All we see as an end user is a cable. We plug one end into the peripheral, and the other into the PC.
Doesn't matter what happens inside the case, we just want a cable
Speak for yourself.
I'd like to see more take-up of Firewire, because I prefer having more performance. And I don't like this trend of saving money by loading down the CPU. What's the point of having dedicated peripheral processors if the first thing they do is dump on the PC?
It may not be obscene, but nobody wants to see it! Seriously folks, Go home and feed your brat! Nobody really wants your saggy titties or your screaming stinking brat around anyway! GTFO!
Let's see.
1) Get married. 2) Have a child. 3) Abandon your family because your wife's body suddenly doesn't have the shape and appearance of a 15-year-old. (And for some reason this takes you by surprise.) And because you hate children and think that somehow you were exceptional.
Maybe when you grow up you'll learn better, or maybe you'll just hate your life because the world doesn't look like a Playboy magazine. Sorry about that, but reality isn't going to mold itself to your fantasy world.
P.S. if it bothers you that much, consider not staring. It's not polite anyway.
P.P.S. "Nobody?" That's a pretty wide brush you're painting with, fellow. Just because you find it offensive doesn't mean everybody does. You're one person out of a population of over six thousand million and you don't speak for everybody. Get over yourself.
And, clearly, breasts are the only possible source of food for infants.
Not always. Of course, it is usually the best source of food for infants. It constantly amazes me that our society still seems to think that technology is always superior to nature, but frankly, we're rank amateurs. Nature's been working on this for millennia.
BTW, we had an infant that refused to feed from anything except Mommy's breast. Are you suggesting that my wife should not have been allowed in public for over two years?
Or instead of having the woman take her shirt off in public to expose her breast to the world, she could just keep the baby's head under her shirt as well...
It's good to finally see somebody considering this issue with a cool head.
Damned shame you've got it stuck so far out of sight you're not likely to get it unstuck without major surgery. I've never, ever seen a woman (in public) take her shirt off to nurse. Most of them take at least a modicum of care not to flash passersby.
And, aside from the impracticality of stuffing the infant's head under her shirt, your entire statement appears based on the premise that there's inherently something wrong with exposed breasts, or at very least with mothers nursing in public. If our society is so hung up about seeing the occasional nipple, perhaps it's because we've spent so much effort to cover them up.
Or perhaps it's our Puritan heritage. Speaking of heads in uncomfortable places.
This is, of course, My Humble Opinion and should not be mistaken for the enlightened fact it really is.
A: Have realized that when compatibility with the outside world counts, especially with VBA, Microsoft Office Wins.
Hmm. We should teach (or learn) only Microsoft products because we know that's all anybody will be using when the kids get out of school.
Sounds like self-fulfilling prophesy to me.
Unfortunately not everybody has the learning curve of a hardened Geek. To ask them to be masters of two different office suites is asking an awful lot.
... Which is why we like Microsoft products. They maintain an amazing amount of consistency from one product to the next; why, moving from Windows 3.11 to Windows 9x or NT to Windows 2000 to Windows XP to Windows Vista, they can't have changed more than 95% of their UI in each transition!
It's not like moving from one version to the next requires complete retraining, oh no.
So better teach kids this year's Microsoft Orifice, it won't have changed more than 3 times before they graduate.
...Kindergarten.
... Actually, I exaggerate. (Slightly.) Most companies drag their feet on upgrading.... Probably because a) Microsoft adds features faster than they solve bugs and b) upgrading requires not only buying new licenses for everybody in the company, but massive retraining, not to mention the time installing the new OS/Office suite/whatever, and fixing the problems that inevitably come up when they do.
Which is why Microsoft tries so hard to force you to upgrade by breaking backwards-compatibility.
... That said, I don't always find that OO does what I want. I don't know if it's because I'm more used to Microsoft or if it's because I'm running into limitations of OO. Probably some of both.
At home I'm using a combination. Company I worked for binned a copy of Word 2000, so I now have a ligit copy. I'm playing with Gnumeric right now for my spreadsheet needs. As for Powerpoint, I don't need it and don't use it, and consider it a crime against humanity. How often does a PP show actually add anything of significance to a presentation? Most of the time it's just a distraction. Oh, I KNOW there's information that is better presented visually, but most of the presentations I've sat through would have done better without the damned slide show.
