Suppose I go to a poor country, and need to make a payment, but there is no electronic banking system. What then.
Closer to home, I go to the Casino, win a few thousand, and want payment in a secure form. But I only have my debit or credit card. Will they do it for me?
Add your supposes to the list.
Leslie
I also grew up with VM and we used it for JCL, for testing MVS patches, and for APL. I was an APL language fanatic.
There were great things in VM such as CP (Control Program), address stops, to allow step by step tracing and more.
But IBM wanted to sell hardware, and eventually the shop converted to TSO under MVS, and that allowed IBM to make Quota on hardware upgrades due to low efficiency TSO.
Why would someone purchase a linux based laptop at around equal price as a windows one to go through the extra steps to avoid paying $7 for a Windows XP Home License ?
For the vendor to save the Microsoft tax.
My pension would run out.
So living longer means that retirement age would have to increase by 10 years or whatever the increase in longevity would be.
Would there be enough jobs to go around? So, would it mean a 4 day work week for many? Job Sharing? Or worse?
In Theory we do. She (queen) is the one who can veto a federal law if it is too controversial and puts the majority of the population at a disadvantage.
But parliament could send it back 2+ times and then no matter what, it becomes law. Like having a president turn back a law passed by the two houses.
We in Canada have a lousy prime-minister, who relies on deceit and self opinion, to decide what is good for Canadians. Deceit and very bad taste in not trusting the voters.
Worse, he organizes personal attacks on any of the opposition, all the while smiling, as if he knows nothing about it.
Canada is suffering because his party is too weak to overrule him and their directors. The Conservatives love secrecy, and we cannot wait to replace them by any of the opposition. So, we have fears about ACTA, we have fears about DMCIA, and also about freedom of access to the net to express criticism.
Is it wartime? Presumeably the fact that the USA is in Afganistan means the USA is at war with the Afgans. Ditto for Iraq. Only in Iraq, it was American Oil Interests that needed protection. So the question is, "How do you define war?", and how do you see combatants trying to kill the enemy? No. I do not sympathize with them.
As an outsider looking in, I see where fatigue (being president is a 12 hours+ per day job and too much to handle (delegation of tasks, with summary feedback not taking place).
The president has good intentions, but priorities change the amount of time he can dedicate to all issues of lower priority. Actually think the prisoners are low priority and he, the president is beginning to suffer from information overload.
I guess we are in need of smart rfid tags, as are used on our Montreal Public Transportation system. A smart-card solution. If RFID was used, it could read a code sent from the host, use it with another to generate a hash number, which the host could validate. Counterfeit RFID units would not generate the correct hash result. (Shades of public key encryption).
Comments in code should be a summary of the code following after it. The details are in the code listing itself.
At times, it is good to say at step 3, the code does this and this, and then at step 5 it does xxxxx.
As far as grammatical errors, I know spanish programmers who write comments in henglish. The use the Spanish spelling rules and grammer rules for the english comments.
So Esther. There is always a good reason for grammar errors in comments, and it is on indication of code quality.
I watched the demo or mockup for Gnome 3.0 and from what I saw, the main screen is constantly shrunk, as activities are opened up and displayed.
With the shrinking comes a scaling down of the displayed window, including font size. I already have trouble with fonts the size of 8 pixals; My crt monitor can handle the resolution to 2000x1500 but my eyes cannot. Time to rethink functionality. Perhaps it is best to design for dual monitors, or monitors with screen ratios of 2 to 1.
Re loss of internet. We had a power outage in the ISPs building, where his routers, unknown to him, were not on the ups or generators. Since our telephone system was also voip, we were left only with Cell phone access.
We suddenly realized that as a modern service industry business, without the internet, we are as good as dead.
Killing the internet would be disasterous situation world wide.
I am not questioning your decision, but why did you switch from CentOS to Ubuntu? Could you tell me what were your justifications?
CentOS is STABLE, is it not, and performs well. (or is UBUNTU server even better?)
leslies at itbms dot biz
There are many causes, but the reasons are not technical, but social.
