UncleSlacky

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   by UncleSlacky 8mo ago

   Also this site, which shows how the recorded Phonovision broadcasts were eventually recovered: http://www.tvdawn.com/earliest-tv/phonovision-experiments-19...
2. 62.▲
   by UncleSlacky 9mo ago

   Also: - Monkey Dust - The Fast Show
3. 63.▲
   by UncleSlacky 9mo ago

   That probably also explains the (repeated) failure of American Fawlty Towers remakes - Basil Fawlty is a loser, and Americans can't play them convincingly.
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   by UncleSlacky 9mo ago

   There was a rain cover available, but it was a little...basic: https://95octane.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sinclair_c5_...
5. 65.▲
   by UncleSlacky 9mo ago

   Still using Seamonkey Composer here (descendant of Netscape Composer/Kompozer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey#Composer
6. 66.▲
   by UncleSlacky 9mo ago

   There's still Trinity DE if you want an updated KDE 3.5: https://trinitydesktop.org/
7. 67.▲
   by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

   Aren't they a Beatles tribute act?
8. 68.▲
   by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

   Anybody want a peanut?
9. 69.▲
   by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

   Opera 3.62 seems to be the latest browser available for Win 3.x, though I think Dillo might also be a possibility: https://computernewb.com/wiki/How_to_browse_the_web_on_very_...
10. 70.▲
    by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

    Haiku OS: https://www.haiku-os.org/
11. 71.▲
    by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

    Also /r/The_Leftorium...
12. 72.▲
    by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

    The electron-as-trapped photon model goes back a ways, to at least Roger Jennison (one of my old profs): "What is an electron?": http://gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Journal%20Reprints-Qua... More recently,
13. 73.▲
    by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

    "A is sometimes F"
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    by UncleSlacky 10mo ago

    George Cayley would beg to differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley (or Leonardo da Vinci, for that matter)
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    by UncleSlacky 11mo ago

    I'm sure that I used to play this (or something very similar) a lot in the late 70s - I don't remember there being much "background" but the extremely bloody shark graphics were memorable!
16. 76.▲
    by UncleSlacky 11mo ago

    TL;DR: When in doubt, update the BIOS before doing anything else.
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    by UncleSlacky 11mo ago

    > The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. Hence the title of this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthr...
18. 78.▲
    by UncleSlacky 11mo ago

    Then include the sales tax in the sticker price, like every other country does.
19. 79.▲
    by UncleSlacky 11mo ago

    They could do what every other country does, and include the sales tax in the shelf label price.
20. 80.▲
    by UncleSlacky 11mo ago

    And the Mastermind variant "Word Mastermind" came out in 1972: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5662/word-mastermind
21. 81.▲
    by UncleSlacky 11mo ago

    .is is Iceland, not Israel (that's .il).
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
23. 83.▲
    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    Macbeth II of Scotland, but also Macbeth I of England...
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    As LBJ famously put it: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pocket
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    Another good site about early (electromechanical) television, including restored off-air recordings made on discs which couldn't be played back at the time: http://www.tvdawn.com/
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    "It turns out, Fortran is actually pretty good at translating formulas." I'm hoping they know that the language's name comes from FORmula TRANslator...
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    There's also Exe GNU/Linux if you prefer a Devuan base: https://exegnulinux.net/
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    He also gave the inaugural BBC Reith Lectures, available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hgk62
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    His (ex-)wife Dora was my wife's neighbour, she was quite a force in her own right (and lived to 92): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Russell
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    by UncleSlacky 1y ago

    My great-grandfather was part the team who selected the site for Oak Ridge (the only civilian, together with four military men - he was the TVA's chief mechanical engineer at the time), and he also selected the separation method to be