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Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change. "I’m not Wintermute now"
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Retro Games is launching a mini version of the 1982 computer Commodore 64 called the C64 Mini. It will be available in early 2018, with a price point of $70. No tape drive?
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So, is this a fully functional machine or just a game console?
Will the user have the ability to write programs on the device?
Will they be a storage mechanism like a thumb drive?
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Sadly, looks like just a games console, but maybe that's just for the launch attention? It does have two USB.
Oh, wait, read all the way to the end:
Quote: As befits a home computer you can also plug in a standard USB PC keyboard and use as a classic C64 to type in those old BASIC computer listings or program new games.
Cautiously w00t.
TTFN - Kent
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From work, limited access to links, so hard to get details.
But, from what I've been able to find... looks like programming is possible and I suspect 'save' to USB device.
Good times ahead!
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In an industrial space tucked off a side street in Seattle's Sodo District, Microsoft is trying to reinvent the data center. What kind of mileage do you get on that server?
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A plan to update the security around some of the net's core address books has been delayed. Oh that's OK. It seems perfectly secure as is.
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Quote: But an investigation by the net admin body found that many organisations were running versions of DNS SEC that had not updated properly or did not have the new keys in place ready to use. It said it was not clear why some versions of DNS SEC had not been updated as expected.
Oh come on. We all know the reason. The DNS server has worked perfectly with zero human attention since it was installed several years ago and no one has time to read any of the eleventy jillion mailing lists for all the applications they're running to find out that they should change something even if their boss was willing to risk a minutes downtime to reboot the server if everything worked perfectly. 
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Anywhere on Earth in under an hour,’ Musk says "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?"
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"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?"
I should prefer it does not land on my house!
I think a rocket for going to mars may be totally different than one to go to Japan, because interplanetary one needs 2 or 3 stages and a Earth based one only one.
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But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's too 21st centruy...
Scotty, beam me up!
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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Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung are all chasing voice-based artificial intelligence with smart digital assistants that you talk to. "Alexa, tell me about the war with Google."
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Just seems like an answer in search of a question.
Does anybody really use these things?
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Errr, yes. We do.
This space for rent
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So... you're the one!
Seriously though, I'm curious - What room(s) do you have your device(s) located in? What are your main uses?
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Your C64 is not meant here by the word "home computer" 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Oooh modern tech.
This space for rent
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You should have heard my father-in-law arguing with Alexa yesterday.
Also, she spent more time trying to push unwanted content on him.
Alexa is definitely not AI.
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai wants Apple to turn on the FM radio that’s hidden inside of every iPhone. "Pretty please."
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The 'droids that support it generally don't have built in FM antennas either, they run an internal connection from the headphone jack to the FM tuner built into the rest of the RF chip they bought. That means Apple probably *can't* add it to their older phones even if they wanted to (since it'd've required adding the hardware support years ago); and with more Android OEMs drinking the no headphone jack coolaid support there will probably end up largely vanishing over the next few years. 
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Amazon surprised everyone with a press event that unveiled a bunch of new Echo hardware. An Echo here, an Echo there
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there... there... there...
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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A new look, better dev tools, and up to twice the performance in key benchmarks Striving to put right what once went wrong
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