If I remember correctly from the diving class I took thirty years ago it's one atmosphere per 33 feet. Also it's safe to dive up to 33 feet for as long as you like and come up without decompressing. So I expect that there's something more at work here than just the change in pressure--like the change in the boiling temperature of water at various pressures.
Still, they remind you to be sure to breath out as you surface. Holding your breath is a sure way to wind up in the hospital or morgue.
Of course Finland and the US are very different. That's the point. It's is not the guns that cause the problem. It's the people. Their attitudes towards each other, their feeling of security in a community, their trust of their neighbors, and so on. Where it feels "we're practically all family" will be very different than where it feels like everyone is out to get you (at least to most of us with fairly normal families). Guns happen to be the tool of choice for violence. If it were, instead, say, rat poison, then there'd be a big argument that the countries with the most rat poison are the most dangerous.
They want to put up video cameras, fine. That's profitable for the video camera manufacturers. But it doesn't really do much for the crime or gangs.
I keep waiting for the gangs to use the cameras for advertising. You know, rob or rape or murder someone in front of the camera to prove they were the gang that did it and that they control the area. Don't you think a bunch of masked guys stabbing some rival gang member would make a point? They wouldn't even have to quote some religious leader. It would be like graffiti on police cars. Demonstrates they aren't afraid of the cops.
The cameras don't make me feel any safer. A camera's only purpose is to provide evidence to use after a crime is committed. It is supposed to make it easier to convict someone for a crime. It's deterrence is related to the deterrence of punishment in that it is only effective on someone who thinks about it, and does not take counter measures against recognition.
It's much more effective to have an alarm system than it is to back up your deadbolt locks with a gun.
You sir, are a fucking idiot.
Amen to that.
it can take 15 minutes or more for the officers to arrive.
You think that they will be that quick, huh?
I live six blocks from the main sheriff's station. Their helicopters regularly fly over my house. I live two blocks from the courthouse. Cops regularly drive by my house, several times a day. One day I had to replace the batteries in my alarm and it went off. I thought the service was disconnected so I didn't call in the false alarm. (The alarm will sound but no alarm company will ever respond because, in fact, the service had never been turned on by me after buying the house several years earlier.) I forgot completely about it. Four hours later two cars pulled up and a couple of sleepy looking deputies came to the door. FOUR HOURS LATER! They wrote me a ticket for causing a false alarm.
So all you would be burglars, do you think I expect the cops to protect me? Do you think I own a gun? Do you feel lucky? Well? Do you, punk? (Apologies to Mr. Eastwood.)
Personally, over the years, I've used Bugzilla, RT and Mantis and they are all very good. Bugzilla is hard for non-techies to understand. Mantis may be a little feature poor and is good for simple bug tracking. RT seems to be the best for general use by techies and muggles alike.
And, you probably remember, Radio Shack was the place to get all the parts you needed, and the guy behind the counter knew how to building an oscillator and could look at your hand drawn schematic and know what it was you were doing.
Nah. It was Lafayette Electronics for serious hobbyists. Or for the surplus stuff and high power transmitting tubes, there was Klystron in Pomona, CA. Bought a spool of magnet wire there to build a Tesla coil back in the day.
Whow sport!
Saying my boss tole me to will not protect you.
In the United States there is such a thing as criminal copyright infringement:
Title 17-
Sec. 506. Criminal offenses
(a) Criminal Infringement.--Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either-- (1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or (2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
And I've had this discussion with people since the browser came out.
A browser displays a mark-up language. It was never designed to be a page layout language.
If you want that kind of control over presentation, use GIFs, PDF or Flash to do your presentations.
Of course, if you're too lazy to do all that work go ahead and assume that all IE users have their system set up exactly like you do--same screen resolution, same color depth, same fonts, no changes to default browser settings--and, by all means, use IE. Every once in a while someone gets it but I think, as another poster mentioned, they're too lazy to bother.
The law specifically requires the camera sensor to be where a vehicle must stop. So if you're in the intersection already, you're home free.
Since you're in California, it's CA Vehicle Code section 21455.5(a). Sections 21455.5 - 21455.7 cover all this and even include your concerns about short yellow light cycles.
