Which proves you weren't there at the time, youngster, since the phenomenon took place *before* Win 3.11.
I witnessed (and did) some of it at the very end of it. For example, in 1986 my on, personal C64 was the first computer that ever was inside my school.
Then in 1988 it was the first computer ever in the company I started my apprenticeship, where I took it to draw electrical circuit diagrams in a more productive way than with copier / pencil / tip-ex.
At the start of the 1990 it was basically over in any companies I worked for.
Exactly. That is basically why these "free to air" devices are limited in power, and seldom reach the next block if there are buildings between.
So that you can just buy and use them without getting a license for a part of the spectrum, and it's still unlikely you disturb too many other peoples "free to air"
Probably because they did NOT approach it from a "We analysed our support procedures, and came up with a new, more effective system using live chat" angle, but did a "I hear live chat is the next hip thing to to, let's do it" while keeping the process itself exactly the same as it was on the phone.
And NOTHING is worse in IT than changing the tools just for the sake of changing the tools. New Tools should be chosen because they fit the process.
As I have come to believe it is actually THE SAME conceptual idiocy. Consider what "organised religion" is all about.
Before organised religion there were groups of people, who now and then came up with rules and stuff to make living easier. Then "organizers" came along that took that rules, made them more and more complex until nobody understood them any more and everybody needed "high priests" to explain them and "oracles" to divine the will of the gods, which they only gave if the people paid them tribute.
Until people thought "this is all crap, let's make new rules and laws apart from that religious nonsense.".
Not a *new* group of people hat taken those rules and made them more and more complex until nobody understood them any more and everybody needed "lawyers" to explain them and "consultants" to divine the likely outcome of court cases, which they only give if the people pay them fees.
On point 1 and 3, that is mainly not "NAT" but "routing".
You can put all your internal stuff in a Private IPv6 address range, then have one router in the network of the ISP that gives you your internet connection. Routing is a basic functionality of both IPv4 and IPv6, NAT is an ugly hack.
When you go back a while, when die Microsoft ever really "Invent" something?
DOS bought from Seattle Computer Products, idea for Windows in general nicked from Xerox, Browser taken over from NCSA Mosaic, PSTools acquired from Sysinternals, etc....
The only difference now seems to be that Apple isn't willing to be bought up and/or hoodwinked into giving up their innovation to MS.
It might actually go into that direction. 90% of the people now running a "PC" will go to dumber, centrally administrated "Web and Media terminals" (things like Mail and Office etc... completely taken over by web-based applications), the 10% "rest" that runs PCs will be the people who would have had a computer before the WWW hit the masses, the people that still want a real "computer"
The problematic part that could arise is how the hardware and/or connectivity offers for that "10% rest" will work out.
Of course the problem is THAT would open up a whole other can of worms.
Millions of people getting some sort of page or pop-up telling them "Warning, your computer is infected, please immediately... yadda yadda yadda", and then learning through support and/or the news that such warnings that pop up randomly can actually be true. When in reality there is a high chance they even originally GOT their machines infected by cluelessly believing such a warning that an infected page popped up.
Just shutting it down after informing the ISPs that a probably flood of support calls will hit would have been my preferred option.
Hard-Coding IPs *anywhere* has been a big no-no for quite a while.
One of the hundreds of reasons is that then there would be no way to do "set up new server, install stuff, test stuff, then switch DNS over to the new IP when you want to switch"
Also "The Web" is perhaps 10-20% of "The Internet" I guess.
There are different use cases for different pieces of technology.
Saying that solid state disk sell more than hybrids is like saying that there are more cars sold than ambulances, and commiserating the ambulance manufacturer that he will never sell as much ambulances as the car manufacturer sells cars.
So at which number of "servers" does it become a cloud?
Up until about 2-3 years ago we had about 50 or so "Hardware" servers at our company. Which we replaced one after the other with two bladecenters with 24 blades in total, in two different buildings plus NAS clusters, running everything on virtual machines. Those are advertised by IBM as "IBM BladeCenter for Cloud", so at least THEY think that already is "the cloud".
