Elsewhere in Europe the license costs more but you still get ads, albeit not so much on the public channels. The license is still compulsory whether or not you whatch the private channels. ACtually somof the better BBC content makes it offshore, but is dubbed into the local language though.
DEC were happiest selling to a lab (its where they came from), but they made a total CF of selling to major corporates. After a while, acquisition in the 'labs' was corporatised so they coudn't sell there either.
The problem with the slow release of Alpha, was that Digital weren't ready with their software base (which was vast). If they had concentrated on selling Unix desktops to start off with, thjey could have nicely segmented the market. As it was, they spent too long getting Alpha COBOL to work (it does) and obscure stuff like FMS. A mass release of the Alpha workstation would have wiped the floor with the SPARCs for R&D and the front office of investment banking.
People held off buying their VAXes whilst waiting for Alpha (we even had some 9000s).
Not really, but both Firebird and Postgress are very good projects for keeping MySQL AB honest (actually, they don't need much, but it helps to have something to persuade the money men.
Competition is good, even (or especially) in the open source community.
On the public channels like ZDF, ARD and so on, they have been interrupting programs for ads but not as often as the US. At one stage, they even used to put your VCR on pause whilst sending the Ads. The private broadcasting networks like RTL and Pro-7 are sending enough ads now to be obnoxious, again a lot less tha the US though. Unfortunately no TIVOs here.
There aren't that many banks that don't have Windows on their machines. Usually, it is running in a "Walled Garden" with limited access to the bank's Intranet, let alone the Internet. Some banks do have non-MS servers now but not throughout.
and to my knowledge, always has been and has specialised in international transfers. There are also supra-national groupings that whilst smaller than SWIFT facilitate rapid payments within their partenrs, such as the TARGET system operated by the European Central Bank for low-cost Euro payments in the Euro-zone (and some count5ries outside).
SWIFT is an irrevocable payment transfer system. It doesn't guarantee liquidity, that is up to the Fed in the US, or whatever is the local Central Bank. For info on international interbank settlement risk, check out Herstatt Risk named after the failure of the Herstatt Bank (German) during a complex international transcation where the interday netting failed due to the differences in time zones between the US and Germany.
I was thinking of broadcast relay stations. They have control and monitoring systems but the main function rotates around getting a signal and one frequency then amplifying and broadcasting the signal on another. The control and monitoring systems have been upgraded over the years but not by much. Output power didn't get upgraded (until transmitter performance starts falling), because that was strictly specified.
The issue with a TV broadcast satellite is that it must be low maintenance and no upgrades are possible over a ten year life span. In such a case it is reasonable to launch the latest reliable technology to maximise the number of channels handled.
If a satellite was relatively new when it had a major failure, it could be possible to replace that subsystem. It may also be possible to upgrade capacity, all for less than the cost of a new satellite.
I would have thought that the actual control computer was really down to you. It is a black box, and the operating system should be invisible to the operators. If it is a diagnostic machine, sure, you may have pretty little user interfaces running on whatever workstation you want, but there are every good reasons why the control logic should run somewhere else.
Last I heard, my local TV broadcast relay station doesn't upgrade its transmitters very often.
While you always want to launch the latest model, the technology tends to be relatively static. If a bad channel bank could be repaired, then it would be good. However, that predicates cheap access to geosynchronous orbit.
The interesting/expensive satellites (i.e., direct droadcast) are in Geosynch orbit, that is along way above where the shuttle can go. Unless the satellite has a builtin deorbit capability, this would be very difficult to repair.
Broadly what I use (gs under cygwin). However the printer driver I use is Adobe's with the Adobe PPD which essentially gives everything (including colour).
I like Visio, although overkill just for 'office diagrams'. We have a big problem at the moment on a big project because there aren't enough Visio licenses to go around so the specs can be read properly (generally, they are Word with embedded Viso objects). This is, btw, a major bank!
I have just quietly introduced Ghostscript as the workaround. The Visio viewer is really just an IE plugin so not much use when viewing a Word document.
Didn't every 10th planet have silicon based lifeforms in ST:TOS?
The reason why we say G-type star, magnetic-field, liquid water, carbon and so on is that we know this is a combo that works. We may need some radiation to stimulate the genetic drift but not enough to destroy genetic structures. The combo of star type and magnetic field is important. Silicon is a lot less likely than Carbon to form complex compounds, so carbon continues to look like the best bet.
