Re: Do The Right Thing
At least he isn’t a mean, nasty scumbag. That’s a plus.
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Yes. And neutral Switzerland stashed quite a lot of stolen gold for the Nazis. Russia was in a pact with Hitler, until Hitler foolishly attacked. And neutral USA profited from selling weaponry to UK, until USA was attacked. And then kept on profiting. And UK fought hard to keep its empire. Not at all for profits.
"It was later revealed that Sony had violated the CD audio format standard "
I assume that this was when they deliberately introduced errors on the CD that old CD players managed to handle, but which could throw off the CDROM drives of that era? Thus preventing error free rips.
"Except having the infection seems to provide longer lasting immunity (apparently something the AZ vaccine is better at)."
Would you rather risk death, or Long Covid, than get a jab every 6 months or so? It's only a theory anyway, and the actual medical advice is to get the vaccine even if you have had Covid.
"Because the media (main stream and social) keep banging on about how we should be scared and people keep believing them rather than turning their brains back on."
I'll tell you what really scares me. It's the 60+ semi-senile gammon type that can't be bothered with putting on a mask, but must creep up on you like he wanted a snog, only to talk to you. Can't take a hint. Totally self centred, and convinced he's brilliant in every way, and knows better than any expert how things work.
Many of you posting here, it seems.
"This is the problem faced by countries who locked down excessively and thought they had done well. Only to find they are reliant on vaccine to build up immunity but instead of the single variation to protect from there are now many mutations."
Well, now there ARE vaccines. There weren't any before. So I'd venture to say they did the right thing. Their death figures show this. And they have enjoyed considerable freedom from restrictions at times when we were in lockdown. They just handled it by killing flareups off quickly, instead of dragging their feet like we do here in UK.
Indecisiveness due to piss-poor education of our politicians is to blame. Latin spouting morons can't grasp science -they always inject large proportions of magical, wishful thinking into everything.
What a load of absolute bollocks!
Children and adolescents bringing the virus home to kill their parents or grand parents won't thank you for your advice. Actually, most young people have no problem at all with the safeguards in place. It's old, lazy entitled and narcissistic farts that have problems following simple rules.
How are those blinkers working for your, then? Very well, it seems?
Try reading up on how hospitals are delaying millions of procedures due to being overwhelmed by UNVACCINATED morons with Covid.
You can't go back to normal, when normal means people dying in droves outside hospital care.
" Its cost of mining is usually cheap due to its use of stranded or waste power, eg off peak, hydro, and in El Salvador almost free due to geothermal power."
Nice to still live in a 1950s carefree bubble. But reality is knocking on the door. Global warming will affect El Salvador just like everywhere else.
So when will the dystopian future be here, where someone else owns your operating system, and decides to run hour long updates on "your" computer whenever it likes to (preferably just as you try to reboot it to fix an issue before you urgently must use the computer, or when you try to turn it off before going to bed), while the OS bundled software snoops on your purchases and store checkouts, making unwanted offers to you?
Oh, it's here already, you say?
It's still a programmable computer. There's no requirement to modify the code dynamically to be a computer. The program was stored on a tape, just like with later machines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
Interestingly:
"In 1937, Claude Shannon introduced the idea of mapping Boolean algebra onto electronic relays in a seminal work on digital circuit design. Zuse, however, did not know of Shannon's work and developed the groundwork independently[10]: 149 for his first computer Z1, which he designed and built from 1935 to 1938."
Error messages?
"Something happened" should be all anyone needs, surely?
And an infinitely spinning thing, or a "sadly" smiley.
Just read what lusers write about their Windows updates. Things like "I'm on day three now. Should I wait longer for the update to finish?"
I guess we deserved what we got.
Oculus was a nice company. Then Facebook bought it, spent loads to make it more sleek, and improve the hardware (to some degree) and sell units relatively cheaply. Then they forced you to link usage to a Facebook account. Then they started to abandon their hardware (even the current model has many unresolved bugs), because, unlike Oculus, they don't really have to care about their grassroots. The end game is to make everyone live with a stupid VR headset on them all day long. I only wanted it for gaming, like most sane people. But Zucker isn't sane.
Cheap is good. But I couldn't afford the cheap-ish ZX80, ZX81 or Spectrum (a load of dosh actually, despite being "cheap"), as I had no income and my parents had no interest in it. Same situation for most of my peers. Luckily schools invested in computers, so we got to learn a bit on those. I think VIC20 and Commodore 64, and later the Amiga were the biggest in Sweden. The Spectrum was big too, of course, but it was more of a pure gaming computer (like a console today).
"Sinclair's vision was to get a computer into every home in the country, a tall order in the early 1980s when computers were synonymous with room-sized beasts in academic institutions."
I'm sure Sir Clive was great, but this is nonsense. I played around with a TRS-80 back in 1980, borrowed from a family friend. Apparently launched in 1977.
Back in Sweden the ABC80 was very popular at the same time. It had a blazingly fast BASIC as it compiled all BASIC input, and decompiled it for listing and editing.
Our school had a room full of them, networked to a dual massive floppy station, in about 1979.
Everyone knew that the mainframe's time was soon up back in 1980.