How else but with.5mm surface mount BGAs and HDI technology do you expect to build something like a modern cell phone?
OF COURSE they're going to be nearly impossible to work on at home... SO WHAT? It's all about the software. Phone breaks? Chuck it. Get a new one. It'll be better anyways.
The "choice" you are thinking about no longer has anything to do with the hardware, which is basically a paint-by-numbers commodity these days. (Which is why EE is a dead-end industry.)
"But you're right, the Apple ][ was a new concept entirely. And by the time Atari, Commodore and the rest got into mass production the market changed."
What kind of revisionist bullshit is this? Commodore was already mass producing by the time the Apple 2 came along. And yes, I'm calling it the Apple 2 to rankle you.
looks like the most delicious roast chicken a dog could ever want. As soon as I put the boat in the water, every dog around will jump into the water and desperately swim after the stupid thing. Now I warn dog owners before I put the boat in the water!
One day a guy shows up with a Husky. He tells me not to worry, Huskies don't like the water. OK, fine. After he told me he never thought he'd see his dog chest-deep in the water! It was true however that this dog didn't go any further and didn't actually swim for it. But he also didn't expect to have to towel down his dog!
I have some text I captured with my Amiga. Who were you on there? Or did you create several characters? Did you ever attend any of the GTs? I went to one.
Back in the 80s I was in high school in Montreal. I was socially very awkward and shy and flat out dysfunctional. The local dial-up scene was a way to socialize with a bunch of people. I only ever met a few of them IRL. My favorite BBS was SASSy. It was a one-user-at-a-time wall-of-text board with no logins. It was GREAT. I wish I could find the entire text archives but the sysop, Tim Campbell, was a very strange dude and never released them, because he felt it was worth thousands and thousands of dollars.
On the other hand you had the whole "warez" scene for the C64, got a lot of software that way and met a few people also. Often I would come back home with boxes full of floppies and hundreds of terrible games to play through!
At some later time multi-line BBS were a thing, and I met a woman at the time due to this BBS. (Linq) She was a mental ward head case and combined with my own terrible issues she set me on a path of virginity and loneliness.
No, I don't. The election is tomorrow. The media is filled with Trump and Clinton. That's all it is. And this story is not interesting. It's been the same non-story for the last couple of years.
I want a work-free society that uses the technology and resources we have. You want a serf-based "work or die" Bronze Age mentality.
I'll let you decide who is the "Luddite" here. You may want to spend the rest of your weekend (get it?) to reflect upon why you are such a horrendous person.
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Good, likewise. I like to work at 3AM. What was that thing you wanted again? Let me call and find out.
Who cares? Hardware is a mature, dead-end industry. This is why EE is a moronic career choice these days.
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
How else but with .5mm surface mount BGAs and HDI technology do you expect to build something like a modern cell phone?
OF COURSE they're going to be nearly impossible to work on at home... SO WHAT? It's all about the software. Phone breaks? Chuck it. Get a new one. It'll be better anyways.
The "choice" you are thinking about no longer has anything to do with the hardware, which is basically a paint-by-numbers commodity these days. (Which is why EE is a dead-end industry.)
" their electronics failed quickly"
Bah, nothing a vacuum tube and tunnel diode control system can't handle.
"But you're right, the Apple ][ was a new concept entirely. And by the time Atari, Commodore and the rest got into mass production the market changed."
What kind of revisionist bullshit is this? Commodore was already mass producing by the time the Apple 2 came along. And yes, I'm calling it the Apple 2 to rankle you.
Meh, it just shows we have no idea how an animal will interpret things.
Me it's RC boats. I live in a city so it's the cheapest, quickest way to get my RC nerdery done. Apparently, for a dog's visual cortex, this:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OdtfMNj...
looks like the most delicious roast chicken a dog could ever want. As soon as I put the boat in the water, every dog around will jump into the water and desperately swim after the stupid thing. Now I warn dog owners before I put the boat in the water!
One day a guy shows up with a Husky. He tells me not to worry, Huskies don't like the water. OK, fine. After he told me he never thought he'd see his dog chest-deep in the water! It was true however that this dog didn't go any further and didn't actually swim for it. But he also didn't expect to have to towel down his dog!
Yes, Cateye bicycle speed indicators.
I have some text I captured with my Amiga. Who were you on there? Or did you create several characters? Did you ever attend any of the GTs? I went to one.
Back in the 80s I was in high school in Montreal. I was socially very awkward and shy and flat out dysfunctional. The local dial-up scene was a way to socialize with a bunch of people. I only ever met a few of them IRL.
My favorite BBS was SASSy. It was a one-user-at-a-time wall-of-text board with no logins. It was GREAT. I wish I could find the entire text archives but the sysop, Tim Campbell, was a very strange dude and never released them, because he felt it was worth thousands and thousands of dollars.
On the other hand you had the whole "warez" scene for the C64, got a lot of software that way and met a few people also. Often I would come back home with boxes full of floppies and hundreds of terrible games to play through!
At some later time multi-line BBS were a thing, and I met a woman at the time due to this BBS. (Linq) She was a mental ward head case and combined with my own terrible issues she set me on a path of virginity and loneliness.
Lushh, I still hate you. Every day.
Weapons and comic book movies?
No, I don't. The election is tomorrow. The media is filled with Trump and Clinton. That's all it is. And this story is not interesting. It's been the same non-story for the last couple of years.
Because if Trump wins, we need a way to leave this planet...
Canada.
"You had $5,000 to spend on a home computer, yet you pirated/stole the software."
Yes.. because they *had* 5000$. They *have* no more money. It's really not that difficult to understand.
a case of Coffiest?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and about as close to "artificial intelligence" as well.
Like teaching Google to hire people over 40.
Can you explain the ridiculous dancing in the background? Did people really think we'd dance like that in the future?
And that just might be the problem, wouldn't it?
I want a work-free society that uses the technology and resources we have. You want a serf-based "work or die" Bronze Age mentality.
I'll let you decide who is the "Luddite" here. You may want to spend the rest of your weekend (get it?) to reflect upon why you are such a horrendous person.
Thanks, I guess I shouldn't have called you guys " tulip-growing windmill lovers", when everyone knows you're really Swamp Germans. /jk
That's why I find this type of person fascinating; to me they're like any broken system, I want to know what went wrong and where.
"1) The world does not owe you a living"
Yet you feel the world owes cheap labor and no taxes to corporations? Why do you worship takers?
What is the purpose of science and technology if you feel like we should live like in the Middle Ages?
"2) If someone is willing to do your job as well as you for less money than you, they should have the job."
Sure, and that doesn't mean I should now starve in a world like ours. But to you and your delightful Bronze Age sensibility, it does.
Figures you're a software type.
I find people like you fascinating.
http://www.economist.com/node/...
Um, the whole point is that IKEA *IS* the "charity".