The reason I would not put Chicago on top of the list of places is infrastructure. During the last few summer, Chicago was one of the cities that experienced rolling black outs because their electric grid couldn't handle the load.
But that is exactly the reason.
Then, when the Windows mashup fails, they just yell "BLACKOUT, BLACKOUT" while the servers are mass re-booted.
you've got to embrace some maturity and stop bottlefeeding your developers and make them fix their damn code when it doesn't conform to a normal standard.
Amen to this.
I was once trying to view a page which the site owners (note this was a major company) stated was IE only. I looked at the HTML and saw that several TD tags were not closed. I closed them and the page now worked in Netscape.
Automatic spell checking correction ( MS word 95, possibly before)
Definately before. I was using this on my Z100 with a product named WatchWord. It had spell-as-you-type. On an 8088 running at 4.7MHz (yes, that is megaherz) back in the '80s.
Consider if the ripping of CDs was not done, as it currently is, in a small casual fashion. What if the entire Internet community made a concerted, extensive, and prolonged effort to copy and post CD tracks?
Not just the few thousand or so which currently do it, but millions?
I have seen examples where a person knows langiage A but is working with language B. And by God he WILL try to make language B work like language A, come hell or high water.
This is where you get "clever code". Which is un-maintainable.
find that although they have a great understanding of the languages we use they have very little grasp of design patterns and architectures.
We had a summer student in his third year. I handed him a task to parse through a text file to: - locate a date and time string (always in the same place) - calculate the difference between two adjecent date/times - store the highest difference, the lowest difference, and the average difference
His choice of language.
Four weeks later he was still floundering. His basic problem (which he FINALLY admitted to)?
they did not think that Windows 2.0 was a big deal. WordPerfect DOS 6.0 was still DOS but with a WYSIWYG editor. Nice. But it was NOT Windows. So when Windows 3.x came out, they were caught off-guard
they thought that just because they had an excellent word processor, they could also produce an excellent
database - DataPerfect
spreadsheet - PlanPerfect
presentations - can't remember the name
form filler - FormPerfect?
GroupWise - I think they bought this somewhere. A great email program
They also spent a lot of money/time porting WordPerfecct to OS/2, using a Windows extension library (can't remember the name), and all they got was a buggy slow implementation. Then MS killed off OS/2 through Windows/hardware licencing.
So basically WordPerfect Corp pissed away a lot of money when they left their core business.
Then Novell bought them out. Novell stripped out GroupWise, dropped the rest of the junk, and sold WordPerfect to Corel.
IMHO WordPerfect is STILL the best word processor available. And I have used Word, WordPro, OpenOffice, PeachTree, WordStar, and a few others. Not just try them out. I actually produced large documents with them.
That is, on the one hand, we're a fantastic demographic to succeed with, but on the other, we're a tough nut to crack.
And add to this mix that we collectively HATE advertising. So we all use ad blockers, flash blockers, script blockers, image blockers, and anything else we can find which reduces or eliminates advertising which gets in the way of reading the content of a web site.
So even if we do get "counted" and the advertisers can determine what it is that we browse, the current method of "in your face" ads will quickly push us towards a way of either blocking the ads, or simply not going there any more.
And I DO click on ads, but only if they are: - NOT in the way of the content - NOT blinking, flashing, moving - NOT trying to distract my eye towards them
If ANY of the above happen, I am gone from the site, and will NEVER go there again.
The cashier asked if I wanted a $10 2-year warranty on the thing.
I just say in a loud voice "I have been buying electronics for over 20 years and have NEVER bought an extended warranty. I figure I have saved enough money over the years to buy a <equipment> replacement."
Shuts them right up, especially if there is a line behind me.
The spammer system asks the spammer if the picture is a cat. The picture along with its classification is stored. The next time that same picture (fuzzy match logic) is encountered it is automatically checked off.
info can still be retrieved from it if it's carefully read
Wow, I did not know that.
But then all you get is a snapshot of what the server was doing at the instant you turned it off, which would be AFTER all the programs terminated. And at termination the OS would probably re-use that RAM for its own shutdown code.
