Making money from it isn't the point. The C1 isn't intended for that...it's intended primarily for hobbyists, and they don't exactly anticipate any sort of duplication of the original C64's popularity. Holy shit! Can't anybody do anything for the sheer enjoyment of it anymore, or does everything have to make a buck?
C1 Business Plan
1.) Reminisce about the old C64 days 2.) Build updated version of C64 3.) Sell it to hobbyists 4.) ??? 5.) PROFIT!...no...FUN!
I think one of these things will be a blast! If I can aford it, I'll get one!
I never really liked the idea of referring to Christopher Reeve as some sort of "hero", but portray him as a "hero" the media did. Think about it...what did he do to become a hero? He fell off a fsking expensive toy...his horse! Pretty fsking heroic, if you ask me! They should put up a statue!
>> I'm glad Slashdot did a follow up on this issue as it is the MAIN news topic worldwide today.
Scary thing about that is the idea that Bush is probably going to take advantage of that to do all sorts of things related to his forthcoming war on Iraq that will probably go completely unnoticed, with the public's attention preoccupied with this.
Religion may not be the cause, but it's certainly an excuse, and IMHO something that provides THAT MUCH of an excuse for people to do some of the sheer nasty crap with it that has been done, I'd just as soon have no part of it whatsoever.
>> You needn't worry about the age of the orbiters. The shuttles are extensively refurbished after every fourth or fifth flight. The only piece of 'original' (read: 22 year old) equipment on the Columbia was the name.
Well, probably the airframe as well. I suspect it's a little difficult to swap out some of the wing structure.
One of the things I find highly distasteful about religion in general, and christianity in particular, (mostly because that's the Biggie I have to put up with), is the hypocrisy. On one hand the Religious Right is against abortion and a woman's right to choose what she does with her body, usually quoting "Thou Shalt Not Kill", but it's hag'em, high when it comes to whatever criminal-du-jour.
Three now. Four including the original Enterprise. I wonder if they'll retrofit her now, to replace Columbia?
For that matter, are/were there any astronauts/cosmonauts aboard Alpha? How are they going to get home now? I don't think there's going to be any shuttle missions for quite a while. Are we going to have to get lifts from the Russians?
How about the whole ISS project anyway? Is this going to toast that for good, too?
What is it about this time of year for nasty space disasters?
Jan 27th, 1967, Apollo 1 Jan 28th, 1986, Challenger
Now this?
Withthe exception of Apollo 13, which ended in a successful rescue, all the most serious disasters in the NASA space program, the ones involving deaths of astronauts, have been in the last week of January and now the first week of February.
Of course, in the electronic paperless utopia we were all promised, printers would be irrelevant. Perhaps this is the sort of thing that might finally get things like this going, as cash strapped corporations and budget cut government agencies no longer have to money to buy proprietary printer cartidges.
Currently, the electronic utopia produces something like three times as much paper waste as the old typewriter run offices ever could. Manager types demand absolute perfection, even for the most insignificant of documents. As an example, I had to fill out a form to apply for something, and I filled in the date as year-month-day. My shithead of a supervisor demanded that I redo it because he thought it should be month-day-year. The form would not have been seen by anybody but the two, maybe three, people what would have processed it, but this asshole insisted that I waste more paper correcting it, typical for him.
What the hell's wrong with golf cart style cars anyway? Most city driving is done at speeds of less than 60 km/h, (that's 37 mph to those of you who refuse to get on the Global Standard for measurement), with one person in the car, carrying only a few packages.
Maybe more golf cart style cars is just what the doctor ordered. Do they have the Smart Car over here yet? I know DaimlerChrysler is working on getting the Mercedes A Class over here. How about something like the VW Lupo as well? Europe and Japan have scads of ultra fuel efficient cars, and we're missing out! These cars might suck on the highway, but then, that's not what they were designed for.
As I also mentioned in another post, I believe Diesel is a hugely untapped alternative in North America. It got a really bad rap back in the early 80s when GM, being the money grubbing scumfucks that they are, applied shoddy, stopgap engineering to get a Diesel out on the market ASAP. All those poor saps who bought one of those Olds Diesel 350s don't know what they're missing by driving a proper Diesel.
