Almost any 16 year old can drive in the states if they take a driver's ed course, get their permit, rack some hours up with another licensed driver, and then take a test.
There used to not even be that much. If you passed your written and practical tests and were of age, you'd get your license. (In most cases, you'd get a learner's permit and get some time behind the wheel with one of your parents riding shotgun, but there was no legal requirement for that--or for driver's ed. If you were somehow able to pass the test without those preparatory measures, you could. I think you still can if you're 18 or older, but not if you're 16 or 17.)
Seriously though, what applications are using Net 3.5 instead of all the stuff that can only run with Net 1.0 or Net 2.0?
Even if you're only using it to work with stored procedures, LINQ allows for much cleaner database-access code. That's just the first thing that came to mind, based on stuff I've written at work so far. There might not be much code out there already using it, but VS 2008 has only been out a few months.
I really do not understand why Net is not backwards compatible but I suppose at least I should be happy that the libraries can co-exist instead of the old DLL hell.
My understanding of the matter is that the internals changed substantially with.NET 2.0, but 3.0 and 3.5 have extended 2.0. An app built for 2.0 should work on 3.0 or 3.5; it just won't use any of the new features. (Basically, it sounds like the design of 1.x was sufficiently broken that they needed to start over again with 2.0.)
The OS may be no more difficult to learn (for everyday use; if you're a power user, though, XP -> Vista is still easier than XP -> Ubuntu), but then you also have the added learning curve of replacing every single application except possibly Firefox, if they weren't using IE before.
Every app? The only apps I've not gotten working under Vista were Daemon Tools (mainly because I was holding onto an old, non-adware version which I ended up replacing with VirtualCloneDrive) and RealVNC (client works, but the free server doesn't work; newer versions of UltraVNC might work and are free-as-in-speech, but I've not tested them). OTOH, stuff like Acrobat Reader 5 (fewer annoyances than later versions) and Office 2000 installed just fine on it (Acrobat Reader threw up a compatibility warning on installation, but you can safely ignore it AFAICT).
But seriously, the "aging" Budweiser undergoes is not to develop flavor; the beechwood chips are there just to help clarify the solution, and let the carbon dioxide from fermentation settle out on something.
It also speeds up fermentation; yeast attach themselves to the wood strips, which are suspended in the wort. With more surface area exposed to yeast, the "beer" (don't think that Bud really qualifies as beer) ferments more rapidly. That's basically the opposite of the "aging" that they claim is happening.
The wire gauge needed for some application is determined by current; voltage only matters to the extent that the insulator around the wire needs to be thick enough to avoid dielectric breakdown. A power cord that carries 30A at 240V uses the same wire gauge (10 ga., IIRC) as one that carries 30A at 120V, but the thicker insulation on the 240V cord makes it a bit larger. 100A through some 24-ga. hookup wire will burn out just as fast at 1V as it will at 100V or 10kV; the higher voltages might make for bigger sparks when the wire finally melts, but the resistive heating of the wire is proportional to the square of the current.
An Apple II with a CFFA would probably boot into AppleWorks and be ready to use before the monitor finished warming up. To get the data out, you pop the (CompactFlash) card out, pop it into a card reader on your other computer, and use something like CiderPress to pull the data off of it.
For convenience, instead of using the CFFA's onboard CompactFlash slot, I'd get an IDE-to-CF adapter and connect it to the CFFA with an IDE cable.
So far, there isn't a single legal way to get a video onto my mp3 player.
You could record it from TV with your computer (using MythTV, Windows MCE, or whatever). You could record it on your TiVo and rip it from that. You could use a recent version of FlashGot to get a download link for most Flash video.
As a windows user since 1, and a WM user since it was... Um, CE, I want to know, what exactly is unpleasant about it?
What works well (or at least OK) on the desktop doesn't always work so well within the constraints of a handheld device. IME, I've always found Win** handhelds to be sluggish and unintuitive to navigate. I've not had those problems with Palm OS, which was designed from the start for the slower processors and smaller screens you tend to find in handheld devices.
