I don't know whether it is, still, because I have not been updating my MCSE status since more than 2 years, BUT I clearly remember what I had to do in order to access my MCSE information. I had to use IE, but NOT because of some important CSS or javascript or whatever special feature that Netscape didn't support. No, dear friends, this was just a dirty MS trick. In fact, I could access it with Netscape, too, with a little trick: when I would clikc on certain links, and the page looks as if it is loaded, quickly click on ESC (or click on the "stop" button) to stop loading. That way I was fine, even with Netscape. I could update all my info, get all my exam status and certification information, everything was working fine, if only I was careful to press ESC quick enough. No functionality was missing, except for the fact that if I left the page to load completely, in Netscape it would disappear!
Funny, isn't it? Of corse, MS was stating that you MUST use IE, nad with IE realy it was easier (not anymore better looking or functional) but I was too much of a stubborn bastard, at that time. I was young...
Yes, yes, yes, I agree 101% !!
However, I also see their reason to go with X, for now (I am playing the devil's advocate, here, because I personally hate X), and that's the huge number of supperted graphics cards.
BeOS comes with Bootman which is able to boot any number of DOS, WinNT, Win95, BeOS, Linux on any disk. I never tried it with FreeBSD slices, I admit, but otherwise, Bootman is rather powerful.
Besides, Bootman was created in '95. Good job, if you think of it.
I agree about the working of the trebuchet, BUT... in order to orbit around the Earth, an object must reach the speed of more than 17.000 miles per hour. I don't see any trebuchet being able to apply the acceleration necessary to reach such a speed, that trebuchet would need to be tens of kilometers high/long. OTOH, maybe one day we will construct such a thing. Or we'll just settle for the famous star elevator.
For example (this is a continuation of my previous post and thought): I just saw a documentary about child slavery in Gabon. Gabon is a signatory of all sorts of UN protocols and international agreements on children's rights and stuff against slavery etc. Still, the govt. there is turning a blind eye on child slavery and traffiking that is going on on a massive scale in that country. Also, Gabon is, on paper, a democracy.
I know what you mean, but it's not the law itself that changes the climate in a country, it's the whole body of legislation, level of corruption and civilization. In that respect, the USA is in better shape than, for example Syria or China.
There are reasons to be worried, in US, but for once, I see them elsewhere. For example, the US seems increasingly plutocratic.
I see now. Thank you for clarifying your point.
Well, if you think about it, what alternative do they have? I am now not saying they WOULD do it, but then again, I don't see much alternatices, except for doing a less thorough search for those sites, than the service offered for paying customers. I admit, I don't know, do you have any idea how Google could be profitable and still useful in their free format?
I would be very disappointed if they started censoring what material was freely searchable just to put a price tag on some of it.
What exactly do you mean by "censoring"? It's not like they are going to delete informaiton already present on the net, and I would be very surprised if they would not let them appear in the searches.
But maybe you meant something else by "censoring"?
welp, you would have the highest acceleration at the beginning, and if you wanted to get into orbit, that acceleration would need to be so high, that you would become meat-and-bone pulp on the bottom of that barrel... provided that the barrel itself will survive.
Therefore, I encourage you to try, maybe you won't get the job at NASA, but at least you will succeed SPAMming the outer space!
Well, I guess you are talking about some BASIC programs for the VIC 20 you wrote, which didn't use any of C64's hardware capabilities? I remember, even the number of columns of thext was different, not to talk about resolution, sound, mapping, memory, different CPU even.... From that point of view, your VIC 20 programs might have worked with most BASIC interpreters.
..is the deep disinterest of CIOs around the world, about WindowsXP.
Really, no company has a business interest to upgrade to XP from NT or Windows2000. That would be 100% even WITHOUT the compulsory hardware upgrade that WinXP entails, and WITHOUT the looming recession. Seeing as though we have both, CIOs would be bad crazy to consider upgrading to XP at this moment. It will be much more of an uphill battle than before.