There already is a SUV/truck that gets far better fuel mileage than the standard gas version. My last truck was a Ford F250 Diesel, and I would routinely approach 30 miles per gallon, (although a proper World Standard 4.54L gallon, not that bastardized 3.9L thin you yanks seem to like), and that was city driving!
I realize that Diesel's not the cleanest furl in the worl, but I also suspect that not much research has been put into rectifying that either.
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This book has been out in excess of a year. Why so long to post a review here of it...or were the/. editors waiting for Robin Williams to play the part in the movie?
What about any of the stuff related to computers being collectible? I'm thinking old software here, perhaps in its original packaging. Remember the old Wordperfect "hardcover" cases? I still have a disk based copy of OS/2 Warp, Red Spine, still in the original box, all docs etc included. Somewhere, I've also got the 5.25 floppies for Microsoft OS/2 V1.1! Anybody see a pattern here? Bur seriously, folks...
Perhaps not a generic clone, but I suspect that some of the early name brands will become collectors' items. Things like an intact original IBM PC from 1981 will increase in value, for sure.
I've seen people go apeshit collecting some really stupid stuff. Sometime in the early 90s, I remember Hostess Chips including mini trading cards with STTNG characters on them in each bag of chips. People got right crazy over them, and towards the end, with some of the cards being rarer than others, people were selling complete sets for in excess of $200, and I know one clown who forked out something like that.
I would supply it, but i can't remember the exact reference. Wasn't there a scene where Lisa tells Bart about something she saw on TV where they predicted that humans would have five fingers instead of four? Bart's answer was something like "Oooh! Freakshow!"
>> While I wouldn't want to rent an edited video, I have no problem if others do and people supply that demand. They buy a copy of the movie for every copy they circulate so the creators are compensated the same, the modified copies are clearly marked so there is no attempt to deceive, in short there is no foul.
What if the unedited copy of that same video is simply unavailable at yourlocal MallWart? Firms like this, Blockbuster too, have the buying power, and therefore the clout, to force movie distributors to produce versions they deem "clean" for sale in their shops. MallWart and Blockbuster are notorious for this, in particular MallWart, who also does it with music CDs. So what do you do when the only versions available are censored by shops, not by the government or Hollywood?
Democrat, Republican, what's the diff? The Dems are on the inside what the Repubs are on the outside. Eight years of Clinton should have told you that, not to mention Al Gore's wife being at the forefront of all the religious right, (including Phyllis Schlafly), backed witch hunts against various forms of music in the decade previous to that! You guys may consider the Dems left wing, but they're further to the Right than anything we have up here. If you were really "liberal", you would be supporting Nader and the Greens, who have had the only platform approaching anything the rest of the world sees as Left in decades. I would be interested to know what you think of people like Michael Moore, Jello Biafra and Noam Chomsky, who go out of their way to bring to light some of the really scary shit going on in the world of the Right Wing!
Perhaps I did misinterpret your commentary as some sort of Right wing attack, but that sort of idea, where somebody on the Left is a "commie pinko liberal" as opposed to the guy on the right being a "thoughtful conservative" has been prevalent ever since the early 80's, when EVERYTHING shifted to the right, and trashing the conscious side of the sixties became fashionable. I, for one, think that many of the ideas brought forth in the sixties had merit, bringing people together, in contrast to the divisiveness in politics and society today, where everything has to make a buck. So I'm getting just a little bit sick of people dismissing ideas from the Left as somehow loony without giving them much consideration.
Nope. Can't be. There's nobody calling out what's on each floor as the musical elevator stops. It sounds similar, I'll give you that, but definitely not one and the same.
I am quite a frequent user of Yahoo, as you can probably see from my e-mail address. I like its portability and the fact that I have 6 Meg to play with, which seems to suffice as far as what mail I get is concerned. I have had little or no problem with spam.
