With their performance on Ariane 6, I have serious doubts that they can do that in five years.

But you're okay with breaking news about the latest Pac Man clone games?

It's like they've reached the part of game theory where they don't expect anyone to return, therefore they play the "final move" to screw the opponent. They've gone so far from trying to attract customers that they've forgotten it's even possible for a customer to ever return again, much less that they might want to. So they're basically just down to strip-mining their customer base for a few more pennies of profit.

Yeah, it's time for CEOs and middle management to be replaced with AI. Nobody would notice the difference, they already lie and hallucinate like bad managers.

They rejected the concept of reusable rockets years ago when Falcon 9 was starting to eat everyone's lunch. Actually they didn't just reject it, they ridiculed it, saying that then they would have to fire all their rocket builders, think of all the poor unemployed rocket builders! You know, the ones who haven't been building too many rockets the past few years because Ariane 6 was fucking years late. And it's still expendable.

It is not a typo, you just don't know Atari stuff. 6502C is a custom bond-out of the NMOS 6502 with a pin to synchronize with the graphics chip.

So we should set safety standards based on a very bad reactor design (nobody but the Soviets used it), that was fucked around with by some "scientists" trying to see what happens if you turn off its safety stuff? And Fukushima was an old design that we really should stop using, but anti-nuke weenies keep preventing newer reactors with better designs from being built, so these creaky old reactors keep getting re-licensed for another 20 years.

Isn't colored glass the main problem with glass recycling? Once there's any color in it, you have to keep it away from clear and other colors. Most people are stupid enough that they would likely spoil the feedstock if they bothered to recycle glass.

Anyhow, I at least make an effort for aluminum (I get a free lunch or so worth of cash for three bins), and steel cans (city recycling). I will also put out big metal junk on the curb during bulk collection weeks, and it disappears before collection, as expected.

Texas is up to at least V in their current AAA-9999 series that they've been using for around 20 years. But it's no big thing. They interrupted an AA9-A999 series (if I recall correctly) before that after only a few years. Those plates had a background that went into the number area, maybe that had something to do with why they ended it, though it seems like a silly reason to suddenly start a new number series. I would not be surprised to see them resume it when the current series runs out.

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Wow, I didn't realize they took that down in 2012. Also, a 700x502 image looks a lot smaller in these days when the smallest common monitor size is 1080p.

The chip that Tengen used is a completely different CPU from what Nintendo used, and can't run the same code. So it is likely that Tengen managed to reverse-engineer the chip on their own without it. It could have been just some legal intern who did this on his own.

That was Accolade. Basically what Sega did was two things. First they put in a 256-byte phantom boot ROM which displayed the "produced by or under license from SEGA" message, delayed for a moment, then started up the external cartridge ROM. The second thing was a watchdog timer that would reset the system a moment later if a new hardware register wasn't written with the 32-bit ASCII code for "SEGA".

Accolade's "workaround" was to literally copy the first few dozen bytes of the cartridge startup code from a Sega game. Then Sega claimed a copyright violation on that code. First, it was dumb of Sega to think that they could win a copyright case for that small amount of code, and which was made necessary by the hardware. But second, it was dumb of Accolade to not simply rewrite it to use different instructions, because the necessary code wasn't that forced.

Also, (going by memory here, it's been a while since I looked at how this works), did you notice the part where the licensing message was put on the screen BEFORE ever accessing the cartridge data? Yeah, totally not Accolade's fault that it was already on the screen. Or I guess you could say "yep, that phantom ROM was produced by Sega, sure was!"

Now if they could do something about the "norton 360" "geek squad" etc. "subscription invoice" e-mail spam from gmail, then they will have accomplished something.

How long before they start cramming ads into that shit?

So unlike the other social networks where they don't want to admit to being full of bots, this one will feature talking to the bots?

Actual Indians!
(well, okay, Filipinos this time, but it's usually India where this happens)