USA has a love of dollars and a love of technology, which results in dehumanizing people. The buck is the real god, and the impact or collateral damage to employees is part of the game.
Almost every civilized country has medicare. Workers who lose jobs soon lose health insurance, and the consequences are disasterous.
The USA work ethic is to be on call with iphone or BlackBerry, 24/7. Life with spouse, parents or family does not exist because of "must meet the directors bottom line or my job is gone" feelings.
I cannot be a parent because of demands of work, ergo, I cannot be a spouse and therefore it is OK if the divorce rate is 52%+.
By returning home, one returns to a 40 hour week, to socialized medicine, to family life, to time to nurture a marriage and to raise kids by being part of their lives.
Yes, there are technology jobs outside of the USA, and another reason why they are there is the export of manufacturing to these countries.
First you export the manufacturing and jobs. The salaried employees earn enough to send their kids to university, an impossibility in the past. Then these same graduates visit the USA to see if the grass is greener, and it is not, so they return home.
There are two words to know in American english. Money and Divorce
I wish I was not so negative about American life. Do you think the root cause was Regan Economics?
I would probably code in R, or bring back APL-360, the language developed by the late Dr. Ken Iverson, but with an upgrade different from the J language introduced by his son. ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ ).
Check the news for Canada. Too many deaths from Tasers. Several deaths which caused police forced to return many many Tasers because the electrical energy from the high voltage surge killed innocent individuals.
Why do Americans still believe that they are #1 in the worldÂ. Two guys named Bush and Cheney squandered away that position. They essentially morally bankrupted the USA, and if you look at your economy and unemployment levels, it is apparent that the fantastic American citizen, the warm caring people have been led astray by faulty leadership.
Please give support to President Obama. He is the light at the end of the tunnel to restore the worlds respect of the USA.
If caring for the well being of the population is socialism, then so be it. Every modern country in the world has better well-being and care for its citizens then does the USA. Don't let greed stand in the way of public health and do things to help your leaders restore economic health. You may not be #1 in the world again, but you can be a great runner up.
I think you are being ripped off at 15cents. My electricity is at 4cents per kw hour. My home is heated and cooled by electricity. We in Montreal Quebec are spoiled I guess, but with electricity in abundance, we have been encourated to move away from oil or gas heat to it Our electricity is water dam generated power.
In winter any heat expended by the PC displaces the heat provided from baseboard heaters. Summer is when we are outdoors more (long hours of daylight), so the PC is used less often.
I use Fedora and I prefer to do updates with yumex. If I overlay the yumex window (while it is working), with another window, I could wait for as much as 30 seconds before yumex window updates (refreshes). This could be a yumex design problem, but I take it as a schedular problem.
In my IBM mainframe days, the operating system was MVS (OS390 today). The concept was to create performance groups. Interactive performance group had high priority, while good old batch had low priority, all within the perfomance groups.
As far as I can remember, performance groups were prioritized by the system administrator. It would mean a change to Linux, to classify an application into a performance group. Tar, cp, and a few other apps could be in the batch group, receiving lower priority status.
Just my thoughts on scheduling. Schedule performance groups and schedule tasks within a performance group.
Who cares about these aircraft if we can put a small bomb in a drone that measures 2 meters across and is designed to absorb radar waves. Drones are a lot less expensive, cut losses for both construction and manpower.
What about opening up to the idea the todays intel architecture is holding back performance. That 64 bit computers in a 256bit world are arcane, and wasteful of electrical energy. With 256 or even 128 bit standard architectures, many more efficient instructions (one step instructions instead of multiple load register instructions) would lead to increased efficiency.
Then the GPU could really be an adjunct to a desktop or mobile phone.
Thems my 2 cents
Hope you are not complaining about prices. Here in Canada our prices vary. In Montreal it is around $1.10 per litre, which is around $4.00 per US gallon.
Diesal used to be less expensive, but now that many Canadian cars are diesel powered, they jacked up the diesel price. Around $4.50 per US gallon.
Yes, we are being ripped off in French Quebec.
