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Atari Turns 40 Today
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I upgraded to an Atari 7800 "prosystem" which also had a Commodore Semiconductor 6502.
Ordered it online! (Yes kids Atari had an online store in the 80s.) That was a really nice system with great near-arcade perfect games..... 128 sprites (no damn flicker)..... 256 colors at 320x240..... too bad it barely sold.
I used to allow the invaders to wipe-out my shields (they disappear when the invaders move to row 3), because the shields just got in the way of my firing. If you want a REAL challenge, try the version with invisible invaders. Getting that last invisible guy is nigh impossible (I never got past wave 2). 128 games in one cartridge!;-)
One flaw with Atari games is that they were often too easy. I could play Invaders and Missile Command for hours & hours and not die. I was annoyed when they started eliminating the harder game variations & just made you play the default game.:-| Or else used the space to make "bear" games for children. Example: Ms.Pacman with one ghost. Where's the challenge in that?:-(
Atari is barely remembered by today's 20-somethings, but back in the 70s and early 80s they were # 1. They had the number one console (Atari VCS/2600) from 1977 to 84, and the number one computer (Atari 800) in 1981 and 82.
I still love those old Atari 2600 games better than many modern games. Point, shoot, rack-up a million points. Brag to your friends.
This used to be one of my favorite channels. Along with "Wild" Discovery, History, Scifi, and Animal. The last one's not too bad, but NatGeo and the others have turned-into reality shows.
Yeah I know. Complain, complain. Well I can't help if all these channels start looking alike, instead of their original mission. NOW I spend most of my time watching the free broadcast channels: RetroTV, ThisTV, AntennaTV..... they are what AMC and TVland used to be. (Though it's probably only a matter of time til they jump-the-shark and start inserting reality shows.)
The Kindle is a nice gadget but I never bought one, because the content is too expensive. I feel no motivation to pay for content that I'm already getting for free (via antennaTV, hulu, utorrent). Same applies for Google's new Edge tablet. "Google has also expanded its Google Play content hub to include magazines, television shows and movie purchases." The purchase part is what I am Not interested in.
Maybe MS should try the Apple approach of refusing to support any computer slower than a certain clock speed, and no updates for an OS older than ~3 years. That would mean XP would never have been given a free Service Pack 2 or 3, or security updates.
Before you decide this is a "great" idea you should probably watch the Black Mirror episode where people record everything they see around them. Without spoiling the ending, a husband suspects his wife of cheating, and his eyecam provides the evidence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5pfjG_Pu8
I went searching for Ghostery to install on Opera, and ran across this. Agree or disagree?
AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery â" The Trifecta Of Evil [Opinion] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/adblock-noscript-ghostery-trifecta-evil-opinion/ "Matt has already written an extensive article on why AdBlock plugin is destroying the Internet..... So when you use NoScript, youâ(TM)re breaking the Internet. Not only do you drag webpages 10 years into the past, but you prevent essential modern page components from loading..... Scare tactics are part of the problem, from conspiracy theorists who believe the government is watching them and now the Internet tracking companies know their every move too. Trouble is, a lot of people without technical knowledge on the subject believe those scare tactics......" and so on.
Using Opera browser I have disabled Flash, Silverlight, Java, and Javascript. But left cookies active (to login). It makes webpages load about 400% faster and doesn't really break anything, except video sites, but that's an easy fix (just click the play button).
As for regulation of user data, and limiting its use, just make it part of the corporate license. If companies don't like it they can give-up the license and be free to do whatever (of course google, facebook, and the rest won't do that).
Oh and the government won't "ask nicely" for our data. They are in process of passing CISPA to make it automatically available to Homeland Security whenever desired. Isn't fascism (corporate/government partnership) great?
Non-payment of workers' wages is stealing. It's theft of Labor. It doesn't matter if the worker is a guy in a factory or a guy writing a book. Therefore piratebay's owners still deserve to be fined. Amazon did it the proper fashion (paying the author or author's rep).
quote>"Troll?" Really? I would have moderated him "Insightful"...
Several someones got butt-hurt because of saying Piratebay owners deserved to be fined for copying movies/song/etc, and now they're going through and modding-down all the cpu6502 posts (regardless of content).
