...says the lemon salesman at the used car lot. No, that's backwards. A bottle of Alieve costs three times as much as the generic and it's the same drug. You're paying for pain relief and led to believe that Alieve is superior to the generic, when it may have come from the same factory.
You pay for what you get. You only get what you pay for if you're lucky. Item A costing more than item B is no gurantee that item A is superior to item B, and in fact the cheaper alternative may in fact be the better choice.
Determining whether or not you're getting what you paid for is difficult. In this case, it's pretty obvious that these cheap routers are in fact bad.
Oh, one more little correction that I hope you will appreciate: When something is being sold for a much lower price then [sic] competing products, there is a reason for it.
If God created it then being the deceitful God that he is
What authority, reasoning, or indication do you have the God is deceitful? You seem not to know a whole lot about him. There's a big fat book that can answer that question for you, have you read it?
Like the Chicago Cubs say, "you can't lose 'em all." Actually, I've found Illinois politicians actually listen to their constituents (some are better than others, of course) and the constituent doesn't have to be a campaign contributor, or even in the same party (which party's primary you vote in is a matter of public record in Illinois).
As to Illinois doing something that makes sense, do farms make sense? Most of the state is famland. Does subatomic particle physics make sense? Before the LHC, Illinois had the world's biggest atom smasher. Oh, and Lincoln, Reagan, Obama, and Seven of Nine are all from Illinois. Of course, Reagan didn't make much sense, but he had Alzheimer's.
Now, Quinn signing a bill that makes sense, or getting anything at all right, now THAT'S weird! The saddest thing is, he's the best governor we've had so far this century (the previous two are in prison).
Sorry to be such a math freak but it's more than twice that old, more like 14 billion than six.
To the article -- they're not controlling energy with information, they're controlling it with electrical fields; they're controlling energy with energy. TFA actually says tha the 2nd law isn't being violated (while trying hard not to).
I once told an author who had me proofread their work that my main critique was that it was an Idiot Plot.
A writer, on fact any artist, should welcome blunt honesty, because theres way too little of it, and is always constructive, whereas positive feedback is not. I get a swelled head sometimes from comments in my journals praising my writing, until I realize that ten times as many people who've seen it probably hate it than love it -- but the ones who hate it don't bother commenting or coming back, which is exactly what this researcher has found.
In literary criticism, idiot plot refers to "a plot which is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot,"[1] otherwise "they'd immediately figure out everything and the movie would be over."[2] It is a narrative where its conflict comes from characters not recognizing, or not being told, key information that would resolve the conflict, often because of plot contrivance. The only thing that prevents the conflict's resolution is the character's constant avoidance or obliviousness of it throughout the plot, even if it was already obvious to the viewer, so the characters are all "idiots" in that they are too obtuse to simply resolve the conflict immediately.
Reviewing Prime in 2005 critic Roger Ebert said "I can forgive and even embrace an Idiot Plot in its proper place (consider Astaire and Rogers in Top Hat). But when the characters have depth and their decisions have consequences, I grow restless when their misunderstandings could be ended by words that the screenplay refuses to allow them to utter."[3] Alternate formulations describe only the protagonist as being an idiot.
Damon Knight, in In Search of Wonder, attributes the first use of the term to science fiction author and critic James Blish.[1] Knight went on to coin the term second-order idiot plot, "in which not merely the principals, but everybody in the whole society has to be a grade-A idiot, or the story couldn't happen."[1]
You should read the FAQ on moderating before you make incorrect statements like that. Incindiary? It is abusive to Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Bhuddits, many other religions, and homosexuals. It adds nothing to the discussion and is not on topic.
Were you the AC who posted that troll you say isn't a troll? That's a common trick. Be glad I'm not moderating today, your comment as well as his would get a -1... and when I moderate, I seldom downmod.
Yes, it doesn't work for state taxes, but should for Federal taxes.
If you wonder why the US is in such dire straights financially, all the smart money is flowing out of the US and into Asia.
Tnat's not because of taxes, it's because of other business costs: labor and the environment. The people who run thos big companies are sociopaths and should be kept on a tight leash. Unfortunately, they're keeping government on a tight leash.
I don't suppose you realize that when you take something away from someone because you want to, then you become the tyrant?
Where did the rich who you work for get that money? From YOUR labor; your labor generated the wealth that they accumulate and control. If you steal twenty dollars from me, and I then pick your pocket for five, who is the thief?
