Microsoft started shipping SQL Server for OS/2 in 1989. In '92 it shipped MS SQL Server 4.2 (a 16-bit version) and in '93 shipped MS SQL Server for Windows NT (32-bit version). All of this well before Cairo.
Other than the language and the food, being in a major Japanese city feels much like any western city. I went to a couple of the large department stores is Osaka looking for Japanese gifts for my family and had a very difficult time. All the clothes were Burberry, French, or Italian labels and the shoes were Nike, Adidas, or Puma. About the only uniquely Japanese sections of the stores were the Bridal, cooking, and packaging departments. (I found the large print scarves they use for wrapping packages to be some of the most disctinctly Japanese gifts for relatives.)
Restaurants were 50/50 western and Japanese. We interspersed the traditional fare with Italian, Indian, Starbucks, steakhouse, KFC, and even McDonald's. For our first late night system install, we even found a nearby Domino's that would deliver.
While there is some cultural backwash coming this way, the vast majority of the cutlural tide is flowing to Japan.
The MIT Technology Review had an article last year about digital effects in movies. It starts off discussing the movie Castaway with a picture of Tom Hanks climbing rocks by a parking lot, then the same picture with the island background. According to a Sony VP, "Any shot that had ocean or sky in it, was pretty much a special effect."
For serious information on 42V systems...
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check out the MIT/Industry consortium. They have links to news and research as well as all the major industrial players.
One advantage I haven't seen in any of the previous posts is that 42V provides enough power for components to be moved off of the serpentine belt and away from engine. The change from mechanically powered to electrically powered has the potential to drastically alter the design of automobiles by distributing components around the vehicle instead of everything being lumped together under the hood.
They're undergrads. They have no experience, and they aren't expected to have any experience. You don't do a CS degree to learn specific languages and applications, you do it to learn about algorithms and data structures and discrete math.
This evens happens with graduate students. I was in a graduate operating systems course where the main project was to develop a system simulator and operating system for it. The first phase was to develop the simulator and have it run a simple test program which had nineteen lines of code. After the first phase had been turned in for grading, the professor had to chastise some students for hardcoding their input loops to only read nineteen instructions. Similar things happened in other graduate courses, but always by those without any professional experience.
Yes, it still does. I've set Windows Update to never check and then disabled the service, but some component is still trying to phone home twice every hour. I finally resorted to blocking microsoft.com and windows.com at my firewall.
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That's what I ended up doing. XP was trying to connect to microsoft.com twice an hour, even with the update agent defanged. So now all access to microsoft.com and sa.windows.com is blocked by the firewall. I have to manually unblock it to actually check for updates, but I prefer the control.
Basically anything Microsoft has ever said about OS/2 would qualify. "OS/2 is Windows done right" was one of my favorites at the first OS/2 developers conference. Then there was the Corporate OS/2 days on the Redmond campus where Ballmer spent an hour extolling the virtues of OS/2.
I like the Suunto observer which includes altimeter/barometer/compass. If being able to specify the declination from true north to magnetic north isn't geeky enough, then my spouse doesn't know what is. I've been learning quite a bit about weather since I can more easily correlate barometric pressure and the current weather.
From my experience, your location is the major determing factor in how you socialize with your coworkers. When I lived in a small town in Oklahoma, we tended to socialize a lot with coworkers. They were the first people you met there with common backgrounds and everyone lived in fairly close proximity. When I lived in metropolitan areas, we rarely socialized with coworkers. We were dispersed around the city, so any type of activity involved coordination and travelling. It was easier to find friends nearby.
Corporations have an average life expectancy of 40 years - not very long at all. And eventually they die.
The key word in that sentence is "average". Corporations develop inertia according their size, which makes them difficult to change or to die off. Large corporations can push past an average life expectancy by sheer mass. There are companies that have outlived many of the current world's governements. For example DuPont is busily planning their bicentennial celebration for next year.
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Garlic juice has been particularly successful for/from me as a drink additive.
Another alternative, albeit much slower, is the burial by junk mail. Find all the mail in reply cards you can and send them with your targets name and office address. This one is truly a gift that keeps on giving.
but it works for me. So far I'm losing a pound a week. Not much pain and no gain. The biggest thing is realizing that my physical feedback loop can be supplemented by a mental feedback loop and the Palm software.
I use it with the 360-L and it works pretty well. Sometimes the gPhoto will crash while creating thumbnails, but it works fine for saving the photos to a file.
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1995? That may have been when you first used it, but the RFC's (http://www.wu-ftpd.org/rfc/) date back to 1971.
They backstabbed IBM over OS/2 which still has some features superior to XP. I even heard Ballmer in person describe it as "Windows done right".
and one exclaims, "Hey, I just lost an electron!"
The other one asks "Are you sure?"
To which the first one replies, "Yes, I'm postive".
