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  1. Re:I owned one (several) on The Almost Forgotten Story of the Amiga 2000 · · Score: 1

    This to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Also btw for those who don't know, MorphOS for mac: http://www.morphos-team.net/in...

    What's MorphOS anyway?
    http://www.morphos-team.net/in...
    http://www.morphos-team.net/re...

    Icaros Desktop is an AROS environment with more things, like DOpus 5. The coolest feature in it is that actual AROS has been ported to m68k so now they can run emulate an m68k running their own open-source version of AmigaOS and run m68k AmigaOS software that way without requireing copies of the Kickstart ROM and AmigaOS.

  2. Re:I owned one (several) on The Almost Forgotten Story of the Amiga 2000 · · Score: 1

    It may be true that you may be able to get one for "peanuts", what do I know.

    But earlier today I actually searched here in Sweden on powermac to find out if an older (603 or something such) had any value.

    Turned out PowerMac G4, G5 and dual G5s are rather cheap too.

    Now of course that's no Amiga and of course it likely won't run the toaster and so on but MorphOS may run on some of them and of course at least before they wasn't completely useless for video those either. At least the dual G5 likely work somewhat even today.

    Also for anyone who need an Amiga kick check out Icaros desktop: http://vmwaros.blogspot.se/

    It will run on your PC so same issue as with the PowerMacs there.. But then again your PC can do things the old Amigas couldn't too.

    All three ways is one way of getting the Amiga experience today. Depending on what Amiga experience you want to have :)

    Also PCs aren't all that bad / useless by themselves:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Over and out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... :)

  3. Idiots on White House Approves Sonic Cannons For Atlantic Energy Exploration · · Score: 0

    Build nuclear plants, solar- or wind power instead.

  4. .. also on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 1

    With the risk of this being "Scotlands" space port ..

    Lots of mentioning of scotland in the text.

    I'm not well aware of the positiong issue you mention, though I do understand that part =P
    Was is the advantage of the opposite such as the Esrange (Kiruna) base here in Sweden?
    http://www.sscspace.com/esrang...
    The amount of space available?
    They mention " investigation of the aurora borealis" here so maybe that's it? http://digilander.libero.it/lo...

  5. Re:Not to detract from our roots... on How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators · · Score: 2

    Yeah, why bother with Chess?

    How does it matter really?

    I remember reading on BGG how someone brought Hive (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive) to some group of (children? I'm quite sure) chess players (possibly related to his or her own kids?) they tried it out and of course they wanted to play Hive rather than Chess (it was new for them) and he/her was told to not bring it any more.

    Even though it's not very different. Move (and in Hive case place) your different pieces around until you win.

  6. How DNA by itself work doesn't learn anything new or adapt either (well, maybe it do and over long terms and whatever, I'm talking about how the base pairs are connected not the what is written using it.)

  7. Re:News for nerds? on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 2

    And this is news for nerds how?

    because trains!

  8. Re:Not really surprised... on New Russian Law To Forbid Storing Russians' Data Outside the Country · · Score: 1

    Actually I don't know about Russia either.

    In Soviet America? .. :D

  9. Re:Not really surprised... on New Russian Law To Forbid Storing Russians' Data Outside the Country · · Score: 1

    In soviet russia your e-mail communication reads you! .. and in the US, Sweden (I don't dare typing UK, Denmark, possibly Australia and so on because I don't really know, guess it happen in China too.)

  10. Re:Extreme? on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1

    They label us as religious extremisms for our belief in the power of the source and trying to force our beliefs onto others (that may be why they mention Linux but not BSD.)

  11. Re:FreeBSD on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 0

    They know BSD is dying and that the problem will take care of itself.

  12. Re:FreeBSD on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 2

    But the NSA is the only (?) terrorist group with armed aircraft drones.

  13. Re:All smart watches suck on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    Heck screw that, I wish I said neon pink.

    It was originally a "brown" reference regarding Apples view of the .. Zune, took a while to call back the name.

    But a brown watch didn't seemed nasty enough. Now neon colors - They are still nasty!

  14. Re:All smart watches suck on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    .. available in the best of colors: mustard.

  15. Re:One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 2

    How someone made a chart comparing the amount of plastic in the ocean and the number of IE6 installs? Maybe there's some correlation there?

  16. Re:One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1, Funny

    no no no, couldnt be, we have to go with the scary version, we cant go using reasonable options, how will anyone get funding for research???

    Possible answers:

    1) Aliens and their visits to planet earth is real and they are helping us clean up the oceans.

    2) The air-planes are spraying some chemical compound or organism which break down plastic / hydrocarbons.

    (3) All the plastic can be found in the Bermuda triangle.

    So on so on.)

  17. Re: One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    UV light doesn't crack the molecules?

    If only we could get Jon Lech Johansen working on this!

  18. Re:Unsurprising results? on NASA Launching Satellite To Track Carbon · · Score: 1

    Because we have more CO2 in the atmosphere when we used to have for a long time and the amounts increase fast.

    Like so:
    http://climate.nasa.gov/400ppm...

  19. Re:Bizarre on Julian Assange Plans Modeling Debut At London Fashion Show · · Score: 2

    Can't we just film it and call it Big Brother 2.0?

  20. Re:and yet on Julian Assange Plans Modeling Debut At London Fashion Show · · Score: 1

    Personally I would had wanted to find out if my country really deserved to lit on fire or whatever he's just a chicken.

  21. Re:sensors on How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level · · Score: 1

    For the short time I was a regular at Head-Fi the Koss KSC-75 was popular among the cheapest headphones. It's not in-ear though but not actual cans either, whatever they sit around well enough for your activities I don't know but they may be worth taking a look at.

  22. Re:Here's The Real Question... on How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level · · Score: 1

    Would you like some "Hot Grits" scraped off of Natalie Portman's ass

    Yes!

  23. Re:Here's The Real Question... on How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level · · Score: 1, Funny

    Regardless this shouldn't make it to Slashdot.

    This is news for nerds - Not news for hipsters!

  24. Re:Thanks for pointing out the "briefly" part. on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    And those high taxes are there to subsidize the solar.

    [citation needed]

    You argue weird. They know it's not solution for 100% of their power demand so they don't do it.

    That's not an argument against what they are doing though.. since.. like you know.. they aren't going for it 100%.

  25. Re:Thanks for pointing out the "briefly" part. on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    This includes wind, the slashdot article is only talking solar.

    Hence all renewable energy combined

    That is was briefly have already been covered.

    It has been pointed out the price of getting the solar panels had dropped (was it 40% in how many years?) and part of that may be to higher demand so at least there's that.

    Also I've read that the nuclear power energy from a new nuclear plant in UK ended up being very costly and Finlands new nuclear power plant ended up costing much more than what was planned too. So there's that.

    Plus I saw some article about how much Uranium we had .. uhm.. possibly in reserves (at current sites? In general?) and how much was mined vs how much would be needed if one where to build up nuclear power plants to cover fossile.

    Personally I think one should build thorium-salt reactors if possible and not regular old uranium plants and obviously only build them if they are cheaper (and possibly accept them anyway if they can provide power when wind and solar doesn't.)

    Here in Sweden almost 50% is hydro power so I guess we can buffer fairly well with that.