Soccer involves kicking a round spherical ball. I'm afraid that children will confuse these balls for people's heads and then go around kicking people's heads in.
Yeah, the "beige brick" power supply is what put a lot of C64s out of commision. No power, no working computer! The trapezoidal black "heavy duty" power supplies with the Commodore 64 label on top are the ones to get if you are a collector. They can at least be repaired and don't die easily. Failing that, there have been a few aftermarket repairable supplies, but collectors mostly have them. They don't show up on ebay often at all.
There is also a company that is producing a drop-in C64 motherboard clone which uses DC power, and is more power efficient in general, and can flip between NTSC and PAL modes. You have to supply your own 6510 CPU and SID chip however.
I have a number of C64s of different vintages, including an SX64. It's a repaired brown "breadbox" that gets the pride of place under the TV because that original model is iconic. It also takes up less shelf space than the 64C models. I still have a "lumbering hippo" 1541 that's been modded for parallel speed disk dumping, and a few spare datasettes for dumping the occasional rare tape game I come across....and yeah, Telengard was a lot of fun! Ok, so it doesn't compare to Skyrim, but man, back in the day....:)
Another 64 game with speech : Space Taxi! Hey Taxi! Pad 1 please!
I have a C64 hooked up to my flat screen TV. In the back is a 1541U2 cartridge with the entire Gamebase64 v13 with over 24,000 games on the microSD card.
It may be old and vintage, but it has way more games than your Xbox or Playstation, kiddies;)
I might just load up and play Castle Wolfenstein on it later today....
Marriage was ancient man's idea of being able to buy and own women like property - so then women in response, decided to increase the prices for access to her womb.. In other words, it's reprehensible all around.
Still, marriages can work as long as the man keeps the funds coming in, does whatever the wife tells him to, and sacrifices his sex life. That's what it takes to "make it work" men!
The problem is that many men entering marriage usually are blissfully unaware of what it involves, and what the wife hopes to get out of it, and then are disappointed when what they find doesn't match expectations.
The real problem is (of course), that if you have to "buy" a woman, then it's prostitution anyway, and she doesn't really love you. So why bother with marriage at all? Face it, if she really loved you, she'd stick with you without needing your money, or needing to be married. However, we all know how that works out:(
We both know what all you typed means.... but to the layperson who has no previous experience in computer programming, that explanation is way too much too soon.
it's great that there is choice, but a lot of newbies need handholding, focus, and detailed explanations. Throw newbies in the deep end too soon and all you'll get is a situation analogous to a crying 4 year old who can't figure out why a university professor is angry at him for not understanding calculus.
I remember the Commodore "Introduction to BASIC" series. Sometimes a more focused and hand-holding approach is all that's needed to spark the person's interest and build their confidence so that they seek out more detailed information and harder challenges.;)
Many computers back in the 80s contained a dev kit. Typically some version of Microsoft BASIC. Of course, we didn't call them game consoles. They were "microcomputers", but by and large they were widely used as games machines. Commodore 64, I am looking at you.:)
Maybe we're coming full circle? If Microsoft provides an easy to use dev kit for casual users to create games, then we'll all be awash in thousands of games on that platform before we know it.
How many of those will be pong clones, snake clones, tron clones, reversi clones, boulderdash clones, and versions of mastermind ?:)
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It's *never* been about the OS, but the *applications* and the support surrounding them. OS wars are a complete waste of time when you consider that most people need to get work done - not monkey around with technology. You use the best tool for the job, and if the tool you want is supported on OS X, you run OS X and not OS Y, or OS W. Simple as that.
Find me something that competes with the features and enterprise support of Exchange, Office, Lync, Sharepoint, Outlook... that runs on Linux.
Go on.... I'll wait.
If you can't, then don't complain about Linux/BSDs on the desktop in the enterprise. Without that crucial software, large multinational companies can't even function these days. They're going to run Windows for these applications. End of Story.
Same thing with Windows gamers, by and large. Same thing with many financial trading platforms (all windows AFAIK) Same with other niche software that doesn't interest geeks, but interests many other varied fields of endeavor.
