If you were working for me, I'd be more concerned with your problem solving skills than whether you can code a B-Tree. Most structures I would hope you aren't going to be coding directly anyway. There are plenty of libraries for lists and sorts.
I would want to know whether you could could break down a problem and put together a reasonable representation of code. Pseudocode would be more than sufficient.
For instance, if you were given a vendor id and item number, could you generate a UPC (including check digit) using the following reference.
And then, I'd just hand you some code, tell you to take 15 minutes and write a description of what it does. It's much harder to work with someone else's code than it is to write your own.
2.) It was 1.9 F (-16.2 C) last night. The record low in Chicago is -22 F (-30 C). Does vegetable oil freeze?
It doesn't freeze, but it gels at low temperature. If it has water in it, it could freeze, just like gasoline. But diesels in general can require some pre-planning on really cold days. Dino diesel can gel too, that's why we have winter diesel. And it's a good idea to have a block heater to warm up the engine before trying to start it. My truck currently has a broken block heater and last week I had to replace batteries because at 10 F it wouldn't start. Two 875 CCA batteries. With the veggie solutions you could just wire the fuel heater to the block heater and put them both on a timer. 3 hours of preheating is what has been suggested for my truck. BTW, north of you it's common for commercial trucks to have fuel heaters for diesel too.
I bought a diesel work truck because I felt that biodiesel (no veggie for me) was a better long term alternative than ethanol. I paid a premium for the diesel engine, and some parts can be expensive. ($50 fuel filters, $250 for new battery cables) I'm hoping that by the time I decide I need to trade off my daily vehicle (S-10), that Jeep will release a TDI version of the Wrangler.
Of course they would. Blizzard makes their money from subscriptions on WoW. I wouldn't be surprised to see them start making the client available for free download soon.
Bnetd was a completely different situation. Blizzard made their money from the boxed games and provided Battlenet for free.
By the time WoW subscriptions fall enough that Blizzard would consider shutting it down (thus the need for a 3rd party server), very few people will have any interest in playing it. Looking at other MMORPGs as a reference, that will be at least 10 years from now.
That's trivial to get around. Run it under VMWare or qemu.
I doubt the video capabilities of a VM would be sufficient for the game. Even if it worked, there would be places in the game where you could not go. Ironforge for one.
Anyway, the solution to this problem of being banned is trivial. Chargeback.
Chargebacks aren't automatic. You have to tell your CC company why you want one, and they will contact the merchant for a response. I doubt it would happen. Also, I don't believe you can charge back purchases less than $50.
As soon as they start losing money and their credit card processor starts asking questions, they'll start addressing their customer's complaints.
What is WoW up to now, 5 million players? If they are even still using a 3rd party processor, their volume would be so high that the processor would be willing to eat a lot of chargebacks.
Blizzard doesn't care when users get fed up with bugs and leave, they aren't going to care about subscriptions from a few players they've already banned for cheating. They'll more than make up for it with the next new market or expansion.
One of the advantages of this technology is that it is not solar. It's thermal.
Depends on how narrowly you define solar. It's not photovoltaic.
And if you used it as a peaking station it wouldn't matter whether it generated after dark. Peaking stations are primarily used during the hot summer days when everyone cranks their air conditioning to 11. The rest of the year, since generating stations are part of a system, it would allow the coal and gas plants to work at lower levels or be taken off line for maintenance.
Now the point is, who the hell is going to actually have the Sirius tuned to a populated frequency?
I used to have XM and when I travelled I had to change it's frequency from time to time. For example, frequencies that are clear in KC are in use in Tulsa. If my XM transmitter had been strong enough to over power the local station, I probably wouldn't have noticed and could have caused problems for cars nearby.
The big diesel two-strokes are not exactly motor cycle type engines. They are super charged high power and efficiency units that would be just as ideal as any other industrial diesel.
