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Eich is Catholic, his faith does not believe in gay marriage. He donated to a charity that was against gay marriage on the ballots. Because of that he was forced to resign.

In some schools they require an iPad for the ebook app that schools use for books and other things. It does not run on the PC. So Apple has a lock-in there.

People are stopping buying PCs for mobile devices like smart phones and tablets.

I misread it as UI chip, as in it handles the User Interface and frees up the CPU for other things. But it is the U1 chip instead.

Atari like Commodore didn't market their new systems that much. It was mostly magazines and word of mouth. At least in the USA it was that way. Still they both controlled the home computer market in the 8 bit areas.

I had an Atari Lynx and about 30 games. I had a carrying case and wall adapter as well because it ate batteries like crazy. I gave it to a friend who had a computer museum.

There is an emulator for Lynx games here: https://atariage.com/Lynx/emulation/index.html

It reminded me of a hand held Amiga or Atari ST even if it had a different chipset.

We used to have a turntable stereo that was mono with one speaker built into a console that had a wooden lid on it on top so it could be closed and we used it as a computer monitor holder. My nephews stole my vinyl records inside of it. It was damaged in a flood and we never replaced it.

Turntables these days are expensive, but worth it for the vinyl experience.

Free COBOL on the web: https://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cobol.shtml

COBOL has been ported to many different platforms.

Like COBOL for GCC: http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/

AmigaDOS was developed on SunOS Workstations that were modified.

I don't think the Zorro bus was as good as ISA or PCI and the A600 was like you said it was. The Amiga needed a networking adapter to work with networks and Apple Macs later had them as default or via a NuBus slot.

Plus most of the software for the Amiga was video games which limited the system to video games it needed more business software.

The Amiga had emulators to run DOS and Mac software. Sort of the OS/2 effect where they ran DOS and 16 bit Windows apps so there was no need for native OS/2 apps.

Commodore had a nickle and dime marketing plan and made PC clones as well. The Commodore 65 was going to be the next 8 bit C64 type computer after the C128. But it never got out of prototype.

Mac and DOS/PC tech caught up to the Amiga around 1987-1992 and Amiga could not make a newer chipset in time to compete with them.

The Amiga was like the Mac but with true preemptive multitasking and 1/3rd the cost of a similar powered Mac. Amiga didn't earn a lot of money with the Amiga because they lowballed the price and Apple won because they highballed the price until Steve Jobs could come back to fix the company. Amiga had no Steve Jobs savior and went out of business because the DOS/PC cut into their sales too.

Google makes money off the activity and behavior of people using their free products. They sell the data to the highest bidder. If it wasn't free nobody would use them. This is to serve them advertising and sell info to spammers and marketers than will send them email.

I use Qodem the open source Qmodem from the BBSing days.

http://qodem.sourceforge.net/

There are BBSes on the Internet that are still going strong and this terminal has all of the features that QModem had.

What about bills that people wrote on? Where's George and political stuff. I don't want it on the bills I receive.

Can they regrow teeth as well? What about gum disease?

Very good guilt trip of Elliot. I wonder if his father shows up again in season 4, now that he is a hallucination.

It is more of a denial of service for Gab because they allow anything on their site instead of policing it like Hacker News here and having a code of conduct.

Gab went to Mastodon to be part of the federated universe but federated apps block their URL now.

Gab allows Free Speech and does not have a code of conduct or ban or censor anyone. They claim this is freedom and the code of conduct is fascism.

Anyone who writes a racist comment usually gets called out on it and called an idiot and mocked anyway on Gab.

You cannot have both free speech and a code of conduct at the same time. You either allow everything or censor and ban things to a degree.

Most of these racist comments are made by teenagers who think the N-word is funny and trolling people. So they post it over and over again.

It is no longer maintained or updated. FreeBASIC can take QuickBASIC Code but it needs to be modified a bit.

https://www.freebasic.net/

Visual BASIC is emulated via Jabaco and converted to Java Runtine files. http://www.jabaco.org/ but it hasn't been maintained in a while either. It does VB 6.0 but misses ADO and other libraries needed for Data access, you have to use Java based ones instead with BASIC syntax.

I was great at Visual BASIC 6.0 until Dotnet came out. I had years of experience in VB 6.0 but nothing in C# or VB.Net. Technology passed me by, and the same thing happened when I did COBOL and FORTRAN on an IBM 370 Mainframe. I didn't lose my touch, technology passed me by.

So now I have to catch up with Python, C# and other languages. I've been sick from the stress of a toxic environment at work and had to go on short term disability and rest. I didn't become stupid or lose my touch or get soft in the head. I can still program VB 6.0 just that nobody wants those skills anymore.

No business plan, no vision, lack of leadership, tried to copy Twitter and Facebook. Even Yahoo 360 was better.

Usually they staff a female minority in HR to make up for lack of diversity in other departments. In some companies I worked at they upgraded a administrative assistant to supervising manager of IT because she was female and they needed more diversity. She was not qualified for the job, and I'd feel better if she was qualified for the job. But that is just my opinion.

With Apple making the Mac Pro so expensive it opens up the grey market for Hackintosh PCs to run MacOS at a fraction of the cost. If Apple wants to beat the Hackintosh they need an ATX based Mac that doesn't cost $5999 but more like $999 that can be upgraded with a better graphics card and etc.

Keep yourself alive. Keep looking for work, and stay active and exercise as well. Take care of your illness because it is a tough world out there.

Goodwill won't take them as donations anymore, and it costs money to dispose of one because of the chemicals in it.

The Commodore 8 bit crowd has been buying them up as there are ways to repair the C64 and other units and they used TV sets from long ago.

I remember when I got a C64 I had a Zenith black and white TV to work with it and got a color one later when Magnavox store near us lowered prices.

A friend of mine specialized in OSX USB drivers and did contract work for OEMS who make products for the Apple Macintosh. He used to work for Apple in the 1990s and did work on Mac System 7.5.4 with the team.

He recently killed himself, because he could not find clients and work due to ageism etc. He got sick as well and for a while was homeless. Once he got grey hair they didn't want to hire him anymore. He was 55.

A friend of mine is in his 50s he got tired of being overqualified for jobs. So he sent in applications for CEO of Microsoft etc and got the overqualified letters back. It is ridiculous if you ask me, and he is only overqualified because of his age.

MY next door neighbor worked for IBM in OS/2. when IBM stopped supporting OS/2 they laid him off. He blamed Microsoft for it and refused to run Windows. I got him a copy of OpenSUSE from my computer because he refused to use Windows. He went to Linux, and had worked on the IBM Mainframes as well before. He had trouble getting hired because he was in his 60s. He recently died and had called himself a Windows Bigot because he refused to use or support Windows.

Does this mean they can open source the Spongebob game to port it to different platforms?

They can use the open source version of Android without the commercial programs like the Google Play Store, etc.

It just needs better driver support. It looks good so far.