If the counter-offer is just to allow them to replace you with someone cheaper, or if he feels you are worth the new rate to the company.
Ask for a 1 year (minimum) contract and provide an assurance you won't jump ship.
Be prepared for a higher work load. TANSTAAFL. You'll be expected to be worth more than the guy one cube over. ASK for more work if possible, or more responsibility. Suggest ways the company can improve, but only to your immediate boss. Be prepared that he'll take only the ones he likes and most likely will take credit higher up the food chain. Don't sweat it, eventually your enthusiasm will be noticed.
If you won't be happier working harder at the same job, than at the new one (big unknown that is highly subjective) then don't accept and jump. But, express your reasons to your old boss. Really, when not done in anger, honesty about why you are leaving is a good thing.
Upgrade all your Win98 users to 2000. Create a Win2k server (times two) and create a domain rather than a work group. Install MS SMS (yeecchhhh I had a hard time saying that). You can now backup your users systems without their knowledge or approval. Don't let them use encryption built into Win 2K without the requirement of an administrative password. Create fileservers where it is 'better' for users to store work related files. By a good network backup product, there are several, but you can start with just scripts administratively mounting peoples drives and backing them up. Check out sysinternals for some tools you'll need to survive. Pray to your deity often.
Better yet, move to Mac OS X or Linux (not that that will happen)...
Notetaking while reef diving? Able to survive drops into the swimming pool? Better specs to sell the military (sell it to the SEALs and fund the development:-)
I can wire bond a lot more than 4 dice in a 2" x 4" space, but I think I'd get at least 3" of width... YUV is just the conveinient format for the video memory to take. And I want higher res in memory than displayed to allow hardware zoom. And 12 bits of luminenciance lets me have high quality images the UV components are less of a requirement. The LCD drivers and the filters on the LCD make up the difference, current LCDs use and RGB filters (and an unfiltered area) for each pixel maybe my LCD will use hexachrome's light analog and have six filters per pixel. The driver electronics will do the conversion, I just want better than photo-quality images. And for action you want zbuffering for cheap effects. Higher quality graphics controllers would eliminate that need, but even then memory for hints would speed it up. Also, this is a Gedunkin experiment. We aren't limited to what's in the catalogs now. Last, don't mock the size too much, since 256 Meg Smart media exist and have around 1/16 inch thickness and 1 square inch of space and are roughly 1/2 just carrier plastic. At the 1963 Worlds Fair, Motorola showed a CRT based TV the size of a pack of butts. Not much of an accomplishment today, but back then... Also IBM made a 370 processor roughly the size of a hairy golfball in the late sixties/early seventies (pre-microprocessor). We used to design in 3d for circuitry. We will again as power usage drops to reasonable levels in our technology. Heck with some of the flexible thermal conductive cements maybe you could bond a set of the basic functionality chips to the titanium case directly and wirebond them between each other, so a 3.5 x 5 inch area for that and make the case split in the middle for the battery change (makes the water resistant requirement harder to meet though...)
128 Meg (optionally 512 Meg) of battery backed memory (better would be ferro-eletric non volitile RAM)
2 week battery life in normal use (recharger / sync cradle)
built in 802.11a/b (quad internal planer antennas with diversity receiver)
runs Mac OS X or Linux or... based on flash personality module (compact flash, or use a microdrive)
Firewire connection for sync / transfers and add-ons
low power (bluetooth isn't low enough yet) wireless for keypad/trackpad
trackpad built into the protective cover
water resistant to 30 meters
high efficiency backlight
128 bits per pixel (((12Y,8U,8V)+32Z)x2)+8A, 216 pixels per inch
3 in by 4.5 in. touch screen display. Hardware zoom if optional memory installed.
normal 16Meg video memory, 256Meg optional (with power save for unused memory)
stereo audio, in and out
builtin MP3 (or better) compression
builtin camera (640x480) with MPEG 4 or better compression
IR transciever (for making really cool remotes or mundanely to print items)
Linux open source drivers from the maker for all built-ins.
low power dsp to enhance voice recognition and graphics (or a fast enough main processor)
price tag under $1000
Except for the pricetag and the battery life, this device could be built today. And the battery life could be accomadated perhaps by a butane or alcohol fuel cell, but heck even if the battery life was 36 hours of normal use, I'd bite. And, if the ferro-electric memory were used there is potential for lower power usage over all (no current needed while device is "off") but even though it has been around a while, little money is spent on the research for ferro-electric memory in comparision to mainstream memory technologies. (note: despite the name, no iron is involved, it just harkens to the days of magnetic donuts). And, you might have to make a ceramic over metal plate substrate with the chips directly wirebonded on it to make the density and heat disappation requirements with current technology.
