That's a lot of "Soap Network" programming. We have a PRV not that only stores 100 hours of programming. Right now (well as of last night) there were about 45 hours taken up. Most of that (read vast majority) is various soaps. My wife is hooked on soaps in way that I can only weep about. What the hell happens when one of these things finds in way in the living room. It's a sickness, all this TV watching.
Hey, I live in America, I can SUE! Look out Sony, you are opening yourself up here.
Stop the madness, save us from ourselves! No more PVR's Please. I'm begging you!
I have made several install packages for various types of windows applications. Depending on what the application needs in terms of windows resources it can be come very dependent on system sub components. In a few cases I've had to create a matrix showing under what conditions (i.e. general OS version and patch levels as well as some sub component versions - system dll's) a particular application will run.
For instance, a financial package (banking software for customer profitability) would only load on particular versions of Windows NT with particular patch levels. Some the patch levels in which it would not run were higher in number in which it would. Also it was sensitive to the loading of MS-Office. install MS-Office after installing this application and depending on the version of Office it would break the application. Install office first and it will run but it might break office. So in addition to the compatibility of the OS et. al. I also had to contend with what other applications were doing to OS sub components.
This was a real problem experienced by many users of MS-Windows. That is why Windows XP (and maybe 2k-i'm not sure) look for local copies of system dll's in the directory in which an application is launched. In this way an MS-Windows system may have loaded several versions of CommCtrl.dll at the same time.
So, that's what I'm talking about. It may not be achiveable to get to 100% or even if it is possible it may not be practical. As you say something is better than nothing but if you really need %100 function then a PC emulator is an excellent way to go. You just may to buy a beefier system to get the performance needed.
Well then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. There versions of the various MS-Windows dll's and in particular the CommCtrl.dll (or something close to that-fortunately I have not have had make any install packages recently) has many, many, many fix versions. Some of the CommCtrl versions fix bugs which break applications that depend on particular bugs. Some later versions of CommCtrl reintroduce bugs after a version in which they were fixed (I don't know why) and the break in function may now allow some application which worked, then didn't work (as a result of OS upgrades or most likely an installation of some windows app which just puts its version of the dll in the system directory) may now work. But some application which need the corrective fix won't work anymore because the later fix put the bug back. In any case the presence of this.dll does not change the version number of the OS as reported through one of the many ways an application can get the OS revision number.
What you describe would work in a sane OS where things like this are managed better and where applications are not expected to patch system dll's on their own.
Pick the version of windows compatibility to shoot for. There are many many versions and each has its own set of updates; never mind the plethora of patches for each version.
An emulator that can handle all this would be basically a PC emulator (see VMWare) with a bunch of Windows binaries.
Does/will WINE have a version selectable compatibility ? There are quite a few windows apps out there that only run on specific versions of windows at specific patch levels and they won't run on subsequent versions or patch levels. It would seem that this kind of compatibility is very difficult. Would it even be worth while given the number of users would may have need for such compatibility?
It doesn't matter what one does; the feminists will complain. Just accept it. In fact I bet they will complain about this post.
With this in mind robot manufacturers should just build all the robots to look like boxes with articulated rectangles for legs and arms. Then offer upgrades for all these parts in either male or female shapes. They will make a killing in after market add-ons and no one can say they are perpetuating a stereo type because they allow one to customize his own units himself.
I have a CS degree: after the first job that degree meant squat. In fact the courses which have the best and longest lasting impact on who I am now were my literary and history classes. I recall at the time thinking "Why am I here? This stuff has nothing in common with what I'll be doing professionally."
In my experience the best IT people come from liberal arts and music back grounds. Generally, my CS pedigreed cohorts are in IT to make money; they have no passion for their work or anything else.
So, if you want to take math courses then go right ahead. If you don't then don't. Can you add, subtract, multiply and divide? Do you know what a modulus is? Are you able to perform the simplest of algebra? If so then you'll need no more math skills for 99.99 percent of software development. If you can't don't fret as most software development has very little requirement for even this basic arithmetic.