OK, I need to cut this rant short, I'm late taking my meds.;) I just get tired of hearing about how Microsoft world takeover is inevitable. And the products that are challenging it are mostly coming from behind. Give them time. Give them a chance.
BTW, anybody want to try Symphony? You can get it for free from IBM, registration required. http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home Funny thing, I've got my copy sitting in my download directory. Haven't tried it yet, to be honest. I really need to do that.
Recently my boss reviewed my schematic and asked me to replace 1% resistors with 2 or 5% "because they are cheaper". Yes true, but I spend most of the day doing that, so he spent about $650 on the task, thereby spending MORE not less.
Considering the cost difference (not very much), it's probably cheaper to use 1% for everything than it is to stock three different tolerance ratings. Or even two. Inventory costs are one of those "hidden" costs that people easily forget about.
They have to be bought. They have to be checked into stock. They have to be given space (enough of those will then require you to expand your stock area). They have to be counted at inventory time. Every additional item adds to the possibility of human error (getting put into the wrong bin), even more easily done if they're almost identical to other items. This can be especially bad if the 5% get put into the 1% bin (or pulled by accident). They have to be kept track of and re-ordered when they get low.
And then there's the design factor. When you create a new design, you have to decide what tolerance to use for each value. If you only stock 1%, there's no decision to make. If you make the wrong decision, it will require a review of the design and an engineering change.
All that on top of the time you spent making the changes. Pound foolish indeed.
C - all the power and flexibility of assembly language combined with the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Ah, personally I have to disagree. C is a medium-level language, which means it's closer to the machine than something like Pascal or ADA, but it's not assembly.
I've done a LOT of assembly-language programming on microprocessors and microcontrollers, as well as C, C++, and Pascal, and C is much different from assembly.
That is, of course, MHO.
BTW I'm one of those weird people who actually likes programming in assembly.:)
Not always, though. Sometimes using a higher-level language just makes more sense. It's just that I also do lots of firmware, so I'm already working down next to the bare metal.
"Universal argued that copyright owners may lose the ability to respond rapidly to potential infringements if they are required to evaluate fair use prior to issuing takedown notices."
Awwwww. Po' widdle lawyers might have to WORK for a living instead of picking low-hanging fruit. What a gosh darn shame.
"Universal also raised the question of whether a particular use of copyrighted material constitutes fair use is a "fact-intensive inquiry," arguing that it is difficult for copyright owners to predict whether a court eventually may rule in their favor."
Hah. You know, one definition for "bully" is somebody who only fights when he knows he can win (as opposed to somebody who only fights when he has to).
We are all, of course, ultimately responsible for our actions.... Except that some neuro-atypical people may not be. But I think the judge had the right idea here.
Part of the reason I'm even using DD-WRT is that I inherited this Linksys with DD-WRT already installed. It seemed simplest to just upgrade and configure it.:)
I don't use public transit because it costs the same as driving and triples my commute time. And that's going from one town with a train station to another (35 miles away) with a train station, both within walking distance of my destinations. Because they don't connect, I have to take a bus into Sacramento, which takes an hour. Or drive there and leave my car.
Actually this isn't true. It was a few months ago until I lost my job, now I don't commute. But even taking the train to visit my GF requires a longish drive at her end.
Visiting my parents in San Clemente requires an 8-hour drive or an all-day train trip. If all four of us go, it's cheaper to rent a car and drive than to take the train, and faster by several hours.
If the public transit went where I needed it, didn't cost more than driving, and didn't take forever to get there, I'd almost certainly do it. I can't speak for everybody, but for me this has nothing to do with rubbing shoulders with the downtrodden.
"Now, I'm not suggesting that you commit credit card fraud with captured numbers, but you could submit those credit card numbers to a newsgroup on the net read by people that would be more than happy to commit the fraud for you."... making him an accessory, at least. Probably aiding and abetting.
"A criminal charge of aiding and abetting or accessory can usually be brought against anyone who helps in the commission of a crime, though legal distinctions vary by state. A person charged with aiding and abetting or accessory is usually not present when the crime itself is committed, but he or she has knowledge of the crime before or after the fact, and may assist in its commission through advice, actions, or financial support. Depending on the degree of involvement, the offender's participation in the crime may rise to the level of conspiracy."
By God, it's a pro-Vista posting that's neither defensive nor judgmental nor evangelical. I like it.
Me, I don't like Vista, but that's OK, I don't have to run it. I use XP or *nix on my PCs. I've been running Leopard on my MacBook, it's mostly good. I have had a few problems but overall I like it enough not to drop back to Tiger.
