albuquerque's comments

On: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

[albuquerque]

Played it on my 1982 zx spectrum 32k!

[jmkd → albuquerque]

You may be thinking of Psion's Flight Simulation game [0] on the ZX Spectrum 48K

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Simulation_(Psion_softw...

[albuquerque → jmkd]

I'm pretty sure it was from Microsoft. I may have even the paper instructions, i'll search for them :-) Wikipedia: "FS1 Flight Simulator is a 1979 video game published by Sublogic for the Apple II. A TRS-80 version followed in 1980. FS1 Flight Simulator is a flight simulator in the cockpit of a slightly modernized Sopwith Camel.[2] FS1 is the first in a line of simulations from Sublogic which, beginning in 1982, were also sold by Microsoft as Microsoft Flight Simulator."

[TuringTest → jmkd]

I played it on the 48K.

I can't believe there was a version that run on the 16K ZX81 as well!

[albuquerque → TuringTest]

48k of course, not 32k :-)

[midasuni → albuquerque]

Rubber keys?

[albuquerque → midasuni]

yep (wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum)

[midasuni → albuquerque]

I had the spectrum plus. Still 48k, but a better keyboard

On: Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects

[albuquerque]

In Portugal ?

[pjmlp → albuquerque]

Yep, unless politécnicos and universidades now have turned into the same thing after Bologna.

On: Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

[albuquerque]

Exactly like in Portugal, except for the religious leaders.

[girishso → albuquerque]

And India, but includes religious leaders.

On: The Fiasco microkernel

[albuquerque]

Also in French!

[escherplex → albuquerque]

Wondered why that name was chosen too. Etymology meaning failure does show it to come from Italian far fiasco = make a bottle = dud theatrical performance. Reminds you of GM motors wondering why their Chevy Nova wasn't selling well in Latin America. Why? In Spanish Nova = No va = It doesn't go (work).

[nix0n → escherplex]

Snopes[0] disagrees with this story.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanis...

[escherplex → nix0n]

It is still a marketing class cliché [1] however debunked

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/chevy-nova-that-wouldnt-go-3078090

[kayamon → escherplex]

I believe the name deliberately refers to the licensing fiasco over who owned the original rights to the L4 kernel that the many spinoffs are based on.

[dsr_ → escherplex]

If you knock a glass bottle off of a table, it makes a terrible mess.

[simonebrunozzi → albuquerque]

But it's originally an Italian word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiasco

[sedatk → albuquerque]

In Turkish, too!

[the-dude → albuquerque]

And in Dutch!

On: How cork is made

[albuquerque]

1 euro may be the selling price of a top cork stopper. The majority of them cost less than that, they could reach prices as low as 2 or 3 cents! (but these are the real bad ones :-) ). i'd say you could buy medium quality cork stoppers for 20-30 cents each. Note, we're not talking of cost values but the final market prices.