Hmm..do you recall any that had problems with it? I can't, but it has been 12 years since I used a PCjr. My biggest complaint was having to buy adapters for the Jr's ports to work with standard hardware. Other than that, it was a nice little workhorse churning out lots of papers with Word Perfect and a laser printer I borrowed from another guy in the dorm (he just played games).
I had one of those with the updated keyboard. It was a great little PC that cost about the same as an Apple//c (had one of those too). Sure, adding drives or memory to it meant the case got bigger, but that was better than having a nest of cables all over the place like many other home computers. After the chiclet keyboard, the biggest problem was the non-standard connectors on the back. IBM wanted to be able to plug in lots of different things, but didn't have the space for normal connectors. I think before it died due to a broken water pipe, mine had an overclocked NEC V20 replacement cpu, a 3.5" floppy, 768K RAM, a 20M SCSI hard drive, and I think a math co-processor. It could run just about any program I needed (123, Word Perfect, MathCad, PSPICE, Turbo-C, dos GNU tools, etc.). It got me through college. I wish I didn't have to throw it out when we moved.
It is extrememly significant that the palestenians who fled israel during the war to jordan, syria etc ended up being first class citizens of those countries. Something Israel denies to palestenians under it's rule.
That's because it wants them to leave and go back to the countries it defeated. This is not unlike the US treating Mexicans within US borders like crap after the US-Mexican war in 1848. In fact, many refer to illegal immigrants from Mexico as the US' "Palestinians". It doesn't really matter if any country in the region has the military might to wipe Israel off the map. It matters that they (leaders & population) would still like to and that desire is what has been fueling much of the radical Islamic terrorism in the world since the 70s.
Israel's behavior is essentially "we will do whatever it takes to ensure our survival and if you don't like it, screw you". The world can thank them for giving the Iraqi nuke program a huge setback years ago. (What does a country with huge fossil fuel reserves & relatively moderate electricty usage need a nuke plant for? They don't give me the impression of being that eco-friendly).
So why are about 20% of Israeli citizens non-Jewish (mostly Muslims) if this would break the covenant? The Palestinians are actually citizens of Jordan or Egypt and are essentially being used as pawns by various Arab leaders' desire to wipe Israel off the map.
But when the British did do something, it usually involved indiscriminate shelling of entire towns. Can you imagine the political shitstorm created by such an action today? Ahh...the days when governments had balls and didn't care what special interest groups thought of them.
I've done that on remote machines: reserve 1 cylinder and have a corresponding GRUB entry for DOS. When it comes to perform the flash upgrade or NIC configuration, copy the necessary programs to that partition, call an onsite person and walk them through selecting the correct partition to boot from and any other menu driven tasks. When it is finished, they just reboot the machine. They don't have to worry about having a few floppies on hand (the floppy drives are unused and are generally full of dust, so writing to a diskette usually destroys the 1st one) or have to worry if a good one is ever written.
Why do you need to keep the bills? Are you going to use them to compare how your utility rates have changed over time? I've found that I usually only look at them once I get them in the mail and then again when I pay them. If they are kept, they usually get put in a drawer with lots of other old bills and never looked at again.
Unless it is something like a medical bill where it's common to get charged multiple times, are you ever really going to need to see the details for your utility or cable bill ever again? Probably not. So why not shred them and get rid of them?
Isn't the weight of the bus already on the engine via the wheel hub? If it can withstand the forced exerted on it by the tires, it should be able to hold up the bus if they get a flat.
I'd be more worried about the people changing the tire damaging the motor - more rims are probably damaged by someone not paying attention or thinking they know how to remove a tire than anything else.
You must be thinking of Nicaragua. Iraq was fighting Iran at the time. Don't you remember the news articles about the Iranians sending children to go play in minefields in order to clear them? At the time, we didn't care how bad Saddam was as long as he was killing Iranians.
That's because they tax
the hell out of it. The cost of production isn't that much different (although it looks like fuel in Canada would be really cheap if it wasn't for taxes).
So, even if one has your network interfaces set to be static, they are started with DHCP & switched? That doesn't sound right. I seem to recall having to select whether the interface was off, dynamic, or static upon installation.