Right, I suppose someone with a wand could just drive up and down parking lot rows and leave "peeled" cars in their wake. Rig up some wands on long poles and get several rows at once! Sort of like a crop duster on it's a car buster.
So way off topic, but can an RFID reader be spoofed by an active signal like setting up a transmitter to send out the same signal as a tag would but only stronger and broadcast the signal over a wide area?
Explosive bolts! Every car could equipped with an RFID tag reader (which is on it's own hardened circuit). Then the FD can bring out it's disassembly wand and when it gets close to the car, poof, the bolts go off and the car shell splits like an orange! Oh, and instead of air bags and seat belts cars should deploy foam in the passenger compartment in case of an accident; like in "Demolition Man".
That's cool! They should add sound effects for other operations like when the door is opened or closed it could sound like a garbage truck deploying it's automated can picker-upper-dumper. Hit the fuel door release and it makes a gurgling sound.
If my computer was a flower bed it would have the biggest and brightest flowers on the block. But instead I have to patch the OS time and time again. If it were a boat it would be nothing but overlapping patches; at least it would make a great anchor. Something's got to give. I can't have a system that keeps crashing, or waiting for patches which maybe worse than the disease, and then praying that the system works and that what ever it was didn't kill anything important. Sigh,:-(
We live in a finite universe. So, all things which require a physical framework are finite. It's just that there's a lot of stuff and therefore a *lot* of possible states. From the point of view of a very limited life span we can never even come close to witnessing an even small fraction of the number of states for the universe.
In fact there are limitations to everything. Even to our ability to determinie limitations.
The japs made a crude from of balloon which they launched during WWII at the west coast of the US. These balloons counted the ups and downs during the day/night cycle and after something like 35 or days then it just dropped a bomb. I believe a few hundred of these things were created and launched and only a few made it across the pacific. There was only one casualty as I recall. A man on a pick nick with his family spotted one and went over to look at it: this set off the bomb killing him instantly.
The idea is not to replace pen and paper but to replace text books. It would have been cool to have had a single thin text bookish sized device that could have replaced my Spanish, Science, Geometry, English, etc books. I remember how much all those books weighed and how much I worked at not having to take them home. I might even have done my lessons at home instead of showing up early for 'study' hall which really ended up being 'copy' hall.
Also having gone to school in Texas I can tell you that walking home on a 90+ degree late summer day (yes it is that hot in September here) is no pick nick; even less so with a back pack full of books.
Ideally this should be some sort of ruggedized simple DVD ROM reader that works like an e-book or some such. There's no reason to assume that this technology is incompatible with pen and paper. Home work may still be done as a more manual process.
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No. It's close in many ways but not the real deal. ADnD is about setting around a table (with people you can see) and participating in a grand (hopefully) story.
There's the pre game gab in which the players talk about their characters in first person and about how each saved so and so or nearly died in a running knife fight/chase which took place on the roofs tops of some distant sea port.
during the game you have a stronger sense of comeradery when you can see your other party members accross the table than one gets from watching them on the computer screen.
Then there's the pizza/chinese/what -ever take out order during or after the game where the party notes are taken and everyone haggles over the exact wording of the gaming logs. Not every group does this but in the ones I have participated, keeping a running narrative which reads something like cross between a novel and journal is lots of fun. One group I was in, in which we played 'Champions' the game log was taken from player notes and turned in to news paper articles by the GM. It was a lot of fun to 'read' about your character in the paper; although, it could often be embarasing to read the bits where the hero had to get bailed out of trouble or lost the bad guy.
Computers are nice and computer games are fun but it's not the same as playing with the same group in the same room.
There are runaway models that support a self feeding or positive feed back model for temperature rise. Astronomers have been trying to explain Venus' atmosphere and temperature for decades. The most common theory is the Green House effect. Venus Facts.
