Posts by Dan 55 16877 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
I'm unsure which other language would have done a good a job of getting people into programming and would have fit in 4, 8 or 16K ROMs of the time.
Also, you may be thinking of the Microsoft version instead of e.g. BBC BASIC or SuperBASIC which are pretty structured.
AMOS2 is now AOZ Studio. Spread the word! They seem to have glossed over most of the history linking AMOS with AOZ but the bug tracker has lots of tickets where the aim is to make things work in a compatible way with AMOS.
Seems to work on many devices.
Not sure if it was a completely wise idea to stop using a name which has a history, that's what they've done.
“But the opt out was on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find it.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the opt out, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
ARM's debt is now an albatross like Twitter's is. The act of buying a company for some stupid amount breaks that company's previously successful* business model.
* In Twitter's case, small values of successful, but it did achieve a profit before the pandemic and was on course to return to profit.
What anonymity? Open an account with most big social media platforms and if you don't need to supply a phone number on signing up you will do fairly shortly after because your account suddenly exhibits "anomalous behaviour". There's also your IP address and contacts.
I'm still using the same phone I bought five years ago. Works fine apart from the battery life is a bit short now. I could go to the official service centre still owned by the same company now as it was five years ago and get the battery replaced but there aren't many and they're out of my way and I might have to drop it off and collect it. If all models were like the Samsung XCover Pro or the Nokia G22 that would be better, I could just buy a new battery, swap them, and drop the old battery off at the recycling centre when I next go past there.
Seems innovative and practical enough to me.
Why am I crazy for wanting that? Please do explain. Also, do you believe rare minerals are an infinite resource and everyone can buy a new phone every year because of product innovation? There's a reason why rare minerals have the word "rare" in the name, perhaps you could explain what that reason is. Also bonus points for telling me who the optimistic economically illiterate people are.
DPReview had struggled to retain the staff necessary to run its review lab, particularly in light of its requirement that relevant employees work in-person out of the company's Seattle office
Seems odd that in 2023 large corporations still haven't worked out a way to deliver the kool-aid to people WFH, employees still have to go into an office to drink it.
Food research scientists at New York's Columbia University have constructed multi-layered food items — including cheesecake — in what they say is a breakthrough in more customizable foods, improved food safety, and user control of nutrients.
This comes from the US, so anything that isn't made out of high fructose corn syrup is considered high quality.
Putting a cat in your pocket to make a perpetual motion machine would be silly, here's the sensible way to make a perpetual motion machine.
Samsung is scientifically proven to write crappy software, but a fight between Exynos and Mediatek is like two bald men fighting over a comb.
We only need to worry if the Apple II-powered chatbot starts asking you for your boots, your clothes, and your motorcycle.
It looks like the robots from the Doctor Who episode Smile.
Physics lecturer used ChatGPT on one of his exams: The results will shock you!
(Well actually they won't, it got the answers wrong.)
I can't find a source earlier than 2005 for something like what you suggest. Perhaps you can?
Think you're back to front in this, RIPA was in 2000, the WTC attack was in 2001, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive was in 2002, and the UK got a wrist slap for some aspects of RIPA by the ECHR.
We won't be getting a KITT, we'll be getting a KARR:
Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
In the same way that Sadnad threw out the Trustworthy Computing group because it put the brakes on software development, looks like he's decided to throw out ethics people because there's a bubble to ride.
Watch a new Windows feature be announced with great fanfare a year from now which has all those things you mention and several security holes you could drive a bus through so the end result is the exactly same thing as the present day Net Send but 5000 times more bloated.
We could ask New Zealand:
Facebook finally responds to New Zealand on Christchurch attack - social media's fault.
Christchurch shooting videos are still on Facebook over a month later - social media's fault.
A Year Later, Christchurch Attack Videos Still on Facebook - social media's fault.
They don't say anything, the person causing the inconvenience just vanishes.
When it's appeared when I use DDG, it's just clippy saying "Hey, it looks like you're searching the Internet, shall I open the Wikipedia page for that?"
I'd link to The Register's clippy video but I can't find it, so here's another.
Seems like you really need to be careful of the results, because the expression evaluator isn't really like Python's.
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