It just shows how out of touch I've become with the windows world. I remember the big tours when MS and DEC were convincing everyone with joint presentations that NT on Alphas were sliced bread. The neatest idea since better mousetraps. Whatever.
Now the press tells us that While Intel-based designs clearly dominate the computing market, Lipcon said there is very little overlap between the two technologies because Alpha does not run on any Windows-based systems.
Why would you want to put so much into analyzing nuclear explosions?
The horsepower comes from NOT runnint the nuclear explosion. I'm not up to date on the various treaties, but what they are allowed to actually blow up less and less as time goes by. But they still have to convince potential invaders that they know what they're doing.
So you blow up things inside computers. And you convince your enemy's scientists that your simulations are valid.
An infosoup is a great idea but you can't expect the user to issue what amounts to a database request every time they want to edit a document or something.
Perhaps you can't EXPECT it, but most of what users do is unexpected to the programmers. (grin)
An example of his information soup is my employer's SAP project. This was a major project with multiple phases, run by slightly different management teams for each phase. Our consultants set up an intricate heirarchy to store all documents relating to the project. Stuff stayed about 80% in place for the first phase. Phase 2 was another project about a third the size of the first one. Some portions of the heirarchy was cloned. Some portions of the heirarchy remained "live". Some stuff got re-arranged for "clarity" reasons. Phase 3 was a settling period. Much of the stuff from the phase 2 directories got merged back into the first phase's directories. Now we're about to head into phase 4, and have started a second clone of the initial heirarchy.
Why do you need to know that? You don't. It's just an explanation that I have given up on the heirarchy entirely. I have a folder of shortcuts for stuff I often need, and, for the rest, I use the "find" utility across the entire drive. We've already reached infosoup status on a fileshare that THINKS it's being heirarchical.
(and some of the analysts come to me to help them find stuff. They insist that "Greg will know where to find it" while ignoring my claims to just search the entire "drive". Fortunately we got lucky with people using good file naming procedures.)
I received a very polite, well-written response, saying that they were unhappy with it too, and that, for now, they were removing the doubleclick integration from their site - not to be reinstated until Doubleclick backed away from that policy.
User Friendly put an "opt-out" link under their doubleclick ad, and posted requests for people to recommend other ad services.
I started getting a large number of dead ads. At least some of them showed as being blocked by my employer's filtering software. Large corporations already run filtering software. Adding doubleclick to the blocker is easy and doesn't really impact the users of that corporate net. I wonder if the corporate case is scarier to dclick than boycotts one at a time?
So, what are they going to do with the data they already collected? That's what I'm wondering.
They just put the plan on hold. The cross referencing will be back, as soon as there is a widely recognized standard on how much cross-referencing is "normal".
As KO'C put it, the mistake was acting in the absence of government and industry privacy standards
I don't know how accurate it is, but local myth is that Camosun College (a local 2-year college) changed their name from College of Juan de Fuca at the last moment when the "Fuca U" T-shirts started appearing.
I'll re-iterate what the AC said, only without the flamebait.
FREENET is already a widespread term, referring to MANY local public-access community supported ISPs. A quick lookup gives 16 countries with 233 separate groups.
It is unfortunate that nobody told you of the name overlap before this, but using "freenet" for your web will only generate anger among people already familiar with the community free ISP usage.
Hmmmm - Is it possible that the socialists (free public access to whatever) and the libertarians (Where were you when they took our freedoms?) have really never heard of each other's Freenet until now? I'm only familiar with the ISP usage, where it is
"Live free or Die" - Ironically, seen on a license plate.
It's worse than that. That state tried to penalize someone for covering the slogan. When someone tried to exercise his freedom of (non)speech by putting electrical tape over the slogan, the state took him to court. I seem to recall the case going on for a long while through several appeal processes where the state tried to force people to spout slogans about freedom. The irony was apparently completely lost on the bureaucrats enforcing the slogan.
One version of it is called "Sadie Hawkins Day" based on a hillbilly comic that was once popular (in the fifties?) Never heard about the silk gloves, though. Not a lot of silk in Lil Abner comics.
, does anyone else feel kinda shortchanged by the fact that from the last week of November to the middle of February there are five legal holidays
Depends on where you live. In Canada, the end of the year has THREE in eight days. Then nothing until EASTER. Our Thanksgiving is in October, and we have nothing in February, and some years March. Just think of going from NYD until an April 19 Easter...
We have a holiday for the first Monday in Aug, but the name is assigned by the various provinces.