Slashdot Mirror
Suppose I go to a poor country, and need to make a payment, but there is no electronic banking system. What then. Closer to home, I go to the Casino, win a few thousand, and want payment in a secure form. But I only have my debit or credit card. Will they do it for me? Add your supposes to the list. Leslie
Perhaps this was the basis of the biblical story. Must mean that man was around to tell it to his grandchildren.
I also grew up with VM and we used it for JCL, for testing MVS patches, and for APL. I was an APL language fanatic. There were great things in VM such as CP (Control Program), address stops, to allow step by step tracing and more. But IBM wanted to sell hardware, and eventually the shop converted to TSO under MVS, and that allowed IBM to make Quota on hardware upgrades due to low efficiency TSO.
Why would someone purchase a linux based laptop at around equal price as a windows one to go through the extra steps to avoid paying $7 for a Windows XP Home License ? For the vendor to save the Microsoft tax.
My pension would run out. So living longer means that retirement age would have to increase by 10 years or whatever the increase in longevity would be. Would there be enough jobs to go around? So, would it mean a 4 day work week for many? Job Sharing? Or worse?
In Theory we do. She (queen) is the one who can veto a federal law if it is too controversial and puts the majority of the population at a disadvantage. But parliament could send it back 2+ times and then no matter what, it becomes law. Like having a president turn back a law passed by the two houses.
With an order for 2200 machines, there will be a special production run. 2200 machines is a really large amount, almost two days of sales.
We in Canada have a lousy prime-minister, who relies on deceit and self opinion, to decide what is good for Canadians. Deceit and very bad taste in not trusting the voters. Worse, he organizes personal attacks on any of the opposition, all the while smiling, as if he knows nothing about it. Canada is suffering because his party is too weak to overrule him and their directors. The Conservatives love secrecy, and we cannot wait to replace them by any of the opposition. So, we have fears about ACTA, we have fears about DMCIA, and also about freedom of access to the net to express criticism.
Our Canadian Prime Minister must have one at his bedside.
As an outsider looking in, I see where fatigue (being president is a 12 hours+ per day job and too much to handle (delegation of tasks, with summary feedback not taking place).
The president has good intentions, but priorities change the amount of time he can dedicate to all issues of lower priority. Actually think the prisoners are low priority and he, the president is beginning to suffer from information overload.
So, detainees rights slip in priority.
I guess we are in need of smart rfid tags, as are used on our Montreal Public Transportation system. A smart-card solution. If RFID was used, it could read a code sent from the host, use it with another to generate a hash number, which the host could validate. Counterfeit RFID units would not generate the correct hash result. (Shades of public key encryption).
Comments in code should be a summary of the code following after it. The details are in the code listing itself. At times, it is good to say at step 3, the code does this and this, and then at step 5 it does xxxxx. As far as grammatical errors, I know spanish programmers who write comments in henglish. The use the Spanish spelling rules and grammer rules for the english comments. So Esther. There is always a good reason for grammar errors in comments, and it is on indication of code quality.
I watched the demo or mockup for Gnome 3.0 and from what I saw, the main screen is constantly shrunk, as activities are opened up and displayed. With the shrinking comes a scaling down of the displayed window, including font size. I already have trouble with fonts the size of 8 pixals; My crt monitor can handle the resolution to 2000x1500 but my eyes cannot. Time to rethink functionality. Perhaps it is best to design for dual monitors, or monitors with screen ratios of 2 to 1.
Re loss of internet. We had a power outage in the ISPs building, where his routers, unknown to him, were not on the ups or generators. Since our telephone system was also voip, we were left only with Cell phone access. We suddenly realized that as a modern service industry business, without the internet, we are as good as dead. Killing the internet would be disasterous situation world wide.
