Windows 3.1 ran DOS apps. Windows 95 ran Windows 3.1 apps. Windows NT runs all of them
This may be tangental to your point, but I dont think this is always true. I've been trying to get F-19 Stealth Fighter to run under Win95, and dagnabbit, is hasn't been working. Any one else notice similiar problems?
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Obvious response...
I would like to see someone install M$ Office with the installer and have it work.
Wow...recursive sig. Such a simple concept, but one I have never seen. Pretty clever, really.
Oh, and since I already put an OT on this... I can reply to your question about the OS without being too annoying.
That is, if they do run Linux...
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
You do have a good point...tech support is not that hellaciously difficult of a job, especially when you think about third world children working jobs that ruin their health.
But on the other hand, if tech support should be so easy for the technicians on the floor, and they shouldn't complain about having to do so much, why does the management and contracters and what not find it so hard to hold up their end of the bargain? I am sure that if most techs were asked, they would say that being lied to by management is worse then the treatment they recieve from customers.
For example, when I worked tech support, this was the incident that caused me to quit my job:
I was in the middle of a call, and my headset begin fading in and out...so I put the customer on hold and grabbed a headset off a desk next to mine. (I didn't have a regular cubicle...most of us didn't. We sat where there was an open seat.)And went back on the call. I finished it off, and then went on to the next call. Of course, the man who was sitting next to me came back and wasn't too happy about me taking his headset. After going through the process of requisitioing a new headset, I asked management what I should have done for a failed headset while on the phone...and I was told I should have put the customer on hold while I went and requistioned a new headset.
If technical support is so easy, why is it so hard for the management to even give techs the tools they need to do their jobs?
Blame AOL. AOL has been responsible for so many problems in the past that the customer will accept this excuse, even if they have no AOL software on their computer.
I think that that there is a philosophical reason behind this. The reason that you don't hear about the environment getting better is that most environmentalists take the state of the environment as it was in some undefined past as the good state and every other state is a departure from that.
So when the environment is defined negativly, by being the opposite of whatever is happening, then, the only good news you can hear about the environment is that things won't be going quite as badly as they were. After all, it is quite impossible for the environment to get better then it was in it's pristine state.
Just some of my late night philosophical babbling...
Okay, I am throughly intimidated. First I ask if anyone is really using a computer with anything near 4 gigs of memory on it, and someone says that oh yes, they have 128 gigs of RAM.
And now this. Could a Slashdot editor please post an article for us dumb people who like to read Slashdot for entertainment at 1 AM? Something along the lines of either Jon Katz telling us not to be afraid of letting our colors show, or else some guy in Japan who has built one hundred lifesized smurfs out of legos?
I know people have posted about this earlier, but I thought I would ask this as a question,
Are there really a lot of people out there who need a processer that can deal with more then 4 gigs of RAM?
Is this a Windows NT things? Because even some pretty well used Linux\FreeBSD servers are running quite well on 486s with 32 megs of RAM and other ridiculously lowend hardware like that.
So, would anyone out there who is currently using more then even 256 Megs of RAM tell me?
IANAC, but...this is a pretty simple question to answer. (If I'm wrong, I am sure that I will be corrected!).
On earth, the liquid that we see most often is water. The reason for this is that water is a polar fluid, meaning that it has an electrical charge...in the case of water, a negative charge on the oxygen atom and a positive charge on the hydrogen atoms. This charge is weaker then the normal charges that bind atoms into molecules, so that the water molecules stay slightly connected to each other but aren't connected into a larger molecule...in other words, they become a liquid.
There are some other liquids that this is true of...alcohol, ammonia, sulfur hydroxide...all work under the same principle. And under enough pressure, nonpolar fluids such as methane and even helium can become liquid. But on the surface of Mars, there was never enough pressue to turn any fluid but water into a liquid.
Hope this answers your question!
I thought that would be a little unfair. It's not that there is anything specifically wrong with your post, it is just that 'Priceless' is no longer funny
Or I could be wrong on this...what do others think? Is 'Priceless' still funny?
