Verizon is still actively building out the service in New Jersey. They do, after all, have a statewide cable TV franchise to do so. Verizon clearly stated that they wouldn't starting building out in cities they didn't have a franchise agreement in. Sounds like they were sick of fighting with individual municipalities to get FAs for service.
If it means they stop doing everything in Java throughout their education, I'm all for it. There's nothing wrong with Java, and I use it often in my current company, but kids in school need to learn from the get go that languages are tools in a toolbox - use the right tool for the right job when you can. I can't remember the last time I interviewed a graduate who had used C++ or C outside of a single survey course on the language!
This surprises me, most schools didn't become Java happy until about 2000-01 or so, I know I avoided the switch over by a few years and I started my BS in 2000. Prior to Java, most schools were teaching C++ without exposing the students to classes and such.
Hell, I can't remember the last time I interviewed a post 2000 graduate who had built their own processor or had even taken an assembly class. The kids are just as smart, just as eager, but woefully unprepared.
I took asm, it was required. Granted it was VAX asm, still taught the concepts.
The one thing they are getting a little better at is included some 'software engineering' into the curriculum - but only a little bit better in that they do 'projects together' which in my experience means that the alpha nerd does 90% of the work and the other 4 team members offer worship and keep the ramen coming.
Group work in schools usually resulted in one doing all the programming since the rest well, simply didn't know how to program. Its a joke how many folks working towards a computer related degree struggle with it.
ATI/AMD card? I've had the video driver crash a few times, always thought it was a BSOD and was surprised the machine actually recovered and stated it was the driver.
Whats funny is AT&T had to divest itself of some markets when AT&T Wireless and Cingular merged. Most of those markets were bought up by SunCom... which T-Mobile bought to increase coverage. I wonder if they will have to divest those markets again.
FWIW China also uses the first to file system for both patents AND trademarks. The system has already stung a few large corporations who didn't know the law of the land. The court system there makes it impossible to fight as well.
Our local electric utility has been installing solar panels on telephone poles all over the place. They have computer controlled inverters that supply the grid based on demand.
There are still plenty of machines that don't have Java, Flash, and Adobe Reader updated to the latest versions. Keep those three up to date and install a good ad blocker, and the chances of getting infected drop a bit.
Well not quite. My first experience with Linux was with Slackware 3.0 in 1996. That install program was horrid, one screw-up and you had to restart from the beginning because there was no 'back' button!
Then there was getting X11 running. configxf86 was a scary program to run with lots of scary warnings about frying monitors if you selected the wrong modelines setting. GTK/KDE? ha... try fvwm. I remember Walnut Creek's ads showing impressive X screen shots, never could reproduce them. Kernel config was a nice long textbased affair... lotsa questions. I was happy when the ncurses based config came out, it worked better then the X11 one.
I eventually dumped Slackware for RedHat... package management was nice and it even had some GUI management tools... and my printer worked. I even dabbled in Caldera's OpenLinux, Looking Glass Desktop was cool, but clunky. What finally impressed me was the graphical installer Mandrake came out with after dealing with all that Slackware crap. The only thing I have left of that era of Linux use is two 2in. thick Linux books... "Using Linux" and "Linux Unleashed". Kinda amusing to read nowadays.
What you folks have now is easy to install and use... now get off my lawn!
This model has been tried before. Anyone remember the various Windows CE machines that HP and Compaq released through the years? I remember when the "full size" Windows CE 3.0 mini-notebooks like the Compaq Aero 8000 came out (and seem to be making a resurgence at the moment as cheapo netbooks running CE 6)? They flopped because they weren't much cheaper then a laptop and didn't run a full version of Windows.
HD in my circa 2003 Powerbook G4 is working fine, I don't see myself replacing that laptop any time soon either. I never had an HD fail on a machine before 10 years with the exception of a 1TB I bought a few months ago, it died in a week. The older drives seem more reliable in the long run. The 40MB drive on the Apple IIgs is about 20 years old and only has a bad sector or two, runs fine otherwise.
Most people ran XP with the classic theme. Luna really didn't add any UI features like Aero does. You loose things like Flip3D and Taskbar/Alt+Tab window thumbnails when you turn off Aero.
Open up a 2nd Gen iBook G3/G4 and get back to us. The machine is built around the hard drive and requires removal of about 3-4 different screw types in the process. The Powerbooks are a breeze in comparison although the Albooks did have screws that were easy to strip if one wasn't careful.
