What was the lag between win98 and win98SE (se is latin for "usable edition")? And the lag between XP and XP SP2 (sp2 is latin for "vista dominating version")?
98SE was the first (microsoft) OS with real plug'n'play support, decent USB support, mousewheel support out of the box etc and for it's time, lightyears more stable than 95 and 98SE. XP brought a bunch of complaints and it wasn't till SP1 that we had a release canidate quality OS and XP SP2 is so good it pretty much made Vista stillborn at launch and even three years later.
My point here is, it might be 3 years between releases that ultimately get patched to a usable state, but it's how long from usable patched version to usable patched version.
The reality is it's closer to 4-5 years between "Stable" OS versions that an IT department is willing to commit to installing on all their workstations. Win7 is probably better than VistaSP1 but I'm going to wait till Win7sp1 before I even consider making the jump.
In any event, Its not likely the airforce would use an unproven state of the art aircraft.
What's that? That's the sound of a state of the art F-22 navigation system failing and crashing the plane. Right now we have something like 250 of them.
What parts of the A380 are made in the US? I was under the assumption that the airframe and engines were made in Europe, as well as being designed there. That's pretty much 100% of it.
On the flip side if it came out that the US is buying a European plane rather than a US made plane I'd be at least somewhat upset. The only way a European substitute would make sense is if the operating cost was at least 33% less than the Boeing equivalent.
Kind of hard to inconspiciously walk out the door with a 24" imac down your pants. wtf dude you sound like a terrible employee if you're considering stealing $1000+ pieces of equipment
On our annual review there's an essay portion where they ask you if you have worked odd hours or extenuating circumstances. They calculate that into your annual bonus/raise. Yeah, I did have to come in an hour early for an entire week when half the office was out at a convention, and yeah I did have to work through lunch to get the server running again two fridays in a row while my boss was on vacation last year. Was I paid for that? Not really, but I ended up with an additional 3% raise on top of my scheduled raise + a substantially improved bonus over my coworkers'. Despite the fact that revenue was down 3% for the year. I'll gladly take that long term pay increase over petty theft of a stapler.
I re-read that three times. Either you're taking a class taught by someone with a fixation on communist bloc countries or you just wrote three unrelated stream of consciousness single paragraph essays. Either way, you have yet to present a coherent argument. I'd revoke your slashdot login if I could. Get some sleep pal.
Considering the Core2Duo, Atom and mainstream AMD processors are all 64, and anything 32 bit is going to struggle to run windows 7 (not to mention most people don't upgrade their OS ever since win98 came out) it seems literally backwards thinking to keep a 32 bit fork going. I've heard rumors that XP 64 can only address something like 8gb of ram is this true?
Everything I've read says XP and Vista 64 aren't true 64 bit OSes. DX10 isn't a large enough improvement in graphics over DX9 to warrant switching to Vista, and I'd like to be able to use more than 4GB of ram (RAM IS CHEAP!) with no problem. Will it be Windows 8 or windows 9 that we finally get a decent 64 bit os from microsoft?
GTA4 is specifically a time wasting game, just like the sims or WoW. You can't really compare it to worthwhile games. This is like comparing a Schwartenager movie to a Kubric film they're totally different classes of the same medium.
For those of you following along at home the original article ended at "encouraging". So my post hopefully now makes sense. Looks like they fixed it finally. Happy new year.
coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, just funny to see the FBI encouraging...NO CARRIER
Seriously, when is MS going to get off the same old profit-stump? Is there no one inside that company that can imagine fresh ways to make money besides licensing? Will MS ever come out of the ice age they fostered and find something to sell that the world actually looks forward to paying for?
This may come as a shocker for you, but office software has been a commodity since at least 1995 when there were three primary competing suites and at least a dozen minor competitors. Let me list off several other commodities that have not felt the need to branch out from their core buisness model despite other competing product innovations: oil, gas, steel, lumber. Commodities have to protect their market against newer products all the time and this is pretty much a classic business strategy; quit overreacting.
Kinkos charges about $0.42 a minute to use their computers that have MS office preinstalled. I don't own a printer, but the 3 times a year I actually need something printed (like christmas card notes, for example) that I can't get away with at work, I email to myself and print at Kinkos. Office depot will go one step further you can email them the document and they'll print it at no additional charge on whatever paper you need.
