As an economic immigrant myself, I like to think that I have some idea of the issues associated with the subject.
There is no doubt that two factors do tend to cause some confusion in this debate.
1.. The type of person who migrates is probably a little different than the person who does not. (This is before we consider race or other factors).
2.. When you come into a new situation, you often see things that the folk that have lived there don't. The New Zealand farmers have an expression that I will dilute to "There's nothing like a stranger to make you think". In other words a tourist quite often asks dumb questions that give you a new perspective on what you are doing..
So you have people coming in who are different and asking dumb questions or worse.. seizing opportunities missed by the locals and this is unsettling.
At this stage a lot of people would criticize the locals for not being accommodating. I believe there is a need for folk that just stay and be. They are the folk that underpin society.
Newbies to any society should make the majority of concessions and should respect the contributions made to provide the fertile soils they can till.
At least as a consultant I can sometimes influence the choice of telecommunications provider. I try to make them suffer for the misery they put me through...
As such a late-comer to democracy (when did blacks get full rights in all electorates?) the United States Citizen still has a belief in the law that beggars Saints in their God.
I have travelled with truck drivers and such in the southern states who thought that not paying taxes was the equivalent of being a traitor..
I'm afraid there are 1.5 billion commonwealth citizens who will never understand them .. But still think they are pretty! :-)
We know that REALLY BAD nuclear accidents will hardly ever happen. But same morons who place reactors on the sea shore and earthquake faults are the same folk calculating the risks...
My problem is this: If the worst happens, I feel sorry for the folk that die within a short time of the event. But I feel obligated to ensure that nothing my generation does should lead to folk dying for thousands of years... High Level Waste - Even a relatively small number of tonnes will do this.
Yes! Another review of an expensive toy that does less than the opposition
When clone computers came out against IBM, the big thing was they were better, faster and cheaper. The Register seems to want to laud products that are slower, have less resolution and function and are more expensive than the dominant product. How much are you guys getting paid?
I hope we can now rely on Lewis Page to address this issue ..
He can tell us how we are all being ridiculous and ignorant even caring about it!
So what if a 70 year old grandmother gets bankrupted because she has to fight a spurious court case over her grandsons internet use? Its not as bad as someone being murdered is it?
Comparisons like the above help us put our worries in perspective and Lewis is the expert at these.
Lewis knows that the authorities always act with our best interests at heart, are absolutely far thinking and competent so his defence of Sony and their ilk should make for authoritative and soothing reading.
We know in the future that any article by Lewis will be the reference work on the subject and will reflect the only right thinking on the subject. This will be regardless of anyone having other opinions, knowledge or experience. So I look forward to him taking this issue with his usual even handed approach.
1.. Park your Nuclear Power Station on the beach and then don't allow for tsunami... Hmmm pretty dumb for a country that invented the name of the phenomenon...
2.. Lie to the public about whats going on in such a way that you are found out almost immediately and so lose any credibility.
3.. With nuclear power the problem is not the likelihood of radiation release killing people immediately. Its an accident poisoning a wide area of ground for generations. Comparisons against Dam disasters or equivalents neglect this aspect. Shit happens - but with a nuclear accident it just keeps on keeping on...
Oh... and by the way.. as an occasional Christchurch resident I can assure everyone that the magnitude of the quake has less to do with any damage than you would imagine.
The Japan had a slightly smaller MMI on average than the Christchurch shake because it was deeper and further away. The tsunami though caused the enormous tragedy.
Its a shame the designers didn't look back through Japanese history.
I don't have a tablet but the tablet I will buy will have:
1.. The best resolution
2.. Oh, hang on, 1 just disqualified everyone else!
Why isn't Xoom half Apples price? It should sit way under Apples pricing umbrella as it is less sophisticated in terms of design and usability and it is the pretender to the throne.
To compare Apple with anything else, for a start it has to have an equivalent display. Thats pretty much what a tablet is.
