Do what I do and set it to only keep five episodes at a time.
Ah, thanks for the tip! Came back from a couple weeks on the road and found out our little one conned my bride into setting up some new season passes. They add up if you don't delete once in a while.
Since I have a DirectTV dish, I ended up with a Hughes HDVR2 rather than the typical Tivo set. It persists the encrypted streams, so the video quality is a bit better than the conversion a typical Tivo does. (so they tell me) I pipe the S-Video into my Matrox rt2500 and edit with Adobe Premier, and from there push the master into whatever format I'm looking for.... Nothing automagic, but it only takes a handfull of mouse clicks to chop segments.
The Betamax case ruled home recording for time shifting was fair use. It didn't rule that home recording for permanent archiving was legal.
I view my time shifting as 'temporary' - much in the same manner as the motion picture and recording industry considers Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 a 'limited time'. If a million years would still be a valid "limited time" under the letter of the Constitution... well, what is good for the goose...
I picked up a Tivo that patched into my Direct TV dish. Doing a little homework, they persist the encrypted stream on the local hard drive rather than something that could be ripped. Disappointed, I bit the bullet and picked one up anyhow.
My god, does that change satellite TV.
First off, it makes 'VCR programming' bonehead easy. Get a list of all sci-fi shows for the next couple weeks, pick what you want, and eventually they will be waiting there for you. Pick a show like Futurama or Cowboy Beboop, and it will snag every episode. The only downside is how good of a job it can do if you set it for Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues - a couple marathons later and you will have more shows than I'll let my little one watch. As for persisting files, I prefer to push stuff into my computer to strip out the ads before ripping them to removable media. Turns out the downside - not ripping direct to dvd-r - was a major plus. Good Eats or Serial Experiments: Lain fits soo much better after taking out the credits, ads, and all the other things that gets shoveled in the non-premium channels.
Second, there is no prime time. Time and channel has no meaning at all. I don't spend a lot of time watching TV, so what I was interested in - it is two clicks away. Think of Tivo as limewire - you find the content you want, queue it up, and let it download whenever.
Lastly, the pause and fast forward are handy. Once you get in the habit that most of your viewing is a local file rather than something you happen to catch at the right moment and channel, you start expecting the same from live TV. Nothing is more aggravating than hitting FF, only to find you are on the tip of a live feed.
>>video from digital video cameras: Lots of GB here. digital photos: getting bigger all the time.
>Both are best stored on CDRW.
>>DIVX video: almost a gig per movie.
>Unless you are a movie producer, none of it is your data.
Personal Computing is powerful enough to turn the home user into a movie producer. Back in the day, I remember spending six digits for a Mac based Avid - a very large portion of the cost was the vast arrays of SCSI hard drives and raid controllers needed to handle days worth of raw video material. At the time, the largest SCSI drive was ~4G and the editors claimed to require 36G for about a half hour's work.
Fast forward to today. I have a personal video camera, firewire, and editing software on my personal machine. You might get a meg a minute with some heavy compression, but while I'm chopping and splicing I like the uncompressed video. Perhaps you need kids... because I know I use a metric assload of HDD capacity. Quality may be no better than the reels of tape my father and grandfather took, but make no mistake - Joe Sixpack is a movie producer. I'm proof no talent is required.... (grin)
A nylon stocking will go a long way in keeping cat hair out of your chassis. It won't block everything, but on the plus side airflow is not too bad. Don't forget to filter your power supply if it set to suck rather than blow outside air.
Memtest86 will go a long way to test the ram. If you are going through tons of wanky ram, the issue may be your cpu or power supply however. Test the ram on a couple boxes.
As for no-name. Usually grade 'a' ram will run at a lower cas rating, where some of the generics might work at a higher (and slower) setting. Stuff that rates at PC-100 CAS 2 might only work at PC-133 CAS 3. (dang, showing my age) The good stuff tended to be able to run stable at the faster FSB and CAS settings. My time is worth more than the ~$30 bucks between solid and guesswork.
If your not pushing a system hard - cheap ram might just work. A few years back a local vendor had some dirt cheap no-name 128M sticks that ran as fast as my mushkin stuff. Go figure. You role the dice, but it matters less if you are not pushing your settings hard.
