<anecdotal evidence> I took a typing class in high school specifically to learn how to type quickly and correctly and it didn't help my wrists at all. After several years my wrists started to bother me so I did some research and learned about Dvorak. It didn't take me long to pick it up and my wrists haven't bothered me except on rare occasions I've had to type in qwerty for a long time.
The braces aren't that far from where they are in qwerty and I find it doesn't get in the way of programming at all if you can touch type.
As far as other people using my computer: in every OS I use I have a one click or click-drag box where I can change the keyboard layout for the current window so I change it for them if they need to type something. I prefer for them to tell me what to type though so that I can learn what they're doing and why.. and I don't like other people's hands on my keyboard.:) As another bonus people can't play jokes with my computer if I take a 10 foot jaunt to talk to a co-worker and don't feel like locking my screen.
Internally in companies I can see the usage as a "message of the day" sort of thing where anything everyone needs to se is posted. Instead of cluttering up peoples inboxes it's all gathered a centrel spot and people can update by browsing the RSS feed.
I prefer E-Mail for this. For pack-rats it allows a paper trail. Having a central feed makes it too easy to re-write history.
Maybe it's me, but WTF is so hard about returning a rented movie on time?
Here's a better question: WTF is wrong with blockbuster that they keep charging late fees even when I returned the bloody movie on time? And it's not "within three days" either, it's more like by noon the second day after you rent it. So, rent on Monday at 10:00 am or 10:00 pm, it better be back by Wed at noon or they'll charge you.
A month ago I got a call from their automated system saying I had two movies out. Thing is, I'd dropped them off the day before they were due and rented something else. I had to waste my time and call the store. The guy said "yeah, you're not the only one who's called about that, I'll just take your word for it." Thanks. A lot. (grr)
At least three times I've taken a movie back at 11:30 they day they're due (by noon) and been charged late fees. At two different stores.
You have to rent 5 movies a month to make up for their $25/mo "claimed no late fee" bull. So basically it's blockbuster saying: If you pay us a little more you have more time so you won't have to deal with our crappy return system that charges you late fees even when you return them on time.
Are people really so stupid to think that by saying "No more Late Fees", that they can keep rentals forever without penalty?
Excuse me? It's like saying "unlimited broadband.. (but there's a cap..)" Here thay advertise "no late fees: you can only keep out two at a time." I interpret that to mean: You can keep them as long as you want, but you're limited to two. Truth in advertising and all that apparent bull.
If you can't be responsible enough to return a rental product on time, maybe you shouldn't be renting them in the first place...
Since blockbuster can't keep their act together, I've started walking in with the movies and saying "please check these is now, I'm tired of being charged when I return them on time."
Also, forgive my ignorance on Skype or other VoIP protocols, but how do they handle the occasional dropped packet or connection interruption? I don't know about Skype.
With regards to other VoIP technologies: A connection interruption results in a dropped call if it's too long (seconds).
Normal dropped packets are already occurring in Cell Phone networks and (IIRC) are handled by replaying some packets or interpolation to give the illusion that the dropped packet is still there. It's amazing how tolerant the human ear is.:-)
Temporary (short) network delays are handled by jitter buffers that always delay incoming audio. This is why it sometimes feels wierd when talking to someone over the internet. Jitter buffers can be large (half second) and we're not used to that.
One use is to allocate the memory yourself and then use the struct to map that memory. The sizeof() would give you the header size. Then (sizeof(header) + allocated data storage) is the total size to alloc.
I can see a candy bar manufacturer stating that their product may have came in contact with nuts during production. Good to know, but someone who is allergic to peanuts should know this already, and make knowing an important goal. You don't see diabetics up-ending a bag of sugar into their mouth do you?
Sugar is an obvious ingredient (not necessarily listed directly as sugar) on the package. Your flippant remark about diabetics isn't relevant.
