Comment Re:"Planing?" (Score 1) 227
It's like a Soup Nazi.
no grammar for you!
Comment Re:I thought COBOL basically died after Y2K. (Score 1) 178
Because, once the Y2K bug was fixed, those systems that were already probably working just fine with 20-30 years of minimal maintenance and one huge spurge of Y2K updates will carry on running, most probably. Or people took it as a sign that maybe it's *not* a good idea to be relying on code that nobody on your staff can understand in order to run your business. See what happens come 2038. That'll be the interesting bit.
The COBOL stuff will still be cruising along in 2038, but just wait until the Y10K bug hits.
Comment Re:it always looked to me like... (Score 1) 474
Comment Why would anyone want an owl? (Score 1) 252
They sleep all day.
They are up all night.
They eat raw meat.
On second thought they sound like me. I want one....
Comment Re:Linux? (Score 1) 123
Uh, even if it's true that the blast radius is larger than 40 feet (which I don't think it is), if you miss your target by 40 feet using a bomb with a a 40 foot blast radius, your target would be 20 feet outside of the blast radius.
So the obvious solution is to use bombs with a blast radius > 40 feet. Lets say 200 feet to be on the safe side. No need for overkill.
Comment Re:Why not a jet pack? (Score 1) 334
but mine kind of covers a house and a jet pack
I would like a jet pack for my house, this way I can jet myself along with all of my stuff to whichever fantasy property I feel like being at.
Shore today, mountains tomorrow, the city sometime next week....
Comment Re:Forward thinkers (Score 1) 506
I take less time than someone trying to figure out how the hell to swipe their debit card. Your rules could be condensed to "if you're a retard or have a cart, use the regular line."
Same thing occurs at the human operated checkouts. Whenever I am forced to use one I always get stuck behind someone who doesn't realize that they need to pay at the end -- 3-5 more minutes while they locate their debit/credit card/checkbook/cash.
My only problem with the self checkouts is that I am usually ahead of the machine - scan - bag - scan - bag, and sometimes get the item into the bag before the unit is ready for it and get the "unexpected item in bag" warning.
The savings in using the self checkout comes about because I get 5 minutes of my life back while there, and save more time because I bag the items according to where I need to put the stuff when I get back home.
Comment Re:This would scare the hell out of me (Score 1) 488
Nothing irrational about it. If I fall, I go *splat* at the end.
It is a survival instinct.
It is a survival instinct.
Comment Re:This would scare the hell out of me (Score 1) 488
Join the club. I'm fine with flying, but I freak out at steep drops that I'm "connected" to
Same here, but for me it is edges that do it. I am fine at heights, but get me near the edge and I freak..
I can't imagine they would sell many of these planes for general aviation purposes, might be ok for some folks, but I think most people would be a bit apprehensive when flying in these.
Comment Re:All the data on Google (Score 1) 338
I think you're both looking too far for how they correlate. Don't forget that they set a cookie with your account name, to keep you signed in. That means that when you sign in with a different account, the old cookie gets sent first, clearly telling them that you're the same guy.
Not quite, all it says is that first and second accounts used the same computer. It is likely to be the same person, but does not have to be.
Comment Re:Okay so then Steve Jobs will have a problem (Score 1) 489
any FM radio has to have some sort of antenna to receive the signals WHERE WILL YOU PUT THIS ON AN iPHONE??
Same place it is on phones/mp3 players that already have a built in fm tuner. The headphone cord.
Comment Re:Disconnected from reality... (Score 1) 260
I wonder however if a bad pressure signal could be forged, forcing the car to stop ?
Worse yet - if a steady stream of forged low pressure signals can be sent to a vehicle with automatic tire inflation causing it to overinflate to dangerous blowout levels.
Comment iPee Laws (Score 5, Funny) 104
Was this a violation of iPee laws also?
Apple Doesn't Appreciate Toilet Humor 104
beaver1024 writes "I doubt if Apple lawyers even contemplated the irony as they slapped a small Australian company producing camping equipment with a lawsuit for trademark violations. Sea to Summit makes a product that assists in the disposal of human excrement, calling it iPood. Apple thinks that 'For obvious reasons, Apple's reputation for clean design and high-tech electronics will suffer should it be associated with latrines and the like through Sea to Summit's use of iPood.' If only Sea to Summit had the resources to fight this in court. Alas, we are witnessing yet another sign of the corrupted nature of IP laws in Australia and internationally."
Comment Re:Terminals on an Apple IIGS (Score 1) 150
And the 3270 in particular is about as smart as a terminal ever got. The terminal itself did the input field text editing before shipping the whole screen input back to the mainframe. Even though there aren't many actual terminals around you'll still see them emulated on PCs in quite a number of applications.
They were damn near indestructible also. I have been a mainframer since the IBM360 days, and I still think the 3270's were the most comfortable keyboards to type on.
