Same here. Fortran on an IBM 360 mainframe. Typed in from one of those keyboards linked in the summary. Torture. Half way through my Bachelor's thesis (CHML) it became possible to work on a CRT terminal. Massive improvement. Discovered the original usage of "cookie" then. Better times.
In one of my past jobs I covered for other staff when they "couldn't be there". In two years at one location I worked one year of overtime. That is, I worked 2,000 hours of overtime in two years covering for people who, generally, just didn't feel like working. Oh, and this was at a location where 11 people worked. Shift structure was 2 people on day, 2 on afternoon, 1 on night shift, times 7 days a week. 392 total hours for the week and I averaged working 60 of those. So yeah some people just skip work.
Will we be forced into Opera "next"? Opera.com article wasn't clear about it. I'd prefer a fork, i.e. choice. For one, to let the bugs shake out of the next great thing(tm).
Government department + software project = total failure.
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I would love to know how cheaply this same project could be done. Probably by one person. Probably a $10,000 project with the final project size 100 times smaller, run 100 times faster, 100 times more accurate. [That is what I achieved after a payroll application they tried to force on our dept. was discarded and we rolled our own.]
Future software challenges should take a government boondoggle, any boondoggle, and have contestants try to make one that actually works with one-hundredth of everything.
It is interesting that Apple, eons ago, knew that some developers were not just 10 or 20% better than others but were 1000 or more % better. Bet this government project didn't require staff to be skilled on Defender.
Thanks for the link. In trying to confirm this from other sources, which I did to my own satisfaction anyway, I was shocked to see zero mention of PETA's hipocrasy on Wikipedia. No "controversy" section (on either Ingrid Newkirk's or PETA's page, no mention of the 14,000+ animals PETA have killed over the years. Truly sickening.
How long to upload videos totally 60 million years? You'll need another 416 2/3 days to cover that. And then another 4 days to cover that. Rounding up: 60,000,421 days.
What matters is that almost no one, (only a handful of mentions of Windows, none of Windows 8, in the first 100 comments I read), is crediting Windows 8 for Microsoft stock being at an all time high.
Can you not see that a certain width of intersection and slowness of speed that, if the yellow goes off just as you enter the intersection, then you can easily be IN the intersection when your light turns red and it goes green the other way? You have done nothing wrong, but are not "running a red light" and in danger of getting hit by cross traffic. Does this sound right to you?
I recently worked for years in the highway safety sector, .
May I ask a question then? From the fine article it provides a list of speed limits and yellow light durations. Why do the YLDs increase with speed? It takes less time to clear an intersection if you are travelling faster, so surely a shorter yellow makes sense.
Take an extreme case (to simplify the calc. and more dramatically show how wrong this yellow light thing must be):
- 1/10th mile long intersection, and 2 speeds - 10 & 60 mph. At 10 mph it takes (1/10 / 10) or 1/100th of an hour (36 seconds) to clear the intersection. At 60 mph it takes (1/10 / 60) or 1/600th of an hour (6 seconds) to clear. A factor of SIX less time is needed to clear an intersection at 60 vs 10 mph, yet the table in TFA clearly shows yellow light times increasing with speed.
By the way, for those thinking they need a longer yellow at higher speeds for safety, this is where it has been traditional (in Canada anyway) to increase the length of time where ALL lights are red as speed goes up.
Also, FWIW, the width of the intersection _must_ be considered when setting yellow light time. The yellow light is saying "Stop if you can, but if not I will cover for you as you clear the intersection". Wider intersection == more time needed to clear it.
(1) running Opera, (2) redirects have their place -- a page has moved, then just send me to the new one. Still, I understand it is an arms race and I may have to stop redirects at some point. I've been on the 'net for almost 25 years (worked at an.edu back then and got them using Nupop, whooo!) and have never run into this particular set of roadblocks before so I'll probably just black list them.
