Too bad the serial number is a 32 bit unsigned integer, not a string. For heaven sakes, this YYYYMMDDNN thing only makes sense if you look at that value in decimal representation.
Anyway, the serial number is just a revision number intended for the DNS "system" (I'm being a little vague here) to know when a SOA record has changed. There are no end-user servicable parts inside. No human but the people directly handling the coonfiguration of that record needs to know about it - including how it is formed, if it is following specifications. Period.
Sure, if you have build your company based on that tool that tells people when a.com domain SOA record was last changed, you are fucked - for about that minute it takes to change the conversion from int->decimal string->date to UNIX timestamp->date.
Maybe all those complaining are using Windows, and they fear that it may actually take them a day to Google for a routine that does that, and they lose the competetive edge to those UNIX weenies? Sounds like what MS had to say about the Apple/HP iTunes/iPod deal.
Well, there are many people whose ancestors could see glaciers when they looked out the window as far back in time as people can remember, but who now see those glaciers disappear at an ever growing rate.
The ironic thing is that as much as people despise large-scale war, it is a good thing for the planet and the species. It's good for the environment due to rationing (energy use, and therefore pollution, during WWII dropped radically).
No, it's not. While the public uses less energy and other resources for themselves, at least the amount saved is used to build weapons, and those are usually destroyed without regard to the environment.
for every device that was declared an iPod killer and didn't sell remotely as much as the iPod, I could handily buy an iPod. If only the overpriced iPod jr. that probably will outsell this killer.
Yeah, that way the RIAA knows exactly how many copies were made from that specific download, and can ask Apple who did it. You'ld better make sure to keep to fair use only.
German movie from 1929, (here or here), made with the help of German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth.
Director Fritz Lang introduced the countdown to make the start more dramatic.
Just that most of the money goes into the hands of very few people who spend most of it non-localy. In the meantime prices there go up, and almost everyone gets poorer through the inflation.
So which one was the Reagan administration, hard left, anti-Semites, or a weird Arabist? You know if assholes like you and Reagan (and with him Bush senior, Rumsfeld, and Cheney) hadn't supported him from day one, he couldn't have done all that.
The best thing Bush sen. did, was acting to Saddam like he didn't mind him invading Quwait, and then acting to the rest of the world as if it was the first thing he heard about it.
Sure. Now tell us how easy processing is at the end of a month (actually, you'll have to go through this each day at midnight). There also should be no problem computing the date of the day one week from now or 24 days ago. Believe me, you'll want to at least count just the days, not the months and years - and then you might as well only count seconds, because that makes things much easier for everybody.
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Anyway, the serial number is just a revision number intended for the DNS "system" (I'm being a little vague here) to know when a SOA record has changed. There are no end-user servicable parts inside. No human but the people directly handling the coonfiguration of that record needs to know about it - including how it is formed, if it is following specifications. Period.
Sure, if you have build your company based on that tool that tells people when a .com domain SOA record was last changed, you are fucked - for about that minute it takes to change the conversion from int->decimal string->date to UNIX timestamp->date.
Maybe all those complaining are using Windows, and they fear that it may actually take them a day to Google for a routine that does that, and they lose the competetive edge to those UNIX weenies? Sounds like what MS had to say about the Apple/HP iTunes/iPod deal.
Well, there are many people whose ancestors could see glaciers when they looked out the window as far back in time as people can remember, but who now see those glaciers disappear at an ever growing rate.
No, it's not. While the public uses less energy and other resources for themselves, at least the amount saved is used to build weapons, and those are usually destroyed without regard to the environment.
Ever seen how the pessangers of a SUV look after an accident where the SUV can't leech off the other cars crumple zone?
It's the magic pixie dust that makes the iPod successful, unlike all the iPod-killers.
Actually, when they realized they had lost the race, IBM at least tried to cash in on some patents, thus retroactively licensing their technology.
for every device that was declared an iPod killer and didn't sell remotely as much as the iPod, I could handily buy an iPod. If only the overpriced iPod jr. that probably will outsell this killer.
Yup. 9 months ago. According to the latest numbers given in the keynote, 69% didn't choose the iPod. Apple is doomed!
Uhmm, yeah, exactly, they compared them to PCs.
And have the Records Industry on our backs?
is an article that lost a lot of credibility.
Yeah, that way the RIAA knows exactly how many copies were made from that specific download, and can ask Apple who did it. You'ld better make sure to keep to fair use only.
Face it, you bought some overpriced brick with a standard 2.5" notebook harddrive. And slow USB.
Hey, exploding batteries comes pretty close to murdering and pillaging.
Well, he heard all the monkeys came back intelligent - or was that intelligible?
German movie from 1929, (here or here), made with the help of German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth. Director Fritz Lang introduced the countdown to make the start more dramatic.
Just that most of the money goes into the hands of very few people who spend most of it non-localy. In the meantime prices there go up, and almost everyone gets poorer through the inflation.
The best thing Bush sen. did, was acting to Saddam like he didn't mind him invading Quwait, and then acting to the rest of the world as if it was the first thing he heard about it.
Make sure that those ingredients are not her children.
Like planing to invade Iraq once a suitable reason has been constructed out of thin air?
And then they release most of those arrested after some months of torture, because they can't even find plans.
Hey, the FBI warned us of people wielding almanacs.
And the fact that all companies making those electronic voting machines are active supporters of the Republicans doesn't bother you?
Sure. Now tell us how easy processing is at the end of a month (actually, you'll have to go through this each day at midnight). There also should be no problem computing the date of the day one week from now or 24 days ago. Believe me, you'll want to at least count just the days, not the months and years - and then you might as well only count seconds, because that makes things much easier for everybody.
Or in mid-air when driving over a cliff - or shortly before they leave ground.