Russia is like a broken,corrupted Commodore 64..

Damn, you’re quick with the comments!

Hehe, no way, C64 is the ultimate. C64 is like Ibiza or something.

O.K. Phil…How about a witty contrast of Motorola versus Nokia!

#2…WHAT!?…Are you on drugs or something!?

I smell hemp on F.F.T….. hmmmm

I had VIC 10,Commodore 64 and 128 with floppy disk, when they first
came out A LONG TIME AGO! What a joke…I would never go back now and waste my time with those antiquities!..Although I have a retarded computer nerd friend who only plays with his Commodore 128 to this day,
and refuses to get any modern computer or get on the INTERNUT!..
He needs some potent psychiatric medications,but he refuses any computer counseling!

C64 is classic!! C’mon!

All Commodore fans MUST watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY2gK1MPgh8 – it’ll bring back soooo many great memories.

I had VIC 10,Commodore 64 and 128 with floppy disk,

I actually skipped the C64, went right from the VIC 20 to the 128. 128 was compatible with all C64 games, although I think I had just one that was only for the 128.

Just three days ago my Amazon order came including this book: “Living on the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore” http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/dp/0973864907/

…what else am I missing?

A holiday…?

My favorite computer game on the C-64,I can’t remember the name,but it was a combat game ,with stick figure armies and tanks and HELICOPTERS(my favorites}. I ultimately would betray and attack my own tanks and troops with helicopter gunship, decimating them,and leaving the evil opposing army victorious!…I guess the Viet Nam war left me dazed and confused as to my loyalties
to *U.S.of KKK-A.(tm Reverend Jeremiah Wright)*…

Sounds a bit like Choplifter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choplifter).

#11…THAT’S IT!…YEAH…CHOPLIFTER!!

Sounds a bit like Choplifter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choplifter).

Exactly what I was thinking. My friend had this for the original Sega Master System, had hours of fun playing this. I always felt bad for those hostages that I had to leave behind…

Nice analogy. How many beers prior?

Nice analogy. How many beers prior?

Red wine, Italian. No beer.

so you are saying Finland does not work, like a Mac?

Brilliant synthesis. All the time whiny bloggers (including Phil) keep on doing analysis, breaking down of issues into smaller pieces, then plastering on them an irrelevant ideological manifesto. Yet from time to time, Phil “gets it”.

As for the technical side, I disagree. Macs are just as broken as Windows systems. Whereas both Windows and Mac are results of fundamentally malicious development philosophies, I like Windows more. Microsoft still remains somewhat neutral toward third-party software and hardware, unlike Mac, which is run by a control freak. Vista is a worrying development in that it signals that Microsoft is also moving towards such a corrupt philosophy. (“Corrupt” means unable to distinguish right and wrong. It is wrong for an operating system vendor to dictate what its clients actually “operate”. Car makers are also not allowed to tell you where to drive. Macintosh has never understood this.) When Microsoft has been completely corrupted, then I’ll have to finally move to Linux.

And the “design”? In my humble opinion, Macs look like cheap Japanese toys. I simply can’t imagine why people voluntarily pay for anything that looks like them. Older Macs still did look like computers, but the newer ones are just toys. The Mac design is nothing like Finnish design, known for its strict and pure functionalism.

But, it’s a brilliant analogy, no matter how many beers you need to see it. Many of the faults of the Mac philosophy are the same as the faults of the Social Democracy.

When I had just read the headline, I thought to myself: “Damn Phil, don’t be dissing Finland!” Didn’t realize you had already been fooled by the iReligion.

Again..Mac’s break..a lot, and does not run every program I have.

Windows Machines are build by many venders, so the price point is good, plus it just works..every friggin day.

Comparing Finland’s Nanny state to Mac is your only good point Phil.

get cured. In EU it’s free.

Urikka tietokone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SpmO9xXO8Y

I am cured, well except that glow in the dark stuff.

By heck you would glow, if they stuck you inside a microwave oven 44 days in a row.

#21…Pelle….that you tube Commodore video cracks me up…Also I am having a flash back to “golden age of computing”…(right!)

Damn, that 100 c64 games in 10 minutes video brought back some great memories from the eighties! (yep, there are some good memories from the 80s)

For me the 100 Amiga games in 10 minutes is even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoJBerFDsA&NR=1

Damn. Now I have to install emulators or dig up my dear old A1200. Again.

And a fun post, Phil. You can be quite clever every now and then.

