It was interesting in the *70s & *80s to watch WAL-MART concentrate their store openings in smaller markets. WAL-MART has probably driven more MOM & POP type stores out of business than anybody else, including the US Govt.
When a WAL-MART opens a store in a new market, be sure and shop there. You'll never see those prices again...
This is just another case of large corporations using the government to enhance their competitive position.
Most retail on the web is just like mail order with a different way of delivering the catalog info. There's not much difference between dialing into the internet and dialing (voice) into a call center to place my order.
None, in fact, if they would use internet phone.;-)
And Wal-Mart? They're beginning to look like a bully... -R
I'm betting that the real reason for this is that there is a demand to run some non-Windows OS along with Windows.
I'm betting that my motivation will be to run Windows without having to reboot the base O/S when Windows bluescreens. A Win98 window on a Linux box sounds about right.
Besides, I need some excuse to buy that dual Celeron motherboard.
The most important reason the first 50 get moderated more is that the first 50 have been there longer.
Yes, that, and there is a natural tendancy to revisit a story only so many times. Who wants to wade through 210 posts one more time just on the off chance that a good post came in late?
"I thought titles like that were reserved for IDG, Sams and other less respectable publishers. "
I know you're just reacting to the marketspeak of the word "Ultimate", but it's justified. I checked out all the competing titles and thought all of them useful to a new owner (for at least a day;-), but only Pogue's book had no major problems/omissions. Even after using this book, I have no issues with it -- that's rare.
If you're just offended at O'Reilly publshing something other than a ultra hard-core tech book, you've obviously never heard of The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog which validated a publishing category (internet books) by it's well deserved success. I wish one out of ten books I've bought were as usefull as either one of these.
AFAIC Palm Pilot: The Ultimate Guide is just another case of Tim O'Reilly & crew tending to do it better and/or first && better.
If you build the Fresnel Lens Box, make sure your monitor has enough ventilation so that it doesn't overheat or you might be buying more than a Frenel lens. The page didn't say anything about overheating, so I assume it wasn't a problem for him, but remember -- they don't put those holes in the top of the case to save on plastic.
My old (mumble) brand SVGA runs hot under any conditions...
>Microsoft was smart enough to realize that people were reluctant > to change from DOS to OS/2 even though it was better. They also >realized that people wanted the GUI stuff, but didn't care about >the other advanced stuff of OS/2 (mostly because it also meant increased >hardware requirements). So what did they do? >Get rid of OS/2 to IBM, and develop Windows. 1.0 [...] IBM shot OS/2 in the foot by insisting that it support the 286. That hurt the OS and greatly delayed it's launch.
As far as IBM "getting rid" of IBM and OS/2 -- Somewhere on an old page at Jerry Pournelle's sprawling website at www.jerrypournelle.com is an account of Bill Gate's public embarrasment at Microsoft's big Media Event for the roll-out of Microsoft/IBM's spiffy new operating system -- OS/2. The featured speaker for the evening was from IBM, but when came time for the main event, he gave short-shrift to his "speach", and just... walked out. Pournelle was at the table with Gates & saw his shock. From then on, Microsoft's focus was on Windows. IBM taught Microsoft a lot about business relationships... As far as IBM and OS/2 goes, I doubt that IBM (as a corporation) really cared all that much about selling OS/2 into the home or very small business market. They wanted to sell bigger iron and OS/2 server to corporations who would buy hundreds or thousands of OS/2 desktop licenses. Selling/marketing to individuals? IBM never has understood the turf...
The proplem would most likely be with old ("legacy") software. Most likely old mainframe and minicomputer COBOL code where dates were stored as BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) with one digit per byte -- not the more "modern" integer data types. People are most likey thinking of practices such as using the digits 999 or 9999 as an end-of-file marker to tell a program "that's the end of the data, you can stop reading the input file now."
A program this old may have originally taken it's input from punched cards, and the "input-file" may have been a card reader.
I know there's a *lot* of old COBOL code still in use, that programmers often don't like to learn new ways, and probably aren't given time to clean-up working code, but Please! -- I would just be amazed if this causes any serious problems.
