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After the Macintosh came out, it took them one year to write GEOS for the Commodore 64 to do some of the same things a $4000 Macintosh could do on a sub$500 Commodore 64 and 1541 drive.

It was the Commodore 64C that came bundled with GEOS.

They had a Commodore 128 version and a Commodore 16/Plus4 version of GEOS as well.

They also ported it to the Apple II series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
"AntiVirus for President" is all I imagine people saying.
> The free Internet service will cost the government about 1.5 billion pesos ($32 million) a year and will be available in areas such as public schools, hospitals, airports and parks, said Monchito Ibrahim, deputy executive director of the Information and Communications Technology Office.

It's not free. It's subsidized.

This is the same debate I have with neighbors that want free wifi in the city. Sure. Do you want higher property taxes, too?
Or if you want to use native promises, I threw this together

https://github.com/Dashron/roads-coroutine
I can't help but to question his claim of fear of enforcement when he was wanted for connection with a homicide. I mean you created the company McAfee and you are an American, you are wanted by Belize police but you are scared the police would kill you? I mention American here because I don't think Belize police would dare to kill an American during investigation and wage an international diplomatic controversy. Just my cynical way of thinking about being an American.
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It's still about price then but presumably the argument becomes that airfares on that route will rise enough that even expensive high speed rail is competitive.

Acela is basically priced so enough business folks who would consider flying take the train
AOL used a stripped down version called Geoworks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)

They stopped using it when they stopped supporting DOS and switched to a Windows client. Older AOL for DOS 3.5" floppies can take the Geoworks files out and run them by themselves without the AOL client.
One of the necessary things that needs to happen if we are to begin paying players is that there would need to be some serious contraction in the number of Division I Football teams. A team like Boise State is just not going to be able to keep up with players at the University of Southern California for example.

Since a lot of those would be in small, rural towns, there is A LOT of resistance to this outside the traditional power conference (and frankly some of the stragglers inside power conferences too for that matter)
Yeah, I'm no Tea Partier, but was wondering about this "platform", too.
Lack of electability is a poor reason not to vote for someone. The cool thing about elections is the person with the most votes wins regardless of how electable they seem. There are much better reasons not to vote for McAfee
> To be totally honest, for the first 30 seconds or so as I was reading the story I was sure this was some kind of joke.

Sadly, this isn't the only campaign I feel that way about.
> What two things?

The two things mentioned: quickly-customized inboxes (via search) and handling lots of emails.

> How, for example, can I see all the messages from Joe Zwanizol that are more than 15 days but less than 60 days old, using only the keyboard, in five seconds?

There's a search syntax for that. Not sure whether you'll type it out in five seconds.

A browser extension to bring mutt keyboard interface to gmail might be useful for some folk.
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This observation could be made about anything. If more restaurants open, more people will go out to eat. If more people go out to eat, restaurants will make more money. A vicious cycle! Soon everyone in the world will eat lunch in our city, every day! The humanity!

In fact, interesting yet flawed theories of supply and demand are seldom used to justify some sort of "protect existing restaurateurs' oligopoly" law. That isn't to say that it isn't valid to limit the number or type of restaurant in any particular area for e.g. safety reasons. But that has to be process-based, not just a declaration that this neighborhood has enough.

You can't argue that allowing single-family structures to be replaced by e.g. townhomes in a reasonable fashion is somehow beyond us as a society.
And that's why the world needs to switch to HTTPS.
Oh, the specific keystrokes etc are not the same. (I don't think they even have the concept of modes in mutt.)

It's more of a spiritual similarity. About as faint as vim / nethack.
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I feel the brutality of the sport every morning when I get out of bed. And I was a scrub for the most part. But I wouldn't trade any of it. If it weren't for the increase in brain injuries and the muscle-mass maximizing arms race that ends careers (and limp-free middle age) on a weekly basis, I'd encourage my son to play. I absolutely loved the sport.

It still has its merits, and I'm still a huge fan, but there's a lot of ugliness that needs to be fixed before I'd encourage anyone to play. It's a lot like encouraging someone to serve their country. If the mission is clear and moral, no problem. But it's rare you're gonna find that these days. Just work hard and try to be happy. That's honorable.
My intention isn't to be argumentative but to point out that the field of science described by Kuhn doesn't match the field of science that I've seen in reality. Let me be more specific.

> "When we read a science textbook, all of the information is placed within the structure of the current paradigm, as if none other came before it."

