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Re:Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:40AM (#43534296)
Yep, there was also a program where a red line would be on your monitor and you had to turn the screw until the line was completely flat
Re:Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:12AM (#43534064)
I did this all the time... even used a double cassette deck to make copies... azimuth was the problem if the heads were aligned different.. so you used a small screwdriver and the top of the cassette had a small opening, this is where you had to align the heads by listening till it didn't sound distorted.. fun times

See also https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-was-first-co...

Re:Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:07AM (#43534003)
That's why you needed it saved with Turbo. it was at least 10 times faster.. I used to have this cartridge... besides turbo it had some more things, it could grab a hardcopy of memory (ie if you were playing a game.. you could save it... and then load it later, it would be in the same state)

https://www.ami64.com/product-page/kcs-power-cartridge-c64

See also https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-was-first-co...

She runs is translated as she walks in several languages....should be ona trči in Croatian and ze rent in Dutch (German is also translated as she walks)
For most people it costs to have kids... for some it pays.... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27712032/
Re:French screen star Alain Delon dies aged 88 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @06:19AM (#41281429)
First movie I saw with him was Borsalino... Jean-Paul Belmondo was in it as well

It's been a while, I should rewatch it

Re:Why Bridges Don't Sink on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @09:46AM (#40865926)
Read this a few years back.. highly recommended

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Bridge-Story-Building-Brooklyn/...

I remember those, you got 5 of them... later Google Wave also had invites .. which was cool but ended up in the graveyard anyway... Lifehacker's Gina Trapani even wrote a guide to Google Wave but I believe Wave was killed right before after it was published
I remember using OWA (Outlook Web Access) before that.. but you are right this is the one that stands out..... soon after this Digg was created and the onslaught of all the web 2.0 sites like delicious, flickr etc etc
Also 1 GB of inbox storage, this was a lot more than others like Yahoo IIRC
Re:Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:23AM (#40040238)
if you take the money out of your 401K before you are 59.5 years, you will get a 10% penalty in addition to the amount being taxed... tax alone could easily be 25%
Re:There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:36AM (#39204290)
IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-managers-move-near-office...
Saw it at the Princeton Garden theater which is also old school, could have been plucked right out of the movie :-)
They also don't smoke or drink.. I am sure that chops off a few years
To me the i sound is shorter for dice versus dies
Re:Google agrees to invest up to $2B in OpenAI rival Anthropic on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:15AM (#38049976)
I would not consider the investment as a % of market cap since Google doesn't own all that market cap... I would consider the non float shares + short term investments + cash on hand or Revenue/Profit better
Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:44AM (#38013351)
Croatian has a few of these as well like NJ and LJ

Here is the full alphabet

A B C Č Ć D Dž Đ E F G H I J K L Lj M N Nj O P R S Š T U V Z Ž

Re:Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green on Monday October 23, 2023 @10:58AM (#37986567)
Wait till you find out what they call a blonde person in Croatia :-)
That is mostly sea/ocean, a lot of desalination would be needed
Re:Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:30AM (#36906500)
See also John Romero on the Tim Ferriss podcast a few weeks ago https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/681-doom-legend-john-r...

He talked how they were always working on 2 games and would do a press release with a shipping date before they more or less even started lol

Romero just released a new book 10 days ago... Doom Guy: Life in First Person https://amzn.to/43M0rSg

Antarica is problematic since it is completely dark 4 months out of the year... and completely sunny the opposite 4 months.. and even then isn't it just rocks underneath that ice.. you would need to bring in soil etc.. but if all the ice melts will that even be above water at that point?
Re:OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @10:24AM (#35975617)
Right ISO 8601... in SQL Server it's the unambiguous format
Re:OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @10:22AM (#35975591)
I have been in the US for 30 years but metric is way better... all that nanometer stuff in your computer is metric not imperial as well

for example a 10cm cube filled with water weighs 1 kilo and is 1 liter, boils at 100 degrees. In the US you deal with cups pints, quarts, gallons... and you can't even convert easily between dry and liquid stuff

I do agree that steering wheels should be on the left :-)

Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:53AM (#35960546)
your forgot Biztalk, commerce server, MTS, Visual J++ :-)
Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:49AM (#35960501)
I used that with classic asp as well as with ColdFusion :-) Eventually SQL Server Reporting Service replaced that in places I worked

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