ADORABLE CAR ALERT
1967 Volvo 1800S. 80,000 miles indicated, odometer rolled. Current bid: US$15,000.
ADORABLE CAR ALERT
1967 Volvo 1800S. 80,000 miles indicated, odometer rolled. Current bid: US$15,000.
@loke @maddiefuzz This had knock-on effects too. IBM and Microsoft were working at the time on what they both planned to be the replacement for DOS, called OS/2. OS/2 was meant to be multitasking from the ground up.
But IBM had all those corporate customers they'd sold all those ATs, so they insisted OS/2 had to work on the 286. Which was tough, because of the 286's multitasking limitations.
Microsoft wanted to just write for the 386, but IBM wouldn't go for it. So eventually Microsoft split off and built their own product, which they called "Windows."
Which of course went on to own the world, while OS/2 became a footnote.
@loke @maddiefuzz This was a problem, because the market was full of DOS software that all expected to be able to poke into any memory location it wanted to. So if you had one protected-mode app and 20 DOS apps, owning a 286 would be a pain. Constant rebooting.
Intel fixed this in the next chip, the 386. That one could switch back and forth between modes at will.
But IBM had sold a bazillion ATs to Fortune 500 companies, which hate upgrading. So they *couldn't* pivot to the 386. The customers they had just sold those bazillion ATs to would have burned their headquarters down. They were lashed to the mast of the 286.
@loke @maddiefuzz It's probably not what Maddie was referring to, but the AT fascinates me because it is the rare device that was so successful it doomed the company.
The AT used Intel's 286 processor. The 286 was the first x86 processor to offer "protected mode," where the system gives applications virtual memory addresses. This lets it keep applications from poking around in each others' memory. This is a critical feature for multitasking.
But 286 protected mode had a hitch: the chip could switch into protected mode, but not OUT. If you wanted to get out, you had to reboot the whole machine.
If you’re not sure whether you’d enjoy a movie like SAMURAI COP, watch the first ten minutes. This is the kind of movie that displays its incompetence right out of the gate
From now on, I will be starting all my client meetings by asking “what entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind”
Trust me on this. I don’t care if you’re in the middle of performing open heart surgery. Drop your scalpel and watch SAMURAI COP. That guy on the table isn’t going anywhere
RiffTrax just put the full version of their riffed edition of the absolutely insane 1991 movie SAMURAI COP up for free viewing on YouTube.
If you have never seen SAMURAI COP,
YOU NEED TO SEE SAMURAI COP
You can watch this one too, if you want. It beat Akira Kurosawa’s KAGEMUSHA for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1981 Oscars!
Something about a Soviet movie always just slaps you hard across the face with the fact that you are watching a Soviet movie. This one here is a famous love story
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
(letterboxd.com)
Wake up babe, new nightmare fuel just dropped
@jnl @ryanrandall Honestly if they'd just waited a couple years they could have done a tie-in with "Kill Bill"
@jnl @ryanrandall It was the "e" on the end of "Charme" that really did it for me. Like, what this sex wagon needs is a dash of Tudor chic
You love to see it
@juliewebgirl @dpnash @allenstenhaus They don’t just give it to you as an option. It is the PRIMARY option. They make you jump through extra hoops if you want to use a real authenticator.
@dpnash @allenstenhaus “Have you thought about how much easier it would make your life if you just gave up and installed the YouTube app? Because our VP whose annual bonus depends on the number of YouTube app installs sure has”
GOOGLE: Hey! Would you like to sign in with Google???
ME: No.
GOOGLE: No problem! Just in case you change your mind, we’ll ask you again on every single web page you visit for the rest of your natural life
BRITISH ENGINEER: I say chaps, I had a look at those inlet ducts and they seem a bit —
AMERICAN ENGINEER: Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Hey everyone, get a load of Lord Whoop-De-Woo over here
In case you thought you were the only one whose job required working with idiots, I share with you the story of the engineer Britain sent to America during World War II to share the secrets of a thing the Americans did not have: the jet engine
@CorvidCrone True theatre kid energy. 10/10. Live your truth