Are you my old neighbor that used to haul his Atari or Coleco over to my apartment to show me all the cool games? Did you ever get a color TV over 12"?

I'm old enough, too. I have a big lawn, and I've owned a Gran Torino and watched the movie. Oh, and that little strip between the sidewalk and the street? I don't care what the city says, that's mine, too.

That was self inflicted, you know. It's not "any link on Slashdot". You really should have just paid attention to the urlshortenertrap. It's kind of like the guys who fall for the police bait car even after the old lady walks by and says it's a police trap.

It's like everyone in Seattle has to own an iPad, otherwise they aren't hip. wtf.

It's like everyone in Seattle has to own an iPod, otherwise they aren't hip. wtf.

It's like everyone in Seattle has to own an iPhone, otherwise they aren't hip. wtf.

It's like everyone on Slashdot has to dis iOwners, otherwise they lose cred. wtf.

It's like ACs on Slashdot...oh wait, you're just here to flame.

I hate to do it...wait, no I don't...we used to build our own joysticks and wheel controllers, a few pots and pulleys. I think it was Byte magazine that ran an article that showed how to build a light pen for the Sinclair ZX81. Analog was nice.

Yeah, and he puts his byline on his writing, too. Yeah, what a tool.

The Coleco ADAM was probably the worst platform prior to 1985 with possible runner up being the Mattel system (which probably still holds the record for worst controller ever).

You actually have an Enter/Return key. The left pointing arrow found on the "enter" key is one of the accepted symbols for "return". It's just not spelled out.

Screw that, enough talk, nuke nature now. For our children. Think of the children.

IPv4 address should run out by then, or not, things will be hotter, or colder, social security may have crashed, or not, the USA will be a socialist nightmare, or not, God will make a sudden appearance, or not, and the Beatles may reunite, or not.

Weren't all addresses supposed to be gone by now? That's problem with doomsday predictions IPv4, warming, God, it never happens as scheduled and then people just ignore you next time you start predicting. If we were more temperate about our predictions, people wouldn't dismiss them as more of the same "sky-is-falling" crapola.

35 machines that dispense bullion. Context! Comprehension! Did you go to school in California?

Reminds me, a little, of when WordPerfect was whored out to Novell then to Corel where it languished into obsurity. Goodbye, OpenOffice, we knew ye well, sleep the sleep of the dead.

I remember seeing pictures of Buran on the junk heap about 10 years ago. Why is this news today?

The question was...Who wants to be first in line to melted/eaten/death rayed/vaporized/exposed to space herpes?

I worked on guidance and control systems for the USAF. When I got the chance to look at the shuttles inertial nav systems, I wasn't really that shocked to see they were basically the same as the systems I was working on that were designed in the '60s and modified only slightly through the '70s. The systems work, and with redundancy provide an incredibly accurate system.