Here's an example. I was stuck at a red light on my motorcycle. The traffic sensor was not set up to be sensitive enough to detect that my bike was there so the light never would change to green unless another car came along. No car was comming along, there was no cross traffic. I waited for several minutes and finally just rode through. The camera would have given me a ticket.
Of course, the camera didn't sense me either so no one else ever knew.
Is there a classic way to externalize such hidden costs? There sure is. It's called FTE for Full Time Equivalant. It is based on how many full time employees something will save/cost the company.
"We used to develop 27 lines of code per hour here, and now we crank out 33." Let's see, that works out to 6 extra lines of code pre hour. 6/27 is.22 FTE gained by using the extra monitor. The bean counters can compare the amortized cost of the monitor against the cost of.22 programmers and see that it's a bargin.
Piece of cake. Write it up like any project you'd propose.
Just be sure you can back up the numbers somewhat. And a supervisor or manager that agrees on the increased productivity would be a big help.
I bought a TV card specifically to do this but never used it because this has worked so well:
I play the tape on a good VCR. The video and stereo audio output are hooked up to a Sony Digital Handycam (it's a DCR-TRV350). And the camcorder Firewire cable is connected to the PC.
This lets the Camcorder do all the heavy lifting. It outputs standard digital video which I capture with kino. I also use kino to do the clean-up, capture a frame (as a jpeg) and export some sound to use as the title screen for what will be the final DVD. The sound gets exported as a.wav which I convert to mp2 with ffmpeg.
Still with kino, I break up the video into chunks (about 4-6 minutes each) for chapters so I can skip through the DVD when it done. I then export the video in DVD format, telling kino to split chapters into seperate files (this makes chapter creation automatic in the next step).
I then use 'Q' DVD-Author to build the DVD filesystem. Although 'Q' DVD-Author can create the DVD automatically (calling dvdauthor), I prefer to tweak the dvdauthor.xml file to do some fun menu things and run dvdauthor manually.
I check my DVD (while still a directory on my hard disc) with totem, or mplayer. Finally I write it out using growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools project.
All this is running on a Debian system that is several years old. Nothing fancy or top-of-the-line here.
That's pretty much it. Been working great for me.
As for that TV card? Well, I watch TV with it - it's hooked up to my cable.
It seems, though, that they are looking for interfaces that bypass the cogintive functions and feed data directly to what we'd call feeling. Where a compass will only show you which way is north if you look at and find where the needle is pointing, the belt gives a constant throb in the nortern direction that does not require conscious thought.
There was a story a while back about people getting magnets (those super-strong rare earth ones) embedded under their finger tips. It gave them an ability to feel magnetic fields from sources such as power lines. This gave them an awareness of the fields at all times. It started to change the way they saw the world when they could feel the constant effects of the electricty flowing around them.
"... it's not like I wake up in the morning, choose my right pant then choose my left pant."
So that's what I've been doing wrong.
From now on I'll start choosing my left pant first.
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"I often Push on the Pull doors, just to see if they work...."
Yup. Same here.
I once walked up to the doors in a parking garage. The sign above the door knob said turn and push. So I did a pirouette and gave the door a shove.
It opened. You should have seen the looks on the faces of the people around me.
Anyway, back to the main topic.
I suspect the "not invented here" problem is why these code repositories aren't used. Most of us programmers don't want to use someone else's code because we have to first figure it out, and then use/interface with it. We tend to think it's easier to just re-write the thing. You know, just like the complete re-write for version 3.0 of a program.
Not that I agree that's the best way to go, mind you.
When I built my CP/M computer many years ago (an Imsai) I went with 8" drives because they held more data than the new 5-1/4 ones. That changed pretty quickly. (Oops.)
I also figured that with competition from the new little drives the price of the 8 inchers would go down. (Double oops!)
I may have guessed wrong and I'll never get rid of my antique drives, but I sure won't miss them in a new computer.
Traditionally Microsoft hasn't prosecuted the end user for copyright violations, only businesses and governments. I believe this to be for two reasons;
Nah, only one reason they're not going after the individual end users: they're waiting for the RIAA to finish with them first.