Similarly a mechanic once answered the question "How fast can you make it go?" with "How much money do you have."
And is an unlicensed user of the spectrum. Fortunately current technology can compensate.
At 900 MHz Government and vehicle location are primary, and amatuers are among the secondary authorized users. Part 15 devices just add to the noise that other services must overcome.
In both bands, amatuer operations are swamped, if low power, by the increase in the noise floor. However, amatuers can operate on those bands with enough power using the same spread spectrum scheme such that the WiFi would be useless for PArt 15 devices. But its unlikely given the nature of the amatuer radio service (recently the FCC relaxed the allowable spread spectrum/frequency hopping restrictions on amatuers).
This is where that portion of the FCC regs. for Part 15 devices is critical, in that they must not create interference for the licensed users of the spectrum and must accept interference from them. Not an exact quote, but you get the drift.
In a nutshell, if you use unlicensed devices in spectrum where other services are authorized for higher power, you get what you'd expect. Now 5GHz is a great place to be! BTW when I key up on 2.4 GHz with 10 watts, my 802.11b network shuts down pretty hard. With only 50 feet or so of seperation the front end of the WiFi receivers gets overloaded even though I am not all that close in frequency, it is just the radio circuitry in the WiFi devices is just barely adequate so they can meet their price point and comply with the FCC regs. Better frequency agile receivers could be put in the devices and most likely will be as more devices crowd in. Also automatic power control will get better and the potentially they'll create a third scheme for the spread spectrum use that is more adaptive and as such would accomadate more users.
Last, everyone knows that they can change the channel their network is on, right. I have found several swamped WiFi networks all clashing on channel 1 when there was plenty of usable spectrum up the band. (Powerbooks are great portable diagnostic tools even though the UI is cheesy for the Airport software and the third party tools are scarce due to lack of internal Airport info.)
I'll pay the $250 a year without hesitation. I already pay around $90 a month now, the extra $20 wouldn't be an issue. However, I want the TV shows to start on time. I don't like sports, so don't ever give me a "We now join the normal broadcast already in progress." I don't want shows put in the guide and then pulled. Just because some larger demographic doesn't like some show that you bought 12 episodes of, don't leave me hanging and cancel after 6 are aired with everything at loose ends, you have enough broadcast assets that you can air the rest on your non-broadcast / 'cable' networks. In other words if you want me to pay you for the privelidge of skipping past commercials, I don't want flack for doing it, and I want much higher quality of service for what I care about. When I say record this episode, I don't want some producer deciding I don't really want the whole thing! Even Showtime is guilty of bad start stop times, get it together 'networks'.
The better solution that should occur rather than multi-billion dollar industries crying poor is for advertisers to come up with better ads. There have been a few that have caught my eye that I stopped and watched. I don't think the broadcast industry has the stomach to actually develop quality products though. Just look at the rash this season of the replacment shows and then the replacements of the replacements. Monty Python would be proud. It takes time for a cast to jell and the chemistry to build. Just look at how disjoint the first season of so many shows that are now well watched were (Buffy is a great example, as were the first dozen 'Trek episodes (pick any of the trek family, it seems universal, er paramount:)). But until you get a network executive that understands the TV watching audience and that it takes time to build an audience, that you can't show 2 new episodes followed by 2 reruns and a month hiatus and build a following, they just don't get it. I could do better, heck almost anyone could do better than most of them this season. It comes down to salesmanship.
