Why is Belinda Gates referred to as Bill's 'better half'?
That's so wrong on so many levels. You can say that as a 'joke', but written in an article, it's very wrong.
Well... we know how bad he is, so she -has- to be better, right? 8-)
It depends very much on what is being done with the equipment.
Some have never been updated and updating it can get you fired!
Some are updated when new hardware is purchased, but not otherwise unless a definate problem shows up.
(Those are not usually connected to any network or internet.)
Some are updated about two weeks after updates are released, unless zero-day exploits are reported.
A few are updated immediatly. Either for hobbies or as early tests for the other machines. (Or both at once.)
It's true that rapidly advancing tech requires learning new stuff.
But the problem is marketers changing the UI appearance to make you think it is new tech, when it is not. You put forth the effort to learn the new UI, and then find that it was a fraud and there was no advantage to it. All your effort is wasted!
The difference in the younger people is just that they have not had that happen to them as many times, yet... 8-)
Yes, I drove a "column shift" way back "when". It was actually not so bad, the reflexes were similar to the floor shifter.
But the column shifters were more loose, particularly after they were no longer brand new. I like the floor shifter better.
I did the same thing, in an automatic. Slowed for a stop sign, reached for the center gearshift and lifted my left foot.
Then I pushed down the "clutch" and hit the left end of the wide brake pedal.
We found out that the car had -really- good brakes!!
One of the guys in the back seat ended up in the front... 8-)
The difference between Magic and Technology, is that technology -works-. 8-)
It's still obsolete if it meets specs, and you can't maintain it if it breaks because it's too old.
The word you want is "obsolescent". 8-)
I've cut a plastic binding with a sharp rock. I didn't knap it myself, it was naturally sharp, but...
Note that a propperly napped rock is sharper than a scalpel and makes a cleaner cut.
Actually, one of my relatives sells sets of napped rock flakes to neurosurgeons, for use in surgery. For real.
Tell me again, about how many things are obsolete? 8-)
I have a problem with that attitude - I see it all the time in work - the bordering on pride that people have when they can't use a device (especially a computer).
All he had to do is say let's use both and 1-see the difference in readings and 2-show me how it works.
Or maybe it was a subtle way of saying that he didn't know how many ways it could mislead you, and you didn.t know either! 8-)
I think the extra cost for the satcom was for getting -now-, when it's needed, instead of sometime in the future...
The phenomina, of bugs dissappearing when the Tech shows up, is well known in many industries. It can even be used to determine whether the Tech is experienced or not, by their reaction.
There could be many reasons, but no one has pinned it down that I know of. I just go out and come back a few times, and can usually catch it. The correllation can be scary, though.
A more relevent quote might be:
"Any sufficiently advanced Magic is indistinguishable from Technology.
I routinely manipulate invisible forces, in several parallel world lines. With a few scrap pieces of arcane engines, I can quite literally call down the lightning. With larger construction huge masses can be moved and set wherever needed. Even the light of day can be shown in the middle of night.
And no-one thinks this is unusual. They call me an "Electrical Engineer"...
But that does not make it any less Magic. 8-}
... Yeah. They formed well-regulated militias. Instead of, say, running around like a bunch or Rambos.
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They also needed to be trained the same, in what orders meant and what movements they were to do. Otherwise they would not be able to fight on the same field with the other units.
It had nothing to do with laws or restrictions in the modern sense.
And then there is the question of whether what the votors "want" is also what they "need". Votors really hate people who give them what they need.
"Let me build my beach house right on the water".
Forget that it will be washed away in the first big storm. Forget that it diverts the wind, so that the sand doons are moved a hundred yards back. Forget that that will cause the beach to wash away in the -second- big storm, taking away houses that have been there for a hundred years.
Sometimes we need people that -don't- do what we want! 8-)
I agree with Barney on almost everything he has ever said but this time I don't like it. I like leftest politicians who will not compromise one little bit and will gather 51% of the vote and crush the right wing forever. Compromise with the right is simply not acceptable under even the most dire conditions. I would rather the whole planet be turned into a nuclear cloud with extermination of all life than allowing the right wing to have one tiny bit of an opinion in this world.
I disagree with Barney on almost everything he has ever said. I like conservative politicians who will not compromise one little bit and will gather 51% of the vote and crush the left wing forever. Compromise with the left is simply not acceptable under even the most dire conditions. I would rather
"Little else matters than to write good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer
