It really adds no value to one's life. It is a disease in that it gives your brain just enough stimulation to prevent it from getting bored and doing something worthwhile.
I wish some higher level languages would force the use of comments in code, make it part of the declaration for a class or function.
I fully agree with you. Likewise, I wish Slashdot would force the posting of only informative, insightful, or (at least) humorous comments. Alas, although both wishes are highly desirable, the fulfillment of either wish, let alone both, is highly unlikely.
1) What the F*ck Do You Think You Are Doing? - Madonna 2) F*ck Off and Buy the %$#^*@! CD - Metallica 3) We Don't Want Your P2P - Hillary and the Shylocks 4)...
In other entertainment news, a startling shift has occurred in Madonna's music style as the lyrics to her latest #1 single are found to be far less offensive than usual and the song far more musical in general.
Could someone explain the who Anti-Quark, Naked Quark, Bio-Polar Quark, Spring Break Quark, and Got my head up my ass CIO Quark please?
The Ferengi's alter egos.
Re:Anyone else remember FDFORMAT ?
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I wrote a similar one (atfmt100) back in '92.
Ah, yes the good old days. I recall the name atfmt100 and may have tried it. It's probably on a floppy in a closet somewhere:-). I'm sorry that I can't remember more about it, but I see it's still out there . If nothing else, its longevity must be pretty gratifying. Was it shareware and if so, did you make anything on it?
I was really into neat single-purpose or focussed-purpose utilities in those days. I still use and love List by Vernon Buerg , which I first came across in the late '80's (IIRC). He's still at it and has versions for 2000 and XP. He's also in the Shareware Hall of Fame .
The question is, can CDFORMAT be written, by patching firmware if necessary?
My gut response to you was "what's keeping you?". Then I remembered a four-letter acronym (DMCA), sighed, shook my head and missed the good old days just a little more.
Christoph H. Hochstätter. I wrote it from my memory (which has no ECC).
Anyone else remember FDFORMAT ?
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High Density CDs
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For 3 ½" diskettes under DOS and Windows, I used to use the excellent freeware fdformat utility & fdread driver (by Cristophe Höchstetter from Germany IIRC) that I got from a BBS. It had a somewhat cryptic command line interface and multitude of settings. Someone in the northeastern US whose name I've forgotten (sorry) wrote a very nice graphical front end for it (also freeware) that made it a breeze to use. IIIRC, fdformat readjusted some of the low-level parameters (sect/track, etc.) and got rid of the duplicate fat. My favorite setting got 1.72 Meg on a 1.44 (this was in the days when 3 1/2" floppies still cost enough to make one want to go through hoops for an extra few hundred kilobytes). Instead of running the DOS format, you ran the fdformat (it was faster than the DOS format as well). For critical back-ups, I would use the standard 1.44 format just in case, but several people that I know and I made hundreds of floppies with fdformat and never lost as much as a byte. Unfortunately, the program/driver never made the jump to Win32.
AAC comes with a significantly lower number of b*tching [\.] users than ogg
Are you sure that wasn't " bitchin' "?
Note to non-American English speakers: The term " bitchin' " was/is neo-American English (the roots go to California surfers, I believe) for fantastic, as in "that was a bitchin' wave, dude".
We're seeing crazy uptime numbers now, like three months, six months. I fully expect we'll see a year of uptime when Windows Server 2003 is finished," said Jeff Stucky, senior systems engineer on the Microsoft.com operations team.
Wouldn't it be funny if he had then said:
Then we're going to go totally nuts, plug in the network cable and run something on it. Oh shit, I wasn't talking out loud just now, was I?
There seem to be quite a few "at last!" and "they're getting the message!" type posts here. I don't see anything in the article that specifies format or quality or DRM reuirements or any other technical issues. I'm inclined to doubt that these will be MP3's in any case. Does anyone have any more details?
On the (7 year old) street in front of my house is a manhole/cover. A few weeks ago, I noticed a crack, pretty much centered on the manhole center, that extends approximately 18-20 inches to either side of the cover. I examined the next manhole down the road and found almost exactly the same thing. So much for theory;-) .
IANAL. Although I haven't had the (ahem) pleasure of reviewing such a contract from Microsoft, I have been involved in many others and damn near every commercial contract that I've ever seen indemnifies the vendor from "Incidental Damages" (such as what it costs to deal with and rectify a situation caused by a failure of the product) and "Consequential Damages" (like lost sales/profits or liability/legal costs) that are the direct or indirect result of the failure of the product. Now, many things in contracts are negotiable, but given MS's, um, market dominance (I'm being polite today), I imagine that not much can be negotiated with them in those areas.
We elect "somebody", not "anybody"; if they start acting like they're anybody, then they're history in the long term in any true democracy.
That's a nice turn of a phrase, but may I suggest a little touch-up:
We elect "somebodies", not "anybodies"; in any true democracy if the elected "somebodies" start acting like they're "anybodies", then they'll become "nobodies" in no time.
