Besides, it was.PCX files grabbed from Exec-PC via Procomm or Telemate and viewed in either Optix or Graphics Workshop at 640x480x16, or maybe 320x200x256. CIS was too spendy even for 2400bps usage -- I had to use things like GENie (via Aladdin) or Delphi.:-)
If it weren't for IP issues, it might be opened up, but even the exploration of those issues is an extremely expensive undertaking (there are lots of licensed technologies on an OS/2 system, and not just older stuff like HPFS from Microsoft).
Keep in mind that Warp has the equivalent of a super DOSEMU and 16-bit Wine built in, meaning things like Visio, Quicken, and other useful apps run just fine out of the box. Older versions of that software, yes, but Visio 4 *still* beats any of the open source programs for general usability, at least IMO.
Not only that, but many common programs found in Linux (e.g., slrn, XV, pine, mutt, ncftp, midnight commander) are also ported to Warp, so one can still read USENET and e-mail from a text console the way God intended.:-)
CD-R blanks which are specially marked with a "Digital Audio" logo (and intended for use in CD-writing stereo components and such) already have a levy atteached to them to compensate the music industry.
...but that doesn't mean immature but stable/useful FOSS won't be valued (and isn't valued) for testing, for development, and for other things which are not directly related to production applications or servers.
We've been using FOSS software in our mainframe environment for years for everything from text editing to file management to compiler pre-processing, and I really don't see that changing.
I hate those big wooden/metal/ivory pixels sliding around on wires, and all you can manage to create is a single desktop icon before you run out of them.
There's nothing quite like sitting in front of a teletype and waiting f-o-r-e-v-e-r until your lasers cooled down enough so you could put in the final laser shot and pair of missles into the opponent you'd been sparring with for the past 15 minutes.
I can run the software I want at home on any given machine, or I can use tools like X or VNC (or ssh) to run/use applications on remote machines. Filesharing means that I can use files regardless of the machine on which they reside.
I think this is convenient, and it makes my machings extremely useful for me. What's wrong with the existing paradigm?
Many major airlines, for example, are still almost completely driven by centralized computer systems (with many of them still running on traditional mainframe platforms), and that includes software in almost every area from reservations to flight planning to aircraft parts inventory to payroll.
Yes, there are web-based front-ends galore, and a number of less critical systems have been broken out into clusters of smaller servers from a single large one over the years, but in the end you're still talking about a traditional centralized server design.
Distibuted systems work well in some areas, but they aren't a good solution for everything, and there are a number of reasons why centralization has advantages in a number of situations.
I don't know about you, but I'm a fairly fast typist, and I often tend to type words as discrete tokens rather than collections of individually considered keypresses. It's quite similar to the way I read, actually. I see word shapes, not letters.
Anyway -- I've actually had the its/it's problem happen because by finger muscle memory short circuited. I know perfectly well that "it's" is the contraction for "it is" and not a possessive, but sometimes stuff just slips out when I'm in a hurry.
Soemtimes perfectly spelled but completely imappropriate words will appear in a paragraph I've typed for much the same reason. My fingers typed the wrong common word.:-(
That's one reason why I try to proofread things before sending. Not always successfully, but I find I have pretty good reason to.:-)
20 isn't very many. I probably responded to 400-500 positions on various job sites (most of them with custom covers and various attempts at customized resumes), and the only response I ended up getting were people looking for folks like me -- from out of state!
That's why I ended up moving my household 1100+ miles to the south (Minneapolis to Atlanta). I had to in order to obtain reasonable work (defined as "work that paid the bills").
* Hourly wages are at an all-time high. Is everyone gaining, or are only a few areas with a rapidly increasing wage driving the numbers up?
* Unemployment is at 4.7%. We are talking about general unemployment, of course. Now obtain the unemployment numbers for the same period for the general technology sector, and keep in mind that unemployment rates are not a constant throughout the country -- some areas have a surplus of available positions in certain vocations, while others have saturated markets (and a very high percentage of folks looking for work) because one or more local companies have purged their IT departments or ceased to exist altogether.
It is possible to say almost anything with statistics, but as someone who knows several dozen folks who used to work in airline IT (and who knows several individuals still who are unable to find full-time employment [meaning non-contract work] after almost five years), I question the assessment that everything is just fine. For some people, it still sucks!
Firefox 1.5 introduced a keyboard error which drives me crazy -- keyboard navigation drops out while editing messages (I think due to activity on other tabs), and I also lose the apostrophe key and other things (both it and the forward slash bring up the Find toolbar even when in an edit box like this one).
I tried to search for a way to report the problem, and found the Firefox bug reporting page to be a fricking maze.
I suspect the native UT2004 port will use the capabilities of the card.
No, most interviewers appreciate the difference.
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"Fired" generally means that a person was terminated for some reason directly related to their work performance or some portion of their personal work-related activities, while "laid off" generally means that the termination was due to elements completely outside the person's control.
Unemployment benefits are generally available to the latter group with very little question (the employer makes the situation known to the state), while the qualifying for such benefits depends on specific circumstances in the former group's case (folks who get fired often have to go through a formal hearing process to determine whether or not UI benefits apply in their situation).
Now you know one of the reasons why I keep a few Win95+DirectX7 boxes around -- I like games from that era (TA, SC, AOEII, UT, Tribes1, Q3A, NFS3/4, HomeWorld, etc.), and those boxes play them just like the games were made for them -- because they were!:-)
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Besides, it was .PCX files grabbed from Exec-PC via Procomm or Telemate and viewed in either Optix or Graphics Workshop at 640x480x16, or maybe 320x200x256. CIS was too spendy even for 2400bps usage -- I had to use things like GENie (via Aladdin) or Delphi. :-)
If it weren't for IP issues, it might be opened up, but even the exploration of those issues is an extremely expensive undertaking (there are lots of licensed technologies on an OS/2 system, and not just older stuff like HPFS from Microsoft).