Yeah. The Twin Towers should have toppled over, but instead, they blew up like a building that was being imploded for demolition.
It figures that today of all days would bring out the conspiracy theories. So you're saying that a building weighing probably millions of tons could topple over a specific and single pivot point?
Indeed...I brought up this article somewhat dreading what the troofers would likely be spewing. Would it be too much to ask of them to die in a fire?
Don't get quad core yet. Spend the same money on a dual core that has 1.5 times the clock speed (unless you're rolling in the dough). Why? Because very, very few games a written with multiple cores in mind as of yet.
Not everybody wastes time on games. For those who do real work with their computers, a quad-core processor can make plenty of sense. I'm dropping off a machine at a customer site this afternoon that will hook into a casino DVR system. It'll transcode video recorded from a security camera to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 at over 100 fps. It'd be difficult (probably impossible) to do that with a dual-core system, but the Core 2 Extreme QX9650 can do that (and it's not even the fastest speed grade available).
(Source video is MPEG-2 recorded at 640x480 with a CX23416-based hardware encoder...don't ask me why it wasn't recorded at 720x480 to begin with; I didn't design the system. The transcoding step is needed to scale the video to 720x480 to make it DVD-compatible; this is done with mencoder with the multithreading options enabled.)
...for MythTV, since the MythTV installation docs recommend against it. I didn't recall this bit of advice when I switched my backend from ext3 to ReiserFS. I suffered through several months of glitchy recordings (many of which were flat-out unwatchable, others of which were merely annoying) before putting out a call for help to mythtv-users. Since switching from ReiserFS to XFS, nearly all of my recording problems went away. (The few that remained may have come from a cable box about to croak, as I had to take it back for a replacement a few weeks ago and I haven't seen any glitchy recordings since I hooked up the replacement. Last week, I had it recording C-SPAN for 6-7 hours at a stretch without so much as a hiccup.)
UHF stations (which what all television will be living in after the transition)
O RLY? Why is it, then, that five Las Vegas broadcasters are using VHF for their HD broadcasts, and will continue doing so indefinitely? (One of them is even using low-band VHF, which is supposedly less-than-optimal for ATSC.)
That's just one city, and Las Vegas is a bit of an outlier, but 76 broadcast markets have at least one broadcaster sending ATSC over VHF.
Personally, I had my bets on Lieberman and I still think he would have been made McCain the most competitive against Obama and Biden given the Republican base consists mostly of men.
You must not be a Republican; if you were, you would've known better than to make that assertion. McCain was in the doghouse with the base over his "maverickyness" (for lack of a better word). If he'd picked a lib like Lieberman (or Tom Ridge, for that matter), he would only have driven more Republicans to stay home. Instead, with Sarah Palin on board, the base has been energized in a way it hasn't been in months. Instead of merely voting against Mr. Hopey Changitude, we now have a reason to vote for the McCain ticket.
If you followed the conservative blogs, you would've known this. There was even plenty of chatter in recent weeks about how Palin would be a good pick. There was some hope that she might be picked, but there was also a fair bit of skepticism over whether Maverick would go there. Whether his staffers picked up blog chatter and passed it along or not, I can't say.
Are you going to let New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and all the rest of the Southwestern states actually use all that land the Federal Government has marked off as special?
I mean, you can't bitch about them getting more in Federal dollars when 50% of their land is Federal property.
It's closer to 85% in Nevada. Las Vegas is running out of room to grow...sounds ridiculous that that would be the case when we're in the middle of the desert, but the reason 3-story homes are being built on postage-stamp lots at 10-12 per acre (maybe more) is that the city is surrounded by land owned by Uncle Sam.
USB 2 theoretically supplies up to 500mA at 5V at the controller.
