I do it all the time. In fact we are encouraged to tele-commute from home. So I swap files all the time between home/work. I assume pushing/pulling work to/from work&home is a reasonable use? YMMV
That's assuming you don't get put on hold. If at work, you could just have your headsets/speakerphone on, and continue with your work until someone comes on the line. Also, while doing this at 6am sounds all fine and dandy, you are forgetting about commute time. Sometimes if you aren't out-the-door by 6-6:30, your commute time starts to rise at a higher than linear rate.
The problem is underqualified VB zealot who thinks they are masters of the universe, who thinks they know something about software design/architectural theory because they coded hello world when they were 6, and then ends up coding a big mess... vs the tenured Software Engineer who actually paid sufficient attention in class at an aCcReDiTeD engineering school, and puts thought into their designs to make them modular/extensible/etc... =)
PS: For those without humor, I was just joking, no need to send flames in my direction....
That just because people sneak in, doesn't mean they would've bought tickets in the first place. Look at the Montreal Expos. If you could sneak into a game, I doubt you necessarily would've bought tickets to the game;) Maybe you only went because it was "free". But hey, what if you go for "free", and you found you really really like the Expos, or whoever they were playing.... I've done that. dl an Mp3 that I loved so much, I actually go out and buy the album. But I never would've bought it, if it wasn't for the MP3...
Since when is the burden of proof on the the defense? CA law and OR law, (I looked them up cause I was bored, when I used to have a contract with a government agency, and was waiting for sh*t to compile...)
Both explicitly define what the terms mean. ie, they define driver as being operator of motor vehicle at time of offense, etc etc.
If the picture don't match, you cannot be held liable, because the statute lists how/when you are liable. The constitution also says something about how you are served the thing, and US Mail is not one of the allowed methods, which is why they don't mail you a court summons, etc etc.
They can't make the owner say who was driving, because the "ticket" is between the state and the person listed on the ticket. Since its obvious as this stage its not the person in question, this case will get dropped, end of story. It's the prosecution who must figure out who actually committed the offense.
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. I heard a lot from clients when I worked at client sites. I even talked to several highway patrol guys who said usually, (in CA anyways), they didn't pursue guys like those mentioned above, cause 99% of the time, people just stuck in a check, and mailed it back in, no questions asked... (At least not for the ones he witnessed)
You can just "preview" the file while its still downloading. Then you won't waste time downloading it at all. Might need to download a meg or so before you can preview tho...
Do you even know how many times data is copied in memory before it actually goes out the ether port?
Well, in Win2K/XP, there is supposed to be zero memcopies when writing data out the network stack. Though if you have a crappy application, all bets are off;)
What about the car exhausts? I get more annoyed at the guy whos driving a jalloppy that hasn't seen a smog test in years, and instead of perpetual temp-tags.... Either that, or the putrid exhaust coming from the bus....
Reminds me of college. This one guy smoked in the bathroom of our quad al the time. People use to yell at him, until one day, he said, "Would you rather smell my sh*t or cigarette smoke?"
For the most part, I'd say the accidents that were "caused" by cell-phone users were not "caused" by cell phone users. It may have been a corollary, but not a causality. They were caused by morons. Just because you are using a cell-phone doesn't make you a danger. Its the moron that's a danger. Doesn't matter if he has a cell phone, cuz these are the same people I see on my way to work who:
Put make-up on while driving, looking into rear-view mirror whole time, instead of where they are going.
Shave while driving.
Floss while driving, steering with knees.
Has kid sitting in lap, steering the car for them, while driving.
Holding a drink in one hand, Big Mac in the other, and steering the car with their knees.
Reading the newspaper while driving.
Reading a Book while driving.
Head turned around, scolding their kids in the back while driving.
Drops cigarette in their lap, and are franticly searching for it, while driving....
etc, etc, etc...
PS: Who the hell looks at their cell phone while they are talking? I don't know about you, but I can't see my ears....
I was running Sun's JVM on Linux and Windows, and was getting different behavior on both, even though I was using the same version of the JVM, both from Sun. On windows, mouse events were passed to the component, in linux, they are not. Stuff like that. Makes the old saying true: Write once, debug everywhere...
