About 75% of my music listening time comes from live365.com (I subscribe) - the remainder comes from looking up old favourites (that I don't already have) on youtube, and the small amount of music that's played on radio - honestly, I'd rather plug in my daughter's ipod while in the car - she has my well-developed sense of taste:-) as well as an appreciation of modern pop.....
I've wondered for a long time now, why a traditional HDD can't be made faster by using a large static head that spans the radius of the platter/s - instead of waiting for a moving head to position itself over a track and wait for the platter to rotate to the position you want, you're only waiting for the latter, i.e. eliminate the wait time for the head to move from one position to the next, and just read the head electronically. In fact, as you're "reading" all the tracks anyway, it would make for some interesting caching opportunities. You could do multiple reads on the one pass, and even do simultaneous reads and writes.
In my own experience, washable cotton nappies (diapers) spend a considerable amount of time in the soak bucket after having most of the poop scraped off into the toilet. If you also use a disposable paper nappy liner, there's very little poop left on the cotton nappy - semi-liquid "events" notwithstanding. Anyway, spending 12-24 hours soaking in a very high pH takes care of much of the faecal coliform problem. I live in a rural area with no connection to the sewarage system, so all my effluent is disposed onsite. The blackwater (toilet + kitchen sink) goes to the septic tank and the effluent from that goes to trenches on a gentle eastern downslope. Shower/bath outflows to an open tank and then trickles out to the fruit trees on the northern slope. All other greywater flows southward directly downslope through our "rainforest" plot - and very happy it is, too.
I understand the major risk with greywater is keeping it for more than ~24 hours. In that time, all the dissolved oxygen is consumed by aerobic activity, then the stinky anaerobics get their turn.
Yes, and didn't she last a long time? Her election to parliament was a protest vote, no more. Look at her share of the vote when she got tossed. She can't have been a very effective representative, hmmmm?
I have a great deal of respect for her as a journalist, but the election results speak for themselves.
Now if you want to talk about Peter Garrett's brilliant career.....(crickets).....Assange couldn't be worse (I hope).
I think you've confirmed my argument - you could do all your stuff using Windows (except for software that has NO Windows equivalent) , but it would cost a truckload more $$$
Linux and its applications only dominate ANYWHERE because they're cheap/free. Granted, they work well enough for the market they're aimed at, but there's a lot more to the IT world than the internet.
I lost my copy ages ago and have trawled every 2nd hand bookstore within 50km - no copies. i guess it's one of those books that people just hang on to.
Premiere Elements is a fine product, but just like most things, it's not a linear relationship between features and price. If you want to do things that aren't on the P.Elements feature list, then you pay whatever the market demands - and it demands a lot - or you seek free/open alternatives. BTW, have you priced a full Avid suite lately?
Illegal copying of software is a problem that needs to be managed, because you'll never eliminate it. I think it depends largely on how much money/effort you want to throw at it. The OP said he would prefer the developers work on the product itself rather than DRM schemes, and good on him. If illegal copies cost him less than the resources required to suppress such copying, then he'll just have to suck it up and concentarate on building loyalty and providing superior service among the legitimate owners of the product/s, as you suggested. If it costs him less to include some form of validation process, then he'd be stupid not to.
I mean, why make it easy for people to copy or use your software illegally? There are, as you said, many free/open alternatives out there.
I agree about the "spying and reporting" option being nonsense, though. Why not release a 30 or 60-day fully functional trial version? That's long enough to complete a modest project, and if you like it, then you can buy it. If you didn't like it, or you're not the type who believes in paying for a product, then you're not a customer anyway.
The water itself is free, if you're willing to use it untreated: just put in a couple of cisterns and Bob is your uncle. Almost nobody does this anymore because untreated water isn't worth collecting.
That's what I do, and it's not that difficult or expensive (especially as I'm not even connected to a municipal supply). Family of 4, ~44,000 litres of steel storage tanks, collect rainwater of the roof, and that's about it. We don't filter it and we don't get sick from all the bird poop, dust, sticks, and leaves that wash off the roof and accumulate in the pipes. I clean the gutters and debris traps every couple of months, and flush the collector pipes at the same time. The water tastes great with infrequent exceptions.
