In my case, I used to just hit submit, without previewing what I'd written most of the time. Now the stages are a required preview, with the notice that it's not yet saved not covering the whole window.
For all I know there's a setting I could change to adjust the behavior, but I don't really care that much to bother to check.
I carry a Gerber model 400 multiplier for real-world "applications" like a bottle opener. Works decently as a knife/screwdriver/file/canopener/bottleopener/centerpunch/pliers/wirecutter...
Now if I can only get a new carrying pouch cheap, this current one is falling apart...
(I hate the "preview/submit" feature, seem to lose a lot of posts that way, this is a retype)
To use your example against you, I started a new position as an infrastructure specialist a year ago, working with someone with 13 years experience at the same company. I got outfitted with a new Ryobi 18V tool set so that he and I could share batteries with his decade-old 18V Ryobi tool set. The power drill from his set has places for two bits, the plastic housing is sturdy, and the bit holders don't lose their bits easily. My new one has a flimsy plastic housing the deforms under pressure, has only one position to store a bit, and the bit frequently pops out. The only new feature on my drill is a little LED that's supposed to shine on the work area while the drill is in use, but that feature is negated by the need to use bit extensions to reach into wire management and server racks with equipment protruding.
So, newer is definitely not always better, even when the newer product is a direct successor-in-market to the old product. The Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volaré were arguably worse cars than the Dodge Dart and Plymouth Valiant that they replaced. The Netbook type of computer was a lesser product than the Subnotebook type it replaced. The modern Craftsman any-fastener wrench is a lesser product than the 12pt wrench as while it technically fits everything, it fits nothing especially well.
I've had two smartphones now, the T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream, and the Samsung Galaxy SII. It's not about the phone speed, it's about the applications and the connectivity. If my wife's Palm T|X was a phone and had the ability to synch to a server automagically like Android does with Google's applications, she'd probably still be using it. Having the web is nice, but having the e-mail, calendar, contact list, music player, e-book reader, camera, picture viewer, and calculator are what make the device so useful. For me, it's a tool first and foremost, and the toy gadgets aren't what make it why I carry it.
Won't work so well. They're starting to write-in to the design of the website to need them in order to get the content.
Same with noscript functions. There are lots of sites that, in order to get content, one has to have otherwise-unrelated scripts functioning for the content to ultimately appear.
I just don't have the browser save anything anymore at close. No cache, no cookies, no login credentials, no history, nothing. I also blocked a whole bunch of crap through my router, and I further block things through the hosts file that *I* don't use but others using the router might want or need.
The solution that I recommend is living in the real world. Get a hobby that isn't principally on the computer. I chose things like auto restoration, model rocketry, and working with older machinery.
They only have power because you give them power. Take away their power by no longer playing the game.
What that comes down to, is that humans don't *need* electrical power to merely function. We certainly *like* electrical power, but if it were us versus computers/robots, cut the power, the batteries only last so long, then disassemble them.
Even if they're guarding all of the power stations and somehow manage to operate them without humans (which is currently impossible), there's absolutely no way to guard all of the power distribution.
And to my knowledge, the only autonomous robot that I am aware of that is in any way widespread that runs and charges without human intervention is the Roomba. I'm not exactly worried about a Roomba, no would I be too worried by a lawnmower equivalent.
If you can narrow down a geographical region and a time, you can at least tell people to get away from windows. There were a lot of people hurt in the Russian event because of flying glass. If the meteor is too big then it won't matter a lot, but if it's not huge or if one isn't directly in its path then it may help a few.
It's similar to nuclear "duck and cover" responses. Obviously, ducking and covering won't help you if you're in the fireball. But, if you're five miles from the fireball, ducking and covering may help you avoid flying debris and being badly hurt or killed by being physically cut up, and you won't need emergency medical services, so less people overwhelm the few remaining medical facilities.
Those crappy $0.99 "reusable" bags that are not much more than the disposable bags they replaced aren't worth using.
We bought some heavy canvas bags. The handles are stitched down the sides of the bags to the bottoms. They don't break, they machine wash, and they hold a lot more content than those crappy bags hanging at the grocery store registers.
The bags we use came from the crafting store. They're sold as bags to be decorated with fabric paint. Ours are just plain, but we bought them there because they were a lot less expensive than buying similar bags elsewhere.
I can guarantee you that while the scientific community is excited, the construction community is PISSED. This is undoubtedly screwing up the highway construction plans.
It's not uncommon for construction crews to willfully not see things of archeological and paleontological significance when working because it could cost them their jobs as the project stalls while archeology or paleontology takes place on the jobsite. The new federal courthouse in Phoenix was held up for many months because of the arecheology after a find.