I would be even more amazed if it did and that company told the public.
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Thanks to Dictionary Com for this insight.
Page down until you find the def of Hash as the character # .
"unfair to traditional retailers"
;-)
ROTFLMAO!
WAL-MART says what??? Really?
It was interesting in the *70s & *80s to watch WAL-MART concentrate their store openings in smaller markets. WAL-MART has probably driven more MOM & POP type stores out of business than anybody else, including the US Govt.
When a WAL-MART opens a store in a new market, be sure and shop there. You'll never see those prices again...
This is just another case of large corporations using the government to enhance their competitive position.
Most retail on the web is just like mail order with a different way of delivering the catalog info. There's not much difference between dialing into the internet and dialing (voice) into a call center to place my order.
None, in fact, if they would use internet phone.
And Wal-Mart? They're beginning to look like a bully...
-R
I'm betting that the real reason for this is that there is a demand to run some non-Windows OS along with Windows.
I'm betting that my motivation will be to run Windows without having to reboot the base O/S when Windows bluescreens. A Win98 window on a Linux box sounds about right.
Besides, I need some excuse to buy that dual Celeron motherboard.
--R
The most important reason the first 50 get moderated more is that the first 50 have been there longer.
Yes, that, and there is a natural tendancy to revisit a story only so many times. Who wants to wade through 210 posts one more time just on the off chance that a good post came in late?
-Roger
If you're just offended at O'Reilly publshing something other than a ultra hard-core tech book, you've obviously never heard of The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog which validated a publishing category (internet books) by it's well deserved success.
I wish one out of ten books I've bought were as usefull as either one of these.
AFAIC Palm Pilot: The Ultimate Guide is just another case of Tim O'Reilly & crew tending to do it better and/or first && better.
-Roger
If you build the Fresnel Lens Box, make sure your monitor has enough ventilation so that it doesn't overheat or you might be buying more than a Frenel lens.
The page didn't say anything about overheating, so I assume it wasn't a problem for him, but remember -- they don't put those holes in the top of the case to save on plastic.
My old (mumble) brand SVGA runs hot under any conditions...
>Microsoft was smart enough to realize that people were reluctant
> to change from DOS to OS/2 even though it was better. They also
>realized that people wanted the GUI stuff, but didn't care about
>the other advanced stuff of OS/2 (mostly because it also meant increased
>hardware requirements). So what did they do?
>Get rid of OS/2 to IBM, and develop Windows. 1.0 [...]
IBM shot OS/2 in the foot by insisting that it support the 286. That hurt the OS and greatly delayed it's launch.
As far as IBM "getting rid" of IBM and OS/2 --
Somewhere on an old page at Jerry Pournelle's sprawling website at www.jerrypournelle.com is an account of Bill Gate's public embarrasment at Microsoft's big Media Event for the roll-out of Microsoft/IBM's spiffy new operating system -- OS/2.
The featured speaker for the evening was from IBM, but when came time for the main event, he gave short-shrift to his "speach", and just... walked out. Pournelle was at the table with Gates & saw his shock. From then on, Microsoft's focus was on Windows. IBM taught Microsoft a lot about business relationships...
As far as IBM and OS/2 goes, I doubt that IBM (as a corporation) really cared all that much about selling OS/2 into the home or very small business market. They wanted to sell bigger iron and OS/2 server to corporations who would buy hundreds or thousands of OS/2 desktop licenses.
Selling/marketing to individuals? IBM never has understood the turf...
The proplem would most likely be with old ("legacy") software. Most likely old mainframe and minicomputer COBOL code where dates were stored as BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) with one digit per byte -- not the more "modern" integer data types. People are most likey thinking of practices such as using the digits 999 or 9999 as an end-of-file marker to tell a program "that's the end of the data, you can stop reading the input file now."
A program this old may have originally taken it's input from punched cards, and the "input-file" may have been a card reader.
I know there's a *lot* of old COBOL code still in use, that programmers often don't like to learn new ways, and probably aren't given time to clean-up working code, but Please! -- I would just be amazed if this causes any serious problems.
I would be even more amazed if it did and that company told the public.
Won't this wipe-out Windows?