However, I'm also a frequent user of Yahoo Groups, and probably subscribe to something approaching 90. Many of these, I have chosen to visit the group proper, rather than receive e-mail, even in Digest form. Why? Because as far as I'm concerned, Yahoo actually condones the practice of spamming, because they bloody well don't even try to do anything about the sheer volume of spam, (pr0n, of course), in some of these groups. As the owner of a few groups myself, I can tell you that the tools to deal with the problem JUST PLAIN ARE NOT THERE! The only way you can delete the offending spammer is to catch him in the act...damn near impossible and futile anyway, because they simply change their name and do it again the next day.
Although they have put in place a couple of thins, including a "This is Spam" link of any given message to report it as such. I have little or no faith in these, because nothing ever seems to get done about it...the same spammer just keeps it up! I have had a few instances where the spammer has managed to infiltrate a Group calendar and had messages posted automatically from that! So whatever Yahoo pretends to do, the spammers most certainly are very much further ahead!
Am I the only person who thinks that Yahoo condones the practise?
A number of years ago, when Al Gore's wife Tipper forced all those ratings stickers on us all, one of the names behind the scenes was none other than Phyllis Schlafly and her Eagle Forum. I find it very hard to believe that she's changed tunes so much that she's now willing to defend the idea that music and information should be free.
I'd love to know what Jello Biafra and his crew at Alternative Tentacles...
http://www.alternativetentacles.com...think about this, given that the sort of censorship Gore, Schlafly and any of the others at the time essentially shot down Dead Kennedys after their show trial. For those who have not heard about this, pick up a copy of Jello's third spoken word CD, Tales from the Trial, which goes into this and other censorship issues in great detail. As far as I'm concerned, somebody like Jello, who's pretty much dismissed by the Right, has to be able to seriously back himself up.
Frankly, I do not trust the likes of Schlafly, Falwell, Gore etc because, given their past, I cannot help but think their using this as a lever to impose still more censorship.
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Making money from it isn't the point. The C1 isn't intended for that...it's intended primarily for hobbyists, and they don't exactly anticipate any sort of duplication of the original C64's popularity. Holy shit! Can't anybody do anything for the sheer enjoyment of it anymore, or does everything have to make a buck?
C1 Business Plan
1.) Reminisce about the old C64 days
2.) Build updated version of C64
3.) Sell it to hobbyists
4.) ???
5.) PROFIT!...no...FUN!
I think one of these things will be a blast! If I can aford it, I'll get one!
I never really liked the idea of referring to Christopher Reeve as some sort of "hero", but portray him as a "hero" the media did. Think about it...what did he do to become a hero? He fell off a fsking expensive toy...his horse! Pretty fsking heroic, if you ask me! They should put up a statue!
>> I'm glad Slashdot did a follow up on this issue as it is the MAIN news topic worldwide today.
Scary thing about that is the idea that Bush is probably going to take advantage of that to do all sorts of things related to his forthcoming war on Iraq that will probably go completely unnoticed, with the public's attention preoccupied with this.
Religion may not be the cause, but it's certainly an excuse, and IMHO something that provides THAT MUCH of an excuse for people to do some of the sheer nasty crap with it that has been done, I'd just as soon have no part of it whatsoever.
>> You needn't worry about the age of the orbiters. The shuttles are extensively refurbished after every fourth or fifth flight. The only piece of 'original' (read: 22 year old) equipment on the Columbia was the name.
Well, probably the airframe as well. I suspect it's a little difficult to swap out some of the wing structure.
One of the things I find highly distasteful about religion in general, and christianity in particular, (mostly because that's the Biggie I have to put up with), is the hypocrisy. On one hand the Religious Right is against abortion and a woman's right to choose what she does with her body, usually quoting "Thou Shalt Not Kill", but it's hag'em, high when it comes to whatever criminal-du-jour.
That's just the start of it.
Three now. Four including the original Enterprise. I wonder if they'll retrofit her now, to replace Columbia?
For that matter, are/were there any astronauts/cosmonauts aboard Alpha? How are they going to get home now? I don't think there's going to be any shuttle missions for quite a while. Are we going to have to get lifts from the Russians?
How about the whole ISS project anyway? Is this going to toast that for good, too?
What is it about this time of year for nasty space disasters?
