I'm sure that such a thing must be possible from the command line,
copy file.avi.* file.avi
or, if you are a bit paranoid and want to guarantee append order, you can fall back to the original (DOS 3.x) syntax:
copy file.avi.1+file.avi.2+file.avi.3 file.avi
But yeah, most Windows users aren't even aware of command prompt. Being an ancient and crusty user of DOS (back to 2.0) makes me a 133t h@x0r, apparently.
Yes, but the market for congresscritters is better than the market for ISPs
But it's a bidder's market, and in this market your ISPs are buyers... direct competition to you, in fact, and with very deep pockets... so good luck trying to outbid them for a congresscritter of your very own.
Well, as in all things, YMMV, but I've never had cause to complain about FF4's performance on my modded (CM7.0.3) HTC Desire CDMA. Fairly snappy, although admittedly a tiny but noticeable bit slower than Android's native browser, Whatchamacallit*. OTOH, FF4 doesn't make a horrible unusable hash of some of the websites I visit like Whatchamacallit does.
Add NoScript and it becomes head and shoulders better than the built-in one.
*Does it even have a distinct product name? I don't recall ever seeing it.
A pizza analogy: Pizzas can be used to commit crimes too. For example. to feed criminals before they go on their criminal rampages. Even to kill people. (Dominos, I'm looking at you...) So does making and selling pizzas make you punishable for contributing to those crimes?
I'm sure all decent right-thinking people will agree that yes, absolutely, pizza needs to be banned, or at least highly restricted. Taxed, and usage strictly monitored. and all users, producers, distributors, and disposers of pizza must be licensed by competent pizza authorities.
MMO based on some stage of the Battletech universe. There's a lot of scope there for some interesting stuff. Almost everyone would probably roll mech pilot, but still, it'd be way too cool.
MMO based on Starcraft. The usual joke I make is that if the public announcement system in your current town starts screaming "Nuclear Launch Detected", it would be a much more personal experience.
No, Mom. I don't have a WII. I have an XBox 360. This is the WII version of the game. See? The list says, quite explicitly, "XBOX 360 VERSIONS ONLY." Now I'll have to exchange this.
And this is a PC game. The only PC here is your laptop, and you don't want me using that any more than I want to try to play this game on that non-gaming piece of crap.
I just got done tamping down the urge to spend unreasonable amounts of money on uber cool calculation hardware, initially inflamed by reading the Wikipedia article about the Curta mechanical calculator... and now this damn slashdot discussion about the calculators I fell madly in love with back in my callow youth (particularly the 41c)... sigh. Must stay away from ebay, must stay away from ebay....
My feelings about the HP calcs are pretty weird. The nearest analogy I can come up with is that the 41c is the beautiful girl you become infatuated with, and you know you can live happily forever after with if you can just get her... but you never do, so you settle and marry the girl (TI scientific calc) that "does the job".
I R'd T FM. I just don't let overengineered solutions looking for non-existent problems affect my judgement.
This needs no new technology, and the attendant new societal and economic problems associated with half-assed over-complicated under-thought tech-corporation welfare. This just needs a smidge of common sense, which is probably why you didn't recognize it.
The biggest problem with the solution proposed in the article is that it's extremely complex and expensive to implement. You put a new electronic device on each vehicle at $X each so you need to offset that much expenditure before seeing a return (plus R&D costs, reader costs at whatever locations are chosen, administrative costs, "customer service" costs and replacement costs). They're also a moderately complex item, so it's prone to breaking and fraud.
Yeah. It's a shame cars don't have some kind of device that can measure miles driven. Something that could display that information on, say, the dashboard, so that a vehicle inspector can record the information at annual tax-paying time.
I should invent that. I like how the old-time inventors loved naming their inventions based on Classical languages, so I think I'll name mine based on Greek. Let's see... "road" is "hodos", and measurement is "metron", so... usually the inital consonant gets dropped in the compound... so.... "odometron"? Oh, but "metron" is usually morphed to "meter" in English, so "odometer". Cool. Now to trademark it...
I'm pretty sure that, public statements notwithstanding, compensating for road wear is not the goal of any road-use taxation. The goal is to generate revenue by the least effort-intensive method available, and a simple per-mile-driven metric satisfies that. Odometers are already required to be accurate and untapered-with at sale, so there is already some accommodation for that particular instrument in law. Only in the case of heavy over-the-road vehicles (trucks, etc) is weight ever a factor, and expanding taxation mechanisms to incorporate weighing is too much work. And allowing non-gas-consuming vehicles to evade the gas consumption/miles driven tax component would deprive governments of money, which, again, is the main point.
