See, I still have one life support ap running under Win 98SE - and I can't upgrade to Win XP yet. My blood meter code is not certified for XP yet, so there you go. (Before an upgrade is released, it has to be approved by the FDA, which can take 18 months). The good news is that I was finally able to upgrade the other 2 life support aps forward last year to a version that will run across the various Win systems.
But then I still have 2 other machines running "classic" OSes - 1 is a Win95c machine - Why?, Well I can't get a newer driver for the high end scanner still in that machine. And I can't afford to replace the scanner right now.
And then there is my DOS 3.3 laptop - 4.77mhz. It still runs, and it still has 2 programs on it that I am saving it for. 1 is Procomm - which was still the only way to talk to 1 employer's mainframes as little as 3 years ago, when I was last there. The other is an old Norton Utilities version, which has a great hex editor, if you need one.
The video portion stopped while the audio continued. Took it back to the store where I got it, the manager took it back to the back room and I told him where it happened. He repeated the problem on his machine. Then he got a fresh one off the shelf. Same problem. He gave me credit for the disk and I had to take a different title.
So, is quality control slipping? I don't think so, as this was 3 years ago.
I checked out the teachers webpage, and she doesn't qualify to teach computers in my opinion. If she were to apply to teach the Computers Merit badge, I would have to turn her down. (I have been the person who makes that decision for a district or 2 and have taught the merit badge myself for over 10 years).
She owes the student an apology.
Oh, and if a command like that isn't trapped out, it is the teachers fault, not the student's.
This study is so flawed it's laughable. During the course of the study, the AMA changed the definition of Diabetis, or didn't they bother to consider that fact?
The change in definition is the single most contributing factor to the "Diabetis Epidemic" that we have heard reported on.
Sorry, throw this story on the trash pile with the rest of the garbage.
if the overclocked processor was an add-on instead of original equipment. Why would you want to buy an over clocked processor that was original equipment, rather than just buy a faster chip?
>Tax returns? I think the answer is supposed to be that you don't need to keep them after ten years.
If you get audited, and the government finds errors, they can go back as far back as you ahve been paying taxes, as my Dad found out.
Good thing he had laid a trap for them. The first errors they found were such that they owed him... Like not claiming a charitable deduction that ended up being several hundreds of dollars. They went back to the church that it was given to and got a receipt.
It was a large scale manger scence done in ceramic, and handpainted. Originally they were just going to give it and not worry about the deduction, but when the IRS came a knockin' about some other issues, it was insurance in the hole.
I can already peg a processor for several hours running reports off of about 1/3 of the databases we ahve in my current company. If I wanted to process the Peoplesoft databases, well, I can run it all weekend.
including the most important - the ability to download data. I would see the floating part demonstrated as well as the waterproof before I trusted it however.
As for accuracy, any GPS can be affected by how fast you walk vs how fast it updates, so it takes a little practice.
Who bothers to overclock a CPU anymore? With the falling prices of machines, you can almost replace it for the same cost. And 2 CPUs are always better than one, because you can run them in parallel.
And where does it say?(+)
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anything more than he worked for a company?
You have to understand that I do more than just look at the website. I have an understanding of the proper use of statistics and scientific method. And his articles on global warming are right on track.
It is the organizations that hide the base info that one must watch out for. If you have the base info, you can check the assumptions and perform the same calculations.
I did catch him on being too skeptical on one point, but it caused me to check up on a future cure for cancer. So, overall, I rate teh junkscience website as an order of magnitude better than the Guardian, which was the point of this whole exercise.
I agree with you, plus offer this to back it up
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The following link is to Steve Malloy's junkscience expose website. He is very clear when he shows the whole Global Warming model to be the bunk it is. Further, The Guardian is often show as a model of a junk science periodical.
I once helped out in a study for the largest database AT&T wanted to do. To just store the data would have been 6 times the huge Walmart database's size or more. And this was just for a 3 month rolling store of the calls made on the AT&T network.
The 94.3 TB database is nowhere near what AT&T has to store. That is just one of 7 (last count I had) data centers they maintain. The total size of all the AT&T data approaches several THOUSAND terabytes. They maintain a converted bunker just to store tapes in!
