Comment Re:8 out of 10 for cool. 1 out of 10 for interesti (Score 1) 165
I let my C64 go already. Still have a 1541, can't bear to actually throw it away but they're not really worth much and who knows if it even still works.
I let my C64 go already. Still have a 1541, can't bear to actually throw it away but they're not really worth much and who knows if it even still works.
I think I see what's happening now. It's been sensationalized.
The news being distorted to make for a more paranoia-inducing headline? On my Slashdot? Unpossible!
I just mail the IRS the lifeless bodies of my children...
They're both removable storage, but even that function is conceived very differently now. Floppies are intended to be swapped in and out; the picture even depicts somebody sliding one in. They had very small capacity, and you'd use multiple floppies as an organizational tool the way we now use directories. (MS-DOS had directories, but CP/M just had a flat file structure since it only supported 200k floppies anyway.) The idea that a chip that small would also store 1000x more data would have been dismissed as hilarious.
SD chips tend to be fairly immobile: some are removable (especially on devices like cameras), but in most cases they tend to just stay there. You can get the SD card out of my phone, but you have to remove the case and a battery to get to it. We've substituted networking for most of the "removability" of a floppy drive. I know that some printers still support using SD cards as sneakernetting, but I suspect that more and more cameras will just end up with built in networking. The main reason to remove the chip will be to put in a bigger one.
I've also had them unilateraly apply tax credits that I wasn't legally eligible for (thank heaven I can't be held liable for their mistakes... yet).
Are you sure? If you call their help line, and they give you incorrect advice, you are still liable for any underpayment, including penalties.
Yeah... HP is an American company, but no Americans had smartphones. OK, Eurotroll.
We had lots of phones that could play MP3s, but the storage space was limited. I'm sorry that the people you knew were behind the times.
What have you done to make it more painful? Do you even vote? How about writing some letters? Or giving money to a candidate?
In the end it's simple. Apathy is the ultimate enemy of freedom.
Not sure that's the right link or not. That's about taxing freebies, not going after decades old debts.
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
