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Comment Re:jaded (Score 1) 208

I remember building my ZX81.

Then ringing them up when it didn't work. Got a replacement CPU.

Only after that was I shown the magic screen refresh and the true power of Sir Clive Sinclair.

Comment Re:And so comes the market... (Score 3, Informative) 174

I've been fishing for over 30 years and I can taste the difference between Whiting caught off the Brisbane Bar and Whiting caught further up the sunshine coast. It's subtle, but environment always plays a major role.

Just on a side note, most Australian Cod don't belong to the Gadus genus, they're closer to perciformes. So they're not really Cod. From memory, they collectively get called Cod, like Murray Cod. You're right though, terrible eating.

Submission + - John McCarthy, creator of LISP closes his last par (techcrunch.com)

Centurix writes: "The creator of Lisp and arguably the father of modern artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, died today. He studied mathematics with the famous John Nash at Princeton and, notably, held the first “computer-chess” match between scientists in the US and the USSR. He transmitted the moves by telegraph."

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