Perhaps the problem is data that didn't reach that AC's computer. I had the same thing happen apprx. 3.5 hours later, clicked reload, still just the part of the page that shows initially, scroll down and there's nothing else there. I finally clicked Help, About Netscape cause I couldn't remember which 3.x I'm running. This repainted the screen with the info instead of popping up a dialog box. When I clicked Back the full MS page loaded with the middle of the page showing in my browser window so maybe all those scroll bar clicks got caought in a loop somewhere and didn't execute until the MS page reloaded. Maybe it's my browser or hardware. But how come it's MS pages that always seem to have or cause the most trouble?
Too bad some are so cynical and lacking in humanity, but that is their shortcoming to bear and I will feel pity rather than anger, as they will suffer from it(probably without even knowing what they're missing) more than I will. The Kelly as McCoy performance I really enjoyed was in the Next Generation premiere when he came on board the new Enterprise just before its maiden voyage looking and acting older than God. Having this come on the heels of the end of DS9(better written than all the other ST series combined)doesn't make it any easier to take. Hope the next one to go doesn't go any time soon.
The Fifty page writeup is by a different author, Neal Stephenson, and(so far, judging by the scroll bar I'm about on page 45)the link to it is far and away the best thing about Scot Hacker's article and his article ain't bad.
Considering all the wires involved in the Internet I'm not sure that "off-air" is quite the right phrase. (I object to "Ethernet" for the same reason.) Perhaps "off-line", "down", or the old broadcast term "to go dark".
During the fundraising portion of every election cycle, but it's a private, by invitation only sale, closed to the public and the press as much as possible.
This is the correct answer-for the "speed" LED's. If it was for fans it would be 12 volt and not 5. Those LED displays,by the way, aren't exactly precision frequency counter readouts since you can set them to read any number between 00 and 199--I've got one set to switch between "HI" and "LO". A better use for those LED displays would be to use it as a readout of the temperature inside the case. Anyone got a (cheap, low parts count) circuit handy?
While we're on the (admittedly off-topic)subject, I've got a Giga-Byte Socket 5 board with a "Dallas" type RTC chip that keeps time beautifully--until I power up the board. I can set the time in the CMOS setup screen, save the changes, boot to some or no operating system, turn off the system, disconnect the power supply, come back a month later with a different power supply or the same one, different or same keyboard, video card, CPU, etc., and the time shown on the Cmos setup screen will reflect the passage of that month, but any time the board is under power the clock "freezes" (stops counting seconds) for as long as power is applied. I've downloaded and flashed the BIOS to no avail. Anybody got a clue?
The only linear computer supplies I ever saw in surplus catalogs came from discontinued mainframes, not bankrupt PC manufacturers. Linear power supplies take the current from the wall socket and run it through the primary winding of a transformer. The secondary winding (in vacuum tube days a voltage step up, current step down--for solid-state circuits a voltage step down, current step up) passes the same wattage (voltage times current, sort of--it's a little more complicated with alternating current than with direct current)--minus what gets lost, due to less than 100% efficiency, and turns into heat--to rectifiers which "re-route" the alternating cycles so that the current flows in the same direction instead of reversing 60 times per second. This makes it direct current, but now the voltage goes from zero up to whatever the peak is and then back down to zero 120 times per second, so various passive (and sometimes active) components are used to filter and regulate the voltage. If the incoming frequency is higher than 60 Hz then smaller, lighter (less expensive) transformers and passive filtering components can be used. This is the reason for 400 Hz generators on aircraft, to save weight and space, although, in the case of aircraft, not money. The higher frequency = smaller, lighter, cheaper components relationship is also taken advantage of in switching supplies where the alternating current from the wall socket goes straight to the rectifiers, is changed into pulsating direct current, filtered to "average out" the pulsations, and sent to transistors which turn on and off somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 to 40,000 times per second. This results in a "pulsed" direct current which can be stepped up or down in voltage with a transformer just as with alternating current, but at the much higher frequency a smaller, lighter, cheaper transformer can be used. In both cases (linear and switching)the transformer electrically isolates the power supply's output from the wall socket supplied input.
