April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32144005
There's many of those things I'm desperately hoping are simply April Fool's jokes.
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course if it was on IRQ 12 half of the games wouldn't work (long story, and yes, due to another x86 quirk)
Oh man, those IRQ nightmares! Please don't mention those extended memory settings or I will go into my basement to look for my MEMMAKER notes on how to (maybe) get a game going...
Just boot one in your browser! https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games Yes these are real copies of MS-DOS games running in MS-DOS in a JS emulator in your browser. Some of them have crack screens, but some of them are running from magnetic maps of the disk, with original copy protection schemes intact.
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that a company needs their own gTLD is silly. Sites like google have a perfectly good domain. Why use iphone.apple if apple can already do iphone.apple.com or apple.com/iphone? At the end of the day the consumer will not start guessing what domain he/she has to use to get what they want. The average consumer uses a search engine and types in "apple iphone". They don't care about iphone.apple they just want t…
Because ICANN set this up, and companies have to protect their trademarks. Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.
> Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.
Good thing icann just increased the available domain-space from "limited" to "unlimited" then. That sounds good for almost everyone, or at least icann.
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#325Angular and React have merged
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#326Sync physical post-it board with trello using magnetism, pencil and a Raspberry Pi.
https://vimeo.com/123835399
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#327From the Hungarian iPhone site szifon.com comes the news that Apple buys Yosemite Park :)
http://szifon.com/2015/04/01/felvasarolja-az-apple-a-yosemit...
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#328I may be accused of being a curmudgeon, but most of these aren't funny anymore. Companies are rarely funny, not sure why they keep doing this. /rant
>not sure why they keep doing this
Because it gets them attention.
Personally I find it irritating.
/Buzz Killington
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#329Study led by senior Google dev reveals direct correlation between tech conference food and blacking out in sessions.
https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/04/chet-haase-forking-disru...