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I was quite impressed when we were given a presentation earlier in the week using a laptop running "Xp media edition". I knew it existed, about the time George lV died I believe, but have never seen a copy!
Like that ageing celebrity you thought kicked the bucket years ago, Windows XP keeps popping up on screens to wheeze the IT equivalent of "I'm not dead yet!" Today's entry in the parade of bork is a return of Register favourite Tesco, notable for scan-'n'-shop shenanigans and the odd bit of XP action on the self-service tills …
It's been there since 2015.
A stepbystep manual through the process that is credentialing for ActuariesCurrent at the time of the 2013's Society The current exam design for that Culture of (SOA) is really a little alphabet soup. Becoming a qualified Man of Actuaries (FSA) your culture have to function with a procedure that is credentialing.
Totally creepy! It seems to mean something, but, but....
And I so wanted to become a qualified Man of Actuaries.
That Is one of the worst websites I have seen for a while,
The links go all over the place, there is a bad case of stretched images on the staff page and an inconsistent layout.
And as to the links, well the blog says coming soon on most pages, but on the press page it links to that page.
If you are designing pos terminals then you would think they want people to use their website to look at what is on offer....
With the proliferation of ever more complex development frameworks that do little more than plain old APIs yet follow some ivory tower "correct" OO pratices [insert here an endless list of TLA and buzzword bingo bullshit invented by people who couldn't hack their way out of a wet paper bag] coupled with managed code and VMs its hardly surprising that a 3Gz quad core machine is required to run for example a word processor at the same speed that a 486 managed in the 90s yet with not an appreciably useful extra amount of functionality.
Try actually wordprocessing for example a 15 page document with a few graphics in it, maybe some circuit diagrams or something like that, on your 1990s 486, and let me know how you get on.
Your modern computer will be way faster, and you won't have to press ^S after every other keystroke to avoid loss of work due to crashes.
In terms of functionality, sure, WordPerfect 6 was as functional as anything you can get today, but on period hardware, a lot slower.
"Try actually wordprocessing for example a 15 page document with a few graphics in it"
Downvote because I could do that on an 8MHz ARM2 back in the early '90s (and didn't have to save it every ten seconds).
What sort of shitty software were you exposed to?
"Try actually wordprocessing for example a 15 page document with a few graphics in it, maybe some circuit diagrams or something like that, on your 1990s 486, and let me know how you get on."
I'm pretty sure that I was doing all that with WinWord 2.0 on Win 3.0 in 1991 with no problems at all.
"and you won't have to press ^S after every other keystroke"
I didn't have to press ^S. Its a computer, I told it to do it for me.
The whole point of Lorem Ipsum is that people see it as looking right as "a language" but not anything readable. The whole point of placeholder text in graphical layout work is to show where text will be without distracting the viewer with trying to read the text. Somebody that does website design should know Lorem Ipsum and use it.
I'm quite interested in "Schools that are best to Get Ready to get a Job in Astronomy". Apparently they can often be found in bags of 5.
Then there's the hilarious "Omnivend Launches Next Generation Kiosk" from 2013, with a picture that looks very like the one in the article. Next Generation indeed!
I'm a Tesco colleague who studied Computer Science at university and I can tell you that all the computers/servers in our store are running Windows XP or Windows server 2003, and when I say Windows XP, I'm not talking about the POSReady version, I'm talking about Windows XP Professional SP2, which hasn't been supported for many years. These computers are connected to the Tesco network and do share data over the internet, and although they have some restrictions set on them via the group and security policy editor, this is made void by the fact that any user on the computer (with understanding of how to access the Windows admin tools) can change or turn off any setting in the group policy editor due to incorrect configuration of user permissions. I have brought this up with Tesco management before but they seem more interested in saving money than attempting to upgrade or lockdown the system.
"Like many ancient bits of Microsoft OS technology, putting it on modern (disconnected) gear demonstrates some eye-popping performance compared to code nowadays."
Try putting ACAD2K on NT2K on modern hardware. With the exception of video driver issues (the old generic "hi-res" ones work perfectly adequately), it's surprising how fast it is. Overall, seat of the pants suggests at least three times as fast as the modern code on the same hardware. And quite frankly, there is absolutely nothing in the modern equivalents that I would find important enough to switch to.
If you like that, try FreeCAD. Seems to do everything I ever remember needing from the ACAD2K days without the licensing problems*, and quite snappy too.
* "Licensed, not sold". Why anyone sane would agree to lock their valuable mechanical IP into a proprietary software package under those terms is quite beyond me.