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English --> French --> English --> Korean --> English. Of course, it helps that the first sentence is munged anyway;-)
I can post it when I get home. It's an illuminated white sign, although I think the shop is actually closed now. IIRC it's down a small street/alley at the bus station end of the town, on the north side of the main thoroughfare. Would make a fantastic accessory for a geek's bedroom!
I doubt they have one of these, as it was only sold in the UK in 1982-83 (it was heavily based on a Tandy TRS-80). Mine still works.
Brief techie details: the Dragon and TRS-80 had a Motorola 6809E processor running at a couple of MHz, which was a hybrid 8/16 bit affair (for some operations such as MUL, the result was a 16-bit number which was placed in the combined A and B accumulators). It had X and Y general purpose registers, and S and U stacks which (at a pinch) you could use as extra registers. The built-in BASIC was so slow that you had to use assembly language to get anything exciting to happen. The interesting historical bit is that the 6809 begat the 68000, so without the 6809 there would be no Apple Mac.
The cassette tape transfer rate was 3000 baud (a full 32KB game never took more than 3 minutes to load) which was twice as fast as the better-known BBC Micro. You could connect an RGB monitor using a DIN-type connector, it took rather odd analogue joysticks, had a standard Centronics printer socket - as found on the printer end of a parallel cable these days - and there was a cartridge/expansion port. There are emulators available for the PC if you still want to play "Cuthbert Goes Walkabout". A 64K version of the Dragon and an external 100K floppy drive were released shortly before Dragon Data were taken over by GEC and (despite assurances to the contrary) liquidated.
Down an alley in Valletta (the capital of Malta) there's still a sign advertising Dragon computers - I took a photo of it last year!
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Interesting article. If PCs (and presumably Macs) are going to end up crippled by DRM, what's to stop someone - such as the Chinese, who have demonstrated they can design and build a home-grown CPU, or possibly VIA - throwing away the x86/PowerPC architecture and building an alternative "personal computer"? Given a reasonable C compiler, I bet someone would have Linux running on it by the time it was ready for market, and then the owner of the new "PC" would be in the pocket of no-one - not MS, not Intel, not AOL-TW and not whoever is paying the US Government at that point in time.
OK, AOL would never let you play streamed Harry Potter movies on it, but you could use the web and run office applications, which would keep most of us happy. Wouldn't it?
If spammers have to go to such great lengths - and some of this stuff is admittedly clever - to get spam through, has it not dawned on them that 99.9% of people don't want to receive it? Perhaps we should ignore the spammers and target the 0.1% of idiots who actually reply and end up buying "generic Viagra" and septic tank cleaner. It reminds me of that Simpsons Hallowe'en episode with the giant advertising figures destroying Springfield. If everyone ignores them, they will die.
I still favour going after the people paying the spammers rather than the spammers themselves...unlike the big spam rings, they at least have to be locatable, otherwise they'd never be able to sell you stuff.
So how do you bolt one down in a standard 3.5" drive bay? I hope some starts selling adaptors, or it looks like a cynical ploy to make us buy new cases (the mobo manufacturers' piece the other day suggested ATX-sized boards are on the way out, so maybe this is going to happen anyway...grrr)
The editors are being a bit glib with their precis. The adverts actually feature people a bit lower in the food chain (make-up artists etc) than those earning millions per film. Presumably the message is that people like that will be cut before the studio dares to review Arnie's salary. Whether this is true or not, I don't know, but as I don't have broadband I'm a disinterested party in all this.
The Sony one is the main unit in the living room and crashes every week or two. I have an old Grundig one upstairs (with a FTA card) which crashes less often, but isn't used much.
The Sky (News Corporation's satellite service in the UK) Digibox crashes every couple of weeks - or more if you press the remote buttons too fast! A 10 second power down fixes it until the next time. It's even in the FAQ in the Sky TV guide.
So maybe MS can't do worse - hopefully they don't put a HDD in the thing though, because at least the Sky box is solid-state and recovers quickly.