No, and it's not like an 8v72 either. And next time you see an old city bus under load, ask yourself if you want that smokey thing parked outside your data center. A four stroke diesel can be bad enough. Also, I think you'll find that they are turbo charged rather than supercharged.
but locomotives use a diesel driven generator to drive electric motors at the drive wheels.
Locomotives use two diesel driven generators. One for the traction motors and a smaller one to supply electrical power to the train. The smaller head-end unit is 500k+ watts. They are also two-stroke engines, which certainly wouldn't be an ideal solution.
Energy Charge Per kWh Billing cycles June through September for all kWh's..............$.0717
Billing cycles October through May for the first 650 kWh's....$.0638 for all over 650 kWh's.....$.0469
Is it worth 2-3 cents a kW to be green? I'll probably research it when I build my new house. If it can provide enough power to run my heatpump when the grid is out, it's probably worth it to me. It might even save me the hassle of maintaining a generator.
When my neighbor began parking his truck in his yard, began storing applicances and garbage in his lawn, installed a new concrete porch without a permit, refused to cut the grass, and ordered a portable storage unit delivered to his house where it has sat in the driveway for more than a year, what is my recourse?
These aren't the types of things HOAs generally address. These are regulated by zoning and ordinances. If an HOA is involved, their role is simply reporting it to the governing authority. If it's a real problem, discuss it with your city's codes and zoning department. But as a last resort, calling the city is like using nuclear weapons, it better be worth the cost. (these things tend to get nasty)
HOAs put their attention to 'quality of life' issues. They may place covenants on your deed that says you have to maintain X amount of landscaping, and what type. They may limit the color you can use to paint your house. In the past I have heard of HOAs requiring all homes to use cedar shake roofs. And one locally had a requirement that ALL cars must be parked in garages overnight. They might also forbid RVs and boats from being stored on your property.
The big difference? The city can attach or condemn your property if you're not within ordinances. They can also put you in jail. A HOA can simply sue you.
I'm sorry, we don't discuss issues or facts. You are either with us or a terrorist. Since you are obviously not with us, the phone taps will be installed as soon as the agents get back from executing the sneak and peak warrant. Hope you enjoy your cuban vacation. Don't you understand this is a WAR?
Consumer vehicles aren't the only place in the automotive industry where # x # is used. It is primarily used for trucks (cars are generally called AWD (all wheel drive)). Consumer trucks are designated 4x4 and 4x2, number of 'wheels' x number driven. Although that's not entirely accurate, because a dually would still be 4x4 or 4x2. It's also used for tractors, the kind farmers use. Semis, also called tractors, are often designated 4x2 and 6x2, despite have 6 and 10 actual wheels.
Depending on the year, OS/2 2.x and above were your friend. It would handle multiple modems, and still allow you to do your own stuff.
The true test of multitasking, can you format a floppy while a user is on the BBS. No more Desqview video bleedthrough from background apps. Tweaking the memory settings on a DOS box so that the doors will run. SIO to keep the high speed (14.4+) modem happy, and then later VModem to get the BBS on the net. I still have my v.Everything Courier, despite not using it for a decade.
Here's a gotcha on the KnoppMyth setup. If you haven't set up a Zap2It, be sure and stop right there and go set one up. Getting back to configuring the guide is going to send you to a few web sites to find the steps to do it manually. And if you bring it up without the guide, odd things will happen.
MythTV OTOH, has a few quirks of it's own. Without the guide it crashed. Because of a step missed during install, my video source wasn't configured correctly. Selecting Watch TV flashed the screen and re-displayed the menu. No error message saying something was wrong. I found it while browsing the logs looking for anther problem. There were a few other odd things, but I didn't keep track of how to reproduce them.
After you know all the steps, a KnoppMyth install is probably pretty smooth. But until you get the first setup working, there are a lot of places where you can make mistakes during the install.
So you have $100 tivo that if it lasts 5 years costs you $369 for the first 3years and another $369 for years 4 & 5 for a total of $838. So you can spend $100 on hardware that you can't work on and $738 in prepaid service plans. Or you can build a resaonable system for $800, where you can work on the system adding replacing hardware and have no cost for services.