That the poms are all saying "tutt" "tutt" to the Americans for being - well, lets face it, bullies.. And yet its the British legal system that has a man imprisoned for what would be laughable charges if they were ever brought to court.
The most cowardly reaction was Julia Gillard (PM Aussie) but has been a close run thing....
A number of the world's leaders have failed to cover themselves in glory with this issue.
If it does not run faster than Chrome, Microsoft has had a year to copy it of course... Then it should be ignored . I just get fed up with so called "reviewers" talking about software like this. If it runs faster - then great! I'm interested.. If not and you have been paid to advertise it please include that information in the heading so we dont waste time.
Back when I was a kid and parents would try to pretend to be celebrities at the christmas party (I lived in a small town) I used to shudder with embarrassment. This article reminds me of such a time.
Bloody good article - Informative and told me something that I needed to know. Yay! I knew there was a reason (other than bofh) that I read The Register!
While I appreciate that viewing content is important, I was sorta hoping that the IPad would be the perfect vehicle for things like inspection systems.
An inspection of a shipment, for example, requires access to regulations, commercial invoices and other documents. It also needs to be able to record comments and metrics along with photos.
The Ipad seems to me to be an ideal platform for this. 64GB is plenty of room for any required reference documents and a database to record observations and photos.
I don't believe that the above is a rare application of IPad technology. Apple could well have produced a valuable business tool.
As anyone who has ever used a Windows OS knows, Windows has never had true pre-emptive multitasking.
This is evident when you are connecting to a network for example, when everything freezes on your desktop until the connection is made. It is also evident - particularly on Vista - when you load a DVD with thousands of files on it.
Multi-threading or multitasking makes the most sense when multiple CPU's are available with one to handle IO (for example) and others to handle application steps. Maybe the IPhone is getting another processor?
I had some experience of 1401 computers but from afar. I agree about the print out. Like the tractr1 printers on the System /3 they were responsible for many multipart documents, clean and easy to read.
I had a brief stint on ICL in the 80's - How does a firm who came up with the DDE and bought Singer computers not be able to produce a data entry system which submitted jobs?? Or a decent printer?
I remember all the bootlace like wires for the 1401 and the stories of folks who wrote sort routines...
Those were the days when every cycle of your processor was yours and didn't flash up advertisements or reminders to get Genuine Annoyances.
In fact every instruction had a cycle count - Woe betide the programmer who did not program efficienctly as well as effectively.
That the old codger in front of me at the bank is going to miss out on the opportunity for a bit of human contact with a teller.
At my local branch there are a couple of ladies that make the trip worthwhile...
Actually...
While its true that hardware technology is getting more powerful, we know that by the time we retire, Windows will have slowed even quantum computers to the speed of a 386 SX running windows 3.1....
Maybe we have been the ones to drive the really fast computers! Like the V8's of the late sixties we will never see their like again!
If Windows really had a proper implementation of preemptive multitasking it would be fantastic. As someone who has used mainframes and mid range machines which have real operating systems - You have to gasp at the resources microsoft steal to do very little as far as an OS is concerned.
Just imagine if Windows really had a supervisor - If it could manage I/O controllers.. It will never happen but still one can dream...
Imagine if your mouse never stuttered, attaching additional USB devices did not slow or stop running processes, loading a DVD happened without disrupting a business program. Wouldn't it be great if networking was assigned to a separate I/O processor managed by a supervising windows process. Evidence show Windows is decades away from this...
- Which it never does because its not designed to make things faster. Its designed to load stuff into memory, slowing your currently running processes with its excessive I/O.
Simply put. If SuperFetch worked on Vista, there would be a way of turning it off to prove it.
Give me unallocated RAM because Microsoft software does NOT reliably free the RAM stolen by its processes because it thinks it would be a good idea to load them.
Because you can't turn it off and prove its effect, SuperFetch remains a tax on your machine..
If you believe otherwise, thats it. Belief.