I'm happy a black man won. Just would have preferred it be Dr. Walter E. Williams - someone who actually understands economics, and that running-up a 20 trillion dollar debt is not the solution.
Well if Clinton is not to blame for the dot-com speculation bubble, neither is Bush to blame to the real-estate speculation bubble. Especially since the key cause was passed before he was even president.
Here's what the original Top Post of this thread said: "Only the original author(s) have the right to copy their creation. Maybe that law is unjust and needs to be changed (like downsizing the 110 year span to 20 years)....."
The pirate bay didn't even make enough money from Ad revenue to pay for a single persons living wage in sweden. It had something like 20,000 kronors on hand after server expenses and that money was ear-marked for hardware upgrades
And the source for this? The owner of the site? Not very reputable. If he's like the scam artists I've experienced in my past: "Oh I only made 30,000 this year," while he's actually earning half-a-million secretly.
>>>The idea that light was a wave moving through the ether was consistent with all available data, especially given the limitations of 19th century measurement
Well the same is true today, in regards to the limitations of globe-wide measurements. There is a ton of uncertainty there. (They can't even make-up their minds how much groundwater levels have dropped.)
Verizon Spokeswoman: We think that people need to go to a usage-based model for data and pay for the amount of usage that they're using so that everybody is able to access the network...... And we're charging on the megabytes of data that they use. John Moe: Why? Spokeswoman: Uh................... er................... cough............... People have changed the usage of how they're using their devices. They're moving to using more data, and to ensure the speed and reliability and the access to the network, people are paying for the amount of data that they use.
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I upgraded to an Atari 7800 "prosystem" which also had a Commodore Semiconductor 6502.
Ordered it online! (Yes kids Atari had an online store in the 80s.) That was a really nice system with great near-arcade perfect games..... 128 sprites (no damn flicker)..... 256 colors at 320x240..... too bad it barely sold.
I used to allow the invaders to wipe-out my shields (they disappear when the invaders move to row 3), because the shields just got in the way of my firing. If you want a REAL challenge, try the version with invisible invaders. Getting that last invisible guy is nigh impossible (I never got past wave 2). 128 games in one cartridge! ;-)
One flaw with Atari games is that they were often too easy. I could play Invaders and Missile Command for hours & hours and not die. I was annoyed when they started eliminating the harder game variations & just made you play the default game. :-| Or else used the space to make "bear" games for children. Example: Ms.Pacman with one ghost. Where's the challenge in that? :-(
Atari is barely remembered by today's 20-somethings, but back in the 70s and early 80s they were # 1. They had the number one console (Atari VCS/2600) from 1977 to 84, and the number one computer (Atari 800) in 1981 and 82.
I still love those old Atari 2600 games better than many modern games. Point, shoot, rack-up a million points. Brag to your friends.
"the "people" on those shows are already behaving pretty much like bonobo chimps."
Is this some kind of Republican crack against our president??? (justkidding)
This used to be one of my favorite channels. Along with "Wild" Discovery, History, Scifi, and Animal. The last one's not too bad, but NatGeo and the others have turned-into reality shows.
Yeah I know. Complain, complain. Well I can't help if all these channels start looking alike, instead of their original mission. NOW I spend most of my time watching the free broadcast channels: RetroTV, ThisTV, AntennaTV..... they are what AMC and TVland used to be. (Though it's probably only a matter of time til they jump-the-shark and start inserting reality shows.)
Every company I've worked for (3) skipped a version from XP to Seven. So I wouldn't be surprised if they skipped from 7 to 9 half a decade from now.
Reading this link: http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/googles-nexus-7-aims-to-take-android-edge-from-amazon-kindle-fire/
The Kindle is a nice gadget but I never bought one, because the content is too expensive. I feel no motivation to pay for content that I'm already getting for free (via antennaTV, hulu, utorrent). Same applies for Google's new Edge tablet. "Google has also expanded its Google Play content hub to include magazines, television shows and movie purchases." The purchase part is what I am Not interested in.
Maybe MS should try the Apple approach of refusing to support any computer slower than a certain clock speed, and no updates for an OS older than ~3 years. That would mean XP would never have been given a free Service Pack 2 or 3, or security updates.