Then you need to wade through a huge pile of binary (ok HEX) printouts to try to determine the contents.
If the server held 8GBytes, and you get 16 bytes per line, and there are 66 lines per page, then you would have 8,134,407 pages to read through.
Of course you could put this on a drive, then try to use some sort of search program, but it is not trivial. Memory fragmentation(1), binary representation of text, object storage (rather than straight characters) would all contribute to the confusion.
1. Yes I know that the OS tracks the fragmentation along with pagination, but where is that in RAM?
Why couldn't it have been created 6000 years ago, but created *old*? With all the dinosaur fossils and everything intact?
Except that it is not only the Earth that would need to be created "old".
You also need to create all the stars and galaxies with their coresponding photons, electrical waves, and all the other things which we see in the sky as "old". Plus the red/blue shifts, get all the proper motions correct, and so on.
The problem becomes one of near inifinite complexity, especially as we develop instruments with greater sensitivity which can "see" farther away.
All that energy, all created, all placed in exactly the right place, and all given exactly the right velocity and direction, just so we can see stars?
It makes more sense that we are here because of some semi-random event which produced the first bacteria which evolved to the various life forms we have today.
Used to work on an IBM mainframe. I cannot remember the name fo the program but it basically printed reports from a command line. Type in filter criteria followed by the name of the reoprt. The report generator would use the filter information and create the report. The report was printed on a mainframe printer (big laser printer, about 10 feet long, printed paper at about 1 box every few minutes).
One day my co-worker forgot the flter criteria.
He waited about 1/2 hour, did not get his report from the printer techs, so he did it again.
We got busy doing other stuff.
About 2 hours later, the printer tech wheeled over a PALLET of boxed paper containing his report. Hundreds of thousands of records had been printed, not the few he thought he was going to get.
I still wonder why some programmer had put in a warning that a report was being run without a filter.
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Read about it here.
a mainframe running virtualized Linux instances can do the work of about 250 x86 processors while using as little as 2% of the energy.
And Windows 95 was nothing like what Chicago was supposed to be.
Microsoft tried to re-write DOS/Win 3.11 into what OS/2 was. The early alpha versions of Chicago showcased this.
Lots of time and dollars later they created a GUI veneer over DOS, called it Windows 95, and then marketed the hell out of it.
But that is exactly the reason.
Then, when the Windows mashup fails, they just yell "BLACKOUT, BLACKOUT" while the servers are mass re-booted.
Amen to this.
I was once trying to view a page which the site owners (note this was a major company) stated was IE only. I looked at the HTML and saw that several TD tags were not closed. I closed them and the page now worked in Netscape.
IE only indeed.
Yikes! Only 12k/s.
We need a bittorrent...
Which is why lawyers should not be allowed to be politicians.
Definately before. I was using this on my Z100 with a product named WatchWord. It had spell-as-you-type. On an 8088 running at 4.7MHz (yes, that is megaherz) back in the '80s.
First of all I would never, ever, advocate this.
However, as a talking point:
Consider if the ripping of CDs was not done, as it currently is, in a small casual fashion. What if the entire Internet community made a concerted, extensive, and prolonged effort to copy and post CD tracks?
Not just the few thousand or so which currently do it, but millions?
Do you think that would get anyones attention?
You forgot "working within the langauge".
I have seen examples where a person knows langiage A but is working with language B. And by God he WILL try to make language B work like language A, come hell or high water.
This is where you get "clever code". Which is un-maintainable.
Sigh...
that would be:
blad.empty();
- locate a date and time string (always in the same place)
- calculate the difference between two adjecent date/times
- store the highest difference, the lowest difference, and the average difference
His choice of language.
Four weeks later he was still floundering. His basic problem (which he FINALLY admitted to)?
He did not know what high/low/average meant.
If you ever move out of state/province, you will need to surrender your old plates before being issued with new ones.
This is probably built into either your yearly driver's licence renewal or insurance renewal
If it was assembler, they must have had a hell of a make file.
The DOS version (well the early ones) ran on almost ANY DOS implementation. I had a copy which ran on Z-DOS (Zenith DOS for the H-100).
