mjcohen

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by mjcohen 12y ago
I'm posting from an Acer C720 docked to a 1920 x 1080 Benq monitor, and it looks and works just fine. If Open Office was working on ChromeOS, my joy would be extreme.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Open Office
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Yo!
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by mjcohen 12y ago
How about Parallels or VMware?
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Everything will be obsolete in a year or two. You just have to decide what piece of obsolete equipment will do the job you need done. And don't complain.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
I agree. I really enjoyed her talk. It filled my head with a number of interesting ideas, some of which I might even use. "Small is beautiful."
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Can this access my computer's camera?
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by mjcohen 12y ago
I don't think that that is so bad. At least they don't show "GREEN" in blue.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Depends what you consider its role to be. If its role is to provide work and income to its builders and suppliers, then it is already a massive success.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Should put the descriptions of what the color coding means at the top, as well as the bottom. Spoiler: green = already available, orange = in progress, red = still needs time.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
However "You can move and zoom in or out on your saved map, but you can’t search or get directions on it." Reduced the utility considerably imho. Both Navigon and Co-Pilot (on Android) can store the entire U.S. in about 1.5 GB.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
The current Supreme Court is pretty rogue itself.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Are you a current ex-IBMer?
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Come to me my Mellin-choly baby!
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by mjcohen 12y ago
Russia starting a cyber-war?
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by mjcohen 12y ago
I have written two floating point packages, both before 1975. The first was for the IBM 1401 (really!). iirc, it had a 2 or 3 digit exponent and 10 or more digit mantissa. It was just for fun, and never used for anything. The second was for
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by mjcohen 12y ago
And then they charge you US $25 per year or $5 per month for maps!!!! I'll stick with Co-pilot and Navigon. At least when you get the maps they are yours forever.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
As the saying goes, "It's not polite to talk with your mouth open."
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by mjcohen 12y ago
I loved "TO;DH"! That's me. Fortunately I was able to convert my layoff into retirement.
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by mjcohen 12y ago
But you can't search the resulting map or get directions. I have an Android phone, and the last good Maps for it was version 6. I do two things: (1) use copilot GPS with the whole U.S. and Canada (takes 1.8 GB); (2) keep my old Galaxy
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by mjcohen 12y ago
This just kept loading, so I killed it without looking. What is wrong with text????
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by mjcohen 12y ago
I started using velcro-fastening shoes when I had a mild stroke that prevented me from tying laces. Now, I continue to use them because (1) they are very convenient and easy to adjust, and (2) I go dancing a lot and find them easier to swit
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by mjcohen 12y ago
How about fancier graphing paper: Gaussian, log-normal with specified parameters, ...
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by mjcohen 13y ago
And in the early 60's there was the Dean drive (in Analog).
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by mjcohen 13y ago
"out" is not the opposite of "in": Are you in line? No, I am out line!
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by mjcohen 13y ago
People have done over 70 wpm with the Fitaly keyboard on Palm devices. See here: http://www.fitaly.com/
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by mjcohen 13y ago
I read a science fiction story many years ago that argued that if Germany had won WW II, India would never have become independent because the Germans would simply have executed Gandhi and any others who advocated Indian independence.
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by mjcohen 13y ago
Especially if inadvertent.
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by mjcohen 13y ago
It's simple(relatively) and almost always quite fast. Or would you rather use slowsort?
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by mjcohen 13y ago
That's why I use a trackball.

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