The Register:But it relied on being able to run the copy of Windows that was there, so needed to know the entry points of the key Microsoft system DLLs. Actually, you didn't need to have Windows present at all. You could just install "OS/2 for Windows" by itself and you'd have a pure 32-bit OS/2 system. And because it didn't have Windows, it was fast! It pissed us off royally in Boca that IBM never advertised this.
Oh, since I can say this with it being somewhat on topic, OS/2 wasn't being ported to PPC. We were re-writing the kernel. It was based on the Berkeley Mach Kernel. I've seen posts in the past stating this and I wasn't able to post in time to dispute it.
about my karma. I also dislike Bush, BUT you do raise an interesting editorial question. And, I, myself have seen a trend lately in content. And... you should have been modded as "OFFTOPIC" not "Flaimbait"
Maybe all of the above to make the product as cheap as possible. I was thinking who their market is - people who want a cheap camera to take on vacation (who cares if it gets lost or stolen). Your typical consumer of these cameras are not going to hack into them nor will they care to.
The last time I checked, $15 for a (film) disposable + $10 processing vs. $11 digital camera + $11 "processing". $25 film vs. $22 digital. I'd still go with the film just because of the better quality of photos. They're going to have to lower the price more or make the quality better before I would use their product.
I hope the folks whose expertise is in this area will keep an eye out for any other hanky-panky.
I really appreciate the folks who spend the time to figure out these things instead of writing it off as little "quirks" or accepting the line from tech support that you have to get "used to the product".
My brother actually got this line from a Fujitsu tech support guy when he complained that his laptop didn't always read the CD-rom when a new one was inserted and the fact that the laptop didn't shutdown when told to (It would just restart ). - this was in 1999 - BTW.
Which leads me to a more general point; there were over 60 Million people who signed up for the DNC list, for one. Spam legislation has plenty of support. You'd think that marketers would get the idea that people don't want ads shoved down their throats and that folks become pretty resentful when it does happen.
I'm glad the numbers are starting to catch up with people's sentiment about buying individual songs. I'm hoping this will counteract the numbers that the RIAA's consultants have been using to claim that file sharing is causing the music industry's problems. Yes, they actually have numbers that back up the RIAA's claim. It was on CNBC a few months ago. Unfortunatly, they didn't say if their numbers reflected the people who don't buy nor steal because of the prices.
I think these surveys will start show the RIAA that, file-sharing/song-stealing is a symptom of CD prices that are not priced reasonably and the fact that for years, the music industry packaged music only one way - buy it all or nothing. Maybe now they'll see that song-swapping really isn't the problem.
The song stealing muddied the waters for a while. It allowed the music execs to point fingers instead of looking at the real problem - their pricing and marketing policies.
If you actually did a cost benefit analysis of these types of sales pitches, you'd find that they're probably not worth it. I did once. It came out to be negative.
With mail order, you're kind of screwed. On the other hand, you go into CompUSA or Microcenter and they ask you for your contact info. I tell them no - if I'm paying cash. With checks and CC, again, I guess we're screwed. Then again, I don't know.
Maybe we don't need to give our info for CC. This happened to me when I had to buy a computer. CompUSA's clerk said that they needed the info because it was a CC pruchase. Fine, whatever. Later that month, I got junk mail from them with my last name spelled wrong! Those lying sacks of shit! If it was for the CC, then it shouldn't have gone through if it was necessary - should it?
Last week, I got a telemarketer call - yes, I'm on the DNC list. I started slyly asking them,"so, what's the name of your company, again?" Then asked them, "what number are you calling from?" The lady then freaked-out saying that,"You're oon the DNC list! We're downloading the list now." and gave a bunch of other incredibly stupid reasons why they were breaking the law. In the mean time, I kept repeatedly asking for the number. They never gave it to me. So, I repported them to both the Federal and the State. And on the State's (GA), I placed in my complaint that the company refused to give me their number.
I have a funny feeling that nothing will come of it, since I didn't get their number. Which leads me to another issue, how do you file a complaint when these shitheads know to game the system? Is the FCC just going after the big fish in hopes of curtailing the little fry? Which means, the little fry can make calls with impunity?
