Sorry, kid. This ain't the drone you're looking for!

Plus, one thing I hate, when I type in a complete URL into the address bar, and rather than take me to that site (which would be logical), I end up getting a Google search with the first item being the site I was trying to get to. Like, why the extra step? Why can't my browsers (plural) take me directly to the freakin' site after the Url has been entered completely????

When I was still at school I did work experience at a South Australian Government office which still used punch cards. It was very similar to what was described above. The programmers wrote the programs out on paper (coding sheets), and then sent them along to the girls (there were no guys) in the typing pool to create the punch cards to be feed into the machine. (They also did the typing for a lot of other things. A request to create punch cards was something the typing pool only got once or twice a day. I think only one or two of the girls usually did it out of about fifty of them).

Think the procedure went:

*Guy (there were no girls) wrote the program,

*Sent it to the typing pool on the same day.

*Next day they received their punch cards back.

*Feed them into the machine to have it compile etc and see if it works.

From what they told me they seldom had any problems.

When my friends and I visited a University (whilst at school) for some sort of experience day thing, they were still using punch cards. By the time I got to Uni they'd just installed a new machine (an Amdahl) which you could use terminals for, so punch cards were only just phased out. By the time I got to working full-time in IT (I had a detour into a professional music career for a while), punch cards were long gone, but some of the older PA's etc would recall the old Hollerith machines they used to create the punch cards.

They drank it wet and got stoned!

That's the uniquest post I've read this week. I feel embiggened by the cromulensity of it all.

Ptttth! That's exactly the sort of thing Hitler would say!!!!!

All your Tails are belong to us - NSA.

I have no further comment.

Waste of time calculating that. Every computer gamer knows you only need one person to colonise space. Sid Meyers! :-)

I have a vague recollection of Australia doing a similar study that showed a 10% increase in heart attacks when that hour sleep was lost. Seems that this is confirming that study which is one of the things science tries to do, replicate results.

Can bring my dead friends back to the living dead with Bud Riser.

Nope! I certainly ain't!

Become German, get a degree for free (except in Saxony).

I think it's only for Mac, but Growly Notes is a free and good alternative.

Bit by bit ... a little bit here, a little bit there.