The acoustic coupler was the cradle into which you inserted the telephone handset so the modem could use the speaker and microphone to acoustically transmit the data. We still have some around my place of business and they still work and are in occasional use. See how your high-falutin' iPhone works 40 years from now.
One thing you also might not be aware of is that at the time, you couldn't OWN a telephone - they all belonged to ATT/Ma Bell. In fact that was more-or-less true into the late 70's/early 80s. And they were all identical designs (actually there were two different designs but completely standardized) so your coupler would work with any of them.
More importantly, there were no RJ11 jacks - your phone was hard-wired into the wall by the Telephone Man(tm). So you could have had a direct connect modem, but you would have had to lease it from Bell, and the regulators let them charge an arm and a leg for it!
Headquarters at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas, was a circle. The building is now the Hilton Austin Airport Hotel after the base was converted into the new civilian airport. Reportedly, the old SAC war room is now the hotel ballroom, and a number of retired officers came for New Year's Eve 2001 as the hotel was opening and stayed in their old offices.
This reminds me of the stupid radio ads for the.tv domain in the late 90's. "A.tv address means your site has the latest in exciting media technology" or some such bull. No it doesn't, it means you registered your domain name in Tuvalu!
I still say it should become a function of the International Telecommunication Union. Yes, that's a UN agency, but during the Cold War their standards kept the West, the Soviets, and the Asians talking and telexing without too much politicking. (And they're located in Geneva.)
in reality it's the industries with the most regulation by government that are the most monopolized.
Ahem. In reality it's the industries that form natural monopolies that end up with the most regulation by government. (Now, the government doesn't necessarily remove the regulation when technological changes enable competition, but that's another story...)
Recipients of the Order of Canada may attend any one of four ceremonies held each year – usually in February, May or June, September or November and October or December – at which they can receive their insignia and certificates. Attendance is determined by the recipients' availability.
and it's been a mixed bag. On the whole, people seem to like the thin clients because they're snappy, but the TCO predictions haven't bore out yet because we have a bunch of software for various classes that has to be... (ahem) coerced into running on Citrix. Like this piece of @#$&*#$&^ Intuit tax software I'm fighting with right now.
For a true production server where downtime costs thousands or millions of dollars a minute, you need the insurance of having people to escalate to if you have a problem. If for no other reason than to CYA in a liability / management-political situation. That's the real reason not to run your production on Gentoo (though the technical problem mentioned is probably what's kept anyone serious from selling a support contract for it).
Is the new recipe for success to do one thing unbelievably well and several other things indifferently? Does this remind you of strategies from any other companies?"
Pentagon.
Except their shareholders don't have too much say in how they run their business...
So I guess it's safe to say they won't be using Windows?;-)
Reading that made me cringe, as I am currently moving storage around on a CLARiiON SAN, which runs XPE as its OS. We had to reboot one side of it this morning after it froze for no reason...
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The guy in the demo video probably wanted a little more privacy too. (Well, he did eventually put the boxes on over his spandex...)
Headquarters at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas, was a circle. The building is now the Hilton Austin Airport Hotel after the base was converted into the new civilian airport. Reportedly, the old SAC war room is now the hotel ballroom, and a number of retired officers came for New Year's Eve 2001 as the hotel was opening and stayed in their old offices.
Can they make it out of recycled laundry detergent bottles?
Duh... especially if you come from a Unix background.
What country do you live in, and do they accept American immigrants?
This reminds me of the stupid radio ads for the .tv domain in the late 90's. "A .tv address means your site has the latest in exciting media technology" or some such bull. No it doesn't, it means you registered your domain name in Tuvalu!
I still say it should become a function of the International Telecommunication Union. Yes, that's a UN agency, but during the Cold War their standards kept the West, the Soviets, and the Asians talking and telexing without too much politicking. (And they're located in Geneva.)
They'll just change the terms of the contract going forward, so don't expect any new entrants in the field to be able to play ball.
From TFA:
"Sorry, I'm having my nails done that day..."
Um, hello ...
and it's been a mixed bag. On the whole, people seem to like the thin clients because they're snappy, but the TCO predictions haven't bore out yet because we have a bunch of software for various classes that has to be... (ahem) coerced into running on Citrix. Like this piece of @#$&*#$&^ Intuit tax software I'm fighting with right now.
I really want to move out of this God-forsaken place (Atlanta), but right now I would have to take a loss to sell my condo...
For a true production server where downtime costs thousands or millions of dollars a minute, you need the insurance of having people to escalate to if you have a problem. If for no other reason than to CYA in a liability / management-political situation. That's the real reason not to run your production on Gentoo (though the technical problem mentioned is probably what's kept anyone serious from selling a support contract for it).
Today we have computers to do the math for us.
Arithmetic < Math.
I read the headline and thought they were talking about the management at consultancies...?
If the hotel minibar lock is such a good security device for the Diebold voting machines, shouldn't they also lock their ATMs with them?
Did nobody else think of CowboyNeal, or are all those jokes getting modded down?
'Nuff said.
The other thing they should do is change the algorithm for truncating a URL that is too long to fit in the address bar. Instead of
[http://citibusinessonline.da.us.citibank.com.t]
it should read
[http://...itibank.com.tufel-club.ru/sahdlhasal]