Posts by cortland

Food for, er, thought

It seems they shared the same carrion baggage, at least.

smartphobic

I bought a used smartphone on *bay as a backup for I just got under warranty if the replacement also craps out.

Receipt? Electronic.

If the State can use electronic evidence to bill me for Sales Tax, it should be enough to show the state that I bought it.

Of course, I don't live in New York.

There are probably Agencies who do image comparison every day and might be willing (for goodwill?) to allow use of their capabilities to produce scanned plate images to a standard size; it's not as if the stars have moved a lot since the plates were made, and their angular separation is well known.

NASA? WHAT about NSA and "Big Data"; Google? Amazon, Walmart ...

It's the ultimate Cloud; servers on the MOON can't be seized.

So... where's the new RR Turing car?

It's hard to

It's hard to work from home if one is a hardware engineer; hardware doesn't take well to file compression, one runs out of files and it takes you-will-not-BELIEVE-how-long to put the hardware back together. Not to mention the bandwidth to send it.

The best trick is to be a RETIRED hardware engineer, called in when the new folks can't tell which end of a 'scope probe is which, where the near field is far enough away, how to snarg a degusticator or set up a dithyrambic synthesizer.

Note to self: Include Simpson 260 in "go" kit.

Odd that

They didn't notice the Mongols' trademark was seized by the US 'waaay back in 2008. It was even reported here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/22/doj_seizes_biker_trademark/

Do the US and Oz have a reciprocal trademark agreement?

Any actual Mongols should have been put on a boat back to the nearest Mongolian port. Right?

Bon voyage.

Info: http://www.indexmundi.com/mongolia/coastline.html

All that glitters

C[h]rom[e]- Magnon?

Chromolestation?

Mychrome wire?

Chromeological, of course.

Eggs Benedict on a chrome [plated] hubcap; as the song goes, "There's no plates like Chrome for the Hollandais...

Once I got past Use Existing Account

Everything was straightforward, if S L O W. I could perhaps blame that on the 1 GHz processor in the Acer Iconia W3 tablet; or a slow connection to the Net, but it took almost four hours to download, install and set up 8.1 at my friendly (free Internet) grocery store's breakfast/lunch ('that's how long it took) office-away-from-the-office.

Will try the RT later.

Is this an OS?

Or a DDOS? 3.5 GB for each 8.0 out there will be FUN.

What's old is new

Optically marking the edge of tape for moving quickly to the data location (shades of optical sound-on film!) could save this technolofy from solid-state-oblivion; it might even work for tape still on the reel.

So Brazil wants

EVERYONE to act like the US. That's a stamp of approval, it is; irritation is the sincerest form of philately.

Hah! Imagine being told about it at age 67.

Not Alzheimer's is GREAT news, and by this time, age has pretty much smoothed out the kinks, so to speak. I've often enjoyed being the person in a room full of panic who knew where to apply the sledgehammer.

http://gothither.blogspot.com/2011/05/knowing-where-to-hit-it.html

But we should probably dump the stereotypes; I am convinced there are MANY more ways of thinking than we make room for.

Or http://www.shakespeare-online.com/quickquotes/quickquotehamletdreamt.html

Pictures or it isn't so.

http://aleckpalad.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cuneiform.jpg

Good

"incalculable change, most of it for the good"

Incalculable is a bad word for investors, and good means nothing; all that matters for investors -- and what matters LEGALLY, for a publicly traded firm, is investor ROI.

If a firm, to do good, takes a lower profit, stockholders can fire its management. Stockholders can take company officers to court for neglect of their fiduciary responsibility.

Good? All we want is not getting caught locking schoolkids up in the factory. And our money.

ISP's claim they're forced to retain

Child pronography.

ISTR

The "rubber band" boingoingoing! on Saturday morning TV children's cartoons. Black and White!

Ah, the 330-disk CD changer -- still in service and still buying

RIAA does not like me.

I buy my music on CD.

I buy them used and next to free;

RIAA does NOT like me.

My dialup line is far too slow

To download music don't 'you know?

My radio is on the air,

For online music, I don't care.

And in my player, decades old,

I've folk songs, klezmer, Russians bold....

With obscure labels yet untold,

My carousel is quite enrolled.

RIAA does not like me

I buy my music on CD

I buy them used and next to free;

RIAA does NOT like me.

RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUM tim tum!

RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUM tim tum!

RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUM tim tum!

And now my little rhyme is done!

Author -- Myself