Except in dry season, when we sometimes have to buy a load of town water - can barely drink that stuff, it's foul. Showering in town water leaves a chlorine "perfume" on my skin for hours.
Yep - their own website compatibility matrix said a particular Proliant server was certified for Microsoft SBS2011 (yeah, I know, but what the customer wants, and pays for - that's what the customer gets). After numerous failed installation attempts, a HP tech finally admits that the on-board RAID controller isn't certified for SBS2011, and I was on my own until they got around to updatating the driver. In the meantime, I could try a rollback to the MS Server 2008 driver........
Hmmm - I know nothing of aircraft electricity systems (I live off-grid with solar PV +batteries @ nominal 24VDC and 240VAC), but is that on-board 28VDC a reasonably stable figure? i.e. is it a regulated supply? If so, then in-flight ipad charging isn't an issue. As someone else pointed out, a zener diode and a resistor would fit the bill. You could even supply an emergency charge pack containing n multiples of AA cells.
As for cars running at nominal 48VDC, isn't that above the value that can deliver a "shock" to humans? Can you imagine the reaction from insurance companies if that's the case?
S'funny - I thought ipads charged at USB current and voltage.
I'd have thought even the USAF wouldn't be stupid enough NOT to take mid-air charging into account when they were considering this, although a mil-spec 120VAC/400Hz or 28Vdc to USB plugpack will probably cost $40,000 each when the supply contracts are signed.
Tell me truly (I'm not trolling) - why is 44kHz seen as the ideal sample rate? Sure, it's set at twice the theoretical maximum rate the human ear can deal with and pass along to the brain, but I'm puzzled about something. Say, for example, you listen to 3 pure tones, e.g. 1kHz, 4kHz, and 10kHz. How much information is your ear/brain processing? Why is 44kHz seen as sufficient to capture all that information?, let alone the complexity of a song?
Have to disagree with you there. I filmed a school dance concert last October. Used a Sony HVR-Z1P in high-def mode (1080i) and the footage looked great (for a stage production). I even bought a blu-ray burner to produce the discs. Then the school said, "no thanks, we'll have standard-def DVDs instead", so I had to produce what they wanted. The high-def version came to 27GB (MPG) and I looked at std-def and hi-def versions side-by-side on my monitor. I nearly cried. Then I re-compressed it down to ~8.5GB for a dual-layer DVD. Oh, well, they still paid:-)
The security staff in domestic terminals have (in my recent experience in BNE and SYD) been pretty cool (with minor issues, anyway). In Brissie, their carry-on baggage scanner detected a tiny pair of tick tweezers (made in the USA, oh, the irony) in the first aid kit of my wife's handbag and took them off for a supervisor's opinion. "Sorry, you can't take them. If you'd care to go back outside to the newsagent, you can buy a padded envelope and stamps, and post this back to your home address, then come back through the scanner." Ditto in Sydney. My son's little RC helicopter included a small screwdriver whch we hadn't noticed in the box. The security staff were OK with finding it (had to lose it, but no big deal), they said "this happens all the time - some of these toys have toolkits, some don't, and we expect to find these things. Have a nice flight". Hopefully the international security staff will be equally calm and pleasant.
Yes, well - anything written, said, filmed or commented upon by John Pilger requires a grain, no, a kilo or two of salt and healthy skepticism before responding. "Polemicist" is inadeqate to describe him.
Hmmm. I have no mod points today, so that makes me a commenter, not a mod. -1 for you.
I obviously didn't get the reference you intended, so -1 for me.
It seems you haven't read SM's WWII collection, so while it was an incorrect reference, it wasn't a non-sequitur. Call that even. BTW, I'd be flattered if someone compared me to Spike.
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Ha! - I was >>- this far from donating/subscribing to somafm when I heard some rap/hip-hop on their Indian/desi channel. Pity.
I'd mod you up, but I've already commented.
