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You'd better, and I'm not kitten here.
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That image seems to me disconnected...
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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Yes, I think the painting was Photoshoped, but I think you get the picture. 
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I was watching a video of a guy live sequencing a trance track, when suddenly this happened[^] 
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That's an amazing piece of software he's using. What's it called?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ableton Live 9
https://www.ableton.com/en/live/new-in-9/[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I have had a Saturday job for over 6 years now at a storage outfit. 90% of the time I'm there I am writing code or lurking here. Anyhow, I just found a workgroup printer (Xerox Phaser 7300DT) in a vacated unit. I plugged it in and it still works, printing out a startup page. I checked on ebay and used ones are going from USD $700 up to $1300. My back doesn't want anything to do with it, but it would be cool to have it in the home/office for awhile, then sell it. What would you do?
Edited 2015-02-02: Thanks for the replies! Although I was certain the printer had been abandoned (along with a crappy set of knockoff irons/fairway metals) I left it overnight just to make sure. I went back yesterday with the appropriate equipment and retrieved it.
Now, for anyone questioning the legality, I should probably give a few more facts:
0) the unit was on the watchlist for move-outs that day, meaning the tenant had already advised us that they would be out by that date.
1) the unit was already reserved for another tenant who thankfully did not show up until today
2) part of the job is disposing of any items left behind
3) I left notes regarding the printer in that tenant's notes and also verbally informed the facility manager this morning about the situation
Currently the 150 pound behemoth is sitting in my garage while I build a stand for it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 2-Feb-15 11:16am.
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That depends on what the laws are. Either the printer still belongs to the renter or it now belongs to the storage unit itself (when the entire unit contents goes to auction) or it belongs to the storage company (may auction items in the unit). In any case, you're stealing it. The question now becomes what happens to you if you're caught stealing a value of $1,300?
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kmoorevs wrote: I checked on ebay and used ones are going from USD $700 up to $1300.
Are there any actually sold at that price?
Anyway as Dave K says is it your decision?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 31-Jan-15 21:45pm.
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Contact your boss / the people who rented the unit and talk to them about you having it.
Chances are they are fine with that, provided you take it away, and then you're all legal and good. Given that Xerox list it at weighing 68Kg, it's likely they just didn't want to move it and will be happy if you do!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree. There should not be a problem to acquire the unit legally.
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Looks like you've covered your bases, so if anyone gripes about it you just turn it over to them, letting them pick it up. As I see it, you've provided services above and beyond: Storage and moving it out of the way of the next renter.
cat fud heer
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HI ALL,
I am curious to poll you great guys, what kind of serializer/deserializer do you use for a .NET class? XML formatter or binary serializer?
Do you have any good links to share?
diligent hands rule....
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Whatever serializer is appropriate for whatever arbitrary purpose.
I've even written my own serializers to support file types are not baked into the .NET BCL.
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thanks for pointing out the link.
in my mind I am thinking of this universal serializer to replace customized one [^]
diligent hands rule....
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How about DataContract serializer? :p
Though for my own takeover the world project (in progress) I wrote a DocumentReaderWriter with its own feature!
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thanks for the thought. In your Menu-ribbon Bar project, which way do you use?
diligent hands rule....
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Nah, the MenuRibbon project doesn't use any serializer!
The super secret take over the world project is completely secret for now!  
Though, speaking of which, I was about to rework my serializer to make it a bit more general... Might share it with you if you like, but its not an automatic serializer, more like a document reader/writer utility and might require some work to use...
(it does automatically save DataContract but without Emit, so it's slower than DataContractSerializer too)
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I usually use a version of MycroXaml[^] to instantiate .NET classes from XML, and I usually need some custom serialization code going the other way.
Marc
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For xml, I roll my own. My stuff can gracefully recover from the possibility of missing/invalid values, and assign reasonable defaults. That way, my app runs no matter what happens in the config file.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The framework's binary Serializer is not intended to be used for data at rest; the intent was to make it as fast as possible for real time IPC and the resulting internal format is extremely brittle and will break if you change anything about the class (or worse its namespace). For all that, Google's Protocol Buffer library (.net flavor) is much faster at binary serialization while being much more flexible and having really good cross platform support as well 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ho-hum; yet another birthday. Share it with lots of famous people I've never heard of. Yay to me. 
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Happy Birthday Mark!
Hope you have a good time - doing much for it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks to all the bday wishes.
Spent the day at the beach: couldn't ask for a better day. 
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Looks like we share a birthday. So happy birthday to both of us.
/ravi
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