Another sad commentary on the level of expertise and sophistiocation available in the microsoft world, all the way from the vendor down to the customer level, with incompetent cunsultants in the middle, encouraging the low level of ability all the way...
There's this thing called clustering....Microsoft sells something they call that, but it's not even a pale shadow of VMS clustering...VMS clusters have uptimes measured in decades, and take care of the fear of having all your eggs in one basket. VMS clusters can have hundreds of nodes of all sizes from desktop to mainframe class, over a variety of media, and can be spread geographically caross hundreds of kilometers. Choosing to have your egss in m one basket (or in a super powered, unstoppable multi node basket in the case of a VMS cluster) is one thing...having to do it because your OS isn't up to the task of doing two things at once is quiet another...
The popularity of VM solutions is a damning indictment of the OS environment, scheduling and multi user memory protection capabilitie of Windows. If it was really a serious OS (say, like VMS) it would be possible to routinely host dozens of different applications and thousands of users on a single box, instead of the "1 app/1 server" mentality that permeates the Windows world...
Back in the day, using command line terminals on VAXes running VMS, most programs had a characteristic prompt character or characters, so you could easily see what was prompting for the next input - ie, the command interpreter prompted "$", the database utility prompted "RDU>", the Data Dictionary prompted "CDU>" and so on, for the dozens of tools you might come across. We wrote a program that would detect what utility a person's terminal was running, and change the command interpreter prompt for their session to match that of the program they were running - that way, when they'd exit the program, they'd still see the its prompt, and go nuts trying to exit and get back to the command interpreter...it drove some folks crazy...
Yes, you're wrong. Supreme Court case Houston vs. Hill prety much settled this one...and the case of Ralph Duran proved it even further. These cases vastly reduced the number of people "taken downtown for mouthing off".
There is a negative correlation between intelligence and belief in gods/religion. They aren't necessarily stupid, but, on the whole, aren't as smart as atheists.
But...I and my siblings all went to decent expensive private schools, while my family was simultaneously being taxed to pay for substandard public schools...now, my wife and I are in our 50s, and have no children...so my taxes clearly aren't paying for any education I received, and I'm not getting anything for my tax dollars now...
This is the frightening, oft repeated "escalation" theory of gun violence that posters always come up with. Rather than being a valid concept, it's a frightening look into the psychology of the person who uses it.
Fortunately, that's not the way it happens. Unlike these "escalation" posters, real criminals do not "gear up" in response to greater numbers of armed citizens - they either do less crimes, or look for softer targets - unlike the "escalation" poster, they very much want to avoid any gunfire coming their way during their crimes, and work to avoid it, not scale it up.
My boss at my previous job had his wisdom teeth removed while he was in the army. After he came to from the anaesthetic, the end of his tongue felt funny. Turns out it was getting in the dentist's way, so he put a suture through it and tied it to the chair while he was working. To this day, my boss says it feels funny when he drinks something cold.
Oh boohoo...you get searched every now and then at the airport. When I was in my 20s, we (if we were hip looking, ie had long hair) used to get beaten up on a regular basis...now those were hard days of real government oppression...
Same thing here in Houston. If the best they can do on their normal FM channels is broadcast content that people will actually PAY MONEY TO AVOID(by getting XM and SIRIUS), why should I think they would do any better on their HD subchannels?
reasoning by analogy from the VMS world, things like this usually get tripped up by instruction caches, and virtual memory translation buffering...if you're gonna copy code around and then try to execute it, you may have to do something to invalidate these assorted caches, especially when a context switch occurs.
Back in the dsay, I worked at a company that had one of the largest VAXclusters in the Southwest, serving thousands of users. I had gone to some trouble to make the time set on all the systems the same, and accurate. A company vice president started calling and raising hell with my boss, complaining "the time on the system is off". I redoulbed my efforts, wrote code to dial the National Bureau of Standards time modem, and code that distributed and checked the time on all systems. Complaints kept coming in. I debugged and tested, and went back to my boss, and told him, it ain't gonna get any more accurate than this, it's correct and synched to a fraction of a second. My boss checks with the VP to see what he's complaining about...turns out, if the system time didn't agree with the time on his mechanical Rolex, which he set every month or so by the time the news guy on the radio said it was, then...the system time was wrong. I gave up, and refused to discuss it with my boss anymore.
