I had similar-ish issues when working for an outsourcer for BT in the early-mid 2000s. They only @bt.com addresses we could get were impossible to read to someone over the phone (containing numeric staff IDs, and some form of sub-domain setup that seemed to refer to your outsourcer), but we had no problem getting @btinternet.com addresses like 95% of the UK's end-users had.
Cue actual BT staff who you were meant to work alongside assuming you were a user when you contacted them with it as the reply-to, and other such fun. You got in trouble if you used your actual, direct outsourcer email address as it was meant to appear seamless internally - when it clearly wasn't.
That is if there's any way to get CoD or Portal to run in twenty five years time - easily defeatable or no copy protection on older games makes running them in DOSBox or similar quite easy. Trying to figure out how to work around Steam, Origin or the newer optical media protection systems to allow games to run in emulation in future isn't going to be as simple.
Based on the IT industry here (Ireland) at least, there's been a huge increase in the number of gay men in IT, or out gay men at least. Not much use in having a booth babe if the guy buying the product doesn't like boobs.
...assuming your software can support being run on a recent 32 bit Windows properly
My employer has only recently taken off sale a re-shelled 1980s Object Pascal application that needed direct serial and parallel access and we were able to provide machines that handle it and the various peripherals perfectly well. Intel Reference boards (which they're withdrawing for PCs sometime soon unfortunately) and Startech PCI-E cards for the ports. I think the boards even have a floppy controller although the need for them was finally removed by an upstream supplier buying some CD burners a few years back.
Something written to work on 1987 grade hardware can sometimes run faster than intended on a Core i7, though.
And my family doctor just dumped their old version of Wolf Medical to a new version, total cost for 6 computers? $118k.
I am definitely doing this job in the wrong country. Think our sleaziest salesman would have trouble getting more than $40k CAD for a similar size practice before financing costs including manually-assisted data migration from whatever existing system they were using.
This is my industry and I'm not aware of any system where you could be on a compliant, secure system that had been updated that won't run above XP.
The only systems I run in to that are stuck on XP or below are some Win16 apps. Would consider seeing if they'd run on ecomstation to have a less easily attacked (if only by rareness) system if they weren't competitors systems. Our own Win16 and DOS applications were borked in to running on Windows 7 and a brief bit of playing with one of them on Windows 8 was succesful too - but the last one to be withdrawn from sale was in 2008.
To be stuck on XP you either need to have been extremely unlucky, or be using something ancient and likely unsupported. And if a normal upgrade for an opticians is $10k, we really need to move markets/country.
Lego have re-issued sets before, including large/expensive ones, as a "Legends" line. There's also been adhoc re-issues of sets other than the Legends line.
All it takes is Lego to do the same again with the few sets that are being ridiculously hoarded and traded at obscene prices for some people (Those who bought early) being left with no gains and some (those who bought in older sets late) being left hugely out of pocket.
The more they push it as an investment idea, the more Lego may realise there's demand for the sets to be reissued.
RTE has Aertel which was on the analogue services until they closed this morning, and is still available as a DVB insert on satellite (and possibly digital terrestrial - it was, but they suggested they'd turn it off too).
They also have the exact same data and page numbers in an MHEG5 app and a web interface to it also:
Don't think its that popular anymore, but it was common to see pubs leave 150 (lotto results) or the rotating football results page (222? I think?) up on a TV in the corner to save staff being asked the same questions over and over or being asked to change channel.
My house has FTTH. Except its dark, ever since the firm providing it went bankrupt and was bought by another that promptly went bankrupt itself. It *was* sold at 10mbits and 20mbits when they were in business, at a time when DSL was usually 512k or 1mbit.
So I'm stuck with 3mbit DSL, due to the estate having been connected to a second-string exchange as the telco never thought anyone would want DSL with FTTH. The rest of the town gets either 8mbit or 24mbit depending on who they get service from.
Then, to make it worse, as the FTTH provider had an early IPTV package, the cable company never cabled this estate. They legally could (totally unregulated market) but they decided it wasn't worth it. They have the rest of the town cabled. They now offer 150/10mbit.
