Honestly, in the worst case scenario, I could always play the CD on my home stereo and connect the output into the audio-in on my PC and record the damn thing in SoundForge or the like.
And that they understand. Becuase then you are making an analog copy that is degraded from the original. Same scenario if you try to make a copy of a cassette - your only basic option is to capture first in analog before you convert it to digital thereby reducing the sound quality.
Right. Because after reading that article, I thought, "Boy, if *I* was a CEO, this is how my guys would program everything." Actually, he says in there that writing everything in Assembly is not for every project.
So what's great about it is that if someone is looking to make a step to become a better programmer, this would be a good direction to check out so that you truly understand your code. If you are happy being a VB code jockey (or any code jockey for that matter) then rejoice! and don't take the time to learn Assembly.
But you can live close to where you work, pretty much wherever your work happens to be.
I don't know where you live, but I work in downtown Charlotte (NC) and before that worked in downtown Tampa (FL). Both of those had no viable living anywhere close to it, unless you either had over $400,000 to spend on a "luxury condo" or wanted to live somewhere where your safety might be in jeopordy.
That is usually what we do. The challenge is that different manufacturers have a different length of time as to when the car is no longer "charged", and all that goes out the window (sorry) when the car has been in an accident.
The first rule to fire/ems is my safety, followed by that of my team, then of you, then property damage. Based on that, anything that might be a hazard will have an attempt to be mitigated. I know for me one of the scariest rescues I've performed was a truck that crashed into a power pole with a transformer, and having to cut through the truck with the exposed power line on my shoulder with the electric guy assuring us it was safe.
Police departments and rescue squads pay a lot of money for Motorola and Icom walkie-talkies and in-vehicle radios, but it doesn't mean that equipping police cars and ambulances with $40 Cobra CB radios and giving cops $50/pair Uniden FRS/GMRS walkie talkies would be a clever move.
Before moving to NC, I spent 7 1/2 years with a large fire/rescue department in Florida. The radios we had - Motorola's - were worse then the old analog systems we used when I first started. As in you couldn't key up, the radios would not receive inside patient's houses, etc. For a 15 million dollar or so system, I think I would rather take a CB and some repeaters then the junk Motorola sold us.
I have to agree that it is certainly becoming easier to work remotely. When I moved to North Carolina in January, my previous job kept me on board. I can easily VPN to them, authenticate to the network and get all of my shared drives, and, because we use Cisco's IP Phone, have a local Tampa number in Charlotte, NC that I answer with my computer. Except for the fact that my cubicle is empty down there, you would have no idea I was even gone.
In my present position we use as many tools as possible to facilitate being able to work from home if so desired (like Source OffSite, our bugtracker on a public facing address, etc), but the best part is that there is no requirement we work from home. If I come up with an idea on how to solve some issue at 11pm at night, I can hop on, check out the code and make the changes.
The hardest part for me about working from home is (as another poster mentioned) the distractions. We just moved into a house where I was able to grab a bedroom and turn it into an office, so at least I can close the door if need be, but if you have a hard time seperating yourself out from that, working at home is only going to make things more difficult for you.
Nope, most any person who is trapped - dead or alive - has to be pulled out, and since we are the only ones trained to do it, guess who gets called out?
The difference is that we generally wouldn't go emergency if it was a definate body recovery. But IO have certainly cut my share of dead and alive patients out of cars.
The thing about all of this is that, in an accident bad enough, you can't guarantee any emergency system within the car is going to work. I don't care *what* the manufacturer says, if it were my guys they would be wearing any protection we could give them.
The problem isn't just limited to Hybrid cars. Think about the cars that have side-impact airbags, air cushions, etc. Anywhere we want to cut could contain within it an airbag ready to deploy. Worse, even those manufacturers don't have a standard for how long before a system is deenergized. At least with steering wheel airbags we can put a special cover over it.
As another poster pointed out, they didn't specify *what* laws they were going to do anything. They merely said that if they didn't take it down, they would begin reviewing what legal options they had available to them. Maybe they don't have any, maybe they do - but if I had Apple's lawyers on my back I might want to take it down too until I found out they had no chance of touching me.
I will second the Trackball Explorer. It takes some getting used to, but there is no way I would ever use a thumb trackball again. Still pretty expensive to buy in the stores (~40 USD) but you can pick one up on Ebay for a good price if you catch it right.