Think about it, they have to keep records for YEARS about every call made on the worldwide entwork.
I was never so happy as the day I was able to burn all my Teradata manuals, cause I ain't going back to one of those turkeys ever again.
The largest machines were about 250 nodes (Kmart, and look where they are today, and Walmart). I worked on machines up to about 135 nodes (Amps) (and 50 or so COPS) The performance never matched anything I've seen in DB2.
And even today, the performance tuning tools suck.
Oh, and as for your 1500 node limit, better check your manuals. Tucked away in the manual, and hardcoded into the operating system is a little limit - 1024 nodes - the origin of the name Teradata....
Oh, and it only takes 54 legal commands to crash one of those suckers (if you know the right commands, because of a hard coded limitation in the os as well).
If you go to the article, you will find that AT&T had the largest listed database at 94.1 TB - that's 9 times your speculation for Google.
And I used to work with some of the AT&T databases. Heck, the payroll system alone would have probably made the list in those days. (And I was the DBA for payroll for a while).
Also, some of the winners were using IDMS - a network implemenation of DBMS - not relational.
I dislike the Donaldson stuff and liked the Harrington stuff.
Course, I'll probably get modded down for it, but the Donaldson stuff that I read (and I gave it the whole 6 book series Donaldson wrote a while back).
Face it, different strokes for different folks.
If this person wants to bash a new book by comparing it to a series that I like, then I want to find out what else he doesn't like, and what he does like. Then I'll pass on what he likes and buy what he doesn't.
Oh, and maybe he doesn't like the odds because he doesn't have enough military background to actually relize WHY the battles got he way they do.
>That sounds nice, but practically infeasable. IIRC, there are two Saturn Vs left in the world after Apollo and Skylab. These are in no condition to fly. One is sideways, partially disassembled, exposed to the elements, and "restored," at the Johnson Space Center in Houston (its actually a rather impressive display, if you ever get the chance to see it). I don't rememebr the current location of the other.
The other one is at Kennedy space center. It was exposed tot he elements for many years, but I hear they finally put a roof over it a few years ago. I'm not sure it was even restored.
In many states (like mine) if you file an absentee ballot, you still fill out a standard optical form (or whatever form is being used by your county) and it is entered into the voting machine by person(s) in the elections staff.
So, using absentee ballots DOES NOT equate to voting by hand.
Further, I second the opinion of many that the elections staff may not know how to even properly operate their equipment. During the 2000 elections I saw an example on TV. The Supervisor of Elections for Orange County FL should have been arrested for VOTE FRAUD!
He was on tv congratulating his people on the fine job they had done during the recounts, then described the method they used. Orange County used Optical mark sense pages (you know, blacken the ovals or whatever). Their "solution" was to examine the sheets and manually determine which ones were not read and then count those "votes" over again.
Excuse me? How can a human determine which votes were not readable? They should have set up the machine to stop on non-countable votes, and then count those pages. Any other method was just vote manufacturing (oh, and in that county, manufacturing for Gore, BTW).
There is currently no way to prove who used a computer at any given time. And thus your analogy of the car will become the law of the land.
Boy did that article miss the boat!
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I have a PDA and a seperate cell phone. The cell phone is supplied by the company I work for.
But the PDA is the big issue. I use a Handspring, because of the external modules for it. One of those external modules is the "killer ap" for me. Module one is the blood glucose meter. That make the PDA a medical device, and allowed my medical insurance to pay for it.
I added a GPS module, a compactflashcard interface module, a backup module, a dictionary module, and a 5 language translation module. I also had a custom cable made for downloading data from my dive computer. Many other modules exist, but these are the ones I went for.
So, would one of these hybrid PDA / Phones work for me. Nope. Because the people that make the new phones aren't interested in the extension by module.
I have just started one (damm, I didn't make the first 10K). I have 150/191 pages scanned and initial formatting done. Another week, and it just might be submitted.
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See, I still have one life support ap running under Win 98SE - and I can't upgrade to Win XP yet. My blood meter code is not certified for XP yet, so there you go. (Before an upgrade is released, it has to be approved by the FDA, which can take 18 months). The good news is that I was finally able to upgrade the other 2 life support aps forward last year to a version that will run across the various Win systems.
