Re: Well...
I'm pretty happy acquiescing to Mr. Collins description of how he felt on the occasion over the overly enthusiastic inventions of the Press.
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The generally accepted name of our matrilineal most recent common ancestor is the Mitochondrial Eve. You can blame Roger Lewin, writing in the October 1987 issue of Science, for using the biblical name. Daft move, at best. His editor(s) should be taken out behind the barn and flogged for letting that one through.
Except he himself said he didn't feel lonely, that was an invention of the Press. What he felt was "awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation".
He also didn't feel left out of the landing. The way he saw it, the mission was designed for a three man crew, with none of the three having a more or less important job than the other two.
Words to live by.
"I doubt they could."
Thus my colophon.
What's even funnier (or sadder, depending on perspective) is the folks who have a knee-jerk reaction to downvote people commenting on downvotes. Do you suppose they think they are actually accomplishing anything useful?
inveniet quod quisque velit; non omnibus unum est, quod placet; hic spinas colligit, ille rosas
As I've been saying for at least a decade, Ubuntu has many of the same problems that Redmond and Cupertino have, and for the same exact reason. That reason? Trying to be all things to all people ... a task that not even one of the many "Gods" invented by humans have managed to do, not even in myth and fable.
"I never went to Quebec."
Think France that never grew up, and refuses to at the top of it's lungs. On the other hand, Montréal doesn't smell nearly as bad as Paris. But they are working on it. Give 'em a couple more centuries.
Did you know that beavers is an anagram of Eve's bra?
Not that that matters either, of course ...
Canadian Geese are easily subverted. I have a couple nesting pairs living here year-round. All they need is fresh water, fresh lawn, safety from predators and they will happily renounce their Canadian citizenship. Or maybe it's the weather.
Beavers don't care a lick about borders. Mercs, the lot of 'em.
Here in Northern California, ground squirrels are the winner in that sweepstakes, followed by rabbits, and then the ubiquitous (and ravenous) Backhoe Beast.
There are a few critters that are dangerous to Humans working on these things out in the field ... Here in N. Ca, Black Widow spiders, rattlesnakes and deer ticks top the list.
Kind of. There are actually three $TELCO routes from San Jose to San Martin/Gilroy, and have been for 80 years or more. One takes the obvious Highway 101 corridor. Another runs West of that, through the Almaden Valley and then past Chesbro Reservoir and into South San Martin/North Gilroy. These two mostly follow old rail rights of way.
The third runs up Highway 17 to Redwood Estates, follows the backbone of the Santa Cruz mountains to Corralitos, and then Watsonville, and then 152 over to Gilroy. This right of way is a remnant of coastal defenses during WWII and later used through the Cold War.
The fiber cuts of 10ish years ago caused the widespread outages in South Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties and North Monterey and San Benito Counties was because of a lack of properly configured redundant highspeed hardware, not lack of fiber.
Beaver at the confluence of James Creek and the North Fork of Big River (bottom of Seven Mile Hill on Hwy 20, between Fort Bragg and Willits in Mendocino County, CA) took out the telephone line[0] into Fort Bragg in the late '80s, effectively destroying all communications in or out for a week or so. The town now has functional redundant lines.
[0] Three poles, actually. There is no word on the crittter's opinion of pressure treated lumber.
My businesses don't require transcoding 1080p to h265. Do yours? If so, purchase the correct tool for the job. If not, save your money.
Most of my vehicle fleet is pre 1971, and I intend to keep it that way. The Model T and Model A can both do considerably more than 15 MPH. See this post from ten years ago. If I want to go into town at a leisurely pace, I'll take the Buckboard. Clyde (the Percheron) enjoys it, too. If you care, he gets around 35 miles on 3 flakes of oat hay and one of alfalfa, plus all the spring greens that he wants to eat and unlimited fresh water. (Note that he's a 14 year old, and in really good shape. Your horse's mileage may vary.)
Life's short. Step off the treadmill once in a while. Relax, have a homebrew.
Those conspiracy theories about the pyramids were/are only propagated by loonies. Nobody with any kind of real scientific background believed/s them.
"The reality is that Chinese companies and the Chinese government invest a lot more on "borrowing" research from Western companies and governments."
