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   by zandorg 17y ago

   The Watchmen, about Kevin Poulsen, is a great read, especially when he wins a red Porsche 944 (a car I've been intending to buy just because of this book).
2. 692.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   It's just that it's SpaceX's 2nd successful launch, and nearly as important as the 1st last year. It's just recent news.
3. 693.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   No hard numbers, it's just that I barely got a Sinclair Spectrum emulator to run on a 10MHZ 286. A Spectrum is about 3 MHZ. I got an Atari ST (8MHZ 68000) emulator to just about run on an old 60MHZ (or so) 486. But it's possible I was getti
4. 694.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   I came up with a reasonable rule that to emulate a chipset/machine/computer, you need 10x the power of that machine. EG, a 1GHZ CPU could emulate a 100 MHZ Amiga.
5. 695.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   If that's so, my skills at setting up lighting, choosing angles, and editing, learned on a A-level equivalent Media Studies course, would be more useful than my entire Software Development degree!
6. 696.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Wow, Wolfe writes like a God. Not a dull sentence (I read Bonfire of the Vanities and it was like stepping into another world).
7. 697.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   There's an old Sinclair Spectrum game called 1994 - ten years after. I don't think it has much to do with the novel 1984 though. http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/1994-ten-years-aft...
8. 698.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Thanks, I stand corrected! The overall point is that people with autism can perform well on technological tasks, and if that's taken advantage of, then great!
9. 699.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   It doesn't say what job they do. I bet it's manual labour and not something like programming or consultancy.
10. 700.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    But as these companies stop growing, the stock options are worthless, and people jump ship to the next Google where their stock will go skyhigh.
11. 701.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I think 'LOL memory' could become a new meme.
12. 702.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Definitely Psion in there too! Oh, and Symbian is the British 'iPhone/Smartphone'.
13. 703.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    As for Google, Autonomy had Kenjin. I think in the UK people are just after a career, and I know people who wouldn't work on a speculative software project without applying for grants (eg, free money). The other problem is that VC's will pr
14. 704.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    It should be an auction process for each name.
15. 705.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Chicago (Win95) came after NT.
16. 706.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Here's one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/amazon_lovefilm/ I think it's a stake.
17. 707.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Amazon OWNS Lovefilm, the most popular DVD rental site in the UK. I use Lovefilm, because it aggregates to about £1.25 per DVD over a month, and that's damn good.
18. 708.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    It's a shame I don't have this system to cope with the disruption of 45 second adverts.
19. 709.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    This quote: "we have the same goals. We’re trying to get information out there " I don't think book companies are all about getting out information at all. Some even press limited amounts of a book.
20. 710.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Works now.
21. 711.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I couldn't get Pi to work (like a little hut).
22. 712.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    My general calculation on YouTube is this: -At Google Search, you do a search and get a text ad. Each text ad is about 400 bytes, each search page (with your results) is around 5k. Serving up the webpage is done from another site. -At Googl
23. 713.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    "goes google one better" on Google = 966 "does google one better" on Google = 12,500 So yes!
24. 714.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    This is very well written (which is defined as not quitting after the first 3 paragraphs) and the first FSJ post I've read.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Codes? The plural for 'code' is 'code' not 'codes'! I can't believe Reuters is talking like a warez kid.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    There is the small problem of postage costs. Compare a movie in a sleeve to a huge book.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I just read his biography. Basically, he tried stopping taking amphetamines, and was okay, but couldn't do any math without them. He was dependent on them.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I see the difference between gambling and stock trading as this: Gambling has a negative long-term percentage, but stock trading is the opposite: a positive long-term percentage. If you gamble at roulette for long enough with any strategy,
29. 719.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I don't get any sense of feeling uncomfortable. But then, I was watching Commodore 64 demos for most of my early teens.
30. 720.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I remember mentioning to my friend in 2000 that you could "Mine gold in an imaginary world" [Ultima Online] and he said it was the best job title ever. Then history caught up with me in about 2003 and suddenly it was big news.