Huh? Excel didn't get VBA until version 5 in 1993, before that Macros were pretty limited to what they could do, and even then VBA was a MUCH more limited version than what is included these days.
Uh, sure you can, click Calander->New Appointment->Availability, it will list the calander of anyone currently on the invite list whos calander you have access to. This is under Exchange 2003, not sure if Exchange 2000 has the same capability but it doesn't work so well with Mozilla and most of our clients have upgraded so I can't be sure.
hmm, we leave.zip alone but we are on Windows 2000 for the few stand alone clients not XP. There are a couple extras that you forgot which are executable if Windows Scripting Host is installed (by default on several MS OS's), can't look at the list right now as I'm not at work.
Yes, use Outlook Web Access on the Exchange Server. It runs fine under Mozilla, it just won't pop up a little message telling you that you have an upcoming appointment.
OWA for Exchange 2003 works wonderfully under Mozilla btw. The only significant feature that doesn't work is reminder notification which is aparantly implemented as an ActiveX component or something, but in Microsofts defense HTTP doesn't really have a solution for pusing out things like that. Any corp that doesn't have it turned on really should.
Just strip all executable attachments. We do this and haven't had a single virus hit our network since implementing this simple step. Of course some worms have been distributing themselves inside of zips but that still takes more steps and hence more chances for the user to think about what they are doing, plus MS email clients can't auto-execute them (most people run Groupwise client on the Citrix farm but some do run Outlook via POP).
The 1.7 beta disk image DOES include talkback, I remember reading it in the README notes a few days ago (I have the Mozilla RSS feed enabled in my slashdot profile).
Roughly 33% faster than 1.0 for pageload according to Tinderbox. Code size is smaller so startup should be improved as well. This is while ADDING support for more standards.
Mozilla as it exists today is called Mozilla Suite, and will be the default until Firefox hits 1.0. It will continue to be available after that point so long as there are developers interested in keeping it alive. Personally I have been using Mozilla Suite as both my main browser and main email app since June 2000 and unless Thunderbird improves significantly and they get the bugs worked out of the profile migration tool I don't plan to move anytime soon.
You know what, the Russians are putting out a damn good product, degree or no. The last two games I've bough were both from the same Russian company, Nival Interactive. The first one kind of disapointed me, not because of the programming but because it didn't meet up with my expectations of the category, something that just about every US made game in the category has done as well. The other game (Silent Storm) is simply the best turn based strategy game ever made. The graphics are beutiful, the AI is impressive, and the physics are extraordinary.
But in reality, space does not clear after an explosion near our planet. The fragments continue circling the Earth, their orbits crossing those of other objects. Paint chips, lost bolts, pieces of exploded rockets--all have already become tiny satellites, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour, 10 times faster than a high-powered rifle bullet. A marble traveling at such speed would hit with the energy of a one-ton safe dropped from a three-story building. Anything it strikes will be destroyed and only increase the debris.
With enough orbiting debris, pieces will begin to hit other pieces, fragmenting them into more pieces, which will in turn hit more pieces, setting off a chain reaction of destruction that will leave a lethal halo around the Earth. To operate a satellite within this cloud of millions of tiny missiles would be impossible: no more Hubble Space Telescopes or International Space Stations. Even communications and GPS satellites in higher orbits would be endangered. Every person who cares about the human future in space should also realize that weaponizing space will jeopardize the possibility of space exploration.
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These satellites are already at increasing risk from space debris. At any moment, only about 200 kilograms of meteoroid mass are within 2,000 kilometers of the Earth's surface. But within this same altitude range are roughly 3 million kilograms of orbiting debris introduced by human activities, most from about 3,000 spent rocket stages and now-inactive satellites. Most of the approximately 4,000 additional objects several centimeters in size or larger resulted from the fragmentation of more than 120 satellites.
That's from Bullitin of the atomic scientists, the article is talking about the impact of SDI defense on increasing the danger but the general problem exists even without the additional clutter from ABM technology.
During Gulf War 1 they had SA cranked up to the max (~300m error) until they realized that 1) the Iraqi's didn't have any GPS units and 2) there were not enough military GPS units available for all the troops. So they completely turned off SA and handed out quickly requisitioned civilian GPS units to the troops.
Most of the surveyor level equipment either does it standard or has an optional addon for it. I know that there are systems from Leica and Trimble which support it. Most people use the term realtime kinematics or similar to desribe this ability. The best site I have seen to describe the math behind the various systems (fixed point differential, single unit differential, etc) is here.
