I laughed and laughed when I read that (and I like Metallica). Traded like a commodity.....rather than sold as their commodity is what the quote should have said:)
Speaking as one of their fans, I can only point out that, after observing the general population of the people who go to metallica concerts, they are less concerned with computers then you might other wise believe.
I could be wrong, but I was under the understanding that the SFX were not at all expensive and that was one of the selling points. The idea that such great sfx could be done so cheaply.
Obviously you have never worked in a IT Banking shop or for an Airlines IT department. Without mainframes international banking would not exist as it does now.
Strictly speaking they are not different systems (ie hardware) they are different software. The linux runs under VM on a machine that can also run OS/390. In fact you can run mupltiple OS/390 , VM, Linux, and AIX(not sure if this is supported anymore) LPARs on the same machine at the same time.
Just a point, I did notice someone pointed out GE being #5, but I would just like to add that IBM is also in the top 10 (maybe #6) I am sure that Sony outways MS, however IBM blows away sony in size and market domination. Think Midrange and mainframe size computers.
Substitute cancer for the ebola virus. Now the people with the virus are coming over to your house every day. You don't kill them, you quarantine them. These spam messages are being carried on whatever usenet server you use. If there is too much spam (on any newsgroup) your server may just decide that usenet isn't worth the space it takes and get rid of it.
Main Entry: 1gender Pronunciation: 'jen-d&r Function: noun Etymology: Middle English gendre, from Middle French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender -- more at KIN Date: 14th century 1 a : a subclass within a grammatical class (as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms b : membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass c : an inflectional form showing membership in such a subclass 2 a : SEX b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
But the century has never been the first two digits of the year. Nevermind the fact that it isn't even always the first two digits of the year plus one.
I also worked in a fortune 500 data center for 2 years. I did happen to monitor the consoles and am still provide training for that area though I have moved on to messing with RS/6000 and various unix boxen. Our production systems (6 lpars across 3 cmos machines) have been down six times (One of them 3 times, the others were individual faults) in those two years. Four of those times were the fault of the operator (once was my fault) and two were unscheduled faults. The development and y2k systems did come down more often, but that is what they were there for. We do have a monthly maintenance period of about 8 hours when they are all scheduled down. All in all they were the most stable machines I ever worked on
Actually most companies are now having you sign away your brain and various other rights during the hiring process. It doesn't violate the Bill of Rights if you sign your rights away. Of course it doesn't help any that all the forms have something along the lines of ("Employment conditional on acceptance of these terms.") OTOH a law that outright prohibits people talking about their salaries would probably fall into your above case.
Actually there is an option on the dream cast to ignore whether there is a dial tone or not. You just go into the settings area on the inet disk and you check "Blind Dialing"
No offense, but this is the second post I have seen that mentions school is for teaching kids to socialize.
This to me does not make sense unless we are trying to teach kids to dislike people who are different and to join small little groups that don't like people in the other small groups.
I think most of my socialization (in school) started towards the end of high school/beginning of college. The rest of the time my socialization was taught outside of school playing with friends who I lost later because we joined different groups in school that didn't like each other.
Now, first off. I like eye-candy as much as the next person. I really like computer generated graphics. Ok, with that said, how important are graphics to the gaming process. I feel that gameplay has a lot more to do with whether I like a game or not. If a game has great graphics and bad gameplay it will not hold my interest and I would be less likely to buy it after a demo. Case in point: Zelda for the gameboy. Zelda has always been a fun game, I think part of it has something to do with the fact that you can see areas/things that you can't go to/interact with until you get farther in the game. Zelda on the gameboy is 2D, but it is still a much better game experience than some new whizbang 3d games out now. So, for me gameplay is more key than graphics, that combined with a relative low price point and the ability to link gameboys together and you will see why the gameboy remains the best selling video game device. Vermifax
Well, in a similar vein, I checked my mail, said what the hell, and loaded slashdot (downloading buncha stuff today) and while it was doing that I went and took a shower
My friend has a CD burner and he has taken all his Books on tape and copyied them to mp3 and burned them to CD so he can take them to work and play them at work. You don't have to use a really high bitrate either. I expect you could do the same with the rio.
Duh, I am not "pleased" that he died, I just have a sense of humor. The man who died also had a sense of humor, I am sure he would appreciate it. Unfortunately they do not yet sell open source senses of humor that you can just pick up at the store.
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I believe that with AIX 4.3.3 an s80 can detect a bad processor and vary it offline without even rebooting.
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I laughed and laughed when I read that (and I like Metallica). Traded like a commodity.....rather than sold as their commodity is what the quote should have said :)
Vermifax
Speaking as one of their fans, I can only point out that, after observing the general population of the people who go to metallica concerts, they are less concerned with computers then you might other wise believe.
