The teacher of the science class had apparently even taken the step of stating at the start of the school year that there were other theories on the origin of life."
Not "theories" -- "other versions of humanity's origin,"
That's the whole point, isn't it? That creationism isn't a scientific theory?
It's perfectly reasonable to teach other "versions" in a comparative religion and folklore course.
1. They are not much of a technology innovator. They have a history as a monopoly product pusher who put out apes of other people's work.
A. Want to know what the next DOS will look like? Let's see what features the little group of people producing 4DOS in their small office park suite have added to their latest late-80s version.
B. I'm old enough to actually remember when PC Magazine praised a non-Microsoft product and voted Borland Quattro Pro the innovative 3D Windows spreadsheet of the year.
C. OS2 Warp was an IBM creation long after the MS split, came out nearly a year before Windows 95, and had a ton of desktop features and options that made Win95 look typical shoddy and limited.
D. I particularly have to bridle my rage when it comes to their piece-o'-crap text editor Word. If there were truly a non-satanic sentient deity of any compassion, the exponentially more powerful WordPerfect would never have been killed by the Office 97 monopoly pricing campaign. A pricing that went back up in typical monopoly fashion after the cancer of Office had effectively destroyed WordPerfect Suite's market position.
E. Where did DOS come from anyway? Because Microsoft is such a technological innovator, Bill Gates thunk it up from his own cerebrum, right? Not like there were programs like dbase, WordStar or Turbo Pascal already in existence on some desktop platform.
2. On the latter point, Microsoft as the myth of the "little technology company that fueled a revolution" is a fraud. The story I got was that Gates mother was on the board of directors of the same charity as the CEO of IBM and said, "I know someone who can find you an operating system for this new 'PC' thing". With an emphasis on "find" and "QDOS" and "purchase" and "different IBM disk format". I've always seen Microsoft as a lamprey on the belly of the shark of IBM.
Unfortunately, they used that niche monopoly leverage in the worst possible way. Microsoft is the poster child for the meme that corporations are inherently sociopathic. It is a pillar of their foundation that Microsoft will use their effective market monopoly to create "standards" -- standards that more often than not run counter to the desires of the rest of the industry and impede overall progress for everyone (IE anyone?). I would argue that Microsoft is a sick anomoly. Businesses coexist all the time. Because of market traffic, it is _typical_ to see an Arbys next to a Burger King next to a Subway. If Microsoft were Arbys, they would be out every night pouring broken glass on the Burger King and Subway parking lots so that people's tires only worked on _their_ parking lot.
And the FUD is tiring and the third-party monetary support for lawsuits like the SCO fiasco against linux are tiring.
3. The whole "1900 robber baron" thing is a little stale, isn't it? Eliminate labor laws in Washington State for your programmers and when that isn't profitable enough, start moving operations to China like every other corporation. But set up some charities like Carnegie and Rockefeller did in the hope that the history books will be rewritten. Boring.
Historically, one of the big voices in this was Andrea Dworkin. Minneapolis brought her into town many years ago to try to pass a thought crime law illegalizing anything that a given viewer might find pornographically stimulating. The idea was given a rather lengthy hearing.
It is ridiculous of course. There is probably at least one person on the planet who is driven to violent, uncontrollable lust by Hello Kitty!
Apparently, "your mileage may vary". Many people seem to have a flawless experience with Knoppmyth, but I had a similar experience to your's where it just wasn't playing nice with my pcHDTV card and some other stuff. Using the instructions from the guy who follows the Fedora releases and some other web docs I had a reasonably uneventful.19 install in the course of the learning curve,
That _is_ an admission. My other handfull of machines are Debian and I use Knoppix disks all the time so Knoppmyth would have been desirable.
So I welcome this release. When I hose my first attempt at a Fedora 5/.20 upgrade, I can give it a try (instead of/before) a restore;)
So someone outside a blog has stated the obvious that it just might take quite a lot of energy to free available hydrogen from its bonds relative to the energy released in "burning" it? I guess it is progress in popular chemistry awareness. Next up: take journalists out to a playground and have them give the swings a push. The point isn't the miracle that the swing comes back at them but that they had to invest the initial energy to get it moving in the first place and that there is inefficiency in the conservation of that energy invested.