Well I can't think of a reason not to use XP Embedded since the API is the same, other than sourcing problems. AFAIK MS doesn't make is easy to get XP Embedded, and even if you can you might not be able to in the future, whereas you can STILL get copies of DOS if you need em, and trust me there are POS systems out there which still run a custom GUI on top of DOS.
IceCube is EXACTLY what I was talking about, that is process refinement, putting a bunch of HDD's with embeded systems into a cluster is not new science, it's refinement of existing ideas and technologies. Giant Magneto Resistance was a basic science breakthrough that happened to have a practical application to HDD technology, but the research scientists kind of knew that when they started researching in that direction. The guys at Bell Labs used to get company grants to do research that might never have led to usefull products for AT&T, I don't believe that IBM is willing to do that. Of course MS is even LESS likely to do it =) Unfortunatly that leaves the goverment as the sole provider of basic science grants in the U.S. and since politics invariably gets involved there it means that there is usefull basic science research that is not being done becuase someone doesn't like bunnies being harmed or doesn't believe in evolution, etc.
Actually the military signal is no more accurate in practice except that it offers codes on a second frequency which helps to offset phase shift and multipath. Good commercial unit use the phase information from both the civilian channel AND the military channel (they can encrypt the code but the signal phase is still available) along with the civilian codes. General accuracy of consumer models is limited to around 10m probability sphere which is actually 5m average accuracy. Good equipment using both frequencies and two antennas can get down to about 12cm accuracy in roughly a minute and centimeter accuracy over a period of time (generally 10 minutes to 2 hours depending on necessary confidence). Btw SA has been turned off for quite a while, in fact it was May 1, 2000 that presidential order turned off SA. This was mostly due to realization that military units were too expensive and not widely enough available to common troops.
IBM does a LOT of research, but only a small percentage of it is the type of basic research that leads to BIG jumps in technology. In other words they do process refinement and some materials science research but very little basic science research that leads to the kinds of discoveries that brought about optical lasers, the transistor, etc.
Not by a long shot. Embedded platforms use PPC, Motorolla 68K, embedded MIPS, ARM, x86, SuperH, i960, and a host of other CPU platforms. For a good overview of embedded processors check out this article over at extremetech.
Diebold's customers are the financial institutions and since their human tellers rarely interact with the majority of their customer base these days they have decided to sell additional services through their main point of contact, the ATM. THAT is why the ATM's now have flash movies between transactions, it has nothing to do with the consumers interests. That and IBM is stopping support on OS/2 before too long so they had to switch to something else and for some reason they didn't choose a customized version of Linux.
Um, there are plenty of vendors offering tested AMD dual CPU 1U setups. And NO AMD cpu's do NOT need more power than Intel, Intel Xeon MP 3.2GHz Themal Guidline is 92W from Intel, AMD Opteron 2.2GHz Thermal Design Power is 89W from AMD. And to give you an idea where Intel is headed their 90nm 3.4GHz P4 has a Thermal Guidline of 103.0W with industry people stating that the 90nm line will end up north of 150W!
For POS machines it makes a bit more sense. They usually have databases of UPC codes, do inventory management, have the ability to activate store gift cards/credit cards, often have backup credit processing capabilities in case the backoffice server goes down, etc. Not only that but the software vendor generally writes one generic POS application that can deal with most situations (line of business, hardware platform, peripherals, etc) and then customize them for each customer/line of business. ATM's on the other hand really just need to hand out cash, but since bank's basically have gotten rid of real tellers they are using ATM's as their advertising platform since that is what most of their customers interact with.
Um, there are at most 3 printers, one monitor standard, two input device types, and three network modules used by any bank. Drivers for those limited selections could easily be in firmware and selected from at setup. It really doesn't make any sense to have a general purpose OS running the thing other than to reduce cost for Diebold to develop the things. Then again it does provide a nice amount of business for us IBM field techs =)
Dude Intel CPU's have been putting out more heat for at least the last year. Check out the thermal design specs for each and you will see that Intel's max is about 20% higher. I bought what was probably the last CPU from AMD to produce more heat than the comparable Intel chip, the 1.2GHz classic Tbird.
Sparingly use the term always as it is rarely true. For instance people who make a habit of filing false suits have been barred from filing certain classes of suits in specific jurisdictions on numerous occasions.