"Being in contact with peanuts" doesn't have an associated ingredient listing. It just means they've reused some machines that at one point had nuts in them and the oils or actual physical pieces of nut may have made its way into the unrelated product. Check candy some time that has that warning; not all of them actually have a nut listed as an ingredient.
What, do you want me to say "oh, this candy bar was manufactured in.. New York. Let's see if that factory ever made a product that had nuts in it."
I don't think so.
Coffee containers: Warning: Hot. C'mon, you'd think they knew.
Please go do some research before touting the McDonalds coffee incident as "common sense." McDonalds was in the wrong and the woman received third degree burns.
A cursory google for "McDonalds Lawsuit" brings up: McFacts Liebeck lawsuit
Seems like you're only watching the week-night shows. Try the ones they play on Saturday evening/night. Gundam Seed, Wolf's Rain, etc. They only show one episode per week but the quality is significantly higher.
When I was your age we had to hack sendmail to get access to our accounts.. during a DDoS! Blindfolded!
And also.. uh.. what was I saying again?
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Also I'm not familiar enough with DHCP, can it do the same thing?
Yes, I have machines on my network that acquire static IPs through DHCP. It uses the MAC Address to determine when one of those machines requests an IP.
Now, mailing in a rebate then returning an item is unethical on the customer's part (didn't think it was possible since most require original UPC).
I recently purchased a HD from Best Buy and the "$60 in rebates" was really a $10 Best Buy rebate (that required the original UPC) and a $50 rebate from WD that only required a copy of the UPC. The customers they are talking about probably send in the no real UPC required rebate then return the product.
There is no contract that I have to sign when I purchase a CD. A "by buying this CD you agree to the enclosed licence" clause on the cover of the CD is NULL and VOID. You can't make someone agree to a contract without allowing them to agree to it first. See all the crap they give you the chance to read before you install software. If you don't agree to the license, take it back.
You don't get a pop-up window when you put your CD into your car player that asks you to agree to the terms before you can play it.
The grandparent is correct. The great-grandparent and you are wrong. It's a copyright issue, there is no contract.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but they most certainly do.
It most certainly could be that an old drive can't read discs burned by newer, faster drives. The older drives may be less fault tolerant. Pre-pressed discs could be ok but a disc burned too fast could have pits just slightly too close together or too far apart that confuse the older drive.
I have seen this happen with CDs on more than one occasion. Slowing down the burn speed made a disc usable by the older drive. Think PSX backups.
In fact, there should be no..
Should being the key word.
A Wise man whose name I can't remember once said: In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Don't use them. Buy your music from other providers. The music is owned by its creators and its distributors.
Bull! The music is owned by the public but the artists or whoever shafts them are granted by us a (supposedly) time limited monopoly on that work during which they can make money. This is incentive for people to actually create things.
Disney, et al. have perverted this system so that an artists grand-children can milk money from their works. They have also worked hard to mislead people about copyright. In your case they have succeeded.
If you want free music, buy from artists who choose to give their music out freely. Respect the property rights of others.
Maybe im wrong but arn't people required to enforce patents by law? maybe im thinking of something else.
IIRC, you're thinking of Trademarks.
Patents definitely allow selective enforcement and Copyrights may allow selective enforcement (I'm not sure), but you have to defend your Trademark.
If you don't it can become a generic term and you can lose protection.
Anyone need an Aspirin?
Entrapment:
One entry found for entrapment.
Main Entry: entrapment
Pronunciation: -m&nt
Function: noun
Date: 1597
1 a : the action or process of entrapping b : the condition of being entrapped
2 : the action of luring an individual into committing a crime in order to prosecute the person for it
As for the legal definition, I believe it's more along the lines of: If the cops set up a lure car and you try to steal it then they bust you, that is fine. You decided to steal the car (or, in the analogy, rough up a street vendor) of your own volition.
Legal entrapment is more like the cops setting up the "lure car" then an officer (undercover) coming up to you and saying "Hey man.. that car over there is unlocked.. wanna steal it?" Then busting you.
