Eating aka touching my food? off limits! period. Health & safety.

late I can stand - I have a microwave. I Order items that can be.

Do I need it? Most definitely - Especially when I hurt.

Gripes? impatient knocking. give me a min or two to get to the door. It helps if I can hear them coming up my walk / GPS track helps but it is sometimes not available or 5min old. see previous reason.

Deliver to the door. required. period. I have left feedback to the third party delivery sites to add SMS messaging to the driver apps so they can beep me when they arrive (and keep privacy).

I do quite hate having to tip before performance.

I have only had one non-delivery, and one missing items. On the missing item delivery, saw the driver goto a separate location entirely (GPS) before they dropped off my order. - out of about 60 orders.

Lax-E-boy recliner with lift.

Interesting, when you mentioned Power C I thought you meant this: http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/powerc.htm

The book for it was very nice as well. Best bang for the buck at the time. Could only compile code up to x286, not 386 CPUs

As a person with visual issues, I hope they beefed up the screen zoom control. I have a mouse that has a thumb scroll wheel and I usually map it to "<window>+, <window>-" (if in windows-not the one for browsers)

That way the whole screen is the lens of the magnifier. I adjust it as needed. I can use it with 'windowed game mode' to even zoom games as needed when playing.

One other point I would like if they addressed is the screen rez on bootup with zoom features. again I travel with my ubuntu 'laptop' and hook it to hotels tv panel for the monitor via hdmi. saves bringing a huge panel with me everywhere.

But since sometimes it has trouble detecting the real resolution of the said monitor, the 'zoom' controls are often lost or are tiny, or off the screen. makes it real hard to setup that way.

Hm storage as RAM. Sounds like what IBM AS/400 was doing like 30 years ago for mini-frame machines.

A lot of the current server trends are basically reinventing wheels that were already spinning on mainframes multiple decades ago.

Those things were rock solid as well...

I can't really say it's an open standard either since proprietary binary data can be embedded that may not be usable by the 'standard' pdf viewer.

Yes, I have had to deal with it on a development slant as well. The open source tools are rare.

Paper records are the reason systems went to databases to store information.

PDF is NOT the swiss army knife of IT-data and never will be.

Even as a Book format it is klunky, as it has no indexing. Take the text to speech tools and the bigger the book the slower it gets near the end of the book.

I would rather have a plain ole html file with formatting flags than a PDF book.

It does have indexing, which I frequently use.

If your pdf book does not have it, there's some readers who can add it. e.g. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-pdf-indexes.h...

It is not open data.

You still can have proprietary blocks of info inside the file.

The lack of open source tools to manipulate the format is a major hindrance IMHO.

It is also a very space wasting as well when people only do a bitmap dump into the file for scans. Forms are also an area that is not open source either.

It has so many hacks and kludges, it would be better if it was trashed and we start with postscript again.

Every time I see one more way advertisers force their garbage on you, I think of drug dealers. Wake up, we are allowing this to happen.

As for Google - shame on you.

I see that mercurynews uses a anti ad blocker. Therefore; I will not patronize the news service.