I have both a series II dual tuner Tivo and a MythTV box, and I'm curious where you got your Tivo numbers because they're considerably different than what I've spent.
Here is how mine broke down: $250 for the Tivo, minus a $150 rebate I'll get soon. (also included a $50 CompUSA rebate, but I'm not convinced that's a benefit). So we'll say $100 for the hardware. $13 a month, so $156 a year. Over 5 years, $880 hardware and services. Although I'm not sure why 5 years is significant.
MythTV - $350 for a 2g Celeron, 256m, 40g machine that I bought to use as a PVR 18 months ago. $40 for additional RAM, and $100 for a PVR-150 capture card. So ~$500 up front. Of course, this machine needs a larger HD, and it spent a lot of time gathering dust waiting for me to have time to work with it. First it was problems with the onboard audio. Then it had trouble detecting the PVR-150 that is a recommended card by MythTV. Finally, just recently I tried KnoppMyth again and after some tweaking (things that didn't work because the install has poor instructions), it's finally working. As a backup, in 2 short months I've learned the value of Tivo's season pass feature.
Cost wise, MythTV is cheaper once you get past 3 years of Tivo subscriptions. Usability and polish, Tivo is way ahead.
Their support has always been awesome and the devices have gotten so darn cheap, there's no reason not to have a real Tivo. I've seen them on sale here for $49.99.
Having recently purchased a Tivo, a little clarification on the $49.99. That is the price after rebate. To get the rebate you have to sign up for their service for 1 year ($13/mo). The rebate is $150 and you have to wait 6-8 weeks AFTER you have been activated for 30 days. So plan on 3 months before you see that money back.
I also have a MythTV box, and while Tivo is considerably more polished than MythTV, it still has some issues. Even though it runs Linux, it does support (unhacked) FTP, Telnet, or SMB. If you want to play MP3s from your PC, you have to run Tivo Desktop. My AudioTron, OTOH, can play from any SMB share on my network. I'm not sure if Tivo supports play lists. And it can only do one of these add-on tasks at a time. You can't start it playing MP3s and then load a JPG slideshow. Also, don't bother using Tivo Desktop to download your shows. It takes forever to transfer anything. Use the web interface instead.
Oh, and if you're looking to buy one, check to see if it has a NIC included. That is apparently a recent change, and will save you the hassle of returning a USB NIC. Knowing that, since the saleman at CompUSA was clueless, would have saved me a 60 mile trip.
It sure is nice setting up subscriptions for shows and timeshifing everything to suit my schedule. Before long, I won't care when networks schedule shows. As long as they don't put more than two that I want at the same time.
It doesn't help that people come up to me and mock my lowly armor (most of which i made ingame myself!) just because i'm not a raid gamer.
A while back I had someone ask my why my lvl 30 warrior didn't have weapons that glowed. I just laughed and went back to hunting. I've been playing since the US stress test and my highest level character is 42. I do have 5 characters on my primary server though. I tend to solo a lot because I'm in no rush to level and spend a lot of time exploring. The best thing about MMORPGs is the other players, and the worst thing about MMORPGs is the other players.
Sounds fair... lets see how you feel after I break into your computer and/or house and clean out your wallet, piggy bank and bank account.
And suppose when you got caught, your sentence was to pay restitution (equivalent to my costs for your act, not the amount you profitted from it), do all my yard work for a year, and paint my house.
I am made whole by your restitution, and actually ahead by the amount of labor you have to perform for my benefit. Are you suitably punished?
I find it disconcerting that IP crimes are now being criminalized, rather than just being a civil offense. To be clear, he didn't steal software, he unlawfully copied and sold it.
You say: "This was a deliberate, willful act, showing complete disregard for personal responsibility within our society." and I have to wonder, is society well served by locking this person away for this type of non-violent crime? Couldn't justice have been better served with a punishment of something like: forfeiture of all profits, 6 years suspended sentence with the requirement of 4000 hours of community service, with the felony conviction expunged at the end of the community service?