The grandparent post has a good strategy - set up a legal street vendor, then sue the shit out of the thugs (RIAA) that harass them.
What happens if you edit the file in a graphic utility? Does it alter the hidden info? Destroy it? Do different actions (hue shift, paining-on-top) affect the outcomes?
Of course.
These utilities usually use bits that will not make a change apparent to a human observing the data with our normal senses (ie. the last bit in each color field) so obviously doing anything to change the bit pattern will destroy the message.
That's the one thing I hate about DSL. You *must* have a landline in order to get/use it. So in my case, I pay $25/month for a landline plus $30/month for SBC/Yahoo! DSL which works out to $55/month. At that price, you might as well stick to your cable since it's probably MUCH faster.
I hope you mean that the DSL providers require you to have a landline to get DSL service.
There is nothing inherent in the technology that requires you to have dialtone to use the data service. The phone companies just want to ream you for the extra service that you aren't using. Also, their billing system is probably so outdated you have to have a phone number so they can track/bill you.
Not being a US citizen, and not having anything like it in the UK, what are incoming minutes? Here if someone calls me, they pay, and that's all. What's the difference?
In the US, people have a fixed allocation of minutes during Peak hours (usually 6am-9pm). It doesn't matter if it's an incoming or outgoing call, those minutes are used.
I've only had one marketing call to my cell phone by someone "on behalf of" my power company. I said "this is a cell phone" and they buggered off.
I don't have a land-line anymore. No need to pay $30/mo just to have telemarketers call me.
Along the same lines, for software there is only one choice, overall, for software development.
- Cheap
- Fast
- Good
You can pick 2 of the 3, but not all 3. Cheap and fast is not good. Fast and good costs $$$. Good and cheap is never fast. You get the idea. It's just a fact about the software business.
It occurs to me that "Good and Cheap" may not be as good and cheap as the person making that decision intended. Sometimes the "Not Fast" transforms "Good and Cheap" into just "Good" and the project would have been better off to just have someone good to do it fast.
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didn't help me.
:) As another bonus people can't play jokes with my computer if I take a 10 foot jaunt to talk to a co-worker and don't feel like locking my screen.
<anecdotal evidence>
I took a typing class in high school specifically to learn how to type quickly and correctly and it didn't help my wrists at all. After several years my wrists started to bother me so I did some research and learned about Dvorak. It didn't take me long to pick it up and my wrists haven't bothered me except on rare occasions I've had to type in qwerty for a long time.
The braces aren't that far from where they are in qwerty and I find it doesn't get in the way of programming at all if you can touch type.
As far as other people using my computer: in every OS I use I have a one click or click-drag box where I can change the keyboard layout for the current window so I change it for them if they need to type something. I prefer for them to tell me what to type though so that I can learn what they're doing and why.. and I don't like other people's hands on my keyboard.
</anecdotal evidence>
They were interpreted as "not allowed" html tags.
Try using > for > and < for <.
Obvious solution: whichever one you pick when it says "which card would you like to use?"
Internally in companies I can see the usage as a "message of the day" sort of thing where anything everyone needs to se is posted. Instead of cluttering up peoples inboxes it's all gathered a centrel spot and people can update by browsing the RSS feed.
I prefer E-Mail for this. For pack-rats it allows a paper trail. Having a central feed makes it too easy to re-write history.
Re-read the grandparent a few times.
The key idea is:
An object *can not accelerate to or past the speed of light.*
Therefore: an object accelerating under its own power can not exceed the speed of light. The fact that it's under its own power is irrelevant.
A planets escape velocity is significantly lower than the speed of light so it's "easy" for an object to reach escape velocity.
What did I ever do to you?
Here's a better question: WTF is wrong with blockbuster that they keep charging late fees even when I returned the bloody movie on time? And it's not "within three days" either, it's more like by noon the second day after you rent it. So, rent on Monday at 10:00 am or 10:00 pm, it better be back by Wed at noon or they'll charge you.