Buy a second hand ring. They seem to have almost no resale value what so ever.... There are way to may folks out there who spent mad cash on an engagement ring and had things go sour. Their loss, your win. Do your homework, however, and it might not be in your best interest to say it came from some dead lady's estate auction or Bob's pawn shop. Sounds like your time is cheap. Take the time to know when and what a good deal is...
Second, look for the combo engagement / wedding set. A simple 1/3 carrot diamond will save much heartache later. I'd say buy a modest CZ and swap the gem later, but that has critical fumble written all over it. You can always upgrade the gem later in life, but odds are she wont. (You will end up purchasing other jewelry later in life, however...)
Lastly, get yourself a plain wedding band. Keep it simple, second hand preferred.
More often than not, it is the editors who are at blame rather than the authors. First off, my bride was a technical writer. I'm still not quite sure what that means, but as an English / Math double major without any coding experience, some of the results were quite comical. A while back she was fixing the Engrish descriptions, code fragments, sql scripts, and a mix of other stuff. She went back to the developer because they possibly misspelled pseudo as sudo. She had the sense to not 'spell check' the scripts, but another friend who wrote a Perl book said his editors were not quite as thoughtful.
Well, OK - Google did buy deja.com, but I find the newsgroups to be packed with info. If I'm stumped, I'll usually find many others have asked the same question. Once in a while you might even get an answer (grin). Google.com is great for website info, but don't forget about the newsgroups - even if all you have at work is a browser!
//Activity X is more of a security and architecture question than one of morality. Besides, if he wants to look 'current' he should focus on the ethical questions about.net
Interesting. Could you expand please? What ethical questions exist around.NET that wouldn't exist around any other development architecture?
When I read the posting, I thought I saw Is ActiveX moral? which has nothing to do with ethics. I've had several profs who would never let something like that stop them, however... Microsoft had a big EverythingX campaign years back. Regardless of advertising to be all things to all men, ActiveX (and COM in general) are dead - much like the OLE or DDE before them. Current technology is based on.net framework. As long as someone was going to be silly about current technology, it is best they not talk about punch cards. The point was nothing more.
How does that compare with Sun, who will not submit even a portion of the Java platform to a standardization body?
On a personal level: a stamp of approval from a standards body means very little to me on its own - a 'de facto' standard does. Sun had the opportunity to fold core libraries into the JDK. Why they decided against log4j for what they added in 1.4 is beyond me... but I'm free to use what I'm most comfortable with and carries a significant community mind share. As for Sun and standards bodies - I'm pretty active in a couple JSR's, so I think the industry drives Java where it matters. If someone wants to fork the core Java language and implement their own (which Microsoft did with c#, IMHO), I'll care when they have enough of the development community to make a difference.
Another example... If my EJB's work with IBM, BEA, Oracle, and Jboss I don't care if they would pass whatever Sun has for a certification test. I really care about each of the vendors having similar structures and deployment descriptors. I'd like to use the 1.4 JDK for my base, but reality is most of what I use is still 1.3. When the industry (and customers) get there, I'll switch.
Activity X is more of a security and architecture question than one of morality. Besides, if he wants to look 'current' he should focus on the ethical questions about.net....
(/me ducks the shower of rotten veggies headed my way)
I'll admit I spend more time on the server side of the Java world than the client, but here is my take on the world.
AWT was just god awful. There were things you could do that would help, but it was much like pushing a yugo down a racetrack rather than getting a real car.
SWING came out and fixed some things. Client side JVM issues caused early adoption issues, and server side HTML generation via Servlets came into vogue. Many folks - myself included - said to hell with thick client apps and focused on a JSP/Servlet/EBJ style approach.
A few things today work better as a client side app. The libraries still need to be loaded on the client, but that is less of an issue than it was in the 28.8 days. Now I have options. AWT? Nope... SWING? Possible, but the speed of the IBM's SWT toolkit is really bloody fast and mature. So if Sun is thinking of yet another version of SWING - I'd say why bother? On the off chance I have to pound out something that can't be handled in dHTML, I'll stick with what I think works.
Had I not posted, I would have modded you as funny. I was cleaning coffee off my keyboard after that one - and it was marked informative... Not sure what was funnier. Slashdot has long taught me to not run obfuscated c or perl source, much less standard shell stuff without really looking at the code and understanding it.
