Now ask those kids to add only the pdf and doc files from a certain directory to a zip archive and e-mail them to you after putting a copy on the local fileserver. Wake me up when it takes them less than half an hour.
I am OS agnostic, I work with anything from embedded systems through ATARI BASIC through modern Linux, Windows and OSX desktops. Only difference is I actually had to learn something and can use the tools in front of me with stunning efficiency. None of the poke-and-drool tools you speak of are nearly as flexible or efficient as even the most basic of desktop operating systems.
Bullshit. The Atari ST was cheap and incredibly usable and capable, had a great software base and was nowhere near as expensive as a 286 or a Mac. Built in MIDI as well. Many GUI based software suites got their start on the ST. You could also get a PC Ditto and Spectre GCR cartridge and emulate all 3 platforms for less than the cost of a decent 4MB Mac SE.
Macs were not difficult to work with in the slightest and far less of a pain in the ass to deal with than a DOS/Win3.1 machine. They were just expensive.
The Amiga was cool but not as easy to deal with out of the box as an ST or Mac.
There's nothing really preventing you from grabbing a crowbar from your garage, getting and your car and driving off to brain everyone who's annoyed you in the last month. The fact that you'd be caught and punished deters people, otherwise everyone would be doing it, not just people who are defective in the head.
If punishment or the threat of going to hell is all that is deterring you from murdering people you're a fucking psychopath.
Yep, we're the wusses for not kowtowing to your bullshit and not capitulating due to a screechy vocal minority. Last I checked, the name still stands asshole.
Seriously, who actually gives a shit? Show me the army of upset disabled people or people with questionable fetishes upset over the name. The only people I see whining are are leftist virtue signalling SJW bitches. And I don't care if they use the same image editor I do.
I don't write code for the project but it's disgusting that people think they get to impose their moral righteousness bullshit on others. You people are no better than Christian Nationalists republicans. Liberty is more important than you being butthurt over a name. I'll judge a project based on how well it works, not whether my boss thinks it has a silly name.
The only thing that pisses me off more are these stupid project CoC's where entire development communities have caved to pressure from a noisy SJW minority. Even FreeBSD, which being a small community I'm rather surprised didn't have the balls to not cave.
What did you do there AC? Empty trashcans or get coffee for people with a clue?
Basic R&D is what got us the cool toys we have today. Companies doing research for the sake of research that may not be immediately profitable. This is what brought us wonderful things like the UNIX operating system and the microprocessor.
What makes you think you have some inherent right to be free from propaganda or being offended? Fuck off cuck. You're free to flood the airwaves with your false misguided bullshit leftist "think of the children" bullshit. So the right is free to post whatever they want too.
Snowden is a fucking traitor and nothing more than a russian spy/tool. Period.
He's a whistle blower. The government is commiting criminal acts against American citizens. The NSA's job is NOT to spy on American citizens on US soil unless they are communicating with foreigners.
The primary function of government is to protect its citizens, so no shit the government is going to surveil its citizens.
Bullshit. The primary function of government is to secure the rights of its citizens. Not to protect us from ourselves. Not to surveil us.
Do you honestly think they give a crap if some 42 y/o fat ass white man likes to watch midget porn? Nope...
The old you've got nothing to hide if you have nothing to fear trope. Whether they give a crap as a whole or not, the government is made up of people happy to abuse their power for their own personal profit or amusement. People have used these powers to stalk girlfriends and any other stupid shit you can imagine.
They do want to know if that same 42 y/o white male is spewing anti semitic hate on social media forums and looking up how to kill as many people with an AR-15 style rifle.
Hate is not illegal. Looking up info is not illegal. This is not minority report. There is no "pre-crime". You are not guilty of a crime until you actually commit a violent act. In fact, building an unregistered AR on your kitchen table with parts ordered off of the net is perfectly legal in most states.
It's hilarious how butthurt people are over a souped-up.22 rifle. The AR15 is not that impressive. 5.56x45 is not some super round with ultimate killing power. AR15s just look cool. An AR10 or old M1A will shred people far more effectively. And the M1A looks like grandpas hunting rifle.
Guns are fucking legal. So are big magazines. Get over it. There's no magic knowledge on "killing as many people as possible.
