Trumpet Winsock on DOS. I have to sadly, sadly admit that we still have NEW devices running that. And sell them to customers. Costs a lot of money too, about 150k$.
We manufacture a system that contains some components that we outsource (think large industrial switching cabinet). We control the outsourced system with TCP. That machine runs...DOS and Trumpet. The problem? No multitasking means that you can only open one connection at a time and because Trumpet is too stupid to detect a failed TCP connection you have to reboot it. Which means 20 minutes for the machinery to cool down.
The engineer who is responsible for designing that thing works only from 2 in the morning until 10, and he said he will move to Linux some times when he has time. He has been maintaining this thing since the early 90s.
There is also the hassle of trying to remember how to get into a DOS command line when the machine boots. Wat it Alt-F6? Ctrl-F6? I sure knew this 25 years ago, but this IS 2013!!!
Like China was in the 1960's? Unstable whackjobs with their finger on the button?
The Soviet Union were close to launching a preemptive nuclear attack on China's nuclear infrastructure? Sounds familiar?
The only reason they did not was because China and the USA had their rapproachment, mostly because China felt very threatened by the Soviets. Who attacked China because they felt threatened by the Chinese.
If Joe Public actually gets to see Stallman (and I have) they will definitely have a kneejerk reaction and NOT listen to what he says. Stallman in real life is a very strange dude. He reminds of Jesus actually. Mind you, Jesus did seem to be good at attracting the common man to his cause.
> As long as I've been here, it's been a technophile site for advertisting consumer electronics.
You forgot the Microsoft hate and the Apple fan vs Apple hate dialogs.
> You've hit the nail on the head. The Slashdot community as a whole touts the virtues of science, unless it's the kind > of science that discovers the uncomfortable reality about capitalism and unlimited economic growth. Then they go > apeshit and cover their ears as if it makes the evidence go away.
Or the evidence that discovers the uncomfortable truths about the open-source and everything-is-free cyber-communist ideology. Not to mention the convoluted moral arguments about stealing music or movies. It is worse than the angels dancing on the pin of a head theological navel gazing or Marxist debates about the structure of society.
Agree. We once had a case where we had a person working offiste without an internet connection that required use of what is normally run on a webserver. We installed said server in VirtualBox on Windows. Was a total disaster. Every 4th time or so the computer instantaneously rebooted when you started the VM.
We switched to VMWare Workstation for Windows, no more problems.
I am using Parallels on Mac a lot. In the old days, on Leopard and WIndows XP it was wicked fast, but over the years I have notices that it has become a dog. Now, admittedly, I am running Windows 7 and 8 on it which are much more resource intensive but still. I will definitely look at VMWare workstation for Mac now. Win7 and 8 on my admittedly 5 year old laptop is not usable anymore.
WIndows 8 on a Hackintosh with 32 Gigs of RAM does run well in Parallels.
Yeah. I've heard that one. From my mom, who makes the best scones in the world. She told me a zillion times not to do that. And one day I watched her make scones. She put the things into the kitchenaid, and turned it on slow. Just as she should. Then she suddenly put it on full blast. I was like "WTF! Why?!!!" She shrugged and said "It did not look right, now it's OK"
The scones were perfect and I have never made anyone like hers. That is what experience does.
Bollocks. The iPhone 4 s a VAST improvement over the iPhone 3 simply because it is much more responsive.
I have an Samsung S3, an iPhone 4 and an HTC Win8 Phone because I test websites and design Mobile UIs.
I really like the inter-app flow and general UI of WIndows phone 8. I think iPhone should have a fixed back button like Android and Win8. What sucks in Android is the menu button. It is not obvious when things are there. On Win8 and iPhone every choice you make is on the screen not sometimes hidden in a somewhat anonymous (and not lit on the S3) button. I also like the Tile with info concept in Win8Phone (on a desktop not so much).
