If this is a volunteer run gift store in a place that's reasonably prestigious, then it could potentially be the volunteer type themselves that are of the type that have a high likelyhood of stealing.
I'm not saying that high society are more likely to steal, I'm more trying to point out that one situation isn't entirely convincing of an epedemic everywhere and with every person.
All that can be gathered from your situation is that older, retired people interested in high culture possibly are likely to skim off the top.
There is even a motive for these older retired people to steal as well, as they are retired, which typically implies they are on a fixed income, and they are interested in high culture, which means that they may not have the means to get to high society other than skimming off the top.
I find it interesting that it sounds like they're only talking about rocket thrusters that use some kind of chemical propellant.
There are many types of thrusters that can get fuel from external sources.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ion_thrusterhttps://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Solar_sail
This means we don't have to bring as much fuel.
Or can generate more thrust than simple chemical reactions alone.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
As some examples.
Although, it would seem that the decrease in impulse of the renewable fuel sources would probably mean a longer journey than with chemical propellants. Which would mean more food weight. Which would only increase the problems they have with vitamine deterioration in the food they have on board. Vitamine C deteriorates fairly fast... maybe they should just bring a bunch of cats to eat, they generate their own.
I like how in Canada it's allowed to copy a friend's CD they lend to you, but you can't have your friend copy the CD and give it to you.
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
So, there are quite some differences between how the media is copied and who is doing the copying.
Not quite ripping your own stuff, but at least ripping things that would become yours after the fact. Even though the end result is the exact same.
Rather than payI prefer to take a limited bandwidth plan and save my GBs for the next months. That way I can use them when I feel like. [insert GPL non-trademarked sarcmark here]
There a couple things I've noticed that havn't really been addressed here yet, and that's power factor. Compact florencent lights have horrible power factor by comparison to the incandecent lights. Which while it means that people who are using the lights pay less, the power plants will have to supply even more than what's being paid for, which could mean that there is the need for more power generation, and bigger power line gauges.
Another issue is that since it's a throw away product, they use the cheapest components in them, this means that there's a much higher chance of spectacular failure.
People with dimmers can't use CFLs either, since while it'll look like it might work, it'll draw around 5 times as much current (even if the dimmers are set to 100%), which could pose a serious fire hazard.
Other issues include that CFLs still generate a lot of heat, even though they do generate less, and because of the cheaper components, the enclosure has to be properly ventalated, which could result in people having to pay a hell of a lot more just to replace all their recessed lighting and other fixtures.
There's also a lot of other places where CFLs are impossible to use, like in an oven for instance, where the CFL would pretty much melt right away.
I'm not saying that they shouldn't be used, I just think there's a lot of hurdles that need to be beaten before they will actually be liable yet.
http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.ht m check out this lovely little website.
After reading a number of the comments it seems that some don't quite understand what needs to be archived.
Firstly, I work at a sound studio for post up in Canada, British Columbia, so I think I've learned a thing or two about the industry and even some of it's archival methods.
Now, for film wise, what needs to be archived in a whole junkload of stuff, theres the raw dailies (or what they shot during the filming days), and the seperate versions of the edited prints. Sound wise, there's the edit sessions, then the re-recording versions. Which can add up to a hell of a lot of space (and yes I know it's a simplified version of it).
So just in that if all that is backed up theres at least 2 levels of redundancy, and even more if you consider all the slightly older versions which could be used to recover the final version.
The other thing is that even if you've lost parts of the one and the other, as long as there are only different parts lost they can be regenerated so to speak through the use of an EDL (Edit Decision List) which (should in theory) says all the SMPTE time-codes of all of the edits the picture editor did.
There's another thing to, is that frequently if it's a video studio working with a sound studio, the sound studio will have a copy of the video on hand as well, merly for their backups incase the video ever comes back for fixes (yes, it does happen that 2, 3, 4 even 5 years down the road a client will come back with fixes.)
At the studio I work at we have two layers of current version redundancy already when working on a project of each part.
Tape backup for our final mix, hard drive (shelved after)of our final mix, tape backup of all of our working sessions, and a hard drive of our final mix sessions. On top of this we do daily backups of everything to tape.
So it's fairly difficult to see how information can really get lost persay and seeing as we do the bottom of the barrel (uwe boll anyone?) and we have a backup system that has redundancy out the wazzu, I don't think the major studios should really have that much of an issue with loss.