Lastly, if we skip the commercials, just charge more for product placement. Put those blue "dial down the center" buttons on the phones (or the 1-800-collect stickers, like "Tracker" has on set), leave a Coke truck in the background of the shot, have someone actually unwrap a package of Hanes underware. Just don't make it part of the story make it natural and incidental and through repitition people will associate the products with the stars and you gain that influence vector, and you gain name / brand recognition.
Also, the reason I skip commercials is I want more TV in less time. I can watch 1.5 hours of broadcast time TV in 1 hour realtime by skipping. So if they went subtle with product placement I'd see 1.5 times as much advertising per hour than the broadcast viewer, so I should get paid to watch at that point. (and in fact the raw demographics that are gathered represent a valuable comodity that you'd otherwise pay big bucks to gather through multiple focus groups, etc. So don't come crying that you are losing revenue when you are gaining information on the cheap, particularly when you use the courts to get it for free.)
Don't forget about IOSTREAMS and LOCALES which are also part of STL. They support wide characters, case insensitive sorting locale based sort orders, etc.
Also, as to Unicode characters, very few libraries handle them properly, it is not just a matter of handling 16 bit representations. You also want byte order to be considered for I/O, escape characters, composite characters, equivalent characters, UTF-7, UTF-8, and UTF-32 (the only completely unfolded representation) in addition to UTF-16. Used properly it has some of the best Unicode foundation support.
http://beta.tivo.com/beta_app.html is the page to sign up to beta.
I have the same problem on all three DirectTivos I have. Sometimes it hangs hard (takes unplugging to resolve) sometimes it takes a 3-5 minute wait. All are unmodified, and one is Sony, the other two Hughes.
Buy WinDVR... Or participate in the Linux equivalent. Then when you are tired of no guide at your disposal, take a look at Replay and Tivo and understand...
"I am thinking that creating 'imitation' child pornography is not any better. Somewhat like robbing a store with a fake gun."
More like robbing a fake store with a fake gun. Sort of like those things called 'movies'.
"I wont garner a lot of support on this as I can already here replies to the above but people who like to look at child pornography become people who want to act out on what they have been taking in."
So people who watch robberies in movies become people who want to become robbers? Very flawed logic. Please do not go see the movie Deliverence if you feel this way. And oh my gosh the reality cop shows just have to go! Seriously, child explotation of any sort is really really bad, but unless you want government sanctioned morality in all facets of life, this was just bad law. Enforce the laws against child explotation to the fullest, make the penalties tougher, makes the laws more defined, but never, never, never believe the government is your babysitter and will protect you from all the ills of the world. It just won't happen, and selective enforcement will put your liberties at risk.
Obviously you never did the "Earth and Space Science" experiment in high school where you take two glasses (of the same volume) and pack cotton balls in one, and fill the other almost to the top with water. Then pour the water into the cotton filled glass. No spill. Alternately take the volume of sugar that can be disolved into a glass of water. All that solid looking stuff is not so solid. I also presume the hydrogen is under pressure in the rock and the volume statistic is presented at STP. (Standard temerature and pressure). I vote for the sea bottom methane in hydrates being mined and then have the CO2 portion absobed by the technology in todays article regarding that tech. One could even steam crack the methane to extract hydrogen and have CO2 absorbers locally (for better absorbtion efficiency) and then use the hydrogen resultant of the process to pipe as a gas (as a liquid would be 'cool' but then you'd have to contend with really bizarre pipeline accidents. "Twenty frozen and 30 incinerated in HydroTransport Company pipeline failure." (apologies if there is a real HydroTransport company; the one I mention is a fiction. This statement made to shed liability from foolish lawyers who'll sue for any reason.)
Just repackage the base Windows NT / 200 / XP embedded product with none of the options. Voila. Then, just like plus pack was a separate product, have the free download for the enhancement packs. Bundle all the required cruft needed by office on office, etc. By the time you install Office with all the trimmings (the unfortunate predetermined choice of most businesses and hence mass market consumers) you'll be right back to where you are now, only without the anti-trust implications. I mean, office needing the browser is sort of obvious with Frontpage there, and IE needs / can use the media player guts legitimately, etc.) The states have lost and just don't know it. There are so many creative ways around any potential ruling. What they need is to have the individual companies that were legitimately wronged by the use of monopoly power to get realistic settlements / damages. The states just want to line their pockets in the same manner as the RIAA (what artist sees any of the awards from court cases). Quick question for our Canadian friends. Do any artists get any of the fees placed on recordable media up there, or is it just the 'music industry' companies that share the loot like it is here?