Newtonian physics isn't taught from within the frameworks of quantum mechanics or relativity. The opposite is true, it's taught as if we live in a constant-time, deterministic universe. That's an exact wrong prediction for the most central and fundamental field of science. To make it worse it's something that's easy to check. That's frustrating.
I 'rent' quite a few movies from iTunes, Amazon, and Verizon.

iTunes is generally botched because, as others mention, it requires full download and thus is generally a pain in the ass. Verizon makes it difficult to watch anywhere but my TV. Amazon (though relatively good on my FireTV) doesn't work well on my iPad.

More fundamentally: none release movies fast enough. And, when they do, they require me to 'buy' before they allow me to 'rent', several weeks later. Fortunately, most movies from the last decade have been garbage. But, when something truly great comes out, I have to resort to the black market to get my fix.

Luckily, we have economic principles to fill the gap. Supply and demand.
Once elected, we'd never be able to completely get rid of him.
That's probably the smart approach, in general, other people make awesome guinea pigs.
How convoluted.
You have to include that in the price though. Most people don't have pc's capable of running it as very low %'s of people need a 980+. And that performance curve is likely to stay there for quite a few years as people try to eek more and more out of it, so I think it'll mirror game requirements.

I would also ask, what's the market penetration of a $600 smart phone that you can take everywhere and do tons and tons of useful things with? No where near facebook's total penetration. Sure they're becoming more and more ubiquitus but remember that most people don't have a need for a upper end gaming pc and convincing them that they have to have it so they can virtual-skype with their friends from only one room in their house makes it seem a lot like the original telephone for quite a while. Expensive, and tied to a single place.

Don't get me wrong, it's SUPER COOL to demo (I went onsite at valve).
On a single day the banks ordered the outgoing transactions from biggest to smallest, making sure the maximum number of transactions hit the 25 GBP fee.

(They had some really crappy excuse for that, too.)
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Do you have any links to articles or pieces highlighting liberal opposition to public transit in these areas?
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I was talking about standing orders, not direct debit.

(Paying with debit cards usually checks and decline if you don't have enough money in your account. But yes, a declined direct debit might lead to a fee from the party trying to debit you.)
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> First, there's the "me too" effect. If colleges pay football players, other athletes will want to be paid. They'll ask, "What makes football special?"

That's easy: what makes football special is that it generates absolutely gigantic piles of cash. If a delegation of athletes from, say, the college ultimate frisbee team were to demand similar compensation, the burden would be on them to demonstrate they're generating similar revenue.

(And if they can actually make that case? Then heck, pay them too!)

> Then we'll run into some unhappy truths regarding sports. For example: If colleges base compensation on revenue, the wage gap between male and female athletes will be massive.

Wait -- because we might end up paying female athletes less than male athletes, we shouldn't pay any of them anything? Surely we can cross this particular bridge when (and if) we ever actually come to it.

> Then there's the problem of mixing sports and education.

Which isn't really a problem, because the "education" many (most?) college football players currently receive is pretty nominal anyway.

> It seems to me that most of these problems would be solved by creating a minor league separate from college.

I'm always wary of a proposed solution whose first step is "change everything," not least because frequently it's proposed less to provide an actual alternative than to delay taking any steps at all to improve the situation. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good, in other words. You can advocate for creating a whole new league if you want to, and maybe someday that will happen, but in the meantime there's all these real people getting really screwed out of real money they've really earned. A whole new system that takes 10 or 15 or 30 years to get worked out and implemented doesn't do them any good. So let's just start paying them, and then we can take all the time we want to work the bigger questions out.
Direct debit is actually much better for you than sending out your own orders: direct debit (much like credit cards) can be undone by you for at least a few weeks.

(And I wouldn't trust myself to pay my rent, gas, electricity, water, internet etc on time every month if I had to do it manually. Why not automate?)
That doesn't solve the problem. Even if football athletes could go straight from high school to college as in basketball and baseball, college football will still be a huge moneymaker, and the athletes will remain broke.

Secondly, your premise is incorrect. It's the NFL that has a rule against drafting players out of high school, not society. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/24/sports/football-citing-ant...
Ah, sorry didn't realize that. Thanks for pointing that out.
I just started getting into programming on the 6809, which looks to have be designed by the same developers as the 6502. Wonder if in a few years I'll be able to do the same :)

Edit: I'm reminded of OS-9, but I don't believe that matches the bullet points from the article
I mean, even in Haskell, big chunks of every program can be automatically recognized as `safe Haskell'.
the US government should do that too... to make it easier to do mass surveillance without having to go through hoops ...
Especially if you get an easy way out for when you need it.