If my body is going to force me to spend money, I'll certainly make it as little as possible.
Which is why I buy the cheapest toilet roll. My bottom isn't too worried about fluffy fibres or, ffs, *scented* paper. Or cut out the middleman and take a dump just before the morning shower!
If I go into Staples or PC World in my town, I'll see boxes of Linux distros that are two or even three releases behind the current one (this applies to Red Hat, Mandrake or, before SCO pulled the plug, Caldera). This looks rather sad and doesn't inspire confidence in the user.
Unlike Microsoft, who have a major OS release every year or two and release patches and SPs galore in the interim, Linux changes fast. It's been said before, but one of Linux's major problems from a user's POV is the short release cycle - businesses in particular like some stability, and conveniently ignore the fact that MS are putting out a Critical Update every other week. Sad that RH will lose a few impulse buys though.
(volume of bottle X alcoholic content)/cost of bottle in pounds sterling
Result is the number of centilitres [1] of alcohol per pound. The highest result usually comes from own-brand red vermouth as it's cheap but is 14.7% alcohol. Beer isn't even in the top ten! A bottle of ersatz Martini Rosso does make you feel a bit dried-out the next morning though.
[1] weird French measurement only ever found on bottles of booze
MS were found guilty of sharp practice in bundling IE with Windows, but they won the war anyway. How does anyone (except MS and AOL) benefit from this? If the judges had had the guts to make MS strip IE out of Windows we could actually have a level playing field. After all, browsers don't take all that long to download, even on a modem. But then we always knew AOL were evil, didn't we?
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Since when has MP3 been an exact copy of a CD (ask any "audiophile")? Didn't CD sales rise strongly when Napster was at its peak? People do frequently buy the original media - unless they know the CD is copy-protected and won't play in their car, in which case they just grab the MP3 from Kazaa and make the best of a bad job. Poetic justice for the record company, really.
99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky as 99 red balloons go by
But people will remember her hairy armpits for decades after they've forgotten the lyrics!
If you don't want to play their game then don't buy the initial product
No, no, no, no, no! If you don't want to play their game, wait until the special edition comes out then buy the initial product at half price. I'm not buying the cinematic release of TTT until the extended version comes out, and I certainly won't be springing 25 quid for that. The quality of the "extras" on FOTR made me realise that 2 more discs of material probably wouldn't be all that good.
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English --> French --> English --> Korean --> English. Of course, it helps that the first sentence is munged anyway ;-)
Link here!
I can post it when I get home. It's an illuminated white sign, although I think the shop is actually closed now. IIRC it's down a small street/alley at the bus station end of the town, on the north side of the main thoroughfare. Would make a fantastic accessory for a geek's bedroom!
But Interactive Barney was truly unforgivable!
Brief techie details: the Dragon and TRS-80 had a Motorola 6809E processor running at a couple of MHz, which was a hybrid 8/16 bit affair (for some operations such as MUL, the result was a 16-bit number which was placed in the combined A and B accumulators). It had X and Y general purpose registers, and S and U stacks which (at a pinch) you could use as extra registers. The built-in BASIC was so slow that you had to use assembly language to get anything exciting to happen. The interesting historical bit is that the 6809 begat the 68000, so without the 6809 there would be no Apple Mac.
The cassette tape transfer rate was 3000 baud (a full 32KB game never took more than 3 minutes to load) which was twice as fast as the better-known BBC Micro. You could connect an RGB monitor using a DIN-type connector, it took rather odd analogue joysticks, had a standard Centronics printer socket - as found on the printer end of a parallel cable these days - and there was a cartridge/expansion port. There are emulators available for the PC if you still want to play "Cuthbert Goes Walkabout". A 64K version of the Dragon and an external 100K floppy drive were released shortly before Dragon Data were taken over by GEC and (despite assurances to the contrary) liquidated.