My friend ended up with a job working on the geek squad two years ago inbetween jobs. He worked 45 hours a week (a lot for retail who traditionally loathes paying overtime) and was getting called in on his days off to fix everything that kept getting more broken by the other geek squad employees. Before he left they offered to double his salary just to keep him. Turns out other than one other person there most employees would Break Shit more often than they fixed it. Perhaps we need a ranking system like in hospitals. Doctors, the people with actual skills and knowledge, to properly diagnose and fix major problems, RN (registered nurses) to solve problems as prescribed by doctors, and VLNAs (vocational licensed nurse assistants) to do the really mundane things like checking to see if they turned it off, and then back on again, jiggling power cables and updating antivirus/spyware profiles. You can't let the VLNAs run the hospital - everyone is going to die of horrible infections and screwed up surgeries/catching the server on fire.
I think the main problem is that any monkey can put a car together, good IT workers are worked to the bone because while any monkey can get a certificate, the actually worthwhile IT employees are constantly being worked to fix the majority (incompetent) of his coworker's mistakes. There's a serious shortage of decent IT workers more than anything.
I cant think of a single smart phone that doesn't use mini-usb to charge. Hell even my no name brand bluetooth headset uses mini-usb. USB 3.0 (i know im starting to sound like an intel sales guy at this point) is supposed to push something like 2 amps over usb, as opposed to.5 currently.
What? I'm offended you think I'm someone else. Just look at my post history to see I'm a contributing member to slashdot, unlike the person I'm heckling. I'm having a bad day at work and calling him out on not contributing to the thread by making accusations and not contributing anything to the thread. Simply pointing out a single fallacy in someones argument like he didand then not following it up with any meaningful discourse is a waste of everyone's time. Why did I post something equally wasteful and without fleshing it out? Like I said, I'm having a bad day, and I have karma to burn. If you have a paid account you can look at my post history and see I call out assholes who dont contribute to the disccusion on a semi-regular basis.
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What was the lag between win98 and win98SE (se is latin for "usable edition")? And the lag between XP and XP SP2 (sp2 is latin for "vista dominating version")?
98SE was the first (microsoft) OS with real plug'n'play support, decent USB support, mousewheel support out of the box etc and for it's time, lightyears more stable than 95 and 98SE. XP brought a bunch of complaints and it wasn't till SP1 that we had a release canidate quality OS and XP SP2 is so good it pretty much made Vista stillborn at launch and even three years later.
My point here is, it might be 3 years between releases that ultimately get patched to a usable state, but it's how long from usable patched version to usable patched version.
win95 (1995) -> win98SE (may 1999) -> winXPsp2 (august 2004) -> win7sp1 (march 2010???)
The reality is it's closer to 4-5 years between "Stable" OS versions that an IT department is willing to commit to installing on all their workstations. Win7 is probably better than VistaSP1 but I'm going to wait till Win7sp1 before I even consider making the jump.
TF2 is the only reason why I have a windows partition at all. Thanks for the tip that vista (and presumably win7) will slow down my FPS.
In any event, Its not likely the airforce would use an unproven state of the art aircraft.
What's that? That's the sound of a state of the art F-22 navigation system failing and crashing the plane. Right now we have something like 250 of them.
What parts of the A380 are made in the US? I was under the assumption that the airframe and engines were made in Europe, as well as being designed there. That's pretty much 100% of it.
On the flip side if it came out that the US is buying a European plane rather than a US made plane I'd be at least somewhat upset. The only way a European substitute would make sense is if the operating cost was at least 33% less than the Boeing equivalent.
Kind of hard to inconspiciously walk out the door with a 24" imac down your pants. wtf dude you sound like a terrible employee if you're considering stealing $1000+ pieces of equipment
On our annual review there's an essay portion where they ask you if you have worked odd hours or extenuating circumstances. They calculate that into your annual bonus/raise. Yeah, I did have to come in an hour early for an entire week when half the office was out at a convention, and yeah I did have to work through lunch to get the server running again two fridays in a row while my boss was on vacation last year. Was I paid for that? Not really, but I ended up with an additional 3% raise on top of my scheduled raise + a substantially improved bonus over my coworkers'. Despite the fact that revenue was down 3% for the year. I'll gladly take that long term pay increase over petty theft of a stapler.
I re-read that three times. Either you're taking a class taught by someone with a fixation on communist bloc countries or you just wrote three unrelated stream of consciousness single paragraph essays. Either way, you have yet to present a coherent argument. I'd revoke your slashdot login if I could. Get some sleep pal.
