Just got this email
Didn't SP2 come out about 2 years ago?
Should I laugh or cry??
- Thread starter MMike
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August 25 2004. Your IT staff is negligent.
They're Canadian. What do you expect?
I'm suprised they're not working with Windows 95.
Canada created high tech companies like RIM (blackberries) and ATI (video chipsets and first to market with GPU based computing), so maybe its just Quebec :biggrin:
yeah, sad hes just getting SP2 and Vista is slated to be out before the year is out
IT in the business world runs on mature technology, it would be dumb to upgrade to the latest and "greatest" bugware for no good reason not to mention it might break a legacy application.
This is why MS releases blocking toolkits for IT every major upgrade they push out - SP2, IE7, etc...
You should see how far behind the US space program is on technology they take up on the shuttle.
Yeah there was an email last week telling people not to download IE7.....
Matrox is located about 10 mins from Mike's house. RIM was started in Ottawa, about an hour away, and barely outside of Quebec.
Wasn't some of Jurassic Park animated in old montreal?
That explains why their drivers suck so hard... Canadian programmers.
Exactly. Hence...syadasti said:
The ground support equipment software for many space flight instruments, including one we're launching this coming Saturday, are still DOS based. It's prehistoric but it gets the job done without a lot of computational overhead but mostly because legacy applications are hard to dump on satellite programs that span decades.
Looks like the shuttle (or whatever comes next since thats near EOL) will be getting a 20 CPU 100 Gigaflop workstation soon.
In comparison, the latest nvidia G80 GPU (which will offer a form of stream computing) will have processing power many times greater in optimized tasks. I think the current folding@home client on the ATI X1900 GPU can do around 100 gigaflop in its BETA form. Stream computing sounds pretty cool - the line between GPU and CPU will blur in upcoming OS and applications.
Xerox just upgraded to SP2 not that long ago too. The reason they waited so long is we have about 5000 embedded applications and software suites that need to be verified to work before upgrading everyone, otherwise the support group will spend 3 months listening to everyone bitching about how their little java applet doesn't run anymore or their old 1994 DOS based test instrumentation program that would cost $150,000 to replace with a current app suddenly doesn't work right, etc, you get the idea.