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Having been taught, at various times, CGS; MKS; "Rationalised" MKS; SI (and I'm sure there was another in there somewhere), I'll settle for a nice, stable Slug any day of the week.

It is ?

... and there is no "Do not ask me again" selection. Seems that Paypal hopes you'll select instant logon eventually, either by mistake or out of frustration to make it go away.

Makes you wonder who the enemy is.

Given the modern propensity for pulling the plug at the device, rather than the power source, I'm rather surprised too.

Anyone remember the days of nearly-room-sized computers surrounded by a bunch of young ladies typing away at punch-card machines?

If so, was your impression the same as mine - that the ladies became pregnant at a rate way above the national average? Always wondered about that.

To me the difference between writing in assembler and writing in one of the higher level languages is like building, say, a steam engine from scratch vs building it from a ready-machined kit.

....all those little registers to twiddle - what could be more fun?

I did, if it ever arrives ..... without chicken goop.

8080, 4040 ?

Incidentally, anyone dating back to 8080/Z80 days might find some memories here:

http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals/Processor%20Technology/

(the ALS-8 in particular did it for me)

and here:

http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals/

Edited By Bandersnatch on 06/02/2020 18:54:49

.... or is it like the fashion world. Is it offered because people want it or do people want it because it's offered?

I saw this today on mozilla-support-firefox. It might explain why some people at least need the latest and greatest:

 

">You could also limit the number of open tabs. From random comments about that, I'd suggest you keep it under two dozen or so.

 

Alas, I have 37, and that is windows, not tabs. Each window has 2 to 35

tabs, maybe an average of 8, just guessing. With all that it works

pretty well, only requiring a restart of FF once a day or so. I have it

set to not load the tab until I look at it, so that saves a lot of RAM

and a lot of HDD reading. Interestingly, I can look at a tab, then look

at the one next to it, and come back to the first one only 10 seconds

later, and it's blank and has to reload, from the cache I presume."

 

Edited By Bandersnatch on 04/02/2020 16:43:48

Well, a more modern, much faster machine with better graphics capability can do wonders for an older (but powerful) CAD program. Especially if you have large assemblies that need to be manipulated. SSD drives can help too.

There are probably other programs where the speed and graphics capability can be useful too.

.... and the keyboard developer didn't run the "Oil of Olay" test.

The biggest problem I have with silk-screened characters on keys is reflections from the silk-screen. (I'm hunt-and-peck).

Edited By Bandersnatch on 04/02/2020 14:53:44

I don't see the use of CAB files as an issue. They're only compressed files after all and their use is pretty much immaterial to the end user. It does give the smallest footprint and allows MS to use whatever installation media is most cost-effective for them (can't blame them for that).

My main bug is MS's practice of burying the OS setup under deeper and deeper levels and generally taking it out of the hands of the end user unless they have serious IT training. Sort of a Nanny-Microsoft approach,

God-Mode helps a bit but some of the setup stuff is pretty obscure when you do get there.

True - I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

It would be a useful thing for model engineers to train themselves to use both hands. Useful in itself and useful before ageing when partial loss of use of one hand might occur.

Is it possible to do that successfully?

Perhaps it didn't so much end up like this as start like this. If the original owner bought it new, plugged it in and it didn't work he may have shelved it pro tem then not got around to returning it (been there, done that) or fixing it.

That would be my guess if it's apparently new but with an open winding.

Edited By Bandersnatch on 01/02/2020 23:09:38

I didn't even know there are left-handed monkeys (let alone that they use wrenches). What a great source of information this forum is!

More accurately it will tell the website where your ISP is located - which may be a long way from where you are (~ 250 km in my case).

Bit of (Mozilla) discussion on Firefox cache use here FWIW

I suppose a left handed lathe would have to rotate in the opposite direction .... and screw-on chucks would have to have the opposite thread?