Detroit's problem is everyone left. Far less tax base then when all those pensioners retired. Only 3000 people paying into the retirement plan, and 9000 drawing out. With a much smaller population, you need fewer fire and police. Yet you still have to pay the police you used to need when there were more people living there. Detroit needs to rebuild so people move back and start paying taxes again.
Though it is not my primary business, I offer my services when people have difficulties accessing archives. I am often surprised when people come to me to rescue data off floppies, both 3 1/2 and 5 1/4. These are mostly legal documents or contracts. Why people keep floppies but not drives to read them is beyond me. I have a 3 1/2 USB drive I keep for routine work. I saved a Pentium 90 with a 5 1/4 inch at home I use for those rare occasions. The other problem is reading the data. I have Office 97 on the Pentium to convert and read old formats. I have another machine with Windows and Office 2000 to bring documents to somewhat modern formats. I helped one company update their union contract. They had it printed as a small book, and had been giving it out for 20 years. When they finally ran out of copies, they wanted to incorporate the changes over the years and reprint it. They handed me a pile of floppies. Each chapter was a separate document, which I finally figured out were in Wordstar for DOS format. Luckily, there is an Office 97 converter for that. The lesson is, without software to read it, your archives are useless to keep. Save old versions of your software, and if necessary, hardware to run it.
The reason I use Fedora is just that. You can install a bare bones system, and add the capability you need. That way I only need to take the "bit" I need from the "bag". Yes, that means thinking about what you need to install, instead of spraying features out until you hope you covered your needs. That was one of the problems which lead to unsecured systems, people installing features they weren't even aware existed. If they didn't know about it, they didn't configure it and take security into account. I like having to decide to include it, and configure it properly as I go.
I agree. Not real confident of its ability, but it does seem to be light weight. Run it on XP with Athlon 64 machines with 512MB, and some Atom based machines. Haven't had any issues on them.
The used 100 to 1000 times as many people. Working in un-air conditioned building doing routine work over and over. Then it was all double and triple checked. When they screwed up, you could yell at them. There is no way we could afford to recreate that system with today's pay scales. Also, these were sharp people. No one like that would even apply for the job. Welcome to the post industrial society.
It would be far easier to scan a lot of text back to digital form than read numerous bar codes. Converting the text to useful data may be the more difficult part. But why would you want to go through this hassle?
A single green laser is very disorienting. There are a number of videos on Youtube which shows it. Military provide pilots with goggles which filter out that particular wavelength.
To say "No, Thank You" in Germany, you say "Nein, Bitte". Yes, bitte is please, but that is not how it works in German. Another common saying in German is "Wie Bitte?" which literally means "How Please?" It is used for "What did you say?" or "What was that again?"
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A version of MS Office which supports touch poorly is not a killer app.
The tax is on software consultation, not programming.
Detroit's problem is everyone left. Far less tax base then when all those pensioners retired. Only 3000 people paying into the retirement plan, and 9000 drawing out. With a much smaller population, you need fewer fire and police. Yet you still have to pay the police you used to need when there were more people living there. Detroit needs to rebuild so people move back and start paying taxes again.
How many will break in the first week?
Microsoft made OS/2 1.0-1.3. I am referring to 2 on. Those were the versions competing with Windows NT.
I used both NT 3.5 and OS/2, and OS/2 was much better. Microsoft put more effort into support for the long term.
Though it is not my primary business, I offer my services when people have difficulties accessing archives. I am often surprised when people come to me to rescue data off floppies, both 3 1/2 and 5 1/4. These are mostly legal documents or contracts. Why people keep floppies but not drives to read them is beyond me. I have a 3 1/2 USB drive I keep for routine work. I saved a Pentium 90 with a 5 1/4 inch at home I use for those rare occasions. The other problem is reading the data. I have Office 97 on the Pentium to convert and read old formats. I have another machine with Windows and Office 2000 to bring documents to somewhat modern formats. I helped one company update their union contract. They had it printed as a small book, and had been giving it out for 20 years. When they finally ran out of copies, they wanted to incorporate the changes over the years and reprint it. They handed me a pile of floppies. Each chapter was a separate document, which I finally figured out were in Wordstar for DOS format. Luckily, there is an Office 97 converter for that. The lesson is, without software to read it, your archives are useless to keep. Save old versions of your software, and if necessary, hardware to run it.
The reason I use Fedora is just that. You can install a bare bones system, and add the capability you need. That way I only need to take the "bit" I need from the "bag". Yes, that means thinking about what you need to install, instead of spraying features out until you hope you covered your needs. That was one of the problems which lead to unsecured systems, people installing features they weren't even aware existed. If they didn't know about it, they didn't configure it and take security into account. I like having to decide to include it, and configure it properly as I go.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords...
Forget doctors and news anchors, I only trust infomercial spokespersons.
When I read the headline, the first thing I thought of was Al Gore.
That's where I am from.
I've got the same combination on my luggage!
I agree. Not real confident of its ability, but it does seem to be light weight. Run it on XP with Athlon 64 machines with 512MB, and some Atom based machines. Haven't had any issues on them.
IBM had access to the Windows source code, and the right to use it. Yes, OS/2 would have the same bugs.
That worked out well the first time.
But imagine the one you could build!
The used 100 to 1000 times as many people. Working in un-air conditioned building doing routine work over and over. Then it was all double and triple checked. When they screwed up, you could yell at them. There is no way we could afford to recreate that system with today's pay scales. Also, these were sharp people. No one like that would even apply for the job. Welcome to the post industrial society.
It's a space station.
They will be forgotten in a few years...
The cake is a lie
It would be far easier to scan a lot of text back to digital form than read numerous bar codes. Converting the text to useful data may be the more difficult part. But why would you want to go through this hassle?
A single green laser is very disorienting. There are a number of videos on Youtube which shows it. Military provide pilots with goggles which filter out that particular wavelength.
It's the original reason people bought a Wii. Create a HD version, and lets start whipping controllers at the TV again.
To say "No, Thank You" in Germany, you say "Nein, Bitte". Yes, bitte is please, but that is not how it works in German. Another common saying in German is "Wie Bitte?" which literally means "How Please?" It is used for "What did you say?" or "What was that again?"