Well, one fire, started by said lightning, could destroy my desktop, my laptops, and any backup media that's in my house. Which means my online backup IS the backup.
That brings up an interesting question. What happens when an unelectable candidate goes up against another unelectable candidate? One of them has to win, in which case s/he isn't unelectable by definition. Unless a 3rd party wins, but everyone knows they're unelectable.
I walked to school all the time. It was probably less than 1/2 mile, but I started at 5 or 6. I don't remember how old I was when roaming the neighborhood alone, but it was younger than 12, and I probably did a lot of it younger than 10. I went a lot of places I probably shouldn't have, did things that could have gotten me hurt but didn't, and I'm glad I got the chance to do such things. In the modern era, my mom would have been jailed for neglect, and I would have been a ward of CPS.
I bought my first computer at Radio Shack. It was a Tandy 1000, XT compatible, with an 8088 processor, 2 floppy drives, and 384K RAM (which got upgraded to 640K). I haven't been in a Shack for many years (and apparently neither has anyone else), and I'm not surprised, but it is kind of sad.
My mother WAS a prophet. She predicted that I'd get into trouble within a week, and sure enough I did. Given my track record, that wasn't exactly a difficult prediction, but still, it did come true.
2K probably had as many or more security holes than XP, but it hit that sweet spot of being stable when that was most important, light (XP was bloatware when it first came out--still is in many ways), and secure enough for the time.
Also, look at what people were used to. If they upgraded from Win 9X, they'd be happy to have an OS with uptime that's not measured in hours (or minutes in the case of Win95). NT4 was better than that, but I still had plenty of problems with it crashing. The problem with security is, you can't tell it's bad until you get pwned. Instability is as plain as the BlueScreen on your monitor, and prior to Win 2K, instability was Windows middle name.
Vista also hit the "sour spot" in RAM. If you didn't have 2G RAM, Vista was very slow. If you did have 2G or more, 32-bit Vista only saw the 2G, and was still slow.
Even if a language is more readable, the programs might not be. COBOL is supposed to be readable, but I've seen plenty of COBOL programs that could rival anything in C or Perl for unreadability.
I don't even blindly trust the professionals. I have stuff on Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft, but I also have it on my desktop and 2 laptops. No way would I trust everything to one random person's "cloud".
My intelligence helped me in the areas that I had a natural aptitude. My grit got my through the areas that I didn't. I needed both to get me where I am today.
To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing of value on the moon. Instead, it's full of razor sharp rocks and razor sharp dust. Why would anyone want to live there? Just to wave that flag you planted around every day?
I once heard that we quit going to the moon after we found out it wasn't really made of cheese. I think it was on a Kraft commercial, but the point is still valid.
In urban areas, the police can be there in minutes, but the bad guy can shoot/stab/pulverize you in seconds. You can't necessarily depend on the police to protect you.
No virus scanner cost a day of downtime over x days? If the virus scanner costs a day in less than x days, they're better off with the virus, at least as far as time goes.
But, do the Norks who think Kim's a god control anything? Kim himself presumably knows that he pees & poops and though he talks about blowing up American cities and movie theaters, he won't actually do it, and neither would anyone who could do so.
She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Even if her tablet can do everything she needs today, what would she do if she found something tomorrow that she wants to do but that an iPad can't do by design?
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I despise Romney, I have never voted for him and unless he's running against a demon I won't ever vote for him.
While I'm no Romney fan, odds are he'll be running against Hilary, who many people would classify as a demon.
Well, one fire, started by said lightning, could destroy my desktop, my laptops, and any backup media that's in my house. Which means my online backup IS the backup.
That brings up an interesting question. What happens when an unelectable candidate goes up against another unelectable candidate? One of them has to win, in which case s/he isn't unelectable by definition. Unless a 3rd party wins, but everyone knows they're unelectable.
Seems to me that Romney, or maybe Jeb, is as electable as Hilary.
