>>>I remember writing an application as a kid called Organizer where you could create user-defined lists of stuff and save it to disk.
(yawn). Bill Gates is that you? I created a video demo! - Steve Jobs No you didn't. *I* created the video and you just took the credit for it! --- Jay Miner Yeah but I got all the money. Muahahahahaha. ----- Ray Kassar (of Yar's Revenge)
No, no, you don't have to enter 0: when you're just loading a program. I never used the 0: designator. What's the easiet way to avoid the save-with-replace bug? Don't use it! Ever. Save the file first under a different name and then erase the original. (I can't believe I remember that.) (I also can't believe I remember learning it in RUN magazine.)
"it did not become the market leader until the late 1980s."
According to ars technica's article on computer sales, the C64 was the #1 seller almost immediately (1983, 84, 85, 86). In the late 80s the IBM PC and clones became the #1 seller. I don't know..... maybe things were different in the UK.
So what did we get out of the trillions of dollars spent on the moon landings & research? Velcro? That's a very very low ROI. Trillions spent for a few dollars worth of plastic.
>>>On top of that, government spending helps to stimulate economies.
Or it creates bubbles that go "pop" and make a crash. Like the government-backed mortgage bubble we experienced from 2002-to 2007. That was supposed to stimulate the economy but instead it wrecked it.
It does exist. Look at the Pentagon. They get close to a trllion dollars a year but the moment someone says, "The war is almost over. Let's lower that 100 billion," then they and their military supporters have a fit about how cuts will hurt them.
(shrug). Can YOU cite a single example where teachers or military or old people or students or some other group said, "Yeah we're okay if you cut our budget 10%." It doesn't exist.
How do you know that guy is a Ron Paulite? You don't know that, anymore than you know what color he is. You're just setting-up random strawmen and knocking them down, rather than addressing the man you responded to.
As for fiat currency:
The fact it has lost 97% of its value since 1913 is reason enough to seek something better. The gold-backed dollar the Founders created may not have been perfect but it was certainly better than that. It lost only 1% of its value from 1810 to 1910. A monetary supply that holds its purchasing power is far superior to one that holds virtually none (today's dollar is only 3% of a 1913 dollar). And yes I am a Paulite. Also a Jeffersonian. Madisonian. Liberal. Constitutionalist (the supreme law of the land).
Even if te government spent $10 trllion on research, but then announced "cuts" to a more-reasonable level, these guys would still protest. It's human nature never to be satisfied. You will never hear them say, "Oh well 10 trllion was outrageously high. Cuts to 7 trillion would be reasonable."
>>Amazon being unfair does not mean that cloud technology is unfair just that there is no "unlimited storage for free" solution.
99.9% of all governments having a history of genocide towards their own citizens does not mean there is no good government somewhere. Still I'd prefer not to trust any government rather than take the 999-to-1 odds that I will get screwed. Likewise I'd prefer not to trust any stranger with my data on their cloud, since the odds of screwage are way too high. (Also the same reason I don't jump off cliffs even though there is a 999-to-1 odd I might survive.)
NBC is not required to stream stuff free over the internet but they SHOULD do it anyway. Why block people from viewing just because they don't have a cable subscription? That's discrimination. That's ann example of an asshole company (just like Microsoft, Comcast, etc). Burn ion hell NBC and take your damn peacokc to the barbecue too. Fucker.s
Just a random thought: NBC video should be free. They were given a license to broadcast over the airwaves (which belong to the People) and should be sharing the NBC-Broadcast video for free over the air and the net. Else they should have their license revoked.
In my case it's actually a monopoly over the internet (Verizon FiOS or Comcast). No real choice there and why I think these companies should be government-regulated the same way the electric, natural gas, and water companies are regulated. They can't raise their prices without permission of the State PUC, and it should be the same with Verizon and Comcast.
I watch BBC for free over my antenna but don't find it particularly "wonderful". It seems to have a pro-EU slant with reporters wanting the UK to adopt the Euro and demote itself to just a low-level state. (Like a U.S. state.)
As for why the content is not available for direct purchase, it's because the BBC can make more money selling the content to PBS, Syfy Channel, and so on. It all comes down to $$$.
The only reason SOPA was stopped was because corporations were opposed. But now the corporations (all of them) (except mozilla) are in favor of CISPA so it will pass eventually. Might be another name but it was pass. When the corporations and the Congress are in collusion, what we the People desire has no relevance. Witness the debacle of the TARP2 which passed even with 80% of people calling representatives and saying no. And Obamacare which had almost 70% of people calling and demanding "no". TARP2 was shoved through because it had pressure from the banking corporations, and Obamacare because it had pressure from the insurance corporations (who gained ~50 million new customers via the mandate). We the People have no voice when It the Corporations decide to pass a law.
P.S.
