I have a Toshiba RS-TX20, and it works well. It's a DVR, with TiVo, and a DVD-R recorder. It's not HD, but it has all the TiVo series 2 features, and after recording something, you can just select "Record to DVD", and burn it to a disk. There are various quality levels, we usually use the lowest, and get 6 hours on a disc. Cost about $350 a couple of years ago, IIRC. You can even use it somewhat from the front panel, without the remote, which is almost unheard of these days, but has come in really handy a time or two.
In theory, it can record one show from the air/cable, let you watch a prerecorded show, and save another show to disc, simultaneously. I have found that it's best to have it do nothing else while it's burning, though, to avoid coasters. Since it takes only about 45 minutes to burn 6 hours onto a disc, no problem.
I am a math major, and you've got this backwards. Consider the values 1, 2, 3, 4, 100. The (arithmetic) mean is 22, the median is 3. Note that 4 out of 5 values are below the mean.
But there's no reason to think that book quality DOES follow a normal distribution. (Also applies to movies, which a previous poster discussed.) The big reason is that there are editors and publishers that act as filters, and only books that pass the quality test get published. (Vanity publishers excepted.) The filtering process may have flaws, but it certainly prevents the process from being random.
We love TiVo as well, so our second machine was a Toshiba RS-TX20. It's TiVo branded, and has a DVD recorder/player, so we can very easily save shows we really need to keep. I highly recommend it. There's also the TX60, with a bigger disk.
Read the article. The injunction says that they cannot install any new machines that do hard disk recording and playback after the specified time. It clearly states that the installed base of machines are not to be affected by this at all.
all floating point-style numbers suffer from this problem.
Not exactly. The real problem is that people use decimal numbers, and computers use binary numbers. Each numbering system has some numbers that the other one cannot represent exactly. If computers used floating-point DECIMAL calculations, this would be avoided. I've never seen that done, but I have seen fixed-point decimal, and it usually solves this problem nicely. But modern computers don't do decimal arithmetic as fast as they do binary arithmetic, so it's not used as often as it should be.
I like the sound of that. It reminds me of the good ol' days, when computers had their own room, with water pipes and acolytes. You had to be a high elf to be allowed to run one of those beasts yourself...
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I really like that word you coined: zealout. Sounds like a cross between zealot and sellout, which may be part of the reason for some of the problems with CORBA.
If you see a plane without a transponder on your screeen, that's a red alert emergency to a flight controller
That's not really true. Many planes are not required to even HAVE transponders, much less use them. Transponder use is only required in certain airspace or situations.
That said, it would have been apparent to these controllers that the targets on their screens should have had a transponder. They were all in either Class A or Class B airspace, except possibly the one in PA, and were probably moving fast enough that they were clearly jets, not propeller planes. (All jets are required to file IFR flight plans, which for all practical purposes means they need an operating transponder.)
So clearly, the controllers could see that something was amiss. Was it mechanical, pilot error, or a hijacking? The first two are the most common, the third really rare. And in the event of a hijacking, controllers (and flight crews) were trained to go along with the hijackers' demands. (That has changed since 9/11!) So they would not have considered scrambling fighters to shoot them down until the much more common explanations had been checked out.
Time ran out on them before that happened.
Today, with new procedures and protocols, it might be different. I'm just a private pilot, with no ATC inside knowledge, but I suspect they are much more proactive about such incursions. The actual response time is probably classified. (rightly so, I think)
Maybe not. How about the probe/spacecraft "harpooning" the asteroid: get close enough, but not in the same orbit at all, and fire an anchor on a tether into the asteroid, let it jerk the probe into a new orbit. You'd need a tether with a lot of elasticity, or your probe will get jerked to pieces if the delta-V is very much.
Or maybe use a big net. Spread it out in front of the asteroid, hook some probes on with huge bungee cords, and go from 0 to 15 miles/sec as quickly as you want. Probably more quickly than you want, in fact.
Historically, the distiction between/bin and/usr/bin (and similarly for/lib and/sbin) was that/bin and/lib contained just enough of the system to get to the point where the/usr disk could be mounted, bringing in the rest of it. When disk drives were small, that was important. And, although I've never seen it, some sites used an NFS mount for/usr, so that many machines shared one set of programs.
When you bring the system up in single-user mode, you won't have anything in the/usr tree, unless it happens to be on the same partition as/, so that's why the most essential programs are in/bin or/sbin.
There may be other reasons as well, but that's my understanding.
Using 2x6 studs probably does save some labor costs, but one of the big reasons for it is because there's about 50 percent more room for insulation. Even on interior partition walls, it might make sense, so you don't have to listen to your kids' crappy music when you're trying to enjoy your classic Pink Floyd.
That's hard to understand. Conduit between walls, especially through fire walls, is common, almost universal. Even if you wanted to use a big 4 inch conduit, and only have a couple Cat 5s in it, it should be OK. The important thing is to seal it, to prevent the flow of flame/smoke/hot air through the tube. My inspector recommended packing it tightly with fiberglass insulation (after the wires were pulled), but putty and other things work, too. Fiberglass is easy to remove and replace, handly when you're adding wires later.
