10 technologies that refuse to die
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10 technologies that refuse to die[^] "So a vast number of tried-and-true Fortran 77 programs jibe with the current Fortran 90. Microsoft, take note."
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10 technologies that refuse to die[^] "So a vast number of tried-and-true Fortran 77 programs jibe with the current Fortran 90. Microsoft, take note."
I still use an impact (a NEC SpinWriter that I bought in 1980) printer to do mailing labels - because of the tractor feed - you can't find laser or inkjet printers that can handle continuous forms (fan-fold). Steve
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10 technologies that refuse to die[^] "So a vast number of tried-and-true Fortran 77 programs jibe with the current Fortran 90. Microsoft, take note."
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10 technologies that refuse to die[^] "So a vast number of tried-and-true Fortran 77 programs jibe with the current Fortran 90. Microsoft, take note."
I was wrking for a trading company for a while and although they had some computers they still used type writer and fax machine. One time I had to work with that type machine and oh God, it was a hell. :-D Mazy "Improvisation is the touchstone of wit." - Molière
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I still use an impact (a NEC SpinWriter that I bought in 1980) printer to do mailing labels - because of the tractor feed - you can't find laser or inkjet printers that can handle continuous forms (fan-fold). Steve
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I was wrking for a trading company for a while and although they had some computers they still used type writer and fax machine. One time I had to work with that type machine and oh God, it was a hell. :-D Mazy "Improvisation is the touchstone of wit." - Molière
I believe that, in SA at least, lawyers are lagging the most, and it is in their offices that one will expect to find a typewriter. I personally haven't seen one in about fifteen years, except in Nelspruit, which is right up in the country. It was a portable device being carried in a lift. I still haven't seen one in use in an office, but I'm willing to bet that the one in the lift belonged to an attorney. They are ven behind estate agents, who have almost all suddenly adopted computer technology, vene if for the sole purpose of listing their properties on the internet. Memes don't exist - tell your friends
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I believe that, in SA at least, lawyers are lagging the most, and it is in their offices that one will expect to find a typewriter. I personally haven't seen one in about fifteen years, except in Nelspruit, which is right up in the country. It was a portable device being carried in a lift. I still haven't seen one in use in an office, but I'm willing to bet that the one in the lift belonged to an attorney. They are ven behind estate agents, who have almost all suddenly adopted computer technology, vene if for the sole purpose of listing their properties on the internet. Memes don't exist - tell your friends
ProffK wrote: except in Nelspruit, which is right up in the country Hey, they're becoming quite a city these days!! ;P I lived there for about 7 years, don't mess with one of my favourite towns ;P ;p Paul ;)
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
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ProffK wrote: except in Nelspruit, which is right up in the country Hey, they're becoming quite a city these days!! ;P I lived there for about 7 years, don't mess with one of my favourite towns ;P ;p Paul ;)
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
I'm not messing with Nelspruit, I think it's a lovely town. Our biggest single franchise client is in Nelspruit, Mark Pearce's Realty 1 Lowveld. Nobody else on the franchise network single-handedly owns as many franchises in the same area. They are growing, and the new international airport is quite impressive as well. Memes don't exist - tell your friends
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I'm not messing with Nelspruit, I think it's a lovely town. Our biggest single franchise client is in Nelspruit, Mark Pearce's Realty 1 Lowveld. Nobody else on the franchise network single-handedly owns as many franchises in the same area. They are growing, and the new international airport is quite impressive as well. Memes don't exist - tell your friends
ProffK wrote: I'm not messing with Nelspruit Ya, just yanking your chain :) ProffK wrote: the new international airport is quite impressive as well Ah yes, unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to see it completed IRL yet... :) Paul ;)
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
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I was wrking for a trading company for a while and although they had some computers they still used type writer and fax machine. One time I had to work with that type machine and oh God, it was a hell. :-D Mazy "Improvisation is the touchstone of wit." - Molière
