Nuff said.

Sitting on old technology that still works is far from being a demerit.

Floppy disks had their days long gone, but optical disks are still the best option for some applications - you don't have to worry if your boot DVD "firmware" was hacked by pluging it on a infected machine. Given the relatively easy process to hack pendrives firmware, my DVD-ROMs are still around.

There's also a huge amount of still usable software around the web that lacks the resources to be updated and will simply be lost. For sure a lot of people don't care about this, but there's a lot that does. And I don't remember books being banned when PDFs came around.

It's a fact that HTML5 should be used for modern content - but banning old content (what appears the current trend on TI) is unfair to say the least.

Here, I broke your crutches so you can focus on your leg recovering. =P

Seriously, this is a good thing - but the way it is advertised is, frankly, ridiculous.

Atheism is the *belief* that there's no God (or gods). So, it's a belief nevertheless.

That one where it's said that no one can be forced to provide evidences that would incriminate him/her ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Because corps wants to have locked in mindset developers tied to their solution.

no.

SCO, Santa Cruz Operation, was an UNIX vendor. They bought XENIX from Microsoft and rebranded it as SCO Unix.

kill -1 1

Here, I fixed that for you.

Demolishing the wrong 20 stories building, as did by his predecessor.

Ah, this sounds like music to my ears!

Play it again, Sam! :-)

This one, in special, appears to explain the XB-70A #2 disaster.

(ok. enough for today)

The remaining cartons also worth to be seen. They summarize perfectly what I had read about the plane. :)

At first, I stared to your response for some minutes without understanding it. Until I finally realized I typed "hole" instead of "role" - and laughed my ass out until near a heart attack. :-D

Ah, the neverending amusements on speaking foreign (to me) languages. :-D

The F-104 was a fantastic jet. But a terrible military jet.

That thing was made to be a fast, last minute, bomber interceptor. It was built to get there at Mach 2+, fill the bomber's ass with lead and get home. Originally, it hadn't provision even for missiles!

But them, Pentagon changed the rules demanding a multi hole aircraft, and Lockheed started to hack the airframe. As a technical achievement, it was a formidable one. But again, as a military weapon, a questionable one.

The best "worst" hack was the F-104G, made for Germany. They almost doubled the combat radius - but made the thing yet more harsh to handle. A lot of German women were made widows by this plane.

Curiously, Italy was also an operator for this aircraft, but without a single recorded casualty (perhaps nobody managed to take it off! =P ).

The bottom line I had read is: the F-104 is a formidable plane in the hands of formidable pilots. And a catastrophe waiting to happen in everybody else's.