The first computer I programmed on had 4K RAM - the TRS-80.
The first computer I used on a job had 256K RAM the PDP-11/44.
The first computer I paid for myself has 128K, and a 400K floppy - the OG Macintosh.

On the latter, you could fit the entire OS (less some fonts and desk accessories), MacWrite and MacPaint on one floppy.

We got lots of useful $#!+ done on those computers. It's not just errors, it's lazy.

I've been a TiVo user since the early 90s, maybe late 80s, including a couple DirecTiVos, combining with a DirecTV receiver.
It's been indispensable for OTA recording, especially for skipping commercials (although it's not always available).
Over the last few years, they continue to push new models at me, but only the cablecard-based ones, not OTA. I might have updated if they had a new OTA unit.

If they discontinue providing schedules for OTA programming, the "season pass" feature will be worthless, and I'll probably be stuck watching commercials on streaming, as I'm not willing to pay for the premium versions of Paramount, Hulu etc. (yes I know Hulu is going away)

because GDP numbers being almost entirely dependent on growth in data centers demonstrates that the economy outside of that one sector isn't in very good shape, which is important to know

boo fucking hoo

>>CEASELESS lawfare

translation: attempting to hold trump responsible for all the blatant law-breaking

the poster didn't say anything about federal funding. the republican party exists and operates at the state level too, you know

Nowadays, that cool kitchen cabinet is made in a factory, ordered from a catalog and installed by your carpenter.

Does anyone whose net worth is less than a cool billion hire someone to make a custom cabinet onsite?

I call it a collision.

I don't call it an accident because it is a likely, forseeable consequence.

Goofing off at work posting to Slashdot.

But I highly recommend you read his book "Where the Axe is Buried" which features a Europe where all the prime Minister have been replaced by AIs, and a very Russian "Federation" is or by a series of bodies into which the same mind has been loaded.

Publicist faces stunned fans and tells them, "Calm down everybody. That was the "evil Captain Kirk" from Episode 5."

(Fans restart their chatter and demand for autographs as if nothing has happened.

by that moronic reasoning an acorn is an oak tree

>>I thought infant death was kind of the point of an abortion.

a 12 week old fetus ain't an infant, son

The "word on the street" is that statins, medicines that lower bad cholesterol although I think it is hope over experience that they raise "good" (HDL) cholesterol, don't do much of anything for people who haven't had a heart attack. Once you have had a heart attack, their benefit to living longer is unmistakable.

Someone point me to a source saying this is wrong.

cardiac patients are being treated differently than when the original trials were done.

The time a ball takes to drop off the Leaning Tower in Pisa, not as much.