It depends on how much you value your privacy. It's a reward versus risk thing and most people don't really value their privacy, at least not to a great extent. I look at all the info people voluntarily put on Facebook and realize that almost no one really obsessed about privacy like advocates try to make it seem.
MOS Technology 6502: 0.500 MIPS at 1 MHz versus CPU: 4× ARM Cortex-A53: 2458.1 MIPS at 1.2 GHz
That's what? Almost 5000 times faster? Of course once you start figuring in all the other improvements besides CPU it's really worse than that. People that wanted speed on the C64 learned assembler and they also learned to bang the hardware directly. By the 90s there were some of the Eastern European guys that had been using the 64 for 10 years that could do things the original designers of the C64 couldn't believer were possible. Some of the German hackers I knew when I was stationed there in the 80s were also amazing. I can still spend hours watching demos on the 64 and trying to believe it's a 1mhz computer with 64K of ram.
Really. An 8 bit CPU clocked at 1 megahertz with 64 Kilobytes of RAM of which only 38,911 bytes were free for use by the user. Booted to a command line Basic Interpreter. I fucking loved mine, I still have it and boot it a couple of times a year. Computers are far more useful now but not nearly as much fun. That's what the Raspberry Pi does, it brings the fun back.
You can order one with the OS already installed on the SD card. Take it out of the box, plug in keyboard, mouse, hdmi cable, ethernet cable or use wifi and plug in the power. It's up and running in seconds.
They're building a very nice FPGA accelerator for the Commodore Amiga system. Basically building a very fast version of a Motorola 68060 for less than the price of an old Motorola chip if you could even find one. It also does a lot of very neat things to speed up all phases of the Amiga. I never would have believed such a thing was possible 20 years ago. http://www.apollo-accelerators...
I bought my first C64 in 1984 for $199 with the C1541 5.25" floppy disk drive for another $199 at the BX on Keesler AFB. I still have them and they still work. I just hooked it up to a TV the other day to look for some text files I had on a disk. My 1084 monitor died unfortunately and finding one in my area has been impossible. I've also got 16 Raspberry Pi boards. 2 original B, 2 of the B2 boards, 4 A+ boards, 4 Rpi B3 boards, 2 pi zero boards and now 2 pi zeroW boards. I've got about half of them in use at the moment with 6 running cameras on a surveillance system. 1 with libreelec media center on it and 1 with retropie for games. I also have one that I have set up as a desktop and I sometimes use it just to fool around. That's the thing about the Pi. It's got so much it can do but they're so cheap you tend to just collect them. They use next to no power so if you want to run a torrent 24/7 it's almost free as far as electrical power so why tie up your big quad core Intel beast for something trivial? If you fry one experimenting ( I use the old first generation ones for that) it's not a big deal. Once I build a box to connect my 1541 I'm going to pull all the data off my old 5.25 floppies before I can't. I'm kind of shocked that I haven't lost any as far as I can tell, it's over 30 years now.
I'm a big guy and I agree with you. I think it's only fair to let the market decide. I don't fly unless I have to, if it's less than 2 days travel by car I go by car. The last flight I made was to Hawaii a 10 hour flight from Atlanta. I took some pills before the flight and slept in misery most of the flight. I spent 4 months in Hawaii, took my pills and endured the cattle car flight back. If I had to do it every day it would be a problem but I can endure a little misery occasionally. People need to toughen up a little.
Only problem with the Cherokee is they were sitting on all that gold in Georgia. Then they marched them out west where they wound up sitting on all that Black Gold. Bad luck to be weak and have something someone with no morals wants.
I used to raise chickens in an outdoor pen. They scratched in the dirt all days and ate everything. I'd turn over rocks sometimes and they'd come running to eat the creepy crawlers underneath that were suddenly exposed.
The one thing worse than mosquitoes is ticks. That damn lime disease is no joke. Then there's rocky mountain spotted fever. It's not safe in the woods. I would love to have the laser mosquito killer though. The coolness factor is off the damn chart.
I'm still wondering about the fascination some ppl, male and female, have with anal sex. I can't stand it when I have to get a fucking prostate exam. I fail to see how getting pounded there for 20 minutes or so can be all that fun.
That's really the thing for me too. Once they knew they screwed up it should have been fixed immediately and a public apology from the head of the police. Everyone makes mistakes, it's how you handle it that sets you apart.
It's what happens when you do something stupid that causes your company a 7 figure lawsuit. If they can't just outright fire you they'll make it so you quit and then no one wants you. Best thing is to move to another state.
Getting caught taking a leak in public is pretty much a misdemeanor now. Exposing yourself given what's acceptable on TV now should be going away soon too.
Well homosexuality is legal now but it's still perversion. Pretty much anything between two consenting adults is legal now. Or three or four or more. We don't have legalized polygamy but that is probably on the way.
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It depends on how much you value your privacy. It's a reward versus risk thing and most people don't really value their privacy, at least not to a great extent. I look at all the info people voluntarily put on Facebook and realize that almost no one really obsessed about privacy like advocates try to make it seem.
