That's the reality of the marketplace. Unless it's a cure for cancer, or the like, you have to advertise to make people aware that your product exists and why they should prescribe/buy it.
It's a question of money. How many corporations still operate private networks? Not many. It's so much cheaper to piggyback on the Internet.
If you are operating a system under configuration control, you can't just apply patches to Windows without a process to test and approve them. Testing can be very expensive, and third-party software vendors may only provide support for their software in configurations that have been tested in their own lab.
I learned how to program on a RCA Spectra 70, which was a half-assed attempt by RCA to clone the IBM 360. Your choice in operating systems was DOS (disk operating system
) or TOS (tape operating system). With enough tape drives, and a large dose of masochism, you can get by without disk drives.
What was considered dangerous about carbide lamps? They were used for many years by miners, and I've never read anything that said they were considered to be unsafe.
What happens when the engineers run out of bright ideas to increase the storage density on magnetic media? Magnetic domains can only get so small before they become unstable.
Ha! I can remember having to order the installation of a new 220V electrical circuit to support the installation of a rack-mount winchester 450 MB hard disk drive. You needed at least two people to lift the drive enclosure off the floor. The new electrical circuit was needed to supply enough current for the drive to spin up. We used 10 MB removable hard disk cartridges that were about the size of a large pizza to store the operating system and user programs.
Why? It doesn't mean that they are stupid. What if someone with a time machine kidnapped you and dropped you off 1000 years in the future. You might have trouble adjusting.
A few years back, I bought an IBM server and I was willing to pay for the effort and testing that IBM had performed in order to guarantee its compatibility with Linux and other popular server operating systems. I was very impressed with the level of support that IBM provided. None of the usual "It shipped with Windows Blech, install anything else and you are on your own".
I recently ran across a document that described plans by Microsoft and hard disk vendors to support large physical block sizes on PCs. I don't know when products will be showing up on retail shelves, but it's in the development pipeline.
Every time the question is raised around here, it's the "freedom loving" Democratic Party that has a collective heart attack. Every Baptist preacher within 100 miles can be counted on to oppose it.
It doesn't always work. I used to have a motherboard with a write-protect jumper. The interesting thing was that the board supported two different flash memory chips. If chip A was installed on the board, the write-protect jumper worked as expected. If chip B was installed on the board, the write-protect jumper was ignored. Which chip was installed on the board was a matter of chance.
You can also drop the damn thing in dumb bomb mode but that isn't what it's intended for. Without GPS, your INS drifts and and any hope of pinpoint accuracy quickly disappears. The INS in the guidance package is intended to compensate for brief GPS outages, not prolonged unavailability of GPS. Without GPS, you'd probably be better off with dumb bombs and bombing radar.
Why not build the house off-site? I recently watched several documentaries on modern naval shipbuilding and I was impressed by how the ships were composed largely of modules that were built off-site and shipped to the main shipyard for assembly and integration.
There are a lot of embedded systems used for industrial controls that never get updated or replaced, things like building controls and elevators.
There are a whole bunch of 4-bit and 8-bit microcontrollers that have been designed into amateur and commercial radio equipment. Much of that equipment gets used for 30+ years.
IBM probably still has bits of code from the IBM 360 that are still running on modern mainframes.
The test function allows you to verify that everything is working without blowing anything up or endangering anyone. Think of it as a "NOP" command to the launch vehicle's range safety system.
You really need more than that to avoid scheduling problems. I'd limit the load to about 60%. Event driven systems under high load can behave strangely.
I originally installed XP from the retail package distribution disk, so I doubt that's the problem.
Why isn't the silly thing telling me why it can't boot? Real programmers
check for errors, setup timeout timers and retry counters, and display error messages. The loading screen does display a working progress indicator, which makes me wonder who wrote code that indicates progress when the boot process is stalled.
It killed my system (hangs during loading screen), and it doesn't appear to be due to any of the bugs that have been discussed on the net. It is an AMD CPU based system. I can dual boot into Vista and it still works. This is the first time that an XP service pack has borked my system.
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That's the reality of the marketplace. Unless it's a cure for cancer, or the like, you have to advertise to make people aware that your product exists and why they should prescribe/buy it.