Vermifax
I could be wrong, but I was under the understanding that the SFX were not at all expensive and that was one of the selling points. The idea that such great sfx could be done so cheaply.
Vermifax
Obviously you have never worked in a IT Banking shop or for an Airlines IT department. Without mainframes international banking would not exist as it does now.
Vermifax
Did you mean Fall? OS/390 can handle the spring time change on the fly. IMS might not like it, but that is an application problem not the OS.
Vermifax
Strictly speaking they are not different systems (ie hardware) they are different software. The linux runs under VM on a machine that can also run OS/390. In fact you can run mupltiple OS/390 , VM, Linux, and AIX(not sure if this is supported anymore) LPARs on the same machine at the same time.
Vermifax
Just a point, I did notice someone pointed out GE being #5, but I would just like to add that IBM is also in the top 10 (maybe #6) I am sure that Sony outways MS, however IBM blows away sony in size and market domination. Think Midrange and mainframe size computers.
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Finland Finland Finland the country where I want to be e e e.
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You might want to check out the propinball series for PC. The next best thing to owning your own. Vermifax
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Substitute cancer for the ebola virus. Now the people with the virus are coming over to your house every day. You don't kill them, you quarantine them. These spam messages are being carried on whatever usenet server you use. If there is too much spam (on any newsgroup) your server may just decide that usenet isn't worth the space it takes and get rid of it.
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The extra 15% difference is not counted as income. You won't pay taxes until you go to sell the stock.
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Main Entry: 1gender
Pronunciation: 'jen-d&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gendre, from Middle French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender -- more at KIN Date: 14th century
1 a : a subclass within a grammatical class (as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms b : membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass c : an inflectional form showing membership in such a subclass
2 a : SEX b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
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Vermifax
YOU ARE WRONG....
professional n. A person engaged in a learned profession, specialist.
Clearly, all the people you disqualified fit the definition of the word.
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But the century has never been the first two digits of the year. Nevermind the fact that it isn't even always the first two digits of the year plus one.
Vermifax
I'm sure you are a troll but. http://slashdot.org/code.shtml
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I also worked in a fortune 500 data center for 2 years. I did happen to monitor the consoles and am still provide training for that area though I have moved on to messing with RS/6000 and various unix boxen. Our production systems (6 lpars across 3 cmos machines) have been down six times (One of them 3 times, the others were individual faults) in those two years. Four of those times were the fault of the operator (once was my fault) and two were unscheduled faults. The development and y2k systems did come down more often, but that is what they were there for. We do have a monthly maintenance period of about 8 hours when they are all scheduled down. All in all they were the most stable machines I ever worked on
Vermifax
Actually most companies are now having you sign away your brain and various other rights during the hiring process. It doesn't violate the Bill of Rights if you sign your rights away.
Of course it doesn't help any that all the forms have something along the lines of ("Employment conditional on acceptance of these terms.")
OTOH a law that outright prohibits people talking about their salaries would probably fall into your above case.
Vermifax
Actually there is an option on the dream cast to ignore whether there is a dial tone or not. You just go into the settings area on the inet disk and you check "Blind Dialing"
Vermifax
No offense, but this is the second post I have seen that mentions school is for teaching kids to socialize.
This to me does not make sense unless we are trying to teach kids to dislike people who are different and to join small little groups that don't like people in the other small groups.
I think most of my socialization (in school) started towards the end of high school/beginning of college. The rest of the time my socialization
was taught outside of school playing with friends who I lost later because we joined different groups in school that didn't like each other.
Vermifax
Now, first off. I like eye-candy as much as the next person. I really like computer generated graphics. Ok, with that said, how important are graphics to the gaming process. I feel that gameplay has a lot more to do with whether I like a game or not. If a game has great graphics and bad gameplay it will not hold my interest and I would be less likely to buy it after a demo. Case in point: Zelda for the gameboy. Zelda has always been a fun game, I think part of it has something to do with the fact that you can see areas/things that you can't go to/interact with until you get farther in the game. Zelda on the gameboy is 2D, but it is still a much better game experience than some new whizbang 3d games out now. So, for me gameplay is more key than graphics, that combined with a relative low price point and the ability to link gameboys together and you will see why the gameboy remains the best selling video game device. Vermifax
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Do you know of anywhere they might have an image of this cartoon.
Well, in a similar vein, I checked my mail, said what the hell, and loaded slashdot (downloading buncha stuff today) and while it was doing that I went and took a shower
My friend has a CD burner and he has taken all his Books on tape and copyied them to mp3 and burned them to CD so he can take them to work and play them at work. You don't have to use a really high bitrate either. I expect you could do the same with the rio.
Duh, I am not "pleased" that he died, I just have a sense of humor. The man who died also had a sense of humor, I am sure he would appreciate it. Unfortunately they do not yet sell open source senses of humor that you can just pick up at the store.