A month ago I got a call from their automated system saying I had two movies out. Thing is, I'd dropped them off the day before they were due and rented something else. I had to waste my time and call the store. The guy said "yeah, you're not the only one who's called about that, I'll just take your word for it." Thanks. A lot. (grr)
At least three times I've taken a movie back at 11:30 they day they're due (by noon) and been charged late fees. At two different stores.
You have to rent 5 movies a month to make up for their $25/mo "claimed no late fee" bull. So basically it's blockbuster saying: If you pay us a little more you have more time so you won't have to deal with our crappy return system that charges you late fees even when you return them on time.
Are people really so stupid to think that by saying "No more Late Fees", that they can keep rentals forever without penalty?
Excuse me? It's like saying "unlimited broadband.. (but there's a cap..)" Here thay advertise "no late fees: you can only keep out two at a time." I interpret that to mean: You can keep them as long as you want, but you're limited to two. Truth in advertising and all that apparent bull.
If you can't be responsible enough to return a rental product on time, maybe you shouldn't be renting them in the first place...
Since blockbuster can't keep their act together, I've started walking in with the movies and saying "please check these is now, I'm tired of being charged when I return them on time."
Also, forgive my ignorance on Skype or other VoIP protocols, but how do they handle the occasional dropped packet or connection interruption?
:-)
I don't know about Skype.
With regards to other VoIP technologies:
A connection interruption results in a dropped call if it's too long (seconds).
Normal dropped packets are already occurring in Cell Phone networks and (IIRC) are handled by replaying some packets or interpolation to give the illusion that the dropped packet is still there. It's amazing how tolerant the human ear is.
Temporary (short) network delays are handled by jitter buffers that always delay incoming audio. This is why it sometimes feels wierd when talking to someone over the internet. Jitter buffers can be large (half second) and we're not used to that.
In gcc declaring an array of 0 length does not allocate space for the pointer! It's basically an inline memory pointer. Given:
// inline ptr
struct {
int a;
int b[0];
} test;
Assuming a 4 byte int and the object is at address 0. (yes, yes, NULL pointer and all that rot)
sizeof(test) = 4
&test.a = 0x0
&test.b[0] = 0x4
&test.b[1] = 0x8
One use is to allocate the memory yourself and then use the struct to map that memory. The sizeof() would give you the header size. Then (sizeof(header) + allocated data storage) is the total size to alloc.
See: Zero Length (gcc)
IMO, it is a very bad habit to use "type name[0]" when you mean "type* name".
Doing what you claim (sorry, you're AC) is the "Microsoft way" will cause memory corruption in GCC.
an Amityville Toaster hack!
Sugar is an obvious ingredient (not necessarily listed directly as sugar) on the package. Your flippant remark about diabetics isn't relevant.
"Being in contact with peanuts" doesn't have an associated ingredient listing. It just means they've reused some machines that at one point had nuts in them and the oils or actual physical pieces of nut may have made its way into the unrelated product. Check candy some time that has that warning; not all of them actually have a nut listed as an ingredient.
What, do you want me to say "oh, this candy bar was manufactured in.. New York. Let's see if that factory ever made a product that had nuts in it."
I don't think so.
Coffee containers: Warning: Hot. C'mon, you'd think they knew.
Please go do some research before touting the McDonalds coffee incident as "common sense." McDonalds was in the wrong and the woman received third degree burns.
A cursory google for "McDonalds Lawsuit" brings up:
McFacts
Liebeck lawsuit
Seems like you're only watching the week-night shows. Try the ones they play on Saturday evening/night. Gundam Seed, Wolf's Rain, etc. They only show one episode per week but the quality is significantly higher.
When I was your age we had to hack sendmail to get access to our accounts.. during a DDoS! Blindfolded! And also.. uh.. what was I saying again?
Yes, I have machines on my network that acquire static IPs through DHCP. It uses the MAC Address to determine when one of those machines requests an IP.