You didn't see the car I drove in college... On paper it looked fine, '93 Thunderbird LX with less than 100K miles, but in reality it had a blown head gasket, the paint had oxidized, one of the doors had been hit while open so the A-pillar was bent and the door didn't shut quite right, the rear window gasket had decayed and the window rattled in place and leaked, the power steering pump whined, and the passenger mirror glass just fell off one day while I was driving.
It was probably worth more than just its scrap value, but not a whole lot more, especially with the bent A-pillar.
httpd? Back in my day, we had to finger to see if a user was present and hope talkd was enabled, or run the peril of UUCP bang paths to get a message to them. And we liked it that way!
There are some cars that are valued on originality. Those are generally rare or exotic cars to start with though, not mass-produced cars. Some special models of mass-produced cars are valuable when original, but you're talking the '70 Challenger Convertible with the factory numbers matching 426 HEMI in it, which if looked at in total, only ten Challengers were optioned that way.
The biggest thing that I as an auto enthusiast care about is the driving experience. My '78 Chrysler Cordoba was a DOG when I bought it. When it's back together it'll be a BEAST. Dad's Charger and Barracuda are now a lot more fun to drive.
By contrast, my '95 Impala SS, my daily driver, won't get changes unless they're safety oriented. I'm probably going to do some suspension changes since it wallows like a porpoise in the corners. But, it doesn't need engine changes, plenty of power. Certainly its appearance is going to remain unchanged.
I did not put a Chevy 350 into a vintage Jag, and if it's any consolation, when I look at engine swaps, I want one from the same manufacturer. If I'm restoring a Plymouth, a Chrysler division vehicle, I want a Chrysler-sourced engine. If I were putting a newer engine into a Datsun D510, I'd want a modern Nissan engine. I do not like seeing roadsters pull up to car shows with the wrong engine in them.
On the other hand, a "proper engine" that requires constant adjusting of the valves, tweaking of the carburetor linkages and floats, and timing adjustments is not a good design outside of a race track, and then only if all that time and energy results in something like performance. The Japanese showed the Americans that an engine can have nonadjustable rockers, hydraulic roller cams, and even a degree of slop in the distributor and still perform excellently in most usages, ie, on the street. The car doesn't have to spend half its life apart in the garage to keep it running.
Yes, it would be anathema to put a a Chevy 350 into Morse's Mk II, but it would not be anathema to consider a newer Jag engine that doesn't require constant attention to keep it running.
It's the same argument made for fuel efficiency in an existing vehicle versus purchasing a new vehicle. If your existing paid-for vehicle gets 15mpg and a new vehicle with 30mpg will result in a $500/month car payment for five years, you're probably better off driving the 15mpg vehicle until it wears out. Not only will you not be spending $500/month minus half the cost of the fuel you buy (for me that would be around $100, so $400 difference) but as technology progresses, vehicles only get more and more efficient.
Same argument for computers. Run it until it doesn't do what you need anymore, either through significant mechanical breakage (admittedly unlikely in a computer outside of capacitor problems) or because new needs can't be met by it. Then make an intelligent change.
I have an Opteron board sitting in a bag. Odds are good that I won't end up using it, but that's okay. I don't need it right now, as much fun as it would be to put into something.
Obviously if one can get newer used gear cheap that does help to negate the argument, but a lot of people don't want to try used gear for whatever reason.
Heh. My desktop PC is dual 3.2GHz Xeon based on an ASUS PC-DL Deluxe board from ten years ago. It's the most stable computer I've ever owned, even though it spends most of its time booted into Windows XP rather than Linux, and its hardware suspend mode means that when I'm not using it it's not consuming gobs of power.
The only thing that would prevent me from using a Sun like the submitter describes would be the power requirements. I probably wouldn't use the computer to its extent that justifies the power costs to run it.
The computer I'm typing this on is a Dell Latitude D410, which is eight years old. It's normally the shop computer, but works just fine for general computing. It's a lot faster than the much newer netbook, and the keyboard is loads better.
I guess I've graduated from newest/latest/greatest to just wanting computers that do what I want them to do. I get a lot of gear from local surplus dealers, as I don't feel a need to spend more money than I have to for a given result. If the Core2Duo HP in the entertainment center runs XBMC at full 1080p then it's adequate and won't be changed out until it's no longer good enough.
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In my case, I used to just hit submit, without previewing what I'd written most of the time. Now the stages are a required preview, with the notice that it's not yet saved not covering the whole window.
For all I know there's a setting I could change to adjust the behavior, but I don't really care that much to bother to check.
Are you speculating that the fish was thinking, "ooooh, pretty colors!" the whole time?
I carry a Gerber model 400 multiplier for real-world "applications" like a bottle opener. Works decently as a knife/screwdriver/file/canopener/bottleopener/centerpunch/pliers/wirecutter...
Now if I can only get a new carrying pouch cheap, this current one is falling apart...