Vista runs slower than XP on the same hardware. Thats all the proof I need about "SuperFetch"
If windows 7 will run faster than W2K3 on the same hardware, or run ONE SINGLE THING that I can't run on W2k3, then I will look at it.
In the mean time I honestly dont understand why anyone would buy it. As far as I know, as a business user, there are no extra capabilities and no bang for the buck over Win2003 or XP...
Thinking about the OEM version.. One of the reasons I run Windows 2003 is that it does not fire up huge amounts of unwanted processes everytime it boots up (unlike XP and specially vista). If loading the OEM version could allow me to keep the crap down to a minimum then that would be a GOOD THING should I have to implement 7 for some reason.
It is impossible that you are a developer on windows and retain those opinions. Vista is too slow. Full stop.
Now it may be that you can prettify your environment. That makes you, at best, a power user, not a developer.
If you ever become a developer with a real deadline you will appreciate why people get upset when their machine just stops for no reason, takes 15 minutes to read the table of contents on a DVD or starts going at half pace because Microsoft has initiated some unnecessary process in the background which is stealing memory and machine cycles.
All of these things happen to me on a quad core COMPAQ with 3GB of memory.
I await a true pre-emptive multitasking desktop OS... Maybe Google?
By displaying the sites last visited on its new tab, Chrome shows your boss you are looking at job sites, your children you look at porn sites or your wife you are looking at new boat sites!!!
Opera defaulted to allowing me to choose what appeared - Chrome is to bloody clever by half! I will be deleting it.. Another example of a company moving from listening to its users to telling its users ...
The AS/400 was to many customers the Vista of IBM. Slow, overpriced, buggy, with difficult and time consuming management processes.
Although you are correct in saying that the AS/400 was a continuation of S/38 technology, most applications for the AS/400 were originally written for the System /36 which the AS/400 was meant to replace. It didn't. In fact the System /36 continued to be sold as an AS/400 model for the next ten years. Some applications were re-written for RPG/400 but most large packages still had huge amounts of S/36 code.
The AS/400 was the death knell for IBM in the small to medium business. It should have been a lesson for all OS suppliers. The new version of the software should be faster, with more features and better value for money. IBM went away from that with its s/36 customers.
The way that politicians get away with gouging the public is by hiding behind titles (Minister of Fiddles) or by articles like this that will not name them. Can someone please list the names and electorates of these miscreants?
It all down to you evil bandits who believe in and support democracy. I just wish it was only you they stole from.
Thats fantastic! Stable and completed code for Windows!
Thats enough trolling I guess...
Seriously, when is Microsoft going to develop any form of respect for its customers again? At the moment shutting down or starting up Vista is a gamble as to how long it will take, memory is stolen by processes you dont want running, and everything is just kludgier than it should be.
They should realise that if they delay their customers by 30 secs by loading crap in the background thats millions of productive man hours wasted. Now if a machine takes 5 minutes to start up or shut down ...
How about they write a small kernal OS with genuine pre-emptive multitasking?
BTW neither Linux or Windows has pre-emptive multitasking.
Maybe they could ask for help from IBM's mainframe division? In the 80's and 90's those guys wrote amazing capabilities for machines with a lot less power than is now required to run Vista.
Of course it would be scary to run a desk top where programs opened quickly and crisply and they disappeared completely as quickly when you did not want them any more...
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Meanwhile in Queensland...
Its a holiday on Monday so we won't get the news till Tuesday. Oh Well.
My My..
As an economic immigrant myself, I like to think that I have some idea of the issues associated with the subject.
There is no doubt that two factors do tend to cause some confusion in this debate.
1.. The type of person who migrates is probably a little different than the person who does not. (This is before we consider race or other factors).
2.. When you come into a new situation, you often see things that the folk that have lived there don't. The New Zealand farmers have an expression that I will dilute to "There's nothing like a stranger to make you think". In other words a tourist quite often asks dumb questions that give you a new perspective on what you are doing..