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You use money for envelopes? How do I get on you Christmas card list?
So, you're saying that TV = Slashdot?
It really should read "// TODO: Place code here AND THEN REMOVE THIS DAMNED COMMENT"
I fully agree with you. Likewise, I wish Slashdot would force the posting of only informative, insightful, or (at least) humorous comments. Alas, although both wishes are highly desirable, the fulfillment of either wish, let alone both, is highly unlikely.
Personally, I found the camera a little creepy. Is it part of the hardware that MS will require for DRM?
1) What the F*ck Do You Think You Are Doing? - Madonna ...
2) F*ck Off and Buy the %$#^*@! CD - Metallica
3) We Don't Want Your P2P - Hillary and the Shylocks
4)
In other entertainment news, a startling shift has occurred in Madonna's music style as the lyrics to her latest #1 single are found to be far less offensive than usual and the song far more musical in general.
The Ferengi's alter egos.
Ah, yes the good old days. I recall the name atfmt100 and may have tried it. It's probably on a floppy in a closet somewhere :-). I'm sorry that I can't remember more about it, but I see it's still out there . If nothing else, its longevity must be pretty gratifying. Was it shareware and if so, did you make anything on it?
I was really into neat single-purpose or focussed-purpose utilities in those days. I still use and love List by Vernon Buerg , which I first came across in the late '80's (IIRC). He's still at it and has versions for 2000 and XP. He's also in the Shareware Hall of Fame .
The question is, can CDFORMAT be written, by patching firmware if necessary?
My gut response to you was "what's keeping you?". Then I remembered a four-letter acronym (DMCA), sighed, shook my head and missed the good old days just a little more.
Christoph H. Hochstätter. I wrote it from my memory (which has no ECC).
For 3 ½" diskettes under DOS and Windows, I used to use the excellent freeware fdformat utility & fdread driver (by Cristophe Höchstetter from Germany IIRC) that I got from a BBS. It had a somewhat cryptic command line interface and multitude of settings. Someone in the northeastern US whose name I've forgotten (sorry) wrote a very nice graphical front end for it (also freeware) that made it a breeze to use. IIIRC, fdformat readjusted some of the low-level parameters (sect/track, etc.) and got rid of the duplicate fat. My favorite setting got 1.72 Meg on a 1.44 (this was in the days when 3 1/2" floppies still cost enough to make one want to go through hoops for an extra few hundred kilobytes). Instead of running the DOS format, you ran the fdformat (it was faster than the DOS format as well). For critical back-ups, I would use the standard 1.44 format just in case, but several people that I know and I made hundreds of floppies with fdformat and never lost as much as a byte. Unfortunately, the program/driver never made the jump to Win32.
Are you sure that wasn't " bitchin' "?
Note to non-American English speakers: The term " bitchin' " was/is neo-American English (the roots go to California surfers, I believe) for fantastic, as in "that was a bitchin' wave, dude".
This once sounds more like the square wheel re-invented (Clumsy Carp, whunnit?).
Wouldn't it be funny if he had then said:
Then we're going to go totally nuts, plug in the network cable and run something on it. Oh shit, I wasn't talking out loud just now, was I?
Remember the fate of Passenger Pigeons. Only this time, no bounty would be required.
The CRN interviewer obviously doesn't follow the RIAA.
Microsoft Buys Liquid Audio DRM Patents October 1, 2002.
There seem to be quite a few "at last!" and "they're getting the message!" type posts here. I don't see anything in the article that specifies format or quality or DRM reuirements or any other technical issues. I'm inclined to doubt that these will be MP3's in any case. Does anyone have any more details?
On the (7 year old) street in front of my house is a manhole/cover. A few weeks ago, I noticed a crack, pretty much centered on the manhole center, that extends approximately 18-20 inches to either side of the cover. I examined the next manhole down the road and found almost exactly the same thing. So much for theory ;-) .
Well,that's the funniest thing I've read here all week.
Yet rejoice ye not, rather saddend be
for 'tis Windows running, on every damned PC
It seems that while the web was down
MS finished buying off Washing-town.
You're just jazzing us, Art. ;-)
IANAL. Although I haven't had the (ahem) pleasure of reviewing such a contract from Microsoft, I have been involved in many others and damn near every commercial contract that I've ever seen indemnifies the vendor from "Incidental Damages" (such as what it costs to deal with and rectify a situation caused by a failure of the product) and "Consequential Damages" (like lost sales/profits or liability/legal costs) that are the direct or indirect result of the failure of the product. Now, many things in contracts are negotiable, but given MS's, um, market dominance (I'm being polite today), I imagine that not much can be negotiated with them in those areas.
That's a nice turn of a phrase, but may I suggest a little touch-up:
We elect "somebodies", not "anybodies"; in any true democracy if the elected "somebodies" start acting like they're "anybodies", then they'll become "nobodies" in no time.
The "Restore Competition" button is buried much more deeply.
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