Honestly, I would say both. I *love* the games on Windows, but the ones I play (ut2k4 mainly) are usually available on Linux. As someone else pointed out, I could use different office suites - but I program sometimes in office - so I am stuck. I just have not had the golod luck with the delphi clx as I have had with the vcl product.
I have been flamed badly before for mentioning I use windows software, and I find it annoying. I also drive an older ford aerostar with the 4 liter motor, and while I like it - outrageously fast, I don't lambast people who drive, say, gm or toyota.
To be honest, computers have become really dull and boring to me after working with them for 20 years. Linux never worked well on my older machines - or more specifically, X86 didn't work well. I don't have coin to spend on another box right now, but I do kinda hope that mabye that spark of enthusiasm will rub off onto me. Otherwise, I might as well be a mechanical assembler again.
I saw the other reply getting modded into the dirt, and decided to reply here:-)
Up in Canada, the product is QuickTax (same company). I was trying to print out some tax returns for a exparte court visit (exparte meaning does not require proper service). So I find out late Friday afternoon that it's going to be a Monday morning epsisode in court, and I require tax returns. I have all my tax returns on cd, not printed, because, hey, I own the software.
I got 1999 printed, but not 2000, 2001 or 2002. Why? Because I had installed the software on an older, now dead and gone machine, previously when I did the original fucking returns. So their 'activation' detected that it was a new machine and prevented me from installing and printing out my returns. I attempted to call their amazing technical support, but because it was out of tax season, it was 9-5 Monday to Friday, or in my time zone, 10-6. So basically, they expect someone to make personal calls from work.
I ended up calling Revenue Canada and having someone pick up summary returns while I delayed in court. Thank you Intuit, for worrying that I might be trying to redo a 3 year old tax return. If you are going to disable shit, allow people to at least PRINT OUT WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE and kill the ability to make a new return, or something more useful than that. And it would be nice if you would reply to emails too.
I use XP, simply because it came with my laptop. I do not use Office XP or later, or other software that requires *activation* unless I can now absolutely avoid it. After all, how are you supposed to ensure the company you are buying from will remain in business in case you need to reinstall. And for all you linux zealots that are going to attack me on the using Windows statement - piss off. I develop software for the predominant platform so I can feed my kids.
I replaced nearly every light in the house with cf's. I tossed the receipts, stupidly, and have had nearly every light fail since. Most of my fixtures are the closed glass domes (rental for you) and I suspect they ran too hot in the contained space.
So I can either replace all the lights fixtures in a rental house, or live with regular bulbs for longer. Which is too bad, because I did make an attempt at reducing energy usage.
Re:Just like Apollo 13 "save" - good work, Smeds!
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Honestly, I would call Apollo 13 a design flaw. The tanks had little heaters in them (to keep the pressure up), and during the design stage the voltages were changed. Inside the tank there was also a thermostatic switch that kept the temp from getting too high.
That particular group of tanks was dropped, breaking off the fill tube inside the tank (on the ground). To empty the tank, they elected to turn on the heater to boil out the O2. The thermostatic switch welded shut, and the internal temp of the tank had reached many hundreds of degrees. This was not expected, nor detected on the ground. The heat burned off the insulation on the wires to the stirring motor.
I can't remember how they justified flying that set of tanks with the fill tube broken inside, but in flight, when the stiring motor was turned on, the wire arced to the tank body and ignited in the o2 enviroment.
Scary shit, O2. A burr from threading the pipes used to transport it sliding down the pipe can ignite the metal. Wiping a fitting with a little oil *will* give you a fire - this has brought down aircraft. The next big fear is the home o2 kits - a leaking system will flood the room to a high level of o2, and the static of walking across the rug will ignite it. As well, the fireproof nomex suits that firemen show up in will burn in that enviroment too.
Come on, do you know how much energy brakes can dissipate? Often they are rated in horsepower, and the number is usually over 1000.
150hp engine vs 1000hp brakes is not something that is going to heat them up and wreck the calipers. The rotors may warp after you stop and you leave your feet on the brakes (the rotor cools at a different rate between where the pads are pressed on the rotor and the uncovered part), but that can happen after a freeway stop.
If the vehicle was maintained poorly enough that the throttle will stick due to dirt, I would suggest there were existing problems with the brakes before this episode.
Not that I'm one to speak - during a deathmarch this summer I let my brakes wear down to the cooling fins in the rotors.
I can assure you that your assessment of drug patents is correct, from a Canadian perspective. They extended the patent period in Canada (so the companies could earn more profit from a drug before the generics arrived,and hence lower prices) and the only thing that happened is the price of drugs went up.