...until I got a tumor on the same side of my head as I used my cell phone (luckily, non-malignant - did leave a really cool scar where they cut it out, though)...now I realize this is purely anecdotal, but it does make me more receptive to arguments that cell phones may be dangerous...
You laugh, but one of DEC's best field service upper level support guys carried a rubber chicken in his tool box. Once, he got called out to fix a dead 11/70 at a critical installation, where a newspaper was waiting to switch over to electronic composition, and lots of money was being lost while this system wouldn't start. This 3rd level tech got called in when the local guys couldn't fix it. It was a very important account, and high up DEC executives were waiting for his, as well as all the managers of the newspaper. This guy walked around the system for a quick visual inspection, and noticed a loose cable in the back of the thing causing the problem. He plugged it in while no one was watching...and then took out his rubber chicken, danced around the system chanting gibberish and waving the chicken, and then hit the boot button...the system started....the DEC managers wanted to fire him, then kill him, but the newspaper folks, who had a sense of hunmor and were so glad he got it going wouldn't hear of it, and insisted that this guy oversee the installation of this gear at all of their other sites...DEC Field Service guys...some of them, they were like that, back in the day...
Hah, sound leakage from other movies is a problem, for sure. I remember when "Romeo and Juliet" was showing at the same time as Bullitt was showing at the multicinema, next screen over. In the middle of a tender love scene between Romeo and Juliet, you could clearly hear the San Francisco car chase from Bullitt...come to think of it, I liked that...
>This is why corporate libertarians bewilder me. Deregulation is basically >handing the keys to a drunk driver.
Oh yeah, because letting the government centrally control things always works out so much better! Good news Comrade! We have a new five year plan for lawnmower production! And the chocolate ration has been increased to 30 grams!
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Another sad commentary on the level of expertise and sophistiocation available in the microsoft world, all the way from the vendor down to the customer level, with incompetent cunsultants in the middle, encouraging the low level of ability all the way...
There's this thing called clustering....Microsoft sells something they call that, but it's not even a pale shadow of VMS clustering...VMS clusters have uptimes measured in decades, and take care of the fear of having all your eggs in one basket. VMS clusters can have hundreds of nodes of all sizes from desktop to mainframe class, over a variety of media, and can be spread geographically caross hundreds of kilometers. Choosing to have your egss in m one basket (or in a super powered, unstoppable multi node basket in the case of a VMS cluster) is one thing...having to do it because your OS isn't up to the task of doing two things at once is quiet another...
The popularity of VM solutions is a damning indictment of the OS environment, scheduling and multi user memory protection capabilitie of Windows. If it was really a serious OS (say, like VMS) it would be possible to routinely host dozens of different applications and thousands of users on a single box, instead of the "1 app/1 server" mentality that permeates the Windows world...
Back in the day, using command line terminals on VAXes running VMS, most programs had a characteristic prompt character or characters, so you could easily see what was prompting for the next input - ie, the command interpreter prompted "$", the database utility prompted "RDU>", the Data Dictionary prompted "CDU>" and so on, for the dozens of tools you might come across. We wrote a program that would detect what utility a person's terminal was running, and change the command interpreter prompt for their session to match that of the program they were running - that way, when they'd exit the program, they'd still see the its prompt, and go nuts trying to exit and get back to the command interpreter...it drove some folks crazy...
Yes, you're wrong. Supreme Court case Houston vs. Hill prety much settled this one...and the case of Ralph Duran proved it even further. These cases vastly reduced the number of people "taken downtown for mouthing off".
There is a negative correlation between intelligence and belief in gods/religion. They aren't necessarily stupid, but, on the whole, aren't as smart as atheists.
Yes, and my family paid the doctor for it - it wasn't free...
Propping up a failed capitalist venture (a farm in this case) with government funds does nothing to help prevent any shortages.
But...I and my siblings all went to decent expensive private schools, while my family was simultaneously being taxed to pay for substandard public schools...now, my wife and I are in our 50s, and have no children...so my taxes clearly aren't paying for any education I received, and I'm not getting anything for my tax dollars now...
