I do not know System 34 very well, just AS400, and my OCL is tiny, but I know a bit of JCL. the System 34/36/as400 world was not as much "Batch oriented so I doubt there would be much similarity. In House Mainframe Joke: Q: How do you tell a Male dataset from a Female Dataset? A://SYSIN DD PGM=IEBGENDER
-What HS in NM? mine was LAHS. and I did some time at the UNM Computer Center.
Sorry if my post seemed trollish. It was merely from the heart and from the perspective of a week of tech support with clueless users who have work to do, and only Windows to do it with...
During the Great Depression my Great Aunt was a High School teacher in a county in Texas. I have a copy of one of her contracts with the local school system. Basically it boiled down to Provision 1: we will pay you X amount a year Provision 2: Provision 1 applies only if we earn amount X from the tax base. otherwise you get squat.
Given the economics of the day, that was a real concern. My aunt told me of many a month where she did NOT get a pay check! Of course, back then, salary paid for things like...food. Money was not put aside to insure against rabid lawyer attack.
I have always been under the impression that Windows has ALWAYS been in beta, and that the world is Microsoft's testers. No other company has so refined the paradigim of selling an unfinished, broken product to the public in the full expectation that almost all features, and functions will be changed or disabled due to problems within a given time. When other industries discover a serious problem, they must invest money in creating a replacement, recalling the product, repairing and all at no cost and limited nusance to the customer.
In counterpoint, Microsoft releases a broken product, fully aware it is broken. Then, when enough reports that a particular problem has actually caused serious harm can no longer be scoffed at, they act. How do they act? They create a "patch" that the customer must pay for (on CD) or, if it is a minor fix, download (if you have high speed connect), and here you must PROVE you are a real customer and not someone who stole from Microsoft (yes absurd,, but there it is). When Microsoft can deliver a functional, and finished product with limited or at least MINOR problems, I will consider purchase. Not until. "Beta Test" for them? Somehow that is just plain evil.
reminds me of the security of Thinkpads (thumbprint), which in turn reminds me of a car with such a lock in...Malaysia I think it was... where the carjackers merely cut off the owner's thumb as a means to defeat security. When in doubt, use a bigger machete....
My compliments on your nick. Lady Charlotte Guest or Lindsay's trans. or perhaps, speaking of novels: Virgin and the Swine?:-) I would guess Lindsay as you did not include Guest's double negative of the "n" sufix. Indeed, Grammer is Important...even in Welsh;)
an English Grammer is a novel written by comittee. as I said: Content...form. Try reading a scientific journal some time. Absolutly perfect and rigid in style and form, totally unreadable in content
We should learn the English of Chaucer, the spelling rules of Wycliff, of Dr John Dee. We should spell Shakspeare in at least as many ways has he did himself. Those worried over form, miss content.
of COURSE non military Americans disdain the great unwashed who defend them. Read your Tacitus, and while your at it, leaf through Vegiiteus and remember the state of the Empire at the time he died. WHen the military is mainly composed (rank and file, not officers) of ghetto dwellers who barely speak understandable English ( shades of a Legion that spoke Germanic while the General ordered about in vulgate Latin?), When the Officer corp is made up of stratified (by class) peoples who know well how far they can rise depending on which of the political families sponsored them, when, oh heck, counntless examples similar to the waning of Rome. Oh yes, rail on about the coddled. Rememeber, Rome was finally sacked by those who once fought for her.. Nothing is new under the sun..
New York Based? well this only proves my earlier thesis tha the only true solution to adware, spyware and the like is a small but very efficent, off-shore mercenary army.....
In related news, as part of a festival, 100 virgins took part in a public nude dance in Nepal. This was widely reported due to the fact that the international journalists on site observing the event outnumbered the virgins...
Many years ago, in another town. I worked in the IT of a major western city. We were having a major mid-term election. Back then, voting was counted on a old IBM Mainframe; PCs had yet to be invented and microcomputers were a hobby toy. I recall what was done, how it was done, and how it was reported. PCs will just speed up the process of what I saw back then. I trust Politicans, Election results, Used car salesmen's sworn assurance, and a hooker's claim of virginity in equal meassure. And so should you.
