I live well within the 100 miles from where i was born, 'cause I've never moved from my home city.
But at the end of the 1980's and into the 90's we had a lot of people move here.
Most of the people I knew that went away to college had no problem moving somewhere else to get a job. Only a few of them came back to live here, and those usually are working for Microsoft, or another company like that.
The people like me that went to community colleges or got a job after high school, tended to stay in the area.
While I find the census to be boring to do (had one of the workers come to my door the other day because i guess i forgot to send mine in, but like he said, thats job security for him), all in all, it doesn't really answer all the questions that would give a lot of useful information.
Maybe they should have a social/economic type census. Of course, i'd probably forget to mail that also...
Odd, I just met a an eccentric young man with a bow tie, tweed jacket and braces. He owned a small wooden blue box (about the size of a beach hut) and he said that this was a harbinger of doom and that the sun would go out if he didn't do something about it. He dashed off with a pretty young female in tow....but it's pretty cold and overcast now, so maybe the end is nigh!
braces? seriously?
Guess now that all the timelords are dead, he has a better dental plan?
Intel has started buying stock in water companies across the world. When asked, spokesperson for Intel said: "After we drain all the water from China, we'll make a profit selling then water from other countries. It's a win win for us and the countries with lots of water."
A chinese spokesperson said this about the quote: "As expected from you Capitalistic pigs! We get revenge though, we put PeePee in your Coke!"
I am not religous, and I do not believe in a God, or a higher power that the various man made religions seem to push.
I believe in humans. In mankind.
Man has proven, time & time again, that power corrupts, and the best way to get people to follow you, is to give them a reason why.
All religons are man made. Sure, the various peeps try to say it was "a message from god told to man in his dreams" or some bullcrap like that. But lets be real here, that's not how it works.
Religons are about control of people. They are about getting people to believe like you do, so you can get them to do what you want. "for the good of god, or your church" or whatnot.
The problem with religons? It requires faith. The ability to believe in something, when everything tells you otherwise. To accept a belief, when facts, people, life seems to say it's not true. Sheesh, that was one of the big points of being a christian, was "turning the other check" "being a missionary to the unbelievers" and "an ambassador for your faith".
The problem with that? Nothing really, until those people with "faith" decided that if you don't have faith, they must do something about it. Which seems to be a major part of most religions.
Science is about understanding how things work. Proving/disapproving theories. Using recordable methods of understanding so others can duplicate what you are doing and get the same results.
Science is about not assuming, but understanding.
Saying science is a religon is just trying to bring science down to religon levels, which isn't possible.
Why do some religons really hate science? Because they know, that under scrutiny, that their argument on why their religon is real, is weak. And they do what alot of people do that know they are wrong, but don't want to admit it? They put their fingers in their ears and talk louder.
You are entitled to believe what you want. But you are not entitled to force your belief on me or others.
I an a little naive to the criminal enterprise that is stolen gaming credentials, but I have to wonder: why does it matter, if you are selling a stolen credential, if it's good or not? Is the buyer really going to come back and demand a refund when it doesn't work? And what real benefit are these, anyway? Don't tell me that people buy stolen creds and log into them just to take all their e-loot (worth thousands of e-dollars)? Oh for the love of humanity the things people will do in the name of wasting time.
If it's Xbox Live Gold info, then they have access to your credit card if you have it on the account.
I recently moved to Seattle and was looking into fios, but freaking Comcast still has some antiquated exclusive franchise deal with the city that won't let Verizon offer it to anyone. How does this make sense in any world?
Welcome to Seattle!
Yes, comcast sucks dog dicks, swallows, then licks the dogs ass.
Also, you might have trouble finding FO to your home, since they don't do that. Qwest owns the phone lines (or so they tell me), and said I was welcome to find another ISP then MSN that uses their lines, if I could find one. And yes, i asked them who else leased there lines, but they claimed they didn't know.
You'd think, Seattle, since it's the home (basicly) to Microshaft, err, i mean, microsoft and other tech companies, we'd have better online service.
Ok, how many people do you know that have Android phones?
Me, my wife, and my daughter.
The reed player in my band (the other three players have iPhones or non-smart phones).
I was at a school board meeting earlier in the month and the soccer mom sitting next to me had a Droid. The kid who lives next door and who has bragged to me that he owns an Xbox, a PS3 and a Wii has an HTC android phone. He says "iPhones are for pussies".
I passed that last part along for informational purposes only. I do not endorse that sentiment in any way, mostly because I wouldn't want some offended iPhone user to give me such a slap.