About 75% of my music listening time comes from live365.com (I subscribe) - the remainder comes from looking up old favourites (that I don't already have) on youtube, and the small amount of music that's played on radio - honestly, I'd rather plug in my daughter's ipod while in the car - she has my well-developed sense of taste :-) as well as an appreciation of modern pop.....
I've wondered for a long time now, why a traditional HDD can't be made faster by using a large static head that spans the radius of the platter/s - instead of waiting for a moving head to position itself over a track and wait for the platter to rotate to the position you want, you're only waiting for the latter, i.e. eliminate the wait time for the head to move from one position to the next, and just read the head electronically. In fact, as you're "reading" all the tracks anyway, it would make for some interesting caching opportunities. You could do multiple reads on the one pass, and even do simultaneous reads and writes.
In my own experience, washable cotton nappies (diapers) spend a considerable amount of time in the soak bucket after having most of the poop scraped off into the toilet. If you also use a disposable paper nappy liner, there's very little poop left on the cotton nappy - semi-liquid "events" notwithstanding. Anyway, spending 12-24 hours soaking in a very high pH takes care of much of the faecal coliform problem. I live in a rural area with no connection to the sewarage system, so all my effluent is disposed onsite. The blackwater (toilet + kitchen sink) goes to the septic tank and the effluent from that goes to trenches on a gentle eastern downslope. Shower/bath outflows to an open tank and then trickles out to the fruit trees on the northern slope. All other greywater flows southward directly downslope through our "rainforest" plot - and very happy it is, too.
I understand the major risk with greywater is keeping it for more than ~24 hours. In that time, all the dissolved oxygen is consumed by aerobic activity, then the stinky anaerobics get their turn.
Yes, and didn't she last a long time? Her election to parliament was a protest vote, no more. Look at her share of the vote when she got tossed. She can't have been a very effective representative, hmmmm?
I have a great deal of respect for her as a journalist, but the election results speak for themselves.
Now if you want to talk about Peter Garrett's brilliant career.....(crickets).....Assange couldn't be worse (I hope).
I think you've confirmed my argument - you could do all your stuff using Windows (except for software that has NO Windows equivalent) , but it would cost a truckload more $$$
Linux and its applications only dominate ANYWHERE because they're cheap/free. Granted, they work well enough for the market they're aimed at, but there's a lot more to the IT world than the internet.
Cheap (free), secure, easy. Pick 2.
Post with your real name and we'll talk to you, troll
+1 Testify, Brother! Too many non-windows admins IMHO have little idea of the capabilities of Powershell
+1
I lost my copy ages ago and have trawled every 2nd hand bookstore within 50km - no copies. i guess it's one of those books that people just hang on to.
There was also the Macrovision "Blur-O-Vis" effect added to VHS tapes.
Premiere Elements is a fine product, but just like most things, it's not a linear relationship between features and price. If you want to do things that aren't on the P.Elements feature list, then you pay whatever the market demands - and it demands a lot - or you seek free/open alternatives. BTW, have you priced a full Avid suite lately?
Illegal copying of software is a problem that needs to be managed, because you'll never eliminate it. I think it depends largely on how much money/effort you want to throw at it. The OP said he would prefer the developers work on the product itself rather than DRM schemes, and good on him. If illegal copies cost him less than the resources required to suppress such copying, then he'll just have to suck it up and concentarate on building loyalty and providing superior service among the legitimate owners of the product/s, as you suggested. If it costs him less to include some form of validation process, then he'd be stupid not to.
I mean, why make it easy for people to copy or use your software illegally? There are, as you said, many free/open alternatives out there.
I agree about the "spying and reporting" option being nonsense, though. Why not release a 30 or 60-day fully functional trial version? That's long enough to complete a modest project, and if you like it, then you can buy it. If you didn't like it, or you're not the type who believes in paying for a product, then you're not a customer anyway.
the taliban gets hold of some drones?
The water itself is free, if you're willing to use it untreated: just put in a couple of cisterns and Bob is your uncle. Almost nobody does this anymore because untreated water isn't worth collecting.
