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Kent Sharkey wrote: Entering programs on it looks ... irritating.
I'd hope that these days you'd be able to USB upload from your PC. There weren't any reasonable options to do something like that when I was a kid though; and I still managed to write a decent number of "do this chapters math/physics problem for me" applications. 
The questions I have are:
1) When did TI start offering color displays? Casio only started sometime in the mid 90s.
2) Are they using conventional color LCDs, or the same weird as ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) tri-color thing[1] Casio did.
[1] It wasn't RGB sub-pixel based with varying brightness like a normal LCD. Instead there was a single element per pixel that would transition from orange to green to blue depending on the voltage applied to it. Which if you were using alkaline batteries instead of rechargables meant that you had to recalibrate the colors a few times as each cell dropped from 1.5v to 1.0v as it was used up. I don't remember if brightness was adjustable but the pixels only had on/off states.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PC service is now generally available, and pricing is public. The service will cost users anywhere between $20 to $162 per user per month, based on cores, RAM and storage. Apparently the computers in the cloud are made of gold
Single core + 2GB of "RAM" for $20/month?
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If I don't trust the cloud to put a backup... I am going to use the their pc-instance online... yeah, right.
M.D.V. 
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I could see using it as a sandbox/jail for looking at suspect documents/applications because the browser RDP should keep my local system a lot safer if it turns out what I'm looking at is a hostile payload. OTOH a local windows VM on a *nix host is probably good against anything below the level of a targeted KGB/NSA level attack.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: OTOH a local windows VM on a *nix host is probably good against anything below the level of a targeted KGB/NSA level attack.
And that's what I use.
I only use the main OS to navigate to the whitelisted sites, all other webs get my visit within the VM
M.D.V.
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This is an amazing project.
Also, note that the human domino setter (who has had 1 billion views of her youtube domino videos) seems very antiquated now.
World Record Domino Robot (100k dominoes in 24hrs) - YouTube[^]
Note: I believe they said the team of four engineers worked on this for 5 years. !!!
Also, as soon as you watch it knock the dominoes over you will most likely think, "Time to upgrade. Make it a continuous chain which starts with one domino and knocks them all over." 
Which is funny, because four engineers spend 5 years to solve a problem and in 1 second you see that you want version 2.
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That's exactly what I thought. What an amazing project. 
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Pretty freakin cool
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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It's so cool to see someone put all that work into a software/hardware solution and carry it all the way out to solution.
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raddevus wrote: the human domino setter (who has had 1 billion views of her youtube domino videos) seems very antiquated now.
Yes, but humans can be made with unskilled labour. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: but humans can be made with unskilled labour.
But humans can be infected with Corona, and thus require sick leave.
Uhm, wait, actually, internet connected computers can be infected with ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I just stumbled over that quote on Friday...
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." ~Werner von Braun
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Unfortunately, Werner von Braun knows unskilled labor.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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raddevus wrote: "Time to upgrade. Make it a continuous chain which starts with one domino and knocks them all over."
Which is funny, because four engineers spend 5 years to solve a problem and in 1 second you see that you want version 2.
That's what I thought as defense for the girl... she makes really cool forms, in different highs and other stuff. That is going to take a while to get done by a robot.
M.D.V.
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A research team featuring dozens of scientists working in partnership with Google‘s quantum computing labs may have created the world’s first time crystal inside a quantum computer. "If I could save time in a bottle"
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The mostest hyperbolic author on earth wrote: At the far-fetched, super-optimistic end of things – we could see the creation of a working warp drive in our lifetimes. Imagine taking a trip to Mars or the edge of our solar system, and being back home on Earth in time to catch the evening news.
He knows how to make me take him seriously!
< / SARCASM >
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The New York Times noted that July 31st, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the Lunar Roving Vehicle's first outing — and the first time people drove on the Moon. The first attempt with the horse and buggy didn't go too well
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And the astronauts still haven't paid their parking fines! 
They parked in an historical monument, did they not?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Microsoft has released a new portal that will allow you to get behind the scenes with Windows 11 designers. Find out how the icons get baked
Or at least the designers. There has to be a reason.
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The comments on that link are a lot more interesting than the content of the link!
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anyone know of articles which explain why mouse operated screens corner buttons important?
It's related to UI metrics, and 2006 uni lecture pointed out how XP (unless was vista) had issue that start button was not flush to corner, meaning moving mouse to corer edge and clicking did nothing.
Patch fix you can see that on click the mouse moves 1 pixel in to trigger start button.
All this to say that A: the windows 11 menu in middle is great for the right handed population using touch control, but for mouse this is horrendous UI basic design.
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We’ve simplified the process down to just one command, simply open a command prompt window with admin privileges and run wsl.exe --install. Because Linux is a virus, or something like that
Looks like the Windows Update to enable this isn't broadly available (yet) - at least this isn't working for me yet.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Looks like the Windows Update to enable this isn't broadly available (yet) - at least this isn't working for me yet.
Congratulations?
M.D.V.
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