We survived here in the US. Some lucky folks even got a $50 coupon from the government to use towards buying a converter box. Surely with all those TV licensing fees the UK charges citizens to watch TV they can scrap up a few pounds to help people upgrade to digital. Otherwise they will lose out on continued licensing fees for those bricks sitting in the corner.
MS actually has a very good history with in-house designed file systems. NTFS is pretty damn good, it even accommodates classic Mac resource forks (from the days NT had AppleTalk support). HPFS was very good as well...one of Microsoft's greatest contributions to OS/2 before the IBM split up. Heck, look at Apple's HFS+, its been around since 1997 and is really just an extension to the circa 1985 HFS file system.
Sounds like a lot of whining about people driving around their "quiet" sub-division streets to get to an intersection with a traffic light. If it wasn't for the piss poor urban planning in the Raleigh area, this wouldn't have been a problem to begin with.
Mod up. That bridge was paid for decades ago. Upkeep is in tye budget for all roads and bridges in the state. The only reason (and a poor one) to keep tolls is to have jobs for people. Eliminate the jobs, then continuing tolls on such projects is fleecing the locals. I call this municiple greed.
Maintaining a suspension bridge the size of the Golden Gate with exposure to sea breeze is extremely expensive. Take a look at NYC's free East River bridges vs. the toll ones. Deferred maintenance is not a pretty sight and California is also pretty much broke.
I see Usenet cited a bit on Wikipedia. Heck, thats the only source for a lot of legitimate information on computing related topics. Look up the history of the 2IMG disk image format used by Apple II emulators. The details of the file format was hammered out between two emulator authors on Usenet.
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Verizon is still actively building out the service in New Jersey. They do, after all, have a statewide cable TV franchise to do so. Verizon clearly stated that they wouldn't starting building out in cities they didn't have a franchise agreement in. Sounds like they were sick of fighting with individual municipalities to get FAs for service.
The super low-end phones are about to go away completely because it's getting too cheap to make a better phone.
Ever see the margins on those low end phones? Dealers love them because of the money they make on them vs. smartphones.
If it means they stop doing everything in Java throughout their education, I'm all for it. There's nothing wrong with Java, and I use it often in my current company, but kids in school need to learn from the get go that languages are tools in a toolbox - use the right tool for the right job when you can. I can't remember the last time I interviewed a graduate who had used C++ or C outside of a single survey course on the language!
This surprises me, most schools didn't become Java happy until about 2000-01 or so, I know I avoided the switch over by a few years and I started my BS in 2000. Prior to Java, most schools were teaching C++ without exposing the students to classes and such.
Hell, I can't remember the last time I interviewed a post 2000 graduate who had built their own processor or had even taken an assembly class. The kids are just as smart, just as eager, but woefully unprepared.
I took asm, it was required. Granted it was VAX asm, still taught the concepts.
The one thing they are getting a little better at is included some 'software engineering' into the curriculum - but only a little bit better in that they do 'projects together' which in my experience means that the alpha nerd does 90% of the work and the other 4 team members offer worship and keep the ramen coming.
Group work in schools usually resulted in one doing all the programming since the rest well, simply didn't know how to program. Its a joke how many folks working towards a computer related degree struggle with it.
Can you at least turn off Cleartype in FF4? IE9 forces it on for any page in any application rendered by mshtml.dll and it looks like crapola.
Lucy in the sky... with DIAMONDS!
How about some Rocket Man while we are at it? What, you can't get behind that, can you?
ATI/AMD card? I've had the video driver crash a few times, always thought it was a BSOD and was surprised the machine actually recovered and stated it was the driver.
Whats funny is AT&T had to divest itself of some markets when AT&T Wireless and Cingular merged. Most of those markets were bought up by SunCom... which T-Mobile bought to increase coverage. I wonder if they will have to divest those markets again.
FWIW China also uses the first to file system for both patents AND trademarks. The system has already stung a few large corporations who didn't know the law of the land. The court system there makes it impossible to fight as well.
Our local electric utility has been installing solar panels on telephone poles all over the place. They have computer controlled inverters that supply the grid based on demand.
There are still plenty of machines that don't have Java, Flash, and Adobe Reader updated to the latest versions. Keep those three up to date and install a good ad blocker, and the chances of getting infected drop a bit.
Well not quite. My first experience with Linux was with Slackware 3.0 in 1996. That install program was horrid, one screw-up and you had to restart from the beginning because there was no 'back' button!
