When my Dad was a lad, he used to play football (soccer) in the street. Now, even if you can find a street (in the UK) where the traffic is light enough to allow that, it will be filled with parked cars anyway.
Much as I disagree with large government, roads are made for transportation and not entertainment. In fact, if roads were private, that would be even more clear.
The inverse square law applies to divergent light sources. I don't think that a projector that fits in a cell phone that wasn't divergent would be particularly useful.
The point of an open standard is that the standard *is* the reader in a meta language that is easily portable to whatever is available. It's even theoretically possible that one day, software might be intelligent enough to read, parse and understand standards written in human languages and implement them. So whilst people are happily able to open and read 25 year old ODF files, other people will be digging around junk stores for on x86 computers and Word CDs (assuming they haven't all fallen to CD rot and that they can be activated once Microsoft decides to change that that version is obsolete and switches off their activation servers)
Darn, due to scoring, it looked like this reply was to the person who criticized the spelling of "lose". That would have made it an incredibly sly meta-joke.
Twice my all-in-one inkjet has been fired up to find the expensive carts dried up. It now sits unused.
I now just use my separate scanner (9 years old, have not had to replace it when the other inkjets I had gave up the ghost) for scanning/copying and a cheap "print-from-non-drying-ribbon" fax machine for the occasional fax (I send more than I receive anyway). A color laser takes care of my printing needs, photographs are made at the local store.
It's an error to think that it's that simple a trade off. I'd rather spend two hours fixing something and have the learning experience and the ability to choose when to start/stop etc than spend another two hours at work tied to my desk to pay for it (not that that's an option being salaried and all).
Clearly I haven't delineated in my own mind what is "important" work and what isn't
No, what you need to delineate is what's important and what's urgent (and what's critical). If it's not going to damage people, property or cashflow, it can wait until morning.
Even if you don't switch jobs, mentally acknowledging that you have that option makes taking the crap a little easier sometimes. An unsigned resignation letter in your back pocket can bring a degree of mental peace too.
Policy for IT admins here is to/always/ let things go to voicemail then call back. This prevents people trying to argue you into fixing a trivial problem and it's amazing how often stuff isn't important enough for people to leave voicemails. This also has the advantage that you can make sure that you are actually in a position to help people (on computer, logged into VPN) when you call back or you can call someone else to help them if you are indisposed.
That is for admin support. Our front-line helpdesk has a system where a voicemail is recorded then the system will call them until they pick up and retrieve it.
Defective howso though? If they have a survival cost, they will be selected against, if they do not have a survival cost then they are adapted to their environment.
If the environment changes, they may be less well adapted but that could equally apply to many things we would not regard as "defective" currently.
No, probably the washer. That's why phones have water damage stickers that change color when they get wet. I think it's more of a problem if they're turned on/battery in which most phones are all the time. I think there may be some high voltage electronics in there too which would make things more problematic.
I killed the transformer in my electric shaver going between the US and UK when I forgot to switch it one time. No smoke, no flames, just stopped working.
There's really no excuse with modern switching power supplies though.
Since forever, learning the language of the more successful has been key to improvement. This is why English itself borrows so heavily from other languages. If learning English opens the doors to many resources to enrich knowledge and culture, that's a good thing. What you seem to be advocating is some kind of language ghettoization.
Given how contemporary music is *always* so poor compared to that of the past and that any civilization advanced enough for space travel is bound to have a music industry centuries or even millenia old, I think the conclusions of the state of their music are obvious.
Both right. 95 was at least 10x better than 3.1 but was still a pile of poo compared to, for example, Linux (or OS/2 if you'd prefer) of the same period. 98SE was barely tolerable. NT4 fell short. 2K was really the only point when it began to look like Microsoft was doing more than cruising on the success of MSDOS.
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When my Dad was a lad, he used to play football (soccer) in the street. Now, even if you can find a street (in the UK) where the traffic is light enough to allow that, it will be filled with parked cars anyway.
Much as I disagree with large government, roads are made for transportation and not entertainment. In fact, if roads were private, that would be even more clear.
Rich
The inverse square law applies to divergent light sources. I don't think that a projector that fits in a cell phone that wasn't divergent would be particularly useful.