You should tell that kid to upgrade the Xbox to a Xbox 360 and he'd be even cooler.
I used to have "nightmares" when i was a kid. It wasn't video games that stopped that, (while maybe there was pong machines, this was pre video game console days), it was me realizing that whatever couldn't hurt me, and that it was more like a horror movie. Ever since then, I haven't had nightmares.
Now today, some 30+ years later, I am what you call a lucid dreamer I guess. And i'm also a big gamer.
Now my dreams are like some virtual world that I only go to, in my dreams. Not like it's different in every dream, because it's not. What i'm doing in my dream is different, but the world isn't. And I'm well aware of other dreams i've had, in my dreams. Lets say in 1 dream I told someone something, i would remember that in another dream.
I've heard things that you can't do in dreams, like reading, or someone in a post above mention light switches didn't work in there dreams. That has never applied to my dreams. I can read, do whatever. (though i can't recall ever having to hit a light switch, so who knows on that.).
What I can't do in dreams? Is fight or run. It's either I don't have good enough control of myself, or i'm in a molasses like movement, really slow.
I love dreaming and tend to remember what happened in my dreams when i wake up.
But the question remains. Am i aware i'm dreaming while i'm dreaming? Or have i just entered a state that remembers my other dreams and thinks they all belong together?
I would also like to point out that I figured out how to drive stick after driving a car in my dreams. I was having problems figuring it out, then dreamt how to do it correctly.
I've taken acid in dreams (lsd, for those that don't know), and had trips in my dream, that was cool. And sex in dreams are cool, unless it's like your sister or something.
... Just look at home pages, which working PC repair I can tell you the average Joe by a good 99 out of 100 have set to this instead of this because they actually LIKE it that way!
Um, did you ever think the reason peeps have it set to www.yahoo.com is because yahoo is most likely their email, and they might use the portal crap on yahoo's front page?
Which makes this whole story sensationalist. It's not like "make a drug joke, get fired", it's "be on the verge of being fired and pile on the straw that broke the camel's back". Nobody really wants to have people in that position for long, either you want the employee to really straighten themselves out or you want them out, no in betweens. There's no goodwill at that point.
The only problem is, we don't know what the previous write ups were about. They can all be stupid crap that don't merit it, ie. missed work because of being sick, car broke down, made you late to work, etc...
Plus, we don't know either when she posted that facebook message. it could of been posted before this stuff happen, ie, be in her profile or something, not something she wrote recently.
But who knows, all in all, and we probably won't.
But ya, the whole title and crap does make it seem like it's just about the drugs comment.
I don't agree that her remarks, joke or not, merit termination, but I do agree that her behavior was stupid.
People need to learn this and learn it well: Whatever you post on the internet is forever and irrevocably attached to you and will be used against you in every way possible. This is not like other, earlier forms of communication because in other, earlier forms of communication remarks were not preserved and were mostly limited to a small set of known recipients.
This is why your internet handle should not be your name. This is why routine anonymity is a good thing for everyone. Yes, her employer acted badly and yes, whoever reported her is a humorless jerk. You cannot build a society on the assumption that there are no jerks and everyone has truth and justice as their primary motive!
Don't post anything on facebook, or any other site, unless you want it to be known by all future employers, the police, all future boy- and girl-friends, your mother, your current or future children, historians attempting to demonize you, etc., etc.. It is no exaggeration to say that what she did was stupid and that she, and everyone, ought to know better. A joke among friends is one thing, a joke to your boss's face is quite another; and (like it or not) when you post on facebook you are talking directly to your boss, and your mother, and the cops, and so forth and so on.
Since when is whats posted on the internet true? I must of slept thru class that day.
Sure, we use 'nyms and what not to distance our real selves from what we post online, and that by its self should clue peeps in on not believing everything they read.
It's sad when jobs/people will dig what they can on the internet to get people fired, but then from my experience in working different jobs, guess that's what people do.
It's sad that you can lose your job based on stuff you said, jokingly or not, on a social networking site. I don't think they can actually fire her for that, and if that's the reason she put down, maybe she has a chance of getting her job back.
The only bad image i have here though, is of the government of the crappy town, in that crappy state.
... in the form of my C64, and Apple IIe. They are 25 years old, still work, and their floppies still work.
And via emulators I can access the same programs on my modern computer. In fact, I have all the software released for both those platforms (and others).
