How many people like me (40 years old) forgot about Risk, and then, once remembered thanks to Google Risk, went out and BOUGHT the board game for their kids for Christmas?
I happened to use Ingres in my first job in 1987 at Citibank. I remember a few "nice" things about the package:
1) We were running on VAX4000 machines that had those multi-platter disk packs the size of a cake carrier that went in a reader the size of a dishwasher. By keeping the system tables on fixed disk and data tables on the removable, we could "swap" databases just by swapping the packs.
2) We used QUEL, relational calculus. Much more powerful and simpler than SQL. I've forgotten most of the details, but I do remember being able to put sums and max calls in the select without having to jump through group by and having by and subquery hoops to do it.
My next job used SQL and I remember struggling for quite a while, getting the hang of relational algebra.
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1) It was not available seven years ago when I started using Perl in earnest. 2) In the tradition of The Camel and The Panther, it could end up being known as The Dog...
- The Buran had more advanced computers with real-time control abilities instead of the "key in the program" design of the shuttle.
All though the shuttle started flying in the early 1980's, it was developed in the 1970's using 1970's computer technology. The lead times required to build such a device basically obsoleted the computers before the shuttle got off the ground. Nowadays, I would hope that planned obsolence and upgrades are part of the design.
WTF is it with americans and 'freedom' this and freedom that A new type of fear. When you have been as isolated from day-to-day terrorist violence by two oceans for as long as we have and then something like 9/11 happens, you end up screaming freedom as long and as loud as you can in the hope that somehow doing so will restore your sense of well-being and freedom to live without fear. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying that it is.
Speaking of the Saturns on display, does anyone want to confirm/refute the story I heard (who knows where) that Saturn was reconsidered a few years back, but all the plans had vanished (pre-CD days) and they had engineers crawling around inside these display Saturns taking measurements to see if it was feasible to build a Saturn V again?
If it turns out that SCO is right, then everyone who had ever considered RMS to be ridiculously anal with respect to getting releases for any code to be included under the GNU or FSF banners is going to have to eat crow.
Oh, I don't know... What's so bad about spending, hmm, about 180 hours or so over the past year trying to read EVERY Harry Potter fan fic on the net?:-)
No, we don't shut off the protocols, we shut off the propagators. Stop clouding the issue.
Guns don't kill, people do.
But gunshops KNOWINGLY selling unlicensed (illegal) guns should be shut down.
Protocols don't post kiddie porn, people do.
But ISPs KNOWINGLY allowing kiddie-porn should be shut down.
The key here is KNOWINGLY. The ISP was not shutdown when the traffic was discovered, it was NOTIFIED. It then ignored it's responsibility to comply with the law.
Yes, and Mr. Lohr isn't too technically accurate either:
And Linux has a long way to go. Today, it is used mainly for simpler tasks, like serving up Web pages, instead of for industrial-strength computing chores like financial transaction systems that must handle complex tasks, 24 hours a day, without crashing.
Ok now boys and girls... Everyone using Linux for complex tasks, send an e-mail with as many details as your pre-IPO status allows:-) to letters@nytimes.com Don't forget your name, address and telephone number!
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How many people like me (40 years old) forgot about Risk, and then, once remembered thanks to Google Risk, went out and BOUGHT the board game for their kids for Christmas?
I happened to use Ingres in my first job in 1987 at Citibank. I remember a few "nice" things about the package:
1) We were running on VAX4000 machines that had those multi-platter disk packs the size of a cake carrier that went in a reader the size of a dishwasher. By keeping the system tables on fixed disk and data tables on the removable, we could "swap" databases just by swapping the packs.
2) We used QUEL, relational calculus. Much more powerful and simpler than SQL. I've forgotten most of the details, but I do remember being able to put sums and max calls in the select without having to jump through group by and having by and subquery hoops to do it.
My next job used SQL and I remember struggling for quite a while, getting the hang of relational algebra.
Marketing muscle beats techical innovation again. Sigh.
1) It was not available seven years ago when I started using Perl in earnest.
2) In the tradition of The Camel and The Panther, it could end up being known as The Dog...
All though the shuttle started flying in the early 1980's, it was developed in the 1970's using 1970's computer technology. The lead times required to build such a device basically obsoleted the computers before the shuttle got off the ground. Nowadays, I would hope that planned obsolence and upgrades are part of the design.
WTF is it with americans and 'freedom' this and freedom that
A new type of fear. When you have been as isolated from day-to-day terrorist violence by two oceans for as long as we have and then something like 9/11 happens, you end up screaming freedom as long and as loud as you can in the hope that somehow doing so will restore your sense of well-being and freedom to live without fear.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying that it is.
Speaking of the Saturns on display, does anyone want to confirm/refute the story I heard (who knows where) that Saturn was reconsidered a few years back, but all the plans had vanished (pre-CD days) and they had engineers crawling around inside these display Saturns taking measurements to see if it was feasible to build a Saturn V again?
If it turns out that SCO is right, then everyone who had ever considered RMS to be ridiculously anal with respect to getting releases for any code to be included under the GNU or FSF banners is going to have to eat crow.
http://hellspawn.no-ip.com:85/slash/enterprise.htm
./'ed site. Most ./'ed folks wouldn't ahve bothered.
which, BTW, I got from a link posted at the
Oh, I don't know... What's so bad about spending, hmm, about 180 hours or so over the past year trying to read EVERY Harry Potter fan fic on the net? :-)
No, we don't shut off the protocols, we shut off the propagators. Stop clouding the issue. Guns don't kill, people do. But gunshops KNOWINGLY selling unlicensed (illegal) guns should be shut down. Protocols don't post kiddie porn, people do. But ISPs KNOWINGLY allowing kiddie-porn should be shut down. The key here is KNOWINGLY. The ISP was not shutdown when the traffic was discovered, it was NOTIFIED. It then ignored it's responsibility to comply with the law.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think this looks like the Second Foundation's PyschoHistory diagram after the emergence of the Mule?
And Linux has a long way to go. Today, it is used mainly for simpler tasks, like serving up Web pages, instead of for industrial-strength computing chores like financial transaction systems that must handle complex tasks, 24 hours a day, without crashing.
Ok now boys and girls... Everyone using Linux for complex tasks, send an e-mail with as many details as your pre-IPO status allows