This is the frightening, oft repeated "escalation" theory of gun violence that posters always come up with. Rather than being a valid concept, it's a frightening look into the psychology of the person who uses it. Fortunately, that's not the way it happens. Unlike these "escalation" posters, real criminals do not "gear up" in response to greater numbers of armed citizens - they either do less crimes, or look for softer targets - unlike the "escalation" poster, they very much want to avoid any gunfire coming their way during their crimes, and work to avoid it, not scale it up.
aAnd when he goes to the bathroom, he'll have a blaster hidden in his kilt.
Well, heck yeah...that's where are the really important phones and users are, anyway...
My boss at my previous job had his wisdom teeth removed while he was in the army. After he came to from the anaesthetic, the end of his tongue felt funny. Turns out it was getting in the dentist's way, so he put a suture through it and tied it to the chair while he was working. To this day, my boss says it feels funny when he drinks something cold.
Oh boohoo...you get searched every now and then at the airport. When I was in my 20s, we (if we were hip looking, ie had long hair) used to get beaten up on a regular basis...now those were hard days of real government oppression...
Same thing here in Houston. If the best they can do on their normal FM channels is broadcast content that people will actually PAY MONEY TO AVOID(by getting XM and SIRIUS), why should I think they would do any better on their HD subchannels?
Because you lose all economies of scale.
reasoning by analogy from the VMS world, things like this usually get tripped up by instruction caches, and virtual memory translation buffering...if you're gonna copy code around and then try to execute it, you may have to do something to invalidate these assorted caches, especially when a context switch occurs.
Most big company managers can only understand analogies if sports (especially golf) are involved.
Managers tend to be higher paid, because the ones who manage the money also tend to manage to hang on to most of it.
Back in the dsay, I worked at a company that had one of the largest VAXclusters in the Southwest, serving thousands of users. I had gone to some trouble to make the time set on all the systems the same, and accurate. A company vice president started calling and raising hell with my boss, complaining "the time on the system is off". I redoulbed my efforts, wrote code to dial the National Bureau of Standards time modem, and code that distributed and checked the time on all systems. Complaints kept coming in. I debugged and tested, and went back to my boss, and told him, it ain't gonna get any more accurate than this, it's correct and synched to a fraction of a second. My boss checks with the VP to see what he's complaining about...turns out, if the system time didn't agree with the time on his mechanical Rolex, which he set every month or so by the time the news guy on the radio said it was, then...the system time was wrong. I gave up, and refused to discuss it with my boss anymore.
I got mine in the early 60s, and "not for identificattion purposes" used to be printed on the FRONT of the damned thing....
...until I got a tumor on the same side of my head as I used my cell phone (luckily, non-malignant - did leave a really cool scar where they cut it out, though)...now I realize this is purely anecdotal, but it does make me more receptive to arguments that cell phones may be dangerous...
You laugh, but one of DEC's best field service upper level support guys carried a rubber chicken in his tool box. Once, he got called out to fix a dead 11/70 at a critical installation, where a newspaper was waiting to switch over to electronic composition, and lots of money was being lost while this system wouldn't start. This 3rd level tech got called in when the local guys couldn't fix it. It was a very important account, and high up DEC executives were waiting for his, as well as all the managers of the newspaper. This guy walked around the system for a quick visual inspection, and noticed a loose cable in the back of the thing causing the problem. He plugged it in while no one was watching...and then took out his rubber chicken, danced around the system chanting gibberish and waving the chicken, and then hit the boot button...the system started....the DEC managers wanted to fire him, then kill him, but the newspaper folks, who had a sense of hunmor and were so glad he got it going wouldn't hear of it, and insisted that this guy oversee the installation of this gear at all of their other sites...DEC Field Service guys...some of them, they were like that, back in the day...
Hah, sound leakage from other movies is a problem, for sure. I remember when "Romeo and Juliet" was showing at the same time as Bullitt was showing at the multicinema, next screen over. In the middle of a tender love scene between Romeo and Juliet, you could clearly hear the San Francisco car chase from Bullitt...come to think of it, I liked that...
>This is why corporate libertarians bewilder me. Deregulation is basically >handing the keys to a drunk driver. Oh yeah, because letting the government centrally control things always works out so much better! Good news Comrade! We have a new five year plan for lawnmower production! And the chocolate ration has been increased to 30 grams!