Did you really just compare Tiananmen Square to the advancement of the Linux agenda? Seriously?
I think what I read was the 8gb limit on vista home/basic
Considering the Core2Duo, Atom and mainstream AMD processors are all 64, and anything 32 bit is going to struggle to run windows 7 (not to mention most people don't upgrade their OS ever since win98 came out) it seems literally backwards thinking to keep a 32 bit fork going. I've heard rumors that XP 64 can only address something like 8gb of ram is this true?
Everything I've read says XP and Vista 64 aren't true 64 bit OSes. DX10 isn't a large enough improvement in graphics over DX9 to warrant switching to Vista, and I'd like to be able to use more than 4GB of ram (RAM IS CHEAP!) with no problem. Will it be Windows 8 or windows 9 that we finally get a decent 64 bit os from microsoft?
GTA4 is specifically a time wasting game, just like the sims or WoW. You can't really compare it to worthwhile games. This is like comparing a Schwartenager movie to a Kubric film they're totally different classes of the same medium.
For those of you following along at home the original article ended at "encouraging". So my post hopefully now makes sense. Looks like they fixed it finally. Happy new year.
Love the article:
Hillarious.
You're a goddamn fool.
Owned.
Seriously, when is MS going to get off the same old profit-stump? Is there no one inside that company that can imagine fresh ways to make money besides licensing? Will MS ever come out of the ice age they fostered and find something to sell that the world actually looks forward to paying for?
This may come as a shocker for you, but office software has been a commodity since at least 1995 when there were three primary competing suites and at least a dozen minor competitors. Let me list off several other commodities that have not felt the need to branch out from their core buisness model despite other competing product innovations: oil, gas, steel, lumber. Commodities have to protect their market against newer products all the time and this is pretty much a classic business strategy; quit overreacting.
Kinkos charges about $0.42 a minute to use their computers that have MS office preinstalled. I don't own a printer, but the 3 times a year I actually need something printed (like christmas card notes, for example) that I can't get away with at work, I email to myself and print at Kinkos. Office depot will go one step further you can email them the document and they'll print it at no additional charge on whatever paper you need.
/Printer free since 2000
My friend ended up with a job working on the geek squad two years ago inbetween jobs. He worked 45 hours a week (a lot for retail who traditionally loathes paying overtime) and was getting called in on his days off to fix everything that kept getting more broken by the other geek squad employees. Before he left they offered to double his salary just to keep him. Turns out other than one other person there most employees would Break Shit more often than they fixed it. Perhaps we need a ranking system like in hospitals. Doctors, the people with actual skills and knowledge, to properly diagnose and fix major problems, RN (registered nurses) to solve problems as prescribed by doctors, and VLNAs (vocational licensed nurse assistants) to do the really mundane things like checking to see if they turned it off, and then back on again, jiggling power cables and updating antivirus/spyware profiles. You can't let the VLNAs run the hospital - everyone is going to die of horrible infections and screwed up surgeries/catching the server on fire.
I think the main problem is that any monkey can put a car together, good IT workers are worked to the bone because while any monkey can get a certificate, the actually worthwhile IT employees are constantly being worked to fix the majority (incompetent) of his coworker's mistakes. There's a serious shortage of decent IT workers more than anything.
RAZR class phones are not smartphones last I checked. Welcome to 2007!
I cant think of a single smart phone that doesn't use mini-usb to charge. Hell even my no name brand bluetooth headset uses mini-usb. USB 3.0 (i know im starting to sound like an intel sales guy at this point) is supposed to push something like 2 amps over usb, as opposed to .5 currently.
Their.
Congratulations you're qualified to work in an Indian call center!
What? I'm offended you think I'm someone else. Just look at my post history to see I'm a contributing member to slashdot, unlike the person I'm heckling. I'm having a bad day at work and calling him out on not contributing to the thread by making accusations and not contributing anything to the thread. Simply pointing out a single fallacy in someones argument like he didand then not following it up with any meaningful discourse is a waste of everyone's time. Why did I post something equally wasteful and without fleshing it out? Like I said, I'm having a bad day, and I have karma to burn. If you have a paid account you can look at my post history and see I call out assholes who dont contribute to the disccusion on a semi-regular basis.
You're a jerk.