And given the ham-handed way they handled the proceedings in their first appearance, the could find themselves bitchslapped hard. The Supremes don't suffer fools gladly.
Back in the days, I worked for an MSDN shop, so I'm on their Windows beta list. I play with the beta and wind up with a complimentary copy when the final ships. I haven't bought a copy of Windows since NT4 came out. OTOH, I've purchased RH5.2, RH6.1, Debian ???, and the latest has been NetBSD 1.5. All told, probably a couple hundred dollars for open source, and squat for MS.
Some engineer is not doing their job if they can't handle arbitrary data input to their device.
I think the devices that could be damaged were in the signal path following the CD player. Maybe the signal drives amps into clipping and destroys the speakers.
I never used one of the pen computers, but I used one of their laptops. They had the neatest pointing device I've seen -- a sliding rod mounted just behind the space bar. Move it L/R, roll it F/B for up/down, just the most intuitive one I've ever used. I guess somebody (Tandy?) must own the patent on it, because I've never seen another laptop with one. Too bad, it was really great.
My kick-it-in-the-corner-and-forget-about-it NT server has to be rebooted about every 75 days, it's got some kind of FD leak (NT4sp3 -- yeah, it's not the latest SP, but it's only a P166 w/64M, and SP4 just made it unusably slow). I just use it as a file and Oracle server, so it's not an especially busy box, if it were a production machine it'd probably fall over in a couple of weeks. It's slated to be converted over to NetBSD+Samba when my Copious Free Time permits. *Then* we'll see some uptime!
Never mind the problems and risks of storing hydrogen as fuel
Oh yeah, like gasoline is safe. At least with hydrogen, if your fuel tank ruptures, the hydrogen will rise & dissipate into the atmosphere, not flow along the ground looking for hot steel to ignite it or, at the very least, contaminating the groundwater.
Does 802.11b have QOS provisions? I mean, I wouldn't mind sharing my connection, but if I'm paying for it, I want priority. I know that the further you are from the NAP, the slower your speed, but I wouldn't want my connection to be swamped every time the bus stopped on my street...
Yeah, but it's the prima donnas that ignore the coding standards. "The way I write it is more readable". They're also the ones most likely to have "highly optimized" (read: unmaintainable) code.
What advantage does a realtor have in spending time (and thus money) to put ads up on the internet?
My spouse and I just (two days ago) sold our house, and our realtor told us that close to 80% of their clients came to them and asked to see houses that they had found on the net. He said it was well worth the money to list the house (and get the IPix shots).
It's also great for us, since we're moving to the other side of the continent. We can pick some examples of houses we like, and give the MLS numbers to our buying agent, and save a lot of time by not looking at houses that don't fit our needs/wants.
Or content "tailored" to the prevailing community standards. So we don't have to expose our kids to any pesky thought-provoking ideas we don't approve of.
Heh, I used to use BSD back in the 4.2 days, and SunOS more recently, but I always found Linux...non-intuitive. Then I installed NetBSD and it was like going home again. Much more comfortable (for me) than when I switched from Red Hat to Debian.
It may not be a licensing policy, it may be a support policy. Like doubling the price of support contracts for anything release prior to Win2K. Or even not offering them at all.
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I would also include something on OOP/UML
Yeah, and don't forget something on Structured Design, as long as we're covering development fads.
They'll love you forever if you leave the parts to assemble a simple mill machine in a back room.
Bah, just tell 'em how to make their own!
And given the ham-handed way they handled the proceedings in their first appearance, the could find themselves bitchslapped hard. The Supremes don't suffer fools gladly.
Back in the days, I worked for an MSDN shop, so I'm on their Windows beta list. I play with the beta and wind up with a complimentary copy when the final ships. I haven't bought a copy of Windows since NT4 came out. OTOH, I've purchased RH5.2, RH6.1, Debian ???, and the latest has been NetBSD 1.5. All told, probably a couple hundred dollars for open source, and squat for MS.
Some engineer is not doing their job if they can't handle arbitrary data input to their device.
I think the devices that could be damaged were in the signal path following the CD player. Maybe the signal drives amps into clipping and destroys the speakers.
I never used one of the pen computers, but I used one of their laptops. They had the neatest pointing device I've seen -- a sliding rod mounted just behind the space bar. Move it L/R, roll it F/B for up/down, just the most intuitive one I've ever used. I guess somebody (Tandy?) must own the patent on it, because I've never seen another laptop with one. Too bad, it was really great.
There was also a clone named Venix (from VenturCom), and something (Coherent?) from Mark Williams Company, although that may have required a 386...
Why do you think he wrote the article? Now he gets to write all the equipment off on his taxes as a business expense!
My kick-it-in-the-corner-and-forget-about-it NT server has to be rebooted about every 75 days, it's got some kind of FD leak (NT4sp3 -- yeah, it's not the latest SP, but it's only a P166 w/64M, and SP4 just made it unusably slow). I just use it as a file and Oracle server, so it's not an especially busy box, if it were a production machine it'd probably fall over in a couple of weeks. It's slated to be converted over to NetBSD+Samba when my Copious Free Time permits. *Then* we'll see some uptime!
Never mind the problems and risks of storing hydrogen as fuel
Oh yeah, like gasoline is safe. At least with hydrogen, if your fuel tank ruptures, the hydrogen will rise & dissipate into the atmosphere, not flow along the ground looking for hot steel to ignite it or, at the very least, contaminating the groundwater.
Does 802.11b have QOS provisions? I mean, I wouldn't mind sharing my connection, but if I'm paying for it, I want priority. I know that the further you are from the NAP, the slower your speed, but I wouldn't want my connection to be swamped every time the bus stopped on my street...
Got Chessie?
Yeah, but you're not thinking what I'm thinking...
Just wait 5 years or so until HDTV becomes more mainstream
Yeah, but the MPAA will take care of our storage needs by making it illegal to record anything...
Maybe we'll have to go back to drums
I don't think they should have to pay a registrar all that money to simply not use most of those domains
They're not paying to not use the domains, they're paying so that OTHER people don't use the domains. A not-too-subtle difference.
Yeah, but it's the prima donnas that ignore the coding standards. "The way I write it is more readable". They're also the ones most likely to have "highly optimized" (read: unmaintainable) code.
Levenger's has one in cherry, they used to have a matching mouse too. Check it out under "More" -> "Personal Electronics" -> "Executive Suite II"
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They're still statically linking the Motif libraries, then?
Some interesting papers on the design of the Cray (nee Tera) MTA (multi-threaded architecture) machine are here
Is this, like, during midterms, when you're trying to study for all your classes at once?
What advantage does a realtor have in spending time (and thus money) to put ads up on the internet?
My spouse and I just (two days ago) sold our house, and our realtor told us that close to 80% of their clients came to them and asked to see houses that they had found on the net. He said it was well worth the money to list the house (and get the IPix shots).
It's also great for us, since we're moving to the other side of the continent. We can pick some examples of houses we like, and give the MLS numbers to our buying agent, and save a lot of time by not looking at houses that don't fit our needs/wants.
Or content "tailored" to the prevailing community standards. So we don't have to expose our kids to any pesky thought-provoking ideas we don't approve of.
Heh, I used to use BSD back in the 4.2 days, and SunOS more recently, but I always found Linux...non-intuitive. Then I installed NetBSD and it was like going home again. Much more comfortable (for me) than when I switched from Red Hat to Debian.
It may not be a licensing policy, it may be a support policy. Like doubling the price of support contracts for anything release prior to Win2K. Or even not offering them at all.