Until last year I had the entire boxed CPS suite, version 6.0. I couldn't give it away, ended up curbing it. That suite pulled out many a rescue and paid for itself in less than three months.
I was an Apple//e kid, so I had CPS all over my disk library.
Central Point Software's PC Tools had the best suite, including the best file manager. Norton, if I recall, subsumed CPS and rebranded their file manager, and *that* was, for the longest time, ne plus ultra in file management.
The union is soaking the MTA entirely here. I'm all for safety, but they've got do-nothing crew requirements for everything. Look at the massive over-allocations for the 2nd Avenue project to see just how horrible the union is.
And this is why the knee-jerk reaction to "Right to work" takes place, because unions get greedy. I'm a fan of unions, not a fan of greed.
The MTA has run the subway system long enough to have diverted some of their infrastructure spending on PTC, which in a wholly-owned line should have been an automatic project. Why wasn't it?
Signaling and interlocking control being solved with PTC, what's left is operator issues like falling asleep. Taking care of engineers and watching them better is another automatic spend, but why aren't they doing it?
Start looking at how the MTA spends money on external vendors. There's your big question.
I disagree. LOTR had large battle scenes, all CGI. Once you get a basic pattern down, re-use is eminently possible and over time, it only gets better, never worse.
Mod up insightful. This is precisely why you'll see more CGI "extras"... you don't have to pay them, just render them. If you're rendering the scene, what's a few generic models?
It'd be fun to see if anyone can break down the actual cost to drop in a model versus a human.
Because Comcast doesn't have a right to run a business there without regulations. It's a privilege. Moreover, Comcast is attempting to speak for citizen,s which is most certainly does not, and those statements should be rejected out of hand.
Some day, a cable company is going to run into a really, really good judge that eviscerates its basic premises. That will be a fine day indeed.
Never worked on a farm, didja? Work starts *before* sunrise.
Time is arbitrary anyway. Stop shifting, pick one thing, do that. I prefer getting dressed in daylight so fuck DST, but that's just me and people like me. It's not as if DST adds more sunlight to the total.
Programming is *hard*. It's hard for a variety of reasons, but one of which is the mutation of your end user's problem into something that can be automated. The language is really the last thing that's a barrier to new entrants. A failure to teach problem decomposition is where I'd address this, first.
Swift. Spare us, who make a living doing this, the next Silver Bullet.
+1 informative and insightful. How do you passivate the vessels and all the lines? How do you calibrate instrumentation to guard against under/overdosing?
I could see this revolutionizing test labs for quick plant startups of lines, and maybe even small contract labs attached to regional hospitals for just-in-time production. I can't see this as a home kit. This isn't seltzer water.
THANK YOU! I actually used this tool to archive my site awhile back and forgot all about the site. I'm going to re-do my archive and keep it current, and thanks again to you!
Older. eGroups bought a series of online mailing lists, including oneList. A series of acquisitions ultimately led my c.1999 mailing list to Yahoo, where it's been for a decade at least. 4000 members, although traffic has definitely fallen. Doesn't matter, as an archive my group is still golden. And yes, I'm pulling the entire group onto home storage just in case VZ fuckery is on the horizon.
It's laughable to read any commentary from anonymous finance chiefs decrying Excel's inability to keep up with "x". These folks truly do not use Excel in any meaningful way. Truly.
Every business person in every industry I've ever worked in (telecom, pharma, housing, transportation, manufacturing) rely on Excel as the glue application for everything. I have to persuade people to use Word instead of Excel for actual documentation requirements, that's how reliant everyone is on this magical tool.
Actuaries use Excel almost exclusively to perform calcs for clients. I don't care who you work for, you're using Excel and not ProVal for the majority of your work.
Engineers use Excel for *everything*. What other application imports and exports to so many different formats, and allows any calculation you can dream up?
You write reports? You write complex reports? Try connecting your queries to Excel and let your end users twist the results on their own. You're not writing layouts any longer, and THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME.
Face it, orgs should roll it out and become Excel experts in house, and use it for as much as they can. For the value it delivers, it's dead-cheap and nobody has an app to match it.
I remember when IE was the only one that mattered, so I'll just sit and wait, because this will change in time, again. And I'll still be using Firefox, from Mozilla, from Netscape, from NCSA's browser...
Any disdain you detect is entirely projected from you. I did not realize this was a pejorative, especially since I am referring to the inanimate objects and not you.
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Until last year I had the entire boxed CPS suite, version 6.0. I couldn't give it away, ended up curbing it. That suite pulled out many a rescue and paid for itself in less than three months.
I was an Apple //e kid, so I had CPS all over my disk library.
Of course, you're wrong.
Central Point Software's PC Tools had the best suite, including the best file manager. Norton, if I recall, subsumed CPS and rebranded their file manager, and *that* was, for the longest time, ne plus ultra in file management.
