TO ALL: who cares about this short vs. long...it doesnt bother me if everyone is long on this board...and I am not offended if longs want to stay long...but what bothers me is the rhetoric with no substance...I try to post information that is it...you look at it the way you want to...I only care about me making money...IF YOU HAVE NEW SUBSTANTIVE INFORMATION TO ADD, I WANT TO HEAR WHETHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE...I am fairly objective and am not emotional..if my account balance is down I've lost money..it doesnt mean I will cover or sell but I am realistic
what is ridiculous is for people to post and to insult people,etc...so few actually provide any relevant information...more of the rah rah crap...if you solace being short or long, go to a therapist...why should it matter to anyone whether one is long or short...if you want to hold on to CPQ til infinity, go for it---I certainly dont care and wouldnt care if you decided to sell CPQ or go short...like we are going to move the market...lets stop with idiotic short versus longs and get on with feeding each other some useful information.
below is some information for people to chew on.
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Computers & Technology When A Computer Can Run Too Fast
Date:
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:48:15 -0800 (PST)
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News Alert from Investors Business Daily via Quote.com
Topic: (NYSE:BGR) Bangor Hydro Elec Co, (NASDAQ:INTC) Intel Corp, (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Microsoft Corp, (NASDAQ:ERTS) Electronic Arts,
Quote.com News Item #5819195
Headline: Computers & Technology When A Computer Can Run Too Fast
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Can a computer run too fast?
Gerry Hall didn't think so, until he upgraded 15 personal
computers in Bangor Hydro-Electric Co.'s payroll department.
Bangor's older Pentium machines were replaced with models featuring
Intel Corp.'s Pentium II microprocessors.
Hall, one of the Bangor, Maine-based electric utility's systems
engineers, now knows that faster isn't always better.
The firm's payroll software, used to capture employees' hours and
paycheck totals, ran so fast on the new computers that it crashed.
Only by running software that cripples the new computers and makes
them run slower has Hall sidestepped disaster.
"We started getting an error code when running the payroll
software on the new computers," Hall explained. "Everything was
working fine before."
Hall's not alone. Makers of computer video-game software also are
finding that their older products, designed to run on slower PCs, run
too fast on new models.
Microsoft Corp.'s Golf 2.0 runs so fast on a Pentium II that it's
nearly impossible to control the golfer's swing. Normally, the user
is given a few seconds to select the start and stop points of the
digital golfer's swing. But when running on a Pentium II, the golfer
swings so fast that the game is not playable.
Origin Systems, a unit of Electronic Arts Inc., also has had to
deal with the problem. Last month, the company released "Ultima
Collection," which includes 10 of the firm's older games, some dating
back to '82, bundled with special software that actually slows the
users' computers.
"There are some cases where software works well on say a 486 (an
older version of Intel's microprocessor), but will zoom by on a
Pentium II," said Hiral Gheewala, an Intel marketing manager. "There
are other cases where the software loops so fast, the system could
cause errors."
But Gheewala says errors are rare and almost always limited to
older software. He says most of the software with the problem was
designed to work in plain DOS, which was Microsoft's operating system
before Windows.
Neither the microprocessor nor the operating system in most PCs
allows users to easily slow their computers.
"There's nothing I'd recommend end users do in order to slow down
their computers," Gheewala said.
"Offering users a way to slow down their computer is not something
we've been asked to incorporate into the Windows operating system,"
said a Microsoft spokesman.
There are only two ways to fix the problem.
The costliest, but easiest, way is to upgrade to a later version
of the software. For instance, Microsoft Golf 3.0 and the
soon-to-be- released Golf 1998 Edition will run properly on today's
fastest machines.
But that's not always feasible. Bangor Hydro-Electric can't
upgrade its payroll software. Bangor gets the software from its
payroll processing company, Bangor-based Advanced Payroll Plus.
And privately held Advanced Payroll Plus licenses its software
from Paychex Inc., a Rochester, N.Y.-based payroll provider. Paychex
denied to comment and wouldn't discuss when newer versions of its
software will be made available.
The second option - the one Bangor Hydro-Electric took - was to
run special software that slows down the entire computer. It bought
software called Mo'Slo Deluxe from Dr. David's Super Crispy Software,
a unit of Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Harn/Perrell Art Associates.
"There are many old programs with this problem," said David
Perrell, who developed the first version of the software in '90,
which was what Origin licensed for its "Ultima Collection." The
Mo'Slo Deluxe software, which lets users slow down their computer in
incremental amounts, sells for $20.
Old versions of Quarterdeck Corp.'s Procomm Plus modem software
and some wireless phone programming software from Motorola Inc. also
have the problem, he said.
"When we slowed our new computers down, they worked fine," said
Bangor HydroElectric's Hall. |