On the other hand, we know that MS marketoids can always pull one more out. Maybe they'll launch the "If you don't upgrade to XP you are a loser." campaign? It wouldn't work with me, but you know the pointy-haired boss..
You might think I am a stubborn bastard (that's your constitutional right;-)) but his point with Commodore was totally off hte mark: before the Amiga, Commodore didn't give a flying foot about backwards compatibility. Actually, even the hardware was MADE incompatible: you certainly remember how the C-16/C-4plus/C-116 had completely different connectors for the peripherals, than C-64. And as I said, no code compatibility between PET, VIC-20, C-64, C-16/C-4Plus. It's actually with the Amga that Commodore started thinking about backwards compatibility: you had the Amiga line of computers that was evolving something like this: Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200. Did I miss any?
But I agree with you that his point would have much better made with Apple ][ vs Mac.
BTW, I wish I had an Apple ][. Emulators don't cut it;-)
Commodore did this when they went from the C-64 to the Amiga. Users grumbled for a while, but I think that in hindsight it turned out to be the right choice - once people began to exploit the capabilities of the new platform, compatibility with the old one became irrelevant.
Ummm... like, the C-64 was backwards compatible with what, exactly? Not with the VIC 20, not with the PET. And the C-16 (which came after the C-64) wasn't backwards or forward compatible, either. You could not run any VIC 20 programs on a C-64 or on a C-16. Programs created for any of those platforms were just as cross-compatible as with the Amiga, i.e. not at all!
So, what the heck was your point with Commodore?
Ant that isn't even the biggest Altavista's proble
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Yes, old indexes are bad, but Altavista has another, rather more serious problem: it doesn't yield very useful searches, because it's susceptible to spamming. Of course, if you never tried anything better than Altavista, you are used to roommage among the junk an Altavista search produces, but I am now spoiled: Google is so much better at filtering out the stupid porn sites. Also, Google is able (with some magic or AI) to sort the pages by actual relevance: I usually find spot on the first page Google finds. With Altavista, that's almost never the case.
Google spoled me so badly that I now avoid by all means using any other search engine, it's THE standard by which I judge all the other search systems. Altavista doesn't come close.
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I was wondering, will this newest incarnation of Civilisation offer an option between Iso and normal (top-down) view? I never could stomach the Iso view, that's why I always go back to freeciv, where I can compile it to normal view.
Here at work we all have BlackBox 2 and 4 way KVM switches. They're very sturdy, and what's most important, incredibly reliable and perfectly compatible with both Windows NT/95 and Linux. I use a Logitech scroll mouse which works fine with NT, and works as a 3 button mouse under Linux, perfectly.
The only problem is, I hear that these Balckbox switches are expensive. I don't know, company paid..
In general, I agree. However, I'd like to mention that a friend of my wife, working as an expat in Egypt, never received the great majority of the letters sent from Europe or USA.
Welp, the Register has a good article on J#, too
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My company develops for HP-UX and solaris. We actually sell (indirectly) about 400 M $ worth of HP-UX and Solaris servers. That's a lot!
Well, there have been many in product management that were dismayed at HP's feet-dragging commitment to hteir own platform. HP has been yoyo-ing back and forth between WindowsNT and HP-UX a bit too much, and this might be the nail in the coffin, as far as our platform of choice is concerned. We'll probably standardize on Sun computers. If it happens, I must say HP really did it to itself.
Let me just add to this really good post that, fleas and other parasitic insects (carriers of other nasty diseases) thrive on hotter climate. We are, for example, experiencing an increase in the number of mosquitos across Europe and US. There have been oubreaks of Nile Fever in New Yourk, if I recall correctly, recently, carried by mosquitos.
Also, the number of rats and cockroaches increased dramatically in the last 30 years. These species thrive in warm and overall unfriendly climate. So, global warming can affect your life in more ways than just ice-cup melting and sea level increase.