Don't most of the current gen 64 bit processors actually only have 48 bit memory pointers? If I remember correctly, (could be wrong), these 64 bit processors have 64 bit precision, but memory pointers are limited to 48 bits. I believe Alpha's, Intel's, and Sun's chips are like this...
How is it that Sun demanded that microsoft cannot continue work on Java, because they were polluting it. So microsoft says fine.... When their license expired for its 1.1.3 JVM they CHOSE NOT TO RENEW IT, thus there is no JVM in Windows XP. Sow Sun goes bezerk, and demands Microsoft bundles Sun's 1.4 JVM with the OS?!!
So now Microsoft is in it up to its neck, because it bundled the OS with its own browser, but its ok to bundle it with somebody else's JVM? What kind of crap is this? What an insult to injury for MS.
So in the end, basically MS is being forced to license something from another company. There's a good business model. You should either be allowed to bundle what you want, or not bundle anything at all, it shouldn't work like this.
There was originally a draft for MPEG3. It was supposed to cover HD streams, until it was realized that MPEG2 would still manage to handle it. However, there is currently a commitee working on MPEG7. Only reason I know all this, is a while back, we got involved with the spec guys for DRM stuff, so we hired a guy that participated in the committee.
However, even though IE came bundled, for the longest time, I would still go out and install Netscape. I think the real reason IE was so popular, because in the end, IT IS A BETTER browser. Seriously, when I used Netscape Communicator, that thing was such a piece of crap, and I don't know how many times Netscape would crash, and eat up my resources.
Besides, to the average Joe, if IE didn't come bundled, how are they supposed to go and download Netscape? You expect them to know how to use FTP? Or do you expect them to go and "buy" the Netscape CD? What an inconvenience.
Besides, this whole notion of bundling is rediculous if you ask me. You don't hear people bitching that BMW's came bundled with an Alpine 6 disc CD changer and matching head unit? Dammit, I want a McIntosh head unit, so I should have the option to delete the stereo/CD Changer, but you cant. What if I don't want Leather/Leatherette interior? What if I want velvet? I should be able to delete the standard apolstery(sp?). Heck, I'm going to install ricaro seats, so I want the seats deleted as well. Hell, I'm going to put in a custom Dinan engine, so I want the engine deleted too. And I have an SMG tranny on shipment, so I want the tranny deleted too.... It doesn't work that way folks, get over it. Besides, its not like anybody is complaining about Minesweeper or Notepad. I'm sure there are other companies that make "similar" software. Hell, what about Winsock? Remember when multiple vendors made TCP/IP stacks for windows?
It will soon support UPnP AV. That will work with non-windows boxen. Also, many streaming nodes on the internet will support UPnP AV as well, so not supporting shoutcast, etc will become a non-issue in the future.
where they talk about a town with one lawyer. Slow business, and he nearly starves to death. But when a second lawyer moved in, they became the richest people in town, with business up the wazoo....
isn't the first device to market going to be a Digital-To-Analog set top box, so you can watch digital TV on your legacy TV? In which case, the problem repeats itself....
But didn't you violate the part about re-distribution? Technically didn't you "sell/give/re-distribute" it to your friend for "free"... He then watches it, and "sell/give/re-distribute" it back to you for "free"?
But I agree with you. What if the wife wants to watch an episode of the Carebears or Gems or something. Where am I going to find it? (She actually asked me about that a while ago, while shopping at Toys-R-Us for our niece. I remember loving Fat-Albert myself....
When Cartoon network first came out, I remember I was like, "oh cool, I can watch those old cartoons..."
But then I was disappointed with crap like Dexters Lab, Powerpuff Girls, SpongeBob, et all... But I digress, I actually like Powerpuff Girls now for some strange reason....
But what ever happened to PacMan? I remember I used to get a kick out of that cartoon back in the 80s.
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I do it all the time. In fact we are encouraged to tele-commute from home. So I swap files all the time between home/work. I assume pushing/pulling work to/from work&home is a reasonable use? YMMV
That's assuming your cell phone can get a signal from your cave, err I mean cube...
