Would love one but alas - three dogs. Which means manually cleaning up the lawn on a regular basis, for obvious reasons. What I would pay for a robot that would handle that clean up for me...
I have a username in the five digits. I joined after I read about the idea of moderation making good discussion rise to the top, in an issue of the now-defunct.NET magazine (predates the runtime/language). I stopped when I saw I was in the the ~13,000 level. After all, how could a conversation possibly take place between a whole 13,000 people...?
I try once a year to convince the admins to give me the username back - I've no idea the credentials I used to login with and even if I had I wouldn't have control of those addresses anymore. Ah well.
1972 and yes - you're right. Was more speaking about computers than consoles but you're completely correct and I used to stare at the pages for Atari and Intellivision enviously in the Argos catalogue...
A user with the name A Huxley should know better. No, that's not at all what happened in the 80s. In the 80s you were far more likely to come across home-grown machines like the Spectrum, the BBC, Dragon or things like Amstraad (yes, double-a) or RS Nimbus at the more professional end. Apple had essentially zero presence - their UK pricing then makes today's nonsense look like bargain of the century. The only American machine with any presence would be Commodore - VIC-20 and C64.
Games too - mostly home grown. Not much from the US - so little, in fact, that a company saw a gap in the market and set up a label called US Gold geared around bringing imports in.
90s I'll give you - 90s was when the UK market essentially missed the shift to 16 bit and things like the Amiga and the Atari ST dominated. Mid 90s the PC started overwhelming everything (sadly...). Apple still had a very small footprint, essentially irrelevant in the UK. Only with the original iMacs and Powerbooks did anyone start seeing any growth in Apple here.
Was listening to the news on BBC radio, where it is a religiously held fact that computers are evil and bad and wrong. They really, really didn't like this result and the reporting changed as they had time to react. "isn't bad" quickly changed to "insufficient proof that it is bad" (which is true of course, but we're in can't prove a negative territory), which quickly changed to "more research needed into showing this is bad" and full commentary utterly ignoring the results and asking what we could do about this terrible plague.
Was funny to listen to. I went through the same demonising of things in the 80s as a kid playing on Spectrums and C64s, then the satanic panic over D&D...yawn. Hopefully the next generation doesn't have to put up with this, since by then most people of broadcasting-presenter age will have grown up using screens anyway.
Thank you. As a tiny tiny microscopic part of the music industry - hobbyist artist/self-publisher - I keep far more of the revenue from a sale than than from someone streaming. Buy my album? You've bought me a coffee! Thanks. Stream my album? Well, only another thousand or so streams to go and I can get that same coffee...
Happened a few years back. A major reason for preferring PCalc on the Mac to anything built-in is that it could open multiple windows and so have multiple calculators active at the same time. In this iOS unification craze, it lost that ability a few years back with a promise the ability was coming back - well...nope. No it hasn't.
With Spotlight there's also fewer reasons to use it casually since you can just type into the search bar. With more complex stuff it's just about as easy to enter in to Wolfram Alpha, though there are still advantages to a local application with its own tape.
So yep - user of PCalc since the 90s. I still own the license, but it's barely touched now. Stop trying to make everything the same as a phone.
Is there anyone on earth who understands their pantry thing? I mean, I can just go to Sainsbury's and order what I want, I don't have to start working out box sizes and filling them up or what have you.
The problem is who defines what's abandoned? Lots of 20/30 year-old games that hadn't been 'exploited' in decades suddenly found new leases of life when mobile came along.
I agree but in this case I might well add on one more - Lightning. USB C is the ubiquitous choice now and whilst lightning does have a few advantages (I prefer the physical connector for instance) I think it's likely time to just go USB C full time.
I also think that solves a lot of the "no headphone jack" issues - you could then have your wireless ones, but also there would be USB C ones from many manufacturers and sold without adapters. Whether it solves the issue in a manner that Apple would actually like it to is a different matter of course.
Fair enough, I had left the ST/Amiga scene by the time that revision came out. Got my LC around 1990 I think. Even so, although the resolution is good the paper white was just a superb monitor. A few years ago I got a nostalgia bug and refought my old ST kit from eBay (obviously not the same actual one...same kit I used to have). It wasn't rose-tinted nostalgia goggles, the SM124 was just a truly exceptional display. Sold it all again since then and doubt I'll go back, but it was nice to know I wasn't exaggerating it in my mind.
Yes and I saw a few MIDI interfaces for the Amiga. But the software was nothing compared to Steinberg Pro 24 - I had the cheapskate Steinberg Pro 12 version, and it was marvellous. The SM124 was an oddly superb monitor too, true freak of quality - the Amiga didn't have anything like the hi-res mono mode of the ST.
I moved off my ST to a Mac LC eventually, and was shocked to find the quality of MIDI was worse, not better.
Even given the above, it was still ahead. The key was the use of custom chips to offload from the CPU, something few others did. Mac couldn't multitask, neither could the ST (yes - I had software to make the ST appear to multitask and there was also MultiFinder/System 7 much later - but still not pre-emptive and still no protected memory).
