Posts by Joe Wylie
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DeepRed:
the socketed main chips would loosen in the motherboards, causing sporadic failure
Because Amigas relied on extra custom coprocessors to handle audio, video & direct memory there'd have been more chips to loosen I guess. The last working Amiga I saw was twelve years ago, a 2000 set up as an animation pencil tester in a Sydney studio. Even then it was something of a curiosity.
Some Amiga applications survived the machine's demise. The Magellan file manager evolved to become Directory Opus for Windows. For those who like such things it's an even sweeter ride than the Mac finder.
Richard Grevers:
I remember the White Fiat 125 adorned with “Not a bloody communist Lada” driving around Christchurch.
A sensible precaution against nearsighted ZAP devotees, who were given to smashing Lada windscreens in secluded spots like the University car park.
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The Rabelaisian wit of David Lange:
...he saw that they did cause burn their regents alive like red herring, saying, Now God forbid that I should die this death! for I am by nature sufficiently dry already, without heating myself any further.
François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to mark taslov,
David Lange joked that Clark “was so dry she was combustible”
Those wet & dry 80s, when it was said of Thatcher that if it was wet she believed she could walk on it.
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Guy Peellaert's Cilla.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Rob Stowell,
As the huffle dies down, I’m liking David Parker. Straight bat, no bullsh*t, decent. And not a candidate.
Not to mention his willingness to work constructively with potential allies.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to izogi,
That’s the way I grew up in NZ, with Constable Keith and Sniff on What Now, making sure I knew I could always trust the community police officer.
And there was Crimewatch, aka Maoriwatch. Once NZers had got over the embarassment of their own accents on TV, poor old Ian Johnstone's premium BBC-ish tones were reduced to keeping the natives in their place.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to tussock,
My experience is most people in NZ think the police are this magical wall holding back the growing darkness, and continue to until one day a policeman stitches someone they know up for some bullshit little thing and their whole world tuns upside down for a while.
IMHE Australians aren't that different. Class certainly colours attitudes. Justice James Roland Wood, who presided over the 1995 NSW Royal Commission into police corruption, was described by an experienced court journalist as having been very 'North Shore' in his attitudes as a judge. For example, he'd become 'squeamish' when counsel got the better of police witnesses.
The remarkable rigour he eventually displayed as a Royal Commissioner came as a surprise to many, including no doubt the widespread corrupt elements in the police force and their allies, who in some cases openly gloated that he'd turn out to be a compliant patsy.
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Also here. Mr Geddis on form, cutting through the fluff.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Alfie,
Where does this come from?
This is all I've seen, no indication of who's behind it.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Sam F,
I don’t know much about how the Dairy Board operated, except that it appeared to be in mysterious ways. What I do remember is that they were probably the only big corporate customer for the Commodore Amiga computer.
The later incarnation of the graphics-geek friendly Amiga was hyped by the local distributor as a cheap colour rival of the Mac. Unfortunately it suffered from the kind of instability that only a bleeding edge enthusiast could love. The regularly encountered guru meditation must have provide hours of fun for the hapless milkies.