Quit complaining. At least they didn't use this color scheme.:)
And if you really dislike the color scheme that much, there are simple instructions in my journal about how to use Firfox to change the colors displayed on here.
Reread the page you linked to. It doesn't say anywhere that he pays the copyright holders. It only says that he voluntarily asks for permission from the original artist before doing a parody.
Does Al get permission to do his parodies?
Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it's important to maintain the relationships that he's built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties.
Hire a professional web designer that specializes in security. I wouldn't want people to expect me to be a doctor, and I wouldn't want a doctor designing a secure web site for me.
No offense, but for something like medical records, stick to what you went to school for.
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Tivo may not work, but Dish Network's DVR does. I moved this weekend, and had Dish Network set up. I already had an internet connection, so when the dish installers asked for a phone line, I quickly unpacked my Vonage box, plugged it in and let it initialize, then plugged the DVR into it. It's working without any troubles now.
With that said, I love using Vonage, and hope I never have to deal with Verizon or SBC again.
You're thinking of Pine Street. There is about a mile section that is a free hot spot. That area is actually pretty nice now. It is a bunch of trendy restraunts and shops. The marina and convention centers also have free hotspots now, and there are plans for the airport to be that way too.
There are definately spots in LB that I wouldn't get out anything electronic, and I wouldn't use my laptop on ANY bus simply because of the chance of it getting banged up or jostled around.
And honestly, I don't think enabling wifi on the busses for the public would be beneficial at all. Most of the people that ride our busses aren't the type to be trying to do busienss while commuting on the bus, and those that would aren't usually on long enough to bother pulling out their laptop, booting, using it, and shutting down. It would probably be most beneficial as a marketing tool to get people more aware of the busses.
I work for a relatively small public transit company in So Cal. All of our busses are already 802.11b enabled. As soon as they pull into the yard, they connect to an FTP server, and send reports containing the fare information, passenger data, and other things. It also updates the automated stop announcements, and anything else that we need to update.
As of now, the 802.11b isn't accessible to the public, but we're looking into making it available.
I had something similar happen at my previous job. One of the ladies computer's quit working, so we took out her hard drive to back up the data before giving her a new computer.
After we put her old drive in the new computer to copy data, we turned it on, and there was a loud pop, a small cloud of smoke, and a burning smell. Somehow the hard drive had shorted out the motherboard of the old and new computers. The pop on the new computer was a capacitor bursting. We ended up losing 2 motherboards, 2 cpus, 4 RAM chips, the hard drive, and everything that was stored on her local drive.
There are many compilers out there for many languages. Other then VC++ I cant think of any language that dosn't have a free compiler out there for Windows.
Actually, the MS Visual C++ compiler is free now. Just not the IDE.
Except that the recent versions of Windows have been extremely stable. I've got XP Pro on my laptop, and it has never crashed. On my workstation, I've got Server 2003. It's never crashed either.
In fact, my workstation won't let me restart or shutdown without asking why I'm doing that. It gets annoying if I have to reboot for something, but it tells how little MS expects to have the OS go down.
Los Angeles authorities thought it would be a good idea to build some trains...they don't go anywhere that you'd ever want to go.
Just because they don't go anywhere that you want to go, doesn't mean that they aren't heavily used. Have you ever riden the blue line? I take it a lot of times to get from my home in downtown Long Beach to the LA convention center and Staples Center, and it is almost always standing room only.
According to the MTA's own website, the trains that don't go anywhere that you want to go carries 1,371,825 riders on average every week. Obviously someone is riding them.
It doesn't connect to the airport because the taxicab union lobbied against it.
Actually, the green line doesn't connect to the airport because far more people use it to commute from their homes in Redondo Beach than would use it to carry a bunch of luggage to the airport. Just because you want to take it to the airport doesn't mean the majority of people do.
I work for a medium size public transit company in Southern California. All of our busses are fitted with a gps and Siemens TransitMaster system.