...and I say that as a former ST owner, not Amiga. The hardware was astounding, the custom chips instead of pushing everything through the CPU was fantastic. I liked my ST a lot for what I did (SM124 'paper white' mono monitor, built-in MIDI ports) but there's no denying the Amiga was more powerful. PCs were nowhere.
Late eighties/early 90s I worked weekend and holiday job selling 16 bit games and computers. We were the first in the area to seriously specialise in them, so we got a bit of reputation. Sold a large amount of everything, then started moving into PCs. I could not believe the prices people were paying for such utter garbage - Amigas killed them.
Then there is programming. I remember looking at a declaration in C: far char *, and deciding never to do segmented memory model junk again and just do all my coding on the flat addressing of the 68000 range.
Amigas could have looked more professional and been built out of metal I think, and they would have been taken more seriously, But the my-mum-was-on-the-board-at-IBM-so-I-got-the-contract juggernaut of MS DOS, as hacked out and made ubiquitous by Compaq, had taken over by then and single manufacturer stuff was struggling to hang on - even Apple. The name Commodore was mostly associated with home gaming, so apart from Germany and Scandinavia it struggled to get recognition as a serious firm. Its own antics with suppliers and retailers didn't endear it much either - see Brian Bagnall's excellent book Commodore - A Company On The Edge. But the machines and capabilities themselves? Lightyears ahead.
I'm in the UK - here there are plenty of email solutions here for health care, and I can order repeat prescriptions through an app. Please understand - I'm interested and learning from the comments about the US health care system. However the story comes from the UK - there's literally no reason here at all to be using a fax machine since there's plenty of already in use alternatives.
Most are treated as knock-offs because they actually are - witness the notch nonsense, which wasn't even Apple's idea to start with. And then how every manufacturer suddenly came out with a laptop that like a MacBook Air - some of them are still embarrassingly obvious MacBook Pro clones
I like things that stand on their own. I like my MacBook, but I like Thinkpads too which have their own design language. I like the Surface Go, I like some of the Yoga range...there's room in the world for good design that doesn't rip off Apple. I wish more manufacturers would make them.
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Would love one but alas - three dogs. Which means manually cleaning up the lawn on a regular basis, for obvious reasons. What I would pay for a robot that would handle that clean up for me...
RCS is meant to be the thing. Be interested to see its progress.
That's way too recent to be unsupported.
I have a username in the five digits. I joined after I read about the idea of moderation making good discussion rise to the top, in an issue of the now-defunct .NET magazine (predates the runtime/language). I stopped when I saw I was in the the ~13,000 level. After all, how could a conversation possibly take place between a whole 13,000 people...?
I try once a year to convince the admins to give me the username back - I've no idea the credentials I used to login with and even if I had I wouldn't have control of those addresses anymore. Ah well.
1972 and yes - you're right. Was more speaking about computers than consoles but you're completely correct and I used to stare at the pages for Atari and Intellivision enviously in the Argos catalogue...
A user with the name A Huxley should know better. No, that's not at all what happened in the 80s. In the 80s you were far more likely to come across home-grown machines like the Spectrum, the BBC, Dragon or things like Amstraad (yes, double-a) or RS Nimbus at the more professional end. Apple had essentially zero presence - their UK pricing then makes today's nonsense look like bargain of the century. The only American machine with any presence would be Commodore - VIC-20 and C64.
Games too - mostly home grown. Not much from the US - so little, in fact, that a company saw a gap in the market and set up a label called US Gold geared around bringing imports in.
90s I'll give you - 90s was when the UK market essentially missed the shift to 16 bit and things like the Amiga and the Atari ST dominated. Mid 90s the PC started overwhelming everything (sadly...). Apple still had a very small footprint, essentially irrelevant in the UK. Only with the original iMacs and Powerbooks did anyone start seeing any growth in Apple here.
Was listening to the news on BBC radio, where it is a religiously held fact that computers are evil and bad and wrong. They really, really didn't like this result and the reporting changed as they had time to react. "isn't bad" quickly changed to "insufficient proof that it is bad" (which is true of course, but we're in can't prove a negative territory), which quickly changed to "more research needed into showing this is bad" and full commentary utterly ignoring the results and asking what we could do about this terrible plague.
Was funny to listen to. I went through the same demonising of things in the 80s as a kid playing on Spectrums and C64s, then the satanic panic over D&D...yawn. Hopefully the next generation doesn't have to put up with this, since by then most people of broadcasting-presenter age will have grown up using screens anyway.
I believe it's 192kbps if the video is in HD. This is why you see album uploads in HD even though it's just a static picture of the album cover.
Thank you. As a tiny tiny microscopic part of the music industry - hobbyist artist/self-publisher - I keep far more of the revenue from a sale than than from someone streaming. Buy my album? You've bought me a coffee! Thanks. Stream my album? Well, only another thousand or so streams to go and I can get that same coffee...
