Acorn's PC emulator emulated an 8086 (not 80186). There are a couple of extra instructions added in the later 80186. Not much software uses them but apparently the game Star Trek 25th Anniversary did. Dave Lawrence's FasterPC emulator provided a virtual 80186 (though the CPU emulation was still just as slow, the video support was faster and PC speaker emulation much better, so it could play many DOS games that used 320x200 res in 256 colours. Like Civilization...)

I don't think those came with boxes. You had to personally know the Steves to get one of those, and they were hand built in Job's garage.

If he was going to do that why not do it right from the start? With all of the media fuss now the real lady might show up.

Precisely. Being a somewhat early Apple guy by today's standards having had an Apple IIc purchased new shortly before the IIc+ was released if I had $200k sitting around and wanted an awesome display piece I'd buy it.

The downside of that it that it is too abstract. Kids won't get to be real project managers in class. Not all of them at least. With programming everybody can participate.

What reason did you have to think that a professional politician wouldn't hire professional propagandists? Was Vladimir Putin's reputation too pristine to contemplate such a deal?

This looks a lot more like plain old propaganda. It's not really internet trolling in the traditional sense.

Is "internet troll' some sort of clickbait term? We heard it last year for people who were physically stalking women and it didn't make any sense then either.

Learning any specific language isn't so important IMHO, but learning how to solve problems logically is certainly a skill that more people could use. Learning how to decompose large problems into smaller ones that can be solved individually is also really valuable. Programming itself is maybe less important than being able to think like a programmer. It's not a natural skill, and I meet a lot of adults that are downright terrible at this.

If the laws we have now were in place back then the computer revolution wouldn't have happened. We would still be paying $5000 for IBM Mainframe access terminals.

Or in a slightly less Dystopian view, computers today would look like iPhones, with one vendor having a stranglehold on the platform and completely anemic third party hardware support outside of cosmetics.

Russia would like for us to continue gifting them with cash for 40-year-old missle motors, it's our own government that doesn't want them any longer. For good reason. That did not cause SpaceX to enter the competitive process, they want the U.S. military as a customer. But it probably did make it go faster.

Also, ULA is flying 1960 technology, stuff that Mercury astronauts used, and only recently came up with concept drawings for something new due to competitive pressure from SpaceX. So, I am sure that folks within the Air Force wished for a better vendor but had no choice.

Thank you both for putting some actual discussion in this otherwise really noisy pile of ... comments. Not sure where the moderators are.

This ends a situation in which two companies that would otherwise have been competitive bidders decided that it would cost them less to be a monopoly, and created their own cartel. Since they were a sole provider, they persuaded the government to pay them a Billion dollars a year simply so that they would retain the capability to manufacture rockets to government requirements.

Yes, there will be at least that Billion in savings and SpaceX so far seems more than competitive with the prices United Launch Alliance was charging. There will be other bidders eventually, as well.

Unless you get your Internet over the air (Satellite or Cell) your provider's caps are embarrassingly small. That's straight up ridiculous for 2015.

Correct! A car parked in that location, unattended, with a pressure cooker inside and a smell of gasoline warrants further action. No problem whatsoever with this. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.

Didn't John Carmack get sued for basically the same reason? Failing to give himself a brain wipe after leaving Bethesda?