I logged in for the first time this year to upvote this, but I have no karma. This is a fantastic comment - I am going to copy it into my notes so I can see in the future and laugh again and again.

UGH
A while back the corp I work for renamed itself from a 4 letter (so easy to type! ) email address to a 14 character nightmare. This is way worse! 3 letters to 19! How much time are all those employees (and their contacts!) going to spend fixing typos in that damn address.

What about the TVs made in Korea? I don't see how this applies to the TV brands such as Samsung, LG, etc.

Thank you - 8088 is totally correct.

Back in my day, we had to write our own games, in the snow!

At uni there was a 3-D vector FPS on HP Chipmunk workstations called Tunnel. You where in a maze, with the view being just the perspective outline of the walls, and the other player was a cube outline with a tetrahedron on the front side. So there would only be about 12 straight lines on the screen, except when the other player was present,

We wrote our own version on DOS PCs (8086s! not ATs!) and linked 3 PCs with serial ports so 3 of us could death match. Jesus we played that for hours!

Update: Apparently, it was originally ('73) called Maze War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War

Wow - 137 UID. I remember rushing to sign up again after the database reset. /. was always the first site I would try on a new computer/browser/kindle/shoe-phone to see how it would render that critical stream of news for nerds.

My thanks to the legacy of Roblimo.

My main memories of the TRS-80 was that it had a fancy line editor, quite a bit more sophisticated than Apple II or PET. Also our school lab had a copy of Eliza running on the TRS-80 which was pretty fun for 5 minutes :)

Thank you for taking on the task of keeping /. viable.

my suggestions:
* Keep the RSS feed of stories, it is the primary way I get sucked in.
* Give a small amount of mod points to lurkers. Modding has a much lower activation energy, but makes people feel like they are participating, which would then probably get them to post more as well. I would log in much more often to chime in via moderation if I had mod points to give.

So do you only drive model T's? Modern cars already do a lot of the "control" of low level components based on your "inputs". Raising our level of control abstraction to a simple joystick for direction, or just a voice command of "go there" is just a matter of degree.

Not saying I believe the magnitude of the effect, but from the article:

"""The team used a computer model to calculate what would happen if 32,000 large ships - the current estimate of large vessels on the high seas - produced tinier bubbles.
"If we were to successfully put these generators on to these ships, and the ships just went about their normal business, we did find there was potential to reduce the surface temperature by about 0.5C," Prof Forster said"""

You start with NOT gates and build (in simulation) RAM, CPU, etc. Then you go on to program it in assembly and then implement a VM and compiler. It eables somebody to understand how a line of java code is implemented down to the gates in the CPU. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

I wish I had some karma to reward this comment :D

Oh Oh!
Once you convince creationists to submit to this falsifiability criteria, maybe we can get the anthropogenic climate [cooling|warming|change] disaster crowd to do the same.