I wasn't sure if it was Melody, or her partner April. I know 'of' them (I have a voluntary position on a community funding body, so I've seen previous "software" by them) - so I chose my words carefully when describing the "market", the nature of some (many?) of those trying to, um, mine it - and what I'd want to see before I'd vote in favour of funding it. Melody(?) has previously promoted this latest 'project' on /. celebrating 1000 downloads (by who?).

Whois showed the current registration was recent , hence my comment about, um, young code.

DiscoRunner is different because:-

• 99.5% compatible with the original languages
• multi dialect (well, two, sort of - so far....)
• BASIC programs are saved as text files (revolutionary! paradigm shift!! No more .BAS binaries!! [sigh])
• various other breakthroughs

Yes, I'm a jaded cynic (and Australian).

But... if you're white, the problem is people with different skin colour. [mumbles] something about the accumulation of power leading to paranoia and justified guilt - the less competition you have the more you fear it [mumble] the pure and simple truth....

The justification of arseholes and one-bookians with dicks the whole world over. The real reason you hate women is fear and ignorance. Fear that you won't get laid (which is true while you hold those opinions for those reasons) and ignorance as to why you won't get laid (because you refuse to learn anything).

Cue the tire cliches about how "women" only want men who are arseholes (then how come you don't get laid every hour?); they only want "providers" and push the evolutionary psychology line (and ignore a women's right to not become pregnant, which negates that theory); the pathetic truths are that you marginalized yourself with your confirmation bias, and, the caliphate/baptists are recruiting large numbers.

Perhaps - before you even attempt that:-

• Provide licensing information on your website
• Fix some "basic" problems
• mention that it is Apple BASIC
• differentiate it from BASIC4GL
• It is /. - tell us about the code and who wrote it.

Fix those point and you'll have a product that stands head and shoulders against the competition. Which isn't hard - most of the edutainment market is utter crap (I work with a large number of schools that buy utter shit on the basis of "social-networking" merit points)
Until then it 'seems' like you (Melody and Anne?) are just spamming Slashdot to promote a 2 month old project.

Not that the idea isn't without merit - it's just that the "edutainment" market is overcrowded with "outsourced" get-rich-quick, all-froth-(and social marketing) and-no-beer closed-source schemes knocked-up-in-an-afternoon that leave a trail of broken promises in schools already hard pressed to do the bare minimum with their tiny budgets

Good luck

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

Too much tofu. Jogging too soon after eating too much tofu?

Bill Hicks might have said "Not enough time spent smoking cigarettes and getting nude women to sit on his bald noggin"

Seriously - congenital heart disease(?)

Email the CEO, keep the body of the email short and simple enough for an IT illiterate to undestand the problem. Don't worry him/her about the consequences of the problem. Be sure to use a click bait subject line (they're probably very busy) e.g. Your account details for account [their bank account number] are attached. Don't forget to attach their bank account details

Oh - and don't do any of this from your computer - or via your internet connection. And don't expect credit, just that the problem will be rapidly fixed - which is what you want, right?

Are you sure? Or is this like arguing about hobbits? I'd have thought in reality there would be no doubt the person with the skull for a face was someone wearing a punisher suit..

OT. I wonder (with little thought) whether they could be engineered to show one number to the naked eye and another to an infared sensitive camera?

I read the offence to be about posting the name and contact details and the images.

I guess it's hard for an anonymous coward to grasp the difference between that and "shame about sex" - or even "personal choice".

In a perfect world we could safely store our beer on the front porch and walk anywhere, any time, without attracting unwanted attention - but the world ain't perfect. e.g. I don't want to see you waddling around with your micro dick exposed - could cause eye damage. When you have a "right" to wander the streets naked I hope I retain the "right" to find you repulsive and smack you on the pee pee but good. Until then - have you heard of nudist farms?

Oh wait... you don't have "right" to show your pimply arse in public, or have sex with dogs. What a morally uptight, context blind world we live in.

Like government backing? Or insurance?

I would - if I could still see.

The light1 - it's like, um, fried my fucking eyeballs.

Hey cool! The bong water glows in the dark. Heav-ee (water).

Noted (now) - thanks

Sigh - even thinking I read the TFA didn't help.

Clearly the "science writer" should have put that into a context - i.e. against Japan.

Proportional to the number of forum flooding (trolling and stupid questions) : relevant posts ratio (?)

Butttt... the water was nice and warm. Of course it was relatively non-toxic then - won't be next time.

In Eurasia rodents did well, while primate distribution declined. But wait... there's more! Fucking big lava lamps (it was cool kids. You call them volcanoes now).

And... where did the click-bait headline "we stopped at two bombs" come from!? Who's "we", and W(here)TF was it "stopped" at two bombs. Certainly not Alaska, Muaroa... Japan?

I'm guessing it's a missprint. Should of been "we (cant' handle our drugs/inner realities) stopped at two bongs . Which is where they stopped reading. What were they smoking? Not the kind herb.

Should of stopped about two metres from the keyboard. And had twenty bongs of the kind.