If you are operating a system under configuration control, you can't just apply patches to Windows without a process to test and approve them. Testing can be very expensive, and third-party software vendors may only provide support for their software in configurations that have been tested in their own lab.
I learned how to program on a RCA Spectra 70, which was a half-assed attempt by RCA to clone the IBM 360. Your choice in operating systems was DOS (disk operating system ) or TOS (tape operating system). With enough tape drives, and a large dose of masochism, you can get by without disk drives.
What was considered dangerous about carbide lamps? They were used for many years by miners, and I've never read anything that said they were considered to be unsafe.
What happens when the engineers run out of bright ideas to increase the storage density on magnetic media? Magnetic domains can only get so small before they become unstable.
Ha! I can remember having to order the installation of a new 220V electrical circuit to support the installation of a rack-mount winchester 450 MB hard disk drive. You needed at least two people to lift the drive enclosure off the floor. The new electrical circuit was needed to supply enough current for the drive to spin up. We used 10 MB removable hard disk cartridges that were about the size of a large pizza to store the operating system and user programs.
Why? It doesn't mean that they are stupid. What if someone with a time machine kidnapped you and dropped you off 1000 years in the future. You might have trouble adjusting.
Missionaries make mighty fine barbeque.
A few years back, I bought an IBM server and I was willing to pay for the effort and testing that IBM had performed in order to guarantee its compatibility with Linux and other popular server operating systems. I was very impressed with the level of support that IBM provided. None of the usual "It shipped with Windows Blech, install anything else and you are on your own".
I recently ran across a document that described plans by Microsoft and hard disk vendors to support large physical block sizes on PCs. I don't know when products will be showing up on retail shelves, but it's in the development pipeline.
Every time the question is raised around here, it's the "freedom loving" Democratic Party that has a collective heart attack. Every Baptist preacher within 100 miles can be counted on to oppose it.
It doesn't always work. I used to have a motherboard with a write-protect jumper. The interesting thing was that the board supported two different flash memory chips. If chip A was installed on the board, the write-protect jumper worked as expected. If chip B was installed on the board, the write-protect jumper was ignored. Which chip was installed on the board was a matter of chance.
You can also drop the damn thing in dumb bomb mode but that isn't what it's intended for. Without GPS, your INS drifts and and any hope of pinpoint accuracy quickly disappears. The INS in the guidance package is intended to compensate for brief GPS outages, not prolonged unavailability of GPS. Without GPS, you'd probably be better off with dumb bombs and bombing radar.
You are wrong about current US weapons systems. There are weapons that require GPS, like the JDAM. Many others are being upgraded to use GPS.
Anyone who says that his fellow citizens should be lined up and shot, should be lined up and shot.
In many places, your house can be condemned for being a public nuisance. They could do the same thing to a computer.
Why not build the house off-site? I recently watched several documentaries on modern naval shipbuilding and I was impressed by how the ships were composed largely of modules that were built off-site and shipped to the main shipyard for assembly and integration.
There are a whole bunch of 4-bit and 8-bit microcontrollers that have been designed into amateur and commercial radio equipment. Much of that equipment gets used for 30+ years.
IBM probably still has bits of code from the IBM 360 that are still running on modern mainframes.
It would kill the user's battery life.
The test function allows you to verify that everything is working without blowing anything up or endangering anyone. Think of it as a "NOP" command to the launch vehicle's range safety system.
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You really need more than that to avoid scheduling problems. I'd limit the load to about 60%. Event driven systems under high load can behave strangely.
They were designed into a whole bunch of digital cameras. That's an application that requires low power and high speed.
Why isn't the silly thing telling me why it can't boot? Real programmers check for errors, setup timeout timers and retry counters, and display error messages. The loading screen does display a working progress indicator, which makes me wonder who wrote code that indicates progress when the boot process is stalled.
It killed my system (hangs during loading screen), and it doesn't appear to be due to any of the bugs that have been discussed on the net. It is an AMD CPU based system. I can dual boot into Vista and it still works. This is the first time that an XP service pack has borked my system.