...Seeing as using headlights and turn signals are apparently optional in the State of Washington.
Same applies to the People's Republic of California. I don't live there (fortunately), but we get plenty of people driving up from there every weekend, plenty more people who move here and then try to Californicate their new home, etc. I didn't notice if Oregon is the same way or not while I was up in Portland last summer...if so, we could mark the entire Left Coast as non-turn-signal-using muldoons.:-|
My Toyota Avensis has a convex left-side mirror; I must admit I'm now a junkie to this feature. Seems fairly standard across the market, in fact: I just didn't realise it until I graduated from a 205 and a Saxo...
By your spelling, I'm guessing that you drive on the wrong side of the road and are therefore referring to what is the passenger side mirror on your car. Convex passenger side mirrors have been standard here in the States for over a quarter-century...first instance I recall seeing of it was Dad's '78 Cutlass Supreme when I was little.
(They may go back further than that with some other manufacturers, but I have a '77 Cutlass Supreme Brougham now and its right mirror is flat. It doesn't have the usual "objects in mirror" message on it and it has a much smaller field of view.)
Well, the same thing was said about chlorofluorocarbons. And now all new fridges etc. are CFC free, and work well (or even better than before).
Because R-134a isn't as efficient as R-12, devices that use it use more power to achieve the same effect. Your car gets its mileage and performance reduced further when you switch on the A/C and your fridge uses more electricity. Between this and the questionable "science" surrounding CFCs and ozone, I'm not convinced that the switch to R-134a was a Good Thing.
"Good point. I recommend not going to college so you don't have to pay for food and rent."
You see, if I'm not at school I can get a thing called a "JOB".
I had a job while I was finishing my degree. At times, I even had two jobs (one full-time, one part-time). It might mean you only have time for one or two courses per semester, but it is doable. (Even a job that takes you out of town occasionally doesn't have to be an impediment...there was a discrete-math course where I ended up faxing in most of my homework for a month or two, and I still managed to get an A.)
Is "Linux x86 assembly" any different to any other kind of "x86 assembly"?
Given that most Linux-based assemblers use AT&T syntax and most other x86 assemblers use Intel syntax, yes. This page summarizes some of the most significant differences (operand order, operand prefixes, etc.).
There's also the small matter of talking to the host OS. The difference between x86 assembly coding on Linux and x86 assembly coding on Win32 is comparable to the difference between 6502 assembly coding on the Apple II and 6502 assembly coding on the Commodore 64. Just as JSR $FDED does one thing on the Apple II (print the character in the accumulator) and does something completely different on the Commodore (crash?), making Linux calls to Windows is not likely to work too well.
MySQL is free (and all applications do remain PROPRIETARY provided they dont modify the MySQL source in any way -- Read the licence properly dudes.
Your app only remains proprietary until you decide to distribute it. If you distribute an app that uses MySQL APIs, either (1) you have to GPL your app or (2) you have to pay MySQL if you don't want to GPL your app. It doesn't matter if your app is to be BSD-licensed, closed-source, or whatever...if it's not GPL'd, you have to pay MySQL if you distribute your app.
This isn't exactly news. We've heard the same thing every year for the past few years. The world hasn't come to an end yet, and it's unlikely to do so.
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However, the new Dish 921 HDTV PVR is cool if you can put up with 25 hours of HDTV PVR and can afford to put an antenna on your house. Most new developments in my area do not allow exterior antennas.
This FCC rule overrides whatever might be in your CC&Rs WRT antennas and dishes. If your HOA gives you grief because you put up a small antenna to pull in HDTV, you can tell them to go fsck themselves, and there will be nothing they can do about it.
To the Tivo, the Satellite receiver is just another cable box. You hook them together the same way that you would a box from Cox or Warner. The Tivo tunes into channel 4 (or whatever) just like your TV would.
Better yet, you run audio and S-video cables between your [satellite receiver|digital cable box] and your TiVo, and you set your TiVo to record from the S-video input instead of its built-in tuner. You get much less signal degradation that way.
I've never had a problem with reception (not that we get really bad weather here in Las Vegas). I think the key is to make sure you have your dish pointed properly and bolt it down.
Now if I can only get Sprint to put DSL in my area so I can drop Cox cable...
You don't want to get DSL in Las Vegas. We have it at work (along with cable-modem service...don't ask why we have both) and it's flaky as hell. Cable is the way to go around here. The horror stories I've heard about cable-modem service elsewhere don't apply here. For about $60 per month, I have 1.5 Mbps down, 128 kbps up, a static IP address, and no artificial limitations on what services I can provide through my connection (just the usual prohibitions WRT warez servers and such that you'll get anywhere). This site, this site, and this site are hosted through it, along with my mail.
(My cable-modem service is handled by Cox Business Services, not by the same office that handles cable TV. That might make a difference. I have one of the old gray COM21 modems from back when that was the only type they used. Everything still shows up on one bill; the only difference I can see is that the tech-support number is different. If you're running into restrictions with residential service, you might look into getting business service...at least around here, it doesn't cost anything extra.)