Also, I don't use the same thing for work and home. I use the Trackball and work and a regular USB optical mouse at home just to give everything a break.
I wasn't aware that I needed people in Washington telling me what is and is not good for me
My wife and I have had discussions about this, especially in relation to Gay marriages and how the gov't wants to ban them. We don't agree with the gov't banning gay marriages (and we are "Christians" ), but I can clearly see why they would want to.
Think about it from this perspective. You are a "good Christian" in a high position of power who sees the country "going to hell in a handbasket" because of all the "immoral things" going on. You feel it is your place to enact laws to stop these "evils" from "infecting" the county.
So you do. And because there are lots of other lawmakers like you, they go along with it. And who would, when it is put in the context that *you* are going to the great lake of fire for going against a law that says it's bad to have gay marriages, etc, etc. In fact, if you are going against it, you must be ready to be destroyed like all of those other immoral sinners from Sodom & Gomorrah.
As an adult you should be allowed to choose what happens to you.
Which is the whole point behind free will. If you are gay, and you get married to your partner, then go for it. If my wife or daughter has to have an abortion to save her life, yes it would hurt us terribly, but that should be our choice to make.
So basically, right on brother. If we are willing to impose our values on the rest of the world, we should be prepared to have their values imposed on us.
When I posted my comment, the ratio was that a majority of the comments were either "You should have asked Ars-Technica" or "Buy a Mac / Do it on Linux." Examples:
This question is akin to those who (after finding newgroups on OE), going straight to alt.folklore.computers & - seeing that it seems quite busy - asking "what does Missing Operating System" mean on their newly bought mass market POS.
Oh, I was going to go on at length about the demise of the typical post etc but I can't be bothered.
I didn't know how to get a full-sized image either, and know how to set my camera to VCR mode. And maybe the poster should have sent the question somewhere else. But the parent poster managed to make suggestions, and that is what this is all about.
I actually had the same problem as the poster. I have a DV camera, but wanted to be able to view the playback from the camera and a bigger than the 320x240 preview windows I was seeing. I can't buy a Mac, and I did Google for quite a bit (including on SourceForge) for DV playback. Somehow I didn't find it.
I downloaded and installed WinDV and in less than 3 minutes I have it doing exactly what I wanted. Thanks again for not being a jacka** like some other uberelite posters.
Ebay has it where you can use it for sign-in (though I don't), and I have seen it on other sites for registration. I had to get a Passport for work, and I tried it at some of those places. One site I signed-in with Passport, and it still wanted me to fill out all of the registration information - not verify what was there, but actually fill it all in again.
I guess it made me feel good to know they didn't just pass over my information, but made me immediately wonder what it was useful for.
"Software will become nn% harder to write every two years due to steadily increasing complexity in hardware and operating systems."
You are almost there. I'm not sure if you've had a chance to play with Visual Studio.NET, but those who use it would certainly beg to differ that it is harder to write using it. In fact, you can rapidly develop a whole lot with it.
The problem is that because it is so easy to "drag-n-drop" an interface, "developers" would rather do that then take the time to develop a correct architecture for their application that traps errors, etc. And, of course (and I have heard this before), it is hard to sell to customers saying that we have a well-tested, text-menu based UI, then to say, "our technology is leveraged on one of the top platforms in use, Microsoft.NET, enabling us to rapidly adapt to your company's ever-changing needs."
So maybe the law should say that "Developer's IQ points will decrease nn% for each advancement in software development software."
Mr Smith, lets show him a car loan or maybe tout a new Mortgage for Mr Jones.
Actually, you would be surprised to know you aren't that far off. I worked IT for a Credit Union a couple of years ago, and the new "wave" was to automatically compare your credit score with what you already had, etc, so we could target things. Basically, you could log onto the home banking, and be presented with a screen that says that you have already been approved for a 10k car loan, simply click to accept it.
Now with most people using Check Cards or Credit Cards from the same instituition it wouldn't shock me in the least to think about them aggregating and categorizing your expenses to target deals to you.
Yep - I've already emailed Michael. I checked everything in the story *except* that. Doubly embarrasing because I have had to perform catheter insertions before.
I think Web Services has its place. Is it going to "change the face of the web"? Perhaps, but not like the marketers say.
Let's be realistic. Web Services, as you said, started getting big 2 years ago. Which means that is when most PHBs heard about it. And it represents a fundamental change in the way a lot of businesses function. Which means that it will take a significant amount of time to adopt.