So you have people coming in who are different and asking dumb questions or worse.. seizing opportunities missed by the locals and this is unsettling.
At this stage a lot of people would criticize the locals for not being accommodating. I believe there is a need for folk that just stay and be. They are the folk that underpin society.
Newbies to any society should make the majority of concessions and should respect the contributions made to provide the fertile soils they can till.
I'm Sorry But..
Not querying the company about their initial reaction, and the inferences we are allowed to draw from that, means that this is a puff piece.
You Forget
@ Jack Prichard -The Kiwis are the current Rugby League Champions as well..
@Alistair - Sorry to be the one to tell you...
But everyone knows your wife :-)
Lets Hear the Names!
Maybe someone can supply:
- The CIO responsible
- The services firm that screwed things up
No point in reporting the fault without knowing that.
Good But I am awaiting Robots
If only the BOFH's in firms I do work with did it deliberately..
You have forgotten
The whole purpose, and only purpose of the law is to shift the cost of policing from the rich (who benefit) to the poor (who don't).
Remember the Law has nothing to do with Justice.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Ain't it all a bloomin' shame?
Didn't the effects of gravity manage to go faster than light?
No, you are thinking of tachyon particles.. But they are out condensing in their fields...
Lipstick on a Pig...
Telstra is a fairly ugly pig as well.
At least as a consultant I can sometimes influence the choice of telecommunications provider. I try to make them suffer for the misery they put me through...
A light observation...
As such a late-comer to democracy (when did blacks get full rights in all electorates?) the United States Citizen still has a belief in the law that beggars Saints in their God.
I have travelled with truck drivers and such in the southern states who thought that not paying taxes was the equivalent of being a traitor..
I'm afraid there are 1.5 billion commonwealth citizens who will never understand them .. But still think they are pretty! :-)
Lewis IS the Green Lantern!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/5379003/Deadly-radiation-pockets-found-at-Fukushima
We know that REALLY BAD nuclear accidents will hardly ever happen. But same morons who place reactors on the sea shore and earthquake faults are the same folk calculating the risks...
My problem is this: If the worst happens, I feel sorry for the folk that die within a short time of the event. But I feel obligated to ensure that nothing my generation does should lead to folk dying for thousands of years... High Level Waste - Even a relatively small number of tonnes will do this.
Yes! Another review of an expensive toy that does less than the opposition
When clone computers came out against IBM, the big thing was they were better, faster and cheaper. The Register seems to want to laud products that are slower, have less resolution and function and are more expensive than the dominant product. How much are you guys getting paid?
Bit of a problem with this..
Google are being fined for showing advertisements for products which are illegal in the States or cannot be purchased directly in the States...
So... No Right Hand drive cars, Kinder Surprises, Amsterdam coffee houses, European brothels then?
Censorship comes in many forms.
..Probably not important but..
A couple of things:
1) The Navy came up with this? I would have thought the Airforce or Army had a greater need. Maybe the Navy has a higher IQ?
2) The computational power to achieve what these things do is now easily accomodated by an iphone. Make the future just that little bit more scary
Mines the one with real core in the pocket..
Of Course...
I hope we can now rely on Lewis Page to address this issue ..
He can tell us how we are all being ridiculous and ignorant even caring about it!
So what if a 70 year old grandmother gets bankrupted because she has to fight a spurious court case over her grandsons internet use? Its not as bad as someone being murdered is it?
Comparisons like the above help us put our worries in perspective and Lewis is the expert at these.
Lewis knows that the authorities always act with our best interests at heart, are absolutely far thinking and competent so his defence of Sony and their ilk should make for authoritative and soothing reading.
We know in the future that any article by Lewis will be the reference work on the subject and will reflect the only right thinking on the subject. This will be regardless of anyone having other opinions, knowledge or experience. So I look forward to him taking this issue with his usual even handed approach.