Down an alley in Valletta (the capital of Malta) there's still a sign advertising Dragon computers - I took a photo of it last year!
OK, AOL would never let you play streamed Harry Potter movies on it, but you could use the web and run office applications, which would keep most of us happy. Wouldn't it?
I still favour going after the people paying the spammers rather than the spammers themselves...unlike the big spam rings, they at least have to be locatable, otherwise they'd never be able to sell you stuff.
So how do you bolt one down in a standard 3.5" drive bay? I hope some starts selling adaptors, or it looks like a cynical ploy to make us buy new cases (the mobo manufacturers' piece the other day suggested ATX-sized boards are on the way out, so maybe this is going to happen anyway...grrr)
The editors are being a bit glib with their precis. The adverts actually feature people a bit lower in the food chain (make-up artists etc) than those earning millions per film. Presumably the message is that people like that will be cut before the studio dares to review Arnie's salary. Whether this is true or not, I don't know, but as I don't have broadband I'm a disinterested party in all this.
The Sony one is the main unit in the living room and crashes every week or two. I have an old Grundig one upstairs (with a FTA card) which crashes less often, but isn't used much.
I wonder how many devices this counts as, given the RIAA's suspect formula? If his CDRW writes at 24x, boy is he in the s**t ;-)
So maybe MS can't do worse - hopefully they don't put a HDD in the thing though, because at least the Sky box is solid-state and recovers quickly.
Will you continue to save 2 cents per board by using cheap electrolytic capacitors that leak after 12 months' use?
Which is why I buy the cheapest toilet roll. My bottom isn't too worried about fluffy fibres or, ffs, *scented* paper. Or cut out the middleman and take a dump just before the morning shower!
Unlike Microsoft, who have a major OS release every year or two and release patches and SPs galore in the interim, Linux changes fast. It's been said before, but one of Linux's major problems from a user's POV is the short release cycle - businesses in particular like some stability, and conveniently ignore the fact that MS are putting out a Critical Update every other week. Sad that RH will lose a few impulse buys though.
Wouldn't a TIE fighter be an H-Wing (or an I-Wing if it's trying to avoid a laser blast from the Millennium Falcon at the time)?
My parents' staircase was the proving ground for many doomed dragsters and nuclear bombers.
But if the Chinese upload their junk, how will they be able to go fishing?
Just use copyright-expired stuff. Those Victorians were filthy, you know...bare ankles, the lot.
(volume of bottle X alcoholic content)/cost of bottle in pounds sterling
Result is the number of centilitres [1] of alcohol per pound. The highest result usually comes from own-brand red vermouth as it's cheap but is 14.7% alcohol. Beer isn't even in the top ten! A bottle of ersatz Martini Rosso does make you feel a bit dried-out the next morning though.
[1] weird French measurement only ever found on bottles of booze
ftp ftp.microsoft.com
lcd c:\mydocu~1
cd yaddayadda
get iecrap.exe
bye
MS were found guilty of sharp practice in bundling IE with Windows, but they won the war anyway. How does anyone (except MS and AOL) benefit from this? If the judges had had the guts to make MS strip IE out of Windows we could actually have a level playing field. After all, browsers don't take all that long to download, even on a modem. But then we always knew AOL were evil, didn't we?
Since when has MP3 been an exact copy of a CD (ask any "audiophile")? Didn't CD sales rise strongly when Napster was at its peak? People do frequently buy the original media - unless they know the CD is copy-protected and won't play in their car, in which case they just grab the MP3 from Kazaa and make the best of a bad job. Poetic justice for the record company, really.
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky as 99 red balloons go by
But people will remember her hairy armpits for decades after they've forgotten the lyrics!
No, no, no, no, no! If you don't want to play their game, wait until the special edition comes out then buy the initial product at half price. I'm not buying the cinematic release of TTT until the extended version comes out, and I certainly won't be springing 25 quid for that. The quality of the "extras" on FOTR made me realise that 2 more discs of material probably wouldn't be all that good.