A lot of the postings here show a major ignorance of these systems.
I was working on the firmware for one of these systems in 1993. We called them "prox cards" (or "prox tokens" if they were not card shaped) back then. I don't know if people see the acronym RFID and assume its new technology because RFID has been hyped in recent years, or they really didn't know that this technology has existed for probably over 15 years now.
There are two types of door locks where I work.
1) Magnetic. The power failure mode of these is that they unlock when the power goes out.
2) Mechanical. Here, a spring holds the latch bolt in, and when you wave your card, the latch opens. The failure mode is locked.
Add a third: Mechanical deadbolts. These are activated by a solenoid, and are available in both fail-safe (like the magnetic locks) where the solenoid's natural state is retracted, and fail-secure, which always require an override key on both sides of the door. Normally locks and readers will be on a UPS too, so a simple power cut won't take them out.
The inner doors to the more secure areas are mechanical, and you can't get in with no power.
Are you sure there isn't a manual override key? If the lock is fail-secure, most countrys' building codes will require it, even to get in (fire regulations cover fire officers getting into a building as well as people getting out, though they might carry axes, they prefer keys).
It depends on the lock. Some are as you describe, in which case it is perfectly safe for them to "fail secure". Others can be electromagnetic locks (usually these can be forced by kicking the door, but they are always "fail safe" anyway), or in high security situations, deadbolts. Normally deadbolts have to be fail safe or have an override key (on an exit door, a copy will usually be kept behind a "break the glass in emergency" panel next to the door). There are a few exceptions, like prisons, where all locks must be "fail secure" and have manual overrides for the wardens to let people out in a controlled manner to avoid riots.
luckily I also have an old VHS player that doesn't have auto-tracking
Auto-tracking is to do with the alignment of the heads with the video tape. I doubt it comes into play when all you're doing is using your video recorder as an RF modulator.
Its the auto-gain-control that Macrovision messes with, and that's been standard in video recorders for a lot longer than auto-tracking.
importing product cheaper than its domestic competitors can (a common metric for dumping laws)
This does seem to be the metric used by the US, which is why a lot of their trade santions end up being declared illegal by the WTO. The internationally accepted definition of dumping is selling a product in a foreign country for less than its price in its home market. The fact that US manufacturers are inefficient should not enter into it.
The idea of the Duff's device is to use switch to jump to a label depending on the value of a variable (in a portable way).
That's the idea of a switch statement. Duff's device introduces a loop inside the switch statement but covering multiple cases, to efficiently unroll a loop into larger chunks.
The small company I work for uses an in house bug tracker, developed in a fit of "eat our own dogfood". Admittedly, it is missing a lot of features of off the shelf bug trackers, but it serves our specific needs.
One feature it has, is that it separates Issues (bug reports) from Tasks (the development tasks that are needed to fix them). Multiple tasks can be associated with an issue.
So our normal procedure is to enter issues as the reports come in, marking them as New. Then the development manager goes through them periodically (sooner if a customer is breathing down his neck), and assigns one or more Tasks to the issues, marking the issue as Active (the issue can also be marked as Duplicate or Rejected at this stage). If there are two active development branches, generally there will be two Tasks assigned to the issue, the developer then knows to merge their changes into both branches, and the testers treat the tasks as entirely separate, since they're generally testing one version at a time.
The question is irrelevant if your contributions are minor patches to existing code. But if you write a completely new major feature, you're likely to end up with a substantial chunk of code that you could reuse. The FSF's copyright assignments give you back a non-exclusive license to use your own contributions how you please, so you don't lose anything by donating code. If you are working on other GPLed software where you are required to assign your copyright to some other organization or individual, you might want to ask them to put the same clause in their assignments.
In that case, Thunderbird defaults to the default address for the account on which you received the mail. From the other response, I see that Mulberry does not associate addresses with incoming accounts, so I can see how frustrating Mulberry users must find it until they discover that they can associate a reply address with a folder.
Yes, it does tie identities to an account, but that doesn't really mean much, since when you send mail, you can choose between all of the addresses anyway. It also is intelligent enough to figure out the from address from the message you are replying to in most cases.
Only Mulberry can quickly check dozens of folders for new mail without subscribing to all of them.
What benefit is there in checking for new mail in folders that you do not subscribe to? If you need to read the new mail in those folders, surely you would be subscribed? Otherwise what is the distinction between subscribed and unsubscribed folders?
This has been the biggest FUD from Microsoft for the longest time.
