I imagine that tommorow a sysadmin and a webdesigner will be out of a job. And that sucks in today's market.
Well, tye web designer took all the original source and replaced the full license with this:
<script language=JavaScript src=mmenu_license.js type=text/javascript>/* i am the license for the menu (duh) */</script>
I think he should be out of a job. What if someone took your GPL code and edited the GPL headers to read "lame commie license deleted. This is my code!".
I got lucky and found a refurbished version 1 player for sale about the time they were strong-arming required service in the newer models. Really, I don't see what is so much harder about entering a time and channel versus entering the program name. Why the hell does a program guide cost $12.95 a month anyway? The Tivo software is pretty cool; they should have tried to build their business on making a profit on that, rather than forcing an overpriced bundled service along with it. If it were Microsoft, they would be vilified for it, and if it were CueCat, the full power of Slashdot would aim toward hacking it to make it usable without the bundled service.
I only need to plug it into the phone once every few months to correct the gradual clock drift, and to fix the clock after a power outage (which causes the Tivo to suddenly thinks it's August, 2012). Thankfully, the clock data is free.
1) Apple's iCal is a product, while iCalendar (RFC 2445) is a format for import/export of calendar data. iCal may or may not use iCalendar as it's interchange format (I have no idea). I knew it wouldn't be long before someone mixed those up.
2) The majority of those perl modules you referred to are part of the Reefknot project, which is still officially alpha quality, and most of which hasn't been touched since 2001. It's still better than writing your own iCalendar support code from scratch, but be aware of the code status if you decide to use the Net::ICal bundle.
Tape over the reset button on the computer Use journaling filesystems, since he/she will eventually bypass the tape Leave some sacraficial floppies/CDs around, to keep him/her away from the real ones Tivo. Live TV will no longer be an option
Is it possible that something good is coming out of Redmond?
From the article:
The new software comes out of the Microsoft's 18-month-old NetGen division, which operates on a separate campus in downtown Seattle. Microsoft's main operations are location in Redmond, Wash.
Honestly, I stopped caring about the Oscars after Clint Eastwood won for Unforgiven. Of the recent tragedies, Shakespeare in Love winning not just best picture but almost everything else stands out among the more painful. By the time Gladiator won over Crouching Tiger, I had already written off the Oscars.
I don't know anyone who liked Gangs of New York. Just because it looked expensive and had an established director doesn't mean it has potential as a "best picture". How did that get in over Adaptation (which still gives me goosebumps 3 weeks later)?
WTF? How can there be a liberal bias in an equal access public forum? Are you suggesting CmdrTaco and Hemos are moderating down posts they deem too conservative?
I would suggest being more secure in your beliefs, even if any particular one happens to be a minority opinion.
The Tivo feature I wish I had for radio was the pause and the 8-second instant rewind feature. In addition to recording programs, the box is always recording a rolling 30-minute (or more--dunno, mine's old) period to its memory/disk buffer. If you need to pause the program you are watching, or if you missed something and want to rewind, the option is available at all times, not just when you had the foresight to hit the record button.
The various ways of capturing sound card input are fine for archiving scheduled programs, but what kind of setup allows for buffering of a live audio stream?
What if you just connect the FM receiver output to the Tivo input? Will it complain about the lack of a video signal?
So you'll watch it without commercials, the Sci-Fi Channel will lose money on the show, and in a few months you'll be running a story about how a group of fans are raising money to keep it on the air...incredible.
Bleah. The commercials on Sci Fi seem to be about 3/4th advertising other shows on Sci Fi. Comedy Central and a few other cable shows are the same way.
I never understood the point of that. Sure, it's nice to know about another show, but why repeat it once (or more) every 8 minutes? If you get enough from cable fees that you don't need ad money, why not just make the programs shorter so you can squeeze in more shows per day?
What Sci Fi does that is an interesting marketing tactic is incorporate a sponsor into a cartoon segue between the commercial and show, usually with an announcement about it being a sponsor. And you've got to be fast with the skip button to avoid that one.
I'm from Europe + when I was hitchhiking through the US I did the usual touresty stuff around the White House etc.
I hardly heard a single American accent in DC!
People will trael the world but not look at what is on there own doorstep. (I'm sure I could say the same for most cities in the world)
Incidently, the Musiums in DC are some of the best I've ever visited....