I heard that recently an unknown work of J.S Bach was discovered among some upper-crust birthday cards which had been locked up in a Palace keepsake box for a mere 2 centuries or so.. I also heard it was to be performed. This is a PERFECT. exmaple. I could write something flippant and funny but seriously: Two Hundred Years from today, Who owns the Beastie Boys, Britany and... I should be whipped for mentioning those names in the same post with JS Bach. And today, who owns this piece written so long ago?
Security is all of our concern, individually. It is not a job for government. The Private Sector seems able to rise to most occasions and when it comes to security, I leave mine in the capable hands of Col. Colt If he is unavailabale I have been known at times to employ the services of a a Mr Ruger. The firm of Smith and Wesson have also shown promise in this field.
...and...Given that the project works, is accepted and put into place, who checks that contractor years down the road? I can see it now...Mafia, Terror orgs, and Microsoft in a snipe war on Ebay for rights to the back door...
Since no one got it: the above is the embbeded Newton easter egg. Type Rosetta! Rosetta! Rosetta! and the 3rd Rosetta! is replaced by "Hey That's Me!" Incidentally, the same easter egg is there in the current Mac OS X's handwritting component: Inkwell. Understandable; the Newton software was far ahead of its time.
This brings to mind a real slippery slope on the "Pirate" vs. "Legit". Here is a short tale moral tale:
I am a recent convert to anime. A friend turned me on to a series of Japanese toons called Cowboy Beebop which is an absolutely awesome series (and I think the inspiration for the game Freelancer; look at the trade lanes and think about it).
From there I grew to love a series called Full Metal Panic. I could go on about the careful attention the animators in Japan give to detail as vs. the typical Saturday morning fare here but, the point of this: After seeing a few Full Metal Panics I had downloaded via Bit Torrent, I decided to do my good citizen bit. I was at the Mall and ducked into a Sam Goodies store to see what was on the Anime Shelf and there was a few episodes of Full Metal Panic.
Joyfully, I bought them and put them on the old DVD when I got home. There, right at the beginning, was the exact same credits (including the fan's IRC channel and website listed) as the downloaded "Illegal" stuff with ONE MINOR DIFFERENCE: My "commercial" copy had the logo "This is an Anime Fan-Sub. Not for Resale" partially removed. You could see where the pixels had been diddled with...
So, I be good and buy what I THINK is a legal commercial copy from a usual retail outlet and what do I get? A pirated copy of a pirate copy.
Anymore, I am having a hard time keeping track of who is driving the getaway car.....
Battery? whazat? My phone has a stalk microphone, a detachable ear piece (very ergo design that), and to use you clack the lever a few times then say: "Hello Mabel? Give me Bigalow 2-1105"
Using government to block a competitor is not new. I recall a tale where Ford patented the Steering Wheel as a gambit to drive the Stanley Brothers out of the car business. The Patent didn't stand, but Stanley was such a small company that they could not match the Ford legal machine. We no longer drive steam cars...
Another point though: technology and cool software seem to outpace the legislation. A few posts back was one about a Bit Torrent like p2p thing that has no tracker and you can spoof IP. Another story about from your car music-casts. Tomorrow will bring something else. Locking down any media is just not going to work PERIOD. This genie is firmly out of the bottle and not going back.
So, instead of risking RIAA wrath, or other such; we take this to the next level: I am stuck in traffic, I am bored; I plug my trusty iPod into the "VAN" and "rip" the latest copy of....... fill in musical tastes here... Given the size of typical LA gridlock, I sould have downloaded hours worth before the light changes and I am on my way.
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I do not know System 34 very well, just AS400, and my OCL is tiny, but I know a bit of JCL. the System 34/36/as400 world was not as much "Batch oriented so I doubt there would be much similarity. //SYSIN DD PGM=IEBGENDER
In House Mainframe Joke:
Q: How do you tell a Male dataset from a Female Dataset?
