Mighty confident of your facts, there. Do you know (as opposed to believe) something that we don't? Do you know the composition of what, if any, was released? Do you know which direction the wind was blowing that day? Do you *know* anything about this alleged incident?
Your beliefs are one thing, verifiable fact is another. Don't confuse the two. Maybe verifiable facts are too thin on the ground to draw conclusions and/or take action - that doesn't make your beliefs the "end of the matter".
This was the film behind the Australian "fishing" letters case. IIRC, the owners wanted the courts to allow a subpoena of ISP subscribers so they could send letters out to people they suspected/accused of pirating the film, and the court said "show us the letters first". When the judge saw what they were going to put in the letter (along the lines of "you're guilty, you owe us $bignum"), the judge said "no". I think they dropped the case - it didn't proceed, anyway.
Apart from your other issues, "the Solar providers won't guarantee against roof leaks, with an angled panel install, anyway."
is sheer sloppiness. My panels are on a framework, and there's never been a leak from that. I suspect they just don't want to use the slightly more costly waterproof fasteners.
Smaller panels for a given output would be a boon. You'll be able to fit panels where you previously couldn't due to space and mechanical constraints.
I recently was quoted $AUD28,000 for a full installation. Very little of that was *not* hardware.
The poor guy musn't have heard me properly - "Our agent is in your area this week, would you like an obligation-free quote?" "Sure, do you do off-grid?" "We haven't encountered many people off-grid, what's it like?" - first alarm bell "Well, It's been working pretty well for a while now but it's time to replace some of my older panels. Could you give me a quote on say, six panels, some electrical work to replace incandescents with drop-in LEDs, and as my batteries are in their autumn years, the price of a new set of lead-acid cells, say 1500ah?" "Sure, see you next week"
I ended up with a quote for a turn-key system, dumping and replacing all the existing panels, controllers and inverter, and batteries.
"What do you think"
"Nice, but it's not what I asked for"
I asked my existing supplier about it and he just about panicked. Turns out the manufacturer of the inverter (SMA) and batteries (LG Chem) has said "No warranty for off-grid installations" - those particular models are grid-connect only.
Anyway, $15K for installation/permits/administration? Someone's getting rich stamping paperwork.
IIRC, the WD green drives had firmware issues - they were "green" because the FW would power them down prematurely in an effort to save energy, only to have them powered up again because the OS requested a read/write. Too many off/on cycles = premature failure.
Also, I must be lucky - I've had one Seagate failure in 12 years, and it was replaced under warranty. Small sample, admittedly - somewhere between 100 and 150 in domestic use.
Well, it will. The RNA in the cells of the food you eat will be digested to its constituent parts which will form the basis for proteins being synthesised in your body.
That the RNA will make it through unscathed and form "new" or "hybrid" DNA is what people seem to misunderstand.
I think it stems from not having actually used such software. "Photoshop? Bah, I use GIMP" creates an impression that GIMP is functionally equivalent in all cases.
Anyway - "pay someone else to do so" - yes, that's exactly what I did - I paid Adobe, they supplied me with software.
Maybe he's trying to garner enough interest in himself that the "threats" from previous employers in India won't be carried out. If the media pays enough attention to him, those wily assassins won't be able to get near.
Maybe he's just delusional.
I wrote a program to monitor and stop analysts and other programmers from compiling their code at inappropriate run-time priorities - that doesn't mean I get credit as the inventor of process queueing and scheduling.
I rather prefer the Larry Niven solution - a cloud of water vapour in between you and the source. Makes for a very bright cloud, of course.
Laser hits optical sensor, sensor overloads. System oversight warns pilot that laser weapon is active, gives likely coordinates, pilot fires chaff or water vapour missile, and bugs out. Of course, those are defensive weapons, occupying precious hard points, but maybe that can be the job of a "protector" wing, accompanying the attack/bomber aircraft.
Or the remaining - previously shielded? - sensors immediately turn their attention to the laser, determine course - that should be easy, it's pointing right back at the source - pilot fires a missile that is hardened against laser attack - ablative surface? - which tracks laser to source, directed by co-ordinated sensors on "protector" aircraft.
Wouldn't any laser powerful enough to cause damage at a distance indicate its presence by the dust and water vapour it encounters?
