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  1. Pre-emptive multitasking on the Amiga ..?? on Ten Technologies That Shouldn't Have Died? · · Score: 1

    What about OS-9 on a Tandy co-co? Genuine multi-tasking/multi-user, albeit a bit slow with a 1.8MHz 8-bit CPU

    It was available around the same time, though I will concede that the Amiga probably was the better machine, but I still have fond memories of my co-co III with 512k of memory running OS-9. In fact that experience got me my current job :-)

  2. Re:I know what to do on Tutoring A Child Prodigy? · · Score: 1
    .. maybe he'll invent warp drive ..

    Sorry .. too late

    People are already working on warp drive theory, and actually have solutions.

    I don't recall the URL but I know that it is connected to the sceince column in the Asimov Sc-Fi magazine.

  3. Now all I want to do is .. on Geocaching · · Score: 1

    Post some bogus locations ;-)

    What do you mean you can't find the cache?? You blind or sumptin???

    Or:

    Why are you digging up the Whitehouse lawn sonny?

    'Cause OzPeter said there was a GPS cache here
  4. And this is ... on Is Technology Killing Leisure Time? · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons that I like living in my native Australia as opposed to the USA. When I came out of university .. 4 weeks vacation straight of the bat.

    It is not the technology that is causing your job stress .. it is the way you society is being run. The USA has had all sorts of issues about how your society doen't believe enjoying life, well before technology became an issue. Just ask anyone who *doesn't* live there.

    Another indicator I saw recently was that the USA spends far more of its GDP on health care than Australia .. but guess which countries health system was rated better by the WHO???

  5. It looks like what we need is .. on Mattel Spyware · · Score: 1

    a reverse firewall. One that only lets *out* messages from software that we nominate as being safe to do so. And also logs attempts by non-nominated programs that try and sneak stuff by.

  6. I dread the coming psuedo 3d wave .. on 18-Inch 3D LCD Screens · · Score: 3

    .. as I am blind in one eye. As well as fearing wearable computers for the same reason. How many other "disabled" people out there wonder how we will adapt to the toys of the "perfects" in the future of computing???