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Can you imagine if say the car industry was still used technology from its half life?

Trivia-of-the-Day: The Schrader valve, patented in the 19th century, is still used in its original form on cars today (at least in North America). Depending on the model, your car may easily have a half-dozen of them and is unlikely to have fewer than four.

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Re^8: Perl 5 interpreter
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2011 at 22:04 UTC

    I guess I should have phrased that as:

    Can you imagine if say the car industry restricted itself to only using technology from its half life?
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