And just in case someone says, "The Heritage Foundation originated the mandate idea"..... I don't give a shit. I am not allied with the Pat Robertson-created Heritage kooks. They also would round-up gays and force them to attend church reeducation camps, if they thought they could get away with it. Their bigoted opinion has zero weight in my book.
The PC is the size of a standard desktop with 2 empty bases for expansion: Can you show me where I can buy a Mac with approximately-equal form factor and it only costs $650?
I've asked this before but Apple fanboys have conveniently refused to answer, because they know Apple makes no such thing because Apple is likea damn Chrysler or Lexus or Acura.... voerpriced metal/plastic shit (paying for a damn label where a Dodge or Toyota or Honda are just as good of cars but 1/3rd to 1/2 as much).
Yeah it did have a choice. Since this is NOT a "'non-public email address" but in fact posted on a public NBC website, twitter's rule was violated. The stupid corporate behemoth can't even follow its own rule. It has all the brains of a tree, or rock, or building (i.e. none).
(looks-around). Is there a camera in my parents' basement watching me? I'll have you know these C64 SIDs of Axel F and Madonna are quality entertainment.
>>>why is that worthy of putting in a sig? I mean congratulations on your accomplishment. I'm sure I could custom build an i-7 equipped PC for cheaper than whatever one you bought.
Is that an offer? If you can build an i7 PC with Windows7 installed and 8GB of RAM plus 1TB drive for $500 shipped, I'll buy it from you. What's that? You CAN'T build it for that cheap? Oh okay. Well then stop talking trash. (And stop defending Apple; there's no reason an equal-spec Mac should cost ~$1250 shipped.)
>>>not talking about "there oughta be a law". >>> >>>(Score:5, Insightful)
Really?!?!? More like (+5 Smeg For Brains) for PopeRatzo. And I quote the post I was replying to: "Which is why there needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company."
>>>This author is not talking about lawsuits or "there oughta be a law".
Yes they are. The author of the grandparent post that I replied to said EXACTLY that. QUOTE: "There needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company." Is that clear enough for you, or should I compose a song and sing it? You must be a completely illiterate boob if you can't read the words right in front of your face.
>>>See, the problem here is you're setting up a straw man..... I really don't think you're dramatic introduction
And I really don't think you bothered to get off your lazy ass and READ THE CONVERSATION before you replied. Let me quote it for you since you are too dense (or maybe a little kid with small brain) to follow this simple thread:
- "The first rule of controlling a market...shut down discussion." ----- "Which is why there needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company."
----- ----- "You mean if I own a religious bookstore, I have to sell the Kama Sutra sex manual, "On the Road" which encourages drug use, and other vile filth? No sir. This is a free country and I should be able to decide what I wish to sell in my private business......"
NOW do you see? I was responding to a person who DOES INDEED want to pass a LAW and force a private bookseller to sell everything, regardless of content. And you would have KNOWN that if you bothered to take 30 seconds and READ THE POSTS before replying and demeaning other people.
>>>See, the problem here is you're setting up a straw man. Nobody is "forcing" Apple to sell anything.
Yes. They are. I was directly responding to this request: "There needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company." (It helps if you follow the thread-of-conversation before you reply.)
>>>Do you mean to compare a subsidized HTC Evo 4G to an unsubsidized iPhone 4S without even talking about the rest of the cost? It looks to me as if the EVO 4G is $599.99 instead of your $300..... Geez, and they say Apple users are fanbois...
Fuck you to fucking hell you damn Limey britsih ciock. RIGHT HERE: VirginMobile UNSUBSIDIZED PHOEN. http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/htc-evo-phone/features/ You stupid twit. Now wonder you lost your empire you painsy-assed git . Go run past the Oympics rifle range and get yourself shot
>>>The Amiga did cooperative not pre-emptive multitasking.
Bullshit. If that were true (cooperative tasking) when a program crashed it would freeze the whole system (because the crashed program would never release control of the CPU). As often happened with the cooperative tasking Macs and PCs of the 80s and early 90s (if for example Eudora Mail froze, the whole computer froze).
In reality if a program crashed the Amiga CPU simply jumped to the next program because the CPU maintained control of which task executed. The user could continue working with the 2-3 programs that were still running. Just like a modern OS. It didn't freeze the whole computer just because one program froze-up.
>>>Betamax technically could have supported longer playtimes than VHS while maintaining superior picture quality
Your facts in your posts are numerous and wrong. I'll just pick this one as the most glaring: Betamax has a luminance bandwidth of 3 Megahertz. VHS has a luminance bandwidth of 3 Megahertz. In other words they are equal in resolution & picture quality.
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I believe I asked you to remove yourself from my lawn so I could fly my model airplane. (Hey kid want a mohawk? Vroooooom.)