I remember working for USWest, and large sections of MPLS (as we called it) going out for no known reason quite frequently, although our guess at the time was because whoever was in charge of 204.147.80.1 had taken off the internet software so they could play Frogger.
Works for me!
Besides tons and tons of new tlds might be confusing...actually, it would probably be simplest to just let people call their computers whatever they want.
The main reason people would be in.org when they should be in.com, for example, is that the.com name was already taken by a 100% content-free placeholder site. The solution to domain-name speculation is to eliminate the artificial shortage of TLDs. But regulating TLDs works against the whole idea of opening up more namespace.
Okay, I am with your post up until this last paragraph. And what you are saying makes some sense. But if you seem to be so against
regulation, how esxactly do you propose to get rid of the artificial shortage of TLDs? Especially when this is caused by the "content free place holder sites"...won't getting rid of these take some regulation?
This is very nice to see, but the internet is so dynamic, that it really deserves more then a static listing of toilets. It deserves an to the date listing of what toilets are working.
Toilets need there own IP addresses so that we can ping them and see if they are up...of course it is sad that Mr. Muuss won't get to see the pingable toilets, but I am sure he would be happy to know how far his "1,000 line hack" has gone.
I thought about this Law for a moment and thought it couldn't be true...and then I thought for a minute and realized it was sometimes true. And now that I think about it, it seems almost always true.
This seems like a cool idea for a show, I have never heard of it before.
The only thing missing from this show is a geek element. True, it does involve gadgets, but they seem to be the kind of gadgets that big, sweaty greasy mechanic guys would enjoy, not the kind of gadgets that Slashdotters would enjoy.
I think they need to come up with some kind of computer related contest, such as trying to program a kick.rom file for an Amiga using nothing but an aold Apple II...or maybe running a web server off of an Atari 800 (although that has already been done.)
I thought that AT&T, like most telephone\utility companies, was considered a "common carrier", meaning that they carried all data, regardless of what that data was.
That way, they are not liable if one of thier customers said something libelous, terrorist, pornographic, goatse, etc.
But now AT&T says that they have a right of freedom of speech? What is AT&T a provider of , speech or data?
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If you were watching the Harlem Globetrotters play basketball, would you complain that they wern't getting to the basket as quickly as possible?
I am sure that having his sled pulled by horny penguins would give him much more speed and force then some silly reindeer.
This may be tangental to your point, but I dont think this is always true. I've been trying to get F-19 Stealth Fighter to run under Win95, and dagnabbit, is hasn't been working. Any one else notice similiar problems?
Obvious response...
I would like to see someone install M$ Office with the installer and have it work.
Wasn't that an episode of star trek?
Wow...recursive sig. Such a simple concept, but one I have never seen. Pretty clever, really.
Oh, and since I already put an OT on this... I can reply to your question about the OS without being too annoying.
That is, if they do run Linux...
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
You do have a good point...tech support is not that hellaciously difficult of a job, especially when you think about third world children working jobs that ruin their health.
But on the other hand, if tech support should be so easy for the technicians on the floor, and they shouldn't complain about having to do so much, why does the management and contracters and what not find it so hard to hold up their end of the bargain? I am sure that if most techs were asked, they would say that being lied to by management is worse then the treatment they recieve from customers.
For example, when I worked tech support, this was the incident that caused me to quit my job: I was in the middle of a call, and my headset begin fading in and out...so I put the customer on hold and grabbed a headset off a desk next to mine. (I didn't have a regular cubicle...most of us didn't. We sat where there was an open seat.)And went back on the call. I finished it off, and then went on to the next call. Of course, the man who was sitting next to me came back and wasn't too happy about me taking his headset. After going through the process of requisitioing a new headset, I asked management what I should have done for a failed headset while on the phone...and I was told I should have put the customer on hold while I went and requistioned a new headset.
If technical support is so easy, why is it so hard for the management to even give techs the tools they need to do their jobs?
You forgot one:
Blame AOL. AOL has been responsible for so many problems in the past that the customer will accept this excuse, even if they have no AOL software on their computer.
what do you believe you will actually use in the next five years:
Okay, that last one was a little too farfetched... but I do declare Slashdot, you have the vapors!