"I'm continually stunned at how little competition there is in the browser market..." With Microsoft giving away Internet Explorer there aren't enough people left willing to pay for something else to make developing that something else very profitable, and when you've got to cover your overhead and meet a payroll you tend to lean towards marketing stuff you expect to turn a profit on if you want to stay in business and keep your investors happy. I'm not saying there's no money to be made; something must be keeping Opera afloat, but could they and four or five other companies all survive on smaller slices of the same sized pie?
In the early 70's, before the digital watch and the Z80 based computers Sinclair (in conjunction with some outfit called Radonics or something like that)made cool-looking(in black, of course)very small HI-FI components(available in kit form!). This guy's built and launched enough bandwagons to have earned a free ride on someone else's.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but the Research Triangle Park area is home to RedHat and the former sunsite.unc.edu so I'm sure there are a few people up there who've heard of Linux, not to mention all those students from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Peace College, St. Mary's College, Meredith College, Wake Tech, Durham Tech, and The North Carolina High School of Science and Mathematics who may not have all heard of Linux but have all heard of Star Wars.
Many words, if not most, if not #$%^$&^ near all, have more than one definition, so the number of definitions in a dictionary will vastly exceed the number of words defined in that same dictionary.
Come 01/01/00 when all those 3 to 4 1/2 year old computers that cost people $1500 to $3000 or more don't work properly and it turns out not to be the hardware but the MS software at fault and the owners of those machines decide that they'll be d****d if they're going to financially reward MS for selling them software that was scheduled to self-destruct in 5 or fewer years, wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if Wall Streets computers were sufficiently Y2K compliant (and able to handle the load) to be able to accomodate the dumping of MS stock as the owners realize that MS is going to be too busy waving those EULA's around in court trying to get suit after suit after suit dismissed to be able to develop new software that nobody is going to buy after having already been burned.
"...our most important application is a finance package that's been built on top of Lotus by a third-party vendor. We've been religiously upgrading that package over the years." And now that vendor is rewarding you for those years of good customership by abandoning you. They may not be happy about having to do so, but forced to financially; demand for the Lotus version of their product may no longer be great enough to for them to cover the costs of updating and improving it. Apparently there is sufficient demand for the Excel version of their product to allow them to concentrate on it and make enough to stay in business. Can't fault 'em for wanting to survive and prosper. But if your company had the source code (and possibly the source code for Lotus as well), they could hire people to do for them what the original company no longer is willing or able to do. It may or may not be financially feasible, but at least they'd have the option. Since your company doesn't have that option is there any chance of getting Lotus to acquire the rights to the Lotus version of that program and produce the Lotus version themselves as an incentive for customers to stay with Lotus? (It occurs to me to wonder if the only way MS will let that third-party vendor market a version for Excel is if they abandon the Lotus version.)
At first I thought he meant that his 3 dogs were there to guard his 3 and one-half Acer brand computers, and then I started wondering about that half a computer. (of course my living room is currently covered in various fractions of computers)
In case my submission gets overlooked/goes unused, I blatantly re-post it here. Saw this in today's Raleigh News and Observer. "What began as a radio stunt...has turned into a real quest for...a language arts teacher..." "I was doing it to win $1,000, but now it's much bigger because I don't want to disappoint my students..." "... intends to walk into the courthouse...dressed as a Jedi knight and carrying a light saber, willing to do whatever the law requires to complete her mission..."
"...why should Windows/Intel users have to buy another piece of software to protect themselves from a potential security problem in the processsor? " Uh, because they were unwise enough to buy the processor?
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Perhaps the problem is data that didn't reach that AC's computer. I had the same thing happen apprx. 3.5 hours later, clicked reload, still just the part of the page that shows initially, scroll down and there's nothing else there. I finally clicked Help, About Netscape cause I couldn't remember which 3.x I'm running. This repainted the screen with the info instead of popping up a dialog box. When I clicked Back the full MS page loaded with the middle of the page showing in my browser window so maybe all those scroll bar clicks got caought in a loop somewhere and didn't execute until the MS page reloaded. Maybe it's my browser or hardware. But how come it's MS pages that always seem to have or cause the most trouble?
