MythTV does this just fine ; it can turn off your computer, and turn it back on again when a recording is scheduled.
The only problem would be that when it boots into "recording" mode instead of "manually started", there's a different screen explaining it, which involves a single button press on the remote to put it into manual mode.
Call my cynical, but I think that the engineering department for these things are just told to leave it on all the time, because the perception in management is that the general public couldn't work this out.
Indeed. I probably have Abserger's, I score highly on most of the indicators, my wife (a paediatrician) thinks so, I think so. (I'm also a qualified doctor, but no longer practising). I have not been formally diagnosed, but I don't feel the need to do so.
I've never sought to make it into a "condition". It's not a label I apply to myself. It's just part of the way I am. In some ways, I consider myself fortunate - it's almost certainly a contributor to my facility with computers, a skill that puts bread on my table.
And it definitely doesn't interfere with your ability to distinguish right from wrong, or generate any uncontrollable urges to do "naughty" things.
In some ways, I *would* have like it spotted earlier, because I could have had an easier time of school if people had just explained to me some of the things that people take for granted are "built in", like an understanding of interpersonal relationships. I know I have developed purely intellectual ways of dealing with these things, because I spot myself doing it now. When I did an Asberger's test, I recognized that for many of the questions about social interaction, my answers were not typical of Asberger's - but that I would have answered very differently 20 years ago, largely because I now understand how to form a social niche that I find workable.
An SVN repository is a filesystem with an additional dimension (revision) - all branching does (or any copying) is copy a pointer to an inode. Branching in SVN is just as cheap as branching in git ; they both do the same thing, storing a pointer to the top node in a tree.
If you don't believe me, you can try it ; branching a large tree in SVN only results in the growth of the repository by a few KB. You can look at the size of the revision, as it's stored in a numbered file of it's own.
Where it falls down, is as I said, on it's merging, which was never designed to cope with the idea that branching was a frequent or trivial activity, as it is with DVCS systems.
All the DVCS systems I've used do topic branches better than SVN. SVN branches cheaply, just like the new kids, but it's merging sucks.
I tried some very simple refactoring tests on SVN recently, aware that it had received some love in the "merge" department, and it fell at the first hurdle - renaming files. It just isn't suitable for any kind of modern development method.
I quite like Bazaar. Not as blazing-fast or powerful as git, but does have the luxury of both simpler userland tools, and a better SVN integration plugin (git-svn has some nasty gotchas, bzr-svn has fewer).
It's a major cultural failing. I saw it expressed in a Sean Connery film, of all things once.
The Japanese have a saying, “Fix the problem, not the blame.” Find out what’s fucked up and fix it. Nobody gets blamed. We’re always after who fucked up. Their way is better.
If they are incorporated in certain jurisdictions, the law compels them to inform their subscribers that they were breached. pron.com is registered in Cyprus though - I have no idea what their law states.
They easily run about £50,000 worth of sales before lunch without breaking a sweat, I really don't think they need to indulge in fraud.
I suppose a rogue sysadmin might install something. The kiosks themselves are pretty locked down but they are Windows, so I don't really trust the integrity of that. Any time
So no, I wouldn't use it myself - I order at home using my debit card and pick up in the store.
Learning to program WELL in VB6 is a worthy experience though - you learn all sorts of discipline, and a few neat win32 API calls.
The core feature of OO languages like Java and C# - polymorphism - is usable in VB6, for a given value of "usable". It's just not encouraged by most of the teaching materials. People used to look at me like I'd grown an extra head for using the "Implements" keyword.
If you assume the reading profile of people in both groups - the book-buyers and the no-book-buyers - is roughly the same on average, you could work it out.
It's not perfect. It doesn't account for people who bought a Kindle and then never used it (maybe they received it as a gift and were too proud to admit they were too dumb to open the box....) It doesn't account for people who buy fewer books than they would if it wasn't for the DRM.