While there are probably reasons to have the airport card running, it would seem to be the safe thing to turn it off when connected to a hardwired interface unless the user overrides it. While this is certainly a hole, I don't see it as one that would start breaking into machines on other networks around the world. The author is comparing security issues by a numerical count only and not looking into the potential damage.
It's all about being a 'licensed dealer'. Do you think many of the franchise restaurants get to pick their prices too? Being consistent as well as product branding is what they are trying to do. Which is good if it's a hot selling item, then everyone makes a profit. But if it's a slow selling dog, it hurts. I'm not sure what sort of policy Apple has for merch returns from the dealers in those cases. Now if Apple only had dealers and didn't have it's own stores, or a web site, then I could see the dealers complaining about not being able to 'innovate' w/ respect to the price. But since it competes with it's own dealers for sales, it is probably a good thing that it tries to keep the price for a product consistent. The dealer will know that they will not have to compete with the manufacturer or any other on price of the core products. The locally owned Apple reseller is on the same footing as the mega chain (isn't that the politically correct thing to do? avoid chains, shop local?). Of course, it's a free-for-all when it comes to 3rd party stuff that allow the retailers to be flexible with the pricing. I'm not a Marketing geek (Thank God!), but, again, I think some of this is so customers won't feel that they are getting ripped off.
What's wrong with that? If they want to charge $X for a price of a product and allow no discounts, that's their perrogative. If people don't like the price, they buy something else. I can see this as a good thing for Apple's own stores as well as their licensed dealers. They don't have to worry that much about the online stores cannibalizing their sales. An iPod, iMac, or PowerMac is about the same price, no matter where you buy it. The sellers can compete with non-Apple goodies and it's up the buyer if they want to pay shipping or sales tax. People absolutely hate buying an object only to find out that another store/website was selling the exact same thing for a significantly less amount.
It even fluctuates during the year. Ozone is formed by the Sun's UV rays. Not a lot of light (UV or otherwise) hitting either pole during the winter so Ozone production drops. It's unstable & converts back to regular O2, so the amount of Ozone gets thin. The amount of UV generated by the Sun isn't constant, so the amount of Ozone in the atmosphere won't be either.
It's in the 1st link after the huge map. It includes the population totals of the counties won. One of the other links show the population density of the counties won and shows that 'Bush won rural, Gore won urban' isn't necessarily the case.
now every manufacturer of media & portable devices must pony up at most $250K. Given the number of manufacturers, this will be a considerable amount. I hope the consumer electronics manufacturers will band together and create their own filesystem (or just re-use a free one). In effect, giving MSFT the finger.
The govt is spending a lot on military hardware & supplies for current activity as well as getting readiness back up (Clinton's DOD shot a lot of cruise missles in Bosia and at other things whenever there was a scandal). Most of the budget increases are due to congressional pork frenzies which along with the tax cuts, do also help. A weak dollar helps US manufacturing because it makes our products cheaper in foreign markets, which helps drive consumption & production of those goods. What are the rational reasons behind any of the up & down cycles of the economy?
What are you basing your democratic population stats on? Registered voters or the results of the last election? The latter just means that Gore had a better turnout in the states that he won, than Bush did. According to this, the counties that Bush won had more population and are growing faster than the counties Gore won. Othermaps show the pop densities and the strength of each win. Combined with the shifting of electorial votes towards Republican-friendly states, I would guess a Bush win would probably be bigger than last time.
Why wouldn't they just make one harness for each model that would be capable of handling all the options for that particular model? That would certainly simplify things for the guys putting the thing together as well as the techs that have to work on it when a customer brings it in for servicing.
Even if management supplied a very detailed set of requirements, this still happens because the business problem changes. What was a perfect design a few months ago doesn't quite fit anymore. That's why businesses hire programmers in the first place. Otherwise, everything would be shrinkwrapped software.
As a computer professional, his salary probably exceeded the old weekly allowance that would have made him eligible for overtime. The new limit was raised to $400-450 a week and I doubt very many sysadmins outside of a college environment work for that.
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Hmm..do you recall any that had problems with it? I can't, but it has been 12 years since I used a PCjr. My biggest complaint was having to buy adapters for the Jr's ports to work with standard hardware. Other than that, it was a nice little workhorse churning out lots of papers with Word Perfect and a laser printer I borrowed from another guy in the dorm (he just played games).