My personal feeling is that there are a lot of uses for it. Once we can get through the phase of competing standards, matching XML formats, etc, it is a useful tool.
But to call it huge, I don't know. Does it have it's place? Absolutlely. We've used it to get disparate systems talking to one another, which, granted, could have been done with Corba, or anything else. But the learning curve is much faster for the Junior programmers.
On the flip side, I think it is wrong to say it is going the way of the dodo. It has its use. Just like XML has its use. They *can* change the way businesses are run, but in the end, they will help in instances where they are needed, and save (or make) the companies money.
Or, it could become the Internet Naming and Numbering Agency -- or INNA.
Or, it could be the Internet Naming and Numbering Agency for Good Addresses, Delegated Domains, Aliases and Displayed Archives to Vehemently Investigate Dispute Allegations.
There. INNAGADDADAVIDA. Has a catchy ring to it, hmm?
If you looked at the bottom of the Property Appraiser's Page, you would see that the last transaction on the property was when it was sold in 2001 for $100.00. That's where it comes from.
Software Development Magazine has been running a series for about the past year called The Craftsman written by Robert C. Martin. It focuses on a young apprentice writing a java app with his mentors. Nothing is done that doesn't involve a test first.
While the series itself is kind of slow, it is a good introduction to TDD, and I really enjoy Robert's writing style. Might be able to lead you to some more examples.
I think that you are right to a degree. If every bus carried thirty to fifty people, I would be all for it. But having lived in two larger cities (Tampa, and now Charlotte) I rarely see anyone on the buses at all. So the perception to an average joe who sees the bus with 4 or 6 people on it chugging out emissions is that it is inefficient.
So for people looking at it in cities like those, the implication that taking away the buses wouldn't increase the vehicles, or only slightly, is a viewpoint that is very easy to jump to.
All in all I favor Public Transportation. Unfortunately the local governments rarely do so I've not been able to have bus service to and from where I work (in either city). But I don't base the position of buses on the emission scale based solely on that. I know there are plenty of places where that is a primary mode of transportation. Chicago was a great example of this - we would take a train in every morning.
The other thing Chicago had for it was that it was easy to decide between driving your own vehicle and riding Public Transport. Why? It costs around 20-40 USD a day to park downtown. Compare that to the $1.50 I was paying a day to park in downtown Tampa, and you can see it was much easier to pay $4 a day to ride the train in (or whatever it was).
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And that they understand. Becuase then you are making an analog copy that is degraded from the original. Same scenario if you try to make a copy of a cassette - your only basic option is to capture first in analog before you convert it to digital thereby reducing the sound quality.
Offtopic:
Your link to saving your friend is wrong. I get a 404. I was able to get to it by going to
http://savemenow2.blog-city.com/
Cory
Now that I know the phone number is real:
Geneva Jenratte, (765) 641-9865, 3021 Nichol Ave, Anderson, IN 46011
Right. Because after reading that article, I thought, "Boy, if *I* was a CEO, this is how my guys would program everything." Actually, he says in there that writing everything in Assembly is not for every project.
So what's great about it is that if someone is looking to make a step to become a better programmer, this would be a good direction to check out so that you truly understand your code. If you are happy being a VB code jockey (or any code jockey for that matter) then rejoice! and don't take the time to learn Assembly.
Especially if you are this guy
I don't know where you live, but I work in downtown Charlotte (NC) and before that worked in downtown Tampa (FL). Both of those had no viable living anywhere close to it, unless you either had over $400,000 to spend on a "luxury condo" or wanted to live somewhere where your safety might be in jeopordy.
A little late of a reply but...
That is usually what we do. The challenge is that different manufacturers have a different length of time as to when the car is no longer "charged", and all that goes out the window (sorry) when the car has been in an accident.
The first rule to fire/ems is my safety, followed by that of my team, then of you, then property damage. Based on that, anything that might be a hazard will have an attempt to be mitigated. I know for me one of the scariest rescues I've performed was a truck that crashed into a power pole with a transformer, and having to cut through the truck with the exposed power line on my shoulder with the electric guy assuring us it was safe.
