I just checked and I'm getting 1238Kb down/302Kb up. I'm in the Northwest (the first area to get cut over to attbi.com). I just moved here a few months ago, so I have no idea if there was another service provider here before AT&T or not.
We used to use indent(1) as part of the front-end to our SCMS. Whenever you checked in a module, it was automatically reformatted to the "official" standard. When you checked something out, you had the option of reformatting it to your personal style, or just leaving it as-is. I modified the SCMS checkout command to search for a.indent.pro file in your home directory and automatically invoke indent(1) if it found one. This by and large made everyone (except some of the old guys) pretty happy.
Why is this modded Offtopic? Absolutely the first thing you do when you are rewriting code is to write tests against the existing code, so you can make sure you haven't broken anything.
I would suggest that you start small, have lots of code reviews so that you can build consensus on best practices (clue: "best practices" that only half the team agree with are not "best"), and try to do this *without* incorporating any bug fixes. This way your new code will be "bug-compatible" with the old, and you'll get consistent results from your test suites.
And the eyewitnesses have reported seeing flames from the planes sides. I'm imagining a bomb or a bit of sabotage could easily have caused such an effect.
According to an aviation expert from the USA, interviewed by CBC, the Airbus has a very good safety record and there haven't been (with US carrier's Airbuses anyway) any accidents of this nature
What do people usually do for extended storage? I have some 3M Blackwatch tapes that are 20+ years old and still readable (while several CDs purchased around that same time frame are not), but obviously 9-track isn't really a viable medium for today's storage needs. What are people using for long-term archival storage?
When I was moving a couple months ago, I ran across an old XT clone that someone gave me. Just for kicks, I fired it up. Booted right into DOS 2.11. The drive? A legendary Seagate ST225. No file on the drive had a timestamp later than April 1992, so it hadn't been booted (or seriously used, anyway) in almost ten years! Don't know about their current drives, but their old ones seem reliable!
Where I used to live, the phone company offered that as a service -- any call that came in w/o a valid caller ID signal was blocked. Which caused me no end of grief at my in-laws, since they used an analogous service that blocked their caller ID. I couldn't call a couple of my friends from my in-laws' until I figured out how to disable the caller-ID masking.
Yeah, but that's a Mac serial port. RS422 is a balanced line interface, and capable of much higher speeds than the RS232 interfaces on PCs. ISTR that they pushed AppleTalk up to close to 1Mb/sec on those, while RS232 was limited to 38.4K or something (up to 115K now with 16550 UARTS, but still slower).
Not at all. The business would do business "normally", and only sell their special product to special customers who knew the right way to order. So if you ordered a large cheese pizza, that's what they'd deliver. But if you ordered a large plain pizza, they'd throw a little something extra in the box and you'd owe the delivery boy a large tip. Cash only, of course.
It could have just been the fact that large amounts of cash tend to attract thieves. What if you'd gone to a bar/food court and talked up your new ride, mentioning that you'd paid cash? Next thing they know, there's somebody showing up for a "test ride" who won't let the salesman out of the car until they pony up $4K in cash.
Or more likely what it meant was that the manager was going to have to make an unscheduled run to the bank to deposit your payment, and they wanted to make sure they could cover for him.
I think what you'll find is a lot of "legitimate businesses" (run, of course, by "legitimate businessmen"). So your $25 bag of pot is going to be recorded as "1 large plain + delivery charge" or "Preventive termite treatment".
The point is, it's not perceptible for most applications. We just switched from using J++ (native C/C++) to NetBeans (100% Java), and on a decent machine (I've just got an 850MHz P///) there's really no difference. On some of the slower machines here (400MHz PIIs), there's a sub-second delay on some operations, but it's not enough to be distracting. I wouldn't use it for real-time stuff, but then I wouldn't use C++ for real time either (unless I didn't use any templates or any of the other nice OOP features, and then it's basically just C anyway).
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I found a clear pattern of "soak the loyal" early on, then quickly drop the price to reasonable levels.
s/Macintosh/Intel CPUs/
I just checked and I'm getting 1238Kb down/302Kb up. I'm in the Northwest (the first area to get cut over to attbi.com). I just moved here a few months ago, so I have no idea if there was another service provider here before AT&T or not.
that first Electric car came out in 1954
Actually, try 1900. It was an early Porsche design.
Heh. I took Calc I & II in 18 days. Six hours a day, and we had assignments that had to be done over the lunch hour. Nastiest course I ever had.
Could someone please tell this naive soul what useful everyday application all these CPU cycles could be used for?