I asked for the replay on the TiVo (I headed to the kitchen as soon as Timberlake popped up). We were watching a HD broadcast, though, so the TiVo wasn't running.
(On the way home, though, I heard that Drudge had a closeup...that's probably why his site isn't loading now.)
Actually, WMA is less restrictive. I've been able to *legally* take 160kbps WMA files from a music site and turn them into 128kbps OGG files with a simple windows app.
iTunes will burn its downloads to red-book CDs which you can then rip and encode to MP3, Ogg, or whatever (even WMA if you're feeling perverted). If you want, you can burn to CD-RW if you don't plan on keeping a permanent copy in that format. How is this more restrictive than what you describe?
(There's also a procedure for ripping the DRM off of iTunes downloads. Is there something comparable for WMA files? Having the original file sans DRM is definitely a Good Thing.)
Mac's AAC won't let you do that. They Vendor Lock-in with iPod.
Are you telling me I was imagining things when I played my iTunes downloads on my Palm (after converting them to Ogg)?
More recently, Alan Colmes has gotten his own radio show. The show is even syndicated by that network that the Left likes to attack as a bunch of fire-breathing right-wingers, which kinda gives the lie to their assertions.
(I might not agree with 95% of what Alan Colmes says, but at least he's more polite than 95% of the other liberals out there. You can disagree without being disagreeable. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere for Howard Dean and his ilk, but I doubt they'll learn it.)
Interesting fact, Sean Hanity's speaking fee is $35,000. colmes gets less than $15,000.
You don't suppose that could be market forces at work, do you?
On my Windows XP boxes, QuickTime has been remarkably unstable through three major and countless minor releases. Crashes, weird artifacts that linger for the duration of playback, "corrupted" files that played fine under Win2K...
iTunes (which runs QuickTime underneath) streams Sean Hannity (in MP3) for me without a hitch on WinXP and Win2K. That's three hours a day with no glitches, unless there's a problem on the server side. (I know the problem is on their end because Winamp doesn't work any better if there's a problem with the MP3 stream.) They also do Windows Media and Real streams...I'll take WMA if I can't get MP3, but WMA takes much longer to begin playing than MP3.
I can't remember the last time I had RealPlayer installed on any of my computers. I simply haven't had a need for it. I almost broke down and was ready to install the Palm OS version on my Tungsten T when it became available, but then AeroPlayer made it to market first with both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis playback.
You'd have to mount the file system to do that; and, if you did *oops* it crashed again.
Um...you normally don't want a filesystem mounted when you're imaging it. Imaging a live filesystem (especially one mounted read-write) usually leads to consistency errors.
It wouldn't surprise me if there was some kind of coating you could put on the disc, such as spray adhesive, that would keep it from degrading but still allow it to play.
There's nothing stopping you from ripping it and burning it to DVD-R. Even a dual-layer DVD can be copied if you're willing to accept some (usually negligible) quality loss. (I've heard occasional references to a dual-layer DVD-R being in the works...that would allow a 1:1 copy of any DVD. Here's info on a demo Pioneer did at this year's CES with a DVR-A06 and some tweaked firmware.)
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Same applies to the People's Republic of California. I don't live there (fortunately), but we get plenty of people driving up from there every weekend, plenty more people who move here and then try to Californicate their new home, etc. I didn't notice if Oregon is the same way or not while I was up in Portland last summer...if so, we could mark the entire Left Coast as non-turn-signal-using muldoons. :-|
By your spelling, I'm guessing that you drive on the wrong side of the road and are therefore referring to what is the passenger side mirror on your car. Convex passenger side mirrors have been standard here in the States for over a quarter-century...first instance I recall seeing of it was Dad's '78 Cutlass Supreme when I was little.
(They may go back further than that with some other manufacturers, but I have a '77 Cutlass Supreme Brougham now and its right mirror is flat. It doesn't have the usual "objects in mirror" message on it and it has a much smaller field of view.)
Translation: "Your ship is a garbage scow! There is no honor in attacking the weak."
(Before you attack me for having no life, this translation is the result of a Google search.)
Because R-134a isn't as efficient as R-12, devices that use it use more power to achieve the same effect. Your car gets its mileage and performance reduced further when you switch on the A/C and your fridge uses more electricity. Between this and the questionable "science" surrounding CFCs and ozone, I'm not convinced that the switch to R-134a was a Good Thing.
Any diode can be a light-emitting diode at least once.
I had a job while I was finishing my degree. At times, I even had two jobs (one full-time, one part-time). It might mean you only have time for one or two courses per semester, but it is doable. (Even a job that takes you out of town occasionally doesn't have to be an impediment...there was a discrete-math course where I ended up faxing in most of my homework for a month or two, and I still managed to get an A.)
Given that most Linux-based assemblers use AT&T syntax and most other x86 assemblers use Intel syntax, yes. This page summarizes some of the most significant differences (operand order, operand prefixes, etc.).
