Yes, except the aircraft carrier was actually only 30 miles from San Diego. The had to reposition it so that the cameras wouldn't see the shoreline during Bush's photo op^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspeech.
Most people who have never seen a poker tourney do not understand that tournaments are played with valueless chips. I remember telling my kitchen-table poker group about a poker tourney I was in where I check-raised someone and bluffed them off the pot for T6000 (this was a good-sized stack for that tournament).
Their first reaction was $6000? Why are you playing with us if you play for $6000 in tourneys? I think that most people (especially those with even less clue) would think the same thing about McManus - that he was gambling with real dollars.
I switched from qwerty to dvorak (after using emacs for over 10 years). It took a while, but my muscle memory happily hits the ctl-v ctl-; key combination (x/s in dvorak) when I want to save. I don't use vi very often, but when I do, I still naturally hit c to go down and v to go up (j/k in qwerty). It didn't take long to retrain that way.
Tivo does this with something they call a IR blaster. Basically, it's a long, thin cable with an ir output at the end, and you attach the blaster to the front of the cable box, over top of the cable box's IR receiver. You pick what cable box you have from a long menu, and can also control the speed that the tivo sends the signals to the cable box.
It works mostly ok, but sometimes our crappy cable box misses the signal and ends up changing to the wrong channel. To enhance the reliability of the blaster, I actually covered the entire front of the cable box with an aluminum foil "tent", and I keep the cable box out of site behind the lower doors of our TV stand.
I estimate that the fail ratio is around 1-3%, so we sometimes end up getting the Home Shopping Network instead of Star Trek. Still, it's only TV, not a huge loss.
Some cable boxes also have a serial input that can do the same thing, but I don't know if your vendor's cable box does.
main.cpp has never seen the implementation detials of the Foo constructor or the getFoo method, because g++ compiles each compilation unit in isolation. Conversely, no real code actually got generated when g++ compiled Foo.cpp, because that didn't contain a particular instantiation of a template, only the generic template definition.
The typical idiom is to put a '#include "Foo.cpp"' at the bottom of Foo.h. Then, when g++ compiles main.cpp, it will have seen the template's implementation in order to turn it into code.
This actually is explained in the book in question (chapter 6, I think).
To say that gnucash is early alpha is laughable. I've been using it exclusively for over a year and have never lost a single datum. So has my wife, who barely realizes that she's running Linux.
Technically, you're not allowed to make a copy of music for your friend. Your friend is allowed to borrow your CD and copy it, but you are not allowed to copy the CD and give the copy to your friend. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference -- the basic premise is that the person copying a copyrighted CD must intend to use the copy for his personal use.
It quite probably is Cygwin that is the cause of a lot of your problems, but that doesn't detract from the main argument. If the only way to make XP "useful" is by installing Cygwin, but Cygwin has problems, then it's irrelevant what is the cause of your problem; the important issue is that you have problems that have no solutions under XP.
I sympathize 100% whenever I'm forced to go over to Win2k to do development. Fortunately, 90% of my job is development on linux, and I wouldn't change that for anything, and I just scoff at the people who tell me that XP with Cygwin is better than Linux.
I get silence calls all the time. It usually comes in clusters. For two or three days, 3-4 times a day, the phone rings, I answer, and nothing. Then we don't get another cluster for a week or so.
I'm quite certain that it's autodialers, because once or twice I've just waited on the line for a minute or so and the soliciter has started talking. I then tell it to put me on the do not call list.
Gore... Gore... Oh, yeah, wasn't he with the administration that illegally pulled all those FBI files on their political opponents?
Are you saying that the Clinton administration did something illegal? Where are the indictments? Who was arrested? When were the trials? Were they found guilty? What were the penalties? Provide us with some actual names and dates or just admit that you're talking out of your ass.
I would say that the kinesis is more exotic and more expensive. The brace is $20. A kinesis can run up to $400, depending on which model you want. The professional with foot pad is 375 or so. That being said, I definitely like my Kinesis.
Xwrits is good, but Workrave is even better. It enforces periodic rest breaks like xwrits, plus it does timed microbreaks and a daily limit on typing. Plus, it's cross platform, so it runs on windows or Linux. Needs Gnome, though.
