Andrew Davie

@SlidellMan it was still called an obelus years ago.

I wonder if you, too, learned this from a discussion on the use of this on - I think - a newish SwissMicros calculator being developed.

I found one! Yay me.

Yes, I already thanked past me. I must have been thinking of future me when I wrote it.

I have no money.

I have parts for 3 or 4, but printing shells will depend on my printer feeling up to the task.

Essentially, the print surface is now a bit dodgy so the texturing might be a bit off.

I played it in the mid/late '70s. It was sitting in an airport in Tasmania.

I recall playing it well before space invaders was a thing.

I did a similar calculation recently... here are my figures... I paid about AUS$400 for a 16KB RAM cartridge for my Atari 800 computer back in 1981 or so. In today's dollars that's about $1600. Now, I just purchased a pack of three 32GB USB sticks for around $14. By my back-of-the-envelope calculation, bits back then were about 250 million times more expensive than now!

A few significant errors there, IMHO. This guy was not responsible for "literally creating an industry bigger than the movie industry". If you had to give that responsibility to anyone, it would be Ralph Baer. And the Channel F was not "the first video game console with interchangeable game cartridges".  That honour also goes to the Magnavox Odyssey - designed by Ralph. The article specifically states the Odyssey did not use interchangeable cartridges, but I have a dozen or so of them sitting right here, so there's that.  Yes, they were just circuits that rewired the console's electronics - but they were plug-in-game-cartridges nonetheless.
 

It's a virus, so effectively not something you can 'kill' with some sort of spray.

If you think you're at risk, then prevent ways of the virus entering your body. Wear a mask to avoid inhalation of airborn viral particles. Wash your hands after touching surfaces, to remove any viral contaminants from your skin before you (say) put your hands near your mouth.

But, basically, we're pretty much doomed to watching this run its course, because people are stupid and the chances of preventing further spread - particularly with air travel between countries and the difficulty in telling if people are infected or not - is essentially zero. We're just going to have to wait and see how quickly things take off. But my bet is that the Olympics are cancelled, we see fairly major epidemics - particularly in Asian countries - and a worldwide loss of life in the tens of thousands. Perhaps more. But, I'd love to be wrong on this.

There are ARM games and LEG games. Get with it, wiz!

"... now I know fuck all, won't you sing with me...."

So the Welsh sing... "TUV... W.. X, Y and ... fuck all"

Not an incorrect fact to be seen, apparently.

Well, come on then... point 'em out and we can discuss. He's a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and former Research Fellow in Philosophy. He's eminently qualified on this issue. It will be interesting to see what errors he's made. Have at it.

Their main goal until 4 or 5 years old is to try to kill themselves in any way possible. That's what it seemed like with ours, anyway.

 no, but I think the days of making money programming '2600 games are long, long gone. I was just being whimsical.

The printers will be biological/organic and you'll choose "grow it now"

Addicts. Addicts gaming the system.

What would your view be if inside the battery case is a clock/processor which specifically kills the battery at the 3 year mark?  Still OK with that?

If you play a tone of the same frequency through headphones, it can actually mask the ringing. Give it a go.

US$5 gallon. That's 3.6 litres. Here in Oz it is about US$1.20 a litre, which is about US$4.30 a gallon.

*walks around all day with a corn-flake snot stuck to his earlobe, aka "something about mary"

Lego isn't 8-bit

Mine is the best Qb. Full-stop.