They've all managed to "read" Nineteen Eighty Four though, where by "read" of course I mean "watch on TV".
Alas, that's too true. The TV reference was insightful, I'd be willing to bet that my generation, the first one to grow up with television, was the first with more aliterates than illiterates or literates.
Well when you have a massive debt, everyone has to give up something
No you don't. You can increase revenue. The 1% own something like 75% of everything, they can afford it. FUCKING DOUBLE THEIR TAXES! History has shown that high taxes on the rich do NOT harm the economy.
I'm not, and you're not, but roman_mir is. So is Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Mitt Romney, Ken Lay, Bernie Madof, and everyone on Wall Street.
Money and power are those people's religion. They WORSHIP money. To them, nothing else matters. Trying to talk sense to them is like trying to talk an athiest into believing in God, or trying to convince an Evangelist that God doesn't exist. It just can't be done, and trying to is an excersize in futility.
If he had a six digit or less UID and more than two posts, maybe he could have gotten the benefit of the doubt. As it is, there's no doubt to give him the benefit of.
If you were to priase MS, you would probably be modded up and certainly not be modded down. But he's not you. Brand new account praising some company? SHILL!!
Not by someone who seems to not have any reaoning abilities at all, like you. Again, what are you doing on a nerd site? You're being modded down for good reason; you're like an athiest commenting about how God doesn't exist on an evangelical messageboard, or someone going to AARP and trash talking Medicare and Social Security.
You're a greedhead, not a nerd, you have no grasp of science, no love of science (except for its economic benefits), no respect for learning or knowledge.
You are a Ferengi. Your worldview is distasteful to us nerds, and completely unintellectual and contrary to logic and reason.
I'm tired of seeing tattooed methheads driving around in jacked-up pickup trucks everywhere.
I'm afraid you'll have to move to Canada or Europe, then.
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Although I agree that W8 is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, a lot of what you say just doesn't hold water.
That is what has changed, before they were an unstoppable monopoly and now?
They're still an unstoppable monopoly; try buying a PC with a different OS.
I'm not convinced customers are going to be all that happy with what is about to be rammed down their thoat.
Their customers are OEMs and enterprises, not you or me. I'm not their customer, Acer is; I'm Acer's customer. Enterprise customers are likely to skip 8 like they did Vista, we'll see whether or not OEMs start shipping Linux desktops (I, for one, would be happy if they did).
All at a time when their monopoly is threatened like never before.
Their monopoly is in desktop operating systems and office software, where is the threat?
The desktop PC itself is being questioned for most users
For every home computer, there are ten in the workplace, the tablet may replace PCs in most homes, but I wouldn't bet too much money on it.
Office is threatened by Cloud apps
Pure marketing hype. "The cloud" is unlikely to gain traction among enterprise users, even very many home users.
"The post Microsoft future looks like" Mark Twain, who said "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". Mocrosoft isn't even in the doctor's office, let alone the grave. And if Microsoft went away, OEMs would just use Linux or Android or BSD. Computers aren't going away any time soon.
I don't know why anyone would care what Crichton has to say.
Because he's a great writer. In fact, he's too damned good; he's so good I can't make myself read any more of his stuff. It drags me in, takes me out of the real world, and then completely freaks me out. I had to swear off Crichton after reading "Sphere", that book damned near drove me insane. I had nightmares for weeks.
Talent like his should be illegal, or they should legalize LSD. They're both pretty similar!
When was the last time you saw anyone talk about old IBM atari or commodore p.o.s. computers like they do Apple computers?
Look in the comments above, I specifically mentioned that I wished I'd kept that old XT, and many others mentioned Commodore and Atari. Which, BTW, were NOT pieces of shit; they were as solid as Apples, just not as expensive.
Once again we witness how Apple invented an industry by being not just first, but best in every way that matters.
Wrong, fanboi. Commodore had a fully functional PC before the Apple II. The Apple I was not fully functional, and was predated by the Altair. I saw my first computer at age 12, when Gates and Jobs were in diapers.
As to "best?" Best, how? Yes, their products are pretty and shiiny, and they're more expensive than the competetion, but most are less powerful than other brands.
A level of commitment to things like quality, security, performance, and usability that the dipshit amateurs who write Lin-sux cannot match and the morons at Microsoft don't even want to try to match.