I guess my concerns are:
1.. Park your Nuclear Power Station on the beach and then don't allow for tsunami... Hmmm pretty dumb for a country that invented the name of the phenomenon...
2.. Lie to the public about whats going on in such a way that you are found out almost immediately and so lose any credibility.
3.. With nuclear power the problem is not the likelihood of radiation release killing people immediately. Its an accident poisoning a wide area of ground for generations. Comparisons against Dam disasters or equivalents neglect this aspect. Shit happens - but with a nuclear accident it just keeps on keeping on...
Oh... and by the way.. as an occasional Christchurch resident I can assure everyone that the magnitude of the quake has less to do with any damage than you would imagine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale
The Japan had a slightly smaller MMI on average than the Christchurch shake because it was deeper and further away. The tsunami though caused the enormous tragedy.
Its a shame the designers didn't look back through Japanese history.
Just my thoughts
I don't have a tablet but the tablet I will buy will have:
1.. The best resolution
2.. Oh, hang on, 1 just disqualified everyone else!
Why isn't Xoom half Apples price? It should sit way under Apples pricing umbrella as it is less sophisticated in terms of design and usability and it is the pretender to the throne.
To compare Apple with anything else, for a start it has to have an equivalent display. Thats pretty much what a tablet is.
Something Lost in Trans...
We can guess where you are .. It sounds like Alexander City, Alabama!
Actually its fun to imagine 35 million Chinese moving into one of those underpopulated southern states!
I wonder if the South would stay the poor cousin for very long?
Its sadly amusing...
That the poms are all saying "tutt" "tutt" to the Americans for being - well, lets face it, bullies.. And yet its the British legal system that has a man imprisoned for what would be laughable charges if they were ever brought to court.
The most cowardly reaction was Julia Gillard (PM Aussie) but has been a close run thing....
A number of the world's leaders have failed to cover themselves in glory with this issue.
And.. of course
Selenium from "Free and Lovely" will kill it...
Google needs IBM's Chips
In the end.. IBM is the only firm that can supply the chips with the power and integration that Google needs.. Well IMHO anyway..
They could also help their OS development too...
I Agree
If it does not run faster than Chrome, Microsoft has had a year to copy it of course... Then it should be ignored . I just get fed up with so called "reviewers" talking about software like this. If it runs faster - then great! I'm interested.. If not and you have been paid to advertise it please include that information in the heading so we dont waste time.
Of course
The Cubans have proven that the V8 can actually last forever - properly maintained.
Also the straight six flathead...
I have not seen the figures.. How many tonnes of CO2 did that last Icelandic volcano spew?...
I remember..
Back when I was a kid and parents would try to pretend to be celebrities at the christmas party (I lived in a small town) I used to shudder with embarrassment. This article reminds me of such a time.
Fan Mail
Bloody good article - Informative and told me something that I needed to know. Yay! I knew there was a reason (other than bofh) that I read The Register!
"gams developers?"
I leave THAT to folk with more wit than me...
The Dorian Gray Defense
I am so good looking.. I cannot be guilty of anything...
Well, hell.. I agree. Let her go, you monsters!
Maybe..but..
While I appreciate that viewing content is important, I was sorta hoping that the IPad would be the perfect vehicle for things like inspection systems.
An inspection of a shipment, for example, requires access to regulations, commercial invoices and other documents. It also needs to be able to record comments and metrics along with photos.
The Ipad seems to me to be an ideal platform for this. 64GB is plenty of room for any required reference documents and a database to record observations and photos.
I don't believe that the above is a rare application of IPad technology. Apple could well have produced a valuable business tool.
I dont have any problems using a Microsoft Browser
Its just that its soooo sloooowwwww compared to Chrome or Firefox.
If Microsoft want their product used, maybe they should be trying to deliver a better product?
Pre-emptive multitasking
As anyone who has ever used a Windows OS knows, Windows has never had true pre-emptive multitasking.