That seems like a just sentence and he would end up serving society rather than being a burden to it.
Positive feedback is useless, most tend to be "good ebayer, A++++++++++'. As a buyer, I never read a sellers good feedback, it means nothing. I only look at the number because it's the only representation I have of how experienced a seller is. Negative feedback tells me how a seller deals with problems. I'll buy from someone despite negatives if I feel the seller was doing their best to resolve the issue.
A better feedback system would be the number of successfully completed auctions and negative feedback large enough to explain the situation.
Actually, no, I haven't. I have seen developers years ago that distributed the DLL with their installs because they needed a specific version or had made customizations. It was rare, and they caused their own heartaches. The Linux equivalent would be needing the right widgets. Such as needing a specific version of QT or GTK.
I'll have to run an experiment this weekend. A couple weeks ago I got a new XP machine at work and installed Delphi 7 on it. Prior to that I was using W2k. Applications that I built on my old machine compile clean on my new machine with no modifications. I also have a Debian box that I recently built for MythTV. I'll see if the Kylix that came in the same box with D7 will run with a current version of QT. (Kylix was written to support QT 2) Want to take bets on it working with a clean, current QT install?
There are lots of other examples that prove it can be done easier than you can develop for the DLL and version hell of Windoze. Stuff on *nix works.
DLL hell is just as prominant on Linux as it is in Windows. They just aren't called DLLs. The only thing close to a silver bullet is static linking, which is what some commercial Linux vendors have done. Works on Windows too.
Depends. Do all 9x boxen have the.net runtime? Do they all use the same MFC? Only the most basic program can you make it run on any platform. Or are you coding in Java???
Surely you aren't serious. I have written enterprise n-tier applications that have run on Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP and 2003. I don't care about.NET or MFC. I have written Windows services that run (same exe) on NT, 2000, XP and 2003. And no, I don't do Java either. I also don't have to worry about what version of kernel I'm running or if I have the right common controls library.
have. The power, space, and noise associated with a fanless 386 in a slimline box with no hard drive are actually quite minimal.
Yeah, but the netgear print server I have is about 2 inches square and hangs off the centronics port of the printer. Network on one side and printer on the other. $50 brand new. Having been there and done that on these kinds of projects many times, I can tell you that something will fail at the worst time on that old PC, and you'll find that everyone, including yourself, has just pitched all their old junk along with the part you need.
And to be on-topic, I bought a Brother HL-1440 from Office Depot, $50 after rebate, last year after I got tired of dealing with my inkjet printer drying out between uses. With the netgear box it has been a good $100 printer.
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If you were working for me, I'd be more concerned with your problem solving skills than whether you can code a B-Tree. Most structures I would hope you aren't going to be coding directly anyway. There are plenty of libraries for lists and sorts.
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I would want to know whether you could could break down a problem and put together a reasonable representation of code. Pseudocode would be more than sufficient.
For instance, if you were given a vendor id and item number, could you generate a UPC (including check digit) using the following reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Co
And then, I'd just hand you some code, tell you to take 15 minutes and write a description of what it does. It's much harder to work with someone else's code than it is to write your own.
2.) It was 1.9 F (-16.2 C) last night. The record low in Chicago is -22 F (-30 C). Does vegetable oil freeze?
It doesn't freeze, but it gels at low temperature. If it has water in it, it could freeze, just like gasoline. But diesels in general can require some pre-planning on really cold days. Dino diesel can gel too, that's why we have winter diesel. And it's a good idea to have a block heater to warm up the engine before trying to start it. My truck currently has a broken block heater and last week I had to replace batteries because at 10 F it wouldn't start. Two 875 CCA batteries. With the veggie solutions you could just wire the fuel heater to the block heater and put them both on a timer. 3 hours of preheating is what has been suggested for my truck. BTW, north of you it's common for commercial trucks to have fuel heaters for diesel too.
