All their documents are {BASENAME}.PEN or {THIS}.ME or whatever. They were/and-still-are using WP6 for Windows, which let you ignore extensions. Why did they use WP6? It came with their first PC back in '95 and they were used to it, so my dad installed it on new machines when they got them.
Now my dad has passed away, and finding docs and figuring out what they are for my mom is a royal PITA.
Add another dumb program to the list: The "Friends Trivia Game". The box specifies only Win2K or WinXP, which would lead one to think that it wouldn't require Admin.
WRONG!
I sent their tech support a nasty email pointing out that only sloppy coding practices would cause a game to need this.
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I, for one, welcome our fiber-seeking backhoe overlords.
At which point, the chef spills his "12 Chocolate Banana Cream Pies!"
For those of you too young to remember the first season of Sesame Street, they had a clumsy chef instead of the Count.
Child Porn is the root password to the Constitution.
(Terrorism is the alternate password).
For example, certain games or applications will not run as a limited user, and there is absolutely no reason for this. I will even name names:
Yeah, but think about what happens when the G-string gets full of coins! It's gonna fall off, dude!!!!
My parents had no concept of file extensions.
All their documents are {BASENAME}.PEN or {THIS}.ME or whatever. They were/and-still-are using WP6 for Windows, which let you ignore extensions. Why did they use WP6? It came with their first PC back in '95 and they were used to it, so my dad installed it on new machines when they got them.
Now my dad has passed away, and finding docs and figuring out what they are for my mom is a royal PITA.
I thought TCP/IP stood for Thieves Can Pirate (our) Intellectual Property!
Yeah, I just reread the post and realize that it was a joke.
Sorry.
Maybe because it's spelled "absurdity".
We're going to have a 2 hour meeting every day to discover why we're 25% behind schedule!
My memory was faulty. I apologize.
I guess the 586 was first gen, 593 was second gen, and the 596 third gen for Intel ethernet chips.
I seem to recal the ethernet chip was the 82596. I remember working on a 82593 driver, and seeing the docs and specs for the '596 as well.
Of course, they really shouldn't have used Athlon, and instead stuck with the more powerful sounding "SledgeHammer"!
My Toshiba Satellite has a physical on/off switch for the 802.11. I'd like to see any company block that in software.
A Saturn V launched Skylab in one piece.
What's the biggest launcher out of Russia? Doesn't Energia have something close to the capability of an S-V?
Thanks, everybody for the rationale.
I am not a photographer (professional or hobbyist), and had no clue as to these facts. Appreciate the info.
It seems to me that the lenses should be portable to DSLRs. Why are they dropping the lenses?
I hope you don't mind, but I've been using your sig over on Groklaw for quite a while now.
Peter Norton should sue Symantec for defamation of character.
CDs came out in the early '80s. BYTE had an article on CD-ROM and the ISO9660 file system in May 85.
Patents last for 20 years (actually, at the time it was 17). Shouldn't any patents on CD have expired?
Any lawyers out there know?
You mean Ice-9.
could have an impact on everything from decaffeinating coffee
So it's going to be used for evil!!!!!
Try this, but don't buy it (for Windows, anyway).
I just got the 'bot response on how to return the program.
Add another dumb program to the list: The "Friends Trivia Game". The box specifies only Win2K or WinXP, which would lead one to think that it wouldn't require Admin.
WRONG!
I sent their tech support a nasty email pointing out that only sloppy coding practices would cause a game to need this.