As a non-Apple user I can't comment about useability, except, well, what other computer company ever had a mouse that looked like a hockey puck and only had one button? When my kids went to school, that's what the Apple mice there looked like. As to security, Linux wins hands down. As to performance, a good high-end gaming rig running Windows will run circles around a mac.
And your to "amateurs who write Lin-sux", boy, first, fuck you, and second, I have seldom seen such an ignorant comment. You're saying that the guys at Red Hat and Cannonical and all the other companies contributing to Linux are amateurs?
The fact is, if Apple had never existed, the computing scene would look pretty much like it does now, except there would be no Macs and Google and Microsoft would be fighting over the smartphone and tablet market (both of which Apple were Johnny-come-latelys).
As Buggsy would say, "what a maroon." Go back under your bridge with your revisionist history and leave us alone.
So tell me then, what is the motivation if it is not for profit?
I don't think you belong on a nerd site. A nerd wouldn't be asking that question. Money is tnot the end-all and be-all. People don't spend incredible sums of money getting PhDs in physics and chemistry to get rich. If they wanted to get rich they would have gotten MBAs instead. Researchers may have a higher than median income, but not by very much.
People do science because they want to know how the world works. Some people fund science for the same reason. What was Branson's motive for flying a balloon around the world? Do you raelly think those space startups like Virgin Galactic were done for the money? The people who started them already had more money than ten men could spend in a lifetime.
People study and fund science out of a wish to understand how the universe works.
Now please go away and leave us nerds alone. We don't give a shit about your money, unless you want to fund our science or tech projects.
To the submitter: Is there a way to dress professionally in the workplace as a boss (the kind that doesn't need to be defeated at the end of a level) while still showing my Browncoat or Whovian love as I crawl under cobwebby desks to check that equipment is properly plugged in?"
You shouldn't be crawling under desks. The people you will be supervising should.
I'd say, ask you boss what is required for you to wear. If he's ok with jeans and tshirts, go for it.
In the real world we live in, majority of people bitch and whine about taxes that don't bring them direct, immediate benefits.
Odd, then, that the only people I hear complaining about their money going to NASA are tea partiers and anti-tax Libertarians; you know, the extremely short sighted, selfish, sociopathic dumbasses. Everybody else thinks it's pretty damned cool that we have robots on Mars and a telescope in outer space.
Taxes I hear people bitching about is when tax money goes to bridges to nowhere and grants to big corporations. Now, local taxes, yeah people bitch about them (I do!), but local taxes don't fund science.
old phonographs will again perform the same function with 60 dB of dynamic range compared to... completely adequate for the 10-20 db for range in pop music
It depends on how old the turntable is. Turntables made before about 1960 or so had very heavy tonearms which would wear out records (and even cheap phonographs from the '80s and '9-s had heavier tonearms than good turntables, but not as bad as old ones), and most turntables and phonographs before around 1960 were monophonic. About 1970 or so they came out with four channel "quadraphonic" system, today we call it "surround sound".
As to the dynamics, rock produced in the '70s pushed the limits of LPs' dynamic range. Many albums made then from analog masters actually have more dynamics than their digitally mixed CD counterparts!
The thing about analog is, a good system sounded way, way better than a cheap one. With digital, there's a difference between cheap and expensive, but not much of one.
I think today's sound engineers just aren't as good as back then. CDs have a bigger dynamic range than LPs, incompetence is the only explanation why the Presence LP has more dynamics than the Presence CD. A CD you make from an LP will often sound better than the digitally remastered CD, and that just shouldn't be.
As to vintage computers, I wish I still had my old IBM XT, for nostalgia purposes. At one point it was possibly the fastest IBM XT on earth -- I'd replaced everything but the case, power supply, and keyboard. Later I put it back together with its original parts.
That's very true, I hope the mods see it. My best programming experiences were on primitive machines, the TS-1000 and the MC-10. I wrote a battle tanks game for the TS-1000 in BASIC, but it was unplayably slow, so I rewrote it in assembly, then hand-assembled the machine code, POKEd ito into a REM statement, and I had to put loops in to slow it down. I had it read the keyboard directly, so two players could control their tanks at the same time from the same keyboard.
Much fun. After buying a repair manual for the MC-10 (I wanted to know how the things were put together) I discovered that its video chip was capable of 400x600 (iirc) resolution even though the computer itself would only output 80 pixels wide. I wound up writing a graphics program that would print your art on the MC-10's plotter, then wrote a word processor for it that used mixed case despite the fact that the MC-10 only supported upper case (I had to write the fonts), and it would output its mixed case to the plotter, too.