We are starting to implement signs like you are talking about at some of our bigger stops (ie, "Route 45 - Next bus arriving in 10 minutes")
They also have a web module that you can use on your company's web site.
I'm not sure how much the system costs, but I know that they supply some of the other municipal bus systems around here that are much smaller than us, so they should be able to help you.
I think you're missing the point. I bet 19 seconds of that execution time was the start-up and shutdown of the virtual machine. As the program gets bigger and bigger, this becomes less and less significant.
By your own admission, the Java code was still twice as slow as C++. Perhaps you should have said 19.51 seconds was the JVM starting/stopping?:)
I think technology will keep getting better, but we'll see it less. In fact, it is already happening.
Take Tivo for instance. A few years ago, if you wanted to record something, you had to set up your VCR, program it, make sure there was a blank tape, etc... Now you just punch into your Tivo that you like certain kinds of shows, and they are recorded for you. In the future, devices like Tivo probably won't even need you to tell it what to record, it will know what you want to record based on what you watch most.
Another example is cars. The new Mercedes recognize who is driving, and adjust the seats/mirrors/stereo to what that driver likes automatically. They also recognize if a seat is empty, and in an accident it won't deploy the airbags for empty seats. Some of the new cars don't even require a key to start any more. The owner carries a card with a RFID chip in their wallet that the car recognizes, and allows them to drive the car without having to use a key. Even 10 years ago, the things that are standard on a lot of new cars would have been unimaginable.
I think things will keep getting far more technologically advanced, but we will see it less and less.
You're still using Spacemonkey? I'm runing Mozilla Uberphoenix.
On a serious note, the Web Developer pluging can't be beat. It allows you to do many useful things, such as turning off CSS at a site that doesn't use it properly, plus a whole list of other useful tools for web developers.
He's still there. The company is afraid of firing him. They think he would sue them for discrimination if they fire him, and basically claim he was fired because of the personals he had placed.
Luckily, I got out of that company a few weeks after the posts were found. I'm at a much better job now. I've still got friends at the company though.
About a year ago, we found a bunch of an old coworker's newsgroup postings.
One of them was looking to buy a forged degree from the California State University system. The posting was from a few months before he got the job with us, and of course, when he applied he said he had a degree from Cal State Long Beach.
All of the others postings of his were personal ads of him looking for someone to kidnap and anally torture him, or for someone to dress up like a super hero in spandex with him. The day we found all of those was the day I laughed the hardest I ever have in my life.
The guy wasn't well liked to begin with, but all of his old newsgroup postings made it so we couldn't even look at the guy without laughing.
I won a Honda Civic on the radio a few years ago, here in Los Angeles.
Before I could even take possesion of the car, I had to pay sales tax, title & registration - About $2,000.
In addition to that, the value of the car was added to my yaerly earnings. Honda had to report the value of the car to the IRS. They reported it as being a $21,000 Civic. Of course, fully loaded Civics can be bought for much less than that, so the IRS allows you to do a fair market adjustment, and only be taxed on what you would have paid for the car had you bought it. I was able to knock it's value down to around $15,000.
When I had to do the taxes for that year, the $15,000 added to my income because of the car put me into the next highest tax bracket, and I ended up owing just over $6,000 in income taxes since I hadn't taken out any withholding for the additional income.
I ended up selling the car to pay the taxes, but I had a pretty good, reliable car for almost a year that I put almost 40,000 miles on.
If any one is interested, here's a picture of the car I won. Blink 182 Civic
You do realize that after a story is accepted, it sits in a que for a while before making it to the main page, right? So even though the story was posted after your submission, it was probably accepted before you submitted yours. Or maybe your summary sucked and the editors liked this one better.
Calm down though, it's just a/. submission, not something important.
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Quit complaining. At least they didn't use this color scheme. :)
And if you really dislike the color scheme that much, there are simple instructions in my journal about how to use Firfox to change the colors displayed on here.
Reread the page you linked to. It doesn't say anywhere that he pays the copyright holders. It only says that he voluntarily asks for permission from the original artist before doing a parody.