Until we uncover the elemental hydrogen and oxygen mines, the whole hydrogen meme should be fodder for bemused sociologists, not policy-makers and technicians.
Since pundits are positioning McCain as a frontrunner, I really should look up John Lennon's exact quote to the effect that he "liked the early Elvis before the Army cut off his balls". It's the first thing that comes to mind when I see McCain. I mean, it's genuinely too bad he had to suffer the U.S. military _AND_ a stay with the People's Liberation Army of Vietnam as an unwanted guest but I don't begin to see what anybody else sees in the guy. Whatever PTSD he's worked through, or will never work through, he seems like little more than a sad and empty husk of a human being to me who will do anything, say anything and forgive anything for power.
The Bush campaign tried to slander him about his "wife's black baby" and then he turned around and supported Bush with hugs all around. Like Randi Rhodes said, how much can you respect someone who won't even stand up for his wife and children?
Somewhere I saw a while back that they were big in call centers targeting Britian in particular since English is already common. Don't they have the infrastructure depth to support development?
This is very recent prehistory. If the Arabs were slave trading 1000 years ago in Zimbabwe, it isn't difficult to imagine significant incursions into Kenya several thousand years ago. And I believe the vikings, for instance, were reasonably shipworthy even in the bronze age.
But, apparently, if there are three distinct and unique gene locations that promoted tolerance in different populations, we should be able to dispense with speculations like that before we begin. And that's what I find interesting about the article.
Or whackjobs should never have been allowed to take a freshman philosophy course. Levels of wisdom are a funny things and it makes you wonder whether Thomas Kuhn died a heartbroken man. Even in the edition of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions I have, he already lamented that people were using his thoughts to imply that science was _just_ "another" belief system (like religion).
You and the five people above you are surely so right. What's the big deal? Somebody sends you an email, just call him up and say, "Did you really mean to send me an email?" Where's the inconvenience in that?
At another one, everyone was crowded around the one "good looking" TV, because it was the only one displaying an HD image. All the other TVs had been tuned to an analog channel, and looked like crap by comparison.
It can lead to unfortunate misunderstandings when two linked technologies are rolled out simultaneously (and badly). Over thanksgiving I was trying to describe our broadcast HD MythTV setup with an LCD to a country uncle and part of it was explaining why LCDs don't _have_ to suck. Because all he'd seen were analog models at WalMart, right? Not the smartest marketing roll-out.
The early colonist's to America didn't immediately stem Europe's problems even directly related to population growth, however in the end its impossible to deny its effects. And with space we dont have the genocidal side effects that are such a stain on that period in history.
Because space colonies will stomp all over another/. topic: privacy.
Stewart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog fame put out a pulp in the 70s called "Space Colonies". Although it seemed overwhelmingly positive about the idea in spirit, it was well-balanced and one thing they pointed out is that there cannot be privacy. With all the things that could be done to sabotage a station, privacy _cannot_ be allowed. So if you don't mind every cranny of your mind examined, every orifice probed and every movement you make on station observed, sure, it'll be peaceful.
That, and the movie Outland, convinced me (apparently same as P. K. Dick) that there will be little truth in advertising in recruiting the early waves of civilian workers. Not for me.
But, anyway, I also come down on the side saying I'll believe these plans when I see them being fulfilled. The U.S. is not part of the "reality-based community" at the moment.
You give up some of your constitutional rights "voluntarily" when you set foot on your employer's property and if you put up a banner at your home or write an editorial to the local paper the employer disagrees with, he can "expel" you at will.
Starr is just making sure kids understand the score early so they'll suffer less pain in their inevitable bovine acquiescence later. Tough cookies to chew, but if you look at it this way am I wrong?
I've been enjoying the 2-for-1 coupons a local grocery chain has frequently been offering over the last couple years on that there A-rab hummus but it can't be a picnic for U.S. producers trying to weather the xenophobia.
I'm old enough to easily remember when "Made in Japan" universally translated to "crap". Actually, I think the transition time to quality in this cycle is amazing. Every linux person here using an nVidia card raise your hand.
Antique tech was often terrible. Vacuum tubes that sucked energy, threw heat and burned out? A car with points and condenser that needed a tune-up every six months? I can very vaguely remember crimped metal toys. You could rip a fingernail or cut yourself on exposed edges -- and the wheels still fell off.
