You're not penalized for that, idiot. The healthcare law specifies that if you're too poor to afford health insurance you will receive a tax credit towards paying for it.
I'm not talking about/you/, I'm talking about the/submitter/ and his ancient Unisys crap that might not even be x86.
I've looked at those specialty computers with modern processors and ISA slots for some scientists that I used to support. They seem like a pretty good idea when you've got scientific equipment costing five or six figures, and even if they're still supported by the vendor it might cost four or five to get a PCI board and drivers & software compatible with a Windows sold in the past ten years.
I toured a decommissioned Minuteman control silo at Whiteman AFB fifteen years ago. One of the things they showed us was the emergency-exit tunnel, provided in case the facility took a hit and the main elevator was knocked out. As it was described to us, it was a stump that ended in the surrounding dirt, with a shovel provided so the crew could dig their way out.
I'd expect the average civilianized silo to have at least one of those, and probably more than one.
The point is that you probably/can't/ buy the hardware this stuff runs on anymore and quite possibly it's exotic enough that you can't easily virtualize on modern hardware.
It isn't, but if something's so old it's completely unsupported then you're fucking stupid to bet your business on it not failing.
If the hardware's not virtualizable, the only responsible course IMO is to port the business-critical functionality to something new and standardized. Yes, bugs are expensive to fix, but so's bringing back ancient hardware.
I bet you a dollar that this gets settled out of court so those emails don't have to come to light. If necessary, the libelers' financial backers will intervene to make this so.
No, I definitely rebooted after installing the last batch of updates it wanted, and I certainly don't install stuff that requires a reboot once it's in - not even our antivirus does anymore.
Not always! Last year when I was doing up a custom Win7 image using Microsoft's Lite Touch tools, I had it install all available updates and checked twice more for good measure because something seemed to be missing, but it kept saying there were no more updates to be had.
I tossed the image onto a new machine the same day and it immediately wanted to install four updates for.NET 4.0.
True, but I don't think you'll find any expansion cards with an Intel video chip. That's been integrated into their chipsets since forever, and now it's being integrated right into the CPU.
The last (and only, so far as I know) Intel-based video cards used the old i740 chip, which was current in the Win98 days and had crap drivers. I had one of these that was made by IIRC Diamond.
Microsoft hasn't done one of those since Windows 2000, but at one time they had a roll-up patch for 2K SP4 that incorporated all the updates released between the SP and the roll-up. I wish they'd re-institute the practice because it saves us desktop-support types a lot of time.
Maybe make a yearly roll-up so that I shouldn't have to install more than a few dozen updates at the most when I put our image on the computers. I've rolled my own image, but it's a bit of a pain to install updates.
We could have gotten the guy who'd not lie us into a war and then cut taxes because deficits don't matter, and then use said deficits as an excuse to cut aid to the poor. We might not have even gotten someone whose incompetence would allow the WTC attack to happen, thus no opening for the Patriot Act and its abuses.
Nobody's going to claim that Gore was perfect (aside from people who want to set up a strawman, anyhow) but there's no fucking way he'd be in the same class as Shrub, who is certainly in the bottom five for Worst President Ever.
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I expect your parents do, then. So what?
You're not penalized for that, idiot. The healthcare law specifies that if you're too poor to afford health insurance you will receive a tax credit towards paying for it.
I'm not talking about /you/, I'm talking about the /submitter/ and his ancient Unisys crap that might not even be x86.
I've looked at those specialty computers with modern processors and ISA slots for some scientists that I used to support. They seem like a pretty good idea when you've got scientific equipment costing five or six figures, and even if they're still supported by the vendor it might cost four or five to get a PCI board and drivers & software compatible with a Windows sold in the past ten years.
As ever, YMMV.
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Bricks are shit for earthquake resistance. I don't believe it's legal to build with brick in some earthquake-prone areas now.
I toured a decommissioned Minuteman control silo at Whiteman AFB fifteen years ago. One of the things they showed us was the emergency-exit tunnel, provided in case the facility took a hit and the main elevator was knocked out. As it was described to us, it was a stump that ended in the surrounding dirt, with a shovel provided so the crew could dig their way out.
I'd expect the average civilianized silo to have at least one of those, and probably more than one.
The point is that you probably /can't/ buy the hardware this stuff runs on anymore and quite possibly it's exotic enough that you can't easily virtualize on modern hardware.
It isn't, but if something's so old it's completely unsupported then you're fucking stupid to bet your business on it not failing.
If the hardware's not virtualizable, the only responsible course IMO is to port the business-critical functionality to something new and standardized. Yes, bugs are expensive to fix, but so's bringing back ancient hardware.
I know the cost of a new license is $699 per CPU
...you cock-smoking teabaggers.
Heh. If you're a pothead, spray MJ extract on your dog's butt and let the drug dog do what comes naturally.
It's an important step forward, but only in Japan would hugging a chicken be an intermediate step.
And nice red uniforms & an almost fanatical dedication to the Pope.
He's talking about a far-right fantasy that the UN is coming to take our rights.
He's a member of the tinfoil hat brigade, in other words.
I bet you a dollar that this gets settled out of court so those emails don't have to come to light. If necessary, the libelers' financial backers will intervene to make this so.
No, I definitely rebooted after installing the last batch of updates it wanted, and I certainly don't install stuff that requires a reboot once it's in - not even our antivirus does anymore.
All software sucks.
Those might be okay for individuals. I wouldn't trust the packager not to toss a trojan in there, but whatever.
You'd be stupid to try using them in a business/IT setting.
Not always! Last year when I was doing up a custom Win7 image using Microsoft's Lite Touch tools, I had it install all available updates and checked twice more for good measure because something seemed to be missing, but it kept saying there were no more updates to be had.
I tossed the image onto a new machine the same day and it immediately wanted to install four updates for .NET 4.0.
True, but I don't think you'll find any expansion cards with an Intel video chip. That's been integrated into their chipsets since forever, and now it's being integrated right into the CPU.
The last (and only, so far as I know) Intel-based video cards used the old i740 chip, which was current in the Win98 days and had crap drivers. I had one of these that was made by IIRC Diamond.
Microsoft hasn't done one of those since Windows 2000, but at one time they had a roll-up patch for 2K SP4 that incorporated all the updates released between the SP and the roll-up. I wish they'd re-institute the practice because it saves us desktop-support types a lot of time.
Maybe make a yearly roll-up so that I shouldn't have to install more than a few dozen updates at the most when I put our image on the computers. I've rolled my own image, but it's a bit of a pain to install updates.
Any modern card with AMD or Nvidia chips will work.
I think Seamonkey is still the only cross platform email client.
You'd be wrong. Thunderbird is. Likewise Alpine, Claws, Evolution, Gnus, GroupWise, IMP, KMail, Mulberry, Mutt, Opera Mail, Pine, and Sylpheed.
Whoosh!
We could have gotten the guy who'd not lie us into a war and then cut taxes because deficits don't matter, and then use said deficits as an excuse to cut aid to the poor. We might not have even gotten someone whose incompetence would allow the WTC attack to happen, thus no opening for the Patriot Act and its abuses.
Nobody's going to claim that Gore was perfect (aside from people who want to set up a strawman, anyhow) but there's no fucking way he'd be in the same class as Shrub, who is certainly in the bottom five for Worst President Ever.
550 goddamn votes in Florida and you'd see what difference not electing Bush the Lesser would have made, kemosabe.
Given how poorly most operating systems handle that, it's more like a black art.