I just had the simple manual that introduced BASIC. The real info was when the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide was available for sale. There was a completely detailed section on 6502 op-codes. I cut my teeth on Assembly on my VIC-20. I hand compiled simple graphic commands and had things like cars and stuff moving on the screen, one pixel at a time, along with single pixel screen scrolling using VIC chip capabilities. Commodore did good on making that info readily available.
The early models had a two prong 9VAC power supply. The "box" outside the computer was simply a metal case with a transformer that stepped down the voltage from the wall outlet.
The solid state components, including the rectifier, was inside the VIC-20 case, mounted onto a heatsink metal plate which was (of all places) on the top edge of the expansion slot. This meant that expansion cartridges tend to get hot from the mounting plate. And if you reached inside the expansion slot when it didn't have a cartridge installed, it nearly burnt your skin. The connector is shown here
Since when does Nostalgia equate to news and stuff that matters? RTFA.....
It's a silver anniversary piece about the Commodore 64. Any good journalist would write about where the Commodore 64 stands in society, and discovered there still is a following that many may have not expected. It also doubles as a reminder for those who spent money on something like a PCjr at the time that they spent more than they needed to on a useable computer. Then again, I don't know of anybody who actually BOUGHT a PCjr.
The Allied radio operators who were intercepting German messages were able to recognize many individual German radio officers just by the pattern of their dits and dahs As a former shortwave voice operator in the US Army, we were trained to talk in a monotone voice that was not quite our own. This was to prevent someone from isolating a particular operator transmission thread. We were encouraged to modify the tone slightly on each transmissions.
We had a contest once in radio school. The class was split and separated. The people in one group had to identify the person transmitting from the other group. The goal was to be the last one identified. I didn't win, but I came close by always doing my impression of a Speak & Spell.
Arthur C Clarke says something like, "Every space engineer would expect to use Morse twice over the course of his career. When he did use it, it would probably save his life." That's why I always mod Arthur C. Clark (+5, Insightful)
(In less paranoid mode, we've had a good long period of settled weather with nice clear skies. As soon as something new and interesting shows up in the sky? A week's unsettled cloudy weather is forecast! Typical.) From TFA, a description of what you'd see.
The bright inner coma seems displaced off-center toward position angle 315. The inner coma opens up into a fan toward position angle 300, and I have noticed one ripple, akin to the hoods/ripples seen in Comet Hale-Bopp ten years ago. The coma is uniform in brightness
Then again, that's what I see from any space object I try to look at in my poorly collimated Newtonian.
I remember a group of people waiting for you. Some 32 people in some large farm house or something in California. All wearing some kind of black clothing and Nike shoes. They took your promise to come in 1999 or so and committed suicide but you are coming so late. OK atleast the rest of the believers can now die and meet you. Actually, they just arrived at the comet recently. It's a long trip through space, but they finally made it there. The comet exploded because they hit the wrong button when they started up the motor.
However, let's give the 80's some credit. We weren't experimenting with LSD to make good music. Instead, a sudden boom in technology and the near unlimited versatility in electronic instruments made for a wild decade of sound. IMHO, 80's music (the '79 - '86 era) always surprised the listener with a new tone, sound, or rhythm. You never knew what was coming next, even from the same artist. Talk about variety.
Sure, there was enough variety to polarize any given group of pop music listeners in the 80's. But today, with even better technology to create limitless sounds, they just sample 'old skool' stuff and maybe add some sort of pitch bending filter to make it sound new. I'm about to make my own iTunes compilation of new songs followed by the 80's song the back beat was blatantly ripped from. That should include more than half of Will Smith's songs. I'm a parent and I just don't understand. He's old enough to know better.
Have you ever tried to take a picture of a dragonfly, in flight, with the camera on your mobile? Yes, while in my car going 65mph in the other direction. What a superb image it was!!! I'd show it to you, but I forgot to turn off the bluetooth on my phone and someone at a net cafe deleted the file without my knowledge.
Personally, I'm holding out for the first Quantum Whizzer. Yes, eliminate the worry. When I get up in the middle of the night, I'd feel more comfortable whizzing in the dark if I know it's hitting the bowl and floor at the same time until I turn on the light to look. In that case, I figure I can go to bed immediately since I'm the one who gets up first. Why waste time since I'm going to be the one to clean it up anyway.
Firewall the rest of the world. What resources do you use to identify IP address ranges by country/region? I'd do the same thing if I had an accurate resource.
Persisting, the RIAA began to harass Andersen's 10-year-old daughter, demanding a deposition from her and even posing as a relative when calling her school to get access to her.
Wow, wouldn't just this issue alone be enough to sue those companies? harrasing a minor or something like that? I am sure you guys have some kind of law that punishes that ("think of the children"). Yeah, where's Dateline NBC with all this. To Catch an RIAA Predator
I would love to discuss the mindset trend in North America where people think it is OK to "get free stuff" by creating complete asses of themselves. I'm going to go out on a limb here and ask if you ever been to a "flea market", or in some countries, a "boot sale". It's buyer's policy to try to get as much stuff for free as they can. Most of them don't do it with any tact or class. I doubt that it's only a North America thing.