We have Loadrunner as well. At this stage, it is mostly just TD and WinRunner for us. I agree that WinRunner can be problematic which is why we have some bits that we can script. On a previous application, all client actions were available by an API to which we had a TCL front end.
What annoyed me was that TD is good but it has many failings. It would be nice to have an opensource equivalent. I find their database model somewhat restrictive (even if you do your own selects).
I have been using the Mercury Interactive suite of tools in recent times. They work very nicely for applications with a Windows frontend. Unfortunately, TD works using an Active-X front-end and requires IE (the plugin on Mozilla will not work).
To be honest many of the things they do could easily be done by something else, but QA/Testing may not seem to be the most interesting for open source developers.
The only reason why a mojority of handheld features are going into cell phones is because 95% of people don't NEED the full features of a handheld, and the small subset of features they do need (calendar, todo, adress book) are easy to implement in a cell phone.
No, many of the features that you get in a cellphone are linked to the server in some way. You take MMS photos, great, you use the networks transmission services. You d/l the latest ringtones or even MP3s, again we are talking about more ways that the network can collect.
I quote from a friend of mine who runs an outsourcing company in St. Petersburg, Russia. Their programmers are better than India's (look at their ACM contest placings) and software people speak either British or American english very well.
He writes:
The big problem is domain knowledge. You guys take it for granted that we know several things.
In other words, sure, they are brilliant computer scientists and coders and can probably write some very good system level software. Their problem happens when working on applications. They *can* do good stuff, but you had better make sure that you have some experienced people around to provide guidance. Too many outsourced projects skimp on this which is why failure occurs.
Have a look at the recent entry about terminology in my journal. Outsourcing is good in general because it spreads knowhow and wealth around.
The problem is that in most specific intances, it is being systematically screwed up by onshore management who are looking for short-term cost savings and the ability to dodge the blame when something goes wrong.
It should also be noted, that outsourcing takes place throuigh a number of intermediaries. You may pay $200/day for a developer in Chennai from a company like TCS, but the developer is luck to see $20 of that. For onshore development performed using offshore staff, the situation becomes worse. Again using TCS figures, the cost is around $500/day, but wheras a local freelancer may take home 90% of that, a developer working through a consultancy may take 50%, the offshore developer working onshore may see something like 20% of that (although, their expenses would be paid).
The interesting thing is that IBM was also producing good SCSI drives at the same time as the DeathStar range of drives. They were great. The current generation of Barracudas also seem ok.
A heavily used HD can last a lot longer if it doesn't overheat. SCSI drives traditionally came from the better quality end of the line and they always worked so well, that you were retiring them for upgrading before they failed.
If Seagate has improved their whole range then it shouldn't be a problem.
Why steal Adobe Photoshop when you can have the Gimp almost for free? This is why I suggested that it would be really nice if one of the Gimp books had a nice Windows installable versuion of the disk.
I don't know what the stolen editions of Photoshop are like now, but I have heard from others in the past that the cracks would frequently cause instability. Photoshop is much better than the Gimp, but the Gimp is much cheaper. 90% of home digital photography users don't need the functionality of Photoshop so whzy pay for it (or even steal it).
Not particularly weird but a lousy connection at about 4800 in Tashkent from an apartment with an analog modem. You set the browser for offline use and download the first couple of levels down from slashdot and browse at your leisure.
Isn't there some variant that even warns you to disable AV protection because it will raise a 'false' alarm? Sometimes they even masquerade as a message from support@mycompany.com so the (l)user even thinks they are being helpful.
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Elsewhere in Europe the license costs more but you still get ads, albeit not so much on the public channels. The license is still compulsory whether or not you whatch the private channels. ACtually somof the better BBC content makes it offshore, but is dubbed into the local language though.
The problem with the slow release of Alpha, was that Digital weren't ready with their software base (which was vast). If they had concentrated on selling Unix desktops to start off with, thjey could have nicely segmented the market. As it was, they spent too long getting Alpha COBOL to work (it does) and obscure stuff like FMS. A mass release of the Alpha workstation would have wiped the floor with the SPARCs for R&D and the front office of investment banking.
People held off buying their VAXes whilst waiting for Alpha (we even had some 9000s).
I seem to remeber that a few former Alpha engineers ended up at AMD. But you are right that the IP was sold off to Intel.
I thought the test was about orbital progression from equatorial to polar? Why aren't they launching from closer to the equator and using less fuel?