Microsoft Metro is another issue. While their interaction design (the flow of the application, and how things WORK) is fantastic, the minimalist UI (as in how things LOOK) get old hat really fast. I think this is a bunch of fanatical minimalist designers who went too far with their minimalism. There is a reason the world went from black and white movies and TV to color. Win8 would run find on a Commodore 64 as far as the looks is concerned.
When it comes to physical handling the S3, which is much larger, is very nice. this is a matter of taste and not OS specific, but if Apple brings out a iPhone which is 30% larger than an iPhone 4 I would be all over it.
When it comes to "just work" with syncing, and general user interface the iPhone blows both phones out of the water. I still use it as my primary phone. Win8 cannot display PDF's. You have to download an app from Microsoft and then the PDF file does not have working hyperlinks??!! I still cannot read ePub files on Android or Win8. Using the phone as a tethered Bluetooth modem? No comparison. iPhone just works, the other two not really. Lots of little things like that. Apple simply cares more about the small details. Microsoft is getting there, but Android always feels cobbled together, just like Linux desktops tend to. Win8 applications are all in a loooong list (except for the tiles ones). Folders? We don't need no steenking folders. iPhone/Android does this right.
Scoring the 3 phones:
Interaction design and Application Flow: Win8 General usability : iOS Screen size and physical usability: Galaxy S3
I use iPhone all the time, when I want to read an ebook on kindle the Galaxy for the screen but I have a fascination and secret love affair with Win8 phone on the side.
The problem with the amount of nukes is the concept of a second strike. The idea is not that the USA (or Russia) has 1000 missiles to blow the other guy up, it is that they still have enough left after absorbing a nuclear attack on the missiles silos. Which would leave, say, 10% of the missiles. Therefore, if you need 100 missiles to inflict unacceptable pain on the opponent you need 1000 missiles on your side to ride out an attack so that 100 survives. Contrary to what most people think, nuclear war is not about city busting. It is about eliminating the enemy nuclear forces.
The whole 1000 missile silos on land thing is a bit of a holdover from the technological realities of the 60's to 80's. Since the early 90s the submarine launched Trident D5 missile has changed this logic a lot, as it is accurate enough to destroy enemy missile silo and can be used as a first strike weapon. The US did not really have the capability to inflict a first strike from submarines before then. Currently the submarine fleet carries about 50% of the US nuclear inventory, which is a sea change from what it was before.
Read "The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War" by Bruce Blair who used to be a launch officer and is now a very vocal anti-nuclear campaigner.
Other good reads:
"The Second Nuclear Age" by Paul Bracken "One Minute to Midnight" by Michael Dobbs
I agree on this. I have 2x19 inch monitors with Matrox Dualhead2Go on my laptop. The machine sees it as one monitor, which is a pain in the login screen, but otherwise 2x19 is waaaay better than 1x24, which I have at home. Web browser on monitor 1, Editor on monitor 2 and the log on the laptop screen, which comes doen to 3 monitors in the end. Very nice setup.
I also use a program called Moom on the Mac which allows me to place the current window on any specific monitor with a single hotkey. Moom is payware but costs 5$ or something. I would happily pay 500 for it. It eliminates mousedragging completely.
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Sigh.
Trumpet Winsock on DOS. I have to sadly, sadly admit that we still have NEW devices running that. And sell them to customers. Costs a lot of money too, about 150k$.
We manufacture a system that contains some components that we outsource (think large industrial switching cabinet). We control the outsourced system with TCP. That machine runs...DOS and Trumpet. The problem? No multitasking means that you can only open one connection at a time and because Trumpet is too stupid to detect a failed TCP connection you have to reboot it. Which means 20 minutes for the machinery to cool down.
The engineer who is responsible for designing that thing works only from 2 in the morning until 10, and he said he will move to Linux some times when he has time. He has been maintaining this thing since the early 90s.
There is also the hassle of trying to remember how to get into a DOS command line when the machine boots. Wat it Alt-F6? Ctrl-F6? I sure knew this 25 years ago, but this IS 2013!!!