You stick to your guns, pal. Like Vista for your own reasons, and laugh at anybody who tries to convince you otherwise.
But MD5 + PAR is redundant, probably unnecessarily so. I mean, it won't hurt, but why bother with the extra effort? MD5 will just do the same check as PAR, and doesn't provide any redundancy. Except for checking for errors, and you can use ANY of the PAR files for that. Just a thought.
When retrieving from optical I notice that even a single error in a file renders the entire file unusable. I don't know if that holds true for all drives and operating systems, but I like to break large files up to increase my margin of error. That is, if I have a file broken into small pieces and calculate PARs on the pieces, losing one of those pieces won't be a problem to recover. OTOH, if there's a single large file and it's entirely unreadable, I need 100% redundancy to recover a single sector error. QuickPar also gives you an easy way to break files up while it's generating PARs, and it will automatically stitch them together when you run it against the.par2 file it generates.
QuickPar is a great utility and it's free. It's for Windows only, but there are other clients for other OSes.
Another thing you have to watch out for -- PAR2 tends to extend the filenames. If you have long paths and/or filenames you could overflow the path length (especially for optical media).
And of course it won't help you recover media that are badly damaged or, say, aged beyond readability. They provide some measure of security against simple damage, though, like the odd scratch.
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All we see as an end user is a cable. We plug one end into the peripheral, and the other into the PC.
Doesn't matter what happens inside the case, we just want a cable
Speak for yourself.
I'd like to see more take-up of Firewire, because I prefer having more performance. And I don't like this trend of saving money by loading down the CPU. What's the point of having dedicated peripheral processors if the first thing they do is dump on the PC?
Hopefully with 3.0 they won't make the same mistake, and will only allow labeling with 3.0 for devices that use the full speed link.
Then they'll just label it "3.0 compatible" or some such.
Wouldn't be the first time.
LOL!
Well, I thought it was funny.
It may not be obscene, but nobody wants to see it! Seriously folks, Go home and feed your brat! Nobody really wants your saggy titties or your screaming stinking brat around anyway! GTFO!
Let's see.
1) Get married.
2) Have a child.
3) Abandon your family because your wife's body suddenly doesn't have the shape and appearance of a 15-year-old. (And for some reason this takes you by surprise.) And because you hate children and think that somehow you were exceptional.
Maybe when you grow up you'll learn better, or maybe you'll just hate your life because the world doesn't look like a Playboy magazine. Sorry about that, but reality isn't going to mold itself to your fantasy world.
P.S. if it bothers you that much, consider not staring. It's not polite anyway.
P.P.S. "Nobody?" That's a pretty wide brush you're painting with, fellow. Just because you find it offensive doesn't mean everybody does. You're one person out of a population of over six thousand million and you don't speak for everybody. Get over yourself.
And, clearly, breasts are the only possible source of food for infants.
Not always. Of course, it is usually the best source of food for infants. It constantly amazes me that our society still seems to think that technology is always superior to nature, but frankly, we're rank amateurs. Nature's been working on this for millennia.
BTW, we had an infant that refused to feed from anything except Mommy's breast. Are you suggesting that my wife should not have been allowed in public for over two years?
Or instead of having the woman take her shirt off in public to expose her breast to the world, she could just keep the baby's head under her shirt as well...
It's good to finally see somebody considering this issue with a cool head.
Damned shame you've got it stuck so far out of sight you're not likely to get it unstuck without major surgery. I've never, ever seen a woman (in public) take her shirt off to nurse. Most of them take at least a modicum of care not to flash passersby.
And, aside from the impracticality of stuffing the infant's head under her shirt, your entire statement appears based on the premise that there's inherently something wrong with exposed breasts, or at very least with mothers nursing in public. If our society is so hung up about seeing the occasional nipple, perhaps it's because we've spent so much effort to cover them up.
Or perhaps it's our Puritan heritage. Speaking of heads in uncomfortable places.
This is, of course, My Humble Opinion and should not be mistaken for the enlightened fact it really is.
Me too, my friend. Me too.
Well, you know, some kids either
A: Have realized that when compatibility with the outside world counts, especially with VBA, Microsoft Office Wins.
Hmm. We should teach (or learn) only Microsoft products because we know that's all anybody will be using when the kids get out of school.
Sounds like self-fulfilling prophesy to me.