In recent years, newspapers have remained graphically impaired. They seem oblivious to the graphic revolution that has swept magazines and is spreading through the Web.
Puh-leaze! News isn't about graphics. News is about SELECTION and DIGESTING of events to make them convenient. My main news source for the technology issues is a British site that has no graphics at all, except in the ads and title bar. Are you implying that the Vancouver Province or USA Today are graphics impaired despite photos and graphs everywhere, while The Register is graphically with-it with text-only postings?
Graphics is candy. It is nice if the site is a long-term site that allows you the time to tune the appearance. But a newspaper's angle on the news isn't a place for grisly photos (TV or RealMedia will always win that one) or else it is annoying fluff.
Making it easy to bypass the filters is one possibility
My employer uses SmartFilter. It seems to get a remarkable number of false positives. (Everything has SOMETHING to do with sex, it seems. I'm not sure I want to meet the guy who thinks Crusoe block diagrams are a turn-on.)
But Anonymizer is NOT BLOCKED. Since the site itself suggests that it is normally blocked by everyone, I presume that my employer added it as a specific exception. Since I can get anywhere via anonymizer, I'm not too upset at the use of a high-false-positive blocker.
How current is the support for the Twiddler? Their web page seems complete (other than the grotesque very-dark-gray on black colour choice and less pix than I would have liked), but I was disturbed by the phrase There are two such files: one for DOS in the same directory as TWMOUSE.COM and another for Windows 3.0 in the \WINDOWS directory..
This implies that the development for this product was in the 1992 time frame and nothing much has happenned recently. Windows 3.0?
Too many keyboard fans end up endorsing keyboards with no numberic pad (eg Kinesis). This takes us back to the original XT or even (ugg) VT-100. If I'm entering a long list of numbers into a spreadsheet, I don't want to do it all on keys two rows off the home row. I'd rather do it on a compact pad that's been in use for much of the past century. Phones don't give us one long row across the top, and that's only for seven digits.
I'm comfortable on a standard cheap AT keyboard, and haven't taken the time to get over the "this is weird" learning curve of the split keyboards. So I have nothing against them so long as they find somewhere to put the keypad. On those with wide splits, there is room in the middle for those times when you have enough numbers to leave the home row. How come all of the examples of wide splits that have shown up here seem to have blank plastic in the middle, with no keypad in sight? Do people WANT to return to the VT disaster?
Gates: ``In order to have the great reliability that we promise with Windows, you can't have all these variant versions where somebody has gone and tinkered with source code here and tinkered with source code there.''
One problem with most failure scenarios I've seen is: "What happenned to the two separate probes?" These probes were to have separated from the lander at a fairly high altitude and make their own separate high-impact "landing".
Why does nobody mention them? Doesn't the failure of three separate "landers" imply a failure during the initial re-entry before the separation?
I also think that there is no union as far as I know within tech workers.
I was hacking REXX and PLI/VSE as a member of Steelworkers local 9705 for most of a decade.
I knew some programmers at a local college who were members of Pulp Paper & Woodworkers of Canada. The union that gets the certification seems almost irrelevant to the positions that they represent, but the locals do exist.
Well yeah, they get various hourly rates. But the discussion here is how many hours a week do they work. The note you replied to said nothing about them being cheap. Just that they likely worked less than 60 hours a week.
I work for a large corporation. My background is mainframe programming but currently work on SAP/ABAP(HR).
We have a defined workday of 7.5 hours. We just came off a large project where many people were working about 9 hours. People in "level 5" are expected to take compensatory time off. People in "level 8" get overtime. I'm an 8, so don't know the 5 rules very well. Time between 7.5 and 11 hours in a day are time and a half (as compensatory time or as money - our choice at the start of each year). Time beyond 11 hours is double. A phone consultation counts as a minimum of an hour of pay. A call-in counts as 2 hours if they solve it before I get there, and as minimum 3 hours if I work even a minute. If I work both days on a weekend, the second one counts as double.
I have never encountered the slightest bit of resistance to recording real time in my timesheets. If the budget is tight, then they ask me what work can be skipped, not whether the PAY can be skipped. For a while I carried a pager, but it was considered "ignorable" if inconvenient. There would have been a major ongoing bonus if I was considered "on call".
My base pay rate is rather low for my qualifications. But I like the terms they provide around the edges.
My average since the end of the big project is probably just over 8 hours. (42/week?) If I wanted to drop back to 37.5, they'd be good about it. As a newlywed, they encourage the overtime to give me the extra money.