Darn, all that lime we spread around on yards as a soil enrichment. Can't put soil enrichment where it might encourage growth in landfills to force some biodegradation. Next think you know they'll put some benificial nitrates or nitrites in our food too. Oh wait, they do. Well, if you like bologna or other processed meats. Man, just so long as they don't put in any ascorbic acid. Darn, they do that already too. Maybe I'll just give up and stop eating all chemicals. I'll just process pure energy directly from the sun and use that to... well no that's a chemical process too, well then I'll... no that's uses chemicals too... Oh well. I'll just give up and die. Darn that starts some chemical processes too. I'll have to settle on total cryogenic storage at as close to absolute zero and probably off planet as well.
If it is sufficiently finely divided (pure cement works best, i.e., no sand or aggregate added) then you can zap it with ultrasonics as it sets and reduce the entrenched air to nil.
Popular Science in the seventies (I think) had an article on concrete springs. I think they showed one cast as a coil spring and put in place in a vehicle under load. Couldn't find it on line but I am sure someone with access to a well equipped err... paper based library, can find a reference in an archive or on microfiche.
Except that foil backed insulation will make big capacitive coupling areas. I'll take a liquid tight room submersed in mercury for my secure comm room:-) Besides, you can listen to some real good Jazz on the 'Net at the expense of a little bandwidth through the firewall.
Considering in some states (NH in particular) the delivery can be to the last known abode of, rather than the individual. I know that the state routinely ignores the statute requiring certified mail for delivery and accepts statements that an item was mailed as proof it was delivered, _without_ any concrete proof other than a stement or log entry to the effect it was mailed. The state will often mail traffic court notices to addresses that are years old... even though they have access directly to the registration and drivers license address changes...
Another reason for the Mac OS X mailer option to not download HTML not embedded in the message, and have the option to bounce it back to the sender as if the mail server bounced it... Good security means no proof of service.
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Wasn't it the mix between passing metric units and expecting English that trashed the Mars probe during the descent stage? Or vice versa?
So Units matter. Don't want to program it to stop, 39+ inches past the end of the track:-).
Check out Shuttle's SS40 system. Basically the same I/O layout but takes AMD XP and Duron processors up to 2 GHz.
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As others have noted. Apple did this with the TAM in 1997. A bit pricy at the time but a nice machine.
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Encourage the company to do this. There are hundreds if not thousands of _very_ smart folks that we gleefully create a derivitive work from their derivitive work that explicitly explains in great detail just what the code does in comments and they'll put variable names in that mean something. It could event be made into a contest (get EFF sponsorship?), 'The Deobfuscated C++ Contest'...
If the original GPL code is 30% of the product that certainly qualifies as substantial contribution, and is not the case of using a tool that could otherwise be a different tool. Since one could say that the obfuscation program compiles the original GPL code to the obfuscated form, then the original GPL code is still the source. Unless it is LGPL code, then it would seem the entirity of their program would be forced under GPL.
Since this is from the manager of the Flash products, is there an internal struggle in process with the (very hack thing to say) award winning Dreamweaver (and Fireworks) product. Well designed HTML from Dreamweaver along with Fireworks graphics (with Javascript behind the scenes, invisible to most web developers using the products) can do the job quite well.
Where Flash works well is when you want cleanly scaled vector graphics. BUT, the XML based SVG does that better (IMNSHO) than Flash does. (NOTE To MACROMEDIA LEGAL STAFF: THIS IS JUST MY OPINION:)
Of course Steve Jobs derided Adobe for not having Photoshop ready in January, but where is DVD Studio Pro for Mac OS X. You'd think that Apple could at least get their own high end software out the door a bit faster... Sigh.
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If the counter-offer is just to allow them to replace you with someone cheaper, or if he feels you are worth the new rate to the company.
