Microsoft bought Fox Software in 1992 . I used to be a FoxPro programmer in the late 1980's; it was three times (or more) as fast as dbaseIII, and had better recovery options too. Had its own character based GUI/menu/mouse window programming system, too.
Re:Not Just in the 50s
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Why wouldn't the manuver be survivable? The various models of the B61 had adjustable (Dial-a-Yield).
mod 3: 0.3 1.5 60 170 kilotons
mod 4: 0.3 1.5 10 45 kilotons
mod 7: 10 - 340 kilotons
mod 10: 0.3 5 10 80 kilotons
mod 11: 0.3 - 340 kilotons
For a 20 kiloton weapon, severe damage to wood frame houses goes to about 1.4 miles from ground zero. And that distance increases very roughly as the cube root of the yield...for a monster 20 MEGATON bomb, it's 16 miles.
So if you're delivering a 80 kiloton yield, you'd want to be maybe more than 2.5 miles away, which I would hope your F-111 could do in a short time.
I've got hits from grub from 57 different addresses in the last month. So there's certainly no coordination among the clients. It's a WASTE of web server bandwidth. I also don't appreciate bots that claim it will come back to the robots.txt file later after crawling through denied pages and wasting even more bandwidth.
A bunch of us IT people would go out at least once a week to eat and share corporate dirt, and one of the sysadmin gals did data entry on the HR system for a few hours a week. She knew what everyone made, and wasn't shy about telling us (tsk, tsk). I actually was surprised how *low* executive and director salaries were....and yes, there were a few goof-offs who were friends with the owners who made alot more than they should have. But it was a private company, so we weren't made disgruntled or shocked.
HP gave me a $150 rebate on my PC, and a $50 one for my inkjet. Had to wait 8-10 weeks, but it did come.
I've had good luck with rebates...I do remember to include everything that's asked for and not to scribble illegibly.
I'm sure the companies that do them know they'll only pay a percentage of them since people forget to send them in, or don't send all the required stuff.
well, I heard this 20 years ago (about Prolog, Haskell, Smalltalk, LISP, etc). I really don't think in the commercial world any well designed language is going to be popular. Sorry (and I truly am). The future will continue to be half baked, bug generating, hard to maintain semi-OO languages such as C++ and Java and Microsoft's VB
Even in those engines where the piston path does not interfere with the valves, timing failure might make such severe predetonation during the compression stroke that a hole is blown in the piston or the connecting rod is broken.
you haven't refuted the argument; you've only added to the list of the STUPIDITY that causes human misery. Only throwing money at these countries will solve nothing, as long as they have an evil government. The evil has to go, and I've seen many sub-saharan countries go from bad to worse in my lifetime. Sounds like violent removal of the evil is the only option, like we're doing in Iraq.
Well, 1964 the PicturePhone(tm) was demonstrated (took a full T1 too).....39 years later and still no need for it. Who wants to have to look at someone while you talk to them on the phone? For what? I can't even stand to look at my own buttugly face in the mirror, let alone someone elses.
Of course, there are plenty of other languages that allow LISP-type constructs, plus some other neat things that have been invented over the past 25 years. But yeah, in 100 years some subset of Ivory Tower types will still use LISP and wonder why it never quite catches on in the mainstream.
These opteron servers Sun is talking about won't have those hot-swap features (most Sun boxes don't either)....and Dell has 4 hour response time 7x24 support if you want it. So how will Sun compete, especially when they'll have the added expenses of supporting multiple OS on the thing? Sun is going down!
I asked the marketing guy down the hall, he started to say "it's an enabling proactive epiphanal paradigm shift BWAH!" when I cut him short with a fire axe into his skull
PCI already has plug pin-compatible 32 and 64 bit data width standards (if a 64 bit PCI card is plugged into a 32 bit connector it will reconfigure itself for 32 bit transfers)
Even in recent years, the average yearly deaths from flu has been 36,000. Over the past 25 years sometimes 100,000 deaths in a year. SARS has thus far been NOTHING in comparison. Why would the Chinese goverment or any other bother with that when AIDS and influenza are dropping people like flies?
Re:The legacy part that bothers me...
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Wintel is a pain in the keister. There's plenty of other architectures than Wintel for running Linux or other free OS, that don't have any restrictive IRQ nonsense and also let you boot from any storage device, network card and any disk partition
other areas far from the west coast in the U.S. have been rated for being in danger of a severe quake....even parts of my home state of Illinois , about every 500 years or so
actually, even with uniform distributed charge after charging complete, an asymmetric suspended object (like REAL WORLD BALL BEARINGS) will twist when an electrostatic field is applied until torques and forces are balanced. What a load of crap the linked article is
The plethora of applications available today, none of which works perfectly or meets every need, is a major obstacle to the adoption of any one OS on the desktop or the back end.
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Microsoft bought Fox Software in 1992 . I used to be a FoxPro programmer in the late 1980's; it was three times (or more) as fast as dbaseIII, and had better recovery options too. Had its own character based GUI/menu/mouse window programming system, too.