I know one guy who claimed he was trying to decipher a morris code message from the HDD activity light but claimed it only worked if you used nasty font contrasts and coded in perl or something... We suspected drugs, but you would never see this kind of behavior in fiction. (grin)
I know, but they are really trying hard to dump the good old analog lines for the latest-greatest (not enough bandwidth) digital cable. The digital cable - at least time warner can...
...Is management not improving. The same things that make my life as a developer in the US lousy - vision/requirements/clue/ (I'll just stop now) - tend to have catastrophic results when shipped overseas. Capable business can actually pull this off, but most of the time the n00bs that (biting tongue again) could not communicate effectively enough to leverage low expense labor.
Don't train the (deep breath) managers - just encourage their involvement in those 'high profile, cost effective' projects. Hell, might even get two birds with one stone if you are lucky.
I know they pull my viewing habits from my tivo - in aggregate of course. Thought they did the same with cable viewers as well. They actually still poll people?
The sad part is there probably are that many people watching $reality series.
And then, what's this John Edwards and "The Dream Team" crap? What does that have to do with SciFi? Just what is their mission statement?
Amen!
One of the reasons I picked up a tivo for my dish was to watch interesting things - I never managed to catch anything broadcast real time or set the VCR for more than a couple weeks. After queuing the sucker up, I discovered how little was getting pulled from the scifi channel. So I looked at the offerings via the on-line guide thinking I'm missing something... only to discover how bad things really are.
Its just like having your favorite progressive rock station rebranded to a Kenny G / love line over the course of several years. Ye gods....
Of course they make hackers obsolete. I just got done spending a week making dotnet asp/vb code talk to a unix based web services. Did I want to learn about the wonders of a new webform? A few years back I could respect myself (somewhat) in the morning after some serious ATL development. I wonder if there is a 'hacker' audience anymore.
Now what they did not say is 'we make Crackers obsolete'. Their marketing department gets one right and everyone gripes...
Slashdot Mirror
Do what I do and set it to only keep five episodes at a time.
Ah, thanks for the tip! Came back from a couple weeks on the road and found out our little one conned my bride into setting up some new season passes. They add up if you don't delete once in a while.
Since I have a DirectTV dish, I ended up with a Hughes HDVR2 rather than the typical Tivo set. It persists the encrypted streams, so the video quality is a bit better than the conversion a typical Tivo does. (so they tell me) I pipe the S-Video into my Matrox rt2500 and edit with Adobe Premier, and from there push the master into whatever format I'm looking for.... Nothing automagic, but it only takes a handfull of mouse clicks to chop segments.
The Betamax case ruled home recording for time shifting was fair use. It didn't rule that home recording for permanent archiving was legal.
I view my time shifting as 'temporary' - much in the same manner as the motion picture and recording industry considers Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 a 'limited time'. If a million years would still be a valid "limited time" under the letter of the Constitution... well, what is good for the goose...
Tech TV kicked off their Anime Unleashed series with it.
I picked up a Tivo that patched into my Direct TV dish. Doing a little homework, they persist the encrypted stream on the local hard drive rather than something that could be ripped. Disappointed, I bit the bullet and picked one up anyhow.
My god, does that change satellite TV.
First off, it makes 'VCR programming' bonehead easy. Get a list of all sci-fi shows for the next couple weeks, pick what you want, and eventually they will be waiting there for you. Pick a show like Futurama or Cowboy Beboop, and it will snag every episode. The only downside is how good of a job it can do if you set it for Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues - a couple marathons later and you will have more shows than I'll let my little one watch. As for persisting files, I prefer to push stuff into my computer to strip out the ads before ripping them to removable media. Turns out the downside - not ripping direct to dvd-r - was a major plus. Good Eats or Serial Experiments: Lain fits soo much better after taking out the credits, ads, and all the other things that gets shoveled in the non-premium channels.
Second, there is no prime time. Time and channel has no meaning at all. I don't spend a lot of time watching TV, so what I was interested in - it is two clicks away. Think of Tivo as limewire - you find the content you want, queue it up, and let it download whenever.
Lastly, the pause and fast forward are handy. Once you get in the habit that most of your viewing is a local file rather than something you happen to catch at the right moment and channel, you start expecting the same from live TV. Nothing is more aggravating than hitting FF, only to find you are on the tip of a live feed.
>>video from digital video cameras: Lots of GB here. digital photos: getting bigger all the time.
