>I don't mind static image ads (although I hate it >when I purchase something on Amazon and then >get served Amazon ads for the thing I purchased). >But if it is not static then I despise it.
It's not just ads; it's *anything* that blinks & runs around while I"m trying to read. In fact, I've never blocked *anything* just for being an ad, and I block much of what sites fancy to be "content."
the two drive bays were typically side by side in the era of MFM drives. And if they were stacked, and you managed to find a double height drive, you would have had no space for your 5.25" floppy.
And the drives I see listed are something like 41mm, or about a inch and a half--half-height or less..
Full height in this parlance is the old 3.5 or 4" tall, nearly the full height of the PC/XT case.
>. Likewise MS Office- they change the file formats >with each release to prevent compatibility with older >versions and especially compatibility with freeware >office suites.
Now *that* one did not originate with Microsoft. Wordstart and Word Perfect were doing that before MS Word was even released; each coul generally read/export the prior, but not current, version of the other.
Word & Excel (except mac) were distant thirds. Then MS leveraged the dos monopoly to install them on every machine for a minimal royalty at about the time of the 40M hard drive becoming standard, and instead of "$500 for Word Perfect or Word?" it became "Spend another $500 on Word Perfect?"
That's not a "double height"; today's bays are half- and third- height.
The last single/full height drive I remember seeing was a 1G scsi in about 96, although I'm certain they continued for at least a feww years after that.
I had the original G1, before they were tossing the word "android" around.
It interestingly sprouted a navigation system one day. I thought that was nice, until I tried to use it in general. The "upgrade" needed more cpu power and ram than that thing had.
Add features to use more powerful hardware, and they consume resources on the older phones, too.
The only exception seems to be OSX, which tends to have at least a moderate speed increase for older hardware with each major release.
When economists actually looked at the *data* for the "Y2K problem," they found that it would have cost, in discounted real dollars, three times as much to prevent the problem as it would have to avoid . . .
My Uncle looked at his draft number, and enlisted (more control over assignment).
He was right.
My grandmother forwarded his induction notice to him in Viet Nam.
He had the cook lay down, poured catchup over his head[1], and stood with his foot on the cook--and sent the picture back, from Viet Nam, to the draft board.
hawk
[1] Kind of silly to worry about color for a B&W picture . . .
Tablets make it far easier to measure dose on over the counter medication than if supplied as powder. Thus the many brands of aspirin tablet, but it's hard to find analgesic headache powder.
>Now that they've found the Atari 2600 ET cartridges >in a New Mexico landfill, there's plenty of room for >all the Surfaces (all variants) that Microsoft can't sell.
wait a minute: they took those *out* of the landfill, rather than covering it i concrete, or calling in an air strike???
Since I was around, it had to be sometime before mid-86 (likely summer 85. I think the family gatherings were July).
A cousin who worked for HP came by with a prototype (?) of a 68000 Unix luggable. It showed off by drawing a wire frame of the space shuttle and then,I believe, solidifying it, at an impressive speed for the time . . . (today, it would be done between frames, along with a couple of navies shooting at it . ..)
Don't forget double-billing your account each month, which triggers your credit card company to auto-cancel the fraudulent, err, second charge, and using *that* to cancel you for non-payment, while continuing to charge you each month, and demanding either a year's service contract or $100 to recover your backup . . .
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, it already happened, with gnu moving first.
RMS *already* demanded that Linux be called "lignux", and changed the code of EMACS at one point to make that, rather than "linux", the target.
hawk
>I don't mind static image ads (although I hate it
>when I purchase something on Amazon and then
>get served Amazon ads for the thing I purchased).
>But if it is not static then I despise it.
It's not just ads; it's *anything* that blinks & runs around while I"m trying to read. In fact, I've never blocked *anything* just for being an ad, and I block much of what sites fancy to be "content."
Stay still, damnit, I'm trying to read!
hawk
the two drive bays were typically side by side in the era of MFM drives. And if they were stacked, and you managed to find a double height drive, you would have had no space for your 5.25" floppy.
And the drives I see listed are something like 41mm, or about a inch and a half--half-height or less..
Full height in this parlance is the old 3.5 or 4" tall, nearly the full height of the PC/XT case.
hawk
>. Likewise MS Office- they change the file formats
>with each release to prevent compatibility with older >versions and especially compatibility with freeware
>office suites.
Now *that* one did not originate with Microsoft. Wordstart and Word Perfect were doing that before MS Word was even released; each coul generally read/export the prior, but not current, version of the other.
