It's too bad UDF never really caught on as the defacto USB hard drive, flash drive, SDHC etc file system. Unfortunately XP has shaky support, and it can be hard to get it formatted to UDF.
But they felt they HAD to rush it - Windows 2000 was coming. Windows 2000 really was the solution, but Microsoft did the big mistake of not marketing it towards consumers. Then XP came, which basically was a dumbed down 2000 with updated graphics, and it took the world with storm. But boy, was it buggy before SP1. Anyone sane would run 2000 instead.
Windows ME was released September 14, 2000. Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000. Windows 2000 wasn't coming, it was already here. I think 2K helped paved the way for XP, encouraging release of compatible drivers, etc ahead of time before it was released for "home users".
At the time home PCs were still being equipped with dreadfully low amounts of RAM. I remember buying a Win98SE machine mid-2000 that sold with 32MB RAM. That's hardly enough to run Win9X well (should have at least 64MB), let alone 2K/NT which should have at least 128MB, with 256 being noticeably better. OEMs would have to ship with more RAM in order to market 2K.
The true cradle-to-grave costs of hybrid cars is not yet known. It will not be until they begin to hit the junkyards in large numbers--and there is ample evidence that this will occur considerably sooner than non-hybrid (and non-electric) vehicles, just due to the higher maintenance and repair costs of hybrid vehicles that poor people won't be able to pay (assuming that the manufacturer even continues to make key replacement parts, which they may not).
Jesus. People keep talking about this, and reliability / maintenance cost (eg: "expensive battery replacements") as a huge unknown. The Prius has been available in the US since 2000. That's 13 years. If they were being junked sooner than non-hybrids, we'd know by now.
One of the things I liked about Google when it was introduced was they assumed all terms were for Boolean "AND". Then they dropped that, so you had to add a "+" in front of each term. Now you have to put quotes around each term. Not only do they do a Boolean OR, but they will look for synonym ORs of what you searched for, resulting in strange results. At first it was just different tenses or conjugations of the same word, now the searches are just random.
Plus it will offer suggestions of frequently searched terms... but not actually give useful results for those terms.
I was at a supplier's manufacturing site last week and they had a vending machine with a place to swipe your badge. Only this machine was stocked with work gloves, safety glasses, knives, etc. I guess it can't be called a "high tech vending machine" because it didn't have keyboards.
At work I've never seen a high rate of keyboard failures. If it did happen it's normally pretty easy to scare up a keyboard. People either replace the Lenovo OEM ones with a wireless set they expensed, they're using a laptop and can go back to the built in keyboard, or there's keyboards kicking around that weren't returned when the lease was up on the last computer.
True, but because the Trumpet Winsock software had to be installed before you got on the Internet, that kind of cut its appeal to many less-experienced users. But with Windows 95 offering SLIP/PPP "stack" built in, that made it very easy to configure the computer for real Internet access, and this opened the door for a huge leap up in commercial Internet access.
In my case at least it was cost. From 1993-1995 we used a shell account on a local freenet for internet access. Because it was, err, free. The cost of dialup SLIP/PPP providers was dropping, but early on you were paying high cost per hour / minute (hence all the "free" hours... not months... of AOL service on floppies). As it was the ISPs would supply a disk that would install and configure trumpet on a win3.x computer, or just configure the built in stack on Win95, so configuring wasn't that hard.
So for us the move to PPP coincided with Windows 95, only because the cost of the service dropped, not because of the bundled TCP/IP stack. It was a lot of included hours in 1996, and by 1998 we had unlimited hours, and a dedicated modem phone line, then in ~2000 jumped over to broadband.
For quite a while (10-12 years I'd say) the community net has also offered low cost PPP access ($10/mth) in addition to free shell access.
You couldn't even rely on them as alarm clocks, given their propensity to hang and/or crash.
