Most biz owners, small biz or enterprise, usually have the latest version of word.
My experience is the opposite. Where I work, Office 97 is the standard, along with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. The company (Fortune 50 corporation) is conservative about upgrading to new versions of software. They don't want to spend money on new software unless there is a compelling reason to do so. I don't know anyone who has Windows 2000 or Office 2000 on their work PC.
Almost no hard drives, IDE or SCSI, do a true low level fomat these days. This is due to the way that servo information is embedded in each track on the disk. You need a special piece of equipment to do a true low level format.
It is common for subsystems to fail on satellites. That is why they usually have redundant systems for critical functions. On scientific satellites, there may be many experiment packages on the satellite. You normally don't hear about one of them failing, unless you have an interest in that experiment and read the status reports.
Some people seem to get very upset when someone says that the emperor has no clothes. I've scanned through the messages on some of the web based investment bulletin boards and found many examples where any criticism of a company, or their stock, generated vicious flames from other investors.
I can understand if certain IPs on the network had a reputation of cracking, but to blacklist an ENTIRE BLOCK? It's just not right!
That is a matter of opinion.
I've been on the receiving end of a boycott. My ISP used to use Agis for their backbone connection. After Agis became a spam haven, people started blacklisting all of their IP blocks, including the non-spamming Agis customers. My ISP was forced to switch to another backbone provider.
I don't blame the people who blacklisted my IP address, I blame Agis for not being a good net citizen.
The sad fact is that the only way to get some people's attention is to hit them over the head with a two-by-four. In the case of greedy bastards like the people who ran Agis, the only thing that will get their attention is a severe reduction in cash flow when their customers start leaving in large numbers. And that is what it took to get Agis to take spam seriously.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who is a customer of Media3 is part of the spam problem. Nuke them all.
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Only one problem, the lunar cycle is approximately 29.5 days, so the months should be 29 or 30 days long if you want them to be synchronized with the Moon.
There is also some talk about what to do with the leap seconds that keep showing up. It looks like it has gotten to the point were 3 or 4 will be added this year or next and that starts to cause problems. One proposed solution is just to make a second a small bit longer.
According to the NPL leap second web page, there has never been a need to add more than one leap second per year, although the current scheme would permit two seconds to be added or subtracted per year.
In an old National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) publication, they mentioned the use of a rubber second to keep atomic time synchronized with GMT. This required a periodic redefinition of the duration of a second. It seems that this caused more problems than it solved, leading to the current system of a fixed TAI time scale, and a UTC time scale that is offset from TAI by an integral number of seconds, via leap seconds, to compensate for variations in the Earth's rotation.
I read the article. Maybe you should read it again.
For the mathematically challenged, 13 months of 28 days plus New Years Day equals 365, 365 modulo 7 equals 1. That means for the day of week to be a constant for any specified date, one day must be designated as a special day, that isn't a normal day of the week, sometimes referred to as a "blank day" in other calendars.
Any calendar reform which ignores the seven day cycle of the week by, for example, adding special days that are not part of the week, is doomed to failure. There are many people who follow religions that attach special significance to certain days of the week. What happens when the new calendar says that it is Wednesday, but your religious beliefs say that it is the Sabbath?
Is it possible to have an open source project that uses patented technology? How would the patent holder be able to collect license fees from the users of the program?
Would you want your kid looking at a porn mag at school? What about carrying a knife?
When I was a kid, mumble years ago, it was common for boys to carry knives, usually boy scout jackknives or similar designs. Nobody got stabbed and it wasn't considered a dangerous weapon by the school. There wasn't any of this "zero tolerance" crap that mandates draconian punishment for a student who has a bottle of aspirin or a butter knife in their lunch box. We didn't have Internet porn or Hustler, we had to settle for the racier issues of National Geographic.
For an even more obscure fact, the space shuttle, which hasn't been remodeled in over 20 years, still runs on 4-bit Intel processors. (I would like to say it is the 4044.)
No, it doesn't.
The flight critical software is run on a redundant set of IBM AP-101 computers. The AP-101 is a 32-bit machine that is a descendant of the IBM 360. See this page.
You can get rid of the strobe effect by using a high frequency ballast. Unfortunately, many buildings still use the old ballasts and those horrible cool white bulbs.
The resolution doesn't have to be that good to differentiate adult males from adult females and children. There would be noticeable differences in height, proportions and mass.
The police could arrest you for attempted murder. The legal standards for what is considered an attempt vary by location, but the police do not have to wait for you to pull the trigger before they can take action.
The author of the article is confused. You can use reverse engineering to discover trade secrets and then use them in your own products. A patent, is by definition, public information.
I can reverse engineer the formula for Coca-Cola, a trade secret, and use it for my own soft drink. I just can't call it Coca-Cola(TM) or Coke(TM), due to trademark law.