Insert mag. Pull charging handle. Point. Start squeezing repeatedly. Guns are not fucking rocket science. Most of us gun owners have a few scary looking black rifles. Yet we all are not running around shooting up places. The AR15 is the most popular rifle in the united states. It's a standardized platform produced by every manufacturer that can be customized for any purpose. It's the "PC clone" of rifles. They aren't any better or worse than any other gun. Just scary looking and standardized.
Get off your high horses and if you don't like what the government is doing you can find another country to live in. Perhaps Russia?
Just because it can be worse doesn't mean we shouldn't fix this shit as soon as possible before regaining liberty without mass bloodshed and horror is out of our grasp permanently. We are on a rapid slide into inescapable tyranny and complacent pussies like you are the main problem.
Maybe because didn't have time to replace the dumpster fire known as GNOME3 or KDE with a real desktop environment that is usable with less than 32GB of RAM on his recent Linux or BSD install?
I am only half joking. My recent forays back to using *NIX on the desktop left me wanting to take a drill to my frontal lobe. GNOME and modern KDE are almost utterly unusable. MATE w/Compton wasn't so bad, XFCE was ok but the two flagships that are installed by default in most distressed are utterly disgusting resource hogs that seem less functional than Windows 3.1 out of the box but use 1000x the resources. If those clusterfucks are where desktop Linux/BSD are heading then what's the point? They aren't even efficient to use.
X-Windows used to be awesome, what the hell happened?! I'm actually thinking of just finding a decent standalone file manager and going back to WindowMaker at this point. The GNOME project has even managed to make their text editor UI suck.... that's pretty hard to do. Stop letting 20-yr-old kids who want their PC to operate like their phone rewrite perfectly good software.
That IRC and various other IM clients used to run on machines with 16MB of total RAM or less, some supporting multiple interactive users. If your just throwing text w/ hyperlinks and images around, why would you think 38MB of RAM is reasonable? Hell, I used to engage in multiparty online chats with machines with 64K of RAM.
What's wrong with wanting software that does one thing and does it well? Web browsers are for viewing hypertext documents with images. Web browsers were never meant to be the catch-all computing platform of the future and all the kludges to make them so have resulted in a patchwork bloated mess.
The fact that they killed their computer line to focus on the Jaguar was awful. The Falcon060 was a neat machine. Their 68030 machines weren't too bad either but they failed to market them in the US and delay after delay made the ST users feel like they were being sold vaporware.
And the Jaguar had some horrid defects from the get-go that made taking full advantage of the hardware nearly impossible. It was a neat game system but gambling the company on it was dumb. The 8-bit line and ST's were good machines with a rabidly loyal community built around them and Tramiel's Atari pissed it away.
The XEGS has a really mushy keyboard and is more like a repackaged 65XE. It'll run most software written for the 800 and what didn't run has probably been patched by now. The 800 only had 48K vs 64K and some minor OS differences. It was also built like a Sherman tank. Personally, I prefer a modded 800XL. With a cheap $10 FTDI FT232RL breakout board plus an SIO cable you can build an SIO2PC adapter with no additional parts and have the entire library at your fingertips. You can emulate up to 15 Atari floppy drives, printers, etc using a PC or Mac. The SIO2SD device is cheap too.
I'd skip the 5200 unless you really enjoy rebuilding analog joysticks. All the good exclusive 5200 titles were ported to the 400/800 anyway. And most of the games are ports from the computers. The only game I thought benefited from the analog stick was Star Raiders.
NES games are probably the first where the gameplay was involved enough to hold one's interest without the graphics being so bad that your brain starts rebelling after a while.
The Atari 5200 wasn't bad but the game library was much smaller and the stock joysticks were crap. Other than that it was basically an Atari 400 computer with analog sticks. The 2600 was a turd and I'm not sure why that's all people remember of Atari. They had much better game systems and computers that were alive into the 90's. The 7800 sucked too as it was kinda a 2600 on steroids. I was more a fan of their computer lines.
The 2600 was a joke. The fact that is all most people remember of Atari is really really sad. The 5200 was great with third party joysticks. The Atari 400/800/XL/XE were f**king awesome. The ST was a pretty cool machine and was decent competition for the early Mac and Amiga. Aside from the 5200 (basically a 400 w/ terrible analog sticks) and later Lynx handheld I have little interest in their game systems. Their computers were INCREDIBLY underrated.