Well, all philosophy aside, if the ozone goes, the ultraviolet light will scorch your eyes and give you skin cancer.
I think that that there is a philosophical reason behind this. The reason that you don't hear about the environment getting better is that most environmentalists take the state of the environment as it was in some undefined past as the good state and every other state is a departure from that.
So when the environment is defined negativly, by being the opposite of whatever is happening, then, the only good news you can hear about the environment is that things won't be going quite as badly as they were. After all, it is quite impossible for the environment to get better then it was in it's pristine state.
Just some of my late night philosophical babbling...
Okay, I am throughly intimidated. First I ask if anyone is really using a computer with anything near 4 gigs of memory on it, and someone says that oh yes, they have 128 gigs of RAM.
And now this. Could a Slashdot editor please post an article for us dumb people who like to read Slashdot for entertainment at 1 AM? Something along the lines of either Jon Katz telling us not to be afraid of letting our colors show, or else some guy in Japan who has built one hundred lifesized smurfs out of legos?
Just a thought.
I know people have posted about this earlier, but I thought I would ask this as a question,
Are there really a lot of people out there who need a processer that can deal with more then 4 gigs of RAM?
Is this a Windows NT things? Because even some pretty well used Linux\FreeBSD servers are running quite well on 486s with 32 megs of RAM and other ridiculously lowend hardware like that.
So, would anyone out there who is currently using more then even 256 Megs of RAM tell me?
IANAC, but...this is a pretty simple question to answer. (If I'm wrong, I am sure that I will be corrected!).
On earth, the liquid that we see most often is water. The reason for this is that water is a polar fluid, meaning that it has an electrical charge...in the case of water, a negative charge on the oxygen atom and a positive charge on the hydrogen atoms. This charge is weaker then the normal charges that bind atoms into molecules, so that the water molecules stay slightly connected to each other but aren't connected into a larger molecule...in other words, they become a liquid.There are some other liquids that this is true of...alcohol, ammonia, sulfur hydroxide...all work under the same principle. And under enough pressure, nonpolar fluids such as methane and even helium can become liquid. But on the surface of Mars, there was never enough pressue to turn any fluid but water into a liquid. Hope this answers your question!
I thought that would be a little unfair. It's not that there is anything specifically wrong with your post, it is just that 'Priceless' is no longer funny
Or I could be wrong on this...what do others think? Is 'Priceless' still funny?
I remember working for USWest, and large sections of MPLS (as we called it) going out for no known reason quite frequently, although our guess at the time was because whoever was in charge of 204.147.80.1 had taken off the internet software so they could play Frogger.
Okay, I am with your post up until this last paragraph. And what you are saying makes some sense. But if you seem to be so against regulation, how esxactly do you propose to get rid of the artificial shortage of TLDs? Especially when this is caused by the "content free place holder sites"...won't getting rid of these take some regulation?
Consumers and a seperate Industry vs. Industry = Consumers and seperate Industry wins.
Pissing off HP might not be a good idea for the music industry to do.
Toilets need there own IP addresses so that we can ping them and see if they are up...of course it is sad that Mr. Muuss won't get to see the pingable toilets, but I am sure he would be happy to know how far his "1,000 line hack" has gone.
A 21 Ping salute?
The only thing missing from this show is a geek element. True, it does involve gadgets, but they seem to be the kind of gadgets that big, sweaty greasy mechanic guys would enjoy, not the kind of gadgets that Slashdotters would enjoy.
I think they need to come up with some kind of computer related contest, such as trying to program a kick.rom file for an Amiga using nothing but an aold Apple II...or maybe running a web server off of an Atari 800 (although that has already been done.)
Other wise...cool!
That way, they are not liable if one of thier customers said something libelous, terrorist, pornographic, goatse, etc.
But now AT&T says that they have a right of freedom of speech? What is AT&T a provider of , speech or data?
with all this political talk, I was almost forgetting that I was reading slashdot. Can someone please tie this election in with legos?