How did this get described as informative? In the UK at least 900 and 1800 both have pretty much universal coverage. Orange and Teutonic Mobile have 1800 and Vodafone and O2 have 900 mostly with some 1800
I know I am taking the dead horse round the block for a quick flog, but to do this in general is a non trivial task as the data types in different databases will have different names, and the way what Access calls 'autonumber' fields is different from, say, the way it is done in Oracle. In fact, since the autonumbers are generated - duh - automatically, copying between two access databases can be distinctly non-trival (indeed, if you have relations defined AND autonumber fields determining a way to put the data into the database is probably a quite complex problem in graph theory).
Then of course there are name constraints, Access allows spaces, Oracle doesn't, Oracle has numerous reserved words and has a 30 character limit.
This is as nothing to the delights of trying to use ODBC Linked Tables for an Oracle database in Access. Hint - don't do it.
Replying to myself I know, but I see that the PCI card DAB receiver from Modular Technologies has software to do this built in (for Windows 9x and 2000/XP) using the electronic program guide sent with the signal.
Not that this helps you at all in the land of 'we don't use the technology everyone else in the world uses' but the Psion WaveFinder http://www.wavefinder.co.uk/intro.asp can be used in conjunction with http://www.dabbar.co.uk/dabbar.htm and DigiGuide http://www.digiguide.com/ to set up and record programs to MP2 or MP3 files.
DigiGuide is a pay service (something like 5 pounds a year for all TV and radio listing) - you don't need this if you want to set up the time and channel to record manually, but with DigiGuide (and a free 3rd party add on the details of which I forget) you can click on the listings and it will add them to the recording.
Unfortunately the main downsides are that WaveFinders are now only available 2nd hand (e.g. on eBay) and that the software for them only works on Windows (works best on 98) and they are somewhat flakey. There are now new DAB cards for about 100 pounds which are hopefully better behaved, but I don't know what software there is for them.
Nonetheless I am hopeful that fairly soon this will all work properly.
You joke, but the staff in one large white-goods chain here in England told me that the last digits of the price have a meaning e.g. 97p means the product line has been discontinued (which for practical purposes means 'you are wasting your time, we don't have any and can't get any')
Assuming this is true, no rational person is going to base their business (and/or free as in beer or speech software that they care about people being able to use) on a back-door undocumented hack that lets them build Mac software for Windows. The back door could so easily disappear if Apple and/or Microsoft changed something.
I agree with the general thrust of a large number of the comments (i.e. you're being screwed, don't do it), but 'back in the day' I was working on a large FORTRAN system on MS-DOS and, for a number of reasons I set things up so that each source file contained one subroutine / function - thanks to FORTRAN's 6 character limit these fitted nicely into the 8.3 filenames.
Obviously this meant that the date and time of each source file reflected when it was last edited. Despite a number of people, including myself, working until quite late, there were very few files dated after 6 p.m., less than 1% which certainly didn't reflect the amount of work done after 6 p.m. Obviously some of the code survived but would have been bug-fixed whilst people were more with-it. The peak times seemed to be mid-morning and mid-afternoon (10-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.). I attribute these times to being the 'having woken up but not too close to lunch' and 'having recovered from lunch and not got too tired yet' zones.
I am certainly convinced in retrospect that much of the overtime was wasted, and although 'work smarter not harder' is one of the most annoying phrases in the english language, in this case I there was a degree of truth in it.
I remember a PC bursting into flames (literaly, i.e. smoke belching out the back of it) and our first thought was 'lets get it outside where there aren't any smoke alarms, otherwise the alarm will go off and we won't be able to do another 4 hours work'. I think this demonstrates how our judgement was impaired...
I see programming / software development / software engineering / whatever you want to call it as being like being a dentist.
In my first job, for what was then a large U.K. bespoke software house (and is now part of I.B.M.) I started with two 4 day training courses - one was essentially an introduction to the company and its methods, and one was an introduction to VMS, DCL and EDT, which I knew vaguely alreadyas I had uses VAXes at university.
After this I was put onto a project working on an end-to-end image management and processing system for the Ministry of Defence. Essentially I was allowed to design and develop the software without too much supervision.
I have done essentially the same thing i.e. talk to users, analyse requirements, design, develop and debug software for the following 16 years.
I expect to be doing the same for the next n years.
