I also predate the Internet by multiple decade (the TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1 was the computer I learned to program on, and was entranced by them back when Radio Shack was still mostly radios and electronic parts).
My wife's $99 Android tablet is thinner and doesn't have a keyboard. That makes it great for watch a movie while she knits, or listen to music or read an e-book.
I know that was the case with "pivoting arm" typewriters (at least according to crime fiction) but am not sure that's valid with ball and daisy wheel machines.
Unlike 1971, in 2017 digital signals degrade instantly from great to nonexistent, whereas in 1971 with analog systems and rabbit ears you could get a descent signal and watch through the occasional bit of static, since analog signals degrade gracefully.
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Oh, ok. I was thinking of some weirdness where that was the design.
lane shifts to the other side of the highway
What????
Not even all roads in the US: big cities in rush hour, poorly marked rural roads in the rain, etc, etc.
It sure has created a lot of jobs though.
Or has it just created different jobs?
I wonder where we'd all be working if the internet hadn't cocked things up so badly.
Being disabled and working from home, things would definitely be more inconvenient for me.
The language gods, were they to exist, would have smitten you by now.
Right. But that assumes it's 200 people from a specific subdivision. A few firings here and there, adding up to 200, isn't en masse.
FWIW, canning 200 people at once is a lot to do in one fell swoop, regardless of company size.
That's so wrong, it almost makes me want to weep for the future of Western civilization.
200 people out of (according to Wikipedia) 15,000 (that's 1.33%) is in no way shape or form a *mass* firing?
I also predate the Internet by multiple decade (the TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1 was the computer I learned to program on, and was entranced by them back when Radio Shack was still mostly radios and electronic parts).
I've got to wonder if the Internet has caused a *lot* more problems than it's solved.
but this is a big step towards them.
How about a laptop that folds right around for watching video?
$12 folding "leather" case cover that doubles as a prop.
Then you have a built in stand and a real keyboard when you want to use social media.
She does FB and email on her iPhone, and doesn't have Twitter or Instagram accounts.
My wife's $99 Android tablet is thinner and doesn't have a keyboard. That makes it great for watch a movie while she knits, or listen to music or read an e-book.
Sure I believe it's been crowd-funded. What I'm skeptical of is whether it'll ship.
EditorDavid should've seen that it's nonsensical
LOLOL
He has a point: who needs high speeds for streaming when DVDs are cheaper and have a wider selection?
Most HP Laser Jets didn't have PostScript interpreters. That the reasons host-based PS interpreters were created.
Also, flaws in drums will be transmitted to the printed page, allowing them to be traced.
I know that was the case with "pivoting arm" typewriters (at least according to crime fiction) but am not sure that's valid with ball and daisy wheel machines.
You refer to bumping into other ships?
where sextants and typewriters may be brought out of mothballs before it's all said and done.
I think the Russians have already done that.
it can still be jammed
That's why the USN has started teaching Old School navigation methods again.
"Most" means "more than 50%". That still leaves the other 49%.
Fun fact: the US Census Bureau defines urban areaas any cluster of people as as few as 2,500. That's some really small towns.
Unlike 1971, in 2017 digital signals degrade instantly from great to nonexistent, whereas in 1971 with analog systems and rabbit ears you could get a descent signal and watch through the occasional bit of static, since analog signals degrade gracefully.
Is it so minor that Salon couldn't name Digital Content Next (which I had to Google)?
Eventually, legal/illegal merges with right/wrong.