They also spent a lot of money/time porting WordPerfecct to OS/2, using a Windows extension library (can't remember the name), and all they got was a buggy slow implementation. Then MS killed off OS/2 through Windows/hardware licencing.
So basically WordPerfect Corp pissed away a lot of money when they left their core business.
Then Novell bought them out. Novell stripped out GroupWise, dropped the rest of the junk, and sold WordPerfect to Corel.
IMHO WordPerfect is STILL the best word processor available. And I have used Word, WordPro, OpenOffice, PeachTree, WordStar, and a few others. Not just try them out. I actually produced large documents with them.
And add to this mix that we collectively HATE advertising. So we all use ad blockers, flash blockers, script blockers, image blockers, and anything else we can find which reduces or eliminates advertising which gets in the way of reading the content of a web site.
So even if we do get "counted" and the advertisers can determine what it is that we browse, the current method of "in your face" ads will quickly push us towards a way of either blocking the ads, or simply not going there any more.
And I DO click on ads, but only if they are:
- NOT in the way of the content
- NOT blinking, flashing, moving
- NOT trying to distract my eye towards them
If ANY of the above happen, I am gone from the site, and will NEVER go there again.
(Hey, this is my 1,000th post. Woo Hoo!)
Maybe "access" is the wrong word here. A better phrase would be "provide the same formatting".
Word 97 REALLY screwed up Word 95 formatting, as I remember.
I just say in a loud voice "I have been buying electronics for over 20 years and have NEVER bought an extended warranty. I figure I have saved enough money over the years to buy a <equipment> replacement."
Shuts them right up, especially if there is a line behind me.
If you use the extension Multizilla, one of the options is to have a tab relaod every x minutes.
The spammer system asks the spammer if the picture is a cat. The picture along with its classification is stored. The next time that same picture (fuzzy match logic) is encountered it is automatically checked off.
Wow, I did not know that.
But then all you get is a snapshot of what the server was doing at the instant you turned it off, which would be AFTER all the programs terminated. And at termination the OS would probably re-use that RAM for its own shutdown code.
Then you need to wade through a huge pile of binary (ok HEX) printouts to try to determine the contents.
If the server held 8GBytes, and you get 16 bytes per line, and there are 66 lines per page, then you would have 8,134,407 pages to read through.
Of course you could put this on a drive, then try to use some sort of search program, but it is not trivial. Memory fragmentation(1), binary representation of text, object storage (rather than straight characters) would all contribute to the confusion.
1. Yes I know that the OS tracks the fragmentation along with pagination, but where is that in RAM?
Except that it is not only the Earth that would need to be created "old".
You also need to create all the stars and galaxies with their coresponding photons, electrical waves, and all the other things which we see in the sky as "old". Plus the red/blue shifts, get all the proper motions correct, and so on.
The problem becomes one of near inifinite complexity, especially as we develop instruments with greater sensitivity which can "see" farther away.
All that energy, all created, all placed in exactly the right place, and all given exactly the right velocity and direction, just so we can see stars?
It makes more sense that we are here because of some semi-random event which produced the first bacteria which evolved to the various life forms we have today.
If you do this, then you only need to change some part of the string to a random value, then hit enter.
When the page refreshes, then click on the link you want to read.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Sure they are tracking something, but it will not be you.
There are lots of ways to monkey with this sort of thing.
Used to work on an IBM mainframe. I cannot remember the name fo the program but it basically printed reports from a command line.
Type in filter criteria followed by the name of the reoprt. The report generator would use the filter information and create the report. The report was printed on a mainframe printer (big laser printer, about 10 feet long, printed paper at about 1 box every few minutes).
One day my co-worker forgot the flter criteria.
He waited about 1/2 hour, did not get his report from the printer techs, so he did it again.
We got busy doing other stuff.
About 2 hours later, the printer tech wheeled over a PALLET of boxed paper containing his report. Hundreds of thousands of records had been printed, not the few he thought he was going to get.
I still wonder why some programmer had put in a warning that a report was being run without a filter.
Oh I don't know.
I go to work each day, play around on the computers, and they pay me for it.
Which is why I still do this after 25 years.