A company won't likely hire or retain someone who seems to be a spy. Given new hires will get more attention, if they are all spies there is a fair risk of at least one raising suspicion- depending on how connected all the spies are, this can really cause problems for all of them. If China lets the new hires adjust to being a new employee, then pull them into being a spy, they can just focus on the ones who end up in positions or career paths that are useful for spying, and the spies are comfortable enough with their job they shouldn't be drawing unnecessary attention anyways. Also, college graduates have a lot of choices to work with- if they are allowed to settle down a bit, they won't see nearly as many alternatives to giving in to being a spy, should they not be nationalistic enough to like spying.
Companies aren't likely to hire senior engineers/programmers/etc. with their only work experience being in China- the best way to get someone into the desired position is to get hired from graduation and work up to the position. May as well let the future spy fit in as a typical bright college student, then deal with the spy recruiting phase between them getting hired and waiting until they've been working long enough to have proper access to the desired information or system.
Or you train them as spys from childhood, then send them to USA for college and getting jobs. then, 10 years later after they established themselves, then they start doing their spy work.
Seems easier to me, in the long run, then risking trying to subvert people later.
meant to appeal to low iq dimwits as a valid solution to the energy crisis? you know, buy us a couple more months of soccer moms in SUVs in suburban sprawl, before the inevitable? hey, what's a little ecosystem destruction when we need to go to walmart to buy plastic crap and mcdonalds to shovel more calories in our distended waistlines? why's it smell like oil near the beach mommy?
as the economy recovers, as newly rich brazilian, chinese, and indian economies begin to suck energy like the west, as the oil only gets deeper and deeper... welcome to a near future, 2015, 2020: $10 a gallon gas. except those brazilian, chinese, and indians: they are already seeking alternatives. you know like nuclear... NOT IN MY BACKYARD!
you were warned back in the 1970s. but you kept funding the saudis, who kept building wahhabi madrassas in pakistan, and you got 9/11. but you still didn't see the writing on the wall. in fact, you thought it was a good excuse to secure some iraqi oil
now you're destroying your own shorelines, and still living in denial, still a hopeless rationalizing junkie addict
when the inevitable comes, when we can no longer afford the gas guzzling lifestyle, many of you will say "who saw that coming?"
plenty of us did, jackass
Yes, I'll bet you did.
I suppose to prove your point you don't drive, you don't use oil in your house, you have solar panels on the roof and of course, you use all natural stuff, no plastic or anything made from oil?
before you go to sleep. Not only it saves your bill, but you'll get comfy environment to sleep in. No buzzing of adapters, no sound from IM, no fans,... only silence to enjoy....
Don't help when your apartment building is over I-5.
What Jobs is saying, is that he's finally found a way to reach the masses of computer noobs that Mac has been aiming for all along. The problem with the original Macs is that they required someone to actually use a computer.
Now that he's turned computers into toys, he can finally get "Grandma." But this doesn't really change anything in the computer world.
It's something to brag about for sure, on a marketing level. On a features level, he succeeds only by not having them. Kind of like how McDonald's succeeds by not having a steak dinner.
McSteak? McPrimeRib?
Hey, I'm down.
oh, nm, I never eat at McD's anyways. I feel like i'm cheating on real food whenever I step into one of those places.
I don't understand the surprise that someone has a working 1986 computer.
Maybe it's because of how cheap computers were made later, but I have quite a few working 8bit systems.
Commodores, Apple II's, TRS-80 Mod 4p, Amiga 1000. Oh, wait, that Amiga is actually a 16bit system. Since I guess I can include those, I can original Macs in that mix also.
In fact, it's harder to find pre pentium system these days (of the x86 line) then I think any of the computers I mentioned.
And it's funny that they had to bring in an amiga 1000 to prove it, when a emulator would of done the job also. Of course, wheeling the Amiga 1000 in, and booting it up would have a better affect.
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I live well within the 100 miles from where i was born, 'cause I've never moved from my home city.
But at the end of the 1980's and into the 90's we had a lot of people move here.
Most of the people I knew that went away to college had no problem moving somewhere else to get a job. Only a few of them came back to live here, and those usually are working for Microsoft, or another company like that.
The people like me that went to community colleges or got a job after high school, tended to stay in the area.
While I find the census to be boring to do (had one of the workers come to my door the other day because i guess i forgot to send mine in, but like he said, thats job security for him), all in all, it doesn't really answer all the questions that would give a lot of useful information.
Maybe they should have a social/economic type census. Of course, i'd probably forget to mail that also...
