- And there are still some TV stations that sign-off at night with an anthem.
I still watch broadcast analog TV, well digital now but still broadcast. I was off work the day analog died so I turned on the tube to watch the conversion. A lot of the TV stations played their old sign off clips. They played the anthem and had old photos of the flag, presidents, cities, general Americana. It was pretty cool. I saw these on Fox and ABC and others. Kind of a fitting "bookend" to the analog era.
For a few days or weeks after the cut over some of the analog TV stations were still "on the air", they were looping clips of why you aren't seeing the show you expected to see and how you can get a digital converter and hook it up and see you beloved shows in digital glory.
A nice fun article (annoyingly presented for maximum ad viewing as usual) although they were kind of stretching near the end.
First thing I do on "articles" like that is look for the print link and get it all on 1 page. The floppy disk "sound" is a over 2 minutes long and only a couple of seconds of sound. I thought I'd find a page w/ MP3 links on it. Must be a slow news day.
Does the elders of the internet know that he took it down from Big Ben? That is where the best reception is. Also about the cord... it's wireless. Hello?
Sometimes it's not a matter of safe vs unsafe. Like Monsanto wanting to develop a terminator gene just so farmers can't keep seed from season to season. There is no way to control what leaves the lab and gets into the environment. Yeah, no chance that gene would spread on its own.
Even the safe stuff can't be contained, Mexican heritage corn varieties have already been contaminated and might be already lost. What is the long term cost? Sure you save some spraying costs but does that make it worth it?
Sadly, it has to be scrapped. Removing the reactors requires cutting out decks from the flight deck down to all eight nuclear reactor compartments. The hull gets towed to Bremerton, WA for disposal.
But why not sink it for artificial reef / scuba diving? Too big?
the next step will be to centralize processing power and "stream" the video output to our dumb terminals
Every time a new innovation comes up I think that we're getting closer and closer to the mainframe model.
VMs, dumb terminals (or devices that don't require that much power b/c computing has been shifted elsewhere), cloud, etc... There's nothing wrong with that, it's good. But is it new?
So the solution to sometimes taking a few seconds to start an application from a menu is to force you to always take a few seconds to start an application by making you switch to a completely different screen
Your comment is flawed, nowhere did I defend Windows 8. Don't care enough about it to load it in a VM. I would like to see a superior alternative to the menu though, which I think I have in linux+xmonad+dmenu_run (which is what I did advocate). But that doesn't help Microsoft users. But I hear Win8 has type to search which is kind of like dmenu_run so... maybe I'll like it. I'm open.
While I don't think the start menu is inherently bad OR good
I think a "menu" style application selection is bad. I can't count how many times I've bounced between different options 2 or 3 levels down and had to start over b/c my mouse moved a few pixels the wrong way. And tech support reaching out and trying to drive is even worse.
I don't know what the right answer is, but I do think the "Start menu" is the wrong answer. While not for the masses, I like dmenu_run tied to a hotkey. There's no mouse involved and just a couple of keystrokes always finds what I need. But that's a linux solution.
I have also. TASM (Borland's Turbo Assembler) had support for it. The assembler would manage a vtable for you among other things. I've also programmed OO in Korn shell. Why OO in assembler or ksh? Because it was the right tool for the job and OO principals can be used anywhere they make sense and help the effort. It's not as far out there as you make it seem.
Be careful these smart carts don't get angry and need to destroy all inferior carts in the universe. I can just see a smart cart chasing an "old-fashioned" cart across the parking lot screaming Exterminate! Exterminate!
The way most Russians talk (animated, loud, etc...) is sometimes sounds like a screaming and fighting. Does that make it right to use the gun on anyone you feel like?
I was just getting to that but you beat me to it. That article is a really good read. Sounds like MS has quite an array of date functions and storage mechanisms. At least they *did*. Some relevant bits........
"February 29th. 1900 was a leap year! It's divisible by 4!"
"Good guess, but no cigar," Ed said, and left me wondering for a while.
Oops. I did some research. Years that are divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they're also divisible by 400.
1900 wasn't a leap year.
"It's a bug in Excel!" I exclaimed.
"Well, not really," said Ed. "We had to do it that way because we need to be able to import Lotus 123 worksheets."
"So, it's a bug in Lotus 123?"
"Yeah, but probably an intentional one. Lotus had to fit in 640K. That's not a lot of memory. If you ignore 1900, you can figure out if a given year is a leap year just by looking to see if the rightmost two bits are zero. That's really fast and easy. The Lotus guys probably figured it didn't matter to be wrong for those two months way in the past. It looks like the Basic guys wanted to be anal about those two months, so they moved the epoch one day back."
"Aargh!" I said, and went off to study why there was a checkbox in the options dialog called 1904 Date System.
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You can turn live search off, visit startpage.com to see how. :-P
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- And there are still some TV stations that sign-off at night with an anthem.
I still watch broadcast analog TV, well digital now but still broadcast. I was off work the day analog died so I turned on the tube to watch the conversion. A lot of the TV stations played their old sign off clips. They played the anthem and had old photos of the flag, presidents, cities, general Americana. It was pretty cool. I saw these on Fox and ABC and others. Kind of a fitting "bookend" to the analog era.
For a few days or weeks after the cut over some of the analog TV stations were still "on the air", they were looping clips of why you aren't seeing the show you expected to see and how you can get a digital converter and hook it up and see you beloved shows in digital glory.
