To make the leap from "Army PAO controls what soldiers can say to reporters" to "the government controls all the media in the USA" is so totally brainless, as to leave me speechless.
because you wanted to be an asshole and ride a power trip to show people that you control the machines.
New CIO: Why aren't we spending $200K/year on AV software like everyone else? Old LAN Admin: Because we keep the network locked tight as a drum. New CIO: Then why aren't the users up in arms? Old LAN Admin: Because we try to be responsive, and give a good reason when we have to say "No.".
Some time later... CEO: Why aren't our computers all broken because of that evil Sasser-Z worm, like so many other companies? CIO: I insisted that our LAN group lock the network tight as a drum. CEO: Good job, Smithers, good job.
So instead of working through the system to get changes effected. Most Americans try the "I'm a rebel" approach to solving their problems.
Or... think of it as The Spirit Of Ingenuity, the Pioneer Spirit, blah, blah. All those thing that made, and continue to make, restless people leave The Old Country, and make better lives for themselves here.
No wonder people feel uneasy around your country.
Because the people still living in The Old Country are the timid ones, or satisfied with the status quo?
everytime I need to install some software to do my job I have to call you up and waste a couple of days for it to get aproved by the all-mighty-admin?
Are you so short-sighted that you can't plan ahead?
"Hey, boss. For this new project, I'm going to need the FudPucker Deluxe database analysis program. Here's a short justification, that I'm getting in early, since we both know how slow those boobs up is LAN Administration are." "Thanks, Bobby. That's good foresight on your part. I'll feed it into the Maw Of The Beast today."
These are work machines for doing work. Whatever software that is on them has to be supported by IT. If they really need or want it, we look at it, and if they do get it, we install it.
This sounds oddly like the timesharing minicomputer systems of "yesteryear"(*).
You never had adware pop up on your VT-220! And the spyware only got to you if the SysAdmin was too lazy to set permissions properly.
(*) I'm telnetted (via VPN link) into 6 Alpha VMS boxes now, on-call for production database issues...
I don't know where you managed to pull that one out of, but given that Slackware is now well over 10 years old, and in common use as a server platform, that hardly seems like a statement connected with any reality I have seen.
And the gnome devs. managed to scare users away because their UI decisions got rather arrogant. They removed the "Undo" button (amongst others) because (not the original wording, but surely close enough) "it is easy enough to undo simple changes by hand".
What app has had Undo removed from it? All the GNOME 2.6 apps I've looked at still have Edit->Undo.
To support this, they designed the chips to be a close enough match so that the source code conversion could be done mechanically.
I think that's pretty much what I said.
If you could track down the original Intel conversion tools, you could run a script to convert and assemble an 8008 source file to run on today's machines.
Yes. If you could find similar hardware and OS.
BTW, this is how MicroPro got CP/M WordStar to run under MS-DOS 1.0. Remember that MS-DOS 1.0 bore a strong internal resemblance to CP/M.
But even if CPU's were free (they almost are), other cost factors come in. A 32 bit processor is more complex; it generally needs more data lines (I'll ignore adress lines because a good design can usually work around this).
This isn't necessarily true. The MC68008, for example, multiplexed address and data on an 8-bit bus. (It powered the Sinclair QL, by the way.)
There is a reason why the shuttle and many military aircraft still use 486s. 486 chips are rock solid, They can take far more Gs and a much wider operating temperature than pentiums can.
Harris made radiation-hardened 80286 chips; I bet that someone is making radiation-hardened 40486s, too.
Pentium (and newer) chips have so many more transistors, and the etchings are soooooo small, that it's probably impossible to make R-H variants.
Ok, so as soon as everyone stops buying TV remote controls, microwave ovens, washing machines, dryers, keyless remote controls, motion detector systems for alarms, alarm clocks, little devices that turn your lights on and off at certain times
When these products start getting 802.11X, and thus connected to the internet, the 8-bit controllers will go.
The latest Athlon-64s are still assembly-source compatible with the Intel 8008 from 1972.
Hmmm. I'd want proof of that.
Back when (in the early 1980s) I was learning 8086 assembly, I do remember that Intel made the 8086 similar to the 8080 so that cross-assemblers would be easy to write, but the 8080 is not directly source compatible with the 8086.
Generally speaking, 32-bit CPUs also have 32-bit data paths, which mean that they move data from memory-to-register four times faster than an 8-bit cpu.
Not true!!!
Some examples:
the MC68000 had a 16-bit data path
the MC68008 had an 8-bit path
the 80386SX also had a 16-bit data path
And besides: if you are only dealing with 8-bit or 16-bit entities, it is very wasteful to have those extra 24 or 16 data lines on the PCB.
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I bet you dont see this things in the US
To make the leap from "Army PAO controls what soldiers can say to reporters" to "the government controls all the media in the USA" is so totally brainless, as to leave me speechless.
New CIO: Why aren't we spending $200K/year on AV software like everyone else?
Old LAN Admin: Because we keep the network locked tight as a drum.
New CIO: Then why aren't the users up in arms?
Old LAN Admin: Because we try to be responsive, and give a good reason when we have to say "No.".
Some time later...
CEO: Why aren't our computers all broken because of that evil Sasser-Z worm, like so many other companies?
CIO: I insisted that our LAN group lock the network tight as a drum.
CEO: Good job, Smithers, good job.
