Does anyone know of any GPS units that display this correctly? Last time (in 2005) I checked both my Trimble and Garmin and neither displayed the leap second correctly.
A standard/smart power adapter would cost no more than 2x that of a dumb adapter. It would also be possible to make standard/smart power adapters that can power multiple devices simultaneously and that will result in a net cost saving. Plus, you would be able to reuse these standard/smart power adapters and not have to replace them every time you get or replace another toy. So, there is no technical or economic reason not to standardize the power adapter.
Move to a civilized country? I find that quite ironic coming from someone living in a country that is in a perpetual state of civil war. Despite the relatively high crime rate in SA I feel a lot safer here than I ever felt in Israel. You tell me what is more likely, bringing crime under control in SA or ending the civil war in Israel?
I was just kidding. However, I have two toasters. One is a no-name $8 one with plastic sides and the other is a $120 German brand name one finished with stainless steel sides. Guess which one will most likely burn you? Barnett.
Lived in South Africa all my live. Yea, I burn my hand on the toast all the time, especially when I am really hungry and grab it just after it pops out. But here in South Africa we do not blame the manufacturer for that.
Barnett
I spend a lot of time on analysis and design. By the time I get down to programming a few months may have past since my previous project. That is the problem. Are you suggesting that C++ programmers should only do full time coding and let other people do the analysis and design work?
Consider:
std::string s = "abc";
s.find( 'b', 1 );// OK, returns 1
s.find( 'b', 2 );// OK, returns npos
s.find( 'b', 4 );// Runtime error
s.find( 'b', 3 );// ???
Is the last one safe or not? If you use this function all the time you will know the answer. None of the reference manuals that I have can give me a quick answer.
Whenever I need to take a break from C++ development for more than a month or two I find myself having to dig into the reference manuals when I get back. This can get very time consuming and frustrating.
Let me use myself as an example. I have spent the last 15 years as a full time C++ SW developer and yet there are still things about the language that I do not fully understand. But that has not stopped me from creating successful C++ applications. All I am saying is that the language is too complicated for *real world* SW developers.
C++ is an extremely powerful programming language and that is why I use it every day. But it has one major problem: It is too complicated.
As long as you do programming full time you are OK but if too much of your time is spent on the application side of things you quickly get in trouble. This is what people like BS don't seem to get - not everyone can spend 100% of their time studying the language.
What you talk about has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
Sigh. There is nothing wrong with your argument that "the US government is not the one doing the banning." There is also nothing wrong with the argument of the post you responded to. The author mentioned CAN-SPAM, DRM, Software patents and Encryption restrictions. And they are US policy.
Just to put these numbers in perspective:
Running the PC and monitor (using lets say 500W) for a year during office hours (2000 hours) would consume 1000kWh. A typical power station would produce 1000kg of CO2 to generate that. Leaving the PC on all the time (8760 hours) would produce 4380kg CO2 per year.
A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no rakes. What were they to do?
"I know", said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement, Change Management, Re-Engineering and Service Integration, find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."
"No, no", said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
"Well", said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
Not necessarily. People will more likely just abandon these sites. It is just the same as any other publication with too much ads and too little content.
No, the idea is not to raise prices. The idea is to create some real incentive for ISPs to want to limit spam(ers).
I posted this before but was too late to get any response:
What if ISPs simply charge each other for traffic depending not on the direction of traffic but depending on which side initiated the TCP connection. That way the person downloading from a web site will be the one paying (because he made the HTTP connection) and not the web site host. And the person sending the email will be the one paying (because he made the SMTP connection) and not the recipient.
If only a few big ISPs agree to work like this others will follow and soon even small ISPs will start charging their customers for traffic based on this method.
Has Bush never heard about "make love not war"? He should get some advice from Clinton about lying.
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> I wish people would stop inviting rate increases or new charges as an answer to spam. It's not the answer.
But wait. What if ISPs simply charge each other for traffic depending not on the direction of traffic but depending on which side initiated the TCP connection. That way the person downloading from a web site will be the one paying (because he made the HTTP connection) and not the web site host. And the person sending the email will be the one paying (because he made the SMTP connection) and not the recipient.
If only a few big ISPs agree to work like this others will follow and soon even small ISPs will start charging their customers for traffic based on this method.
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Does anyone know of any GPS units that display this correctly? Last time (in 2005) I checked both my Trimble and Garmin and neither displayed the leap second correctly.
A standard/smart power adapter would cost no more than 2x that of a dumb adapter. It would also be possible to make standard/smart power adapters that can power multiple devices simultaneously and that will result in a net cost saving. Plus, you would be able to reuse these standard/smart power adapters and not have to replace them every time you get or replace another toy. So, there is no technical or economic reason not to standardize the power adapter.