Ah DVR, bringing you an hour's news show in ten minutes....
Rich
And the hardware to run it on?
The point of an open standard is that the standard *is* the reader in a meta language that is easily portable to whatever is available. It's even theoretically possible that one day, software might be intelligent enough to read, parse and understand standards written in human languages and implement them. So whilst people are happily able to open and read 25 year old ODF files, other people will be digging around junk stores for on x86 computers and Word CDs (assuming they haven't all fallen to CD rot and that they can be activated once Microsoft decides to change that that version is obsolete and switches off their activation servers)
Rich
Darn, due to scoring, it looked like this reply was to the person who criticized the spelling of "lose". That would have made it an incredibly sly meta-joke.
Oh well.
Rich
Twice my all-in-one inkjet has been fired up to find the expensive carts dried up. It now sits unused.
I now just use my separate scanner (9 years old, have not had to replace it when the other inkjets I had gave up the ghost) for scanning/copying and a cheap "print-from-non-drying-ribbon" fax machine for the occasional fax (I send more than I receive anyway). A color laser takes care of my printing needs, photographs are made at the local store.
You can get all-in-one lasers too you know.
It's an error to think that it's that simple a trade off. I'd rather spend two hours fixing something and have the learning experience and the ability to choose when to start/stop etc than spend another two hours at work tied to my desk to pay for it (not that that's an option being salaried and all).
No, what you need to delineate is what's important and what's urgent (and what's critical). If it's not going to damage people, property or cashflow, it can wait until morning.
Rich
Even if you don't switch jobs, mentally acknowledging that you have that option makes taking the crap a little easier sometimes. An unsigned resignation letter in your back pocket can bring a degree of mental peace too.
Rich
Policy for IT admins here is to /always/ let things go to voicemail then call back. This prevents people trying to argue you into fixing a trivial problem and it's amazing how often stuff isn't important enough for people to leave voicemails. This also has the advantage that you can make sure that you are actually in a position to help people (on computer, logged into VPN) when you call back or you can call someone else to help them if you are indisposed.
That is for admin support. Our front-line helpdesk has a system where a voicemail is recorded then the system will call them until they pick up and retrieve it.
Rich
Defective howso though? If they have a survival cost, they will be selected against, if they do not have a survival cost then they are adapted to their environment.
If the environment changes, they may be less well adapted but that could equally apply to many things we would not regard as "defective" currently.
Rich
Banana shortage.
Rich
Never heard of base 10000?
Rich
But at least with a book, you can burn the pages you've read to illuminate the ones you haven't.
Rich
No, probably the washer. That's why phones have water damage stickers that change color when they get wet. I think it's more of a problem if they're turned on/battery in which most phones are all the time. I think there may be some high voltage electronics in there too which would make things more problematic.
Rich
I killed the transformer in my electric shaver going between the US and UK when I forgot to switch it one time. No smoke, no flames, just stopped working.
There's really no excuse with modern switching power supplies though.
Rich
Yep. But as an addendum, at terminal velocity, it's back to 1g
Rich
"Language imperialism"? WTF?
Since forever, learning the language of the more successful has been key to improvement. This is why English itself borrows so heavily from other languages. If learning English opens the doors to many resources to enrich knowledge and culture, that's a good thing. What you seem to be advocating is some kind of language ghettoization.
Rich
We'd have a better government if whoever loses becomes president :)
Rich
Don't forget the rock and roll.
Given how contemporary music is *always* so poor compared to that of the past and that any civilization advanced enough for space travel is bound to have a music industry centuries or even millenia old, I think the conclusions of the state of their music are obvious.
Rich
[...] nightmare.
You misspelled "theater"*.
Rich
*So did I. I'm English. Been here too long.
Both right. 95 was at least 10x better than 3.1 but was still a pile of poo compared to, for example, Linux (or OS/2 if you'd prefer) of the same period. 98SE was barely tolerable. NT4 fell short. 2K was really the only point when it began to look like Microsoft was doing more than cruising on the success of MSDOS.
Rich
Rent the movie (Morons from Outer Space)
Rich
Only uncool people actually believe that. Go and stand over there.
He's probably already making enough that he would scoff at the offer.