I've read about something similar in English common law, called Trial by Combat. The accuser and accused fight to the death, God was supposed to ensure that the right person won. Given that the common law of the United States is directly derived from the common law of England, one of the parties to the dispute could petition the judge for a trial by combat.
I've always wondered why one of the vendors hasn't put a divide-by-two circuit on the clock input pin of the microprocessor. Then they could claim that their 800 MHz chip was actually a 1.6 GHz chip.
A friend told me that in the early days of portable transistor radios, some manufacturers would intentionally add non-functional transistors to their radios, just so they could advertise them as N transistor radios, where larger values of N were "better".
For example, look at the original iMac, which won an avalanche of rave reviews among product designers, but came out with a completely unusable keyboard and mouse.
I keep seeing this assertion repeated by Mac critics. Have you ever owned, or even used an iMac?
I actually liked the "hockey puck" mouse. Its main defect was that it didn't have an optical sensor like many newer mice.
The keyboard was OK, my only complaint was that some useful keys had been deleted.
UNIX was a revolutionary piece of software in the 1970s. According to this chronology by Ronda Hauben, the UNIX kernel was born in 1969, over thirty years ago. V7 UNIX, which was many people's first exposure to UNIX, was released ten years later, in 1979.
I don't mean to denigrate the accomplishments of Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan and the others who contributed to UNIX. The longevity of UNIX is a tribute to their genius.
If we pick 1979 as the baseline, what has been accomplished in the past twenty-plus years? The Mac and its GUI based OS debuted in 1984. TCP/IP became a standard part of nearly every operating system. Everything got cheaper and faster. And...
Computer hardware advanced from the 8 MHz 16-bit 8086 and 1200 bps modems to 1+ GHz 64-bit microprocessors with complex and sophisticated architectures, gigabytes of memory and gigabit LAN connections.
What happened to the progress in operating systems? We have the software equivalent of a Ford Model T powered by an advanced gas turbine engine that produces thousands of horsepower.
UNIX sucks. It has become the modern equivalent of OS/360 and COBOL. Hot stuff when it was introduced, now it is a dinosaur.
As an "old fart", by computer standards, who can remember running V7 UNIX on a PDP-11, it is depressing to see how little things have changed over the years. The computers have 1000x the memory and disk storage, and run 1000x faster. The main changes to UNIX have been the addition of VM, TCP/IP and X. TCP/IP being the only new technology added to the kernel. The average Linux/*BSD hacker would feel at home on a box running V7 UNIX.
A real-time operating system is an operating system that can offer timing guarantees to applications. Real-time is not the same thing as real fast. Determinism is more important than speed.
It is transmitting something called housekeeping, or engineering, data. This is composed of things that describe the health of the spacecraft. For example, battery voltage, solar cell current, power consumption, command receiver lock and AGC, temperatures in various parts of the spacecraft. This is distinct from the science data, which includes measurements from the scientific instruments on board the spacecraft.
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My experience is the opposite. Where I work, Office 97 is the standard, along with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. The company (Fortune 50 corporation) is conservative about upgrading to new versions of software. They don't want to spend money on new software unless there is a compelling reason to do so. I don't know anyone who has Windows 2000 or Office 2000 on their work PC.
Almost no hard drives, IDE or SCSI, do a true low level fomat these days. This is due to the way that servo information is embedded in each track on the disk. You need a special piece of equipment to do a true low level format.
It is common for subsystems to fail on satellites. That is why they usually have redundant systems for critical functions. On scientific satellites, there may be many experiment packages on the satellite. You normally don't hear about one of them failing, unless you have an interest in that experiment and read the status reports.
Some people seem to get very upset when someone says that the emperor has no clothes. I've scanned through the messages on some of the web based investment bulletin boards and found many examples where any criticism of a company, or their stock, generated vicious flames from other investors.
Heh, just wait until you meet the friendly members of DIE-MF, the Directorate for the Immediate Elimination of Monospaced Fonts.
That is a matter of opinion.
I've been on the receiving end of a boycott. My ISP used to use Agis for their backbone connection. After Agis became a spam haven, people started blacklisting all of their IP blocks, including the non-spamming Agis customers. My ISP was forced to switch to another backbone provider. I don't blame the people who blacklisted my IP address, I blame Agis for not being a good net citizen.
The sad fact is that the only way to get some people's attention is to hit them over the head with a two-by-four. In the case of greedy bastards like the people who ran Agis, the only thing that will get their attention is a severe reduction in cash flow when their customers start leaving in large numbers. And that is what it took to get Agis to take spam seriously.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who is a customer of Media3 is part of the spam problem. Nuke them all.
Only one problem, the lunar cycle is approximately 29.5 days, so the months should be 29 or 30 days long if you want them to be synchronized with the Moon.