I had one of those with the updated keyboard. It was a great little PC that cost about the same as an Apple //c (had one of those too). Sure, adding drives or memory to it meant the case got bigger, but that was better than having a nest of cables all over the place like many other home computers. After the chiclet keyboard, the biggest problem was the non-standard connectors on the back. IBM wanted to be able to plug in lots of different things, but didn't have the space for normal connectors. I think before it died due to a broken water pipe, mine had an overclocked NEC V20 replacement cpu, a 3.5" floppy, 768K RAM, a 20M SCSI hard drive, and I think a math co-processor. It could run just about any program I needed (123, Word Perfect, MathCad, PSPICE, Turbo-C, dos GNU tools, etc.). It got me through college. I wish I didn't have to throw it out when we moved.
It is extrememly significant that the palestenians who fled israel during the war to jordan, syria etc ended up being first class citizens of those countries. Something Israel denies to palestenians under it's rule.
That's because it wants them to leave and go back to the countries it defeated. This is not unlike the US treating Mexicans within US borders like crap after the US-Mexican war in 1848. In fact, many refer to illegal immigrants from Mexico as the US' "Palestinians". It doesn't really matter if any country in the region has the military might to wipe Israel off the map. It matters that they (leaders & population) would still like to and that desire is what has been fueling much of the radical Islamic terrorism in the world since the 70s.
Israel's behavior is essentially "we will do whatever it takes to ensure our survival and if you don't like it, screw you". The world can thank them for giving the Iraqi nuke program a huge setback years ago. (What does a country with huge fossil fuel reserves & relatively moderate electricty usage need a nuke plant for? They don't give me the impression of being that eco-friendly).
So why are about 20% of Israeli citizens non-Jewish (mostly Muslims) if this would break the covenant? The Palestinians are actually citizens of Jordan or Egypt and are essentially being used as pawns by various Arab leaders' desire to wipe Israel off the map.
But when the British did do something, it usually involved indiscriminate shelling of entire towns. Can you imagine the political shitstorm created by such an action today? Ahh...the days when governments had balls and didn't care what special interest groups thought of them.
I've done a similar thing to thousands of SCO boxes in order to turn them into penguins.
I've done that on remote machines: reserve 1 cylinder and have a corresponding GRUB entry for DOS. When it comes to perform the flash upgrade or NIC configuration, copy the necessary programs to that partition, call an onsite person and walk them through selecting the correct partition to boot from and any other menu driven tasks. When it is finished, they just reboot the machine. They don't have to worry about having a few floppies on hand (the floppy drives are unused and are generally full of dust, so writing to a diskette usually destroys the 1st one) or have to worry if a good one is ever written.
Why do you need to keep the bills? Are you going to use them to compare how your utility rates have changed over time? I've found that I usually only look at them once I get them in the mail and then again when I pay them. If they are kept, they usually get put in a drawer with lots of other old bills and never looked at again.
Unless it is something like a medical bill where it's common to get charged multiple times, are you ever really going to need to see the details for your utility or cable bill ever again? Probably not. So why not shred them and get rid of them?
Isn't the weight of the bus already on the engine via the wheel hub? If it can withstand the forced exerted on it by the tires, it should be able to hold up the bus if they get a flat.
I'd be more worried about the people changing the tire damaging the motor - more rims are probably damaged by someone not paying attention or thinking they know how to remove a tire than anything else.
Mussolini was strung up by his own people.
Come to think of it, that does sound like a pattern that the Iraqis should follow in this case.
You must be thinking of Nicaragua. Iraq was fighting Iran at the time. Don't you remember the news articles about the Iranians sending children to go play in minefields in order to clear them? At the time, we didn't care how bad Saddam was as long as he was killing Iranians.
That's because they tax the hell out of it. The cost of production isn't that much different (although it looks like fuel in Canada would be really cheap if it wasn't for taxes).
So, even if one has your network interfaces set to be static, they are started with DHCP & switched? That doesn't sound right. I seem to recall having to select whether the interface was off, dynamic, or static upon installation.