Competition is good, even (or especially) in the open source community.
On the public channels like ZDF, ARD and so on, they have been interrupting programs for ads but not as often as the US. At one stage, they even used to put your VCR on pause whilst sending the Ads. The private broadcasting networks like RTL and Pro-7 are sending enough ads now to be obnoxious, again a lot less tha the US though. Unfortunately no TIVOs here.
There aren't that many banks that don't have Windows on their machines. Usually, it is running in a "Walled Garden" with limited access to the bank's Intranet, let alone the Internet. Some banks do have non-MS servers now but not throughout.
SWIFT is an irrevocable payment transfer system. It doesn't guarantee liquidity, that is up to the Fed in the US, or whatever is the local Central Bank. For info on international interbank settlement risk, check out Herstatt Risk named after the failure of the Herstatt Bank (German) during a complex international transcation where the interday netting failed due to the differences in time zones between the US and Germany.
The issue with a TV broadcast satellite is that it must be low maintenance and no upgrades are possible over a ten year life span. In such a case it is reasonable to launch the latest reliable technology to maximise the number of channels handled.
If a satellite was relatively new when it had a major failure, it could be possible to replace that subsystem. It may also be possible to upgrade capacity, all for less than the cost of a new satellite.
I would have thought that the actual control computer was really down to you. It is a black box, and the operating system should be invisible to the operators. If it is a diagnostic machine, sure, you may have pretty little user interfaces running on whatever workstation you want, but there are every good reasons why the control logic should run somewhere else.
While you always want to launch the latest model, the technology tends to be relatively static. If a bad channel bank could be repaired, then it would be good. However, that predicates cheap access to geosynchronous orbit.
The interesting/expensive satellites (i.e., direct droadcast) are in Geosynch orbit, that is along way above where the shuttle can go. Unless the satellite has a builtin deorbit capability, this would be very difficult to repair.
Broadly what I use (gs under cygwin). However the printer driver I use is Adobe's with the Adobe PPD which essentially gives everything (including colour).
I have just quietly introduced Ghostscript as the workaround. The Visio viewer is really just an IE plugin so not much use when viewing a Word document.
The reason why we say G-type star, magnetic-field, liquid water, carbon and so on is that we know this is a combo that works. We may need some radiation to stimulate the genetic drift but not enough to destroy genetic structures. The combo of star type and magnetic field is important. Silicon is a lot less likely than Carbon to form complex compounds, so carbon continues to look like the best bet.
What annoyed me was that TD is good but it has many failings. It would be nice to have an opensource equivalent. I find their database model somewhat restrictive (even if you do your own selects).
To be honest many of the things they do could easily be done by something else, but QA/Testing may not seem to be the most interesting for open source developers.
He writes:
In other words, sure, they are brilliant computer scientists and coders and can probably write some very good system level software. Their problem happens when working on applications. They *can* do good stuff, but you had better make sure that you have some experienced people around to provide guidance. Too many outsourced projects skimp on this which is why failure occurs.The problem is that in most specific intances, it is being systematically screwed up by onshore management who are looking for short-term cost savings and the ability to dodge the blame when something goes wrong.
It should also be noted, that outsourcing takes place throuigh a number of intermediaries. You may pay $200/day for a developer in Chennai from a company like TCS, but the developer is luck to see $20 of that. For onshore development performed using offshore staff, the situation becomes worse. Again using TCS figures, the cost is around $500/day, but wheras a local freelancer may take home 90% of that, a developer working through a consultancy may take 50%, the offshore developer working onshore may see something like 20% of that (although, their expenses would be paid).
The interesting thing is that IBM was also producing good SCSI drives at the same time as the DeathStar range of drives. They were great. The current generation of Barracudas also seem ok.
If Seagate has improved their whole range then it shouldn't be a problem.
I don't know what the stolen editions of Photoshop are like now, but I have heard from others in the past that the cracks would frequently cause instability. Photoshop is much better than the Gimp, but the Gimp is much cheaper. 90% of home digital photography users don't need the functionality of Photoshop so whzy pay for it (or even steal it).
Not particularly weird but a lousy connection at about 4800 in Tashkent from an apartment with an analog modem. You set the browser for offline use and download the first couple of levels down from slashdot and browse at your leisure.
Isn't there some variant that even warns you to disable AV protection because it will raise a 'false' alarm? Sometimes they even masquerade as a message from support@mycompany.com so the (l)user even thinks they are being helpful.