A:
-What HS in NM? mine was LAHS. and I did some time at the UNM Computer Center.
Sorry if my post seemed trollish. It was merely from the heart and from the perspective of a week of tech support with clueless users who have work to do, and only Windows to do it with...
During the Great Depression my Great Aunt was a High School teacher in a county in Texas. I have a copy of one of her contracts with the local school system. Basically it boiled down to Provision 1: we will pay you X amount a year
Provision 2: Provision 1 applies only if we earn amount X from the tax base. otherwise you get squat.
Given the economics of the day, that was a real concern. My aunt told me of many a month where she did NOT get a pay check! Of course, back then, salary paid for things like...food. Money was not put aside to insure against rabid lawyer attack.
I have always been under the impression that Windows has ALWAYS been in beta, and that the world is Microsoft's testers. No other company has so refined the paradigim of selling an unfinished, broken product to the public in the full expectation that almost all features, and functions will be changed or disabled due to problems within a given time. When other industries discover a serious problem, they must invest money in creating a replacement, recalling the product, repairing and all at no cost and limited nusance to the customer.
In counterpoint, Microsoft releases a broken product, fully aware it is broken. Then, when enough reports that a particular problem has actually caused serious harm can no longer be scoffed at, they act. How do they act? They create a "patch" that the customer must pay for (on CD) or, if it is a minor fix, download (if you have high speed connect), and here you must PROVE you are a real customer and not someone who stole from Microsoft (yes absurd,, but there it is).
When Microsoft can deliver a functional, and finished product with limited or at least MINOR problems, I will consider purchase. Not until. "Beta Test" for them? Somehow that is just plain evil.
reminds me of the security of Thinkpads (thumbprint), which in turn reminds me of a car with such a lock in...Malaysia I think it was... where the carjackers merely cut off the owner's thumb as a means to defeat security. When in doubt, use a bigger machete....
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual": find out how he feels about astrology. -- Robert A. Heinlein
My compliments on your nick. Lady Charlotte Guest or Lindsay's trans. or perhaps, speaking of novels: Virgin and the Swine? :-) ;)
I would guess Lindsay as you did not include Guest's double negative of the "n" sufix. Indeed, Grammer is Important...even in Welsh
an English Grammer is a novel written by comittee. as I said: Content...form. Try reading a scientific journal some time. Absolutly perfect and rigid in style and form, totally unreadable in content
We should learn the English of Chaucer, the spelling rules of Wycliff, of Dr John Dee. We should spell Shakspeare in at least as many ways has he did himself. Those worried over form, miss content.
of COURSE non military Americans disdain the great unwashed who defend them. Read your Tacitus, and while your at it, leaf through Vegiiteus and remember the state of the Empire at the time he died. WHen the military is mainly composed (rank and file, not officers) of ghetto dwellers who barely speak understandable English ( shades of a Legion that spoke Germanic while the General ordered about in vulgate Latin?), When the Officer corp is made up of stratified (by class) peoples who know well how far they can rise depending on which of the political families sponsored them, when, oh heck, counntless examples similar to the waning of Rome. Oh yes, rail on about the coddled. Rememeber, Rome was finally sacked by those who once fought for her.. Nothing is new under the sun..
New York Based? well this only proves my earlier thesis tha the only true solution to adware, spyware and the like is a small but very efficent, off-shore mercenary army.....
by 2015, whatever vehicle they use will probably have a helpful instruction booklet included.....written in Chinese....
Yes but currently it is all up in the air..
In related news, as part of a festival, 100 virgins took part in a public nude dance in Nepal. This was widely reported due to the fact that the international journalists on site observing the event outnumbered the virgins...
Many years ago, in another town. I worked in the IT of a major western city. We were having a major mid-term election. Back then, voting was counted on a old IBM Mainframe; PCs had yet to be invented and microcomputers were a hobby toy. I recall what was done, how it was done, and how it was reported. PCs will just speed up the process of what I saw back then. I trust Politicans, Election results, Used car salesmen's sworn assurance, and a hooker's claim of virginity in equal meassure. And so should you.