That's assuming you don't get put on hold. If at work, you could just have your headsets/speakerphone on, and continue with your work until someone comes on the line. Also, while doing this at 6am sounds all fine and dandy, you are forgetting about commute time. Sometimes if you aren't out-the-door by 6-6:30, your commute time starts to rise at a higher than linear rate.
the problem is not about bloat vs efficiency...
The problem is about bloat vs efficiency...
The problem is underqualified VB zealot who thinks they are masters of the universe, who thinks they know something about software design/architectural theory because they coded hello world when they were 6, and then ends up coding a big mess... vs the tenured Software Engineer who actually paid sufficient attention in class at an aCcReDiTeD engineering school, and puts thought into their designs to make them modular/extensible/etc... =)
PS: For those without humor, I was just joking, no need to send flames in my direction....
That just because people sneak in, doesn't mean they would've bought tickets in the first place. Look at the Montreal Expos. If you could sneak into a game, I doubt you necessarily would've bought tickets to the game ;) Maybe you only went because it was "free". But hey, what if you go for "free", and you found you really really like the Expos, or whoever they were playing.... I've done that. dl an Mp3 that I loved so much, I actually go out and buy the album. But I never would've bought it, if it wasn't for the MP3...
Since when is the burden of proof on the the defense? CA law and OR law, (I looked them up cause I was bored, when I used to have a contract with a government agency, and was waiting for sh*t to compile...)
Both explicitly define what the terms mean. ie, they define driver as being operator of motor vehicle at time of offense, etc etc.
If the picture don't match, you cannot be held liable, because the statute lists how/when you are liable. The constitution also says something about how you are served the thing, and US Mail is not one of the allowed methods, which is why they don't mail you a court summons, etc etc.
They can't make the owner say who was driving, because the "ticket" is between the state and the person listed on the ticket. Since its obvious as this stage its not the person in question, this case will get dropped, end of story. It's the prosecution who must figure out who actually committed the offense.
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. I heard a lot from clients when I worked at client sites. I even talked to several highway patrol guys who said usually, (in CA anyways), they didn't pursue guys like those mentioned above, cause 99% of the time, people just stuck in a check, and mailed it back in, no questions asked... (At least not for the ones he witnessed)
At least it wasn't an article submitted like:
:p
According to this article posted on slashdot, HP released some.......
I'd like to see if something like that can slip through the filters
You can just "preview" the file while its still downloading. Then you won't waste time downloading it at all. Might need to download a meg or so before you can preview tho...
Take a look at SavaJe. It is a JVM that is also an OS.
Do you even know how many times data is copied in memory before it actually goes out the ether port?
;)
Well, in Win2K/XP, there is supposed to be zero memcopies when writing data out the network stack. Though if you have a crappy application, all bets are off
... and instead has perpetual temp tags.
What about the car exhausts? I get more annoyed at the guy whos driving a jalloppy that hasn't seen a smog test in years, and instead of perpetual temp-tags.... Either that, or the putrid exhaust coming from the bus....
Reminds me of college. This one guy smoked in the bathroom of our quad al the time. People use to yell at him, until one day, he said, "Would you rather smell my sh*t or cigarette smoke?"
Dude, she queefed!
For the most part, I'd say the accidents that were "caused" by cell-phone users were not "caused" by cell phone users. It may have been a corollary, but not a causality. They were caused by morons. Just because you are using a cell-phone doesn't make you a danger. Its the moron that's a danger. Doesn't matter if he has a cell phone, cuz these are the same people I see on my way to work who:
Put make-up on while driving, looking into rear-view mirror whole time, instead of where they are going.
Shave while driving.
Floss while driving, steering with knees.
Has kid sitting in lap, steering the car for them, while driving.
Holding a drink in one hand, Big Mac in the other, and steering the car with their knees.
Reading the newspaper while driving.
Reading a Book while driving.
Head turned around, scolding their kids in the back while driving.
Drops cigarette in their lap, and are franticly searching for it, while driving....
etc, etc, etc...
PS: Who the hell looks at their cell phone while they are talking? I don't know about you, but I can't see my ears....
