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The Chinese are at it now. :(

I thought David's rental car impacted into his friend in the Ferrari.

Why? What would you do?

I would be unhappy to say the least if my friend's rental car collided with mine, and I just have a normal car. :(

Blasphemy! Nothing is better than red wine, be it a classic Bordeaux or California Cabernet. :D

So you should also have a lot of earnings potential left, maybe ~1 million minus the meteor?

Canon seems to be going nowhere fast now that the lower end of the RF body is released.

You are only 56 or 57 now? I'd seek professional advice now as to projected future options, but of course those will change over time, too. Don't be so fatalistic.

I'm not the best at getting immediate treatment for non-critical issues, but medical conditions rarely resolve on their own. I've been lucky that all my surgeries were essentially successful, though some had complications. My body will never be what it was in my 30s, but at least I can hike a...

How do you know you'll make it to 70? You need to enjoy life as it comes along.

When did you have surgery, later on? At least our generation had power steering. Until the 60s most vehicles were manual.

70 isn't that old for normal driving. My grandfather was driving just fine well into his 80s, then deteriorated in the late 80s.

I meant "cars" and $130 million. ;) Probably the autonomic vehicles will get there eventually, but they still suffer numerous deficiencies. For example I was at a site recently where they tried to implement an autonomic vehicle, but it could not handle ice or snow or differentiate a bag blowing...

I would suggest a used Civic, Corolla or similar economy car. David can tell us what it costs to update an old Mazda to electric, but I don't suppose it was cheap. 😉 Robot controlled cats will be unreliable since the projects and programming involves people, often of limited competence. Under...

I received a similar email. Oddly enough it is to and from an e-mail account that I only used a couple of times about 5-6 years ago. Occasionally I receive offers for some software I tried as a demon back then. There is no indication that the extortionists have any passwords, so the threat is...

I don't know why it does that. Sorry this is the wrong thread.

The large over the ear types are usually uncomfortable when tight enough to consistently block sound, at least for me. I have a Sony of some kind and a more recent Bosed. I also have the issue of excessive bulk/weight on the international flights unless travel is for work. I'm not assigned to...

Without any medical interventions in the best case I'd in such bad shape as not to be able to work . I don't want to think about the worst case. :( Obviously some aches and pains are natural with ageing, but when you need surgery and medications you need them. Only a masochist wants to be in...

Apparently the Fungus is a scam.

Do you really want to be saddled with an old car for daily driving? Most people are driving to work, dropping off and picking up the kids, doing activities and visiting places on the weekends, etc. They want cars to work, not break down or require frequent maintenance. An electric motor...

I'm confused. Are you building a one-off resto-mod type vehicle for person use, or is this part of the business scheme mentioned in another post?

I don't get it. I have options in 10 Pro of the semi-annual channel or semi-annual (targeting) channel. My understanding from about a year ago was that the semi-annual with the 120 days deferment was the longest delay possible for the regular users, not having Enterprise versions or hacking, etc.

Nowadays SR specializes in misleading graphs. :D

I've not been infected so I wouldn't know. If I search on the Google I'll probably receive even more. :LOL:

Nothing but Scotch? No wine, no cognac?

No. I get 6 spams each time, 2-3 times a day.

I keep getting Japanese Toe Nail Fungus. WTF?

Wow, a blast from the past. I had no idea they still existed.

It is certainly possible, but not economical or efficient to convert a car from gas to electric. Modern vehicles are tightly integrated at all levels of construction, mechanicals and electronics. Maybe you could do so more easily with a Jeep or 1960s car, but it will never be as practical as...

Are you receiving medical treatment? Untreated GI issues in youth are not a good sign of things to come later in life.

That is my experience as well. In the office they have an older version and only roll out some security updates. My 10 pro will update immediately when connected, regardless of settings. :(

Self-employed and running your own business are not necessarily the same thing. I have no idea what David does nowadays though. I recall he worked for a construction company at one point.

I received a funky USB timer. I cannot quite figure it out, but maybe that will work.

The crappy ride and stupidly bad doors are just some of the issues with that expensive X clunker. Buy a normal SUV and save money that will more than pay for the cost of the gas. Or wait a few years and get an electric from the established luxury auto makers.

It was not as bad as the first time. About 15 minutes before leaving on Friday afternoon we were called into a conference room and given the announcement that the facility was being closed immediately. Simultaneously a locksmith was changing all the locks. :( There were no cell phones or...

There was nothing good about it at all. :( I was notified by phone and received no severance. I ultimately changed to a somewhat different career.

Yay, the Duderding is still alive. :) I hope it works out for you, but I busted my ass for years and was eventually laid about a year before the company closed. :confused:

A 16TB nVMe SSD would be resilvered in less than three hours. It's far faster than any hard drive. UBER is two orders of magnitude better than a hard drive and MTBF is better as well.

I keep trying that 80% thing, but I never seem to be around when it goes on and then it reaches 100%. I'm thinking about using an electrical timer or low capacity USB power bank.

When in doubt Italian food is quite edible in most countries.

Apparently this article is about SSDs, not HDDs. :doh: It's amazing the difference after getting home and have a 27' display compared to the cell phone.

The drive doesn't know what data is on it. Failure depends on the power on hours and to some degree the number of bytes W/R. Assuming a 16TB does not have more than 4x the failure rates of a 4TB drive, then 16TB would be better. In any case 16TB will be considered small when the 32TB drives...

That is probably about 100TB. :D 16 TB and larger will be normal once the drives have higher capacity per platter due to the MUMR and HAMR. The recent trend of simply adding platters is not helping transfer rates or performance in general.

Are you f*cking kidding?

Surely the big datacentres like the Google or Amazon should be designed to assume a certain number of drive failures every day without reducing performance below an acceptable level or increasing risk beyond an acceptable level. Small businesses or individuals with small numbers of drives are...

Koobface needs more than 640KB of RAM either. ;)

It was a different department from mine. ;)

My first smartphone lasted over 5 years, and technically was still working although the OS was obsolete. My second phone died after 3.5 years. I really see no reason that a phone cannot last for four years on average just like a laptop, some of which have charging control to prolong battery life.

In the old days we had a polynomial equation with a few variables to make estimations. Of course now everything is personalized with tons of data and AI in the cloudy systems.

Sure and it's first divorce age for many people as well.