Hey, if it's got too many cycles, you're too old!
We used to use indent(1) as part of the front-end to our SCMS. Whenever you checked in a module, it was automatically reformatted to the "official" standard. When you checked something out, you had the option of reformatting it to your personal style, or just leaving it as-is. I modified the SCMS checkout command to search for a .indent.pro file in your home directory and automatically invoke indent(1) if it found one. This by and large made everyone (except some of the old guys) pretty happy.
Why is this modded Offtopic? Absolutely the first thing you do when you are rewriting code is to write tests against the existing code, so you can make sure you haven't broken anything.
I would suggest that you start small, have lots of code reviews so that you can build consensus on best practices (clue: "best practices" that only half the team agree with are not "best"), and try to do this *without* incorporating any bug fixes. This way your new code will be "bug-compatible" with the old, and you'll get consistent results from your test suites.
Dating is a very difficult part of archaeology
And here I thought only us computer geeks had trouble getting a date!
Dunno, is depleted uranium toxic? Will it leach into groundwater? If not, then where's the problem?
And the eyewitnesses have reported seeing flames from the planes sides. I'm imagining a bomb or a bit of sabotage could easily have caused such an effect.
According to an aviation expert from the USA, interviewed by CBC, the Airbus has a very good safety record and there haven't been (with US carrier's Airbuses anyway) any accidents of this nature
s/Airbus/Concorde/g
Tape degrades fast
What do people usually do for extended storage? I have some 3M Blackwatch tapes that are 20+ years old and still readable (while several CDs purchased around that same time frame are not), but obviously 9-track isn't really a viable medium for today's storage needs. What are people using for long-term archival storage?
Heh, I just moved to Oregon and I couldn't rent a carpet cleaner w/o an in-state ID.
"Oh, there's no reason for it, it's just our policy."
When I was moving a couple months ago, I ran across an old XT clone that someone gave me. Just for kicks, I fired it up. Booted right into DOS 2.11. The drive? A legendary Seagate ST225. No file on the drive had a timestamp later than April 1992, so it hadn't been booted (or seriously used, anyway) in almost ten years! Don't know about their current drives, but their old ones seem reliable!
Where I used to live, the phone company offered that as a service -- any call that came in w/o a valid caller ID signal was blocked. Which caused me no end of grief at my in-laws, since they used an analogous service that blocked their caller ID. I couldn't call a couple of my friends from my in-laws' until I figured out how to disable the caller-ID masking.
Must be a chaos theory thing...
Yeah, but that's a Mac serial port. RS422 is a balanced line interface, and capable of much higher speeds than the RS232 interfaces on PCs. ISTR that they pushed AppleTalk up to close to 1Mb/sec on those, while RS232 was limited to 38.4K or something (up to 115K now with 16550 UARTS, but still slower).
Not at all. The business would do business "normally", and only sell their special product to special customers who knew the right way to order. So if you ordered a large cheese pizza, that's what they'd deliver. But if you ordered a large plain pizza, they'd throw a little something extra in the box and you'd owe the delivery boy a large tip. Cash only, of course.
It could have just been the fact that large amounts of cash tend to attract thieves. What if you'd gone to a bar/food court and talked up your new ride, mentioning that you'd paid cash? Next thing they know, there's somebody showing up for a "test ride" who won't let the salesman out of the car until they pony up $4K in cash.
Or more likely what it meant was that the manager was going to have to make an unscheduled run to the bank to deposit your payment, and they wanted to make sure they could cover for him.
I think what you'll find is a lot of "legitimate businesses" (run, of course, by "legitimate businessmen"). So your $25 bag of pot is going to be recorded as "1 large plain + delivery charge" or "Preventive termite treatment".
Sounds like a job for Microsoft...
Just tell 'em you're putting in a skylight for them -- they'll love it!
Speaking as a fat, middle-aged American...you've just given me a great idea! ;)
Maybe we should just go back to BCPL...
The point is, it's not perceptible for most applications. We just switched from using J++ (native C/C++) to NetBeans (100% Java), and on a decent machine (I've just got an 850MHz P///) there's really no difference. On some of the slower machines here (400MHz PIIs), there's a sub-second delay on some operations, but it's not enough to be distracting. I wouldn't use it for real-time stuff, but then I wouldn't use C++ for real time either (unless I didn't use any templates or any of the other nice OOP features, and then it's basically just C anyway).
And if you do go to their site, you'll see that it's all MS Active Server Pages. Yeah, this guy's got his finger on the pulse, all right...