Peter Pumpkinhead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLkq5YFqxyE could be Libertarian anthem?

#24 I watched the film, it was fun. Many of the Amiga games were c64 games.

Phil. Are you trying to equate the USA with Windows?…..That’s out of MY league………

Heh, nice analogy. As a Debian newbie, I guess I jumped out of Vista (or ‘Visto’, as it is known up here in the north) train in the middle of Christiania then.

Speaking about C64, mine is still in operative use. It’s nice for configuring laser driver IC’s for 10Gbps+ optical communications in some test set-ups. As a HW oriented person, I’d rather set the bits through C64 user port by few lines of poke and peek than learn the pigs vomit on a twig fence, known as C++. Besides, it’s a nice thing to have around the lab, when some high-flying, innovation jargon bullshitting delegation comes over for a visit…

Global politics in 30 seconds..related to USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-xePlM-zg

#25: XTC! Yeah, one of my favorite bands of all time. Got all the records and some even in 2 different variations. Love them to bits.

so if finland is a mac I, guess that makes estonia a TRS-80

#32 ….I was waiting to see how long it took for someone to make that
comparison!…

Sweden is an ABBA-CUS!..

I’d say Russia is token ring on 5250 terminals…

Finland would be a Mac, except unlike Finland, the Mac actually IS better.

LOL…and Enterprise service agreements from Mac Finland are like Finland. Have an XRaid blowing chunks? No problem! They’ll send you a ‘free’ parts kit after you’ve paid a giant chunk of cash up front for a 3-year ‘service’ contract! Such a deal! Carlin must have been to Finland prior to his ‘servicing the customer’ sketch.

I’ve owned an apple since ’84, but the company went straight to hell after they became mainstream and popular.

Good to hear you are using a Mac now, Phil! Does that mean that there is still hope for Nokia, since you may finally start thinking usability when it comes to Apps and User Interfaces???

I guess there’s no way you can enter the office with an iPhone, but have you tried the iPod touch?

Well, I wouldn’t say that Finland is the most perfect society on earth, I think Sweden is, Finland is probably second but is very closely followed by Norway and Denmark, then comes Iceland followed by Holland and Canada… I guess the USA is like 25th or so and dropping fast. So there you go, not all Finns are arrogant and insular and unappreciative of other countries!

Sweden is nice if you want to sit in your tiny flat and dream small dreams…and drink. But if you have bigger dreams that you would like for to come true, then Sweden is not the best place to be.

Neither is Finland.

#37: Was that a IIe? That was one fine piece of machinery. As for the “service” part, what else do you expect from American companies? They have to guard their sacred bottom line.

#41: I agree. For big dreams Russia and China are the places to be. You just need good contacts to succeed, and especially in the former, to stay alive. I don’t get the drinking part with Systembolaget prices though.

And what on earth is that strange substance “folköl”? And why is it not banned??

@42

“I don’t get the drinking part with Systembolaget prices though.”

That is what makes Tornio such an exciting and inviting place to be. You can sit on your tiny flat in Sweden and go shopping in Alko

Doesnt get any better than that

#44: I can nearly attain that level of bliss since the Copterline terminal is within a walking distance.

#43: Folkhemmet can simply not function without its folköl.

Finland can run the US system if it really wanted to, better than most places in the US. But the US cannot use the Finnish system if it wanted to? (A reference to Intel Macs. I personally usually am in XP environment on my Intel Mac, too much spinning pinwheel for me to take in OS X).

Linux. I find Linux could be associated with France. They are fiercely individualistic people who want to do things their own way. Things are a bit disorderly and there is some chaos, but it works well, and it is a beautiful work of art.

FreeBSD is like a Carribean tax-fee island country. You can do what you want with it, make money with its code, use it in your system (Windows uses some BSD code), and you don’t have to pay anyone anything. And it works well, too.

Solaris is like Switzerland. Everything works, it is orderly, it doesn’t break down, and it has a long history. It pays attention to precise details. It takes care of privacy and security.

Sirkupelle sucks

45 ditto… and the speed that XP boots up in phenomenal!

#38 and #39 … reading http://www.thelocal.se and especially the “discussion” it seems either
a) “paradise Sweden” is a myth
or
b) foreigners are stupid and whine 24/7
or
c) both

… I mean “bureaucracy”… “language”… “taxation”… “coldness” so they should come to Finland probably then, eh?

So I guess McCain is Widows 3.11, and Obama is Vista.

hank and his daddy are nazies