Ask for a 1 year (minimum) contract and provide an assurance you won't jump ship.
Be prepared for a higher work load. TANSTAAFL. You'll be expected to be worth more than the guy one cube over. ASK for more work if possible, or more responsibility. Suggest ways the company can improve, but only to your immediate boss. Be prepared that he'll take only the ones he likes and most likely will take credit higher up the food chain. Don't sweat it, eventually your enthusiasm will be noticed.
If you won't be happier working harder at the same job, than at the new one (big unknown that is highly subjective) then don't accept and jump. But, express your reasons to your old boss. Really, when not done in anger, honesty about why you are leaving is a good thing.
Upgrade all your Win98 users to 2000. Create a Win2k server (times two) and create a domain rather than a work group. Install MS SMS (yeecchhhh I had a hard time saying that). You can now backup your users systems without their knowledge or approval. Don't let them use encryption built into Win 2K without the requirement of an administrative password. Create fileservers where it is 'better' for users to store work related files. By a good network backup product, there are several, but you can start with just scripts administratively mounting peoples drives and backing them up. Check out sysinternals for some tools you'll need to survive. Pray to your deity often.
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Better yet, move to Mac OS X or Linux (not that that will happen)
Notetaking while reef diving? Able to survive drops into the swimming pool? Better specs to sell the military (sell it to the SEALs and fund the development :-)
Lots!
I can wire bond a lot more than 4 dice in a 2" x 4" space, but I think I'd get at least 3" of width ... ... Also IBM made a 370 processor roughly the size of a hairy golfball in the late sixties/early seventies (pre-microprocessor). We used to design in 3d for circuitry. We will again as power usage drops to reasonable levels in our technology. Heck with some of the flexible thermal conductive cements maybe you could bond a set of the basic functionality chips to the titanium case directly and wirebond them between each other, so a 3.5 x 5 inch area for that and make the case split in the middle for the battery change (makes the water resistant requirement harder to meet though ...)
YUV is just the conveinient format for the video memory to take. And I want higher res in memory than displayed to allow hardware zoom. And 12 bits of luminenciance lets me have high quality images the UV components are less of a requirement. The LCD drivers and the filters on the LCD make up the difference, current LCDs use and RGB filters (and an unfiltered area) for each pixel maybe my LCD will use hexachrome's light analog and have six filters per pixel. The driver electronics will do the conversion, I just want better than photo-quality images. And for action you want zbuffering for cheap effects. Higher quality graphics controllers would eliminate that need, but even then memory for hints would speed it up. Also, this is a Gedunkin experiment. We aren't limited to what's in the catalogs now. Last, don't mock the size too much, since 256 Meg Smart media exist and have around 1/16 inch thickness and 1 square inch of space and are roughly 1/2 just carrier plastic. At the 1963 Worlds Fair, Motorola showed a CRT based TV the size of a pack of butts. Not much of an accomplishment today, but back then
PPC based
12.5 mm / 0.5 in. thick, 3.5 in. x 5 in.
Titanium alloy shell (more interior room, durable)
128 Meg (optionally 512 Meg) of battery backed memory (better would be ferro-eletric non volitile RAM)
2 week battery life in normal use (recharger / sync cradle)
built in 802.11a/b (quad internal planer antennas with diversity receiver)
runs Mac OS X or Linux or ... based on flash personality module (compact flash, or use a microdrive)
Firewire connection for sync / transfers and add-ons
low power (bluetooth isn't low enough yet) wireless for keypad/trackpad
trackpad built into the protective cover
water resistant to 30 meters
high efficiency backlight
128 bits per pixel (((12Y,8U,8V)+32Z)x2)+8A, 216 pixels per inch
3 in by 4.5 in. touch screen display. Hardware zoom if optional memory installed.
normal 16Meg video memory, 256Meg optional (with power save for unused memory)
stereo audio, in and out
builtin MP3 (or better) compression
builtin camera (640x480) with MPEG 4 or better compression
IR transciever (for making really cool remotes or mundanely to print items)
Linux open source drivers from the maker for all built-ins.
