I've got a TI 99/4a system if you're interested. I think it is missing the video cable. PEB with drive, interface cards, rubber-cup modem, lots of software.

Electronic ignition? Perhaps the timing was being retarded due to the knock sensor going off on the lower-octane fuel. My oilhead BMW runs ok on low octane but I can definitely tell a mpg difference on the higher octane the manual says it needs.

I have no idea what I am talking about but what if you got a Linux box with 8 sound cards, configured 8 instances of Amarok to play, one on each output, and set up your playlists acccordingly?

Well, too bad for them that they can't force me to subscribe to cable. I've even gone so far as to pull out the janky wiring from multiple cable installs over the years in the house I purchased.

This is exactly how I use it - recorded OTA television (no cable) and video files with MythTV, and then Netflix in Virtualbox, and Amarok for music. This results in more TV than I have time to watch anyway.

It's a long road back to 1998 or 1999 when I first started reading Slashdot. You'll do well in whatever you put your mind to.

Sounded like they said the sensor noting retraction of the cone dome thing wasn't working so they had to verify visually (that was the camera 62 shot).

because, seriously. Wikipedia is not the reference to end all references. If some dummy changes it and it's wrong, either someone will change it back, or (hopefully) the avalanche of other sources on Paul Revere will remain correct.

I am fond of that distribution - any word on whether it will still be maintained?

I still have a VIC-20 and tape drive. Recently while listening to my cassette copy of the 1812 Overture, I realized that for some reason, when I was a kid, I had saved a BASIC program in the blank space occurring after the music on one side of the tape. I haven't tried to restore it, but the tape is in good shape, and there doesn't seem to be anything preventing reloading the program from tape. I'm guessing it dates from 1984. I have a lot of floppies from the late 80s that I'm sure are still readable, if I can find a working drive.

> But in the case at hand, Netflix and similar get the revenue, but Comcast gets the cost

But wait, isn't Netflix already paying for their outbound bandwidth?

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

If I ever get filthy rich, I'm going to buy a new car. Then, I'm going to buy a Delta 4 rocket and launch my old Mercedes into high orbit. Why? because it would be awesome.

We wouldn't know if they had or not. If a time traveler offed Hitler, the timeline would rebuild and we'd have our memories, just like now, of the "original" events, having no knowledge of the change since we're inside the continuum (so to speak). So they might be constantly screwing with the past and we'll never know.

I've had many bad capacitors on video cards lately. They swell up and burst after a year or two. Cheap components :(