So instead of working through the system to get changes effected. Most Americans try the "I'm a rebel" approach to solving their problems.
Or... think of it as The Spirit Of Ingenuity, the Pioneer Spirit, blah, blah. All those thing that made, and continue to make, restless people leave The Old Country, and make better lives for themselves here.
No wonder people feel uneasy around your country.
Because the people still living in The Old Country are the timid ones, or satisfied with the status quo?
everytime I need to install some software to do my job I have to call you up and waste a couple of days for it to get aproved by the all-mighty-admin?
Are you so short-sighted that you can't plan ahead?
"Hey, boss. For this new project, I'm going to need the FudPucker Deluxe database analysis program. Here's a short justification, that I'm getting in early, since we both know how slow those boobs up is LAN Administration are."
"Thanks, Bobby. That's good foresight on your part. I'll feed it into the Maw Of The Beast today."
These are work machines for doing work. Whatever software that is on them has to be supported by IT. If they really need or want it, we look at it, and if they do get it, we install it.
This sounds oddly like the timesharing minicomputer systems of "yesteryear"(*).
You never had adware pop up on your VT-220!
And the spyware only got to you if the SysAdmin was too lazy to set permissions properly.
(*) I'm telnetted (via VPN link) into 6 Alpha VMS boxes now, on-call for production database issues...
launch an expensive shuttle
SpaceShipThree?
Instead of "Insightful", it should be modded "Well, Duh!"
Although many many disagree, the US government doesn't actually control the news media.
Otherwise, Monicagate never would have happened, and Algore would be President.
China's spy satellites still use film. They deorbit them in order to retrieve the images.
And is an indication of ChiCom technological non-prowess.
A spiffy spysat would encrypt the images (triple 2048-bit ElGamal?) then beam them down to ground stations.
China is a fascist regime. The government will repair the apartment if the dwellers kiss the block captain's ass and bribe:
gubmint men in red.
Mao Suits are grey.
Yes, yes, I know: they went out of style 25 years ago.
no, it's just chinaspeak for "our lives are ruined and the party won't pay us a dime".
The person who modded "Troll" this excellent comment, is obviously a mush-brained University student. "Blame America First" comes to mind, too.
Wtf is chutes and ladders? a politically correct american snakes and ladders or something?
A board game for young children. Been around forever.
What's Snakes and Ladders?
Vapor yes, but it appears that they want it to see the light of day eventually.
WinFS (in another name, Cairo, maybe?) was supposed to be the Big Deal about Win95. 9 years ago. And Win98. "Only" 6 years ago.
I'll believe that WinFS is an actual product when I actually see it on someone's computer. Not a minute before then...
Yes, they are. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Now, "ok" and "good" are definitely different...
There are only two "Desktops" now?
Yes. WMs are not DEs.
Slackware is definetly a hobbyist distro.
I don't know where you managed to pull that one out of, but given that Slackware is now well over 10 years old, and in common use as a server platform, that hardly seems like a statement connected with any reality I have seen.
Rather, call it a geek distro.
And the gnome devs. managed to scare users away because their UI decisions got rather arrogant.
They removed the "Undo" button (amongst others) because (not the original wording, but surely close enough) "it is easy enough to undo simple changes by hand".
What app has had Undo removed from it? All the GNOME 2.6 apps I've looked at still have Edit->Undo.
To support this, they designed the chips to be a close enough match so that the source code conversion could be done mechanically.
I think that's pretty much what I said.
If you could track down the original Intel conversion tools, you could run a script to convert and assemble an 8008 source file to run on today's machines.
Yes. If you could find similar hardware and OS.
BTW, this is how MicroPro got CP/M WordStar to run under MS-DOS 1.0. Remember that MS-DOS 1.0 bore a strong internal resemblance to CP/M.
8-bit microcontrollers can be connected to the Internet already
And they can do the encryption needed for wireless?
But even if CPU's were free (they almost are), other cost factors come in. A 32 bit processor is more complex; it generally needs more data lines (I'll ignore adress lines because a good design can usually work around this).
This isn't necessarily true. The MC68008, for example, multiplexed address and data on an 8-bit bus. (It powered the Sinclair QL, by the way.)
There is a reason why the shuttle and many military aircraft still use 486s. 486 chips are rock solid, They can take far more Gs and a much wider operating temperature than pentiums can.
Harris made radiation-hardened 80286 chips; I bet that someone is making radiation-hardened 40486s, too.
Pentium (and newer) chips have so many more transistors, and the etchings are soooooo small, that it's probably impossible to make R-H variants.
Ok, so as soon as everyone stops buying TV remote controls, microwave ovens, washing machines, dryers, keyless remote controls, motion detector systems for alarms, alarm clocks, little devices that turn your lights on and off at certain times
When these products start getting 802.11X, and thus connected to the internet, the 8-bit controllers will go.
The latest Athlon-64s are still assembly-source compatible with the Intel 8008 from 1972.
Hmmm. I'd want proof of that.
Back when (in the early 1980s) I was learning 8086 assembly, I do remember that Intel made the 8086 similar to the 8080 so that cross-assemblers would be easy to write, but the 8080 is not directly source compatible with the 8086.
Not true!!!
Some examples:
And besides: if you are only dealing with 8-bit or 16-bit entities, it is very wasteful to have those extra 24 or 16 data lines on the PCB.