Why wouldn't the manuver be survivable? The various models of the B61 had adjustable (Dial-a-Yield).
mod 3: 0.3 1.5 60 170 kilotons
mod 4: 0.3 1.5 10 45 kilotons
mod 7: 10 - 340 kilotons
mod 10: 0.3 5 10 80 kilotons
mod 11: 0.3 - 340 kilotons
For a 20 kiloton weapon, severe damage to wood frame houses goes to about 1.4 miles from ground zero. And that distance increases very roughly as the cube root of the yield...for a monster 20 MEGATON bomb, it's 16 miles.
So if you're delivering a 80 kiloton yield, you'd want to be maybe more than 2.5 miles away, which I would hope your F-111 could do in a short time.
I've got hits from grub from 57 different addresses in the last month. So there's certainly no coordination among the clients. It's a WASTE of web server bandwidth. I also don't appreciate bots that claim it will come back to the robots.txt file later after crawling through denied pages and wasting even more bandwidth.
A bunch of us IT people would go out at least once a week to eat and share corporate dirt, and one of the sysadmin gals did data entry on the HR system for a few hours a week. She knew what everyone made, and wasn't shy about telling us (tsk, tsk). I actually was surprised how *low* executive and director salaries were....and yes, there were a few goof-offs who were friends with the owners who made alot more than they should have. But it was a private company, so we weren't made disgruntled or shocked.
true about the "loan", but for me it still was less money overall than the market rate for the goods, which is all I care about
HP gave me a $150 rebate on my PC, and a $50 one for my inkjet. Had to wait 8-10 weeks, but it did come. I've had good luck with rebates...I do remember to include everything that's asked for and not to scribble illegibly. I'm sure the companies that do them know they'll only pay a percentage of them since people forget to send them in, or don't send all the required stuff.
well, I heard this 20 years ago (about Prolog, Haskell, Smalltalk, LISP, etc). I really don't think in the commercial world any well designed language is going to be popular. Sorry (and I truly am). The future will continue to be half baked, bug generating, hard to maintain semi-OO languages such as C++ and Java and Microsoft's VB
maybe they should just go with a gear train with its higher frictional losses than a timing belt...failure means destruction in this design.
Even in those engines where the piston path does not interfere with the valves, timing failure might make such severe predetonation during the compression stroke that a hole is blown in the piston or the connecting rod is broken.
The sound waves from hard disks and power supply fans surely already make more vibration on the CPU than this would
you haven't refuted the argument; you've only added to the list of the STUPIDITY that causes human misery. Only throwing money at these countries will solve nothing, as long as they have an evil government. The evil has to go, and I've seen many sub-saharan countries go from bad to worse in my lifetime. Sounds like violent removal of the evil is the only option, like we're doing in Iraq.
Well, 1964 the PicturePhone(tm) was demonstrated (took a full T1 too).....39 years later and still no need for it. Who wants to have to look at someone while you talk to them on the phone? For what? I can't even stand to look at my own buttugly face in the mirror, let alone someone elses.
Of course, there are plenty of other languages that allow LISP-type constructs, plus some other neat things that have been invented over the past 25 years. But yeah, in 100 years some subset of Ivory Tower types will still use LISP and wonder why it never quite catches on in the mainstream.
that's very nice, you have a model that happens to have hot swap CPU, memory, etc.....but most of Sun's product line does not , like I said
These opteron servers Sun is talking about won't have those hot-swap features (most Sun boxes don't either)....and Dell has 4 hour response time 7x24 support if you want it. So how will Sun compete, especially when they'll have the added expenses of supporting multiple OS on the thing? Sun is going down!
The TRS-80 had a MODEM that was 300 baud, but the cassette interface could do 1200 or even 2400; the bit rate was programmable
I asked the marketing guy down the hall, he started to say "it's an enabling proactive epiphanal paradigm shift BWAH!" when I cut him short with a fire axe into his skull
PCI already has plug pin-compatible 32 and 64 bit data width standards (if a 64 bit PCI card is plugged into a 32 bit connector it will reconfigure itself for 32 bit transfers)
Even in recent years, the average yearly deaths from flu has been 36,000. Over the past 25 years sometimes 100,000 deaths in a year. SARS has thus far been NOTHING in comparison. Why would the Chinese goverment or any other bother with that when AIDS and influenza are dropping people like flies?
Wintel is a pain in the keister. There's plenty of other architectures than Wintel for running Linux or other free OS, that don't have any restrictive IRQ nonsense and also let you boot from any storage device, network card and any disk partition
out with old; in with the new
other areas far from the west coast in the U.S. have been rated for being in danger of a severe quake....even parts of my home state of Illinois , about every 500 years or so
meant to say "twist & move"....also, when the external field is removed, will "twist and move" again to equilibrium position.
actually, even with uniform distributed charge after charging complete, an asymmetric suspended object (like REAL WORLD BALL BEARINGS) will twist when an electrostatic field is applied until torques and forces are balanced. What a load of crap the linked article is
The plethora of applications available today, none of which works perfectly or meets every need, is a major obstacle to the adoption of any one OS on the desktop or the back end.