I think just exercising is what we should do - period. I've never seen any compelling evidence that mostly strength training is any better than lets say, mostly cardio. For me, anyway, very intense cardio (Masters swimming, running) with a little strength training works best. Also, I'm small (5' 8") with genes that make me put on 5 lbs. of muscle when I just sneeze! When I lifted a lot, I started to get really stocky. I started to look like a tree trunk with legs.:-)
The best exercise advice I've ever seen is from The Solution (http://www.sweetestfruit.org/) : just keep active and make it fun!
Artemis P. Simopoulis, MD, and Jo Robinson. (C)1999
A little dated with the research but pretty good recipes! Deserts too!
I wish there were more studies on the Omega-3 fatty acids. Especially, if they find out that they really work because I've been spending a fortune on Omega-3 Eggs, Omega-3 this, Omega-3 that....
I once received an email with a link that said that I needed to "update" my eBay account with a new: credit card #, my SSN, DOB. The funny thing is I never had an eBay account - ever.
I was at a hotel in Houston one time and I wanted to use my calling card to call home. After following the directions listed on the phone a few times, i was redirected to some telco that I've never heard of, and someone came on the phone, asked for the number I was calling and my calling card number. He then asked for my PIN. I said no way. He then told me that he couldn't make the call. I hung up. Later, at the airport, my card worked perfectly. I wish I got the name of the telco that was blocking access to my long distance company so I could have filed some sort of complaint with the FTC. Is it common practice for hotels to block access to your long distance provider so that you have to use their company for help that they charge you for?
I've gotten so paranoid, I've repeatedly hung up on legitimate calls. It's unfortunate, but this shit is hurting legitimate businesses and making it harder for us consumers to know if we're being taken or not.
For one thing, "lifeandliberty.gov" that's sooooo Orwellian."
...why do so few of them bring up Echelon?... " Maybe because it seems so far fetched that most people wouldn't believe it? If it wasn't for Australia and for the EU making a big stink over it, I, for one, would have had a hard time believing it myself.
I also wish that those folks who argued against the PATRIOT Act would get more publicity. These are things people need to be aware of and to think about. If it wasn't for/., I would never have known those people even existed or have read their arguments.
Ah yes. If only that were the case. I myself forget where the news agencies get their information when they report the weather or disasters. NASA is probably the only government agency that's underappreciated, underfunded, undrerused, and provides the most value to us taxpayers. Maybe the FAA had them beat. I don't know.
In a way, it's kind of comforting that the NSA is actually buying the rights and not just taking the technology. They could just take/use the technology and who would be the wiser? Assuming of course that this isn't some PR scheme to mislead the pulbic. Which reminds me, I need to go and buy more aluminum foil to make more hats.
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I couldn't decide who to respond to, so I chose your comment.
Back in the day (c.2000), when times were good, I contracted. I would do my work, check with my supervisor/client to make sure the work was acceptable and that there wasn't anything else to do, and then I would go home and play tennis or something. What the hell, money was good and, at the time anyway, jobs were plentiful.
Fast forward a month. The VP of the division catchs me in the hall and asks, "Why aren't you billing 40hours a week?" I explained that I'm getting my work done earlier than planned and since I wasn't given more assignments, I take off. You save money and I get free time. She didn't like that. She insisted that I bill 40 hours. So, if I didn't have more work, I'd surf the Web until I got more work. And when someone did say something about it, I relayed my conversation I had with the VP. I was renewed TWICE - ah the good old days! One of the employees there asked me, "What, you don't like to work?" I replied, "I value my free time very highly." He got the picture since he had the cutest little daughters.
Fast forward to 2003, a friend of mine has a baby and the one in the oven had complications. (The baby didn't make it.) His boss inssisted he work weekends - on top of his 60 hour normal work week. He refused. He's now without a job.
All this stuff about staying home is much easier said than done these days. If you want a life too bad. You have to make up for the people they laid off. "You don't like it?!? Well, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! In this ecomony, you can be easily replaced", a manager said to me in 1990 when we were going through bad times.
The article isn't very specific - to me anyway.
The article is vendor specific and if you want an OSS job you need to know generic issues:
Network security - ALL protocols (esp. TCP/IP)
Network Architecture
Platform Integration - including (yuk!) Windows
I don't want to be a TROLL, but it's working out that way. I need people who can put together a NETWORK - NOT be a vendor specific cooky cutter LAN. The more you know about everything (networking) the more it helps to justify hiring you.