Jan 27th, 1967, Apollo 1
Jan 28th, 1986, Challenger
Now this?
Withthe exception of Apollo 13, which ended in a successful rescue, all the most serious disasters in the NASA space program, the ones involving deaths of astronauts, have been in the last week of January and now the first week of February.
Thoughts?
IOW, they've got you by the short-and-curlies.
Of course, in the electronic paperless utopia we were all promised, printers would be irrelevant. Perhaps this is the sort of thing that might finally get things like this going, as cash strapped corporations and budget cut government agencies no longer have to money to buy proprietary printer cartidges.
Currently, the electronic utopia produces something like three times as much paper waste as the old typewriter run offices ever could. Manager types demand absolute perfection, even for the most insignificant of documents. As an example, I had to fill out a form to apply for something, and I filled in the date as year-month-day. My shithead of a supervisor demanded that I redo it because he thought it should be month-day-year. The form would not have been seen by anybody but the two, maybe three, people what would have processed it, but this asshole insisted that I waste more paper correcting it, typical for him.
But what do you do when ALL of the printer companies start doing this?
I thought it was the Loyal Order of No-Homers!
What the hell's wrong with golf cart style cars anyway? Most city driving is done at speeds of less than 60 km/h, (that's 37 mph to those of you who refuse to get on the Global Standard for measurement), with one person in the car, carrying only a few packages.
Maybe more golf cart style cars is just what the doctor ordered. Do they have the Smart Car over here yet? I know DaimlerChrysler is working on getting the Mercedes A Class over here. How about something like the VW Lupo as well? Europe and Japan have scads of ultra fuel efficient cars, and we're missing out! These cars might suck on the highway, but then, that's not what they were designed for.
As I also mentioned in another post, I believe Diesel is a hugely untapped alternative in North America. It got a really bad rap back in the early 80s when GM, being the money grubbing scumfucks that they are, applied shoddy, stopgap engineering to get a Diesel out on the market ASAP. All those poor saps who bought one of those Olds Diesel 350s don't know what they're missing by driving a proper Diesel.
There already is a SUV/truck that gets far better fuel mileage than the standard gas version. My last truck was a Ford F250 Diesel, and I would routinely approach 30 miles per gallon, (although a proper World Standard 4.54L gallon, not that bastardized 3.9L thin you yanks seem to like), and that was city driving!
I realize that Diesel's not the cleanest furl in the worl, but I also suspect that not much research has been put into rectifying that either.
Thank you!
This book has been out in excess of a year. Why so long to post a review here of it...or were the /. editors waiting for Robin Williams to play the part in the movie?
What about any of the stuff related to computers being collectible? I'm thinking old software here, perhaps in its original packaging. Remember the old Wordperfect "hardcover" cases? I still have a disk based copy of OS/2 Warp, Red Spine, still in the original box, all docs etc included. Somewhere, I've also got the 5.25 floppies for Microsoft OS/2 V1.1! Anybody see a pattern here? Bur seriously, folks...
Perhaps not a generic clone, but I suspect that some of the early name brands will become collectors' items. Things like an intact original IBM PC from 1981 will increase in value, for sure.
I've seen people go apeshit collecting some really stupid stuff. Sometime in the early 90s, I remember Hostess Chips including mini trading cards with STTNG characters on them in each bag of chips. People got right crazy over them, and towards the end, with some of the cards being rarer than others, people were selling complete sets for in excess of $200, and I know one clown who forked out something like that.
Old computers? That's a no-brainer!
I would supply it, but i can't remember the exact reference. Wasn't there a scene where Lisa tells Bart about something she saw on TV where they predicted that humans would have five fingers instead of four? Bart's answer was something like "Oooh! Freakshow!"
>> While I wouldn't want to rent an edited video, I have no problem if others do and people supply that demand. They buy a copy of the movie for every copy they circulate so the creators are compensated the same, the modified copies are clearly marked so there is no attempt to deceive, in short there is no foul.