The last I heard, an ob-gyn paid 2,000 a month in malpractice insurance premiums here, and lawsuits are somewhat less prevelant.
My experience with the flourescent bulbs is they didn't last. I replaced just about every light in the house in 2001, and there are one or two of the original bulbs left now.
They are small enclosed fixtures, so maybe they got too hot - but I certainly could hold them after they ran for hours.
Rental house so I can't change the fixtures, or the windows - which get so much condensation in the winter that the drywall crumbled under it (and I open the door and do a massive air exchange when all the kids are in bed, and it's 40 below out to dry up some)
I wrote this at my last job - could suck in a ton of different data sources (although they had me turn off most of them). But it even looks similar. They sold more copies of that than anything else they had at the time.
More like 9600. And when someone told me they had access to one through their university, I told them it was impossible. Nothing was that fast. I was in hog heaven when I went to 300 baud. To get to compuserve I had to dial a local datapac # (for 40 bucks a month) and then connect to compuserve through that (for another 40).
First mouse I saw, I flipped over and used like a trackball. Felt pretty stupid afterwards.
I can still remember 6502 assembly - I used to make cards for the apple. I really like boot tracing disks - that was a riot. Copy the code from the drive controller down into ram, then change the jump out point. Run it, and it would load the first sector of the disk in, then you could trace it, and get it's jump point. All the time, the people writing the copy protection would be fighting that (self modifying code, etc)
I hated tapes. I hated punch cards. I have a daisy wheel printer that weighs at least 150 pounds right behind me now.
It's time for people to stop blaming the school system and making out kids the taxpayers' problem. If your kid is a fuck-up, be a goddamned parent and put them in their place! Stop automatically run crying to the government!
I would love to. However, when speaking to them doesn't work, what do you do - if I thump one of my kids to the ground to screaming, throwing shit at me, lying, stealing - they go crying to the government and basically you are fucked.
I have been more of the negotiator in the family, but I have been seriously tempted (and felt it was warranted) at times to simply kick some ass - after all, that's what happened if I got out of line. I did tell them that if they *ever* called social services, they better hope they come quick because I am going to beat on their asses until the police arrive.
They would prefer that you did not back up, because Windows slowly fucks itself over time with the abortion they call the registry. This way you have to do a clean install every now and then, and it cleans up whatever little problems it has.
What I really wanted to do was place one or two of those panels (I have *alot* of kids) in with a couple gamecubes - in my life, it seems to be the only thing (besides movies) that they don't fight over much.
It's new that it tracks while the vehicle is in motion. The units on the old moter homes would pop up a dish antenna and train it on the satellite when the unit was parked.
A 2D interface is just fine as long as we are simply projecting it onto a 2D surface. Until interfaces become truly 3D, where we can see clearly the relationships, and likely input devices change as well, There won't be a really usable 3D interface.
I think, if they *can* patent the virus, they should be responsible for damages. After all, they own it. They didn't create it, however, they are benefiting from it. I dislike the win-win for the companies.
How quickly would this biological patent stuff stop if people started suing the owner of the breast cancer gene, anything like that.
Amazingly enough, Delphi 6 runs just fine on my machine without admin rights.
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with the budget the coders alone have, they could spec and have the chips made. Even a fab plant would easily be within the budget of Nasa. Not that they need too - nobody is using the older fab facilities anyways.
Alot of shuttle stuff is one off - it's not like they bought the shuttle computers down at the corner computer store.
Here is a program they have for the NT/2000/XP line that lists hotfixes that have not been applied. It certainly is more comprehensive than the windows update site....
Hotfix Checker at MS
That would've been like the big bugger I made when I was a kid. Got the biggest tube I could find and stuffed 3 D's into it. It stopped a ball game across the field when it launched (it was impressively loud) and about 3/4 the way to altitude something exploded and blew the bottom 1/2 off. Well before the parachute charge should've popped. In fact, 2 of motors popped the chute charges on the way down.
I also made one and ran out and launched it while the glue was still wet:-) A fin came off, and it did a spin around and shoot horizontal trick at about 100 feet. Right across the field into someones house.
um, I've heard that you can etch a bar code into glass with a 10 watt laser. You put a stripe of black marker on the glass, pulse it, wipe the remaining marker off.
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Honestly, I would say both. I *love* the games on Windows, but the ones I play (ut2k4 mainly) are usually available on Linux. As someone else pointed out, I could use different office suites - but I program sometimes in office - so I am stuck. I just have not had the golod luck with the delphi clx as I have had with the vcl product.