Not me. Drum brakes rather than disk, no ABS, no air bags, 1/4 the gas mileage of a modern car with the same performance (carb rather than injection)... the only advantage to an old car like that was they were easy to work on. And who ever worked on their own Mercedes? Rich people don't work on their own cars!
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You get what you pay for.
You pay for what you get. You only get what you pay for if you're lucky. Item A costing more than item B is no gurantee that item A is superior to item B, and in fact the cheaper alternative may in fact be the better choice.
Determining whether or not you're getting what you paid for is difficult. In this case, it's pretty obvious that these cheap routers are in fact bad.
Oh, one more little correction that I hope you will appreciate: When something is being sold for a much lower price then [sic] competing products, there is a reason for it.
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If God created it then being the deceitful God that he is
What authority, reasoning, or indication do you have the God is deceitful? You seem not to know a whole lot about him. There's a big fat book that can answer that question for you, have you read it?
Once you bring God into the argument
God doesn't belong in a discussion about science.
Like the Chicago Cubs say, "you can't lose 'em all." Actually, I've found Illinois politicians actually listen to their constituents (some are better than others, of course) and the constituent doesn't have to be a campaign contributor, or even in the same party (which party's primary you vote in is a matter of public record in Illinois).
As to Illinois doing something that makes sense, do farms make sense? Most of the state is famland. Does subatomic particle physics make sense? Before the LHC, Illinois had the world's biggest atom smasher. Oh, and Lincoln, Reagan, Obama, and Seven of Nine are all from Illinois. Of course, Reagan didn't make much sense, but he had Alzheimer's.
Now, Quinn signing a bill that makes sense, or getting anything at all right, now THAT'S weird! The saddest thing is, he's the best governor we've had so far this century (the previous two are in prison).
Sorry to be such a math freak but it's more than twice that old, more like 14 billion than six.
To the article -- they're not controlling energy with information, they're controlling it with electrical fields; they're controlling energy with energy. TFA actually says tha the 2nd law isn't being violated (while trying hard not to).
I once told an author who had me proofread their work that my main critique was that it was an Idiot Plot.
A writer, on fact any artist, should welcome blunt honesty, because theres way too little of it, and is always constructive, whereas positive feedback is not. I get a swelled head sometimes from comments in my journals praising my writing, until I realize that ten times as many people who've seen it probably hate it than love it -- but the ones who hate it don't bother commenting or coming back, which is exactly what this researcher has found.
BTW, why did you link to an entertainment site that's firewalled off in many workplaces, when wikipedia has an entry on the subject?
Mods should note, Not a Troll
You should read the FAQ on moderating before you make incorrect statements like that. Incindiary? It is abusive to Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Bhuddits, many other religions, and homosexuals. It adds nothing to the discussion and is not on topic.
Were you the AC who posted that troll you say isn't a troll? That's a common trick. Be glad I'm not moderating today, your comment as well as his would get a -1... and when I moderate, I seldom downmod.
Yes, it doesn't work for state taxes, but should for Federal taxes.
If you wonder why the US is in such dire straights financially, all the smart money is flowing out of the US and into Asia.
Tnat's not because of taxes, it's because of other business costs: labor and the environment. The people who run thos big companies are sociopaths and should be kept on a tight leash. Unfortunately, they're keeping government on a tight leash.
I don't suppose you realize that when you take something away from someone because you want to, then you become the tyrant?
Where did the rich who you work for get that money? From YOUR labor; your labor generated the wealth that they accumulate and control. If you steal twenty dollars from me, and I then pick your pocket for five, who is the thief?
They've all managed to "read" Nineteen Eighty Four though, where by "read" of course I mean "watch on TV".
Alas, that's too true. The TV reference was insightful, I'd be willing to bet that my generation, the first one to grow up with television, was the first with more aliterates than illiterates or literates.
Well when you have a massive debt, everyone has to give up something
No you don't. You can increase revenue. The 1% own something like 75% of everything, they can afford it. FUCKING DOUBLE THEIR TAXES! History has shown that high taxes on the rich do NOT harm the economy.
I'm not, and you're not, but roman_mir is. So is Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Mitt Romney, Ken Lay, Bernie Madof, and everyone on Wall Street.
