Why not? Its just that for the subjective metrics people will have different opinions and therefore draw different conclusions about which one is "better"
Which is the OPs exact point. While some people value their editor being very light on ram, other people value other things, and that's okay.
Have you tried vim? When I say tried, attempted to actually get into it. Not accidentally open it && stack overflow how to quit. You can easily do what you mention in vim... and I have no doubt, much quicker. Let's not forget vim gives you the power of cli, in addition to all it's other text manipulation benefits.
It's for Telex service. You dialed up another Teletype machine to send a message to it. At startup, the other end was interrogated to print its answer-back on both Teletypes, to confirm that you'd reached the right destination. Then you could type to the other end, or send a paper tape and have it print or punch at the other end.
parking garages/lots would be incentivized to work with manufacturers to come up with automated ways to check in and out because it directly leads to more revenue for them (and less hassle with accidents I'd bet)
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did anybody try opening this article without adblock?
I got two flash ads autoplaying audio in firefox (in chrome they don't auto-play audio), each with the same movie trailer but one was about a second behind the other.
And it jacked up my scrolling pretty hard, probably due to the performance hit (the page loaded noticeably slower.)
Am I missing something or is there no barcode scanner? It seems like a no-brainer to me. You wouldn't even need additional hardware, just use the camera as a scanner.
While I think its really cool from a programming perspective, from a web design perspective, that logo was annoying the shit out of me.
If you want me to read your blog, let me read it and stop distracting me.
I find it entertaining how people think that younger generations don't know what things are.
The majority of teenagers right now could tell you what it is and probably even how it worked.
One reason they know about it is because there's some retro stuff happening, and cassettes are appearing on t-shirts and iPhone cases. Also, "mix tapes" are probably still big, even if they're in a different format.[1]
But I doubt that most teenagers really know much about a cassette. I guess it depends how much we're talking about. They might know it's something that held music. But would they know about C60? Or the prevent-record tab? Or spinning a cassette on a biro to rewind it (or gentle twiddling the biro to wind tape back on after it had despooled)? Would they know about chrome? Would they know that cassettes were double sided?
I'm making a list for my son (he's 2 1/2) of things we do today (and things I did when I was younger) that he might find weird. Cassettes definitely go in that list. "Physical thing? For sound? What bit rate? Wait, what, analogue?". I'm also including the fact that I used to have to chop wood for the fire and that we had a 'party line' (a phone line shared between a number of households with phase based signalling).
3 or 4 years ago I was given an old 8-bit Amstrad home computer, of the type popular when I was at school, plus assorted peripherals and associated junk. I refused to have anything to do with the filthy thing, because it had a Z80 in it, so I passed it to one of my old colleagues to add to his collection. A few days later he told me what his sons made of it. He has two, aged at the time something like 11 and 9. (Their opening comment: "What's in the box? - ohh! A computer from the olden days!" :))
Surprisingly, both correctly figured out what the 3" disks were for.
The younger had never seen a cassette tape before, and didn't know what it was. The elder did know, and even knew how you used it - though as it turned out, this was only because he had had a very similar conversation with a friend's father (though it was a car tape player that time).
There was also a VHS tape in the box. Neither had the first idea what it was.
Which is the OPs exact point. While some people value their editor being very light on ram, other people value other things, and that's okay.