Happened a few years back. A major reason for preferring PCalc on the Mac to anything built-in is that it could open multiple windows and so have multiple calculators active at the same time. In this iOS unification craze, it lost that ability a few years back with a promise the ability was coming back - well...nope. No it hasn't.
With Spotlight there's also fewer reasons to use it casually since you can just type into the search bar. With more complex stuff it's just about as easy to enter in to Wolfram Alpha, though there are still advantages to a local application with its own tape.
So yep - user of PCalc since the 90s. I still own the license, but it's barely touched now. Stop trying to make everything the same as a phone.
Is there anyone on earth who understands their pantry thing? I mean, I can just go to Sainsbury's and order what I want, I don't have to start working out box sizes and filling them up or what have you.
The problem is who defines what's abandoned? Lots of 20/30 year-old games that hadn't been 'exploited' in decades suddenly found new leases of life when mobile came along.
I agree but in this case I might well add on one more - Lightning. USB C is the ubiquitous choice now and whilst lightning does have a few advantages (I prefer the physical connector for instance) I think it's likely time to just go USB C full time.
I also think that solves a lot of the "no headphone jack" issues - you could then have your wireless ones, but also there would be USB C ones from many manufacturers and sold without adapters. Whether it solves the issue in a manner that Apple would actually like it to is a different matter of course.
Fair enough, I had left the ST/Amiga scene by the time that revision came out. Got my LC around 1990 I think. Even so, although the resolution is good the paper white was just a superb monitor. A few years ago I got a nostalgia bug and refought my old ST kit from eBay (obviously not the same actual one...same kit I used to have). It wasn't rose-tinted nostalgia goggles, the SM124 was just a truly exceptional display. Sold it all again since then and doubt I'll go back, but it was nice to know I wasn't exaggerating it in my mind.
Yes and I saw a few MIDI interfaces for the Amiga. But the software was nothing compared to Steinberg Pro 24 - I had the cheapskate Steinberg Pro 12 version, and it was marvellous. The SM124 was an oddly superb monitor too, true freak of quality - the Amiga didn't have anything like the hi-res mono mode of the ST.
I moved off my ST to a Mac LC eventually, and was shocked to find the quality of MIDI was worse, not better.
Kind of. You need a ubiquitous interface too, which is just happening now with the voice agent stuff.
But PCs were much more expensive. Much.
QL was kinda-sorta the first 16 bit, but it didn't have multitasking or the custom chips of the Amiga.
No Amiga and Video Toaster? No Babylon 5.
Even given the above, it was still ahead. The key was the use of custom chips to offload from the CPU, something few others did. Mac couldn't multitask, neither could the ST (yes - I had software to make the ST appear to multitask and there was also MultiFinder/System 7 much later - but still not pre-emptive and still no protected memory).
...and I say that as a former ST owner, not Amiga. The hardware was astounding, the custom chips instead of pushing everything through the CPU was fantastic. I liked my ST a lot for what I did (SM124 'paper white' mono monitor, built-in MIDI ports) but there's no denying the Amiga was more powerful. PCs were nowhere.
Late eighties/early 90s I worked weekend and holiday job selling 16 bit games and computers. We were the first in the area to seriously specialise in them, so we got a bit of reputation. Sold a large amount of everything, then started moving into PCs. I could not believe the prices people were paying for such utter garbage - Amigas killed them.
Then there is programming. I remember looking at a declaration in C: far char *, and deciding never to do segmented memory model junk again and just do all my coding on the flat addressing of the 68000 range.
Amigas could have looked more professional and been built out of metal I think, and they would have been taken more seriously, But the my-mum-was-on-the-board-at-IBM-so-I-got-the-contract juggernaut of MS DOS, as hacked out and made ubiquitous by Compaq, had taken over by then and single manufacturer stuff was struggling to hang on - even Apple. The name Commodore was mostly associated with home gaming, so apart from Germany and Scandinavia it struggled to get recognition as a serious firm. Its own antics with suppliers and retailers didn't endear it much either - see Brian Bagnall's excellent book Commodore - A Company On The Edge. But the machines and capabilities themselves? Lightyears ahead.
I'm in the UK - here there are plenty of email solutions here for health care, and I can order repeat prescriptions through an app. Please understand - I'm interested and learning from the comments about the US health care system. However the story comes from the UK - there's literally no reason here at all to be using a fax machine since there's plenty of already in use alternatives.
You need to do none of that. Worst case, get a scanner that can email directly. And you're done.
Most are treated as knock-offs because they actually are - witness the notch nonsense, which wasn't even Apple's idea to start with. And then how every manufacturer suddenly came out with a laptop that like a MacBook Air - some of them are still embarrassingly obvious MacBook Pro clones
I like things that stand on their own. I like my MacBook, but I like Thinkpads too which have their own design language. I like the Surface Go, I like some of the Yoga range...there's room in the world for good design that doesn't rip off Apple. I wish more manufacturers would make them.
How good is the actual clean? The robot mops I've owned have been....questionable, whereas I get great value and results out of robot vacs.