A Rant. The still predominant use of fax machines is insane. My bank won't cancel a transaction without a fax. They won't accept an email, won't accept a phone call and even if you visit their offices and strip naked, they won't cancel the transaction without a fax. Think it is secure? They eventually accepted the cancellation fax from me personally rather than from the merchant. I could have modified the merchants fax in a thousand different ways. Most of our clients, ordering cutting edge e-commerce websites from us and working on G5 Macs or P4 PCs, print out screenshots, scribble on them and fax those through to us as bug sheets. Wait a minute, my boss and salesmen do this too. So much for screenshot, paint, paste into Email and send. Microsoft demanded a faxed copy of a payment receipt signed by the boss for our MSDN subscription... How bizarre. A client had to authorise a domain transfer but we were the controller according to the register. So they took one of our faxes, scanned it in, cut out the middle with Photoshop, added in their text, scanned in the signature from an invoice my boss had signed, pasted that onto the fax, printed it and faxed it to the register. It worked. Fax machines can be engaged. You have to keep trying until it is available. No queing like email. The paper can go in and come out skew, goodbye anything near the margins. Some people have a dual phone and fax number. You fax them and they answer, then hurriedly put the phone down so the fax machine can warble it's connection through. Those awful curly paper rolls some fax machines use. God almighty but is that annoying when you have a fax of 80 pages, each one neatly curled in on itself and spread across the floor when you arrive in the morning (that is if the paper cutter is still working, if not you just get a mobius strip that latches onto you like the creature from the Blue Lagoon!) The only bit I like is that they sound like a modem, except after twenty retries to a busy fax number you start twitching and contemplating performing a gravity experiment out the window. Let us kill all the estate agents and lawyers right now so as to get rid of this awful hunk of junk. End Rant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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A Rant. The still predominant use of fax machines is insane. My bank won't cancel a transaction without a fax. They won't accept an email, won't accept a phone call and even if you visit their offices and strip naked, they won't cancel the transaction without a fax. Think it is secure? They eventually accepted the cancellation fax from me personally rather than from the merchant. I could have modified the merchants fax in a thousand different ways. Most of our clients, ordering cutting edge e-commerce websites from us and working on G5 Macs or P4 PCs, print out screenshots, scribble on them and fax those through to us as bug sheets. Wait a minute, my boss and salesmen do this too. So much for screenshot, paint, paste into Email and send. Microsoft demanded a faxed copy of a payment receipt signed by the boss for our MSDN subscription... How bizarre. A client had to authorise a domain transfer but we were the controller according to the register. So they took one of our faxes, scanned it in, cut out the middle with Photoshop, added in their text, scanned in the signature from an invoice my boss had signed, pasted that onto the fax, printed it and faxed it to the register. It worked. Fax machines can be engaged. You have to keep trying until it is available. No queing like email. The paper can go in and come out skew, goodbye anything near the margins. Some people have a dual phone and fax number. You fax them and they answer, then hurriedly put the phone down so the fax machine can warble it's connection through. Those awful curly paper rolls some fax machines use. God almighty but is that annoying when you have a fax of 80 pages, each one neatly curled in on itself and spread across the floor when you arrive in the morning (that is if the paper cutter is still working, if not you just get a mobius strip that latches onto you like the creature from the Blue Lagoon!) The only bit I like is that they sound like a modem, except after twenty retries to a busy fax number you start twitching and contemplating performing a gravity experiment out the window. Let us kill all the estate agents and lawyers right now so as to get rid of this awful hunk of junk. End Rant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
And all God's people said... AMEN! :-D
"Garfield: The Movie" is poised to hit theaters this summer. I'm impressed that they've been able to take a 2D character with a 1D personality and bloat it into a 3D disaster. With a tagline like "it's all about ME-OW," you can be guaranteed the cinematic equivalence of having your hand fed to a wood chipper when this mind-dump hits the screen. -Maddox
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10 technologies that refuse to die[^] "So a vast number of tried-and-true Fortran 77 programs jibe with the current Fortran 90. Microsoft, take note."
"In the end, how a device performs its essential job matters more than its extra functions." *paul checks his analog watch* *sweep* *sweep* Ahh, lovely. It even ticks! Good article Mark, thanks.