Sure the VM will be free software, it just won't be GPL compatable. So you'll never be able to use GPL code in the VM and you'll never be able to use VM code in anything licensed with the GPL.
There are free licenses that are not compatible with the GPL.
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If I remember correctly from the diving class I took thirty years ago it's one atmosphere per 33 feet. Also it's safe to dive up to 33 feet for as long as you like and come up without decompressing. So I expect that there's something more at work here than just the change in pressure--like the change in the boiling temperature of water at various pressures.
Still, they remind you to be sure to breath out as you surface. Holding your breath is a sure way to wind up in the hospital or morgue.
Of course Finland and the US are very different. That's the point. It's is not the guns that cause the problem. It's the people. Their attitudes towards each other, their feeling of security in a community, their trust of their neighbors, and so on. Where it feels "we're practically all family" will be very different than where it feels like everyone is out to get you (at least to most of us with fairly normal families). Guns happen to be the tool of choice for violence. If it were, instead, say, rat poison, then there'd be a big argument that the countries with the most rat poison are the most dangerous.
I keep waiting for the gangs to use the cameras for advertising. You know, rob or rape or murder someone in front of the camera to prove they were the gang that did it and that they control the area. Don't you think a bunch of masked guys stabbing some rival gang member would make a point? They wouldn't even have to quote some religious leader. It would be like graffiti on police cars. Demonstrates they aren't afraid of the cops.
The cameras don't make me feel any safer. A camera's only purpose is to provide evidence to use after a crime is committed. It is supposed to make it easier to convict someone for a crime. It's deterrence is related to the deterrence of punishment in that it is only effective on someone who thinks about it, and does not take counter measures against recognition.
You sir, are a fucking idiot.
Amen to that.
it can take 15 minutes or more for the officers to arrive.You think that they will be that quick, huh?
I live six blocks from the main sheriff's station. Their helicopters regularly fly over my house. I live two blocks from the courthouse. Cops regularly drive by my house, several times a day. One day I had to replace the batteries in my alarm and it went off. I thought the service was disconnected so I didn't call in the false alarm. (The alarm will sound but no alarm company will ever respond because, in fact, the service had never been turned on by me after buying the house several years earlier.) I forgot completely about it. Four hours later two cars pulled up and a couple of sleepy looking deputies came to the door. FOUR HOURS LATER! They wrote me a ticket for causing a false alarm.
So all you would be burglars, do you think I expect the cops to protect me? Do you think I own a gun? Do you feel lucky? Well? Do you, punk? (Apologies to Mr. Eastwood.)
When I was searching for yet another request tracker a while back, I came across:
t racking_systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_
Personally, over the years, I've used Bugzilla, RT and Mantis and they are all very good. Bugzilla is hard for non-techies to understand. Mantis may be a little feature poor and is good for simple bug tracking. RT seems to be the best for general use by techies and muggles alike.
It's probably just because you're used to reading slashdot.
Nah. It was Lafayette Electronics for serious hobbyists. Or for the surplus stuff and high power transmitting tubes, there was Klystron in Pomona, CA. Bought a spool of magnet wire there to build a Tesla coil back in the day.
At least today we've still got Fry's for parts.
Remember when they wanted to force an additional license for when one copied something from his disc to memory? Glad nothing came from that.
Saying my boss tole me to will not protect you.
In the United States there is such a thing as criminal copyright infringement:
Title 17-
The punishment is up to 3 or 5 years and $2500.
A browser displays a mark-up language. It was never designed to be a page layout language.
If you want that kind of control over presentation, use GIFs, PDF or Flash to do your presentations.
Of course, if you're too lazy to do all that work go ahead and assume that all IE users have their system set up exactly like you do--same screen resolution, same color depth, same fonts, no changes to default browser settings--and, by all means, use IE. Every once in a while someone gets it but I think, as another poster mentioned, they're too lazy to bother.
The law specifically requires the camera sensor to be where a vehicle must stop. So if you're in the intersection already, you're home free.
