I'm 61, my first useful PC was an XT clone. I transitioned from office machines to PC service, then networking, helped run a dialup ISP, spent a decade connecting my clients to that Internet thing.
My clients were using email, intranet and extended web sites to share work, and working remotely before there was Google or Facebook.
I've been digital since there was digital. I was even playing MMOG before there was Internet.
I should go to college just to annoy the kids. I already work with teams where the 25- year-olds are in charge, and we do fine. After our team proves them somewhat misled, they listen to us.
That's not a knock. Publish a buggy game and watch players complain. Then watch your stock plummet. Then watch the sheriff padlock the doors. And that's just a game.
Do quit. Other more accommodating individuals will take your place.
Here, on/. , we find people who think you can leave your Windows machine running 24x7 with not a care in the world. As if it would never abend, never update and reboot, nor would any badly behaved app or driver decide to crash and take the kernel with it.
These same people extol the virtues of any Linux distro able to avoid these unpleasant circumstances with aplomb.
So which is it? Is Windows a time bomb waiting to take your data day or night, or is it stable enough to to leave unattended, or does it really matter?
"Current speculation points to greater-than-expected lift by the third-stage, because the apogee is 20km higher than planned. The ship does not seem to pose a threat to the ISS at the moment."
Sounds like a safe-ish orbit if all goes haywire after the third stage is done. Good flight plan.
Too bad it didn't get on course, but obviously a major malfunction.
Your response is typical FB-style. I know how to limit posts and such. I keep lots of people on FB visible to me and skip past the noise, while it seems easier to do so on G+.
On the other hand, plenty of my FB friends point out to me blah blah blah. Your post missed my point, that my G+ circles have more content, and the unspoken point, that G+ gives me more control over content.
But have at it, since if I disagree with you, I must have misunderstood...
As if Hillary's server was any more secure than the White House UNclassified system?
If you think Hillary's server wasn't compromised by any government, corporation, or force that cared to, you are naive. It was surely pwned over and over. It was also probably so pwned that it was a good place to study the various attacks.
I have much more meaningful discussions on G+ than I do FB, partly because the number of followers on G+ is less, so less crap. But FB is full f people who genuinely can't think. It's sad how hard it is to have useful discussions on FB.
G+ also has much more interesting users. Maybe because they choose to participate, I don't know or care.
I can decline to have photos shared, etc, not much worse than FB.
If they truly hose up G+ in this split, I'll miss it.
That's stupid. You only need to delay settlement by seconds, force the buyer to hold for 6 minutes, and the HFT system is broken.
Or you could levy a truly minimal transaction tax, even processing fee for orders executed in than 250ms from offer to buy to re-offer... Maybe.
But thinking you should force holding stock for days means you need to suspend trading when any news breaks. Which halts the market.
Just slow HFT by milliseconds.
Oh, and audit brokers. If they persist in offering stock they actually don't have, perhaps that's a problem? This whole episode sounds like NASDAQ, except they seem to have the stock.
Santa Barbara has a plant in standby mode - 2 years to reactivate, and they have begun planning for that. Planning.
San Diego will be getting water form the Carlsbad plant late this year. It took only about 15 years to build this, mostly to overcome objections from everyone.
These plants take time to permit and build, and planning is the most important step. But in California, that is in short supply, like the water.
Who cares if Nestle is reselling water ant any price? Their usage is a tiny fraction of the total, and shutting down ALL bottled water production in California would change nothing about the drought and impact.
Agriculture is the big user, and then people who live where water isn't. As with many resource shortages, this is equally a problem of delivery and planning. There is water to be had for Californians, but it takes planning, and there are few excuses for not doing that already. Only now do they start looking at desalination.
Looking to take it from Arizona is sort of cheap. Not going to happen.
When IBM said you could not service their typewriters, fought to gain access to manuals and parts.
We're gonna have to have this fight over cars. I service my cars regularly,repairing items from brakes to heater cores. When I finally buy one younger than 2006 I will have to confront the electronics, the locked-down systems, and the self-diagnostics that will not tell me anything beyond 'take me to a dealer'. then I will be disappointed.
I can understand the desire manufacturers have to lock their ECU code and such, but it's past that, and something as simple as sticky window could result in a code thrown, needing to use the dealer tool to reset the computer that supervised that, and being a bit lighter in the pocket than you expected.
Having driven a Saab 900NG, the Tech II tool was allegedly needed for everything from a disconnected battery to a sticky convertible top. I got past every one of those issues, but back then Saab and GM had not yet envisioned the opportunity for exploitation. The 900NG merely had electronics where mechanisms had been. They missed the boat. Not that Saab ever made things easy to fix - my mechanic reminding me the only right way to do most engine service was to drop the subframe... Thanks buddy...
That's group membership that matters. Machines do move however, so location-based membership is next. My current computers are all notebooks or tablets. Even at work.
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I'm 61, my first useful PC was an XT clone. I transitioned from office machines to PC service, then networking, helped run a dialup ISP, spent a decade connecting my clients to that Internet thing.
My clients were using email, intranet and extended web sites to share work, and working remotely before there was Google or Facebook.
I've been digital since there was digital. I was even playing MMOG before there was Internet.
I should go to college just to annoy the kids. I already work with teams where the 25- year-olds are in charge, and we do fine. After our team proves them somewhat misled, they listen to us.
Sounds like a video game.
That's not a knock. Publish a buggy game and watch players complain. Then watch your stock plummet. Then watch the sheriff padlock the doors. And that's just a game.
Software is important.
Lines of code = complexity?
Lemme guess. You're a programmer.
Ignat.
And what would have been the upgrade from Sametime in 1998? Postcards? Voice mail?