While I believe that there are greater climatological forces (greater than Yuppies with SUV's) at work which cause up and down cycles in global temperature; life in general has had a very marked hand in contributing to these changes. The most radical planetary change attributed to life forces has to do with early bacteria and algae giving the earth its oxygen rich atmosphere. Early life formsand O2
I do support using more efficient energy technologies as these not only help slow down CO2 emissions (which may or may not contribute to global warming) but more importantly reduce sulfur, ozone, and nitrate emissions which are known to cause acid rain and contribute to air pollution. I have been doing my part by replacing old light bulbs with energy efficient ones and by better insulating my house and running an attic fan in stead of the AC when weather permits, etc. If everyone makes lots of little changes then this will have a big impact on our overall quality of life. I'm not talking about shivering in the corner during the winter because you shouldn't run your heater but the stakes are too high not to pay attention and try to take the best actions even if the data is incomplete. Baby steps. Climate change
Can't one force a cache on google? Try searching for the exact URL in quotes on google. Then when it comes back with "If it's a valid URL then click here..." then click there. Then search for the term again in Google and the new URL will show up in the list. Then it will be chached over the next cycle. Then post to slash to the cached pages.
Does that mean it is compatible with COBOL! Yeah, finally an update to the COBOL language. Woo Hoo. I love COBAL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL.
Well, not really but somebody had to stand for all the bankers and accountants out there, right?
Slander is making a claim that is know by the speaker to be false, and causes actual damages to another person (or corp. entity) or inhibits that person's ability to make money. It varies a lot by jurisdiction but that's the basic gist of it.
Oh, that's insidious.
Step one, Send threatening letter to web site
Step two, get story posted on slash dot.
Step three, wait and watch as web site goes down faster than a pending injunction.
Slashdot Mirror
That's a lot of "Soap Network" programming. We have a PRV not that only stores 100 hours of programming. Right now (well as of last night) there were about 45 hours taken up. Most of that (read vast majority) is various soaps. My wife is hooked on soaps in way that I can only weep about. What the hell happens when one of these things finds in way in the living room. It's a sickness, all this TV watching.
Hey, I live in America, I can SUE! Look out Sony, you are opening yourself up here.
Stop the madness, save us from ourselves! No more PVR's Please. I'm begging you!
I have made several install packages for various types of windows applications. Depending on what the application needs in terms of windows resources it can be come very dependent on system sub components. In a few cases I've had to create a matrix showing under what conditions (i.e. general OS version and patch levels as well as some sub component versions - system dll's) a particular application will run.
For instance, a financial package (banking software for customer profitability) would only load on particular versions of Windows NT with particular patch levels. Some the patch levels in which it would not run were higher in number in which it would. Also it was sensitive to the loading of MS-Office. install MS-Office after installing this application and depending on the version of Office it would break the application. Install office first and it will run but it might break office. So in addition to the compatibility of the OS et. al. I also had to contend with what other applications were doing to OS sub components.
This was a real problem experienced by many users of MS-Windows. That is why Windows XP (and maybe 2k-i'm not sure) look for local copies of system dll's in the directory in which an application is launched. In this way an MS-Windows system may have loaded several versions of CommCtrl.dll at the same time.
So, that's what I'm talking about. It may not be achiveable to get to 100% or even if it is possible it may not be practical. As you say something is better than nothing but if you really need %100 function then a PC emulator is an excellent way to go. You just may to buy a beefier system to get the performance needed.
Well then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. There versions of the various MS-Windows dll's and in particular the CommCtrl.dll (or something close to that-fortunately I have not have had make any install packages recently) has many, many, many fix versions. Some of the CommCtrl versions fix bugs which break applications that depend on particular bugs. Some later versions of CommCtrl reintroduce bugs after a version in which they were fixed (I don't know why) and the break in function may now allow some application which worked, then didn't work (as a result of OS upgrades or most likely an installation of some windows app which just puts its version of the dll in the system directory) may now work. But some application which need the corrective fix won't work anymore because the later fix put the bug back. In any case the presence of this .dll does not change the version number of the OS as reported through one of the many ways an application can get the OS revision number.