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I don't know whether it is, still, because I have not been updating my MCSE status since more than 2 years, BUT I clearly remember what I had to do in order to access my MCSE information. I had to use IE, but NOT because of some important CSS or javascript or whatever special feature that Netscape didn't support. No, dear friends, this was just a dirty MS trick. In fact, I could access it with Netscape, too, with a little trick: when I would clikc on certain links, and the page looks as if it is loaded, quickly click on ESC (or click on the "stop" button) to stop loading. That way I was fine, even with Netscape. I could update all my info, get all my exam status and certification information, everything was working fine, if only I was careful to press ESC quick enough. No functionality was missing, except for the fact that if I left the page to load completely, in Netscape it would disappear!
Funny, isn't it? Of corse, MS was stating that you MUST use IE, nad with IE realy it was easier (not anymore better looking or functional) but I was too much of a stubborn bastard, at that time. I was young...
Yes, yes, yes, I agree 101% !!
However, I also see their reason to go with X, for now (I am playing the devil's advocate, here, because I personally hate X), and that's the huge number of supperted graphics cards.
BeOS comes with Bootman which is able to boot any number of DOS, WinNT, Win95, BeOS, Linux on any disk. I never tried it with FreeBSD slices, I admit, but otherwise, Bootman is rather powerful.
Besides, Bootman was created in '95. Good job, if you think of it.
I agree about the working of the trebuchet, BUT... in order to orbit around the Earth, an object must reach the speed of more than 17.000 miles per hour. I don't see any trebuchet being able to apply the acceleration necessary to reach such a speed, that trebuchet would need to be tens of kilometers high/long. OTOH, maybe one day we will construct such a thing. Or we'll just settle for the famous star elevator.
For example (this is a continuation of my previous post and thought): I just saw a documentary about child slavery in Gabon. Gabon is a signatory of all sorts of UN protocols and international agreements on children's rights and stuff against slavery etc. Still, the govt. there is turning a blind eye on child slavery and traffiking that is going on on a massive scale in that country. Also, Gabon is, on paper, a democracy.
Do you see the point I am trying to make?
I know what you mean, but it's not the law itself that changes the climate in a country, it's the whole body of legislation, level of corruption and civilization. In that respect, the USA is in better shape than, for example Syria or China.
There are reasons to be worried, in US, but for once, I see them elsewhere. For example, the US seems increasingly plutocratic.
I see now. Thank you for clarifying your point.
Well, if you think about it, what alternative do they have? I am now not saying they WOULD do it, but then again, I don't see much alternatices, except for doing a less thorough search for those sites, than the service offered for paying customers. I admit, I don't know, do you have any idea how Google could be profitable and still useful in their free format?
I would be very disappointed if they started censoring what material was freely searchable just to put a price tag on some of it.
What exactly do you mean by "censoring"? It's not like they are going to delete informaiton already present on the net, and I would be very surprised if they would not let them appear in the searches.
But maybe you meant something else by "censoring"?
welp, you would have the highest acceleration at the beginning, and if you wanted to get into orbit, that acceleration would need to be so high, that you would become meat-and-bone pulp on the bottom of that barrel... provided that the barrel itself will survive.
Therefore, I encourage you to try, maybe you won't get the job at NASA, but at least you will succeed SPAMming the outer space!
Well, I guess you are talking about some BASIC programs for the VIC 20 you wrote, which didn't use any of C64's hardware capabilities? I remember, even the number of columns of thext was different, not to talk about resolution, sound, mapping, memory, different CPU even.... From that point of view, your VIC 20 programs might have worked with most BASIC interpreters.
This law is for your protection, for God's sake! The alternative is terrorist proliferation and constant fear.
Howard Stern seems to be a guy with the priorities in the right place. I am glad he will resist to the WinXP assimilation.
..is the deep disinterest of CIOs around the world, about WindowsXP.
Really, no company has a business interest to upgrade to XP from NT or Windows2000. That would be 100% even WITHOUT the compulsory hardware upgrade that WinXP entails, and WITHOUT the looming recession. Seeing as though we have both, CIOs would be bad crazy to consider upgrading to XP at this moment. It will be much more of an uphill battle than before.
