"I've got computing equipment that is nearly 20 years old that still works like the day I bought it, as well as lots of consumer/pro grade electronics of the same age."
Which is not the same thing as buying something new now and thinking that's there's a chance in a million that it'll still be working in 2025. Or even 2015. 2010? Maybe, but don't bet the rent.
Once you are no longer working there, i.e, they no longer need you, they have much less incentive to actually honor any obligations to you. Assume that you will only actually get what you get before your last day there and nothing afterwards, regardless of any promises, contracts, etc., and negotiate accordingly.
I don't know whether these people are honorable but they're obviously stupid enough to think that the lesson of InterNIC isn't "geographical redundancy good" but "it's better to be lucky than to be smart and we can count on being lucky". Do you really want to trust them with whether you get needed food, shelter, or medical treatment?
Apparently I should have remembered how young most of the readers here are (as in not old enough to have ever seen a pre-Judge Green AT&T promo piece) and pointed out that the always in the experimental stage videophones to which I referred were the "installed in the house or office at the end of the last mile wire" type. The kind that aren't wireless and aren't a computer application, but are more of a built-in appliance.
" Please, from what he says in the movie it's clearly jiggawatts, an otherwise unused but very funky measure of power."
Ha ha. But seriously, the pronunciation in the movie is the correct one. The "giga-" prefix is from the same root as the word "gigantic" and pronouncing the first "g" as a "j" is correct. Back when mostly only scientists and properly trained technicians spoke of gigaWatts and gigaHertz, and computer speeds and storage capacities were expressed in mega-this and kilo-that, they knew this.
A high percentage of Slashdotters may be video game players, just for fun let's call it 90 per cent. Does that mean that they are 90 per cent of all video gamers? 10 per cent? There's not enough info in the original proposition to know.
As for Slashdotters being smarter than the average bear, maybe so, but a lot could have as a motto, "I'm not really an idiot, I just play one on the internet."
"... the far more serious effects that traditional energy sources all ready do pose to the enironment and wildlife. No serious person can argue that windfarms aren't far more friendly to wildlife in general..."
Now wait a minute. If it weren't for all those power lines to perch on the birds would have to keep flying until they dropped from exhaustion.:-)
"Since there's already a market value for the drug, one which Taiwan refused to pay..."
Go back and read the (could have been written better) article again. They weren't talking to Roche about buying the drug, they were talking to them about getting licensed to manufacture the drug (of which there is not currently a global surplus, by the way).
For whatever reason, Roche and Taiwan couldn't work out a mutually acceptable deal. Taiwan decided to protect their population first and deal with the consequences later. The old "It's easier to get forgiveness afterward than permission beforehand" routine.
If the furnace used to be in that closet then it probably had a louvered door for intake and there's probably output ductwork still run to that closet. Just tie that ductwork into the house's HVAC return and let it pull air through that closet with the bonus that the heat will get spread out evenly during winter and it'll probably be cheaper to let your heat pump work a little harder during summer than to operate an additional unit.
I'm going by the way the problem (and solution) are stated on the site linked back at the top of this thread. The initial state of the bulb is not stated and there is something in the answer which I believe is defeated if the bulb is in one particular state at the beginning and it's getting very difficult to discuss this without revealing any details about the answer.
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Speaking of stupid, that should be directNIC, not InterNIC.
However Edsyn probably prefers that you use their trademark, Soldapult.
Which is not the same thing as buying something new now and thinking that's there's a chance in a million that it'll still be working in 2025. Or even 2015. 2010? Maybe, but don't bet the rent.
Sorry, the bad cap prize in U.S. politics goes to Dukakis.
How can that lawsuit possibly exclude the BX-6? Unless there were so many of them that there was a separate suit just for them.
Exactly. A communist plot caused all those manufacturers to use that faulty Marxist dielectric.
I don't know whether these people are honorable but they're obviously stupid enough to think that the lesson of InterNIC isn't "geographical redundancy good" but "it's better to be lucky than to be smart and we can count on being lucky". Do you really want to trust them with whether you get needed food, shelter, or medical treatment?
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Apparently I should have remembered how young most of the readers here are (as in not old enough to have ever seen a pre-Judge Green AT&T promo piece) and pointed out that the always in the experimental stage videophones to which I referred were the "installed in the house or office at the end of the last mile wire" type. The kind that aren't wireless and aren't a computer application, but are more of a built-in appliance.
Oh, so that's the special ingredient in video phones*. :-)
*which have been 5 years away for about 50 years now.
Ha ha. But seriously, the pronunciation in the movie is the correct one. The "giga-" prefix is from the same root as the word "gigantic" and pronouncing the first "g" as a "j" is correct. Back when mostly only scientists and properly trained technicians spoke of gigaWatts and gigaHertz, and computer speeds and storage capacities were expressed in mega-this and kilo-that, they knew this.
As for Slashdotters being smarter than the average bear, maybe so, but a lot could have as a motto, "I'm not really an idiot, I just play one on the internet."
So, what, you have to use a buggy whip?
The difference between automobiles and horseless carriages being what, exactly?
Now wait a minute. If it weren't for all those power lines to perch on the birds would have to keep flying until they dropped from exhaustion. :-)
Time to change overlords again? Pardon me whilst I gird my lions.
"Fridge" isn't short for refrigerator, it's short for Frigidaire, a early refrigerator brand name created from "frigid air".
Go back and read the (could have been written better) article again. They weren't talking to Roche about buying the drug, they were talking to them about getting licensed to manufacture the drug (of which there is not currently a global surplus, by the way).
For whatever reason, Roche and Taiwan couldn't work out a mutually acceptable deal. Taiwan decided to protect their population first and deal with the consequences later. The old "It's easier to get forgiveness afterward than permission beforehand" routine.
If the furnace used to be in that closet then it probably had a louvered door for intake and there's probably output ductwork still run to that closet. Just tie that ductwork into the house's HVAC return and let it pull air through that closet with the bonus that the heat will get spread out evenly during winter and it'll probably be cheaper to let your heat pump work a little harder during summer than to operate an additional unit.
Same way you got yours. Mods with grudges or axes to grind and no compunction against gaming the system. Jerks.
I'm not really sure what that means, but there is only one light bulb in this riddle/problem.
I'm going by the way the problem (and solution) are stated on the site linked back at the top of this thread. The initial state of the bulb is not stated and there is something in the answer which I believe is defeated if the bulb is in one particular state at the beginning and it's getting very difficult to discuss this without revealing any details about the answer.
A question. What if, before any switches are switched, the light bulb were in the state opposite the state which the answer assumes it to be?
...and it'll be played into a microphone with nowhere near that much range which will feed into electronics with nowhere near that range.
Judging by what I saw at the Best Buy here when I went to buy another VCR a couple of weeks ago it's a lot fewer, like 2, a Panasonic and a Sony.
Note that I'm referring to VCR only models, not the VCR/DVD combo units.
Speaking of VCRs, never, ever, buy anything made by Daewoo. Ever.