low power dsp to enhance voice recognition and graphics (or a fast enough main processor)
price tag under $1000
Except for the pricetag and the battery life, this device could be built today. And the battery life could be accomadated perhaps by a butane or alcohol fuel cell, but heck even if the battery life was 36 hours of normal use, I'd bite. And, if the ferro-electric memory were used there is potential for lower power usage over all (no current needed while device is "off") but even though it has been around a while, little money is spent on the research for ferro-electric memory in comparision to mainstream memory technologies. (note: despite the name, no iron is involved, it just harkens to the days of magnetic donuts). And, you might have to make a ceramic over metal plate substrate with the chips directly wirebonded on it to make the density and heat disappation requirements with current technology.
Similarly a mechanic once answered the question "How fast can you make it go?" with "How much money do you have."
And is an unlicensed user of the spectrum. Fortunately current technology can compensate.
At 900 MHz Government and vehicle location are primary, and amatuers are among the secondary authorized users. Part 15 devices just add to the noise that other services must overcome.
In both bands, amatuer operations are swamped, if low power, by the increase in the noise floor. However, amatuers can operate on those bands with enough power using the same spread spectrum scheme such that the WiFi would be useless for PArt 15 devices. But its unlikely given the nature of the amatuer radio service (recently the FCC relaxed the allowable spread spectrum/frequency hopping restrictions on amatuers).
This is where that portion of the FCC regs. for Part 15 devices is critical, in that they must not create interference for the licensed users of the spectrum and must accept interference from them. Not an exact quote, but you get the drift.
In a nutshell, if you use unlicensed devices in spectrum where other services are authorized for higher power, you get what you'd expect. Now 5GHz is a great place to be! BTW when I key up on 2.4 GHz with 10 watts, my 802.11b network shuts down pretty hard. With only 50 feet or so of seperation the front end of the WiFi receivers gets overloaded even though I am not all that close in frequency, it is just the radio circuitry in the WiFi devices is just barely adequate so they can meet their price point and comply with the FCC regs. Better frequency agile receivers could be put in the devices and most likely will be as more devices crowd in. Also automatic power control will get better and the potentially they'll create a third scheme for the spread spectrum use that is more adaptive and as such would accomadate more users.
Last, everyone knows that they can change the channel their network is on, right. I have found several swamped WiFi networks all clashing on channel 1 when there was plenty of usable spectrum up the band. (Powerbooks are great portable diagnostic tools even though the UI is cheesy for the Airport software and the third party tools are scarce due to lack of internal Airport info.)
I'll pay the $250 a year without hesitation. I already pay around $90 a month now, the extra $20 wouldn't be an issue. However, I want the TV shows to start on time. I don't like sports, so don't ever give me a "We now join the normal broadcast already in progress." I don't want shows put in the guide and then pulled. Just because some larger demographic doesn't like some show that you bought 12 episodes of, don't leave me hanging and cancel after 6 are aired with everything at loose ends, you have enough broadcast assets that you can air the rest on your non-broadcast / 'cable' networks. In other words if you want me to pay you for the privelidge of skipping past commercials, I don't want flack for doing it, and I want much higher quality of service for what I care about. When I say record this episode, I don't want some producer deciding I don't really want the whole thing! Even Showtime is guilty of bad start stop times, get it together 'networks'.
The better solution that should occur rather than multi-billion dollar industries crying poor is for advertisers to come up with better ads. There have been a few that have caught my eye that I stopped and watched. I don't think the broadcast industry has the stomach to actually develop quality products though. Just look at the rash this season of the replacment shows and then the replacements of the replacements. Monty Python would be proud. It takes time for a cast to jell and the chemistry to build. Just look at how disjoint the first season of so many shows that are now well watched were (Buffy is a great example, as were the first dozen 'Trek episodes (pick any of the trek family, it seems universal, er paramount:)). But until you get a network executive that understands the TV watching audience and that it takes time to build an audience, that you can't show 2 new episodes followed by 2 reruns and a month hiatus and build a following, they just don't get it. I could do better, heck almost anyone could do better than most of them this season. It comes down to salesmanship.
