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1. 1891.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   A BBC B+ 128KB. I learnt BASIC and Pascal on it. It had OS, BASIC, Assembler and DFS in 48KB of ROM and booted in one second. When PCs came along, they seemed like step back.
2. 1892.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   I dunno, you don't have to be Wozniak to use a blue box...
3. 1893.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   I mean that because of past economic troubles, the whole system was integrated in the 80s. You can easily transfer between any two banks in any point in the country. The banks are also responsible for the safety of their ATMs and internet s
4. 1894.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   I didn't think it was an attack at all. But he did show ignorance of what Brazil is. So do you, in fact. Manaus is in the middle of the jungle and is a very large industrial centre. So buying radio equipment in the Amazon is not really that
5. 1895.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   Impoverished? Brazil is actually a middle-income country, with the South and Southeast rapidly approaching european income levels. Brazil has 190 million people and 150 million cellphones. Most of the population lives near the Atlantic coas
6. 1896.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   This is why Brazil has the safest banking system in the world: Brazilians are unruly and the police is ineffective.
7. 1897.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   The object of this study is not to prove that all forms of interaction are better than algorithmic computing, it is to prove that machines that interact during computation can execute a larger set of computations. You also insist in factori
8. 1898.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   Please look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine . The purpose of a machine with interactions is not to be more intelligent, it is just to be able to execute a larger body of computations than a machine without interactions would
9. 1899.▲
   by forinti 18y ago

   Turing did in fact consider this possibility, and he instinctively knew that a machine that allowed interactions would be more powerful, but he couldn't prove it.
10. 1900.▲
    by forinti 18y ago

    I think Peter Wegner made this same point in the paper "Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms" in CACM (Volume 40, Issue 5, May 1997).
11. 1901.▲
    by forinti 18y ago

    If I had written the article, the title would be "Why do we tax the wealthy as if they were well-off?".
12. 1902.▲
    by forinti 18y ago

    Personally, I think we peaked at Netscape Navigator Gold.
13. 1903.▲
    by forinti 18y ago

    You might not be able to get a job exclusively doing Perl hacking, but if you know Perl you make your life a lot easier. My wife is an IT manager and even she found Perl tremendously useful, beacuse she sometimes has to bang files into diff
14. 1904.▲
    by forinti 18y ago

    Dot-matrix printers still have a large market in Brazil, were they're needed to print out receipts. But because only businesses buy them, they cost about three times more than the latest inkjets.
15. 1905.▲
    by forinti 18y ago

    Only indirectly. If a business can profit more from investing than it can from sitting the money in the bank, then it will regardless of the taxes. Higher taxes will lower consumption and raise costs, but they won't deter investment by them
16. 1906.▲
    by forinti 18y ago

    All generalizations are bad.