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If this is a volunteer run gift store in a place that's reasonably prestigious, then it could potentially be the volunteer type themselves that are of the type that have a high likelyhood of stealing. I'm not saying that high society are more likely to steal, I'm more trying to point out that one situation isn't entirely convincing of an epedemic everywhere and with every person. All that can be gathered from your situation is that older, retired people interested in high culture possibly are likely to skim off the top. There is even a motive for these older retired people to steal as well, as they are retired, which typically implies they are on a fixed income, and they are interested in high culture, which means that they may not have the means to get to high society other than skimming off the top.
People may know, but Verizon certainly does not. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
Of course there is such a thing as negative zero. Just check out one's compliment.
I find it interesting that it sounds like they're only talking about rocket thrusters that use some kind of chemical propellant. There are many types of thrusters that can get fuel from external sources. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ion_thruster https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Solar_sail This means we don't have to bring as much fuel. Or can generate more thrust than simple chemical reactions alone. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) As some examples. Although, it would seem that the decrease in impulse of the renewable fuel sources would probably mean a longer journey than with chemical propellants. Which would mean more food weight. Which would only increase the problems they have with vitamine deterioration in the food they have on board. Vitamine C deteriorates fairly fast... maybe they should just bring a bunch of cats to eat, they generate their own.
I like how in Canada it's allowed to copy a friend's CD they lend to you, but you can't have your friend copy the CD and give it to you. http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml So, there are quite some differences between how the media is copied and who is doing the copying. Not quite ripping your own stuff, but at least ripping things that would become yours after the fact. Even though the end result is the exact same.
I always thought power was measured in Newton meters per second, Joules per second, or more commonly as Watts.
I find it strange that Canada, being closer than Mexico, isn't on the list.
Actually, it's 11 months in the future, September, 2011.
Rather than payI prefer to take a limited bandwidth plan and save my GBs for the next months. That way I can use them when I feel like. [insert GPL non-trademarked sarcmark here]
There a couple things I've noticed that havn't really been addressed here yet, and that's power factor. Compact florencent lights have horrible power factor by comparison to the incandecent lights. Which while it means that people who are using the lights pay less, the power plants will have to supply even more than what's being paid for, which could mean that there is the need for more power generation, and bigger power line gauges. Another issue is that since it's a throw away product, they use the cheapest components in them, this means that there's a much higher chance of spectacular failure. People with dimmers can't use CFLs either, since while it'll look like it might work, it'll draw around 5 times as much current (even if the dimmers are set to 100%), which could pose a serious fire hazard. Other issues include that CFLs still generate a lot of heat, even though they do generate less, and because of the cheaper components, the enclosure has to be properly ventalated, which could result in people having to pay a hell of a lot more just to replace all their recessed lighting and other fixtures. There's also a lot of other places where CFLs are impossible to use, like in an oven for instance, where the CFL would pretty much melt right away. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be used, I just think there's a lot of hurdles that need to be beaten before they will actually be liable yet. http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.ht m check out this lovely little website.
After reading a number of the comments it seems that some don't quite understand what needs to be archived.
Firstly, I work at a sound studio for post up in Canada, British Columbia, so I think I've learned a thing or two about the industry and even some of it's archival methods.
Now, for film wise, what needs to be archived in a whole junkload of stuff, theres the raw dailies (or what they shot during the filming days), and the seperate versions of the edited prints. Sound wise, there's the edit sessions, then the re-recording versions. Which can add up to a hell of a lot of space (and yes I know it's a simplified version of it).
So just in that if all that is backed up theres at least 2 levels of redundancy, and even more if you consider all the slightly older versions which could be used to recover the final version.
The other thing is that even if you've lost parts of the one and the other, as long as there are only different parts lost they can be regenerated so to speak through the use of an EDL (Edit Decision List) which (should in theory) says all the SMPTE time-codes of all of the edits the picture editor did.
There's another thing to, is that frequently if it's a video studio working with a sound studio, the sound studio will have a copy of the video on hand as well, merly for their backups incase the video ever comes back for fixes (yes, it does happen that 2, 3, 4 even 5 years down the road a client will come back with fixes.)
At the studio I work at we have two layers of current version redundancy already when working on a project of each part. Tape backup for our final mix, hard drive (shelved after)of our final mix, tape backup of all of our working sessions, and a hard drive of our final mix sessions. On top of this we do daily backups of everything to tape.
So it's fairly difficult to see how information can really get lost persay and seeing as we do the bottom of the barrel (uwe boll anyone?) and we have a backup system that has redundancy out the wazzu, I don't think the major studios should really have that much of an issue with loss.