Once upon a time, GIF was the #1 image format in the world, and it was free (although we all knew it was 'owned' by CServe. But then came Unisys and they pointed out GIF is based on LZW compression and so... GIF was no longer free
See an intersting article about that here: http://www.cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127gi flzw.ht ml
But even today, GIF is still used a lot (maybe only 1% against jpg, but I haven't seen to many.png images yet, and indeed, what company will be the next to reap the benefits of the use of one of its 'hidden in the basement' patents.
Don't believe that trains will make cars dissapear. I live in Belgium and used to take the train daily to commute to Brussels. Do it by car ? no because it's 1) too expensive and 2) there is a major traffic jam that warrants sometimes double commute time by car as opposed to train. But even with a very good public transport system, the streets are still packed with cars and it can take 2 hours to drive 30 miles. So that's why trains are popular: cars stand still and trains are cheaper. This has nothing to do with freedom feelings at all: I rather drive my car than a train but sometimes a train is just much easier. Also, parking lots are less abundant than in the US, you can easily spend an hour finding one, and then you have to pay, pay, pay.... Last week I drove to Paris by car (everybody told me to take the train)... I drove 2h30 to get to Paris and 1 hour to get to my hotel. By train I would have made the Brussels/Paris trip in 1h30 and I would have been in my hotel much sooner. Reason to take car: I wanted to visit some places outside Paris, inside Paris, you don't need a car, you take subway, taxi or walk (if you have ever driven in Paris as a non-Parisien you'd know what I'm talking about)
It is not even a good reason to deny people a job if they actually get the predisposed disease: even when disabled, people can still be an asset to a company. I don't know if Beethovens deafness was genetical but suppose, he tested positive and someone told him at age 18: no, you can't become a composer because you will become deaf later in life? Same applies to other wonderful people (e.g. Stephen Hawking or even Newton) who contributed to mankind despite illness.
It should not be a problem if you only speak English in the northern/western European countries: In Scandinavia, The Netherlands and Belgium, English is ok for a tech job. I work in Belgium, the internal working language is English (all documents are in English, of course collegues speak their native language to one another). I know Dutch, French, German and English. I've worked in Italy, without speaking Italian it is a nightmare (few speak southern-Europeans speak English). Same applies to France, Germany is intermediate.
Well known commercial software has them too,
I know for sure many companies are running Oracle servers with the SYS/CHANGE_ON_INSTALL user/passwd duo...
None since w2k is no longer supported on non-intel architecture (Compaq recently stopped NT development on Alpha)
Excel ScrollLock/ go for PK (Personal Keyboard)
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1) It is not true that the Prt/Scr ScrollLock and Pause/Break keys are no longer used in windows apps.
I used to work on vt420 and HP70092 terminals. They had more keys than modern PC keyboards. I Also liked the colorful siemens-terminal keyboards. PC keyboards are a nightmare if you want to emulate e.g. vt220 keyboard (map F17 to your PC... same for HP70092 which had keys for DELETE LINE, CLEAR SCREEN, INSERT LINE etc... keys). I would like to see more useage of the old F-keys. They are there and can do more than F1/help and alt-F4/close.
Instead of banning keys, I'd rather have them reinstated.
(Excel uses scroll/lock to alter the scrolling behaviour, Reflection uses it as equivalent for ctrl-S (XOFF), Textpad uses it in the same way as Excel,...)
2) Ever tried using international keyboards (use one computer with US/QWERY, one with FR AZERTY and one with GER/QWERTZ in fast succession and you'll find yourself in keyboard hell.) A keyboard should be something that goes with the person at the computer, not with the computer (e.g. buy and configure a 'personal keyboard' that you can easily plug in any computer)
I think he shoud have a go at it. VMware is really very good so I would be suprised to see BOCHS would really surpass it. On the other hand if he can, VMWare will surely respond by improving their product too. Also, I don't believe we'll see a true VMWare clone in less than a year.
As for the price and usefullness, VMWare is too expensive since it costs more than the OS it is supposed to run, on the other hand, I'm sure thousends of Linux users are waiting for a 100% emulation of Win NT or Win'95 (wine and DosEmu are such long-running projects and are still not really a reliable solution if you compare them with Vmware. Maybe Bochs ought to give some of his expertise to them, on the other hand an emulator is not the same thing as a virtual machine)
I've been using Oracle on HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, Ultrix and NT for years and generally encountered very few platform-specific problems. Oracle tends to be very much the same on all platforms. I've tested our software on Linux and it runs without a glitch though we currently have no customers asking for it. I tested the same application running on the same hardware under NT with lower performance. As for platform-specific bugs: NT is the number one there (SP4 is notorious for this). If you want to run on PC-hardware (which I don't recommend for high-availability unless you buy mini-like machines) I'd say to go for Linux. Migrating to other hardware is always possible since Oracle runs on most hardware so you don't have to bother too much about support in 10 years, you'll run on another machine anyway.
I have to say that I indeed pose the question wheter Oracle and the likes are in Linux only because they are anti-microsoft or because of the merits of the system. I hope the latter.
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Once upon a time, GIF was the #1 image format in the world, and it was free (although we all knew it was 'owned' by CServe. But then came Unisys and they pointed out GIF is based on LZW compression and so... GIF was no longer free
i flzw.ht ml
.png images yet, and indeed, what company will be the next to reap the benefits of the use of one of its 'hidden in the basement' patents.
