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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Thanks for that; that was so difficult for then young, untrained me to get my head around, as well as reading the Amiga Reference Manuals - it was all so foreign.
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Agreed; I used them all back then. I connected my A2000 to my companies' DECnet and IP network, and used TCP/IP to move data to and from Japan and Europe. I used my machine to send UUCP, admin Silicon Graphics, Evans and Sutherlan
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
The A2000 was in it's heyday, I think; you would see most of those commands (or their equiv) with an Amiga A2000 with the Amiga LANCE ethernet board A2065 and AS225 TCP/IP option, or maybe even the Amiga UNIX; there was even a DEC
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
OMG; he says is going to build it, exactly like his demo. As a youth I received a brand new Matt Mason for birthday; it has been a very, very long time.
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Well, to start with, the zeitgeist of the times - https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8846774/Wall.htm... Then you can look at the consumer complaints to the US Government which spurred Congressi
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
The regulation wasn't there because it was a thoughtful idea; it was implemented because there were real, loud, consumer complaints about how much fat/lean ratio was in bacon in a hidden container, IIRC.
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I seem to recall people (felt they) couldn't identify leaner bacon or some felt they were being ripped off because not enough lean, just fat. All about the time, IIRC, that fat had began to be loudly vilified by the health community -
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Bacon packages may seem of no consequence, but let me say kindly, just like Labor unions, there was a very real reason for these regulations to exist. Such things saved all of our rear ends until maybe today. A child of the late 60s, I reme
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I understand the separation of programming and operating, as I am a programmer as well as having studied automated automotive valve welding and grinding at a leading supplier (friction stem and seat welding, among others). The point I was m
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
"experiment". Do you really think our evolving ancestors ate every single day, regularly, on schedule? The only experiment here is a modern world that eats every day, regularly.
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Programming machines. Recently a factory robot crushed a woman against a wall when she entered its work space. A closed casket funeral. If there is a need to program a machine, who is responsible if there is a safety issue involved? or even
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Agreed, but your local governments will not let that happen because they want your money. They fight every single day to maintain a false market value of your house, basing its value simply upon the few percent who are willing or able to pa
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
So the idea is "innocent" co-owners of property are being treated unconstitutionally because of civil forfeiture. But who is REALLY affected by this; the legions of innocent wives? Or the vast banking and loan industry who lose pr
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I don't think "of exceptional or temporary network congestion..." means "at will". Recital 15, attached to the article 3(3)c, goes to great length defining what exceptional means, that such traffic may be managed, t
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I understand they recalled all the drivetrains. And will likely do it until all the engineering secrets have been uncovered and solved. I don't see it as a big deal, just part of bringing a highly engineered (accelerated, disruptive) a
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
It appears that Google will eliminate Chrome "packaged apps" in the next year; do I understand these to be locally installed apps? (I don't know Chrome). All apps after that must be on (a service?) the web. What could be the
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I disagree; would it be Unix/Linux without a bourne/csh/bash/whatever shell? Would Win3.x/NT/Win10 be the same without CMD.EXE? I have built, developed in both, heavily, and I say that Unix/Linux without a
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Actually, you are wrong. In the 1972 2nd version of Bell Labs Unix the cat source code says "cat -- concatinate files"(sic). And, in the Bell Labs "Unix Programmers Manual", Second Edition, 1972 it is "Concatenate (
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
You present a false argument. I have never "needed" nor used less, ever, and I suffered no concussion. Imagine having just one tool; you had better like it. If you hit upon a time when your chosen tool needs more functionality, th
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Yes, it is added everywhere, by often by methods you cannot tell. Fruit for example, is selected and bred for more sugar. Cows can be manipulated for more sugar, then dairy products. And again, since no government regulation was allowed, th
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
How could we not buy "sugar products" when it is added without knowledge everywhere? Wouldn't your point of view also require removing labels; after all gov. regulation put them there. Sugar corp would sell to ag corp, with n
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Same here. A subscription wasn't affordable to me, though I was totally enthralled when I would find a collection in the back of 7th grade science class, or in 1974 stumbling upon a current issue in a tiny, backwoods, northern town tha
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Agreed. I have moved those boxes of PE, Radio Electronics, Elementary Electronics, Byte (and Amiga/Atari mags) so many times over the past forty years - I'd really, really like to stop now :-)
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Halcyon days; those articles did stick in your head, the covers, as well as the schematics, I think, because unlike today technical information was often difficult to come by as a hobbyist/non-professional/kid; you would often rea
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
translated as... "they are asking more money for their content than we can give them from monthly subscription fees alone... we'll have to force advertisements".
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I wandered over to find Dick Smith's somewhere in silicon valley (first US store?) at some point. Other than that, it was an Aussie thing, right?
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
haha. I still keep a vintage pack of 50 around for the rare instance I have to throw down a crystal radio set for the kids...
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I was exactly the same; once, just once, one of my friends told me his Dad was into electronics; he showed me a room full of his Heathkit kits in various stages of construction (I remember the full-size organ). But we moved that summer befo
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Yes! the no-solder thing made my parents very happy, and I could take it with me on long car rides. Mine was the earlier 100-in-1; my favorite (though limited) were the Radio Shack P-Box kits and are highly collectible on EBay. I did get a
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Not the diode here; in the 1960s electronics became interesting and available as there was so much junk. I mean, people used to litter everywhere and there was random junk piles (and landfills) within minutes in any direction filled with TV

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