I bought a diesel work truck because I felt that biodiesel (no veggie for me) was a better long term alternative than ethanol. I paid a premium for the diesel engine, and some parts can be expensive. ($50 fuel filters, $250 for new battery cables) I'm hoping that by the time I decide I need to trade off my daily vehicle (S-10), that Jeep will release a TDI version of the Wrangler.
Of course they would. Blizzard makes their money from subscriptions on WoW. I wouldn't be surprised to see them start making the client available for free download soon.
Bnetd was a completely different situation. Blizzard made their money from the boxed games and provided Battlenet for free.
By the time WoW subscriptions fall enough that Blizzard would consider shutting it down (thus the need for a 3rd party server), very few people will have any interest in playing it. Looking at other MMORPGs as a reference, that will be at least 10 years from now.
That's trivial to get around. Run it under VMWare or qemu.
I doubt the video capabilities of a VM would be sufficient for the game. Even if it worked, there would be places in the game where you could not go. Ironforge for one.
Anyway, the solution to this problem of being banned is trivial. Chargeback.
Chargebacks aren't automatic. You have to tell your CC company why you want one, and they will contact the merchant for a response. I doubt it would happen. Also, I don't believe you can charge back purchases less than $50.
As soon as they start losing money and their credit card processor starts asking questions, they'll start addressing their customer's complaints.
What is WoW up to now, 5 million players? If they are even still using a 3rd party processor, their volume would be so high that the processor would be willing to eat a lot of chargebacks.
Blizzard doesn't care when users get fed up with bugs and leave, they aren't going to care about subscriptions from a few players they've already banned for cheating. They'll more than make up for it with the next new market or expansion.
One of the advantages of this technology is that it is not solar. It's thermal.
Depends on how narrowly you define solar. It's not photovoltaic.
And if you used it as a peaking station it wouldn't matter whether it generated after dark. Peaking stations are primarily used during the hot summer days when everyone cranks their air conditioning to 11. The rest of the year, since generating stations are part of a system, it would allow the coal and gas plants to work at lower levels or be taken off line for maintenance.
Now the point is, who the hell is going to actually have the Sirius tuned to a populated frequency?
I used to have XM and when I travelled I had to change it's frequency from time to time. For example, frequencies that are clear in KC are in use in Tulsa. If my XM transmitter had been strong enough to over power the local station, I probably wouldn't have noticed and could have caused problems for cars nearby.
The big diesel two-strokes are not exactly motor cycle type engines. They are super charged high power and efficiency units that would be just as ideal as any other industrial diesel.
No, and it's not like an 8v72 either. And next time you see an old city bus under load, ask yourself if you want that smokey thing parked outside your data center. A four stroke diesel can be bad enough. Also, I think you'll find that they are turbo charged rather than supercharged.
Me too....
Locomotives use two diesel driven generators. One for the traction motors and a smaller one to supply electrical power to the train. The smaller head-end unit is 500k+ watts. They are also two-stroke engines, which certainly wouldn't be an ideal solution.
Here is how Aquila charges in my area:
.......$6.26
..............$.0717
....$.0638 .....$.0469
Service Charge for each bill
Energy Charge Per kWh
Billing cycles June through September
for all kWh's
Billing cycles October through May
for the first 650 kWh's
for all over 650 kWh's
Is it worth 2-3 cents a kW to be green? I'll probably research it when I build my new house. If it can provide enough power to run my heatpump when the grid is out, it's probably worth it to me. It might even save me the hassle of maintaining a generator.
These aren't the types of things HOAs generally address. These are regulated by zoning and ordinances. If an HOA is involved, their role is simply reporting it to the governing authority. If it's a real problem, discuss it with your city's codes and zoning department. But as a last resort, calling the city is like using nuclear weapons, it better be worth the cost. (these things tend to get nasty)
HOAs put their attention to 'quality of life' issues. They may place covenants on your deed that says you have to maintain X amount of landscaping, and what type. They may limit the color you can use to paint your house. In the past I have heard of HOAs requiring all homes to use cedar shake roofs. And one locally had a requirement that ALL cars must be parked in garages overnight. They might also forbid RVs and boats from being stored on your property.