I recently purchased a HD from Best Buy and the "$60 in rebates" was really a $10 Best Buy rebate (that required the original UPC) and a $50 rebate from WD that only required a copy of the UPC. The customers they are talking about probably send in the no real UPC required rebate then return the product.
You don't get a pop-up window when you put your CD into your car player that asks you to agree to the terms before you can play it.
The grandparent is correct. The great-grandparent and you are wrong. It's a copyright issue, there is no contract.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but they most certainly do.
It most certainly could be that an old drive can't read discs burned by newer, faster drives. The older drives may be less fault tolerant. Pre-pressed discs could be ok but a disc burned too fast could have pits just slightly too close together or too far apart that confuse the older drive.
I have seen this happen with CDs on more than one occasion. Slowing down the burn speed made a disc usable by the older drive. Think PSX backups.
In fact, there should be no..
Should being the key word.
A Wise man whose name I can't remember once said: In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Bull! The music is owned by the public but the artists or whoever shafts them are granted by us a (supposedly) time limited monopoly on that work during which they can make money. This is incentive for people to actually create things.
Disney, et al. have perverted this system so that an artists grand-children can milk money from their works. They have also worked hard to mislead people about copyright. In your case they have succeeded.
If you want free music, buy from artists who choose to give their music out freely. Respect the property rights of others.
No argument.
IIRC, you're thinking of Trademarks.
Patents definitely allow selective enforcement and Copyrights may allow selective enforcement (I'm not sure), but you have to defend your Trademark.
If you don't it can become a generic term and you can lose protection.
Anyone need an Aspirin?
I suggest the NASA site as reading material.
One entry found for entrapment.
Main Entry: entrapment
Pronunciation: -m&nt
Function: noun
Date: 1597
1 a : the action or process of entrapping b : the condition of being entrapped
2 : the action of luring an individual into committing a crime in order to prosecute the person for it
As for the legal definition, I believe it's more along the lines of: If the cops set up a lure car and you try to steal it then they bust you, that is fine. You decided to steal the car (or, in the analogy, rough up a street vendor) of your own volition.
Legal entrapment is more like the cops setting up the "lure car" then an officer (undercover) coming up to you and saying "Hey man.. that car over there is unlocked.. wanna steal it?" Then busting you.
The grandparent post has a good strategy - set up a legal street vendor, then sue the shit out of the thugs (RIAA) that harass them.
Of course.
These utilities usually use bits that will not make a change apparent to a human observing the data with our normal senses (ie. the last bit in each color field) so obviously doing anything to change the bit pattern will destroy the message.
That's the one thing I hate about DSL. You *must* have a landline in order to get/use it. So in my case, I pay $25/month for a landline plus $30/month for SBC/Yahoo! DSL which works out to $55/month. At that price, you might as well stick to your cable since it's probably MUCH faster.
I hope you mean that the DSL providers require you to have a landline to get DSL service.
There is nothing inherent in the technology that requires you to have dialtone to use the data service. The phone companies just want to ream you for the extra service that you aren't using. Also, their billing system is probably so outdated you have to have a phone number so they can track/bill you.
In the US, people have a fixed allocation of minutes during Peak hours (usually 6am-9pm). It doesn't matter if it's an incoming or outgoing call, those minutes are used.
I've only had one marketing call to my cell phone by someone "on behalf of" my power company. I said "this is a cell phone" and they buggered off.
I don't have a land-line anymore. No need to pay $30/mo just to have telemarketers call me.
Along the same lines, for software there is only one choice, overall, for software development.
- Cheap
- Fast
- Good
You can pick 2 of the 3, but not all 3. Cheap and fast is not good. Fast and good costs $$$. Good and cheap is never fast. You get the idea. It's just a fact about the software business.
It occurs to me that "Good and Cheap" may not be as good and cheap as the person making that decision intended. Sometimes the "Not Fast" transforms "Good and Cheap" into just "Good" and the project would have been better off to just have someone good to do it fast.