My background includes 7 years at another multinational. At that one, I was a unionized programmer. Again, O/T was paid as appropriate, and there were good terms for call-ins and phone fixes.
WP 5.1 for DOS could handle the crossed-L character. I looked up how to do this to impress a Polish woman I was sweet on at the time.
So it is not an issue with the platform, but rather a design decision WP made vs Word. On the other hand, I hated the printer driver situation in WP 5.1 for windows. If there is a driver in the (so-called?) operating system, then why do I want to install one for the application?
Could anyone humiliate Gandhi ? - no, because a quip that Gandhi wanted to see more net porn would be so farcical as to reflect only upon the joker.
Indeed, there is an example of this already in play. I have never heard of anyone offended by the movie trailer "Gandhi II: No More Mr. Nice Guy" in Weird Al's UHF movie. As farce, it's funny. By being far enough off the topic, no humiliation happenned.
I suspect that C wasn't humiliated here, either. CNN is the only party to be humiliated. It's unfortunate that Fox is technically too weak to make the point properly
imac.usr: How could it have let him log in with the (presumably) reserved ID for the typist is beyond me.
Fox: "The prankster typed in President Clinton in brackets. User name was President Clinton."
I read that as saying the prankster logged in with a name CLOSE but not the same as the interviewee. I guess all login names should be run through a soundex to see if they are similar to existing names in the session?
Does this mean the end of ISA? If you have a CD, CD-RW, DVD, and Hard Drive then you're full up.
(I presume you mean IDE. ISA is already dead)
Mobo makers will keep adding more IDE ports. My current mobo has two "classic" IDE ports (four devices) plus two UDMA/66 ports (four more devices). Windows 98 seems to think that the UDMA ports are "SCSI" devices. Whatever. The drive I have there works. It boots, then the 4 other devices on the classic IDE ports come in at higher drive letters.
I'm thinking of replacing my 1.2G drive E with a stock CD, though. My DVD cannot read CDR, meaning that I cannot "photocopy" CDR's. I can only do first-generation copies. As you say, it starts getting heavy to bring to the LAN parties.
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It just shows how out of touch I've become with the windows world. I remember the big tours when MS and DEC were convincing everyone with joint presentations that NT on Alphas were sliced bread. The neatest idea since better mousetraps. Whatever.
Now the press tells us that While Intel-based designs clearly dominate the computing market, Lipcon said there is very little overlap between the two technologies because Alpha does not run on any Windows-based systems.
Did MS bail on the Alpha?
Why would you want to put so much into analyzing nuclear explosions?
The horsepower comes from NOT runnint the nuclear explosion. I'm not up to date on the various treaties, but what they are allowed to actually blow up less and less as time goes by. But they still have to convince potential invaders that they know what they're doing.
So you blow up things inside computers. And you convince your enemy's scientists that your simulations are valid.
At bootup your system would load your entire drive image into L1 memory,
And I thought NT was a slow boot process...
An infosoup is a great idea but you can't expect the user to issue what amounts to a database request every time they want to edit a document or something.
Perhaps you can't EXPECT it, but most of what users do is unexpected to the programmers. (grin)
An example of his information soup is my employer's SAP project. This was a major project with multiple phases, run by slightly different management teams for each phase. Our consultants set up an intricate heirarchy to store all documents relating to the project. Stuff stayed about 80% in place for the first phase. Phase 2 was another project about a third the size of the first one. Some portions of the heirarchy was cloned. Some portions of the heirarchy remained "live". Some stuff got re-arranged for "clarity" reasons. Phase 3 was a settling period. Much of the stuff from the phase 2 directories got merged back into the first phase's directories. Now we're about to head into phase 4, and have started a second clone of the initial heirarchy.
Why do you need to know that? You don't. It's just an explanation that I have given up on the heirarchy entirely. I have a folder of shortcuts for stuff I often need, and, for the rest, I use the "find" utility across the entire drive. We've already reached infosoup status on a fileshare that THINKS it's being heirarchical.
(and some of the analysts come to me to help them find stuff. They insist that "Greg will know where to find it" while ignoring my claims to just search the entire "drive". Fortunately we got lucky with people using good file naming procedures.)
I received a very polite, well-written response, saying that they were unhappy with it too, and that, for now, they were removing the doubleclick integration from their site - not to be reinstated until Doubleclick backed away from that policy.
User Friendly put an "opt-out" link under their doubleclick ad, and posted requests for people to recommend other ad services.
