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I have a Vampire 2 Card for My A600. I can do quite a lot of more modern tasks on the machine and connect it to a modern monitor. In my A1200 I have 16GB of storage on a CF card, VGA / DVI and a Music card (I can play back MP3s etc. So it like using a Pentium Era computer.

The OS is pretty decent considering its age and there are plenty of decent applications to use.

I don't find 8bit computers particularly interesting. I had a BBC Micro and a Tantung Einstein (hand me downs) and they are extremely primitive compared to the Amiga. The Amiga is very much like a modern computer.

I really wish there was Amiga OS for a PC computer (I believe MorphOS is being ported) as even the aging OS 3.1 with some extensions is in some ways better than Desktop Linux. But that is highly subjective.

> The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even.

It seems I misread this.

Why does it have to be even? Why does it matter?

Equal Outcome != Equality of Opportunity.

Unfortunately the two are often conflated in an attempt to imply there is some form of discrimination taking place by people with nefarious motives.

That intercoolerjs looks pretty decent.

With regards to tooling I agree it is too complicated. I really wish that everyone would coalesce around a standard set of tools. But it would be the equivalent of cat herding.

No they are worth whatever the going rate is for their position. The market decides the salary. If programming was a unskilled job you would get supermarket salaries.

Which is basically blackmail. Unions tend to make things worse in the long run.

If you don't like the company find a job that gives you a better deal.

> In conclusion, you think no company should adjust their prices, ever?

Obviously not. I am saying they have no incentive to change the price if the sales are inline or above with what they would have forecasted.

> Because the current price is the market price which is obviously the right price because it's the market price? > > It's circular reasoning, which can be applied to any sales situation - and if it explains everything, it explains nothing.

Again you don't seem to understand basic market economics. Your product is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. There is the odd exception to the rule (Head and Shoulders Shampoo being one of them, which is priced far higher than they originally intended because people assumed it didn't work because it was cheap).

Generally if there are two or more companies producing product X (in this case Computer Workstations and Laptops) then the market will coalesce around a particular price point for a particular specification. Sure there are those that will always stick to a brand, but the vast number of consumers won't be loyal.

Whether or not the company makes a profit on each unit sold is irrelevant to its market price. If they price their product higher than their competitors people will look at the alternatives.

e.g. I bought a MacBook Pro in 2015 because Apple's machine was cheaper than Lenovo, Dell for the same spec and had a better screen than any of the competitors machines.

This really isn't complicated stuff. I think that personal bias seems to cloud people to some basic truths.

I know you are being facetious, however there are options which the market provide.

1) Other companies that are willing to sell you workstation and laptop computers that you can run other operating systems on such as one of the Linux variants, Windows, BSD etc. Nobody is forcing you to buy a computer from Apple.

2) There is a thriving second hand market of Apple machines just look at ebay, craigslist, gumtree etc.

If a new Apple machine isn't worth it to you, you are free to buy alternatives.

I am going to buy one of the newer Lenovo Thinkpads as I don't think the MacBook pro is worth it to replace my ageing Macbook Pro.

Just doing a quick web search and the company made $224 billion dollars in 2018. Do you honestly think they aren't achieving optimal sales? The proof is in the pudding and they have a very very large pudding.

> It's okay to be completely full of shit, just don't market it as truth.

I know you think you are being big brained but not everything is "you must provide a citation". It is pretty obvious Apple knows the market well, knows exactly what they can and can't charge for certain products. You pretending otherwise because I haven't provided you with a citation is a complete joke, it is like asking someone to cite for evidence that the sky is blue.

> The market price is the equilibrium of both supply and demand.

Obviously.

> What you're saying is the fact people are buying their machines means they shouldn't change price or value proposition... because there are in fact purchases; which, is quite frankly, baffling, to me, a humble idiot.

If Apple are selling the machines in sufficient quantities at whatever they are priced at (I haven't cared to look) then obviously Apple's customers think they are worth it. It isn't really more complicated than that.

Apple are locking down the platform via proprietary chips etc. It isn't a long term solution and shouldn't be relied upon.

While you may scoff enough people are willing to pay the extra for Mac OS and a high level workstation to justify their prices.

Why should they? The market dictates the price.

If people are buying Apple products at those prices then why should Apple lower their prices? The answer is they shouldn't.

Make sure you save up the money, pay off all your debts. Start doing stuff at work "properly". Then once you got yourself back upto "match fitness", start looking around.

Yes that maybe true. However if you bludgeon people constantly with activism (which is clearly the case here) people will end up despising it.

> I doubt anyone using these kinds of licenses really thinks they are going to "work" from the point of view of significantly limiting that behaviour.

Which is the exact problem with it. I don't particularly like the term but it is essentially a virtue signal i.e. I am telling you to care about this because I am a good person.

It is a form of slacktivism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism).

> They do, however, act as a way to advertise the issues—this article being an example of how using a license like that causes people to publicise and maybe think about your issues.