The big difference? The city can attach or condemn your property if you're not within ordinances. They can also put you in jail. A HOA can simply sue you.
Have you seen any reason to believe otherwise? Although you seem to have forgotten their tireless attacks on civil liberties and privacy.
I'm sorry, we don't discuss issues or facts. You are either with us or a terrorist. Since you are obviously not with us, the phone taps will be installed as soon as the agents get back from executing the sneak and peak warrant. Hope you enjoy your cuban vacation. Don't you understand this is a WAR?
Isn't election season great!?
Consumer vehicles aren't the only place in the automotive industry where # x # is used. It is primarily used for trucks (cars are generally called AWD (all wheel drive)). Consumer trucks are designated 4x4 and 4x2, number of 'wheels' x number driven. Although that's not entirely accurate, because a dually would still be 4x4 or 4x2. It's also used for tractors, the kind farmers use. Semis, also called tractors, are often designated 4x2 and 6x2, despite have 6 and 10 actual wheels.
The true test of multitasking, can you format a floppy while a user is on the BBS. No more Desqview video bleedthrough from background apps. Tweaking the memory settings on a DOS box so that the doors will run. SIO to keep the high speed (14.4+) modem happy, and then later VModem to get the BBS on the net. I still have my v.Everything Courier, despite not using it for a decade.
Here's a gotcha on the KnoppMyth setup. If you haven't set up a Zap2It, be sure and stop right there and go set one up. Getting back to configuring the guide is going to send you to a few web sites to find the steps to do it manually. And if you bring it up without the guide, odd things will happen.
MythTV OTOH, has a few quirks of it's own. Without the guide it crashed. Because of a step missed during install, my video source wasn't configured correctly. Selecting Watch TV flashed the screen and re-displayed the menu. No error message saying something was wrong. I found it while browsing the logs looking for anther problem. There were a few other odd things, but I didn't keep track of how to reproduce them.
After you know all the steps, a KnoppMyth install is probably pretty smooth. But until you get the first setup working, there are a lot of places where you can make mistakes during the install.
I have both a series II dual tuner Tivo and a MythTV box, and I'm curious where you got your Tivo numbers because they're considerably different than what I've spent.
Here is how mine broke down: $250 for the Tivo, minus a $150 rebate I'll get soon. (also included a $50 CompUSA rebate, but I'm not convinced that's a benefit). So we'll say $100 for the hardware. $13 a month, so $156 a year. Over 5 years, $880 hardware and services. Although I'm not sure why 5 years is significant.
MythTV - $350 for a 2g Celeron, 256m, 40g machine that I bought to use as a PVR 18 months ago. $40 for additional RAM, and $100 for a PVR-150 capture card. So ~$500 up front. Of course, this machine needs a larger HD, and it spent a lot of time gathering dust waiting for me to have time to work with it. First it was problems with the onboard audio. Then it had trouble detecting the PVR-150 that is a recommended card by MythTV. Finally, just recently I tried KnoppMyth again and after some tweaking (things that didn't work because the install has poor instructions), it's finally working. As a backup, in 2 short months I've learned the value of Tivo's season pass feature.
Cost wise, MythTV is cheaper once you get past 3 years of Tivo subscriptions. Usability and polish, Tivo is way ahead.
Having recently purchased a Tivo, a little clarification on the $49.99. That is the price after rebate. To get the rebate you have to sign up for their service for 1 year ($13/mo). The rebate is $150 and you have to wait 6-8 weeks AFTER you have been activated for 30 days. So plan on 3 months before you see that money back.
