USA... biggest problem (besides irrational competition when it doesn't matter) is that the current "war on police" means no more traffic enforcement. Drivers have gone from thoughtful to senseless to hazardous.
Traffic enforcement in the USA means flashing blue and/or red lights. This causes "on-looker delays".
However, the UI of the Tomb Raider reboots is much less annoying than the original 'press jump button at precisely the right pixel or fall and have to start over again' games.
You're forgetting: "We've always done it this way". and "Tradition. Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as a fiddler on the roof!" -Tevye
Somehow, I think the respondent did not take threats of litigation seriously. It's far better to mollify the petitioner. Perhaps he should have done an Ask Slashdot before a lawsuit was filed?
Wasn't it the Turks who did the whole Armenian Genocide thing or am I misremembering?
Atatürk had most of the genociders killed (because they opposed his rise to power and/or were incredibly incompetent). So it's a bit unfair to criticize Turkey for the acts of a prior regime.
Step 1: Download Slackware packages to spare (old) hard drive. Step 2: Copy tagfile to.[YourInitials] , Edit tagfile so that everything is either ADD or SKP. Repeat Step 2 for each disk set. Step 3: Turn off computer, remove spare HD, plug into new computer (alongside new HD), insert boot floppy, turn on new computer, swap to root disk when prompted. Step 4: Run setup. When asked from where, select old HD. When asked for how, select your tagfile extension. Start. Step 5: Go out and do something else.
It's similar to the stock market scam, where you create a dozen funds, trade them at random, and then cherry-pick the one that had done a lot better than the market, claim that it's due to your brilliance and then ask for investors (charging a hefty administration fee to each one).
Steamboat Willie being a parody of Steamboat Bill, Jr.. So let's keep extending copyright for a movie based on another movie, but NOT the original movie.
In America, we extend and enforce copyrights because it increases tax revenue. Then we demand campaign contributions from Hollywood to continue preserving copyrights. It's win-win, if you're a member of Congress.
The government DOES provide it. They do so through legislation that requires hire car businesses to have a certain percentage of vehicles on the roads
Oh, you mean slavery.
So first you whine that the government isn't doing anything, now you whine because it is pointed out they are doing something and doing it in probably the most tax efficient manner.
Are you saying that slavery is the most tax efficient manner to provide government services?
Wire transfers are extremely common in Europe; virtually instantaneous, cheap, etc. Customers can do them themselves, person to person.
Here in the US? Anywhere from a day to WEEKS for absolutely no legitimate reason. You generally need a teller or branch manager to do it. At least $5;
If the transfer is from FedWire bank to FedWire bank, it's posted within minutes. This is usually how most Americans close out mortgages (so that the interest owed and paid is *exactly* correct.
$40 if the transaction ends up going through the Fed.
It's 2015. Why does transferring money in the US take more than a minute and a few cents?
Because it's going through the Federal Reserve. And the $40 charge is the maximum change, which assumes sending from a non-FedWire bank to another non-FedWire bank (within the US). Most banks charge $25 (which is almost always more than what the bank pays the Fed). Remember, these prices have been stable for *years*. So with inflation the cost has been decreasing.
_after_ gov't subsidies. It's also a tiny little car that does poorly in crashes. Why in hells name would I spend that kind of money? I could buy a Versa or an egg (excuse me, the Yaris) for $10k less and get the same features. There's no way in hell that car is going to save me $10k over the course of it's life. It doesn't help that it's a Chevy...
I never liked the Yaris 3 or 5 door hatchback. The 4 door (manufactured 2007-2012) is awesome. 40 mpg on real gas, less on ethanol mix. It's faster, has better range, and has more capacity than electic cars. And it's alot less expensive.
Getting a little tired of this. As cities grow, yes more money is needed. I understand this. But as cities and states grow, there are more taxpayers increasing overall income from sales tax, property tax, gas tax and wtf ever tax. I'm expected now to get an AMA liscence(understandable with insurance and such), and then get a permit from the city to fly anything rc controlled. Bunch of crap.
