wyld_one's comments

Eating aka touching my food? off limits! period. Health & safety.

late I can stand - I have a microwave. I Order items that can be.

Do I need it? Most definitely - Especially when I hurt.

Gripes? impatient knocking. give me a min or two to get to the door. It helps if I can hear them coming up my walk / GPS track helps but it is sometimes not available or 5min old. see previous reason.

Deliver to the door. required. period. I have left feedback to the third party delivery sites to add SMS messaging to the driver apps so they can beep me when they arrive (and keep privacy).

I do quite hate having to tip before performance.

I have only had one non-delivery, and one missing items. On the missing item delivery, saw the driver goto a separate location entirely (GPS) before they dropped off my order. - out of about 60 orders.

Lax-E-boy recliner with lift.

Interesting, when you mentioned Power C I thought you meant this: http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/powerc.htm

The book for it was very nice as well. Best bang for the buck at the time. Could only compile code up to x286, not 386 CPUs

As a person with visual issues, I hope they beefed up the screen zoom control. I have a mouse that has a thumb scroll wheel and I usually map it to "<window>+, <window>-" (if in windows-not the one for browsers)

That way the whole screen is the lens of the magnifier. I adjust it as needed. I can use it with 'windowed game mode' to even zoom games as needed when playing.

One other point I would like if they addressed is the screen rez on bootup with zoom features. again I travel with my ubuntu 'laptop' and hook it to hotels tv panel for the monitor via hdmi. saves bringing a huge panel with me everywhere.

But since sometimes it has trouble detecting the real resolution of the said monitor, the 'zoom' controls are often lost or are tiny, or off the screen. makes it real hard to setup that way.

Hm storage as RAM. Sounds like what IBM AS/400 was doing like 30 years ago for mini-frame machines.

I can't really say it's an open standard either since proprietary binary data can be embedded that may not be usable by the 'standard' pdf viewer.

Yes, I have had to deal with it on a development slant as well. The open source tools are rare.

Paper records are the reason systems went to databases to store information.

PDF is NOT the swiss army knife of IT-data and never will be.

Even as a Book format it is klunky, as it has no indexing. Take the text to speech tools and the bigger the book the slower it gets near the end of the book.

I would rather have a plain ole html file with formatting flags than a PDF book.

It is not open data.

You still can have proprietary blocks of info inside the file.

The lack of open source tools to manipulate the format is a major hindrance IMHO.

It is also a very space wasting as well when people only do a bitmap dump into the file for scans. Forms are also an area that is not open source either.

It has so many hacks and kludges, it would be better if it was trashed and we start with postscript again.

Every time I see one more way advertisers force their garbage on you, I think of drug dealers. Wake up, we are allowing this to happen.

As for Google - shame on you.

I see that mercurynews uses a anti ad blocker. Therefore; I will not patronize the news service.

Gee did they model it from Harlequin books?

One I did. Self modifying Lotus 123 Macro code to format information downloaded from a System/38-IBM AS/400 to make 'nice looking labels'. Because lotus had graphics (PC) and could print them to a Laser printer and the System/38 did not. Ran that way for years

KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.

remember you or others of our Ilk will have to touch or replace that code some day. Getting fancy or sneaky is fun with competitions or bragging rights but in practical coding simple is ALWAYS best.

Maybe we should put AI in all the weapons. Then have them play Tic Tac Toe.

Call it the Joshua Project. :)

3 things: "would you like the upgrade package that shows the outside?" and "Ads on windows" Gee joy, more useless garbage to have to listen to. On the other hand you would have some joker make a virus to have the displays put a buzzing insect on it.

Hm, I'd rather have a intimidating set of dragon horns. Maybe something modular for the way I feel atm. Ooo RGB mood horns? They would less to clean and take care of. A way to head butt morons, and keeps the sun off my head and out of my eyes as well as a cool way to do sunglasses. It might be hell on the car roof upholstery. It would also be cheaper than all of the fake products they sell for 'healthy hair'. Also relieve 'Crack cures' on the internet and medical burden as well.

I'll say it no one else will...

Yeah and all is well and good until some faceless stalker tracks down, stalks, molests, brutalizes and finally murders some 'important/high muckety mucks' 11yr old daughter and posts it all over the net. Then the the gov have no choice but to enforce 'real' protection of your security.

A house has two doors, frontdoor and backdoor. Either one gives you access to the contents you're trying to protect.

It's time public/gov wises up and demands REAl security.

Less migraines triggered on weekends. I found that idf I did not consume a similar about of caffine per day I coul more often get a migrain on a weekend when I did not have the same amount. E.g. I used to drink 3 Mt Dew a day and have none on weekends.

Now I limit the amount I drink to be infrequent (maybe 1 a week) And I love Mt Dew

Set up digital books for content.

Prohibit/censure teachers for 'requiring' books they wrote when they were never used in class.

Book reuse is also key. I was able to use my Calculus book for three semesters. And like you say the content does not change that much.