I started getting a large number of dead ads. At least some of them showed as being blocked by my employer's filtering software. Large corporations already run filtering software. Adding doubleclick to the blocker is easy and doesn't really impact the users of that corporate net. I wonder if the corporate case is scarier to dclick than boycotts one at a time?
So, what are they going to do with the data they already collected? That's what I'm wondering.
They just put the plan on hold. The cross referencing will be back, as soon as there is a widely recognized standard on how much cross-referencing is "normal".
As KO'C put it, the mistake was acting in the absence of government and industry privacy standards
I don't know how accurate it is, but local myth is that Camosun College (a local 2-year college) changed their name from College of Juan de Fuca at the last moment when the "Fuca U" T-shirts started appearing.
I'll re-iterate what the AC said, only without the flamebait.
FREENET is already a widespread term, referring to MANY local public-access community supported ISPs. A quick lookup gives 16 countries with 233 separate groups.
It is unfortunate that nobody told you of the name overlap before this, but using "freenet" for your web will only generate anger among people already familiar with the community free ISP usage.
Hmmmm - Is it possible that the socialists (free public access to whatever) and the libertarians (Where were you when they took our freedoms?) have really never heard of each other's Freenet until now? I'm only familiar with the ISP usage, where it is
"Live free or Die" - Ironically, seen on a license plate.
It's worse than that. That state tried to penalize someone for covering the slogan. When someone tried to exercise his freedom of (non)speech by putting electrical tape over the slogan, the state took him to court. I seem to recall the case going on for a long while through several appeal processes where the state tried to force people to spout slogans about freedom. The irony was apparently completely lost on the bureaucrats enforcing the slogan.
The tradition also exists in North America.
One version of it is called "Sadie Hawkins Day" based on a hillbilly comic that was once popular (in the fifties?)
Never heard about the silk gloves, though. Not a lot of silk in Lil Abner comics.
, does anyone else feel kinda shortchanged by the fact that from the last week of November to the middle of February there are five legal holidays
Depends on where you live. In Canada, the end of the year has THREE in eight days. Then nothing until EASTER. Our Thanksgiving is in October, and we have nothing in February, and some years March. Just think of going from NYD until an April 19 Easter...
We have a holiday for the first Monday in Aug, but the name is assigned by the various provinces.
In recent years, newspapers have remained graphically impaired. They seem oblivious to the graphic revolution that has swept magazines and is spreading through the Web.
Puh-leaze! News isn't about graphics. News is about SELECTION and DIGESTING of events to make them convenient. My main news source for the technology issues is a British site that has no graphics at all, except in the ads and title bar. Are you implying that the Vancouver Province or USA Today are graphics impaired despite photos and graphs everywhere, while The Register is graphically with-it with text-only postings?
Graphics is candy. It is nice if the site is a long-term site that allows you the time to tune the appearance. But a newspaper's angle on the news isn't a place for grisly photos (TV or RealMedia will always win that one) or else it is annoying fluff.
Does the opposition have a website?
http://censorware.org/
Making it easy to bypass the filters is one possibility
My employer uses SmartFilter. It seems to get a remarkable number of false positives. (Everything has SOMETHING to do with sex, it seems. I'm not sure I want to meet the guy who thinks Crusoe block diagrams are a turn-on.)
But Anonymizer is NOT BLOCKED. Since the site itself suggests that it is normally blocked by everyone, I presume that my employer added it as a specific exception. Since I can get anywhere via anonymizer, I'm not too upset at the use of a high-false-positive blocker.
How current is the support for the Twiddler? Their web page seems complete (other than the grotesque very-dark-gray on black colour choice and less pix than I would have liked), but I was disturbed by the phrase There are two such files: one for DOS in the same directory as TWMOUSE.COM and another for Windows 3.0 in the \WINDOWS directory. .
This implies that the development for this product was in the 1992 time frame and nothing much has happenned recently. Windows 3.0?
Too many keyboard fans end up endorsing keyboards with no numberic pad (eg Kinesis). This takes us back to the original XT or even (ugg) VT-100. If I'm entering a long list of numbers into a spreadsheet, I don't want to do it all on keys two rows off the home row. I'd rather do it on a compact pad that's been in use for much of the past century. Phones don't give us one long row across the top, and that's only for seven digits.
