Rejoice!

In article <michelle-1026E4.15041006092009.DeleteThis@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle.DeleteThis@michelle.org> wrote:

> There is now a Commodore C64 emulator for the iPhone. You can once again
> play all those C64 games you loved back in the 1980s. For only $4.95, you
> get the emulator, Dragonsden, Lemans, Jupiter Lander, Shipwreck, and Jack
> Attack. More games will be available through in-app purchase.

Excellent!

> However, you won't be able to write your own; the C64 BASIC interpreter is
> disabled in the emulator.

An unfortunate effect of Apple's iPhone developer agreement--
interpreters are not allowed.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/

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John Steinberg wrote:
> € In 2007, driver distractions, such as using a cell phone or text
> messaging, contributed to nearly 1,000 crashes involving 16- and
> 17-year-old drivers.

texting while driving is REALLY STUPID. (Heck, texting anytime,
doesn't make sense to me when the same device allows you to talk.)

But talking? How is _talking_ on a cell phone more dangerous
than talking to your passenger, or listening to talk radio, or ....

Anyone incapable of driving safely while talking should not be
allowed to drive a car with a radio or a cup holder.

Would we be accused of discriminating against the handicapped
if we disallowed people from communicating in sign language
to a deaf driver? Yes, I've seen drivers in motion staring
at their passenger who's signing away.

Nearly 25 years ago, I saw an advert for a 24x80 ASCII terminal
that you could wear on your head to read while driving!

How about the vans where if the driver leans way back,
he can watch a movie on the DVD player that's allegedly for the back
seat only?

--
Wes Groleau

"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying
Amen to what the world tells you you should prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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At 07 Sep 2009 00:34:05 -0400 John Steinberg wrote:
> Wes Groleau wrote:
>
> > Yeah, right. They built a special P.E.T. scanner that can be used
> > while driving just so they could measure this...
>
> MRI, actually.
>
> See:
> <http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-105199.ht
> ml>

I accept the data. I personally find it very distracting to try and drive
while getting an MRI...

John Steinberg wrote:
> Distraction from cell phone use while driving (hand held or hands
> free) extends a driver's reaction as much as having a blood alcohol
> concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. (University of Utah)

How did they measure it? Or did they just make it up?
Did they specifically state that they had measured reaction
times while talking to a passenger and found them significantly different?

> Driving while distracted is a factor in 25 percent of police
> reported crashes.

I can believe it. Where I have my doubts is the apparent claims that
cell phones distracgt and nothing else does.

> Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain
> activity associated with driving by 37 percent (Carnegie Mellon)

Yeah, right. They built a special P.E.T. scanner that can be used
while driving just so they could measure this. Not only that, but
this scanner can tell the difference between two kinds of brain
activity.

--
Wes Groleau

Hispanics want immigration reform but…
http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1493

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John Steinberg wrote:
> MRI, actually.

Since I work in healthcare AND my wife has had a dozen
for her cancer care, I am aware that an MRI cannot measure
brain activity. It detects differences between different
types of tissue.

> See:
> <http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-105199.ht
> ml>

404 - until I fixed the #$%^# Thunderbird splitting of the URI
I'll have to read the researcher's report. The MRI nonsense
makes it obvious at best the journalist is sloppy, at worst
the researcher is blowing smoke.

> Frankly, I'm surprised anyone has difficulty accepting this data, but I
> do a lot of driving in heavy traffic areas where the effects of driving
> while using a cell phone are readily apparent to anyone paying
> attention.

Paying attention? Oh, sorry, I was on the phone, what did you say?


I've seen plenty of anecdotal evidence. What I am not yet quite
convinced of is the hypothesis that the problems correlate to the
cell phone and not to the idiocy of the user. The article cited,
however, does give a credible hypothesis for why a cell phone
could be worse than a passenger.

--
Wes Groleau

achy breaky grammar
http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=229