Odd, I just met a an eccentric young man with a bow tie, tweed jacket and braces. He owned a small wooden blue box (about the size of a beach hut) and he said that this was a harbinger of doom and that the sun would go out if he didn't do something about it. He dashed off with a pretty young female in tow....but it's pretty cold and overcast now, so maybe the end is nigh!
braces? seriously?
Guess now that all the timelords are dead, he has a better dental plan?
The sun is pressing down the hit button to powerup for a big blast.
Intel has started buying stock in water companies across the world. When asked, spokesperson for Intel said:
"After we drain all the water from China, we'll make a profit selling then water from other countries. It's a win win for us and the countries with lots of water."
A chinese spokesperson said this about the quote:
"As expected from you Capitalistic pigs! We get revenge though, we put PeePee in your Coke!"
I am not a scientist.
I am not religous, and I do not believe in a God, or a higher power that the various man made religions seem to push.
I believe in humans. In mankind.
Man has proven, time & time again, that power corrupts, and the best way to get people to follow you, is to give them a reason why.
All religons are man made. Sure, the various peeps try to say it was "a message from god told to man in his dreams" or some bullcrap like that. But lets be real here, that's not how it works.
Religons are about control of people. They are about getting people to believe like you do, so you can get them to do what you want. "for the good of god, or your church" or whatnot.
The problem with religons? It requires faith. The ability to believe in something, when everything tells you otherwise. To accept a belief, when facts, people, life seems to say it's not true. Sheesh, that was one of the big points of being a christian, was "turning the other check" "being a missionary to the unbelievers" and "an ambassador for your faith".
The problem with that? Nothing really, until those people with "faith" decided that if you don't have faith, they must do something about it. Which seems to be a major part of most religions.
Science is about understanding how things work. Proving/disapproving theories. Using recordable methods of understanding so others can duplicate what you are doing and get the same results.
Science is about not assuming, but understanding.
Saying science is a religon is just trying to bring science down to religon levels, which isn't possible.
Why do some religons really hate science? Because they know, that under scrutiny, that their argument on why their religon is real, is weak. And they do what alot of people do that know they are wrong, but don't want to admit it? They put their fingers in their ears and talk louder.
You are entitled to believe what you want. But you are not entitled to force your belief on me or others.
Why focus on opposing religion since you can't prove it wrong? The whole topic is a waste of time.
Why believe in religion since you can't prove it's correct?
I an a little naive to the criminal enterprise that is stolen gaming credentials, but I have to wonder: why does it matter, if you are selling a stolen credential, if it's good or not? Is the buyer really going to come back and demand a refund when it doesn't work? And what real benefit are these, anyway? Don't tell me that people buy stolen creds and log into them just to take all their e-loot (worth thousands of e-dollars)? Oh for the love of humanity the things people will do in the name of wasting time.
If it's Xbox Live Gold info, then they have access to your credit card if you have it on the account.
I recently moved to Seattle and was looking into fios, but freaking Comcast still has some antiquated exclusive franchise deal with the city that won't let Verizon offer it to anyone. How does this make sense in any world?
Welcome to Seattle!
Yes, comcast sucks dog dicks, swallows, then licks the dogs ass.
Also, you might have trouble finding FO to your home, since they don't do that.
Qwest owns the phone lines (or so they tell me), and said I was welcome to find another ISP then MSN that uses their lines, if I could find one. And yes, i asked them who else leased there lines, but they claimed they didn't know.
You'd think, Seattle, since it's the home (basicly) to Microshaft, err, i mean, microsoft and other tech companies, we'd have better online service.
but we don't. sorry.
got some good weed around here though.
Me, my wife, and my daughter.
The reed player in my band (the other three players have iPhones or non-smart phones).
I was at a school board meeting earlier in the month and the soccer mom sitting next to me had a Droid. The kid who lives next door and who has bragged to me that he owns an Xbox, a PS3 and a Wii has an HTC android phone. He says "iPhones are for pussies".
I passed that last part along for informational purposes only. I do not endorse that sentiment in any way, mostly because I wouldn't want some offended iPhone user to give me such a slap.
You should tell that kid to upgrade the Xbox to a Xbox 360 and he'd be even cooler.
Finally, 2 topics I greatly enjoy.
I used to have "nightmares" when i was a kid. It wasn't video games that stopped that, (while maybe there was pong machines, this was pre video game console days), it was me realizing that whatever couldn't hurt me, and that it was more like a horror movie. Ever since then, I haven't had nightmares.
Now today, some 30+ years later, I am what you call a lucid dreamer I guess. And i'm also a big gamer.