According to the NPL leap second web page, there has never been a need to add more than one leap second per year, although the current scheme would permit two seconds to be added or subtracted per year.
In an old National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) publication, they mentioned the use of a rubber second to keep atomic time synchronized with GMT. This required a periodic redefinition of the duration of a second. It seems that this caused more problems than it solved, leading to the current system of a fixed TAI time scale, and a UTC time scale that is offset from TAI by an integral number of seconds, via leap seconds, to compensate for variations in the Earth's rotation.
For the mathematically challenged, 13 months of 28 days plus New Years Day equals 365, 365 modulo 7 equals 1. That means for the day of week to be a constant for any specified date, one day must be designated as a special day, that isn't a normal day of the week, sometimes referred to as a "blank day" in other calendars.
Any calendar reform which ignores the seven day cycle of the week by, for example, adding special days that are not part of the week, is doomed to failure. There are many people who follow religions that attach special significance to certain days of the week. What happens when the new calendar says that it is Wednesday, but your religious beliefs say that it is the Sabbath?
Is it possible to have an open source project that uses patented technology? How would the patent holder be able to collect license fees from the users of the program?
When I was a kid, mumble years ago, it was common for boys to carry knives, usually boy scout jackknives or similar designs. Nobody got stabbed and it wasn't considered a dangerous weapon by the school. There wasn't any of this "zero tolerance" crap that mandates draconian punishment for a student who has a bottle of aspirin or a butter knife in their lunch box. We didn't have Internet porn or Hustler, we had to settle for the racier issues of National Geographic.
The difference is important if you are attacking hardened targets (silos, bunkers, bridges) with conventional warheads.
No, it doesn't.
The flight critical software is run on a redundant set of IBM AP-101 computers. The AP-101 is a 32-bit machine that is a descendant of the IBM 360. See this page.
You can get rid of the strobe effect by using a high frequency ballast. Unfortunately, many buildings still use the old ballasts and those horrible cool white bulbs.
The resolution doesn't have to be that good to differentiate adult males from adult females and children. There would be noticeable differences in height, proportions and mass.
The police could arrest you for attempted murder. The legal standards for what is considered an attempt vary by location, but the police do not have to wait for you to pull the trigger before they can take action.
I can reverse engineer the formula for Coca-Cola, a trade secret, and use it for my own soft drink. I just can't call it Coca-Cola(TM) or Coke(TM), due to trademark law.
I've read about something similar in English common law, called Trial by Combat. The accuser and accused fight to the death, God was supposed to ensure that the right person won. Given that the common law of the United States is directly derived from the common law of England, one of the parties to the dispute could petition the judge for a trial by combat.
A friend told me that in the early days of portable transistor radios, some manufacturers would intentionally add non-functional transistors to their radios, just so they could advertise them as N transistor radios, where larger values of N were "better".
I keep seeing this assertion repeated by Mac critics. Have you ever owned, or even used an iMac?
I actually liked the "hockey puck" mouse. Its main defect was that it didn't have an optical sensor like many newer mice.
The keyboard was OK, my only complaint was that some useful keys had been deleted.
UNIX was a revolutionary piece of software in the 1970s. According to this chronology by Ronda Hauben, the UNIX kernel was born in 1969, over thirty years ago. V7 UNIX, which was many people's first exposure to UNIX, was released ten years later, in 1979.
I don't mean to denigrate the accomplishments of Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan and the others who contributed to UNIX. The longevity of UNIX is a tribute to their genius.
If we pick 1979 as the baseline, what has been accomplished in the past twenty-plus years? The Mac and its GUI based OS debuted in 1984. TCP/IP became a standard part of nearly every operating system. Everything got cheaper and faster. And...
Computer hardware advanced from the 8 MHz 16-bit 8086 and 1200 bps modems to 1+ GHz 64-bit microprocessors with complex and sophisticated architectures, gigabytes of memory and gigabit LAN connections.
What happened to the progress in operating systems? We have the software equivalent of a Ford Model T powered by an advanced gas turbine engine that produces thousands of horsepower.
As an "old fart", by computer standards, who can remember running V7 UNIX on a PDP-11, it is depressing to see how little things have changed over the years. The computers have 1000x the memory and disk storage, and run 1000x faster. The main changes to UNIX have been the addition of VM, TCP/IP and X. TCP/IP being the only new technology added to the kernel. The average Linux/*BSD hacker would feel at home on a box running V7 UNIX.
A real-time operating system is an operating system that can offer timing guarantees to applications. Real-time is not the same thing as real fast. Determinism is more important than speed.
It is transmitting something called housekeeping, or engineering, data. This is composed of things that describe the health of the spacecraft. For example, battery voltage, solar cell current, power consumption, command receiver lock and AGC, temperatures in various parts of the spacecraft. This is distinct from the science data, which includes measurements from the scientific instruments on board the spacecraft.