Re: A 1980s minicomputer at the bottom of a mine ?
DV BC: Run a terminal video signal 100s (likely 1000s) of meters? In an heavy industrial setting? On a shoestring budget? Not likely.
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I believe Intel, Nvidia and AMD recently announced a shared initiative to make their CPUs even more inefficient in order to increase the waste heat they can produce. By this means, the companies hope to help eliminate the climate challenge by providing "green heating" to millions.
Sorry @Filippo, but I really disagree. At least in he US, Oracle is selling big into healthcare delivery networks. I might or might not have some first hand knowledge of this.
Anyway, I believe that Oracle is fully aware that their product is seriously lacking many of the features needed by healthcare delivery supply chain (again, may or may not know a thing about this too). This is evidenced by the rudimentary functionality requests, and Oracle's often clueless responses, that you will find on their Community "Ideas" portal.
I think Oracle sells a reasonably solid HCM system, but they also know they've got to sell the other two legs of the stool: Finance and Supply Chain. The trouble is, SCM (and more than a few of my peers in FIN) would argue that these two "pillars" are decades behind their best of breed competitor solutions (i.e. the "primitive" solutions that we have to rip out so that we can make way for a "cloud based digital transformation").
Oracle knows they are selling many of their customers a time machine to the past, under the guide of a spaceship to the future, and they are absolutely not going to come clean in meaningful ways about this.
The last time I saw Atari carts for sale, outside of the most rarified collector shop or eBay eqv. (in other words, just at a garage sale or thrift store), was the late 1990s.
We are, I fear, at least 25 years too late to luck upon these carts for a bargain. That is what fails to attract me to this 2600+. Its already over priced, and then I need to get into a bidding war on eBay for each attempt to expand my game library?
No thank you.
You saw an article about an object that doesn't interest you. You opened it and at least skimmed it. You then opened the comments of that article and posted about how much you disrespect the object and it's enthusiasts.
If this is your idea of a fun pass time, then I really think you ought to give the Atari VCS another chance. I think you'll find it at least as much fun, and, god willing, it will keep you out of the forums for 15 minutes.
DV BC: I am one of those pretzeled Americans of which you speak. And I do have my moments of being worked up because: essentially all of the very worst of what America has been (and, granted, very much still is) is so diligently manifested by a single individual. And we quite democratically brought that particular manifestation of God's creation into a position of such acrimonious discord with the actual progressive arc of our nation, and made ourselves just look so damn foolish in the process... Well, it hurts ones pride, you know?
Are you quite sure it isn't you that has changed? As I've aged, I don't laugh as hard as a I used to. Parenting and long years of marriage and watching the friends and family take their leave of this mortal coil has corroded my funny bone a bit it seems. I think the only really tremendous laughs I get these days are at the hubris of mostly my kids (and the odd world leader). And that's only because witnessing such folly is one of the best vehicles for transporting me back to my own youth.
P.s. I'm only 45.
And yet basically the entire arc of human technological progress in the past 20 odd years has been on the back of FOSS. So apparently it does work.
Listen, my previous work is just my business card. If I want future work, I make sure my work is good enough to be invited to perform again. Be that in an auditorium, office or ALM.
This idea that I should collect forever forward on work I did before is actually, I think, one of the flaws in the current social construct.
I see it really upset people. I don't know what to tell you. It would be nice to get royalties. But even the root of that word kind of points to a concept that I personally don't care for and represents an injustice.
What Oracle sells healthcare:
https://www.zero2turbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bugatti-Chiron1.jpg
What Oracle delivers:
https://ericlahti.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/yugo.jpg
I should add that, as a techie responsible for the implementation of Oracle products in a healthcare setting, Oracle does provide me countless opportunities to consider these kinds of analogies. Which is a lark. I suppose. Of maybe just the only way I cope.
Help.
Sorry, DV bc... Go see Royal Bank of Scotland. Or something called the Asian Financial Crisis. Or the Nation of Greece... for banking gone bad. Now, I expect a savvy commentator might find that most of the above financial failures had deep ties to the US banking system. But I'm not confident you'll find anywhere outside of Iran and North Korea whose banking isn't deeply entwined in that of the US.
As for mass murder, seriously? That beyond ignorant.
However, had you left it at gun violence, you would have received my enthusiastic upvote. On that subject, I confess, we are eff'ed up, and deserve all the shame and blame the world can hurl at us.
Actually, my nearly-20-year-old Toyota (no touchscreen, I was chuffed that it had an LCD odometer back when) now has a fine patina on most of the commonly used buttons and switches. I've tried to wipe it off and then ask myself why I'm even bothering. "It's a nearly-20-year-old Toyota..." (which I'd dare say is about 15 years older than most GM cars ever get to be.)
Yea, you GM-loving downvoters? Bring it!!!
I've always thought that Adobe products were largely regarded as the second-most obvious attack vector for hackers, just behind password = "password".
Adobe is that jovial consultant who stinks of cologne, wears suits that cost a years salary, and doesn't even both with buzzwords. They let the spray-on tan and golf membership do all the talking. And, like their software, they are about 12 time the size they should be, but clearly working with all their might to look trim.
I'm preparing myself for the downvotes as I type... Ok... Here goes...
Who here would say that older versions of anything M$-written pose an increased security risk?
And would you say this is often even more true for the Office suite of applications?
And when some kind of highly publicized security event occurs, do they not usually name the software that appears to have allowed the event to occur in the first place, including the name of the company that wrought it?
And when most people read that, for instance, "Microsoft Word responsible for enormous data breach..." they do not care or consider which version of "Word" was involved, even if it was a version released 20ish years ago?
And so then, would SatNad (not sure this rises to his level, honestly, but "M$ leadership") not have a keen interest in the reputational risk that exists within their commerical landscape?
Just sayin'.
For some, a sense of "belonging" among their peers is quite important. Being ace at some private hobby or treking in ones and twos isn't satisfying.
If only we could still send them halfway 'round the world to colonize, like in the good old days, eh?
Not a simple problem.
I think 'Stan' has some culpability here. He inserted rows into a table without running the same SELECT into a table on screen first, for at least a glance and maybe a quick chat with the boss? "Because he told you to," is just not an acceptable excuse. Stan was working at a trade publication, not a Minuteman silo.
On the other hand... My current boss works from about 10:45-1:45, with at least a two hour lunch in there, about 2.5 days a week. I wouldn't say he "boasts", but he doesn't try very hard to disguise his, um, distaste for effort. Of course, every crucial boss-level crisis that he is absent for goes to me to sort out. "Tell the bosses boss!" you say? I would, but they are hard to track down when they are off on the links or in a bar somewhere together. Get it?