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Quote: ACCESS LIMITS: Clients may maintain connections to the server for no more than 86,400 seconds per day. If you need additional time, you may contact IERS[^] to file a request for up to one additional second.
xkcd[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I especially like the "up to" part 
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Hmm. That's an interesting tip.
Not sure what the point of contacting IERS could possibly be though. Last time I checked, 24 * 3600 = 86,400. 
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Wikipedia: Among its other functions, the IERS is responsible for announcing leap seconds.
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That'd do it, thanks.
Though with only 25 of them inserted since 1972 (and some seconds subtracted too) it sure is an interesting tool-tip.
Edit: seconds are not subtracted, even in the event that a solar day is 86399 seconds long.
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As an aside, the fact that there are 86400 seconds in a day is seared deep into my brain. At one point, I was working on a system with timestamps in seconds and so I was for ever doing mod 86400 to find out what time something happens. I could get a time, say 23452 and without calculating any further know what time it was; I just checked 6:30:52.
veni bibi saltavi
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Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually, that is correct. It would be compartment if you could get from one to the other internally but apartments are just discrete compartments. Sounded right when I thought it. 
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COM threading model flashback...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways?
Will Rogers never met me.
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There's far too much thinking going on in the Lounge, lately.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Slacker007 wrote: hobby shop
No offence meant; but seriously, is hobby available for sale in a shop?
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Yes[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It definitely looks tastier than let's say, carbon fiber.
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It is, but not by much 
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In the United States of America, where I herald from; they are often called hobby shops...seriously. 
No offence taken. 
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Thanks.
Have been to the US quite a few times; perhaps my eyes/mind did not catch them.
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Slacker007 wrote: Edit: minus the ridiculously expensive part.
Try HobbyKing(.com), great stuff - amazing prices.
Here's a random example: AUD $108.79 (gasoline powered) pulse-jet - just like the ones used on the V1 bomb in WW2.
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__34247__Hobbyking_Pulse_Jet_Gasoline_Engine_34_Red_Head_34_with_Ignition_System.html[^]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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very cool. thanks for the link.
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You're welcome, have fun.
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“There are pretty immense torsional forces being put on the frame when the band is fully wound, which turned our starch car into a ticking bomb,” says Greenberg. “Any small cracks in the body would culminate in a huge explosion as the frame tore itself apart, often mid-way down the track.”
So you use two rubber bands.
Some people are just so dumb.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Before I retired I wrote several applications in C# Forms and some in WPF, but I never had any need to learn MVVM. So to keep busy in retirement, I delved into MVVM late in December last year. At first I started using Galasoft's MvvmLight, but when I started to grasp what the MVVM pattern was all about, I decided to start over, coding my own messenger class. With the help of Jon Skeet's book, some articles here on CP, some by Bugnion and some answers on Stackoverflow, I really got stuck into topics like custom events and other delegates.
Well, I had a few misfires, reloads and restarts, but my first project is now complete. I just wonder what I should do next? Should I learn what Prism is all about? Any ideas?
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