Conduit and plenums are very different. Conduit is usually only 1 or 2 inches in diameter (sometimes bigger in commercial buildings), and there's no air flow through one -- they're full of wires. A plenum is an open area used for ventilation, either supply or return. (I've never seen supply plenums, though.) For example, the space above a suspended ceiling, or under a raised floor.
But if all the air goes in ducts to the rooms, and in ducts from the rooms, then the area above the ceiling isn't a plenum, and I don't think you have to use plenum cable there.
Ummm, he's not talking about replacing all energy sources with nuclear, just the ones that currently use oil. His figure of 3300 plants is in addition to the existing nuclear, hydro, and other sources.
No, BITNET was based on one of the technologies IBM mainframes (especially VM systems, IIRC) used quite often. We had several VAXes, and had to buy third-party software (JNet) to connect them to BITNET.
We also bought third-party software to do TCP/IP (MultiNet). In the latter days I was there, we ran our BITNET links over TCP connections to other universities, instead of having dedicated leased lines or whatever.
Tell the lawyer to look at it this way: New Line agreed to take *four times* the amount they gave Peter Jackson, and now that's not enough for them, they want some of his share, too.
It would have been really interesting to see what his reaction would have been to that. Where are the hard questions? Do we have to rely on Jon Stewart to do all the work?
Is it a requirement that the announcement happen at the top of the hour, or just that it happen at least once per hour?
If the latter, try to use the jukebox software to announce after every song, or every 5 songs, or whatever number would ensure that it happened at least once an hour.
If it has to be at the top of the hour, this won't help.
The last time I went to Walmart, the alarm went off as I left. The "security guy" stopped me, and wanted to see my reciept. I showed it to him. He wrote down some stuff from it, and gave it back. He never looked into any of the 8 or so bags in my cart. I can't imagine what the purpose of looking at my receipt was, and I was so disgusted at the whole Walmart experience, that I had no interest in discussing it with him or anyone else. I haven't been back. There are plenty of other stores not run by idiots. (OK, some stores not run by idiots. Well, a few stores....)
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I have a Toshiba RS-TX20, and it works well. It's a DVR, with TiVo, and a DVD-R recorder. It's not HD, but it has all the TiVo series 2 features, and after recording something, you can just select "Record to DVD", and burn it to a disk. There are various quality levels, we usually use the lowest, and get 6 hours on a disc. Cost about $350 a couple of years ago, IIRC. You can even use it somewhat from the front panel, without the remote, which is almost unheard of these days, but has come in really handy a time or two.
In theory, it can record one show from the air/cable, let you watch a prerecorded show, and save another show to disc, simultaneously. I have found that it's best to have it do nothing else while it's burning, though, to avoid coasters. Since it takes only about 45 minutes to burn 6 hours onto a disc, no problem.
I am a math major, and you've got this backwards. Consider the values 1, 2, 3, 4, 100. The (arithmetic) mean is 22, the median is 3. Note that 4 out of 5 values are below the mean.
But there's no reason to think that book quality DOES follow a normal distribution. (Also applies to movies, which a previous poster discussed.) The big reason is that there are editors and publishers that act as filters, and only books that pass the quality test get published. (Vanity publishers excepted.) The filtering process may have flaws, but it certainly prevents the process from being random.
We love TiVo as well, so our second machine was a Toshiba RS-TX20. It's TiVo branded, and has a DVD recorder/player, so we can very easily save shows we really need to keep. I highly recommend it. There's also the TX60, with a bigger disk.
and also:
7) In a town of only 80 people, why did they feel the need to spend money on an electronic voting system in the first place?
That's not the way I learned it, and Wikipedia agrees. In the US, a true statement is not defamatory.
Read the article. The injunction says that they cannot install any new machines that do hard disk recording and playback after the specified time. It clearly states that the installed base of machines are not to be affected by this at all.
Not exactly. The real problem is that people use decimal numbers, and computers use binary numbers. Each numbering system has some numbers that the other one cannot represent exactly. If computers used floating-point DECIMAL calculations, this would be avoided. I've never seen that done, but I have seen fixed-point decimal, and it usually solves this problem nicely. But modern computers don't do decimal arithmetic as fast as they do binary arithmetic, so it's not used as often as it should be.
some unnamed high-elvel language
I like the sound of that. It reminds me of the good ol' days, when computers had their own
room, with water pipes and acolytes. You had to be a high elf to be allowed to run one of
those beasts yourself...
I really like that word you coined: zealout. Sounds like a cross between zealot and sellout, which may be part of the reason for some of the problems with CORBA.
If you see a plane without a transponder on your screeen, that's a red alert emergency to a flight controller
That's not really true. Many planes are not required to even HAVE transponders, much less use them. Transponder use is only required in certain airspace or situations.