I know, it's a CATCH 22 deal these days -(I used to be a coder - and I got sick of it.) There's a lot of us ex-techies who are now PHBs because we couldn't take ( or didn't want to deal with) the current climate in the IT industry and we know TRUE skills when we see them.
I don't even know if this is even on topic based on the article...
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That is re-writing the kernel for PPC based on the Mach Kernel.
Actually, you didn't need to have Windows present at all. You could just install "OS/2 for Windows" by itself and you'd have a pure 32-bit OS/2 system. And because it didn't have Windows, it was fast!
It pissed us off royally in Boca that IBM never advertised this.
Oh, since I can say this with it being somewhat on topic, OS/2 wasn't being ported to PPC. We were re-writing the kernel. It was based on the Berkeley Mach Kernel.
I've seen posts in the past stating this and I wasn't able to post in time to dispute it.
Yuk! Not those. On the other hand, if they can make it look like Brook Burke .. ooooohhhhh
One word - marketing
Dissent isn't always funny people! Nor is it always spelled correctlie!
Sometimes I think if our founding fathers (US, sorry for being provicial) were to post here they would be modded as "Troll" or "Flaimbait"
Now, why he was modded as "Flaimbait" and you were modded as "Informative" confuses the hell out of me.
about my karma. I also dislike Bush, BUT you do raise an interesting editorial question. And, I, myself have seen a trend lately in content. And... you should have been modded as "OFFTOPIC" not "Flaimbait"
No, I'm sad to say, it's the American way.
The last time I checked, $15 for a (film) disposable + $10 processing vs. $11 digital camera + $11 "processing". $25 film vs. $22 digital. I'd still go with the film just because of the better quality of photos. They're going to have to lower the price more or make the quality better before I would use their product.
I really appreciate the folks who spend the time to figure out these things instead of writing it off as little "quirks" or accepting the line from tech support that you have to get "used to the product".
My brother actually got this line from a Fujitsu tech support guy when he complained that his laptop didn't always read the CD-rom when a new one was inserted and the fact that the laptop didn't shutdown when told to (It would just restart ). - this was in 1999 - BTW.
Which leads me to a more general point; there were over 60 Million people who signed up for the DNC list, for one. Spam legislation has plenty of support. You'd think that marketers would get the idea that people don't want ads shoved down their throats and that folks become pretty resentful when it does happen.
I think these surveys will start show the RIAA that, file-sharing/song-stealing is a symptom of CD prices that are not priced reasonably and the fact that for years, the music industry packaged music only one way - buy it all or nothing. Maybe now they'll see that song-swapping really isn't the problem.
The song stealing muddied the waters for a while. It allowed the music execs to point fingers instead of looking at the real problem - their pricing and marketing policies.
If you actually did a cost benefit analysis of these types of sales pitches, you'd find that they're probably not worth it. I did once. It came out to be negative.
Maybe we don't need to give our info for CC. This happened to me when I had to buy a computer. CompUSA's clerk said that they needed the info because it was a CC pruchase. Fine, whatever. Later that month, I got junk mail from them with my last name spelled wrong! Those lying sacks of shit! If it was for the CC, then it shouldn't have gone through if it was necessary - should it?
Last week, I got a telemarketer call - yes, I'm on the DNC list. I started slyly asking them,"so, what's the name of your company, again?" Then asked them, "what number are you calling from?"
The lady then freaked-out saying that,"You're oon the DNC list! We're downloading the list now." and gave a bunch of other incredibly stupid reasons why they were breaking the law. In the mean time, I kept repeatedly asking for the number. They never gave it to me.
So, I repported them to both the Federal and the State. And on the State's (GA), I placed in my complaint that the company refused to give me their number.
I have a funny feeling that nothing will come of it, since I didn't get their number.
Which leads me to another issue, how do you file a complaint when these shitheads know to game the system? Is the FCC just going after the big fish in hopes of curtailing the little fry? Which means, the little fry can make calls with impunity?
My 3 cents
For me, anyway, very intense cardio (Masters swimming, running) with a little strength training works best. Also, I'm small (5' 8") with genes that make me put on 5 lbs. of muscle when I just sneeze! When I lifted a lot, I started to get really stocky. I started to look like a tree trunk with legs.
