This isn't limited to the recording industry. My last employer (a Fortune 500 company) used a strange way of pricing CRUs (mainframe computer work units for billing purposes). At the beginning of the year they'd say a CRU was going to cost $X. So departments would budget based on that. As time went on and $X got larger and larger, more and more departments started off-loading their number crunching to workstations, so the number of CRUs used would go down. To make up for it, at the end of the year the computing folks would adjust the price of a CRU by dividing the cost of running the mainframe by the total number of CRUs used, then back-bill their (internal, no alternative) customers at the higher rate. This would often break the budgets of some departments, who would then get raked over the coals even though, in most cases, they were at or below their estimated CRU usage for the year.
My point? This led to an inevitible spiral where more and more departments bought workstations to off-load the mainframe, driving the price of a CRU higher and higher, causing more and more departments to off-load their mainframe work to workstations. A similar effect is starting to appear in the music business, as more and more artists are buying their (independent) studio time up-front rather than getting an advance and using the label's studios. Before long, if we're lucky, the record labels will price themselves out of the market and we'll all get our music direct from the artists. If we're lucky.
You have to think back to the '70s, when that amp was made (they have fuses for a reason -- we didn't call 'em "Flame Linear" for nothing!). Electronics makers used the fuses commonly available at the time, which were AUTOMOTIVE fuses. Sure, most cars made since the early 1980s don't use those cylinder fuses anymore, but there's a lot more old cars on the road than old amps in people's living rooms, so for a fuse like that I'd try an auto parts store first.
And if you can't find a fuse, can I have the amp?:-)
Just because it's not perfect, and OOP doesn't need it, doesn't mean it wasn't useful in its day. Jeesh, you guys are trashing him for something he did - what? - 15 years or so ago. Nothing in the article says he thinks everyone should use Hungarian Notation, just that he's they guy who invented it.
Exactly. Pepsi does NOT keep their promises. If "No objective person could reasonably have concluded that the commercial actually offered consumers a Harrier jet," then why should any objective person reasonably conclude that they are actually offering consumers a ride into space? There are too many variables outside Pepsi's control, including the health of the winner.
This is Yet Another Pepsi Scam, just like their ads showing people dating Britney because they drink Pepsi's drek.
Wisconsin isn't Michigan. I've lived in both states, and believe me, Wisconsin isn't Michigan! Hell, Michigan isn't Michigan -- it's two, two, two states in one! Southern Michigan weather sucks -- Lansing has as many cloudy days as Seattle, for God's sake. They're surrounded by Great Lakes, and it makes their weather suck. I've seen it rain while the sun is shinging in Flint, MI. But then, Flint has dirt roads and a paved river, so what do you expect?
Maybe RainX works fine elsewhere, but it didn't work for me. I'm not stuck in Michigan anymore, so maybe I'll try RainX again, but it made my wipers streak so badly that it scared me away.
In general I'd agree, but it all depends on what you need. CPU upgrades are not "profoundly unreliable." My firewall is an AT-class machine with a CPU upgrade -- a 133MHz "586" CPU upgrade! Ancient, but it's faster than the chip that box used to have, and it's been working for years. I recently came into posession of a slightly newer PC -- an AMD K6/233 -- and I'm debating upgrading the firewall, but it is profoundly reliable, so why change?
YMMV. My dad used RainX and loved it. I tried it, but all it did was coat my wiper blades and make them streak; it never did seem to make the water bead up and blow off the windshield without using the wipers at all (the RainX claim). Perhaps it's because my dad was in Florida and I was in Michigan...
However often or seldom the phone has to contact a base station, if you put a cell phone in a lead-lined pocket, it won't work. If Levis think they can "protect" their customers and let the phone still work by only lining the inside of the pocket, then why not just sell lead underwear? If you really think this is a health issue, just turn your phone off.
I'm still waiting for them to make something that shields the space between your hand and the steering wheel from dangerous cell phones. I mean, if you wanna talk safety risks...
OK, then what about shielding the space between your hand and the steering wheel from dangerous coffee, hamburgers, radio controls, A/C controls, etc?
We already have laws on the books about inattentive driving, we don't need any new ones that are distraction-specific. Once we go down that path, we're doomed:
Your Honor, there's no specific law against driving while drinking
fruit juice! Coffee, yes. Beer, yes. But not fruit juice! The legislature clearly doesn't care if drivers are distracted by spilling orange juice in their laps or they would have included orange juice in the list of banned substances in the "Stupid Drivers act of 2007."
