We accepted returns from pretty much every Office Depot west of the Mississippi River. And Chicago. At times, I'd receive bubble wrap, or pallet wrap, or boxes...I could use all of these, especially the boxes for repack...but no. They have to get destroyed.
Common practice in retail for decades. Selling or giving away units is a tax liability and creates your own competition.
There's absolutely no positives for the company in this, only risks.
Sadly, because I'd liked to bring home and fix or tinker for personal use many times over; usually strongly regulated as theft because the company does not want an additional sales point at the backdoor.
Get a quote from multiple mechanics. Talk to friends/colleagues, search the net.
There's a lot to learn without needing to know how to do an oilchange.
The best tool is knowledge of People.
Cars made in the last decade are increasingly prone to failure due to environmental regulations which make engine tolerances narrow.
A V8 can take a lot of mishap whereas 1.0l 100bhp cannot.
That said, Honda is one of the best engine builders despite pricey parts.
Btrfs, excellent
Others:
systemd, exciting (*WTF* reboot denied)
Yet another new default desktop, jay
Snapd because?
I must be old, really liken apt-get dost-upgraden to be boring.
well if I were a time traveler I would never show up at a "party for time travelers". Just think about the problems I would have as soon as I proved to be a time traveler, at minimum I would end up locked in some secret government facility or worse.
Pretty moot as you can go back in time and set the clock one hour back.
This is what I usually do anyhow for continuing use of the limited timelines I visit.
Now, if only my interstellar cloud calendar (tm) syncs correctly..
P.S. time travellers are really easy to spot, they only use present tense.
We introduced an invasive species and then destroyed them again at some cost to the environment.
I hope it's clear that the villain in this story was not the rats.
I would wager there are wasteful things out there that can't handle 1.2V, but such a device runs the risk of being seen as a 'battery eater' since such devices would be nearly halving the usable capacity of the batteries you give it. If you did have such a device, it would be mandating use of Lithium AA batteries, but I haven't personally seen devices with that requirement, though I presume they exist
Yes and no. Some devices (such as radio/old-style flashlight) perform better at high voltage, and are better served by alkaline than NiMH. Lots of (older) portables designed like that, and those who don't are served well by NiMH, except low-drainage.
And seriously, TEN YEARS to write a compiler? If he has a grammar (and if he doesn't, he has NOTHING) then just slap it into a parser generator such as Bison, and connect that to the gcc backend, or an existing parse tree interpreter, and you're done. That is a couple of weekends
Well not really, gcc had this really difficult to access parts of the compiler (I'd prefer ANTLR/llvm also).
As a retired systems programmer it shouldn't be too hard to regex the tokens, hardcode the expressions/grammar if-then-else way without typechecking and churn out some javascript code.
Do the trickiest grammar parts first, so you have spare weekends for discovering ye next greatest sorting, compression and encryption algorithms.
I run a Nokia with stock android and updates, whatsapp (runs faster + more features), HERE driving works better, firefox browser with blocker which is a huge improvement over the locked down Edge, microsoft tools (mail,onedrive,word et al) all do work at least as snappy and stable.
I postponed migration from Windows Mobile until banking apps where phased out and the Lumia started to get slower and slower (even after factory reset) and was not keen on Android after v1 v2 experiences.
WM had some nice features and offered great value in the beginning, this simply isn't the case anymore, whether it be Microsoft's fault or not.
The only drawback I've encountered is the non-replaceable battery.
Unlikely. It has been tried in the past numerous times (OS/2 et al), eventually OS vendors want to exclusively tie the end user to its platform.
Any case of adapting will be a transitioning state.
Japan is a counter-example. Nationalism never stopped them from adopting something foreign if they think it's good.
How convenient, but in what way exactly is that different from refusing something foreign you do not like?
Japan used to be extremely isolated and wary of outside influences pre-1850s, many novels till 1970s exhibit hostility towards other cultures/races, extremely tough asylum conditions exist as of today.
Assimilate I can agree, Japanese society rarely accepts foreign customs and you make it sound it easily adapts which is far from true in such a disciplined culture; Japan has never been an open country,
No killer apps?
bash & GNU unix cli goodies awk, you name it pipe it, here to serve you over 20 years and counting (still find non-gnu BSD utils clunky from time to time).
Maybe not visually sexy or anything, but *any* mistake improves knowledge rather than dealing with backwards incompatibility or bugs.
Fed up with waiting for the Year of the Linux Desktop, instead settling with Mate and enjoying the cli, because that's really fine and able to surprise me after 20+ years of use.
Here's an idea: add basic animation and ad hoc relative source loading for CSS then completely do away with Javascript. Oh but the money people don't give a shit about what users want, it's all about what they want.
Be real, this is just the logical conclusion of Javascript.
The money people want you to run and download only their certified (and rented) stuff.
Running shared code is nothing new.
It's the same story as with "emotional intelligence": that was just a crutch to allow less intelligent people to feel good about themselves and to let them look down on smarter people, because those are _obviously_ not emotionally intelligent as well.
Dude, at your UID it's long past measuring people across a single line.
There's always someone more intelligent and a pissing contest is nowhere near any wisdom.
You get wisdom from living and experience, intelligence is no substitute for wisdom.
The US could export these reactors to Russia, China even North Korea and end global conflict within 5 years whilst solving the global nuclear waste issue, but oil.
You're proposing the export of high-grade nuke material.
Why the fuck would you think N-K will spend it on national causes if it's happily starving its children on grass for supper.
