Comment: Re:Venerated as a demi-god (Score 2) 206
It's where your lunch money went .
hawk
Comment: Re:Steve WHO? (Score 3, Funny) 206
Bah.
Including a keyboard, case, and power supply.
computers for sissies that can't handle a soldering iron.
What's next--put a program in rom so you don't hae to key it in???
humbug
Hawk
Comment: Re:What's wrong with GCC? (Score 1) 711
The problem isn't the number interpreting it, but that it's, as you put it, "debatable.". that's not something lawyers let their clients do--we find ways with known meaning.
hawk
Comment: Re:Why does Apple hate America? (Score 1) 599
Flip the coin on what you're saying: when apple builds a machine in Ireland and sells it to me in Nevada, the state of California is entitled to a piece of the action.
We're not talking about moving taxes on CA activities out of state, but protecting its activity in the entire rest of the world from CA's greedy hands.
Nevada does *not* give these companies a break for which they "qualify"--our tax rate is 0 regardless of size.
hawk
Comment: Re:Not for "Google Apps for your domain" users. (Score 1) 323
Sure it is... that's how I'm using it...
Comment: Re:I am less than thrilled... (Score 1) 86
And please tell me who is going to tell what I must put on my site so it isn't domain squatting? That would mean telling be what content I can not put on my site. That is a slippery slope to censorship.
I am against domain squatting just as you are, but I am even more against people telling me what I can put on my site and what not.
Exactly. What constitutes "use it" in "use it or lose it"?
Must I have a landing page with contact info? Must I have some sort of somewhat functional website? What if I'm using the domain to host a private VPN for me? Just an email server? Is a redirect from something.mine to mine.com acceptable?
Comment: Re:Can't we detect something that size? (Score 1) 279
It is now - just a VERY low orbit!
Comment: Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 369
Universal?
Netscape and OpenOffice, just off the cuff, used viral licenses while backed by Netscape & Sun
hawk
Comment: Re:I had the Olivetti version (Score 1) 143
The model 200 TRS-80 had that screen, too.
There were three versions of the machine known as the model 100--the TRS-80, Olivetti, and I forget the third. There were minor differences between them.
hawk
Comment: Ran on nicads, too (Score 1) 143
I used to run mine on nicads. I think I got 4 or 6 hours: I forget.
Many folks carved space and jerry-rigged a fifth battery to get 6 volts; I ran on just 4--which gave me longer battery life than on the correct voltage (with that type of CMOS, current dissipation was proportional to voltage).
It never occurred to me before, but it likely would have run on 4.5v from three alkalines, and boosted battery life. I'm not likely to put enough hours on ever again to ever find out . . .
However, when the low pow light came on, instead of 20 minutes, yu had 20 seconds . . .
hawk