Seems rather computer-centric to me, too, but that could be result of the recent-centric bias.
OTOH, there have been some pretty bad non-computer technological products in the last thirty years.
How about those passive seat belts that strap you in automatically when you shut the car door, offering to potentially decapitate you? (OK, not really, but they are annoying.
I'll vote for it.
Clippy also deserves its own entry - not just mention in the Microsoft Bob entry. I guess the fact that you can turn it off makes it less heinous.
I wish I could "turn Lotus Notes off". I'm one of those forced to use it. Since I work for an transnational company, I wonder if the Geneva Convention applies?
No. Silicon Valley happened in the US, and it couldn't have happened in any other country but it needn't have been in the the South Bay area. Could have easily been in Texas, or upstate NY.
And of course it already has been reproduced on a smaller scale without the history but with lower housing prices in places such as the Silicon Forest here in the Portland, OR area.
Just as you don't have to be an author or even an English major to be considered literate in the usual sense, you don't have to be a programmer or CS major to be computer literate-not that you were saying one has to be.
I don't know about nowadays but when I got my engineering degree, we had to take a programming course (most engineers, like myself, took FORTRAN)-I'm not sure why the lack of confidence among the engineering students you were with. Engineers usually aren't afraid to tinker around and figure things out, and I would expect most engineers to be computer literate.
I'm not a programmer, but I can find my way around most any software, and more importantly, I know how to figure out or find the answers with unfamiliar software. I tend to agree with WhyCause's answer above. As to being "fluent" with all OSes and/or programming languages: many people speak/read/write only English - they are still classified as literate.
Of course Pd is very expensive and the amount that would be needed to make this scheme work is much more than what is contained in automobile catalytic converters. Those who actually looked at the patent saw, however, that other materials such as sodium aluminum hydride, lithium aluminum hydride, titanium aluminum hydride inter alia. Yes, LAH et al. are quite reactive chemicals and not cheap either, but they are encapsulated in the glass sphere. And as someone else mentioned, it takes energy to get the H2 back out of the spheres. Obviously, this is a "concept" patent and not yet a practical scheme, but they have they cover themselves in case someone gets it to work someday.
Already done. Read it here
And they make hard drives nowadays that will spew a built-in vial of acid onto the platter remotely, so one can easily imagine some scheme where if you don't pay within some time frame, your computer self-destructs!
OK, if you're careless and/or clueless and you do get a virus, are you somehow going to lose your investment in hardware and software? No. (unless you fall for the virus-that-literally-burns-up-your-CPU-and-hard-dr ive scare). Will you lose some (possibly important) files? Probably, if you didn't back them up. Why pay for something that just makes you _feel_ safer?
Ninth generation could then be "Nonane". Better yet, "Noname"!
If they come out with a four core chip will it be a Core Quattro? Sounds like a Audi. Not bad.
No, it's more like the way Boeing ripped off two bicycle builders (the Wright brothers) airplane design.
In that scenario, maybe Windows = Airbus A370.
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Seems rather computer-centric to me, too, but that could be result of the recent-centric bias. OTOH, there have been some pretty bad non-computer technological products in the last thirty years. How about those passive seat belts that strap you in automatically when you shut the car door, offering to potentially decapitate you? (OK, not really, but they are annoying.
That's not funny.
the thing that saves Clippy from its own entry is, I'd guess, the fact that you can turn it off.
I'll vote for it. Clippy also deserves its own entry - not just mention in the Microsoft Bob entry. I guess the fact that you can turn it off makes it less heinous. I wish I could "turn Lotus Notes off". I'm one of those forced to use it. Since I work for an transnational company, I wonder if the Geneva Convention applies?
Ha. They spelled Corvallis wrong on the Silicon forest map!
No. Silicon Valley happened in the US, and it couldn't have happened in any other country but it needn't have been in the the South Bay area. Could have easily been in Texas, or upstate NY. And of course it already has been reproduced on a smaller scale without the history but with lower housing prices in places such as the Silicon Forest here in the Portland, OR area.
Just as you don't have to be an author or even an English major to be considered literate in the usual sense, you don't have to be a programmer or CS major to be computer literate-not that you were saying one has to be. I don't know about nowadays but when I got my engineering degree, we had to take a programming course (most engineers, like myself, took FORTRAN)-I'm not sure why the lack of confidence among the engineering students you were with. Engineers usually aren't afraid to tinker around and figure things out, and I would expect most engineers to be computer literate. I'm not a programmer, but I can find my way around most any software, and more importantly, I know how to figure out or find the answers with unfamiliar software. I tend to agree with WhyCause's answer above. As to being "fluent" with all OSes and/or programming languages: many people speak/read/write only English - they are still classified as literate.
Of course Pd is very expensive and the amount that would be needed to make this scheme work is much more than what is contained in automobile catalytic converters. Those who actually looked at the patent saw, however, that other materials such as sodium aluminum hydride, lithium aluminum hydride, titanium aluminum hydride inter alia. Yes, LAH et al. are quite reactive chemicals and not cheap either, but they are encapsulated in the glass sphere. And as someone else mentioned, it takes energy to get the H2 back out of the spheres. Obviously, this is a "concept" patent and not yet a practical scheme, but they have they cover themselves in case someone gets it to work someday.
Already done. Read it here And they make hard drives nowadays that will spew a built-in vial of acid onto the platter remotely, so one can easily imagine some scheme where if you don't pay within some time frame, your computer self-destructs!
OK, if you're careless and/or clueless and you do get a virus, are you somehow going to lose your investment in hardware and software? No. (unless you fall for the virus-that-literally-burns-up-your-CPU-and-hard-dr ive scare). Will you lose some (possibly important) files? Probably, if you didn't back them up. Why pay for something that just makes you _feel_ safer?
Ninth generation could then be "Nonane". Better yet, "Noname"! If they come out with a four core chip will it be a Core Quattro? Sounds like a Audi. Not bad.
Mozilla called it a crash. Who knows why /. called it a DOS. Maybe they like that combination of letters, as in MS-DOS.
No, it's more like the way Boeing ripped off two bicycle builders (the Wright brothers) airplane design. In that scenario, maybe Windows = Airbus A370.
Almost three hours!? I get nearly six on my ThinkPad T43. I'm glad you're happy.
If yer drinkin' beer in a Taco Bell, you've got other things to worry about than flatulence.