Topics on my particular interests.
Wow… I always thought of bugs as little more than self-reproducing low-level biological robots, but I didn’t realize they had bugs of their own. 😉 If this happened in practically any other species, the entire group affected by it (and the genes responsible for it) would essentially cease to exist, because once locked into it …
So take that and blow it out your saddle-bags, reactionary eighties parents! 😉
I haven’t had a chance to use this myself yet, but it looks intriguing. Maybe enough to convince me to abandon my Velcro-fastened shoes, even if they are efficient.
I switched to Thunderbird for my e-mail and RSS a few years ago, because it was cross-platform, open-source (so I didn’t have to worry about the company abandoning it if/when they decided they weren’t making enough money with it), and worked with GPG so I could still have my secure e-mail. I have never been …
That explains a lot: they’re mentally ill. Something we “numerates” have long suspected. (Sorry for the pay-wall, it wasn’t there when I first wrote this post. There’s what seems to be a complete copy of it here, though I don’t know for how long.)
Our cell phone company has just started adding a $2 charge for any customer that still receives a mailed bill. They’re promising to donate an additional $2 to a charity for any customer that goes paperless, too. I expected this sort of thing to happen years ago. Companies have been touting paperless billing for more …
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Nothing to add to this, just thought it was very interesting. And, of course, the Monty Python reference (in the original article) is always appreciated. 😉
I’ve mentioned my love/hate relationship with upgrades before. Yesterday I had another check-mark for the “hate” column. I’d run into a minor compiler bug in my Ubuntu version of GCC. Since a new version of the OS had just been released the day before, promising even faster bootups and other improvements, I thought I’d upgrade …
Something else to file in the “if only I had money to burn” category. I’d dearly love to see Ada Lovelace’s programs run on the machine they were written for.
I really don’t know what to make of this, except to bet that there were far more geeks in the audience than opera fans: Schonfeld said he has invited the people of Klingon to see the show during its three day run in the 100-seat Zeebelt theatre in The Hague or a later run in …
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