I probably don't get it either, but why not a newer JRE like 1.6.10 or even whatever 1.5 is up to? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of the minor Java releases to fix security problems?
I very nearly went into the military for those very reasons (and also because I wanted to give a little back) 11 years ago, but they wouldn't have me because of my asthma. Very disappointing.
Flip side is, I didn't have to worry about getting called back to service to get shot at in Iraq.
After the whole contemptible "freedom fries" thing, it may have also been that the international community knew that disagreeing with us was pointless, and stopped doing it quite so much.
Really, people. If you're going to buy such an expensive professional card, you're going to go with a professional-grade operating system, which will of course be 64-bit.
We use Symantec Antivirus 10 and SEP11 here. We've gotten computers infected with variants of that. Seems to slip right past the real-time protection, but if you tell SAV to run a system scan it will find it. Very odd.
Another way of putting it is "circular logic". You start off by making an assumption, then use logic to prove that assumption, which is vacuous because you didn't prove it, you instead used circular logic.
I did that too; our machine had only 4MB of RAM and hence couldn't run most decent games when running Windows 3.1, or indeed when running anything but the DOS kernel and command interpreter.
Some of my menus were two or three layers deep; IIRC the top-level was Windows or DOS, and under DOS were the different game genres, and under that were options for individual games.
Or see if the original vendor offers something for newer versions of Windows?
It's fucking stupid that the scientific world hasn't switched to using something portable like Java or even.NET for instrument-control applications. We have a few instruments here that have Win9x or WinNT4 computers plugged into them, because that's all their control software will work with.
The winner is, I think, an IBM PS/2 with 486DX that dual-boots between OS/2 and something else, and has something like five instruments' passthrough dongles daisy-chained out the parallel (or maybe it's SCSI) port. I don't know what they'll do when that computer dies.
Windows 3.1 was 16-bit. There was an optional compatibility layer called Win32s (for Win32 subset) that would allow you to run certain Win95-compatible programs. NCSA Mosaic was probably the best-known Win32s-compatible application.
I set up a VirtualPC VM this past Sunday, installed MS-DOS 6.22 and WfW 3.11, and also Microsoft's TCP/IP stack for WfW and Internet Explorer 5.01, and Win32s. I added in Calmira, which is a free 3rd-party shell that can give a Win95-style or WinXP-style interface (depending on which variant), and (oh yes) Microsoft Bob. That last is as bad as they say. The Microsoft TCP/IP stack only partway supports DHCP; you have to manually input the gateway and DNS servers.
Thing runs fairly decently on the Internet, provided your site doesn't need newer stuff like AJAX. Sourceforge is Right Out, and for some reason I can't click links for Google search results. The S3 driver I downloaded can even do 1600x1200 at 16 colors, and 1024x768 at 24-bit color.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good Win16 or Win32s-compatible browser? Don't suggest Mosaic -- I have it running on WinXP and every time I load a website it crashes. I know of Netscape 4.0x and Opera 3.62.
As someone who used Win3.1 frequently when it was still popular, I can assure you that it had/frequent/ BSODs. It also had frequent General Protection Faults and the occasional Unrecoverable Application Error. Also, since it used cooperative multi-tasking, one program freezing up would bring down the entire computer; quite often this occurrence would require a hard reset, because Ctrl-Alt-Del wouldn't work.
Some of this could be laid on bad 3rd-party drivers, but most of it was bad design and insufficient compartmentalization.
Turnouts in American elections are historically rather low. The largest turnouts are for Presidential elections, and those only get maybe a little more than 50%; some other elections get turnouts of 10% or less.
So we're not prepared for a much larger-than-normal turnout.
I want peoples' votes to count. Fortunately we use pencil and paper in my district -- just use your pencil to complete the line belonging to the candidate/issue you support. No Diebold or Premier Election Systems equipment.
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Yeah, the moron should have never put the HL2 source on a computer with an Internet connection, but he did.
Maybe it's just as well, though; HL2 might not have been as good without the delay.
I probably don't get it either, but why not a newer JRE like 1.6.10 or even whatever 1.5 is up to? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of the minor Java releases to fix security problems?
That doesn't work on a busy 4-lane intersection with stop signs at only two of four points.
