Word Perfect was rock solid on early Windows releases but went into decline once Windows 3.0 was released
Part of the reason that WP went into decline was that Wordperfect was a big, ungainly mess. It had its own printer drivers, for God's sake! I also recall very little in terms of usability enhancements between version 5.1 and version 6.0
both 10Mb and 100Mb use 4 wires. The difference is in the number of twists per meter as well as more stringent quality requirements. Anyway, there's really no reason to wire a new house with 10Mb; cable is cheap and so are switches.
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You also want a large pipe that's a straight shot from attic to basement/crawlspace
Additionally, you want something like a bike hook ($.50 at Home Depot) by the top of the pipe to loop wire runs around. 20 feet of 4 to 8 cat5 cables weigh a fair amount and they want to fall back down the pipe.
Then there's no point in ever creating anything different. I think a better goal is to make it so much more efficient/friendlier/whatever than the original that it's worth the initial loss in productivity
Congratulations! You've just encountered inertia and have hit on an effective way to counter it. Microsoft used this same technique back in the 90's to build its Office franchise in the first place.
the urban legend I wrote about last Wednesday--that Microsoft plans to use its activation technology to turn off copies of Windows XP when Microsoft decides to stop supporting it
Yes, we know how well the whole DivX thing worked once it was abandoned.
Basically, a quantum particle - like an electron - exists in a somewhat undefined state. Its location and energy are not fixed, but exist more as a set of probabilities. These probabilitiy fields are calculable and are the basis for electron shell level/sublevel 3d models.
The thing that makes all this interesting is that the certainty that a particle's position and energy level can be determined are limited. The more you define one, the fuzzier the other gets. This is not an observational thing, but an intrinsic property, as has been demonstrated by cooling some Cs atoms to
What Schroedinger's cat is all about is the fact that quantum state (the probability cloud) does not collapse until observed. I suppose that means interaction, though Physicists keep calling observation. The cat is representative of some quantum particle in an indeterminate state. It wanders between quantum energy levels until you observe it. Then the quantum state collapses into one of these levels and interacts. This also has been confirmed (the weird travel in between adjacent energy levels) - Some scientists found that they were able to keep a group of atoms from changing energy levels by constantly observing them, whereas another group, which was observed less frequently, did change levels.
Nobody had really toyed with the scenario of passenger airliners being used as missiles.
Might i refer you to The Running Man by Stephen King AKA Richard Bachman, wherein the protagonist flies a passenger airplane into a skyscraper, about halfway up.
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Now an artillary shell contains a lot of explosive and need to make a big bang. Therefore it needs a very thick, strong shell to contain the immense pressure of the gasses until enough gas has been produced to create the desired crater.
Black powder is a low explosive and will burn in open space. Most modern artillery explosives are HE and can detonate in open air (think C4). I would expect that you only need enough casing to keep the shell together during firing and to shield the fuse.
More like a rehash of VMS. They hired one of the chief architects for VMS to do the kernel
It's just an evolution of an IBM product that they had code sharing rights for
More to the point, OS/2 was a joint development effort for the early part of its history. Now, of course, they fly the OS/2 banner upside down (literally!) in their halls
Comments in code are like sex - even when it's bad, it's still better than nothing
Totally wrong. While bad sex is still good, bad comments are worse than useless - they deceive you as to the point of the code, or they document what they programmers wished they were doing, while the code merrily trashes your data.
Video on a cell phone obviously has great implications for the phone sex and porn industry in general
No way! Phone sex depends on the customer filling in the details about the girl with whatever fantasy he's got. besides, a lot of operators are normal women doing it part time - not exactly a horny guy's/Ahem/ wet dream.
should have renamed the OS, would have confused the hell out of the Linux morons such as yourself.
You got that right. Keeping all the names that MS uses for its OSes confuses the hell out of me.
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You'd be doing the world a lot more good if you stayed in the States and used your most productive years to start a business that employed gazillions of people.
That's only true if you value something strictly by the money it generates. Truth is, there's a lot more to the world than money
At the end of the day, these things are all fiction.
Like it makes a difference - most of what we see from flesh and blood stars may as well be fictional. I'm as likely to have meaningful interaction with Roger Rabbit as Tyra Banks.
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There are plenty of people who still do [run 10Mb]
Those are mostly existing installs. If there's no reason to upgrade, then why bother, right?
Word Perfect was rock solid on early Windows releases but went into decline once Windows 3.0 was released
Part of the reason that WP went into decline was that Wordperfect was a big, ungainly mess. It had its own printer drivers, for God's sake! I also recall very little in terms of usability enhancements between version 5.1 and version 6.0
Kind of weak for a troll.
both 10Mb and 100Mb use 4 wires. The difference is in the number of twists per meter as well as more stringent quality requirements. Anyway, there's really no reason to wire a new house with 10Mb; cable is cheap and so are switches.
You also want a large pipe that's a straight shot from attic to basement/crawlspace
Additionally, you want something like a bike hook ($.50 at Home Depot) by the top of the pipe to loop wire runs around. 20 feet of 4 to 8 cat5 cables weigh a fair amount and they want to fall back down the pipe.
