Posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle
“All I am pointing out is that the entirety of human knowledge IS NOT available on line. “
Unfortunately for you the electronic medium that stored your earlier post has not self-destructed or been rendered obsolete:
“Then here is one they never think of: Electronic devices go obsolete in a few short years.”
Knuth’s books are now online. I think the Computer Snob in all of us would prefer the hardbound books. I downloaded, and won’t shell out the bucks for the books.
I'm not sure with what you are taking issue, because everything I have stated here is true.
FSU had a ‘mainframe’ in 1965 that we did ‘programming’ on but I really cut my teeth on a IBM 360 with punchcards, especially when I had to get a bunch of programs running on the ‘compatible’ Amdahl 360 that UofF upgraded to.
A PDP-11 was a workhorse for our field work. My favorite computer now? A Denon 4300.
Drooling....
“If you want to keep up with your stuff, you must copy it from one media to another, forever. Just like I said before.”
Your description of it as an frequent onerous task. Since the 80’s I just pull the hard disk out of my old computer and put it into my new one. Start the copying and come back a little while later, pull the disk and ‘archive’ it.
It’s been over four years since the last. I have a backup disk in my computer that gets backed up to a USB hard drive about once a month.
Put my system together piece by piece as I found sales.
I have a mini-pc in the cabinet to access high quality (360 bps Pandora) and starting a collection of Hi Def albums from HDTracks.
Have a Harmony Hub and Echo. Walk into the run and tell Alexa to turn on Music or TV.
Overheard in 1968: "A computer on a chip! What a crock! They'll never amount to anything!".
The 360 drove me to Space Invaders!
Checks ...
They better open a Brick and Morter that accepts CASH ...
Companies ( more than one ) already skip sending me a Bill so that they can Dun me and then try to get me to sign up for the Auto-Pay...
Old tactic
Orwell was right.
Why pay $2.66 or anything at all for that trivial service?
You can use Google Drive or iCloud or Dropbox or ZipCloud or whatever. Upload your content and send your correspondent the download link. Simple. Post Office not needed!
Or just have your correspondent set up an FTP server, log onto it, and upload your content directly onto your correspondent's hard drive. Or you can set up an FTP server, post your content, and let your correspondent download it. More work, but Google, etc., not needed, just the internet.
All you need is an internet connection. You would not be reading this if you did not have one of those.
Why do you need the Post Office to send bits? The Post Office is about dead trees, about sending physical things, not bits.
Will you scan my Machinery Handbook for me? It is 2693 pages long and the cover measures 4.8 X 7.2 inches. You won’t be allowed to break the binding.
Good point.
Hit a deer in January...got it into the body shop in March.
A sign was posted indicating anything over $1,000 had to be paid with a check but you could use a CC for $1,000 or less.
We gave them a check for $250 (our deductible) and they received the other $4,600 via a check in the MAIL (see list item #1).
Have a great week, FRiend!
The most incorrect one is “music”.
I sort of do. I have used it for strings of LED lighting and they work fine. I wouldn’t think of using it for incandescent lighting at all.
*** “11. Common Sense” ***
It has never been common, now it is rare ;^)
FedEx carries much of the mail now, anyway. Big contract. UPS lost it a few years ago.
If you get something that was picked up by the USPS, and delivered by the USPS, it likely flew on a FedEx plane, if the distance was great.
If you get something in the mail that started with FedEx, it’s cheaper than having FedEx deliver it the “last mile”.
You should work for th ePost Office if you cannot figure it out. Collect it on the receiving end instead of wasting money sending it back.
“I sent a birthday card with a gift card to Danville, PA.”
I no longer mail gift cards-——they are a big theft item.
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