Progress in product design has been overwhelmingly positive. On the other hand, I could go on about the joys of my alarm clock (free, c. 1968, needed an AF output transistor) with a real clock motor and a couple other things from the past....
Sure, it's tempting to take the cheap shot and say it was probably developed by some people close to Rumsfeld's advisors but we all know the hard part is developing the enemy AI in games. Now if ID and a couple other companies could get massive government grants with a competitive bonus to develop strategic AI we could all benefit in better gaming!
And cashiers. Which is why I never use the self-service lane.
One odd thing America did to make everyone equal in the Reagan years, at least in our state, was to rename all the state technical schools "colleges". Now most people get to go to college.
What this country (US) needs to do is scrap the abomination of the Federal Education Dept./Board/Plan and give the power back to the people. Those neighborhoods who care should adopt and pay for the certification of some international education standard.
And those that don't care can teach creationism and have a hell of a football team. Much like now. Frankly, I think we need more and better national standards -- much like much of the rest of the world.
As a disclaimer, one of my former bosses is promoting math and science at the DOE within No Child Left Behind today and for all NCLB's problems I don't think she's moved to the dark side. Listen to one of her talks here:
Exactly. Unless Vista changes NTFS or encrypts all the data, isn't this article being a little hysterical about "holding your data hostage". Boot Knoppix, burn a DVD and sneaker it to a machine at Kinkos.
Otherwise, yes. Microsoft is ONE COMPANY. Unfortunately, their #1, foundational philosophical policy as the monopoly company is and always has been in all things to make _sure_ they break standards with the rest of the world. Having just put highlighter to the last page of "Professional JavaScript for Web Developers" last week the basic truths are fresh in my mind that:
1) Everyone knows the obvious that JavaScript currently has to be written twice: once for IE and once for Mozilla.
2) Why? Because the ECMA can hold as many committee gatherings as it likes and while Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror may (very, very) imperfectly try to develop along the lines of the Document Object Model and ECMAScript, Microsoft will time and time again demonstrate their willingness to go off in whatever direction they choose.
So, either Microsoft somehow can be persuaded, uncharactistically, that playing with others is good or Mozilla, Opera, and Konqueror can give up. But if you DON'T believe that "My way or the highway" is the best way to do things and you DO believe that cooperation between browser creators on _standards_ IS a good thing, then Microsoft IS and HAS BEEN the 800 lb attitude problem at the source of the chaos. How we make progress on a _standard_ IS a problem when Microsoft fights it every step of the way.
Would it really be so bad to have the government run with a more business like model?
Fundamentally, yes. Because eliminating the human beings who are a drain on the bottom line leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
An argument can be made that religion is at least the rationale for a great deal of war. I would extend that to say that prejudice in general is the rationale of a great deal of strife in the world. (Whether it is the cause is another matter.) And a decade ago I would probably have agreed that a non-theistic and informed pragmatism is the key to "progress".
But progress toward what?
To paraphrase "Evil in Modern Thought" (Princeton Press) by philosopher Susan Nieman for a paragraph: It is too late to be Nietzscheians and embrace the world as it is. Embrace Auschwitz? How do you embrace the unthinking technological efficiency of Auschwitz and still say "it's all good!"? No, we need some sort of compass toward a better future. And that is not solely pragmatic because all activist dissatisfaction with the state of the world as it is is a metaphysical protest.
Star Trek is a vision of a world that is not but might be and qualifies as a metaphysical protest as surely as Christianity. But is it the technology that distinguishes one from the other? Or the Humanism?
One thing about going private is that there won't be any stockholder grandstanding for liberal political motives. And the owners can be as political as they want because they don't have to run the company for the stockholders' profit.
It kills the bugs, snakes and mall squatters. A local TV station here could only find 18 people camped at a Best Buy last night. It's been a few degrees +/- freezing all week.
I discovered that the accounting program modules all had the same copy protection validation code on the same block of the 5-1/4" disks. You could fit all the accounting modules from the 5-1/4" disks onto one 3-1/2", duplicate the copy protection check block, and run all the programs from the one menu there while just swapping data disks on the 5-1/4" drive. Pretty professional for the time.
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The teacher of the science class had apparently even taken the step of stating at the start of the school year that there were other theories on the origin of life."
Not "theories" -- "other versions of humanity's origin,"
That's the whole point, isn't it? That creationism isn't a scientific theory?
