I have written applications on just about every smartphone plaform, and I have never met an API did that did not have the ability to query the phone number of the device. Assuming you have a data plan (in many cases, the only way to get the app in the first place), its a tiny amount of code to post that information to a web page the first time the application runs. Some platforms, such as the Android, do indicate when an application has access to use the Internet, but its not trivial to find out exactly what information is going back and forth.
This issue has always been there, and is no more of a problem on an iPhone than other similar platforms.
Let me spell it out, since everyone missed the point of my original post. An update from Microsoft is not necessary to adjust when Windows makes its DST adjustment. While its very likely that they will release a patch for supported systems, all the Windows platforms that have been EOL'd are not going to see this update.
There are a lot of instructions out there that show even the most novice user how to make a change in the registry, so my point remains that this data is stored in such a way that it can be easily modified. And for those who have a grandma who can't fathom regedit, I'm sure some Windows programmer will throw together a small program to do it for her.
Either way, my point remains... saying that an Update from Microsoft is necessary is not true. There are several ways to make this change that do not involve Microsoft.
Computers with Windows operating systems would need to obtain updates.
This is not accurate. Windows stores time zone information, including DST start and stop times, as human-readable values in the registry. Anybody who has ever used regedit.exe can tweak these values themselves.
If you at least want a color screen, the Motorola V180 is a nice unit, without packing in a ton of extra features. Its available on eBay for less than $100 shipped.
Should even that be overkill, and "new in box" isn't a necessity, you can always look at older phones. My first GSM phone, a Nokia 6190, was just a basic phone with SMS capability. The unit is not much larger than many new models today, and its definately rock-solid as cell phones go.
Another fine example of how far reaching science fiction has basis in reality. Like Jules Verne, who wrote about an atomic powered submarine long before we harnessed the power of the atom, H.G. Wells wrote in The Time Machine about a scientist who invented a time machine so that he could go back in time and prevent his wife's demise... only to find out that no matter what he did to intervene, the ultimate outcome was the same.
I actually found a "fix" for the/. rendering problem. If you go to https://slashdot.org, it never displays incorrectly. Curious that SSL should have any affect on what is displayed, but I've been using it for weeks with no ill effects.
I can relate to this comment in regards to T-mobile. I work from my house and found that unless I'm willing to stand outside in my backyard, I have at most two bars of signal (out of a possible 8). If I happen to be inside at my desk coding, 80% of my calls are dropped within one minute, and another 15% within 2 mins. In extremely rare cases, I can hold a call for an extended period.
A call to T-mobile resulted in the following response: "Given where your address is, you cannot expect to have signal inside any structure". I live within city limits, and every one else who comes over and isn't on T-mobile has plenty of signal. I don't think its out of the question to expect to have signal, but apparently, T-mobile doesn't feel obligated to correct the situation.
Yes and no. It measures the amount of milligrams per 100 milliliters of blood, but it can be read as a straight percentage too (which has no units). If your blood alcohol level is 0.08, then.08% (8 hundreths of one percent) of your blood is alcohol.
I'd love to know when the kit for this goes on sale. Of all the large-scale Lego designs I've seen, just once I'd like someone to start selling a kit or at least instructions to built it yourself.
Ads were "an annoyance you have to deal with in a free society," lawyer Anthony J. Dain is quoted as saying.
So, if I walk into a courtroom during this lawyer's next litigation and start shouting out an advertisement for something, the judge is going to see it as "an annoyance you have to deal with in a free society". I don't think so.
My more immediate solution was to wait for DVD+DL discs to fall to $1.00/ea or less, so my archive cost becomes the cost of a blank, plus the time to make the copy.
The Washington Post page that has that article has a popup ad from doubleclick.net. I wonder if they get a discount if their page can't load because its stuck trying to load the ad.