I was running Sun's JVM on Linux and Windows, and was getting different behavior on both, even though I was using the same version of the JVM, both from Sun. On windows, mouse events were passed to the component, in linux, they are not. Stuff like that. Makes the old saying true: Write once, debug everywhere...
Don't most of the current gen 64 bit processors actually only have 48 bit memory pointers? If I remember correctly, (could be wrong), these 64 bit processors have 64 bit precision, but memory pointers are limited to 48 bits. I believe Alpha's, Intel's, and Sun's chips are like this...
How is it that Sun demanded that microsoft cannot continue work on Java, because they were polluting it. So microsoft says fine.... When their license expired for its 1.1.3 JVM they CHOSE NOT TO RENEW IT, thus there is no JVM in Windows XP. Sow Sun goes bezerk, and demands Microsoft bundles Sun's 1.4 JVM with the OS?!!
So now Microsoft is in it up to its neck, because it bundled the OS with its own browser, but its ok to bundle it with somebody else's JVM? What kind of crap is this? What an insult to injury for MS.
So in the end, basically MS is being forced to license something from another company. There's a good business model. You should either be allowed to bundle what you want, or not bundle anything at all, it shouldn't work like this.
There was originally a draft for MPEG3. It was supposed to cover HD streams, until it was realized that MPEG2 would still manage to handle it. However, there is currently a commitee working on MPEG7. Only reason I know all this, is a while back, we got involved with the spec guys for DRM stuff, so we hired a guy that participated in the committee.
However, even though IE came bundled, for the longest time, I would still go out and install Netscape. I think the real reason IE was so popular, because in the end, IT IS A BETTER browser. Seriously, when I used Netscape Communicator, that thing was such a piece of crap, and I don't know how many times Netscape would crash, and eat up my resources.
Besides, to the average Joe, if IE didn't come bundled, how are they supposed to go and download Netscape? You expect them to know how to use FTP? Or do you expect them to go and "buy" the Netscape CD? What an inconvenience.
Besides, this whole notion of bundling is rediculous if you ask me. You don't hear people bitching that BMW's came bundled with an Alpine 6 disc CD changer and matching head unit? Dammit, I want a McIntosh head unit, so I should have the option to delete the stereo/CD Changer, but you cant. What if I don't want Leather/Leatherette interior? What if I want velvet? I should be able to delete the standard apolstery(sp?). Heck, I'm going to install ricaro seats, so I want the seats deleted as well. Hell, I'm going to put in a custom Dinan engine, so I want the engine deleted too. And I have an SMG tranny on shipment, so I want the tranny deleted too.... It doesn't work that way folks, get over it. Besides, its not like anybody is complaining about Minesweeper or Notepad. I'm sure there are other companies that make "similar" software. Hell, what about Winsock? Remember when multiple vendors made TCP/IP stacks for windows?
It will soon support UPnP AV. That will work with non-windows boxen. Also, many streaming nodes on the internet will support UPnP AV as well, so not supporting shoutcast, etc will become a non-issue in the future.
where they talk about a town with one lawyer. Slow business, and he nearly starves to death. But when a second lawyer moved in, they became the richest people in town, with business up the wazoo....
isn't the first device to market going to be a Digital-To-Analog set top box, so you can watch digital TV on your legacy TV? In which case, the problem repeats itself....
But didn't you violate the part about re-distribution? Technically didn't you "sell/give/re-distribute" it to your friend for "free"... He then watches it, and "sell/give/re-distribute" it back to you for "free"?
Aren't these things stupid/vague/et all?
Isn't this what TV-Land was supposed to be?
But I agree with you. What if the wife wants to watch an episode of the Carebears or Gems or something. Where am I going to find it? (She actually asked me about that a while ago, while shopping at Toys-R-Us for our niece. I remember loving Fat-Albert myself....
When Cartoon network first came out, I remember I was like, "oh cool, I can watch those old cartoons..."
But then I was disappointed with crap like Dexters Lab, Powerpuff Girls, SpongeBob, et all... But I digress, I actually like Powerpuff Girls now for some strange reason....
But what ever happened to PacMan? I remember I used to get a kick out of that cartoon back in the 80s.