I honestly would like to know what's "happened to CD's lately." AFAIK nothing, despite a great deal of sound and fury. I regret my mind-reading skill level is low, perhaps a link would help.
>> if I drove highway at a strict 55 and had people stacked up behind me trying to pass
If the speed limit is 55, drive 55. The folks behind you aren't your concern. They'll pass all right, and you'll be right behind them at the red light at the off-ramp.
Unless you're driving across West Texas, the few seconds you save going much above 55 simply aren't worth the extra 2% hit for each mile-per-hour above 55mph. (At 75mph, you're using half again as much gas as you do at 55.)
You should be able to resolve the lightswitch issues with a simple screwdriver. Your friendly local library will have several books showing you how to do this in just a few minutes.
You probably will.
But how many folks will grumble at annoying if minor inconveniences for years rather than spend ten minutes resolving them?
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True. Flip side: more than one Fortune 50 company has been thrown into years-long turmoil by replacing thirty-year old Fortran code that "just plain worked" with SAP, whose motto must be "Change your business model to fit our software..." If you hear of a company switching to SAP, you might consider shorting their stock.
Why can't they point Hubble at the Apollo 11 landing site and take a picture of it?
Come to think of it, why have we never seen an aerial photo of the Apollo 11 landing site taken from Earth or Earth orbit? It can't be too difficult, can it?
Exactly. Company wants me to get this piece of hardware and that bit of software working for them. I discover a feature they need which isn't available so I write it. They pay me to install the stuff, I get my money, the free-software project I updated gets an improvement. Everyone wins.
In the same way you still have to write in ancient versions of JavaScript and HTML because some non-zero percentage of your readership still uses Netscape 4.x, most of us will have to code in Perl5 for a long time to come.
Why should Perl have forced upgrade incompatibilites like Microsoft Word? Arrgh.
in which digits of increasing significance are monotonically further left; this makes perfect sense if you consider a date written this way on the wheels of a time machine spinning like the numbers on an odometer.
..."The Time Machine" is best experienced from an old, heavy, dusty leather-bound volume on thick paper, which is how I read it from my grandfather's sparse library.
What if a rogue program wipes the partition table?
What if you install Linux, wipe the disk, and later decide (why, I can't imagine) to revert to XP?
...Client of mine just bought a new HP and when it got to the Product Activation part, he had me wipe the whole mess and install one of the many (new, boxed, shrink-wrapped) Windows 98's he bought as "insurance" last year when the BSA was rattling its sabre.
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I honestly would like to know what's "happened to CD's lately." AFAIK nothing, despite a great deal of sound and fury. I regret my mind-reading skill level is low, perhaps a link would help.
look at what's happened to CD's recently
What exactly has happened to CD's recently? Please enlighten.
There is no "fast lane." In the United States, the speed limit on all lanes is the same.
>> if I drove highway at a strict 55 and had people stacked up behind me trying to pass
If the speed limit is 55, drive 55. The folks behind you aren't your concern. They'll pass all right, and you'll be right behind them at the red light at the off-ramp.
Unless you're driving across West Texas, the few seconds you save going much above 55 simply aren't worth the extra 2% hit for each mile-per-hour above 55mph. (At 75mph, you're using half again as much gas as you do at 55.)
I wonder two things:
1. Why is puffery this news?
2. Why did I even bother to read this far?
What's the point of having the tube on if you're not looking at it? Waste of energy. Click!
It says you can't "embed" it on a proprietary operating system.
Nowhere does it say you can't "compile or run" it on a proprietary O.S.
You should be able to resolve the lightswitch issues with a simple screwdriver. Your friendly local library will have several books showing you how to do this in just a few minutes.
You probably will.
But how many folks will grumble at annoying if minor inconveniences for years rather than spend ten minutes resolving them?
Does the box include a free HappyFunBall ?
True. Flip side: more than one Fortune 50 company has been thrown into years-long turmoil by replacing thirty-year old Fortran code that "just plain worked" with SAP, whose motto must be "Change your business model to fit our software..." If you hear of a company switching to SAP, you might consider shorting their stock.
What about Publishit Pro? http://www.huamed.com/publish/
How many dental cleanings does it take to cure Blue Tooth?
I've not seen a phone that takes a picture yet.
What does the person at the other end see -- an extreme closeup of your ear?
Why can't they point Hubble at the Apollo 11 landing site and take a picture of it?
Come to think of it, why have we never seen an aerial photo of the Apollo 11 landing site taken from Earth or Earth orbit? It can't be too difficult, can it?
RC is second only after Green River!
But what happens when everyone deletes the old source versions off their mirrors "because it's just a copy of old stuff" ...?
This is just what happened with the plans for the Saturn V rocket -- there were three copies, each of which was destroyed "because it's just a copy."
Where do you go, then?
Exactly. Company wants me to get this piece of hardware and that bit of software working for them. I discover a feature they need which isn't available so I write it. They pay me to install the stuff, I get my money, the free-software project I updated gets an improvement. Everyone wins.
The results, especially the graphs, are quite sensible.
Look through your Yellow Pages and you will see many businesses listed. Most of them are quite small. Many are actually a single person.
OSS projects are organized like businesses; most of them are small and fill niche markets, but a few are large and used by many.
In the same way you still have to write in ancient versions of JavaScript and HTML because some non-zero percentage of your readership still uses Netscape 4.x, most of us will have to code in Perl5 for a long time to come.
Why should Perl have forced upgrade incompatibilites like Microsoft Word? Arrgh.
Don't anthropomorphize computers.
They hate that.
article says it will plug into "a TV with ATV input jacks (standard on almost all sets manufactured within the past decade)."
Anyone have a clue what "ATV input jacks" are? Do they mean RCA jacks?
ATV sounds like some European thing. Google didn't return any helpful links, mostly talking about Amateur radio TV or All-Terrain Vehicles.
>> In San Diego you *have* to drive or your life is practically worthless
Have you ever actually tried the bus or the train? San Diego has an excellent system.
Driving is a hassle. Ride the bus and read the paper, relax on the way to work tomorrow.
One-third of Americans do not have cable television. That is not exactly "nobody."
It's far more sensible to say
2001/09/11
in which digits of increasing significance are monotonically further left; this makes perfect sense if you consider a date written this way on the wheels of a time machine spinning like the numbers on an odometer.
..."The Time Machine" is best experienced from an old, heavy, dusty leather-bound volume on thick paper, which is how I read it from my grandfather's sparse library.
What if your hard disk crashes?
What if a rogue program wipes the partition table?
What if you install Linux, wipe the disk, and later decide (why, I can't imagine) to revert to XP?
...Client of mine just bought a new HP and when it got to the Product Activation part, he had me wipe the whole mess and install one of the many (new, boxed, shrink-wrapped) Windows 98's he bought as "insurance" last year when the BSA was rattling its sabre.