I, personally, have come to think that once you run something in a virtual machine, clustered in a way that one hardware box going down has no effect of your "Application" running it is basically "The Cloud". Of course that has been around for decades "The Cloud" is only a new marketing speak that has come up.
An interesting angle there. It seems the "music people" only came to their senses after the *quality* of a certain recorded piece had reached its peak with the CD. Nobody who had a CD of a specific recording would ever had any reason to spend money on that specific recording again.
On the other hand, a DVD copy of the same movie was better quality-wise than the VHS copy, and Blu-Ray is still better quality-wise. (at least if they do a new transfer from film, not just up-scale the DVD)
Perhaps the "movie people" will in a few years come to the same conclusion, once there is no more way to "technically up-sale" the same movie over and over to people that already have it, since the existing format is as good as it needs to be, and nobody is interested in having a better version. Basically HD *could* be that format. Perhaps that's why the industry is so desperately pushing 3D.
It might also have something to do with the "biological" and "sociological" time to "best marriage point" don't line up any more.
Until about a century ago it used to be that sexual maturity and the age where marriage and then sex was socially acceptable lined up more, at about 16-17 years.
But these days, when forever what dietary or other reasons the sexual urges kick in sooner and sooner, but it is only socially acceptable to actually have sex, or even get married later and later then of course entire generations will turn to porn and other distractions to have a vent for them.
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They had to use videotape. If they used more modern technology of any kind they might have stumbled over dozens of more patents in the process.
Well. I think the quote on Wookieepedia sums it up best:
"Wayland is where Emperor Palpatine's secret toy-box was. All kinds of nasty dark side things on Wayland."
Which proves you weren't there at the time, youngster, since the phenomenon took place *before* Win 3.11.
I witnessed (and did) some of it at the very end of it. For example, in 1986 my on, personal C64 was the first computer that ever was inside my school.
Then in 1988 it was the first computer ever in the company I started my apprenticeship, where I took it to draw electrical circuit diagrams in a more productive way than with copier / pencil / tip-ex.
At the start of the 1990 it was basically over in any companies I worked for.
Exactly. That is basically why these "free to air" devices are limited in power, and seldom reach the next block if there are buildings between.
So that you can just buy and use them without getting a license for a part of the spectrum, and it's still unlikely you disturb too many other peoples "free to air"
Probably because they did NOT approach it from a "We analysed our support procedures, and came up with a new, more effective system using live chat" angle, but did a "I hear live chat is the next hip thing to to, let's do it" while keeping the process itself exactly the same as it was on the phone.
And NOTHING is worse in IT than changing the tools just for the sake of changing the tools. New Tools should be chosen because they fit the process.
Great. Things "worth a lot of money" that one entity practically can create from thin air.
I wonder that that will do to currency stability.
As I have come to believe it is actually THE SAME conceptual idiocy. Consider what "organised religion" is all about.
Before organised religion there were groups of people, who now and then came up with rules and stuff to make living easier. Then "organizers" came along that took that rules, made them more and more complex until nobody understood them any more and everybody needed "high priests" to explain them and "oracles" to divine the will of the gods, which they only gave if the people paid them tribute.
Until people thought "this is all crap, let's make new rules and laws apart from that religious nonsense.".
Not a *new* group of people hat taken those rules and made them more and more complex until nobody understood them any more and everybody needed "lawyers" to explain them and "consultants" to divine the likely outcome of court cases, which they only give if the people pay them fees.
And 99% of the normal people are screwed again.
It all runs in "The Cloud".
So maybe someone tripped over the cable?
As someone who as seen Firefly, it isn't even enough to live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject.
You have to tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.
On point 1 and 3, that is mainly not "NAT" but "routing".
You can put all your internal stuff in a Private IPv6 address range, then have one router in the network of the ISP that gives you your internet connection. Routing is a basic functionality of both IPv4 and IPv6, NAT is an ugly hack.
They are still on HTML5? Shouldn't they by now be on at least HTML23 to get ahead of Google?
When you go back a while, when die Microsoft ever really "Invent" something?