I'll be sure to remind my iPhone of that reality first thing tomorrow when it diligently wakes me at 7:30am against my wishes, but in accordance to my command -- as it and it's predecessors have seemed to have done this without fail over the last several years.
"You're thinking of an old-fashioned car, like the Model T. Today's cars don't do that, grandpa. Computer controlled."
B.S.
I don't know about Renault, but in the U.S. all gasoline cars that I know of have an ignition switch that literally shuts off electrical power to the cylinders, rendering them incapable of firing. This is regardless of whether they are computer controlled. (That's what "ignition switch" means.)
If any computer controlled cars lack this feature, it should be added back in, yesterday.
Even "push to start" cars act like ATX power supplies. If you hold down the power button for a few seconds it will force a poweroff.
Surely in an area with predominantly manual transmissions, neutral / declutch would come to mind?
My gym just bought all new cardio equipment (Precor). They have 15" touch screen control panels with integrated cable TV. They also have a 30pin iPod connector. I can store my pirated TV shows / movies on my iPod Touch, plug it in, and it shows the video on the screen. So much better than flipping through random channels on the TV to find something tolerable (usually not anything worth watching at the times I go to the gym). This way I can watch the few shows I follow while doing something healthy, all without commercials. Very few people seem to take advantage of the dock, and I haven't seen anyone else play videos on them.
These ridiculous cardio machines also have an ethernet connection and a built in web browser.
Holy shit, and this is how you know that you have no idea what you're talking about. The difference of SD to HD was more significant by far than the change from black and white to color. It's huge! Do you have a 10" tv that you're watching from 7 ft away when making this comparison or something?
While I certainly notice the difference between SD and HD, when we got our first LCD TV I was amazed by the image quality difference on an LCD vs. flickery, slightly out of focus CRT, even with an SD signal.
Our facility has big scary signs at the gate "No cameras allowed". I have an authorized photo taking device with a big tag on it, but the head of QA must authorize any photo that leaves the site.
Meanwhile we just moved to a BYOD (ugh acronym) mostly subsidized smartphone policy. So according to them I'm required to have a smartphone to be able to access company email, meanwhile it has a camera that's better than my ancient authorized device. It's sure as hell easier to be pretending to text while taking pictures than it is to sneak in a real camera.
We aren't allowed to install Chrome on our desktops, meanwhile our phones are practically owned by Google.
To address the second half, they recently installed a white label ATM. I thought people must have managed over the past decades, but it's amazing how popular it is.
Tills NEVER BALANCE. When I worked at a McJob 10 years ago at a grocery store reports from the till balancing for all employees were posted. +-$5 was common. It was very very very very rare for a till to balance to $0. I remember it happening once. $20 was the point you were "spoken" to.
I blame home rolled coins. They can probably be out +-2 coins. Open a roll of each over your shift and you can be out $6.82!
In theory everything should balance out, but worst case retailers may have to open up tolerances on out of balance tills.
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It's too bad UDF never really caught on as the defacto USB hard drive, flash drive, SDHC etc file system. Unfortunately XP has shaky support, and it can be hard to get it formatted to UDF.
But they felt they HAD to rush it - Windows 2000 was coming.
Windows 2000 really was the solution, but Microsoft did the big mistake of not marketing it towards consumers. Then XP came, which basically was a dumbed down 2000 with updated graphics, and it took the world with storm. But boy, was it buggy before SP1. Anyone sane would run 2000 instead.
Windows ME was released September 14, 2000. Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000. Windows 2000 wasn't coming, it was already here. I think 2K helped paved the way for XP, encouraging release of compatible drivers, etc ahead of time before it was released for "home users".
At the time home PCs were still being equipped with dreadfully low amounts of RAM. I remember buying a Win98SE machine mid-2000 that sold with 32MB RAM. That's hardly enough to run Win9X well (should have at least 64MB), let alone 2K/NT which should have at least 128MB, with 256 being noticeably better. OEMs would have to ship with more RAM in order to market 2K.