Ahh, but Chicago ISN'T growing. (Borrowed this from another poster). This tax is an indication of a Death Spiral.
Ugh. My last company laptop used the same software as the desktops. It would check to see if it was on a local network, then check to see if updates were pending. If there were updates, it (basically) took over my machine. Most updates were pushed out over the weekend. Wouldn't be so bad if I had an assigned desk where I could stay logged in over the weekend (instead of packing up and locking it away). So Mondays were mostly reading (snail) mail and checking and responding to voice mail (I took notes with pencil and paper because... computer not available).
The REAL fun began when the two anti-virus programs got into a fight. Program 1 runs scan on memory and processes, updates log file. Program 2 sees log file has been changed, scans the file. Program 1 sees that Program 2 is running, scans Program 2, updates log file...
I suppose we could manually place,1,2 etc. behind each file. I wonder if you could write a script wrapper around your favorite editors to do this. I suppose vim and emacs might even have modules for this as well.
Client PCs are both browser and web server. The app screen-scrapes the tn3270 window into html. Outbound data is sent with the "Submit" button on the page.
I create very little software (and almost always for in-house use). My plan is to use Windows (98 through 10) whenever I need an application (including peripheral support) that I cannot find a substitute for. If I can find a free substitute, I will use it.
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Canadians can zipper just fine.
USA... biggest problem (besides irrational competition when it doesn't matter) is that the current "war on police" means no more traffic enforcement. Drivers have gone from thoughtful to senseless to hazardous.
Traffic enforcement in the USA means flashing blue and/or red lights. This causes "on-looker delays".
The Seiken Densetsu series was awesome! Far better than Final Fantasy.
However, the UI of the Tomb Raider reboots is much less annoying than the original 'press jump button at precisely the right pixel or fall and have to start over again' games.
Yes, but they were BIG pixels!
You're forgetting:
"We've always done it this way".
and
"Tradition. Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as a fiddler on the roof!" -Tevye
Somehow, I think the respondent did not take threats of litigation seriously. It's far better to mollify the petitioner.
Perhaps he should have done an Ask Slashdot before a lawsuit was filed?
We might never develop AI, but I anticipate increasingly clever fakes!
Wasn't it the Turks who did the whole Armenian Genocide thing or am I misremembering?
Atatürk had most of the genociders killed (because they opposed his rise to power and/or were incredibly incompetent). So it's a bit unfair to criticize Turkey for the acts of a prior regime.
C:\NGRTLNS.W95
I remember when Apple paid for this full page advertisement in a thing called a "newspaper".
The easy way to install '90s Slackware!
Step 1: Download Slackware packages to spare (old) hard drive. .[YourInitials] , Edit tagfile so that everything is either ADD or SKP.
Step 2: Copy tagfile to
Repeat Step 2 for each disk set.
Step 3: Turn off computer, remove spare HD, plug into new computer (alongside new HD), insert boot floppy, turn on new computer, swap to root disk when prompted.
Step 4: Run setup. When asked from where, select old HD. When asked for how, select your tagfile extension. Start.
Step 5: Go out and do something else.
It's similar to the stock market scam, where you create a dozen funds, trade them at random, and then cherry-pick the one that had done a lot better than the market, claim that it's due to your brilliance and then ask for investors (charging a hefty administration fee to each one).
You meant "mutual fund scam".
Steamboat Willie being a parody of Steamboat Bill, Jr..
So let's keep extending copyright for a movie based on another movie, but NOT the original movie.
In America, we extend and enforce copyrights because it increases tax revenue. Then we demand campaign contributions from Hollywood to continue preserving copyrights. It's win-win, if you're a member of Congress.
The government DOES provide it. They do so through legislation that requires hire car businesses to have a certain percentage of vehicles on the roads
Oh, you mean slavery.
