The shows are already interactive - members are in a chat room that is being read by a monitor who communicates feedback to the rigger. In the future we'll have many of the user comments read aloud by a text-to-speech system.
Jeff
(yes, the IT staff are avid/.ers)
1) Call Netflix 2) Cancel your subscription 3) Explain why
The way to deal with companies that have abhorrent business practices is to not do business with them, and abuse of the patent system is an unforgivable offense. There must be thousands of geeks with Netflix accoutnts on/. alone. How many do you think would need to cancel to get the message across?
Lockheed's chief scientist, Dr. Gaius Baltar, stated last Friday: "There is absolutely, I repeat, absolutely, no way that the Joint Strike Fighters could be shut down with a software instruction".
HORRID. Aside from being complicated and verbose, it changes format pretty dramatically depending, presumably, on how the server was built and what OS it runs on. Some years ago I found myself patching the damn thing because somehow the standard RPM on RedHat6.2 used yet another slightly different format.
32-bit UNIX-style seconds-since-1970-GMT might be inadequate, but a 64-bit milliseconds-since-epoch is just fine and much, much more reliable. And if you really want to be guaranteed infinite future-proofing, send the number as a string.
I moved to Firebird for a while, but now I use MySQL predominantly for one reason only - integrated, robust, proven database replication. When and if PGSQL catches up, I'll consider migrating back.
Pakistan and india are the only two countries that I know of where...its considered a good thing to be living with your parents as an adult until you are married
You had me up until this statement.
Slashdotters take note: Living with your parents as an adult is just as pathetic for women as it is for men.
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The shows are already interactive - members are in a chat room that is being read by a monitor who communicates feedback to the rigger. In the future we'll have many of the user comments read aloud by a text-to-speech system. Jeff (yes, the IT staff are avid /.ers)
1) Call Netflix
/. alone. How many do you think would need to cancel to get the message across?
2) Cancel your subscription
3) Explain why
The way to deal with companies that have abhorrent business practices is to not do business with them, and abuse of the patent system is an unforgivable offense. There must be thousands of geeks with Netflix accoutnts on
Jeff Schnitzer
Lockheed's chief scientist, Dr. Gaius Baltar, stated last Friday: "There is absolutely, I repeat, absolutely, no way that the Joint Strike Fighters could be shut down with a software instruction".
Anyone that lauds date handling in PostgreSQL should take a closer look at the wire protocol. Here's loadCalendar() in the JDBC driver:
j dbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/TimestampUtils.java?rev=1 .18;cvsroot=pgjdbc
http://gborg.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pg
HORRID. Aside from being complicated and verbose, it changes format pretty dramatically depending, presumably, on how the server was built and what OS it runs on. Some years ago I found myself patching the damn thing because somehow the standard RPM on RedHat6.2 used yet another slightly different format.
32-bit UNIX-style seconds-since-1970-GMT might be inadequate, but a 64-bit milliseconds-since-epoch is just fine and much, much more reliable. And if you really want to be guaranteed infinite future-proofing, send the number as a string.
I moved to Firebird for a while, but now I use MySQL predominantly for one reason only - integrated, robust, proven database replication. When and if PGSQL catches up, I'll consider migrating back.
Jeff Schnitzer
Pakistan and india are the only two countries that I know of where...its considered a good thing to be living with your parents as an adult until you are married
You had me up until this statement.
Slashdotters take note: Living with your parents as an adult is just as pathetic for women as it is for men.
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Jeff Schnitzer
Think you're unique?
Of course, be sure to read Shatner's rebuttal: "I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!!! I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!!!"