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If you have an Intel Mac, it looks like Parallels Desktop will run older versions of Mac OS X.

> This story was originally published on Sept. 4, 2011.

Needs (2011) in the title.

There's a typo in the post title: it should be “don't”.

The title needs (2000).

Paid, not payed.

No, much of Kroger is not unionized. This is about The Kroger Company, which owns many chains besides Kroger.

Remember, the title says “Kroger-Owned Grocery Stores”, and the first paragraph mentions Fred Meyer.

The title should have (1982), because that's when the article was first published.

By the way, David Crane and others are making Atari 2600 games again!

https://adgm.us/portal/index.html

I don't think that matters. It sounds like Google Stream is a service for businesses, not a consumer product.

By the way, most Atari 8-bits had BASIC built-in, but the earliest machines, the 400, 800 and 1200XL, did not.

I think you mean “Arrival”. “The Arrival” is a 1996 film starring Charlie Sheen, which is also about aliens coming to earth.

The NYT Crossword isn't dominant in its industry, unless you define their industry to be ridiculously small. I'd say their industry is video games, or maybe just puzzle video games.

For instance, this article, https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/400000-people-now-subscribe..., says that they had 400,000 digital subscribers in 2019. That's at most $33M/year, plus they also get some ad revenue. But Candy Crush Saga made $1.2B in 2021.

The NYT Crossword is also available in the newspaper and books, but this probably doesn't earn that much more than the electronic version.

Note Sega is divesting from arcades (the places of business), but they still make machines that go into arcades.

The car tried to hit the barrier. The driver had to hit the brake pedal.

Also, Pink Floyd released two albums in 1969, and they sold well, but it was nothing like the success they had starting in 1973 with The Dark Side of the Moon.

Actual title is “How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?”. Also, it's from 2016.

Title should say “loses”, not “looses”.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728594

> Be Inc fell apart and sold to 3Com, which sold to HP eventually and there it was neglected and mothballed.

No. 3Com spun off Palm in 2000. Palm bought Be in 2001. Palm then spun off its software division as PalmSource, which was later purchased by ACCESS. So ACCESS owns BeOS, not HP.

Interesting! I tried to write an Ogre game for my high school programming class in 1987. It was in Pascal, building and running on a TRS-80 Model 3. But it didn't have time to finish the display and interface, and I didn't even get to gameplay and AI.

The first paragraph:

> When the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, stranding the USA without access to orbit, it took a retirement tour around the country. As it was carted from city to city the images played out nation-wide in funereal Americana. Despite the uplifting rhetoric and crowds, it was clear on TV we were watching a casket be carried out, and it seemed then inevitable my generation would be Earth-bound our whole lives.

The Space Shuttle was a metaphorical casket, because in 135 missions, it failed twice, killing all on board.

Are people nostalgic about the original de Havilland Comet? Were they disappointed the Boeing 737 MAX was grounded until it was redesigned?

That's pretty common, actually. For instance, Malt-O-Meal Tootie Fruities. https://www.maltomeal.com/products/tootie-fruities/

Also, both Kellogg's and Post make shredded wheat and Raisin Bran.

The actual title is “Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)”. It seems like HN believes that the word why is clickbait, even though removing it changes the meaning of the title.

No, it seems like it was always “Visa”. See the scanned advertisement https://clickamericana.com/topics/money-work/visa-card-debut....

I'm just talking about the name in text. The logo has always been in all-caps.

The title uses the spelling “VISA”. It's actually “Visa”, not all-caps.

According to https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21102078-flint-settl..., linked in the article, Judith E. Levy is the judge in the case. The article should have explained that.

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> Is SETI really the top research priority?

The article talks about searching for life, not intelligence.

TIL there's a spyware company called Candiru.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(spyware_company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)

That sounds like one of the bits performed by Mummenschanz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Mummenschanz