution. Also helps to avoid fines when the government audits the store and finds "Sale $9.99" for a promotion that ended three days ago.
I prefer Yoshi's Happy Technicolor Dreamland of Psychedelic Colors (2D platformer). But yeah you're right, Farmland's a waste. As pointless as that Cow Clicker app
>>>I have Byte magazine from the first issue up into the early 1990's.
Atariage.com is in process of scanning BYTE into its computer for display on the web. Please go to the forums and post a message volunteering to help out.
I've never owned as ARM computer (just C=6502, 68000-60, PowerPC, x86, MIPS). Why do you think ARM will be a dominant brand in the coming years, instead of the low-power Intel units? (just curious)
Skpye-to-skype calls are either 3 cents/minute or $4/month, so I don't know how you can call that "free" unless this is some new definition I'm not aware of? Besides: I wouldn't be making those skype-to-skype calls because nobody in my family has skype (or a computer). So I'd be paying the 4 cents or whatever per minute of a Skype-to-landline phone.
Also I cannot use Skype anywhere... like if I'm at a gas station when my tire goes flat. The Skype would be useless since my computer would not be with me, and I'd still need to have a calling card. Ditto when I'm in a hotel which often doesn't have internet but always has a phone for my calling card.
Yes you're right that having the second "waiting" person fill the conveyor belt with his food saves time, rather than have them standing back in the Single line queue while the belt sits empty. That's probably why stores continue to have separate lines, but at a bank or 7/11 that would not be an issue and the single line would be more efficient.
This week I discovered a benefit of the "self checkout" line. Free food. I scanned my ~20 meals of frozen packages, but one of them jammed the eye sensor for some reason. The machine credited $2 to my account but the item was still sitting ten feet away next to the bags. Rather than go retrieve it I just shrugged my shoulders & scanned the next item. I didn't create the problem (no clerks to help me)(or the random credits the machine gives customers) - neither is it my responsibility to fix it.
How hard is it to provide a clerk, so I don't have to go after food, or deal with errors in the machine, and waste my time??? If THEIR system is fallible such that it charged me for a meal, and then credited it back to me after it was already in the baggage zone, that's certainly not my fault. Hire a clerk, give him or her a job, and those things won't happen.
Win9x. MS-DOS with an overlay. No wonder it kept crashing. Windows NT is much more stable.
I switched from IE to Opera. My Netscape Dialup requires Internet Explorer to work with its "web compression" software. But knowing how vulnerable IE is, I decided to give Firefox, Seamonkey, and Opera a spin. Opera and its Turbo work great with this slow connection.
Then I uninstalled IE-8. So for me, this 0-day exploit is a non-issue. I advise all my coworkers, when the topic comes up, to stop using IE and switch to any other browser. Some look at me like I'm nuts, but IE is still the biggest target for viruses/malware/thieves. I simply don't trust it.
Yes you're right that having the second "waiting" person fill the conveyor belt with his food saves time, rather than have them standing back in the Single line queue while the belt sits empty. That's probably why stores continue to have separate lines, but at a bank or 7/11 that would not be an issue and the single line would be more efficient.
This week I discovered a benefit of the "self checkout" line. Free food. I scanned my ~20 meals of frozen packages, but one of them jammed the eye sensor for some reason. The machine credited $2 to my account but the item was still sitting ten feet away next to the bags. Rather than go retrieve it I just shrugged my shoulders & scanned the next item.
Apparently these things need some work. The store is saving about $7/hour by eliminating a clerk but if they give-away food then they will be losing in the long term.
Wouldn't it make sense it was just standard cell service? Sometimes you can send texts or emails across intermittent connections that would not normally work for "live" voice calls.
I got locked in a bathroom in a girl's dorm one time. Stuck my head out and asked students for help, but of course they all ignored me. Then I saw two friends who assumed I was joking, but I told them to come check the doorknob themselves and sure enough, it was broke. I had to wait about an hour for security to open-up the place.
Another time I was in a friend's room reading a textbook, and this chick showed-up wearing nothing but a towel. I excused myself but she said, "No need to leave" and dropped the towel right in front of me.
I miss college. The most exciting thing that happens in the post-college world of office work is..... well, I can't think of anything. Zzzzz.
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>>>it's not like they are taking your money, out of your wallet.
