Comment Re:6502 on the Vic-20 - 4k - tape only (Score 1) 42
More than 128 bytes of RAM is wasteful, really. #Team2600
Comment Re:meaningless (Score 1) 54
neither one of these brands have anything to do with their original existence, might as well say Bell and Howell buys Packard Bell. Hell, I bet you cant even count the number of owners Atari has had on both hands
With ten fingers, that's ten bits, so 1023 possibilities.
Submission + - Google may force Samsung to drop the Galaxy S8's most exciting feature (ibtimes.co.uk) 2
drunkdrone writes: Samsung is reported to be equipping its upcoming Galaxy S8 flagship with all manner of technical marvels in its attempt to erase the Note 7 catastrophe from memory. However, Google may throw a wrench into the works by potentially prohibiting Samsung from imbuing the phone with one of its most compelling features – its AI personal assistant.
Reports have suggested that Samsung planned to load the Galaxy S8 with Viv, a smartphone-based digital assistant similar to Apple's Siri and Google Assistant. Because of an ongoing non-compete pact between Samsung and Google, however, Samsung may be forced to exclude Viv from its upcoming flagship as would challenge Google's digital helper.
Reports have suggested that Samsung planned to load the Galaxy S8 with Viv, a smartphone-based digital assistant similar to Apple's Siri and Google Assistant. Because of an ongoing non-compete pact between Samsung and Google, however, Samsung may be forced to exclude Viv from its upcoming flagship as would challenge Google's digital helper.
Submission + - Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Yahoo says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. The Sunnyvale, California, company says it's a different breach from the one it disclosed in September, when it said 500 million accounts were exposed. That new hack revelation raises questions about whether Verizon will try to change the terms of its $4.8 billion proposed acquisition of Yahoo. Yahoo says the information stolen may include names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and security questions and answers. The company says it believes bank-account information and payment-card data were not affected.
Comment Re:I would hardly call R obscure. (Score 1) 429
For those interested, the 6502 source code to Action! was recently released; there's an active thread on AtariAge dedicated to some bugfixes and continuing development.
Comment Re:Incredible (Score 1) 105
You'd think that with that much money coming in, they'd have been able to afford an artist...
Comment Re: Cat and mouse... (Score 1) 437
I'm not certain that the wanton greed of XM Radio extends to Chinese dumplings in soup...
Comment Wood for Sheep (Score 1) 171
Settlers of Catan cry, or bestiality fetish. You decide.
Comment And is business better? (Score 2, Interesting) 143
Government can't hide its mistakes as well as industry can. How many SAP implementations have delivered on time and on budget? How many other projects have cost companies millions more than planned?
Yes, government IT is bad, but its not unique in that...
Comment Star Wars Holiday Special (Score 4, Funny) 457
How could this not be an option?
Comment Re:Yeah, but $54 for a USB Wifi? (Score 4, Insightful) 85
If I can spend 10% and it works, I'm happy.
Therefore, I am happy.
Enjoy your purity. I'll enjoy my $48.60 in leftover money.
Comment John Christopher & John Wyndham (Score 1) 1130
The Tripods trilogy (now in four books) is a good set to get your 10-12 year old boys hooked on the genre.
And I enjoy the "cosy catastrophes" of John Wyndham's works - The Day of the Triffids and Chrysalids are his two best known, but the story of the Troon family in "The Outward Urge" is wonderful as well (one of the best SF examples of bluffing at a national level in one of the stories), and my personal favourite was his first posthumous work, "Web" - unlike its predecessors, there's no "Well, things are getting better" at the end...
Comment Let's hope they are not running Windows (Score 2, Interesting) 83
A whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death".
Comment Re:People's expectations were realistic (Score 1) 267
Yes, but you've go the X and Y registers as well, plus page zero offers a wide range of ways to use those 256 bytes as pseudo-registers for indirection or other tricks.
Why should anyone ever need more than 64K (without bankswitching)?
Girls Bugged Teachers' Staff Room 227
A pair of enterprising Swedish schoolgirls ended up in court after they were caught bugging their teachers break room. The duo hoped they would hear discussions about upcoming tests and school work, allowing them to get better grades. It worked until one of them decided to brag about it on Facebook, and the authorities were called in. The girls were charged with trespassing and fined 2,000 kronor ($270) each in Stockholm District Court.
