And as I'm RTFAing, I'm wondering if they have any clue of the history of salt. Before refrigeration the average person may have consumed more salt in the form of preserved meats than is typical today.
That's why I was thinking it needs to be a unit external to the drive (for those that lack this feature in the first place, tho per TFA that didn't necessarily save them) with the thinnest of connectors between drive and mainboard, kinda like the old SCSI and floppy adapters, only thinner.
I'm not a fan of this craze to stuff everything in the smallest possible space, even if it does save the manufacturer a half cent worth of plastic.:/
So would it be possible to build a unit that sits between drive and mainboard, serves as power capacitor, and can, at need, send a "flush everything to disk and halt gracefully" signal to the drive??
Seems to me the bulk of such a unit could hang off to the side, with just a thin piece sitting between the connectors.
Same here. None of it matters that much to me anymore. And when I can't get "free samples", I don't even know the stuff exists to buy in the first place. So, yeah, my consumption would likewise flatline.
It would be useful to know which content owners do and don't subscribe to this scheme, so I know which to boycott and which to support.
I'm guessing some of the smaller labels derive much, perhaps most of their profit from P2P effectively being free advertising that drives secondary sales.
My personal fave is the guy who demonstrated taking a suicidal "overdose" of some homeopathic remedy... the only result being repeated trips to the head.
That's it exactly. You can't fix the "bad apples" problem by growing more apples (all that leads to is a bigger crop of bad apples); you have to get rid of it at the root, and that means killing off these self-serving bureaucracies like the DHS and the DEA.
I was going to make the same observation -- in my experience, liberals are extremely risk-averse. They won't stop to help a stranger (that's someone else's job); they generally don't join the military (there's a risky occupation for ya); they are fine with putting risks on other people, but not fine with taking on their own risks.
Personally I hate buckwheat honey, but when I worked for a beekeeper, it was most of what he produced, cuz there's a big market for it in China, and the price was better.
This was another of the ideas broached at the Win2K launch -- that it would be one license per user per computer and that neither would be transferable under any circumstances. (The presenter became confused by it himself, while trying to explain it to the audience, pro IT types who were already wearing identical angry scowls from the notion that henceforth the OS/apps would be rented and your data in the cloud. Hmm...)
Anyway, the idea's not new, just enjoying a revival.:(
I've seen some go backwards (can't recall what offhand) and I really like what you mention about the Office installer cleanup. Either way it says that whoops, either something is going to take longer than we first thought, or it's going away. Useful info from nothing more than a progress bar.
The MSDOS5 source (or rather, some late version not quite DOS6 yet) used to float around, and may yet for all I know. What I looked at was all assembly.
I tend to set a machine up once and never upgrade it. If it does what I expect of it, no need to mess with it. So I too run a lot of old stuff, finally retired my WFWG box in 2001, still use DOS7 here and there, and I think the oldest util I still use is from 1985...
BTW has anyone archived all the versions of Vern Buerg's LIST? (the first thing I put on any machine, and I leave trails of it wherever I go.) The source code for v6 was made public domain, but I lost track of my copy and haven't been able to replace it. (Not that it's useful to me, I don't speak ASM.) There's been an attempt to recreate/update it, but it doesn't work quite the same.:(
I used WFWG (Win3.11 to you youngsters) for internet for years. Only once did I see any sort of malware even get as far as making an effort at invading, and it abended with some ridiculous message about wrong networking version. Primitive sometimes has its advantages -- the hooks malware expects to use just aren't there.
BTW I ran WFWG 24/7 (only restarted when I needed pure DOS for games) for 7 years, usually with 4-5 big apps up all the time, and it NEVER crashed. Not once.
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In fact they're more likely to say, "Eat a banana, you're shaky due to potassium deficiency".
Really...
And as I'm RTFAing, I'm wondering if they have any clue of the history of salt. Before refrigeration the average person may have consumed more salt in the form of preserved meats than is typical today.
I once had a similar exchange with Eric Flint. Fortunately for me, I'm not a fan of his in the first place.
That's why I was thinking it needs to be a unit external to the drive (for those that lack this feature in the first place, tho per TFA that didn't necessarily save them) with the thinnest of connectors between drive and mainboard, kinda like the old SCSI and floppy adapters, only thinner.
