My first home computer was a small Unix (Xenix) machine with a max load of 768K of memory (on three large memory cards).

The laptop I'm using right now has over 5 five thousand times as much...

(And the 15MB hard drive was a $3000 option on that old machine, whereas the 1TB drive in this laptop cost me about $120.)

Enjoy!

Microsoft has followed this path from the beginning with standards: Adopt, adapt, expand and control.

Always adding something "extra" so that other software that actually follows the standard doesn't work quite right with stuff built to Microsoft's "standard" so that the stuff built to actually follow the world standard looks inferior. :(
--Tomas

I was told that they were huge things that sometimes even took up entire air conditioned buildings, and they had thousands of tubes and relays.

(I graduated in 1964...)

Generally on random scraps of paper, most often on envelopes received in the mail.

I don't know why this is the case, but it is.

At least it is "free" (as in beer) paper...

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Tomas

Yeah, I have way more than 20, WAY more, but it's not too many...

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Tomas

Also quicker now that some of the "kludge" of V2 appears to have been binned.

Some nice new features added, and basic operation seems more intuitive.

Good job, guys and gals!

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Tomas

I'd prefer mine to be in CFP (Cour de Franc Pacifique), because that would mean that I was once again living on and enjoying the beautiful islands of the South Pacific...

(It's tied to the value of the Euro.)

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Tomas

Well said, Ben!

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Tomas

My first choice would be maniacal laughter, second would be the sound of a steam locomotive...

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Tomas

I can't see anything when I'm falling asleep - MY EYES ARE CLOSED. Duh!

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Tomas

I can potentially see (via thought experiment) a difference between gravity and inertial mass...

Picture two identical hypothetical objects, each a mile long with identical large masses at the end of a thin support rod.

Place one on the Earth with the mass resting on the thin support rod, one mile from the surface.

Place the other similarly on the nose of a 'space ship' accelerating at exactly one gravity.

The mass leading the spaceship by a mile will experience exactly one gravity while the one spaced a mile above the Earth (a one gravity reference) will experience LESS than one gravity due to it's distance from the gravity source.

Don't like the small difference? Make the rods 10 miles or 100 miles long. At each increase the gravity effects on the Earth reference device will be reduced more due to distance from the source, while the apparent gravity experienced by the space ship based device will still be the exact same 1G.

Now step back from this and realize that it means that the effect of gravity, such as from the Earth's mass, is different for each part of ANY other mass, depending on its distance from the source, while the effect is IDENTICAL for each part of any mass experiencing "pseudo" gravity due to constant acceleration, no matter where located.

It would make more sense in pictures, and even more in mathematical terms, but I am not even going to try. I quit doing that sort of stuff 30 or 40 years ago.

Maybe someone can bother to rough it out and see what shows up?

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Tomas

...I just received a postcard from Earthlink in the mail today that also details the new 250GB limit on my 8 year old Earthlink Broadband service with the "last mile" by Comcast (originally AT&T for the last mile).

For right now, the 250GB limit really doesn't affect me, as I use considerbley less than that, but that does NOT mean that will ALWAYS be the case.

For me, though, I'll just wait and see how this plays out.

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Tomas

Where I live is a small place that is actually incorporated as a "city" so legally it is probably a "city."

HOWEVER, it has no central business district. Want to shop head to one of the adjacent towns/cities that have business districts and malls.

We are a "bedroom community" that is mostly residential or stands of trees.

We have a golf course, we have waterfront, we have parks, we have espresso shops, we even have a few grocery stores and a grocery/ hardware/ furniture/ clothing/ drugs/ electronics store with a big parking lot (Fred Meyer), but we really aren't "self contained" as I would expect a city or even a town to be.

We have a Post Office!

I like it, but the "City of University Place" isn't.

Guess I'll call it a town, since the most obvious classification for it, "suburb" isn't a choice.

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Tomas

... and I use AdBlock against my OWN site because I can't stand the sometimes interminable delays caused by some of the lousy crap that sponsors have buried in their ads.

I can understand sites needing to make enough money to keep the servers running, so I allow ads on many sites I visit, but if the delays and hang-ups get too bad, they are BLOCKED.

(On my site I try to keep the delays minimal, but when administering a sometimes very fast moving set of forums, I just cannot put up with even fairly short delays.)

No, there are two Cable TV providers (Comcast and Click) offering high speed internet, the local phone company (Qwest) offering DSL, and Clearwire/Sprint 4G wireless (Clear) providing service to this complex.

(My usual "backup" happens to be a couple who has a WiFi base on their Clear 4G tranceiver.)

I haven't yet seen all four of those go down at the same time.

--Tomas