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Comment Everything old... (Score 1) 56

Us ancients recall when a gentleman who later joined the board of Annals of Improbable Research and was tagged in that magazine as "convicted criminal" wrote one of the first software worms, only it worked better than he thought and escaped the University network and infected a few zillion machines on the internet.

Comment Everything old .... (Score 1) 52

Probably still happening, but I remember when the first few Word docs were sent out with the full "edit / change history" contained within.
Almost as dumb -- on Microsoft's part, as allowing you to embed , say an Excel workbook inside a Word doc. Practicallly nobody understood that the entire workbook was there not just the weenie little table being displayed.

Comment I'll say it again (Score 1) 58

At least so far as documents go, LaTeX FTW always and forever.
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When it comes to spreadsheets, the fact that data, formulas (but not all formulas), and formatting is all squeezed into the thing called a "cell" means they're really a terrible mess that should be banned from everywhere in the Solar System

Comment same as spinal discs (Score 1) 46

For decades the surgeons have checked out people with back pain, found slipped or decaying discs, an declared that the problem. Then they do horrific things like vertebral fusions.
Problem was/is that there's no database of Xrays/CT/NMR scans of people *without* back pain to see how many have bad discs

Comment Re: modern cars are less safe (Score 1) 181

if you're so easily distracted by these warnings etc., you're not an 'idiot', you're just not very good at multitasking.

Back in the VietNam war days, figher pilots - who are some of the most focussed and multi-task capable folks ever -- turned off warning systems because the aircraft was sending so many different "important" signals simultaneously.

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