So first you whine that the government isn't doing anything, now you whine because it is pointed out they are doing something and doing it in probably the most tax efficient manner.
Are you saying that slavery is the most tax efficient manner to provide government services?
Wire transfers are extremely common in Europe; virtually instantaneous, cheap, etc. Customers can do them themselves, person to person.
Here in the US? Anywhere from a day to WEEKS for absolutely no legitimate reason. You generally need a teller or branch manager to do it. At least $5;
If the transfer is from FedWire bank to FedWire bank, it's posted within minutes. This is usually how most Americans close out mortgages (so that the interest owed and paid is *exactly* correct.
$40 if the transaction ends up going through the Fed.
It's 2015. Why does transferring money in the US take more than a minute and a few cents?
Because it's going through the Federal Reserve. And the $40 charge is the maximum change, which assumes sending from a non-FedWire bank to another non-FedWire bank (within the US). Most banks charge $25 (which is almost always more than what the bank pays the Fed).
Remember, these prices have been stable for *years*. So with inflation the cost has been decreasing.
Show me again which internet browser is perfect and never has any vulnerabilities because I can't seem to remember?
W3M
Oh wait, there were 5 total W3M vulnerabilities
Show me again which internet browser is perfect and never has any vulnerabilities because I can't seem to remember?
W3M
_after_ gov't subsidies. It's also a tiny little car that does poorly in crashes. Why in hells name would I spend that kind of money? I could buy a Versa or an egg (excuse me, the Yaris) for $10k less and get the same features. There's no way in hell that car is going to save me $10k over the course of it's life. It doesn't help that it's a Chevy...
I never liked the Yaris 3 or 5 door hatchback. The 4 door (manufactured 2007-2012) is awesome. 40 mpg on real gas, less on ethanol mix. It's faster, has better range, and has more capacity than electic cars. And it's alot less expensive.
Getting a little tired of this. As cities grow, yes more money is needed. I understand this. But as cities and states grow, there are more taxpayers increasing overall income from sales tax, property tax, gas tax and wtf ever tax. I'm expected now to get an AMA liscence(understandable with insurance and such), and then get a permit from the city to fly anything rc controlled. Bunch of crap.
Ahh, but Chicago ISN'T growing. (Borrowed this from another poster).
This tax is an indication of a Death Spiral.
They used to make cars in Detroit?
I'm not sure but according to the car ads we are now importing them from Detroit, so I guess Detroit joined Canada at some point in time, eh?
If the car is made in Winsor, Canada, then shipped across the river to Detroit, I guess it really is imported.
Ugh. My last company laptop used the same software as the desktops. It would check to see if it was on a local network, then check to see if updates were pending. If there were updates, it (basically) took over my machine. Most updates were pushed out over the weekend. Wouldn't be so bad if I had an assigned desk where I could stay logged in over the weekend (instead of packing up and locking it away). So Mondays were mostly reading (snail) mail and checking and responding to voice mail (I took notes with pencil and paper because ... computer not available).
The REAL fun began when the two anti-virus programs got into a fight. Program 1 runs scan on memory and processes, updates log file. Program 2 sees log file has been changed, scans the file. Program 1 sees that Program 2 is running, scans Program 2, updates log file...
I suppose we could manually place ,1 ,2 etc. behind each file. I wonder if you could write a script wrapper around your favorite editors to do this. I suppose vim and emacs might even have modules for this as well.
How about: "Does anyone speak L33T?"
A less impressive example:
Client PCs are both browser and web server. The app screen-scrapes the tn3270 window into html. Outbound data is sent with the "Submit" button on the page.
Failover is ... directly using the tn3270 session
Original submitter here. I sincerely do NOT want to live in a web-only world.
I think you need to differentiate between apps operating over a LAN / private WAN and apps that work across the internet.
I create very little software (and almost always for in-house use).
My plan is to use Windows (98 through 10) whenever I need an application (including peripheral support) that I cannot find a substitute for. If I can find a free substitute, I will use it.