If one day some killer app that every enterprise must have is only ever released on Linux, then maybe we can revisit this conversation. So far, that's mostly been Oracle stuff on Linux in enterprises, and some of that has been so poor that most people have ditched Linux for Windows - not because the Windows kernel is better or because it uses a "better" filesystem *ahem*... but because that's where the supported apps were.
Most commerical software is written for the largest platforms, to make the most money. The don't write them for Minix and eschew Windows because they like microkernels.
[quote]What is so much better about CEOs making 500 times as much as their office workers, than having some kind of rational basis for compensating workers, when it is the workers who are doing all the work? [/quote]
You're forgetting that the CEO has to put his neck on the line in a big way to get any business off the ground - with the possibility of complete bankruptcy. He gets paid 500 times more as a reward for succeeding in a difficult enterprise. Without such huge rewards, nobody would bother trying to start a business.
They could be anybody. They could be KGB or CIA operatives masquerading as a teenage hacker group as part of their psy-ops. They could be Estonian basement dwelling nerds, Chinese spies, or it could be Julian Assange getting bored.
The reason why a lot of these businesses haven't upgraded is because it usually takes years to make this happen. If you're a business who IT department or enterprise support vendor is running in full ITIL mode with a few ISO business standards thrown in for good measure, it really does take that long.
The amount of paperwork and busywork that needs to go into something as relatively simple as an OS upgrade is something to be marvelled at when you actually have to work in that environment. There are whole massive bureaucracies and months of meetings, followed by change review boards, and more change review boards and testing and more testing and backout plans, and risk registers, and more meetings, and then you have to wait for the next meeting to come along before going onto the next stage.... and and and......
So to all these people saying "just run open source" have never run a multimillion dollar business and relied on Windows to bring home the bacon. Much less have they ever considered being a large collossal IT support vendor that has to maintain SLAs and can get hit for penalities of millions of dollars if those SLAs are breached. These are not nimble organisations. They are not cowboys. They cover all possible failure scenarios and document everything from multiple support networks before they lay a single mouse click on the box.
As the versions of iOS increase, many of the apps that I purchased don't even work anymore and are still on the app store. Perhaps the developer just forgot about them, or couldn't be bothered spending the time or money to update them to more current iOS versions. It seems that there are a lot of abandoned apps out there.
I can't understand why schools are in such a massive rush to buy iPads before they've even figured out how to use them, and where they fit into the curriculum. They all chase after the "new-shiny" and plop down a bucket of money before considering or testing the impact, much less training teachers....and the fact they were hacked... but yeah. We all had fun doing that on the Apple IIs educational software and with game disks we brought to school back in the 80s. Probably more valuable education looking back. It was fun to strip the "mathbooster" mathematics space-invader game of the actual maths and then play it as Taito originally intended;)
Sounds an awful lot like Jack Tramiel's questionable business practices while at Commodore:
1. Make a large order to a supplier for parts 2. Supplier runs up costs and works to complete the order 3. Fail to pay the supplier in a timely manner 4. Let the supplier go bankrupt 5. Buy the supplier at liquidated prices 6. Profit!
If someone were so morally bankrupt enough to create a drone army to infiltrate certain gaps and structural weaknesses in the plant and detonate significant payload to disrupt cooling/power/containment, surrounding area is going to be uninhabitable for a looong time.
Time for plants to consider netting, maybe? If it would help at all? Perhaps reinforce areas so that drones can't easily fly into them?
... I mean that Asian girls prefer men who lack self-confidence. Maybe because they're easier targets to walk all over? this isn't scientific, so I'll stop here.
...which is funny because in East Asian countries (specifically China, Japan), being and sounding overly confident comes off arrogant and boastful.... EVEN IF you ARE confident about certain things. You'll just sound pompous, to the point where you have to fake inadequacy to get people to take you seriously.
This would explain why nerdy and geeky men typically hook up with Asian women. *ducks*
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Soccer involves kicking a round spherical ball.
I'm afraid that children will confuse these balls for people's heads and then go around kicking people's heads in.
Same here.
By the way, did you hear about the dyslexic atheist?
He said that he didn't believe in dog.
If you're playing the original Wolfenstein, you're a bit late to write a review.
TLDR, it's a classic. The end.
Yeah, the "beige brick" power supply is what put a lot of C64s out of commision. No power, no working computer!