I also have a MythTV box, and while Tivo is considerably more polished than MythTV, it still has some issues. Even though it runs Linux, it does support (unhacked) FTP, Telnet, or SMB. If you want to play MP3s from your PC, you have to run Tivo Desktop. My AudioTron, OTOH, can play from any SMB share on my network. I'm not sure if Tivo supports play lists. And it can only do one of these add-on tasks at a time. You can't start it playing MP3s and then load a JPG slideshow. Also, don't bother using Tivo Desktop to download your shows. It takes forever to transfer anything. Use the web interface instead.
Oh, and if you're looking to buy one, check to see if it has a NIC included. That is apparently a recent change, and will save you the hassle of returning a USB NIC. Knowing that, since the saleman at CompUSA was clueless, would have saved me a 60 mile trip.
It sure is nice setting up subscriptions for shows and timeshifing everything to suit my schedule. Before long, I won't care when networks schedule shows. As long as they don't put more than two that I want at the same time.
A while back I had someone ask my why my lvl 30 warrior didn't have weapons that glowed. I just laughed and went back to hunting. I've been playing since the US stress test and my highest level character is 42. I do have 5 characters on my primary server though. I tend to solo a lot because I'm in no rush to level and spend a lot of time exploring. The best thing about MMORPGs is the other players, and the worst thing about MMORPGs is the other players.
And suppose when you got caught, your sentence was to pay restitution (equivalent to my costs for your act, not the amount you profitted from it), do all my yard work for a year, and paint my house.
I am made whole by your restitution, and actually ahead by the amount of labor you have to perform for my benefit. Are you suitably punished?
I find it disconcerting that IP crimes are now being criminalized, rather than just being a civil offense. To be clear, he didn't steal software, he unlawfully copied and sold it.
You say: "This was a deliberate, willful act, showing complete disregard for personal responsibility within our society." and I have to wonder, is society well served by locking this person away for this type of non-violent crime? Couldn't justice have been better served with a punishment of something like: forfeiture of all profits, 6 years suspended sentence with the requirement of 4000 hours of community service, with the felony conviction expunged at the end of the community service?
That seems like a just sentence and he would end up serving society rather than being a burden to it.
Positive feedback is useless, most tend to be "good ebayer, A++++++++++'. As a buyer, I never read a sellers good feedback, it means nothing. I only look at the number because it's the only representation I have of how experienced a seller is. Negative feedback tells me how a seller deals with problems. I'll buy from someone despite negatives if I feel the seller was doing their best to resolve the issue.
A better feedback system would be the number of successfully completed auctions and negative feedback large enough to explain the situation.
Actually, no, I haven't. I have seen developers years ago that distributed the DLL with their installs because they needed a specific version or had made customizations. It was rare, and they caused their own heartaches. The Linux equivalent would be needing the right widgets. Such as needing a specific version of QT or GTK.
I'll have to run an experiment this weekend. A couple weeks ago I got a new XP machine at work and installed Delphi 7 on it. Prior to that I was using W2k. Applications that I built on my old machine compile clean on my new machine with no modifications. I also have a Debian box that I recently built for MythTV. I'll see if the Kylix that came in the same box with D7 will run with a current version of QT. (Kylix was written to support QT 2) Want to take bets on it working with a clean, current QT install?
DLL hell is just as prominant on Linux as it is in Windows. They just aren't called DLLs. The only thing close to a silver bullet is static linking, which is what some commercial Linux vendors have done. Works on Windows too.
Surely you aren't serious. I have written enterprise n-tier applications that have run on Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP and 2003. I don't care about
Yeah, but the netgear print server I have is about 2 inches square and hangs off the centronics port of the printer. Network on one side and printer on the other. $50 brand new. Having been there and done that on these kinds of projects many times, I can tell you that something will fail at the worst time on that old PC, and you'll find that everyone, including yourself, has just pitched all their old junk along with the part you need.
And to be on-topic, I bought a Brother HL-1440 from Office Depot, $50 after rebate, last year after I got tired of dealing with my inkjet printer drying out between uses. With the netgear box it has been a good $100 printer.