I'm comfortable on a standard cheap AT keyboard, and haven't taken the time to get over the "this is weird" learning curve of the split keyboards. So I have nothing against them so long as they find somewhere to put the keypad. On those with wide splits, there is room in the middle for those times when you have enough numbers to leave the home row. How come all of the examples of wide splits that have shown up here seem to have blank plastic in the middle, with no keypad in sight? Do people WANT to return to the VT disaster?
Gates: ``In order to have the great reliability that we promise with Windows, you can't have all these variant versions where somebody has gone and tinkered with source code here and tinkered with source code there.''
One problem with most failure scenarios I've seen is: "What happenned to the two separate probes?" These probes were to have separated from the lander at a fairly high altitude and make their own separate high-impact "landing".
Why does nobody mention them? Doesn't the failure of three separate "landers" imply a failure during the initial re-entry before the separation?
I also think that there is no union as far as I know within tech workers.
I was hacking REXX and PLI/VSE as a member of Steelworkers local 9705 for most of a decade.
I knew some programmers at a local college who were members of Pulp Paper & Woodworkers of Canada. The union that gets the certification seems almost irrelevant to the positions that they represent, but the locals do exist.
Well yeah, they get various hourly rates. But the discussion here is how many hours a week do they work. The note you replied to said nothing about them being cheap. Just that they likely worked less than 60 hours a week.
I work for a large corporation. My background is mainframe programming but currently work on SAP/ABAP(HR).
We have a defined workday of 7.5 hours. We just came off a large project where many people were working about 9 hours. People in "level 5" are expected to take compensatory time off. People in "level 8" get overtime. I'm an 8, so don't know the 5 rules very well. Time between 7.5 and 11 hours in a day are time and a half (as compensatory time or as money - our choice at the start of each year). Time beyond 11 hours is double. A phone consultation counts as a minimum of an hour of pay. A call-in counts as 2 hours if they solve it before I get there, and as minimum 3 hours if I work even a minute. If I work both days on a weekend, the second one counts as double.
I have never encountered the slightest bit of resistance to recording real time in my timesheets. If the budget is tight, then they ask me what work can be skipped, not whether the PAY can be skipped. For a while I carried a pager, but it was considered "ignorable" if inconvenient. There would have been a major ongoing bonus if I was considered "on call".
My base pay rate is rather low for my qualifications. But I like the terms they provide around the edges.
My average since the end of the big project is probably just over 8 hours. (42/week?) If I wanted to drop back to 37.5, they'd be good about it. As a newlywed, they encourage the overtime to give me the extra money.
My background includes 7 years at another multinational. At that one, I was a unionized programmer. Again, O/T was paid as appropriate, and there were good terms for call-ins and phone fixes.
WP 5.1 for DOS could handle the crossed-L character. I looked up how to do this to impress a Polish woman I was sweet on at the time.
So it is not an issue with the platform, but rather a design decision WP made vs Word. On the other hand, I hated the printer driver situation in WP 5.1 for windows. If there is a driver in the (so-called?) operating system, then why do I want to install one for the application?
Could anyone humiliate Gandhi ? - no, because a quip that Gandhi wanted to see more net porn would be so farcical as to reflect only upon the joker.
Indeed, there is an example of this already in play. I have never heard of anyone offended by the movie trailer "Gandhi II: No More Mr. Nice Guy" in Weird Al's UHF movie. As farce, it's funny. By being far enough off the topic, no humiliation happenned.
I suspect that C wasn't humiliated here, either. CNN is the only party to be humiliated. It's unfortunate that Fox is technically too weak to make the point properly
imac.usr: How could it have let him log in with the (presumably) reserved ID for the typist is beyond me.
Fox: "The prankster typed in President Clinton in brackets. User name was President Clinton."
I read that as saying the prankster logged in with a name CLOSE but not the same as the interviewee. I guess all login names should be run through a soundex to see if they are similar to existing names in the session?
Does this mean the end of ISA? If you have a CD, CD-RW, DVD, and Hard Drive then you're full up.
(I presume you mean IDE. ISA is already dead)
Mobo makers will keep adding more IDE ports. My current mobo has two "classic" IDE ports (four devices) plus two UDMA/66 ports (four more devices). Windows 98 seems to think that the UDMA ports are "SCSI" devices. Whatever. The drive I have there works. It boots, then the 4 other devices on the classic IDE ports come in at higher drive letters.
I'm thinking of replacing my 1.2G drive E with a stock CD, though. My DVD cannot read CDR, meaning that I cannot "photocopy" CDR's. I can only do first-generation copies. As you say, it starts getting heavy to bring to the LAN parties.