I will disagree with you. The problem is that police are gathering evidence for a crime they don't know has occured, and without any evidence that this vehicle will ever violate the law.
If a cop sees my vehicle, and it is visually obvious that I am going fast, then ok, I am guilty, check my speed. But I don't like police gathering evidence on me, when I did not intended to violate their ordence, and it is not obvious that I am violating it.
That tells me that speeding is not regarded as a crime, you don't investigate crimes that have not yet occured, and you don't have any evidence that it will occur (beyond that it occured in the past). It has become a money generating mechanism. It clearly is not for safety measures, otherwise they would never persue areas that are safer, but at a too low speedlimit, than the areas/times where accidents occur.
I do have the DirecTiVO, it was having heat problems. I placed the CPU cooler heatsync on the outside of the case metal, underneath the unit (in the area of the main board, but outside the case, where the internal fan seams to push it's air.) Noticing than the tivo has little air flow outside the unit, but seams to mostly circulate the air across the metal bottom of the unit for cooling, that was where I concentrated my efforts. The entire metal botom of the unit where the most heat existed, still exists, is considerably cooler now (to the touch.)
I bought a $10 CPU cooling fan, and attached it (connects right to the Hard disk power supply) right over the hotest point on the bottom, then stood the tivo on it's end next to my TV. Heat related issues completly disapeared. however the cheap radio shack CPU fan I bought occasional makes more noise than I like (only notice with TV sound turned off.)
Hopefully this isn't just a stunt to draw microsoft attention, so they can get some free s/w... the caluse "only when necessary" leaves plenty of room.
As long as I Hit the FF button before the FBI warning comes up. It FF through the warning, actually it wont let me use any button to stop FF during the warning.
It does also crash, and need a cold boot occasionally. (no model number, because I don't know it, and you might as well try this one in the store anyway.)
I don't see the problem either. I have a tivo, I would be perfectly willing to let them block any content that they don't want me watching time shifted. Unless it was really good, it's doubtfull I would ever watch that content non- time shifted.
It so happens that my hearing is not as perfect as it once was, and as such I cant really stand to pay to watch most content that I cant rewind a bit to catch what I missed. often having to turn on the ClosedCaptioning for a bit. (O/T but be really nice if tivo auto turend on CC like my DVD player, when I hit skip back 30 seconds.)
Can we use the american Disabiltys act, to force them to let people like me replay what we cant hear the first time?
> THEY DON'T HAVE BUILTIN MACRO PROCESSORS. Macros in C are the most useful thing about the language, in my opinion. Not having them is a horrible travesty.
I think built-in macros are often poorly used in C/C++. I would much prefer someone use a sed script/etc called from a makefile. than to build a multi-level macro in C, who's intermediate results are not generally viewable, except at the assembly output. However if you use a macro in make, to produce c code, it will be portable to to all compilers, and you can look at the expanded c code to debug it.
I was curious if anyone knows (I live in Arizona and as such this is very important) about the Air-conditioning in the hybrids?
These Hybrid cars turn off the engine when stopped, and start out on batteries. Does it run the engine the entire time if you have the A/C on? or is that ran off of electric completly?
(I am not personally as curious about heat, but again is that a electric heater?)
>Thousands of Windows 98 users in Iowa could >get $40 refunds from Microsoft Corp.
whats thousands of users mean? $40 * 9999 (largest number not in the 10's of thousands) won't even make MSFT flinch.
Darn, I bought a PC with 95 installed on it in Iowa. I never bought or used my win98' box in Iowa (to get $40 from Bill Gates pocket, I could make sure it gets used their eventually.)
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>It's a file store that happens to run Linux on the backend...
That was my fealing when I got it almost a year ago. It is a really neat gadget, with good batery life, that technically does everything it says. You should look closely at the manual before purchase. With decent User Interface this would kick A**. However I haven't used it for anything but transfering files from work to home for the last 3 months.
The MP3 playing capabiltys appear as a after thought (does sound good, more later.) It runs like a single task OS. You can either use it as a ftp server, or as a MP3 player, or connect it wirelessly, or USB connect it to your PC, or copy from flash card... You must navigate through menus, to turn each on. Then you must quit that task, and navigate again through the menus to do something else. It doesn't rember where you were when you powered down, or powers it's self down (only after battery is dead, no other settings.) So if you plan to use this as a MP3 player in your car (as I did) You need to hold down power button for several seconds when you leave your car. Then when you return you must hit 5 different keys, no key buffer so don't go too fast, to get it to play a song again. And forget about the random play, it is not very random. If you put all your songs in this, and just start the random play each time, you'll never hear 50% of your collection, because it always selects a song near the beginning of your list, then jumps in a manner that you'll never hear the song at the end unless you listen to every other mp3 file first.
I do plan to connect it full time to the battery of my car. That way I can leave it on and just hit pause (my cigarete lighter turns off with the key.) Also mp3 is ver susceptable to power line noise. Make sure you don't connect this guy to the same power that gets any noise from your amp's...
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I will disagree with you. The problem is that police are gathering evidence for a crime they don't know has occured, and without any evidence that this vehicle will ever violate the law.
If a cop sees my vehicle, and it is visually obvious that I am going fast, then ok, I am guilty, check my speed. But I don't like police gathering evidence on me, when I did not intended to violate their ordence, and it is not obvious that I am violating it.
That tells me that speeding is not regarded as a crime, you don't investigate crimes that have not yet occured, and you don't have any evidence that it will occur (beyond that it occured in the past). It has become a money generating mechanism. It clearly is not for safety measures, otherwise they would never persue areas that are safer, but at a too low speedlimit, than the areas/times where accidents occur.
I do have the DirecTiVO, it was having heat problems. I placed the CPU cooler heatsync on the outside of the case metal, underneath the unit (in the area of the main board, but outside the case, where the internal fan seams to push it's air.) Noticing than the tivo has little air flow outside the unit, but seams to mostly circulate the air across the metal bottom of the unit for cooling, that was where I concentrated my efforts. The entire metal botom of the unit where the most heat existed, still exists, is considerably cooler now (to the touch.)
I bought a $10 CPU cooling fan, and attached it (connects right to the Hard disk power supply) right over the hotest point on the bottom, then stood the tivo on it's end next to my TV. Heat related issues completly disapeared. however the cheap radio shack CPU fan I bought occasional makes more noise than I like (only notice with TV sound turned off.)
Hopefully this isn't just a stunt to draw microsoft attention, so they can get some free s/w... the caluse "only when necessary" leaves plenty of room.
As long as I Hit the FF button before the FBI warning comes up. It FF through the warning, actually it wont let me use any button to stop FF during the warning.
It does also crash, and need a cold boot occasionally.
(no model number, because I don't know it, and you might as well try this one in the store anyway.)
I don't see the problem either. I have a tivo, I would be perfectly willing to let them block any content that they don't want me watching time shifted. Unless it was really good, it's doubtfull I would ever watch that content non- time shifted.
It so happens that my hearing is not as perfect as it once was, and as such I cant really stand to pay to watch most content that I cant rewind a bit to catch what I missed. often having to turn on the ClosedCaptioning for a bit. (O/T but be really nice if tivo auto turend on CC like my DVD player, when I hit skip back 30 seconds.)
Can we use the american Disabiltys act, to force them to let people like me replay what we cant hear the first time?
> THEY DON'T HAVE BUILTIN MACRO PROCESSORS. Macros in C are the most useful thing about the language, in my opinion. Not having them is a horrible travesty.
I think built-in macros are often poorly used in C/C++. I would much prefer someone use a sed script/etc called from a makefile. than to build a multi-level macro in C, who's intermediate results are not generally viewable, except at the assembly output. However if you use a macro in make, to produce c code, it will be portable to to all compilers, and you can look at the expanded c code to debug it.
I was curious if anyone knows (I live in Arizona and as such this is very important) about the Air-conditioning in the hybrids?
These Hybrid cars turn off the engine when stopped, and start out on batteries. Does it run the engine the entire time if you have the A/C on? or is that ran off of electric completly?
(I am not personally as curious about heat, but again is that a electric heater?)
Did MSFT take this seriously, briefly? That is why they permitted those russian hackers to download some of their windows related code.
>Thousands of Windows 98 users in Iowa could
>get $40 refunds from Microsoft Corp.
whats thousands of users mean? $40 * 9999 (largest number not in the 10's of thousands) won't even make MSFT flinch.
Darn, I bought a PC with 95 installed on it in Iowa. I never bought or used my win98' box in Iowa (to get $40 from Bill Gates pocket, I could make sure it gets used their eventually.)
>It's a file store that happens to run Linux on the backend...
That was my fealing when I got it almost a year ago. It is a really neat gadget, with good batery life, that technically does everything it says. You should look closely at the manual before purchase. With decent User Interface this would kick A**. However I haven't used it for anything but transfering files from work to home for the last 3 months.
The MP3 playing capabiltys appear as a after thought (does sound good, more later.) It runs like a single task OS. You can either use it as a ftp server, or as a MP3 player, or connect it wirelessly, or USB connect it to your PC, or copy from flash card... You must navigate through menus, to turn each on. Then you must quit that task, and navigate again through the menus to do something else. It doesn't rember where you were when you powered down, or powers it's self down (only after battery is dead, no other settings.) So if you plan to use this as a MP3 player in your car (as I did) You need to hold down power button for several seconds when you leave your car. Then when you return you must hit 5 different keys, no key buffer so don't go too fast, to get it to play a song again. And forget about the random play, it is not very random. If you put all your songs in this, and just start the random play each time, you'll never hear 50% of your collection, because it always selects a song near the beginning of your list, then jumps in a manner that you'll never hear the song at the end unless you listen to every other mp3 file first.
I do plan to connect it full time to the battery of my car. That way I can leave it on and just hit pause (my cigarete lighter turns off with the key.) Also mp3 is ver susceptable to power line noise. Make sure you don't connect this guy to the same power that gets any noise from your amp's...