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Comment Re:All oficial times (Score 1) 187

The Stanley Steamer record is vastly more impressive. Tires, brakes, and suspension in 1906 were primitive, materials were not nearly as reliable, and design was done on a drawing board.

"That smashes the previous official record of 204 km/hr (127 mph) set in 1906 by Fred Marriott of the US in a modified version of the then-popular steam car known as the Stanley Steamer."

Sorry, but only going thirteen (13) miles an hour faster than a record more than a _century_ old is shit. He might have done better by using a replica Stanley engine made from modern materials (to allow heat increase without a boiler explosion) instead.

Yes, these are my thoughts too.

Comment Re:I for one... (Score 2, Funny) 236

Yeah, Obama is evil and the Democrats are psychotic control freaks who want to do weird medical experiments on the US people and create an army of mutant zombie liberals that derive pleasure only by paying 80% taxes...

For crying out loud, boy, get a grip. The people at your HMO will do everything that they legally can to kill you rather than pay for your medical treatment. You should fear the people who want everything to be the same.

Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.

Comment Re:Pascal (Score 1) 634

Agreed. Pascal to learn structured programming, then assembler to understand how a computer works, then C/C++ and Java to learn objects and threading, then C# to be employable.

Lisp is not much used outside of AI and difficult to understand without experience.

Comment Re:Ideas want to be public (Score 1) 539

You may be right. My wife tried to get me to patent a portable telephone that I built the OS and HW drivers for and two EE grads did the hardware design. It contained an interface that worked like much the iPod, a database that you could scroll through and auto-dial like all cell phones now do, and had a voice activated command like hands free sets. She was convinced it would be a money maker. This was 1986. I said: "who the hell wants a phone in the car?". OK, I'm a moron.

If she brings it up I can always point out that her company offered her 150 Microsoft shares in 1987 or a cash bonus. I said to take the shares - DOS is the dominating PC OS, PC are getting less expensive and very popular, the development tools are good, and the Office software is getting popular. She wanted to take the kids to Disneyland. She won. A quick internet search says the stock is worth about 95 times what they were worth in 1987. Close July 31, 1987 $94. Adjusted value .27. Today's adjusted value 25.56. So, 150 * $94 * (25.56/0.27) = Today's value: around $1,334,800. I sleep on the couch when I use that, but I never lose a 'best judgment' argument.

Comment More 'Stuff', Same Crap (Score 0) 291

Just as Windows 7 still can not copy more than one file at a time between directories without possible problems (abort on a locked file fails the copy and there is no return to original state ability, very large collections can take hours - Linux can handle this very well) I'm sure Office 2010 Excel is still limited to 65536 rows (I miss Quattro) and Word completely screws up with constant re-pagination that takes forever with large documents containing heavy graphics content.

Please give me a version that works for what I need to do. Not a version with mostly useless features that no one uses and features that are useful buried in impossible to find new places in the menu structure (it's a menu - not a 'Ribbon').

I switched to Open Office.

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