At the same time, a prize of $100 was offered for the most appropriate name for the new sport. It was won by Mrs. Gertrude Hurlbutt of Dayton, Montana, who suggested "Skeet", and old Scandinavian form of the word "shoot".
All I can say is, "Wow". Code reuse has been around for 40 years.
FORTRAN card-wallopers would keep routines as stacks of cards in their desk drawers. The C rtl is reusable code, as are libm, Turbo Pascal units (am I dating myself?), SQL stored procedures, GTK, the 10 jillion Perl modules, etc, etc.
I don't know much (anything, really) about how PHP and JavaScript store software, but if this were a 3GL, you could group your common code into funtional units that compile into.o/.so (or.obj or.dll, depending on your platform) files. With Python, you group them into.py files and compile them into.pyc files.
In the 1980s, amateurism regulations were relaxed, and completely abolished in the 1990s.
You glossed over the reason why Olympic amateursism died: Communist block nations employing atheletes to train all day. From the same wikipedia article:
It gradually became clear to many that the amateurism rules had become outdated. For example, many athletes from Eastern European nations were officially employed by the government, but effectively given opportunity to train all day, thereby being amateurs in name only.
A major part of why the Internet is in such wide use today is because of media technologies like Flash. If you can offer a more valid reason than "get off my lawn, you damn Flashers" then perhaps you might be taken more seriously.
Flash has it's place. Creating animated movies, for example.
Making hyperactive ads isn't.
Instead, you've chose the position of the 80-year-old woman driving 20 in the fast lane.
If I was poking along at 20MPH, I wouldn't have Flash 7.0 r61 installed, and thus I couldn't see the Flash ads, and wouldn't complain about them.
What would be really nice is a button (in the window status bar maybe) that lets one enable/disable the Flash plugin at will.
I suspect most of the Flash-Haters hate it for what it does, [snip] And, as per usual, any discussion about Flash tends to stereotype Linux users as stubborn, backwards types that hate everything that regular people like about computers.
And all this time, I thought the reason I hated continuous hypermotion is because I'm an old fart that wants to read the page rather than get distracted by aggrivating monkeys.
Dan Bricklin, inventor of the electronic spreadsheet, was sued by Lotus Corp. for violating the 'look and feel' of their 1-2-3 product with his Visicalc.
VisiCalc was released in 1979, 1-2-3 on January 26, 1983.
What database software do you use for those databases? Anything open source?
Oracle Rdb.
Runs on VMS, DEC created it in the early 80s and sold it to Big O in 1994. Former DEC engineers are still plugging away at it up in Nashua, just across a garden path from the HP OpenVMS engineering building.
Lawyers (which is what MSFT really cares about) care about context only in that it allows them to raise ambiguity, and say, "No, we really meant something else. Too bad, so sad you got screwed."
On a busy DB or mail server this is a major bonus if data integrity is of the utmost. The only thing better is apllication quiescing, but again, on a busy server this may be less than optimal.
Taking FS snapshots of an open, active database is a recipe for disaster, IMNSHO.
There are uncommitted transactions, buffered data, etc, which make the on-disk "stuff" transactionally inconsistent. DBMS vendors write backup utilities for a reason.
As a DBA of very large systems (TB-sized, with billion-row tables), I would never do FS snapshots, and would fight it like a wildcat if ordered to do so.
On a more prosaic level, we've got databases that have hundreds of millions of rows, regularly growing into the billion+ size. Yes, it's partitioned, but the partitions are still huge.
I have heard it said of Microsoft that they have so many really smart people, and you don't see it in the products that they actually release to us normal humans.
Fortune 50 retailer, would you install a bunch of Windows servers and setup nightly reboot jobs to keep things running smoothly, or would you setup AIX servers with HACMP
I'd buy z/OS mainframes and COBOL apps for the OLTP systems, and Sun boxen plus Oracle for the data warehouses.
But I'm old-school, and batch queues and JCL don't frighten me.
Even now, my current job, I'm doing a software install over a remote connection. 25 miles to work every night, one way.
I'm a DBA and have been telecommuting for 4 years now. Saved a lot of gasoline. Cox High-Speed cable service sure is handy. And reliable too, after some post-Katrina difficulties...
Most jobs aren't conducive to telecommuting, though. Teachers, lawyers (or their clients who have to drive to them), McDonalds employees, factory workers, workers who need to collaborate with others, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
Is it just me or does it seem like the powers that be, just dont understand burning half as much gas equals cutting emissions in half?
Even W isn't that stupid. Or facile.
Your "plan" will only work when you become Dictator For Life and can force all Americans to all move to cities with population densities on the order of Manhattan, Tokyo & Seoul.
it'd be an exaggeration to say that they have been killed for good.
Nothing's truly "dead forever" until it becomes technologically obsolete. Reagan restarted the B-1 project, and I'm sure that somewhere deep in the bowels of LLNL or Sandia are the blueprints of the neutron bomb.
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Not according to The Hunting Society.
http://huntingsociety.org/HistSkeetshooting.html
There were quite a few non-gfx devices using the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) slots.
I remember IDE cards, but nothing else.
All I can say is, "Wow". Code reuse has been around for 40 years.
FORTRAN card-wallopers would keep routines as stacks of cards in their desk drawers. The C rtl is reusable code, as are libm, Turbo Pascal units (am I dating myself?), SQL stored procedures, GTK, the 10 jillion Perl modules, etc, etc.