I own a large collection of DVD, and decided recently to price some large-volume storage so I could have a digital backup of my discs. What I figured out was that a 250 GB hard drive currently costs about $200. This works out to about $0.80/GB. Your average DVD contains about 7 GB of data, so you can figure a per-disc storage cost of $5.60 per disc. Based on these numbers, you can store about 35 movies per drive, so if you happen to have a couple hundred discs, you'll need at least seven drives for a RAID5 solution. Go ahead and throw in $500 for a SATA RAID card, another $450 for a case with 7 hot swap bays. And then you have to build the rest of the machine. If you spent $300 to do so, your total cost is $2650. Divide this by the total storage capacity (233 discs), and your net storage cost is $11.30 per disc. Most movies can be acquired on eBay in perfect condition for this amount or less, and you don't have the ongoing expense of also replacing drives when the die.
Obviously, these numbers are quite variable variable, and you could certainly use cheaper parts, but there is an absolute minimum cost for everything here. My conclusion was that until there is a fundamental change in the world of mass storage, in either techology or cost, this is just going to have to wait.
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This much bandwidth isn't going to help you do any of these things. I upgraded my network to gigabit ethernet about a year ago (from 100 mbit), and much to my surprise, the speed increase was only about 3 times when copying files from one machine to another. I did a little math, and found the answer. Your average ATA hard drive, even at max bus speed, only delivers 0.8 Gbps. And in the real world, you are lucky to get half that from a single drive. In my own test transfers from RAID1 and RAID5 arrays, my transfer rates never once exceeded 0.70 Gbps. Until there is a fundamental increase in the amount of data you can get off a spinning disc, its not likely that a home user is going to saturate a 1 Gbps line, much less a 10 Gbps line.
I find an equal amount of technical fault in the website itself. Words are capitalized when they shouldn't be "We Provide our clients...", "on Behalf of Governments", etc. Also, the format of the phone number (all jumbled together) is one you rarely see, and never somewhere like a bank site.
And the thing that gets me the most. Why did a "leading bank" just register their domain in 2004, if they've existed since 1994? Was this the one and only bank that Y2K took out, and it took this long to get back online? I doubt it.
It's not that simple. First of all, a UPS does nothing to protect against power surges that occur after the UPS. If your file server's power supply blows out, there is a more than average chance a large surge is the last thing out, and it tends to fry everything plugged into it. This includes all the drives that were supposed to be protecting your data.
Second, a UPS is not infallable to things such as lightning strikes. It doesn't matter how big or expensive your UPS is, a direct strike to an electrical line will bridge over every UPS and every surge protector, frying everything in its path until it's sufficiently dissipated.
I am using a Netgear GS108 gigabit switch, coupled with a Netgear FS108 with no real problems. Servers and workstations are on the GS108, and print servers and the gateway router are on the FS108.
One of the big things you are going to find about GigE is when you're doing something like copying a file, you don't get 10 times the speed. GigE is fast enough that your hard drive's ability to read and write data becomes the limiting factor. When copying files between two machines, both having the identical 80 GB Seagate 7200.7 drive, I clock in about 3 times the speed with the GigE than I do with 100-Base-T. Despite this, however, there has always been enough bandwidth to stream video between to machines in real time.
The "original unedited" versions have been available for some time on eBay. I bought a trilogy set about 3 years ago, which are Region 0 copies of the original (non-SE) trilogy. At the end of the movie, you even see the LaserDisc logo, so it would appear that these were mastered from LaserDisc. They do look good (given their age), and have 5.1 Dolby Digital sound.
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They didn't have a two factor authentication process around accessing their source code.
I have written applications on just about every smartphone plaform, and I have never met an API did that did not have the ability to query the phone number of the device. Assuming you have a data plan (in many cases, the only way to get the app in the first place), its a tiny amount of code to post that information to a web page the first time the application runs. Some platforms, such as the Android, do indicate when an application has access to use the Internet, but its not trivial to find out exactly what information is going back and forth.
