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Comment Re:Could it still be king? (Score 1) 107

by 28.stick on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @05:07PM (#64440086) Attached to: The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60

If BASIC were compiled, if it had pointers...

BASIC was originally compiled. And some of them also had pointers.

Submission + - Einstein letter calling Bible "pretty childish" to be auctioned on eBay (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by cheesecake23 on Sunday October 14, 2012 @04:25PM

cheesecake23 writes: In an admirably concise piece in The Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen summarizes Einstein's subtle views on religion and profound respect for the inexplicable, along with the news that a letter handwritten by the legendary scientist that describes the Bible as a 'collection of honorable, but still primitive legends' and 'pretty childish' will be auctioned off on eBay over the next two weeks. Bidding will begin at $3 million.

Comment Why they failed (Score 1) 347

by 28.stick on Monday November 22, 2010 @04:09PM (#34309752) Attached to: The Software That Failed To Compete With Windows

a Visi On window on TFA says:

Multiple Apps are ruining at the same time.

Comment Re:A fool and his money... (Score 1) 827

by 28.stick on Thursday August 19, 2010 @07:31PM (#33308798) Attached to: Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities

Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable
2 used from $2,499.98 1 refurbished from $999.99

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

35% buy AmazonBasics Toslink Cable $7.49
24% buy HDMI Cable $2.29
13% buy Mediabridge Cable $9.99

Priceless.

Comment Re:Nostalgia (Score 1) 462

by 28.stick on Monday November 09, 2009 @04:56PM (#30038056) Attached to: Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers

Agreed.
The guys at CBS may also explain how those hackers built the lightning generator that burned down the transmission towers in Macae and Campos.

Comment Re:Steven Hawking edition (Score 1) 683

by 28.stick on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @08:13PM (#26821223) Attached to: Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal

They are selling the book in a DRM form precisely so they can split the reading rights from the voice rights.

No. They are selling information in a medium and trying to prevent you to use another medium to use the information you've already payed for.

So no, they don't have a point.

BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith 448

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @06:00PM from the still-want-a-be-box-led-meter dept.

kokito writes "OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda reviews Haiku, the open source successor of the Be operating system. According to the review, Haiku faithfully/successfully replicates the BeOS user experience and 'personality,' boasting very short boot times, the same recognizable but modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector graphics as well as vector icons, a file system with support for metadata-based queries (OpenBFS) and support for the BeAPI, considered by some the cleanest programming API ever. The project has also recently released a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain, clearing the way for bringing up-to-date ports of multi-platform apps such as Firefox and VLC, and making it easier to work on Haiku ports in general." (More below.)

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