In addition, devices are only supposed to pull that much power after negotiating with the controller for it. Otherwise, the most you're supposed to pull from USB is only 100 mA. When plugged in, the GP's hard drive negotiates with the hub in the keyboard for the extra power it needs. When the keyboard says it can't supply it, the hard drive refuses to fire up and an error message pops up. Odds are pretty good that the keyboard will only supply 100 mA (less the small amount of current it needs for itself) and won't support bus-powered devices that need more. That's OK for mice and flashsticks, but not so good for bus-powered hard drives, scanners, etc.
There is NO EXCUSE for phone, PDA, and MP3 makers to NOT use the USB standard.
How about other types of connectivity you might want on a device? In addition to USB, my iPod photo also provides S-video out (maybe composite as well; I know composite video is available through the headphone jack), audio in/out, control (for things like car stereo connectivity), and FireWire. My Treo puts RS-232, audio in/out, and some other signals on its connector. On a larger device, you might get away with including all of the appropriate connectors somewhere on the device. For something like an iPod or a phone (at least one that's not just a phone)? Not so much.
FWIW, I tend to charge most of my stuff by plugging into a USB port on a computer, a USB hub, or a cigarette-lighter-to-USB adapter. Standardizing one end of the connection on something that's small and ubiquitous isn't a bad idea. Insisting on doing the same with the other end of the connection, though, is unnecessarily limiting in terms of what you can do with it. I'd like to see you try driving a projector with the mini-USB port on your Zen for a slideshow. I've run several from my iPod.
sure they can put a man into space, the problem has always been to get them back down safely once up there. When will they be able to do that?
They're willing to send people on suicide bombing missions...it's plausible that they'd take up suicide space missions as well. The only problem (from their point of view) is that in space, no one can hear you scream Allahu akhbar.
Important note!...I don't know where the original poster is (or if they're even in the U.S.), but in many areas, as of the 2/2009 switch to all digital many DTV stations are moving from their current UHF frequencies to the VHF frequency where they now have their analog broadcast. In the New York area this is true for ABC, TheWB, and PBS, whose DTV broadcasts will be moved to 7, 11, and 13 respectively. I don't believe this is true for any VHF frequencies lower below channel 7.
Many broadcasters never left VHF. Las Vegas has five broadcasters sending HDTV over VHF. One of them, KVBC, is even using low-band VHF (analog on channel 3, digital on channel 2). Since there are only seven high-band VHF channels and three of them were already in use for analog broadcasts, at least one channel would've had to use either UHF or low-band VHF...maybe they figured the cost to implement low-band VHF would be lower (maybe they're using backup equipment for it).
You might be able to control the box, but right now there is no way to easily record the HD content off of the box. The amount of data is just too great.
Why bother posting when it's obvious you don't have a clue WTF you're talking about? Are you JonKatz posting under a new name? I've been using MythTV to record HD from a cable box over FireWire for probably at least two years now. I've been using an ATSC tuner (in the same box) for the same purpose for a bit less time. Channel changing on the cable box happens over FireWire; the tuner, of course, can be set to whatever channel you want. I have no IR blasters, but all of my sources (the two HD sources and the two SD sources provided by a PVR-500) can be tuned to whatever channels are available on that input. My backend uses a 400GB drive for recordings, and that wasn't even the largest size available when I bought it (let alone today).
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There used to not even be that much. If you passed your written and practical tests and were of age, you'd get your license. (In most cases, you'd get a learner's permit and get some time behind the wheel with one of your parents riding shotgun, but there was no legal requirement for that--or for driver's ed. If you were somehow able to pass the test without those preparatory measures, you could. I think you still can if you're 18 or older, but not if you're 16 or 17.)
Even if you're only using it to work with stored procedures, LINQ allows for much cleaner database-access code. That's just the first thing that came to mind, based on stuff I've written at work so far. There might not be much code out there already using it, but VS 2008 has only been out a few months.
My understanding of the matter is that the internals changed substantially with .NET 2.0, but 3.0 and 3.5 have extended 2.0. An app built for 2.0 should work on 3.0 or 3.5; it just won't use any of the new features. (Basically, it sounds like the design of 1.x was sufficiently broken that they needed to start over again with 2.0.)
