So why the hell are you wasting your time slumming around here, shill-boy?

...and I just replied to the wrong sub-comment. Thanks, Murphy.

Murphy only applies to bad improbable things happening. Microsoft getting something right would be a good improbable thing.

As there are many somethings to get right, they'll always get a few of them right by accident, but nobody can remember what they did right in Vista and 8.0 because there was so much bad.

Nope. I am nowhere near Ohio. (Wait, he's from Ohio? Sheesh.)

That's great when you can get the communication as text. It's another thing when it's only spoken, and could possibly have phonemes that are not identifiable or can be differentiated by most non-speakers. Would you be able do a "simple substitution" on people speaking a tonal language like Chinese to each other? And Japanese is really poor in phonemes, especially vowels, compared to other languages, which probably put them at more of a disadvantage than others would have been.

The "garbled footage" was a radio signal from the incoming first stage. Getting good communications from a vehicle during re-entry is a hard problem. And a GoPro (at least before this landing attempt) wouldn't have helped much because it would have been on the ocean floor along with the rest of the rocket.

And in the case of this particular landing attempt, it was before sunrise in heavy fog.

Maybe these guys failed to properly convert stone to kilograms.

Well, at least it seems the Entry/Descent/Landing engineers knew what they were doing. The "petal" system engineers, not quite so much.

They sell five 2N2222 in a 15 pack with five each of two other transistor types (probably 3904/3906). Since then I have lucked into well over a thousand 2N2222 transistors (technically PN2222 because plastic case), so I don't have to worry about that little thing anymore.

Really the only innovative thing they did post-PC was the Tandy 1000 CGA mode. IBM's CGA modes were total crap.

Even the Tandy 2000 wasn't that great, since it was barely PC compatible, and as an 80186 machine, it would have had issues with the "unused" interrupt vectors that IBM used in the original PC.

I think the canonical form is "You've got questions, we've got blank stares".

Here in Austin a few years ago, they were closing some less successful RS stores. One of them was near me. But one that was even nearer to me was closed too... because the strip mall management wouldn't move their sign up higher into a vacated higher position. (A highway had been recently upgraded to a freeway, seriously reducing visibility for that sign.)

And guess which store they left open? The one across the street from Fry's. WTF. Which is about as far away from me as my next closest Radio Shack, only in the opposite direction (that RS is in a far suburb city, and I rarely go that way).

So you can inflate your party balloons?

So it's a place that all users have write access to, but it's invisible, so most users don't know that it even exists?