Yeah, for those of us who know what we are doing a recovery disk is not needed. But that's only about 5-10% of the computer buying population. That's actually a pretty large number. Hopefully it'll remain a growing trend. Only a couple years ago I would have believed a lower percentage. It might be the reason why Best Buy and Circuit City are trying to sell "spiffs" like these, because more people are becoming informed and the stores are losing their financial edge. Ranks up there with in-store warranties.
listening to the muzak and realized that it was stuff from my teens that I was hearing. That's not as bad as when your kids catch you singing to it in the store.
I never knew about the traffic surveys. However, I see the surveys being skewed. Around my area, they park these little trailers with a speed limit sign on them and large numbers that show your current speed. I suppose the trailer could be logging average traffic speeds. But with a posted sign and flashing speed warning, most people will slow down from their "favorite" speed and bring the actual posted speed more in line.
People also recognize those rubber straps that go across the road and slow down before running over them, too.
Let's get real - this looks more like the judge handing the defendent a size 15 cluebat to the effect that she needs to get some legal representation urgently. Yes, and she needs to hire a full time driver, too. Because she shouldn't be behind the wheel because someone may think she's always doing something illegal while doing her daily driving.
Maybe the judge is well aware of RIAA tactics and initiated the PUBLICLY PRESENTABLE discovery conference. It's one thing he can do to expose the RIAA to some degree without jeopardizing any impartiality.
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I just had the simple manual that introduced BASIC. The real info was when the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide was available for sale. There was a completely detailed section on 6502 op-codes. I cut my teeth on Assembly on my VIC-20. I hand compiled simple graphic commands and had things like cars and stuff moving on the screen, one pixel at a time, along with single pixel screen scrolling using VIC chip capabilities. Commodore did good on making that info readily available.
The early models had a two prong 9VAC power supply. The "box" outside the computer was simply a metal case with a transformer that stepped down the voltage from the wall outlet.
The solid state components, including the rectifier, was inside the VIC-20 case, mounted onto a heatsink metal plate which was (of all places) on the top edge of the expansion slot. This meant that expansion cartridges tend to get hot from the mounting plate. And if you reached inside the expansion slot when it didn't have a cartridge installed, it nearly burnt your skin. The connector is shown here
It's a silver anniversary piece about the Commodore 64. Any good journalist would write about where the Commodore 64 stands in society, and discovered there still is a following that many may have not expected. It also doubles as a reminder for those who spent money on something like a PCjr at the time that they spent more than they needed to on a useable computer. Then again, I don't know of anybody who actually BOUGHT a PCjr.
I'm still holding on to my original VIC-20, the early production model with the 9VAC power supply.
Then again, I may have about 30 C64s in my collection, in various states of operation.
We had a contest once in radio school. The class was split and separated. The people in one group had to identify the person transmitting from the other group. The goal was to be the last one identified. I didn't win, but I came close by always doing my impression of a Speak & Spell.
Did anyone else first notice the acronym of the amendment also ends in AA?
Your tagline: Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony
A physician that can quote Monty Python...... As long as your next words aren't, "It will have to come out!!!!"
The bright inner coma seems displaced off-center toward position angle 315. The inner coma opens up into a fan toward position angle 300, and I have noticed one ripple, akin to the hoods/ripples seen in Comet Hale-Bopp ten years ago. The coma is uniform in brightness
Then again, that's what I see from any space object I try to look at in my poorly collimated Newtonian.
Good point, I tend to agree with you.
However, let's give the 80's some credit. We weren't experimenting with LSD to make good music. Instead, a sudden boom in technology and the near unlimited versatility in electronic instruments made for a wild decade of sound. IMHO, 80's music (the '79 - '86 era) always surprised the listener with a new tone, sound, or rhythm. You never knew what was coming next, even from the same artist. Talk about variety.
Sure, there was enough variety to polarize any given group of pop music listeners in the 80's. But today, with even better technology to create limitless sounds, they just sample 'old skool' stuff and maybe add some sort of pitch bending filter to make it sound new. I'm about to make my own iTunes compilation of new songs followed by the 80's song the back beat was blatantly ripped from. That should include more than half of Will Smith's songs. I'm a parent and I just don't understand. He's old enough to know better.
There's tons of mediocre music being made today using only samples of great music from other eras.
There, I fixed that for you.Yeah, like the feeling you get when a member of the faculty catches you without a hall pass.
Thanks for the spoiler warning, NOT!!!!!!
I just paid a fortune for my book on space/time and you go and spoil the ending for me........
Wow, wouldn't just this issue alone be enough to sue those companies? harrasing a minor or something like that? I am sure you guys have some kind of law that punishes that ("think of the children"). Yeah, where's Dateline NBC with all this. To Catch an RIAA Predator
I never knew about the traffic surveys. However, I see the surveys being skewed. Around my area, they park these little trailers with a speed limit sign on them and large numbers that show your current speed. I suppose the trailer could be logging average traffic speeds. But with a posted sign and flashing speed warning, most people will slow down from their "favorite" speed and bring the actual posted speed more in line.
People also recognize those rubber straps that go across the road and slow down before running over them, too.
Maybe the judge is well aware of RIAA tactics and initiated the PUBLICLY PRESENTABLE discovery conference. It's one thing he can do to expose the RIAA to some degree without jeopardizing any impartiality.