And it's really annoying when the advert (commercial), which the BBC calls a 'trail' is for the NEXT PROGRAM coming on as soon as the trails have finished, I mean, what is the point of showing excerpts from a program which is on in 60 seconds except to waste money and wind people up??
You may have guessed that this is something which I find quite irritating.
Female programmers do exist but they are a depressingly small minority, and the number appears to be dropping iirc something I read recently on the bbc website (I know, but I'm too lazy right know to 'google' for the link). So apart from the jarring use of she when he is the proper usage in English, she is also statistically likely to be incorrect.
Just as dog is used for the canine race (i.e. both dog and bitch) man is used for the human race (i.e. man and woman).If you really want to avoid he then one is acceptable (also oneself etc.).
I can beat that - I live in NZ and we were expelled from ANZUS as the US can't hack us being nuclear free. We're not even an ally, just 'a friend'.
That would surely make it AUS, but that might give the wrong impression about who was in charge....
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You will often hear the C or Perl apologist say, "it does what I need good enough" or "I get work done in it."
I would think that would please Larry Wall- his object seems to have been to create a usable tool, not a CS project. Perl seems to be a wonderful example of reality - rather than trying for technically superiority it aims for utility. I'm no great perl hacker, I just dabble occasionally to get something done and it suits that purpose very well.
Other elements of the oft-repeated Betamax story are also wrong. For example, while Sony was certainly slow to bring in other manufacturers, it had tried to license it to rivals such as JVC before VHS was even launched.
Doesn't sound like not wanting to share to me (depending upon the terms they wanted of course) - they weren't averse to sharing the CDA format either that they developed with Philips.
I agree about memorystick, it seems superfluous when SD is around, but Mini-disc isn't quite comparable to CD as it's lossy, like MP3. Sony used to make some nice kit, these days I'm not too impressed.
I'm not saying that the Navy didn't 'press some US sailors but there were also a lot of navy deserters who found a home in US ships and the Navy were almost always short-handed. So when they stopped neutral shipping to check for contraband being shipped to France they took the opportunity to look for deserters - and sometimes a few others.
It's no use to me as you can't stack them. As other posts have said this 'T' case is dumb as you can't put them side by side. As I put my towers side by side and occasionally stacked (2x2) the 'T' and Powermac are both useless. My choice (if I had the cash) would be Lian-Li PC60 - I have one and would like to re-house the rest. I know it has an exhaust on top but I can space them vertically with a few wood blocks, and they are very well designed and easy to work on.
Funny, I found it quite easy to get mine with DrDos instead, I just asked and they said OK. Admittedly DrDos came in a box and I had to wipe MsDos to install it but that was was the point. DrDos was much better than MsDos...
Runs on platfroms from PC (windows/linux,os/2) through as400 up to z series mainframe.
IO utilities change a bit but the core language is pretty stable and usable. Not saying it's better than InsertScriptLanguageOfChoice but it is easy to learn, flexible and powerful. If you go ObjectRexx you get the obvious and with NetRexx you can generate Java from it , IIRC.
One place I worked one of the directors owned a turkey farm so guess what we got as part of our bonus? I presume he got a good deal selling from one of his companies to another.....
I didn't mind getting the bird (couldn't resist) as I love turkey and it was only part of our package but it was slightly surreal queuing up in the underground car park of a London office building having, (ahem) lunched well at the local hostelry, to collect a 14lb bird to take home on the tube in the Christmas rush hour.
I suppose that you could plot burn time on an assymptotic curve and pick your own comfort value for the angle of the slope (or the burn time). I'm not much bothered about having a burn time less than about 4-5 mins - my 'go and fetch a drink' time. Anything faster than this is icing on the cake (frosting for most dotters I guess), and you can go for features. I wouldn't turn down a 60x cdrw but I wouldn't buy it over a 40x with better features.
You could consider a robot. I know someone who used one of these, one standard cdrom, one standard cdrw in a box with a robot arm and a stack of blank cdrs on a spindle. They even had a CD printer so the arm picks up a blank, drops it in the burner, and then takes it out of the burner and drops it in the printer, takes out of printer and stacks on output spindle - repeat until input stack empty. No manual intervention required. How much is your time worth to your company.?
If you are primarily concerned with audio cd quality then check out Yamaha. Tom's hardware did some analysis on their unique (afaik) audio mastering features a while back.
Just how fast do these things actually need to be ?
I mean, are we so pressed for time that we have to speed up everything ?
By that logic why do you need anything faster than 1x?
It depends upon what you currently have.
As I see it, it's not really an issue for those of us running 44x burners, the time saved isn't worth it (to me). Having said that, my previous cdrw was a 12x, which in turned supplanted a 2x. I still use the older ones as I buy the new ones to go in new PCs I build.
Leaving aside the people who feel the need to have the latest and fastest It's just incremental improvements, when you have a 2x burner and the new ones are 4x, who cares? But when it's a 24x that's significant. When you want a new CDR you make a decision - for me I buy the fastest (burnproof) in my Budget that I consider 'reliable'. I just bought a Yamaha F1, to me the neat feature is the audio mastering, or somesuch - it sacrifices a few minutes per CD to make the lamds and bits slightly larger which improves playability on audio cd players. Oh and it has, IIRC, an 8mb buffer.
Sorry if I sounded harsh, I was amused by my reading of the post. I normally undesrtand an extended warranty solely extends the period of cover from say one year to three. In your position with such a large and expensive article I would probably acted as you did and gone for the on site service. I hope it lasts OK when you get it back. Maybe you can upgrade the PSU when it's out of waranty, if it goes again - which I hope it doesn't.