The trapezoidal black "heavy duty" power supplies with the Commodore 64 label on top are the ones to get if you are a collector. They can at least be repaired and don't die easily.
Failing that, there have been a few aftermarket repairable supplies, but collectors mostly have them. They don't show up on ebay often at all.
There is also a company that is producing a drop-in C64 motherboard clone which uses DC power, and is more power efficient in general, and can flip between NTSC and PAL modes. You have to supply your own 6510 CPU and SID chip however.
I have a number of C64s of different vintages, including an SX64. It's a repaired brown "breadbox" that gets the pride of place under the TV because that original model is iconic. It also takes up less shelf space than the 64C models. ...and yeah, Telengard was a lot of fun! Ok, so it doesn't compare to Skyrim, but man, back in the day.... :)
I still have a "lumbering hippo" 1541 that's been modded for parallel speed disk dumping, and a few spare datasettes for dumping the occasional rare tape game I come across.
Another 64 game with speech : Space Taxi!
Hey Taxi! Pad 1 please!
I have a C64 hooked up to my flat screen TV. In the back is a 1541U2 cartridge with the entire Gamebase64 v13 with over 24,000 games on the microSD card.
It may be old and vintage, but it has way more games than your Xbox or Playstation, kiddies ;)
I might just load up and play Castle Wolfenstein on it later today....
Screw Atari 2600 games. That's small fry gaming.
Let this thing run full tilt boogie on a MetaTrader platform, and see what you get.
Marriage was ancient man's idea of being able to buy and own women like property - so then women in response, decided to increase the prices for access to her womb..
In other words, it's reprehensible all around.
Still, marriages can work as long as the man keeps the funds coming in, does whatever the wife tells him to, and sacrifices his sex life.
That's what it takes to "make it work" men!
The problem is that many men entering marriage usually are blissfully unaware of what it involves, and what the wife hopes to get out of it, and then are disappointed when what they find doesn't match expectations.
The real problem is (of course), that if you have to "buy" a woman, then it's prostitution anyway, and she doesn't really love you. :(
So why bother with marriage at all?
Face it, if she really loved you, she'd stick with you without needing your money, or needing to be married. However, we all know how that works out
We both know what all you typed means.... but to the layperson who has no previous experience in computer programming, that explanation is way too much too soon.
it's great that there is choice, but a lot of newbies need handholding, focus, and detailed explanations.
Throw newbies in the deep end too soon and all you'll get is a situation analogous to a crying 4 year old who can't figure out why a university professor is angry at him for not understanding calculus.
I remember the Commodore "Introduction to BASIC" series. Sometimes a more focused and hand-holding approach is all that's needed to spark the person's interest and build their confidence so that they seek out more detailed information and harder challenges. ;)
Many computers back in the 80s contained a dev kit. Typically some version of Microsoft BASIC. :)
Of course, we didn't call them game consoles. They were "microcomputers", but by and large they were widely used as games machines.
Commodore 64, I am looking at you.
Maybe we're coming full circle? If Microsoft provides an easy to use dev kit for casual users to create games, then we'll all be awash in thousands of games on that platform before we know it.
How many of those will be pong clones, snake clones, tron clones, reversi clones, boulderdash clones, and versions of mastermind ? :)
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It's *never* been about the OS, but the *applications* and the support surrounding them.
OS wars are a complete waste of time when you consider that most people need to get work done - not monkey around with technology. You use the best tool for the job, and if the tool you want is supported on OS X, you run OS X and not OS Y, or OS W. Simple as that.
Find me something that competes with the features and enterprise support of Exchange, Office, Lync, Sharepoint, Outlook ... that runs on Linux.
Go on.... I'll wait.
If you can't, then don't complain about Linux/BSDs on the desktop in the enterprise. Without that crucial software, large multinational companies can't even function these days. They're going to run Windows for these applications. End of Story.
Same thing with Windows gamers, by and large.
Same thing with many financial trading platforms (all windows AFAIK)
Same with other niche software that doesn't interest geeks, but interests many other varied fields of endeavor.
If one day some killer app that every enterprise must have is only ever released on Linux, then maybe we can revisit this conversation.
So far, that's mostly been Oracle stuff on Linux in enterprises, and some of that has been so poor that most people have ditched Linux for Windows - not because the Windows kernel is better or because it uses a "better" filesystem *ahem*... but because that's where the supported apps were.