What if the unedited copy of that same video is simply unavailable at yourlocal MallWart? Firms like this, Blockbuster too, have the buying power, and therefore the clout, to force movie distributors to produce versions they deem "clean" for sale in their shops. MallWart and Blockbuster are notorious for this, in particular MallWart, who also does it with music CDs. So what do you do when the only versions available are censored by shops, not by the government or Hollywood?
Democrat, Republican, what's the diff? The Dems are on the inside what the Repubs are on the outside. Eight years of Clinton should have told you that, not to mention Al Gore's wife being at the forefront of all the religious right, (including Phyllis Schlafly), backed witch hunts against various forms of music in the decade previous to that! You guys may consider the Dems left wing, but they're further to the Right than anything we have up here. If you were really "liberal", you would be supporting Nader and the Greens, who have had the only platform approaching anything the rest of the world sees as Left in decades. I would be interested to know what you think of people like Michael Moore, Jello Biafra and Noam Chomsky, who go out of their way to bring to light some of the really scary shit going on in the world of the Right Wing!
Perhaps I did misinterpret your commentary as some sort of Right wing attack, but that sort of idea, where somebody on the Left is a "commie pinko liberal" as opposed to the guy on the right being a "thoughtful conservative" has been prevalent ever since the early 80's, when EVERYTHING shifted to the right, and trashing the conscious side of the sixties became fashionable. I, for one, think that many of the ideas brought forth in the sixties had merit, bringing people together, in contrast to the divisiveness in politics and society today, where everything has to make a buck. So I'm getting just a little bit sick of people dismissing ideas from the Left as somehow loony without giving them much consideration.
With the amountof spam that I receive in the ones I subscribe to, I'm not so sure.
Yep...that would be the one! Our story poster should have this as his Start Windoze .wav instead of that ghastly "Microsoft Sound" thing.
>> Oi! Slashdotters! the USA is not the World, right?
No...they just think it is. They have a lot to learn.
>> The theme song for "Are You Being Served" ;)
Nope. Can't be. There's nobody calling out what's on each floor as the musical elevator stops. It sounds similar, I'll give you that, but definitely not one and the same.
I am quite a frequent user of Yahoo, as you can probably see from my e-mail address. I like its portability and the fact that I have 6 Meg to play with, which seems to suffice as far as what mail I get is concerned. I have had little or no problem with spam.
However, I'm also a frequent user of Yahoo Groups, and probably subscribe to something approaching 90. Many of these, I have chosen to visit the group proper, rather than receive e-mail, even in Digest form. Why? Because as far as I'm concerned, Yahoo actually condones the practice of spamming, because they bloody well don't even try to do anything about the sheer volume of spam, (pr0n, of course), in some of these groups. As the owner of a few groups myself, I can tell you that the tools to deal with the problem JUST PLAIN ARE NOT THERE! The only way you can delete the offending spammer is to catch him in the act...damn near impossible and futile anyway, because they simply change their name and do it again the next day.
Although they have put in place a couple of thins, including a "This is Spam" link of any given message to report it as such. I have little or no faith in these, because nothing ever seems to get done about it...the same spammer just keeps it up! I have had a few instances where the spammer has managed to infiltrate a Group calendar and had messages posted automatically from that! So whatever Yahoo pretends to do, the spammers most certainly are very much further ahead!
Am I the only person who thinks that Yahoo condones the practise?
A number of years ago, when Al Gore's wife Tipper forced all those ratings stickers on us all, one of the names behind the scenes was none other than Phyllis Schlafly and her Eagle Forum. I find it very hard to believe that she's changed tunes so much that she's now willing to defend the idea that music and information should be free.
...think about this, given that the sort of censorship Gore, Schlafly and any of the others at the time essentially shot down Dead Kennedys after their show trial. For those who have not heard about this, pick up a copy of Jello's third spoken word CD, Tales from the Trial, which goes into this and other censorship issues in great detail. As far as I'm concerned, somebody like Jello, who's pretty much dismissed by the Right, has to be able to seriously back himself up.
I'd love to know what Jello Biafra and his crew at Alternative Tentacles...
http://www.alternativetentacles.com
Frankly, I do not trust the likes of Schlafly, Falwell, Gore etc because, given their past, I cannot help but think their using this as a lever to impose still more censorship.