You say it failed less than 11 months after purchase and that you are glad to have bought an extended warranty.... I would have thought a big hint that it might be unreliable was that you needed an extended warranty to get a repair in under a year!
The problem was MS proprietary extensions weren't added as such - they didn't use the mechanism built into Java for these things. The MS code looked like it was part of Java and not an add on, this broke their agreement with Sun.
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Try a Smart car.
Doesn't fit my needs but it's cute and doesn't take up much room...
You may have guessed that this is something which I find quite irritating.
So apart from the jarring use of she when he is the proper usage in English, she is also statistically likely to be incorrect.
Just as dog is used for the canine race (i.e. both dog and bitch) man is used for the human race (i.e. man and woman).If you really want to avoid he then one is acceptable (also oneself etc.).
Perl seems to be a wonderful example of reality - rather than trying for technically superiority it aims for utility. I'm no great perl hacker, I just dabble occasionally to get something done and it suits that purpose very well.
I agree about memorystick, it seems superfluous when SD is around, but Mini-disc isn't quite comparable to CD as it's lossy, like MP3. Sony used to make some nice kit, these days I'm not too impressed.
I'm not saying that the Navy didn't 'press some US sailors but there were also a lot of navy deserters who found a home in US ships and the Navy were almost always short-handed. So when they stopped neutral shipping to check for contraband being shipped to France they took the opportunity to look for deserters - and sometimes a few others.
It's no use to me as you can't stack them.
As other posts have said this 'T' case is dumb as you can't put them side by side. As I put my towers side by side and occasionally stacked (2x2) the 'T' and Powermac are both useless. My choice (if I had the cash) would be Lian-Li PC60 - I have one and would like to re-house the rest. I know it has an exhaust on top but I can space them vertically with a few wood blocks, and they are very well designed and easy to work on.
Funny, I found it quite easy to get mine with DrDos instead, I just asked and they said OK.
Admittedly DrDos came in a box and I had to wipe MsDos to install it but that was was the point. DrDos was much better than MsDos...
Runs on platfroms from PC (windows/linux,os/2) through as400 up to z series mainframe.
IO utilities change a bit but the core language is pretty stable and usable.
Not saying it's better than InsertScriptLanguageOfChoice but it is easy to learn, flexible and powerful. If you go ObjectRexx you get the obvious and with NetRexx you can generate Java from it , IIRC.
Oh, and we're subjects and not citizens.....
Not yet?
Please correct the article.
It could just be that the editors thought they could get a good laugh from the mauling that they knew would be handed out, couldn't it?
I didn't mind getting the bird (couldn't resist) as I love turkey and it was only part of our package but it was slightly surreal queuing up in the underground car park of a London office building having, (ahem) lunched well at the local hostelry, to collect a 14lb bird to take home on the tube in the Christmas rush hour.
I suppose that you could plot burn time on an assymptotic curve and pick your own comfort value for the angle of the slope (or the burn time).
I'm not much bothered about having a burn time less than about 4-5 mins - my 'go and fetch a drink' time. Anything faster than this is icing on the cake (frosting for most dotters I guess), and you can go for features. I wouldn't turn down a 60x cdrw but I wouldn't buy it over a 40x with better features.
You could consider a robot. I know someone who used one of these, one standard cdrom, one standard cdrw in a box with a robot arm and a stack of blank cdrs on a spindle.
They even had a CD printer so the arm picks up a blank, drops it in the burner, and then takes it out of the burner and drops it in the printer, takes out of printer and stacks on output spindle - repeat until input stack empty. No manual intervention required. How much is your time worth to your company.?
If you are primarily concerned with audio cd quality then check out Yamaha. Tom's hardware did some analysis on their unique (afaik) audio mastering features a while back.
Ricoh - MP6200S (2/2/6 SCSI)
Both still working OK.
It depends upon what you currently have.
As I see it, it's not really an issue for those of us running 44x burners, the time saved isn't worth it (to me).
Having said that, my previous cdrw was a 12x, which in turned supplanted a 2x. I still use the older ones as I buy the new ones to go in new PCs I build.
Leaving aside the people who feel the need to have the latest and fastest It's just incremental improvements, when you have a 2x burner and the new ones are 4x, who cares? But when it's a 24x that's significant.
When you want a new CDR you make a decision - for me I buy the fastest (burnproof) in my Budget that I consider 'reliable'. I just bought a Yamaha F1, to me the neat feature is the audio mastering, or somesuch - it sacrifices a few minutes per CD to make the lamds and bits slightly larger which improves playability on audio cd players. Oh and it has, IIRC, an 8mb buffer.
Sorry if I sounded harsh, I was amused by my reading of the post. I normally undesrtand an extended warranty solely extends the period of cover from say one year to three.
In your position with such a large and expensive article I would probably acted as you did and gone for the on site service. I hope it lasts OK when you get it back. Maybe you can upgrade the PSU when it's out of waranty, if it goes again - which I hope it doesn't.
You say it failed less than 11 months after purchase and that you are glad to have bought an extended warranty....
I would have thought a big hint that it might be unreliable was that you needed an extended warranty to get a repair in under a year!
Or near a brickworks or a tannery...
I have no idea why making bricks smells so awful.
The problem was MS proprietary extensions weren't added as such - they didn't use the mechanism built into Java for these things. The MS code looked like it was part of Java and not an add on, this broke their agreement with Sun.