BTW will Win8 run on 512MB like Seven can
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I just wasted 10 minutes trying to find the link. Where are these supposedly hotter-than-hot models?
Before you decide this is a "great" idea you should probably watch the Black Mirror episode where people record everything they see around them. Without spoiling the ending, a husband suspects his wife of cheating, and his eyecam provides the evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5pfjG_Pu8
I went searching for Ghostery to install on Opera, and ran across this. Agree or disagree?
AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery â" The Trifecta Of Evil [Opinion]
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/adblock-noscript-ghostery-trifecta-evil-opinion/
"Matt has already written an extensive article on why AdBlock plugin is destroying the Internet..... So when you use NoScript, youâ(TM)re breaking the Internet. Not only do you drag webpages 10 years into the past, but you prevent essential modern page components from loading..... Scare tactics are part of the problem, from conspiracy theorists who believe the government is watching them and now the Internet tracking companies know their every move too. Trouble is, a lot of people without technical knowledge on the subject believe those scare tactics......" and so on.
Using Opera browser I have disabled Flash, Silverlight, Java, and Javascript. But left cookies active (to login). It makes webpages load about 400% faster and doesn't really break anything, except video sites, but that's an easy fix (just click the play button).
As for regulation of user data, and limiting its use, just make it part of the corporate license. If companies don't like it they can give-up the license and be free to do whatever (of course google, facebook, and the rest won't do that).
Oh and the government won't "ask nicely" for our data. They are in process of passing CISPA to make it automatically available to Homeland Security whenever desired. Isn't fascism (corporate/government partnership) great?
Non-payment of workers' wages is stealing. It's theft of Labor. It doesn't matter if the worker is a guy in a factory or a guy writing a book. Therefore piratebay's owners still deserve to be fined. Amazon did it the proper fashion (paying the author or author's rep).
quote>"Troll?" Really? I would have moderated him "Insightful"...
Several someones got butt-hurt because of saying Piratebay owners deserved to be fined for copying movies/song/etc, and now they're going through and modding-down all the cpu6502 posts (regardless of content).
I'm happy a black man won.
Just would have preferred it be Dr. Walter E. Williams - someone who actually understands economics, and that running-up a 20 trillion dollar debt is not the solution.
You are 100% correct.
I'm surprised nobody's modded you -1 troll.
Well if Clinton is not to blame for the dot-com speculation bubble, neither is Bush to blame to the real-estate speculation bubble. Especially since the key cause was passed before he was even president.
The Rome breastfeeding scene was sexier.
And who are we to judge? We are grown adults and breastfeed from a foreign organism (cows). Indirectly of course but still... a mud-covered cow. Ewww.
Here's what the original Top Post of this thread said: "Only the original author(s) have the right to copy their creation. Maybe that law is unjust and needs to be changed (like downsizing the 110 year span to 20 years)....."
The Piratebay owners should be freed.
They have done NOTHING wrong.
In fact every book movie song should be given away for free!!!
The pirate bay didn't even make enough money from Ad revenue to pay for a single persons living wage in sweden. It had something like 20,000 kronors on hand after server expenses and that money was ear-marked for hardware upgrades
And the source for this?
The owner of the site?
Not very reputable. If he's like the scam artists I've experienced in my past: "Oh I only made 30,000 this year," while he's actually earning half-a-million secretly.
>>>The idea that light was a wave moving through the ether was consistent with all available data, especially given the limitations of 19th century measurement
Well the same is true today, in regards to the limitations of globe-wide measurements. There is a ton of uncertainty there. (They can't even make-up their minds how much groundwater levels have dropped.)
This interview is hilarious:
Verizon Spokeswoman: We think that people need to go to a usage-based model for data and pay for the amount of usage that they're using so that everybody is able to access the network...... And we're charging on the megabytes of data that they use.
John Moe: Why?
Spokeswoman: Uh................... er................... cough............... People have changed the usage of how they're using their devices. They're moving to using more data, and to ensure the speed and reliability and the access to the network, people are paying for the amount of data that they use.
LINK - http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/verizon-trying-stamp-out-unlimited-data-customers
Don't live in a rural area.
Move closer to the city that has more service.