So it would appear...never mind.
Every app? The only apps I've not gotten working under Vista were Daemon Tools (mainly because I was holding onto an old, non-adware version which I ended up replacing with VirtualCloneDrive) and RealVNC (client works, but the free server doesn't work; newer versions of UltraVNC might work and are free-as-in-speech, but I've not tested them). OTOH, stuff like Acrobat Reader 5 (fewer annoyances than later versions) and Office 2000 installed just fine on it (Acrobat Reader threw up a compatibility warning on installation, but you can safely ignore it AFAICT).
It also speeds up fermentation; yeast attach themselves to the wood strips, which are suspended in the wort. With more surface area exposed to yeast, the "beer" (don't think that Bud really qualifies as beer) ferments more rapidly. That's basically the opposite of the "aging" that they claim is happening.
The wire gauge needed for some application is determined by current; voltage only matters to the extent that the insulator around the wire needs to be thick enough to avoid dielectric breakdown. A power cord that carries 30A at 240V uses the same wire gauge (10 ga., IIRC) as one that carries 30A at 120V, but the thicker insulation on the 240V cord makes it a bit larger. 100A through some 24-ga. hookup wire will burn out just as fast at 1V as it will at 100V or 10kV; the higher voltages might make for bigger sparks when the wire finally melts, but the resistive heating of the wire is proportional to the square of the current.
For convenience, instead of using the CFFA's onboard CompactFlash slot, I'd get an IDE-to-CF adapter and connect it to the CFFA with an IDE cable.
You could record it from TV with your computer (using MythTV, Windows MCE, or whatever). You could record it on your TiVo and rip it from that. You could use a recent version of FlashGot to get a download link for most Flash video.
Next question?
AFAICT from my trips to California, that law is more honored in the breach than in the observance.
What works well (or at least OK) on the desktop doesn't always work so well within the constraints of a handheld device. IME, I've always found Win** handhelds to be sluggish and unintuitive to navigate. I've not had those problems with Palm OS, which was designed from the start for the slower processors and smaller screens you tend to find in handheld devices.
Indeed...I brought up this article somewhat dreading what the troofers would likely be spewing. Would it be too much to ask of them to die in a fire?
You must be new here.
Not everybody wastes time on games. For those who do real work with their computers, a quad-core processor can make plenty of sense. I'm dropping off a machine at a customer site this afternoon that will hook into a casino DVR system. It'll transcode video recorded from a security camera to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 at over 100 fps. It'd be difficult (probably impossible) to do that with a dual-core system, but the Core 2 Extreme QX9650 can do that (and it's not even the fastest speed grade available).
(Source video is MPEG-2 recorded at 640x480 with a CX23416-based hardware encoder...don't ask me why it wasn't recorded at 720x480 to begin with; I didn't design the system. The transcoding step is needed to scale the video to 720x480 to make it DVD-compatible; this is done with mencoder with the multithreading options enabled.)
...for MythTV, since the MythTV installation docs recommend against it. I didn't recall this bit of advice when I switched my backend from ext3 to ReiserFS. I suffered through several months of glitchy recordings (many of which were flat-out unwatchable, others of which were merely annoying) before putting out a call for help to mythtv-users. Since switching from ReiserFS to XFS, nearly all of my recording problems went away. (The few that remained may have come from a cable box about to croak, as I had to take it back for a replacement a few weeks ago and I haven't seen any glitchy recordings since I hooked up the replacement. Last week, I had it recording C-SPAN for 6-7 hours at a stretch without so much as a hiccup.)
O RLY? Why is it, then, that five Las Vegas broadcasters are using VHF for their HD broadcasts, and will continue doing so indefinitely? (One of them is even using low-band VHF, which is supposedly less-than-optimal for ATSC.)
That's just one city, and Las Vegas is a bit of an outlier, but 76 broadcast markets have at least one broadcaster sending ATSC over VHF.