Before moving to NC, I spent 7 1/2 years with a large fire/rescue department in Florida. The radios we had - Motorola's - were worse then the old analog systems we used when I first started. As in you couldn't key up, the radios would not receive inside patient's houses, etc. For a 15 million dollar or so system, I think I would rather take a CB and some repeaters then the junk Motorola sold us.
I have to agree that it is certainly becoming easier to work remotely. When I moved to North Carolina in January, my previous job kept me on board. I can easily VPN to them, authenticate to the network and get all of my shared drives, and, because we use Cisco's IP Phone, have a local Tampa number in Charlotte, NC that I answer with my computer. Except for the fact that my cubicle is empty down there, you would have no idea I was even gone.
In my present position we use as many tools as possible to facilitate being able to work from home if so desired (like Source OffSite, our bugtracker on a public facing address, etc), but the best part is that there is no requirement we work from home. If I come up with an idea on how to solve some issue at 11pm at night, I can hop on, check out the code and make the changes.
The hardest part for me about working from home is (as another poster mentioned) the distractions. We just moved into a house where I was able to grab a bedroom and turn it into an office, so at least I can close the door if need be, but if you have a hard time seperating yourself out from that, working at home is only going to make things more difficult for you.
Nope, most any person who is trapped - dead or alive - has to be pulled out, and since we are the only ones trained to do it, guess who gets called out?
The difference is that we generally wouldn't go emergency if it was a definate body recovery. But IO have certainly cut my share of dead and alive patients out of cars.
The thing about all of this is that, in an accident bad enough, you can't guarantee any emergency system within the car is going to work. I don't care *what* the manufacturer says, if it were my guys they would be wearing any protection we could give them.
The problem isn't just limited to Hybrid cars. Think about the cars that have side-impact airbags, air cushions, etc. Anywhere we want to cut could contain within it an airbag ready to deploy. Worse, even those manufacturers don't have a standard for how long before a system is deenergized. At least with steering wheel airbags we can put a special cover over it.
As another poster pointed out, they didn't specify *what* laws they were going to do anything. They merely said that if they didn't take it down, they would begin reviewing what legal options they had available to them. Maybe they don't have any, maybe they do - but if I had Apple's lawyers on my back I might want to take it down too until I found out they had no chance of touching me.
I will second the Trackball Explorer. It takes some getting used to, but there is no way I would ever use a thumb trackball again. Still pretty expensive to buy in the stores (~40 USD) but you can pick one up on Ebay for a good price if you catch it right.
Also, I don't use the same thing for work and home. I use the Trackball and work and a regular USB optical mouse at home just to give everything a break.
My wife and I have had discussions about this, especially in relation to Gay marriages and how the gov't wants to ban them. We don't agree with the gov't banning gay marriages (and we are "Christians" ), but I can clearly see why they would want to.
Think about it from this perspective. You are a "good Christian" in a high position of power who sees the country "going to hell in a handbasket" because of all the "immoral things" going on. You feel it is your place to enact laws to stop these "evils" from "infecting" the county.
So you do. And because there are lots of other lawmakers like you, they go along with it. And who would, when it is put in the context that *you* are going to the great lake of fire for going against a law that says it's bad to have gay marriages, etc, etc. In fact, if you are going against it, you must be ready to be destroyed like all of those other immoral sinners from Sodom & Gomorrah.
Which is the whole point behind free will. If you are gay, and you get married to your partner, then go for it. If my wife or daughter has to have an abortion to save her life, yes it would hurt us terribly, but that should be our choice to make.
So basically, right on brother. If we are willing to impose our values on the rest of the world, we should be prepared to have their values imposed on us.
When I posted my comment, the ratio was that a majority of the comments were either "You should have asked Ars-Technica" or "Buy a Mac / Do it on Linux." Examples:
I didn't know how to get a full-sized image either, and know how to set my camera to VCR mode. And maybe the poster should have sent the question somewhere else. But the parent poster managed to make suggestions, and that is what this is all about.
Thank you.
I actually had the same problem as the poster. I have a DV camera, but wanted to be able to view the playback from the camera and a bigger than the 320x240 preview windows I was seeing. I can't buy a Mac, and I did Google for quite a bit (including on SourceForge) for DV playback. Somehow I didn't find it.
I downloaded and installed WinDV and in less than 3 minutes I have it doing exactly what I wanted. Thanks again for not being a jacka** like some other uberelite posters.