In my experience I find that it actually accomplishes the opposite. For many people there is enough politics in everyday life whether this is internal company politics, their local community or the maelstrom of national and international politics. People become burned out by it and then tend to resent it.

Battle Field V was never officially ported to Linux.

Desktop Linux would be Ubuntu.

The Origin Client is no different than Steam or GOG really.

EA usually give away of put on sale a lot of their DOS / Win 9X library. Also the odd problem I've had with their store (I couldn't activate Crysis Warhead from a legit CD installer I had) It was resolved in about 15 minutes.

EA generally are bad. Don't get me wrong. But it isn't as terrible as many people make out tbh.

Thanks. I do remember people started moving over to reddit back then or at least starting to look around. I know I certainly did. But I just want to using traditional forums.

The game is supported on Windows not on Linux. I would wager their anti-cheat stuff detects "their OS looks weird, they are probably doing odd stuff so they are likely to be cheaters".

If you want to play the game you should be running it on a supported operating system. If the software doesn't work (which is what is really happening here) with an unsupported configuration then that is on you not EA.

Also buying games that aren't supported on your OS and jumping through the hoops is just telling companies like EA that they will get the Linux sales because the customer will do the effort of getting it working for them.

Adding support for a Graphics API isn't that difficult. What is difficult is adding support for all your internal tooling. This can be anything from existing scripts, build processes to the tooling itself.

It simply isn't worth it when the percentage of players that are using Desktop Linux to play PC games is ~1% of the player base.

I distinctly remember that censorship was a big problem.

There was the whole DVD CSS key nonsense or maybe it was the key for Blu-ray or HD-DVD being censored on the site and the users kinda disobeying the sites mods.

I certainly stopped using the site after that. I never used reddit until recently.

> To put a finer point on it, software today is absolute garbage. I've been screaming about this for decades.

That statement contradicts itself. Is this satire?

> All of this bloated 'shitware' today is the result of it having been written by people who a) have no deeper understanding of what the computer is actually doing; also known as typical Python/Java/etc/etc/etc programmers, and/or b) simply not giving a damn about conservation of resources--as further evidenced by all of the other extremely wasteful and destructive habits they hold in their personal lives, and in their societies in general.

Everything has a cost / benefit associated with it. Pretending otherwise show how little you know about engineering.

> I'm working to construct, in my own computing life, something of a 'personal oasis', which is increasingly removed and estranged from all of the horrible things I see Other People out there having to suffer in their personal computing lives, thanks to talentless 'developers' who Just Don't Fucking Care. Some of these pricks actually have the audacity to call themselves 'engineers', even.

I dunno how far your head has to be up your own behind to actually believe this? It not like most developers these days work on large software projects that are normally poorly costed, estimated, planned usually with stifling restrictions because certain "enterprise" technology is mandated by some architect who hasn't written a line of code in a couple of decades. Most people like a consistent regular income which allows them to support themselves and their family. I suspect these concerns are more important then incoherent ramblings of some guy on HN.

This is great. I am sure this will help the Amiga Community which is still going strong.

> This can be abused by bad actors to get obvious or difficult-to-refute falsehoods into the public memetic consciousness by repeating them.

This is exactly why I started the project also I know there are hit pieces that are coordinated between the news-sites. I wonder how much other news that is reported is also coordinated reporting. However I have no direct proof of this and I cannot start from trying to prove something that I suspect. First I need to collect and analyse data fairly.

So far I've just used newspaper to do the hard work of scraping for me (https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper) some basic filtering techniques e.g. I discard everything that has a question mark at the end of it (Betteridge's law of headlines and an MySQL to store articles etc. Then I run the second script to do some basic string analysis. I am going to be building a small web app to display the results.

So far it is early days (It about 4 or 5 python files and a config file) and I have got two other projects I am working on that probably need completing first.

I am not in the UK Conservative Party but I actually know a few people who are and I hear enough of what going on in the party. I don't particularly like the conservative party however I signed up for account because of egregiously wrong you are.

a) Various leaders agreed to go on a show. Boris Johnson doesn't have to go on the BBC and the BBC can interview who they wish. Andrew Neil likes to make fools of people on his show. He has done it to many politicians of all colours. It is really just a higher brow version of "Ben Shapiro defeats Liberals with facts and logic". Jeremy Corbyn was stupid enough to go on there and get himself shafted by Neil.

b and c) Gove and Stanley Johnson was sent by their party to the debate. Channel 4 (which is mostly publicly funded which most people don't know) did the whole ice sculpture as a stunt. They already bought the sculpture. The

As for the BBC having a "right wing bias". Nothing can be further from the truth. You can go on the website yourself and there are thousands of stories talking about typically left wing talking points.

I am actually building daily news site analysis tool by cobbling together some sources. I am using some fairly simple word analysis techniques (most of the effort is scraping the data from these sites and deciding what constitutes a real news story) and most of the language on the BBC and the Guardian are similar. I suspect that most of them just copy and paste stories tbh.