Lastly, if we skip the commercials, just charge more for product placement. Put those blue "dial down the center" buttons on the phones (or the 1-800-collect stickers, like "Tracker" has on set), leave a Coke truck in the background of the shot, have someone actually unwrap a package of Hanes underware. Just don't make it part of the story make it natural and incidental and through repitition people will associate the products with the stars and you gain that influence vector, and you gain name / brand recognition.
Also, the reason I skip commercials is I want more TV in less time. I can watch 1.5 hours of broadcast time TV in 1 hour realtime by skipping. So if they went subtle with product placement I'd see 1.5 times as much advertising per hour than the broadcast viewer, so I should get paid to watch at that point. (and in fact the raw demographics that are gathered represent a valuable comodity that you'd otherwise pay big bucks to gather through multiple focus groups, etc. So don't come crying that you are losing revenue when you are gaining information on the cheap, particularly when you use the courts to get it for free.)
Don't forget about IOSTREAMS and LOCALES which are also part of STL. They support wide characters, case insensitive sorting locale based sort orders, etc.
Also, as to Unicode characters, very few libraries handle them properly, it is not just a matter of handling 16 bit representations. You also want byte order to be considered for I/O, escape characters, composite characters, equivalent characters, UTF-7, UTF-8, and UTF-32 (the only completely unfolded representation) in addition to UTF-16. Used properly it has some of the best Unicode foundation support.
http://beta.tivo.com/beta_app.html is the page to sign up to beta.
I have the same problem on all three DirectTivos I have. Sometimes it hangs hard (takes unplugging to resolve) sometimes it takes a 3-5 minute wait. All are unmodified, and one is Sony, the other two Hughes.
Buy WinDVR ... Or participate in the Linux equivalent. Then when you are tired of no guide at your disposal, take a look at Replay and Tivo and understand ...
I guess IE on the Mac works better. No such problems there.
"I am thinking that creating 'imitation' child pornography is not any better. Somewhat like robbing a store with a fake gun."
More like robbing a fake store with a fake gun. Sort of like those things called 'movies'.
"I wont garner a lot of support on this as I can already here replies to the above but people who like to look at child pornography become people who want to act out on what they have been taking in."
So people who watch robberies in movies become people who want to become robbers? Very flawed logic. Please do not go see the movie Deliverence if you feel this way. And oh my gosh the reality cop shows just have to go!
Seriously, child explotation of any sort is really really bad, but unless you want government sanctioned morality in all facets of life, this was just bad law. Enforce the laws against child explotation to the fullest, make the penalties tougher, makes the laws more defined, but never, never, never believe the government is your babysitter and will protect you from all the ills of the world. It just won't happen, and selective enforcement will put your liberties at risk.
Obviously you never did the "Earth and Space Science" experiment in high school where you take two glasses (of the same volume) and pack cotton balls in one, and fill the other almost to the top with water. Then pour the water into the cotton filled glass. No spill. Alternately take the volume of sugar that can be disolved into a glass of water. All that solid looking stuff is not so solid. I also presume the hydrogen is under pressure in the rock and the volume statistic is presented at STP. (Standard temerature and pressure). I vote for the sea bottom methane in hydrates being mined and then have the CO2 portion absobed by the technology in todays article regarding that tech. One could even steam crack the methane to extract hydrogen and have CO2 absorbers locally (for better absorbtion efficiency) and then use the hydrogen resultant of the process to pipe as a gas (as a liquid would be 'cool' but then you'd have to contend with really bizarre pipeline accidents. "Twenty frozen and 30 incinerated in HydroTransport Company pipeline failure." (apologies if there is a real HydroTransport company; the one I mention is a fiction. This statement made to shed liability from foolish lawyers who'll sue for any reason.)
Just repackage the base Windows NT / 200 / XP embedded product with none of the options. Voila. Then, just like plus pack was a separate product, have the free download for the enhancement packs. Bundle all the required cruft needed by office on office, etc. By the time you install Office with all the trimmings (the unfortunate predetermined choice of most businesses and hence mass market consumers) you'll be right back to where you are now, only without the anti-trust implications. I mean, office needing the browser is sort of obvious with Frontpage there, and IE needs / can use the media player guts legitimately, etc.) The states have lost and just don't know it. There are so many creative ways around any potential ruling. What they need is to have the individual companies that were legitimately wronged by the use of monopoly power to get realistic settlements / damages. The states just want to line their pockets in the same manner as the RIAA (what artist sees any of the awards from court cases). Quick question for our Canadian friends. Do any artists get any of the fees placed on recordable media up there, or is it just the 'music industry' companies that share the loot like it is here?
