"It's a Buddhist meditation technique. Focuses your aggression."
-- Otto (A Fish Called Wanda)
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Steve Martin - The Cruel Shoes (from Comedy Isn't Pretty)
See also: The IT Crowd, S 01 / E 02 - Calamity Jen
IIRC, you could use the Psions (3, 5) quite well standing up or walking around (slowly) if you were using both hands to hold it and both thumbs to type on it. Pretty much like I'm doing right now with a tablet. It worked even better on the Psions - proper keyboard, better form factor for that sort of thing.
And this, Charlie Brown, is what "cloud" is all about.
Solutions looking for problems, with the added bonus of crappy security and new attack surfaces.
As a side note, about the "it's hard to picture a more innocent scenario" bit - anyone who thinks that four year old girls are harmless hasn't been to kindergarten.
There, there... technically, while circling the moon, you are still simultaneously circling the sun.
Anyway, good luck to SpaceX! Good to see that somenone is going to go "out there" again. Although I wouldn'd call a lunar orbit "deep space".
But it makes sense; it's the logical step towards moon landings and, later on, mars missions.
Now that is a joystick. And the trackball isn't bad either...
The TI-99/4A... I remember it well. Not a bad piece of kit, but never really got popular over here. In fact, the other nerds thought of you as an oddball if you had one of those. What really killed it was the lack of games availiable. Let's face it, we all told our parents that we needed that computer thingy "for school", and it had to have a proper keyboard for typing all that homework. Once the floppy disc drive for the C64 was availiabe (and could be paid for with the money from a summer job) every other system was dead in the water.
That was what the Pebble tried (and failed) to be.
You would have needed a bigger Pebble, and several of them, so to speak. The home computer/PC analogy works quite well here. If you started dabbling with computers in the early 1980ies, you had a lot of choice. Most of the names are forgotten now, but there was a wide range, and with local flavour too. Depending on your goals, budget and inclination, anything from 'build your own' to 'off the shelf high performance' was availiable. And, and this is the important bit, you could write your own software. And if you knew you wanted a computer, but didn't really know what for, you'd get one that you could play games on.
And wearables never really went through that phase.
Well, given what I regulary read here on El Reg about the way IT is handled by the bobbies, that's probably the least of your worries. What are the odds that proper* backups even exist?
* You know... two is one, and one is none... actually be able to restore from backup... DR plans that exist and actually work... etc... etc...
Well, just as long as you'll get proper support.
Ahh, that explains a lot... I always knew that disabling the "fast save" option in, say WinWord 2.0, was a good idea as "fast save" had a tendency to fuck up your files (not something you'd want, especially while working on your thesis), but now I know why.
As to the the article - "Today, 10 years after of SHA-1 was first introduced, we are announcing the first practical technique for generating a collision," the research team said today. - I can't shake the feeling that maybe another team, possibly based in Anne Arundel County (MD), got there already a couple of years ago, but didn't bother with announcing it.
Some years back, during my construction site manager days, on the building site of a new logistics centre I walked past a couple of guys working on one of the high racks. They had their hardhats and harnesses and safety cords - the works, as per regulations.
Still, something didn't seem right and kept nagging me, so I went back... Couldn't put my finger at it. Went on... went back again, and this time I realised what it was: the guys were working 12 m above floor level. Their safety cords were about 15 m long.
I do that on the routes I travel fairly regular. Whenever possible, I time the trip so that I'm at the right places for elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner... Travel is much more enjoyable that way, and the stress I avoid is worth the extra time and the odd little detour on any day.
Okay, if we are plugging coffee places...
"But, in my experience, unless you're really out of order, you're much more likely to encounter serious unpleasantness at the other end of the spectrum, even if the language isn't quite as fruity."
This. And, just for good measure, this, again.
Cheers, and have a nice weekend, everybody!
Some people can manage that easily...
RIMMER: Yvonne McGruder. A single, brief liason with the ship's female boxing champion. March the sixteenth, seven thirty one PM to seven forty three PM.
LISTER: Please.
RIMMER: Twelve minutes.
LISTER: Please!
RIMMER: And that includes the time it took to eat the pizza.
In People's Democratic Republic of North America, Phoenix is constant!
Since 1867, anyway.
"The company assumes that modern workers dislike using enterprise software and/or can't be bothered to CTRL-TAB between different SaaS applications, so lets users consume the resulting stream of notifications in either a Facebook-like feed or in their preferred messaging app.
Well, as much as it bothers me to say so, they do have a point.
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 - 13 years ago. So for anyone in their early-to-mid twenties* it has been around "since, like, forever". And for the majority of the not-so-tech-savvy, using Facebook has been their first (and formative) time using software and a computer. Years before they realised (or not) that a smartphone is a computer and all the apps on it are software.
* I seem to remember this age group being called "twens". Is that still a thing?
"Why do I have to ask Tesla for permission to sell MY car?"
Good question... is it really YOUR car, in the sense that you actually OWN it and can do with it whatever you want?
I don't know the particulars in Tesla's contracts, but lately I have been noticing a tendency amongst makers of vehicles to regard their products not so much as sell-and-forget physical things, but rather as intellectual property on wheels that the "buyer" may use for some time, within clearly defined (and somewhat repressive) parameters.
"The machine won't give up. It will just keep digging until it strikes blood."
So, once again, life will imitate art?
"As for axes, these are a perennial source of problems. Show point of origin on both x and y scales, and you risk turning all but the most egregious variations (in say the FTSE 100, for instance) as a near straight line. But truncate them – plot the FTSE over a range from 6800 to 7200, for instance – and you appear to show major fluctuations where only minor ones exist."
And this, boys and girls, is how "chart analysis" works.