I found the battery life to be approximately 3.5 months. Just long enough to get you half way through your final exam. . .
I took to swapping batteries just before exams.
And EDLIN
The true cradle-to-grave costs of hybrid cars is not yet known. It will not be until they begin to hit the junkyards in large numbers--and there is ample evidence that this will occur considerably sooner than non-hybrid (and non-electric) vehicles, just due to the higher maintenance and repair costs of hybrid vehicles that poor people won't be able to pay (assuming that the manufacturer even continues to make key replacement parts, which they may not).
Jesus. People keep talking about this, and reliability / maintenance cost (eg: "expensive battery replacements") as a huge unknown. The Prius has been available in the US since 2000. That's 13 years. If they were being junked sooner than non-hybrids, we'd know by now.
I assume the Netbook probably had an Atom with hyper threading, thus two virtual cores, and Flash was probably pegging one of the cores.
One of the things I liked about Google when it was introduced was they assumed all terms were for Boolean "AND". Then they dropped that, so you had to add a "+" in front of each term. Now you have to put quotes around each term. Not only do they do a Boolean OR, but they will look for synonym ORs of what you searched for, resulting in strange results. At first it was just different tenses or conjugations of the same word, now the searches are just random.
Plus it will offer suggestions of frequently searched terms... but not actually give useful results for those terms.
Also most online UPSes produce a sine wave, where cheap standby ones generate a square like wave. Sine wave inverters are of course more expensive.
I was at a supplier's manufacturing site last week and they had a vending machine with a place to swipe your badge. Only this machine was stocked with work gloves, safety glasses, knives, etc. I guess it can't be called a "high tech vending machine" because it didn't have keyboards.
At work I've never seen a high rate of keyboard failures. If it did happen it's normally pretty easy to scare up a keyboard. People either replace the Lenovo OEM ones with a wireless set they expensed, they're using a laptop and can go back to the built in keyboard, or there's keyboards kicking around that weren't returned when the lease was up on the last computer.
Uhh. Newfoundland observes daylight saving time, so they have the time zones:
NST UTC3:30
NDT UTC2:30
Instead you end up with a bunch of devices that can't handle those time zones.
True, but because the Trumpet Winsock software had to be installed before you got on the Internet, that kind of cut its appeal to many less-experienced users. But with Windows 95 offering SLIP/PPP "stack" built in, that made it very easy to configure the computer for real Internet access, and this opened the door for a huge leap up in commercial Internet access.
In my case at least it was cost. From 1993-1995 we used a shell account on a local freenet for internet access. Because it was, err, free. The cost of dialup SLIP/PPP providers was dropping, but early on you were paying high cost per hour / minute (hence all the "free" hours... not months... of AOL service on floppies). As it was the ISPs would supply a disk that would install and configure trumpet on a win3.x computer, or just configure the built in stack on Win95, so configuring wasn't that hard.
So for us the move to PPP coincided with Windows 95, only because the cost of the service dropped, not because of the bundled TCP/IP stack. It was a lot of included hours in 1996, and by 1998 we had unlimited hours, and a dedicated modem phone line, then in ~2000 jumped over to broadband.
For quite a while (10-12 years I'd say) the community net has also offered low cost PPP access ($10/mth) in addition to free shell access.
You couldn't even rely on them as alarm clocks, given their propensity to hang and/or crash.
I'll be sure to remind my iPhone of that reality first thing tomorrow when it diligently wakes me at 7:30am against my wishes, but in accordance to my command -- as it and it's predecessors have seemed to have done this without fail over the last several years.
Except if Daylight Saving time is changing: http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/06/the-iphone-daylight-savings-time-alarm-bug-and-how-to-fix-it/
Or if it's 2011 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/0225235/iphone-alarms-hit-by-new-years-bug
"You're thinking of an old-fashioned car, like the Model T. Today's cars don't do that, grandpa. Computer controlled."