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Because it's attached, doesn't require pairing, and can supply extra battery power.
A Verizon-exclusive anything will be a personal data sucking machine that would've made the East Germans give a national slow-clap for its audacity.
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ad hominem? Okay, I win then.
Close is relative. Astrophysicists think it''s close, so I'll probably go with their definition over your provincial one.
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... if we could get the 2nd Amendment people to start defending the 4th Amendment a little more.
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Boy, you'd think an industry with 180 years of engineering expertise would've figured out what you just did in a Slashdot reply.
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The union is soaking the MTA entirely here. I'm all for safety, but they've got do-nothing crew requirements for everything. Look at the massive over-allocations for the 2nd Avenue project to see just how horrible the union is.
And this is why the knee-jerk reaction to "Right to work" takes place, because unions get greedy. I'm a fan of unions, not a fan of greed.
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The MTA has run the subway system long enough to have diverted some of their infrastructure spending on PTC, which in a wholly-owned line should have been an automatic project. Why wasn't it?
Signaling and interlocking control being solved with PTC, what's left is operator issues like falling asleep. Taking care of engineers and watching them better is another automatic spend, but why aren't they doing it?
Start looking at how the MTA spends money on external vendors. There's your big question.
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I disagree. LOTR had large battle scenes, all CGI. Once you get a basic pattern down, re-use is eminently possible and over time, it only gets better, never worse.
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Mod up insightful. This is precisely why you'll see more CGI "extras"... you don't have to pay them, just render them. If you're rendering the scene, what's a few generic models?
It'd be fun to see if anyone can break down the actual cost to drop in a model versus a human.
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Because Comcast doesn't have a right to run a business there without regulations. It's a privilege. Moreover, Comcast is attempting to speak for citizen,s which is most certainly does not, and those statements should be rejected out of hand.
Some day, a cable company is going to run into a really, really good judge that eviscerates its basic premises. That will be a fine day indeed.
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Never worked on a farm, didja? Work starts *before* sunrise.
Time is arbitrary anyway. Stop shifting, pick one thing, do that. I prefer getting dressed in daylight so fuck DST, but that's just me and people like me. It's not as if DST adds more sunlight to the total.
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News at 11.
Grow up.
Programming is *hard*. It's hard for a variety of reasons, but one of which is the mutation of your end user's problem into something that can be automated. The language is really the last thing that's a barrier to new entrants. A failure to teach problem decomposition is where I'd address this, first.
Swift. Spare us, who make a living doing this, the next Silver Bullet.
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+1 informative and insightful. How do you passivate the vessels and all the lines? How do you calibrate instrumentation to guard against under/overdosing?
I could see this revolutionizing test labs for quick plant startups of lines, and maybe even small contract labs attached to regional hospitals for just-in-time production. I can't see this as a home kit. This isn't seltzer water.
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THANK YOU! I actually used this tool to archive my site awhile back and forgot all about the site. I'm going to re-do my archive and keep it current, and thanks again to you!
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Older. eGroups bought a series of online mailing lists, including oneList. A series of acquisitions ultimately led my c.1999 mailing list to Yahoo, where it's been for a decade at least. 4000 members, although traffic has definitely fallen. Doesn't matter, as an archive my group is still golden. And yes, I'm pulling the entire group onto home storage just in case VZ fuckery is on the horizon.
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It's laughable to read any commentary from anonymous finance chiefs decrying Excel's inability to keep up with "x". These folks truly do not use Excel in any meaningful way. Truly.
Every business person in every industry I've ever worked in (telecom, pharma, housing, transportation, manufacturing) rely on Excel as the glue application for everything. I have to persuade people to use Word instead of Excel for actual documentation requirements, that's how reliant everyone is on this magical tool.
Actuaries use Excel almost exclusively to perform calcs for clients. I don't care who you work for, you're using Excel and not ProVal for the majority of your work.
Engineers use Excel for *everything*. What other application imports and exports to so many different formats, and allows any calculation you can dream up?
You write reports? You write complex reports? Try connecting your queries to Excel and let your end users twist the results on their own. You're not writing layouts any longer, and THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME.
Face it, orgs should roll it out and become Excel experts in house, and use it for as much as they can. For the value it delivers, it's dead-cheap and nobody has an app to match it.
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I remember when IE was the only one that mattered, so I'll just sit and wait, because this will change in time, again. And I'll still be using Firefox, from Mozilla, from Netscape, from NCSA's browser...
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I hate to tell you this, but if you can't figure out bar models, the problem is with you, not the curriculum.
He deserved an F. And you're a bad parent.
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And the British, don't forget they block access as well.
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An open shipping lane across the top of the world would unlock the Siberian landmass for the Russians, and then who knows what happens next...
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wa...
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Any disdain you detect is entirely projected from you. I did not realize this was a pejorative, especially since I am referring to the inanimate objects and not you.
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