I don’t think I’ve watched the whole thing. I work with streaming media and might use it in my tests because of the licensing.
Having a toddler I’ve revisited shrek and toy story. The animation hasn’t aged well. I think big buck bunny hold’s its own for 2008.
We’re whalers on the moon
We carry a harpoon
But there ain’t no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune
I was quite active on the BBS scene and packet radio. But the first time on the actual internets was at the university where my father worked. There wasn’t much. Netscape had an index of sites.
I remember visiting apogee.com to see if they had any new games coming up.
I bought these d-link cameras - dcs-8302. A two-pack set me back $30. They do WiFi or RJ-45. There is an app and cloud subscription, but you don’t need the subscription.
They can store to an SD card, which you can play back through the app. If someone takes your camera you lose the content. The camera also serves a stream over RTSP. I run software called ‘motion’ on ny home server that captures a snippet whenever there is movement.
I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t own a 1541 until early 2009. I was a cassette lamer.
So for Easter 2008 I have handed in a commodore 64 executable music entry on cassette at breakpoint. I think they were the last to require entries to be submitted on physical media.
In the years after I still used a lot of 5.25" and 3.5" on my c64, Amiga and Atari.
Today I have a turbo chameleon 64, a c64 ultimate and a gotek drive on my Amiga. I don’t miss diskettes.
As for USB drives. I got one for Christmas 2001. It had a whopping 32mb of storage and required proprietary drivers to mount.
I’m from Finland, which has a 1340km border with Russia.
When my grandad grew up you’d either hunt or fish if you wantes to eat. My dad hunted. I’m the only one of my siblings with a hunting license. I was raised with a lot of “when the Russians come”-mentality.
I’ve been moving countries, so I’ve had to give up my rifles and I’m not that passionate about it that I’d figure out where to go do it. But I do think it’s a good skill to have, and I keep my license active.
And my two spaniels would love it.
And those who understand gray code.
I’m not the right person to give advice in these matters. But your story reminds me of a documentary I saw a few years back. It’s pretty much two persons in their 60s discussing their transition, regretting it and kind of where they’ve landed since. Anywho, don’t rush into this decision.
That’ll do it. The price is set to the highest bid all across the board.
I was in a hotel room doing one of those clone-a-willie kits. Then I noticed that the mold had coloured my hands blue. Then I had a look downstairs, and Petteri jr was blue, too.
Price is one factor. I’ve never bought a new car. I’ve also never had a car loan.
Privacy is one factor. My 2016 is just about the newest you can get without being connected to the interwebs. I prefer my car to be finished as it rolls out of the factory without requiring updates like it was a modern game.
Caravan is one factor. I did 5000km towing a tonne this summer. Any range is cut in half when towing that. Most charging stations don’t really make space for a trailer.
I’d consider a small cheap EV for local trips like grocery shopping or taking the kids to kindergarten. The diesel particle filter isn’t too happy about short trips. We have electric bikes and trailers for that, so… maybe if it’s a gnarly winter.
I guess we’re doing OK in Sweden. We’re used to high grocery and fuel prices. I’m driving a diesel and filling up at almost $10 per gallon.
Energy prices are hurting. Mostly because we’re on the same shared market as Germany… and Germany has dismantled their nuclear energy. Wind and solar is great when it’s windy or sunny. But it leaves us wanting on cold still nights.
The state has been subsidizing both fuel and electricity, but it’s not really going to the right pockets.
Have you seen starship troopers? The book goes more into detail about their politics.
But the TL;DR is that you can’t become a politician without serving for three years. You’re not fit to make choices for everyone else’s good if you’re not prepared to give your own life for the common good.
A bit more grim, even. Service is required to become a citizen, it’s not by birth. Also, it’s easier for citizens to get a baby license.
We had one compulsory course in English at university. The professor corrected a “man-in-the-middle” I had in a field-specific paper. She preferred “middle man”. She did buy that it was an established term in cryptography, though.
Yes, but where’s the irony in that?
Yes, but who wants to be staring at their phone all the time.
Maybe they could make a smart glass-app to warn about smart glasses.
Is he talking about Tim Apple?