Re: WTF
A bad programmer always blames the language.
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The 68010 tightened up on a couple of things to make it Popek and Goldberg compliant to allow proper secure virtualisation. This involved tightening up access to the status register so anything that needed to check the carry bit would stop working. Fairly easy to fix though. Intel didnt get there till 2005!
A friend was in the fleet air arm and something broke while flying one day and he ejected at 600kts and only survived because a local fishing boat managed to catch the top of his chute before it went completely under the Med. Quite a lot of him was broken in the incident.
I was visiting Motorola in Mesa and went for a walk to take in the local scenery and discovered there were no pavements or side-walks as they call them there. After a while wandering around even the local beer started to seem more attractive than being mown down.
Our dog get two walks of around an hour every day and if he doesnt get them he tries to do the distance indoors! Fortunately I have 16 acres of smallholding to walk him in. I say walk cos that's what I do - he runs flat out for most of the time, and even in winter jumps in the river to cool off. I still piss myself laughing when I remember the noise he made when the river froze over!
I've done AV checks on many machines. Its only ever windows generated content that has ever tested positive.
Now this 'new' method has been highlighted I will test all my local machines when I can find a sure way of doing so but given Blackberrys reluctance to provide evidence of its spread in the field I'm not sure if its common enough not to be more of problem testing for it.
Faces are of little use - I find video calling takes me seriously into Uncanny Valley - I think its the eye-contact thing just makes everyone seem extremely shifty. Video is useful for white boarding of some forms and video of some peoples gestures is very occasionally useful.
When I used to do long distance running in the days before fancy water bottles I used to run with nothing but a Yale key in my pocket. On getting a new pair of shorts I found they had a little net pocket in the middle of the belt region the looked key sized - unfortunately it allowed the key to swing* and after 15 miles it had bashed a serious hole in my flesh.
*yes I was built like a stick insect.
A friend of mine has the annoying habit of using his on our gig and seems to OCD us to do 10km even if we have been doing racing starts and other extreme workload exercises. And then tries to say that's enough when we hit 10k on a beautiful morning when we've got a good 2 or 4 k left in most of us.
With no access to a coiffure merchant I've started turning all Neil from the young ones and got out the dried lentils. Amazed at their ability to generate some 10 or 20,000 times their own volume in methane. Might grind some up chickpeas for my own gram flour and try Onion Bhajis with Tarka Dhall for breakfast tomorrow to ensure plenty of room to check the labels in the drinks section in the supermarket later!
Well for the people expecting pensions may well see it as wiped out! The managers of the said funds will be taking a larger cut due to 'exceptional circumstances''. I've seen friends have their pension funds whittled away by management costs when the market was healthy !
Has no-one had the wit to make a small BT keyboard with a hinge at the back that the phone slots into so you can use it like the Gemini?
Have I just given away another fortune? Probably not - because what you really need is a hinge that takes a small BT keyboard and a phone and that should be 3d printable!
I'd still call Android crap software. Having used a Psion5 for a while I really want a proper keyboard on my phone and I'm hoping enough people start using it to get the linux debugged - or possibly the phone shit taken out of it and put in another linux version as this has the potential to be a really useful machine and getting us away from the utter crap that the android cesspit seems filled with.