Totally agree - with the budgets concerned, we could easily fund a development team large enough to meet the needs - and with no incentive to talk bullshit to make a sale.
No, they can't, because the overhead of check-in, security, waiting for a runway, baggage check, baggage pickup, etc, adds hours to even the shortest flight.
I guarantee that within a few weeks, someone will make actual Japanese porn with girls being covered in DeconGel and having it peeled off. Probably by an octopus.
The reason it's this way around is because you can automatically audit which parts of the API the application calls, and thus which permissions it requires to perform all it's functions.
What you can't audit is how the application will respond to having permissions denied - the application may well crash, because it will be receiving "permission denied" exceptions that it was not previously expecting to receive. Since the only way to check this is to have someone look through the code, it's not suitable for an app store with a high publish rate.
A reasonable way around it would be to have feature plugins that installed separately - and demanded only the permissions they required. This would enable the user to control their risk profile while still allowing the core app to function.
Problem is, the app developers don't want the extra work to do this and the app consumers don't want to have to think about it.
Skype have elected not to renew their license to Digium, so you can only get a product that's supported until June 2013. And only if you purchase and activate it before the end of this June.
I can't see them getting too many sales on the back of that pitch.
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But I'm sure Americans are gonna love the Quarter-Kilo with Cheese. More than double the beef of the Quarter Pounder!
Having a trig function have a 2 or not doesn't make it more elegant.
Ok, let's go with one of the simplest trig functions around, converting angles.
With radians expressed in fractions of pi, a full circle is 2*pi radians.
With radians expressed in fractions of tau, a full circle is tau radians.
So half a circle angle.. is 1/2 tau radians. A quarter is 1/4 tau radians.
An eighth of a circle 1/4 pi radians. A quarter is 1/2 pi radians.
I know which looks more elegant to me...
Probably because I don't obsess about it enough to learn the correct spelling.
Yes, I get this. Most annoying.
Since I'm on MythTV I suppose the solution to this is to just put some cron jobs on it that cancel live TV playback during school hours.
MythTV does this just fine ; it can turn off your computer, and turn it back on again when a recording is scheduled.
The only problem would be that when it boots into "recording" mode instead of "manually started", there's a different screen explaining it, which involves a single button press on the remote to put it into manual mode.
Call my cynical, but I think that the engineering department for these things are just told to leave it on all the time, because the perception in management is that the general public couldn't work this out.
Indeed. I probably have Abserger's, I score highly on most of the indicators, my wife (a paediatrician) thinks so, I think so. (I'm also a qualified doctor, but no longer practising). I have not been formally diagnosed, but I don't feel the need to do so.
I've never sought to make it into a "condition". It's not a label I apply to myself. It's just part of the way I am. In some ways, I consider myself fortunate - it's almost certainly a contributor to my facility with computers, a skill that puts bread on my table.
And it definitely doesn't interfere with your ability to distinguish right from wrong, or generate any uncontrollable urges to do "naughty" things.
In some ways, I *would* have like it spotted earlier, because I could have had an easier time of school if people had just explained to me some of the things that people take for granted are "built in", like an understanding of interpersonal relationships. I know I have developed purely intellectual ways of dealing with these things, because I spot myself doing it now. When I did an Asberger's test, I recognized that for many of the questions about social interaction, my answers were not typical of Asberger's - but that I would have answered very differently 20 years ago, largely because I now understand how to form a social niche that I find workable.
PLEX are only created for real money.
I showed my daughter BBC BASIC in BeebEm, and she predictably, enjoyed the classic
10 PRINT "DAD SMELLS"
20 GOTO 10
An SVN repository is a filesystem with an additional dimension (revision) - all branching does (or any copying) is copy a pointer to an inode. Branching in SVN is just as cheap as branching in git ; they both do the same thing, storing a pointer to the top node in a tree.