Feed the homeless to the hungry
India's nukes is and have always been built to deter Pakistan foremost and China secondmost.
The ICBM cannot even reach the US, by a long shot.
Same reason very few Chinese nuclear weapons can reach the US. All of them can reach Russia just fine.
The US certainly did not give Pakistan nukes. The Chinese did help there.
Like China was in the 1960's? Unstable whackjobs with their finger on the button?
The Soviet Union were close to launching a preemptive nuclear attack on China's nuclear infrastructure? Sounds familiar?
The only reason they did not was because China and the USA had their rapproachment, mostly because China felt very threatened by the Soviets. Who attacked China because they felt threatened by the Chinese.
If Joe Public actually gets to see Stallman (and I have) they will definitely have a kneejerk reaction and NOT listen to what he says. Stallman in real life is a very strange dude. He reminds of Jesus actually. Mind you, Jesus did seem to be good at attracting the common man to his cause.
> As long as I've been here, it's been a technophile site for advertisting consumer electronics.
You forgot the Microsoft hate and the Apple fan vs Apple hate dialogs.
> You've hit the nail on the head. The Slashdot community as a whole touts the virtues of science, unless it's the kind
> of science that discovers the uncomfortable reality about capitalism and unlimited economic growth. Then they go
> apeshit and cover their ears as if it makes the evidence go away.
Or the evidence that discovers the uncomfortable truths about the open-source and everything-is-free cyber-communist ideology.
Not to mention the convoluted moral arguments about stealing music or movies. It is worse than the angels dancing on the pin of a head theological navel gazing or Marxist debates about the structure of society.
Those are Chairman Kim Blessed missiles. He does not obey the laws of physics and neither do they.
Yes. I just did exactly that. Sold an iPhone4 on EBay (2+ years old) got a Galaxy III. And made 200 Euros profit too.
Agree. We once had a case where we had a person working offiste without an internet connection that required use of what is normally run on a webserver. We installed said server in VirtualBox on Windows. Was a total disaster. Every 4th time or so the computer instantaneously rebooted when you started the VM.
We switched to VMWare Workstation for Windows, no more problems.
I am using Parallels on Mac a lot. In the old days, on Leopard and WIndows XP it was wicked fast, but over the years I have notices that it has become a dog. Now, admittedly, I am running Windows 7 and 8 on it which are much more resource intensive but still. I will definitely look at VMWare workstation for Mac now. Win7 and 8 on my admittedly 5 year old laptop is not usable anymore.
WIndows 8 on a Hackintosh with 32 Gigs of RAM does run well in Parallels.
Osso Buco with chicken????? You do realize that a chicken's equivalent to the same cut includes the chicken foot and is a big as the tip of my finger?
Are you sure you did not read a chinese recipe for chicken feet soup? Or hang out in a South African township??
"Don't overbeat the muffins".
Yeah. I've heard that one. From my mom, who makes the best scones in the world. She told me a zillion times not to do that. And one day I watched her make scones. She put the things into the kitchenaid, and turned it on slow. Just as she should. Then she suddenly put it on full blast. I was like "WTF! Why?!!!" She shrugged and said "It did not look right, now it's OK"
The scones were perfect and I have never made anyone like hers. That is what experience does.
Typical /. we-hate-microsoft department.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1281731-microsoft-more-evidence-that-windows-phone-8-is-a-great-success
A cellphone has vibrator alarm built in, so this is the same...
The screen does not really eat more power because it has more pixels, but the CPU certainly does if it has to render all of those pixels.
Google Chrome runs just fine on iOS.
And Garageband on iPad rocks.
Bollocks. The iPhone 4 s a VAST improvement over the iPhone 3 simply because it is much more responsive.
I have an Samsung S3, an iPhone 4 and an HTC Win8 Phone because I test websites and design Mobile UIs.