I very nearly went into the military for those very reasons (and also because I wanted to give a little back) 11 years ago, but they wouldn't have me because of my asthma. Very disappointing.
Flip side is, I didn't have to worry about getting called back to service to get shot at in Iraq.
After the whole contemptible "freedom fries" thing, it may have also been that the international community knew that disagreeing with us was pointless, and stopped doing it quite so much.
Really, people. If you're going to buy such an expensive professional card, you're going to go with a professional-grade operating system, which will of course be 64-bit.
reserved for child molesters and people who speak in the theater?
We use Symantec Antivirus 10 and SEP11 here. We've gotten computers infected with variants of that. Seems to slip right past the real-time protection, but if you tell SAV to run a system scan it will find it. Very odd.
Another way of putting it is "circular logic". You start off by making an assumption, then use logic to prove that assumption, which is vacuous because you didn't prove it, you instead used circular logic.
It raises the question, godsdamnit. Here's what "begging the question" actually means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
I did that too; our machine had only 4MB of RAM and hence couldn't run most decent games when running Windows 3.1, or indeed when running anything but the DOS kernel and command interpreter.
Some of my menus were two or three layers deep; IIRC the top-level was Windows or DOS, and under DOS were the different game genres, and under that were options for individual games.
I don't miss the bad old days.
I'm definitely interested. Would you post some links?
Or see if the original vendor offers something for newer versions of Windows?
It's fucking stupid that the scientific world hasn't switched to using something portable like Java or even .NET for instrument-control applications. We have a few instruments here that have Win9x or WinNT4 computers plugged into them, because that's all their control software will work with.
The winner is, I think, an IBM PS/2 with 486DX that dual-boots between OS/2 and something else, and has something like five instruments' passthrough dongles daisy-chained out the parallel (or maybe it's SCSI) port. I don't know what they'll do when that computer dies.
Windows 3.1 was 16-bit. There was an optional compatibility layer called Win32s (for Win32 subset) that would allow you to run certain Win95-compatible programs. NCSA Mosaic was probably the best-known Win32s-compatible application.
I set up a VirtualPC VM this past Sunday, installed MS-DOS 6.22 and WfW 3.11, and also Microsoft's TCP/IP stack for WfW and Internet Explorer 5.01, and Win32s. I added in Calmira, which is a free 3rd-party shell that can give a Win95-style or WinXP-style interface (depending on which variant), and (oh yes) Microsoft Bob. That last is as bad as they say. The Microsoft TCP/IP stack only partway supports DHCP; you have to manually input the gateway and DNS servers.
Thing runs fairly decently on the Internet, provided your site doesn't need newer stuff like AJAX. Sourceforge is Right Out, and for some reason I can't click links for Google search results. The S3 driver I downloaded can even do 1600x1200 at 16 colors, and 1024x768 at 24-bit color.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good Win16 or Win32s-compatible browser? Don't suggest Mosaic -- I have it running on WinXP and every time I load a website it crashes. I know of Netscape 4.0x and Opera 3.62.
As someone who used Win3.1 frequently when it was still popular, I can assure you that it had /frequent/ BSODs. It also had frequent General Protection Faults and the occasional Unrecoverable Application Error. Also, since it used cooperative multi-tasking, one program freezing up would bring down the entire computer; quite often this occurrence would require a hard reset, because Ctrl-Alt-Del wouldn't work.
Some of this could be laid on bad 3rd-party drivers, but most of it was bad design and insufficient compartmentalization.
However, pretty much all the Democrats voted for it too.
never mind.
obviously.
he did serve as a negative example.
or at least Rush and his dittoheads are. The elites are, of course, those who are in Washington.
It has nothing to do with the dittoheads and other white trash being idiots and voting incorrectly for the past umpty years, of course.
Cthulhu/Yog Sothoth vs. Hastur/Tsathoggua 2008.
Turnouts in American elections are historically rather low. The largest turnouts are for Presidential elections, and those only get maybe a little more than 50%; some other elections get turnouts of 10% or less.
So we're not prepared for a much larger-than-normal turnout.
I want peoples' votes to count. Fortunately we use pencil and paper in my district -- just use your pencil to complete the line belonging to the candidate/issue you support. No Diebold or Premier Election Systems equipment.
I could not agree more, except I can't think of what Bush's one great accomplishment was.