In general, serving people with disabilities rarely makes financial sense, because the market is too small and their financial clout is too limited. Businesses that ignore the disabled market are not doing so "at their peril" - nobody will ever notice or care, other than the disable people and they simply don't have a very loud voice.
The laws are there because our society deems it important to integrate the disabled into society at large, and society can't rely on businesses to do it when it makes no business sense to do so.
As for your strawman examples of bird-watchers and target-shooters, if you didn't make those sites accessible to the blind, nobody would likely care. The laws are there to give a disabled person recourse if he wants to access a certain resource and he can't. Contrary to what the libertarian/right wing says, there simply isn't an army of blind people going around harassing "inaccessible" businesses.
This is not strictly true. Yes, for a person to become a US citizen, they are supposedly required to renounce any other citizenship. However, the US has absolutely no control over another sovereign country's (Canada) citizenship laws. So, that child can renounce his Canadian citizenship all day long, and he's still a Canadian citizen in the eyes of the Canadian government, and still qualifies for a Canadian passport.
It is possible to truly give up your Canadian citizenship, but it's a fairly convoluted process, and won't happen just because you signed some declaration or your US citizenship statement.
And how is that different than my HMO rationing healthcare? They don't call it rationing, but when they refuse to authorize a treatment until I've been examined by one of their doctors, and that doctor has a 6-month waiting list, the result for me is the same. Instead of being screwed by a faceless government bureaucrat, I'm being screwed by a facless corporate bureaucrat.
I was under the same impression, but listen to my sad story.
On August 17, while on vacation, I discovered some bogus transactions on my card on August 9 - 5 transactions, $800, to some card processor in Israel. I called my bank the same day and told them the transactions were bogus and they issued me a new card.
Yesterday my bank called back and said that the merchant had verified the transactions and that I would be responsible for them. The merchant's "proof" was a single page fax that basically said that the charges had been done for an online casino account that had been opened in my name. Since the account was in my name, and the account "had a unique username and password", that is all the proof that the bank needed that I had authorized the charges.
The fact that the casino account was opened on the same day that the charges were made didn't seem to make a difference. The fact that I had never heard of the casino, nor had I authorized them to open an account in my name didn't make a difference. The fact that on the day in question, I was on vacation and driving from Seattle to Montana (a 10 hour drive, with credit card receipts to prove it) didn't seem to make a difference.
According to my bank (this is US Bank), I am responsible for the charges, and my only recourse is to take it up with the casino and their credit card processor.
So much for anti-fraud protection.
I am still planning to fight this, BTW, so if anyone has any suggestions about a course of action, I'm all ears.
No, if the customer requests a charge back, it's not the credit card company that eats it. They just take their money back from the merchant that allowed the charge in the first place. The real scam is that credit card companies charge more for online merchant accounts, citing the increased risk of "no signature present" transactions, yet it't the merchant that is assuming all of the risk.
You're pretty close. A cochlear implant is typically used when the nerves in the inner ear (the little "hairs") have been damaged. The neural pathway to the brain is still intact, but the cochlea's nerves aren't able to properly send signals down that pathway. A cochlear implant basically plugs into the pathway and sends signals straight to the brain, completely bypassing the inner ear.
Part of the implant is just under the skin. The patient attaches a small disk to his head over top of the implant (held in place by a magnet). The disk is connected to a signal processor, and this is what induces the signal in the implant.
The downside of CI's is that they're only appropriate for severe hearing losses; if you can hear with your hearing aid, you're most likely better off with it than a CI, and probably don't want to risk obliterating your residual hearing by installing a CI.
Plus, they're expensive ($50k) and many health insurance plans don't cover them. Hell, my plan won't even cover audiology exams, never mind hearing aids and cochlear implants.
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Yes, except the aircraft carrier was actually only 30 miles from San Diego. The had to reposition it so that the cameras wouldn't see the shoreline during Bush's photo op^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspeech.
Most people who have never seen a poker tourney do not understand that tournaments are played with valueless chips. I remember telling my kitchen-table poker group about a poker tourney I was in where I check-raised someone and bluffed them off the pot for T6000 (this was a good-sized stack for that tournament).