The best exercise advice I've ever seen is from The Solution (http://www.sweetestfruit.org/) : just keep active and make it fun!
A little dated with the research but pretty good recipes! Deserts too!
I wish there were more studies on the Omega-3 fatty acids. Especially, if they find out that they really work because I've been spending a fortune on Omega-3 Eggs, Omega-3 this, Omega-3 that ....
I once received an email with a link that said that I needed to "update" my eBay account with a new: credit card #, my SSN, DOB. The funny thing is I never had an eBay account - ever.
I was at a hotel in Houston one time and I wanted to use my calling card to call home. After following the directions listed on the phone a few times, i was redirected to some telco that I've never heard of, and someone came on the phone, asked for the number I was calling and my calling card number. He then asked for my PIN. I said no way. He then told me that he couldn't make the call. I hung up.
Later, at the airport, my card worked perfectly. I wish I got the name of the telco that was blocking access to my long distance company so I could have filed some sort of complaint with the FTC.
Is it common practice for hotels to block access to your long distance provider so that you have to use their company for help that they charge you for?
I've gotten so paranoid, I've repeatedly hung up on legitimate calls. It's unfortunate, but this shit is hurting legitimate businesses and making it harder for us consumers to know if we're being taken or not.
I also wish that those folks who argued against the PATRIOT Act would get more publicity. These are things people need to be aware of and to think about. If it wasn't for /., I would never have known those people even existed or have read their arguments.
Ah yes. If only that were the case. I myself forget where the news agencies get their information when they report the weather or disasters.
NASA is probably the only government agency that's underappreciated, underfunded, undrerused, and provides the most value to us taxpayers. Maybe the FAA had them beat. I don't know.
From Webster's ...
So, it's obviously in a bakery! Get a clue!Danish: a light pastry leavened with yeast and often filled with cheese, fruit, etc
In a way, it's kind of comforting that the NSA is actually buying the rights and not just taking the technology. They could just take/use the technology and who would be the wiser?
Assuming of course that this isn't some PR scheme to mislead the pulbic. Which reminds me, I need to go and buy more aluminum foil to make more hats.
Back in the day (c.2000), when times were good, I contracted. I would do my work, check with my supervisor/client to make sure the work was acceptable and that there wasn't anything else to do, and then I would go home and play tennis or something. What the hell, money was good and, at the time anyway, jobs were plentiful.
Fast forward a month. The VP of the division catchs me in the hall and asks, "Why aren't you billing 40hours a week?" I explained that I'm getting my work done earlier than planned and since I wasn't given more assignments, I take off. You save money and I get free time. She didn't like that. She insisted that I bill 40 hours. So, if I didn't have more work, I'd surf the Web until I got more work. And when someone did say something about it, I relayed my conversation I had with the VP. I was renewed TWICE - ah the good old days!
One of the employees there asked me, "What, you don't like to work?" I replied, "I value my free time very highly." He got the picture since he had the cutest little daughters.
Fast forward to 2003, a friend of mine has a baby and the one in the oven had complications. (The baby didn't make it.) His boss inssisted he work weekends - on top of his 60 hour normal work week. He refused. He's now without a job.
All this stuff about staying home is much easier said than done these days. If you want a life too bad. You have to make up for the people they laid off. "You don't like it?!? Well, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! In this ecomony, you can be easily replaced", a manager said to me in 1990 when we were going through bad times.
Name
DOB
SSN
Identity theft anyone? Use your credit and bank account to finance ___________ ?
Network security - ALL protocols (esp. TCP/IP)
Network Architecture
Platform Integration - including (yuk!) Windows
I don't want to be a TROLL, but it's working out that way. I need people who can put together a NETWORK - NOT be a vendor specific cooky cutter LAN. The more you know about everything (networking) the more it helps to justify hiring you.
I know, it's a CATCH 22 deal these days -(I used to be a coder - and I got sick of it.) There's a lot of us ex-techies who are now PHBs because we couldn't take ( or didn't want to deal with) the current climate in the IT industry and we know TRUE skills when we see them.
I don't even know if this is even on topic based on the article...
WTF?