I guess I should add that by the time 1983 rolled around, we were fortunate enough to have a second line in our house, and our new Leading Edge PC clone was connected every day after school until I went to sleep to one dial-up BBS after another with, at first, me plunking down the phone handset onto my Anderson/Jacobsen 300/450 acoustic coupler. By 1985, it was an nighttime only BBS with faster and faster 1200 and 2400 modems.
I could have been luckier by a few years, I guess, but having been born in 1969, I was the right age to have home computers mature pretty much when I did.
The first PC we had in our house was a TRS-80; and I looked forward to receiving TRS-80 magazine, with a nice shiny new fresh cassette tape to load up:)
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
Sure. There's no questioning that, say, fountain Coke varies from location to location - McDonald's uses RO water, generally the same equipment, and a Coke there tastes different (and to me, better) than a fountain Coke at Burger King -- which purifies its water, but not RO. Also, apparently, a larger quantity of the water is kept chilled in their RO system (keeping it colder, allowing for better CO2 absorption).
[A quick "McDonalds reverse osmosis" search shows a few articles that all say the same thing.]
You can generally get a good Coke at your local Water and Ice store for similar reasons.
Anyone living near Mexico can also tell the difference between a glass bottled Mexican Coke and the US version because of the sugar used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... It used to be a treat at "real' Mexican restaurants here in the Southwest, but now they're available at Costco. [I personally avoid most sugared drinks, but indulge in the occasional "MexiCoke."]
Regardless, Safeway Select Cola is in no way "exactly the same" as Coke:)
It's like Coke vs. Safeway Select cola. They taste exactly the same (not all brands taste the same, but in that particular case they do)...
If you think the favor of Coke isn't unique and clearly distinguishable versus knockoffs, you don't have a particularly good palate.
I don't profess to have a great palate, but being a Coke drinker, I can even pick out Dasani from among other bottled waters because of the salts they put back in. [Most of the big water bottlers RO their water, and then put back in a distinct set of minerals. You can easily develop a taste for Dasani over Aquafina or the other way around...]
Your health plan knows that it costs less, overall, to pay your bills if you regularly see your doctor and get your illnesses and maladies treated early. It's much, much easier to pay for the pills to keep your blood pressure and cholesterol in check than to pay for your open heart surgery - even at their negotiated rates.
I can't find the article today, but Darshan Singh has probably killed more people first-hand than anyone not named Thomas Ferebee or James W. Strudwick - and certainly more people face-to-face (or face-to-sack, I guess).
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It's interesting the disconnect in technology. We're roughly the same age, and I never touched a punch card except as a curiosity.
All of my curiosity years programs got loaded and saved by cassette tape, then floppies of various sizes.
True.
It was a consequence of us wardialing on our acoustic couplers.
TRS-80 at home, Commodore at school...
In 8th grade, we had PET (4032?) at school. Endless hours I spent writing a poor PacMan game in basic...
My friend's Apple ][ was for playing Karataka and logging into BBSes to attack other characters and raise your strength.
We weren't playing Tradewars, demon dialing at 12:01am to get moves in first until like '88
I guess I should add that by the time 1983 rolled around, we were fortunate enough to have a second line in our house, and our new Leading Edge PC clone was connected every day after school until I went to sleep to one dial-up BBS after another with, at first, me plunking down the phone handset onto my Anderson/Jacobsen 300/450 acoustic coupler. By 1985, it was an nighttime only BBS with faster and faster 1200 and 2400 modems.
2600 Magazine seemed so taboo then.
I could have been luckier by a few years, I guess, but having been born in 1969, I was the right age to have home computers mature pretty much when I did.
The first PC we had in our house was a TRS-80; and I looked forward to receiving TRS-80 magazine, with a nice shiny new fresh cassette tape to load up :)
The rest of the story pretty much tells itself.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
Black electrical tape.
Black nail polish.
Both work great.
They could, but since there are phones for less than $120 with being subsidized, I'm going to guess they potentially aren't.
Lighten up, Francis.
This is no closer to a hoverboard than a skateboard is.
It's three wheels closer.
Just one to go.
75% of the way, by any logical measure.
Nah, it's a full diff, every changed, deleted, and added line.
With the 7.2 source, and that diff, you could fully reconstruct 7.1a if you wanted to.
Coke and Safeway Select DO taste the same though.
While Safeway's generics are pretty good, they're still not the real thing to any soda snob.
I think their Zero product is the closest - for whatever that's worth.
Sure. There's no questioning that, say, fountain Coke varies from location to location - McDonald's uses RO water, generally the same equipment, and a Coke there tastes different (and to me, better) than a fountain Coke at Burger King -- which purifies its water, but not RO. Also, apparently, a larger quantity of the water is kept chilled in their RO system (keeping it colder, allowing for better CO2 absorption).
[A quick "McDonalds reverse osmosis" search shows a few articles that all say the same thing.]
You can generally get a good Coke at your local Water and Ice store for similar reasons.
Anyone living near Mexico can also tell the difference between a glass bottled Mexican Coke and the US version because of the sugar used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
It used to be a treat at "real' Mexican restaurants here in the Southwest, but now they're available at Costco.
[I personally avoid most sugared drinks, but indulge in the occasional "MexiCoke."]
Regardless, Safeway Select Cola is in no way "exactly the same" as Coke :)
It's like Coke vs. Safeway Select cola. They taste exactly the same (not all brands taste the same, but in that particular case they do)...
If you think the favor of Coke isn't unique and clearly distinguishable versus knockoffs, you don't have a particularly good palate.
I don't profess to have a great palate, but being a Coke drinker, I can even pick out Dasani from among other bottled waters because of the salts they put back in. [Most of the big water bottlers RO their water, and then put back in a distinct set of minerals. You can easily develop a taste for Dasani over Aquafina or the other way around...]
Pretty sure the guy who did the compare of the two sources has already provided (roundabout) the 7.1a source.
https://www.alchemistowl.org/a...
...the entire article about "authentication issues" is a guy who failed to install UPlay correctly, and a link to "uplay down" on Twitter.
Super, super informative.
...except that's the opposite of the truth.
Your health plan knows that it costs less, overall, to pay your bills if you regularly see your doctor and get your illnesses and maladies treated early. It's much, much easier to pay for the pills to keep your blood pressure and cholesterol in check than to pay for your open heart surgery - even at their negotiated rates.
Yes. Since all other factors are 100% the same, that's the difference.
I can't find the article today, but Darshan Singh has probably killed more people first-hand than anyone not named Thomas Ferebee or James W. Strudwick - and certainly more people face-to-face (or face-to-sack, I guess).
He's a fascinating bit of history...
Another notable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Please stop ruining my belief in Australian monster-animals.
I'm certain that countless Aussies are killed every year by giant spiders, poison snails, jumbo stingrays, vicious jellyfish and rampaging emu.
...or your basic "Exit Bag" system, with a colorant or odorant to safeguard against the administering staff being harmed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Years of assembling my own computers and not trusting L2 or L3 sleep left me as one of those guys who just has his computer on 24/7. :/
I'm sure my Media Center machine will wake up and record stuff in the middle of the night, but trust is hard to come by in my house...
Stephen Hawking shouldn't keep an updated will, living will, or medial power of attorney document? ...because that's my advice.
his person clearly hasn't given up on further sweetness.
Which person? cablepokerface or his sister in law?
As soon as you establish a reliable means of communication, find out what the sister in law wants to do, and help her do it.
Yes.
That's one thing we libertarian sociopaths are known for -- telling people hard truths they may not want to hear.
A reminder to everyone: Update your wills, living wills and medical power of attorney paperwork to cover this sort of situation.