Their first reaction was $6000? Why are you playing with us if you play for $6000 in tourneys? I think that most people (especially those with even less clue) would think the same thing about McManus - that he was gambling with real dollars.
I switched from qwerty to dvorak (after using emacs for over 10 years). It took a while, but my muscle memory happily hits the ctl-v ctl-; key combination (x/s in dvorak) when I want to save. I don't use vi very often, but when I do, I still naturally hit c to go down and v to go up (j/k in qwerty). It didn't take long to retrain that way.
Tivo does this with something they call a IR blaster. Basically, it's a long, thin cable with an ir output at the end, and you attach the blaster to the front of the cable box, over top of the cable box's IR receiver. You pick what cable box you have from a long menu, and can also control the speed that the tivo sends the signals to the cable box.
It works mostly ok, but sometimes our crappy cable box misses the signal and ends up changing to the wrong channel. To enhance the reliability of the blaster, I actually covered the entire front of the cable box with an aluminum foil "tent", and I keep the cable box out of site behind the lower doors of our TV stand.
I estimate that the fail ratio is around 1-3%, so we sometimes end up getting the Home Shopping Network instead of Star Trek. Still, it's only TV, not a huge loss.
Some cable boxes also have a serial input that can do the same thing, but I don't know if your vendor's cable box does.
Local Hero - 1 big star, 0 explosions great performances.
You forgot to mention awesome soundtrack. This has been one of my favorite movies for a long time.
about templates is why this doesn't work:
main.cpp has never seen the implementation detials of the Foo constructor or the getFoo method, because g++ compiles each compilation unit in isolation. Conversely, no real code actually got generated when g++ compiled Foo.cpp, because that didn't contain a particular instantiation of a template, only the generic template definition.
The typical idiom is to put a '#include "Foo.cpp"' at the bottom of Foo.h. Then, when g++ compiles main.cpp, it will have seen the template's implementation in order to turn it into code.
This actually is explained in the book in question (chapter 6, I think).
apt-get install gnucash
Or, if you insist on compiling it:
apt-get -b source gnucash
To say that gnucash is early alpha is laughable. I've been using it exclusively for over a year and have never lost a single datum. So has my wife, who barely realizes that she's running Linux.
Technically, you're not allowed to make a copy of music for your friend. Your friend is allowed to borrow your CD and copy it, but you are not allowed to copy the CD and give the copy to your friend. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference -- the basic premise is that the person copying a copyrighted CD must intend to use the copy for his personal use.
See here for more info.
It quite probably is Cygwin that is the cause of a lot of your problems, but that doesn't detract from the main argument. If the only way to make XP "useful" is by installing Cygwin, but Cygwin has problems, then it's irrelevant what is the cause of your problem; the important issue is that you have problems that have no solutions under XP.
I sympathize 100% whenever I'm forced to go over to Win2k to do development. Fortunately, 90% of my job is development on linux, and I wouldn't change that for anything, and I just scoff at the people who tell me that XP with Cygwin is better than Linux.
I get silence calls all the time. It usually comes in clusters. For two or three days, 3-4 times a day, the phone rings, I answer, and nothing. Then we don't get another cluster for a week or so.
I'm quite certain that it's autodialers, because once or twice I've just waited on the line for a minute or so and the soliciter has started talking. I then tell it to put me on the do not call list.
So you admit that you're talking out your ass then.
Gore... Gore... Oh, yeah, wasn't he with the administration that illegally pulled all those FBI files on their political opponents?
Are you saying that the Clinton administration did something illegal? Where are the indictments? Who was arrested? When were the trials? Were they found guilty? What were the penalties? Provide us with some actual names and dates or just admit that you're talking out of your ass.
I would say that the kinesis is more exotic and more expensive. The brace is $20. A kinesis can run up to $400, depending on which model you want. The professional with foot pad is 375 or so. That being said, I definitely like my Kinesis.
Umm, you posted a correction to your original comment, saying "you want one that goes around the thumb", and linking to the following item:
Futuro Wrist Brace Left
Large
1 EA
$19.99
Not a pair, not $4.99.
Xwrits is good, but Workrave is even better. It enforces periodic rest breaks like xwrits, plus it does timed microbreaks and a daily limit on typing. Plus, it's cross platform, so it runs on windows or Linux. Needs Gnome, though.