This issue has always been there, and is no more of a problem on an iPhone than other similar platforms.
Let me spell it out, since everyone missed the point of my original post. An update from Microsoft is not necessary to adjust when Windows makes its DST adjustment. While its very likely that they will release a patch for supported systems, all the Windows platforms that have been EOL'd are not going to see this update.
There are a lot of instructions out there that show even the most novice user how to make a change in the registry, so my point remains that this data is stored in such a way that it can be easily modified. And for those who have a grandma who can't fathom regedit, I'm sure some Windows programmer will throw together a small program to do it for her.
Either way, my point remains... saying that an Update from Microsoft is necessary is not true. There are several ways to make this change that do not involve Microsoft.
Computers with Windows operating systems would need to obtain updates.
This is not accurate. Windows stores time zone information, including DST start and stop times, as human-readable values in the registry. Anybody who has ever used regedit.exe can tweak these values themselves.
If you at least want a color screen, the Motorola V180 is a nice unit, without packing in a ton of extra features. Its available on eBay for less than $100 shipped.
Should even that be overkill, and "new in box" isn't a necessity, you can always look at older phones. My first GSM phone, a Nokia 6190, was just a basic phone with SMS capability. The unit is not much larger than many new models today, and its definately rock-solid as cell phones go.
Four men rode in a car: a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, a chemical engineer, and a computer engineer.
The car stalled out.
The mechanical engineer said, "It must be the pistons; let's repair them and be on our way."
The electrical engineer said, "It has to be the spark plugs; we'll
replace them and be ready to roll in no time at all."
The chemical engineer said. "No, it's got to be bad gas; we'll flush the system and be on our way."
They turned to the computer engineer. "What do you think we should do?" they asked.
The computer engineer shrugged and said, "Let's get out of the car, close the doors, then get back in and try restarting it."
Another fine example of how far reaching science fiction has basis in reality. Like Jules Verne, who wrote about an atomic powered submarine long before we harnessed the power of the atom, H.G. Wells wrote in The Time Machine about a scientist who invented a time machine so that he could go back in time and prevent his wife's demise... only to find out that no matter what he did to intervene, the ultimate outcome was the same.
I actually found a "fix" for the /. rendering problem. If you go to https://slashdot.org, it never displays incorrectly. Curious that SSL should have any affect on what is displayed, but I've been using it for weeks with no ill effects.
they already found water on mars!
I can relate to this comment in regards to T-mobile. I work from my house and found that unless I'm willing to stand outside in my backyard, I have at most two bars of signal (out of a possible 8). If I happen to be inside at my desk coding, 80% of my calls are dropped within one minute, and another 15% within 2 mins. In extremely rare cases, I can hold a call for an extended period.
A call to T-mobile resulted in the following response: "Given where your address is, you cannot expect to have signal inside any structure". I live within city limits, and every one else who comes over and isn't on T-mobile has plenty of signal. I don't think its out of the question to expect to have signal, but apparently, T-mobile doesn't feel obligated to correct the situation.
Yes and no. It measures the amount of milligrams per 100 milliliters of blood, but it can be read as a straight percentage too (which has no units). If your blood alcohol level is 0.08, then .08% (8 hundreths of one percent) of your blood is alcohol.
I'd love to know when the kit for this goes on sale. Of all the large-scale Lego designs I've seen, just once I'd like someone to start selling a kit or at least instructions to built it yourself.
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Apparently, the top 500 list is not actually hosted on one of the top 500 machines.
Ads were "an annoyance you have to deal with in a free society," lawyer Anthony J. Dain is quoted as saying.
So, if I walk into a courtroom during this lawyer's next litigation and start shouting out an advertisement for something, the judge is going to see it as "an annoyance you have to deal with in a free society". I don't think so.
My more immediate solution was to wait for DVD+DL discs to fall to $1.00/ea or less, so my archive cost becomes the cost of a blank, plus the time to make the copy.
