Jack Tramiel didn't doom himself when he took ATARI.
Under his leadership, ATARI made computer history with the ATARI ST line.
It is when he semi-retired and let his sons at the helm that the company slowly degraded into irrelevance.
Selling the exact same model of computer for 7 years was what doomed ATARI.
His late return consisted of killing the computers division and betting everything on a new game console (the Jaguar).
But his strategy towards games was simply to make the best possible hardware, and game would follow automatically.
Something that worked before for computers, but would not for consoles.

The Jaguar showed it isn't enough to have the best hardware, you need the best games too.

(In the same vein, but different company, the SEGA DreamCast showed it isn't enough to have the best hardware and the best games, you need to have the best marketing too.)

"
Cortana _ You have no idea how this ring works, do you ?
HALO doesn't kill flood, it kills their food.
Humans, covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible.
You don't believe me ? ask him.

MasterChief _ Is it true ?

343 Guilty Spark _ More or less.
Technically, this installation's pulse as a maximum effective range of 25,000 light years.
But when the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life.
Or at least, any life with sufficicient biomass to sustain the flood.
"

Only bacteria left ? sounds about right :)

is more important than the right not to be offended.

I'll let more eloquent persons explain this :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Speaking of which, I wonder if there are ATARI ST demos in high res mode 72Hz ?

Maybe people who navigate windows with the keyboard ?
That's what backspace does in windows explorer.
Go back to the folder you came from.

Still, I cannot fathom why Elon Musk is sticking to chemical propulsion (ie. classic rockets) for his Mars endeavour.
Whith his knowledge and SpaceX, he CANNOT not know about NERVA and space nuclear propulsion, and the point of readiness of such technology achieved in the 70s.
I can understand avoiding using it for earth lift-off, due to common hysteria about anything labeled nuclear, but for the half year trip to Mars ?

I mean, come on, we're using nuclear to make our electricity, to power our aircraft carriers, to power our submarines, to power our ice-breakers, but we won't use it for where it is sorely needed which is a trip to Mars, where no one has gone before ?

The journey to Mars is a catch-22 situation.
The length of the trip using chemical rockets requires shielding of the crew, which weighs down the craft, which makes it harder to accelerate and decelerate, which makes the trip longer/harder, etc ...
Most problems are simply dealt with if you use a much powerful propulsion technology.
More thrust available means shorter trip, means less shielding, means more cargo or a ship big enough for artificial gravity (self-rotating part).

I'll be really happy and take Mr Musk's Mars ambitions seriously the day he announces nuclear propulsion for his Mars ship.
Until then ... I really have a hard time doing that.

Foresaw all of this.

I can remember readind here on /. an excerpt of a novel in which a man was fighting with his door that wouldn't let him go out anymore due to licensing problems.

More knowledgeable fans are welcome to input more details on that particular novel.

Likewise, mine expected you to know C++ to understand OOP.
Never had a C or C++ course before or after.

Quoting Jon Stewart on the matter (speaking of saudi arabia) :

"May I remind you that a full 20% of the 9/11 hijackers were NOT from there"

Just a nitpick : the model was designated ATARI 1040ST.
(The half-meg model was the 520ST.)

"The 1040ST was the first personal computer shipped with a base RAM configuration of 1 MB. When the list price was reduced to $999 in the U.S. it appeared on the cover of BYTE in March 1986 as the first computer to break the $1000/megabyte price barrier;"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Here is an example :

I stopped using TVs when I bought a DreamCast console circa 1999, with its nifty VGA cable and 95% of games compatible with it.

I currently use a 1080p monitor for my HTPC set-up, with the big picture provided by my projector.

Not a single TV or display that includes a TV tuner in my home.

Does Evernote lay claim to everything that is on their servers, à la facebook ?
What are the security implications of having designs of future products stored on an external company's servers ?
What about the case when Evernote servers are down/unavailable ?

Genuine questions. I have only evaluated Evernote for personal use, not for a business.

Erm, no.

Windows 2000 is the OS that joined the enterprise NT4 line and the consumer 9X line.
First to have the stability of the NT kernel and run all the software of the consumer version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

The fact that microsoft released a bit later the same year another consumer only version (ME) is irrelevant.

Not saying there isn't merit to your viewpoint but ... I wish european leaders of the 1930' had done something more than just diplomacy when Hitler was invading/annexing neihbouring countries.
Kinda like I wish current european leaders would do something more affirmative than "dialogue" with Putin.
We know how effective diplomacy and dialogue are when dealing with a bully, right ?

The last gen (X360 & PS3) aimed at 720p native.
The current gen (Xbone & PS4) aims at 1080p native.

It seems a bit exaggerated to expect them to aim at UHD 2160p or 4k.
Just have a look at the electrical and transistor power that a PC actually needs to achieve that.
Of course, they can still output 2160p, but only with simpler games. In the same vein, the original Xbox had several 1080i games.