My wife's U2 iPod won't play iTunes purchased songs when the battery runs down. It takes a full re-format/re-install and frankly I'm sick of doing it for her. Apple suggested that I just purchase another iPod since her's was out of warranty. I told Apple I had a much cheaper solution that involved not purchasing from iTunes anymore. I'll have to give QTFairUse6 a try to see if that fixes the problem since my wife wasn't too keen on my first solution (see seems to think the "convenience" is worth it).
Plain and simple: don't buy online music. Since RIAA decided to screw the artists with reduced download royalties, I purchase the CD and rip it myself. Artist gets paid what they deserve and I have a lossless hardcopy that I can format-shift and don't have to deal with DRM bullshit.
Who cares about color temperature? I do. I hate "kitchen and bath" fluorescent lamps because at 4300K they make everything look "red" and they're not bright at all. I finally decided that I liked 6500K "daylight" lamps... the same color temperature I calibrate my TV for. Going to GE's website, I see that their ceiling fan CFL's are 2700K... blech. Is there a brand of 6500K CFLs for my ceiling fans? I don't know.
You don't realize it, but you've just proved the guy's thesis. A 20-year experienced software engineer doesn't write such low-level code anymore because they know there are libraries that have optimal implementations. And they don't Google for the code because they have bookshelves of books of code that pre-date Google so that they didn't waste time constantly re-inventing the wheel. They know what page to go to and in which Knuth book. A truly experienced programmer operates at a level of abstraction that is much higher than what you seem to be testing for, so I would suspect that you let lots of particularly well qualified candidates go. That's bad for you, but probably good for them.
You know, I'm also looking to see if I can work with you, and if you're behaving in a way that merits contemptuousness, then the price of having to work with you goes waaaay up.
I'll make it really simple for you. So simple, even a cop can understand it. 1. Laptop is stolen. 2. You have an address where the stolen property is. 3. Cop goes to retrieve stolen property. Whether or not the perp is charged with a crime, there is no excuse and no reason for the cops not to recover the stolen property for the victim.
I think you missed the main points, buddy...
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1. an "angle" is not rigorously defined, nor do you attempt to refute Wildberger by defining it.
2. rational trig allows you to solve problems exactly with algebraic techniques. besides, recommendations of looking up approximate answers in trig tables (or using a calculator) is a form of "legerdemain".
I think it wholly appropriate to use rational trig when teaching high school geometry and to save traditional trig for calculus when the foundations for rigorously defining an "angle" have been laid.
The day Ellison gets the five RHEL3 bugs I have in bugzilla (that RedHat is currently ignoring) fixed and errata rolled out is the day I believe that he can actually pull it off.
Well, if you have a HR10-250 DirecTiVo, then you should know that there's been a method developed of ripping the HD stream with TyTool and writing it on a disc that will play in Toshiba's HD-DVD player. That fact alone may get me to purchase HD-DVD over Blu-ray.
Cool. I'm rushing down right now to patent my invention that I call "enemy." Then I'll sue you because a "friend" is just an "enemy" that you're naive enough to trust.
I would think that forcing all corporate Skype users to use a corporate SOCKS server (like Dante) would at least log the traffic. I would think that would be no less secure than Cisco IP phones or email.
If a client insists on an accurate estimate of "how long it will take" for a non-trivial project, then you pretty much have to get them to provide you with or pay you to generate a requirements spec, a functional spec, and then an implementation spec. From the implementation spec, you can then ballpark how long each part will take to code and test. If the client balks at putting exactly what they want on paper, then you should balk at providing any kind of estimate; because there is only one truth in that situation: it will take as long as it takes.
How about "the non-existance of God cannot be proved"? Since a negative cannot be proven, God must be in a super-position of existance and non-existance. Therefore, Schroedinger's Cat is God!
The Congress knew that the Bush I said he wouldn't sign a tax bill with new taxes, so what do they do? Send him a budget bill with new taxes! The problem with Bush I was that he didn't have the balls to stick to his convictions and veto the bill. If the government had shutdown, then it would clearly have been the Democratic-led Congress's fault for choosing to represent their own interests and engaging Bush I in a political battle instead of representing the interests of the people... all of whom I know don't like or want new taxes.
If Sweden can be so easily coerced by the US, then that's Sweden's problem. What's the MPAA gonna do if the Swedish government told them to go fuck themselves?
Yeah... It starts with "dead men don't pay taxes" and then the corporations that run the Corporate Feudal State unleash their lawyers who've figured out how to keep making you pay and pay and pay... first with DRM and pay-per-{view,listen}, and then manipulating supply so that the market gratefully bears a $3.50/gal. demand for gasoline.
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DLP doesn't burn in. Or so the marketers say. And the lamp is consumer replacable... when they're not back ordered for months.
Maxtor just replaced six of my drives with refurbs and they were well within the warrantee period. It's definitely the last time I buy Maxtor.
