Not really. I'm having quite a bit of fun with my 35 year old atari computer. It can't do crap, but the nerd in me is like - wow I never fully understood how most of this worked when I was a kid, but now I do and it is very clever what those people did with what they had.
Core wars. Two or more programs battling for control of a system. Each program is given one clock cycle round robin, single address space. The last functioning code (not locked up or in the weeds) wins.
I thought I made the same comment, but don't see it now.:/ I'd read about it high school and really wanted to get in on it when I went to college, but nobody had heard of it.
I think it goes far beyond that. I worked in human factors engineering for a decade so TMI for a public message board. It is a very well studied field and puts limits on what a human, even a well trained one, can do and how they can be expected to behave in certain situations.
When glass cockpits first came out, flight crews had problems because they were expected to sit there for 6-8 with absolutely nothing to do(*), but be expected to take over in an emergency. And plane emergencies unfold over the course of tens of seconds to minutes. Life and death reaction time in an automobile can be measured in milliseconds.
*Old joke: Why do planes have pilots. To feed the dog Well why do planes need dogs? To bite the pilot if they touch anything
It's a question of expectations. No one buys a toy airplane (I've been flying these for 30+ years) with the expectation that someone's life depends upon it (and yes I know they kill about 1 person a year). When you buy a car there is the expectation that it will do what it says it will do and not explode and kill off a small neighborhood.
The National Transportation Safety Board conducted an independent investigation into the accident. In July 2015, the NTSB released a report which cited inadequate design safeguards, poor pilot training, lack of rigorous federal oversight and a potentially anxious co-pilot without recent flight experience as important factors in the 2014 crash. While the co-pilot was faulted for prematurely deploying the ship's feathering mechanism, the ship's designers were also faulted for not creating a fail-safe system that could have guarded against such premature deployment
So you are all for eliminating the FAA? Do you have any idea what aircraft manufacturers must go through to be allowed to sell a commercial aircraft. You are saying the equivalent to car manufacturers need not go through a similar process. The NTSB, manufacturers and the FAA have all worked together to make flying the safest form of transportation and designs are routinely faulted as allowing or even encouraging poor behavior and decisions.
The National Transportation Safety Board conducted an independent investigation into the accident. In July 2015, the NTSB released a report which cited inadequate design safeguards, poor pilot training, lack of rigorous federal oversight and a potentially anxious co-pilot without recent flight experience as important factors in the 2014 crash. While the co-pilot was faulted for prematurely deploying the ship's feathering mechanism, the ship's designers were also faulted for not creating a fail-safe system that could have guarded against such premature deployment
Who should carry the liability if not the manufacturer? If you buy a car for your and a design defect causes it lock up at highway speed and explode, why would you not sue the manufacturer? If you buy a car, you can reasonably assume this is not supposed to happen. If you buy a self driving car you should reasonable assume that it's going to drive (and not into oncoming traffic).
shout their political and social beliefs constantly and non-stop
I know people who watch tv for this exact reason. Following the news on the internet, you usually get a day or two head start about what is going to show up on tv, so you can ask their opinion on something and they'll have no idea. Three days later they'll have a very strong opinion about it and it seems to match what they've been listening to on their news programs. And I've never watched them but those programs are always YELLING. Those people don't seem to have a regular conversational voice.
Console gaming was only for rich kids. The rest of us had to play board games with our neighbors. I only knew one kid with an Atari 2600, Keith, but he was a lot younger than me.
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I'm waiting for CRTs to make a comeback. Along with vinyl.
Some of the really trendy people will have modified oscilloscopes and wax cylinders.
20 years, really? I with my laptop would have a 94% of its charge capacity after six months.
I collect antique cars. I think they're worth maintaining and my oldest is nearly 100!
available when you were born is boring
Not really. I'm having quite a bit of fun with my 35 year old atari computer. It can't do crap, but the nerd in me is like - wow I never fully understood how most of this worked when I was a kid, but now I do and it is very clever what those people did with what they had.