You don't understand how cell phones work. They have to be in constant contact with the base stations (cell towers), so the system knows where they are. When someone calls you the phone company doesn't go looking for you, they already know where you are; the network constantly tracks you as you move from cell to cell (thus the government's interest in forcing the cell phone companies to provide this location information for "safety" reasons).
Anyway, the way the system knows where to find you is that your phone is transmitting even when you're not on a call. If these pants work as claimed, then your phone won't work when it's in your pocket. If you're really worried about this, save yourself some money and just turn your phone off.
Of course if you have the money and the time, nothing beats proper manual testing from a written test plan...
If I had the money, I would buy some testing tools. How do you figure doing it by hand is more expensive? Remember, testing tools come out of a different bucket of money than salary, and they're gonna pay me the same whether I use a tool or do it by hand, so guess what option they give me?
I'm sure there is porbably some reason why he uses [RCS] over CVS.
My guess is because he knows RCS and doesn't know CVS; I'll stick my neck out further and guess that's because he used RCS first, and never had a reason to switch to CVS.
I was taught to never say "the customer is always right," because that leads folks to conclude that if the person talking to them is wrong they must not be a customer and therefor can be treated like shit.
Score:2 Interesting? What are the moderators smoking today? This is funny as hell, but not at all interesting (unless you actually believe that *anybody* can't work without Clippy)
Oh, I don't know about that. I manage a seven computer network (my home) and I use DHCP because I hated having to configure the TCP settings every time something changed (you know, like when I had to re-load Windoze yet again, or when I chose to re-load Linux yet again:-)
And if his 40 PC network goes down he's effectively shut down the entire company, so size is relative. Also, if he manages his 40 PC network as if it were a 10,000 PC network he's probably able to take a two-week vacation and really relax; if he's loaded everything by hand he's gonna jump every time the phone rings.
The project I'm on now is specifically targeted to "enterprise" customers, defined as five or more employees (many Fortune 500 companes are our customers, so when I say "or more" I mean really huge). "Enterprise" means the customer depends on our product working, as opposed to "consumer" where the customer is mearly inconvenienced if it doesn't work. Think the difference between consumer and business DSL. The funny thing is the consumer generally pays more, because enterprises get a volume discount!
Oh, come on! If Berman gave a shit about the fans they never would have altered history. I mean the ST "history" that is. Glaring example: First Contact. In TOS we learned the Vulcans knew about humans for years, and out of prudence kept their distance, because humans seemed, well, human (illogical, unpredictable, prone to violence). They only made first contact when one of their ships was in trouble and they thought the humans might help. Kirk (i think it was Kirk) asks why they risked it, and the answer was (I'm sure you can guess): "It seemed the logical thing to do."
Years later Berman changes that and NOW the Vulcans contacted us as soon as we lit up our first warp coil. Yeah, right -- is the new version really in character for the Vulcans? Berman doesn't give a shit about Roddenberry or anything he did, so why do you think he cares about what the fans think? The whole reason for ending TNG and starting DS9 was to get full control of the franchise, not because the fans wanted a change.
You provide a perfect example of the basic flaw in your vigilante anti-spam efforts: You didn't even read the article, you just accept on face value that because he's on a blacklist -- any blacklist -- he must be running an open relay, when the truth is that these vigilanties got it wrong and he's not running an open relay.
He even published his email address, so you can check it yourself if you like, but you scum don't bother to check facts, you just subscribe to the blacklists and pretend your penis is larger because you can block someone's email. Fuck you and all like you. Vigilanties suck, and the day will come when you will pay for your actions, because the government will eventually be forced to send in a Marshall to clean up Dodge, and thanks to you fools the internet will be under Marshall Law. But at least you wankers will be shut down, so it won't be all bad.
Funny, you want a VCR that can't program off the air while you're away, and I want an audio recorder that can (tune to a radio station and record at a pre-set time). I guess we're both looking for a niche market item, but at least you can do what you want with any old VCR, while I have to cobble up what I want with a radio, a tape recorder, some patch cords, and a timer.
In other news, the sun did not come up this morning, huge cracks have appeared in the Earth's surface, and large boulders are falling from the sky. Details at 11:00.
Yeah, right! I wouldn't pay the shipping and handling some of these guys are asking, let alone the minimum bid they want. $5 each for something they got free? No wonder nobody's bid yet! LOL!
As for the lots of 100, read the auction -- are they lots of 100 or 25? The description is very confusing, and these are not for auction, they're for Buy Now. eBay isn't an auction site anymore, it's a flea market.