Ebay has it where you can use it for sign-in (though I don't), and I have seen it on other sites for registration. I had to get a Passport for work, and I tried it at some of those places. One site I signed-in with Passport, and it still wanted me to fill out all of the registration information - not verify what was there, but actually fill it all in again.
I guess it made me feel good to know they didn't just pass over my information, but made me immediately wonder what it was useful for.
You are almost there. I'm not sure if you've had a chance to play with Visual Studio .NET, but those who use it would certainly beg to differ that it is harder to write using it. In fact, you can rapidly develop a whole lot with it.
The problem is that because it is so easy to "drag-n-drop" an interface, "developers" would rather do that then take the time to develop a correct architecture for their application that traps errors, etc. And, of course (and I have heard this before), it is hard to sell to customers saying that we have a well-tested, text-menu based UI, then to say, "our technology is leveraged on one of the top platforms in use, Microsoft .NET, enabling us to rapidly adapt to your company's ever-changing needs."
So maybe the law should say that "Developer's IQ points will decrease nn% for each advancement in software development software."
Actually, you would be surprised to know you aren't that far off. I worked IT for a Credit Union a couple of years ago, and the new "wave" was to automatically compare your credit score with what you already had, etc, so we could target things. Basically, you could log onto the home banking, and be presented with a screen that says that you have already been approved for a 10k car loan, simply click to accept it.
Now with most people using Check Cards or Credit Cards from the same instituition it wouldn't shock me in the least to think about them aggregating and categorizing your expenses to target deals to you.
Yep - I've already emailed Michael. I checked everything in the story *except* that. Doubly embarrasing because I have had to perform catheter insertions before.
Well, yes and no.
I think Web Services has its place. Is it going to "change the face of the web"? Perhaps, but not like the marketers say.
Let's be realistic. Web Services, as you said, started getting big 2 years ago. Which means that is when most PHBs heard about it. And it represents a fundamental change in the way a lot of businesses function. Which means that it will take a significant amount of time to adopt.
My personal feeling is that there are a lot of uses for it. Once we can get through the phase of competing standards, matching XML formats, etc, it is a useful tool.
But to call it huge, I don't know. Does it have it's place? Absolutlely. We've used it to get disparate systems talking to one another, which, granted, could have been done with Corba, or anything else. But the learning curve is much faster for the Junior programmers.
On the flip side, I think it is wrong to say it is going the way of the dodo. It has its use. Just like XML has its use. They *can* change the way businesses are run, but in the end, they will help in instances where they are needed, and save (or make) the companies money.
Or, it could be the Internet Naming and Numbering Agency for Good Addresses, Delegated Domains, Aliases and Displayed Archives to Vehemently Investigate Dispute Allegations.
There. INNAGADDADAVIDA. Has a catchy ring to it, hmm?
If you looked at the bottom of the Property Appraiser's Page, you would see that the last transaction on the property was when it was sold in 2001 for $100.00. That's where it comes from.
Software Development Magazine has been running a series for about the past year called The Craftsman written by Robert C. Martin. It focuses on a young apprentice writing a java app with his mentors. Nothing is done that doesn't involve a test first.
While the series itself is kind of slow, it is a good introduction to TDD, and I really enjoy Robert's writing style. Might be able to lead you to some more examples.
I think that you are right to a degree. If every bus carried thirty to fifty people, I would be all for it. But having lived in two larger cities (Tampa, and now Charlotte) I rarely see anyone on the buses at all. So the perception to an average joe who sees the bus with 4 or 6 people on it chugging out emissions is that it is inefficient.
So for people looking at it in cities like those, the implication that taking away the buses wouldn't increase the vehicles, or only slightly, is a viewpoint that is very easy to jump to.
All in all I favor Public Transportation. Unfortunately the local governments rarely do so I've not been able to have bus service to and from where I work (in either city). But I don't base the position of buses on the emission scale based solely on that. I know there are plenty of places where that is a primary mode of transportation. Chicago was a great example of this - we would take a train in every morning.
The other thing Chicago had for it was that it was easy to decide between driving your own vehicle and riding Public Transport. Why? It costs around 20-40 USD a day to park downtown. Compare that to the $1.50 I was paying a day to park in downtown Tampa, and you can see it was much easier to pay $4 a day to ride the train in (or whatever it was).
Unless they just made it an option that you could turn off - but was on by default.
And I highly doubt most people using scripts to do anything is using IE unless the site they are using requires it.