Too bad some are so cynical and lacking in humanity, but that is their shortcoming to bear and I will feel pity rather than anger, as they will suffer from it(probably without even knowing what they're missing) more than I will.
The Kelly as McCoy performance I really enjoyed was in the Next Generation premiere when he came on board the new Enterprise just before its maiden voyage looking and acting older than God.
Having this come on the heels of the end of DS9(better written than all the other ST series combined)doesn't make it any easier to take.
Hope the next one to go doesn't go any time soon.
The Fifty page writeup is by a different author, Neal Stephenson, and(so far, judging by the scroll bar I'm about on page 45)the link to it is far and away the best thing about Scot Hacker's article and his article ain't bad.
Considering all the wires involved in the Internet I'm not sure that "off-air" is quite the right phrase. (I object to "Ethernet" for the same reason.) Perhaps "off-line", "down", or the old broadcast term "to go dark".
Alt-left arrow seems to work just fine, though(and Alt-right arrow for forward)
"...When do the state officals come up forsale?"
During the fundraising portion of every election cycle, but it's a private, by invitation only sale, closed to the public and the press as much as possible.
"That's because we're not shooting them on campus anymore."
Nowadays the students are so busy shooting each other on campus that the government just can't get a shot in edgewise.
...has more lives than a cat, apparently.
This is the correct answer-for the "speed" LED's. If it was for fans it would be 12 volt and not 5. ,by the way, aren't exactly precision frequency counter readouts since you can set them to read any number between 00 and 199--I've got one set to switch between "HI" and "LO".
Those LED displays
A better use for those LED displays would be to use it as a readout of the temperature inside the case. Anyone got a (cheap, low parts count) circuit handy?
While we're on the (admittedly off-topic)subject, I've got a Giga-Byte Socket 5 board with a "Dallas" type RTC chip that keeps time beautifully--until I power up the board. I can set the time in the CMOS setup screen, save the changes, boot to some or no operating system, turn off the system, disconnect the power supply, come back a month later with a different power supply or the same one, different or same keyboard, video card, CPU, etc., and the time shown on the Cmos setup screen will reflect the passage of that month, but any time the board is under power the clock "freezes" (stops counting seconds) for as long as power is applied. I've downloaded and flashed the BIOS to no avail. Anybody got a clue?
The only linear computer supplies I ever saw in surplus catalogs came from discontinued mainframes, not bankrupt PC manufacturers.
Linear power supplies take the current from the wall socket and run it through the primary winding of a transformer. The secondary winding (in vacuum tube days a voltage step up, current step down--for solid-state circuits a voltage step down, current step up) passes the same wattage (voltage times current, sort of--it's a little more complicated with alternating current than with direct current)--minus what gets lost, due to less than 100% efficiency, and turns into heat--to rectifiers which "re-route" the alternating cycles so that the current flows in the same direction instead of reversing 60 times per second. This makes it direct current, but now the voltage goes from zero up to whatever the peak is and then back down to zero 120 times per second, so various passive (and sometimes active) components are used to filter and regulate the voltage. If the incoming frequency is higher than 60 Hz then smaller, lighter (less expensive) transformers and passive filtering components can be used. This is the reason for 400 Hz generators on aircraft, to save weight and space, although, in the case of aircraft, not money. The higher frequency = smaller, lighter, cheaper components relationship is also taken advantage of in switching supplies where the alternating current from the wall socket goes straight to the rectifiers, is changed into pulsating direct current, filtered to "average out" the pulsations, and sent to transistors which turn on and off somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 to 40,000 times per second. This results in a "pulsed" direct current which can be stepped up or down in voltage with a transformer just as with alternating current, but at the much higher frequency a smaller, lighter, cheaper transformer can be used. In both cases (linear and switching)the transformer electrically isolates the power supply's output from the wall socket supplied input.
