Posts by Dan 55

Re: £549 for a Nokia???

Well... the pound isn't what it quite was 10 years ago...

Perhaps if he hadn't said "portability is for people who cannot write new programs" and hadn't had a go at MINUX, he wouldn't be in this situation. It took a lot of work to convert Linux from an i386 OS to work on other CPUs, one day he might work out more modular kernels aren't such a bad thing either.

Re: Uncomfortable

How do you think that MS is going to make money out such a system?

Nobody who buys Windows cares what happens under the hood, it could be Windows NT, Linux, or a hamster in a wheel. What's important is the APIs look the same from the outside and Windows software they have still runs as usual.

Re: Screw Your Rules

• Attempt No Landing Here (this is a local moon for local Lunarians).

Re: Backwards compatible?

Not in the UK but the operator does (allegedly) support it.

Re: Interestingly,

Okay, here's why you're wrong. I remember the GUIs of 1987, it does not look out of the ordinary or special in any way.

It's difficult to tell the difference between the Next's GUI that we saw here and what was on UNIX, same menus, practically the same window decorations. Rending a text document in a window with clickable words and a context menu is nothing amazing. The Next's GUI might have been better at inter-process communication and drag and drop than UNIX but here we're just looking at the browser.

Other late 80s hardware aimed at the home or smaller business did eventually get browser software in the mid 90s when the Internet became more mainstream and again the browser software used the GUI toolkit available on those systems.

We will have to agree to disagree because I believe there is no shiny (and I did use image search and YouTube just to check and refresh my memory on what was available on UNIX, Mac, ST, Amiga, and even Archimedes) and you believe there is shiny.

Re: Whats the mic intended for

Google Assistant, apparently.

Re: Who Actually Wants the T2?

To answer your question, Apple, because:

1) Can't use 3rd Party SSD replacements,

2) Certain components can't be repaired without the blessing of Apple,

3) Alternative Operating Systems have somewhere between no ability to see the internal SSD and intermittent support

Expect more and more things to be pulled into the T2 chip in future models, so it becomes less and less repairable.

Re: Regulate the algorithms?

You don't need to regulate the algorithms, just the output.

If it recommends flat earth videos or Alex Jones, drop that output, tell the machine learning algorithm it's been naughty so it'll recommend it less in the future, and go back to get another recommendation.

Re: 2FA

You don't get a call and a robot voice speaking the message to you when you answer?

Re: On the subject of ancient history

That was because Sinclair reused the ZX80 RAM pack mould instead of Rick's ZX81 RAM pack design.

Re: Has anyone seen the film "Minority Report"?

The UK does not and has never had free speech rights until the Human Rights Act 1998 came along (which incorporates Article 10 of the ECHR into British law).

Government ministers have said on numerous occasions that they want to rescind the HRA and replace it with something else.

Re: First remove the engine...

This the life one...

Baby Manual (3rd edition)

Conception to two years. All models covered.

And listening to Squarepusher.

Re: Disk in continuous use.

Where might one discuss this topic further?

Ask Woody

This month they've highlighted a bug with SMB/NTLM.

Low-level programming on the old 8-bit processors with their paucity of registers and addressing modes etc. always felt more like puzzle solving than most of what I've done since.

You should have tried the Z80, there are quite a few more than the 6502... I never thought the zero page was an adequate substitute.