That said, it would have been apparent to these controllers that the targets on their screens
should have had a transponder. They were all in either Class A or Class B airspace,
except possibly the one in PA, and were probably moving fast enough that they were clearly
jets, not propeller planes. (All jets are required to file IFR flight plans, which for all
practical purposes means they need an operating transponder.)
So clearly, the controllers could see that something was amiss. Was it mechanical, pilot error, or a hijacking? The first two are the most common, the third really rare. And in the event of a hijacking, controllers (and flight crews) were trained to go along with the hijackers' demands. (That has changed since 9/11!) So they would not have considered scrambling fighters to shoot them down until the much more common explanations had been checked out.
Time ran out on them before that happened.
Today, with new procedures and protocols, it might be different. I'm just a private pilot, with no ATC inside knowledge, but I suspect they are much more proactive about such incursions. The actual response time is probably classified. (rightly so, I think)
Maybe not. How about the probe/spacecraft "harpooning" the asteroid: get close enough, but not in the same orbit at all, and fire an anchor on a tether into the asteroid, let it jerk the probe into a new orbit. You'd need a tether with a lot of elasticity, or your probe will get jerked to pieces if the delta-V is very much.
Or maybe use a big net. Spread it out in front of the asteroid, hook some probes on with huge bungee cords, and go from 0 to 15 miles/sec as quickly as you want. Probably more quickly than you want, in fact.
Historically, the distiction between /bin and /usr/bin (and similarly for /lib and /sbin) was that /bin and /lib contained just enough of the system to get to the point where the /usr disk could be mounted, bringing in the rest of it. When disk drives were small, that was important. And, although I've never seen it, some sites used an NFS mount for /usr, so that many machines shared one set of programs.
/usr tree, unless it happens to be on the same partition as /, so that's why the most essential programs /bin or /sbin.
When you bring the system up in single-user mode, you won't have anything in the
are in
There may be other reasons as well, but that's my understanding.
No, that's not right.
"It's mine, give it back."--WRONG!
This phrase is actually correct. If you can replace
"it's" with "it is", then "it's" is correct. That applies here.
Using 2x6 studs probably does save some labor costs, but one of the big reasons for it is because there's about 50 percent more room for insulation. Even on interior partition walls, it might make sense, so you don't have to listen to your kids' crappy music when you're trying to enjoy your classic Pink Floyd.
That's hard to understand. Conduit between walls,
especially through fire walls, is common, almost universal. Even if you wanted to use a big 4 inch conduit, and only have a couple Cat 5s in it, it should be OK. The important thing is to seal it, to prevent the flow of flame/smoke/hot air through the tube. My inspector recommended packing it tightly with fiberglass insulation (after the wires were pulled), but putty and other things work, too. Fiberglass is easy to remove and replace, handly when you're adding wires later.
Conduit and plenums are very different. Conduit is usually only 1 or 2 inches in diameter (sometimes bigger in commercial buildings), and there's no air flow through one -- they're full of wires. A plenum is an open area used for ventilation, either supply or return. (I've never seen supply plenums, though.) For example, the space above a suspended ceiling, or under a raised floor.
But if all the air goes in ducts to the rooms, and in ducts from the rooms, then the area above the ceiling isn't a plenum, and I don't think you have to use plenum cable there.
If you're going to use those criteria, it should be called "DukeNukemForever". That's got "Vista" beat hands-down!
Virginia will allow a person to sit for the Bar without having a law degree. I don't know whether there are other states like that.
Ummm, he's not talking about replacing all energy sources with nuclear, just the ones that currently use oil. His figure of 3300 plants is in addition to the existing nuclear, hydro, and other sources.
No, BITNET was based on one of the technologies IBM mainframes (especially VM systems, IIRC) used quite often. We had several VAXes, and had to buy third-party software (JNet) to connect them to BITNET.
We also bought third-party software to do TCP/IP (MultiNet). In the latter days I was there, we ran our BITNET links over TCP connections to other universities, instead of having dedicated leased lines or whatever.
Tell the lawyer to look at it this way: New Line agreed to take *four times* the amount they gave Peter Jackson, and now that's not enough for them, they want some of his share, too.
It would have been really interesting to see what his reaction would have been to that. Where are the hard questions? Do we have to rely on Jon Stewart to do all the work?
Is it a requirement that the announcement happen at
the top of the hour, or just that it happen at least
once per hour?
If the latter, try to use the jukebox software to
announce after every song, or every 5 songs, or whatever number would ensure that it happened at least once an hour.
If it has to be at the top of the hour, this won't help.
The last time I went to Walmart, the alarm went off as I left. The "security guy" stopped me, and wanted to see my reciept. I showed it to him. He wrote down some stuff from it, and gave it back. He never looked into any of the 8 or so bags in my cart. I can't imagine what the purpose of looking at my receipt was, and I was so disgusted at the whole Walmart experience, that I had no interest in discussing it with him or anyone else. I haven't been back. There are plenty of other stores not run by idiots. (OK, some stores not run by idiots. Well, a few stores....)
Regarding your question about "Top" lists on Slashdot -- check out the "Hall of Fame" link on the
left side of the page (in the Stories section).