Darn, all that lime we spread around on yards as a soil enrichment. Can't put soil enrichment where it might encourage growth in landfills to force some biodegradation. Next think you know they'll put some benificial nitrates or nitrites in our food too. Oh wait, they do. Well, if you like bologna or other processed meats. Man, just so long as they don't put in any ascorbic acid. Darn, they do that already too. Maybe I'll just give up and stop eating all chemicals. I'll just process pure energy directly from the sun and use that to ... well no that's a chemical process too, well then I'll ... no that's uses chemicals too ... Oh well. I'll just give up and die. Darn that starts some chemical processes too. I'll have to settle on total cryogenic storage at as close to absolute zero and probably off planet as well.
If it is sufficiently finely divided (pure cement works best, i.e., no sand or aggregate added) then you can zap it with ultrasonics as it sets and reduce the entrenched air to nil.
Popular Science in the seventies (I think) had an article on concrete springs. I think they showed one cast as a coil spring and put in place in a vehicle under load. Couldn't find it on line but I am sure someone with access to a well equipped err... paper based library, can find a reference in an archive or on microfiche.
Except that foil backed insulation will make big capacitive coupling areas. I'll take a liquid tight room submersed in mercury for my secure comm room :-) Besides, you can listen to some real good Jazz on the 'Net at the expense of a little bandwidth through the firewall.
Considering in some states (NH in particular) the delivery can be to the last known abode of, rather than the individual. I know that the state routinely ignores the statute requiring certified mail for delivery and accepts statements that an item was mailed as proof it was delivered, _without_ any concrete proof other than a stement or log entry to the effect it was mailed. The state will often mail traffic court notices to addresses that are years old... even though they have access directly to the registration and drivers license address changes ...
Another reason for the Mac OS X mailer option to not download HTML not embedded in the message, and have the option to bounce it back to the sender as if the mail server bounced it... Good security means no proof of service.
Wasn't it the mix between passing metric units and expecting English that trashed the Mars probe during the descent stage? Or vice versa?
:-).
So Units matter. Don't want to program it to stop, 39+ inches past the end of the track
Check out Shuttle's SS40 system. Basically the same I/O layout but takes AMD XP and Duron processors up to 2 GHz.
As others have noted. Apple did this with the TAM in 1997. A bit pricy at the time but a nice machine.
Encourage the company to do this. There are hundreds if not thousands of _very_ smart folks that we gleefully create a derivitive work from their derivitive work that explicitly explains in great detail just what the code does in comments and they'll put variable names in that mean something. It could event be made into a contest (get EFF sponsorship?), 'The Deobfuscated C++ Contest' ...
If the original GPL code is 30% of the product that certainly qualifies as substantial contribution, and is not the case of using a tool that could otherwise be a different tool. Since one could say that the obfuscation program compiles the original GPL code to the obfuscated form, then the original GPL code is still the source. Unless it is LGPL code, then it would seem the entirity of their program would be forced under GPL.
Since this is from the manager of the Flash products, is there an internal struggle in process with the (very hack thing to say) award winning Dreamweaver (and Fireworks) product. Well designed HTML from Dreamweaver along with Fireworks graphics (with Javascript behind the scenes, invisible to most web developers using the products) can do the job quite well.
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Where Flash works well is when you want cleanly scaled vector graphics. BUT, the XML based SVG does that better (IMNSHO) than Flash does. (NOTE To MACROMEDIA LEGAL STAFF: THIS IS JUST MY OPINION
Of course Steve Jobs derided Adobe for not having Photoshop ready in January, but where is DVD Studio Pro for Mac OS X. You'd think that Apple could at least get their own high end software out the door a bit faster ... Sigh.