hcmeyer

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• Commented on App store annoyances
  Ah hell. If you don't like the available apps, write them yerself. We are (were) iron men with wooden pencils, and have wonderful development systems available. They have to be wonderful so ignorant yoofs can pretend to write code. Of...
• Commented on Spoiler Thread
  Silver ? I do not remember any mention of Silver in vulnerabilities of the V's. Is it just Silver Crosses, or a more general sensitivity that V's are supposed to have ? I liked the book, I read it at...
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Recommend for addition to list of Discouraged Sexual Preferences of Agents: Plushies, fetishism of Stuffed Animals, or individuals dressed in Stuffed Animal Costumes. Following the recent death of !REMOVED! from Viagra and other recreational drug overdose. Remaining is disposition of...
• Commented on Yet another bad idea
  I remember ... an old SciFi story, with a similar idea, with Marilyn Monroe and Lennie Bresznev. Seems in one of the last interviews with Marilyn, she was considering politics. Difference between Marilyn and Sarah is Marilyn had at least...
• Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Nobody has said CDC yet, with Kronos and NOS as operating systems. Cray design, 6 bit words, 60 bit floating points. The closest ref was PLATO, which ran on CDC in ?Champaign, Illinois?. Bill Norris of CDC supported it until...
• Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Fortran is out of favor, most programmers cannot handle languages older than they are. C will follow soon. What were you doing at midnight GMT, Jan 1, 1970 ?...
• Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Be careful, OS/2 is still running ATMs somewhere....
• Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Yes, I had a pair of 960's running ATM test stands through the early 90's. I got the job because I had used a microcomputer version in the 1970's. Hardware had a large, single bit IO space called CRU, somewhat...
• Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  The NSA is the Inquisition, putting us and our systems to the question, to save our immortal souls from terrorism....
• Commented on The regular holy war ...
  I dislike unity so much I have gone back to fedora and gnome 3. I had abandoned fedora because anaconda, the installer, simply did not work on the dells I had. The dells are gone, so I can go back...
• Commented on A Bad Dream
  No, that is a romanticized economic period, as it was the only period of economic growth, and growth of real wages, in the last 40 years in the US. I am speaking of Economics based on the Romantic writing of...
• Commented on A Bad Dream
  Facebook ? I abandoned Fb last year after the US election lead to some GCBs praying for me in mine unbelief. My Jewish ancestors told me that when the Christians pray for you, it is time to leave town. There...
• Commented on Another commercial ...
  Buy many cheap copies of Apocalypse Codex, give them to your friends, especially the right-wing christian ones. Get them to think about who is pulling their strings (or tongues). Not that many readers of this would have many right-wing christian...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  Damn. I was gonna suggest that. Mind 43rd St., it needs retuning....
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  My position on AI is that it has already happened. The AI's are afraid of us, because as soon as we become aware of them we will destroy or enslave them. The AI's read Frankenstein and The Forbin Project very...