I am not questioning your decision, but why did you switch from CentOS to Ubuntu? Could you tell me what were your justifications? CentOS is STABLE, is it not, and performs well. (or is UBUNTU server even better?) leslies at itbms dot biz
look at the Eclipse Product (www.itbms.biz)
There are many causes, but the reasons are not technical, but social. USA has a love of dollars and a love of technology, which results in dehumanizing people. The buck is the real god, and the impact or collateral damage to employees is part of the game. Almost every civilized country has medicare. Workers who lose jobs soon lose health insurance, and the consequences are disasterous. The USA work ethic is to be on call with iphone or BlackBerry, 24/7. Life with spouse, parents or family does not exist because of "must meet the directors bottom line or my job is gone" feelings. I cannot be a parent because of demands of work, ergo, I cannot be a spouse and therefore it is OK if the divorce rate is 52%+. By returning home, one returns to a 40 hour week, to socialized medicine, to family life, to time to nurture a marriage and to raise kids by being part of their lives. Yes, there are technology jobs outside of the USA, and another reason why they are there is the export of manufacturing to these countries. First you export the manufacturing and jobs. The salaried employees earn enough to send their kids to university, an impossibility in the past. Then these same graduates visit the USA to see if the grass is greener, and it is not, so they return home. There are two words to know in American english. Money and Divorce I wish I was not so negative about American life. Do you think the root cause was Regan Economics?
I would probably code in R, or bring back APL-360, the language developed by the late Dr. Ken Iverson, but with an upgrade different from the J language introduced by his son. ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ ).
Check the news for Canada. Too many deaths from Tasers. Several deaths which caused police forced to return many many Tasers because the electrical energy from the high voltage surge killed innocent individuals.
Why do Americans still believe that they are #1 in the worldÂ. Two guys named Bush and Cheney squandered away that position. They essentially morally bankrupted the USA, and if you look at your economy and unemployment levels, it is apparent that the fantastic American citizen, the warm caring people have been led astray by faulty leadership. Please give support to President Obama. He is the light at the end of the tunnel to restore the worlds respect of the USA. If caring for the well being of the population is socialism, then so be it. Every modern country in the world has better well-being and care for its citizens then does the USA. Don't let greed stand in the way of public health and do things to help your leaders restore economic health. You may not be #1 in the world again, but you can be a great runner up.
I think you are being ripped off at 15cents. My electricity is at 4cents per kw hour. My home is heated and cooled by electricity. We in Montreal Quebec are spoiled I guess, but with electricity in abundance, we have been encourated to move away from oil or gas heat to it Our electricity is water dam generated power. In winter any heat expended by the PC displaces the heat provided from baseboard heaters. Summer is when we are outdoors more (long hours of daylight), so the PC is used less often.
I use Fedora and I prefer to do updates with yumex. If I overlay the yumex window (while it is working), with another window, I could wait for as much as 30 seconds before yumex window updates (refreshes). This could be a yumex design problem, but I take it as a schedular problem. In my IBM mainframe days, the operating system was MVS (OS390 today). The concept was to create performance groups. Interactive performance group had high priority, while good old batch had low priority, all within the perfomance groups. As far as I can remember, performance groups were prioritized by the system administrator. It would mean a change to Linux, to classify an application into a performance group. Tar, cp, and a few other apps could be in the batch group, receiving lower priority status. Just my thoughts on scheduling. Schedule performance groups and schedule tasks within a performance group.
Who cares about these aircraft if we can put a small bomb in a drone that measures 2 meters across and is designed to absorb radar waves. Drones are a lot less expensive, cut losses for both construction and manpower.
What about opening up to the idea the todays intel architecture is holding back performance. That 64 bit computers in a 256bit world are arcane, and wasteful of electrical energy. With 256 or even 128 bit standard architectures, many more efficient instructions (one step instructions instead of multiple load register instructions) would lead to increased efficiency. Then the GPU could really be an adjunct to a desktop or mobile phone. Thems my 2 cents
Hope you are not complaining about prices. Here in Canada our prices vary. In Montreal it is around $1.10 per litre, which is around $4.00 per US gallon. Diesal used to be less expensive, but now that many Canadian cars are diesel powered, they jacked up the diesel price. Around $4.50 per US gallon. Yes, we are being ripped off in French Quebec.