I've seen card-swipe terminals (?) that support them, but I've never seen the cards themselves, or known anybody who has one.
You must not be a Republican; if you were, you would've known better than to make that assertion. McCain was in the doghouse with the base over his "maverickyness" (for lack of a better word). If he'd picked a lib like Lieberman (or Tom Ridge, for that matter), he would only have driven more Republicans to stay home. Instead, with Sarah Palin on board, the base has been energized in a way it hasn't been in months. Instead of merely voting against Mr. Hopey Changitude, we now have a reason to vote for the McCain ticket.
If you followed the conservative blogs, you would've known this. There was even plenty of chatter in recent weeks about how Palin would be a good pick. There was some hope that she might be picked, but there was also a fair bit of skepticism over whether Maverick would go there. Whether his staffers picked up blog chatter and passed it along or not, I can't say.
It's closer to 85% in Nevada. Las Vegas is running out of room to grow...sounds ridiculous that that would be the case when we're in the middle of the desert, but the reason 3-story homes are being built on postage-stamp lots at 10-12 per acre (maybe more) is that the city is surrounded by land owned by Uncle Sam.
In addition, devices are only supposed to pull that much power after negotiating with the controller for it. Otherwise, the most you're supposed to pull from USB is only 100 mA. When plugged in, the GP's hard drive negotiates with the hub in the keyboard for the extra power it needs. When the keyboard says it can't supply it, the hard drive refuses to fire up and an error message pops up. Odds are pretty good that the keyboard will only supply 100 mA (less the small amount of current it needs for itself) and won't support bus-powered devices that need more. That's OK for mice and flashsticks, but not so good for bus-powered hard drives, scanners, etc.
How about other types of connectivity you might want on a device? In addition to USB, my iPod photo also provides S-video out (maybe composite as well; I know composite video is available through the headphone jack), audio in/out, control (for things like car stereo connectivity), and FireWire. My Treo puts RS-232, audio in/out, and some other signals on its connector. On a larger device, you might get away with including all of the appropriate connectors somewhere on the device. For something like an iPod or a phone (at least one that's not just a phone)? Not so much.
FWIW, I tend to charge most of my stuff by plugging into a USB port on a computer, a USB hub, or a cigarette-lighter-to-USB adapter. Standardizing one end of the connection on something that's small and ubiquitous isn't a bad idea. Insisting on doing the same with the other end of the connection, though, is unnecessarily limiting in terms of what you can do with it. I'd like to see you try driving a projector with the mini-USB port on your Zen for a slideshow. I've run several from my iPod.
Giant Douche! :-)
They're willing to send people on suicide bombing missions...it's plausible that they'd take up suicide space missions as well. The only problem (from their point of view) is that in space, no one can hear you scream Allahu akhbar.
Someone else already registered some snark over "twisted pair," so I'll just add that RG-6 would be even better than RG-59. It's better-shielded.
Many broadcasters never left VHF. Las Vegas has five broadcasters sending HDTV over VHF. One of them, KVBC, is even using low-band VHF (analog on channel 3, digital on channel 2). Since there are only seven high-band VHF channels and three of them were already in use for analog broadcasts, at least one channel would've had to use either UHF or low-band VHF...maybe they figured the cost to implement low-band VHF would be lower (maybe they're using backup equipment for it).
Why bother posting when it's obvious you don't have a clue WTF you're talking about? Are you JonKatz posting under a new name? I've been using MythTV to record HD from a cable box over FireWire for probably at least two years now. I've been using an ATSC tuner (in the same box) for the same purpose for a bit less time. Channel changing on the cable box happens over FireWire; the tuner, of course, can be set to whatever channel you want. I have no IR blasters, but all of my sources (the two HD sources and the two SD sources provided by a PVR-500) can be tuned to whatever channels are available on that input. My backend uses a 400GB drive for recordings, and that wasn't even the largest size available when I bought it (let alone today).