Do quit. Other more accommodating individuals will take your place.
Here, on /. , we find people who think you can leave your Windows machine running 24x7 with not a care in the world. As if it would never abend, never update and reboot, nor would any badly behaved app or driver decide to crash and take the kernel with it.
These same people extol the virtues of any Linux distro able to avoid these unpleasant circumstances with aplomb.
So which is it? Is Windows a time bomb waiting to take your data day or night, or is it stable enough to to leave unattended, or does it really matter?
I thought so.
Nor is it a new story, or a new anything.
And this current system is working oh-so- well?
Seriously, you actually believe your own drivel?
"Current speculation points to greater-than-expected lift by the third-stage, because the apogee is 20km higher than planned. The ship does not seem to pose a threat to the ISS at the moment."
Sounds like a safe-ish orbit if all goes haywire after the third stage is done. Good flight plan.
Too bad it didn't get on course, but obviously a major malfunction.
We EXPECT the capitalists to maximize profits.
We EXPECT the government to serve our needs and prevent
abuses such as this.
Which one is not meeting our EXPECTATIONS?
Super Bowl XLIX was broadcast on NBC. What was your point? That people subscribe to ESPN for the Super Bowl?
Not. Reset. Try again.
Your response is typical FB-style. I know how to limit posts and such. I keep lots of people on FB visible to me and skip past the noise, while it seems easier to do so on G+.
On the other hand, plenty of my FB friends point out to me blah blah blah. Your post missed my point, that my G+ circles have more content, and the unspoken point, that G+ gives me more control over content.
But have at it, since if I disagree with you, I must have misunderstood...
Actually, I focus on G+, and mostly ignore the noise on FB.
That's almost funny. The program wasn't as successful as expected because they didn't share the data widely enough.
Almost funny. Like, they couldn't do useful analysis because they didn't share it with all the CIA analysts they should have?
Unconstitutional much?
Ya think?
As if Hillary's server was any more secure than the White House UNclassified system?
If you think Hillary's server wasn't compromised by any government, corporation, or force that cared to, you are naive. It was surely pwned over and over. It was also probably so pwned that it was a good place to study the various attacks.
But I LIKE Google+.
I have much more meaningful discussions on G+ than I do FB, partly because the number of followers on G+ is less, so less crap. But FB is full f people who genuinely can't think. It's sad how hard it is to have useful discussions on FB.
G+ also has much more interesting users. Maybe because they choose to participate, I don't know or care.
I can decline to have photos shared, etc, not much worse than FB.
If they truly hose up G+ in this split, I'll miss it.
I don't care a bit about these 'artificial' accounts. They don't add me to their circles, they don't spam me, they don't beg me to be added.
Now, the flakes that DO spam me are a nuisance, but easily disposed of, as easily as the Facebook beggars.
That's stupid. You only need to delay settlement by seconds, force the buyer to hold for 6 minutes, and the HFT system is broken.
Or you could levy a truly minimal transaction tax, even processing fee for orders executed in than 250ms from offer to buy to re-offer... Maybe.
But thinking you should force holding stock for days means you need to suspend trading when any news breaks. Which halts the market.
Just slow HFT by milliseconds.
Oh, and audit brokers. If they persist in offering stock they actually don't have, perhaps that's a problem? This whole episode sounds like NASDAQ, except they seem to have the stock.
Santa Barbara has a plant in standby mode - 2 years to reactivate, and they have begun planning for that. Planning.
San Diego will be getting water form the Carlsbad plant late this year. It took only about 15 years to build this, mostly to overcome objections from everyone.
These plants take time to permit and build, and planning is the most important step. But in California, that is in short supply, like the water.
Who cares if Nestle is reselling water ant any price? Their usage is a tiny fraction of the total, and shutting down ALL bottled water production in California would change nothing about the drought and impact.
Agriculture is the big user, and then people who live where water isn't. As with many resource shortages, this is equally a problem of delivery and planning. There is water to be had for Californians, but it takes planning, and there are few excuses for not doing that already. Only now do they start looking at desalination.
Looking to take it from Arizona is sort of cheap. Not going to happen.
A lot of lettuce is grown in Yuma. Not liberal territory.
No, not all of it,and that water comes from elsewhere also...
When IBM said you could not service their typewriters, fought to gain access to manuals and parts.
We're gonna have to have this fight over cars. I service my cars regularly,repairing items from brakes to heater cores. When I finally buy one younger than 2006 I will have to confront the electronics, the locked-down systems, and the self-diagnostics that will not tell me anything beyond 'take me to a dealer'. then I will be disappointed.
I can understand the desire manufacturers have to lock their ECU code and such, but it's past that, and something as simple as sticky window could result in a code thrown, needing to use the dealer tool to reset the computer that supervised that, and being a bit lighter in the pocket than you expected.
Having driven a Saab 900NG, the Tech II tool was allegedly needed for everything from a disconnected battery to a sticky convertible top. I got past every one of those issues, but back then Saab and GM had not yet envisioned the opportunity for exploitation. The 900NG merely had electronics where mechanisms had been. They missed the boat. Not that Saab ever made things easy to fix - my mechanic reminding me the only right way to do most engine service was to drop the subframe... Thanks buddy...
Oh yes it does. But that kind of social engineering happens and is directed at home. The statists can't have that happening.
It was called the Equal OPPORTUNITY Commission.
It's not that you have a right to employment. You have, in the US, a right to an equal opportunity.
Yeah, I know. That too.
That's group membership that matters. Machines do move however, so location-based membership is next. My current computers are all notebooks or tablets. Even at work.
That's a permissions problem. Users in one building shouldn't have permission to use printers in another.
Groups are your friend.