Reporters are allowed access to the event with the understanding that their reports will be published after the fact, thus protecting the value of the real-time reporting being done by the broadcast partners. All this rule is doing is telling the other reporters that they can't publish their content in real time.
These new rules are in response to newer technology, but other restrictions have been in place for years to protect licensees.
For example, as a spectator you aren't allowed to video record an event. Often you are not allowed to bring a "professional" grade still camera, either. (Of course, improvements in camera technology are making it easier to surreptitiously get around these restrictions.) The purpose of those restrictions is to force anyone wanting to see video or photos of the event to go to the licensee -- and pay for the privilege either directly or through advertising.
I push to production fairly often, depending on the nature of the tickets I'm responding to. I'm generally maintaining three branches concurrently, the production branch, the point-release branch and the major release branch. Trivial fixes or small-but-critical fixes tend to go onto the production branch and get released as hot fixes. This can happen several times a day or not for several days, depending on how extensive the change is and thus how much testing is needed.
Fixes that are a bit more extensive and/or that will have visible impact to the users tend to get done on the point-release branch, which typically is merged back to production and released every few days to a week or two. (Naturally, fixes made to the production branch are merged to this branch as soon as they are released.)
Significant functionality changes, refactorings and other large-impact changes are performed on the major release branch -- with the intermediate changes merged in, naturally. This gets merged to production per our roadmap schedule, hopefully after being fully tested by the beta users. (Yeah, right.)
When I leased my Prius two years ago on a three-year lease, it was in hopes that I would be able to switch to a plug-in hybrid at the end of the lease because it would fit my driving profile perfectly (the vast majority of my trips are <40 miles, with an occasional trip of 200-300 miles). Which I still want to do, but the car has to be reasonably decent. The Volt doesn't impress, but the new plug-in Prius may fit the bill. And on a lease, you aren't paying for the entire cost of the car, so a somewhat higher sticker price doesn't bother me.
Plus, I'm not at all sure that gas prices in the US won't be $6-7/gal within the next couple of years, which changes the calculation somewhat.
Except those "highly accurate" crystals are not so highly accurate. Their frequency changes with temperature and as the crystals and other components in the circuitry age. The value of using the power line as a reference is not that it is all that accurate in the short term, it's that it is highly accurate over long periods because it is continually adjusted to be so.
Yes, your battery-backed-up clock will keep time while the power is off, but keep that clock running on battery for a month or so and you will find it inexorably drifts off the right time. You'll end up periodically having to adjust the clock manually. That's not the case if you sync to the power line -- for now, at least.
There are plenty of jobs in this world where diligent effort will go unnoticed but screw-ups will be cause for major ass-reaming. Most any job in financial services falls into that category, for example.
If you motivation for employment is to be petted, get a job as a dog.
Clearly, you should hire an MBA to write your software, a developer to design your web page, and a designer to run your company. Then all will be right in the world.
Fnkmaster, do you work at my company? Cuz' that's pretty much what we gots here.
It's not just about going somewhere on the spur of the moment... it's going there at all. Now that the US no longer has functioning mass transit except in limited corridors, there is frequently no practical alternative to driving. For example, next week my son and I need to travel from Connecticut to West Virginia. Try doing that by train or bus. What makes sense to me is owning an EV for daily use and renting a longer range vehicle when needed. For that to work well for me, I need an EV with about 150-mile range.
(An EV would also make sense as the second car for a lot of two-car families.)
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I may have to get a pair of wool socks.
We should be serving bananas for Thanksgiving!
Reporters are allowed access to the event with the understanding that their reports will be published after the fact, thus protecting the value of the real-time reporting being done by the broadcast partners. All this rule is doing is telling the other reporters that they can't publish their content in real time.
These new rules are in response to newer technology, but other restrictions have been in place for years to protect licensees.
For example, as a spectator you aren't allowed to video record an event. Often you are not allowed to bring a "professional" grade still camera, either. (Of course, improvements in camera technology are making it easier to surreptitiously get around these restrictions.) The purpose of those restrictions is to force anyone wanting to see video or photos of the event to go to the licensee -- and pay for the privilege either directly or through advertising.