This is not unlike being a dentist e.g. Day 1 - look in peoples' mouths. Diagnose problems. Drill, fill and extract teeth (etc.) 40 years later - look in peoples' mouths. Diagnose problems. Drill,fill and extract teeth (etc.) Retire. Die.
[this is obviously a simplification of what they do and not to denigrate the skills / knowledge of dentists]
I honestly don't see why our 'career' should be any different. I have more experience, obviously, and get paid more (about 5 times as much), but apart from being able to apply the experience I wouldn't claim to be much better at it (but then, I think I was pretty good to start with (!)).
This reply applies to many of the asinine posts in this topic, I just chose this one at random.
Do you not, perhaps, think that the poster of the question realises that changing the CD might not be, gasp horror, disapproved of by the powers that be leading to firing, threats of legal action, death, being sent to bed without supper etc. etc.
The poster possibly also considered a) replacing the CD player b) planting cockroaches and calling the environmental health department (or whatever you call it) c) deploying tactical nuclear missiles
I believe the poster is asking for advice on what, in prehistory, used to be termed 'a hack'.
The courts don't make the laws. The politicians make the laws.
(in your country - in ours we have no pesky separation of powers, we even have someone called the Lord Privy Seal (who is neither a Lord, a Privy or a Seal (!)) who is part of the executive, the judiciary and the legislature). But even here the courts don't make the laws.
The TV channels should give the programs away free, with the source code - er, sorry, scripts and shooting scripts, allow anyone to modify them and redistribute them free....
Slashdot Mirror
How did this get described as informative?
In the UK at least 900 and 1800 both have pretty much universal coverage. Orange and Teutonic Mobile have 1800 and Vodafone and O2 have 900 mostly with some 1800
when did you last see a 900 only phone!?!?!
This is the bizarrest thing I have heard of - mind you, I have also seen software misspelt (as 'Soft Ware' and 'SoftWare')
I know I am taking the dead horse round the block for a quick flog, but to do this in general is a non trivial task as the data types in different databases will have different names, and the way what Access calls 'autonumber' fields is different from, say, the way it is done in Oracle.
In fact, since the autonumbers are generated - duh - automatically, copying between two access databases can be distinctly non-trival (indeed, if you have relations defined AND autonumber fields determining a way to put the data into the database is probably a quite complex problem in graph theory).
Then of course there are name constraints, Access allows spaces, Oracle doesn't, Oracle has numerous reserved words and has a 30 character limit.
This is as nothing to the delights of trying to use ODBC Linked Tables for an Oracle database in Access. Hint - don't do it.
Handy if you are in Africa or bits of Europe, otherwise not
Replying to myself I know, but I see that the PCI card DAB receiver from Modular Technologies has software to do this built in (for Windows 9x and 2000/XP) using the electronic program guide sent with the signal.
Not that this helps you at all in the land of 'we don't use the technology everyone else in the world uses' but the Psion WaveFinder http://www.wavefinder.co.uk/intro.asp can be used in conjunction with http://www.dabbar.co.uk/dabbar.htm and DigiGuide http://www.digiguide.com/ to set up and record programs to MP2 or MP3 files.
DigiGuide is a pay service (something like 5 pounds a year for all TV and radio listing) - you don't need this if you want to set up the time and channel to record manually, but with DigiGuide (and a free 3rd party add on the details of which I forget) you can click on the listings and it will add them to the recording.
Unfortunately the main downsides are that WaveFinders are now only available 2nd hand (e.g. on eBay) and that the software for them only works on Windows (works best on 98) and they are somewhat flakey. There are now new DAB cards for about 100 pounds which are hopefully better behaved, but I don't know what software there is for them.
Nonetheless I am hopeful that fairly soon this will all work properly.
But would you want Slashdot readers working for you?
You joke, but the staff in one large white-goods chain here in England told me that the last digits of the price have a meaning e.g. 97p means the product line has been discontinued (which for practical purposes means 'you are wasting your time, we don't have any and can't get any')
This Brian guy should watch out if you're going to give him cancer as well as run him over
Do not misspell software on the resume.
I have seen 'soft ware' and 'SoftWare'.
Normally I do not care much about spelling on resumes but you have to draw the line somewhere...
Assuming this is true, no rational person is going to base their business (and/or free as in beer or speech software that they care about people being able to use) on a back-door undocumented hack that lets them build Mac software for Windows. The back door could so easily disappear if Apple and/or Microsoft changed something.