It's perfectly reasonable to teach other "versions" in a comparative religion and folklore course.
1. They are not much of a technology innovator. They have a history as a monopoly product pusher who put out apes of other people's work.
A. Want to know what the next DOS will look like? Let's see what features the little group of people producing 4DOS in their small office park suite have added to their latest late-80s version.
B. I'm old enough to actually remember when PC Magazine praised a non-Microsoft product and voted Borland Quattro Pro the innovative 3D Windows spreadsheet of the year.
C. OS2 Warp was an IBM creation long after the MS split, came out nearly a year before Windows 95, and had a ton of desktop features and options that made Win95 look typical shoddy and limited.
D. I particularly have to bridle my rage when it comes to their piece-o'-crap text editor Word. If there were truly a non-satanic sentient deity of any compassion, the exponentially more powerful WordPerfect would never have been killed by the Office 97 monopoly pricing campaign. A pricing that went back up in typical monopoly fashion after the cancer of Office had effectively destroyed WordPerfect Suite's market position.
E. Where did DOS come from anyway? Because Microsoft is such a technological innovator, Bill Gates thunk it up from his own cerebrum, right? Not like there were programs like dbase, WordStar or Turbo Pascal already in existence on some desktop platform.
2. On the latter point, Microsoft as the myth of the "little technology company that fueled a revolution" is a fraud. The story I got was that Gates mother was on the board of directors of the same charity as the CEO of IBM and said, "I know someone who can find you an operating system for this new 'PC' thing". With an emphasis on "find" and "QDOS" and "purchase" and "different IBM disk format". I've always seen Microsoft as a lamprey on the belly of the shark of IBM.
Unfortunately, they used that niche monopoly leverage in the worst possible way. Microsoft is the poster child for the meme that corporations are inherently sociopathic. It is a pillar of their foundation that Microsoft will use their effective market monopoly to create "standards" -- standards that more often than not run counter to the desires of the rest of the industry and impede overall progress for everyone (IE anyone?). I would argue that Microsoft is a sick anomoly. Businesses coexist all the time. Because of market traffic, it is _typical_ to see an Arbys next to a Burger King next to a Subway. If Microsoft were Arbys, they would be out every night pouring broken glass on the Burger King and Subway parking lots so that people's tires only worked on _their_ parking lot.
And the FUD is tiring and the third-party monetary support for lawsuits like the SCO fiasco against linux are tiring.
3. The whole "1900 robber baron" thing is a little stale, isn't it? Eliminate labor laws in Washington State for your programmers and when that isn't profitable enough, start moving operations to China like every other corporation. But set up some charities like Carnegie and Rockefeller did in the hope that the history books will be rewritten. Boring.
Historically, one of the big voices in this was Andrea Dworkin. Minneapolis brought her into town many years ago to try to pass a thought crime law illegalizing anything that a given viewer might find pornographically stimulating. The idea was given a rather lengthy hearing.
It is ridiculous of course. There is probably at least one person on the planet who is driven to violent, uncontrollable lust by Hello Kitty!
Apparently, "your mileage may vary". Many people seem to have a flawless experience with Knoppmyth, but I had a similar experience to your's where it just wasn't playing nice with my pcHDTV card and some other stuff. Using the instructions from the guy who follows the Fedora releases and some other web docs I had a reasonably uneventful .19 install in the course of the learning curve,
;)
That _is_ an admission. My other handfull of machines are Debian and I use Knoppix disks all the time so Knoppmyth would have been desirable.
So I welcome this release. When I hose my first attempt at a Fedora 5/.20 upgrade, I can give it a try (instead of/before) a restore
So someone outside a blog has stated the obvious that it just might take quite a lot of energy to free available hydrogen from its bonds relative to the energy released in "burning" it? I guess it is progress in popular chemistry awareness. Next up: take journalists out to a playground and have them give the swings a push. The point isn't the miracle that the swing comes back at them but that they had to invest the initial energy to get it moving in the first place and that there is inefficiency in the conservation of that energy invested.
Until we uncover the elemental hydrogen and oxygen mines, the whole hydrogen meme should be fodder for bemused sociologists, not policy-makers and technicians.