I heard that recently an unknown work of J.S Bach was discovered among some upper-crust birthday cards which had been locked up in a Palace keepsake box for a mere 2 centuries or so.. I also heard it was to be performed. This is a PERFECT. exmaple. I could write something flippant and funny but seriously: Two Hundred Years from today, Who owns the Beastie Boys, Britany and... I should be whipped for mentioning those names in the same post with JS Bach. And today, who owns this piece written so long ago?
Security is all of our concern, individually. It is not a job for government. The Private Sector seems able to rise to most occasions and when it comes to security, I leave mine in the capable hands of Col. Colt If he is unavailabale I have been known at times to employ the services of a a Mr Ruger. The firm of Smith and Wesson have also shown promise in this field.
...and...Given that the project works, is accepted and put into place, who checks that contractor years down the road? I can see it now...Mafia, Terror orgs, and Microsoft in a snipe war on Ebay for rights to the back door...
In my day, "Geek" meant what you mean by "Nerd". Slang tends to migrate some...
old terms: egghead, long-hair, boookish...All mean the same thing.
Since no one got it: the above is the embbeded Newton easter egg. Type Rosetta! Rosetta! Rosetta! and the 3rd Rosetta! is replaced by "Hey That's Me!" Incidentally, the same easter egg is there in the current Mac OS X's handwritting component: Inkwell. Understandable; the Newton software was far ahead of its time.
"Rosetta! Rosetta! Rosetta!"
This brings to mind a real slippery slope on the "Pirate" vs. "Legit". Here is a short tale moral tale:
.
I am a recent convert to anime. A friend turned me on to a series of Japanese toons called Cowboy Beebop which is an absolutely awesome series (and I think the inspiration for the game Freelancer; look at the trade lanes and think about it)
From there I grew to love a series called Full Metal Panic. I could go on about the careful attention the animators in Japan give to detail as vs. the typical Saturday morning fare here but, the point of this: After seeing a few Full Metal Panics I had downloaded via Bit Torrent, I decided to do my good citizen bit. I was at the Mall and ducked into a Sam Goodies store to see what was on the Anime Shelf and there was a few episodes of Full Metal Panic.
Joyfully, I bought them and put them on the old DVD when I got home. There, right at the beginning, was the exact same credits (including the fan's IRC channel and website listed) as the downloaded "Illegal" stuff with ONE MINOR DIFFERENCE: My "commercial" copy had the logo "This is an Anime Fan-Sub. Not for Resale" partially removed. You could see where the pixels had been diddled with...
So, I be good and buy what I THINK is a legal commercial copy from a usual retail outlet and what do I get? A pirated copy of a pirate copy.
Anymore, I am having a hard time keeping track of who is driving the getaway car.....
Battery? whazat? My phone has a stalk microphone, a detachable ear piece (very ergo design that), and to use you clack the lever a few times then say: "Hello Mabel? Give me Bigalow 2-1105"
Using government to block a competitor is not new. I recall a tale where Ford patented the Steering Wheel as a gambit to drive the Stanley Brothers out of the car business. The Patent didn't stand, but Stanley was such a small company that they could not match the Ford legal machine. We no longer drive steam cars...
Another point though: technology and cool software seem to outpace the legislation. A few posts back was one about a Bit Torrent like p2p thing that has no tracker and you can spoof IP. Another story about from your car music-casts. Tomorrow will bring something else. Locking down any media is just not going to work PERIOD. This genie is firmly out of the bottle and not going back.
So, instead of risking RIAA wrath, or other such; we take this to the next level: I am stuck in traffic, I am bored; I plug my trusty iPod into the "VAN" and "rip" the latest copy of ....... fill in musical tastes here... Given the size of typical LA gridlock, I sould have downloaded hours worth before the light changes and I am on my way.