Thanks for the recommend, I'll look into it.

Systems programmer here, for a semiconductor company. I've used a Chromebook Pixel for 5 years now, at work. I used the browser for our intranet sites (including Outlook web access) and an NaCl-based SSH client to access bigger iron for development (tmux/vim/gcc). Chrome OS worked amazingly well for me as a thin client, where I could work in the office or on the road, and never store company IP on it. Spreadsheets and presentations were done with Google Docs. I did not feel in anyway like I was using a Fisher Price toy or Coleco computer. My only gripe was the mapping of the F1 - F10 keys... which was a problem with the physical device, not the OS.

Now that that model has been EOL'd for new Chrome OS updates, it has been repurposed as a Gallium OS machine. The only improvement that has given me over Chrome OS is X-forwarding.

Fusion "going south" just means that it snuffs out like a candle. It is not a runaway reaction like fission is. 100 million degrees sounds scary. But the moment you lose containment of the plasma, the fusion reaction dies.

Except if nothing else worked, you could at least use the disc to get the hardware working long enough to limp to the internet and get the drivers. Also, on timeline - I agree with you by the mid 2000s, but drivers on the web in the 90s? You're kidding right?

Why? What is his page missing that would be solved by CSS, or Node.js, or whatever other bloated frameworks du jour can offer? I find the simplicity refreshing, and an interesting commentary on modern webpage design.

I can read it, its probably about 10kb total, and I bet it loads in microseconds. All he needs is a banner ad that says "get off my lawn".

Great point on japan. Only catch with the "stay quiet and wait them out" approach is they can reset the clock if they file new charges. This became a big story this past year when Carlos Ghosn, former ceo of the renault/nissan/Mitsubishi alliance, was imprisoned for many months under such circumstances as they kept filing new charges every time the clock would run out on the time they could hold him. Your point holds, of course - dont snitch on yourself.

Some VOIP services I've used have much higher audio bandwidth than POTS. So much so, that the call has a disturbing quality to it. It feels like a telephone shouldn't sound that good.

Of course, right about the time I have that visceral reaction, packets start dropping and the person I'm talking to begins to sound obscenely time-dilated.

Be a pilot
Your phone rings
It's Boeing HR
"We'd like to hire you to test fly our new design!"
Schedule interview, end the call optimistic
Come to the realization that you've just been outed as merely average
Hello darkness my old friend....

Care to share the link to the official LineageOS images for Pixel 3? I haven't seen any available for download, the last 50 times I visited https://download.lineageos.org...
Not even snarking, you'll make my day if I'm wrong.

I meant that to say "100+ years ago in the U.S."

100+ years ago, "jay" was slang for an ignorantly foolish person. "Jaywalking" entered the vernacular due to public relations campaigns by automotive interest groups, that wanted the populace to accept stronger rights-of-way for vehicles on the road, rather than pedestrians on the road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

... Hey slashdotters, I found the Wachowski sisters' /. handle!

Seriously, though. It was akin to pretending that episodes IV, V, and VI were the only Star Wars movies ever made. It's a cheeky way to express an opinion. If that's too nuanced for your comprehension, then you might have Asperger's.

AC was using feigned ignorance as critical commentary on the perceived unworthiness of the intervening titles.

Even more simpler-er: Disney owns the Star Wars franchise, so of course they will favor that one. (Also, not wanted to get sued by ST owners probably factors in as well.)