Well, that's what I thought. I guess it can see details in a plain (black or white) surface that my eyes can't.
After some thought I now retract my earlier statement. I now think this is impossible without hacking the mouse itself. If it works on plain black and it works on plain white, it will simply give a steady stream of mouse movement commands as it passes over a barcode and you won't be able to tell when white ends and black begins, etc.
I've got one, and it works OK, but I haven't a clue how it works -- and I'm an engineer! I thought I knew how it worked until I noticed it seems to work on any surface, including a sheet of plain white paper. What does it see? Perhaps it sees in infrared.
Anyway, mine works with a mouse pad that's got a picture on it, the desktop, magazines, etc. -- I don't see how it can tell it's now on a barcode and to switch "modes." I think the barcode reader software is going to have to work with the mouse's output and you'll have to manually tell it when it's over a barcode.
I'd suggest writing an app that logs the stream of mouse movements sent from the mouse driver to your OS, and see what the stream looks like when you pass your mouse over a barcode. It could be made to work, but you'll probably have to do it yourself. Good luck, and let us know if you get it working.
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My point? This led to an inevitible spiral where more and more departments bought workstations to off-load the mainframe, driving the price of a CRU higher and higher, causing more and more departments to off-load their mainframe work to workstations. A similar effect is starting to appear in the music business, as more and more artists are buying their (independent) studio time up-front rather than getting an advance and using the label's studios. Before long, if we're lucky, the record labels will price themselves out of the market and we'll all get our music direct from the artists. If we're lucky.
And if you can't find a fuse, can I have the amp? :-)
This is Yet Another Pepsi Scam, just like their ads showing people dating Britney because they drink Pepsi's drek.
Maybe RainX works fine elsewhere, but it didn't work for me. I'm not stuck in Michigan anymore, so maybe I'll try RainX again, but it made my wipers streak so badly that it scared me away.
We already have laws on the books about inattentive driving, we don't need any new ones that are distraction-specific. Once we go down that path, we're doomed:
Anyway, the way the system knows where to find you is that your phone is transmitting even when you're not on a call. If these pants work as claimed, then your phone won't work when it's in your pocket. If you're really worried about this, save yourself some money and just turn your phone off.
And if his 40 PC network goes down he's effectively shut down the entire company, so size is relative. Also, if he manages his 40 PC network as if it were a 10,000 PC network he's probably able to take a two-week vacation and really relax; if he's loaded everything by hand he's gonna jump every time the phone rings.
The project I'm on now is specifically targeted to "enterprise" customers, defined as five or more employees (many Fortune 500 companes are our customers, so when I say "or more" I mean really huge). "Enterprise" means the customer depends on our product working, as opposed to "consumer" where the customer is mearly inconvenienced if it doesn't work. Think the difference between consumer and business DSL. The funny thing is the consumer generally pays more, because enterprises get a volume discount!
Years later Berman changes that and NOW the Vulcans contacted us as soon as we lit up our first warp coil. Yeah, right -- is the new version really in character for the Vulcans? Berman doesn't give a shit about Roddenberry or anything he did, so why do you think he cares about what the fans think? The whole reason for ending TNG and starting DS9 was to get full control of the franchise, not because the fans wanted a change.
He even published his email address, so you can check it yourself if you like, but you scum don't bother to check facts, you just subscribe to the blacklists and pretend your penis is larger because you can block someone's email. Fuck you and all like you. Vigilanties suck, and the day will come when you will pay for your actions, because the government will eventually be forced to send in a Marshall to clean up Dodge, and thanks to you fools the internet will be under Marshall Law. But at least you wankers will be shut down, so it won't be all bad.
As for the lots of 100, read the auction -- are they lots of 100 or 25? The description is very confusing, and these are not for auction, they're for Buy Now. eBay isn't an auction site anymore, it's a flea market.
After some thought I now retract my earlier statement. I now think this is impossible without hacking the mouse itself. If it works on plain black and it works on plain white, it will simply give a steady stream of mouse movement commands as it passes over a barcode and you won't be able to tell when white ends and black begins, etc.
Anyway, mine works with a mouse pad that's got a picture on it, the desktop, magazines, etc. -- I don't see how it can tell it's now on a barcode and to switch "modes." I think the barcode reader software is going to have to work with the mouse's output and you'll have to manually tell it when it's over a barcode.
I'd suggest writing an app that logs the stream of mouse movements sent from the mouse driver to your OS, and see what the stream looks like when you pass your mouse over a barcode. It could be made to work, but you'll probably have to do it yourself. Good luck, and let us know if you get it working.