...the car is not just a vehicle for transport. It is/part of home/
Aye. Rolling shelter. Which explains why people like me (please note all flames will be shunted to ground) like large 4WD's with leather seats and premium sound systems. Forget the actual road utility or huge operating costs - It's like owning a two-story house with wheels. Tangible asset.
Oh occiasionally I pull a trailer with a few pavilions and a set of armour or three off to Rowany Festival, but I could hire something for that. The real reason I put up with the parking strife is that I can spend the hour each way to work in a comfortable personal space that I'm used to.
...and the "Pop" you hear is the implosion of what's left of my Slashdot karma...
Ohmigawd I forgot about those. And I worked for XDS for six years. Max Palevsky and his invention of the priority interrupt. Subsequent cave-in to IBM for copier trade patent suits (a real pity that the consortium Fairchild Camera & Instrument and Honeywell IS didn't call the new FE company Farewell Honeychild), dropped production of mainframes and all the beards went to Maynard and DEC. TI thermal terminals that actually caught fire*, leaky hydraulically actuated disk drives that walked across the floor during library compressions, ASR33's and plated wire memory. Dang, those were the days.
And no I'm not dating myself -- in those days it was ok for nerds to marry, as long as your partner could code too.
*My favorite support call of all time -- "There's smoke coming out of the keyboard. What do I do?" Naturally I waited until they got all the contact details before I said that...
We are fortunate that SCO based their claim on the perception of stolen code, rather than the intellectual property represented by the Unix command interface. In a climate that permits egregious patents on "soft" aspects of software behaviour (one-click anyone?) that approach could have been a true horror despite all claims to prior art.
...Personally, I think if a game's good enough, it's immersive no matter how crap the graphics are.
Yep. Still playing Everquest I, won't give it up. Yes, I will eventually get my epic weapons, nerfed as they are, because the game incites a rare form of stubbornness in me. Graphics are weak, but there are lots of them.
--Lewerd
...Most administrators know or at least use to know enough about the platform they are admistering...
"Hi. I'm having a bit of trouble with what appears to be ambiguous interrupt return addressing in a legacy driver, and I'm looking for a bit of info. Can you help me?"
"Have you checked to make sure the device is powered on?" -- Nullus stercus, ipi eram.
If you set up a small XP network using the wizard, it still requires a floppy to move little bits around to other machines in the network. Thumb drives not accepted. Bit of a drag when I brought my wife's new EQ games machine home without a floppy, had to *sheesh* actually netadmin that morning. Waste of good playing time, I could have been up at Noble's Causeway beating up murkgliders.
You're right of course, I was speaking of the file system not DECNET per se. While we're at it, can we have DCL? Please? Decent regular expressions for file searches? Only a few little mods, and i won't insist on a BLISS-32 compiler, honest.
...weather gods permitting. It's in TFA, link supplied in parent post.
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To really see how much better it is, you'll need to use it to get a feeling for what it can do.
Logical names. Migawd, Logical Names! I would crawl through broken glass to have logical names implemented on a Windows or *Nix machine today. Symbol subtitution isn't. Shortcuts aren't. But to be able to specify a path with a logical name, then completely forget about it until you need to swap locations with a single tiny change, ahh.... nirvana. Define Disk1 decnetnode::somediskunit:[somepath.or.other.] and refer to disk1 from then on. Rich option set. Massive changes via tiny leetle edits.
Yep, I work in wholesale managed funds. One or two dropouts and your customer will walk, taking a few billion in custody with them. It's not the sort of conversation with the boss you want.
Investment acccounting is run on an exceedingly well looked-after Alpha VMS system. It's got some remarkably ugly software running on it, but it does not fail. At all. The real business transactions are mostly humans with spreadsheets (Yeep!) but the accounts depend on good-old RMS.
1 if by land... that's not a compression scheme, that's an indexing scheme.
Speaking of which, don't we have to consider indexing this megalith? And if things haven't changed *that* much since I was a DBA, you can easily have indexing that takes ten times the storage of the raw data itself. Better factor that in, too.
We've seen the Star Wars visions of 3D visualisation now part of this generation's mindset, but the earliest record of the concept for 3D displays must have come from Doc Smith's epic SF "Lensman" series of novels -- the author made use of some quaint and stylised technology, but the upshot was a 3-D "Tank" for "grand fleet operations" and a smaller "Reducing Tank" to show a tactical view. This was written in the 1930-1950 era, long before flat-screen, B&W commercial television made it to every house.
You can bet the military have such things on their long-term shopping list.
MS shill? I really don't think I qualify. I simply believe both OS' - Unix and Windows - are equally good. I've been a software / network / DB engineer for about thirty five years, since long before the rise of the small computer. During all that time I've never seen an OS that deserves either praise or condemnation -- only a vast attention to detail. It's the skills of the people on the spot that make the difference, and it always will be. If you want to pick a side, pick the side of the technologists who are being trivialised in the quest for more and more process and procedure, at the expense of the poor sod who has to actually make the suckers work.
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I thought I saw ironic mentioned somewhere in the periodic table of the elements... somewhere between Earth and Water.
Also Andromeda Strain, one of the first decent SF films to feature a computer that wasn't a talking card sorter.
Mana Battery Day! Wouldn't work for pure tanks though...