I would rather see another attempt at a home computer than a lame nostalgia game console. Something in a smaller 800XL style case, decent keyboard, 4 or 8-core 64-bit ARM with a cheap, well-documented GPU..... maybe a real SSD instead of slow-ass SD, HDMI and a bunch of USB ports. Maybe a PCIe "cartridge" slot for expansion and break out some buffered GPIO pins. And maybe take a stab at a nice lightweight *NIX desktop OS and include development tools with LOTS of docs aimed at beginning programmers and hardware hackers. Maybe throw in some emulators for running old TOS/GEM or 8-bit stuff. I would buy that.
I want a nice hackable, open and fun machine again with usable performance, no Intel ME-style BS, no DRM and fewer levels of abstraction and blobs between me and the hardware.
A small vulnerability in a $50 consumer grade router that only results in a small number of users getting hit, most of which will never know they were pwned anyway, will not usually result in a massive effort to patch the flaws. Only after it is exploited on a wide scale and public attention and/or lawsuits brought will the beancounters think it's economically worth doing.
The CIA, NSA and FBI could also inform manufacturers of these flaws, rather than request they remain, instead of weakening the security of this nation's network infrastructure by actively exploiting them for fun and profit.
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Nah, Atari's gonna make the big comeback. By 2035 we'll all be using mutant 128-core Atari ATW transputer workstations.
Now ask those kids to add only the pdf and doc files from a certain directory to a zip archive and e-mail them to you after putting a copy on the local fileserver. Wake me up when it takes them less than half an hour.
I am OS agnostic, I work with anything from embedded systems through ATARI BASIC through modern Linux, Windows and OSX desktops. Only difference is I actually had to learn something and can use the tools in front of me with stunning efficiency. None of the poke-and-drool tools you speak of are nearly as flexible or efficient as even the most basic of desktop operating systems.
Unlike "progressives", at least the Bible teaches REAL tolerance.
That's funny, why don't people that claim to be followers of the book or the jew on a stick actually engage in tolerance to any real degree?
Bullshit. The Atari ST was cheap and incredibly usable and capable, had a great software base and was nowhere near as expensive as a 286 or a Mac. Built in MIDI as well. Many GUI based software suites got their start on the ST. You could also get a PC Ditto and Spectre GCR cartridge and emulate all 3 platforms for less than the cost of a decent 4MB Mac SE.
Macs were not difficult to work with in the slightest and far less of a pain in the ass to deal with than a DOS/Win3.1 machine. They were just expensive.
The Amiga was cool but not as easy to deal with out of the box as an ST or Mac.
There's nothing really preventing you from grabbing a crowbar from your garage, getting and your car and driving off to brain everyone who's annoyed you in the last month. The fact that you'd be caught and punished deters people, otherwise everyone would be doing it, not just people who are defective in the head.
If punishment or the threat of going to hell is all that is deterring you from murdering people you're a fucking psychopath.
Yep, we're the wusses for not kowtowing to your bullshit and not capitulating due to a screechy vocal minority. Last I checked, the name still stands asshole.
Seriously, who actually gives a shit? Show me the army of upset disabled people or people with questionable fetishes upset over the name. The only people I see whining are are leftist virtue signalling SJW bitches. And I don't care if they use the same image editor I do.
I don't write code for the project but it's disgusting that people think they get to impose their moral righteousness bullshit on others. You people are no better than Christian Nationalists republicans. Liberty is more important than you being butthurt over a name. I'll judge a project based on how well it works, not whether my boss thinks it has a silly name.
The only thing that pisses me off more are these stupid project CoC's where entire development communities have caved to pressure from a noisy SJW minority. Even FreeBSD, which being a small community I'm rather surprised didn't have the balls to not cave.
How about taking your virtue signalling SJW bullshit somewhere else?
What did you do there AC? Empty trashcans or get coffee for people with a clue?
Basic R&D is what got us the cool toys we have today. Companies doing research for the sake of research that may not be immediately profitable. This is what brought us wonderful things like the UNIX operating system and the microprocessor.
Was actually intended as obnoxious trolling but I forgot to hit the checkbox.