Most commerical software is written for the largest platforms, to make the most money. The don't write them for Minix and eschew Windows because they like microkernels.
[quote]What is so much better about CEOs making 500 times as much as their office workers, than having some kind of rational basis for compensating workers, when it is the workers who are doing all the work? [/quote]
You're forgetting that the CEO has to put his neck on the line in a big way to get any business off the ground - with the possibility of complete bankruptcy.
He gets paid 500 times more as a reward for succeeding in a difficult enterprise. Without such huge rewards, nobody would bother trying to start a business.
If it were so easy, we'd all be CEOs.
And millions of kiddies keeled over in excitement!
Well you can always join their insider program, and then bitchmoan to them personally. ...but if you can't be bothered, I'll understand :)
They could be anybody. They could be KGB or CIA operatives masquerading as a teenage hacker group as part of their psy-ops.
They could be Estonian basement dwelling nerds, Chinese spies, or it could be Julian Assange getting bored.
We just don't know.
The reason why a lot of these businesses haven't upgraded is because it usually takes years to make this happen.
If you're a business who IT department or enterprise support vendor is running in full ITIL mode with a few ISO business standards thrown in for good measure, it really does take that long.
The amount of paperwork and busywork that needs to go into something as relatively simple as an OS upgrade is something to be marvelled at when you actually have to work in that environment. There are whole massive bureaucracies and months of meetings, followed by change review boards, and more change review boards and testing and more testing and backout plans, and risk registers, and more meetings, and then you have to wait for the next meeting to come along before going onto the next stage.... and and and......
So to all these people saying "just run open source" have never run a multimillion dollar business and relied on Windows to bring home the bacon. Much less have they ever considered being a large collossal IT support vendor that has to maintain SLAs and can get hit for penalities of millions of dollars if those SLAs are breached. These are not nimble organisations. They are not cowboys. They cover all possible failure scenarios and document everything from multiple support networks before they lay a single mouse click on the box.
As the versions of iOS increase, many of the apps that I purchased don't even work anymore and are still on the app store.
Perhaps the developer just forgot about them, or couldn't be bothered spending the time or money to update them to more current iOS versions.
It seems that there are a lot of abandoned apps out there.
I can't understand why schools are in such a massive rush to buy iPads before they've even figured out how to use them, and where they fit into the curriculum. ...and the fact they were hacked... but yeah. We all had fun doing that on the Apple IIs educational software and with game disks we brought to school back in the 80s. Probably more valuable education looking back. It was fun to strip the "mathbooster" mathematics space-invader game of the actual maths and then play it as Taito originally intended ;)
They all chase after the "new-shiny" and plop down a bucket of money before considering or testing the impact, much less training teachers.
If he doesn't speak like SAM anymore, the Software Automatic Mouth, it will have all been for nothing!
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Sounds an awful lot like Jack Tramiel's questionable business practices while at Commodore:
1. Make a large order to a supplier for parts
2. Supplier runs up costs and works to complete the order
3. Fail to pay the supplier in a timely manner
4. Let the supplier go bankrupt
5. Buy the supplier at liquidated prices
6. Profit!
By the same logic, I may well be arrested for sodomy because one of my distant relations is gay.
If someone were so morally bankrupt enough to create a drone army to infiltrate certain gaps and structural weaknesses in the plant and detonate significant payload to disrupt cooling/power/containment, surrounding area is going to be uninhabitable for a looong time.
Time for plants to consider netting, maybe? If it would help at all? Perhaps reinforce areas so that drones can't easily fly into them?
... I mean that Asian girls prefer men who lack self-confidence. Maybe because they're easier targets to walk all over?
this isn't scientific, so I'll stop here.
At the news conference they were telling people to stay away from the exploded parts of the rocket.
makes me wonder how much radioactive stuff was in the equipment they were trying to send up there.
...which is funny because in East Asian countries (specifically China, Japan), being and sounding overly confident comes off arrogant and boastful.... EVEN IF you ARE confident about certain things. You'll just sound pompous, to the point where you have to fake inadequacy to get people to take you seriously.
This would explain why nerdy and geeky men typically hook up with Asian women.
*ducks*