In other words, you're solving the wrong problem. The problem is not "how do we pay to fix these roads" but is actually "how do we keep those tax-evading peons from depriving us of that revenue we need and deserve?"
So, your argument is that investment and philanthropy are moral equivalents?
Hmm.. I like it. The losers in the latest round of Market Ponzi... I mean bubble market... aren't poor investors, just very generous donors. To unspecified and non-accountable causes. But it's the thought that counts.
The question though is why these lawyers, who were acting on behalf of the consumers in the first place,
Faulty premise. The lawyers, purporting to represent the class of plaintiffs, were really representing themselves. I'm sure the negotiation comes down to Nvidia saying "OK, Counselor, how much is this going to take to make this go away?" and the lawyer saying "Well, I need about $13 million. And you can give the plaintiffs whatever you feel like. Don't go nuts. You're supposed to do that paying me first."
Yeah, I got that same lesson at the tender age of 12 when I demonstrated home-made gunpowder to Dad. Not "Neat, good work", but "YOU'RE GONNA BLOW UP THE HOUSE!"
Good point, I suppose, but you'd think he'd be a little more encouraging.
I suppose that's the moment I switched from chemical engineering to computers. In 1976 it would have been nearly impossible to do anything damaging with a computer, unless you were working with banks or military command and control.
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Feh. Mere Latin-alphabet-ist-geek.
Signed,
Aleph-squiggle-pkang-unpronounceable-glyph-class Geek
I'm sure that such a thing must be possible from the command line,
or, if you are a bit paranoid and want to guarantee append order, you can fall back to the original (DOS 3.x) syntax:
But yeah, most Windows users aren't even aware of command prompt. Being an ancient and crusty user of DOS (back to 2.0) makes me a 133t h@x0r, apparently.
I can't understand this, really, unless it's a pizza analogy. Or maybe a car analogy. Best yet, a pizza delivery car analogy.
You're not the only one to note the similarity.
The Second Foundationists would make sure he forgot it if he did. So we'll never know.
Yes, but the market for congresscritters is better than the market for ISPs
But it's a bidder's market, and in this market your ISPs are buyers... direct competition to you, in fact, and with very deep pockets... so good luck trying to outbid them for a congresscritter of your very own.
Well, as in all things, YMMV, but I've never had cause to complain about FF4's performance on my modded (CM7.0.3) HTC Desire CDMA. Fairly snappy, although admittedly a tiny but noticeable bit slower than Android's native browser, Whatchamacallit*. OTOH, FF4 doesn't make a horrible unusable hash of some of the websites I visit like Whatchamacallit does.
Add NoScript and it becomes head and shoulders better than the built-in one.
*Does it even have a distinct product name? I don't recall ever seeing it.
A car analogy. Good. Still, could be better.
A pizza analogy: Pizzas can be used to commit crimes too. For example. to feed criminals before they go on their criminal rampages. Even to kill people. (Dominos, I'm looking at you...) So does making and selling pizzas make you punishable for contributing to those crimes?
I'm sure all decent right-thinking people will agree that yes, absolutely, pizza needs to be banned, or at least highly restricted. Taxed, and usage strictly monitored. and all users, producers, distributors, and disposers of pizza must be licensed by competent pizza authorities.
African or European swallow pot pies?
A couple of fine candidates:
MMO based on some stage of the Battletech universe. There's a lot of scope there for some interesting stuff. Almost everyone would probably roll mech pilot, but still, it'd be way too cool.
MMO based on Starcraft. The usual joke I make is that if the public announcement system in your current town starts screaming "Nuclear Launch Detected", it would be a much more personal experience.
No, Mom. I don't have a WII. I have an XBox 360. This is the WII version of the game. See? The list says, quite explicitly, "XBOX 360 VERSIONS ONLY." Now I'll have to exchange this.
And this is a PC game. The only PC here is your laptop, and you don't want me using that any more than I want to try to play this game on that non-gaming piece of crap.
You know what, Mom? Just give me cash next year.
I just got done tamping down the urge to spend unreasonable amounts of money on uber cool calculation hardware, initially inflamed by reading the Wikipedia article about the Curta mechanical calculator... and now this damn slashdot discussion about the calculators I fell madly in love with back in my callow youth (particularly the 41c)... sigh. Must stay away from ebay, must stay away from ebay....