While there are probably reasons to have the airport card running, it would seem to be the safe thing to turn it off when connected to a hardwired interface unless the user overrides it. While this is certainly a hole, I don't see it as one that would start breaking into machines on other networks around the world. The author is comparing security issues by a numerical count only and not looking into the potential damage.
6:20EST? I guess their sysadmins decided it was time to take an extended smoke break and accidentally yanked a cable or something on the way out...
It's all about being a 'licensed dealer'. Do you think many of the franchise restaurants get to pick their prices too? Being consistent as well as product branding is what they are trying to do. Which is good if it's a hot selling item, then everyone makes a profit. But if it's a slow selling dog, it hurts. I'm not sure what sort of policy Apple has for merch returns from the dealers in those cases. Now if Apple only had dealers and didn't have it's own stores, or a web site, then I could see the dealers complaining about not being able to 'innovate' w/ respect to the price. But since it competes with it's own dealers for sales, it is probably a good thing that it tries to keep the price for a product consistent. The dealer will know that they will not have to compete with the manufacturer or any other on price of the core products. The locally owned Apple reseller is on the same footing as the mega chain (isn't that the politically correct thing to do? avoid chains, shop local?). Of course, it's a free-for-all when it comes to 3rd party stuff that allow the retailers to be flexible with the pricing. I'm not a Marketing geek (Thank God!), but, again, I think some of this is so customers won't feel that they are getting ripped off.
What's wrong with that? If they want to charge $X for a price of a product and allow no discounts, that's their perrogative. If people don't like the price, they buy something else. I can see this as a good thing for Apple's own stores as well as their licensed dealers. They don't have to worry that much about the online stores cannibalizing their sales. An iPod, iMac, or PowerMac is about the same price, no matter where you buy it. The sellers can compete with non-Apple goodies and it's up the buyer if they want to pay shipping or sales tax. People absolutely hate buying an object only to find out that another store/website was selling the exact same thing for a significantly less amount.
It even fluctuates during the year. Ozone is formed by the Sun's UV rays. Not a lot of light (UV or otherwise) hitting either pole during the winter so Ozone production drops. It's unstable & converts back to regular O2, so the amount of Ozone gets thin. The amount of UV generated by the Sun isn't constant, so the amount of Ozone in the atmosphere won't be either.
It's in the 1st link after the huge map. It includes the population totals of the counties won. One of the other links show the population density of the counties won and shows that 'Bush won rural, Gore won urban' isn't necessarily the case.
now every manufacturer of media & portable devices must pony up at most $250K. Given the number of manufacturers, this will be a considerable amount. I hope the consumer electronics manufacturers will band together and create their own filesystem (or just re-use a free one). In effect, giving MSFT the finger.
The govt is spending a lot on military hardware & supplies for current activity as well as getting readiness back up (Clinton's DOD shot a lot of cruise missles in Bosia and at other things whenever there was a scandal). Most of the budget increases are due to congressional pork frenzies which along with the tax cuts, do also help. A weak dollar helps US manufacturing because it makes our products cheaper in foreign markets, which helps drive consumption & production of those goods. What are the rational reasons behind any of the up & down cycles of the economy?
What are you basing your democratic population stats on? Registered voters or the results of the last election? The latter just means that Gore had a better turnout in the states that he won, than Bush did. According to this, the counties that Bush won had more population and are growing faster than the counties Gore won. Other maps show the pop densities and the strength of each win. Combined with the shifting of electorial votes towards Republican-friendly states, I would guess a Bush win would probably be bigger than last time.
or just build your own
Why wouldn't they just make one harness for each model that would be capable of handling all the options for that particular model? That would certainly simplify things for the guys putting the thing together as well as the techs that have to work on it when a customer brings it in for servicing.
Easy. Don't buy those cars.
Even if management supplied a very detailed set of requirements, this still happens because the business problem changes. What was a perfect design a few months ago doesn't quite fit anymore. That's why businesses hire programmers in the first place. Otherwise, everything would be shrinkwrapped software.
As a computer professional, his salary probably exceeded the old weekly allowance that would have made him eligible for overtime. The new limit was raised to $400-450 a week and I doubt very many sysadmins outside of a college environment work for that.