*stunned silence*

*cough* Who Wants to be a Millionaire *cough*

Are you saying that just to be negative?

Atari certainly did a lot of repacking the same old hardware. I used several XL cartridges on the XE Games System without issue. And to upgrade to a 'real' XE computer, all you needed was a disk drive.

Flight Simulator 2 was bundled and that was awesome - fly under the Golden Gate Bridge and round the Statue of Liberty, then engage in a WWI dogfight, all in 2MHz 8-bit chunkiness.

The light gun was also good for a laugh. Light guns are about the only thing I miss about CRT TVs.

Missile Command came built-in, but unfortunately didn't use the light gun.

Done reminiscing.

Actually did have a detachable keyboard, and closer to the 130XE (actually 65XE) than the 800.

It was pretty lousy compared to the NES. Ironically my favourite game on it was Mario Bros. Yep, a Nintendo game on non-Nintendo hardware ;-)

Yes, that - have kids and then game with them. Give the lady a break to do her own stuff.

Just be sure to pick games that are age-appropriate and don't dwell on them once the educational potential has been extracted. (Pretty much any game has at least *some* educational potential.)

And it should be possible to use a hacked Mega client that lies about the pre-encryption hash.

Why ask what a landline phone is when you could just vote 'What's a Landline Phone?'?

I take it you haven't watched videos of Asimo trying to climb stairs.

I'd say you likely nailed it there, sir.

There may be some mutation that led to the tumor, but the chances of that mutation leading to the same symptoms again could well be miniscule. Even if she were to be cloned, that is.

After all, the biological systems we're talking about here are unfathomably complex, and so are their failure modes.

And then there's Barbie as Rapunzel.

(I lost it at 'Furby as Ghandi'. See how far you get.)

People see 'whom' in print, so they start using it to make themselves look smart.

A few examples from my work email:

New Zealand here used/uses 111, but that was at the long end of the dial, so took 9 clicks rather than 1. Not easy to dial accidentally, but unfortunately slow to dial deliberately.

If you tried to dial 999 (being the UK emergency number), rather than emergency services, you'd get a recorded message instructing you to dial 111. I always thought that was dumb, but your explanation makes sense.

Then again, IIRC, dialling 911 also gave the recorded message, to cries of 'Just put me through already, I'm dying here!'.

Logging is a good candidate for Haskell's 'get out of FP jail free' function, unsafePerformIO.

Apparently there's a standard function Debug.Trace.trace for this.

It'd be good for a laugh to try some of these approaches out. Wouldn't take much - maybe some PIL code to take a full-color bitmap, encode, and then convert back to full-color. Then compare results.

Looking back on some Amiga game art, I'm sure some of the better ones were on to the two-dimensional-color-space trick (e.g. cyan/red rather than RGB) for their palette selections. Limiting the color space can work well as a stylistic concern (e.g. give the game an 'old movie look') as well as giving better color resolution.

Commenting on the color resolution, on the Amiga with (for simplicity) Extra Halfbrite mode (32 color palette plus an extra set at half brightness), for a three-color space you can get 4x4x4 possibilities, whereas for a two-color space you can get 8x8. That is, lose one color and double the resolution on the other two.