DOS bought from Seattle Computer Products, idea for Windows in general nicked from Xerox, Browser taken over from NCSA Mosaic, PSTools acquired from Sysinternals, etc....
The only difference now seems to be that Apple isn't willing to be bought up and/or hoodwinked into giving up their innovation to MS.
It might actually go into that direction. 90% of the people now running a "PC" will go to dumber, centrally administrated "Web and Media terminals" (things like Mail and Office etc... completely taken over by web-based applications), the 10% "rest" that runs PCs will be the people who would have had a computer before the WWW hit the masses, the people that still want a real "computer"
The problematic part that could arise is how the hardware and/or connectivity offers for that "10% rest" will work out.
... "Out on a lonely slab of concrete in the back of one of the buildings" ...
I bet there will be a big opportunity for "second hand" datacenter trade in shady pawn shops sooner or later.
Of course the problem is THAT would open up a whole other can of worms.
Millions of people getting some sort of page or pop-up telling them "Warning, your computer is infected, please immediately ... yadda yadda yadda", and then learning through support and/or the news that such warnings that pop up randomly can actually be true. When in reality there is a high chance they even originally GOT their machines infected by cluelessly believing such a warning that an infected page popped up.
Just shutting it down after informing the ISPs that a probably flood of support calls will hit would have been my preferred option.
Hard-Coding IPs *anywhere* has been a big no-no for quite a while.
One of the hundreds of reasons is that then there would be no way to do "set up new server, install stuff, test stuff, then switch DNS over to the new IP when you want to switch"
Also "The Web" is perhaps 10-20% of "The Internet" I guess.
Exactly that.
There are different use cases for different pieces of technology.
Saying that solid state disk sell more than hybrids is like saying that there are more cars sold than ambulances, and commiserating the ambulance manufacturer that he will never sell as much ambulances as the car manufacturer sells cars.
Or perhaps it's the return of the always-crashing Active Desktop of IE 4.0 times?
Well, this guy's mailbox might give you an idea.
So at which number of "servers" does it become a cloud?
Up until about 2-3 years ago we had about 50 or so "Hardware" servers at our company. Which we replaced one after the other with two bladecenters with 24 blades in total, in two different buildings plus NAS clusters, running everything on virtual machines. Those are advertised by IBM as "IBM BladeCenter for Cloud", so at least THEY think that already is "the cloud".
I, personally, have come to think that once you run something in a virtual machine, clustered in a way that one hardware box going down has no effect of your "Application" running it is basically "The Cloud". Of course that has been around for decades "The Cloud" is only a new marketing speak that has come up.
So Oracle is to Patent Warfare as Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was to WWII? ;-P
An interesting angle there. It seems the "music people" only came to their senses after the *quality* of a certain recorded piece had reached its peak with the CD. Nobody who had a CD of a specific recording would ever had any reason to spend money on that specific recording again.
On the other hand, a DVD copy of the same movie was better quality-wise than the VHS copy, and Blu-Ray is still better quality-wise. (at least if they do a new transfer from film, not just up-scale the DVD)
Perhaps the "movie people" will in a few years come to the same conclusion, once there is no more way to "technically up-sale" the same movie over and over to people that already have it, since the existing format is as good as it needs to be, and nobody is interested in having a better version. Basically HD *could* be that format. Perhaps that's why the industry is so desperately pushing 3D.
So defining people that "can't speak the language" as people that "can't speak the language" is a stereotype?
So that I'm 41 years old is also not a fact, but only a stereotype that gets slapped on a lot of 41 year old people?
They are also very efficient, it seems. They only needed about a decade to get the "thousand year reich" done from start to finish.
It might also have something to do with the "biological" and "sociological" time to "best marriage point" don't line up any more.
Until about a century ago it used to be that sexual maturity and the age where marriage and then sex was socially acceptable lined up more, at about 16-17 years.
But these days, when forever what dietary or other reasons the sexual urges kick in sooner and sooner, but it is only socially acceptable to actually have sex, or even get married later and later then of course entire generations will turn to porn and other distractions to have a vent for them.