Posts by A-nonCoward 130 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2017
>asked if there was anything on the keyboard.
cheers to that honest poor guy who's going nuts because he spilled coffee on the keyboard, thinking he had broken the $5,000 computer (and keyboards in those days could take a good wash and be fine after hanging out to dry. Even had to do that once with a dozen 5 1/4 floppies - with data (ahem, games) that had fallen into a puddle when running out of the rain - they all worked)
I went see the map. Internet has been slow today, and loading the data was a pain. Yeah.
Major city with strong IT presence,
The map shows the wrong area after first not even recognizing my zip code, in a central area of town. Then it turns out there's lot of competition(?), 8 providers, but 3 of them are by satellite :pfff only one cable, 2 ADSL, two "fixed wireless" (?) of companies I had never heard of. Interestingly, our cable provider is not listed.
only 2 are listed as more than 25/3 Mbps.
This looks like merely a different flavor of useless.
Seeing the so-called "Earth Curvature" proves nothing! Very sophomoric to try to use a rocket, manned or not, to "prove" the Earth is not flat.
That "curvature" results from an optic illusion due to the density of atmospheric gas near and far from the surface, something that is well known and easy to measure.
Just notice that, as you go UP, which is only one way (up!), the "curvature" seems to increase, though when you are close to the ground there is no such a thing, actually the appearance on flat ground or by the sea is as if you were inside a bowl, that "horizon" seems to be higher than you are.
I had a minimum-wage+$1 at a local non-profit while my visa situation was getting sorted out. It was not my job to do IT, but when eventually the fan got hit and I was to be out by orders of the Jefe Maximos, my boss, a kind gentleman, took me to dinner and told me that, whatever else, in his branch he could expect that every employee would find a computer ready to operate, and thank you.
Oh well.
ok, puny fine, but, here nuisance calls are getting bolder, more often, and no respect for the so called "no call list", or for cellphones, both being supposedly off limits.
And of course, fake caller ID, etc.
Complain to the FCC? have you seen their form? it's so long and intrusive that the whole nuisance of the situation gets multiplied.
It would be SO easy to just honeypot these callers and then chase them upstream, could be an automated thing.
oh well...
Forgetting how many disk-drive makers went under, Chris sayeth,
once upon a time disk manufacturing capacity was less than tape and disk successfully replaced tape for mainstream storage without the disk-drive makers becoming shirtless
The only ones that thrived were the ones that could spend zillions to make new technology and fabs. The lucky ones got swallowed, most staff sent to rot.
Fabs get more and more expensive, inverse proportion to size of dies, chips, whatever gets smaller but costs more to start manufacturing, in the hope that you will recoup that larger investment by selling astronomical amounts and that your prices won't be undercut. At some moment, the cost is too high to take the risk. Seen that happen. BTW, older fabs are very cheap to purchase, still good for not-the-latest chip making, thus lotsa weird clones for low-end and heavy competitive manufacturing.
BTW, Chris is quite OK if he has friends of this quality, as the gentleman being interviewed really makes sense, you don't need to know everything. Can we corroborate the numbers independently?
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