LOL is the only comment.

The Invincible, 1964.

There's more. In TFA, it says 300ÂC is 500ÂF. (It's 572ÂF.)

This article is exactly why I am still on Slashdot.

And this is why we have Slashdot. Thanks!

What do you mean? An African or European solar system?

These computers typically have a "subtract and conditionally branch" as their single instruction. SUBLEQ a, b, c, subtracts the contents of a from the contents of b, stores it at b, and jumps to c if the result is less than or equal to zero.

An unconditional branch has the next instruction as the destination. A move is a series of subtractions, involving a location that contains 0. Jump tables are a series of subtractions and conditional branches.

My friend Sphinx wrote a compiler he called C--, around that time. A subset of C, it didn't have any of the "fancy" C stuff, but it would output machine language the way you would translate C into assembly. info

(It was 3.5K RAM. Every bit counts!)

Speed-working! It's like speed-dating.

Exactly. Eventually, we'll discover that dark matter is some non-linearity that we just don't understand yet.

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
    - Edsger Dijkstra

Motorcycles are grandfathered in. They wouldn't be allowed if they were invented today, any more than a highway-speed Segway is.

I suppose you support private roads, police and fire departments. People who want roads and safety can pay for them, but it shouldn't be paid for society as a whole.

The community (tax-payers) are the ones providing that money.