Unfortunately not everybody has the learning curve of a hardened Geek. To ask them to be masters of two different office suites is asking an awful lot.
... Which is why we like Microsoft products. They maintain an amazing amount of consistency from one product to the next; why, moving from Windows 3.11 to Windows 9x or NT to Windows 2000 to Windows XP to Windows Vista, they can't have changed more than 95% of their UI in each transition!
It's not like moving from one version to the next requires complete retraining, oh no.
So better teach kids this year's Microsoft Orifice, it won't have changed more than 3 times before they graduate.
...Kindergarten.
... Actually, I exaggerate. (Slightly.) Most companies drag their feet on upgrading. ... Probably because a) Microsoft adds features faster than they solve bugs and b) upgrading requires not only buying new licenses for everybody in the company, but massive retraining, not to mention the time installing the new OS/Office suite/whatever, and fixing the problems that inevitably come up when they do.
Which is why Microsoft tries so hard to force you to upgrade by breaking backwards-compatibility.
... That said, I don't always find that OO does what I want. I don't know if it's because I'm more used to Microsoft or if it's because I'm running into limitations of OO. Probably some of both.
At home I'm using a combination. Company I worked for binned a copy of Word 2000, so I now have a ligit copy. I'm playing with Gnumeric right now for my spreadsheet needs. As for Powerpoint, I don't need it and don't use it, and consider it a crime against humanity. How often does a PP show actually add anything of significance to a presentation? Most of the time it's just a distraction. Oh, I KNOW there's information that is better presented visually, but most of the presentations I've sat through would have done better without the damned slide show.
OK, I need to cut this rant short, I'm late taking my meds. ;) I just get tired of hearing about how Microsoft world takeover is inevitable. And the products that are challenging it are mostly coming from behind. Give them time. Give them a chance.
BTW, anybody want to try Symphony? You can get it for free from IBM, registration required. http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home Funny thing, I've got my copy sitting in my download directory. Haven't tried it yet, to be honest. I really need to do that.
Happy holidays.
Recently my boss reviewed my schematic and asked me to replace 1% resistors with 2 or 5% "because they are cheaper". Yes true, but I spend most of the day doing that, so he spent about $650 on the task, thereby spending MORE not less.
Considering the cost difference (not very much), it's probably cheaper to use 1% for everything than it is to stock three different tolerance ratings. Or even two. Inventory costs are one of those "hidden" costs that people easily forget about.
They have to be bought. They have to be checked into stock. They have to be given space (enough of those will then require you to expand your stock area). They have to be counted at inventory time. Every additional item adds to the possibility of human error (getting put into the wrong bin), even more easily done if they're almost identical to other items. This can be especially bad if the 5% get put into the 1% bin (or pulled by accident). They have to be kept track of and re-ordered when they get low.
And then there's the design factor. When you create a new design, you have to decide what tolerance to use for each value. If you only stock 1%, there's no decision to make. If you make the wrong decision, it will require a review of the design and an engineering change.
All that on top of the time you spent making the changes. Pound foolish indeed.
BitTorrents on P2P sites aren't album sales.
Perhaps you should go back and read what he said, then.
C - all the power and flexibility of assembly language combined with the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Ah, personally I have to disagree. C is a medium-level language, which means it's closer to the machine than something like Pascal or ADA, but it's not assembly.
I've done a LOT of assembly-language programming on microprocessors and microcontrollers, as well as C, C++, and Pascal, and C is much different from assembly.
That is, of course, MHO.
BTW I'm one of those weird people who actually likes programming in assembly. :)
Not always, though. Sometimes using a higher-level language just makes more sense. It's just that I also do lots of firmware, so I'm already working down next to the bare metal.
"Universal argued that copyright owners may lose the ability to respond rapidly to potential infringements if they are required to evaluate fair use prior to issuing takedown notices."
Awwwww. Po' widdle lawyers might have to WORK for a living instead of picking low-hanging fruit. What a gosh darn shame.
"Universal also raised the question of whether a particular use of copyrighted material constitutes fair use is a "fact-intensive inquiry," arguing that it is difficult for copyright owners to predict whether a court eventually may rule in their favor."
Hah. You know, one definition for "bully" is somebody who only fights when he knows he can win (as opposed to somebody who only fights when he has to).
Hah, beat me to it.
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
Looooove how many people are rejecting the very idea of this unseen and untried.