I've decided its time to move house!
The little work I have to do with the IDE on Win7 still works fine. I would imagine installing some supporting libraries for specific features could be difficult - I did have to fight the SOAP libraries on.
This year, but before the iPhone came out. Nokia have provided updates, some with new features, for a large range of their handsets for a while, at least in Europe. This on a phone that cost less and has a proper 3G radio interface in it at that...
Generally not, the piss poor need their microwaves to heat their 69p ready meal dinners from Lidl; and need their mobile phones to keep in contact with the 8 fathers of their 8 children, because even BT won't supply a landline the rental is never paid on.
You're more likely not to have a microwave oven than not have a mobile phone if you're not broke, though.
I've no memory of airline tickets ever being a quarter of what they are now; however I do remember paying over IE£200 (250) before taxes to get to London in 1996 on British Midland. Whereas the same flight now costs from 0.99 to 26.99 depending on time of day from Ryanair. Add in the cost of the newspaper (1.70 for an Irish Independent), and the sandwich (4 at a push) and mini can of coke (.30), which were free on British Midland back then; and two extra items of hold luggage and priority boarding - 24... and we're somewhere between 32 and 60.
Unless US airline prices are wildly different and always have been, I can't see how you were paying any less in the 1970s.
I'm speaking from experience, not supposition. Theres been digital terrestrial and set top boxes sold for it for nine years in parts of Europe. If you expect the situation is going to be wildly different in the US, it may be so. Its not here. Most people here realise entirely that they don't need a new TV to "do digital" because of advertising campaigns from Sky (satellite) and UPC (cable) advertising their digital services for about a decade.
If anyones hiding under a rock, its you - ignoring the rest of the world that's gone ahead here.`Set top box adapters are sold en masse, in supermarkets - hell I've even seen them for sale in a petrol station once - over here. You aren't going to get away with convincing people they need a new TV.
Discarded? Why would they be discarded, you get a set top box (in the DVB world, dunno about ASTC) for about 15 that lets effectively any TV made after 1980 work with a digital signal, and for slightly more, one that'll work with any TV that was capable of getting an analogue signal at all (because it has a modulator). All my TVs here have analogue tuners and are working fine with DVB-T terrestrial.
I don't know if encryption systems work entirely different wherever you're from (DSS and 4DTV != DVB), but what you're proposing there makes absolutely no sense with DVB.
Its entirely irrelevant what receiver I use, for instance, my Conax CAM - what is a PCMCIA card sized card reader - in. I can take it + the MTV Unlimited card in it out of my Technomate and put it in to my Humax and it'll work fine - as the CAM handles the entirity of the decoding. Now, a Dreambox or a Dragon/T-Rex CAM "mimics" (hey, guess what - thats emulating...) an original CAM of the format required, and uses the original card - or if the card has been hacked, emulates the card too.
Now, the fact that DVB is the sole digital system here, and you appear to be in Kentucky - and its not even the dominant system there - may explain this...
I follow it closely enough, although as all I want to get via satellite is unencrypted anyway, not as much as I used to. You might not, as it seems you're getting stuff mixed up...
NDS CAMs can be emulated but they still need a real Videoguard card. This means you can use cards in unapproved units (Dreamboxes, or anything with a CI slot using a Dragon or TRex) but it doesn't mean you can get anything you've not paid for. Nobody has come close to extracting the keys from the card yet.
Box patching is CAM emulation, or at least for all currently broken systems. Its been a very long time since they've done anything other than emulate a CAM to which you then provide keys. You can, at my last check, get the main satellite packages from most of Europe using a Technomate box appropriately altered - except those using DVB Videoguard.
Slashdot Mirror
I had similar-ish issues when working for an outsourcer for BT in the early-mid 2000s. They only @bt.com addresses we could get were impossible to read to someone over the phone (containing numeric staff IDs, and some form of sub-domain setup that seemed to refer to your outsourcer), but we had no problem getting @btinternet.com addresses like 95% of the UK's end-users had.