B.S.
I don't know about Renault, but in the U.S. all gasoline cars that I know of have an ignition switch that literally shuts off electrical power to the cylinders, rendering them incapable of firing. This is regardless of whether they are computer controlled. (That's what "ignition switch" means.)
If any computer controlled cars lack this feature, it should be added back in, yesterday.
Even "push to start" cars act like ATX power supplies. If you hold down the power button for a few seconds it will force a poweroff.
Surely in an area with predominantly manual transmissions, neutral / declutch would come to mind?
I can't disagree with this. Novell was THE server OS for file/print and applications ran on Unix.
Was? Novell still IS the file/print server at work.
A great TUI based file manager for Windows is Open source Far Manager: http://www.farmanager.com/
It also has lots of plugins, and even things like drag / drop, allowing you to eject usb devices, sftp client, archive support, etc.
My gym just bought all new cardio equipment (Precor). They have 15" touch screen control panels with integrated cable TV. They also have a 30pin iPod connector. I can store my pirated TV shows / movies on my iPod Touch, plug it in, and it shows the video on the screen. So much better than flipping through random channels on the TV to find something tolerable (usually not anything worth watching at the times I go to the gym). This way I can watch the few shows I follow while doing something healthy, all without commercials. Very few people seem to take advantage of the dock, and I haven't seen anyone else play videos on them.
These ridiculous cardio machines also have an ethernet connection and a built in web browser.
There was a case where a bug in the steamy load of Adobe's PDF viewer was used to jailbreak phones
http://blog.machinedesign.com/Machine_Design_Blogs/2010/08/16/hackers-exploit-adobe-bug-to-jailbreak-iphones/
CTRL+tab will change documents in Excel (and child windows / documents in most apps)
Ctrl+page up /page down changes worksheets within a workbook.
Because we get so overloaded with work, my department's action register is hundreds of lines long.
So in the hope of focusing our work my manager wanted us to number our top three priorities.
Before I knew it I had 5 #1 priorities, while still having #2 and #3 priorities.
even the jump from SD to HD was marginal
Holy shit, and this is how you know that you have no idea what you're talking about. The difference of SD to HD was more significant by far than the change from black and white to color. It's huge! Do you have a 10" tv that you're watching from 7 ft away when making this comparison or something?
While I certainly notice the difference between SD and HD, when we got our first LCD TV I was amazed by the image quality difference on an LCD vs. flickery, slightly out of focus CRT, even with an SD signal.
I've been using version 5 since 1998. Even on Win 8 (32 bit)
Our facility has big scary signs at the gate "No cameras allowed". I have an authorized photo taking device with a big tag on it, but the head of QA must authorize any photo that leaves the site.
Meanwhile we just moved to a BYOD (ugh acronym) mostly subsidized smartphone policy. So according to them I'm required to have a smartphone to be able to access company email, meanwhile it has a camera that's better than my ancient authorized device. It's sure as hell easier to be pretending to text while taking pictures than it is to sneak in a real camera.
We aren't allowed to install Chrome on our desktops, meanwhile our phones are practically owned by Google.
To address the second half, they recently installed a white label ATM. I thought people must have managed over the past decades, but it's amazing how popular it is.
Christ. Year after year, iOS alarm clock, DND, or something breaks on new years, leap year, DST, or something.
IT JUST WORKS!!!!!
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3795574?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/14/ios-daylight-saving-time-woes-continue/
Tills NEVER BALANCE. When I worked at a McJob 10 years ago at a grocery store reports from the till balancing for all employees were posted. +-$5 was common. It was very very very very rare for a till to balance to $0. I remember it happening once. $20 was the point you were "spoken" to.
I blame home rolled coins. They can probably be out +-2 coins. Open a roll of each over your shift and you can be out $6.82!
In theory everything should balance out, but worst case retailers may have to open up tolerances on out of balance tills.