computers
Either by making the Human Race totally dependent on computers and interactivity or rendering them incapable of stopping their continued existence.
Peruvian?
Posted by: mama winger
Python. Very similar.
I spent yesterday writing scripts in a language I barely know for a program that's a decade old.
Y'all c'mon down to Billy Jay Ray Bob's Empire of Ammo where we've got a midwinter special
that can't be beat.
First instance of data recording, not symbolically but in a form to be played back to reproduce the original data. It's a concept that goes well beyond simply recording sound.
Had to see if I was duplicating Vic with these...
Subjects: 3D printing, Benghazi, Eric Holder, news, Obamacare, Second Amendment, US Constitution
If a digital clock loses power, when it comes back on it flashes 12:00. So it's still right twice a day.
Posted by: rickl
Speaking of Pon Raul, ssssorry about prev styleguide faux pas. What's the right term again?
And you know the thing about stopped clocks?
Subjects: anachronism, digital future, faith, God, Halloween, X-Men
TRS-100 =/= Mod100 laptop? someone said?
This confusion feels nostalgically familiar...
fully functioning TRS-100.... - Village Idiot's Apprentice
Heh. I could put it here in the museum/mausoleum next to the Mrs's lonely old 100 with the clobbered keyboard.
Re 8" floppies
They sounded like this:
Eauunk, click click click, eauunk scree scree scree screeu click clunk, euuunk click click click clunk.
Repeat - Freaked Out!
I still have two Model I's, which could probably be coaxed into one full system, except I doubt I have one working 5" drive left.
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8" floppy.. motivated worker..
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I'll bet there's a funny there I'm not getting. Is it me, or is it svenorex?
"Back in the day I had an 8" floppy."
NOT going there!
And didn't in the day, either.
The Internet Archive - VisiCalc - my first massive programming effort was a complete bookkeeping system based on VC macros for the Shack Model I.
Good morning, good people of Peruvia.
AllenG: Okay, let's take this apart:
That immediately had me rubbing my hands in glee. Oh good! Someone's tackling it!
I'm no wiz, but I program a little. I'm cobbling up a utility program and yesterday got bogged down trying to figure out Unicode characters in an xml feed...
The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First, computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields...
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The abstracted hardware model minimums changed.
Did you bitch similarly when XP wouldn't run on a 286?
Posted by: Manifesto de Purp
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Home invaders caught on cam, clear pix, even a name. (Posted by PJ at the end of the Home Invader thread, thought it worth reposting)
Subjects: transport, future, advertising, McDonald's, Ronald Reagan, digital future
Subjects: transport, future, digital future
Because, diversity!
Why can't we all just get along?
Turned out the blocked pin spot is just superficial and soft plastic and can be drilled out with a 1/16" drill and there's actually a pin socket hiding underneath, so you don't gotta drill far at a
Last night and again this morning, various sites loaded very slowly, never seemed to finish. Restarting the browser didn't help.