What you describe would work in a sane OS where things like this are managed better and where applications are not expected to patch system dll's on their own.
Pick the version of windows compatibility to shoot for. There are many many versions and each has its own set of updates; never mind the plethora of patches for each version.
An emulator that can handle all this would be basically a PC emulator (see VMWare) with a bunch of Windows binaries.
Does/will WINE have a version selectable compatibility ? There are quite a few windows apps out there that only run on specific versions of windows at specific patch levels and they won't run on subsequent versions or patch levels. It would seem that this kind of compatibility is very difficult. Would it even be worth while given the number of users would may have need for such compatibility?
I'm glad I didn't misuse a comma!
Maybe not gramatical nazis....
It doesn't matter what one does; the feminists will complain. Just accept it. In fact I bet they will complain about this post.
With this in mind robot manufacturers should just build all the robots to look like boxes with articulated rectangles for legs and arms. Then offer upgrades for all these parts in either male or female shapes. They will make a killing in after market add-ons and no one can say they are perpetuating a stereo type because they allow one to customize his own units himself.
I have a CS degree: after the first job that degree meant squat. In fact the courses which have the best and longest lasting impact on who I am now were my literary and history classes. I recall at the time thinking "Why am I here? This stuff has nothing in common with what I'll be doing professionally."
In my experience the best IT people come from liberal arts and music back grounds. Generally, my CS pedigreed cohorts are in IT to make money; they have no passion for their work or anything else.
So, if you want to take math courses then go right ahead. If you don't then don't. Can you add, subtract, multiply and divide? Do you know what a modulus is? Are you able to perform the simplest of algebra? If so then you'll need no more math skills for 99.99 percent of software development. If you can't don't fret as most software development has very little requirement for even this basic arithmetic.
Right, I suppose someone with a wand could just drive up and down parking lot rows and leave "peeled" cars in their wake. Rig up some wands on long poles and get several rows at once! Sort of like a crop duster on it's a car buster.
So way off topic, but can an RFID reader be spoofed by an active signal like setting up a transmitter to send out the same signal as a tag would but only stronger and broadcast the signal over a wide area?
Explosive bolts! Every car could equipped with an RFID tag reader (which is on it's own hardened circuit). Then the FD can bring out it's disassembly wand and when it gets close to the car, poof, the bolts go off and the car shell splits like an orange! Oh, and instead of air bags and seat belts cars should deploy foam in the passenger compartment in case of an accident; like in "Demolition Man".
That's cool! They should add sound effects for other operations like when the door is opened or closed it could sound like a garbage truck deploying it's automated can picker-upper-dumper. Hit the fuel door release and it makes a gurgling sound.
If my computer was a flower bed it would have the biggest and brightest flowers on the block. But instead I have to patch the OS time and time again. If it were a boat it would be nothing but overlapping patches; at least it would make a great anchor. Something's got to give. I can't have a system that keeps crashing, or waiting for patches which maybe worse than the disease, and then praying that the system works and that what ever it was didn't kill anything important. Sigh, :-(
We live in a finite universe. So, all things which require a physical framework are finite. It's just that there's a lot of stuff and therefore a *lot* of possible states. From the point of view of a very limited life span we can never even come close to witnessing an even small fraction of the number of states for the universe.
In fact there are limitations to everything. Even to our ability to determinie limitations.
The japs made a crude from of balloon which they launched during WWII at the west coast of the US. These balloons counted the ups and downs during the day/night cycle and after something like 35 or days then it just dropped a bomb. I believe a few hundred of these things were created and launched and only a few made it across the pacific. There was only one casualty as I recall. A man on a pick nick with his family spotted one and went over to look at it: this set off the bomb killing him instantly.
