My last 3 cars have been Subarus, the most recent one a WRX STi, and they've all been very good in snow and ice - all AWD. The two cars before that were Eagle Talons, also AWD sports cars. They two cars before that were FWD.
Yeah, laughing derisively at SUVs is fun, whether they're in a ditch or not:-).
Same here. I'm 6'4 (1.93m) and 200lbs, no problems with comfort in any of my cars over the years: Dodge Shadow, Eagle Talon, Subaru Impreza - all fairly small cars.
I agree on the message style. These days the only exposure I have to the greater internet populace are: occasionally accidentally catching a horrified glimpse of YouTube comments, Craigslist postings, and WoW/other MMORPG chat channels. And it's all pretty ugly compared to what you saw on CI$/Usenet/etc back in The Olden Dayes. Slashdot isn't bad at all, thankfully.
I know you were half-joking, but in all seriousness, if you could afford Compuserve- even if it hurt a bit- you or your family must have been reasonably well-off. But you'll excuse me if I don't get *too* nostalgic for a proprietary service whose price put it out of the league of the majority of ordinary people when- for all its well-documented flaws- the Internet offers so much more at a fraction of the cost.
It wasn't too much of a problem. I was able to pay for it through my slightly-over-minimum wage retail job at the time (living at home, being in high school, made it easier).
I signed up in 1983 or so, after I got my Atari 800 and 300-baud modem. The CB Simulator was fun. I still remember fondly that people back then typed complete sentences and words, not like the ch475p33k crap that passes for communication these days.
Everyone complained about how expensive Compu$erve was, but we paid the price anyway. And we liked it that way.
Robotron is one of my favorite games, so I've been looking at the source to it. One odd thing I've seen is the table of points scored for each enemy. They stored the 150 value for (for example) an Enforcer as:
DB $01, $50
.
For those who aren't aware, the '$' prefix denoted a hex number in Motorola assembly. It's strange that the score values are stored in this weird BCD-ish way. Maybe it was more efficient to do BCD math than to convert the binary to decimal every time the score changed (which meant a screen update).
I, too, am all for legalizing pot for the reasons people have talked about here, but I personally don't want to be exposed to it.
I have never used the stuff, and don't know anyone who does, so I'm not clear on how much 'second-hand' smoke it would take to affect someone. In any case, I don't want to be exposed to tobacco or pot smoke at all- it's annoying, and I hate, well, stinking.
No, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turn to act as sort of an executive officer for the week, but all decisions of that officer must be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...
As a programmer I lost years of my life due to this. With MEGABYTES of memory I was still stuck with overlay linkers. Imagine! And this was in the 486 days as well!
I would estimate the costs of this botch to our economy to be in the billions.
I agree. And now, I apologize in advance to everyone on Slashdot for mentioning some more horrors of the time:
"The NATO doctrine is that we will fight with conventional forces until we are losing, then we will fight with tactical weapons until we are losing, and then we will blow up the world."
Slashdot Mirror
Google Compulsory Licensing
And it's not in beta anymore, so be afraid!
My last 3 cars have been Subarus, the most recent one a WRX STi, and they've all been very good in snow and ice - all AWD. The two cars before that were Eagle Talons, also AWD sports cars. They two cars before that were FWD.
Yeah, laughing derisively at SUVs is fun, whether they're in a ditch or not :-).
Same here. I'm 6'4 (1.93m) and 200lbs, no problems with comfort in any of my cars over the years: Dodge Shadow, Eagle Talon, Subaru Impreza - all fairly small cars.
Nasal sex is nothing to sneeze at, either.
I agree on the message style. These days the only exposure I have to the greater internet populace are: occasionally accidentally catching a horrified glimpse of YouTube comments, Craigslist postings, and WoW/other MMORPG chat channels. And it's all pretty ugly compared to what you saw on CI$/Usenet/etc back in The Olden Dayes. Slashdot isn't bad at all, thankfully.
I know you were half-joking, but in all seriousness, if you could afford Compuserve- even if it hurt a bit- you or your family must have been reasonably well-off. But you'll excuse me if I don't get *too* nostalgic for a proprietary service whose price put it out of the league of the majority of ordinary people when- for all its well-documented flaws- the Internet offers so much more at a fraction of the cost.
It wasn't too much of a problem. I was able to pay for it through my slightly-over-minimum wage retail job at the time (living at home, being in high school, made it easier).
That part wasn't a joke...
I signed up in 1983 or so, after I got my Atari 800 and 300-baud modem. The CB Simulator was fun. I still remember fondly that people back then typed complete sentences and words, not like the ch475p33k crap that passes for communication these days.
Everyone complained about how expensive Compu$erve was, but we paid the price anyway. And we liked it that way.
Same here. I wonder whether AOL will make the discussion groups and other archived stuff available?
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Life in Guantanamo? Are you insane? What if the League of Evil breaks her out? No, this clearly calls for the death penalty.
That makes sense. I'm pretty certain the 6505/etc didn't have BCD opcodes, but I do vaguely remember now why BCD was used.
Robotron is one of my favorite games, so I've been looking at the source to it. One odd thing I've seen is the table of points scored for each enemy. They stored the 150 value for (for example) an Enforcer as:
DB $01, $50
.
For those who aren't aware, the '$' prefix denoted a hex number in Motorola assembly. It's strange that the score values are stored in this weird BCD-ish way. Maybe it was more efficient to do BCD math than to convert the binary to decimal every time the score changed (which meant a screen update).
Undoubtedly the first message from the Super Tuna Council will be:
ALL YOUR BAYS ARE BELONG TO US.
*cough*IPRED*cough*
I recommend seeing a doctor, right away.
I, too, am all for legalizing pot for the reasons people have talked about here, but I personally don't want to be exposed to it.
I have never used the stuff, and don't know anyone who does, so I'm not clear on how much 'second-hand' smoke it would take to affect someone. In any case, I don't want to be exposed to tobacco or pot smoke at all- it's annoying, and I hate, well, stinking.
No, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turn to act as sort of an executive officer for the week, but all decisions of that officer must be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...
Except that from White Castle, it would be 4 burgers and a coke. :-)
Mmm...
Maybe the drug use would have eventually ended Led Zeppelin; it's hard to say. But they consciously decided to give it up after Bonham died.
I agree about Rush. From what I've read, if Neil Peart had left for good after the tragedies in his life, Rush would not have continued as Rush.
Led Zeppelin.
* Absolutely FPS
* X-Men vs. The Young Ones
* Lord British Strikes Back
In the Boy Scouts, we used to send the new kids on a quest to find a left-handed smokeshifter.
As a programmer I lost years of my life due to this. With MEGABYTES of memory I was still stuck with overlay linkers. Imagine! And this was in the 486 days as well!
I would estimate the costs of this botch to our economy to be in the billions.
I agree. And now, I apologize in advance to everyone on Slashdot for mentioning some more horrors of the time:
HIMEM.SYS, EMS, XMS, HMA, UMA, UMB, DPMI. QEMM.
He works hard for the money, so hard for the money, so you better treat him right.
It's good form to try to work in some infringement when posting these things.
If it tastes good, it should be called 'Yumium'.
"The NATO doctrine is that we will fight with conventional forces until we are losing, then we will fight with tactical weapons until we are losing, and then we will blow up the world."
Morton Halperin
... but my wife invented APL.