Aye. Rolling shelter. Which explains why people like me (please note all flames will be shunted to ground) like large 4WD's with leather seats and premium sound systems. Forget the actual road utility or huge operating costs - It's like owning a two-story house with wheels. Tangible asset.
Oh occiasionally I pull a trailer with a few pavilions and a set of armour or three off to Rowany Festival, but I could hire something for that. The real reason I put up with the parking strife is that I can spend the hour each way to work in a comfortable personal space that I'm used to.
...and the "Pop" you hear is the implosion of what's left of my Slashdot karma...
Living in Australia, we wouldn't have that problem. You see someone doing that, you walk up and whack 'em a good one on the ear hole. Problem solved.
These relate to certain elements that have been discovered but whose discoveries have not independently corroborated.
Specifically, Unobtanium, Expensium, Managerium (exceptionally high number, very dense), Budgetarium, and Planetarium.
Ohmigawd I forgot about those. And I worked for XDS for six years. Max Palevsky and his invention of the priority interrupt. Subsequent cave-in to IBM for copier trade patent suits (a real pity that the consortium Fairchild Camera & Instrument and Honeywell IS didn't call the new FE company Farewell Honeychild), dropped production of mainframes and all the beards went to Maynard and DEC. TI thermal terminals that actually caught fire*, leaky hydraulically actuated disk drives that walked across the floor during library compressions, ASR33's and plated wire memory. Dang, those were the days.
And no I'm not dating myself -- in those days it was ok for nerds to marry, as long as your partner could code too.
*My favorite support call of all time -- "There's smoke coming out of the keyboard. What do I do?" Naturally I waited until they got all the contact details before I said that...
The Windows admin washed his hands, then pulled out twelve paper towels and thoroughly dried both hands up to the wrists in two seconds flat.
The Unix admin took out one paper towel and very carefully, using every bit of dry towel, dried his hands perfectly in under one minute.
The Mainframe admin breezed through without stopping to wash his hands at all.
"Somewhere along the line" he said, "we learned not to piss on our fingers..."
We are fortunate that SCO based their claim on the perception of stolen code, rather than the intellectual property represented by the Unix command interface. In a climate that permits egregious patents on "soft" aspects of software behaviour (one-click anyone?) that approach could have been a true horror despite all claims to prior art.
Yep. Still playing Everquest I, won't give it up. Yes, I will eventually get my epic weapons, nerfed as they are, because the game incites a rare form of stubbornness in me. Graphics are weak, but there are lots of them. --Lewerd
"Hi. I'm having a bit of trouble with what appears to be ambiguous interrupt return addressing in a legacy driver, and I'm looking for a bit of info. Can you help me?"
"Have you checked to make sure the device is powered on?" -- Nullus stercus, ipi eram.
If you set up a small XP network using the wizard, it still requires a floppy to move little bits around to other machines in the network. Thumb drives not accepted. Bit of a drag when I brought my wife's new EQ games machine home without a floppy, had to *sheesh* actually netadmin that morning. Waste of good playing time, I could have been up at Noble's Causeway beating up murkgliders.
And of course old favorites, bored.com and SomethingAwful.com
You're right of course, I was speaking of the file system not DECNET per se. While we're at it, can we have DCL? Please? Decent regular expressions for file searches? Only a few little mods, and i won't insist on a BLISS-32 compiler, honest.
Hehe, fine, you can make your shuttle with kitchen tiles. What other design optimisations can you offer?
...weather gods permitting. It's in TFA, link supplied in parent post.
Logical names. Migawd, Logical Names! I would crawl through broken glass to have logical names implemented on a Windows or *Nix machine today. Symbol subtitution isn't. Shortcuts aren't. But to be able to specify a path with a logical name, then completely forget about it until you need to swap locations with a single tiny change, ahh.... nirvana. Define Disk1 decnetnode::somediskunit:[somepath.or.other.] and refer to disk1 from then on. Rich option set. Massive changes via tiny leetle edits.
But I digress...(nap...)
Yep, I work in wholesale managed funds. One or two dropouts and your customer will walk, taking a few billion in custody with them. It's not the sort of conversation with the boss you want. Investment acccounting is run on an exceedingly well looked-after Alpha VMS system. It's got some remarkably ugly software running on it, but it does not fail. At all. The real business transactions are mostly humans with spreadsheets (Yeep!) but the accounts depend on good-old RMS.
My 1953 copy of Webster's Unabridged has an entry for "Computer (noun, archaic) One who computes".
Oh... that hurts. The ribs.....
Speaking of which, don't we have to consider indexing this megalith? And if things haven't changed *that* much since I was a DBA, you can easily have indexing that takes ten times the storage of the raw data itself. Better factor that in, too.
Thy foe. Thy, you coffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!
You can bet the military have such things on their long-term shopping list.
MS shill? I really don't think I qualify. I simply believe both OS' - Unix and Windows - are equally good. I've been a software / network / DB engineer for about thirty five years, since long before the rise of the small computer. During all that time I've never seen an OS that deserves either praise or condemnation -- only a vast attention to detail. It's the skills of the people on the spot that make the difference, and it always will be. If you want to pick a side, pick the side of the technologists who are being trivialised in the quest for more and more process and procedure, at the expense of the poor sod who has to actually make the suckers work.