In West Philidelphia?

But don't you think those old cars have a certain something that makes them worth taking care of? I drive a 2000 Mitsubishi Colt (Mirage for all you 'Merkins) and I seriously doubt that in forty years time there will be a single one left. Not because it isn't perfectly good as a method of getting to where you want to go; more because it wasn't designed in the same mindset as that '59 Bel Air. It's a white good- 3 1/2 metres of car. The Bel Air was sold on the buyers' aspirations- my Colt was sold because the first owner preferred it to riding the bus to work.

My laptop doesn't have a PC card slot for the adaptor. Do you think they'd do a USB one? (-:

That rear wheel steering is something else as far as turning circle goes, but I can see myself doing a three point turn and wiping out several innocent pedestrians by accident :-)

I work for a large UK supermarket chain (the largest, actually) and their computer systems and supporting software are pretty old. The tills run NT4 and the SBO/print queue manager is an IBM RS6000 (a PowerPC based machine, I believe) running OpenVMS.

The most up-to-date bits of kit are the checkout servers and the employee terminals- they run XP, but all of the software they run is either 16bit Windows stuff or terminal emulators to talk to that OpenVMS machine or the datacentres; having said that, I know of at least one store in our area that's still using an IBM 3151 orange-screen terminal. The in-house word processor is Ami Pro, a dreadful piece of software. I'd almost forgotten how annoying the 8.3 filename limit was :)

Anyway, with mission-critical stuff, the motto is usually "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". In our case, it seems to be "If it ain't completely broke, ignore it."

Modded as troll? Seriously, this is either funny or insightful.

I heard Douglas Adams quoted on the radio this morning. Seems to apply here.

No, Bendit is only similar to Beckham.

They made dual G4 Power Macs. I own one. Runs Leopard pretty nicely.

It's a strange coincidence, but "Caster Semenya" is an anagram of "Yes, a secret man".

Populist, yes; right-wing, not so much anymore. They have Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable as a prominent columnist, and his politics are centre-left as far as I can see.

They've also been running a campaign to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon. I've never been a fan of that particular paper, but they've been doing some good stuff recently.

My dad's (fairly elderly) Thinkpad has this feature. It's a very good idea.

On that topic, Here's a cool little program for recent Mac laptops with the accelerometer chip that can measure the G force on the laptop. Has earned me some funny looks on trains :)

I believe their slogan was "Lucas Electrics- Get Home Before Dark!"

It's like the Force- it has a light side, a dark side and it binds the universe together :)

Human memory must have fairly lossy compression, at least mine does.