A nice fun article (annoyingly presented for maximum ad viewing as usual) although they were kind of stretching near the end.
First thing I do on "articles" like that is look for the print link and get it all on 1 page. The floppy disk "sound" is a over 2 minutes long and only a couple of seconds of sound. I thought I'd find a page w/ MP3 links on it. Must be a slow news day.
Well, if you include the stuff his wife wrote and he claimed ownership of, it could add up. Perhaps some of that relativity stuff was hers after all!
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This is a huge step back and like a commenter below said, very much like DOSSHELL.
This is a change for Quarterdeck to resurrect DESQview, cool way to stack and tile your new W8 apps. Think of the possibilities!
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We Do, We Do...
H.G. Wells concurs. The First Men in the Moon
Oh bitter, bitter ironies...
#39365465 - timestamped 1 minute earlier
From Dilbert Newsletter 49.0 -- InDUHviduals Humor Break
I've also learned recently that "ironic" means anything you want it to mean. Example:
Me: "I heard that Bob was killed by a meteor."
Induhvidual: "Wow. That's ironic."
Me: "Why is it ironic? Was he an astronomer?"
Induhvidual: "No, it's ironic because, you know, what are the odds?"
Me: "So anything unlikely is automatically ironic?"
Induhvidual: "No, it also needs to be bad."
Me: "This conversation is ironic."
Does the elders of the internet know that he took it down from Big Ben? That is where the best reception is. Also about the cord ... it's wireless. Hello?
(they generate their own pesticide
Sometimes it's not a matter of safe vs unsafe. Like Monsanto wanting to develop a terminator gene just so farmers can't keep seed from season to season. There is no way to control what leaves the lab and gets into the environment. Yeah, no chance that gene would spread on its own.
Even the safe stuff can't be contained, Mexican heritage corn varieties have already been contaminated and might be already lost. What is the long term cost? Sure you save some spraying costs but does that make it worth it?
"Daylight Savings" is not a failed bank.
-- Bart Simpson
Sadly, it has to be scrapped. Removing the reactors requires cutting out decks from the flight deck down to all eight nuclear reactor compartments. The hull gets towed to Bremerton, WA for disposal.
But why not sink it for artificial reef / scuba diving? Too big?
Unix mainframes? Explain please.
the next step will be to centralize processing power and "stream" the video output to our dumb terminals
Every time a new innovation comes up I think that we're getting closer and closer to the mainframe model.
VMs, dumb terminals (or devices that don't require that much power b/c computing has been shifted elsewhere), cloud, etc... There's nothing wrong with that, it's good. But is it new?
Your comment is flawed, nowhere did I defend Windows 8. Don't care enough about it to load it in a VM. I would like to see a superior alternative to the menu though, which I think I have in linux+xmonad+dmenu_run (which is what I did advocate). But that doesn't help Microsoft users. But I hear Win8 has type to search which is kind of like dmenu_run so ... maybe I'll like it. I'm open.
I think a "menu" style application selection is bad. I can't count how many times I've bounced between different options 2 or 3 levels down and had to start over b/c my mouse moved a few pixels the wrong way. And tech support reaching out and trying to drive is even worse.
I don't know what the right answer is, but I do think the "Start menu" is the wrong answer. While not for the masses, I like dmenu_run tied to a hotkey. There's no mouse involved and just a couple of keystrokes always finds what I need. But that's a linux solution.
I have also. TASM (Borland's Turbo Assembler) had support for it. The assembler would manage a vtable for you among other things. I've also programmed OO in Korn shell. Why OO in assembler or ksh? Because it was the right tool for the job and OO principals can be used anywhere they make sense and help the effort. It's not as far out there as you make it seem.
his and hers has no apostrophe, why should its? Very simple to remember IMO.
Good thing most grocery stores are 1 level only and on the ground floor.
Be careful these smart carts don't get angry and need to destroy all inferior carts in the universe. I can just see a smart cart chasing an "old-fashioned" cart across the parking lot screaming Exterminate! Exterminate!
Come on someone. Let me start you off:
In Soviet Russia the (_____) (_____)s you.
Choices: govt, guns, silence, KGB, mafia, etc...
The way most Russians talk (animated, loud, etc...) is sometimes sounds like a screaming and fighting. Does that make it right to use the gun on anyone you feel like?
I was just getting to that but you beat me to it. That article is a really good read. Sounds like MS has quite an array of date functions and storage mechanisms. At least they *did*. Some relevant bits... .....
"February 29th. 1900 was a leap year! It's divisible by 4!"
"Good guess, but no cigar," Ed said, and left me wondering for a while.
Oops. I did some research. Years that are divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they're also divisible by 400.
1900 wasn't a leap year.
"It's a bug in Excel!" I exclaimed.
"Well, not really," said Ed. "We had to do it that way because we need to be able to import Lotus 123 worksheets."
"So, it's a bug in Lotus 123?"
"Yeah, but probably an intentional one. Lotus had to fit in 640K. That's not a lot of memory. If you ignore 1900, you can figure out if a given year is a leap year just by looking to see if the rightmost two bits are zero. That's really fast and easy. The Lotus guys probably figured it didn't matter to be wrong for those two months way in the past. It looks like the Basic guys wanted to be anal about those two months, so they moved the epoch one day back."
"Aargh!" I said, and went off to study why there was a checkbox in the options dialog called 1904 Date System.
The next day was the big BillG review. .....
D'oh! I knew it was with a K. Klicked submit too fast.
Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Disney's Lorax = Crusty?