Comment Oh, that's right... (Score 3, Informative) 85
...today is the day to not bother reading Slashdot.
I'm a millenial who works on mainframes you insensitive clod!
I had to bootstrap a PDP-8 in the Science building during college to complete my introductory programming assignments. That meant physically toggling in the octal sequence to start the high speed paper tape reader.
Now I'm not sure who should get off whose lawn.
Exactly that. Its as if knowing how to use a steering wheel and pedals suddenly turns you into a vehicle engineering expert.
Excellent example!
And a car analogy!
Yep, the article states that it is speculation:
So let us speculate, too.
After 20-years in purgatory, one of gaming’s most heavily ridiculed peripherals of all time – the Virtual Boy – will be making a comeback. Yes gamers, the Virtual Boy 2 is set to be announced by Nintendo.
Of course it is!
Although they are definitely trying to couch their opinion as fact.
Think about how disappointed all those pedos would be after opening the box...
'Chinese traders' trucks carried 20 copies of the film across the border the day after Christmas, just two days after its online release.'
So that would be 20 times about 2GB, which easily fits on one 64G usb-stick the size of an inch. What did they need the trucks for ?
There were extensive liner notes.
AKA the CIA
You know what? I wish. Would be the best thing the ever did.
My guess is Rusty Shackleford.
Star wars is a terrible analogy anyway.
True, there were no automobiles in Star Wars for a proper car analogy. Land-speeders, sure, but no cars.
Star Wars took place long, long time ago. So what is this 1973 you are talking about?
Wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong. The quote is "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....".
But along, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