Then there was getting X11 running. configxf86 was a scary program to run with lots of scary warnings about frying monitors if you selected the wrong modelines setting. GTK/KDE? ha... try fvwm. I remember Walnut Creek's ads showing impressive X screen shots, never could reproduce them. Kernel config was a nice long textbased affair... lotsa questions. I was happy when the ncurses based config came out, it worked better then the X11 one.
I eventually dumped Slackware for RedHat... package management was nice and it even had some GUI management tools... and my printer worked. I even dabbled in Caldera's OpenLinux, Looking Glass Desktop was cool, but clunky. What finally impressed me was the graphical installer Mandrake came out with after dealing with all that Slackware crap. The only thing I have left of that era of Linux use is two 2in. thick Linux books... "Using Linux" and "Linux Unleashed". Kinda amusing to read nowadays.
What you folks have now is easy to install and use... now get off my lawn!
This model has been tried before. Anyone remember the various Windows CE machines that HP and Compaq released through the years? I remember when the "full size" Windows CE 3.0 mini-notebooks like the Compaq Aero 8000 came out (and seem to be making a resurgence at the moment as cheapo netbooks running CE 6)? They flopped because they weren't much cheaper then a laptop and didn't run a full version of Windows.
HD in my circa 2003 Powerbook G4 is working fine, I don't see myself replacing that laptop any time soon either. I never had an HD fail on a machine before 10 years with the exception of a 1TB I bought a few months ago, it died in a week. The older drives seem more reliable in the long run. The 40MB drive on the Apple IIgs is about 20 years old and only has a bad sector or two, runs fine otherwise.
Most people ran XP with the classic theme. Luna really didn't add any UI features like Aero does. You loose things like Flip3D and Taskbar/Alt+Tab window thumbnails when you turn off Aero.
The other ~95% of americans are doing something else. Things are bad. (For them. Good for us.)
Like watching cable TV shows. Used to be you could only get quality television from the big networks, now you have more choices.
Open up a 2nd Gen iBook G3/G4 and get back to us. The machine is built around the hard drive and requires removal of about 3-4 different screw types in the process. The Powerbooks are a breeze in comparison although the Albooks did have screws that were easy to strip if one wasn't careful.
We survived here in the US. Some lucky folks even got a $50 coupon from the government to use towards buying a converter box. Surely with all those TV licensing fees the UK charges citizens to watch TV they can scrap up a few pounds to help people upgrade to digital. Otherwise they will lose out on continued licensing fees for those bricks sitting in the corner.
They didn't even use a good system of measurement.... how many Library of Congress is that anyway?
MS actually has a very good history with in-house designed file systems. NTFS is pretty damn good, it even accommodates classic Mac resource forks (from the days NT had AppleTalk support). HPFS was very good as well...one of Microsoft's greatest contributions to OS/2 before the IBM split up. Heck, look at Apple's HFS+, its been around since 1997 and is really just an extension to the circa 1985 HFS file system.
Sounds like a lot of whining about people driving around their "quiet" sub-division streets to get to an intersection with a traffic light. If it wasn't for the piss poor urban planning in the Raleigh area, this wouldn't have been a problem to begin with.
Whats interesting is someone I know in that neighborhood IS a PE and he commented on the project during public hearings... except his background is an EE, not CE. Looks like Mr. Cox had made a few inquires of his own... regarding the traffic modeling software no less. Source here: http://www.raleighnc.gov/content/PWksDesignConst/Documents/FallsOfNeuse/FoNMeetings/CPMCommentResp.pdf
Mod up. That bridge was paid for decades ago. Upkeep is in tye budget for all roads and bridges in the state. The only reason (and a poor one) to keep tolls is to have jobs for people. Eliminate the jobs, then continuing tolls on such projects is fleecing the locals. I call this municiple greed.
Maintaining a suspension bridge the size of the Golden Gate with exposure to sea breeze is extremely expensive. Take a look at NYC's free East River bridges vs. the toll ones. Deferred maintenance is not a pretty sight and California is also pretty much broke.
That not billing out of state plates thing varies by toll agency.
I see Usenet cited a bit on Wikipedia. Heck, thats the only source for a lot of legitimate information on computing related topics. Look up the history of the 2IMG disk image format used by Apple II emulators. The details of the file format was hammered out between two emulator authors on Usenet.
Tommy Wiseau... now thats just cruel.