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Comment Re:Amiga 2000's are plagued with battery leakage (Score 4, Insightful) 192

which is the primary reason why not to buy one. The zoro cards, especially ethernet can be hard to come by, so unless you get a loaded one... well it's pointless.

I've also had issues with bus noise by maxing out a 2000 with a bridge board, 2065, 68038 upgrade, and ram card. It really was incredibly unstable.

The 2000 has the same CPU as the 500, and 1000. It really was a pointless model. The 3000 and 3000T's are much nicer. And I should add the even a bare 3000 is far more stabler than a loaded 2000.

The other issue now is WinUAE is so good, it can run BSD, AMIX, along with all the software from the Amiga heyday. Considering how funky old machines can be, why even bother?

Lots of old computers are plagued with battery leakage. Got macs like that also.

Sure, WinUAE rocks, I like it. You know what else I and others like to do? Tinker around on the original hardware. It's why I still have an Amiga 1000, 1200, 4x3000 (they need work though). I enjoy using my Amiga 1200. I enjoy using it's mouse, it's OS, on it's hardware. Listening to the floppy drive.

Maybe it's reliving the past, maybe it's a waste of time, but it's how I enjoy wasting my time. I'm sorry you had bad issue with some Amiga hardware. I've had funky machines in the past (and still today, got a nonworking liquid cooler the other day), and yes, we understand you don't like it, bad experiences, you are very glad computing has moved on. Cool.

But we bother because we enjoy the computers.

Comment Wish they sold for cheap (Score 2) 192

Amiga 2000 is my favorite Amiga computer, but they aren't that cheap on Ebay.

I'd love to get one, mainly if it had the 8088 PC board in it also. Used to love running MS-Dos and Amiga OS at the same time.

But cheap is around $100. $250+ isn't cheap, that is the same price they were selling in the 90's.

Comment Re:Do you have any hands-on experience ? (Score 1, Insightful) 667

There's also question of motivation. Why would soldiers waste expensive missiles for some irrelevant passenger plane?

To shoot down Ukrainian military aircraft. They had already shot down a Ukrainian transport plane and a Ukrainian fighter within the previous week. They were on a roll.

Why would be there a plane over a warzone in the first place? That just doesn't make sense.

It was a major air route. There were over 50 civilian airliners over eastern Ukraine at the time MH-17 was shot down. And about 24 aircraft flew through the precise area MH-17 was hit, over the previous day. There was a Singapore Airlines jet close enough to MH-17 at the time for the pilots to see it explode.

Aircraft are currently flying over northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel...

Sure, even if common sense tells you that flying over a warzone is stupid as all fuck, it's okay because other people do it all the time!!!!

No wonder I don't fly.

Comment Re:Yep, how the music industry was killed... (Score 2) 192

You're right. But most of the rest of them got big-enough advances from record labels though so that they could try making music for a living for a couple years. The money for those advances came from record sales of the few acts that did make it. Now, there's little money coming in from record sales from the acts that made it - only peasly subscription revenue and $0.99 tracks. Less money coming into the labels, less money going out as advances to artists.

Having known musicians that have landed contracts, they do NOT give you enough to live on at all. They give you enough to get some new equipment, then gouge them with paying them for the studio, recording, editing, graphics, videos, etc. All which have to be pay back (and you are paying more if you would of found your own places to do that stuff).

And record companies are still making plenty of money selling stuff these days.

Comment Re:Just buoyancy (Score 1) 58

Why is this called the "Brazil Nut Effect?" This is just normal buoyancy, science teachers have been doing demonstrations like this for years. You can do the same thing if you put a golf ball in the bottom of a container full of shredded bark and shake it.

I don't think you want to call it what my grandma would call Brazilian Nuts. Not very PC.

Comment Re:**waves arms wildly** (Score 4, Funny) 106

hey /.

just want to draw your attention to the fact that a sensor can be programmed to detect your mood and relay signals in real time accordingly

yes...sure this is **applied** to a car for "safety"

what are the other applications?

how long has this technology existed?

what else could be done with this ability and other E-M behavior of the human body?

these are questions you should be asking yourself

I wear a tinfoil bodysuit under my clothes.

Comment Re:Holy grey area! (Score 1) 159

So let's say I start a company that uses GMO THC yeast to make bread dough. The dough does not contain any THC; just the yeast that can create it. I sell this bread dough in your supermarket's freezer section as unrisen, unbaked loaves.

You purchase the bread dough, take it home, thaw it out, let it rise overnight. (Or, for an hour or two in a warm oven.) It happily produced CO2 and THC, the bread rises, you then bake it. You then can make some 'fun' sandwiches. Is my business legal?

As long as you probably have the proper license here in Washington state, yes, it's legal. May not even need a license because you aren't growing or harvesting Marijuana.

Comment Re:the mac phenomenon (Score 1) 210

Here's a current gen deal: xbox 360 for $150
Deal has expired; but they come and go.

http://slickdeals.net/f/555149...

Oh, you mean the xbox one or PS4; well those are the latest gen, but xbox360/PS3 are still current gen.
In fact, they are much better consoles to own for now. More games. Cheap games. Used games available.

I love stupid people.

Comment Re: Redneck roadhouse (Score 1) 311

I've lived in South Carolina for 31 years (since birth). Trust me, the term is quite alive and well around here. As a matter of fact hate for Northerners is much stronger than racism these days and has little to do with the Confederacy. There's just a cultural divide. We've had 150 years to integrate the races and for the most part the southern whites and the southern blacks get along fine, but I can't hear a Brooklyn or Boston accent without anger stirring from within.

Don't worry about, I live in the North (well, Northwest) and we refer to you southerners as Rednecks, hillybillyies, racists and of course, you are all a bunch of interbreeding good old boys.

Comment Re:the mac phenomenon (Score 2) 210

In the old days, we all had windows desktops which could be modded and used to play games in addition to it's usual uses.

Now all the kids (and myself) only own Mac laptops, and don't want to buy a windows desktop just to game.

So the easy choice is to drop $200 no a game console to augment the Mac.

Let know know when you find a current gen console for $200.

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