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Yeah, I think it's the first one with just the long string of numbers. That's a cool website you linked, I wonder if that would be good enough for the guy.Yes, I googled it after posting. I can't guarantee anything (there's alot going on), but I'll see what I can do. Is there a specific time you'd like to have it by? It does sound easy enough, but the formatting code is about 8 pages long (And I'm not entirely sure where I stopped at... eek!).No time table at all. 8 pages long? Sheesh.-Stoic Joker (December 16, 2011, 08:27 AM)-superboyac (December 16, 2011, 10:18 AM)
LOL Actually it's 11 pages (I just checked). So now the curiosity has gotten the best of me (shit...) I started poking at it with a stick to see what would happen. Now there seems to be two different options for the output, one of which is just the current UTC time. The other is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00. So are they looking for:
Number of seconds UTC 1324054818
Number of seconds Locale Time (same as above -300 sec because I'm GMT -5)
Unix/RFC 2822 formatted date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:17 UTC
I'm assuming it's the first one. but want to double check before I get too far into testing this. I'm currently using the display at the top of the page at http://www.epochconverter.com/ as a target for the output.
Note: if it's really just UTC time they're after the w+/-xx format specifier will give the UTC (or any other zone) time. So me being GMT/UTC -5, would use w+05 to get back to UTC instead of the usual 'h' in the custom format string.-Stoic Joker (December 16, 2011, 11:10 AM)
Yes, I googled it after posting. I can't guarantee anything (there's alot going on), but I'll see what I can do. Is there a specific time you'd like to have it by? It does sound easy enough, but the formatting code is about 8 pages long (And I'm not entirely sure where I stopped at... eek!).No time table at all. 8 pages long? Sheesh. yeah, if it's not easy don't bother, it's nothing important or time-critical or anything like that.-Stoic Joker (December 16, 2011, 08:27 AM)
You know, I'm not entirely sure either, i just was emailed the question. I looked it up and it's called "unix time" or "posix time". Here's the wikipedia article:Stoic, someone here at work was just asking for this:
Can TClock somehow add the ability to display Unix Time (Posix time)? I couldn't find anything on the internet that could do it. Thanks.-superboyac (December 15, 2011, 12:17 PM)
Posix Time?? [Drawing a bit of a blank]...Is that the one that is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00? Currently no ... But it doesn't sound that hard to do... Let me know if I'm on the right track, and I'll take a shot at it.-Stoic Joker (December 15, 2011, 05:36 PM)
And I would say that the most important thing that I've learned (and important in this situation IMO) is to be slow to take offense. I don't think any offense was meant in the statement. I think that the normal usage of that statement is to cause offense, but not in this case. And I always try to remember that offense is a choice. Someone else can say whatever they want- but you have to choose to take offense.Oh I see what you mean. No I wasn't offended, I know CW, he's a good guy. What I meant was that for the purpose of a discussion, to say it's none of your business doesn't make sense. There's nothing left to discuss after that, it's like saying I don't want to talk about it. This is a discussion. We're exploring a topic from all angles, all sides.-wraith808 (December 13, 2011, 04:12 PM)
I don't quite understand your attitude. Are you saying that I can't think about or question things that aren't "my business"? I'm questioning the disturbing trend of corporations getting used to the idea of guaranteed profits. Can you or I get guaranteed profits the way that most of the big companies due, whether they are financial corps, NBA, etc.? No. So that's how it's my business.But you don't know, I don't know.-superboyac (December 13, 2011, 12:12 PM)
Frankly, it's none of your business. The NBA can run its organization the way they want (short of fraud, and violating other laws). The fact that they have veto power over franchisees' actions is none of your concern. If you don't like the sport that results, don't watch basketball games anymore. You have no inherent right to a professional basketball league that's run according to your desires.-CWuestefeld (December 13, 2011, 12:40 PM)
Wonder what "inducement" (or threat) was offered to the creators of AdBlock to "fix" how their product operated? Because I strongly doubt this decision was made purely after a philisophical discussion around the company cracker-barrel. The somewhat defensive tone in the announcement leads me to believe AdBlock is getting something in return for making this change.I'm totally with you. My web use has just naturally decreased a lot over the last couple of years. It's not so easy to find things, too much clutter. It's more of a headache than not. The number of sites I visit has decreased quite dramatically. the internet doesn't really feel all that fun or educational anymore. It feels like it's become a thing to try to get people to click around as much as possible. Facebook, youtube, google...they've all become increasingly more annoying to use. So I stop using. Now, I'll focus more on my ow personal projects and see how those go.
It's an annoying change in policy even though I permit ads from most sites I visit regulary for exactly the justifications given. But that's *MY* choice, and not one made for me by AdBlock.