And yet we still haven't figured out how gravity works. Maybe we need less TV shows about physics and more spent on new approaches to trying to solve the fundamental problems in physics.
What I meant by 'no "back" from their site', is that the "clear screen" then Javascript message must be conditionally served over their content as part of the original web page (because there is no available 'back' arrow from that tab in my browser). So people are going to go there, get the turn on javascript message, turn it on and then have no way of reloading the content (as the url showing in the address line is one with "nojavascript" in it).
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All in all they have done a very effective job of (1) forcing me to see one of their ads, (2) making it very difficult to actually serve their content to the average viewer, (3) making me never want to go to their web site again (the behavior will continue across their whole web site until you enable Javascript), (4) causing me to re-disable Javascript for their site after reading the article and (5) encouraging me to add them to my hosts file so that I don't accidentally go there again.
Thanks, mailtribune.com. I go there, get the article for 5 seconds, then a cleared screen with a message "Please enable javascript". No other way to view article so I do so and reload the page (from/., there is no "back" from their site, strangely). I then get the article and right where the screen cleared before I get? An ad.
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The full message: Please Enable Javascript
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There is a folder structure off of "\documents and settings\YourUserName\". Copy your old application's.LNK file to the Desktop folder, for example, and the icon will appear on your desktop. There is a "\Start Menu" folder there as well as "\Start Menu\Programs\...etc...".
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All of this could be done from any File | Open dialog, but I found it easier from a cmd.exe window. Was kind of a handy way of moving, cloning & backing up.LNKs, in its day.
and let's make sure celebrity drunks get punished in celebrity fashion. Make it like Finland where the fine is a % of your income, with the income going directly to increased enforcement. In addition to losing your license. In addition to community service. Just like smoking in movies, celebrities are examples to us all. Let's make them an example of what not to do when they drink and drive.
If it was an actual limit then it would indeed be the width (i.e. limit) of your communication band. But it is a cap -- an ISP playing God. "This much and no more" where bandwidth is "This much now and at any time until the end of time".
Given that companies are always trying to minimize price hikes (by using, for example volume/weight shrinking but price stays the same strategies), this price hike is massive. No other way to describe it.
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We are arguing anecdotally. I'll be the first to stop. You win.
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Same here. Fortran on an IBM 360 mainframe. Typed in from one of those keyboards linked in the summary. Torture. Half way through my Bachelor's thesis (CHML) it became possible to work on a CRT terminal. Massive improvement. Discovered the original usage of "cookie" then. Better times.
In one of my past jobs I covered for other staff when they "couldn't be there". In two years at one location I worked one year of overtime. That is, I worked 2,000 hours of overtime in two years covering for people who, generally, just didn't feel like working. Oh, and this was at a location where 11 people worked. Shift structure was 2 people on day, 2 on afternoon, 1 on night shift, times 7 days a week. 392 total hours for the week and I averaged working 60 of those. So yeah some people just skip work.
Will we be forced into Opera "next"? Opera.com article wasn't clear about it. I'd prefer a fork, i.e. choice. For one, to let the bugs shake out of the next great thing(tm).
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I would love to know how cheaply this same project could be done. Probably by one person. Probably a $10,000 project with the final project size 100 times smaller, run 100 times faster, 100 times more accurate. [That is what I achieved after a payroll application they tried to force on our dept. was discarded and we rolled our own.]
Future software challenges should take a government boondoggle, any boondoggle, and have contestants try to make one that actually works with one-hundredth of everything.
It is interesting that Apple, eons ago, knew that some developers were not just 10 or 20% better than others but were 1000 or more % better. Bet this government project didn't require staff to be skilled on Defender.
Thanks for the link. In trying to confirm this from other sources, which I did to my own satisfaction anyway, I was shocked to see zero mention of PETA's hipocrasy on Wikipedia. No "controversy" section (on either Ingrid Newkirk's or PETA's page, no mention of the 14,000+ animals PETA have killed over the years. Truly sickening.