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Huh? Excel didn't get VBA until version 5 in 1993, before that Macros were pretty limited to what they could do, and even then VBA was a MUCH more limited version than what is included these days.
Uh, sure you can, click Calander->New Appointment->Availability, it will list the calander of anyone currently on the invite list whos calander you have access to. This is under Exchange 2003, not sure if Exchange 2000 has the same capability but it doesn't work so well with Mozilla and most of our clients have upgraded so I can't be sure.
hmm, we leave .zip alone but we are on Windows 2000 for the few stand alone clients not XP. There are a couple extras that you forgot which are executable if Windows Scripting Host is installed (by default on several MS OS's), can't look at the list right now as I'm not at work.
Yes, use Outlook Web Access on the Exchange Server. It runs fine under Mozilla, it just won't pop up a little message telling you that you have an upcoming appointment.
OWA for Exchange 2003 works wonderfully under Mozilla btw. The only significant feature that doesn't work is reminder notification which is aparantly implemented as an ActiveX component or something, but in Microsofts defense HTTP doesn't really have a solution for pusing out things like that. Any corp that doesn't have it turned on really should.
Just strip all executable attachments. We do this and haven't had a single virus hit our network since implementing this simple step. Of course some worms have been distributing themselves inside of zips but that still takes more steps and hence more chances for the user to think about what they are doing, plus MS email clients can't auto-execute them (most people run Groupwise client on the Citrix farm but some do run Outlook via POP).
The 1.7 beta disk image DOES include talkback, I remember reading it in the README notes a few days ago (I have the Mozilla RSS feed enabled in my slashdot profile).
Roughly 33% faster than 1.0 for pageload according to Tinderbox. Code size is smaller so startup should be improved as well. This is while ADDING support for more standards.
Mozilla as it exists today is called Mozilla Suite, and will be the default until Firefox hits 1.0. It will continue to be available after that point so long as there are developers interested in keeping it alive. Personally I have been using Mozilla Suite as both my main browser and main email app since June 2000 and unless Thunderbird improves significantly and they get the bugs worked out of the profile migration tool I don't plan to move anytime soon.
Yeah and ones made wholy in Russia kick the cr*p out of everything else in the category.
You know what, the Russians are putting out a damn good product, degree or no. The last two games I've bough were both from the same Russian company, Nival Interactive. The first one kind of disapointed me, not because of the programming but because it didn't meet up with my expectations of the category, something that just about every US made game in the category has done as well. The other game (Silent Storm) is simply the best turn based strategy game ever made. The graphics are beutiful, the AI is impressive, and the physics are extraordinary.
You are WAY off.
But in reality, space does not clear after an explosion near our planet. The fragments continue circling the Earth, their orbits crossing those of other objects. Paint chips, lost bolts, pieces of exploded rockets--all have already become tiny satellites, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour, 10 times faster than a high-powered rifle bullet. A marble traveling at such speed would hit with the energy of a one-ton safe dropped from a three-story building. Anything it strikes will be destroyed and only increase the debris.
With enough orbiting debris, pieces will begin to hit other pieces, fragmenting them into more pieces, which will in turn hit more pieces, setting off a chain reaction of destruction that will leave a lethal halo around the Earth. To operate a satellite within this cloud of millions of tiny missiles would be impossible: no more Hubble Space Telescopes or International Space Stations. Even communications and GPS satellites in higher orbits would be endangered. Every person who cares about the human future in space should also realize that weaponizing space will jeopardize the possibility of space exploration.
and
These satellites are already at increasing risk from space debris. At any moment, only about 200 kilograms of meteoroid mass are within 2,000 kilometers of the Earth's surface. But within this same altitude range are roughly 3 million kilograms of orbiting debris introduced by human activities, most from about 3,000 spent rocket stages and now-inactive satellites. Most of the approximately 4,000 additional objects several centimeters in size or larger resulted from the fragmentation of more than 120 satellites.
That's from Bullitin of the atomic scientists, the article is talking about the impact of SDI defense on increasing the danger but the general problem exists even without the additional clutter from ABM technology.
During Gulf War 1 they had SA cranked up to the max (~300m error) until they realized that 1) the Iraqi's didn't have any GPS units and 2) there were not enough military GPS units available for all the troops. So they completely turned off SA and handed out quickly requisitioned civilian GPS units to the troops.
Most of the surveyor level equipment either does it standard or has an optional addon for it. I know that there are systems from Leica and Trimble which support it. Most people use the term realtime kinematics or similar to desribe this ability. The best site I have seen to describe the math behind the various systems (fixed point differential, single unit differential, etc) is here.