The Object REXX that ships standard with Warp 4. :-)
(Warp 4 has two different REXX subsystems).
...than you think it is. :-)
:-)
Keep in mind that Warp has the equivalent of a super DOSEMU and 16-bit Wine built in, meaning things like Visio, Quicken, and other useful apps run just fine out of the box. Older versions of that software, yes, but Visio 4 *still* beats any of the open source programs for general usability, at least IMO.
Not only that, but many common programs found in Linux (e.g., slrn, XV, pine, mutt, ncftp, midnight commander) are also ported to Warp, so one can still read USENET and e-mail from a text console the way God intended.
That is why it uses REXX.
CD-R blanks which are specially marked with a "Digital Audio" logo (and intended for use in CD-writing stereo components and such) already have a levy atteached to them to compensate the music industry.
...but that doesn't mean immature but stable/useful FOSS won't be valued (and isn't valued) for testing, for development, and for other things which are not directly related to production applications or servers.
We've been using FOSS software in our mainframe environment for years for everything from text editing to file management to compiler pre-processing, and I really don't see that changing.
I hate those big wooden/metal/ivory pixels sliding around on wires, and all you can manage to create is a single desktop icon before you run out of them.
There's nothing quite like sitting in front of a teletype and waiting f-o-r-e-v-e-r until your lasers cooled down enough so you could put in the final laser shot and pair of missles into the opponent you'd been sparring with for the past 15 minutes.
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It was also bundled with GeoWorks Ensemble. :-)
I can run the software I want at home on any given machine, or I can use tools like X or VNC (or ssh) to run/use applications on remote machines. Filesharing means that I can use files regardless of the machine on which they reside.
I think this is convenient, and it makes my machings extremely useful for me. What's wrong with the existing paradigm?
Many major airlines, for example, are still almost completely driven by centralized computer systems (with many of them still running on traditional mainframe platforms), and that includes software in almost every area from reservations to flight planning to aircraft parts inventory to payroll.
Yes, there are web-based front-ends galore, and a number of less critical systems have been broken out into clusters of smaller servers from a single large one over the years, but in the end you're still talking about a traditional centralized server design.
Distibuted systems work well in some areas, but they aren't a good solution for everything, and there are a number of reasons why centralization has advantages in a number of situations.
Unisys just called them RIFs.
No text here. :-)
I don't know about you, but I'm a fairly fast typist, and I often tend to type words as discrete tokens rather than collections of individually considered keypresses. It's quite similar to the way I read, actually. I see word shapes, not letters.
:-(
:-)
Anyway -- I've actually had the its/it's problem happen because by finger muscle memory short circuited. I know perfectly well that "it's" is the contraction for "it is" and not a possessive, but sometimes stuff just slips out when I'm in a hurry.
Soemtimes perfectly spelled but completely imappropriate words will appear in a paragraph I've typed for much the same reason. My fingers typed the wrong common word.
That's one reason why I try to proofread things before sending. Not always successfully, but I find I have pretty good reason to.
20 isn't very many. I probably responded to 400-500 positions on various job sites (most of them with custom covers and various attempts at customized resumes), and the only response I ended up getting were people looking for folks like me -- from out of state!
That's why I ended up moving my household 1100+ miles to the south (Minneapolis to Atlanta). I had to in order to obtain reasonable work (defined as "work that paid the bills").
Questions for ya:
* Hourly wages are at an all-time high. Is everyone gaining, or are only a few areas with a rapidly increasing wage driving the numbers up?
* Unemployment is at 4.7%. We are talking about general unemployment, of course. Now obtain the unemployment numbers for the same period for the general technology sector, and keep in mind that unemployment rates are not a constant throughout the country -- some areas have a surplus of available positions in certain vocations, while others have saturated markets (and a very high percentage of folks looking for work) because one or more local companies have purged their IT departments or ceased to exist altogether.
It is possible to say almost anything with statistics, but as someone who knows several dozen folks who used to work in airline IT (and who knows several individuals still who are unable to find full-time employment [meaning non-contract work] after almost five years), I question the assessment that everything is just fine. For some people, it still sucks!
Firefox 1.5 introduced a keyboard error which drives me crazy -- keyboard navigation drops out while editing messages (I think due to activity on other tabs), and I also lose the apostrophe key and other things (both it and the forward slash bring up the Find toolbar even when in an edit box like this one).
I tried to search for a way to report the problem, and found the Firefox bug reporting page to be a fricking maze.
I suspect the native UT2004 port will use the capabilities of the card.
"Fired" generally means that a person was terminated for some reason directly related to their work performance or some portion of their personal work-related activities, while "laid off" generally means that the termination was due to elements completely outside the person's control.
Unemployment benefits are generally available to the latter group with very little question (the employer makes the situation known to the state), while the qualifying for such benefits depends on specific circumstances in the former group's case (folks who get fired often have to go through a formal hearing process to determine whether or not UI benefits apply in their situation).
A lot of UNIVAC 110x software written to run under EXEC 8 will still compile and run on a modern Unisys Clearpath Dorado system. FWIW...
Sounds a lot like what TOOT (the old ZDNet UK Tool Of Objective Truth) used to do...
Now you know one of the reasons why I keep a few Win95+DirectX7 boxes around -- I like games from that era (TA, SC, AOEII, UT, Tribes1, Q3A, NFS3/4, HomeWorld, etc.), and those boxes play them just like the games were made for them -- because they were! :-)
Just adding the obligatory "Total Annihilation rules!" counter-statement. :-)
There's a lot more involved in good sex than just intercourse. >:-P