Pandemonium Medicine ShowWeblog of Mike Duigou aka bondoloSorry TiVo, I won't be a customer- March 20, 2008 Reddit today pointed out this article, HBOs new miniseries IS locked down for TiVo recording which led to this TiVo support document, 09-65-01. The document describes in detail the "extra bonus, but no longer surprising" restrictions that included with every TiVo. These restrictions reduce what your TiVo allows you to do with your content under fair use. When Windows Media Centre Edition started imposing similar restrictions on HBO content in the middle of 2007 I cancelled my 10-year HBO...http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/sorry_tivo_i_won_t 80 Column Blues- March 11, 2008 There's generally a lot of disagreement about the best way to format code. One way to make every coding style unreadable is to enforce or require an 80 columncharacter line limit. A lot of coding standards still include an 80 character line length limit, including the Coding Conventions for the Java Programming Language. I've also seen 72 and 77 character line length limits in other coding standards. An 80 character line limit may have been a necessity in 1968, made good sense in 1978, was...http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/80_column_blues |