See an intersting article about that here:
http://www.cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127g
But even today, GIF is still used a lot (maybe only 1% against jpg, but I haven't seen to many
Don't believe that trains will make cars dissapear. I live in Belgium and used to take the train daily to commute to Brussels. Do it by car ? no because it's 1) too expensive and 2) there is a major traffic jam that warrants sometimes double commute time by car as opposed to train. But even with a very good public transport system, the streets are still packed with cars and it can take 2 hours to drive 30 miles. So that's why trains are popular: cars stand still and trains are cheaper. This has nothing to do with freedom feelings at all: I rather drive my car than a train but sometimes a train is just much easier. Also, parking lots are less abundant than in the US, you can easily spend an hour finding one, and then you have to pay, pay, pay.... Last week I drove to Paris by car (everybody told me to take the train)... I drove 2h30 to get to Paris and 1 hour to get to my hotel. By train I would have made the Brussels/Paris trip in 1h30 and I would have been in my hotel much sooner. Reason to take car: I wanted to visit some places outside Paris, inside Paris, you don't need a car, you take subway, taxi or walk (if you have ever driven in Paris as a non-Parisien you'd know what I'm talking about)
it was 'schitterend ongeluk'
(loose translation: 'a fantastic accident')
It is not even a good reason to deny people a job if they actually get the predisposed disease: even when disabled, people can still be an asset to a company. I don't know if Beethovens deafness was genetical but suppose, he tested positive and someone told him at age 18: no, you can't become a composer because you will become deaf later in life? Same applies to other wonderful people (e.g. Stephen Hawking or even Newton) who contributed to mankind despite illness.
It should not be a problem if you only speak English in the northern/western European countries: In Scandinavia, The Netherlands and Belgium, English is ok for a tech job. I work in Belgium, the internal working language is English (all documents are in English, of course collegues speak their native language to one another). I know Dutch, French, German and English. I've worked in Italy, without speaking Italian it is a nightmare (few speak southern-Europeans speak English). Same applies to France, Germany is intermediate.
Well known commercial software has them too, I know for sure many companies are running Oracle servers with the SYS/CHANGE_ON_INSTALL user/passwd duo...
IMO, They'd better have a word with CmdrTaco about web-design
None since w2k is no longer supported on non-intel architecture (Compaq recently stopped NT development on Alpha)
1) It is not true that the Prt/Scr ScrollLock and Pause/Break keys are no longer used in windows apps.
...)
I used to work on vt420 and HP70092 terminals. They had more keys than modern PC keyboards. I Also liked the colorful siemens-terminal keyboards. PC keyboards are a nightmare if you want to emulate e.g. vt220 keyboard (map F17 to your PC... same for HP70092 which had keys for DELETE LINE, CLEAR SCREEN, INSERT LINE etc... keys). I would like to see more useage of the old F-keys. They are there and can do more than F1/help and alt-F4/close.
Instead of banning keys, I'd rather have them reinstated.
(Excel uses scroll/lock to alter the scrolling behaviour, Reflection uses it as equivalent for ctrl-S (XOFF), Textpad uses it in the same way as Excel,
2) Ever tried using international keyboards (use one computer with US/QWERY, one with FR AZERTY and one with GER/QWERTZ in fast succession and you'll find yourself in keyboard hell.) A keyboard should be something that goes with the person at the computer, not with the computer (e.g. buy and configure a 'personal keyboard' that you can easily plug in any computer)
I think he shoud have a go at it. VMware is really very good so I would be suprised to see BOCHS would really surpass it. On the other hand if he can, VMWare will surely respond by improving their product too. Also, I don't believe we'll see a true VMWare clone in less than a year.
As for the price and usefullness, VMWare is too expensive since it costs more than the OS it is supposed to run, on the other hand, I'm sure thousends of Linux users are waiting for a 100% emulation of Win NT or Win'95 (wine and DosEmu are such long-running projects and are still not really a reliable solution if you compare them with Vmware. Maybe Bochs ought to give some of his expertise to them, on the other hand an emulator is not the same thing as a virtual machine)
I've been using Oracle on HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, Ultrix and NT for years and generally encountered very few platform-specific problems. Oracle tends to be very much the same on all platforms. I've tested our software on Linux and it runs without a glitch though we currently have no customers asking for it. I tested the same application running on the same hardware under NT with lower performance. As for platform-specific bugs: NT is the number one there (SP4 is notorious for this). If you want to run on PC-hardware (which I don't recommend for high-availability unless you buy mini-like machines) I'd say to go for Linux. Migrating to other hardware is always possible since Oracle runs on most hardware so you don't have to bother too much about support in 10 years, you'll run on another machine anyway.
I have to say that I indeed pose the question wheter Oracle and the likes are in Linux only because they are anti-microsoft or because of the merits of the system. I hope the latter.
you can start with a whole lot of mips on this top 500 of supercomputers site. www.top500.org
How would the #1 compare to an average PC ?
#1 Intel ASCI Red (9152 processors)
#2 SGI T3E1200 (1084 processors)
#3 SGI T3E900 (1324 processors)
and don't forget the those Beowulfen !