Since pundits are positioning McCain as a frontrunner, I really should look up John Lennon's exact quote to the effect that he "liked the early Elvis before the Army cut off his balls". It's the first thing that comes to mind when I see McCain. I mean, it's genuinely too bad he had to suffer the U.S. military _AND_ a stay with the People's Liberation Army of Vietnam as an unwanted guest but I don't begin to see what anybody else sees in the guy. Whatever PTSD he's worked through, or will never work through, he seems like little more than a sad and empty husk of a human being to me who will do anything, say anything and forgive anything for power.
The Bush campaign tried to slander him about his "wife's black baby" and then he turned around and supported Bush with hugs all around. Like Randi Rhodes said, how much can you respect someone who won't even stand up for his wife and children?
Somewhere I saw a while back that they were big in call centers targeting Britian in particular since English is already common. Don't they have the infrastructure depth to support development?
This is very recent prehistory. If the Arabs were slave trading 1000 years ago in Zimbabwe, it isn't difficult to imagine significant incursions into Kenya several thousand years ago. And I believe the vikings, for instance, were reasonably shipworthy even in the bronze age.
But, apparently, if there are three distinct and unique gene locations that promoted tolerance in different populations, we should be able to dispense with speculations like that before we begin. And that's what I find interesting about the article.
Or whackjobs should never have been allowed to take a freshman philosophy course. Levels of wisdom are a funny things and it makes you wonder whether Thomas Kuhn died a heartbroken man. Even in the edition of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions I have, he already lamented that people were using his thoughts to imply that science was _just_ "another" belief system (like religion).
You and the five people above you are surely so right. What's the big deal? Somebody sends you an email, just call him up and say, "Did you really mean to send me an email?" Where's the inconvenience in that?
At another one, everyone was crowded around the one "good looking" TV, because it was the only one displaying an HD image. All the other TVs had been tuned to an analog channel, and looked like crap by comparison.
It can lead to unfortunate misunderstandings when two linked technologies are rolled out simultaneously (and badly). Over thanksgiving I was trying to describe our broadcast HD MythTV setup with an LCD to a country uncle and part of it was explaining why LCDs don't _have_ to suck. Because all he'd seen were analog models at WalMart, right? Not the smartest marketing roll-out.
The early colonist's to America didn't immediately stem Europe's problems even directly related to population growth, however in the end its impossible to deny its effects. And with space we dont have the genocidal side effects that are such a stain on that period in history.
/. topic: privacy.
Because space colonies will stomp all over another
Stewart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog fame put out a pulp in the 70s called "Space Colonies". Although it seemed overwhelmingly positive about the idea in spirit, it was well-balanced and one thing they pointed out is that there cannot be privacy. With all the things that could be done to sabotage a station, privacy _cannot_ be allowed. So if you don't mind every cranny of your mind examined, every orifice probed and every movement you make on station observed, sure, it'll be peaceful.
That, and the movie Outland, convinced me (apparently same as P. K. Dick) that there will be little truth in advertising in recruiting the early waves of civilian workers. Not for me.
But, anyway, I also come down on the side saying I'll believe these plans when I see them being fulfilled. The U.S. is not part of the "reality-based community" at the moment.
You give up some of your constitutional rights "voluntarily" when you set foot on your employer's property and if you put up a banner at your home or write an editorial to the local paper the employer disagrees with, he can "expel" you at will.
Starr is just making sure kids understand the score early so they'll suffer less pain in their inevitable bovine acquiescence later. Tough cookies to chew, but if you look at it this way am I wrong?
Not that it's racial profiling or anything.
I've been enjoying the 2-for-1 coupons a local grocery chain has frequently been offering over the last couple years on that there A-rab hummus but it can't be a picnic for U.S. producers trying to weather the xenophobia.
I'm old enough to easily remember when "Made in Japan" universally translated to "crap". Actually, I think the transition time to quality in this cycle is amazing. Every linux person here using an nVidia card raise your hand.
Antique tech was often terrible. Vacuum tubes that sucked energy, threw heat and burned out? A car with points and condenser that needed a tune-up every six months? I can very vaguely remember crimped metal toys. You could rip a fingernail or cut yourself on exposed edges -- and the wheels still fell off.
Progress in product design has been overwhelmingly positive. On the other hand, I could go on about the joys of my alarm clock (free, c. 1968, needed an AF output transistor) with a real clock motor and a couple other things from the past....