Now my dreams are like some virtual world that I only go to, in my dreams. Not like it's different in every dream, because it's not. What i'm doing in my dream is different, but the world isn't. And I'm well aware of other dreams i've had, in my dreams. Lets say in 1 dream I told someone something, i would remember that in another dream.
I've heard things that you can't do in dreams, like reading, or someone in a post above mention light switches didn't work in there dreams. That has never applied to my dreams. I can read, do whatever. (though i can't recall ever having to hit a light switch, so who knows on that.).
What I can't do in dreams? Is fight or run. It's either I don't have good enough control of myself, or i'm in a molasses like movement, really slow.
I love dreaming and tend to remember what happened in my dreams when i wake up.
But the question remains. Am i aware i'm dreaming while i'm dreaming? Or have i just entered a state that remembers my other dreams and thinks they all belong together?
I would also like to point out that I figured out how to drive stick after driving a car in my dreams. I was having problems figuring it out, then dreamt how to do it correctly.
I've taken acid in dreams (lsd, for those that don't know), and had trips in my dream, that was cool. And sex in dreams are cool, unless it's like your sister or something.
... Just look at home pages, which working PC repair I can tell you the average Joe by a good 99 out of 100 have set to this instead of this because they actually LIKE it that way!
Um, did you ever think the reason peeps have it set to www.yahoo.com is because yahoo is most likely their email, and they might use the portal crap on yahoo's front page?
Which makes this whole story sensationalist. It's not like "make a drug joke, get fired", it's "be on the verge of being fired and pile on the straw that broke the camel's back". Nobody really wants to have people in that position for long, either you want the employee to really straighten themselves out or you want them out, no in betweens. There's no goodwill at that point.
The only problem is, we don't know what the previous write ups were about. They can all be stupid crap that don't merit it, ie. missed work because of being sick, car broke down, made you late to work, etc...
Plus, we don't know either when she posted that facebook message. it could of been posted before this stuff happen, ie, be in her profile or something, not something she wrote recently.
But who knows, all in all, and we probably won't.
But ya, the whole title and crap does make it seem like it's just about the drugs comment.
I don't agree that her remarks, joke or not, merit termination, but I do agree that her behavior was stupid.
People need to learn this and learn it well: Whatever you post on the internet is forever and irrevocably attached to you and will be used against you in every way possible. This is not like other, earlier forms of communication because in other, earlier forms of communication remarks were not preserved and were mostly limited to a small set of known recipients.
This is why your internet handle should not be your name. This is why routine anonymity is a good thing for everyone. Yes, her employer acted badly and yes, whoever reported her is a humorless jerk. You cannot build a society on the assumption that there are no jerks and everyone has truth and justice as their primary motive!
Don't post anything on facebook, or any other site, unless you want it to be known by all future employers, the police, all future boy- and girl-friends, your mother, your current or future children, historians attempting to demonize you, etc., etc.. It is no exaggeration to say that what she did was stupid and that she, and everyone, ought to know better. A joke among friends is one thing, a joke to your boss's face is quite another; and (like it or not) when you post on facebook you are talking directly to your boss, and your mother, and the cops, and so forth and so on.
Since when is whats posted on the internet true? I must of slept thru class that day.
Sure, we use 'nyms and what not to distance our real selves from what we post online, and that by its self should clue peeps in on not believing everything they read.
It's sad when jobs/people will dig what they can on the internet to get people fired, but then from my experience in working different jobs, guess that's what people do.
It's sad that you can lose your job based on stuff you said, jokingly or not, on a social networking site. I don't think they can actually fire her for that, and if that's the reason she put down, maybe she has a chance of getting her job back.
The only bad image i have here though, is of the government of the crappy town, in that crappy state.
Not going there for my vacation evar!
Remember, her job is customer/public service, it wasn't just a joke to her boss, a family member, or a workmate, it was to the public at large.
That's not just stupid, that is personal negligence to your own career :)
next time learn to read.
she's a dispatcher for fire & police. Not 911, not customer/public service.
She would tell the police & fire dudes/dudesses where to go, answer their questions.
How you got public/customer service from that is really sad.
... in the form of my C64, and Apple IIe. They are 25 years old, still work, and their floppies still work.
And via emulators I can access the same programs on my modern computer. In fact, I have all the software released for both those platforms (and others).
Sorry, 25 years isn't that big of a deal.
I actually have great memory recall from my childhood, but it seems to me maybe thats good people forget things.
It's how we deal with life and move on.