Word & Excel (except mac) were distant thirds. Then MS leveraged the dos monopoly to install them on every machine for a minimal royalty at about the time of the 40M hard drive becoming standard, and instead of "$500 for Word Perfect or Word?" it became "Spend another $500 on Word Perfect?"
hawk
And that world has come full circle.
That's not a "double height"; today's bays are half- and third- height.
The last single/full height drive I remember seeing was a 1G scsi in about 96, although I'm certain they continued for at least a feww years after that.
hawk
This is hardly new . . .
I had the original G1, before they were tossing the word "android" around.
It interestingly sprouted a navigation system one day. I thought that was nice, until I tried to use it in general. The "upgrade" needed more cpu power and ram than that thing had.
Add features to use more powerful hardware, and they consume resources on the older phones, too.
The only exception seems to be OSX, which tends to have at least a moderate speed increase for older hardware with each major release.
hawk
>I saw those as a wrap-up, not necessarily a cash-in.
Perhaps more a monument to his ego, with the bizarre attempt to tie in everything he ever wrote.
>They are still good to read.
I forced myself through a couple, and just couldn't do it any more.
hawk
I guess you missed the "cash-in, conglomerate it all!" volumes of his lat career. Foundation XXIV, and so forth . . .
hawk
Curiously, 17 of their husbands died in battle after being drafted past the age of 90 . . .
hawk
>up and thought 2-digit years would be enough,
When economists actually looked at the *data* for the "Y2K problem," they found that it would have cost, in discounted real dollars, three times as much to prevent the problem as it would have to avoid . . .
doc hawk, economist
My Uncle looked at his draft number, and enlisted (more control over assignment).
He was right.
My grandmother forwarded his induction notice to him in Viet Nam.
He had the cook lay down, poured catchup over his head[1], and stood with his foot on the cook--and sent the picture back, from Viet Nam, to the draft board.
hawk
[1] Kind of silly to worry about color for a B&W picture . . .
Try "Princess Bride"
*whoosh*
cultural illiterate.
You keeep using that word . . . I do not think it means what you think it meanz . . .
hawk
Tablets make it far easier to measure dose on over the counter medication than if supplied as powder. Thus the many brands of aspirin tablet, but it's hard to find analgesic headache powder.
hawk
Just be happy it was a zune, err, surface, rather than Disco records . . .
hawk
>Now that they've found the Atari 2600 ET cartridges
>in a New Mexico landfill, there's plenty of room for
>all the Surfaces (all variants) that Microsoft can't sell.
wait a minute: they took those *out* of the landfill, rather than covering it i concrete, or calling in an air strike???
I'm going to do this with the Airs I bought for my kids to use at school.
Right after I trade in my Cadillac and some cash for a Kia. Then I'll pay more to trade in this Retina Pro for a Samsung tablet.
hawk
I thought focus-follows-mouse would be the hardest thing about going from years of X back to a mac.
Turned out that text selection/paste is even harder . . .
hawk
On my parents' kitchen table . . .
Since I was around, it had to be sometime before mid-86 (likely summer 85. I think the family gatherings were July).
A cousin who worked for HP came by with a prototype (?) of a 68000 Unix luggable. It showed off by drawing a wire frame of the space shuttle and then,I believe, solidifying it, at an impressive speed for the time . . . (today, it would be done between frames, along with a couple of navies shooting at it . . .)
hawk
I don't care *how* it flies so long as I can have it chase anything larger than a hummingbird, yet smaller than a cat, that moves.
@*#(*^% air rats eating my seeds, berries, and other fruit. Go at them while emitting raptor cries . . .
hawk
Better yet, hire a lawyer without MPD and follow his advice (or "her," if the specific lawyer is female).
Speaking as a lawyer, never, EVER higher a lawyer that can be referred to in the plural . . . :)
hawk, esq.
Why do you think I have dochawk.org, rather than dochawk.com?
I checked for dochawk.com. Available. Went to register the next day, and gone. Scratched my head.
Then I checked dochawk.net. Waffled a day, and it was gone.
So I just registered dochawk.org.
And then the bit elsewhere where they double-billed and held data hostge . . .
hawk
Don't forget double-billing your account each month, which triggers your credit card company to auto-cancel the fraudulent, err, second charge, and using *that* to cancel you for non-payment, while continuing to charge you each month, and demanding either a year's service contract or $100 to recover your backup . . .
not that they pulled that on me . . .
hawk
>But when I get on a bus, i know where its going.
>These buses may decide my destination is not
>worthwhile, and take me far from where I expected.
Actually, that's not it.
They've figured out that you're *wrong* about where you want to go, and will take you to the *right* place.
So welcome your new bus overlords . . .
hawk