The Washington Post page that has that article has a popup ad from doubleclick.net. I wonder if they get a discount if their page can't load because its stuck trying to load the ad.
I own a large collection of DVD, and decided recently to price some large-volume storage so I could have a digital backup of my discs. What I figured out was that a 250 GB hard drive currently costs about $200. This works out to about $0.80/GB. Your average DVD contains about 7 GB of data, so you can figure a per-disc storage cost of $5.60 per disc. Based on these numbers, you can store about 35 movies per drive, so if you happen to have a couple hundred discs, you'll need at least seven drives for a RAID5 solution. Go ahead and throw in $500 for a SATA RAID card, another $450 for a case with 7 hot swap bays. And then you have to build the rest of the machine. If you spent $300 to do so, your total cost is $2650. Divide this by the total storage capacity (233 discs), and your net storage cost is $11.30 per disc. Most movies can be acquired on eBay in perfect condition for this amount or less, and you don't have the ongoing expense of also replacing drives when the die.
Obviously, these numbers are quite variable variable, and you could certainly use cheaper parts, but there is an absolute minimum cost for everything here. My conclusion was that until there is a fundamental change in the world of mass storage, in either techology or cost, this is just going to have to wait.
This much bandwidth isn't going to help you do any of these things. I upgraded my network to gigabit ethernet about a year ago (from 100 mbit), and much to my surprise, the speed increase was only about 3 times when copying files from one machine to another. I did a little math, and found the answer. Your average ATA hard drive, even at max bus speed, only delivers 0.8 Gbps. And in the real world, you are lucky to get half that from a single drive. In my own test transfers from RAID1 and RAID5 arrays, my transfer rates never once exceeded 0.70 Gbps. Until there is a fundamental increase in the amount of data you can get off a spinning disc, its not likely that a home user is going to saturate a 1 Gbps line, much less a 10 Gbps line.
I find an equal amount of technical fault in the website itself. Words are capitalized when they shouldn't be "We Provide our clients...", "on Behalf of Governments", etc. Also, the format of the phone number (all jumbled together) is one you rarely see, and never somewhere like a bank site.
And the thing that gets me the most. Why did a "leading bank" just register their domain in 2004, if they've existed since 1994? Was this the one and only bank that Y2K took out, and it took this long to get back online? I doubt it.
It's not that simple. First of all, a UPS does nothing to protect against power surges that occur after the UPS. If your file server's power supply blows out, there is a more than average chance a large surge is the last thing out, and it tends to fry everything plugged into it. This includes all the drives that were supposed to be protecting your data.
Second, a UPS is not infallable to things such as lightning strikes. It doesn't matter how big or expensive your UPS is, a direct strike to an electrical line will bridge over every UPS and every surge protector, frying everything in its path until it's sufficiently dissipated.
I am using a Netgear GS108 gigabit switch, coupled with a Netgear FS108 with no real problems. Servers and workstations are on the GS108, and print servers and the gateway router are on the FS108.
One of the big things you are going to find about GigE is when you're doing something like copying a file, you don't get 10 times the speed. GigE is fast enough that your hard drive's ability to read and write data becomes the limiting factor. When copying files between two machines, both having the identical 80 GB Seagate 7200.7 drive, I clock in about 3 times the speed with the GigE than I do with 100-Base-T. Despite this, however, there has always been enough bandwidth to stream video between to machines in real time.
How many of those judges use Linux / some DeCSS derivative to play their DVDs at home and don't want to see that go away?
Hmmmm.
The "original unedited" versions have been available for some time on eBay. I bought a trilogy set about 3 years ago, which are Region 0 copies of the original (non-SE) trilogy. At the end of the movie, you even see the LaserDisc logo, so it would appear that these were mastered from LaserDisc. They do look good (given their age), and have 5.1 Dolby Digital sound.
You can download a copy of the BTX spec in PDF from this site.