My wife's U2 iPod won't play iTunes purchased songs when the battery runs down. It takes a full re-format/re-install and frankly I'm sick of doing it for her. Apple suggested that I just purchase another iPod since her's was out of warranty. I told Apple I had a much cheaper solution that involved not purchasing from iTunes anymore. I'll have to give QTFairUse6 a try to see if that fixes the problem since my wife wasn't too keen on my first solution (see seems to think the "convenience" is worth it).
Plain and simple: don't buy online music. Since RIAA decided to screw the artists with reduced download royalties, I purchase the CD and rip it myself. Artist gets paid what they deserve and I have a lossless hardcopy that I can format-shift and don't have to deal with DRM bullshit.
Who cares about color temperature? I do. I hate "kitchen and bath" fluorescent lamps because at 4300K they make everything look "red" and they're not bright at all. I finally decided that I liked 6500K "daylight" lamps... the same color temperature I calibrate my TV for. Going to GE's website, I see that their ceiling fan CFL's are 2700K... blech. Is there a brand of 6500K CFLs for my ceiling fans? I don't know.
You don't realize it, but you've just proved the guy's thesis. A 20-year experienced software engineer doesn't write such low-level code anymore because they know there are libraries that have optimal implementations. And they don't Google for the code because they have bookshelves of books of code that pre-date Google so that they didn't waste time constantly re-inventing the wheel. They know what page to go to and in which Knuth book. A truly experienced programmer operates at a level of abstraction that is much higher than what you seem to be testing for, so I would suspect that you let lots of particularly well qualified candidates go. That's bad for you, but probably good for them.
You know, I'm also looking to see if I can work with you, and if you're behaving in a way that merits contemptuousness, then the price of having to work with you goes waaaay up.
I'll make it really simple for you. So simple, even a cop can understand it. 1. Laptop is stolen. 2. You have an address where the stolen property is. 3. Cop goes to retrieve stolen property. Whether or not the perp is charged with a crime, there is no excuse and no reason for the cops not to recover the stolen property for the victim.
1. an "angle" is not rigorously defined, nor do you attempt to refute Wildberger by defining it. 2. rational trig allows you to solve problems exactly with algebraic techniques. besides, recommendations of looking up approximate answers in trig tables (or using a calculator) is a form of "legerdemain". I think it wholly appropriate to use rational trig when teaching high school geometry and to save traditional trig for calculus when the foundations for rigorously defining an "angle" have been laid.
Heck, I figured that half the searches would be "how to unsubscribe from AOL".
...and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
The day Ellison gets the five RHEL3 bugs I have in bugzilla (that RedHat is currently ignoring) fixed and errata rolled out is the day I believe that he can actually pull it off.
Why doesn't Google just send the plane over to Galpin Auto Sports and let Xzibit and Mad Mike film a gonzo Pimp My Jet special for MTV?
Well, if you have a HR10-250 DirecTiVo, then you should know that there's been a method developed of ripping the HD stream with TyTool and writing it on a disc that will play in Toshiba's HD-DVD player. That fact alone may get me to purchase HD-DVD over Blu-ray.
Cool. I'm rushing down right now to patent my invention that I call "enemy." Then I'll sue you because a "friend" is just an "enemy" that you're naive enough to trust.
I would think that forcing all corporate Skype users to use a corporate SOCKS server (like Dante) would at least log the traffic. I would think that would be no less secure than Cisco IP phones or email.
If a client insists on an accurate estimate of "how long it will take" for a non-trivial project, then you pretty much have to get them to provide you with or pay you to generate a requirements spec, a functional spec, and then an implementation spec. From the implementation spec, you can then ballpark how long each part will take to code and test. If the client balks at putting exactly what they want on paper, then you should balk at providing any kind of estimate; because there is only one truth in that situation: it will take as long as it takes.
How about "the non-existance of God cannot be proved"? Since a negative cannot be proven, God must be in a super-position of existance and non-existance. Therefore, Schroedinger's Cat is God!
This is no different than the fourth branch of government, the "Administrative" branch, which gets to exercise all the powers of the other three.
The Congress knew that the Bush I said he wouldn't sign a tax bill with new taxes, so what do they do? Send him a budget bill with new taxes! The problem with Bush I was that he didn't have the balls to stick to his convictions and veto the bill. If the government had shutdown, then it would clearly have been the Democratic-led Congress's fault for choosing to represent their own interests and engaging Bush I in a political battle instead of representing the interests of the people... all of whom I know don't like or want new taxes.
If Sweden can be so easily coerced by the US, then that's Sweden's problem. What's the MPAA gonna do if the Swedish government told them to go fuck themselves?
So that they can tell Microsoft that you've violated the warranty on your Xbox when they find your prints on the harddrive.
They can collect their sample from the loogie I hawk on their face. See? I'm cooperating fully!
Yeah... It starts with "dead men don't pay taxes" and then the corporations that run the Corporate Feudal State unleash their lawyers who've figured out how to keep making you pay and pay and pay... first with DRM and pay-per-{view,listen}, and then manipulating supply so that the market gratefully bears a $3.50/gal. demand for gasoline.
"Never time to do it right. Always time to do it twice." Saw this a lot as a consultant. Never rings truer!