Does Al get permission to do his parodies?
Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it's important to maintain the relationships that he's built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties.
The remote is only a dollar. The other $699 is for the Linux license.
With as bad as piracy is now, they just couldn't afford those workers anymore.
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I am an emergency physician
Hire a professional web designer that specializes in security. I wouldn't want people to expect me to be a doctor, and I wouldn't want a doctor designing a secure web site for me.
No offense, but for something like medical records, stick to what you went to school for.
Tivo may not work, but Dish Network's DVR does. I moved this weekend, and had Dish Network set up. I already had an internet connection, so when the dish installers asked for a phone line, I quickly unpacked my Vonage box, plugged it in and let it initialize, then plugged the DVR into it. It's working without any troubles now.
With that said, I love using Vonage, and hope I never have to deal with Verizon or SBC again.
You're thinking of Pine Street. There is about a mile section that is a free hot spot. That area is actually pretty nice now. It is a bunch of trendy restraunts and shops. The marina and convention centers also have free hotspots now, and there are plans for the airport to be that way too.
There are definately spots in LB that I wouldn't get out anything electronic, and I wouldn't use my laptop on ANY bus simply because of the chance of it getting banged up or jostled around.
And honestly, I don't think enabling wifi on the busses for the public would be beneficial at all. Most of the people that ride our busses aren't the type to be trying to do busienss while commuting on the bus, and those that would aren't usually on long enough to bother pulling out their laptop, booting, using it, and shutting down. It would probably be most beneficial as a marketing tool to get people more aware of the busses.
I work for a relatively small public transit company in So Cal. All of our busses are already 802.11b enabled. As soon as they pull into the yard, they connect to an FTP server, and send reports containing the fare information, passenger data, and other things. It also updates the automated stop announcements, and anything else that we need to update.
As of now, the 802.11b isn't accessible to the public, but we're looking into making it available.
I had something similar happen at my previous job. One of the ladies computer's quit working, so we took out her hard drive to back up the data before giving her a new computer.
After we put her old drive in the new computer to copy data, we turned it on, and there was a loud pop, a small cloud of smoke, and a burning smell. Somehow the hard drive had shorted out the motherboard of the old and new computers. The pop on the new computer was a capacitor bursting. We ended up losing 2 motherboards, 2 cpus, 4 RAM chips, the hard drive, and everything that was stored on her local drive.
There are many compilers out there for many languages. Other then VC++ I cant think of any language that dosn't have a free compiler out there for Windows.
Actually, the MS Visual C++ compiler is free now. Just not the IDE.
http://howtos.beaucox.com/win32-vc7-compiler.html
Except that the recent versions of Windows have been extremely stable. I've got XP Pro on my laptop, and it has never crashed. On my workstation, I've got Server 2003. It's never crashed either.
In fact, my workstation won't let me restart or shutdown without asking why I'm doing that. It gets annoying if I have to reboot for something, but it tells how little MS expects to have the OS go down.
Los Angeles authorities thought it would be a good idea to build some trains...they don't go anywhere that you'd ever want to go.
Just because they don't go anywhere that you want to go, doesn't mean that they aren't heavily used. Have you ever riden the blue line? I take it a lot of times to get from my home in downtown Long Beach to the LA convention center and Staples Center, and it is almost always standing room only.
According to the MTA's own website, the trains that don't go anywhere that you want to go carries 1,371,825 riders on average every week. Obviously someone is riding them.
It doesn't connect to the airport because the taxicab union lobbied against it.
Actually, the green line doesn't connect to the airport because far more people use it to commute from their homes in Redondo Beach than would use it to carry a bunch of luggage to the airport. Just because you want to take it to the airport doesn't mean the majority of people do.
Will this allow me to get a different DSL provider, such as SpeakEasy, without having phone service?
I work for a medium size public transit company in Southern California. All of our busses are fitted with a gps and Siemens TransitMaster system.
We are starting to implement signs like you are talking about at some of our bigger stops (ie, "Route 45 - Next bus arriving in 10 minutes") They also have a web module that you can use on your company's web site.