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"In the end, how a device performs its essential job matters more than its extra functions." *paul checks his analog watch* *sweep* *sweep* Ahh, lovely. It even ticks! Good article Mark, thanks.
"*paul checks his analog watch* *sweep* *sweep* Ahh, lovely. It even ticks!" but analogue watches are notoriously bad at their essential job - keeping time accurately!
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A Rant. The still predominant use of fax machines is insane. My bank won't cancel a transaction without a fax. They won't accept an email, won't accept a phone call and even if you visit their offices and strip naked, they won't cancel the transaction without a fax. Think it is secure? They eventually accepted the cancellation fax from me personally rather than from the merchant. I could have modified the merchants fax in a thousand different ways. Most of our clients, ordering cutting edge e-commerce websites from us and working on G5 Macs or P4 PCs, print out screenshots, scribble on them and fax those through to us as bug sheets. Wait a minute, my boss and salesmen do this too. So much for screenshot, paint, paste into Email and send. Microsoft demanded a faxed copy of a payment receipt signed by the boss for our MSDN subscription... How bizarre. A client had to authorise a domain transfer but we were the controller according to the register. So they took one of our faxes, scanned it in, cut out the middle with Photoshop, added in their text, scanned in the signature from an invoice my boss had signed, pasted that onto the fax, printed it and faxed it to the register. It worked. Fax machines can be engaged. You have to keep trying until it is available. No queing like email. The paper can go in and come out skew, goodbye anything near the margins. Some people have a dual phone and fax number. You fax them and they answer, then hurriedly put the phone down so the fax machine can warble it's connection through. Those awful curly paper rolls some fax machines use. God almighty but is that annoying when you have a fax of 80 pages, each one neatly curled in on itself and spread across the floor when you arrive in the morning (that is if the paper cutter is still working, if not you just get a mobius strip that latches onto you like the creature from the Blue Lagoon!) The only bit I like is that they sound like a modem, except after twenty retries to a busy fax number you start twitching and contemplating performing a gravity experiment out the window. Let us kill all the estate agents and lawyers right now so as to get rid of this awful hunk of junk. End Rant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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"*paul checks his analog watch* *sweep* *sweep* Ahh, lovely. It even ticks!" but analogue watches are notoriously bad at their essential job - keeping time accurately!
You ever had a good analog watch? My Swatch kept perfect time for 5 years before it had to have it's battery finally replaced. I think Breitling or Omega would have your head for hinting that their time pieces are inacurate. Sure, maybe if we were talking about hundreds of years to nuclear clock standards then you can have the floor... but man, my watch ticks! :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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A Rant. The still predominant use of fax machines is insane. My bank won't cancel a transaction without a fax. They won't accept an email, won't accept a phone call and even if you visit their offices and strip naked, they won't cancel the transaction without a fax. Think it is secure? They eventually accepted the cancellation fax from me personally rather than from the merchant. I could have modified the merchants fax in a thousand different ways. Most of our clients, ordering cutting edge e-commerce websites from us and working on G5 Macs or P4 PCs, print out screenshots, scribble on them and fax those through to us as bug sheets. Wait a minute, my boss and salesmen do this too. So much for screenshot, paint, paste into Email and send. Microsoft demanded a faxed copy of a payment receipt signed by the boss for our MSDN subscription... How bizarre. A client had to authorise a domain transfer but we were the controller according to the register. So they took one of our faxes, scanned it in, cut out the middle with Photoshop, added in their text, scanned in the signature from an invoice my boss had signed, pasted that onto the fax, printed it and faxed it to the register. It worked. Fax machines can be engaged. You have to keep trying until it is available. No queing like email. The paper can go in and come out skew, goodbye anything near the margins. Some people have a dual phone and fax number. You fax them and they answer, then hurriedly put the phone down so the fax machine can warble it's connection through. Those awful curly paper rolls some fax machines use. God almighty but is that annoying when you have a fax of 80 pages, each one neatly curled in on itself and spread across the floor when you arrive in the morning (that is if the paper cutter is still working, if not you just get a mobius strip that latches onto you like the creature from the Blue Lagoon!) The only bit I like is that they sound like a modem, except after twenty retries to a busy fax number you start twitching and contemplating performing a gravity experiment out the window. Let us kill all the estate agents and lawyers right now so as to get rid of this awful hunk of junk. End Rant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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You ever had a good analog watch? My Swatch kept perfect time for 5 years before it had to have it's battery finally replaced. I think Breitling or Omega would have your head for hinting that their time pieces are inacurate. Sure, maybe if we were talking about hundreds of years to nuclear clock standards then you can have the floor... but man, my watch ticks! :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