Tell them you'll give them some copies of Linux or Open Office completely free in return for use of the venue.
I agree with the general thrust of a large number of the comments (i.e. you're being screwed, don't do it), but 'back in the day' I was working on a large FORTRAN system on MS-DOS and, for a number of reasons I set things up so that each source file contained one subroutine / function - thanks to FORTRAN's 6 character limit these fitted nicely into the 8.3 filenames.
Obviously this meant that the date and time of each source file reflected when it was last edited. Despite a number of people, including myself, working until quite late, there were very few files dated after 6 p.m., less than 1% which certainly didn't reflect the amount of work done after 6 p.m. Obviously some of the code survived but would have been bug-fixed whilst people were more with-it. The peak times seemed to be mid-morning and mid-afternoon (10-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.). I attribute these times to being the 'having woken up but not too close to lunch' and 'having recovered from lunch and not got too tired yet' zones.
I am certainly convinced in retrospect that much of the overtime was wasted, and although 'work smarter not harder' is one of the most annoying phrases in the english language, in this case I there was a degree of truth in it.
I remember a PC bursting into flames (literaly, i.e. smoke belching out the back of it) and our first thought was 'lets get it outside where there aren't any smoke alarms, otherwise the alarm will go off and we won't be able to do another 4 hours work'. I think this demonstrates how our judgement was impaired...
I see programming / software development / software engineering / whatever you want to call it as being like being a dentist.
In my first job, for what was then a large U.K. bespoke software house (and is now part of I.B.M.) I started with two 4 day training courses - one was essentially an introduction to the company and its methods, and one was an introduction to VMS, DCL and EDT, which I knew vaguely alreadyas I had uses VAXes at university.
After this I was put onto a project working on an end-to-end image management and processing system for the Ministry of Defence. Essentially I was allowed to design and develop the software without too much supervision.
I have done essentially the same thing i.e. talk to users, analyse requirements, design, develop and debug software for the following 16 years.
I expect to be doing the same for the next n years.
This is not unlike being a dentist e.g.
Day 1 - look in peoples' mouths. Diagnose problems. Drill, fill and extract teeth (etc.)
40 years later - look in peoples' mouths. Diagnose problems. Drill,fill and extract teeth (etc.)
Retire.
Die.
[this is obviously a simplification of what they do and not to denigrate the skills / knowledge of dentists]
I honestly don't see why our 'career' should be any different. I have more experience, obviously, and get paid more (about 5 times as much), but apart from being able to apply the experience I wouldn't claim to be much better at it (but then, I think I was pretty good to start with (!)).
Is this a bizarre joke, a non-sequiteur or are you functionally illiterate?
This reply applies to many of the asinine posts in this topic, I just chose this one at random.
Do you not, perhaps, think that the poster of the question realises that changing the CD might not be, gasp horror, disapproved of by the powers that be leading to firing, threats of legal action, death, being sent to bed without supper etc. etc.
The poster possibly also considered
a) replacing the CD player
b) planting cockroaches and calling the environmental health department (or whatever you call it)
c) deploying tactical nuclear missiles
I believe the poster is asking for advice on what, in prehistory, used to be termed 'a hack'.
No, the song is about Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer.p
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page99.as
Bonjour,
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J'ai pensé que vous des Américains aviez arrêté s'inquiéter de la menace rouge!
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/FrenchEnglish/
Perhaps they could talk to this guy, who had one working 1 1/2 years ago:
a lA 4IJ95Ewnu%40hirschorn.demon.co.uk
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=K9rr
The courts don't make the laws.
The politicians make the laws.
(in your country - in ours we have no pesky separation of powers, we even have someone called the Lord Privy Seal (who is neither a Lord, a Privy or a Seal (!)) who is part of the executive, the judiciary and the legislature). But even here the courts don't make the laws.
The TV channels should give the programs away free, with the source code - er, sorry, scripts and shooting scripts, allow anyone to modify them and redistribute them free....
.... and charge for support.
You can buy them from here http://www.a-part.nl/apartindex.htm
If you look at this you will see how many countries use NTSC. (Hint - not 'the rest of the world')
Our cable company has rules which say
a) they can vary the channels without telling us
b) we have to tell them if we are getting any channels we're not paying for
There seems to me to be a certain paradox here i.e. logically we have to ask them every time a channel appears 'should we be getting this channel'.