MOS Technology 6502: 0.500 MIPS at 1 MHz versus CPU: 4× ARM Cortex-A53: 2458.1 MIPS at 1.2 GHz
That's what? Almost 5000 times faster? Of course once you start figuring in all the other improvements besides CPU it's really worse than that. People that wanted speed on the C64 learned assembler and they also learned to bang the hardware directly. By the 90s there were some of the Eastern European guys that had been using the 64 for 10 years that could do things the original designers of the C64 couldn't believer were possible. Some of the German hackers I knew when I was stationed there in the 80s were also amazing. I can still spend hours watching demos on the 64 and trying to believe it's a 1mhz computer with 64K of ram.
The C65 was totally different. Not that it matters as there were only a few made.
Really. An 8 bit CPU clocked at 1 megahertz with 64 Kilobytes of RAM of which only 38,911 bytes were free for use by the user. Booted to a command line Basic Interpreter. I fucking loved mine, I still have it and boot it a couple of times a year. Computers are far more useful now but not nearly as much fun. That's what the Raspberry Pi does, it brings the fun back.
Yes.
You can order one with the OS already installed on the SD card. Take it out of the box, plug in keyboard, mouse, hdmi cable, ethernet cable or use wifi and plug in the power. It's up and running in seconds.
They're building a very nice FPGA accelerator for the Commodore Amiga system. Basically building a very fast version of a Motorola 68060 for less than the price of an old Motorola chip if you could even find one. It also does a lot of very neat things to speed up all phases of the Amiga. I never would have believed such a thing was possible 20 years ago.
http://www.apollo-accelerators...
I bought my first C64 in 1984 for $199 with the C1541 5.25" floppy disk drive for another $199 at the BX on Keesler AFB. I still have them and they still work. I just hooked it up to a TV the other day to look for some text files I had on a disk. My 1084 monitor died unfortunately and finding one in my area has been impossible. I've also got 16 Raspberry Pi boards. 2 original B, 2 of the B2 boards, 4 A+ boards, 4 Rpi B3 boards, 2 pi zero boards and now 2 pi zeroW boards. I've got about half of them in use at the moment with 6 running cameras on a surveillance system. 1 with libreelec media center on it and 1 with retropie for games. I also have one that I have set up as a desktop and I sometimes use it just to fool around. That's the thing about the Pi. It's got so much it can do but they're so cheap you tend to just collect them. They use next to no power so if you want to run a torrent 24/7 it's almost free as far as electrical power so why tie up your big quad core Intel beast for something trivial? If you fry one experimenting ( I use the old first generation ones for that) it's not a big deal. Once I build a box to connect my 1541 I'm going to pull all the data off my old 5.25 floppies before I can't. I'm kind of shocked that I haven't lost any as far as I can tell, it's over 30 years now.
I'm a big guy and I agree with you. I think it's only fair to let the market decide. I don't fly unless I have to, if it's less than 2 days travel by car I go by car. The last flight I made was to Hawaii a 10 hour flight from Atlanta. I took some pills before the flight and slept in misery most of the flight. I spent 4 months in Hawaii, took my pills and endured the cattle car flight back. If I had to do it every day it would be a problem but I can endure a little misery occasionally. People need to toughen up a little.
I went and saw Battleship in the theater. I was didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It was the most brain dead movie I ever saw.
I did mean a white person. We know black people are allowed to use it.
Really? Name someone who used the N word publicly and didn't pay a heavy price for it? I mean some public figure, not a nobody.
Possession is nine tenths of the law. Nobody is seriously talking about giving North Georgia back to the Cherokee nation.
No. It's racist fascist nazi mysoginistic alt-right neo-cons. Try to keep up.
Only problem with the Cherokee is they were sitting on all that gold in Georgia. Then they marched them out west where they wound up sitting on all that Black Gold. Bad luck to be weak and have something someone with no morals wants.
I think people are hanging onto 12.04 because the next LTS release is where Ubuntu started to go off the rails.
I used to raise chickens in an outdoor pen. They scratched in the dirt all days and ate everything. I'd turn over rocks sometimes and they'd come running to eat the creepy crawlers underneath that were suddenly exposed.
No. I don't eat margarine. Nothing eats margarine but people. Rats and cockroaches wont eat it. That should tell you something.
The one thing worse than mosquitoes is ticks. That damn lime disease is no joke. Then there's rocky mountain spotted fever. It's not safe in the woods. I would love to have the laser mosquito killer though. The coolness factor is off the damn chart.
I'm still wondering about the fascination some ppl, male and female, have with anal sex. I can't stand it when I have to get a fucking prostate exam. I fail to see how getting pounded there for 20 minutes or so can be all that fun.
That's really the thing for me too. Once they knew they screwed up it should have been fixed immediately and a public apology from the head of the police. Everyone makes mistakes, it's how you handle it that sets you apart.
It's what happens when you do something stupid that causes your company a 7 figure lawsuit. If they can't just outright fire you they'll make it so you quit and then no one wants you. Best thing is to move to another state.
In the US most doctors live in upscale and "gated" communities. The mentally challenged have a harder time getting to them.
Getting caught taking a leak in public is pretty much a misdemeanor now. Exposing yourself given what's acceptable on TV now should be going away soon too.
Well homosexuality is legal now but it's still perversion. Pretty much anything between two consenting adults is legal now. Or three or four or more. We don't have legalized polygamy but that is probably on the way.