The idea is not to replace pen and paper but to replace text books. It would have been cool to have had a single thin text bookish sized device that could have replaced my Spanish, Science, Geometry, English, etc books. I remember how much all those books weighed and how much I worked at not having to take them home. I might even have done my lessons at home instead of showing up early for 'study' hall which really ended up being 'copy' hall.
Also having gone to school in Texas I can tell you that walking home on a 90+ degree late summer day (yes it is that hot in September here) is no pick nick; even less so with a back pack full of books.
Ideally this should be some sort of ruggedized simple DVD ROM reader that works like an e-book or some such. There's no reason to assume that this technology is incompatible with pen and paper. Home work may still be done as a more manual process.
No. It's close in many ways but not the real deal. ADnD is about setting around a table (with people you can see) and participating in a grand (hopefully) story.
There's the pre game gab in which the players talk about their characters in first person and about how each saved so and so or nearly died in a running knife fight/chase which took place on the roofs tops of some distant sea port.
during the game you have a stronger sense of comeradery when you can see your other party members accross the table than one gets from watching them on the computer screen.
Then there's the pizza/chinese/what -ever take out order during or after the game where the party notes are taken and everyone haggles over the exact wording of the gaming logs. Not every group does this but in the ones I have participated, keeping a running narrative which reads something like cross between a novel and journal is lots of fun. One group I was in, in which we played 'Champions' the game log was taken from player notes and turned in to news paper articles by the GM. It was a lot of fun to 'read' about your character in the paper; although, it could often be embarasing to read the bits where the hero had to get bailed out of trouble or lost the bad guy.
Computers are nice and computer games are fun but it's not the same as playing with the same group in the same room.
There are runaway models that support a self feeding or positive feed back model for temperature rise. Astronomers have been trying to explain Venus' atmosphere and temperature for decades. The most common theory is the Green House effect.
Venus Facts.
While I believe that there are greater climatological forces (greater than Yuppies with SUV's) at work which cause up and down cycles in global temperature; life in general has had a very marked hand in contributing to these changes. The most radical planetary change attributed to life forces has to do with early bacteria and algae giving the earth its oxygen rich atmosphere.
Early life formsand O2
I do support using more efficient energy technologies as these not only help slow down CO2 emissions (which may or may not contribute to global warming) but more importantly reduce sulfur, ozone, and nitrate emissions which are known to cause acid rain and contribute to air pollution. I have been doing my part by replacing old light bulbs with energy efficient ones and by better insulating my house and running an attic fan in stead of the AC when weather permits, etc. If everyone makes lots of little changes then this will have a big impact on our overall quality of life. I'm not talking about shivering in the corner during the winter because you shouldn't run your heater but the stakes are too high not to pay attention and try to take the best actions even if the data is incomplete. Baby steps.
Climate change
This person knows now!
Can't one force a cache on google? Try searching for the exact URL in quotes on google. Then when it comes back with "If it's a valid URL then click here..." then click there. Then search for the term again in Google and the new URL will show up in the list. Then it will be chached over the next cycle. Then post to slash to the cached pages.
no, he looked like the guy that made the "Jump to Conclusions" game.
Does that mean it is compatible with COBOL! Yeah, finally an update to the COBOL language. Woo Hoo. I love COBAL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL, I love COBOL.
Well, not really but somebody had to stand for all the bankers and accountants out there, right?
Cool. So with a few of these motors I can use the output from each to turn themselves and use the extra energy to run the rest of my home.
Woo, Woo!
In your face Conservation of mass and energy!
Step four is laugh your head off.
The profit is from having some other entity do your dirty work with out incurring court and attorney fees.
This is the modern entrepreneurial spirit at work!
Slander is making a claim that is know by the speaker to be false, and causes actual damages to another person (or corp. entity) or inhibits that person's ability to make money.
It varies a lot by jurisdiction but that's the basic gist of it.
Oh, that's insidious.
Step one, Send threatening letter to web site
Step two, get story posted on slash dot.
Step three, wait and watch as web site goes down faster than a pending injunction.