It remains a mystery to me how this overpriced, mediocre, me-too CP/M-clone machine with its not-really-16-bit processor attracted such gushing reviews
Amen. Just as it remains a mystery to me why-oh-why we're still using the same instruction set and register architecture 30 years later.
I'm sure the pedants will trip over themselves explaining all the differences to me. Still a single accumulator? Still variable-byte-count opcodes? Still only one stack pointer? etc., etc... Save your breath. The more x86 changes, the more it's still a widened 4040.
With operating systems you distinguish with #ifdef at compile time. With browsers, you have to do it at at run time. With Javascript, no less. So, pretty much the worst of everything.
Ah yes "teh marketz will solve everything!". I hope YOUR job gets shipped overseas. I'm sure YOU wouldn't expect anyone in government to care. Maybe if you became more efficient and worked for less money...
Sure, because they provide more jobs and value to the community than all the stores they drove out of business. To say nothing of the manufacturing jobs sent overseas to satisfy their iron-fisted demands for lower prices.
Don't buy food from them either. Don't let them drive all the other grocery stores in town out of business, the way they did all the department stores and mom-and-pops. Don't encourage them.
Bradley Manning leaps to mind. I feel pretty certain that if this database is immune from the Privacy Act, that any disclosures about it would be met with a trip to Guantanamo or equivalent.
Note that this also includes TSA's Secure Flight database, you know, the one where you have to notify the government 72 hours in advance of any planned domestic travel. So this will also have all your comings-and-goings in it as well.
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No kidding. I remember mounting the hard drive and a tape drive on the boot floppy.
Actually, Debain is still (only) i386.
I'd definetly go with Gentoo myself, of course you could cross-compile on a more modern box, at least to build the kernel and toolchain.
Amen. Just as it remains a mystery to me why-oh-why we're still using the same instruction set and register architecture 30 years later.
I'm sure the pedants will trip over themselves explaining all the differences to me. Still a single accumulator? Still variable-byte-count opcodes? Still only one stack pointer? etc., etc... Save your breath. The more x86 changes, the more it's still a widened 4040.
Idiot troll is idiotic.
Irony - gotta love it.
Try installing an egress detecting firewall and watch how often Chrome phones home.
With operating systems you distinguish with #ifdef at compile time. With browsers, you have to do it at at run time. With Javascript, no less. So, pretty much the worst of everything.
Atmospheric ionization?
Hey! Fuck you! We NEED a mach 20 military vehicle to respond to ... stuff.
Like I always say, when you want the FACTS, go to Twitter.
Exactly. The Caterpillar lloaders from 'Aliens' is way more likely (and practical) than 'Iron Man' or (book) 'Starship Troopers'.
Ah yes "teh marketz will solve everything!". I hope YOUR job gets shipped overseas. I'm sure YOU wouldn't expect anyone in government to care. Maybe if you became more efficient and worked for less money...
Sure, because they provide more jobs and value to the community than all the stores they drove out of business. To say nothing of the manufacturing jobs sent overseas to satisfy their iron-fisted demands for lower prices.
Don't buy food from them either. Don't let them drive all the other grocery stores in town out of business, the way they did all the department stores and mom-and-pops. Don't encourage them.
Thank you, Dr. Bob, that was far more cogent than TFA itself.
Well, if you ask if you are, you certainly will be.
Been there, done exactly that (Smoot-Hawley), at approximately the same point in the previous Great Depression.
Bradley Manning leaps to mind. I feel pretty certain that if this database is immune from the Privacy Act, that any disclosures about it would be met with a trip to Guantanamo or equivalent.
Note that this also includes TSA's Secure Flight database, you know, the one where you have to notify the government 72 hours in advance of any planned domestic travel. So this will also have all your comings-and-goings in it as well.
Half of the people arrested for felonies aren't criminals? Sounds like they have a bigger police problem than DNA sampling.
We have a winner. Cynical, but almost true.
But there may be a trace echo in the pattern buffers.
What an astoundingly stupid idea. However as an entry in the "whoever dies with the most toys wins" category, I think we may have a winner...
I have to agree with this. If I'm a bank employee who lets you in the back door, and you rob the place, BOTH of us are going to jail.