isthisnametaken

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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
No, the Master followed the BBC Micro architecture, which was 32K RAM followed by 32K ROM, made up of 16K paged ROM then 16K of OS and memory mapped peripherals. The other 96K that made up the 128 was 64K in sideways RAM (which could be paged into the pages ROM area, 20K that could be paged over the top of the RAM (where the screen data would live) and 12K that could be paged over parts of the OS ROM.
Comment · 4 years ago
S4C (Sianel 4 Cymru, Channel 4 Wales) receives some licence fee funding (partially via the BBC making programmes for it), but it's a separate entity to Channel 4
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Comment · 4 years ago
Why is it offering up .gb domains, when you can't register them?
Comment · 4 years ago
I got bored long before then. It's a terrible piece of self-backslapping drivel
Comment · 4 years ago
"No need to reinvent the wheel"

Says yet another Linux video editor

Comment · 4 years ago
Couple of things to note

1) The Pico doesn't have an OS, by default. It's designed to run bits of code people have written in the SDK. There are no guarantees that someone won't write code that endlessly busy-waits checking for a condition, and no warnings that doing so can be harmful

2) It costs about $4. Is there really much to lose if you "risk it" with this software?

Comment · 4 years ago
Kids swallowing coin cell batteries is a recurring and very serious problem. Hospitals will take it very seriously (x-rays, etc) if there's even a suspicion that one has been swallowed.
Comment · 4 years ago
That map is very incomplete. It's missing at least 3 that I know of where I live.
Comment · 4 years ago
Did someone at Fisher-Price forget to delete the page on April 2nd?
Comment · 5 years ago
Indeed. I used to have some old bayonet fitting plugs from my grandparents' house.

One was even in its original box, which showed an illustration of woman ironing using an electric iron powered by a cable hanging from the light fitting.

Comment · 5 years ago
HMS Queen Elizabeth doesn't have a catapult.
Comment · 5 years ago
Waste companies have always done this. It happens when shared rainwater/sewage drains become overwhelmed in heavy rain and overflow into rivers.

The legislation isn't allowing something to happen that didn't happen before. There was a vote to ban it outright, which didn't pass. A watered-down (oh yeah) law was passed which allows the practice to continue but requires the water companies to work to prevent it.

Comment · 5 years ago

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