Posts by jake 26674 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
... it'll be a Lisp/Scheme-based language (preferably Smalltalk), instead of BASIC. But I wouldn't hold my breath ... I would bet a wooden nickle that 90+% of all that's wrong with TehIntraWebTubes can be placed on kids being inflicted with BASIC as their "first programming language".
"It is, quite simply, unavoidable.”
Fortunately, "unavoidable" doesn't mean what you think it means. Simple ASCII .txt is still compatible with Word. Demand it. I do. Almost nobody has the artistic ability to "art-up" simple documents, without completely cocking it up.
Note that I don't run anything from Redmond younger than a dozen years ago or so (Win2K and ACad2K are about it; the CAD box is air-gapped) ... and I started refusing all contracts based on Redmond systems on January 1, 2010.
Or maybe, just maybe, the sane amongst us are trying to jolt the iFad folks out of feeding their jones, thus allowing a couple billion people to actually understand what their dollars are allowing to happen in the third world?
I know, I know. I'm tilting at windmills again ...
What? Drive to PAO, fly out of PAO, land at PAO, drive to work?
Oohh-kayyy ...
Granted, I have a friend who commutes to PAO out of Pescadero via helicopter ... But for that kind of commute, it makes sense if you have the money. Even if the total distance isn't all that far. Shaves about 40 minutes off his round-trip commute, when you include pre-flight checks.
(I just looked ... Mapquest is deluded as to route, as usual. Pescadero to Loma Mar, right turn on Alpine Road, over Skyline/Hwy35, down Pagemill, and you're in Palo Alto. Helps if you know the roads and know how to drive ;-)
Yeah, maybe fifteen minutes, considering he defines his own schedule.
Also, considering he defines his own schedule, commute time is immaterial.
Also, considering he defines his own schedule, working from home is an option.
Also, considering he defines his own schedule, well, he defines his own schedule.
He's a dimwitted plonker, regardless.
Boobs have been boobs for hundreds of thousands of years.
Teenagers seem to think it's a goal in life.
Marketards play on the teenagers inexperience.
Governments trying to twist popular opinion try to stifle viewing same.
Religious groups try to turn the human body into a bad thing.
Teenagers, Marketards, Governments & religious groups need to get a life.
When you decrease the back-pressure in your exhaust, you have to increase the fuel-flow on the intake side of things to compensate for the increased oxygen flow into the combustion chamber. If you don't, you will be running VERY lean, which eats valves.
Your car, like most modern cars, is already in a "nearly too lean" condition from the factory, in order to get better mileage. Thus the occasional subtle popping with the stock exhaust.
And no, the stock computer will NOT compensate for the increase in airflow. It's not designed for that kind of thing.
You need to change the EEPROM(s) and/or injectors/jetting and/or fuel pump flow (not pressure, VOLUME!) if you don't want major repair bills down the road.
Always cracks me up when the CluelessBikerBoys[tm] pull the baffles from their exhaust and/or install a coffee-can muffler and pop-pop-pop away ... until they need a major rebuild.
"I recently replaced the centre section with a straight pipe, which makes it crack and pop on the overrun"
Ah, yes. Changing exhaust for "sound". Contraindicated. It's called "lean popping". You're burning your valves. Get your intake re-tuned before you need to do some very expensive head work.
... I've never had a problem with this option.
In fact, I quite like it. Much better than being sandwiched between two mothers/fathers with three or four squalling kidlets pushing over-flowing shopping carts for 15-20 minutes after heading to the till ... .
In, out, 5 minutes total, max.
All y'all so-called techies who can't handle the (so-called "easy") interface? Look within.
On the other hand, perhaps Tesco's software sucks rather more than Lucky/Raley/Safeway?
I dunno ... I'm on the left side of the dampish bit of solid ground on the left side of the pond ... Anyone in the San Francisco ElReg Office care to speak up?
Uh, AC, do you REALLY think that store-bought commercial systems are tested at the ones&zeros level by anyone other than the company selling it to you?
Me, I do development & quality control in-house. It's cleaner. And cheaper.
And I hire adults, not kids. Nothing beats butt-in-the-saddle time.
This machine (my main day-to-day portable & desktop device) is a near-10 year old HP Pavilion 5000 series laptop, with docking station when at home. It runs slackware-current. It also runs my businesses, without a hiccup in all that time.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is my mantra.
No, I'm not an idiot. Yes, I take daily incremental backups, weekly full backups, and have several alternate bits of hardware that can take over ... the GNU tool-set makes that easy.
I made no mention of the NSA (or whatever).
It's NOT easier to "cloudify" (what an 'orrible word!) if you have competent staff. If your staff is incompetent ... well, what can I say? Bad management hires incompetent staff.
And as a side-note, TheInternet (whatever that is!) is NOT secure, by any stretch of the imagination. What we now call "the Internet" was designed as a research network to research networking. It was designed right from the git-go to SHARE data, not to stifle it. And it still does that remarkably well.
And the marketards of the world have latched onto that, alas ...
My network time-keeper checks in on ntp.org once a week (and is accurate to under a quarter of a second every six months). The rest of the kit take clock from that box daily. It's close enough for government work, so it's close enough for me. My weather gear also checks ntp.org regularly, as does the telco kit that keeps my cell phone's clock accurate.
I don't wear a watch. I can see the time from nearly everywhere, these days.
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