I'm honestly somewhat amazed at the stunning rise of electric scooters. Doesn't mean it's easy to break even or -- God forbid -- go cash positive, something Segway never did in my time there. RIP Unicorn.

Hadn't thought of that. But, yeah: it's one of those "if you DON'T test it, and something goes wrong, boy jeepers, will you have egg on your face" things.

All sorts of things can go wrong, probably largely associated with outgassing -- especially if it built up and then released suddenly. Various epoxies and probably even circuit boards might, I imagine, be potential candidates. Remember: you're removing 14.7 ponds per square inch of pressure that might be (say) helping to hold together layers of a PCB.

They goofed on how microgravity would impact Hubbell, and it was almost disastrous. I'm sure they learned from that, but my fingers are crossed nonetheless.

As someone semi-fluent in Spanish, mah-tay (which can either be an Argentinian drink -- its actual provenance -- or the imperative form of "you kill") would be the correct pronunciation. Me? I just call it "mate".

SCO sued lots of people because *Linux* was (supposedly) stolen from UNIX. I do not recall them suing Sun for Java, nor do I even see how that could be "a thing."

He should serve time in the UK for bail jumping, and possibly be extradited to Sweden. But, as much as I'm not a fan of Julian himself, I am yet to see a compelling reason for him to be extradited to the US, and failing clear and compelling evidence otherwise, don't think he should be.

Stupid ones. (Knowingly self-indulgently ironic is only a half-step behind.)

I like the commercial. It's nice. I wasn't a huge fan of the no-CLI Mac, though I do recognize several of it's advances. But attempting to link these two and give Jobs accolades for *the commercial*? Really? Yeah, not so much.

Ha! I actually hesitated before adding the file extension for that very reason. I do believe you are right.

I have to disagree somewhat. While I will never be guilty of ascribing good things to MS while under Ballmer/Gates, once the web came along, UNIX EOL suddenly became righter -- or at least terribly common. I would have to say it was just sheer hamfisted bluster and pride, moreso than a desire to put the hurt on the (then) microscopic userbase of people like you and me.

But, really, barring an internal document showing this, it doesn't really matter what we think the reason was.

Is that edit.exe -- the console-based editor that came out with DOS 5.0 -- *did* support UNIX EOL. Go figger.

JQP? I think it is safe to say that -- with all due respect -- you were a ripe bastard back a few years ago. But I just read a solid handful of your most recent posts, and they are considered, intelligent, articulate... really, really good stuff. Thank you!

And, BTW, Ruby totally rocks. Best, most expressive, most intelligently done language currently out there. (Though in a late-night fit of stupidity, I admit I had cause to mourn the decision to use '=' for both assignment and object instantiation.)

-K

Someone with a UID that's the same number of digits as mine. I'd begun to suspect we were all, like, put out to pasture or something.

That was me, above. I forgot to log in. Silly early-onset Alzheimer's!