How long to upload videos totally 60 million years? You'll need another 416 2/3 days to cover that. And then another 4 days to cover that. Rounding up: 60,000,421 days.
I bought some web hosting by responding to a spam email.
What amazes me are the 5 "likes".
Anyone calculate how many computers this much of a power bill translates into?
Also, these sites would serve as 1,000 canaries for any future attempts at suffocation. Could set up a script to check if they are up each day/hour.
And the 1000 sites are? This came up a few days ago and I asked the same question. It would reveal more of the intent of the Australian dictatorship.
What matters is that almost no one, (only a handful of mentions of Windows, none of Windows 8, in the first 100 comments I read), is crediting Windows 8 for Microsoft stock being at an all time high.
Can you not see that a certain width of intersection and slowness of speed that, if the yellow goes off just as you enter the intersection, then you can easily be IN the intersection when your light turns red and it goes green the other way? You have done nothing wrong, but are not "running a red light" and in danger of getting hit by cross traffic. Does this sound right to you?
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May I ask a question then? From the fine article it provides a list of speed limits and yellow light durations. Why do the YLDs increase with speed? It takes less time to clear an intersection if you are travelling faster, so surely a shorter yellow makes sense.
Take an extreme case (to simplify the calc. and more dramatically show how wrong this yellow light thing must be):
- 1/10th mile long intersection, and 2 speeds - 10 & 60 mph. At 10 mph it takes (1/10 / 10) or 1/100th of an hour (36 seconds) to clear the intersection. At 60 mph it takes (1/10 / 60) or 1/600th of an hour (6 seconds) to clear. A factor of SIX less time is needed to clear an intersection at 60 vs 10 mph, yet the table in TFA clearly shows yellow light times increasing with speed.
By the way, for those thinking they need a longer yellow at higher speeds for safety, this is where it has been traditional (in Canada anyway) to increase the length of time where ALL lights are red as speed goes up.
Also, FWIW, the width of the intersection _must_ be considered when setting yellow light time. The yellow light is saying "Stop if you can, but if not I will cover for you as you clear the intersection". Wider intersection == more time needed to clear it.
(1) running Opera, (2) redirects have their place -- a page has moved, then just send me to the new one. Still, I understand it is an arms race and I may have to stop redirects at some point. I've been on the 'net for almost 25 years (worked at an .edu back then and got them using Nupop, whooo!) and have never run into this particular set of roadblocks before so I'll probably just black list them.
And yet we still haven't figured out how gravity works. Maybe we need less TV shows about physics and more spent on new approaches to trying to solve the fundamental problems in physics.
Per month, or per fiscal quarter?
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All in all they have done a very effective job of (1) forcing me to see one of their ads, (2) making it very difficult to actually serve their content to the average viewer, (3) making me never want to go to their web site again (the behavior will continue across their whole web site until you enable Javascript), (4) causing me to re-disable Javascript for their site after reading the article and (5) encouraging me to add them to my hosts file so that I don't accidentally go there again.
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The full message:
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Speaking of sites. Is there a list of the sites they were temporarily blocking?
What the first four words of your .sig should be.
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All of this could be done from any File | Open dialog, but I found it easier from a cmd.exe window. Was kind of a handy way of moving, cloning & backing up .LNKs, in its day.
We now return readers to the 21st century...
and let's make sure celebrity drunks get punished in celebrity fashion. Make it like Finland where the fine is a % of your income, with the income going directly to increased enforcement. In addition to losing your license. In addition to community service. Just like smoking in movies, celebrities are examples to us all. Let's make them an example of what not to do when they drink and drive.
If it was an actual limit then it would indeed be the width (i.e. limit) of your communication band. But it is a cap -- an ISP playing God. "This much and no more" where bandwidth is "This much now and at any time until the end of time".
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We are arguing anecdotally. I'll be the first to stop. You win.