He may not necessarily have the floor. You can have your ticking, but a quartz analogue watch, and a quartz LCD watch of the same quality should really keep the same time. What we probably should be talking about is clock-work watches vs quartz watches. A quartz watch should keep better time than than a clock-work watch, because it's performance should be flatter, until its energy falls below a certain threshold, whereas I would expect a clock-work watch to decline over more of a curve towards its fall through the same threshold. That said, the timing itself is not accurate in many quartz watches, i.e., the oscillator doesn't work at presicely the correct frequency, so the watch gains or loses time irrespective of its energy levels. Memes don't exist - tell your friends
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A Rant. The still predominant use of fax machines is insane. My bank won't cancel a transaction without a fax. They won't accept an email, won't accept a phone call and even if you visit their offices and strip naked, they won't cancel the transaction without a fax. Think it is secure? They eventually accepted the cancellation fax from me personally rather than from the merchant. I could have modified the merchants fax in a thousand different ways. Most of our clients, ordering cutting edge e-commerce websites from us and working on G5 Macs or P4 PCs, print out screenshots, scribble on them and fax those through to us as bug sheets. Wait a minute, my boss and salesmen do this too. So much for screenshot, paint, paste into Email and send. Microsoft demanded a faxed copy of a payment receipt signed by the boss for our MSDN subscription... How bizarre. A client had to authorise a domain transfer but we were the controller according to the register. So they took one of our faxes, scanned it in, cut out the middle with Photoshop, added in their text, scanned in the signature from an invoice my boss had signed, pasted that onto the fax, printed it and faxed it to the register. It worked. Fax machines can be engaged. You have to keep trying until it is available. No queing like email. The paper can go in and come out skew, goodbye anything near the margins. Some people have a dual phone and fax number. You fax them and they answer, then hurriedly put the phone down so the fax machine can warble it's connection through. Those awful curly paper rolls some fax machines use. God almighty but is that annoying when you have a fax of 80 pages, each one neatly curled in on itself and spread across the floor when you arrive in the morning (that is if the paper cutter is still working, if not you just get a mobius strip that latches onto you like the creature from the Blue Lagoon!) The only bit I like is that they sound like a modem, except after twenty retries to a busy fax number you start twitching and contemplating performing a gravity experiment out the window. Let us kill all the estate agents and lawyers right now so as to get rid of this awful hunk of junk. End Rant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
Your rant reminded me of that scene in Office Space where baseball bats were involved.
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"*paul checks his analog watch* *sweep* *sweep* Ahh, lovely. It even ticks!" but analogue watches are notoriously bad at their essential job - keeping time accurately!
* Dave glances at his analog watch, last set to the exact second (as sponsored by Acurist on the third beep) on the day it was bought eighteen months ago * * Dave glances at his desk clock that is set via a radio time beacon * * Dave glances at his analog watch again * There are eight seconds between them, I would hazzard a guess that the time taken to transfer into radio waves, get to my clock, and be processed is responsible for at least part of that difference. The other four or five seconds are probably from when I pull the adjustment pin out too far when changing the date. :-D
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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* Dave glances at his analog watch, last set to the exact second (as sponsored by Acurist on the third beep) on the day it was bought eighteen months ago * * Dave glances at his desk clock that is set via a radio time beacon * * Dave glances at his analog watch again * There are eight seconds between them, I would hazzard a guess that the time taken to transfer into radio waves, get to my clock, and be processed is responsible for at least part of that difference. The other four or five seconds are probably from when I pull the adjustment pin out too far when changing the date. :-D
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter