Tom Carter, a computer consultant with Clover Link Systems of Los Angeles, said the application has a hard limit of 32,000 changes in a single month.
"This probably seemed like plenty to the designers, but when the storms hit last week, they caused many, many crew reassignments, and the value of 32,000 was exceeded," he said.
Do you know why they don't 'deep-link' directly to Ticketmaster? Neither do I. Ticketmasters lawsuit about it was thrown out, and the judge in charge of the case made this statement:
"Hyperlinking does not itself involve a violation of the Copyright Act," Hupp said in his ruling. "There is no deception in what is happening. This is analogous to using a library's card index to get reference to particular items, albeit faster and more efficiently."
And work history, as has been said repeatedly, is an important key.
I managed to get my foot in the IS door as a college dropout, because I knew a little something about computers, and the construction company where I worked needed an assistant programmer. Through the vagaries of business, that position wound up morphing into being a developer of software sold into the educational market, and that was good enough for my move into corporate slavery.
Six years later, I emerged calling myself a 'consultant', and I now get to sit here making wise-ass remarks on Slashdot while charging relatively ridiculous amounts of money. However, this would not be possible if I did not meet my commitments, and if I did not perform well in the inevitable crunches which are endemic to the industry.
The first point I understand of course, but I was thinking more along the lines of finding such items readily available for sale, rather than getting 'em pre-installed with the machine.
That second point though, does make a lot of sense. I seem to recall that there were plenty of PCs at the time on which the 'real time clock' wouldn't work and CMOS settings were lost, all for the want of a button-cell.
I remember seeing devices like this quite a long while ago, it must have been between '89 and '93, since I distinctly remember where I worked when I read the article.
As I recall, the device was an ISA card with power plugs, which was wired in-between the power supply and the motherboard.
I don't know why it didn't become a fairly standard accessory.
int main() { printf("Hello World!%d\n",5/0); return 0; } [vengeance@baraddur temp]$ gcc -o hello_div hello_div.c hello_div.c: In function `main': hello_div.c:4: warning: division by zero [vengeance@baraddur temp]$./hello_div Floating point exception
As we always do: By continuing to write and release useful software. Companies which are scared off can just go ahead and tie themselves (and an increasing portion of their profit margins) to Microsoft. Smarter organizations will benefit from what is freely available, and will prosper in the long-term. Microsoft will adapt or die.
Hehehe. Cute. Of course the simple fact is that the mass is not destroyed, but merely converted into energy. So really they should be called Weapons of Mass Conversion;-)
Now go explain 'mass' to the American people, because I'm fairly sure the majority of my countrymen only think of 'massive' when they hear the word.
The second restriction applies to the use of celestial bodies. So placing a weapon-loaded military base on the moon is out, but building a death star is fine, so long as the weapons don't cross that nebulous line into 'mass destruction'.
As is so often the case, the summary gets the facts wrong.
The treaty does NOT forbid the militarization of space. It forbids placement of weapons on celestial bodies, and it forbids nuclear and other 'WMD's from being placed in space.
States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.
The Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military maneuvers on celestial bodies shall be forbidden. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration of the Moon and other celestial bodies shall also not be prohibited.
Note: No nukes, no 'WMDs' in orbit, and no weapons on pre-existing celestial bodies. Sticking more conventional arms into orbit is A-OK by this agreement.
I need to give that a try... My DirecTiVo has a USB port on the back, and I definitely intend to hook it up to my network.
One of these days I'm gonna take that fluid-bearing 250 GB drive out of the closet and install it in the TiVo, too. If the TiVo won't work as-is on a network, I know I can modify the software before sticking the new disk in.
No source is included in the manual, nor did it come with a CDROM. To be honest, I haven't dug deeply enough into it to actually say whether or not there's actually an address to write to for the source, although I kind of assume there would be. I basically just noted the GPL and moved on from there.
As to monthly fees, it is ordinarily a five dollar a month charge (like adding a receiver) but if you have a high enough level of service (I get most of the channels, Premium something it's called) then you have the fee waived.
An interesting benefit: The DirecTiVo has two satellite tuners, not just one. I can watch and record simultaneously, or record two shows at once (while watching another recording if I so choose).
Finally: I'm sure it's not a fast processor in that box, but it sure feels a lot slicker and smoother than the P3/1GHz PVR I threw together some time back.
I don't know if I can truly answer your question, but:
*I have a TiVo (DirecTiVo to be precise) *TiVo runs Linux, and the GPL is one of the appendices in the owner's manual *It's an awesome little box that makes TV watching a much nicer experience *At 100 dollars (as an existing DirecTV customer) I couldn't possibly match the price with a home-brewed PC-based PVR. *My wife is entirely capable of operating it.
Isn't it bad enough that I have to put up with ads on my television, radio, public transportation, and web browser? Christ, give us five minutes of peace, you ad-serving bastards.
Frankly, it all comes down to how much of a pain in the ass (and an expense) those regulations are. Despite what the law or lying regulators say, Americans with the opportunity continue to cross the border to buy medicine at Canadian pharmacies, and they are not doing so because of a deathwish.
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In my day, our ints had 16 bits and we LIKED it!
I would just like to point out that my post was not a slam against Bush, nor the Republican party. Not directly at any rate.
No, I was attacking the political class as a whole, the entire mass of giant douches and turd sandwiches.
I believe this will answer your question:
Tom Carter, a computer consultant with Clover Link Systems of Los Angeles, said the application has a hard limit of 32,000 changes in a single month.
"This probably seemed like plenty to the designers, but when the storms hit last week, they caused many, many crew reassignments, and the value of 32,000 was exceeded," he said.
So it sounds like a signed int.
1% of us give the other 99% a bad name. Unfortunately, we DID elect them.
Do you know why they don't 'deep-link' directly to Ticketmaster?
Neither do I. Ticketmasters lawsuit about it was thrown out, and the judge in charge of the case made this statement:
"Hyperlinking does not itself involve a violation of the Copyright Act," Hupp said in his ruling. "There is no deception in what is happening. This is analogous to using a library's card index to get reference to particular items, albeit faster and more efficiently."
I for one welcome our new miniature overlords.
We are the PRODUCT my friend, as surely bought and paid for as any box of laundry detergent, or any slave.
The only customers the networks have is the advertisers.
And work history, as has been said repeatedly, is an important key.
I managed to get my foot in the IS door as a college dropout, because I knew a little something about computers, and the construction company where I worked needed an assistant programmer. Through the vagaries of business, that position wound up morphing into being a developer of software sold into the educational market, and that was good enough for my move into corporate slavery.
Six years later, I emerged calling myself a 'consultant', and I now get to sit here making wise-ass remarks on Slashdot while charging relatively ridiculous amounts of money. However, this would not be possible if I did not meet my commitments, and if I did not perform well in the inevitable crunches which are endemic to the industry.
I don't like animated gifs and such jumping around on my screen.
/.s GIMP icon is just the eyeballs, and looks rather silly.
Unfortunately, that means that
The first point I understand of course, but I was thinking more along the lines of finding such items readily available for sale, rather than getting 'em pre-installed with the machine.
That second point though, does make a lot of sense. I seem to recall that there were plenty of PCs at the time on which the 'real time clock' wouldn't work and CMOS settings were lost, all for the want of a button-cell.
I remember seeing devices like this quite a long while ago, it must have been between '89 and '93, since I distinctly remember where I worked when I read the article.
As I recall, the device was an ISA card with power plugs, which was wired in-between the power supply and the motherboard.
I don't know why it didn't become a fairly standard accessory.
[vengeance@baraddur temp]$ cat hello_div.c
./hello_div
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello World!%d\n",5/0);
return 0;
}
[vengeance@baraddur temp]$ gcc -o hello_div hello_div.c
hello_div.c: In function `main':
hello_div.c:4: warning: division by zero
[vengeance@baraddur temp]$
Floating point exception
*** STOP: 0x0000000A (0x802aa502,0x00000002,0xFA9401C)
IRQL_NOT_LESS _OR_EQUAL*** Address fa84001c has base at fa848000 - i8042prt.SYS
CPUID: GenuineIntel 5.2.c irq1:1f SYSVER 0xF0000565
COOL!!!!!!!!
Very ironically, heavy computer users also consume more marijuana, offsetting the glaucoma problem ;-)
You don't see his point?
You should have read the next five words of the post before rushing off to complain then. Here, I'll put them right here: "It was a good design".
As we always do: By continuing to write and release useful software. Companies which are scared off can just go ahead and tie themselves (and an increasing portion of their profit margins) to Microsoft. Smarter organizations will benefit from what is freely available, and will prosper in the long-term. Microsoft will adapt or die.
Hehehe. Cute. Of course the simple fact is that the mass is not destroyed, but merely converted into energy. So really they should be called Weapons of Mass Conversion ;-)
Now go explain 'mass' to the American people, because I'm fairly sure the majority of my countrymen only think of 'massive' when they hear the word.
The second restriction applies to the use of celestial bodies. So placing a weapon-loaded military base on the moon is out, but building a death star is fine, so long as the weapons don't cross that nebulous line into 'mass destruction'.
As is so often the case, the summary gets the facts wrong.
The treaty does NOT forbid the militarization of space. It forbids placement of weapons on celestial bodies, and it forbids nuclear and other 'WMD's from being placed in space.
Article IV of the treaty follows:
States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.
The Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military maneuvers on celestial bodies shall be forbidden. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration of the Moon and other celestial bodies shall also not be prohibited.
Note: No nukes, no 'WMDs' in orbit, and no weapons on pre-existing celestial bodies. Sticking more conventional arms into orbit is A-OK by this agreement.
I need to give that a try... My DirecTiVo has a USB port on the back, and I definitely intend to hook it up to my network.
One of these days I'm gonna take that fluid-bearing 250 GB drive out of the closet and install it in the TiVo, too. If the TiVo won't work as-is on a network, I know I can modify the software before sticking the new disk in.
No source is included in the manual, nor did it come with a CDROM. To be honest, I haven't dug deeply enough into it to actually say whether or not there's actually an address to write to for the source, although I kind of assume there would be. I basically just noted the GPL and moved on from there.
As to monthly fees, it is ordinarily a five dollar a month charge (like adding a receiver) but if you have a high enough level of service (I get most of the channels, Premium something it's called) then you have the fee waived.
An interesting benefit: The DirecTiVo has two satellite tuners, not just one. I can watch and record simultaneously, or record two shows at once (while watching another recording if I so choose).
Finally: I'm sure it's not a fast processor in that box, but it sure feels a lot slicker and smoother than the P3/1GHz PVR I threw together some time back.
I don't know if I can truly answer your question, but:
*I have a TiVo (DirecTiVo to be precise)
*TiVo runs Linux, and the GPL is one of the appendices in the owner's manual
*It's an awesome little box that makes TV watching a much nicer experience
*At 100 dollars (as an existing DirecTV customer) I couldn't possibly match the price with a home-brewed PC-based PVR.
*My wife is entirely capable of operating it.
Isn't it bad enough that I have to put up with ads on my television, radio, public transportation, and web browser? Christ, give us five minutes of peace, you ad-serving bastards.
Frankly, it all comes down to how much of a pain in the ass (and an expense) those regulations are. Despite what the law or lying regulators say, Americans with the opportunity continue to cross the border to buy medicine at Canadian pharmacies, and they are not doing so because of a deathwish.
sed s/are/is/