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I thought it was stock market today...
diligent hands rule....
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The current stock market seems to have only one direction:
Down - down - down - down - down - down - down - down - down
Get with it fellas: Time to buy you brave hearts? 
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I will count 3, then 5, then buy some...
diligent hands rule....
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That's nothing, I had to find a computer-game shop in the mall, yesterday morning, and I had no idea where it was, so I went up escalators twice, then had to go all the way back down again, then it was left, right, left, right, just to get from A to B. What a start to the day!
Maybe not the world's best mnemonic...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I heard that if you use the Konami code while hovering your mouse over Bob's belly button your web browser is sent to an alternate universe[^]
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Randor wrote: an alternate universe[^]
It looks like that world cam to an end, several years ago.
Probably because of lack of carbon -- it was too green.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just don't try using it on your CodeProject profile page.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You sound a bit disappointed - sounds like you need a lift.
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Don't you start pushing my buttons.
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I'm reading a really interesting history of video games, Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More[^]
I was 10 in 1978 when Space Invaders released and I remember it being at all the pizza places.
Here's a snapshot of the original for reference : https://i.stack.imgur.com/VmmM5.png[^]
Ran across this:
from the book Space Invaders went on to set record after record after it invaded the planet. More than 400,000 arcade cabinets were made, and the game pulled in more than 3.8 billion dollars by 1982. If you factor in inflation, that would be THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLARS today, making it one of the highest-grossing video games of all time. Yeah. Billion. With a B!
Edit
And this...WOW!!
Quote: Looking back, one of the most amazing things about Space Invaders is that it was created by one man, Tomohiro Nishikado. Not only did Nishikado create the art and game design for Space Invaders, he spent a year developing the necessary hardware for the game to run, putting together a computer from scratch. Nishikado was a one-man wrecking crew. He was as comfortable sketching spaceships and aliens on graph paper as he was soldering circuits on a breadboard.
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Yeah, but it had a terrible back-story, the music was lifeless and monotonous, and the voice acting was cr@p.
1/5
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Yeah, but it had a terrible back-story, the music was lifeless and monotonous, and the voice acting was cr@p.
Pac-man came out just two years later and solved all those problems. 
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Sure, but you couldn't change the character's hair colour, religious leanings, or honesty, so it wasn't a proper RPG.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Those days seem to be long gone. Granted, I can buy an rPi for $35, other SBC's for even cheaper, and do some fun things with them, but it's all high level stuff, certainly as compared to the days when we wrote our own game OS, built our own hardware, and designed bitmap sprites on grid paper.
I guess it's progress, haha.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Those days seem to be long gone.
There's no time to do anything any more. Everything is already done before you start. 
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$3.8 billion, one quarter at a time
According to this article, there were 379.12 million quarters in circulation in 2009--or rather, that many coins produced in that year. All US, but lets roll with it anyway.
$3.8B is 15.2 billion quarters. 15.2B quarters / 379.12M quarters in circulation means every quarter was collected 40 times.
If I did this right (and even if I haven't)...the mind boggles.
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dandy72 wrote: every quarter was collected 40 times
Sounds about right for a Saturday afternoon back then, yes.
TTFN - Kent
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I didn't see where they said that all that money was only in the US... I remember that in Spain too.
I suppose the 3.8B is worldwide
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's why I said "but let's roll with it". I didn't want to try to track down how many quarters are in circulation world-wide...and then take the different currencies into account. I'd still be adding variables to the equation if I wanted something accurate.
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dandy72 wrote: That's why I said "but let's roll with it".
Sorry, didn't understand it that way. Non-native here. My apologies and thanks for teaching me a new expresion.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Non-native here either, but getting plenty of exposure and always willing to learn.
No need to apologize.
All it meant in this context is "let's ignore that detail and use those numbers anyway".
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dandy72 wrote:
All it meant in this context is "let's ignore that detail and use those numbers anyway".
I understood it once you pointed the sentence out. Then it was obvious but I didn't see that in the first time.
dandy72 wrote: always willing to learn.
The only day lost is the day in which you don't learn anything new.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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dandy72 wrote: every quarter was collected 40 times.
Sounds about right. In 1978 there was no Internet (accessible to regular people) and we only had about 3 tv channels, one local book store. There wasn't much to do so you may as well convert all your money to quarters and hang out at the local arcade. 
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During that era, it was possible to design a game cabinet's hardware and software with a one-man effort.
Today's AAA game requires a big team compared to a small team in 90s.
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