Blue Screens of Death. Reinstalling Windows and all software every few months. Remote administration on Windows? (hah-hah-hah-thump.) Visual this-n-that. Office. Licenses for, say, 3rd party tools like profilers when gprof (usually) can fill the bill.
Winders expenses, as others have noted, can really add up. But I'm not sure I entirely believe this $3000 figure, even if you figure many of the programmers would be somewhat Unix literate.
Of her awards, I'm afraid that I didn't think the biggest (Doomsday Book) should have been given the nod that year, but then I'm not much of an effete artsy-fartsy critic.:-)
I don't think it was ever called a TRS-something, it was always the model 100?
I've still got one, it still works. I have the floppy drive that connects with it. I bought this one used before going to a chess tournament in 1986 because I wanted to keep chess notes on it. Ah the memories.
That's entirely right, I wrote a 6809 chess program on my Radio Shack Color Computer circa 1984 and it was able to play a decent, but not great game.
I had a few good ideas (such as checking for doubled pawns on open files) but I haven't even worked on source code for a chess program for more than a decade, so I don't know if they've ever been adopted by Crafty or Gnuchess. Or if they're too expensive to really implement well.
I'd like to know a bit more about this supposed Congressional authorization. It seems that something like this should be a bit difficult to sneak under the nose of many of the privacy advocates.
On the other hand, it *does* sound like the kind of thing many of these bureaucratic fiefdoms (eg, Dept of Transportation) might be quite capable of coming up with on their own, with a pointer at a nebulous phrase in some directive that supposedly gives them the authorization to do so.
(snort) We've only had 50-75 years of punching out crap (and hell, maybe aliens *like* I Love Lucy). That's hardly enough time for electromagnetic radiation to annoy aliens. By the time they notice us, if anyone does, we'll probably have converted almost entirely to cable or some other futuristic entertainment deployment technology.
The Web itself is a righteous hack, of a protocol on top of a protocol, going from "neat idea" to "every business has it" in less than five years. Two years ago, one rarely saw Web addresses in advertising. Nowdays, if you don't see a Web address in an advertisement, you tend to write the company off. Hats off to Mosaic. And to all the porn sites that are the reason the Web is so fast nowdays. And to Amazon.com, even though they've never made a profit.
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You got crowded out? Poke someone in line or is that too difficult? Hell 1500 people at a theatre would be hard for me to handle, lamer
That particular Yahoo story doesn't point it out, but the FCC is allowing these companies to "settle" by them promising not to do it again.
Oh right.
The only thing that will stop these spamsters is *stiff* penalties, like maybe a $100 fine per spam or jail time.
Total cost of ownership.
Blue Screens of Death. Reinstalling Windows and all software every few months. Remote administration on Windows? (hah-hah-hah-thump.) Visual this-n-that. Office. Licenses for, say, 3rd party tools like profilers when gprof (usually) can fill the bill.
Winders expenses, as others have noted, can really add up. But I'm not sure I entirely believe this $3000 figure, even if you figure many of the programmers would be somewhat Unix literate.
Taco, go visit Taco Bell and review their "taco" offerings.
Of her awards, I'm afraid that I didn't think the biggest (Doomsday Book) should have been given the nod that year, but then I'm not much of an effete artsy-fartsy critic. :-)
I've played Rogue/Hack/Nethack for almost 20 years, and have never "mastered" them.
I don't think it was ever called a TRS-something, it was always the model 100?
I've still got one, it still works. I have the floppy drive that connects with it. I bought this one used before going to a chess tournament in 1986 because I wanted to keep chess notes on it. Ah the memories.
That's entirely right, I wrote a 6809 chess program on my Radio Shack Color Computer circa 1984 and it was able to play a decent, but not great game.
I had a few good ideas (such as checking for doubled pawns on open files) but I haven't even worked on source code for a chess program for more than a decade, so I don't know if they've ever been adopted by Crafty or Gnuchess. Or if they're too expensive to really implement well.
I'd like to know a bit more about this supposed Congressional authorization. It seems that something like this should be a bit difficult to sneak under the nose of many of the privacy advocates.
On the other hand, it *does* sound like the kind of thing many of these bureaucratic fiefdoms (eg, Dept of Transportation) might be quite capable of coming up with on their own, with a pointer at a nebulous phrase in some directive that supposedly gives them the authorization to do so.
(snort) We've only had 50-75 years of punching out crap (and hell, maybe aliens *like* I Love Lucy). That's hardly enough time for electromagnetic radiation to annoy aliens. By the time they notice us, if anyone does, we'll probably have converted almost entirely to cable or some other futuristic entertainment deployment technology.
I'd note that he wasn't exactly crippled, only recovering from wounds and deprivation.
It *does* make a perverted sort of sense, after all. :-)
The Web itself is a righteous hack, of a protocol on top of a protocol, going from "neat idea" to "every business has it" in less than five years. Two years ago, one rarely saw Web addresses in advertising. Nowdays, if you don't see a Web address in an advertisement, you tend to write the company off. Hats off to Mosaic. And to all the porn sites that are the reason the Web is so fast nowdays. And to Amazon.com, even though they've never made a profit.