I walked to school all the time. It was probably less than 1/2 mile, but I started at 5 or 6. I don't remember how old I was when roaming the neighborhood alone, but it was younger than 12, and I probably did a lot of it younger than 10. I went a lot of places I probably shouldn't have, did things that could have gotten me hurt but didn't, and I'm glad I got the chance to do such things. In the modern era, my mom would have been jailed for neglect, and I would have been a ward of CPS.
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I'm not sure about that. It seems to me that the curiosity that led me to "explore" my neighborhood as a child also led me to explore tech later on.
I bought my first computer at Radio Shack. It was a Tandy 1000, XT compatible, with an 8088 processor, 2 floppy drives, and 384K RAM (which got upgraded to 640K). I haven't been in a Shack for many years (and apparently neither has anyone else), and I'm not surprised, but it is kind of sad.
Consider yourself lucky he didn't hit you with his mom's boots. Combat boots really hurt!
My mother WAS a prophet. She predicted that I'd get into trouble within a week, and sure enough I did. Given my track record, that wasn't exactly a difficult prediction, but still, it did come true.
2K probably had as many or more security holes than XP, but it hit that sweet spot of being stable when that was most important, light (XP was bloatware when it first came out--still is in many ways), and secure enough for the time.
Also, look at what people were used to. If they upgraded from Win 9X, they'd be happy to have an OS with uptime that's not measured in hours (or minutes in the case of Win95). NT4 was better than that, but I still had plenty of problems with it crashing. The problem with security is, you can't tell it's bad until you get pwned. Instability is as plain as the BlueScreen on your monitor, and prior to Win 2K, instability was Windows middle name.
IME, Win 8.1 isn't really that bad. The reason is, unlike 8.0, it boots to the desktop, and I seldom even see Metro.
Vista also hit the "sour spot" in RAM. If you didn't have 2G RAM, Vista was very slow. If you did have 2G or more, 32-bit Vista only saw the 2G, and was still slow.
Even if a language is more readable, the programs might not be. COBOL is supposed to be readable, but I've seen plenty of COBOL programs that could rival anything in C or Perl for unreadability.
I don't even blindly trust the professionals. I have stuff on Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft, but I also have it on my desktop and 2 laptops. No way would I trust everything to one random person's "cloud".
My intelligence helped me in the areas that I had a natural aptitude. My grit got my through the areas that I didn't. I needed both to get me where I am today.
But, from everything I've read, upgrading to Lollypop is a sucker bet.
Yeah, I never thought of JCL as a programming language. It was just something I fiddled with to run batch COBOL programs.
To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing of value on the moon. Instead, it's full of razor sharp rocks and razor sharp dust. Why would anyone want to live there? Just to wave that flag you planted around every day?
I once heard that we quit going to the moon after we found out it wasn't really made of cheese. I think it was on a Kraft commercial, but the point is still valid.
In urban areas, the police can be there in minutes, but the bad guy can shoot/stab/pulverize you in seconds. You can't necessarily depend on the police to protect you.
I've heard that, even on a PC, it's hard to find a POS that's not a POS.
No virus scanner cost a day of downtime over x days? If the virus scanner costs a day in less than x days, they're better off with the virus, at least as far as time goes.
> when one defines a concept in language it's drawn from the environment
Please show me "absolute zero" in your environment. Not the derived concept, but anything which has the temperature of "absolute zero".
Careful. Someone from Minnesota just might take you up on that.
But, do the Norks who think Kim's a god control anything? Kim himself presumably knows that he pees & poops and though he talks about blowing up American cities and movie theaters, he won't actually do it, and neither would anyone who could do so.
She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Even if her tablet can do everything she needs today, what would she do if she found something tomorrow that she wants to do but that an iPad can't do by design?
Get a Surface Pro3?
*ducks* :)
I eventually replaced my original iPad with an Air, but that olde tablet outlasted several phones, and maybe even some of my PCs.