No they are taking money out of the Chinese government's wallet (and other lenders like Saudi Arabia). The people who will eventually repay that money won't be us, but our children and grandchildren. Jefferson or maybe Madison (forget who) said it is immoral to borrow money from future generations, which is why they bent-over backwards to pay off the government debt as soon as possible. WE should do the same.
Current national debt == ~$130,000 per US home, plus another ~$90,000 in personal debt per home == a not rich country
"Roughly as fast as DSL"
- Or cable line (Comcast Economy at 1.5 Mbit/s for an outrageous $45).
TRON is better than Disney's other early-80s movie: The Black Hole. Or Herbie Goes Bananas.
I find the reviewer's conclusion "young people lack imagination to picture a world inside a computer" as very odd. If they can watch Yugi-O and other fantasy stuff, why couldn't they extend that same fantasy to the world of Tron too? Imagining a computer with a world inside it (made of artificially intelligent people) is no more a stretch than imagining any other genre, especially with games like Final Fantasy that have lifelike people wondering around "inside" the machine.
>>>sinclair QL
(1) Not an 8 bit computer.
(2) I had a two machines that were better, and therefore I wouldn't want the QL even if it had been offered to me. First was the C=128 in 1984(?) with 128k ram, 2 MHz speed, 640x480 graphics, and of course the huge commodore 64 library with music-quality audio and tons of games. THEN I got an Amiga which had similar specs as the QL, but with the Jay-Miner-designed Paula sound chip (SNES quality), Agnus graphics (4000 colors), copper/blitter processing, and preemptive "true" multitasking..... in 1985. Also four times the RAM (512K).
>>>those machines were
I never looked at the price of the Apple II, but I remember asking my parents to buy me an Atari 800 and it was $299 in 1983. I would be surprised if you could get a Spectrum for less money. The only computer at the time cheaper than that was a C64 at $199 (later dropped to $99). So I still don't know why I'd want a Spectrum. It isn't better technically, nor is it cheaper. :-)
Well then I guess JCPenney had a corporate, continent-wide meeting for their ~100,000 employees to emphasize the importance of proper pricing for no reason at all??? I think you're wrong. - Governments also audit timecards for companies that hold government contracts and fine those companies when errors are discovered. I suppose you will sit there & claim "That doesn't happen" too?
The best C64 programs were zero lines long. They tossed the Commodore ROM in the trash, thereby freeing-up all 64 k of memory, and loaded directly from the 1541 (or 71) disk drive.
"64k should be enough for anybody." With GEOS you can turn your 64k machine into a clone of the original Mac (with WYSIWYG word processing, a trashcan, and everything). My church pastor did all his newsletters on the Commodore=64. And it doesn't cost $4000. More like $400. With music and color! ;-)
I guess it was okay for its day, but even an Atari 800 or Apple II would have been better.
The Atari sound chip was not as good as the C64 sound chip, but the Atari had more colors (128) for superior still images (cough - nudie pics). If I didn't have a Commodore, I would sooner have an 8-bit Atari or Apple instead, not a Sinclair. I just don't get the fierce loyalty people have for that machine - it was a bit like owning a Jaguar video console when everyone else had the superior PS1 or N64 models.
BTW my C64 is white. Also it's actually a C128 (twice the speed and memory) and has S-video output for a clean image. Remaking the color scheme was a smart decision by Commodore.
State governments routinely audit stores to verify the price charged at the register matches the price advertised on the sign. When I was at JCP the corporation had been caught twice - once by Pennsylvania in the early 90s and again by Texas in 2002.
Good idea.
When I worked at JcPenney we would waste a day just ticketing items..... and oftentimes did not finish because of customers demanding service. Having signs that automatically update is the quick and labor-saving solution. Also helps to avoid fines when the government audits the store and finds "Sale $9.99" for a promotion that ended three days ago.
>>>playing something like Crysis
I prefer Yoshi's Happy Technicolor Dreamland of Psychedelic Colors (2D platformer). But yeah you're right, Farmland's a waste. As pointless as that Cow Clicker app
Or cable line (Comcast Economy at 1.5 Mbit/s at an outrageous $45).
(sets up "Anonymous Coward" on facebook). Now let's have some fun. ;-)
That was over 15 years ago - I've no idea what I was wearing. Probably jeans and a sweater (I remember it was winter time).
>>>I have Byte magazine from the first issue up into the early 1990's.