An interesting observation, but let me suggest:
A lot of Americans don't have American accents!
If it was a weekday, the local DC residents were mostly inside office buildings. If a weekend, they were at home in the suburbs.
I've been to a few capitals in Europe where it seemed like everyone was American. Maybe it's the van on the corner phenomenon--you don't notice the large number of times it's not there, only the few odd times it is.
The amount of vacation the average American gets is pitifully small, compared to many other countries, so one needs to be selective with their vacations. It's a shame Americans don't have more time to travel abroad either. It would give people a bigger world view.
Perl coders may also be interested in
CGI::Application, for a similar MVC approach. I've done a few JSP apps which had a framework similar to Struts (too bad I didn't know about it beforehand), and now I hate to write perl CGI's in the unplanned, ad hoc way I used to do.
Is it me, or does it seem that most spam pieces slant toward the "pro-business" aspects of it, and take everything they say at face value.
If a journalist wants to show spammers for what they are, just ask: "Do you relay your mail off of unauthorized open mail servers?" According to Ralsky's record on
Spamhaus, he does, or did.
On Aug. 15, Ralsky was interviewed on NPR. It was the typical pary line, about how it's not illegal, and they don't send porn, and they honor removes, etc., all very cheerful. But, once, she asked whether he used "blind relays"....
Quietly, he answered, "I won't make a comment on that." I wish she would have elaborated on it, because most of the listeners wouldn't have understood that this means hijacking open mail servers, which is generally considered theft of service.
The Listproc MLM was closed source for a long time, but has recently gone open source. The source can be found on SourceForge, and appears to be using the Netscape Public License.
It doesn't use a relational database. It uses text files for configuration and subscriber lists, and then builds dbm files for quicker lookups. It does have a web front end. It has a crude bounce management--you can set a per list option to auto-delete any address that bounces multiple times. But it's not foolproof, and it doesn't have something more reliable like address probing.
I'm surprised there aren't more ICANN questions posted. I doubt he would respond to anything too critical, but it's sure more insightful than the 10 nearly identical but equally lame Al Gore questions.
I also have hung onto my ~1988 scientific calculator for dear life. The picture looked very familiar, but by chance I have it here at work, and it is a Radio Shack EC-4014. Unlike the poster's, it does have a few more extras: trig, fraction conversion, degree conversion, degree/rad/grad, statistics. During my years in college and grad school for chemistry, I have found all of the functions quite useful at one time or another, except maybe the random number generator (I can live with any mental bias when making up a number). The keys are pretty grimy and it has a chemical etch on the display, but I still prefer it over any other calculator. Besides the functionality, another nit I have against the newer calculators is that the solar panel is so weak! I always need to put them next to a light source just to turn it on and keep running.
When I was a TA for chemistry, I got a kick out of all the freshmen coming in with their enormous graphing calculators, who never were able to figure out basic stoichiometry or dilution problems. Ooooh, but they could punch in a mean parabola! Really, it's the same bloat problem that's commonplace in software (Cf. Zawinski's Law). The manufacturer can charge a higher price for the added features, and the users will still buy it because they never know when it may come in handy someday.
We'll no doubt here from the slide rule users at some point. And those worked in the dark!
Kyle Pope's edit list at http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/columns/edit-list. php
is a comprehensive list of edits for both Adult Swim and Toonami, for Cowboy Bebop and many of the other shows that appear on Cartoon Network. Considering it's a cartoon channel, it's been pretty reasonable about what it changes. Although a lot of the edits are just silly, they don't really affect the storyline.
Internet Explorer ignores/substitutes for missing close tags in tables.
Well, a page that's completely blank because of a missing closing table tag may be compliant but is hardly useful or desirable. Not that you should leave your tags unclosed, but CGIs have been known to abort before completing the page, or, ironically, Netscape 4 sometimes leaves out half a page if javascript is externally loaded and the timing of the two files works out a certain way. I'd like to see at least something in such cases, without having to read the raw source for the page. But the W3C spec does specify the closing table tag is required, so browser writers are left with the moral dilemma of favoring usefulness versus standardization.
By the way, Mozilla 1.0 seems perfectly willing to close an open table tag. And that's fine by me.
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I imagine that tommorow a sysadmin and a webdesigner will be out of a job. And that sucks in today's market.