There's also the small matter of talking to the host OS. The difference between x86 assembly coding on Linux and x86 assembly coding on Win32 is comparable to the difference between 6502 assembly coding on the Apple II and 6502 assembly coding on the Commodore 64. Just as JSR $FDED does one thing on the Apple II (print the character in the accumulator) and does something completely different on the Commodore (crash?), making Linux calls to Windows is not likely to work too well.
Your app only remains proprietary until you decide to distribute it. If you distribute an app that uses MySQL APIs, either (1) you have to GPL your app or (2) you have to pay MySQL if you don't want to GPL your app. It doesn't matter if your app is to be BSD-licensed, closed-source, or whatever...if it's not GPL'd, you have to pay MySQL if you distribute your app.
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Move along, people...nothing to see here.
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This phone has an old-school ringer. Someone else mentioned that it's in some other Ericsson phones as well.
The downmod is most likely the result of this childish tweaking:
(I've seen worse in copied articles before, but that doesn't make this less annoying.)
No...you use a hammer on an Athlon 64 or Opteron board.
(I'll be here all week...)
Who let this guy in here?
This FCC rule overrides whatever might be in your CC&Rs WRT antennas and dishes. If your HOA gives you grief because you put up a small antenna to pull in HDTV, you can tell them to go fsck themselves, and there will be nothing they can do about it.
Better yet, you run audio and S-video cables between your [satellite receiver|digital cable box] and your TiVo, and you set your TiVo to record from the S-video input instead of its built-in tuner. You get much less signal degradation that way.
You don't want to get DSL in Las Vegas. We have it at work (along with cable-modem service...don't ask why we have both) and it's flaky as hell. Cable is the way to go around here. The horror stories I've heard about cable-modem service elsewhere don't apply here. For about $60 per month, I have 1.5 Mbps down, 128 kbps up, a static IP address, and no artificial limitations on what services I can provide through my connection (just the usual prohibitions WRT warez servers and such that you'll get anywhere). This site, this site, and this site are hosted through it, along with my mail.
(My cable-modem service is handled by Cox Business Services, not by the same office that handles cable TV. That might make a difference. I have one of the old gray COM21 modems from back when that was the only type they used. Everything still shows up on one bill; the only difference I can see is that the tech-support number is different. If you're running into restrictions with residential service, you might look into getting business service...at least around here, it doesn't cost anything extra.)
kremvax was an April Fool's joke.
I asked for the replay on the TiVo (I headed to the kitchen as soon as Timberlake popped up). We were watching a HD broadcast, though, so the TiVo wasn't running.
(On the way home, though, I heard that Drudge had a closeup...that's probably why his site isn't loading now.)
iTunes will burn its downloads to red-book CDs which you can then rip and encode to MP3, Ogg, or whatever (even WMA if you're feeling perverted). If you want, you can burn to CD-RW if you don't plan on keeping a permanent copy in that format. How is this more restrictive than what you describe?
(There's also a procedure for ripping the DRM off of iTunes downloads. Is there something comparable for WMA files? Having the original file sans DRM is definitely a Good Thing.)
Are you telling me I was imagining things when I played my iTunes downloads on my Palm (after converting them to Ogg)?
More recently, Alan Colmes has gotten his own radio show. The show is even syndicated by that network that the Left likes to attack as a bunch of fire-breathing right-wingers, which kinda gives the lie to their assertions.
The Sean Hannity Show != Hannity & Colmes.
(I might not agree with 95% of what Alan Colmes says, but at least he's more polite than 95% of the other liberals out there. You can disagree without being disagreeable. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere for Howard Dean and his ilk, but I doubt they'll learn it.)
You don't suppose that could be market forces at work, do you?
iTunes (which runs QuickTime underneath) streams Sean Hannity (in MP3) for me without a hitch on WinXP and Win2K. That's three hours a day with no glitches, unless there's a problem on the server side. (I know the problem is on their end because Winamp doesn't work any better if there's a problem with the MP3 stream.) They also do Windows Media and Real streams...I'll take WMA if I can't get MP3, but WMA takes much longer to begin playing than MP3.
I can't remember the last time I had RealPlayer installed on any of my computers. I simply haven't had a need for it. I almost broke down and was ready to install the Palm OS version on my Tungsten T when it became available, but then AeroPlayer made it to market first with both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis playback.
In Soviet Russia, the vodka is good but the lightning is rotten.
Um...you normally don't want a filesystem mounted when you're imaging it. Imaging a live filesystem (especially one mounted read-write) usually leads to consistency errors.
There's nothing stopping you from ripping it and burning it to DVD-R. Even a dual-layer DVD can be copied if you're willing to accept some (usually negligible) quality loss. (I've heard occasional references to a dual-layer DVD-R being in the works...that would allow a 1:1 copy of any DVD. Here's info on a demo Pioneer did at this year's CES with a DVR-A06 and some tweaked firmware.)