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by memsom 6y ago
I had an 800XL that I got for cheap at the end of the 8-bit era. It was an amazing machine. A few years later, my then girlfriend's mum's boyfriend got a new computer, a 65XE. I was shocked when I realised it was basically the 800
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by memsom 6y ago
It would be better to use NT4 or Windows 2000. Delphi had a habit of crashing hard under 9x whilst debugging and taking the OS with it. I used Delphi from 1 - 5 commercially and we never used 9x because the experience was a lot less usable.
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by memsom 6y ago
We currently get out home broadband via cellular, so I guess the data has a possible skew in certain areas. I know we are not the only ones who do it that way.
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by memsom 6y ago
Yes, but you need to carefully pick the hardware at the moment. I, for example, have it running on an old Netbook (MSi Wind U100, 2GiB RAM, spinning disk) and everything apart from audio and webcam seems to work very well, including the WiF
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by memsom 6y ago
It's quite a common thing. I would identify as a European too. UK is about to leave the EU, but UK is still in the European continent. Some of my fellow countrymen are not so sure, but for me, I feel more European than not.
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by memsom 6y ago
No, sets. Sets are amazing. I still miss them to this day. Pascal also had sub ranges long before C# and the type system was very good. Delphi dereferenced its object model be default, so you could use dots rather than the awkward ^. Of pa
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by memsom 6y ago
Okay I googled it - and it does make sense. Apparently "halvanden" means one and a half (halv = half, andan = 2nd, but for this "2".) So, 50 is actually "halvtredsindstyve", which is ((3 - 0.5) * 20)... okay..
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by memsom 6y ago
I think Danish has a more complicated system. 1 - 20 is similar to most Germanic languages, by extension Indo European in general. But, then it gets weirder the closer you get to 100: 20 - Tyve (Swedish tjugo, Norwegian: tjue) / 30 - T
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by memsom 6y ago
Somewhere in a Sam Esmail alternate reality, Elliot Alderson is probably smiling or something.
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by memsom 6y ago
The edit? No. Why would it be a typo? You assume everyone's first language is English, right? So, it really depends on your search engine. Using 3 different ones, assuming my English spelling is less than stellar, only looking at the f
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by memsom 6y ago
Well they are, but they aren't. They are both pronounced the same and if I hear one, I could easily mistake the other. If someone tells me about this "prologue web framework" I could easily transliterate that as "prolog&
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by memsom 6y ago
But the Speccy was to us in the UK, what the Apple][ was in the US. The funny weird home grown computer that everyone still seems to love despite it being old, quirky and obsolete. The +2, +2A/B and +3 has much more standard keyboards.
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by memsom 6y ago
But is is confusing if you know what Prolog is. Real world example: Once there was a new browser from Mozilla called Firebird. There was also a previously established RDBMS called Firebird. No one believed the browser and the RDBMS would
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by memsom 6y ago
Apple was luxury in the UK until the iMac. I remember looking at the Beige G3 hardware and it being 3 or more times more expensive than my beige no name PC. My first Mac was a 6100 years after it was obsolete. I wanted to play with Macs, bu
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by memsom 6y ago
It's generally great. The only thing we have that was a disaster is a wardrobe with mirrored doors. The doors are too heavy for the fittings and they basically sheared off on one side. Fixing is really hard because the door weighs too
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by memsom 6y ago
For us, the Spectrum was everything the Apple ][ was to you. But the BBC Micro used a lot in education is probably what you should really be comparing the Apple ][ to. It was better than the Apple ][ in many ways. It had most of the feature
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by memsom 6y ago
In the UK it was completely different. You didn't go to toy stores to buy computers, we had a number of Electronics retailers and department stores that sold them. They were in Dixon's, Curry's and Comet (all electrical retai
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by memsom 6y ago
Yeah that works. I think I've heard it too.
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by memsom 6y ago
Yeah, it is. "Eezup geez! oi'm avin a roiht mare wiv me owlady. She wuz wew narked wiv me an trieda knock me sparkh ayt laas noiht" "Don't be harsh with me old boy. I'm having a lot of trouble with my other hal
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by memsom 6y ago
There are a lot that people use. "Give me a Butchers" (Butcher's hook - look) is another I still hear a lot. Or just "giz a butch" as a more colloquial version. I think "having a Ruby" is less common outsi
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by memsom 6y ago
And the salaries quoted are gross or net?
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by memsom 6y ago
Agreed. I'm far south and therefore nowhere near London and this is what I'm seeing. If you are in specific fields, some companies are paying £70-80k+, but you need to have proven skills in the fields they are looking for. The oth
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by memsom 6y ago
And some languages just don't get autogenerated captions at all. "No captions available" is pretty common on videos even from fairly large European countries. I think Russian, English, French, German and possibly Spanish and
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by memsom 6y ago
Machine captions in English. Not in non-English. Swedish and Norwegian, both fairly close to English, when compared to say, Chinese of Japanese, have no autogenerated captions - the system simply never offers that as an option. If you think
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by memsom 6y ago
One pf the original creators. Braben was only one of the two developers, Ian Bell was the other one. There is a version of the trading portion of the game available in pure C on Ian's web site[1]. [1] http://www.elitehomep
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by memsom 6y ago
Yet, NT4 -> W2K -> XP.... strange how the consumer degraded but the business was a real progression. I was using NT4 at my first job in 98, through till 2000 became more wide spread. Win2000 was a step up, but the driver support (IIRC
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by memsom 6y ago
No it is worse than that, it is Openreach. BT spun them off, and they are not the same company anymore - this was to avoid being told they had a monopoly on the lines. But in truth, BT get a lot more priority with Openreach than any other p
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by memsom 6y ago
This is our situation too. What makes it worse is we have Cable in the area too, but that stops on the public street, and doesn't come on to the estate. We were looking to move recently and almost bought a house from a sub company of P
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by memsom 6y ago
One, but there were others. Moho comes to mind, but there were others such as Tune Tracker.. there was at least one DAW that came with BeOS and a custom app to run the hardware too. There were a few games.. Chorum 3 is one I have a copy of.
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by memsom 6y ago
I have a copy of it for BeOS too. It runs on both PowerPC and Intel. It was pretty nice at the time. I'm sure it is incapable of doing anything with modern documents though.

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