I have been flamed badly before for mentioning I use windows software, and I find it annoying. I also drive an older ford aerostar with the 4 liter motor, and while I like it - outrageously fast, I don't lambast people who drive, say, gm or toyota.
To be honest, computers have become really dull and boring to me after working with them for 20 years. Linux never worked well on my older machines - or more specifically, X86 didn't work well. I don't have coin to spend on another box right now, but I do kinda hope that mabye that spark of enthusiasm will rub off onto me. Otherwise, I might as well be a mechanical assembler again.
I saw the other reply getting modded into the dirt, and decided to reply here :-)
Up in Canada, the product is QuickTax (same company). I was trying to print out some tax returns for a exparte court visit (exparte meaning does not require proper service). So I find out late Friday afternoon that it's going to be a Monday morning epsisode in court, and I require tax returns. I have all my tax returns on cd, not printed, because, hey, I own the software.
I got 1999 printed, but not 2000, 2001 or 2002. Why? Because I had installed the software on an older, now dead and gone machine, previously when I did the original fucking returns. So their 'activation' detected that it was a new machine and prevented me from installing and printing out my returns. I attempted to call their amazing technical support, but because it was out of tax season, it was 9-5 Monday to Friday, or in my time zone, 10-6. So basically, they expect someone to make personal calls from work.
I ended up calling Revenue Canada and having someone pick up summary returns while I delayed in court. Thank you Intuit, for worrying that I might be trying to redo a 3 year old tax return. If you are going to disable shit, allow people to at least PRINT OUT WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE and kill the ability to make a new return, or something more useful than that. And it would be nice if you would reply to emails too.
I use XP, simply because it came with my laptop. I do not use Office XP or later, or other software that requires *activation* unless I can now absolutely avoid it. After all, how are you supposed to ensure the company you are buying from will remain in business in case you need to reinstall. And for all you linux zealots that are going to attack me on the using Windows statement - piss off. I develop software for the predominant platform so I can feed my kids.
I replaced nearly every light in the house with cf's. I tossed the receipts, stupidly, and have had nearly every light fail since. Most of my fixtures are the closed glass domes (rental for you) and I suspect they ran too hot in the contained space.
So I can either replace all the lights fixtures in a rental house, or live with regular bulbs for longer. Which is too bad, because I did make an attempt at reducing energy usage.
Honestly, I would call Apollo 13 a design flaw. The tanks had little heaters in them (to keep the pressure up), and during the design stage the voltages were changed. Inside the tank there was also a thermostatic switch that kept the temp from getting too high.
That particular group of tanks was dropped, breaking off the fill tube inside the tank (on the ground). To empty the tank, they elected to turn on the heater to boil out the O2. The thermostatic switch welded shut, and the internal temp of the tank had reached many hundreds of degrees. This was not expected, nor detected on the ground. The heat burned off the insulation on the wires to the stirring motor.
I can't remember how they justified flying that set of tanks with the fill tube broken inside, but in flight, when the stiring motor was turned on, the wire arced to the tank body and ignited in the o2 enviroment.
Scary shit, O2. A burr from threading the pipes used to transport it sliding down the pipe can ignite the metal. Wiping a fitting with a little oil *will* give you a fire - this has brought down aircraft. The next big fear is the home o2 kits - a leaking system will flood the room to a high level of o2, and the static of walking across the rug will ignite it. As well, the fireproof nomex suits that firemen show up in will burn in that enviroment too.
Come on, do you know how much energy brakes can dissipate? Often they are rated in horsepower, and the number is usually over 1000.
150hp engine vs 1000hp brakes is not something that is going to heat them up and wreck the calipers. The rotors may warp after you stop and you leave your feet on the brakes (the rotor cools at a different rate between where the pads are pressed on the rotor and the uncovered part), but that can happen after a freeway stop.
If the vehicle was maintained poorly enough that the throttle will stick due to dirt, I would suggest there were existing problems with the brakes before this episode.
Not that I'm one to speak - during a deathmarch this summer I let my brakes wear down to the cooling fins in the rotors.
I can assure you that your assessment of drug patents is correct, from a Canadian perspective. They extended the patent period in Canada (so the companies could earn more profit from a drug before the generics arrived,and hence lower prices) and the only thing that happened is the price of drugs went up.
The last I heard, an ob-gyn paid 2,000 a month in malpractice insurance premiums here, and lawsuits are somewhat less prevelant.
My experience with the flourescent bulbs is they didn't last. I replaced just about every light in the house in 2001, and there are one or two of the original bulbs left now.
They are small enclosed fixtures, so maybe they got too hot - but I certainly could hold them after they ran for hours.
