You’re thinking of a swamp cooler. In some places they work great, in other places they’re next to useless.

Air conditioners are called that because they “condition” the air by not just cooling but also by reducing the humidity.

That 1990’s McDonald’s picture is the specific restaurant that was across the entrance from the Dallas Zoo, hence the animal theme. While it’s now remodeled and much more dull, it still looked like the picture up until just a few years ago. In any case, it’s not typical of what a McDonald’s has ever looked like.

As someone born around the same time as you, I do remember when the typical McDonald’s had a bright red roof with the yellow lights, which the 2000’s pic is a toned-down version of.

It works out for Dvorak.

Depending on what they are doing, it can be a form of sea-lioning.

I remember being annoyed when PS2 suddenly was a gaming console and not a line of personal computers from IBM.

Yes, I know it’s PS2 vs. PS/2 when written out, but no one ever says PS-slash-2 when speaking.

I don’t think it’s incompetence, exactly. If you’re not going to pay for Photoshop (Lightroom, Audition, etc…), Adobe would rather you use a pirated Photoshop as opposed to learning something else. Because even a pirated version helps them keep their stranglehold on the market.

It’s the same reason Microsoft doesn’t really crack down on pirated versions of Windows.

Boiling a mug of water by blowing hot air on it is going to take a while. My guess is if someone was to try this (which I don’t recommend) it’s going to take longer than 10-12 minutes.

It’s not actually wrong, but it certainly didn’t answer the actual question.

I was always a bit impressed by those shuttles. They are warp capable and apparently capable of maintaining warp speed for at least several weeks making them more of a starship themselves than just a shuttle. Not bad for something the size of a large van.

The worst one I remember was having to read Great Expectations in high school. Maybe I might appreciate the book more today, but at the time I found it incredibly boring and it just seemed to drag on and on and on. It really felt like a written soap opera from the 1800’s, which it kind of was as it was originally published a serial where the reader got a small part of it every week. Which probably accounted for how slowly the plot seemed to move.

Perhaps an honorable mention would go to “Triton”, as that’s the first book I remember where I started reading and actually got a decent way into it before putting it down as it was absolutely boring me out of my mind. Though I was a teen at the time, and one of my main sources of reading material was whatever I could find at garage sales for cheap. But nevertheless, almost always if I thought a book was interesting enough to buy it was also interesting enough for at least one read through, but that one stood out as an exception. Though I have to wonder if I tried reading it again today if I might manage to get through it this time.

I have to rank Children of the Mind as one of the just plain weirdest books I’ve ever read. Just when I thought it couldn’t get weirder, Orson Scott Card manages to throw something else at you. After I finished Children of the Mind, I decided at that point I was going to move onto some other book series.

I’ll still recommend Ender’s Game as that’s a classic, but I wouldn’t bother with the sequels.

That sounds like a problem with whatever edition you read. I had to read it a long time ago for school and the version we read was more like a short novel and I found it an interesting read.

There’s a number that can be played with just a mouse. Though looks like that’s not an option.

Naw, the best software they’ve ever produced is 6502 BASIC.

Though Flight Simulator does get an honorable mention.

Personally, I didn’t really mind Wesley in the later seasons and a few of the Wesley-centric episodes were pretty good. It’s really the first season, and even more so the first few episodes of the first season where he was annoying as all hell. Oh look, boy wonder saves the ship, yet again. Unfortunately that kind of seems to have stuck with the character, despite the show toning down his antics significantly after that.

If you think that’s fun, just wait until you get to the verbs of motion.

Junk also tend to accumulate in rivers and lakes. Once it’s in there it’s out of sight, out of mind - and even if you know it’s there it is often difficult to remove.

When it finally gets cleaned up by bringing in the magnet or a barge to dredge it up or whatever, you’re seeing years if not decades of stuff that’s getting pulled out all at once.

And here I thought it was referring to “Robot Rock”. Though I suppose that’s only two words.

It would be theoretically possible in a universe based upon non-Euclidean geometry.

It certainly could. That’s the gamble you’re taking.

I usually replace drives after 5 years if they are doing anything I consider important. So those drives to me would have 1-2 years left in them. Of course, I have seen a good number of drives I have repurposed to things less important still manage to rack up impressive numbers of hours.