Well, tye web designer took all the original source and replaced the full license with this:
<script language=JavaScript src=mmenu_license.js type=text/javascript>/* i am the license for the menu (duh) */</script>
I think he should be out of a job. What if someone took your GPL code and edited the GPL headers to read "lame commie license deleted. This is my code!".
Yes, Hammerman was the worst cartoon. Ever.
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13) Secrets to Maximizing your Profit
I got lucky and found a refurbished version 1 player for sale about the time they were strong-arming required service in the newer models. Really, I don't see what is so much harder about entering a time and channel versus entering the program name. Why the hell does a program guide cost $12.95 a month anyway? The Tivo software is pretty cool; they should have tried to build their business on making a profit on that, rather than forcing an overpriced bundled service along with it. If it were Microsoft, they would be vilified for it, and if it were CueCat, the full power of Slashdot would aim toward hacking it to make it usable without the bundled service.
I only need to plug it into the phone once every few months to correct the gradual clock drift, and to fix the clock after a power outage (which causes the Tivo to suddenly thinks it's August, 2012). Thankfully, the clock data is free.
1) Apple's iCal is a product, while iCalendar (RFC 2445) is a format for import/export of calendar data. iCal may or may not use iCalendar as it's interchange format (I have no idea). I knew it wouldn't be long before someone mixed those up.
2) The majority of those perl modules you referred to are part of the Reefknot project, which is still officially alpha quality, and most of which hasn't been touched since 2001. It's still better than writing your own iCalendar support code from scratch, but be aware of the code status if you decide to use the Net::ICal bundle.
This works for me:
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
document.writeln('<P><A HREF="mailto:chad6107'//@spambait.com"></A >
+ '@'
+ 'realdomain.org">'
+ '<IMG BORDER="0" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="10" SRC="images/mailto.gif">'
+ 'Mail us!</A></P>');
document.writeln('<P><A HREF="'//http://www.spambait.com">javascript error!</A>
+ 'contacts.html">Family Addresses and Links'
+ '</A></P>');
</SCRIPT>
Tape over the reset button on the computer
Use journaling filesystems, since he/she will eventually bypass the tape
Leave some sacraficial floppies/CDs around, to keep him/her away from the real ones
Tivo. Live TV will no longer be an option
I don't care too much whether OO is bett. Just cheaper.
Is it possible that something good is coming out of Redmond?
From the article:
There's your answer, Timothy.Honestly, I stopped caring about the Oscars after Clint Eastwood won for Unforgiven. Of the recent tragedies, Shakespeare in Love winning not just best picture but almost everything else stands out among the more painful. By the time Gladiator won over Crouching Tiger, I had already written off the Oscars.
I don't know anyone who liked Gangs of New York. Just because it looked expensive and had an established director doesn't mean it has potential as a "best picture". How did that get in over Adaptation (which still gives me goosebumps 3 weeks later)?
WTF? How can there be a liberal bias in an equal access public forum? Are you suggesting CmdrTaco and Hemos are moderating down posts they deem too conservative?
I would suggest being more secure in your beliefs, even if any particular one happens to be a minority opinion.
The Tivo feature I wish I had for radio was the pause and the 8-second instant rewind feature. In addition to recording programs, the box is always recording a rolling 30-minute (or more--dunno, mine's old) period to its memory/disk buffer. If you need to pause the program you are watching, or if you missed something and want to rewind, the option is available at all times, not just when you had the foresight to hit the record button.
The various ways of capturing sound card input are fine for archiving scheduled programs, but what kind of setup allows for buffering of a live audio stream?
What if you just connect the FM receiver output to the Tivo input? Will it complain about the lack of a video signal?
Can't be any worse than Star Trek XXIV - Scotty passes a stone
This makes absolutely no sense. So why the hell did I laugh myself off the chair?
So you'll watch it without commercials, the Sci-Fi Channel will lose money on the show, and in a few months you'll be running a story about how a group of fans are raising money to keep it on the air...incredible.
Bleah. The commercials on Sci Fi seem to be about 3/4th advertising other shows on Sci Fi. Comedy Central and a few other cable shows are the same way.
I never understood the point of that. Sure, it's nice to know about another show, but why repeat it once (or more) every 8 minutes? If you get enough from cable fees that you don't need ad money, why not just make the programs shorter so you can squeeze in more shows per day?