But then I still have 2 other machines running "classic" OSes - 1 is a Win95c machine - Why?, Well I can't get a newer driver for the high end scanner still in that machine. And I can't afford to replace the scanner right now.
And then there is my DOS 3.3 laptop - 4.77mhz. It still runs, and it still has 2 programs on it that I am saving it for. 1 is Procomm - which was still the only way to talk to 1 employer's mainframes as little as 3 years ago, when I was last there. The other is an old Norton Utilities version, which has a great hex editor, if you need one.
The video portion stopped while the audio continued. Took it back to the store where I got it, the manager took it back to the back room and I told him where it happened. He repeated the problem on his machine. Then he got a fresh one off the shelf. Same problem. He gave me credit for the disk and I had to take a different title.
So, is quality control slipping? I don't think so, as this was 3 years ago.
I checked out the teachers webpage, and she doesn't qualify to teach computers in my opinion. If she were to apply to teach the Computers Merit badge, I would have to turn her down. (I have been the person who makes that decision for a district or 2 and have taught the merit badge myself for over 10 years).
She owes the student an apology.
Oh, and if a command like that isn't trapped out, it is the teachers fault, not the student's.
This study is so flawed it's laughable. During the course of the study, the AMA changed the definition of Diabetis, or didn't they bother to consider that fact?
The change in definition is the single most contributing factor to the "Diabetis Epidemic" that we have heard reported on.
Sorry, throw this story on the trash pile with the rest of the garbage.
if the overclocked processor was an add-on instead of original equipment. Why would you want to buy an over clocked processor that was original equipment, rather than just buy a faster chip?
Would you mind explaining this, I don't get it.
The current laws involving such things are right in the front of your phone book.
"Obscence phone calls are a violation of State and Federal laws" is a quote from my phone book. So, judge, go back and find those laws and apply them.
Out of jusrisdiction indeed!
>Tax returns? I think the answer is supposed to be that you don't need to keep them after ten years.
If you get audited, and the government finds errors, they can go back as far back as you ahve been paying taxes, as my Dad found out.
Good thing he had laid a trap for them. The first errors they found were such that they owed him... Like not claiming a charitable deduction that ended up being several hundreds of dollars. They went back to the church that it was given to and got a receipt.
It was a large scale manger scence done in ceramic, and handpainted. Originally they were just going to give it and not worry about the deduction, but when the IRS came a knockin' about some other issues, it was insurance in the hole.
I can already peg a processor for several hours running reports off of about 1/3 of the databases we ahve in my current company. If I wanted to process the Peoplesoft databases, well, I can run it all weekend.
including the most important - the ability to download data. I would see the floating part demonstrated as well as the waterproof before I trusted it however.
As for accuracy, any GPS can be affected by how fast you walk vs how fast it updates, so it takes a little practice.
Who bothers to overclock a CPU anymore? With the falling prices of machines, you can almost replace it for the same cost. And 2 CPUs are always better than one, because you can run them in parallel.
anything more than he worked for a company?
You have to understand that I do more than just look at the website. I have an understanding of the proper use of statistics and scientific method. And his articles on global warming are right on track.
It is the organizations that hide the base info that one must watch out for. If you have the base info, you can check the assumptions and perform the same calculations.
I did catch him on being too skeptical on one point, but it caused me to check up on a future cure for cancer. So, overall, I rate teh junkscience website as an order of magnitude better than the Guardian, which was the point of this whole exercise.
The following link is to Steve Malloy's junkscience expose website. He is very clear when he shows the whole Global Warming model to be the bunk it is. Further, The Guardian is often show as a model of a junk science periodical.
http://www.junkscience.com/
He had given a copy to a friend and it was found, he later destroyed all the copies he had. Or so the story goes...
I once helped out in a study for the largest database AT&T wanted to do. To just store the data would have been 6 times the huge Walmart database's size or more. And this was just for a 3 month rolling store of the calls made on the AT&T network.
The 94.3 TB database is nowhere near what AT&T has to store. That is just one of 7 (last count I had) data centers they maintain. The total size of all the AT&T data approaches several THOUSAND terabytes. They maintain a converted bunker just to store tapes in!
Think about it, they have to keep records for YEARS about every call made on the worldwide entwork.