Since you're in California, it's CA Vehicle Code section 21455.5(a). Sections 21455.5 - 21455.7 cover all this and even include your concerns about short yellow light cycles.
Here's an example. I was stuck at a red light on my motorcycle. The traffic sensor was not set up to be sensitive enough to detect that my bike was there so the light never would change to green unless another car came along. No car was comming along, there was no cross traffic. I waited for several minutes and finally just rode through. The camera would have given me a ticket.
Of course, the camera didn't sense me either so no one else ever knew.
Piece of cake. Write it up like any project you'd propose.
Just be sure you can back up the numbers somewhat. And a supervisor or manager that agrees on the increased productivity would be a big help.
I bought a TV card specifically to do this but never used it because this has worked so well:
.wav which I convert to mp2 with ffmpeg.
I play the tape on a good VCR. The video and stereo audio output are hooked up to a Sony Digital Handycam (it's a DCR-TRV350). And the camcorder Firewire cable is connected to the PC.
This lets the Camcorder do all the heavy lifting. It outputs standard digital video which I capture with kino. I also use kino to do the clean-up, capture a frame (as a jpeg) and export some sound to use as the title screen for what will be the final DVD. The sound gets exported as a
Still with kino, I break up the video into chunks (about 4-6 minutes each) for chapters so I can skip through the DVD when it done. I then export the video in DVD format, telling kino to split chapters into seperate files (this makes chapter creation automatic in the next step).
I then use 'Q' DVD-Author to build the DVD filesystem. Although 'Q' DVD-Author can create the DVD automatically (calling dvdauthor), I prefer to tweak the dvdauthor.xml file to do some fun menu things and run dvdauthor manually.
I check my DVD (while still a directory on my hard disc) with totem, or mplayer. Finally I write it out using growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools project.
All this is running on a Debian system that is several years old. Nothing fancy or top-of-the-line here.
That's pretty much it. Been working great for me.
As for that TV card? Well, I watch TV with it - it's hooked up to my cable.
My first thought too.
It seems, though, that they are looking for interfaces that bypass the cogintive functions and feed data directly to what we'd call feeling. Where a compass will only show you which way is north if you look at and find where the needle is pointing, the belt gives a constant throb in the nortern direction that does not require conscious thought.
There was a story a while back about people getting magnets (those super-strong rare earth ones) embedded under their finger tips. It gave them an ability to feel magnetic fields from sources such as power lines. This gave them an awareness of the fields at all times. It started to change the way they saw the world when they could feel the constant effects of the electricty flowing around them.
I, for one, mock our new thetan overlords!
"... it's not like I wake up in the morning, choose my right pant then choose my left pant."
So that's what I've been doing wrong.
From now on I'll start choosing my left pant first.
"I often Push on the Pull doors, just to see if they work...."
Yup. Same here.
I once walked up to the doors in a parking garage. The sign above the door knob said turn and push. So I did a pirouette and gave the door a shove.
It opened. You should have seen the looks on the faces of the people around me.
Anyway, back to the main topic.
I suspect the "not invented here" problem is why these code repositories aren't used. Most of us programmers don't want to use someone else's code because we have to first figure it out, and then use/interface with it. We tend to think it's easier to just re-write the thing. You know, just like the complete re-write for version 3.0 of a program.
Not that I agree that's the best way to go, mind you.
When I built my CP/M computer many years ago (an Imsai) I went with 8" drives because they held more data than the new 5-1/4 ones. That changed pretty quickly. (Oops.)
I also figured that with competition from the new little drives the price of the 8 inchers would go down. (Double oops!)
I may have guessed wrong and I'll never get rid of my antique drives, but I sure won't miss them in a new computer.
Of course you don't need Vista. You can upgrade to Linux from any Microsoft OS.
Sorry. It had to be said.
No.
Free, in the case of the GPL, does not mean that *you* as the user of software are free to do whatever you want with it. Sorry.
Free software: think a "free people."
You can't use them as slaves, and their children are free too.
Sure the VM will be free software, it just won't be GPL compatable. So you'll never be able to use GPL code in the VM and you'll never be able to use VM code in anything licensed with the GPL.
There are free licenses that are not compatible with the GPL.