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Mike Hankey wrote: but the NSA sensors censor all my output
FTFY. 
/ravi
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Thanks Ravi, I've been battling with multiple embedded sensor problems since yesterday so must have been a Freudian slip. (I don't know what he was doing wearing a slip though)
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To be honest, I often slip up myself. 
/ravi
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I presume it was his better half:
Fruedian Slip[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Perhaps this is proof that Microsoft Research is working on Time Travel! 
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Don't worry. If you like your four-digit years, you can keep them. Period.
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Ah, memories.
I spent way more time answering customers' inquiries about Y2K compliance than I did analyzing for potential issues. We did not have any failure of systems once 2000 arrived.
I did let customers know of the potential issue in our programs that would happen in 2038 (C's 32-bit time overflows), but I also indicated we expected to have a new version out by then.
Prior to Y2K was the concern about Sept. 9, 1999, which when represented as 9999, might be interpreted as an "end of data" marker. I remember explaining to one employee that such date codes would be six digits long, with zeroes, because of the need for two digits in each of the month and day.
Of course, that brings us back to the year before Y10K; will the year 9999 pose problems in legacy code?
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Well, they have a lot of time to get this right, but by then, we may all be using Google Neural Implant devices.
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I expect that before we reach the year 10,000 we will switch to the universal date format as used by most of the alien planets we have visited.
Also as 1 year is the time it takes the Earth to travel round the Sun, the length of a year will be the tine the planet Zog takes to travel round it's star.
If I am wrong, then please let me know in the year 10,001ad.
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BBC1 8.00pm Tonight sees the first proper trailer for Day of the Doctor, the 50th Anniversary story.
I have just seen it on tumbler, it looks fantastic!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Has he got rid of the tardis and is now pulling a trailer? Must be the recession...
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There is also The Science of Doctor Who[^] with Brian Cox on Thursday, which could be worth a watch.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I have been watching his series and it's so exciting. The first time when I saw your name with Dalek , I remembered the Dalek in "Doctor Who"
Ranjan.D
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Ranjan.D wrote: The first time when I saw your name with Dalek , I remembered the Dalek in "Doctor Who"
Well I'll be damned!
I should have noticed that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The season premiere will be on BBC America Saturday, November 23rd. Excited about that...
Leaving to go the the in-laws either late Friday, November 22nd or very early (between 2:00 AM and 3:00 AM) Saturday, November 23rd for Thanksgiving.. food, family, excited about that...
My in-laws do not get BBC America... not happy about that, and no DVR to record it on.
But, I love my family so will have to wait for a rerun...
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Hello all,
I'm planning to get a powerline device to plug the TV and PC at home.
Nowadays I have a Ethernet cable between them and an old switch that is capable to handle 100mbps[^].
Regarding the powerline device I can't understand some things:
1. They say the devices have a RJ45 plug capable to handle 100mbps transfer rates.
2. They say the devices transfer rates are 200mbps or 500mbps (depending on the model).
3. They recommend the 500mbps to send HD video (mostly what I want to do).
Why? I mean if at the end the RJ45 plug is only capable to handle 100mbps, with 200mbps of transfer rate between powerline devices should be enough. shouldn't it?
Any hint here?
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It means that the network connection you plug into your PC, TV etc., is only 100meg, not Gigabit network (the older standard for cheaper routers). If you can cope with that (and it shouldn't be a major problem) then provided you don't have too many devices on the "mains network" you should be ok. If you have a pc giving data to your TV @ 100mbps, and another streaming music to the kids room, or a backup system running, then you could exceed 200mbps pretty quickly - if you are watching vid then that's a PITA because it will stutter and buffer.
I haven't used mains wire transfer (I ran gigabit cables everywhere ages ago) but it should work ok.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Got it!
it is perfectly logic and clear now. Thanks OG! 
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You're welcome!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Quote: Why? I mean if at the end the RJ45 plug is only capable to handle 100mbps, with 200mbps of transfer rate between powerline devices should be enough. shouldn't it?
I am not sure, but I think that this discrepancy is due to the unit's data encryption.
100 bits encrypted yields: Y times (100 bits), or something like that. So the unit needs to be able transfer faster than the feed rate.
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It could be... Already bought it and Works perfectly.
Thank you for answering!
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Glad to read that all is well. You sure took your time with this decision[^].
If you could it would be great if you could run a download rate test across the unit and report it. Most reviews that I have seen indicate that the typical throughput is about 25% of the manufacturer's claimed maximum.
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Don't know how to do it as I have placed both devices between the TV and the PC in non easy to access places.  (I'd need a laptop and a direct connection between it and the desktop computer and start sending files).
What I can say is that the HD video is seen flawlessly.
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