if most of the new graduates don't work with an OS, it is bound to die out and get replaced with a more familiar OS. Either that or you have an incompetent admin running your servers.
I imagine a lot of MVS admins and users would be surprised to hear this, as I don't believe there are a lot of MVS-centric courses in most IT curriculums.
Of all the electronic gear (computers, stereo, TV sets, etc.) I've owned over the past 25 years, I've only seen one popped cap, and that was in the external power supply of an audio mixer I bought used, where the previous owner had plugged it into a 220V outlet and it blew a 15000uF cap on the +15VDC supply. Took me a while to get all the electrolyte off the PCB.:-)
The parent poster doesn't know what he's talking about, which is probably why he posted as AC.
So far, though, it looks like it will take a while for the Open Source movement to come up with an appealing alternative for my purposes, and I have a major gripe with people that advocate OS as the only way to go forwards, because it sure isn't [the only way].
You'll get no argument from me there, as I'm pretty agnostic regarding platforms - I use what works for me and I don't get religious about any of them. I'm pretty happy with the server-side offerings in the open-source world, and I can work easily enough with the desktop side, but it's nowhere near where it needs to be in order to find success in the general market. There sadly seems to be more energy expended bickering about things that finding out what needs to happen to make OSS more appealing to the masses.
Thing is, Apple HAS quality control simply because they can due to their organisational structure and their business model.
And my point was that even with those procedures in place, they still sometimes release crap at premium prices, actively deny the existence of problems even when confronted with irrefutable evidence of them, yet the fanboys will still defend them as if they could turn water to wine. It's as bad as the Amiga freaks from 20 years ago.
Incidentally, I say this as the owner of an Apple II+, Apple IIe, a Mac Classic II, iMac G3, iBook G3, Power Mac G4-DP, MacBook, and three iPods. The early machines were awesome, and I've yet to have problems with any of the iPods. However, I consider the MacBook purchase to be a mistake and based on my experiences I wouldn't purchase another one, and the G4 sits idle in the corner because I refuse to pay $200 for a damn power supply that would cost $39 for any other machine and really should not have failed to begin with. The iMac is also out with hardware problems. In my experience, the machines that Apple builds today simply aren't comparable in quality to what they used to produce, and frankly the Windows XP box I built for day-to-day use and the assortment of Linux servers I've built have proven to be much more reliable (both hardware and software) than any Apple PC I've bought since 2000.
That is the one thing Apple can offer: quality control.
You mean like the busted PMU firmware that shipped with some of the MacBooks in 2006 that caused them to shut down suddenly without warning? The same firmware that Apple denied any problems with until they quietly shipped a fix a few *months* later?
He's probably just exceeding his modem's connection count, which is pretty easy to do with BT. I ended up having to bump my router's connection count from 256 to 1024, which resolved all of my BT-related issues with stalls, slow page loads, etc.
I will be trying this out, but given the size of the download, I don't expect much more than email.
And you shouldn't. You don't even get shared calendars in the free version, which is arguably one of the big reasons people use Exchange to begin with.
Note that the calendar is *not* part of the package until you're willing to open your wallet. I frankly am really not seeing what the appeal of the free version is.
people are happy to participate in a model where they are always paying (at a pre-negotiated rate) for more than they are using.
This is exactly the reason I use a pre-paid service, which over the course of a year costs me less than $150.00. I don't use my cell phone that often, so I really see no reason to pay as though I do. I also use a pre-paid VoIP service for my home phone, which costs me even less per year while giving me far more flexibility and features than one of the mainstream operators like Vonage.
No, copyright exists for exactly the same reasons - to enrich society as a whole. Giving the creator an exclusive lock on their creation for a limited time is the means by which this enrichment is encouraged, and applies to both patents and copyrights.
Yup. I remember when I worked at Disney that percussive maintenance was often used when the contactors on a monorail would get fused. A tech would come out with a big 'ol nonconductive mallet, pop the lower skirts open, and bang on the contactors until the the tiny little weld cracked open. Close it up, power everything back up, and the train was good to go.
If you were a data recovery company, you would be completely foolish to ignore this.
The fact that no data recovery company has taken them up on the offer would tend to argue against that, unless you want to try to assert that *every* successful data recovery firm (an industry that requires a fair bit of both technical and business sense, mind you) is run by fools.
Radio and light are all part of the same electromagnetic spectrum, so the parent poster's question is still legitimate as no radiation will be able to escape the black hole proper. To answer though, scientists obviously won't be able to see past the event horizon, but they may be able to image the finer details of the area immediately surrounding it which are also of intense interest.
By definition, the event horizon is the area surrounding a black hole inside which the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, therefore you can't see anything beyond it. You're probably thinking of the accretion disk.
And weights, and distances, and area, and volumes, etc. We use metric for plenty of stuff in the US as well, but one could hardly say it's standardized here. The same is true of the UK. One may ship a thousand kilograms of dry cement and fill their car with 40 liters of fuel, but people still tell their doctor they're 6 feet tall and weigh 15 stone.
Reminds me of a quote whose source I can't remember at the moment: "My dog has a process. He eats dog food and sometime later takes a dump. He ALWAYS follows this process consistently without fail. But it still results in shit."
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if most of the new graduates don't work with an OS, it is bound to die out and get replaced with a more familiar OS. Either that or you have an incompetent admin running your servers.
I imagine a lot of MVS admins and users would be surprised to hear this, as I don't believe there are a lot of MVS-centric courses in most IT curriculums.
Not that it matters, but I'd have modded you up.
