My PC is vastly faster than my PC was a few years ago. Windows XP uses about 2% of system CPU overall (and mostly sits between 0 and 1%). I don't see much payback for making the OS faster.
I _do_ see payback in putting more functionality into it.
Sadly the site that hosts all of the extensions is down. Which means I now have FireFox, but none of my extensions and can't browse 'properly' until it stops being slashdotted.
I don't use spamguarding. I use spamfiltering. Just like I'd rather the RIAA didn't treat it's customers like criminals, I don't treat my readers like spammers.
I do use spamfiltering, and that seems to work just as well, while being an inconvenience only to me, not to people who want to talk to me.
The _last_ thing I want is an advert coming up while I'm trying to actually enjoy my TV! At least with ad breaks I can chat to someone else and it's nto stopping me from seeing/hearing the program I'm actually trying to watch!
The Gunslinger is not in King's standard style by any means. It has attracted a very loyal following due to its mythic approach to things, but it's not his best written novel by a long way.
I highly recommend IT, Eyes of the Dragon and Different Seasons (a collection of 4 novellas, including Shawshank Redemption, The Body (which became the film Stand By Me), Apt Pupil (filmed by Bryan Singer) and The Breathing Method).
Sigh, call what you like. 2003's graduate intake for IS was around 45 people. The usual spread is 50% mainframe development, 25% mainframe support, 25% Client/Server development.
All of those people get taught COBOL as a starting point.
The mainframe development people then get taught a lot more intensive COBOL stuff. The mainframe support people learn more about the mainframe systems. The Client/Server people learn Java.
But all of us started off with COBOL training, because from time to time all of us need it.
But the mainframe development people need it all the time.
I work for a large financial institution. My brother works for another one. Both take 30-odd graduates on each year and start them off working in COBOL. Both do all of their mainframe work in COBOL.
Personally I use Livejournal as my newsreader. It's got pretty much the perfect system for me, as I can set up the layout how I like and it does all the checking for me. I can also check my news feeds from wherever I happen to be.
You can see the results at http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/news or the comics I receive over RSS at http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/co mics
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NT 4.0 was EOL-ed back in June. 2000 is, however, NT5 and XP is NT5.1 (I think).
Cairo was never the codename for NT anyway, it was the codename for the Object Oriented File System microsoft was working on that was going to go into Win2k.
They are indie bases, but there's an awful lot of decent music in there. Check out their electronic section, for instance. Also large chunks of the 4AD label's output is now available...
You can certainly outsource some of the costs overseas (network management is usually done remotely anyway). But all the physical engineering has to be done where the cables and switches are.
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My PC is vastly faster than my PC was a few years ago. Windows XP uses about 2% of system CPU overall (and mostly sits between 0 and 1%). I don't see much payback for making the OS faster.
I _do_ see payback in putting more functionality into it.
10,000 desktops running NT4 at my workplace (major Financial company). We're upgrading to XP at the moment, but it's a major, 6 months operation...
Not only are all users automatically RSS producers:a /rss/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/andrewducker/dat
but you can take any RSS feed and produce a 'user' from it.
I get all my news on:
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/news/
which aggregates various news sources into one place.
Aah, yes, BRU LE, that fantastic program which......
Pretty much all development houses are dependent on publishers for their funding. ID aren't, 3DRealms aren't, and that's about it.
Agreed. I synch my Palm with Yahoo calendar and it's incredibly easy to use.
I'd buy a gameboy if I could get populous for it!
Maybe the talk was intelligent to a 10 year old?
I've been on since 1991 and there's just as much intelligent talk around as there ever was. And it's just as hard to find as it ever was.
Sadly the site that hosts all of the extensions is down. Which means I now have FireFox, but none of my extensions and can't browse 'properly' until it stops being slashdotted.
Nice
I don't use spamguarding. I use spamfiltering. Just like I'd rather the RIAA didn't treat it's customers like criminals, I don't treat my readers like spammers.
I do use spamfiltering, and that seems to work just as well, while being an inconvenience only to me, not to people who want to talk to me.
Picture in Picture? Are you insane???
The _last_ thing I want is an advert coming up while I'm trying to actually enjoy my TV! At least with ad breaks I can chat to someone else and it's nto stopping me from seeing/hearing the program I'm actually trying to watch!
The Gunslinger is not in King's standard style by any means. It has attracted a very loyal following due to its mythic approach to things, but it's not his best written novel by a long way.
I highly recommend IT, Eyes of the Dragon and Different Seasons (a collection of 4 novellas, including Shawshank Redemption, The Body (which became the film Stand By Me), Apt Pupil (filmed by Bryan Singer) and The Breathing Method).
All much better written, IMHO.
Stolen and posted. Very cool.
Actually, the vast majority of the world believes that people aged under 18 should be allowed to have sex.
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Check here for details:
http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsen
http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/
Fantastic. That's working perfectly.
Nope, still runs the vast majority of the banks and financial instituations the world over.
The line you give isn't valid COBOL, but
SUBTRACT EXPENSES FROM REVENUE GIVING PROFIT
is.
But then
COMPUTE PROFIT = REVENUE - EXPENSES
would do the same. (You can use COMPUTE to do most algebraic functions).
Sigh, call what you like. 2003's graduate intake for IS was around 45 people. The usual spread is 50% mainframe development, 25% mainframe support, 25% Client/Server development.
All of those people get taught COBOL as a starting point.
The mainframe development people then get taught a lot more intensive COBOL stuff. The mainframe support people learn more about the mainframe systems. The Client/Server people learn Java.
But all of us started off with COBOL training, because from time to time all of us need it.
But the mainframe development people need it all the time.
The IS department of my company is approximately 1100 people strong.
Not all of those people are programmers admittedly, and about 20% of them are Java web developers. But there's still a lot of us about.
I work for a large financial institution. My brother works for another one. Both take 30-odd graduates on each year and start them off working in COBOL. Both do all of their mainframe work in COBOL.
Personally I use Livejournal as my newsreader. It's got pretty much the perfect system for me, as I can set up the layout how I like and it does all the checking for me. I can also check my news feeds from wherever I happen to be.
or the comics I receive over RSS ato mics
You can see the results at http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/news
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/c
The Register disagrees
NT 4.0 was EOL-ed back in June. 2000 is, however, NT5 and XP is NT5.1 (I think).
Cairo was never the codename for NT anyway, it was the codename for the Object Oriented File System microsoft was working on that was going to go into Win2k.
They are indie bases, but there's an awful lot of decent music in there. Check out their electronic section, for instance. Also large chunks of the 4AD label's output is now available...
You can certainly outsource some of the costs overseas (network management is usually done remotely anyway). But all the physical engineering has to be done where the cables and switches are.