But that wouldn't have helped the GP's problem, you have the saved version and the auto-saved recovery version. If you start a new email = no saved version, type up a bunch of stuff, it gets deleted through act of dog and auto-saved then that's gone in any system I know. Nothing here said he was saving drafts, he thought the auto-save would do it for him. The only other way I can think of to avoid that would be to store the whole sequence of key strokes and commit that to disk often so you'd have the undo history as well. And how often do you want it to write to the disk, after every key stroke? And do you really want everything you accidentally pasted or reconsidered writing stored? With documents not clearing it of all past edits before publishing it is often a source of much embarrassment, a full key logger is even worse.

It's a last ditch resort because of some entirely unanticipated error condition or in case the whole system goes down outside your software's control - and for the OS maybe outside any software's control like power loss or bad hardware so you lose a minute or two's work instead of an hour. It's not meant as a lazy man's save function, if you use it as such you will get burned because the point is just to commit whatever's there right now, even if you're in the middle of something and it's completely inconsistent as it is, worse than both the old version and where you were going with the new one. If you want to have sane checkpoints to go back to, the answer is still to save. The auto-save is just to keep you from hitting Ctrl-S every minute in case something bad happens.

Guys with degrees in cosmetology don't have girlfriends, no matter how many chicks you see them hanging out with.

The real problem often ain't the gamers themselves, but their laundry habits or lack thereof. If you're gonna work around the house, sure, put on yesterday's pants. If you're going to sit right next to someone else, put on a full set of clean clothes, you goddamned savages. And, you know, actually do your laundry.

This ain't the first kind of waste they've taken on, either. A lot of the plastic people think is getting recycled is getting landfilled in Australia. It's stable for long periods and eventually we'll figure out how to recycle it in a profitable fashion, and they can get paid to sit on it. Win-win.

Define "bad", and also "successful". If you define "bad" as "selling people shit they don't need or indeed want which they will regret purchasing" and "successful" as "made someone money" then that's the majority of human activity today.

At first I was stinky and greasy. Later I was just greasy. But hey, I've got greasy skin. So I went back to product, because I didn't want to be greasy. But I have hippie shampoo and soap, no patchouli involved — unscented shampoo, and peppermint soap. No deodorant, I smell at least as good now as I did when I used it in conjunction with a bunch of toxic crap.

Right, but they won't benefit from being able to sell back power during the weekend when they're not using it if the utilities don't have to buy back their power. Or, for that matter, the time from 5pm-7pm when there's still useful output.

I didn't suggest that they never in fact inspect a restaurant.

What I said was that if they didn't find these things during an inspection, but then they found these things during another inspection, the first inspection was probably bullshit.

It's fundamentally bullshit because we don't even really know how memory works yet, and we keep finding more complexity everywhere we look. We don't know enough about the brain to yet claim that we're building computers which function like it does.

Subsequent investigations? That says to me that the initial investigation was much like a typical NYC building inspection. The "inspector" drives up to the business, glances around the front of the building, then tells you which pile of building materials they would like dropped off in their driveway before signing off.

Perhaps they should do their jobs which would result in finding things like mice and cockroaches, if not bare-handed food handling. Without that, my favorite solution to dirty restaurants (forcing them to post their health report in the front window, or in the same glass box as their menu) has no viability. Like public health, it depends on public health employees doing their jobs.

Yes, and if you are intelligent you may also be aware of the fact that text is often taken out of context, and each sentence should be a complete thought.

With all due respect, the one website you visit doesn't say all that much about who you are. From a statistical and marketing viewpoint I have no problem seeing that knowing you visit websites X and Y or X and not Y, Y or not X is far more valuable than knowing who visits X and Y individually. Targeted advertising works far better than general advertising, to use the car analogy there's no point in showing car ads to the person who's not buying a new car. Timing is everything which is why for example so many stores try to find pregnant women, they have a changing - or soon to be changing - shopping pattern. Any information - no matter how indirect or circumstantial - that you may be in the search of a particular product is better than just spamming it across the news to everybody.