(I hate the "preview/submit" feature, seem to lose a lot of posts that way, this is a retype)
To use your example against you, I started a new position as an infrastructure specialist a year ago, working with someone with 13 years experience at the same company. I got outfitted with a new Ryobi 18V tool set so that he and I could share batteries with his decade-old 18V Ryobi tool set. The power drill from his set has places for two bits, the plastic housing is sturdy, and the bit holders don't lose their bits easily. My new one has a flimsy plastic housing the deforms under pressure, has only one position to store a bit, and the bit frequently pops out. The only new feature on my drill is a little LED that's supposed to shine on the work area while the drill is in use, but that feature is negated by the need to use bit extensions to reach into wire management and server racks with equipment protruding.
So, newer is definitely not always better, even when the newer product is a direct successor-in-market to the old product. The Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volaré were arguably worse cars than the Dodge Dart and Plymouth Valiant that they replaced. The Netbook type of computer was a lesser product than the Subnotebook type it replaced. The modern Craftsman any-fastener wrench is a lesser product than the 12pt wrench as while it technically fits everything, it fits nothing especially well.
I've had two smartphones now, the T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream, and the Samsung Galaxy SII. It's not about the phone speed, it's about the applications and the connectivity. If my wife's Palm T|X was a phone and had the ability to synch to a server automagically like Android does with Google's applications, she'd probably still be using it. Having the web is nice, but having the e-mail, calendar, contact list, music player, e-book reader, camera, picture viewer, and calculator are what make the device so useful. For me, it's a tool first and foremost, and the toy gadgets aren't what make it why I carry it.
Facebook is only one faux paradigm shift away from being the next Myspace, or any other number of dying or dead services.
Won't work so well. They're starting to write-in to the design of the website to need them in order to get the content.
Same with noscript functions. There are lots of sites that, in order to get content, one has to have otherwise-unrelated scripts functioning for the content to ultimately appear.
I just don't have the browser save anything anymore at close. No cache, no cookies, no login credentials, no history, nothing. I also blocked a whole bunch of crap through my router, and I further block things through the hosts file that *I* don't use but others using the router might want or need.
The solution that I recommend is living in the real world. Get a hobby that isn't principally on the computer. I chose things like auto restoration, model rocketry, and working with older machinery.
They only have power because you give them power. Take away their power by no longer playing the game.
Cells from the lining of the stomach. At least that's what Diana Muldaur told me...
A decade ago, a friend of mine suggested that if they *really* wanted foolproof biometrics, to use "colon terrain mapping".
I told him that I wasn't sure that I could be his friend anymore...
What that comes down to, is that humans don't *need* electrical power to merely function. We certainly *like* electrical power, but if it were us versus computers/robots, cut the power, the batteries only last so long, then disassemble them.
Even if they're guarding all of the power stations and somehow manage to operate them without humans (which is currently impossible), there's absolutely no way to guard all of the power distribution.
And to my knowledge, the only autonomous robot that I am aware of that is in any way widespread that runs and charges without human intervention is the Roomba. I'm not exactly worried about a Roomba, no would I be too worried by a lawnmower equivalent.
I love how the "mouth" looks like it's growling/howling in fury and triumph with its "head" held high after throwing the block...
If you can narrow down a geographical region and a time, you can at least tell people to get away from windows. There were a lot of people hurt in the Russian event because of flying glass. If the meteor is too big then it won't matter a lot, but if it's not huge or if one isn't directly in its path then it may help a few.
It's similar to nuclear "duck and cover" responses. Obviously, ducking and covering won't help you if you're in the fireball. But, if you're five miles from the fireball, ducking and covering may help you avoid flying debris and being badly hurt or killed by being physically cut up, and you won't need emergency medical services, so less people overwhelm the few remaining medical facilities.
Canadian, eh?
Those crappy $0.99 "reusable" bags that are not much more than the disposable bags they replaced aren't worth using.
We bought some heavy canvas bags. The handles are stitched down the sides of the bags to the bottoms. They don't break, they machine wash, and they hold a lot more content than those crappy bags hanging at the grocery store registers.
The bags we use came from the crafting store. They're sold as bags to be decorated with fabric paint. Ours are just plain, but we bought them there because they were a lot less expensive than buying similar bags elsewhere.
I can guarantee you that while the scientific community is excited, the construction community is PISSED. This is undoubtedly screwing up the highway construction plans.
It's not uncommon for construction crews to willfully not see things of archeological and paleontological significance when working because it could cost them their jobs as the project stalls while archeology or paleontology takes place on the jobsite. The new federal courthouse in Phoenix was held up for many months because of the arecheology after a find.
You didn't see the car I drove in college... On paper it looked fine, '93 Thunderbird LX with less than 100K miles, but in reality it had a blown head gasket, the paint had oxidized, one of the doors had been hit while open so the A-pillar was bent and the door didn't shut quite right, the rear window gasket had decayed and the window rattled in place and leaked, the power steering pump whined, and the passenger mirror glass just fell off one day while I was driving.