>Both are best stored on CDRW.
>>DIVX video: almost a gig per movie.
>Unless you are a movie producer, none of it is your data.
Personal Computing is powerful enough to turn the home user into a movie producer. Back in the day, I remember spending six digits for a Mac based Avid - a very large portion of the cost was the vast arrays of SCSI hard drives and raid controllers needed to handle days worth of raw video material. At the time, the largest SCSI drive was ~4G and the editors claimed to require 36G for about a half hour's work.
Fast forward to today. I have a personal video camera, firewire, and editing software on my personal machine. You might get a meg a minute with some heavy compression, but while I'm chopping and splicing I like the uncompressed video. Perhaps you need kids... because I know I use a metric assload of HDD capacity. Quality may be no better than the reels of tape my father and grandfather took, but make no mistake - Joe Sixpack is a movie producer. I'm proof no talent is required.... (grin)
A nylon stocking will go a long way in keeping cat hair out of your chassis. It won't block everything, but on the plus side airflow is not too bad. Don't forget to filter your power supply if it set to suck rather than blow outside air.
Memtest86 will go a long way to test the ram. If you are going through tons of wanky ram, the issue may be your cpu or power supply however. Test the ram on a couple boxes.
As for no-name. Usually grade 'a' ram will run at a lower cas rating, where some of the generics might work at a higher (and slower) setting. Stuff that rates at PC-100 CAS 2 might only work at PC-133 CAS 3. (dang, showing my age) The good stuff tended to be able to run stable at the faster FSB and CAS settings. My time is worth more than the ~$30 bucks between solid and guesswork.
If your not pushing a system hard - cheap ram might just work. A few years back a local vendor had some dirt cheap no-name 128M sticks that ran as fast as my mushkin stuff. Go figure. You role the dice, but it matters less if you are not pushing your settings hard.
Buy a second hand ring. They seem to have almost no resale value what so ever.... There are way to may folks out there who spent mad cash on an engagement ring and had things go sour. Their loss, your win. Do your homework, however, and it might not be in your best interest to say it came from some dead lady's estate auction or Bob's pawn shop. Sounds like your time is cheap. Take the time to know when and what a good deal is...
Second, look for the combo engagement / wedding set. A simple 1/3 carrot diamond will save much heartache later. I'd say buy a modest CZ and swap the gem later, but that has critical fumble written all over it. You can always upgrade the gem later in life, but odds are she wont. (You will end up purchasing other jewelry later in life, however...)
Lastly, get yourself a plain wedding band. Keep it simple, second hand preferred.
4. threaten to attempt to revoke licence (we are here)
It is about revenge... Last time they got a % of net - which the $400M gross netted $0 after accounting. Whoops! Bet they want % of gross this time...
More often than not, it is the editors who are at blame rather than the authors. First off, my bride was a technical writer. I'm still not quite sure what that means, but as an English / Math double major without any coding experience, some of the results were quite comical. A while back she was fixing the Engrish descriptions, code fragments, sql scripts, and a mix of other stuff. She went back to the developer because they possibly misspelled pseudo as sudo. She had the sense to not 'spell check' the scripts, but another friend who wrote a Perl book said his editors were not quite as thoughtful.
Well, OK - Google did buy deja.com, but I find the newsgroups to be packed with info. If I'm stumped, I'll usually find many others have asked the same question. Once in a while you might even get an answer (grin). Google.com is great for website info, but don't forget about the newsgroups - even if all you have at work is a browser!
Thermite = Powdered aluminum + rust (aka iron oxide). That's all there is to it.
Yes, but keeping the Aluminum from premature oxidization is still a pain. Not that I've ever messed with that kind of thing.... (grin)
//Activity X is more of a security and architecture question than one of morality. Besides, if he wants to look 'current' he should focus on the ethical questions about .net
.NET that wouldn't exist around any other development architecture?
.net framework. As long as someone was going to be silly about current technology, it is best they not talk about punch cards. The point was nothing more.
Interesting. Could you expand please? What ethical questions exist around
When I read the posting, I thought I saw Is ActiveX moral? which has nothing to do with ethics. I've had several profs who would never let something like that stop them, however... Microsoft had a big EverythingX campaign years back. Regardless of advertising to be all things to all men, ActiveX (and COM in general) are dead - much like the OLE or DDE before them. Current technology is based on
How does that compare with Sun, who will not submit even a portion of the Java platform to a standardization body?