"I'm continually stunned at how little competition there is in the browser market..."
With Microsoft giving away Internet Explorer there aren't enough people left willing to pay for something else to make developing that something else very profitable, and when you've got to cover your overhead and meet a payroll you tend to lean towards marketing stuff you expect to turn a profit on if you want to stay in business and keep your investors happy. I'm not saying there's no money to be made; something must be keeping Opera afloat, but could they and four or five other companies all survive on smaller slices of the same sized pie?
In the early 70's, before the digital watch and the Z80 based computers Sinclair (in conjunction with some outfit called Radonics or something like that)made cool-looking(in black, of course)very small HI-FI components(available in kit form!).
This guy's built and launched enough bandwagons to have earned a free ride on someone else's.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but the Research Triangle Park area is home to RedHat and the former sunsite.unc.edu so I'm sure there are a few people up there who've heard of Linux, not to mention all those students from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Peace College, St. Mary's College, Meredith College, Wake Tech, Durham Tech, and The North Carolina High School of Science and Mathematics who may not have all heard of Linux but have all heard of Star Wars.
It may not be as easy to refuse renewals as they think.
Many words, if not most, if not #$%^$&^ near all, have more than one definition, so the number of definitions in a dictionary will vastly exceed the number of words defined in that same dictionary.
Come 01/01/00 when all those 3 to 4 1/2 year old computers that cost people $1500 to $3000 or more don't work properly and it turns out not to be the hardware but the MS software at fault and the owners of those machines decide that they'll be d****d if they're going to financially reward MS for selling them software that was scheduled to self-destruct in 5 or fewer years, wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if Wall Streets computers were sufficiently Y2K compliant (and able to handle the load) to be able to accomodate the dumping of MS stock as the owners realize that MS is going to be too busy waving those EULA's around in court trying to get suit after suit after suit dismissed to be able to develop new software that nobody is going to buy after having already been burned.
"...our most important application is a finance package that's been built on top of Lotus by a third-party vendor. We've been religiously upgrading that package over the years."
And now that vendor is rewarding you for those years of good customership by abandoning you. They may not be happy about having to do so, but forced to financially; demand for the Lotus version of their product may no longer be great enough to for them to cover the costs of updating and improving it. Apparently there is sufficient demand for the Excel version of their product to allow them to concentrate on it and make enough to stay in business. Can't fault 'em for wanting to survive and prosper.
But if your company had the source code (and possibly the source code for Lotus as well), they could hire people to do for them what the original company no longer is willing or able to do. It may or may not be financially feasible, but at least they'd have the option. Since your company doesn't have that option is there any chance of getting Lotus to acquire the rights to the Lotus version of that program and produce the Lotus version themselves as an incentive for customers to stay with Lotus?
(It occurs to me to wonder if the only way MS will let that third-party vendor market a version for Excel is if they abandon the Lotus version.)
At first I thought he meant that his 3 dogs were there to guard his 3 and one-half Acer brand computers, and then I started wondering about that half a computer. (of course my living room is currently covered in various fractions of computers)
Would ALT+255 work ?
If this shows up twice it's cause my POTS connection to my ISP keeps getting broken.
Would ALT+255 work ?
In case my submission gets overlooked/goes unused, I blatantly re-post it here. ... intends to walk into the courthouse ...dressed as a Jedi knight and carrying a light saber, willing to do whatever the law requires to complete her mission..."
Saw this in today's Raleigh News and Observer.
"What began as a radio stunt...has turned into a real quest for...a language arts teacher..." "I was doing it to win $1,000, but now it's much bigger because I don't want to disappoint my students..." "
They've been blamed for juvenile dilequency on a fairly regular basis since at least the 30's.
"...why should Windows/Intel users have to buy another piece of software to protect themselves from a potential security problem in the processsor? "
Uh, because they were unwise enough to buy the processor?