Reminds me of how every time some tabloid photographer gets punched they sue for millions. "I have terrible neck pain, emotional trauma and I can't hide in bushes anymore!"
No, don't through that stuff out! As a true pack rat you never know when you'll need that stuff. What if your broadband connection failed and you needed to check your email, that ancient modem would be priceless (they have a dialup number, right?). You could find yourself getting an emergency call from the government asking for a circa 1991 VESA video card for a vital computer. Lives could be on the line! Keep those floppies along with those twist ties, rubber bands, expired coupons, that 340MB hard drive and half dried out paint cans and be proud to be a pack rat!
with knowhow and a few tools you can:
be an electrician, plumber, phone guy, cable guy, pc tech, network guy, carpenter, mechanic...
But if you screw up you'll end up paying X times as much to undo the damage and you'll still have to pay for the original job. I'd rather pay some more to have it done right by someone who has done that job many, many times than try to do it myself from a book just once and have it come out wrong. Obviously I'm not talking about something simple like an oil change or putting a card into a PC, more like redoing a kitchen or replacing a car's head gasket. I would at least check first to see how complicated something was to do in case it was easy though.
Oh my god! I'll have to add it to my list, let's see...
1. Fatal accident while driving 2. Caught in fire at night while sleeping 3. Heart attack 4. Aliens attacking earth after sending out signals 5. Cancer
I had to bump "Terrorists attack Starbucks #528" off the list to make room
Use an ablative layer below it or even a gap with a 2nd reflective surface under that. Tarnishing is avoided with a very thin layer of protective material.
But then how could you ask for billions of dollars for that? You can't get an executive job with a defense contractor after you retire from the government with THAT attitude!
I thing I liked about driving in Washington state was the law about having to pull over if there are X (#?) of cars behind you. People actually did it. Try driving on a single lane road in NH where people end up with these huge convoys of cars stuck behind them and they refuse to pull over and let them pass. I think they get a thrill out of it.
So, does turning in the same direction all the time wear out the tires unevenly or mess up the suspension somehow? Are they going to end up with a mess of trucks all sagging on one side?
Based on a lifetime's driving in the Boston Mass area I can assure you that few Americans know how to drive safely in this country either. I think the rule is, just close your eyes, pick up your cell phone and hit the gas.
Usually what looks like bad code has a story behind it. You find out it was written over the course of years by different people, couldn't be updated to keep ($paying$) users of old versions happy, doesn't use new features because it was written before they came out, no time to update old code, used ugly kluges to get around limitations in the OS/hardware/other code, etc. Once you learn the reasons you still think it is ugly but you understand why.
One thing I miss about the old computers was that you could really know the ins-and-outs of them. The Apple IIe came with a couple of manuals that told you the gruesome details of the memory maps, how to program, the assembler, etc. Magazines and companies like Beagle Bros would publish great coding tricks and tips. I don't think I could ever reach that level of understanding from the OS down to the hardware with a modern PC, the complexity level is just too high.
Favorite Apple II command: hcolor={x}; hplot 0,0; call 62454 Turns the hi-res screen to that color instantly. I don't know why I can remember that but I can't remember my work phone number.
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I remember reading that this behavior was also used to explain how arms form in spiral galaxies.
Reminds me of how every time some tabloid photographer gets punched they sue for millions. "I have terrible neck pain, emotional trauma and I can't hide in bushes anymore!"
c/through/throw
No, don't through that stuff out! As a true pack rat you never know when you'll need that stuff. What if your broadband connection failed and you needed to check your email, that ancient modem would be priceless (they have a dialup number, right?). You could find yourself getting an emergency call from the government asking for a circa 1991 VESA video card for a vital computer. Lives could be on the line! Keep those floppies along with those twist ties, rubber bands, expired coupons, that 340MB hard drive and half dried out paint cans and be proud to be a pack rat!
But if you screw up you'll end up paying X times as much to undo the damage and you'll still have to pay for the original job. I'd rather pay some more to have it done right by someone who has done that job many, many times than try to do it myself from a book just once and have it come out wrong. Obviously I'm not talking about something simple like an oil change or putting a card into a PC, more like redoing a kitchen or replacing a car's head gasket. I would at least check first to see how complicated something was to do in case it was easy though.
I was making fun of his hatred of "top X lists" by replying with a request for a list. Thus the irony of the joke.
So, what are the top 10 reasons not to turn /. into digg?
Great, you'd just replace his controler thumb with carpal tunnel wrist.
Oh my god! I'll have to add it to my list, let's see...
1. Fatal accident while driving
2. Caught in fire at night while sleeping
3. Heart attack
4. Aliens attacking earth after sending out signals
5. Cancer
I had to bump "Terrorists attack Starbucks #528" off the list to make room
Use an ablative layer below it or even a gap with a 2nd reflective surface under that. Tarnishing is avoided with a very thin layer of protective material.
But then how could you ask for billions of dollars for that? You can't get an executive job with a defense contractor after you retire from the government with THAT attitude!
There is an old joke, "If you want to live forever then go live in a small town because every day is like a freak'n eternity."
I personally can attest that time slows down in business meetings, lines, traffic, and at chick flicks I'm forced to watch.
I thing I liked about driving in Washington state was the law about having to pull over if there are X (#?) of cars behind you. People actually did it. Try driving on a single lane road in NH where people end up with these huge convoys of cars stuck behind them and they refuse to pull over and let them pass. I think they get a thrill out of it.
I vote to make WTF the abbreviation of the year. Now I'm off to RTFA.
So, does turning in the same direction all the time wear out the tires unevenly or mess up the suspension somehow? Are they going to end up with a mess of trucks all sagging on one side?
In the NE US they are pretty common and are called "rotaries".
I think you meant "Most Americans don't know what a turn signal is"
More likely they'll introduce you to their two friends, "sabotage" and "slow down"
Based on a lifetime's driving in the Boston Mass area I can assure you that few Americans know how to drive safely in this country either. I think the rule is, just close your eyes, pick up your cell phone and hit the gas.
Make you you set the dials to the right date or you'll end up working on MS DOS 6.2
Usually what looks like bad code has a story behind it. You find out it was written over the course of years by different people, couldn't be updated to keep ($paying$) users of old versions happy, doesn't use new features because it was written before they came out, no time to update old code, used ugly kluges to get around limitations in the OS/hardware/other code, etc. Once you learn the reasons you still think it is ugly but you understand why.
Just make sure to check the name of the code's author in the comments in case the person you're saying it to is also your new boss.
All I could see was General Buck Turgidson yelling, "Gentlemen, we must not allow a space flight gap!"
What? No goatse link?
One thing I miss about the old computers was that you could really know the ins-and-outs of them. The Apple IIe came with a couple of manuals that told you the gruesome details of the memory maps, how to program, the assembler, etc. Magazines and companies like Beagle Bros would publish great coding tricks and tips. I don't think I could ever reach that level of understanding from the OS down to the hardware with a modern PC, the complexity level is just too high.
Favorite Apple II command: hcolor={x}; hplot 0,0; call 62454
Turns the hi-res screen to that color instantly. I don't know why I can remember that but I can't remember my work phone number.