If you don't believe me, you can try it ; branching a large tree in SVN only results in the growth of the repository by a few KB. You can look at the size of the revision, as it's stored in a numbered file of it's own.
Where it falls down, is as I said, on it's merging, which was never designed to cope with the idea that branching was a frequent or trivial activity, as it is with DVCS systems.
Just because you're a giant, doesn't mean your brain disease isn't serious.
But the thing about software, is that it costs the same to fix no matter how many people use it. The surgeon still costs the same.
All the DVCS systems I've used do topic branches better than SVN. SVN branches cheaply, just like the new kids, but it's merging sucks.
I tried some very simple refactoring tests on SVN recently, aware that it had received some love in the "merge" department, and it fell at the first hurdle - renaming files. It just isn't suitable for any kind of modern development method.
I quite like Bazaar. Not as blazing-fast or powerful as git, but does have the luxury of both simpler userland tools, and a better SVN integration plugin (git-svn has some nasty gotchas, bzr-svn has fewer).
It's a major cultural failing. I saw it expressed in a Sean Connery film, of all things once.
The Japanese have a saying, “Fix the problem, not the blame.” Find out what’s fucked up and fix it. Nobody gets blamed. We’re always after who fucked up. Their way is better.
ICD is used to collate statistics, NOT to issue clinical orders, so this circumstance will not arise.
If they are incorporated in certain jurisdictions, the law compels them to inform their subscribers that they were breached. pron.com is registered in Cyprus though - I have no idea what their law states.
They easily run about £50,000 worth of sales before lunch without breaking a sweat, I really don't think they need to indulge in fraud.
I suppose a rogue sysadmin might install something. The kiosks themselves are pretty locked down but they are Windows, so I don't really trust the integrity of that. Any time
So no, I wouldn't use it myself - I order at home using my debit card and pick up in the store.
My local computer parts warehouse allows you to order from web kiosks in-house, and pay with PayPal.
Splice it into lactobacillus and make yoghurt, combining the traditional remedy for thrush with kick-ass new genetically modified tech.
Learning to program WELL in VB6 is a worthy experience though - you learn all sorts of discipline, and a few neat win32 API calls.
The core feature of OO languages like Java and C# - polymorphism - is usable in VB6, for a given value of "usable". It's just not encouraged by most of the teaching materials. People used to look at me like I'd grown an extra head for using the "Implements" keyword.
If you assume the reading profile of people in both groups - the book-buyers and the no-book-buyers - is roughly the same on average, you could work it out.
It's not perfect. It doesn't account for people who bought a Kindle and then never used it (maybe they received it as a gift and were too proud to admit they were too dumb to open the box....) It doesn't account for people who buy fewer books than they would if it wasn't for the DRM.
Totally agree - with the budgets concerned, we could easily fund a development team large enough to meet the needs - and with no incentive to talk bullshit to make a sale.
No, they can't, because the overhead of check-in, security, waiting for a runway, baggage check, baggage pickup, etc, adds hours to even the shortest flight.
I guarantee that within a few weeks, someone will make actual Japanese porn with girls being covered in DeconGel and having it peeled off. Probably by an octopus.
The reason it's this way around is because you can automatically audit which parts of the API the application calls, and thus which permissions it requires to perform all it's functions.
What you can't audit is how the application will respond to having permissions denied - the application may well crash, because it will be receiving "permission denied" exceptions that it was not previously expecting to receive. Since the only way to check this is to have someone look through the code, it's not suitable for an app store with a high publish rate.
A reasonable way around it would be to have feature plugins that installed separately - and demanded only the permissions they required. This would enable the user to control their risk profile while still allowing the core app to function.
Problem is, the app developers don't want the extra work to do this and the app consumers don't want to have to think about it.
But only for a limited time....
Skype have elected not to renew their license to Digium, so you can only get a product that's supported until June 2013. And only if you purchase and activate it before the end of this June.
I can't see them getting too many sales on the back of that pitch.