Didn't ASCII 26 (SUB) traditionally terminate the end of a DOS/Windows text file?
"The Williams Marriage...End of File!"

It seems to me that based on your argument, starting a fire with a mirror or a lens (or combinations of mirrors and lenses) must always be impossible, since the surface of the mirror/lens isn't very hot. The moon is simply a bad mirror.

For our first 1.5 semesters of Pascal in high school we had to use this bootstrapped (written in PASCAL) compiler on an Alpha Micro timesharing system. We learned to coordinate so that only one of us compiled at a time; if two of us did it simultaneously, it might take 40min or more (and these were beginner programs, not real applications!) When we got those Z80 cards and moved to TP, wow, what a life-changing difference. I then got to use the DOS version later in College, w/ the assembly inlining and other goodness that came later.

I still use it at my day job, and enjoy stretching it to do things that weren't imagined in a dumb terminal environment 40 years ago.
I also do side jobs w/ completely different technology to keep my brain from rotting. :-)

Oh, THAT's why it didn't work as expected! MS's engineers thought they were supposed to implement "Super Crappy Data Protection".

Yeah, it took over 50 years for the effects to wear off; now he's ready for action!

While Google's proxy support has always been poor, over the past decade their products (including Android) have become increasingly hostile to proxy servers and the perceived control that they take away from Google. (News flash: VPNs can do a lot of the same things they fear proxy servers for). Apparently, though, as others have noted, Google will embrace proxies as long as it's theirs and can serve their purposes.

CEL = Check Engine Light.
In WA, more urban counties require emission testing, but rural counties don't.
I remember when I first moved to WA (from CA, where I didn't have to go through inspections) with an old car, having to drive to the emission station, working my engine hard to heat it up; park nearby; raise the idle way up to try to keep it from dying; back off engine timing from "recommended" to "CA emission requirements"; get tested; pull off and reverse everything so that it would run properly again. I don't miss those days! Most of my recent vehicles would probably pass fine, but it's nice not having the expense and worry.

1st reply: Face-palm indeed! She should be using LibreOffice! ;-)
2nd: Ugh, and it's probably called "passwords", too. At least my mom called hers "shopping" to look less attractive.
3rd: If she were to password-protect it and is using a version less than 25 years old, that may not be bad; I believe that these days the encryption's decent.

Yeah, my max DSL throughput is slightly faster than it was 15 years ago due to incremental technological advances, but the overall experience is significantly worse because of the downstream latency. They're advertising up to 200Mbps everywhere and that's what the DSLAMs are configured for (and the small-town telco doesn't even know how to reconfigure them), so w/ no traffic control, all it takes is a single unconstrained stream on my 7Mbps line and my ping times go from 30 to 1800 ms.

It takes no more work for them to install Linux than Windows, and it guarantees that the computer in its current state boots Linux. If you want, it also gives you a reference implementation in case you have trouble w/ your chosen distro: if something works on theirs and not yours, you can see what you need to hack on to fix it. Push theirs to the slow end of the disk (no speed diff on SSD) so you have the prime spot to install your OS. If one day you decide you don't want theirs taking up space anymore, just delete it and enlarge your partition.

And 7AM. And 5PM!

If golf courses aren't a convenient unit of measure, you could say that Google's data center in The Dalles uses enough water in a year to fill 1 now-broken fish tank and have a little left over for maintenance.

Yesterday I was reading the literature that came with a wireless access point. I puzzled when I read "For security reasons, don't mount with the louvers up". It took me a minute to realize that "security" meant "so it won't slip out of the mount and fall off the wall".