What Sci Fi does that is an interesting marketing tactic is incorporate a sponsor into a cartoon segue between the commercial and show, usually with an announcement about it being a sponsor. And you've got to be fast with the skip button to avoid that one.
I'm from Europe + when I was hitchhiking through the US I did the usual touresty stuff around the White House etc. I hardly heard a single American accent in DC! People will trael the world but not look at what is on there own doorstep. (I'm sure I could say the same for most cities in the world) Incidently, the Musiums in DC are some of the best I've ever visited....
An interesting observation, but let me suggest:
Perl coders may also be interested in CGI::Application, for a similar MVC approach. I've done a few JSP apps which had a framework similar to Struts (too bad I didn't know about it beforehand), and now I hate to write perl CGI's in the unplanned, ad hoc way I used to do.
Is it me, or does it seem that most spam pieces slant toward the "pro-business" aspects of it, and take everything they say at face value.
If a journalist wants to show spammers for what they are, just ask: "Do you relay your mail off of unauthorized open mail servers?" According to Ralsky's record on Spamhaus, he does, or did.
On Aug. 15, Ralsky was interviewed on NPR. It was the typical pary line, about how it's not illegal, and they don't send porn, and they honor removes, etc., all very cheerful. But, once, she asked whether he used "blind relays"....
Quietly, he answered, "I won't make a comment on that." I wish she would have elaborated on it, because most of the listeners wouldn't have understood that this means hijacking open mail servers, which is generally considered theft of service.
The Listproc MLM was closed source for a long time, but has recently gone open source. The source can be found on SourceForge, and appears to be using the Netscape Public License.
It doesn't use a relational database. It uses text files for configuration and subscriber lists, and then builds dbm files for quicker lookups. It does have a web front end. It has a crude bounce management--you can set a per list option to auto-delete any address that bounces multiple times. But it's not foolproof, and it doesn't have something more reliable like address probing.
It was just about as weird when I realized she was on a TV show after listening to Sounds from the Gulf Stream for so long!*
(*)Not that long, really. Just a lot of listens. It's one of my favorites.
I'm surprised there aren't more ICANN questions posted. I doubt he would respond to anything too critical, but it's sure more insightful than the 10 nearly identical but equally lame Al Gore questions.
I also have hung onto my ~1988 scientific calculator for dear life. The picture looked very familiar, but by chance I have it here at work, and it is a Radio Shack EC-4014. Unlike the poster's, it does have a few more extras: trig, fraction conversion, degree conversion, degree/rad/grad, statistics. During my years in college and grad school for chemistry, I have found all of the functions quite useful at one time or another, except maybe the random number generator (I can live with any mental bias when making up a number). The keys are pretty grimy and it has a chemical etch on the display, but I still prefer it over any other calculator. Besides the functionality, another nit I have against the newer calculators is that the solar panel is so weak! I always need to put them next to a light source just to turn it on and keep running.
When I was a TA for chemistry, I got a kick out of all the freshmen coming in with their enormous graphing calculators, who never were able to figure out basic stoichiometry or dilution problems. Ooooh, but they could punch in a mean parabola! Really, it's the same bloat problem that's commonplace in software (Cf. Zawinski's Law). The manufacturer can charge a higher price for the added features, and the users will still buy it because they never know when it may come in handy someday.
We'll no doubt here from the slide rule users at some point. And those worked in the dark!
No, I am not afraid at all of loosing traditional English spelling of word's. As long as the speach stays the same, we'll be fine!
Kyle Pope's edit list at http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/columns/edit-list. php
is a comprehensive list of edits for both Adult Swim and Toonami, for Cowboy Bebop and many of the other shows that appear on Cartoon Network. Considering it's a cartoon channel, it's been pretty reasonable about what it changes. Although a lot of the edits are just silly, they don't really affect the storyline.
Well, a page that's completely blank because of a missing closing table tag may be compliant but is hardly useful or desirable. Not that you should leave your tags unclosed, but CGIs have been known to abort before completing the page, or, ironically, Netscape 4 sometimes leaves out half a page if javascript is externally loaded and the timing of the two files works out a certain way. I'd like to see at least something in such cases, without having to read the raw source for the page. But the W3C spec does specify the closing table tag is required, so browser writers are left with the moral dilemma of favoring usefulness versus standardization.
By the way, Mozilla 1.0 seems perfectly willing to close an open table tag. And that's fine by me.
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