Atariage.com is in process of scanning BYTE into its computer for display on the web. Please go to the forums and post a message volunteering to help out.
I've never owned as ARM computer (just C=6502, 68000-60, PowerPC, x86, MIPS).
Why do you think ARM will be a dominant brand in the coming years, instead of the low-power Intel units? (just curious)
Skpye-to-skype calls are either 3 cents/minute or $4/month, so I don't know how you can call that "free" unless this is some new definition I'm not aware of? Besides: I wouldn't be making those skype-to-skype calls because nobody in my family has skype (or a computer). So I'd be paying the 4 cents or whatever per minute of a Skype-to-landline phone.
Also I cannot use Skype anywhere... like if I'm at a gas station when my tire goes flat. The Skype would be useless since my computer would not be with me, and I'd still need to have a calling card. Ditto when I'm in a hotel which often doesn't have internet but always has a phone for my calling card.
Holy runon sentence Batman!
Yes you're right that having the second "waiting" person fill the conveyor belt with his food saves time, rather than have them standing back in the Single line queue while the belt sits empty. That's probably why stores continue to have separate lines, but at a bank or 7/11 that would not be an issue and the single line would be more efficient.
This week I discovered a benefit of the "self checkout" line. Free food. I scanned my ~20 meals of frozen packages, but one of them jammed the eye sensor for some reason. The machine credited $2 to my account but the item was still sitting ten feet away next to the bags. Rather than go retrieve it I just shrugged my shoulders & scanned the next item. I didn't create the problem (no clerks to help me)(or the random credits the machine gives customers) - neither is it my responsibility to fix it.
>>>How hard is it to be honest?
How hard is it to provide a clerk, so I don't have to go after food, or deal with errors in the machine, and waste my time??? If THEIR system is fallible such that it charged me for a meal, and then credited it back to me after it was already in the baggage zone, that's certainly not my fault. Hire a clerk, give him or her a job, and those things won't happen.
And also forbidden to convert NBC and NBC Sports from free broadcast channels to cable only channels.
Win9x. MS-DOS with an overlay. No wonder it kept crashing.
Windows NT is much more stable.
I switched from IE to Opera. My Netscape Dialup requires Internet Explorer to work with its "web compression" software. But knowing how vulnerable IE is, I decided to give Firefox, Seamonkey, and Opera a spin. Opera and its Turbo work great with this slow connection.
Then I uninstalled IE-8. So for me, this 0-day exploit is a non-issue. I advise all my coworkers, when the topic comes up, to stop using IE and switch to any other browser. Some look at me like I'm nuts, but IE is still the biggest target for viruses/malware/thieves. I simply don't trust it.
>>>in 140 pictures or less
How about 140 bytes or less? http://girls.c64.org/
"Nobody knows how to queue better than a Briton!" - Arthur Dent. 15 mins? I usually stand less than 5 at the US grocery stores.
Woah.
Yes you're right that having the second "waiting" person fill the conveyor belt with his food saves time, rather than have them standing back in the Single line queue while the belt sits empty. That's probably why stores continue to have separate lines, but at a bank or 7/11 that would not be an issue and the single line would be more efficient.
This week I discovered a benefit of the "self checkout" line. Free food. I scanned my ~20 meals of frozen packages, but one of them jammed the eye sensor for some reason. The machine credited $2 to my account but the item was still sitting ten feet away next to the bags. Rather than go retrieve it I just shrugged my shoulders & scanned the next item.
Apparently these things need some work. The store is saving about $7/hour by eliminating a clerk but if they give-away food then they will be losing in the long term.
>>>still no idea where that wifi came from
Wouldn't it make sense it was just standard cell service? Sometimes you can send texts or emails across intermittent connections that would not normally work for "live" voice calls.
I got locked in a bathroom in a girl's dorm one time. Stuck my head out and asked students for help, but of course they all ignored me. Then I saw two friends who assumed I was joking, but I told them to come check the doorknob themselves and sure enough, it was broke. I had to wait about an hour for security to open-up the place.
Another time I was in a friend's room reading a textbook, and this chick showed-up wearing nothing but a towel. I excused myself but she said, "No need to leave" and dropped the towel right in front of me.
I miss college.
The most exciting thing that happens in the post-college world of office work is..... well, I can't think of anything. Zzzzz.