Cue actual BT staff who you were meant to work alongside assuming you were a user when you contacted them with it as the reply-to, and other such fun. You got in trouble if you used your actual, direct outsourcer email address as it was meant to appear seamless internally - when it clearly wasn't.
That is if there's any way to get CoD or Portal to run in twenty five years time - easily defeatable or no copy protection on older games makes running them in DOSBox or similar quite easy. Trying to figure out how to work around Steam, Origin or the newer optical media protection systems to allow games to run in emulation in future isn't going to be as simple.
A5/1 is not the export cipher - that's A5/2.
The UK (and other countries nearby) - Wilkinson Sword is the brand. Schick is the same products in the US from memory.
Based on the IT industry here (Ireland) at least, there's been a huge increase in the number of gay men in IT, or out gay men at least. Not much use in having a booth babe if the guy buying the product doesn't like boobs.
My employer has only recently taken off sale a re-shelled 1980s Object Pascal application that needed direct serial and parallel access and we were able to provide machines that handle it and the various peripherals perfectly well. Intel Reference boards (which they're withdrawing for PCs sometime soon unfortunately) and Startech PCI-E cards for the ports. I think the boards even have a floppy controller although the need for them was finally removed by an upstream supplier buying some CD burners a few years back.
Something written to work on 1987 grade hardware can sometimes run faster than intended on a Core i7, though.
Because its the Daily Mail, a paper that is generally read by particularly stupid people, to whom Smartphone = Apple.
Or they're fake. Not sure which is more likely.
And my family doctor just dumped their old version of Wolf Medical to a new version, total cost for 6 computers? $118k.
I am definitely doing this job in the wrong country. Think our sleaziest salesman would have trouble getting more than $40k CAD for a similar size practice before financing costs including manually-assisted data migration from whatever existing system they were using.
The only systems I run in to that are stuck on XP or below are some Win16 apps. Would consider seeing if they'd run on ecomstation to have a less easily attacked (if only by rareness) system if they weren't competitors systems. Our own Win16 and DOS applications were borked in to running on Windows 7 and a brief bit of playing with one of them on Windows 8 was succesful too - but the last one to be withdrawn from sale was in 2008.
To be stuck on XP you either need to have been extremely unlucky, or be using something ancient and likely unsupported. And if a normal upgrade for an opticians is $10k, we really need to move markets/country.
Lego have re-issued sets before, including large/expensive ones, as a "Legends" line. There's also been adhoc re-issues of sets other than the Legends line. All it takes is Lego to do the same again with the few sets that are being ridiculously hoarded and traded at obscene prices for some people (Those who bought early) being left with no gains and some (those who bought in older sets late) being left hugely out of pocket. The more they push it as an investment idea, the more Lego may realise there's demand for the sets to be reissued.
RTE has Aertel which was on the analogue services until they closed this morning, and is still available as a DVB insert on satellite (and possibly digital terrestrial - it was, but they suggested they'd turn it off too).
They also have the exact same data and page numbers in an MHEG5 app and a web interface to it also:
http://www.rte.ie/aertel/desktopxhtml/100-1.html
Don't think its that popular anymore, but it was common to see pubs leave 150 (lotto results) or the rotating football results page (222? I think?) up on a TV in the corner to save staff being asked the same questions over and over or being asked to change channel.
My house has FTTH. Except its dark, ever since the firm providing it went bankrupt and was bought by another that promptly went bankrupt itself. It *was* sold at 10mbits and 20mbits when they were in business, at a time when DSL was usually 512k or 1mbit. So I'm stuck with 3mbit DSL, due to the estate having been connected to a second-string exchange as the telco never thought anyone would want DSL with FTTH. The rest of the town gets either 8mbit or 24mbit depending on who they get service from. Then, to make it worse, as the FTTH provider had an early IPTV package, the cable company never cabled this estate. They legally could (totally unregulated market) but they decided it wasn't worth it. They have the rest of the town cabled. They now offer 150/10mbit. I've decided its time to move house!
QT has been ported, but the OS is definitely not built on QT.