Unfortunately this sounds good on paper but in practice it's not going to make any difference for now. Until a sizable portion of browsers do this, blocking is actually going to be an identifying characteristic. The advertisers are going to get a line up of victims and instead of you being the one with Arial and Roboto on their hat, you're going to be the one wearing the tin foil one. That's still a unique, identifying feature until enough of us are wearing tin-foil that they can't tell us apart (by our hats).
Firefox usage is still above 5% nowadays. Not much, but enough to ensure improvement over identification through font fingerprinting.
Blocking at least hides software (OS)/hardware details, which make targeting vulnerabilities a lot harder.
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But that was many years ago, I didn't bring the Amigas with me when I migrated (legally) to America 16 years ago.
Guilty before proven innocent?
Common practice in retail for decades. Selling or giving away units is a tax liability and creates your own competition.
There's absolutely no positives for the company in this, only risks.
Sadly, because I'd liked to bring home and fix or tinker for personal use many times over; usually strongly regulated as theft because the company does not want an additional sales point at the backdoor.
Why pay for navi. Man apps do it better with realtime updates, I can see an ambu before iets in my mirrors
Get a quote from multiple mechanics. Talk to friends/colleagues, search the net. There's a lot to learn without needing to know how to do an oilchange. The best tool is knowledge of People.
Cars made in the last decade are increasingly prone to failure due to environmental regulations which make engine tolerances narrow. A V8 can take a lot of mishap whereas 1.0l 100bhp cannot. That said, Honda is one of the best engine builders despite pricey parts.
Btrfs, excellent Others: systemd, exciting (*WTF* reboot denied) Yet another new default desktop, jay Snapd because? I must be old, really liken apt-get dost-upgraden to be boring.
Which turd linked it to the complete sources?
he indicated that this was confirmation that time travel was not possible.
All that would prove is that observable time travelers didn't come to the party.
FTFY
It's really bad taste to make jokes about Hawking's blind spot.
well if I were a time traveler I would never show up at a "party for time travelers". Just think about the problems I would have as soon as I proved to be a time traveler, at minimum I would end up locked in some secret government facility or worse.
Pretty moot as you can go back in time and set the clock one hour back. .
This is what I usually do anyhow for continuing use of the limited timelines I visit.
Now, if only my interstellar cloud calendar (tm) syncs correctly.
P.S. time travellers are really easy to spot, they only use present tense.
We introduced an invasive species and then destroyed them again at some cost to the environment. I hope it's clear that the villain in this story was not the rats.
They're not vegetarians, of course they are!
You're alright as long as you don't mention Gopher.
Yes and no. Some devices (such as radio/old-style flashlight) perform better at high voltage, and are better served by alkaline than NiMH. Lots of (older) portables designed like that, and those who don't are served well by NiMH, except low-drainage.
Well not really, gcc had this really difficult to access parts of the compiler (I'd prefer ANTLR/llvm also).
As a retired systems programmer it shouldn't be too hard to regex the tokens, hardcode the expressions/grammar if-then-else way without typechecking and churn out some javascript code.
Do the trickiest grammar parts first, so you have spare weekends for discovering ye next greatest sorting, compression and encryption algorithms.
I run a Nokia with stock android and updates, whatsapp (runs faster + more features), HERE driving works better, firefox browser with blocker which is a huge improvement over the locked down Edge, microsoft tools (mail,onedrive,word et al) all do work at least as snappy and stable.
I postponed migration from Windows Mobile until banking apps where phased out and the Lumia started to get slower and slower (even after factory reset) and was not keen on Android after v1 v2 experiences.
WM had some nice features and offered great value in the beginning, this simply isn't the case anymore, whether it be Microsoft's fault or not.
The only drawback I've encountered is the non-replaceable battery.
Unlikely. It has been tried in the past numerous times (OS/2 et al), eventually OS vendors want to exclusively tie the end user to its platform.
Any case of adapting will be a transitioning state.
How convenient, but in what way exactly is that different from refusing something foreign you do not like?
Japan used to be extremely isolated and wary of outside influences pre-1850s, many novels till 1970s exhibit hostility towards other cultures/races, extremely tough asylum conditions exist as of today.
Assimilate I can agree, Japanese society rarely accepts foreign customs and you make it sound it easily adapts which is far from true in such a disciplined culture; Japan has never been an open country,
Agreed, clubbing each other to death would be an ecologically prudent system.
That pretty much counts for anything in the world, I mean eye of the beholder. As long as there's money to be made, it's useful.
No killer apps?
bash & GNU unix cli goodies awk, you name it pipe it, here to serve you over 20 years and counting (still find non-gnu BSD utils clunky from time to time).
Maybe not visually sexy or anything, but *any* mistake improves knowledge rather than dealing with backwards incompatibility or bugs.
Fed up with waiting for the Year of the Linux Desktop, instead settling with Mate and enjoying the cli, because that's really fine and able to surprise me after 20+ years of use.
The money people want you to run and download only their certified (and rented) stuff. Running shared code is nothing new.
Dude, at your UID it's long past measuring people across a single line. There's always someone more intelligent and a pissing contest is nowhere near any wisdom. You get wisdom from living and experience, intelligence is no substitute for wisdom.
You're proposing the export of high-grade nuke material.
Why the fuck would you think N-K will spend it on national causes if it's happily starving its children on grass for supper.
Somehow when new shiny Apples are to be distributed, no one cares about this learning curve.
Firefox usage is still above 5% nowadays. Not much, but enough to ensure improvement over identification through font fingerprinting.
Blocking at least hides software (OS)/hardware details, which make targeting vulnerabilities a lot harder.