Money and power are those people's religion. They WORSHIP money. To them, nothing else matters. Trying to talk sense to them is like trying to talk an athiest into believing in God, or trying to convince an Evangelist that God doesn't exist. It just can't be done, and trying to is an excersize in futility.
If he had a six digit or less UID and more than two posts, maybe he could have gotten the benefit of the doubt. As it is, there's no doubt to give him the benefit of.
If you were to priase MS, you would probably be modded up and certainly not be modded down. But he's not you. Brand new account praising some company? SHILL!!
You can't be reasoned with
Not by someone who seems to not have any reaoning abilities at all, like you. Again, what are you doing on a nerd site? You're being modded down for good reason; you're like an athiest commenting about how God doesn't exist on an evangelical messageboard, or someone going to AARP and trash talking Medicare and Social Security.
You're a greedhead, not a nerd, you have no grasp of science, no love of science (except for its economic benefits), no respect for learning or knowledge.
You are a Ferengi. Your worldview is distasteful to us nerds, and completely unintellectual and contrary to logic and reason.
I have no foes, but you tempt me, boy...
I'm tired of seeing tattooed methheads driving around in jacked-up pickup trucks everywhere.
I'm afraid you'll have to move to Canada or Europe, then.
Although I agree that W8 is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, a lot of what you say just doesn't hold water.
That is what has changed, before they were an unstoppable monopoly and now?
They're still an unstoppable monopoly; try buying a PC with a different OS.
I'm not convinced customers are going to be all that happy with what is about to be rammed down their thoat.
Their customers are OEMs and enterprises, not you or me. I'm not their customer, Acer is; I'm Acer's customer. Enterprise customers are likely to skip 8 like they did Vista, we'll see whether or not OEMs start shipping Linux desktops (I, for one, would be happy if they did).
All at a time when their monopoly is threatened like never before.
Their monopoly is in desktop operating systems and office software, where is the threat?
The desktop PC itself is being questioned for most users
For every home computer, there are ten in the workplace, the tablet may replace PCs in most homes, but I wouldn't bet too much money on it.
Office is threatened by Cloud apps
Pure marketing hype. "The cloud" is unlikely to gain traction among enterprise users, even very many home users.
"The post Microsoft future looks like" Mark Twain, who said "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". Mocrosoft isn't even in the doctor's office, let alone the grave. And if Microsoft went away, OEMs would just use Linux or Android or BSD. Computers aren't going away any time soon.
Protip: if you want to make a <Chicago> tag, use <Chicago>
I don't know why anyone would care what Crichton has to say.
Because he's a great writer. In fact, he's too damned good; he's so good I can't make myself read any more of his stuff. It drags me in, takes me out of the real world, and then completely freaks me out. I had to swear off Crichton after reading "Sphere", that book damned near drove me insane. I had nightmares for weeks.
Talent like his should be illegal, or they should legalize LSD. They're both pretty similar!
When was the last time you saw anyone talk about old IBM atari or commodore p.o.s. computers like they do Apple computers?
Look in the comments above, I specifically mentioned that I wished I'd kept that old XT, and many others mentioned Commodore and Atari. Which, BTW, were NOT pieces of shit; they were as solid as Apples, just not as expensive.
Once again we witness how Apple invented an industry by being not just first, but best in every way that matters.
Wrong, fanboi. Commodore had a fully functional PC before the Apple II. The Apple I was not fully functional, and was predated by the Altair. I saw my first computer at age 12, when Gates and Jobs were in diapers.
As to "best?" Best, how? Yes, their products are pretty and shiiny, and they're more expensive than the competetion, but most are less powerful than other brands.
A level of commitment to things like quality, security, performance, and usability that the dipshit amateurs who write Lin-sux cannot match and the morons at Microsoft don't even want to try to match.
As a non-Apple user I can't comment about useability, except, well, what other computer company ever had a mouse that looked like a hockey puck and only had one button? When my kids went to school, that's what the Apple mice there looked like. As to security, Linux wins hands down. As to performance, a good high-end gaming rig running Windows will run circles around a mac.
And your to "amateurs who write Lin-sux", boy, first, fuck you, and second, I have seldom seen such an ignorant comment. You're saying that the guys at Red Hat and Cannonical and all the other companies contributing to Linux are amateurs?
The fact is, if Apple had never existed, the computing scene would look pretty much like it does now, except there would be no Macs and Google and Microsoft would be fighting over the smartphone and tablet market (both of which Apple were Johnny-come-latelys).