How does one "aim" one's laser? You couldn't do it by hand, you'll have to use something else to track and pinpoint the target. Unlike a missile, a near miss won't do. So you'll probably use RADAR, which will just reveal your presence and location to the enemy.
Wasn't "PC" an abbreviation of "Paper Cassette"? I remember seeing the word "Error" on the display, but "PC" only appeared in relation to the paper tray/cassette.
The "PC Load Letter" was an irritant, but IIRC, you could configure either the printer itself, or the driver on your computer, to automatically select from the A4 tray if no other size was specified. Maybe it was a combination of both.
There was much rejoicing at my workplace when we figured that out.
That makes me wonder: sue your own parents? Do they have liability insurance for this sort of thing? No? Then where will the money come from? YOUR OWN INHERITANCE, dumbass. So, you sue your parents broke, or nearly so, you get your inheritance early, good for you.
Now you'll have to spend it to maintain your parents in their old age, because they can't afford to live.
Or your brothers and sisters sue the crap out of you, because you caused them to lose their inheritance.
Well, the problem was, as I explained elsewhere, it wouldn't install with apt-get. This is vanilla debian 8. So, I tried to track the dependencies, and resolve them. Remember, this is occupying my time *making* a toolchain, and not *using* said toolchain. Many hours later, I decided that *it wasn't working for me*, and my time would be better spent doing something else.
I never said it was a failure of ImageMagick, I accepted it was *my* problem. It was a problem that I decided not to spend any more time resolving. That doesn't make it *not* a problem.
500 packages? Good for you. I've installed Gentoo from scratch. Neither of those facts will make ImageMagick work on my computer.
It won't install, it won't compile, I have better and more valuable things to do with my time. I charge money for my time editing and processing video, I already have the Adobe suite, but I like to give FOSS alternatives a go. Sometimes, the FOSS alternatives don't work.
Yep - got it in a VM. Some very useful tools there, and some that don't work at all.
The thing about CS is, it's integrated. I've not found a Linux equivalent. There are linux equivalents for individual tools, but not an integrated solution.
I browse distrowatch and livecdlist every couple of months to see what's new, and I'll try out whatever looks interesting. I'm willing to try most anything - I even installed Gentoo from scratch once, and I have a great deal of respect for those who write this software.
P.S. academic pricing is a wonderful thing - CS 5.5 cost me about 1/4 of retail, that's a big deal anywhere, but it's yuuuge in Australia.
I've had a lot of positive experience running Linux VMs under Windows. In fact, ffmpeg running in a Linux VM under windows is faster than Windows-native ffmpeg, so I'm happy to use Linux where it works. Haven't tried running a Windows VM under Linux - yet.
As I said in another comment - there's just no toolchain in Linux that is comparable to Creative Suite in Windows. Sure, there are tools that do the the same job or nearly so, but nothing that is as tightly integrated. PPro also relies on proprietary nVidia graphics drivers, I'm not confident they'd work through a VM.
I'd love to see CS for Linux, but it would still be proprietary, so its uptake wouldn't be worth the development costs.
GIMP is fine for simple things, but it's really no match for Photoshop.
And I said CS - Creative Suite - in my case Prelude, Premiere Pro, Audition, SpeedGrade, After Effects, Encore, etc. There's no comparable toolchain in Linuxworld.
I couldn't even get ImageMagick to compile on vanilla Debian. You might argue that's my problem, not the software, but - dependency failure after dependency failure, and I eventually gave up because my time is too valuable to spend it trying to build a toolchain, as opposed to actually using a toolchain.
You're right about that. If Adobe were motivated to port CS to Debian, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
I think they'd have to spin their own distro, though. CS is a complex suite and has enough trouble running on Windows. I can't imagine it being certified to work under even the top ten most popular distros.
Just imagine the reaction from the FOSS community if Adobe were to put out AdobeOS.
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Mighty confident of your facts, there. Do you know (as opposed to believe) something that we don't? Do you know the composition of what, if any, was released? Do you know which direction the wind was blowing that day? Do you *know* anything about this alleged incident?
Your beliefs are one thing, verifiable fact is another. Don't confuse the two. Maybe verifiable facts are too thin on the ground to draw conclusions and/or take action - that doesn't make your beliefs the "end of the matter".
Queensland University have been working on this engine for quite a while.
I had a short relationship with a girl in 1988 - one of her close friends was on the team, AND SHE NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT HIM - hence "short" above.