Atari DOS 2.0s -> Atari DOS 2.5 -> MyDOS 4.5 -> SpartaDOS 4.1 -> TOS/GEM 1.0 -> TOS/GEM 1.04 -> System 6.08 -> System 7 -> System 7.5 -> MINIX 1.7 -> Linux 1.12 -> NetBSD 1.2 -> FreeBSD 2.8 -> MacOS X
I have never experienced these problems at all.
What makes you think you have some inherent right to be free from propaganda or being offended? Fuck off cuck. You're free to flood the airwaves with your false misguided bullshit leftist "think of the children" bullshit. So the right is free to post whatever they want too.
Or put more simply:
It's their job to secure the rights of the people.
Snowden is a fucking traitor and nothing more than a russian spy/tool. Period.
He's a whistle blower. The government is commiting criminal acts against American citizens. The NSA's job is NOT to spy on American citizens on US soil unless they are communicating with foreigners.
The primary function of government is to protect its citizens, so no shit the government is going to surveil its citizens.
Bullshit. The primary function of government is to secure the rights of its citizens. Not to protect us from ourselves. Not to surveil us.
Do you honestly think they give a crap if some 42 y/o fat ass white man likes to watch midget porn? Nope...
The old you've got nothing to hide if you have nothing to fear trope. Whether they give a crap as a whole or not, the government is made up of people happy to abuse their power for their own personal profit or amusement. People have used these powers to stalk girlfriends and any other stupid shit you can imagine.
They do want to know if that same 42 y/o white male is spewing anti semitic hate on social media forums and looking up how to kill as many people with an AR-15 style rifle.
Hate is not illegal. Looking up info is not illegal. This is not minority report. There is no "pre-crime". You are not guilty of a crime until you actually commit a violent act. In fact, building an unregistered AR on your kitchen table with parts ordered off of the net is perfectly legal in most states.
It's hilarious how butthurt people are over a souped-up .22 rifle. The AR15 is not that impressive. 5.56x45 is not some super round with ultimate killing power. AR15s just look cool. An AR10 or old M1A will shred people far more effectively. And the M1A looks like grandpas hunting rifle.
Guns are fucking legal. So are big magazines. Get over it. There's no magic knowledge on "killing as many people as possible.
Insert mag. Pull charging handle. Point. Start squeezing repeatedly. Guns are not fucking rocket science. Most of us gun owners have a few scary looking black rifles. Yet we all are not running around shooting up places. The AR15 is the most popular rifle in the united states. It's a standardized platform produced by every manufacturer that can be customized for any purpose. It's the "PC clone" of rifles. They aren't any better or worse than any other gun. Just scary looking and standardized.
Get off your high horses and if you don't like what the government is doing you can find another country to live in. Perhaps Russia?
Just because it can be worse doesn't mean we shouldn't fix this shit as soon as possible before regaining liberty without mass bloodshed and horror is out of our grasp permanently. We are on a rapid slide into inescapable tyranny and complacent pussies like you are the main problem.
Autocorrect sucks..... distress=distros
Maybe because didn't have time to replace the dumpster fire known as GNOME3 or KDE with a real desktop environment that is usable with less than 32GB of RAM on his recent Linux or BSD install?
I am only half joking. My recent forays back to using *NIX on the desktop left me wanting to take a drill to my frontal lobe. GNOME and modern KDE are almost utterly unusable. MATE w/Compton wasn't so bad, XFCE was ok but the two flagships that are installed by default in most distressed are utterly disgusting resource hogs that seem less functional than Windows 3.1 out of the box but use 1000x the resources. If those clusterfucks are where desktop Linux/BSD are heading then what's the point? They aren't even efficient to use.
X-Windows used to be awesome, what the hell happened?! I'm actually thinking of just finding a decent standalone file manager and going back to WindowMaker at this point. The GNOME project has even managed to make their text editor UI suck.... that's pretty hard to do. Stop letting 20-yr-old kids who want their PC to operate like their phone rewrite perfectly good software.
Rant over.
That IRC and various other IM clients used to run on machines with 16MB of total RAM or less, some supporting multiple interactive users. If your just throwing text w/ hyperlinks and images around, why would you think 38MB of RAM is reasonable? Hell, I used to engage in multiparty online chats with machines with 64K of RAM.