Hmm, the "cheaper" alternative at CVS is $19.99, while the smart glove from the article is $19.95. Have you considered a remedial math course?
Please please please mod this up.
Were you born that stupid, or did you have to work to do it? Or do you honestly believe that there are no blind people who are using computers?
In general, serving people with disabilities rarely makes financial sense, because the market is too small and their financial clout is too limited. Businesses that ignore the disabled market are not doing so "at their peril" - nobody will ever notice or care, other than the disable people and they simply don't have a very loud voice.
The laws are there because our society deems it important to integrate the disabled into society at large, and society can't rely on businesses to do it when it makes no business sense to do so.
As for your strawman examples of bird-watchers and target-shooters, if you didn't make those sites accessible to the blind, nobody would likely care. The laws are there to give a disabled person recourse if he wants to access a certain resource and he can't. Contrary to what the libertarian/right wing says, there simply isn't an army of blind people going around harassing "inaccessible" businesses.
This is not strictly true. Yes, for a person to become a US citizen, they are supposedly required to renounce any other citizenship. However, the US has absolutely no control over another sovereign country's (Canada) citizenship laws. So, that child can renounce his Canadian citizenship all day long, and he's still a Canadian citizen in the eyes of the Canadian government, and still qualifies for a Canadian passport.
It is possible to truly give up your Canadian citizenship, but it's a fairly convoluted process, and won't happen just because you signed some declaration or your US citizenship statement.
See here for more information.
And how is that different than my HMO rationing healthcare? They don't call it rationing, but when they refuse to authorize a treatment until I've been examined by one of their doctors, and that doctor has a 6-month waiting list, the result for me is the same. Instead of being screwed by a faceless government bureaucrat, I'm being screwed by a facless corporate bureaucrat.
If you do this every day, perhaps you have some insight on why my credit card company has refused to grant a chargeback to me.
I was under the same impression, but listen to my sad story.
On August 17, while on vacation, I discovered some bogus transactions on my card on August 9 - 5 transactions, $800, to some card processor in Israel. I called my bank the same day and told them the transactions were bogus and they issued me a new card.
Yesterday my bank called back and said that the merchant had verified the transactions and that I would be responsible for them. The merchant's "proof" was a single page fax that basically said that the charges had been done for an online casino account that had been opened in my name. Since the account was in my name, and the account "had a unique username and password", that is all the proof that the bank needed that I had authorized the charges.
The fact that the casino account was opened on the same day that the charges were made didn't seem to make a difference. The fact that I had never heard of the casino, nor had I authorized them to open an account in my name didn't make a difference. The fact that on the day in question, I was on vacation and driving from Seattle to Montana (a 10 hour drive, with credit card receipts to prove it) didn't seem to make a difference.
According to my bank (this is US Bank), I am responsible for the charges, and my only recourse is to take it up with the casino and their credit card processor.
So much for anti-fraud protection.
I am still planning to fight this, BTW, so if anyone has any suggestions about a course of action, I'm all ears.
No, if the customer requests a charge back, it's not the credit card company that eats it. They just take their money back from the merchant that allowed the charge in the first place. The real scam is that credit card companies charge more for online merchant accounts, citing the increased risk of "no signature present" transactions, yet it't the merchant that is assuming all of the risk.
You're pretty close. A cochlear implant is typically used when the nerves in the inner ear (the little "hairs") have been damaged. The neural pathway to the brain is still intact, but the cochlea's nerves aren't able to properly send signals down that pathway. A cochlear implant basically plugs into the pathway and sends signals straight to the brain, completely bypassing the inner ear.
Part of the implant is just under the skin. The patient attaches a small disk to his head over top of the implant (held in place by a magnet). The disk is connected to a signal processor, and this is what induces the signal in the implant.
The downside of CI's is that they're only appropriate for severe hearing losses; if you can hear with your hearing aid, you're most likely better off with it than a CI, and probably don't want to risk obliterating your residual hearing by installing a CI.
Plus, they're expensive ($50k) and many health insurance plans don't cover them. Hell, my plan won't even cover audiology exams, never mind hearing aids and cochlear implants.