I really like the inter-app flow and general UI of WIndows phone 8. I think iPhone should have a fixed back button like Android
and Win8. What sucks in Android is the menu button. It is not obvious when things are there. On Win8 and iPhone every choice you make
is on the screen not sometimes hidden in a somewhat anonymous (and not lit on the S3) button. I also like the Tile with info concept in Win8Phone (on a desktop not so much).
Microsoft Metro is another issue. While their interaction design (the flow of the application, and how things WORK) is fantastic, the minimalist UI (as in how things LOOK) get old hat really fast. I think this is a bunch of fanatical minimalist designers who went too far with their minimalism. There is a reason the world went from black and white movies and TV to color. Win8 would run find on a Commodore 64 as far as the looks is concerned.
When it comes to physical handling the S3, which is much larger, is very nice. this is a matter of taste and not OS specific, but if Apple brings out a iPhone which is 30% larger than an iPhone 4 I would be all over it.
When it comes to "just work" with syncing, and general user interface the iPhone blows both phones out of the water. I still use
it as my primary phone. Win8 cannot display PDF's. You have to download an app from Microsoft and then the PDF file does not have working hyperlinks??!!
I still cannot read ePub files on Android or Win8. Using the phone as a tethered Bluetooth modem? No comparison. iPhone just works, the other two not really.
Lots of little things like that. Apple simply cares more about the small details. Microsoft is getting there, but Android always feels cobbled together, just like Linux desktops tend to. Win8 applications are all in a loooong list (except for the tiles ones). Folders? We don't need no steenking folders. iPhone/Android does this right.
Scoring the 3 phones:
Interaction design and Application Flow: Win8
General usability : iOS
Screen size and physical usability: Galaxy S3
I use iPhone all the time, when I want to read an ebook on kindle the Galaxy for the screen but I have a fascination and secret love affair with Win8 phone on the side.
The problem with the amount of nukes is the concept of a second strike. The idea is not that the USA (or Russia) has 1000 missiles to blow the other guy up, it is that they still have enough left after absorbing a nuclear attack on the missiles silos. Which would leave, say, 10% of the missiles. Therefore, if you need 100 missiles to inflict unacceptable pain on the opponent you need 1000 missiles on your side to ride out an attack so that 100 survives. Contrary to what most people think, nuclear war is not about city busting. It is about eliminating the enemy nuclear forces.
The whole 1000 missile silos on land thing is a bit of a holdover from the technological realities of the 60's to 80's. Since the early 90s the submarine launched Trident D5 missile has changed this logic a lot, as it is accurate enough to destroy enemy missile silo
and can be used as a first strike weapon. The US did not really have the capability to inflict a first strike from submarines before then.
Currently the submarine fleet carries about 50% of the US nuclear inventory, which is a sea change from what it was before.
Read "The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War" by Bruce Blair who used to be a launch officer and is now a very vocal anti-nuclear campaigner.
Other good reads:
"The Second Nuclear Age" by Paul Bracken
"One Minute to Midnight" by Michael Dobbs
You obviously do not have any children :)
And lets hope the server controlling the engine is not written in PHP or something
Don Draper is proud of you now!
Would you take a ride on Titanic 2?
a) No!!!!!
b) Oh yeah!!!!
c) No, but I would pay for CowboyNeal's ticket
I agree on this. I have 2x19 inch monitors with Matrox Dualhead2Go on my laptop. The machine sees it as one monitor, which is a pain in the login screen, but otherwise 2x19 is waaaay better than 1x24, which I have at home. Web browser on monitor 1, Editor on monitor 2 and the log on the laptop screen, which comes doen to 3 monitors in the end. Very nice setup.
I also use a program called Moom on the Mac which allows me to place the current window on any specific monitor with a single hotkey. Moom is payware but costs 5$ or something. I would happily pay 500 for it. It eliminates mousedragging completely.
Same here with HP. Technician driving 250 km through the Black Forest and heavy traffic, there in 3 hours.
And we were an NGO with one server only.
Most people do not read the TITLE of the article before they start to bash. Never mind the summary.