Windows has been doing it since '95
The only 1-click install that windows does is the unattended install and that requires custom scripting.
Then there's no point in ever creating anything different. I think a better goal is to make it so much more efficient/friendlier/whatever than the original that it's worth the initial loss in productivity
Congratulations! You've just encountered inertia and have hit on an effective way to counter it. Microsoft used this same technique back in the 90's to build its Office franchise in the first place.
Apparently everyone missed the sarcasm. Here, I'll use these<sarcasm></sarcasm>
If there wasn't any copyright protection there wouldn't be any incentive to create anything.
Yeah, Mozart would never have composed The Magic Flute without copyright protection. Oh, wait...
Well, I Know Britney 'Jailbait' Spears wouldn't have done quite as well without Copyright law. Um...
the urban legend I wrote about last Wednesday--that Microsoft plans to use its activation technology to turn off copies of Windows XP when Microsoft decides to stop supporting it
Yes, we know how well the whole DivX thing worked once it was abandoned.
but it does give one a very jaundiced view of recruiters.
No, that's fairly typical. It's not often you find a headhunter worth a damn
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Basically, a quantum particle - like an electron - exists in a somewhat undefined state. Its location and energy are not fixed, but exist more as a set of probabilities. These probabilitiy fields are calculable and are the basis for electron shell level/sublevel 3d models.
The thing that makes all this interesting is that the certainty that a particle's position and energy level can be determined are limited. The more you define one, the fuzzier the other gets. This is not an observational thing, but an intrinsic property, as has been demonstrated by cooling some Cs atoms to
What Schroedinger's cat is all about is the fact that quantum state (the probability cloud) does not collapse until observed. I suppose that means interaction, though Physicists keep calling observation. The cat is representative of some quantum particle in an indeterminate state. It wanders between quantum energy levels until you observe it. Then the quantum state collapses into one of these levels and interacts. This also has been confirmed (the weird travel in between adjacent energy levels) - Some scientists found that they were able to keep a group of atoms from changing energy levels by constantly observing them, whereas another group, which was observed less frequently, did change levels.
Nobody had really toyed with the scenario of passenger airliners being used as missiles.
Might i refer you to The Running Man by Stephen King AKA Richard Bachman, wherein the protagonist flies a passenger airplane into a skyscraper, about halfway up.
Now an artillary shell contains a lot of explosive and need to make a big bang. Therefore it needs a very thick, strong shell to contain the immense pressure of the gasses until enough gas has been produced to create the desired crater.
Black powder is a low explosive and will burn in open space. Most modern artillery explosives are HE and can detonate in open air (think C4). I would expect that you only need enough casing to keep the shell together during firing and to shield the fuse.
Yes, I realize that one can ping -f -s 65528 hostname and do some simple DoS attacks and such
And this can be handled by rate-limiting icmp at the ISP. The only challenge is convincing their SAs that it's a good idea.
Then head over to the base win32 developers - the guys who own user32.dll and kernel32.dll
He's referring to the BSD copyright notice in ftp.exe. MS used BSD's ftp client code in NT. This is, of course, allowed under the BSD license.
Ahem NT is a rehash of OS/2
More like a rehash of VMS. They hired one of the chief architects for VMS to do the kernel
It's just an evolution of an IBM product that they had code sharing rights for
More to the point, OS/2 was a joint development effort for the early part of its history. Now, of course, they fly the OS/2 banner upside down (literally!) in their halls
Damn, that's rough. You're going to reeducate them, right?
Comments in code are like sex - even when it's bad, it's still better than nothing
Totally wrong. While bad sex is still good, bad comments are worse than useless - they deceive you as to the point of the code, or they document what they programmers wished they were doing, while the code merrily trashes your data.
Also, there was explicit mention in the book of an airplane being deliberately crashed into a highrise tower.
That was in The Running Man, not The Long Walk
Video on a cell phone obviously has great implications for the phone sex and porn industry in general
No way! Phone sex depends on the customer filling in the details about the girl with whatever fantasy he's got. besides, a lot of operators are normal women doing it part time - not exactly a horny guy's /Ahem/ wet dream.
should have renamed the OS, would have confused the hell out of the Linux morons such as yourself.
You got that right. Keeping all the names that MS uses for its OSes confuses the hell out of me.
You'd be doing the world a lot more good if you stayed in the States and used your most productive years to start a business that employed gazillions of people.
That's only true if you value something strictly by the money it generates. Truth is, there's a lot more to the world than money
At the end of the day, these things are all fiction.
Like it makes a difference - most of what we see from flesh and blood stars may as well be fictional. I'm as likely to have meaningful interaction with Roger Rabbit as Tyra Banks.
There would be substantial cost savings when you have to pull cable. Rather than pulling four cables along, you pull just one
The bulk of the cost in cable pulls is from the labor rather than the cable; it's no big deal to pull 4 wires instead of 1.