Like unsafePerformIO, but for calling not-proven-to-be-terminating functions. Or an explicit marker like the wrapping monads for side-effecting functions.
Defasm
The next facebook should be a decentralized, open source platform. Like Wordpress was the "next LiveJournal".
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When I was in school with the BBC micro and the LOGO turtle we had an actual physical turtle hooked up to the machine via a long cable.

Needless to say this was much more popular with us than just the screen. I am sure it is partly for the robotic'ness of it but we would often walk around with the turtle as it was moving. So what you are saying and linked to I can well believe.
It will reduce the probability of a collision at the expense of the address being longer - because now you need to carry around hash1 + hash2. But still it doesn't eliminate the possibility, only makes it less likely.
instead of calculating multiple hashes every time, might as well use a better hash?
With a first past the post election system, lack of electability is a very good reason not to vote for someone as that vote subtracts one vote from a candidate who has a realistic chance of winning.

This wouldn't be as big of a problem in a runoff style voting system.
Agreed that they shouldn't need a gateway, but disagree on the 18 year old being ready. There may be one from time to time, but the extra 3 years of both skill and physical development makes a big difference for almost every player/position.
All you're doing then is fiddling with probabilities. You can do that just as well by changing the length of the sha unless you have a reason to think sha is broken.

However, the probability of a hash collision is already incredibly low. As a demonstration of this, here's a list of a tiny subset of bitcoin private keys: http://directory.io/

The human mind just isn't capable of understanding how large of a number the number of sha hashes is.
I know more than a few people who pay for Amazon Prime VOD, Netflix and HBO but choose to pirate shows that could stream easily from those services.

Why?

Because internet bandwidth for video streaming at home is a joke that forces you to watch virtually everything at SD or lower.
Yawn... go to Philippines... their international bandwidth sucks. Wifi will change nothing.
Makes sense, on a rereading.

npm coupled with drastically and frequently changing libraries (and transitive dependency clashes) does make a hell of a dependency mess; I agree.

But, on the plus side, most node libraries are easy to modify. In fact, I have a private repository full of github forks that I've had to make over the years (and not had the time or patience to submit pull requests). Luckily, npm supports private repos easily.
This is great news. Dapps [1] are coming, and DHT [2] /storage technologies like IPFS (although IPFS is more than just a DHT) are the other much-needed side of the coin - no pun intended - to make that reality happen. Exciting times ahead.
[1] decentralized app
[2] distributed hash table
"Sure, it's a policy question. That does not automatically make it government business"

We grant something non-profit status because we think it's in the public interest. Thus, it's already 'government business.'

"We have a set of tax laws about non-profits."

Certainly. And we change those laws over time to reflect changing circumstances.

"Yet governments people have no problem spending more money than they have"

That blanket statement is as true as the statement that companies have no problem spending more money than they have. I mentioned Cooper Union as an example of how non-profit universities are also not immune.

"That doesn't make it right."

Who am I likely to believe more, you or Piketty?
They should be bargaining collectively, but they're not being allowed to do so. The NLRB acknowledged that football players at Northwestern University are employees, but then refused to say whether they can form a union on the basis of a technicality (specifically, that the university is a state institution, and the NLRB only has jurisdiction over private employers). So none of the employees in question is represented by a union, and it's not clear whether any or all of them are even legally entitled to such representation if they elect it.

I agree that this would go a long way toward addressing the fundamental inequity here, at least for the tiny fraction of employees whose skills are actually generating cash for their employers. It's pathetic that we can't agree that everyone has the right to join a union and bargain collectively if they wish, but that's where we are.
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I'm fine with a huge wage gap, but most people aren't. There's an odd defect in most people's thinking where if you make some small contribution toward solving a problem, they'll berate you for not doing more.[1] I'm simply pointing out that because of this, the author's solution is politically infeasible.

Paying college athletes is probably as difficult as starting minor league football. There are a significant number of regulations in place to prevent college athletes from being compensated, to ensure gender parity, and to stop colleges from spending "too much" on sports. Their efficacy varies, but repealing them would be an immense political effort. For starters, you'd have to get rid of Title IX.

There's no hill-climbing solution here. We're in a local maximum. :(

1. http://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethi...
I've been following this developer for some time. Yes, stock CPU, 1.7Mhz.
Can you say a bit more about the illusion part?
Unfortunately what they do not understand is that teaching someone else is one of the best learning opportunities you can get, even if you think its not.
It both expands and cements your knowledge of a subject, and highlights the areas that you are unsure of.

