You have a misconception, mainframes and the related piece (e.g. storage, software, services) at the end of 2012 accounted for a quarter of IBM sales and half its profits.
that's a fallacy, to think COBOL is the same as mainframes. COBOL is run on Unix, OpenVMS and Linux systems at many financial, healthcare and insurance corporations. That code isn't going anywhere, it integrates with databases and various front end Java Server EE middleware well.
Mainframes run all the common enterprise software, any and all modern languages, DBMS, middleware servers.
When the asian corporations outgrow the low end stuff they are using, and want huge scalability and massive throughput, they'll be needing mainframes.
you can do in place upgrades with mint, what does "supported" mean anyway as you will be the one to fix your computer if you hose it for most any distro. I do the in-place but have to do some minor tweaking afterwards. Just dump your/home and whatever other data files to an external disk beforehand
casting bullets and reloading is *much* easier than 3D design and printing of any mechanical device. very cheap too. I highly recommend the hobby in conjunction with competitive target shooting.
lead doe not magically stop 100% of gamma rays from a source.. Consider 1.1 MeV gamma rays from cobalt 60, a centimeter of lead will cut the amount of gamma rays only to half, still detectable.
yes, a digital circuit is one type of analog circuit, doesn't have any relevance to the truth of what you refuse to learn.
A turning machine can simulate *some* analog systems, not all of them. a finite state machine cannot accurately model a system with an infinite number of states nor a system with more states than the digital machine has.
Not possible, normal dirt does not contain sufficient quantities of many elements needed to make the things we use. Nor would a pocket sized device have sufficient energy to bind from elements for common objects of any appreciable size. Consider "printing" a chrome-moly piston, for example, or a rare earth magnet. Or how are you going to get the aluminum out the aluminum oxides that are plentiful in dirt to "print" an aluminum pan, the energy cost is immense Not happening.
oh really? my cell phone uses channels in the 2.4GHz space where I live. My wifi router does also.
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for the movie "running scared" in 1986 there is a car chase scene where the cars ride with one side on the ties. Interview about making that scene reveals producers went through a mountain of tires to make that short sequence because of tires bursting every few seconds.
that's nothing, I have some tiny graduated cylinders and erlenmeyer flasks for treating water in the aquarium, so I'm obviously running a meth house
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amtrak has a couple places they'll go to 110 MPH, and mostly 80 MPH is the limit. On good old 18th and 19th century style rails-on-wood-in-pebble ballast. I could drive my dodge caravan around at 100MPH too and call it a high speed sports car....
it can make someone untouchable in eyes of family, religion, or neighborhood too. Say a young american muslim women happened to have been discretely treated for a disease associated with sexual activity. It could cause hardship for her and her future in ways most of us would never consider.
batteries have internal resistance. a typical alkaline battery can initially put out about 2 amps. certain rechargables popular with model airplane hobbyists can even get to 10A. The voltage will sag below 1 V under such extreme conditions.
You can look up the discharge curves on manufacturers sites
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You have a misconception, mainframes and the related piece (e.g. storage, software, services) at the end of 2012 accounted for a quarter of IBM sales and half its profits.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/09/ibms-mainframes
that's a fallacy, to think COBOL is the same as mainframes. COBOL is run on Unix, OpenVMS and Linux systems at many financial, healthcare and insurance corporations. That code isn't going anywhere, it integrates with databases and various front end Java Server EE middleware well.
Mainframes run all the common enterprise software, any and all modern languages, DBMS, middleware servers.
When the asian corporations outgrow the low end stuff they are using, and want huge scalability and massive throughput, they'll be needing mainframes.
you have proof the DNA of the disease is the same then as now?
your 4G doesn't use 2,496â"2,690 MHz?
to kill that java server EE off?
COBOL on the other hand has well designed base of apps that have stood the test of time and still process the most important financial transactions
bullshit, recession lasted at least into 2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/10/08/the-2008-recession-never-ended/
even now the real unemployment rate is over 22% by the traditional measure abandoned during clinton years http://shadowstats.gov/
I agree, Java / EE is just warmed over c++ and makes for the most bloated set of pigware known to man.
Let's not weigh the mature base of COBOL apps that is moving our money and processing our insurance claims with that rubbish
lsb_release -a
will tell you the version of Mint.
you can do in place upgrades with mint, what does "supported" mean anyway as you will be the one to fix your computer if you hose it for most any distro. I do the in-place but have to do some minor tweaking afterwards. Just dump your /home and whatever other data files to an external disk beforehand
many of the trades require more brains and training than typical college curriculum too
casting bullets and reloading is *much* easier than 3D design and printing of any mechanical device. very cheap too. I highly recommend the hobby in conjunction with competitive target shooting.
I for one fear a creature prone to PMS in possession of a weapon that can completely remove the binding forces of a cubic meter of metal.
so beta, alpha and neutron emitters, is there an app for that?
because terrorists care about prison and the paperwork trail found after they do their evil deeds?
just like the Boston bombers cared if they were on security cams?
nope, nope and nope.
lead doe not magically stop 100% of gamma rays from a source.. Consider 1.1 MeV gamma rays from cobalt 60, a centimeter of lead will cut the amount of gamma rays only to half, still detectable.
yes, a digital circuit is one type of analog circuit, doesn't have any relevance to the truth of what you refuse to learn.
A turning machine can simulate *some* analog systems, not all of them. a finite state machine cannot accurately model a system with an infinite number of states nor a system with more states than the digital machine has.
Not possible, normal dirt does not contain sufficient quantities of many elements needed to make the things we use. Nor would a pocket sized device have sufficient energy to bind from elements for common objects of any appreciable size. Consider "printing" a chrome-moly piston, for example, or a rare earth magnet. Or how are you going to get the aluminum out the aluminum oxides that are plentiful in dirt to "print" an aluminum pan, the energy cost is immense Not happening.
oh really? my cell phone uses channels in the 2.4GHz space where I live. My wifi router does also.
for the movie "running scared" in 1986 there is a car chase scene where the cars ride with one side on the ties. Interview about making that scene reveals producers went through a mountain of tires to make that short sequence because of tires bursting every few seconds.
that's nothing, I have some tiny graduated cylinders and erlenmeyer flasks for treating water in the aquarium, so I'm obviously running a meth house
amtrak has a couple places they'll go to 110 MPH, and mostly 80 MPH is the limit. On good old 18th and 19th century style rails-on-wood-in-pebble ballast. I could drive my dodge caravan around at 100MPH too and call it a high speed sports car....
Having worked in industry, in USA it's about 2.5MB per patient per year on average for electronic medical records.
it can make someone untouchable in eyes of family, religion, or neighborhood too. Say a young american muslim women happened to have been discretely treated for a disease associated with sexual activity. It could cause hardship for her and her future in ways most of us would never consider.
nice try, fan boy. most people use the office suite that comes with their distro, the package tracking of Debian and Ubuntu prove it.
whoosh
batteries have internal resistance. a typical alkaline battery can initially put out about 2 amps. certain rechargables popular with model airplane hobbyists can even get to 10A. The voltage will sag below 1 V under such extreme conditions.
You can look up the discharge curves on manufacturers sites
not quite true, wealth can be created. however, the ultra wealthy build systems to identify, control, suppress, and confiscate from those who try.