Rental house so I can't change the fixtures, or the windows - which get so much condensation in the winter that the drywall crumbled under it (and I open the door and do a massive air exchange when all the kids are in bed, and it's 40 below out to dry up some)
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I would not recommend, however, working for them, until there is some staff change.
More like 9600. And when someone told me they had access to one through their university, I told them it was impossible. Nothing was that fast. I was in hog heaven when I went to 300 baud. To get to compuserve I had to dial a local datapac # (for 40 bucks a month) and then connect to compuserve through that (for another 40).
First mouse I saw, I flipped over and used like a trackball. Felt pretty stupid afterwards.
I can still remember 6502 assembly - I used to make cards for the apple. I really like boot tracing disks - that was a riot. Copy the code from the drive controller down into ram, then change the jump out point. Run it, and it would load the first sector of the disk in, then you could trace it, and get it's jump point. All the time, the people writing the copy protection would be fighting that (self modifying code, etc)
I hated tapes. I hated punch cards. I have a daisy wheel printer that weighs at least 150 pounds right behind me now.
I used to visit Jennicam. I will miss that.
It's time for people to stop blaming the school system and making out kids the taxpayers' problem. If your kid is a fuck-up, be a goddamned parent and put them in their place! Stop automatically run crying to the government!
I would love to. However, when speaking to them doesn't work, what do you do - if I thump one of my kids to the ground to screaming, throwing shit at me, lying, stealing - they go crying to the government and basically you are fucked.
I have been more of the negotiator in the family, but I have been seriously tempted (and felt it was warranted) at times to simply kick some ass - after all, that's what happened if I got out of line. I did tell them that if they *ever* called social services, they better hope they come quick because I am going to beat on their asses until the police arrive.
They would prefer that you did not back up, because Windows slowly fucks itself over time with the abortion they call the registry. This way you have to do a clean install every now and then, and it cleans up whatever little problems it has.
What I really wanted to do was place one or two of those panels (I have *alot* of kids) in with a couple gamecubes - in my life, it seems to be the only thing (besides movies) that they don't fight over much.
It's new that it tracks while the vehicle is in motion. The units on the old moter homes would pop up a dish antenna and train it on the satellite when the unit was parked.
Obviously you never travelled through Manitoba/Saskatchewan...
The place I used to work for hired them all and layed me off.
A 2D interface is just fine as long as we are simply projecting it onto a 2D surface. Until interfaces become truly 3D, where we can see clearly the relationships, and likely input devices change as well, There won't be a really usable 3D interface.
I think, if they *can* patent the virus, they should be responsible for damages. After all, they own it. They didn't create it, however, they are benefiting from it. I dislike the win-win for the companies.
How quickly would this biological patent stuff stop if people started suing the owner of the breast cancer gene, anything like that.
Amazingly enough, Delphi 6 runs just fine on my machine without admin rights.
with the budget the coders alone have, they could spec and have the chips made. Even a fab plant would easily be within the budget of Nasa. Not that they need too - nobody is using the older fab facilities anyways.
Alot of shuttle stuff is one off - it's not like they bought the shuttle computers down at the corner computer store.
Here is a program they have for the NT/2000/XP line that lists hotfixes that have not been applied. It certainly is more comprehensive than the windows update site.... Hotfix Checker at MS
That would've been like the big bugger I made when I was a kid. Got the biggest tube I could find and stuffed 3 D's into it. It stopped a ball game across the field when it launched (it was impressively loud) and about 3/4 the way to altitude something exploded and blew the bottom 1/2 off. Well before the parachute charge should've popped. In fact, 2 of motors popped the chute charges on the way down.
:-) A fin came off, and it did a spin around and shoot horizontal trick at about 100 feet. Right across the field into someones house.
I also made one and ran out and launched it while the glue was still wet
Have you ever programmed anything in Delphi? Something really math intensive?
It's just as fast as C++, just not quite as portable. But you are 100x less likely to fuck something up when you are tired.
Anytime you want, pop out an app in C++, give me the same spec you built it to, and me and my Delphi will give you an ass whomping.
Please do not lump Delphi in with VB.
um, I've heard that you can etch a bar code into glass with a 10 watt laser. You put a stripe of black marker on the glass, pulse it, wipe the remaining marker off.
40 watts of coherent light is alot!
Hmmmm, I know that there are alot of americans that miss Napster.....
Do you know what the difference between a 100 and a 200 ton locomotive is? 100 tons. They pour concrete into them to bring the weight up.
They are not trying to obtain a better power/weight ratio, they are trying to fit more power into that limited space.