CN’s program is called CATS (crew and timekeeping system). It does indeed run on modern machines, and sometime in the 00s they developed an emulator so you can log into it from any external machine (but you can’t tie up from home anymore, too many crews took advantage of that early on…).
It’s quite odd to see such an obviously vintage system, complete with Pac-Man colours, running on a ultra-modern flatscreen monitor.
A Conductor with a knack for coding developed a F-keys app, as smartphones do not have them.
CN also still uses the SRS/TOPC program for tracking trains and cars, which I believe was originally developed by the Santa Fe back in the 1980s. CATS may have come from there too.
It’s encountered far less that it used to be, but some radio programming software (especially Moto) would run only on a DOS machine. Not DOS emulation, as most PCs will still do, but actual DOS. This made life difficult for the dealers because they had to maintain at least one PC that had DOS well after DOS had been superceded by other systems.
I’m suprised that you haven’t thought to tell your wife that you like looking at beautiful women (thats why you married her) and that she is still the best there is.
I have had a similar experience. When I try to hit the X on my touch-screen, I may have to try a few times, and if I touch slightly inside the box, the full ad opens up a new tab. I tried to use the pointer, but as you say the X moves up, and if you follow it, the X moves back down. Somewhat diabolical, and really annoying.
That’s overly-agressive marketing boys, just as annoying as a pushy salesman. It’s what pushed me over the edge to blocking all ads.
Whoever came up with agressive pop-up system is, to use the old saying, “Too smart for their own good!” In my case it caused them to lose part of their “audience,” for lack of a better term.
Likewise. I can take ads that just lay there. When they try to ‘attack’ me, I draw the line and invoke the ad blocker.
Some of the ads that just ‘laid there’ on the screen, I might have ultimately patronized. The aggressor ads, I vowed not to patronize and then used the ad blocker so I won’t see them anymore.
What Kalmbach might not see – and Taligent or whoever programs the API for the site to push ads may not care about – is that a passive-aggressive approach like deploying a nuclear-grade adblocker is not quite the same thing as a boycott. The ‘teeth’ of the latter is not just in the economic consequence of ‘nonpatronage’, it’s in the very conscious invocation and then continued publicity that the lack of patronage is conscious, and based on principled points.
I want to make very clear, to Kalmbach and (if possible) back to the people that introduced this ‘fantastic’ new functionality in push advertising, that I very specifically refuse to do business with anyone appearing in a push ad. I fully comprehend that many of the businesses involved don’t have a formal choice of when they show up in the bottom-ad rotation vs. sidebar presentation, but it is now up to them to compel the contracted provider to keep them out of the bottom rotation if they want to avoid sharing the consequences of being streamed there.
At some point, I expect to see the old interference-with-a-business-relationship argument being trotted out about this. It is not the business relationship itself that is the subject of boycott; it’s the establishment of one consequent to advertising. And just as complaints about the substance or nature of advertising, or ill-timed comments by company officials as at Papa John’s, are supposedly not interference, neither will be strict refusal to trade and advocacy that others refuse similarly.\
On the other hand, it’s sure easier just to turn on the adblockers en masse and let Kalmbach find yet another new joint-venture software provider, from among the ones who put up the blue ‘blocking screen’ that prevents or precludes seeing content until an adblocker has been disabled or site overrides implemented in preferences. I would expect to see that in any ’
When I couldn’t close the !#$ ad on my ipad because it increased in size as soon as I touched inside the box with my fat fingers, I closed the ipad after I threw it across the room. I haven’t been back for a while.
My Vista laptop just threw a crap - won’t link up wirelessly with my DSL modem as it has been doing for the past 12 years. Called my local techician and he has taken it back to his shop. Basiclly use the machine for POP3 e-mail.
Mine don’t owe me a thing. The desktop computer was top-of-the-line for gaming when I got it, even though I’m not what I’d call a gamer. I’ve been working on getting it up to W7, as the upgrade to W10 is then free, but it’s been a pain. One of these days.
The newer laptop and the new microcomputer are both current.
I still have a XP desktop that keeps chugging along at 17. I have a desktop that I bought as W8.1 and upgraded to W10, I also have a W10 laptop.
Found out today that my W10 Desktop needs to get a newer and higher powered video card if I want to participated in the iRacing video racing that various organizations are running as a replacement for the real thing.
Both laptops travel with me. The desktops stay in Maryland.