One of my all time favorite Bloom County's: Offensensitivity. That was 35 years ago.
Well somebody has to because work is below most americans and stuff has to get done.
and it still sucks
Found it, still there...
Core wars. Two or more programs battling for control of a system. Each program is given one clock cycle round robin, single address space. The last functioning code (not locked up or in the weeds) wins.
I thought I made the same comment, but don't see it now. :/ I'd read about it high school and really wanted to get in on it when I went to college, but nobody had heard of it.
That's almost like a computer science problem.
I don't know what happened to him, but his brother who was my age isn't anymore :(
I think it goes far beyond that. I worked in human factors engineering for a decade so TMI for a public message board. It is a very well studied field and puts limits on what a human, even a well trained one, can do and how they can be expected to behave in certain situations.
When glass cockpits first came out, flight crews had problems because they were expected to sit there for 6-8 with absolutely nothing to do(*), but be expected to take over in an emergency. And plane emergencies unfold over the course of tens of seconds to minutes. Life and death reaction time in an automobile can be measured in milliseconds.
*Old joke: Why do planes have pilots. To feed the dog
Well why do planes need dogs? To bite the pilot if they touch anything
Yes, just like aircraft.
It's a question of expectations. No one buys a toy airplane (I've been flying these for 30+ years) with the expectation that someone's life depends upon it (and yes I know they kill about 1 person a year). When you buy a car there is the expectation that it will do what it says it will do and not explode and kill off a small neighborhood.
Anybody else reminded of this?
The National Transportation Safety Board conducted an independent investigation into the accident. In July 2015, the NTSB released a report which cited inadequate design safeguards, poor pilot training, lack of rigorous federal oversight and a potentially anxious co-pilot without recent flight experience as important factors in the 2014 crash. While the co-pilot was faulted for prematurely deploying the ship's feathering mechanism, the ship's designers were also faulted for not creating a fail-safe system that could have guarded against such premature deployment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So you are all for eliminating the FAA? Do you have any idea what aircraft manufacturers must go through to be allowed to sell a commercial aircraft. You are saying the equivalent to car manufacturers need not go through a similar process. The NTSB, manufacturers and the FAA have all worked together to make flying the safest form of transportation and designs are routinely faulted as allowing or even encouraging poor behavior and decisions.
The National Transportation Safety Board conducted an independent investigation into the accident. In July 2015, the NTSB released a report which cited inadequate design safeguards, poor pilot training, lack of rigorous federal oversight and a potentially anxious co-pilot without recent flight experience as important factors in the 2014 crash. While the co-pilot was faulted for prematurely deploying the ship's feathering mechanism, the ship's designers were also faulted for not creating a fail-safe system that could have guarded against such premature deployment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's the way it works in the real world.
Who should carry the liability if not the manufacturer? If you buy a car for your and a design defect causes it lock up at highway speed and explode, why would you not sue the manufacturer? If you buy a car, you can reasonably assume this is not supposed to happen. If you buy a self driving car you should reasonable assume that it's going to drive (and not into oncoming traffic).
Didn't Ralph Nader build a career on this?
Inflation adjusted, the 2600 was almost $800 which is a lot to spend for a kid's toy.
That was meant as sarcasm. And not just kilowatts, a hundred gigawatt hours per year if you add it all up.
shout their political and social beliefs constantly and non-stop
I know people who watch tv for this exact reason. Following the news on the internet, you usually get a day or two head start about what is going to show up on tv, so you can ask their opinion on something and they'll have no idea. Three days later they'll have a very strong opinion about it and it seems to match what they've been listening to on their news programs. And I've never watched them but those programs are always YELLING. Those people don't seem to have a regular conversational voice.
Console gaming was only for rich kids. The rest of us had to play board games with our neighbors. I only knew one kid with an Atari 2600, Keith, but he was a lot younger than me.
PS, while a cool shot, I don't think that's an accurate depiction of a planetary ring.