(Hand-fired) reload shows are still done to this day, mostly because they are cheaper and the customer naturally wants to pay as little as possible. It's also how it was done when my grandpa first got into the business in the 50's.
The last two shows I did were reload shows, and yes, it is basically just the shooter walking up and down the line of mortars buried in the ground touching a fusee (a.k.a. road flare) to the quickmatch fuses. Running behind the shooter are his helpers with armloads of live shells, dropping them down into the empty mortars that often still have smouldering paper in the bottom. It's quite a rush, and although I personally prefer an electronic show, there are plenty of adrenaline junkies who won't do anything other than hand-fired shows.
Starting in the 70's you would see shows fired electronically, with a master control box where the shooter hits a switch for each shot in the show. This was the era when choreographed shows starting becoming possible. Many shows are still done this way.
Nowadays lots of shows are computer-controlled with a laptop and an RS-232 (or other) connection in place of the shooter and switch panel.
Maximizing profits is not the goal of a publicly traded corporation -- only maximizing shareholders' returns. Sometimes those goals stay aligned, but it's almost inevitable that they will start to diverge at some point.
The grandparent's example of TJX is clearly a counter-example to your claim.
I understand where you're coming from -- thinking in terms of the technological costs of properly "cleaning up" the mess -- but much like a major oil spill, dollars spent on a little PR spin are 1000x more cost-effective than actual cleanup efforts and completely avoid the consequences that you describe.
They are one of those companies that will come in and help you throw a "gold party", so I'm pretty sure your heirlooms are melted down as soon as you hand it over.
Or just run a fricking classified ad, like spies used to do decades ago. (Although pretty soon 'buying a newspaper' will be suspicious in and of itself.)
The reliquary has been declared treasure trove at an inquest, meaning the proceeds of its sale will be shared between James’s family and the landowner.
My university requires all teachers to provide a syllabus at the beginning of the semester, but we've only got 33,000 students enrolled this semester so we're probable not a "decent" university.
For instance, it'll be nice to be able to "alt-tab" from one browser tab to another browser tab (so much so that sometimes I open new browser windows just to be able to alt-tab between them).
When a browser window has focus, just switch to using Ctrl-Tab to cycle through your tabs (and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to cycle in the other direction).
Salon.com has been doing an investigative series on Arlington National Cemetery for the last couple of years, and there's quite a lot of shocking, saddening, and downright infuriating stuff they've dug up (pun not intended).
Hitching problems together often makes them much harder to solve. Divide and conquer - splitting problems in more manageable, independent chunks - often is a better strategy.
When each of your sub-chunks involves touching each and every personal computing device on the planet, it's more sensible for Mozilla to draw the line in the sand where they did.
When I was in high school there was a teacher/coach who kept getting shuffled around from school to school because he had a habit of sleeping with female students. It was pretty common knowledge among us (students) which girls he'd had.
I know of 4 schools (including mine) where he'd worked within a span of 6 years, because the administrators just wanted him to move along without making an public issue.
Calm down. It's probably the OS that was available at the time the guy built his rig and like he said, he's had no compelling reason to "upgrade" since then.
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I'm a licensed pyrotechnician (FPO) in Texas.
(Hand-fired) reload shows are still done to this day, mostly because they are cheaper and the customer naturally wants to pay as little as possible. It's also how it was done when my grandpa first got into the business in the 50's.
The last two shows I did were reload shows, and yes, it is basically just the shooter walking up and down the line of mortars buried in the ground touching a fusee (a.k.a. road flare) to the quickmatch fuses. Running behind the shooter are his helpers with armloads of live shells, dropping them down into the empty mortars that often still have smouldering paper in the bottom. It's quite a rush, and although I personally prefer an electronic show, there are plenty of adrenaline junkies who won't do anything other than hand-fired shows.
Starting in the 70's you would see shows fired electronically, with a master control box where the shooter hits a switch for each shot in the show. This was the era when choreographed shows starting becoming possible. Many shows are still done this way. Nowadays lots of shows are computer-controlled with a laptop and an RS-232 (or other) connection in place of the shooter and switch panel.
Because he's on the sucker list of 10 different shitbag recruiters.
Actually, it looks like a single-wide. A double-wide would be two of these things butted together (hence the name).
I'm lucky enough to live very near a Fry's, and I can go down there right now and buy a 3-pack of 10' HDMI cables for under $10.
I trust my self-signed certificate.
...RHEL5 is THE enterprise Linux operating system...
Then:
Middle-of-the-road consumer hardware is over 2TB now...
Yes, but even high-end enterprise hardware is not up against those limits yet.
Maximizing profits is not the goal of a publicly traded corporation -- only maximizing shareholders' returns. Sometimes those goals stay aligned, but it's almost inevitable that they will start to diverge at some point.
They wanted it to work on XP and Vista.
The grandparent's example of TJX is clearly a counter-example to your claim.
I understand where you're coming from -- thinking in terms of the technological costs of properly "cleaning up" the mess -- but much like a major oil spill, dollars spent on a little PR spin are 1000x more cost-effective than actual cleanup efforts and completely avoid the consequences that you describe.
You have an awfully grandiose idea of what the typical company's IT operations looks like.
You want an app ecosystem? Here you go.
They are one of those companies that will come in and help you throw a "gold party", so I'm pretty sure your heirlooms are melted down as soon as you hand it over.
Or just run a fricking classified ad, like spies used to do decades ago. (Although pretty soon 'buying a newspaper' will be suspicious in and of itself.)
That's what Craigslist is for.
a small counterclockwise drillbit or screw-out tool and a steady hand will git 'er done too
Or a bit of chewing gum.
And a jar.
FTFA:
The reliquary has been declared treasure trove at an inquest, meaning the proceeds of its sale will be shared between James’s family and the landowner.
My university requires all teachers to provide a syllabus at the beginning of the semester, but we've only got 33,000 students enrolled this semester so we're probable not a "decent" university.
For instance, it'll be nice to be able to "alt-tab" from one browser tab to another browser tab (so much so that sometimes I open new browser windows just to be able to alt-tab between them).
When a browser window has focus, just switch to using Ctrl-Tab to cycle through your tabs (and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to cycle in the other direction).
Apparently your friends are far more intellectually curious than any of mine are.
Japan attacked us in the Pacific! Let's land in France.
SSH on a non-standard iptables limited port should be the only way into a Linux server, shouldn't it?
On cheap commodity hardware, maybe. On real server equipment you have an out-of-band management controller.
Salon.com has been doing an investigative series on Arlington National Cemetery for the last couple of years, and there's quite a lot of shocking, saddening, and downright infuriating stuff they've dug up (pun not intended).
Hitching problems together often makes them much harder to solve. Divide and conquer - splitting problems in more manageable, independent chunks - often is a better strategy.
When each of your sub-chunks involves touching each and every personal computing device on the planet, it's more sensible for Mozilla to draw the line in the sand where they did.
When I was in high school there was a teacher/coach who kept getting shuffled around from school to school because he had a habit of sleeping with female students. It was pretty common knowledge among us (students) which girls he'd had.
I know of 4 schools (including mine) where he'd worked within a span of 6 years, because the administrators just wanted him to move along without making an public issue.
Calm down. It's probably the OS that was available at the time the guy built his rig and like he said, he's had no compelling reason to "upgrade" since then.
No need to get all self-righteous about it.