I was never so happy as the day I was able to burn all my Teradata manuals, cause I ain't going back to one of those turkeys ever again.
The largest machines were about 250 nodes (Kmart, and look where they are today, and Walmart). I worked on machines up to about 135 nodes (Amps) (and 50 or so COPS) The performance never matched anything I've seen in DB2.
And even today, the performance tuning tools suck.
Oh, and as for your 1500 node limit, better check your manuals. Tucked away in the manual, and hardcoded into the operating system is a little limit - 1024 nodes - the origin of the name Teradata....
Oh, and it only takes 54 legal commands to crash one of those suckers (if you know the right commands, because of a hard coded limitation in the os as well).
If you go to the article, you will find that AT&T had the largest listed database at 94.1 TB - that's 9 times your speculation for Google.
And I used to work with some of the AT&T databases. Heck, the payroll system alone would have probably made the list in those days. (And I was the DBA for payroll for a while).
Also, some of the winners were using IDMS - a network implemenation of DBMS - not relational.
I dislike the Donaldson stuff and liked the Harrington stuff.
Course, I'll probably get modded down for it, but the Donaldson stuff that I read (and I gave it the whole 6 book series Donaldson wrote a while back).
Face it, different strokes for different folks.
If this person wants to bash a new book by comparing it to a series that I like, then I want to find out what else he doesn't like, and what he does like. Then I'll pass on what he likes and buy what he doesn't.
Oh, and maybe he doesn't like the odds because he doesn't have enough military background to actually relize WHY the battles got he way they do.
Part of the reason the show was canceled was because it was too expensive to produce at the time.
I am waiting to see the new series before I pass judgement.
>That sounds nice, but practically infeasable. IIRC, there are two Saturn Vs left in the world after Apollo and Skylab. These are in no condition to fly. One is sideways, partially disassembled, exposed to the elements, and "restored," at the Johnson Space Center in Houston (its actually a rather impressive display, if you ever get the chance to see it). I don't rememebr the current location of the other.
The other one is at Kennedy space center. It was exposed tot he elements for many years, but I hear they finally put a roof over it a few years ago. I'm not sure it was even restored.
Bzzz, wrong answer.
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In many states (like mine) if you file an absentee ballot, you still fill out a standard optical form (or whatever form is being used by your county) and it is entered into the voting machine by person(s) in the elections staff.
So, using absentee ballots DOES NOT equate to voting by hand.
Further, I second the opinion of many that the elections staff may not know how to even properly operate their equipment. During the 2000 elections I saw an example on TV. The Supervisor of Elections for Orange County FL should have been arrested for VOTE FRAUD!
He was on tv congratulating his people on the fine job they had done during the recounts, then described the method they used. Orange County used Optical mark sense pages (you know, blacken the ovals or whatever). Their "solution" was to examine the sheets and manually determine which ones were not read and then count those "votes" over again.
Excuse me? How can a human determine which votes were not readable? They should have set up the machine to stop on non-countable votes, and then count those pages. Any other method was just vote manufacturing (oh, and in that county, manufacturing for Gore, BTW).
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There is currently no way to prove who used a computer at any given time. And thus your analogy of the car will become the law of the land.
I have a PDA and a seperate cell phone. The cell phone is supplied by the company I work for.
But the PDA is the big issue. I use a Handspring, because of the external modules for it. One of those external modules is the "killer ap" for me. Module one is the blood glucose meter. That make the PDA a medical device, and allowed my medical insurance to pay for it.
I added a GPS module, a compactflashcard interface module, a backup module, a dictionary module, and a 5 language translation module. I also had a custom cable made for downloading data from my dive computer. Many other modules exist, but these are the ones I went for.
So, would one of these hybrid PDA / Phones work for me. Nope. Because the people that make the new phones aren't interested in the extension by module.
I've read a few things, and collected some more for the slow book publishing season.
How about: The art of War by Tsun Tzu (spelling?)
Got a bunch of H. Rider Haggard books.
And with the new software I just pieced together, I can move books to my PDA (free!) and take them on trips where space is at a premium.
I have just started one (damm, I didn't make the first 10K). I have 150/191 pages scanned and initial formatting done. Another week, and it just might be submitted.