Move to a civilized country? I find that quite ironic coming from someone living in a country that is in a perpetual state of civil war. Despite the relatively high crime rate in SA I feel a lot safer here than I ever felt in Israel. You tell me what is more likely, bringing crime under control in SA or ending the civil war in Israel?
I was just kidding. However, I have two toasters. One is a no-name $8 one with plastic sides and the other is a $120 German brand name one finished with stainless steel sides. Guess which one will most likely burn you? Barnett.
Lived in South Africa all my live. Yea, I burn my hand on the toast all the time, especially when I am really hungry and grab it just after it pops out. But here in South Africa we do not blame the manufacturer for that. Barnett
No, you are right, all four are valid and return npos. I must have been confused again. Go figure.
I spend a lot of time on analysis and design. By the time I get down to programming a few months may have past since my previous project. That is the problem. Are you suggesting that C++ programmers should only do full time coding and let other people do the analysis and design work?
Consider: // OK, returns 1 // OK, returns npos // Runtime error // ???
std::string s = "abc";
s.find( 'b', 1 );
s.find( 'b', 2 );
s.find( 'b', 4 );
s.find( 'b', 3 );
Is the last one safe or not? If you use this function all the time you will know the answer. None of the reference manuals that I have can give me a quick answer.
Whenever I need to take a break from C++ development for more than a month or two I find myself having to dig into the reference manuals when I get back. This can get very time consuming and frustrating. Let me use myself as an example. I have spent the last 15 years as a full time C++ SW developer and yet there are still things about the language that I do not fully understand. But that has not stopped me from creating successful C++ applications. All I am saying is that the language is too complicated for *real world* SW developers.
C++ is an extremely powerful programming language and that is why I use it every day. But it has one major problem: It is too complicated. As long as you do programming full time you are OK but if too much of your time is spent on the application side of things you quickly get in trouble. This is what people like BS don't seem to get - not everyone can spend 100% of their time studying the language.
There is also nothing wrong with the argument of the post you responded to. The author mentioned CAN-SPAM, DRM, Software patents and Encryption restrictions. And they are US policy.
Just to put these numbers in perspective:
Running the PC and monitor (using lets say 500W) for a year during office hours (2000 hours) would consume 1000kWh. A typical power station would produce 1000kg of CO2 to generate that. Leaving the PC on all the time (8760 hours) would produce 4380kg CO2 per year.
"Exposure to a 60-Hz magnetic field at 0.01 mT for 24 hrs caused a significant increase in DNA single and double strand breaks."
If this is true, just imagine what the 4T used by the MRI scanner at your local hospital will do to you.
They are random numbers representing computer error codes, which have been established as international standards.
If SCO can sue over this, then why can't Intel sue AMD for using the same interrupt vectors, instruction set, etc.
A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no rakes. What were they to do?
"I know", said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement, Change Management, Re-Engineering and Service Integration, find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."
"No, no", said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip
down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
"Well", said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
I used Quickbooks v5.0 under WINE and found no problems.
> is a Quickbooks replacement
Yes, you are right.
But for the time being, Quickbooks works just fine under WINE.
Barnett
Not necessarily. People will more likely just abandon these sites. It is just the same as any other publication with too much ads and too little content.
No, the idea is not to raise prices. The idea is to create some real incentive for ISPs to want to limit spam(ers).
I posted this before but was too late to get any response:
What if ISPs simply charge each other for traffic depending not on the direction of traffic but depending on which side initiated the TCP connection. That way the person downloading from a web site will be the one paying (because he made the HTTP connection) and not the web site host. And the person sending the email will be the one paying (because he made the SMTP connection) and not the recipient.
If only a few big ISPs agree to work like this others will follow and soon even small ISPs will start charging their customers for traffic based on this method.
Could this help to put an end to spam?
> Otherwise, how will they exchange documents?
Anyone remember paper?
> It's ok to lie if it's about war.
Has Bush never heard about "make love not war"?
He should get some advice from Clinton about lying.
> I wish people would stop inviting rate increases or new charges as an answer to spam. It's not the answer.
But wait. What if ISPs simply charge each other for traffic depending not on the direction of traffic but depending on which side initiated the TCP connection. That way the person downloading from a web site will be the one paying (because he made the HTTP connection) and not the web site host. And the person sending the email will be the one paying (because he made the SMTP connection) and not the recipient.
If only a few big ISPs agree to work like this others will follow and soon even small ISPs will start charging their customers for traffic based on this method.
Could this help to put an end to spam?