In the last few months I've made a conscious effort to spend far less time on the web than I previously have. Mainly because I'm getting so sick of the commercialism (and juvenile crassness) I'm starting to see creeping in everywhere.
Maybe I'll just need to cut back a bit more going forward.-40hz (December 12, 2011, 07:23 PM)
whenen a mail is sent you will find it in Sent subfolder. if it FAILS to send it will still be in Outbox. I dont think there are exceptions to this.Whoops!
you can also select an email account and hit ctrl+shift+A to bring up log which should show you any mail sent or received.-mouser (December 12, 2011, 09:49 PM)
More expensive, but just mentioning it because I have one and it's worked extremely well for me: NuForce's Nudaq.I may give that a shot. I've never experimented with the next level of audiophile-ness, which is using a preamp like that. Preamps are one of those things that most people look at the price tag and immediately think it's BS pretentiousness. But there must be something to it, so I need to try it out.
http://www.amazon.com/NuForce-uDAC-2-Silver-Headphone-24bit/dp/B003Y5LY1C/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1323654072&sr=1-1-spell
No pressure, if you're not into audio you're probably not interested. Just throwing it out there!
(I use the nudaq from my computer into a receiver. I assume the one mentioned above would do the same. I would not expect these to power speakers directly (self-powered speakers should be fine.)-kfitting (December 11, 2011, 07:43 PM)
Do you think that's true? I'm always am over-paranoid about stuff and scared that I can't do anything for fear of offending someone, getting sued, etc. I'd like to get a better gauge on how paranoid I am vs. how paranoid I should be.All animals are equal, except that some animals are more equal than others...-Renegade (December 11, 2011, 12:05 AM)
Pretty much.
Like I said, when it comes to 'voluntary' associations and leagues, the rules are what you agreed to when you joined. As long as there's not a violation of public safety laws, you can get away with just about anything in the US. Same goes for closed-shop labor unions, fraternal organizations, churches and so-called 'faith-based' organizations, etc.
Not to say those rules will hold up in court. But judges usually cut private associations a lot of slack when it comes to that. And most associations have some broad "for the good of the league" clause that allows for discretionary actions.
I think, in the end, this will be a tempest in a teacup and end with the team owners and players getting their way.-40hz (December 11, 2011, 02:11 AM)
@40hz: That comment of mine was deliberately and completely tongue-in-cheek.Wuh!...huh??
I blamed you and @Carol Haynes as I thought you were both completely undeserving of any blame and could appreciate the joke.
Yes, "red whale" was my invention. It's a very large red herring.
To criticise someone else for spelling errors whilst at the same same time making a spelling error oneself seemed an amusing thing to do - a joke about oneself.
I have to admit fabricating the bit about @superboyac and his making an OP about Angelina Jolie, for the purposes of making a joke. AJ is to me a typical representative of the great deal of wrong that is done to our daughters - to create/manipulate women in this world to conform to a stylised male ideal sex object.-IainB (December 09, 2011, 10:58 AM)
This copyright craziness is killing any enjoyment in life. The used book experience from back in the day was a great for multiple reasons: it was cheaper to buy for people who didn't need a brand new book, it gave some mom and pop type people a chance to make a living running a used bookstore, it gave books a nice aesthetic quality (what about the experience of finding an old book at someone's house? that's gone)...all sorts of nice things are gone now because of all this. ARRRGHGHGHGH!!!!So the Nook (not the Kindle) sounded like a really good idea - for kids at any rate. I asked my daughter Lily (aged 10) about it and she's mulling it over. She and I went out a couple of days ago to a secondhand bookstore and a children's bookstore (new books) and she bought a whole stack of real hardback and paperback books with her birthday money. I idly wondered at the time whether some of these might be available as ebooks.-IainB (December 08, 2011, 09:31 PM)
My daughter is 10 also, and the books that she was anticipating are all on the Nook Color. One of the things that I still don't like about ebooks is the fact that you can't get them used. I'd understand it to a certain extent if they cost less than dead tree pubs, but they don't, so they really need to put a way in to transfer DRM. They won't, of course- they don't like the used book market either. Another thing I very much don't like now with the way that the book market has shaken out is that eBooks are never on sale anymore. I built up my considerable collection at fictionwise.com with their sales and their book club. I miss that.
On another topic, as I said above, I like this topic (Amazon and publishers) and I like the ebook topic in general. However, this particular topic is so fragmented that when it comes up in your unread topics, you don't know what to expect, and the conversations are very interweaved and especially later if someone peruses it or tries to find something, there really won't be a good way. Is it possible to separate these into topics in the future, or just make it obvious that this is a mish mash of information?-wraith808 (December 08, 2011, 10:23 PM)