This is evident when you are connecting to a network for example, when everything freezes on your desktop until the connection is made. It is also evident - particularly on Vista - when you load a DVD with thousands of files on it.
Multi-threading or multitasking makes the most sense when multiple CPU's are available with one to handle IO (for example) and others to handle application steps. Maybe the IPhone is getting another processor?
Hang on...
"men don't want their partner to look like a porn star,"
...uhmmmmm
Ocasionally its fun!
I remember...
The Callan episodes where his death gets faked.. and then he came back. The pathos of Lonely being at the side of the grave..
Brilliant. He was one of those very few number of actors where you will watch anything with him in it - simply because you know he is in it.
I never knew how much of a fan I was till he died..
Ah..Ha! He worked for ICL!!
I had some experience of 1401 computers but from afar. I agree about the print out. Like the tractr1 printers on the System /3 they were responsible for many multipart documents, clean and easy to read.
I had a brief stint on ICL in the 80's - How does a firm who came up with the DDE and bought Singer computers not be able to produce a data entry system which submitted jobs?? Or a decent printer?
I remember all the bootlace like wires for the 1401 and the stories of folks who wrote sort routines...
Those were the days when every cycle of your processor was yours and didn't flash up advertisements or reminders to get Genuine Annoyances.
In fact every instruction had a cycle count - Woe betide the programmer who did not program efficienctly as well as effectively.
There is no way....
That the old codger in front of me at the bank is going to miss out on the opportunity for a bit of human contact with a teller.
At my local branch there are a couple of ladies that make the trip worthwhile...
Actually...
While its true that hardware technology is getting more powerful, we know that by the time we retire, Windows will have slowed even quantum computers to the speed of a 386 SX running windows 3.1....
Maybe we have been the ones to drive the really fast computers! Like the V8's of the late sixties we will never see their like again!
Pre-emptive multitasking?
If Windows really had a proper implementation of preemptive multitasking it would be fantastic. As someone who has used mainframes and mid range machines which have real operating systems - You have to gasp at the resources microsoft steal to do very little as far as an OS is concerned.
Just imagine if Windows really had a supervisor - If it could manage I/O controllers.. It will never happen but still one can dream...
Imagine if your mouse never stuttered, attaching additional USB devices did not slow or stop running processes, loading a DVD happened without disrupting a business program. Wouldn't it be great if networking was assigned to a separate I/O processor managed by a supervising windows process. Evidence show Windows is decades away from this...
You Can't Fool Me!!
We took a look
We saw a Nook
On his head
he had a hook
On his hook
He had a Book
On his Book
was "How to Cook"
We saw him sit
and try to cook
He took a look
at the book on the hook
But a Nook can't read
so a Nook can't cook
SO...
What good to a Nook
is a hook cook book?
...With apologies to Dr Suess...Yes, we got the joke of the name whoever picked it!
@dale_richards
"If SuperFetch is doing its job properly"
- Which it never does because its not designed to make things faster. Its designed to load stuff into memory, slowing your currently running processes with its excessive I/O.
Simply put. If SuperFetch worked on Vista, there would be a way of turning it off to prove it.
Give me unallocated RAM because Microsoft software does NOT reliably free the RAM stolen by its processes because it thinks it would be a good idea to load them.
Because you can't turn it off and prove its effect, SuperFetch remains a tax on your machine..
If you believe otherwise, thats it. Belief.
Vista runs slower than XP on the same hardware. Thats all the proof I need about "SuperFetch"
@dale Richards
Sorry - I was just shown how to disable "SuperFetch" on Vista.
Unfortunately there is no way (that I know) of stopping Exchange and SQL Server from indulging in the same activity...
Sorry to be boring.. but..
If windows 7 will run faster than W2K3 on the same hardware, or run ONE SINGLE THING that I can't run on W2k3, then I will look at it.
In the mean time I honestly dont understand why anyone would buy it. As far as I know, as a business user, there are no extra capabilities and no bang for the buck over Win2003 or XP...