On a personal level: a stamp of approval from a standards body means very little to me on its own - a 'de facto' standard does. Sun had the opportunity to fold core libraries into the JDK. Why they decided against log4j for what they added in 1.4 is beyond me... but I'm free to use what I'm most comfortable with and carries a significant community mind share. As for Sun and standards bodies - I'm pretty active in a couple JSR's, so I think the industry drives Java where it matters. If someone wants to fork the core Java language and implement their own (which Microsoft did with c#, IMHO), I'll care when they have enough of the development community to make a difference.
Another example... If my EJB's work with IBM, BEA, Oracle, and Jboss I don't care if they would pass whatever Sun has for a certification test. I really care about each of the vendors having similar structures and deployment descriptors. I'd like to use the 1.4 JDK for my base, but reality is most of what I use is still 1.3. When the industry (and customers) get there, I'll switch.
Activity X is more of a security and architecture question than one of morality. Besides, if he wants to look 'current' he should focus on the ethical questions about .net....
(/me ducks the shower of rotten veggies headed my way)
AWT was just god awful. There were things you could do that would help, but it was much like pushing a yugo down a racetrack rather than getting a real car.
SWING came out and fixed some things. Client side JVM issues caused early adoption issues, and server side HTML generation via Servlets came into vogue. Many folks - myself included - said to hell with thick client apps and focused on a JSP/Servlet/EBJ style approach.
A few things today work better as a client side app. The libraries still need to be loaded on the client, but that is less of an issue than it was in the 28.8 days. Now I have options. AWT? Nope... SWING? Possible, but the speed of the IBM's SWT toolkit is really bloody fast and mature. So if Sun is thinking of yet another version of SWING - I'd say why bother? On the off chance I have to pound out something that can't be handled in dHTML, I'll stick with what I think works.
Fool me three times...
Dropping 2000 for XP server? Oh wait there is no XP server...
Ask again on April 24th... god help us all.
Give the man a cigar... you got it. It became a bit of a running joke in the shop. Great read, btw.
Had I not posted, I would have modded you as funny. I was cleaning coffee off my keyboard after that one - and it was marked informative... Not sure what was funnier. Slashdot has long taught me to not run obfuscated c or perl source, much less standard shell stuff without really looking at the code and understanding it.
I know one guy who claimed he was trying to decipher a morris code message from the HDD activity light but claimed it only worked if you used nasty font contrasts and coded in perl or something... We suspected drugs, but you would never see this kind of behavior in fiction. (grin)
I know, but they are really trying hard to dump the good old analog lines for the latest-greatest (not enough bandwidth) digital cable. The digital cable - at least time warner can...
...Is management not improving. The same things that make my life as a developer in the US lousy - vision/requirements/clue/ (I'll just stop now) - tend to have catastrophic results when shipped overseas. Capable business can actually pull this off, but most of the time the n00bs that (biting tongue again) could not communicate effectively enough to leverage low expense labor.
Don't train the (deep breath) managers - just encourage their involvement in those 'high profile, cost effective' projects. Hell, might even get two birds with one stone if you are lucky.
I know they pull my viewing habits from my tivo - in aggregate of course. Thought they did the same with cable viewers as well. They actually still poll people?
The sad part is there probably are that many people watching $reality series.
And then, what's this John Edwards and "The Dream Team" crap? What does that have to do with SciFi? Just what is their mission statement?
Amen!
One of the reasons I picked up a tivo for my dish was to watch interesting things - I never managed to catch anything broadcast real time or set the VCR for more than a couple weeks. After queuing the sucker up, I discovered how little was getting pulled from the scifi channel. So I looked at the offerings via the on-line guide thinking I'm missing something... only to discover how bad things really are.
Its just like having your favorite progressive rock station rebranded to a Kenny G / love line over the course of several years. Ye gods....
Of course they make hackers obsolete. I just got done spending a week making dotnet asp/vb code talk to a unix based web services. Did I want to learn about the wonders of a new webform? A few years back I could respect myself (somewhat) in the morning after some serious ATL development. I wonder if there is a 'hacker' audience anymore.
Now what they did not say is 'we make Crackers obsolete'. Their marketing department gets one right and everyone gripes...