I spent years training various technical topics, and the reason I was so fluent in them is because I was expected to be able to teach anyone around me on a dime.
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If someone happens to have questions about these keys, we don't physically have them. But we plan on making our own versions & finding the right blanks. If you think you can help, or want to know more, you can always reach out to myself or @Irongeek_ADC.

If you happen to know Solidworks & how to trace objects, I'd like to really get to know you.

Cheers :)
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It really depends on how deep you want to go. This is a topic that requires tunneling through surprisingly few layers before you hit quantum mechanics. I haven't gone through it, but "From NAND to Tetris" [0] is often recommended these days. My own education in these topics was a lot less organized and took quite a few years to really click.

Thinking about "the flow of electrons" is more of an analog topic, and that class of behavior is usually treated as non-ideal inefficiency for purposes of digital logic systems. This stuff is extremely important in figuring out how fast you can make things go when designing a real chip/board, but the gory details are fairly unimportant to computer architecture concepts beyond accepting the more abstract models of gate delay (each gate a signal passes through delays it) [1] and fanout (the more inputs you drive with a given output, the slower those inputs are switched) [2].

[0]: http://nand2tetris.org/course.php
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_delay#Electronics
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-out
I'm of the opinion that there are two things that colleges owe their revenue-generating athletes:

1) Insurance policies. These people put their bodies on the line for 4 years and serious, life-long injuries can be sustained. In the event that a player is hurt in this way, they should receive compensation (an annuity, to ensure it lasts their entire lifetime). Insurance seems like a good way to handle this.

2) Financial education. This works for both the 2% that go on to professional careers and the 98% that don't. What goes along with being broke is not having basic financial skills like budgeting or even opening a bank account. There's a reason that the majority of professional players are broke only a few years after retirement despite making millions during their playing careers. ESPN's documentary, Broke, did a good job of dissecting it, but the moment that left the biggest impression on me was when one player admitted to taking his $500k signing bonus to a check cashing store.

I agree with you about creating a minor league instead of using colleges, but it will never happen. The two popular college sports are the ones where the pro league has no minor league (the D-League is a very recent development, so it remains to be seen whether it survives.) Baseball and Hockey have minor leagues and neither is popular. The college equivalent is also unpopular. But Football and Basketball have found a way to put an inferior product on the field/court and make it incredibly popular/lucrative. It's unlikely they'd be able to replicate that success with a minor league.

So given that the current setup is too profitable to discontinue, I think the only conscionable thing to do is to give athletes who don't pass the admissions process an alternate education. Paying them will, for the vast majority, not make them well off given what we see of athletes paid in the professional leagues. Paying them in a practical education that prepares them to make the most of what they do have once their fame expires with their athletic eligibility seems more appropriate and maintains the mystique of the amateur athlete.

Also, as an aside, I think Universities and football programs are missing a huge opportunity. Football coaches should be required to teach a course in the spring in football theory. As it is now, the only people who become Football coaches are ex-players. But Universities have access to some of the brightest minds in the country and most would love to learn about Football. Offering elective courses could open up the coaching field to a much wider field and make teams much more successful. We saw what happened when the Baseball nerds were allowed to influence how players were valued (Moneyball)...there's no reason to believe that bright and motivated Math/CS nerds couldn't do the same to other sports as well. From analyzing the tendencies of opposing teams using statistical analysis to designing new plays based on computer simulations, we have the tools today to revolutionize these sports if we're only allowed access to their insular communities.
I am not familiar with any liberal opposition to public transit...anywhere. I have lived in a number of liberal-leaning cities, all of which had extensive public transit.

The opposition to those systems (their expansion, in some cases even just their operation) was universally from the right, because "run gubmint like a business, and if it doesn't make a profit, pull the plug!"
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I agree, but I'm not sure we can afford to wait ~5+ years for self driving cars; on the other hand that's probably how long it'll take to build more subways, at a minimum. Whatever is done it needs to be done immediately.
Here is the development thread, starting in 2009.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/154520-new-gui-for-the-atar...
That's certainly true; it's true in most other sports as well. That's why for example baseball players spend anywhere from 2 to 5 or 6 years in the minor leagues before they make the big club (which many never do). There's no reason to prefer that they spend that developmental time playing for free on a university's team instead of for peanuts on a minor-league professional club. And there are plenty of reasons to prefer the alternative.
More realistically, it's 3 to 4 more years of a chance to get a career ending injury. It seems like there's at least 1 or 2 every draft season that never gets a shot at the pros because they're injured in college.