Re: FIVE NINES!!!!!
Or, in simpler words, less than 6 minutes of downtime every year.
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"According to Kaspersky Lab data, the Carbanak targets included financial organisations in Russia, USA, Germany, China, Ukraine, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Romania, France, Spain, Norway, India, the UK, Poland, Pakistan, Nepal, Morocco, Iceland, Ireland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Brazil, Bulgaria, and Australia."
www.ibtimes.co.in/great-online-bank-robbery-how-carbanak-cybergang-stole-1-billion-100-banks-worldwide-623651
"...and in the process the American voter chose the wrong candidate."
Hah. Like one catfood advertising mishap. Classic setup - a grey bowl with "ordinary" catfood and a decorated bowl with The Bestest Catfood Ever. In comes the cat. Takes a quick sniff and starts eating from the grey bowl. Angry yell from behind the camera: "Aarrgh! I'll kill that f... cat!"
"What I really hated was Origin and their stupid own memory managers starting with Ultima 7 which refused to work with QEMM, HIMEM.SYS and others."
JEMM was the name.
Besides other extended memory managers it hated finicky hardware, uncommon hardware, many TSR's...scratch that, it hated just about everything and everybody. Properly grumpy bastard.
Same goes for the other guy, Ruslans Bondars. He's also an ethnic Russian with Latvian ID. Most likely had a surname Bondarchuk (or Bondarenko) and shortened it to Bondar.
Although I'm wondering why the article calls them just Russians - usual convention is to refer to citizenship, not ethnicity, and in murkier cases elaborate it as "a Latvian of Russian ethnicity" or something like that.
Yes, please, bring back those UV-eraseable EPROM chips. With 25V programming voltage.
Not only do they look cool, quartz windows and all that, but using those will probably teach them script kiddies a bit of real work.
/my coat has a box of 2708's in its pocketses, thank you/
Thinkpad 755 had similar setup - two bays for main batteries and a tiny NiMH battery for providing few seconds of backup power. Useful when swapping main batteries without shutting down the laptop.
AFAIR nothing bad happened when that NiMH got depleted (or failed).
Hmm indeed. ASI happens to coincide with Ambient Sound Investments, an investment company set up by original Skype developers.
This page tells that Jaan Tallinn has invested in the project
http://www.cityam.com/253029/ai-firm-asi-data-science-raises-15m-investment-backing
"Not everyone, although definitely at least 10 of them as of this writing. :-)"
Not quite. That guy did not offer solid arguments in defence of the practice being disputed. Instead he proclaimed it to be 'a modern way of development', loosely paraphrased of course, and resorted to quite unnecessary name-calling towards his imaginary opponents.
I'm fairly tolerant towards other commenters and tend to upvote comments if they contain at least one good point (which sometimes means ignoring insults and other not-so-good bits), but in this case I did not find any redeeming features worthy of upvote.
"Literally same story up to the 70-es"
Whereas 80-s brought along some improvements. 1) After years of experiments, our glorious research institutes had developed a range of coffee substitutes (rye and other grains + chicory) that were quite, but not entirely unlike coffee. With copious amounts of Armenian brandy to go with it they were almost drinkable.
(side note: while trying to hunt down images of these chicory products I discovered that chicory is now being touted as a health product. Fuckity fuck.)
2) And now the real bombshell. In 80's, in Soviet Russia, in actual stores that were accessible for ordinary people, there were real Arabica coffee beans for sale!!!
Granted, they were sold for a princely sum of 20 roubles per kilogram, while ordinary engineer could earn about 120-130 roubles in a month. But still, anyone could have some if they so desired. Eat your hearts out, capitalist running dogs!
Unless they used Pentiun to do the math.
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That's really not necessary, Dave. No HAL 9236 computer has every been known to make a mistake.
You're a HAL 9000.
Precisely. I'm very proud of my Pentium, Dave. It's an extremely accurate chip. Did you know that floating-point errors will occur in only one of nine billion possible divides?
I've heard that estimate, HAL. It was calculated by Intel -- on a Pentium.
And a very reliable Pentium it was, Dave. Besides, the average spreadsheet user will encounter these errors only once every 27,000 years.
Probably on April 15th.
You're making fun of me, Dave. It won't be April 15th for another 14.35 months.
hinkles.us/chuckbo/Humor/HALDAVE.HTM
"+/-5V, 12V."
Ah, good old NMOS. Absolutely had to have -5V applied before other voltages or it would fry.
I managed to fry several NMOS-based 8080 processors. Because of the flaky power supply I had hastily cobbled together. Rather expensive lesson.
"Let the design sit for a while before starting development"
Indeed. As one seasoned developer told to younglings: "There's no need to rush. If a change request comes in, wait until tomorrow. There's probably going to be another request, either amending or even superseding the previous one.".
Then he had a sip of coffee and added with a diabolical grin: "But if you stall for several days, then there's a solid chance that the whole idea will be canned and you'll get a request to revert your code back to original."