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Comment: Re:Too Bad. (Score 1) 274

by gmhowell (#43791075) Attached to: Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3

It wasn't just DOS, although that was its stronghold. There were also versions available for: Unix, Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2.

Hmm, didn't know this though: Lotus 1-2-3 : "The charting/graphing routines were written in Forth by Jeremy Sagan (son of Carl Sagan)"

I believe that reference to Forth should be, "the fabulous Forth language."

While you're busy looking up stuff the old timers lived through, you may want to check out an oldfag meme: "DOS/Windows (depending on the time frame) ain't done until Lotus won't run"

Comment: Re:A first (Score 1) 727

by gmhowell (#43790581) Attached to: House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers

I find it interesting that Bond never has gadgets left over. It must be a corollary to Chekov's Gun; "Any device or tool given to a character must be utilized or expended."

I'd go to tvtropes to try to figure it out, but I would like to be at least a little productive for the rest of the week.

Comment: Re:Why is it so fragile? (Score 3, Informative) 151

by gmhowell (#43789285) Attached to: Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country

Well, we might be idiots, but that's not the problem. It's a set of three very large superconducting coils, custom wound on-site in the 1990s, built into cryostats that can't be disassembled, and being moved as a set of monolithic units. They were never designed or intended to be moved, and significant engineering work has gone into determining the mechanical loads they can be safely subjected to.

How much would it cost to build another one at say, Fermilab?

Here's a hint: that information is in the article.

Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal -- if you are all thumbs. -- Glaser and Way

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