This was the film behind the Australian "fishing" letters case. IIRC, the owners wanted the courts to allow a subpoena of ISP subscribers so they could send letters out to people they suspected/accused of pirating the film, and the court said "show us the letters first". When the judge saw what they were going to put in the letter (along the lines of "you're guilty, you owe us $bignum"), the judge said "no". I think they dropped the case - it didn't proceed, anyway.
In other words, use a Micro-channel architecture machine running OS/2.
Actually, why not ask IBM to make an ATM out of an AS/400 running OS400? Proprietary code on closed hardware, can't go wrong.
Apart from your other issues,
"the Solar providers won't guarantee against roof leaks, with an angled panel install, anyway."
is sheer sloppiness. My panels are on a framework, and there's never been a leak from that. I suspect they just don't want to use the slightly more costly waterproof fasteners.
Smaller panels for a given output would be a boon. You'll be able to fit panels where you previously couldn't due to space and mechanical constraints.
I recently was quoted $AUD28,000 for a full installation. Very little of that was *not* hardware.
The poor guy musn't have heard me properly -
"Our agent is in your area this week, would you like an obligation-free quote?"
"Sure, do you do off-grid?"
"We haven't encountered many people off-grid, what's it like?" - first alarm bell
"Well, It's been working pretty well for a while now but it's time to replace some of my older panels. Could you give me a quote on say, six panels, some electrical work to replace incandescents with drop-in LEDs, and as my batteries are in their autumn years, the price of a new set of lead-acid cells, say 1500ah?"
"Sure, see you next week"
I ended up with a quote for a turn-key system, dumping and replacing all the existing panels, controllers and inverter, and batteries.
"What do you think"
"Nice, but it's not what I asked for"
I asked my existing supplier about it and he just about panicked. Turns out the manufacturer of the inverter (SMA) and batteries (LG Chem) has said "No warranty for off-grid installations" - those particular models are grid-connect only.
Anyway, $15K for installation/permits/administration? Someone's getting rich stamping paperwork.
IIRC, the WD green drives had firmware issues - they were "green" because the FW would power them down prematurely in an effort to save energy, only to have them powered up again because the OS requested a read/write. Too many off/on cycles = premature failure.
Also, I must be lucky - I've had one Seagate failure in 12 years, and it was replaced under warranty. Small sample, admittedly - somewhere between 100 and 150 in domestic use.
Well, it will. The RNA in the cells of the food you eat will be digested to its constituent parts which will form the basis for proteins being synthesised in your body.
That the RNA will make it through unscathed and form "new" or "hybrid" DNA is what people seem to misunderstand.
As soon as you re-install W7 SP1, go and grab the latest WU agent-
https://support.microsoft.com/...
It takes away much of the pain in getting WU to even work on a fresh install. I mean ~2.3 GB of RAM just running WU?
I think it stems from not having actually used such software. "Photoshop? Bah, I use GIMP" creates an impression that GIMP is functionally equivalent in all cases.
Anyway - "pay someone else to do so" - yes, that's exactly what I did - I paid Adobe, they supplied me with software.
Maybe he's trying to garner enough interest in himself that the "threats" from previous employers in India won't be carried out. If the media pays enough attention to him, those wily assassins won't be able to get near.
Maybe he's just delusional.
I wrote a program to monitor and stop analysts and other programmers from compiling their code at inappropriate run-time priorities - that doesn't mean I get credit as the inventor of process queueing and scheduling.
*cough*fark.com*cough*
Wait - you're quoting this very slashdot discussion to support your argument?
Well done.
I rather prefer the Larry Niven solution - a cloud of water vapour in between you and the source. Makes for a very bright cloud, of course.
Laser hits optical sensor, sensor overloads. System oversight warns pilot that laser weapon is active, gives likely coordinates, pilot fires chaff or water vapour missile, and bugs out. Of course, those are defensive weapons, occupying precious hard points, but maybe that can be the job of a "protector" wing, accompanying the attack/bomber aircraft.
Or the remaining - previously shielded? - sensors immediately turn their attention to the laser, determine course - that should be easy, it's pointing right back at the source - pilot fires a missile that is hardened against laser attack - ablative surface? - which tracks laser to source, directed by co-ordinated sensors on "protector" aircraft.
Wouldn't any laser powerful enough to cause damage at a distance indicate its presence by the dust and water vapour it encounters?