On the other hand, we know that MS marketoids can always pull one more out. Maybe they'll launch the "If you don't upgrade to XP you are a loser." campaign? It wouldn't work with me, but you know the pointy-haired boss..
You might think I am a stubborn bastard (that's your constitutional right ;-)) but his point with Commodore was totally off hte mark: before the Amiga, Commodore didn't give a flying foot about backwards compatibility. Actually, even the hardware was MADE incompatible: you certainly remember how the C-16/C-4plus/C-116 had completely different connectors for the peripherals, than C-64. And as I said, no code compatibility between PET, VIC-20, C-64, C-16/C-4Plus. It's actually with the Amga that Commodore started thinking about backwards compatibility: you had the Amiga line of computers that was evolving something like this: Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200. Did I miss any?
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But I agree with you that his point would have much better made with Apple ][ vs Mac.
BTW, I wish I had an Apple ][. Emulators don't cut it
Commodore did this when they went from the C-64 to the Amiga. Users grumbled for a while, but I think that in hindsight it turned out to be the right choice - once people began to exploit the capabilities of the new platform, compatibility with the old one became irrelevant.
Ummm... like, the C-64 was backwards compatible with what, exactly? Not with the VIC 20, not with the PET. And the C-16 (which came after the C-64) wasn't backwards or forward compatible, either. You could not run any VIC 20 programs on a C-64 or on a C-16. Programs created for any of those platforms were just as cross-compatible as with the Amiga, i.e. not at all!
So, what the heck was your point with Commodore?
Yes, old indexes are bad, but Altavista has another, rather more serious problem: it doesn't yield very useful searches, because it's susceptible to spamming. Of course, if you never tried anything better than Altavista, you are used to roommage among the junk an Altavista search produces, but I am now spoiled: Google is so much better at filtering out the stupid porn sites. Also, Google is able (with some magic or AI) to sort the pages by actual relevance: I usually find spot on the first page Google finds. With Altavista, that's almost never the case.
Google spoled me so badly that I now avoid by all means using any other search engine, it's THE standard by which I judge all the other search systems. Altavista doesn't come close.
I was wondering, will this newest incarnation of Civilisation offer an option between Iso and normal (top-down) view? I never could stomach the Iso view, that's why I always go back to freeciv, where I can compile it to normal view.
However, maybe Civ III has this option?
Here at work we all have BlackBox 2 and 4 way KVM switches. They're very sturdy, and what's most important, incredibly reliable and perfectly compatible with both Windows NT/95 and Linux. I use a Logitech scroll mouse which works fine with NT, and works as a 3 button mouse under Linux, perfectly.
The only problem is, I hear that these Balckbox switches are expensive. I don't know, company paid..
..I thought "Fire on your motherboard!". Welp, that might be if the heatsink falls off from the CPU for some reason.
"Please don't show that the emperor is naked."
Welp, it's better than "far source" anyway!
In general, I agree. However, I'd like to mention that a friend of my wife, working as an expat in Egypt, never received the great majority of the letters sent from Europe or USA.
Gotta love the title:
Apply here to screw Java: Microsoft recruits more J# developers
My company develops for HP-UX and solaris. We actually sell (indirectly) about 400 M $ worth of HP-UX and Solaris servers. That's a lot!
Well, there have been many in product management that were dismayed at HP's feet-dragging commitment to hteir own platform. HP has been yoyo-ing back and forth between WindowsNT and HP-UX a bit too much, and this might be the nail in the coffin, as far as our platform of choice is concerned. We'll probably standardize on Sun computers. If it happens, I must say HP really did it to itself.
Let me just add to this really good post that, fleas and other parasitic insects (carriers of other nasty diseases) thrive on hotter climate. We are, for example, experiencing an increase in the number of mosquitos across Europe and US. There have been oubreaks of Nile Fever in New Yourk, if I recall correctly, recently, carried by mosquitos.
Also, the number of rats and cockroaches increased dramatically in the last 30 years. These species thrive in warm and overall unfriendly climate. So, global warming can affect your life in more ways than just ice-cup melting and sea level increase.