I don't know much (anything, really) about how PHP and JavaScript store software, but if this were a 3GL, you could group your common code into funtional units that compile into
You glossed over the reason why Olympic amateursism died: Communist block nations employing atheletes to train all day. From the same wikipedia article:
Truly sweet. Thanks.
A major part of why the Internet is in such wide use today is because of media technologies like Flash. If you can offer a more valid reason than "get off my lawn, you damn Flashers" then perhaps you might be taken more seriously.
Flash has it's place. Creating animated movies, for example.
Making hyperactive ads isn't.
Instead, you've chose the position of the 80-year-old woman driving 20 in the fast lane.
If I was poking along at 20MPH, I wouldn't have Flash 7.0 r61 installed, and thus I couldn't see the Flash ads, and wouldn't complain about them.
What would be really nice is a button (in the window status bar maybe) that lets one enable/disable the Flash plugin at will.
I'm an old fart that wants to read the page
I guess you hate ASCII and Unicode as well, because they are used to write spam?
Without ASCII/Unicode, I guess I couldn't read the web pages that I say I want to read, could I?
I suspect most of the Flash-Haters hate it for what it does,
[snip]
And, as per usual, any discussion about Flash tends to stereotype Linux users as stubborn, backwards types that hate everything that regular people like about computers.
And all this time, I thought the reason I hated continuous hypermotion is because I'm an old fart that wants to read the page rather than get distracted by aggrivating monkeys.
Dan Bricklin, inventor of the electronic spreadsheet, was sued by Lotus Corp. for violating the 'look and feel' of their 1-2-3 product with his Visicalc.
VisiCalc was released in 1979, 1-2-3 on January 26, 1983.
What Open Source code has Sun produced?
NFS, kinda.
Back when everyone else was doing proprietary network filesystems, Sun put out NFS for all to use.
Wow. You don't know anything.
I know enough to manage TB-sized databases.
Sure, and they work very well.
You'd have to split every file system that every database file and recovery file and roll-forward journal are on, all at the same instant.
On our systems, that's 60 filesystems. And if one is off by a second, you get possible inconsistencies.
Better to have a highly parallel RDMBS backup utilitiy. Which is what we have.
What database software do you use for those databases? Anything open source?
Oracle Rdb.
Runs on VMS, DEC created it in the early 80s and sold it to Big O in 1994. Former DEC engineers are still plugging away at it up in Nashua, just across a garden path from the HP OpenVMS engineering building.
In fact, they just ported it to OpenVMS Itanium.
# RMS vs (MS) RMS
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VMS Record Management Services
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731FINAL/4523/4523p
in this context
Lawyers (which is what MSFT really cares about) care about context only in that it allows them to raise ambiguity, and say, "No, we really meant something else. Too bad, so sad you got screwed."
balls of solid brass i tell ya, balls of solid brass.
Brains, not balls, of brass.
Taking FS snapshots of an open, active database is a recipe for disaster, IMNSHO.
There are uncommitted transactions, buffered data, etc, which make the on-disk "stuff" transactionally inconsistent. DBMS vendors write backup utilities for a reason.
As a DBA of very large systems (TB-sized, with billion-row tables), I would never do FS snapshots, and would fight it like a wildcat if ordered to do so.
What type of data requires a file 100Gb in size?
Thermouclear explosion simulations, for one.
On a more prosaic level, we've got databases that have hundreds of millions of rows, regularly growing into the billion+ size. Yes, it's partitioned, but the partitions are still huge.
I have heard it said of Microsoft that they have so many really smart people, and you don't see it in the products that they actually release to us normal humans.
The same thing was also said about IBM Research.
If the word was French, (I think) that would be the correct word. Since it's Italian, it's capice.
My Dad loved to use that word when he was yelling at me. It took me years to verify that he meant "understand".
That's the kind of thing that happens when a technical company has top managers who know nothing about technical issues
IIRC (it's been 21 years since I first bought TP 2.0 for CP/M), Kahn helped write the original TP. He definitely knows compilers.
He just can't value companies. Throwing away $400,000,000 really is a sin...
Fortune 50 retailer, would you install a bunch of Windows servers and setup nightly reboot jobs to keep things running smoothly, or would you setup AIX servers with HACMP
I'd buy z/OS mainframes and COBOL apps for the OLTP systems, and Sun boxen plus Oracle for the data warehouses.
But I'm old-school, and batch queues and JCL don't frighten me.
Even now, my current job, I'm doing a software install over a remote connection. 25 miles to work every night, one way.
I'm a DBA and have been telecommuting for 4 years now. Saved a lot of gasoline. Cox High-Speed cable service sure is handy. And reliable too, after some post-Katrina difficulties...
Most jobs aren't conducive to telecommuting, though. Teachers, lawyers (or their clients who have to drive to them), McDonalds employees, factory workers, workers who need to collaborate with others, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
Is it just me or does it seem like the powers that be, just dont understand burning half as much gas equals cutting emissions in half?
Even W isn't that stupid. Or facile.
Your "plan" will only work when you become Dictator For Life and can force all Americans to all move to cities with population densities on the order of Manhattan, Tokyo & Seoul.
it'd be an exaggeration to say that they have been killed for good.
Nothing's truly "dead forever" until it becomes technologically obsolete. Reagan restarted the B-1 project, and I'm sure that somewhere deep in the bowels of LLNL or Sandia are the blueprints of the neutron bomb.