Comment Re:2560x1600 should be good for anyone! (Score 1) 661
You mean that A3, A4, A5 and A6 are all the same shape? That's so
... useful.
I really do love living in the USofA, but I friggin hate USian measuring systems.
You mean that A3, A4, A5 and A6 are all the same shape? That's so
... useful.
I really do love living in the USofA, but I friggin hate USian measuring systems.
In Chicago as early as 96, I was taught drivers ed assuming that every car I'd ever used would have it, because it was that fucking common. I doubt even 25% of the population knows how to use non-ABS breaks.
I learned to drive in Illinois in 1979. I doubt 25% of the population then knew how to use non-ABS brakes.
A water pipe that can fill a football stadium in 1 minute flat does no good if it will only dispense half a glass of water a month.
Could you phrase that in the form of an automobile analogy?
8" floppies
Are you forgetting the VAX 11/780's console floppy drive? No VAX would have ever booted without it.
No, tapes sucked but then, as now, expensive dick drives had outstanding longevity.
Best typo today.
AFAIK no PC used an 8 inch disk (please correct me if I'm wrong)
It depends upon your definition of "PC". The Heathkit H-89 used an 8-inch floppy.
Here's a site that posts press releases about embedded Linux devices/SBCs/etc all this time (and has for at least a decade, I believe): http://www.linuxfordevices.com/
They appear to have ceased operation in February of this year.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'
1. Congress has the right to force citizens to enter into commerce, under the commerce clause -- the mandate penalty was just that, a penalty.
2. Congress has the right to tax any behavior it sees fit -- the mandate penalty was, for this purpose, a tax.
SCOTUS rejected the first claim (proving that they do see limits to the commerce clause sometimes), and accepted the second claim. SCOTUS did not create the idea that it was the mandate was a new tax -- the government did.
Anyone got McGuyver's phone number? I'm sure he can get the robot to do *something* with the duct tape and swizzle stick.
Hmmm, duct tape.
Note to self: Pitch reality TV show to A&E hosted by Richard Dean Anderson and Steve Smith. Contestants must solve high-tech problems using only the household items that they are given. The items always include duct tape and empty beer cans.
How would you actually detect that a website like this is a honeypot?
The 6:00 AM knock on your door.
The U.S. government doesn't allow any other company to deliver letter mail. Why? Because it's protecting its monopoly.
I am completely free to send a letter via any means I choose.
Except, you aren't.
filing a legitimate DMCA take-down request
It's the same as taking a shotgun and blowing someones head off.
Best use of hyperbole ever, in the history of the entire universe.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