>>>I remember writing an application as a kid called Organizer where you could create user-defined lists of stuff and save it to disk.
(yawn). Bill Gates is that you? I created a video demo!
- Steve Jobs
No you didn't. *I* created the video and you just took the credit for it!
--- Jay Miner
Yeah but I got all the money. Muahahahahaha.
----- Ray Kassar (of Yar's Revenge)
No, no, you don't have to enter 0: when you're just loading a program. I never used the 0: designator. What's the easiet way to avoid the save-with-replace bug? Don't use it! Ever. Save the file first under a different name and then erase the original. (I can't believe I remember that.) (I also can't believe I remember learning it in RUN magazine.)
"it did not become the market leader until the late 1980s."
According to ars technica's article on computer sales, the C64 was the #1 seller almost immediately (1983, 84, 85, 86). In the late 80s the IBM PC and clones became the #1 seller. I don't know..... maybe things were different in the UK.
So what did we get out of the trillions of dollars spent on the moon landings & research? Velcro? That's a very very low ROI. Trillions spent for a few dollars worth of plastic.
>>>On top of that, government spending helps to stimulate economies.
Or it creates bubbles that go "pop" and make a crash. Like the government-backed mortgage bubble we experienced from 2002-to 2007. That was supposed to stimulate the economy but instead it wrecked it.
It does exist. Look at the Pentagon. They get close to a trllion dollars a year but the moment someone says, "The war is almost over. Let's lower that 100 billion," then they and their military supporters have a fit about how cuts will hurt them.
(shrug). Can YOU cite a single example where teachers or military or old people or students or some other group said, "Yeah we're okay if you cut our budget 10%." It doesn't exist.
How do you know that guy is a Ron Paulite? You don't know that, anymore than you know what color he is. You're just setting-up random strawmen and knocking them down, rather than addressing the man you responded to.
As for fiat currency:
The fact it has lost 97% of its value since 1913 is reason enough to seek something better. The gold-backed dollar the Founders created may not have been perfect but it was certainly better than that. It lost only 1% of its value from 1810 to 1910. A monetary supply that holds its purchasing power is far superior to one that holds virtually none (today's dollar is only 3% of a 1913 dollar). And yes I am a Paulite. Also a Jeffersonian. Madisonian. Liberal. Constitutionalist (the supreme law of the land).
Even if te government spent $10 trllion on research, but then announced "cuts" to a more-reasonable level, these guys would still protest. It's human nature never to be satisfied. You will never hear them say, "Oh well 10 trllion was outrageously high. Cuts to 7 trillion would be reasonable."
>>Amazon being unfair does not mean that cloud technology is unfair just that there is no "unlimited storage for free" solution.
99.9% of all governments having a history of genocide towards their own citizens does not mean there is no good government somewhere. Still I'd prefer not to trust any government rather than take the 999-to-1 odds that I will get screwed. Likewise I'd prefer not to trust any stranger with my data on their cloud, since the odds of screwage are way too high. (Also the same reason I don't jump off cliffs even though there is a 999-to-1 odd I might survive.)
NBC is not required to stream stuff free over the internet but they SHOULD do it anyway. Why block people from viewing just because they don't have a cable subscription? That's discrimination. That's ann example of an asshole company (just like Microsoft, Comcast, etc). Burn ion hell NBC and take your damn peacokc to the barbecue too. Fucker.s
Just a random thought: NBC video should be free. They were given a license to broadcast over the airwaves (which belong to the People) and should be sharing the NBC-Broadcast video for free over the air and the net. Else they should have their license revoked.
In my case it's actually a monopoly over the internet (Verizon FiOS or Comcast). No real choice there and why I think these companies should be government-regulated the same way the electric, natural gas, and water companies are regulated. They can't raise their prices without permission of the State PUC, and it should be the same with Verizon and Comcast.
I watch BBC for free over my antenna but don't find it particularly "wonderful". It seems to have a pro-EU slant with reporters wanting the UK to adopt the Euro and demote itself to just a low-level state. (Like a U.S. state.)
As for why the content is not available for direct purchase, it's because the BBC can make more money selling the content to PBS, Syfy Channel, and so on. It all comes down to $$$.
The only reason SOPA was stopped was because corporations were opposed. But now the corporations (all of them) (except mozilla) are in favor of CISPA so it will pass eventually. Might be another name but it was pass. When the corporations and the Congress are in collusion, what we the People desire has no relevance. Witness the debacle of the TARP2 which passed even with 80% of people calling representatives and saying no. And Obamacare which had almost 70% of people calling and demanding "no". TARP2 was shoved through because it had pressure from the banking corporations, and Obamacare because it had pressure from the insurance corporations (who gained ~50 million new customers via the mandate). We the People have no voice when It the Corporations decide to pass a law.
P.S.