And the alternative that Microsoft suggests is to pay exhorbitant sums of money for security hole ridden proprietary software under a license which forbids you from making any changes even if you could get your hands on the software. It is up to you which price you want to pay, the GPL3 price of disclosing your modifications, or the MS price of perpetual dependancy and ongoing licensing and support costs.
Still, it would be fairly trivial to set your apt-sources to point to a machine in your network that only contains updates that have gone through your own testing process.
A program making a "stupid call" should just produce one of those stupid grey dialog boxes that say "Press OK to terminate the application, Cancel to debug", because the Windows programmers were too lazy to design a custom dialog with "Terminate" and "Debug" buttons.
Oh right, I thought it was a corruption of the word "pinging". Especially since BlogPulse and Technorati seemed to be connected to this gorging of the net somehow.
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And this will be the ultimate downfall of socialism. People will continue voting themselves more and more benefits. Eventually it can't be paid for. It's already starting to happen in Germany, and I'm guessing it'll eventually happen here in the U.S. too.
What I see happening in the US is the opposite, but with the same effect. People are voting themselves more and more tax cuts. Already these can't be paid for.
GMail threads mail more reliably and more usably than any other mail client I've ever used, web-based or not
I take it you've only used Outlook then. Most decent mail readers use "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers to get the threading right, falling back on Date and Subject only for those clients that don't provide that information. Microsoft's family of mail and news readers seem to just group things by Subject and order by Date.
So give out a + address to your friends, and treat any mail to your bare address as spam. It's not just gmail.com that has this feature BTW, its a fairly standard feature of any MDA (except of course Exchange and other non-standard proprietary systems)
I think "random" searches are never random -- people get targetted.
My experience of "random" searches in London is that people definitely get targetted, but not like you think. The real searches are carried out constantly out of most peoples' sight (unless you happen to live in a bad neighbourhood). When the police carry out a highly visible mass "random" search operation at an inner city tube station at rush hour, they are doing it to balance out their statistics. My partner was targetted in one last year. Apparently pregnant oriental women were underrepresented in their stop and search statistics.
If you tag all your elements with id attributes, there is no reason why you couldn't have the XmlHttpRequest return just the elements that need to change, and have some javascript to alter the DOM based on what is returned. But you'll need an HTML parser in your javascript, since the javascript DOM API does not deal with HTML, it deals with DOM objects.
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I was working on the firmware for one of these systems in 1993. We called them "prox cards" (or "prox tokens" if they were not card shaped) back then. I don't know if people see the acronym RFID and assume its new technology because RFID has been hyped in recent years, or they really didn't know that this technology has existed for probably over 15 years now.
There are two types of door locks where I work.
1) Magnetic. The power failure mode of these is that they unlock when the power goes out.
2) Mechanical. Here, a spring holds the latch bolt in, and when you wave your card, the latch opens. The failure mode is locked.
Add a third: Mechanical deadbolts. These are activated by a solenoid, and are available in both fail-safe (like the magnetic locks) where the solenoid's natural state is retracted, and fail-secure, which always require an override key on both sides of the door. Normally locks and readers will be on a UPS too, so a simple power cut won't take them out.
The inner doors to the more secure areas are mechanical, and you can't get in with no power.
Are you sure there isn't a manual override key? If the lock is fail-secure, most countrys' building codes will require it, even to get in (fire regulations cover fire officers getting into a building as well as people getting out, though they might carry axes, they prefer keys).
It depends on the lock. Some are as you describe, in which case it is perfectly safe for them to "fail secure". Others can be electromagnetic locks (usually these can be forced by kicking the door, but they are always "fail safe" anyway), or in high security situations, deadbolts. Normally deadbolts have to be fail safe or have an override key (on an exit door, a copy will usually be kept behind a "break the glass in emergency" panel next to the door). There are a few exceptions, like prisons, where all locks must be "fail secure" and have manual overrides for the wardens to let people out in a controlled manner to avoid riots.
Auto-tracking is to do with the alignment of the heads with the video tape. I doubt it comes into play when all you're doing is using your video recorder as an RF modulator.
Its the auto-gain-control that Macrovision messes with, and that's been standard in video recorders for a lot longer than auto-tracking.
This does seem to be the metric used by the US, which is why a lot of their trade santions end up being declared illegal by the WTO. The internationally accepted definition of dumping is selling a product in a foreign country for less than its price in its home market. The fact that US manufacturers are inefficient should not enter into it.
