Because it is…

I would do this if I could afford it. I was looking a few months ago and somebody locally had a ‘00 Ranger 5 speed 2 seater w/ ~150k mi for $5000 and an ‘01 S10 for $7000.

1. Something in the Saxhorn family I would guess. Possibly a marching euphonium?

2. It was the same day as those thwack tubes, you missed a really fun day.

3. They do look plumbed as urinals to me, it’s just really hard to see the drain pipe going off to the right of each bell behind the bells.

You have to remember that when Clippy was introduced with Office 97 in Nov. 1996 a lot of people were coming to a PC from a DOS era or older machine, typewriter, or nothing at all. Anthropomorphic assistants were all the rage to teach people how to use a GUI for the first time. Admittedly Microsoft took things too far. But for a lot of people who didn’t know the wizards were there the assistants were genuinely helpful.

That’s step two.

Start with Plex and learn from there.

You may be right about the copyrights in the individual unit, but I was talking about the underlying car OS in response to the commenter who said “most car systems run android”. QNX is a real-time operating system which is required for something like a car. Another for instance would be Microsoft Auto which Ford used before switching to QNX.

In general a modern car will have dozens or hundreds of computers running their own software and communicating in a sort of API fashion usually through something like CAN bus. Most of these systems can’t afford to wait on something to boot when you start your car.

In very general terms we are talking about the main difference between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi.

I was under the impression that a large portion of cars still ran QNX.

Nah it’s because he is really smart in one area but keeps acting like he is some omni-genius. He lacks the insight to be able to say “I don’t know”.

Sesame Street is and always has been owned by Sesame Workshop (formerly Children’s Television Workshop). They had an agreement, that I believe has expired, with HBO to allow 6 months of exclusivity on Max before airing on PBS.

Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.

Given that I have worked with people who got confused when the start button stopped having the word “Start” on it I am going to disagree with you.

I can totally see somebody putting in a ticket because “it kept adding letters to the end of the file name when they saved”.

The weird thing is that it worked too well. Like Y2K, it was fixed so it became a nothing burger. Now everyone thinks it was an overreaction and don’t want to keep fixing things.

I remember people talking about not curing covid as fast because then people wouldn’t take the next pandemic as seriously.

FYI: Scapegoat.

One of my favorite SNL sketches features Al Gore as Willy Wonka’s brother addressing some of those issues.

He came into a vacuum created by Microsoft being litigious in the 90s. There were other companies already doing a better job. (Caldera, for example) As with many rich assholes, he was simply in the right place at the right time with millions already in hand.

It took me a moment to realize that “Gritty Black” and “White Polish” weren’t movie titles.

Mark Shuttleworth is a greedy bastard and it’s finally starting to show.

The rovers themselves have to do the entire landing (called EDL in NASA speak) autonomously. The process takes 11 minutes so, likewise, by the time we hear the report that EDL has started the rover is already on the ground.

Oh, how easily we all forget…