I'm not sure how much the system costs, but I know that they supply some of the other municipal bus systems around here that are much smaller than us, so they should be able to help you.
http://www.sts.siemens.com/
I think you're missing the point. I bet 19 seconds of that execution time was the start-up and shutdown of the virtual machine. As the program gets bigger and bigger, this becomes less and less significant.
:)
By your own admission, the Java code was still twice as slow as C++.
Perhaps you should have said 19.51 seconds was the JVM starting/stopping?
Or don't marry a woman who will throw your stuff away without at least asking first.
All I've got to say is...
See my sig.
I think technology will keep getting better, but we'll see it less. In fact, it is already happening.
Take Tivo for instance. A few years ago, if you wanted to record something, you had to set up your VCR, program it, make sure there was a blank tape, etc... Now you just punch into your Tivo that you like certain kinds of shows, and they are recorded for you. In the future, devices like Tivo probably won't even need you to tell it what to record, it will know what you want to record based on what you watch most.
Another example is cars. The new Mercedes recognize who is driving, and adjust the seats/mirrors/stereo to what that driver likes automatically. They also recognize if a seat is empty, and in an accident it won't deploy the airbags for empty seats. Some of the new cars don't even require a key to start any more. The owner carries a card with a RFID chip in their wallet that the car recognizes, and allows them to drive the car without having to use a key. Even 10 years ago, the things that are standard on a lot of new cars would have been unimaginable.
I think things will keep getting far more technologically advanced, but we will see it less and less.
Actually, in the original text, it is "Thou shalt not murder". It has been mistranslated in the King James Version.
http://www.focusongod.com/TenCommandments-06.htm
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You're still using Spacemonkey? I'm runing Mozilla Uberphoenix.
On a serious note, the Web Developer pluging can't be beat. It allows you to do many useful things, such as turning off CSS at a site that doesn't use it properly, plus a whole list of other useful tools for web developers.
He's still there. The company is afraid of firing him. They think he would sue them for discrimination if they fire him, and basically claim he was fired because of the personals he had placed.
Luckily, I got out of that company a few weeks after the posts were found. I'm at a much better job now. I've still got friends at the company though.
About a year ago, we found a bunch of an old coworker's newsgroup postings.
One of them was looking to buy a forged degree from the California State University system. The posting was from a few months before he got the job with us, and of course, when he applied he said he had a degree from Cal State Long Beach.
All of the others postings of his were personal ads of him looking for someone to kidnap and anally torture him, or for someone to dress up like a super hero in spandex with him. The day we found all of those was the day I laughed the hardest I ever have in my life.
The guy wasn't well liked to begin with, but all of his old newsgroup postings made it so we couldn't even look at the guy without laughing.
There's so many people out to beat the system because it is being abused by the IRS so badly.
I won a Honda Civic on the radio a few years ago, here in Los Angeles.
Before I could even take possesion of the car, I had to pay sales tax, title & registration - About $2,000.
In addition to that, the value of the car was added to my yaerly earnings. Honda had to report the value of the car to the IRS. They reported it as being a $21,000 Civic. Of course, fully loaded Civics can be bought for much less than that, so the IRS allows you to do a fair market adjustment, and only be taxed on what you would have paid for the car had you bought it. I was able to knock it's value down to around $15,000.
When I had to do the taxes for that year, the $15,000 added to my income because of the car put me into the next highest tax bracket, and I ended up owing just over $6,000 in income taxes since I hadn't taken out any withholding for the additional income.
I ended up selling the car to pay the taxes, but I had a pretty good, reliable car for almost a year that I put almost 40,000 miles on.
If any one is interested, here's a picture of the car I won. Blink 182 Civic
You do realize that after a story is accepted, it sits in a que for a while before making it to the main page, right? So even though the story was posted after your submission, it was probably accepted before you submitted yours. Or maybe your summary sucked and the editors liked this one better.
/. submission, not something important.
Calm down though, it's just a