How does one "aim" one's laser? You couldn't do it by hand, you'll have to use something else to track and pinpoint the target. Unlike a missile, a near miss won't do. So you'll probably use RADAR, which will just reveal your presence and location to the enemy.
Wasn't "PC" an abbreviation of "Paper Cassette"? I remember seeing the word "Error" on the display, but "PC" only appeared in relation to the paper tray/cassette.
The "PC Load Letter" was an irritant, but IIRC, you could configure either the printer itself, or the driver on your computer, to automatically select from the A4 tray if no other size was specified. Maybe it was a combination of both.
There was much rejoicing at my workplace when we figured that out.
That makes me wonder: sue your own parents? Do they have liability insurance for this sort of thing? No? Then where will the money come from? YOUR OWN INHERITANCE, dumbass. So, you sue your parents broke, or nearly so, you get your inheritance early, good for you.
Now you'll have to spend it to maintain your parents in their old age, because they can't afford to live.
Or your brothers and sisters sue the crap out of you, because you caused them to lose their inheritance.
Well, the problem was, as I explained elsewhere, it wouldn't install with apt-get. This is vanilla debian 8. So, I tried to track the dependencies, and resolve them. Remember, this is occupying my time *making* a toolchain, and not *using* said toolchain. Many hours later, I decided that *it wasn't working for me*, and my time would be better spent doing something else.
I never said it was a failure of ImageMagick, I accepted it was *my* problem. It was a problem that I decided not to spend any more time resolving. That doesn't make it *not* a problem.
500 packages? Good for you. I've installed Gentoo from scratch. Neither of those facts will make ImageMagick work on my computer.
It won't install, it won't compile, I have better and more valuable things to do with my time. I charge money for my time editing and processing video, I already have the Adobe suite, but I like to give FOSS alternatives a go. Sometimes, the FOSS alternatives don't work.
Yep - got it in a VM. Some very useful tools there, and some that don't work at all.
The thing about CS is, it's integrated. I've not found a Linux equivalent. There are linux equivalents for individual tools, but not an integrated solution.
I browse distrowatch and livecdlist every couple of months to see what's new, and I'll try out whatever looks interesting. I'm willing to try most anything - I even installed Gentoo from scratch once, and I have a great deal of respect for those who write this software.
P.S. academic pricing is a wonderful thing - CS 5.5 cost me about 1/4 of retail, that's a big deal anywhere, but it's yuuuge in Australia.
You're absolutely right - yet it didn't work for me, and I spent more time *building* the toolchain (trying to, anyway), than *using* the toolchain.
I put it back in the "tinker with it when I have time" pile.
Why do you think I was trying to compile from source?
Hint: it wouldn't install because of dependency failures.
I've had a lot of positive experience running Linux VMs under Windows. In fact, ffmpeg running in a Linux VM under windows is faster than Windows-native ffmpeg, so I'm happy to use Linux where it works. Haven't tried running a Windows VM under Linux - yet.
As I said in another comment - there's just no toolchain in Linux that is comparable to Creative Suite in Windows. Sure, there are tools that do the the same job or nearly so, but nothing that is as tightly integrated. PPro also relies on proprietary nVidia graphics drivers, I'm not confident they'd work through a VM.
I'd love to see CS for Linux, but it would still be proprietary, so its uptake wouldn't be worth the development costs.
GIMP is fine for simple things, but it's really no match for Photoshop.
And I said CS - Creative Suite - in my case Prelude, Premiere Pro, Audition, SpeedGrade, After Effects, Encore, etc. There's no comparable toolchain in Linuxworld.
I couldn't even get ImageMagick to compile on vanilla Debian. You might argue that's my problem, not the software, but - dependency failure after dependency failure, and I eventually gave up because my time is too valuable to spend it trying to build a toolchain, as opposed to actually using a toolchain.
Premiere Pro/After Effects.
1. No serious Linux competitor
2. Maybe, but doubtful
3. Video rendering needs grunt - why would you want to reduce performance?
You're right about that. If Adobe were motivated to port CS to Debian, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
I think they'd have to spin their own distro, though. CS is a complex suite and has enough trouble running on Windows. I can't imagine it being certified to work under even the top ten most popular distros.
Just imagine the reaction from the FOSS community if Adobe were to put out AdobeOS.