Buncha damn reactionaries.
Aspergers isn't a personality disorder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_disorder#List_of_personality_disorders_defined_in_ICD-10_.28F60-F69.29
It's a neurobiological disorder.
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html
We are all, of course, ultimately responsible for our actions. ... Except that some neuro-atypical people may not be. But I think the judge had the right idea here.
I'll certainly look into it, thanks!
Part of the reason I'm even using DD-WRT is that I inherited this Linksys with DD-WRT already installed. It seemed simplest to just upgrade and configure it. :)
I don't use public transit because it costs the same as driving and triples my commute time. And that's going from one town with a train station to another (35 miles away) with a train station, both within walking distance of my destinations. Because they don't connect, I have to take a bus into Sacramento, which takes an hour. Or drive there and leave my car.
Actually this isn't true. It was a few months ago until I lost my job, now I don't commute. But even taking the train to visit my GF requires a longish drive at her end.
Visiting my parents in San Clemente requires an 8-hour drive or an all-day train trip. If all four of us go, it's cheaper to rent a car and drive than to take the train, and faster by several hours.
If the public transit went where I needed it, didn't cost more than driving, and didn't take forever to get there, I'd almost certainly do it. I can't speak for everybody, but for me this has nothing to do with rubbing shoulders with the downtrodden.
My experience has been different. DD-WRT on my Linksys fails more often than factory firmware on my Netgear.
But this all gives me something to look into. Thanks, everybody.
"Now, I'm not suggesting that you commit credit card fraud with captured numbers, but you could submit those credit card numbers to a newsgroup on the net read by people that would be more than happy to commit the fraud for you." ... making him an accessory, at least. Probably aiding and abetting.
"A criminal charge of aiding and abetting or accessory can usually be brought against anyone who helps in the commission of a crime, though legal distinctions vary by state. A person charged with aiding and abetting or accessory is usually not present when the crime itself is committed, but he or she has knowledge of the crime before or after the fact, and may assist in its commission through advice, actions, or financial support. Depending on the degree of involvement, the offender's participation in the crime may rise to the level of conspiracy."
http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/a-z/aiding_abetting_accessory.html
IANAL but I wouldn't want to test this.
I majored in Computer Science and dropped out after 1 year. But the joke was funny to me.
Now what should I do? OMG! The stress is killing me!
By God, it's a pro-Vista posting that's neither defensive nor judgmental nor evangelical. I like it.
Me, I don't like Vista, but that's OK, I don't have to run it. I use XP or *nix on my PCs. I've been running Leopard on my MacBook, it's mostly good. I have had a few problems but overall I like it enough not to drop back to Tiger.
You stick to your guns, pal. Like Vista for your own reasons, and laugh at anybody who tries to convince you otherwise.
At least he didn't spell it "wala". :)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voila
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/viola
"Pop your undies in the microwave for ten seconds and they won't be reporting back to the mothership, don't worry."
I first read this as "reporting back to the motherchip". Heh, heh.
I like it. :)
QuickPar rocks hard!
But MD5 + PAR is redundant, probably unnecessarily so. I mean, it won't hurt, but why bother with the extra effort? MD5 will just do the same check as PAR, and doesn't provide any redundancy. Except for checking for errors, and you can use ANY of the PAR files for that. Just a thought.
When retrieving from optical I notice that even a single error in a file renders the entire file unusable. I don't know if that holds true for all drives and operating systems, but I like to break large files up to increase my margin of error. That is, if I have a file broken into small pieces and calculate PARs on the pieces, losing one of those pieces won't be a problem to recover. OTOH, if there's a single large file and it's entirely unreadable, I need 100% redundancy to recover a single sector error. QuickPar also gives you an easy way to break files up while it's generating PARs, and it will automatically stitch them together when you run it against the .par2 file it generates.
QuickPar is a great utility and it's free. It's for Windows only, but there are other clients for other OSes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Another thing you have to watch out for -- PAR2 tends to extend the filenames. If you have long paths and/or filenames you could overflow the path length (especially for optical media).
And of course it won't help you recover media that are badly damaged or, say, aged beyond readability. They provide some measure of security against simple damage, though, like the odd scratch.
OK, enough. I'll shut up now. :)
So suggest it to them. If they perceive the value as greater than the cost of implementing it, they'll do it. If not, they won't.
In either case, if nobody suggests it, they'll probably never think of it or may not realize that anybody wants it.