As Buggsy would say, "what a maroon." Go back under your bridge with your revisionist history and leave us alone.
Shit, I bit a troll. Someone should mod me down :(
So tell me then, what is the motivation if it is not for profit?
I don't think you belong on a nerd site. A nerd wouldn't be asking that question. Money is tnot the end-all and be-all. People don't spend incredible sums of money getting PhDs in physics and chemistry to get rich. If they wanted to get rich they would have gotten MBAs instead. Researchers may have a higher than median income, but not by very much.
People do science because they want to know how the world works. Some people fund science for the same reason. What was Branson's motive for flying a balloon around the world? Do you raelly think those space startups like Virgin Galactic were done for the money? The people who started them already had more money than ten men could spend in a lifetime.
People study and fund science out of a wish to understand how the universe works.
Now please go away and leave us nerds alone. We don't give a shit about your money, unless you want to fund our science or tech projects.
To the submitter: Is there a way to dress professionally in the workplace as a boss (the kind that doesn't need to be defeated at the end of a level) while still showing my Browncoat or Whovian love as I crawl under cobwebby desks to check that equipment is properly plugged in?"
You shouldn't be crawling under desks. The people you will be supervising should.
I'd say, ask you boss what is required for you to wear. If he's ok with jeans and tshirts, go for it.
In the real world we live in, majority of people bitch and whine about taxes that don't bring them direct, immediate benefits.
Odd, then, that the only people I hear complaining about their money going to NASA are tea partiers and anti-tax Libertarians; you know, the extremely short sighted, selfish, sociopathic dumbasses. Everybody else thinks it's pretty damned cool that we have robots on Mars and a telescope in outer space.
Taxes I hear people bitching about is when tax money goes to bridges to nowhere and grants to big corporations. Now, local taxes, yeah people bitch about them (I do!), but local taxes don't fund science.
WP7 users know binary???
I though they named it after the number of people who bought one?
old phonographs will again perform the same function with 60 dB of dynamic range compared to ... completely adequate for the 10-20 db for range in pop music
It depends on how old the turntable is. Turntables made before about 1960 or so had very heavy tonearms which would wear out records (and even cheap phonographs from the '80s and '9-s had heavier tonearms than good turntables, but not as bad as old ones), and most turntables and phonographs before around 1960 were monophonic. About 1970 or so they came out with four channel "quadraphonic" system, today we call it "surround sound".
As to the dynamics, rock produced in the '70s pushed the limits of LPs' dynamic range. Many albums made then from analog masters actually have more dynamics than their digitally mixed CD counterparts!
The thing about analog is, a good system sounded way, way better than a cheap one. With digital, there's a difference between cheap and expensive, but not much of one.
I think today's sound engineers just aren't as good as back then. CDs have a bigger dynamic range than LPs, incompetence is the only explanation why the Presence LP has more dynamics than the Presence CD. A CD you make from an LP will often sound better than the digitally remastered CD, and that just shouldn't be.
As to vintage computers, I wish I still had my old IBM XT, for nostalgia purposes. At one point it was possibly the fastest IBM XT on earth -- I'd replaced everything but the case, power supply, and keyboard. Later I put it back together with its original parts.
That's very true, I hope the mods see it. My best programming experiences were on primitive machines, the TS-1000 and the MC-10. I wrote a battle tanks game for the TS-1000 in BASIC, but it was unplayably slow, so I rewrote it in assembly, then hand-assembled the machine code, POKEd ito into a REM statement, and I had to put loops in to slow it down. I had it read the keyboard directly, so two players could control their tanks at the same time from the same keyboard.
Much fun. After buying a repair manual for the MC-10 (I wanted to know how the things were put together) I discovered that its video chip was capable of 400x600 (iirc) resolution even though the computer itself would only output 80 pixels wide. I wound up writing a graphics program that would print your art on the MC-10's plotter, then wrote a word processor for it that used mixed case despite the fact that the MC-10 only supported upper case (I had to write the fonts), and it would output its mixed case to the plotter, too.
I was a lot smarter and a lot less lazy then.
And I would still rather have the '63 Mercedes.
Not me. Drum brakes rather than disk, no ABS, no air bags, 1/4 the gas mileage of a modern car with the same performance (carb rather than injection)... the only advantage to an old car like that was they were easy to work on. And who ever worked on their own Mercedes? Rich people don't work on their own cars!