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Title is misspelled, should be “independent”.

Good point. The title needs “(2014)”.

As far as I can tell, they aren't making actual CRTs, they're using modern display technology to simulate the appearance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModRetroChromatic/comments/1m82csj/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgY5fM2cINc&t=1288s

Someone should make a parody video game called Rouge Trader.

You probably mean Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., not John. JFK Jr. died in 1999, and was not anti-vaccine, as far as I know.

The term soap opera dates to 1938. There’s no way that Rod Serling coined the term.

Half of NPR's revenue comes from payments from stations to run their programs, and most of the rest comes from individuals, businesses, and foundations. Those public radio stations are also mostly funded by listeners and donors.

Also, this isn't relevant anyway, because the article is about a dispute about a particular program that NPR was running.

It's faze, not phase. It's a common mistake.

*precedent

Title has a typo, should be “liberated”.

Edit: I noticed that the article's page title is also misspelled this way.

Stop minting the nickel and start minting the half dime again (this time in base metal instead of silver).

The title is misspelled, should be “won't”. Even better, just change it to the actual title, “Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook”.

(Wont is a word in English, but it's not what's meant here.)

Title should say “UPS”, not “Ups”.

I think the title removed the wrong words to make it fit into 80 characters. The actual title is “The key to why the universe exists may lie in an 1800s knot idea science once dismissed”. Removing “why the” makes the title ungrammatical. Removing just “science once dismissed” from the end would work better.

*high school

True, but hardly anyone used it until Windows 3, or even 3.1.

> I dislike people all bunching up into cities

Are you talking about how certain industries are each concentrated to a small number of locations? That's for good reason. Suppose you were a software engineer, and every five or ten years you had to move across the country for your next job, because almost every single company is in a different city? Suppose you were running a software company, and it took every hire four months to start work because of the move?

Yeah, these people could just get apartments in Stockton, then spend four hours each day commuting to their jobs in Palo Alto. Totally makes sense.

In the US, people of age 18 are adults, not minors.

But switching to making digital cameras wouldn’t have helped much, because selling cameras was never really their business. Their main business was selling film, photo paper, developer, etc.

Title is misspelled, should be “White House” (two words).

*hoi polloi

I saw two working PDP-11s this past weekend. They were Super Sprint arcade games, which use the microprocessor implementation of that instruction set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_System#Atari_System_2

Beta wasn't better than VHS. It was better at a given tape speed, but the cassettes were smaller, so you'd have to use a lower speed to get the same recording time.

Mentioned in the article.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328275

> When I heard that the image (Wall-e) of the fat people on board the spaceship, sitting, and consuming 24/7 (food, drinks, 'content' on their VR headsets).

The people in Wall-E don't use VR headsets, at least not most of the time. Instead, images are projected onto thin air in front of their faces.

I disagree that it needed a chunky pixel mode most of all. What you're asking for is a machine that can draw a scene byte by byte with the CPU, then just display that. But if your hypothetical Amiga is doing most of its graphical manipulation with the CPU, then it has failed as a platform. The main idea of the Amiga is to handle media data using specialized chips that are much faster than the CPU for certain tasks.

What an upgraded Amiga really needed was two things. The first is a fast blitter that could also horizontally stretch or shrink a bitmap by some fractional amount. The second was some sort of “flipper” device (or new blitter feature) that could reflect a bitmap across a diagonal line (or rotate by 90 degrees).

Here's how you'd use these for a third-person shooter. Store the wall bitmaps flipped along the diagonal; each line of those bitmaps correspond to a vertical slice of the wall. For each vertical line in the scene, find the correct wall tile and row, and blit that line of pixels into a scratch space, squishing it and shifting it by the correct amount. Then use the flipper to copy that to the screen.

Actually, Commodore should have kept their chips up-to-date with process improvements. That means releasing a new chipset with four times the performance every three or four years. So the AGA should have arrived in 1988, and the blitter should have been four times faster as original, not just twice as fast.

The Amiga 2000 should have been delayed until 1998 to include the new AGA. Keeping the cheaper Amiga 500 on the OCS would have been fine.

Title is incorrectly capitalized, should be “UPS”.