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With the one I was able to program, the hardest thing to comprehend was that you had to turn off the VCR afterwards, so it could turn itself on.

964 posted on 08/09/2007 4:45:34 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (The Ski Haus sign says, "See You Next Fall!" -- Orthopedics Clinic next door, the sign says "Ditto!")

To: NicknamedBob

My cellphone is always shutting itself off for this and that, too.

There are just too many engineers around!

965 posted on 08/09/2007 4:46:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (All the main characters die, and then the Prince of Norway delivers the Epilogue.)

To: NicknamedBob

With the one I was able to program, the hardest thing to comprehend was that you had to turn off the VCR afterwards, so it could turn itself on.

Actually, that's probably the easiest to comprehend.

You change the settings, they get stored in non-volatile storage. The system reads in its settings from the storage on boot-up (when it's turned on) and uses them.

Probably programmer laziness that they don't change the settings in BOTH places so you get immediate access to your settings. Or there may be other reasons. How often have I changed settings for some piece of software and I'm told I have to exit it and restart? Perhaps the same thing.

974 posted on 08/09/2007 5:41:07 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)

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