The little work I have to do with the IDE on Win7 still works fine. I would imagine installing some supporting libraries for specific features could be difficult - I did have to fight the SOAP libraries on.
My Sony Vaio R600 (R505 in the US I believe) had that same shape about eight years ago. Fantastic laptop, at that.
This year, but before the iPhone came out. Nokia have provided updates, some with new features, for a large range of their handsets for a while, at least in Europe. This on a phone that cost less and has a proper 3G radio interface in it at that...
You appear to have managed to find the only two countries operating analogue networks in Europe to cite there.
The Irish AMPS network went down in August 2001, the UK networks went off in December 2001. Most of central Europe went down at a similar time.
Generally not, the piss poor need their microwaves to heat their 69p ready meal dinners from Lidl; and need their mobile phones to keep in contact with the 8 fathers of their 8 children, because even BT won't supply a landline the rental is never paid on.
You're more likely not to have a microwave oven than not have a mobile phone if you're not broke, though.
My 1996 Thinkpad is still working fine, battery included. You aren't going to get another 3 years of that iBook now, obviously...
I've no memory of airline tickets ever being a quarter of what they are now; however I do remember paying over IE£200 (250) before taxes to get to London in 1996 on British Midland. Whereas the same flight now costs from 0.99 to 26.99 depending on time of day from Ryanair. Add in the cost of the newspaper (1.70 for an Irish Independent), and the sandwich (4 at a push) and mini can of coke (.30), which were free on British Midland back then; and two extra items of hold luggage and priority boarding - 24... and we're somewhere between 32 and 60.
Unless US airline prices are wildly different and always have been, I can't see how you were paying any less in the 1970s.
I'm speaking from experience, not supposition. Theres been digital terrestrial and set top boxes sold for it for nine years in parts of Europe. If you expect the situation is going to be wildly different in the US, it may be so. Its not here. Most people here realise entirely that they don't need a new TV to "do digital" because of advertising campaigns from Sky (satellite) and UPC (cable) advertising their digital services for about a decade.
If anyones hiding under a rock, its you - ignoring the rest of the world that's gone ahead here.`Set top box adapters are sold en masse, in supermarkets - hell I've even seen them for sale in a petrol station once - over here. You aren't going to get away with convincing people they need a new TV.
Discarded? Why would they be discarded, you get a set top box (in the DVB world, dunno about ASTC) for about 15 that lets effectively any TV made after 1980 work with a digital signal, and for slightly more, one that'll work with any TV that was capable of getting an analogue signal at all (because it has a modulator). All my TVs here have analogue tuners and are working fine with DVB-T terrestrial.
I don't know if encryption systems work entirely different wherever you're from (DSS and 4DTV != DVB), but what you're proposing there makes absolutely no sense with DVB.
Its entirely irrelevant what receiver I use, for instance, my Conax CAM - what is a PCMCIA card sized card reader - in. I can take it + the MTV Unlimited card in it out of my Technomate and put it in to my Humax and it'll work fine - as the CAM handles the entirity of the decoding. Now, a Dreambox or a Dragon/T-Rex CAM "mimics" (hey, guess what - thats emulating...) an original CAM of the format required, and uses the original card - or if the card has been hacked, emulates the card too.
Now, the fact that DVB is the sole digital system here, and you appear to be in Kentucky - and its not even the dominant system there - may explain this...
Its emulating the legitimate CAM - have you got a more appropriate word? Doubt it.
I follow it closely enough, although as all I want to get via satellite is unencrypted anyway, not as much as I used to. You might not, as it seems you're getting stuff mixed up...
NDS CAMs can be emulated but they still need a real Videoguard card. This means you can use cards in unapproved units (Dreamboxes, or anything with a CI slot using a Dragon or TRex) but it doesn't mean you can get anything you've not paid for. Nobody has come close to extracting the keys from the card yet.
Box patching is CAM emulation, or at least for all currently broken systems. Its been a very long time since they've done anything other than emulate a CAM to which you then provide keys. You can, at my last check, get the main satellite packages from most of Europe using a Technomate box appropriately altered - except those using DVB Videoguard.