My feelings about the HP calcs are pretty weird. The nearest analogy I can come up with is that the 41c is the beautiful girl you become infatuated with, and you know you can live happily forever after with if you can just get her... but you never do, so you settle and marry the girl (TI scientific calc) that "does the job".
I R'd T FM. I just don't let overengineered solutions looking for non-existent problems affect my judgement.
This needs no new technology, and the attendant new societal and economic problems associated with half-assed over-complicated under-thought tech-corporation welfare. This just needs a smidge of common sense, which is probably why you didn't recognize it.
Don't feed the trolls.
The biggest problem with the solution proposed in the article is that it's extremely complex and expensive to implement. You put a new electronic device on each vehicle at $X each so you need to offset that much expenditure before seeing a return (plus R&D costs, reader costs at whatever locations are chosen, administrative costs, "customer service" costs and replacement costs). They're also a moderately complex item, so it's prone to breaking and fraud.
Yeah. It's a shame cars don't have some kind of device that can measure miles driven. Something that could display that information on, say, the dashboard, so that a vehicle inspector can record the information at annual tax-paying time.
I should invent that. I like how the old-time inventors loved naming their inventions based on Classical languages, so I think I'll name mine based on Greek. Let's see... "road" is "hodos", and measurement is "metron", so... usually the inital consonant gets dropped in the compound... so.... "odometron"? Oh, but "metron" is usually morphed to "meter" in English, so "odometer". Cool. Now to trademark it...
I'm pretty sure that, public statements notwithstanding, compensating for road wear is not the goal of any road-use taxation. The goal is to generate revenue by the least effort-intensive method available, and a simple per-mile-driven metric satisfies that. Odometers are already required to be accurate and untapered-with at sale, so there is already some accommodation for that particular instrument in law. Only in the case of heavy over-the-road vehicles (trucks, etc) is weight ever a factor, and expanding taxation mechanisms to incorporate weighing is too much work. And allowing non-gas-consuming vehicles to evade the gas consumption/miles driven tax component would deprive governments of money, which, again, is the main point.
In other words, you're solving the wrong problem. The problem is not "how do we pay to fix these roads" but is actually "how do we keep those tax-evading peons from depriving us of that revenue we need and deserve?"
That's vector CRT processing. The patent in question, and the technique Woz was working, is raster processing. They're not interchangeable.
So, your argument is that investment and philanthropy are moral equivalents?
Hmm.. I like it. The losers in the latest round of Market Ponzi... I mean bubble market... aren't poor investors, just very generous donors. To unspecified and non-accountable causes. But it's the thought that counts.
Bad guess. Direct pixel drive would make the entire character generator problem null and void.
We're talking sweeping raster drive, complete with pixel timing issues.
The LCD issue is completely off-topic, either by accident or as an ineffective red herring.
They are altering the deal. Pray they do not alter it further.
The question though is why these lawyers, who were acting on behalf of the consumers in the first place,
Faulty premise. The lawyers, purporting to represent the class of plaintiffs, were really representing themselves. I'm sure the negotiation comes down to Nvidia saying "OK, Counselor, how much is this going to take to make this go away?" and the lawyer saying "Well, I need about $13 million. And you can give the plaintiffs whatever you feel like. Don't go nuts. You're supposed to do that paying me first."
Yeah, I got that same lesson at the tender age of 12 when I demonstrated home-made gunpowder to Dad. Not "Neat, good work", but "YOU'RE GONNA BLOW UP THE HOUSE!"
Good point, I suppose, but you'd think he'd be a little more encouraging.
I suppose that's the moment I switched from chemical engineering to computers. In 1976 it would have been nearly impossible to do anything damaging with a computer, unless you were working with banks or military command and control.
Not so much chilled, but instead blended with select compounds of ethanol and malt-barley-based cogeners.
This is one of my preferred reagents.
Here's an example of Dihydrogen Monoxide's MSDS, courtesy of Fischer Scientific.
I find the thing to distressingly underestimate the hazards. "No special equipment required. No special handling indicated. No hazard expected."
There are hints of the truth in there, like an explicit LD50 given, so obviously toxicity is a problem.
I'd say that overall, regulatory agencies are falling down on this job.
but there's no room at my desk.
Aaah, who am I kidding? There's plenty of room at my desk for all none of my team-mates.
Teamwork. We've heard of it.