Speaking of R2 riding in the ships, was anyone else reminded of a toaster whenever R2 would pop out after the ship landed?
Microsoft started shipping SQL Server for OS/2 in 1989. In '92 it shipped MS SQL Server 4.2 (a 16-bit version) and in '93 shipped MS SQL Server for Windows NT (32-bit version). All of this well before Cairo.
Other than the language and the food, being in a major Japanese city feels much like any western city. I went to a couple of the large department stores is Osaka looking for Japanese gifts for my family and had a very difficult time. All the clothes were Burberry, French, or Italian labels and the shoes were Nike, Adidas, or Puma. About the only uniquely Japanese sections of the stores were the Bridal, cooking, and packaging departments. (I found the large print scarves they use for wrapping packages to be some of the most disctinctly Japanese gifts for relatives.)
Restaurants were 50/50 western and Japanese. We interspersed the traditional fare with Italian, Indian, Starbucks, steakhouse, KFC, and even McDonald's. For our first late night system install, we even found a nearby Domino's that would deliver.
While there is some cultural backwash coming this way, the vast majority of the cutlural tide is flowing to Japan.
The MIT Technology Review had an article last year about digital effects in movies. It starts off discussing the movie Castaway with a picture of Tom Hanks climbing rocks by a parking lot, then the same picture with the island background. According to a Sony VP, "Any shot that had ocean or sky in it, was pretty much a special effect."
check out the MIT/Industry consortium. They have links to news and research as well as all the major industrial players.
One advantage I haven't seen in any of the previous posts is that 42V provides enough power for components to be moved off of the serpentine belt and away from engine. The change from mechanically powered to electrically powered has the potential to drastically alter the design of automobiles by distributing components around the vehicle instead of everything being lumped together under the hood.
This adds a whole new dimension to their advertising slogan.
They're undergrads. They have no experience, and they aren't expected to have any experience. You don't do a CS degree to learn specific languages and applications, you do it to learn about algorithms and data structures and discrete math.
This evens happens with graduate students. I was in a graduate operating systems course where the main project was to develop a system simulator and operating system for it. The first phase was to develop the simulator and have it run a simple test program which had nineteen lines of code. After the first phase had been turned in for grading, the professor had to chastise some students for hardcoding their input loops to only read nineteen instructions. Similar things happened in other graduate courses, but always by those without any professional experience.
Yes, it still does. I've set Windows Update to never check and then disabled the service, but some component is still trying to phone home twice every hour. I finally resorted to blocking microsoft.com and windows.com at my firewall.
That's what I ended up doing. XP was trying to connect to microsoft.com twice an hour, even with the update agent defanged. So now all access to microsoft.com and sa.windows.com is blocked by the firewall. I have to manually unblock it to actually check for updates, but I prefer the control.
Basically anything Microsoft has ever said about OS/2 would qualify. "OS/2 is Windows done right" was one of my favorites at the first OS/2 developers conference. Then there was the Corporate OS/2 days on the Redmond campus where Ballmer spent an hour extolling the virtues of OS/2.
I like the Suunto observer which includes altimeter/barometer/compass. If being able to specify the declination from true north to magnetic north isn't geeky enough, then my spouse doesn't know what is. I've been learning quite a bit about weather since I can more easily correlate barometric pressure and the current weather.
From my experience, your location is the major determing factor in how you socialize with your coworkers. When I lived in a small town in Oklahoma, we tended to socialize a lot with coworkers. They were the first people you met there with common backgrounds and everyone lived in fairly close proximity. When I lived in metropolitan areas, we rarely socialized with coworkers. We were dispersed around the city, so any type of activity involved coordination and travelling. It was easier to find friends nearby.
Here's a document comparing the economic sizes of corporations and the world's nations. One of the most interesting tidbits is:
Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations; only 49 are countries (based on a comparison of corporate sales and country GDPs)
This is from the report "TOP 200: THE RISE OF CORPORATE GLOBAL POWER" by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh
Corporations have an average life expectancy of 40 years - not very long at all. And eventually they die.
The key word in that sentence is "average". Corporations develop inertia according their size, which makes them difficult to change or to die off. Large corporations can push past an average life expectancy by sheer mass. There are companies that have outlived many of the current world's governements. For example DuPont is busily planning their bicentennial celebration for next year.
Garlic juice has been particularly successful for/from me as a drink additive.
Another alternative, albeit much slower, is the burial by junk mail. Find all the mail in reply cards you can and send them with your targets name and office address. This one is truly a gift that keeps on giving.
At my local Radio Shack they were just opening the box as I walked. Try again later after they get their next shipment.
but it works for me. So far I'm losing a pound a week. Not much pain and no gain. The biggest thing is realizing that my physical feedback loop can be supplemented by a mental feedback loop and the Palm software.
I use it with the 360-L and it works pretty well. Sometimes the gPhoto will crash while creating thumbnails, but it works fine for saving the photos to a file.