I'm not a fan of this craze to stuff everything in the smallest possible space, even if it does save the manufacturer a half cent worth of plastic. :/
So would it be possible to build a unit that sits between drive and mainboard, serves as power capacitor, and can, at need, send a "flush everything to disk and halt gracefully" signal to the drive??
Seems to me the bulk of such a unit could hang off to the side, with just a thin piece sitting between the connectors.
Same here. None of it matters that much to me anymore. And when I can't get "free samples", I don't even know the stuff exists to buy in the first place. So, yeah, my consumption would likewise flatline.
It would be useful to know which content owners do and don't subscribe to this scheme, so I know which to boycott and which to support.
I'm guessing some of the smaller labels derive much, perhaps most of their profit from P2P effectively being free advertising that drives secondary sales.
By all reports, mosquitoes in Alaska have always ignored DEET. I'm wondering if there might be as much population drift as there is evolution here.
"when the flu shot wear off is that the patient gets the flu."
That's about like saying "When breakfast wore off, I got hungry again."
My personal fave is the guy who demonstrated taking a suicidal "overdose" of some homeopathic remedy... the only result being repeated trips to the head.
I'm wondering if it might work just as well on any other burnable organic matter, such as ordinary newspaper and similar trash.
That's it exactly. You can't fix the "bad apples" problem by growing more apples (all that leads to is a bigger crop of bad apples); you have to get rid of it at the root, and that means killing off these self-serving bureaucracies like the DHS and the DEA.
Thanks to plea bargaining, the Los Angeles County prosecutor's office has (as of about 2 years ago) a 96% conviction rate.
Do you really believe 96% of all cases were from good arrests??
"...fear controls and every dictator since the beginning of time knows that."
FTFY.
I was going to make the same observation -- in my experience, liberals are extremely risk-averse. They won't stop to help a stranger (that's someone else's job); they generally don't join the military (there's a risky occupation for ya); they are fine with putting risks on other people, but not fine with taking on their own risks.
Okay, so where did you get the plastic that went into your "reusable" bags??
Personally I hate buckwheat honey, but when I worked for a beekeeper, it was most of what he produced, cuz there's a big market for it in China, and the price was better.
This was another of the ideas broached at the Win2K launch -- that it would be one license per user per computer and that neither would be transferable under any circumstances. (The presenter became confused by it himself, while trying to explain it to the audience, pro IT types who were already wearing identical angry scowls from the notion that henceforth the OS/apps would be rented and your data in the cloud. Hmm...)
Anyway, the idea's not new, just enjoying a revival. :(
I've seen some go backwards (can't recall what offhand) and I really like what you mention about the Office installer cleanup. Either way it says that whoops, either something is going to take longer than we first thought, or it's going away. Useful info from nothing more than a progress bar.
More info:
http://lewrockwell.com/goodwin/goodwin25.1.html
The MSDOS5 source (or rather, some late version not quite DOS6 yet) used to float around, and may yet for all I know. What I looked at was all assembly.
I'm thinking the skeleton could be normal but the musculature withered... what does history say about it?
Oooh, some links I didn't know about!
I tend to set a machine up once and never upgrade it. If it does what I expect of it, no need to mess with it. So I too run a lot of old stuff, finally retired my WFWG box in 2001, still use DOS7 here and there, and I think the oldest util I still use is from 1985...
BTW has anyone archived all the versions of Vern Buerg's LIST? (the first thing I put on any machine, and I leave trails of it wherever I go.) The source code for v6 was made public domain, but I lost track of my copy and haven't been able to replace it. (Not that it's useful to me, I don't speak ASM.) There's been an attempt to recreate/update it, but it doesn't work quite the same. :(
Heh... I ran my WFWG atop NovellDOS7. How's that for irony!
I still use MSDOS7 on my DOS gaming boxes.
I used WFWG (Win3.11 to you youngsters) for internet for years. Only once did I see any sort of malware even get as far as making an effort at invading, and it abended with some ridiculous message about wrong networking version. Primitive sometimes has its advantages -- the hooks malware expects to use just aren't there.
BTW I ran WFWG 24/7 (only restarted when I needed pure DOS for games) for 7 years, usually with 4-5 big apps up all the time, and it NEVER crashed. Not once.