he was downmodded for the attitude, not the information.

if a person can't keep their cool during a discussion they annoy me. I suspect you don't see it very differently.

fair enough... ... no connectivity either, or at least tightly controlled connectivity.

AAAAAAAAGH!!!

... why are mission critical devices connected to the internet

sure we know that the weakest link is the meatware, not the hardware, but still...

the stalker game series: all game scripting and i think even the ai of npcs is in lua.

"modifying software written in C is hard for users."

i thought *users* had no business writing device drivers?

of course if they had said "modifying software written in C is hard for programmers." it would gather a fierce shitstorm.

all that matters is that he is a good drummer, even ignoring his disability.

There is something that distinguishes musicians from one another, it can be phrasing, timing, whatever. This time is number of arms.

The US? The world? An individual?

decaf tastes very different to normal coffee. At least the jacobs brand that i frequent.

Um

And what good did it do to them?

Last time i heard they are being under a steamroller.

yes.

go into the mother lion's mouth to convince her not to eat you

what does he say between 3:50 and 4:05? What does it mean? What happened?

Voyager 1/2 could run about 100K instructions per second, maybe less.

It's about the objective, not raw processing power.

And this is a fine opportunity! to pour some of my bile about the miserly state in which modern software is.

> garbage collecting

AHA! so it is THEIR fault!

the generation that grew up learning on those relics you describe has far more intimate knowledge of how computers work and how to take advantage of their abilities due to how they work, not because they have a TB of ram and 16 execution units.

the software of my calculator (48gx) is far better than almost anything I've seen in modern computers.