What I'd rather they figure out is how to keep your short term memory intact.
oh, that doesn't involve: not smoking weed.
not going to quote ya, but no shit sherlock.
You think america doesn't send people to do that to other countries?
china didn't invent this, this is typical spy work from the beginning of time.
What this article is, is a fear mongering report attempting to get people against the chinese.
A company won't likely hire or retain someone who seems to be a spy. Given new hires will get more attention, if they are all spies there is a fair risk of at least one raising suspicion- depending on how connected all the spies are, this can really cause problems for all of them. If China lets the new hires adjust to being a new employee, then pull them into being a spy, they can just focus on the ones who end up in positions or career paths that are useful for spying, and the spies are comfortable enough with their job they shouldn't be drawing unnecessary attention anyways. Also, college graduates have a lot of choices to work with- if they are allowed to settle down a bit, they won't see nearly as many alternatives to giving in to being a spy, should they not be nationalistic enough to like spying.
Companies aren't likely to hire senior engineers/programmers/etc. with their only work experience being in China- the best way to get someone into the desired position is to get hired from graduation and work up to the position. May as well let the future spy fit in as a typical bright college student, then deal with the spy recruiting phase between them getting hired and waiting until they've been working long enough to have proper access to the desired information or system.
Or you train them as spys from childhood, then send them to USA for college and getting jobs. then, 10 years later after they established themselves, then they start doing their spy work.
Seems easier to me, in the long run, then risking trying to subvert people later.
... and their username isn't sexkitten69.
Guess I better go register to vote so I can hopefully get jury duty for this. lol
what was that crass slogan again?
why don't i hear it anymore?
meant to appeal to low iq dimwits as a valid solution to the energy crisis? you know, buy us a couple more months of soccer moms in SUVs in suburban sprawl, before the inevitable? hey, what's a little ecosystem destruction when we need to go to walmart to buy plastic crap and mcdonalds to shovel more calories in our distended waistlines? why's it smell like oil near the beach mommy?
as the economy recovers, as newly rich brazilian, chinese, and indian economies begin to suck energy like the west, as the oil only gets deeper and deeper... welcome to a near future, 2015, 2020: $10 a gallon gas. except those brazilian, chinese, and indians: they are already seeking alternatives. you know like nuclear... NOT IN MY BACKYARD!
you were warned back in the 1970s. but you kept funding the saudis, who kept building wahhabi madrassas in pakistan, and you got 9/11. but you still didn't see the writing on the wall. in fact, you thought it was a good excuse to secure some iraqi oil
now you're destroying your own shorelines, and still living in denial, still a hopeless rationalizing junkie addict
when the inevitable comes, when we can no longer afford the gas guzzling lifestyle, many of you will say "who saw that coming?"
plenty of us did, jackass
Yes, I'll bet you did.
I suppose to prove your point you don't drive, you don't use oil in your house, you have solar panels on the roof and of course, you use all natural stuff, no plastic or anything made from oil?
No? Then stfu.
before you go to sleep. Not only it saves your bill, but you'll get comfy environment to sleep in. No buzzing of adapters, no sound from IM, no fans, ... only silence to enjoy. ...
Don't help when your apartment building is over I-5.
What Jobs is saying, is that he's finally found a way to reach the masses of computer noobs that Mac has been aiming for all along. The problem with the original Macs is that they required someone to actually use a computer.
Now that he's turned computers into toys, he can finally get "Grandma." But this doesn't really change anything in the computer world.
It's something to brag about for sure, on a marketing level. On a features level, he succeeds only by not having them. Kind of like how McDonald's succeeds by not having a steak dinner.
McSteak? McPrimeRib?
Hey, I'm down.
oh, nm, I never eat at McD's anyways. I feel like i'm cheating on real food whenever I step into one of those places.
I don't understand the surprise that someone has a working 1986 computer.
Maybe it's because of how cheap computers were made later, but I have quite a few working 8bit systems.
Commodores, Apple II's, TRS-80 Mod 4p, Amiga 1000. Oh, wait, that Amiga is actually a 16bit system. Since I guess I can include those, I can original Macs in that mix also.
In fact, it's harder to find pre pentium system these days (of the x86 line) then I think any of the computers I mentioned.
And it's funny that they had to bring in an amiga 1000 to prove it, when a emulator would of done the job also. Of course, wheeling the Amiga 1000 in, and booting it up would have a better affect.
In Canada we treat our native peoples like shit, pretty much...
Ya, in the USA we treat Canadians like shit, pretty much... eh?