Sure, it's tempting to take the cheap shot and say it was probably developed by some people close to Rumsfeld's advisors but we all know the hard part is developing the enemy AI in games. Now if ID and a couple other companies could get massive government grants with a competitive bonus to develop strategic AI we could all benefit in better gaming!
And cashiers. Which is why I never use the self-service lane.
One odd thing America did to make everyone equal in the Reagan years, at least in our state, was to rename all the state technical schools "colleges". Now most people get to go to college.
What this country (US) needs to do is scrap the abomination of the Federal Education Dept./Board/Plan and give the power back to the people. Those neighborhoods who care should adopt and pay for the certification of some international education standard.
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And those that don't care can teach creationism and have a hell of a football team. Much like now. Frankly, I think we need more and better national standards -- much like much of the rest of the world.
As a disclaimer, one of my former bosses is promoting math and science at the DOE within No Child Left Behind today and for all NCLB's problems I don't think she's moved to the dark side. Listen to one of her talks here:
http://www.asme.org/Education/PreCollege/Pat_OCon
I put a little old lady on linux. She still can't handle online banking but she can web and do email. So what does that say about online banking?
Exactly. Unless Vista changes NTFS or encrypts all the data, isn't this article being a little hysterical about "holding your data hostage". Boot Knoppix, burn a DVD and sneaker it to a machine at Kinkos.
If it does encrypt the data, AFTERMARKET money!!
and the return to static html
"Static" I don't agree with.
Otherwise, yes. Microsoft is ONE COMPANY. Unfortunately, their #1, foundational philosophical policy as the monopoly company is and always has been in all things to make _sure_ they break standards with the rest of the world. Having just put highlighter to the last page of "Professional JavaScript for Web Developers" last week the basic truths are fresh in my mind that:
1) Everyone knows the obvious that JavaScript currently has to be written twice: once for IE and once for Mozilla.
2) Why? Because the ECMA can hold as many committee gatherings as it likes and while Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror may (very, very) imperfectly try to develop along the lines of the Document Object Model and ECMAScript, Microsoft will time and time again demonstrate their willingness to go off in whatever direction they choose.
So, either Microsoft somehow can be persuaded, uncharactistically, that playing with others is good or Mozilla, Opera, and Konqueror can give up. But if you DON'T believe that "My way or the highway" is the best way to do things and you DO believe that cooperation between browser creators on _standards_ IS a good thing, then Microsoft IS and HAS BEEN the 800 lb attitude problem at the source of the chaos. How we make progress on a _standard_ IS a problem when Microsoft fights it every step of the way.
Would it really be so bad to have the government run with a more business like model?
Fundamentally, yes. Because eliminating the human beings who are a drain on the bottom line leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
An argument can be made that religion is at least the rationale for a great deal of war. I would extend that to say that prejudice in general is the rationale of a great deal of strife in the world. (Whether it is the cause is another matter.) And a decade ago I would probably have agreed that a non-theistic and informed pragmatism is the key to "progress".
But progress toward what?
To paraphrase "Evil in Modern Thought" (Princeton Press) by philosopher Susan Nieman for a paragraph: It is too late to be Nietzscheians and embrace the world as it is. Embrace Auschwitz? How do you embrace the unthinking technological efficiency of Auschwitz and still say "it's all good!"? No, we need some sort of compass toward a better future. And that is not solely pragmatic because all activist dissatisfaction with the state of the world as it is is a metaphysical protest.
Star Trek is a vision of a world that is not but might be and qualifies as a metaphysical protest as surely as Christianity. But is it the technology that distinguishes one from the other? Or the Humanism?
One thing about going private is that there won't be any stockholder grandstanding for liberal political motives. And the owners can be as political as they want because they don't have to run the company for the stockholders' profit.
It kills the bugs, snakes and mall squatters. A local TV station here could only find 18 people camped at a Best Buy last night. It's been a few degrees +/- freezing all week.
The 3-1/2" drives were great.
I discovered that the accounting program modules all had the same copy protection validation code on the same block of the 5-1/4" disks. You could fit all the accounting modules from the 5-1/4" disks onto one 3-1/2", duplicate the copy protection check block, and run all the programs from the one menu there while just swapping data disks on the 5-1/4" drive. Pretty professional for the time.
And my first crack!