FTFY (Or perhaps you can point out several new innovations made by the Chinese in the last couple years? Personally, I can't think of even one, unless you include new ways of selling schlock to idiots "innovative marketing".)
"In the West, 6G is mainly viewed by companies as a new product opportunity by manufacturers and a marketing point"
Of course. That is what companies do. Even Chinese ones.
"and justification for rate hikes by telecom providers."
Assumes facts not in evidence. In the roughly half century that I have been making money in this field, the trend has always been faster and cheaper.
"So what's the use case for that"
Well, I can create documents and spreadsheets and databases to run a business using Wordstar and Lotus and dBase on DOS 3.3 and a 486DX33 + dial-up modem easier (and quite a bit faster!) than on more modern Office 355 and the latest Tiger Lake processor + 5G. Imagine what improvements Redmond and Intel will bring us in the next 30 years!
Mom says I'm entirely too sarcastic. In this case, I think I lowballed it.
But they have a purple phone now! Did you hear me? IT'S PURPLE! Talk about innovative!
(From a real conversation I overheard on 1st Street East, outside the Maya Restaurant in Sonoma. This guy was actually drooling over his just ordered telephone because it was a cutting edge shade of purple. I guess haberdashery is more important to others than it is to me ... )
Ethernet in the kitchen? Talk about overkill ...Everybody knows that a Kitchen Computer can't handle more than a Switched 56 leased line ...
My "road warrior" is an 18ish year old laptop running Slackware.
By way of reference it's an HP zv5105, upgraded to 2G of RAM[0]. It works just fine, and I can still use it as a daily driver, should I have the need (and sometimes I do).
I'm not a gamer ... the ATI Radeon 9000 IGP (64Megs shared memory) works just fine for my needs.YMMV.
This machine was built just before the second wave of bad caps.
[0] Yes, you can. The second stick is under the keyboard ... HP says it wont work, but it does. She does run a trifle warmer than with the stock quarter gig. Don't try this upgrade at home unless you're familiar with sub-#5 Torx screws that have been locktite-ed ...
"needs to be beaten soundly with a very large stick."
The current patent office is so long in the tooth it needs to be taken out behind the barn and put out of it's misery before it does any more damage to the things around it in it's senility.
The whole thing needs to be figuratively burned down and rebuilt. It has gone far beyond a joke.
Why would you want NVIDIA drivers on a server? Most of my servers are headless, and don't have any kind of graphics card or GUI installed. Less to go wrong, cheaper, lower power requirements, what's not to like?
Art wondered "a genuine part of Version 6 Unix or a local hack"?
That, my friend, was straight out of Berkeley, pre- BSD (but not by much, a month or two). It was originally a shell script, later re-written in C. There was most likely a cron job to activate it on April 1st at your location. (In the early AM, copied into a directory on your $PATH ahead of wherever your system kept the actual date, and then nuked at noon).
This kind of thing spread like wildfire over the early ARPANet.
There were a whole bunch of files/programs like that. Every now and then some office wag would discover shareware and it'd be time to make the rounds doing cleanup again.
And then Walnut Creek CDROM started selling shovel-ware CDs with the complete contents of the likes of the Simtel MSDOS shareware archive. That would have been late '94 or early '95, about the same time I got completely out of end user support. Coincidence? You decide.
Back in the day (mid 1980s), I hacked the underlying code for some networking kit we were shipping to add a command ... "fire".
The entire command string was "set fire <node> <card number>". This raised voltage on an otherwise unused trace on the backplane, which in turn set off a squib.
I called TheBoss into my lab to tell him that I had discovered something that didn't look right ... He came down and I typed in "set fire node 3 card 1". This produced the nice ::crack:: and puff of smoke. The Boss looked startled, and quickly typed in "set fire node 1 card 5", which produced the same satisfying crack & smoke. Followed by node 4 card 2, same result.
Then he turned & grinned at me and said "jake, you BASTARD! ... he always was a quick study. Best boss I ever had.
Needless to say, I had the full compliment of cards on all 8 nodes on the test network wired. No, we were airgapped, and the code didn't make it out into the wild.
I concur with the above folks who suggest only playing this kind of game with people who not only get the joke, but also are fully equipped and willing to respond in kind. Makes life a trifle more ... interesting.