Comment Re:Hardware ages too (Score 1) 281
I think, but am not certain, that all the MFM were full height. I remember half-height floppies, though.
hawk
I think, but am not certain, that all the MFM were full height. I remember half-height floppies, though.
hawk
Actually, it already happened, with gnu moving first.
RMS *already* demanded that Linux be called "lignux", and changed the code of EMACS at one point to make that, rather than "linux", the target.
hawk
>I don't mind static image ads (although I hate it
>when I purchase something on Amazon and then
>get served Amazon ads for the thing I purchased).
>But if it is not static then I despise it.
It's not just ads; it's *anything* that blinks & runs around while I"m trying to read. In fact, I've never blocked *anything* just for being an ad, and I block much of what sites fancy to be "content."
Stay still, damnit, I'm trying to read!
hawk
the two drive bays were typically side by side in the era of MFM drives. And if they were stacked, and you managed to find a double height drive, you would have had no space for your 5.25" floppy.
And the drives I see listed are something like 41mm, or about a inch and a half--half-height or less..
Full height in this parlance is the old 3.5 or 4" tall, nearly the full height of the PC/XT case.
hawk
>. Likewise MS Office- they change the file formats
>with each release to prevent compatibility with older >versions and especially compatibility with freeware
>office suites.
Now *that* one did not originate with Microsoft. Wordstart and Word Perfect were doing that before MS Word was even released; each coul generally read/export the prior, but not current, version of the other.
Word & Excel (except mac) were distant thirds. Then MS leveraged the dos monopoly to install them on every machine for a minimal royalty at about the time of the 40M hard drive becoming standard, and instead of "$500 for Word Perfect or Word?" it became "Spend another $500 on Word Perfect?"
hawk
And that world has come full circle.
That's not a "double height"; today's bays are half- and third- height.
The last single/full height drive I remember seeing was a 1G scsi in about 96, although I'm certain they continued for at least a feww years after that.
hawk
This is hardly new . . .
I had the original G1, before they were tossing the word "android" around.
It interestingly sprouted a navigation system one day. I thought that was nice, until I tried to use it in general. The "upgrade" needed more cpu power and ram than that thing had.
Add features to use more powerful hardware, and they consume resources on the older phones, too.
The only exception seems to be OSX, which tends to have at least a moderate speed increase for older hardware with each major release.
hawk
>I saw those as a wrap-up, not necessarily a cash-in.
Perhaps more a monument to his ego, with the bizarre attempt to tie in everything he ever wrote.
>They are still good to read.
I forced myself through a couple, and just couldn't do it any more.
hawk
I guess you missed the "cash-in, conglomerate it all!" volumes of his lat career. Foundation XXIV, and so forth . . .
hawk
Curiously, 17 of their husbands died in battle after being drafted past the age of 90 . . .
hawk
>up and thought 2-digit years would be enough,
When economists actually looked at the *data* for the "Y2K problem," they found that it would have cost, in discounted real dollars, three times as much to prevent the problem as it would have to avoid . . .
doc hawk, economist
My Uncle looked at his draft number, and enlisted (more control over assignment).
He was right.
My grandmother forwarded his induction notice to him in Viet Nam.
He had the cook lay down, poured catchup over his head[1], and stood with his foot on the cook--and sent the picture back, from Viet Nam, to the draft board.
hawk
[1] Kind of silly to worry about color for a B&W picture . . .
Try "Princess Bride"
*whoosh*
cultural illiterate.
You keeep using that word . . . I do not think it means what you think it meanz . . .
hawk
Where there's a will, there's a relative.