That's the idea of a switch statement. Duff's device introduces a loop inside the switch statement but covering multiple cases, to efficiently unroll a loop into larger chunks.
The small company I work for uses an in house bug tracker, developed in a fit of "eat our own dogfood". Admittedly, it is missing a lot of features of off the shelf bug trackers, but it serves our specific needs. One feature it has, is that it separates Issues (bug reports) from Tasks (the development tasks that are needed to fix them). Multiple tasks can be associated with an issue. So our normal procedure is to enter issues as the reports come in, marking them as New. Then the development manager goes through them periodically (sooner if a customer is breathing down his neck), and assigns one or more Tasks to the issues, marking the issue as Active (the issue can also be marked as Duplicate or Rejected at this stage). If there are two active development branches, generally there will be two Tasks assigned to the issue, the developer then knows to merge their changes into both branches, and the testers treat the tasks as entirely separate, since they're generally testing one version at a time.
The question is irrelevant if your contributions are minor patches to existing code. But if you write a completely new major feature, you're likely to end up with a substantial chunk of code that you could reuse. The FSF's copyright assignments give you back a non-exclusive license to use your own contributions how you please, so you don't lose anything by donating code. If you are working on other GPLed software where you are required to assign your copyright to some other organization or individual, you might want to ask them to put the same clause in their assignments.
In that case, Thunderbird defaults to the default address for the account on which you received the mail. From the other response, I see that Mulberry does not associate addresses with incoming accounts, so I can see how frustrating Mulberry users must find it until they discover that they can associate a reply address with a folder.
If you want to check a mailbox, you subscribe. That is the whole point of subscribing.
Yes, it does tie identities to an account, but that doesn't really mean much, since when you send mail, you can choose between all of the addresses anyway. It also is intelligent enough to figure out the from address from the message you are replying to in most cases.
What benefit is there in checking for new mail in folders that you do not subscribe to? If you need to read the new mail in those folders, surely you would be subscribed? Otherwise what is the distinction between subscribed and unsubscribed folders?
And the alternative that Microsoft suggests is to pay exhorbitant sums of money for security hole ridden proprietary software under a license which forbids you from making any changes even if you could get your hands on the software. It is up to you which price you want to pay, the GPL3 price of disclosing your modifications, or the MS price of perpetual dependancy and ongoing licensing and support costs.
Still, it would be fairly trivial to set your apt-sources to point to a machine in your network that only contains updates that have gone through your own testing process.
A program making a "stupid call" should just produce one of those stupid grey dialog boxes that say "Press OK to terminate the application, Cancel to debug", because the Windows programmers were too lazy to design a custom dialog with "Terminate" and "Debug" buttons.
Right, and its not just that they added proprietary stuff, they also refused to add standard stuff that would replace their proprietary stuff.
Oh right, I thought it was a corruption of the word "pinging". Especially since BlogPulse and Technorati seemed to be connected to this gorging of the net somehow.
What I see happening in the US is the opposite, but with the same effect. People are voting themselves more and more tax cuts. Already these can't be paid for.
Server side search, delayed downloading of attachments, and gmail tags can easily be mapped to IMAP folders.
Sounds like they've gone back to the old VMS^H^H^H NT 3.1 codebase.
Real IMAP would be nice though.
I take it you've only used Outlook then. Most decent mail readers use "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers to get the threading right, falling back on Date and Subject only for those clients that don't provide that information. Microsoft's family of mail and news readers seem to just group things by Subject and order by Date.
So give out a + address to your friends, and treat any mail to your bare address as spam. It's not just gmail.com that has this feature BTW, its a fairly standard feature of any MDA (except of course Exchange and other non-standard proprietary systems)
In the US, the crime of entering the country on a foreign passport passes for a serious enough reason these days.
My experience of "random" searches in London is that people definitely get targetted, but not like you think. The real searches are carried out constantly out of most peoples' sight (unless you happen to live in a bad neighbourhood). When the police carry out a highly visible mass "random" search operation at an inner city tube station at rush hour, they are doing it to balance out their statistics. My partner was targetted in one last year. Apparently pregnant oriental women were underrepresented in their stop and search statistics.
If you tag all your elements with id attributes, there is no reason why you couldn't have the XmlHttpRequest return just the elements that need to change, and have some javascript to alter the DOM based on what is returned. But you'll need an HTML parser in your javascript, since the javascript DOM API does not deal with HTML, it deals with DOM objects.