So, yes, it's about the money.
I push to production fairly often, depending on the nature of the tickets I'm responding to. I'm generally maintaining three branches concurrently, the production branch, the point-release branch and the major release branch. Trivial fixes or small-but-critical fixes tend to go onto the production branch and get released as hot fixes. This can happen several times a day or not for several days, depending on how extensive the change is and thus how much testing is needed.
Fixes that are a bit more extensive and/or that will have visible impact to the users tend to get done on the point-release branch, which typically is merged back to production and released every few days to a week or two. (Naturally, fixes made to the production branch are merged to this branch as soon as they are released.)
Significant functionality changes, refactorings and other large-impact changes are performed on the major release branch -- with the intermediate changes merged in, naturally. This gets merged to production per our roadmap schedule, hopefully after being fully tested by the beta users. (Yeah, right.)
Now if they could just figure out how to grow onions. Yum! Liver and onions!
When I leased my Prius two years ago on a three-year lease, it was in hopes that I would be able to switch to a plug-in hybrid at the end of the lease because it would fit my driving profile perfectly (the vast majority of my trips are <40 miles, with an occasional trip of 200-300 miles). Which I still want to do, but the car has to be reasonably decent. The Volt doesn't impress, but the new plug-in Prius may fit the bill. And on a lease, you aren't paying for the entire cost of the car, so a somewhat higher sticker price doesn't bother me.
Plus, I'm not at all sure that gas prices in the US won't be $6-7/gal within the next couple of years, which changes the calculation somewhat.
... that pig sure is pretty in lipstick.
Except those "highly accurate" crystals are not so highly accurate. Their frequency changes with temperature and as the crystals and other components in the circuitry age. The value of using the power line as a reference is not that it is all that accurate in the short term, it's that it is highly accurate over long periods because it is continually adjusted to be so.
Yes, your battery-backed-up clock will keep time while the power is off, but keep that clock running on battery for a month or so and you will find it inexorably drifts off the right time. You'll end up periodically having to adjust the clock manually. That's not the case if you sync to the power line -- for now, at least.
Now where will the drug dealers be able to market their products to kids?!?
Not to worry... NYC still has schoolyards
There are plenty of jobs in this world where diligent effort will go unnoticed but screw-ups will be cause for major ass-reaming. Most any job in financial services falls into that category, for example. If you motivation for employment is to be petted, get a job as a dog.
Don't you have to be a citizen in order to be charged with treason?
That's such pre-9/11 thinking.
I really want to know what people are going to write for the statement that Neil Armstrong made when he stepped off the LEM ladder.
"Hey, Houston! I just cut the cheese!"
A ban need not be universal, or even effective, to qualify as censorship. It is their store and their choice, but it is still censorship.
Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Men
Tell me, exactly what does the US government have to do to its citizens for it to be newsworthy?
Tax them. Apparently, that's the only government activity that's objectionable.
Aren't they just proposing removing the dependence on the 1 kilogram cylinders?
Yes, but what fun would it be to make that the headline?
Although the car weighs 2 kg and was driven by squirrels.
Today's front-runner for "Slashdot headline that most sounds like a headline from The Onion."
Yet, I stand by my belief that it's better to be pissed off than pissed on.
I know what you mean. It's almost as tiresome as the way people generalize about the /. mentality.
Fnkmaster, do you work at my company? Cuz' that's pretty much what we gots here.
It's not just about going somewhere on the spur of the moment... it's going there at all. Now that the US no longer has functioning mass transit except in limited corridors, there is frequently no practical alternative to driving. For example, next week my son and I need to travel from Connecticut to West Virginia. Try doing that by train or bus. What makes sense to me is owning an EV for daily use and renting a longer range vehicle when needed. For that to work well for me, I need an EV with about 150-mile range. (An EV would also make sense as the second car for a lot of two-car families.)
I'm not going to spoon-feed you the answer to that question.
Wait, those commercials were selling something? I never noticed.
Yeah, but where are they going to find a control group of people who don't use a cellphone?
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