And just in case someone says, "The Heritage Foundation originated the mandate idea"..... I don't give a shit. I am not allied with the Pat Robertson-created Heritage kooks. They also would round-up gays and force them to attend church reeducation camps, if they thought they could get away with it. Their bigoted opinion has zero weight in my book.
The PC is the size of a standard desktop with 2 empty bases for expansion: Can you show me where I can buy a Mac with approximately-equal form factor and it only costs $650?
I've asked this before but Apple fanboys have conveniently refused to answer, because they know Apple makes no such thing because Apple is likea damn Chrysler or Lexus or Acura.... voerpriced metal/plastic shit (paying for a damn label where a Dodge or Toyota or Honda are just as good of cars but 1/3rd to 1/2 as much).
Yeah it did have a choice. Since this is NOT a "'non-public email address" but in fact posted on a public NBC website, twitter's rule was violated. The stupid corporate behemoth can't even follow its own rule. It has all the brains of a tree, or rock, or building (i.e. none).
>>>Middle Aged .......... 360 KB Floppy
(looks-around). Is there a camera in my parents' basement watching me? I'll have you know these C64 SIDs of Axel F and Madonna are quality entertainment.
>>>why is that worthy of putting in a sig? I mean congratulations on your accomplishment. I'm sure I could custom build an i-7 equipped PC for cheaper than whatever one you bought.
Is that an offer? If you can build an i7 PC with Windows7 installed and 8GB of RAM plus 1TB drive for $500 shipped, I'll buy it from you.
What's that?
You CAN'T build it for that cheap? Oh okay. Well then stop talking trash. (And stop defending Apple; there's no reason an equal-spec Mac should cost ~$1250 shipped.)
>>>not talking about "there oughta be a law".
>>>
>>>(Score:5, Insightful)
Really?!?!? More like (+5 Smeg For Brains) for PopeRatzo. And I quote the post I was replying to: "Which is why there needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company."
>>>This author is not talking about lawsuits or "there oughta be a law".
Yes they are. The author of the grandparent post that I replied to said EXACTLY that. QUOTE: "There needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company." Is that clear enough for you, or should I compose a song and sing it? You must be a completely illiterate boob if you can't read the words right in front of your face.
>>>See, the problem here is you're setting up a straw man..... I really don't think you're dramatic introduction
And I really don't think you bothered to get off your lazy ass and READ THE CONVERSATION before you replied. Let me quote it for you since you are too dense (or maybe a little kid with small brain) to follow this simple thread:
- "The first rule of controlling a market...shut down discussion."
----- "Which is why there needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company."
----- ----- "You mean if I own a religious bookstore, I have to sell the Kama Sutra sex manual, "On the Road" which encourages drug use, and other vile filth? No sir. This is a free country and I should be able to decide what I wish to sell in my private business......"
NOW do you see? I was responding to a person who DOES INDEED want to pass a LAW and force a private bookseller to sell everything, regardless of content. And you would have KNOWN that if you bothered to take 30 seconds and READ THE POSTS before replying and demeaning other people.
>>>See, the problem here is you're setting up a straw man. Nobody is "forcing" Apple to sell anything.
Yes. They are. I was directly responding to this request: "There needs to be a law against censoring content in a public marketplace by a public company." (It helps if you follow the thread-of-conversation before you reply.)
>>>Do you mean to compare a subsidized HTC Evo 4G to an unsubsidized iPhone 4S without even talking about the rest of the cost? It looks to me as if the EVO 4G is $599.99 instead of your $300..... Geez, and they say Apple users are fanbois...
Fuck you to fucking hell you damn Limey britsih ciock. RIGHT HERE: VirginMobile UNSUBSIDIZED PHOEN. http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/htc-evo-phone/features/ You stupid twit. Now wonder you lost your empire you painsy-assed git . Go run past the Oympics rifle range and get yourself shot
>>>The Amiga did cooperative not pre-emptive multitasking.
Bullshit. If that were true (cooperative tasking) when a program crashed it would freeze the whole system (because the crashed program would never release control of the CPU). As often happened with the cooperative tasking Macs and PCs of the 80s and early 90s (if for example Eudora Mail froze, the whole computer froze).
In reality if a program crashed the Amiga CPU simply jumped to the next program because the CPU maintained control of which task executed. The user could continue working with the 2-3 programs that were still running. Just like a modern OS. It didn't freeze the whole computer just because one program froze-up.
>>>Betamax technically could have supported longer playtimes than VHS while maintaining superior picture quality
Your facts in your posts are numerous and wrong. I'll just pick this one as the most glaring: Betamax has a luminance bandwidth of 3 Megahertz. VHS has a luminance bandwidth of 3 Megahertz. In other words they are equal in resolution & picture quality.
You mean making a copy. Nothing has been "thieved".