Thinking about the OEM version.. One of the reasons I run Windows 2003 is that it does not fire up huge amounts of unwanted processes everytime it boots up (unlike XP and specially vista). If loading the OEM version could allow me to keep the crap down to a minimum then that would be a GOOD THING should I have to implement 7 for some reason.
@Kotonoha
It is impossible that you are a developer on windows and retain those opinions. Vista is too slow. Full stop.
Now it may be that you can prettify your environment. That makes you, at best, a power user, not a developer.
If you ever become a developer with a real deadline you will appreciate why people get upset when their machine just stops for no reason, takes 15 minutes to read the table of contents on a DVD or starts going at half pace because Microsoft has initiated some unnecessary process in the background which is stealing memory and machine cycles.
All of these things happen to me on a quad core COMPAQ with 3GB of memory.
I await a true pre-emptive multitasking desktop OS... Maybe Google?
Chrome does worse
By displaying the sites last visited on its new tab, Chrome shows your boss you are looking at job sites, your children you look at porn sites or your wife you are looking at new boat sites!!!
Opera defaulted to allowing me to choose what appeared - Chrome is to bloody clever by half! I will be deleting it.. Another example of a company moving from listening to its users to telling its users ...
As tempting...
As it is to ask whether the donors name was Lily...
I concur with the general tone. Steve is a talented guy who has made some brilliant decisions and created some really neat stuff.
If I had his money I would feel a responsibility and a desire to spend the rest of my time with my family - if he goes into work it just pure passion.
Stay as well as possible for as long as possible Steve.. You have been an inspiration for a long time..
Well..well..well..
Gartner says:
I will give a decent donation to a charity if people can point to a real prediction Gartner has made that they have not been paid for.
As Douglas Adams said....
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Never a truer word spoken in jest.
AS/400 vs ?
The AS/400 was to many customers the Vista of IBM. Slow, overpriced, buggy, with difficult and time consuming management processes.
Although you are correct in saying that the AS/400 was a continuation of S/38 technology, most applications for the AS/400 were originally written for the System /36 which the AS/400 was meant to replace. It didn't. In fact the System /36 continued to be sold as an AS/400 model for the next ten years. Some applications were re-written for RPG/400 but most large packages still had huge amounts of S/36 code.
The AS/400 was the death knell for IBM in the small to medium business. It should have been a lesson for all OS suppliers. The new version of the software should be faster, with more features and better value for money. IBM went away from that with its s/36 customers.
64p for connection?????
You can buy a cell phone for that in 3rd world countries like New Zealand
I thought...
Shelby got nuked on the Simpsons... Oh! This is real life?!?.. Oh FFS....
Could somebody please?
The way that politicians get away with gouging the public is by hiding behind titles (Minister of Fiddles) or by articles like this that will not name them. Can someone please list the names and electorates of these miscreants?
It all down to you evil bandits who believe in and support democracy. I just wish it was only you they stole from.
Stable and completed code for Windows ...
Hey!
Thats fantastic! Stable and completed code for Windows!
Thats enough trolling I guess...
Seriously, when is Microsoft going to develop any form of respect for its customers again? At the moment shutting down or starting up Vista is a gamble as to how long it will take, memory is stolen by processes you dont want running, and everything is just kludgier than it should be.
They should realise that if they delay their customers by 30 secs by loading crap in the background thats millions of productive man hours wasted. Now if a machine takes 5 minutes to start up or shut down ...
How about they write a small kernal OS with genuine pre-emptive multitasking?
BTW neither Linux or Windows has pre-emptive multitasking.
Maybe they could ask for help from IBM's mainframe division? In the 80's and 90's those guys wrote amazing capabilities for machines with a lot less power than is now required to run Vista.
Of course it would be scary to run a desk top where programs opened quickly and crisply and they disappeared completely as quickly when you did not want them any more...
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