It was probably worth more than just its scrap value, but not a whole lot more, especially with the bent A-pillar.
httpd? Back in my day, we had to finger to see if a user was present and hope talkd was enabled, or run the peril of UUCP bang paths to get a message to them. And we liked it that way!
On the other hand, how many vintage cars would have been junked out when their original engines could no longer be cost-effectively serviced?
You assume incorrectly, to a degree.
There are some cars that are valued on originality. Those are generally rare or exotic cars to start with though, not mass-produced cars. Some special models of mass-produced cars are valuable when original, but you're talking the '70 Challenger Convertible with the factory numbers matching 426 HEMI in it, which if looked at in total, only ten Challengers were optioned that way.
The biggest thing that I as an auto enthusiast care about is the driving experience. My '78 Chrysler Cordoba was a DOG when I bought it. When it's back together it'll be a BEAST. Dad's Charger and Barracuda are now a lot more fun to drive.
By contrast, my '95 Impala SS, my daily driver, won't get changes unless they're safety oriented. I'm probably going to do some suspension changes since it wallows like a porpoise in the corners. But, it doesn't need engine changes, plenty of power. Certainly its appearance is going to remain unchanged.
I did not put a Chevy 350 into a vintage Jag, and if it's any consolation, when I look at engine swaps, I want one from the same manufacturer. If I'm restoring a Plymouth, a Chrysler division vehicle, I want a Chrysler-sourced engine. If I were putting a newer engine into a Datsun D510, I'd want a modern Nissan engine. I do not like seeing roadsters pull up to car shows with the wrong engine in them.
On the other hand, a "proper engine" that requires constant adjusting of the valves, tweaking of the carburetor linkages and floats, and timing adjustments is not a good design outside of a race track, and then only if all that time and energy results in something like performance. The Japanese showed the Americans that an engine can have nonadjustable rockers, hydraulic roller cams, and even a degree of slop in the distributor and still perform excellently in most usages, ie, on the street. The car doesn't have to spend half its life apart in the garage to keep it running.
Yes, it would be anathema to put a a Chevy 350 into Morse's Mk II, but it would not be anathema to consider a newer Jag engine that doesn't require constant attention to keep it running.
Why don't the British build computers?
Because they haven't figured out how to make them leak oil yet!
Bear in mind the cost to obtain as well.
It's the same argument made for fuel efficiency in an existing vehicle versus purchasing a new vehicle. If your existing paid-for vehicle gets 15mpg and a new vehicle with 30mpg will result in a $500/month car payment for five years, you're probably better off driving the 15mpg vehicle until it wears out. Not only will you not be spending $500/month minus half the cost of the fuel you buy (for me that would be around $100, so $400 difference) but as technology progresses, vehicles only get more and more efficient.
Same argument for computers. Run it until it doesn't do what you need anymore, either through significant mechanical breakage (admittedly unlikely in a computer outside of capacitor problems) or because new needs can't be met by it. Then make an intelligent change.
I have an Opteron board sitting in a bag. Odds are good that I won't end up using it, but that's okay. I don't need it right now, as much fun as it would be to put into something.
Obviously if one can get newer used gear cheap that does help to negate the argument, but a lot of people don't want to try used gear for whatever reason.
I can tell that you aren't into cars.
The people we bought the house from have a Studebaker Avanti with a Chevy 350 in it.
Neighbors next door have a Chevy 350 in one of their vintage Jaguars.
A friend of mine has a Dodge Dart with a Magnum 5.9L V8 with full computer control and EFI.
I have a '78 Chrysler Cordoba that's getting a bored-and-stroked 408 small block.
Some people only value stock restorations, but a lot of us place a lot of value on restomods.
Heh. My desktop PC is dual 3.2GHz Xeon based on an ASUS PC-DL Deluxe board from ten years ago. It's the most stable computer I've ever owned, even though it spends most of its time booted into Windows XP rather than Linux, and its hardware suspend mode means that when I'm not using it it's not consuming gobs of power.
The only thing that would prevent me from using a Sun like the submitter describes would be the power requirements. I probably wouldn't use the computer to its extent that justifies the power costs to run it.
The computer I'm typing this on is a Dell Latitude D410, which is eight years old. It's normally the shop computer, but works just fine for general computing. It's a lot faster than the much newer netbook, and the keyboard is loads better.
I guess I've graduated from newest/latest/greatest to just wanting computers that do what I want them to do. I get a lot of gear from local surplus dealers, as I don't feel a need to spend more money than I have to for a given result. If the Core2Duo HP in the entertainment center runs XBMC at full 1080p then it's adequate and won't be changed out until it's no longer good enough.
If Debbie Harry is out dropping rhymes again then the world really is coming to an end...