Well I can't think of a reason not to use XP Embedded since the API is the same, other than sourcing problems. AFAIK MS doesn't make is easy to get XP Embedded, and even if you can you might not be able to in the future, whereas you can STILL get copies of DOS if you need em, and trust me there are POS systems out there which still run a custom GUI on top of DOS.
IceCube is EXACTLY what I was talking about, that is process refinement, putting a bunch of HDD's with embeded systems into a cluster is not new science, it's refinement of existing ideas and technologies. Giant Magneto Resistance was a basic science breakthrough that happened to have a practical application to HDD technology, but the research scientists kind of knew that when they started researching in that direction. The guys at Bell Labs used to get company grants to do research that might never have led to usefull products for AT&T, I don't believe that IBM is willing to do that. Of course MS is even LESS likely to do it =) Unfortunatly that leaves the goverment as the sole provider of basic science grants in the U.S. and since politics invariably gets involved there it means that there is usefull basic science research that is not being done becuase someone doesn't like bunnies being harmed or doesn't believe in evolution, etc.
Actually the military signal is no more accurate in practice except that it offers codes on a second frequency which helps to offset phase shift and multipath. Good commercial unit use the phase information from both the civilian channel AND the military channel (they can encrypt the code but the signal phase is still available) along with the civilian codes. General accuracy of consumer models is limited to around 10m probability sphere which is actually 5m average accuracy. Good equipment using both frequencies and two antennas can get down to about 12cm accuracy in roughly a minute and centimeter accuracy over a period of time (generally 10 minutes to 2 hours depending on necessary confidence). Btw SA has been turned off for quite a while, in fact it was May 1, 2000 that presidential order turned off SA. This was mostly due to realization that military units were too expensive and not widely enough available to common troops.
IBM does a LOT of research, but only a small percentage of it is the type of basic research that leads to BIG jumps in technology. In other words they do process refinement and some materials science research but very little basic science research that leads to the kinds of discoveries that brought about optical lasers, the transistor, etc.
Not by a long shot. Embedded platforms use PPC, Motorolla 68K, embedded MIPS, ARM, x86, SuperH, i960, and a host of other CPU platforms. For a good overview of embedded processors check out this article over at extremetech.
Diebold's customers are the financial institutions and since their human tellers rarely interact with the majority of their customer base these days they have decided to sell additional services through their main point of contact, the ATM. THAT is why the ATM's now have flash movies between transactions, it has nothing to do with the consumers interests. That and IBM is stopping support on OS/2 before too long so they had to switch to something else and for some reason they didn't choose a customized version of Linux.
Um, there are plenty of vendors offering tested AMD dual CPU 1U setups. And NO AMD cpu's do NOT need more power than Intel, Intel Xeon MP 3.2GHz Themal Guidline is 92W from Intel, AMD Opteron 2.2GHz Thermal Design Power is 89W from AMD. And to give you an idea where Intel is headed their 90nm 3.4GHz P4 has a Thermal Guidline of 103.0W with industry people stating that the 90nm line will end up north of 150W!
For POS machines it makes a bit more sense. They usually have databases of UPC codes, do inventory management, have the ability to activate store gift cards/credit cards, often have backup credit processing capabilities in case the backoffice server goes down, etc. Not only that but the software vendor generally writes one generic POS application that can deal with most situations (line of business, hardware platform, peripherals, etc) and then customize them for each customer/line of business. ATM's on the other hand really just need to hand out cash, but since bank's basically have gotten rid of real tellers they are using ATM's as their advertising platform since that is what most of their customers interact with.
Um, there are at most 3 printers, one monitor standard, two input device types, and three network modules used by any bank. Drivers for those limited selections could easily be in firmware and selected from at setup. It really doesn't make any sense to have a general purpose OS running the thing other than to reduce cost for Diebold to develop the things. Then again it does provide a nice amount of business for us IBM field techs =)
Dude Intel CPU's have been putting out more heat for at least the last year. Check out the thermal design specs for each and you will see that Intel's max is about 20% higher. I bought what was probably the last CPU from AMD to produce more heat than the comparable Intel chip, the 1.2GHz classic Tbird.
Sparingly use the term always as it is rarely true. For instance people who make a habit of filing false suits have been barred from filing certain classes of suits in specific jurisdictions on numerous occasions.