What's wrong with wanting software that does one thing and does it well? Web browsers are for viewing hypertext documents with images. Web browsers were never meant to be the catch-all computing platform of the future and all the kludges to make them so have resulted in a patchwork bloated mess.
What are you smoking? Their 8-bit computers, the ST and the Lynx were cool machines. I enjoyed my 5200 as a kid too.
If they can release a competitive console with comparable (or better) performance than Sony or MS at a similar price point I'd buy it.
For me it's about a cool machine, not a 3 way circle-jerk between MS, Sony and Nintendo. I'd buy a new Sega console too, I liked the Dreamcast.
The fact that they killed their computer line to focus on the Jaguar was awful. The Falcon060 was a neat machine. Their 68030 machines weren't too bad either but they failed to market them in the US and delay after delay made the ST users feel like they were being sold vaporware.
And the Jaguar had some horrid defects from the get-go that made taking full advantage of the hardware nearly impossible. It was a neat game system but gambling the company on it was dumb. The 8-bit line and ST's were good machines with a rabidly loyal community built around them and Tramiel's Atari pissed it away.
The XEGS has a really mushy keyboard and is more like a repackaged 65XE. It'll run most software written for the 800 and what didn't run has probably been patched by now. The 800 only had 48K vs 64K and some minor OS differences. It was also built like a Sherman tank. Personally, I prefer a modded 800XL. With a cheap $10 FTDI FT232RL breakout board plus an SIO cable you can build an SIO2PC adapter with no additional parts and have the entire library at your fingertips. You can emulate up to 15 Atari floppy drives, printers, etc using a PC or Mac. The SIO2SD device is cheap too.
I'd skip the 5200 unless you really enjoy rebuilding analog joysticks. All the good exclusive 5200 titles were ported to the 400/800 anyway. And most of the games are ports from the computers. The only game I thought benefited from the analog stick was Star Raiders.
NES games are probably the first where the gameplay was involved enough to hold one's interest without the graphics being so bad that your brain starts rebelling after a while.
The Atari 5200 wasn't bad but the game library was much smaller and the stock joysticks were crap. Other than that it was basically an Atari 400 computer with analog sticks. The 2600 was a turd and I'm not sure why that's all people remember of Atari. They had much better game systems and computers that were alive into the 90's. The 7800 sucked too as it was kinda a 2600 on steroids. I was more a fan of their computer lines.
The 2600 was a joke. The fact that is all most people remember of Atari is really really sad. The 5200 was great with third party joysticks. The Atari 400/800/XL/XE were f**king awesome. The ST was a pretty cool machine and was decent competition for the early Mac and Amiga. Aside from the 5200 (basically a 400 w/ terrible analog sticks) and later Lynx handheld I have little interest in their game systems. Their computers were INCREDIBLY underrated.
I would rather see another attempt at a home computer than a lame nostalgia game console. Something in a smaller 800XL style case, decent keyboard, 4 or 8-core 64-bit ARM with a cheap, well-documented GPU..... maybe a real SSD instead of slow-ass SD, HDMI and a bunch of USB ports. Maybe a PCIe "cartridge" slot for expansion and break out some buffered GPIO pins. And maybe take a stab at a nice lightweight *NIX desktop OS and include development tools with LOTS of docs aimed at beginning programmers and hardware hackers. Maybe throw in some emulators for running old TOS/GEM or 8-bit stuff. I would buy that.
I want a nice hackable, open and fun machine again with usable performance, no Intel ME-style BS, no DRM and fewer levels of abstraction and blobs between me and the hardware.
I don't know, I would consider clandestinely destroying the 4th and 5th amendments to bolster my budget both fun and profitable. Creepy.... but fun.
A small vulnerability in a $50 consumer grade router that only results in a small number of users getting hit, most of which will never know they were pwned anyway, will not usually result in a massive effort to patch the flaws. Only after it is exploited on a wide scale and public attention and/or lawsuits brought will the beancounters think it's economically worth doing.
The CIA, NSA and FBI could also inform manufacturers of these flaws, rather than request they remain, instead of weakening the security of this nation's network infrastructure by actively exploiting them for fun and profit.