Of all the electronic gear (computers, stereo, TV sets, etc.) I've owned over the past 25 years, I've only seen one popped cap, and that was in the external power supply of an audio mixer I bought used, where the previous owner had plugged it into a 220V outlet and it blew a 15000uF cap on the +15VDC supply. Took me a while to get all the electrolyte off the PCB. :-)
The parent poster doesn't know what he's talking about, which is probably why he posted as AC.
So far, though, it looks like it will take a while for the Open Source movement to come up with an appealing alternative for my purposes, and I have a major gripe with people that advocate OS as the only way to go forwards, because it sure isn't [the only way].
You'll get no argument from me there, as I'm pretty agnostic regarding platforms - I use what works for me and I don't get religious about any of them. I'm pretty happy with the server-side offerings in the open-source world, and I can work easily enough with the desktop side, but it's nowhere near where it needs to be in order to find success in the general market. There sadly seems to be more energy expended bickering about things that finding out what needs to happen to make OSS more appealing to the masses.
Thing is, Apple HAS quality control simply because they can due to their organisational structure and their business model.
And my point was that even with those procedures in place, they still sometimes release crap at premium prices, actively deny the existence of problems even when confronted with irrefutable evidence of them, yet the fanboys will still defend them as if they could turn water to wine. It's as bad as the Amiga freaks from 20 years ago.
Incidentally, I say this as the owner of an Apple II+, Apple IIe, a Mac Classic II, iMac G3, iBook G3, Power Mac G4-DP, MacBook, and three iPods. The early machines were awesome, and I've yet to have problems with any of the iPods. However, I consider the MacBook purchase to be a mistake and based on my experiences I wouldn't purchase another one, and the G4 sits idle in the corner because I refuse to pay $200 for a damn power supply that would cost $39 for any other machine and really should not have failed to begin with. The iMac is also out with hardware problems. In my experience, the machines that Apple builds today simply aren't comparable in quality to what they used to produce, and frankly the Windows XP box I built for day-to-day use and the assortment of Linux servers I've built have proven to be much more reliable (both hardware and software) than any Apple PC I've bought since 2000.
That is the one thing Apple can offer: quality control.
You mean like the busted PMU firmware that shipped with some of the MacBooks in 2006 that caused them to shut down suddenly without warning? The same firmware that Apple denied any problems with until they quietly shipped a fix a few *months* later?
He's probably just exceeding his modem's connection count, which is pretty easy to do with BT. I ended up having to bump my router's connection count from 256 to 1024, which resolved all of my BT-related issues with stalls, slow page loads, etc.
Forte is quite a bit cheaper at $2.95 for 12 gigs, or if you really want to go on the cheap, Motzarella offers free text-only groups.
The feature restrictions on the community version make it even more useless, it seems to me.
I will be trying this out, but given the size of the download, I don't expect much more than email.
And you shouldn't. You don't even get shared calendars in the free version, which is arguably one of the big reasons people use Exchange to begin with.
LHC salesdroid: "See, I TOLD you that you were gonna want that extended warranty. But NOOOOO!"
Note that the calendar is *not* part of the package until you're willing to open your wallet. I frankly am really not seeing what the appeal of the free version is.
"Whoa!"
I suspect instead of poisonous gas, it will just refuse to let them in the door, then start singing about flowers or something.
people are happy to participate in a model where they are always paying (at a pre-negotiated rate) for more than they are using.
This is exactly the reason I use a pre-paid service, which over the course of a year costs me less than $150.00. I don't use my cell phone that often, so I really see no reason to pay as though I do. I also use a pre-paid VoIP service for my home phone, which costs me even less per year while giving me far more flexibility and features than one of the mainstream operators like Vonage.
No, you're thinking of copyright.
No, copyright exists for exactly the same reasons - to enrich society as a whole. Giving the creator an exclusive lock on their creation for a limited time is the means by which this enrichment is encouraged, and applies to both patents and copyrights.
Yup. I remember when I worked at Disney that percussive maintenance was often used when the contactors on a monorail would get fused. A tech would come out with a big 'ol nonconductive mallet, pop the lower skirts open, and bang on the contactors until the the tiny little weld cracked open. Close it up, power everything back up, and the train was good to go.
If you were a data recovery company, you would be completely foolish to ignore this.
The fact that no data recovery company has taken them up on the offer would tend to argue against that, unless you want to try to assert that *every* successful data recovery firm (an industry that requires a fair bit of both technical and business sense, mind you) is run by fools.
Don't know why this was modded flamebait - there's often more than just a bit of truth in this statement.
Radio and light are all part of the same electromagnetic spectrum, so the parent poster's question is still legitimate as no radiation will be able to escape the black hole proper. To answer though, scientists obviously won't be able to see past the event horizon, but they may be able to image the finer details of the area immediately surrounding it which are also of intense interest.
By definition, the event horizon is the area surrounding a black hole inside which the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, therefore you can't see anything beyond it. You're probably thinking of the accretion disk.
Apart from speed limits and beer
And weights, and distances, and area, and volumes, etc. We use metric for plenty of stuff in the US as well, but one could hardly say it's standardized here. The same is true of the UK. One may ship a thousand kilograms of dry cement and fill their car with 40 liters of fuel, but people still tell their doctor they're 6 feet tall and weigh 15 stone.
League of Nations?
Reminds me of a quote whose source I can't remember at the moment: "My dog has a process. He eats dog food and sometime later takes a dump. He ALWAYS follows this process consistently without fail. But it still results in shit."
everywhere but the US metric is the standard
Been to the UK lately?