That's what I do, and it's not that difficult or expensive (especially as I'm not even connected to a municipal supply). Family of 4, ~44,000 litres of steel storage tanks, collect rainwater of the roof, and that's about it. We don't filter it and we don't get sick from all the bird poop, dust, sticks, and leaves that wash off the roof and accumulate in the pipes. I clean the gutters and debris traps every couple of months, and flush the collector pipes at the same time. The water tastes great with infrequent exceptions.
Except in dry season, when we sometimes have to buy a load of town water - can barely drink that stuff, it's foul. Showering in town water leaves a chlorine "perfume" on my skin for hours.
Yep - their own website compatibility matrix said a particular Proliant server was certified for Microsoft SBS2011 (yeah, I know, but what the customer wants, and pays for - that's what the customer gets). After numerous failed installation attempts, a HP tech finally admits that the on-board RAID controller isn't certified for SBS2011, and I was on my own until they got around to updatating the driver. In the meantime, I could try a rollback to the MS Server 2008 driver........
Hmmm - I know nothing of aircraft electricity systems (I live off-grid with solar PV +batteries @ nominal 24VDC and 240VAC), but is that on-board 28VDC a reasonably stable figure? i.e. is it a regulated supply? If so, then in-flight ipad charging isn't an issue. As someone else pointed out, a zener diode and a resistor would fit the bill. You could even supply an emergency charge pack containing n multiples of AA cells.
As for cars running at nominal 48VDC, isn't that above the value that can deliver a "shock" to humans? Can you imagine the reaction from insurance companies if that's the case?
S'funny - I thought ipads charged at USB current and voltage.
I'd have thought even the USAF wouldn't be stupid enough NOT to take mid-air charging into account when they were considering this, although a mil-spec 120VAC/400Hz or 28Vdc to USB plugpack will probably cost $40,000 each when the supply contracts are signed.
Thanks. I couldn't wrap my head around some of that stuff.
Tell me truly (I'm not trolling) - why is 44kHz seen as the ideal sample rate? Sure, it's set at twice the theoretical maximum rate the human ear can deal with and pass along to the brain, but I'm puzzled about something. Say, for example, you listen to 3 pure tones, e.g. 1kHz, 4kHz, and 10kHz. How much information is your ear/brain processing? Why is 44kHz seen as sufficient to capture all that information?, let alone the complexity of a song?
Have to disagree with you there. I filmed a school dance concert last October. Used a Sony HVR-Z1P in high-def mode (1080i) and the footage looked great (for a stage production). I even bought a blu-ray burner to produce the discs. Then the school said, "no thanks, we'll have standard-def DVDs instead", so I had to produce what they wanted. The high-def version came to 27GB (MPG) and I looked at std-def and hi-def versions side-by-side on my monitor. I nearly cried. Then I re-compressed it down to ~8.5GB for a dual-layer DVD. Oh, well, they still paid :-)
The security staff in domestic terminals have (in my recent experience in BNE and SYD) been pretty cool (with minor issues, anyway). In Brissie, their carry-on baggage scanner detected a tiny pair of tick tweezers (made in the USA, oh, the irony) in the first aid kit of my wife's handbag and took them off for a supervisor's opinion. "Sorry, you can't take them. If you'd care to go back outside to the newsagent, you can buy a padded envelope and stamps, and post this back to your home address, then come back through the scanner." Ditto in Sydney. My son's little RC helicopter included a small screwdriver whch we hadn't noticed in the box. The security staff were OK with finding it (had to lose it, but no big deal), they said "this happens all the time - some of these toys have toolkits, some don't, and we expect to find these things. Have a nice flight". Hopefully the international security staff will be equally calm and pleasant.
Yes, well - anything written, said, filmed or commented upon by John Pilger requires a grain, no, a kilo or two of salt and healthy skepticism before responding. "Polemicist" is inadeqate to describe him.
Hmmm. I have no mod points today, so that makes me a commenter, not a mod. -1 for you.
I obviously didn't get the reference you intended, so -1 for me.
It seems you haven't read SM's WWII collection, so while it was an incorrect reference, it wasn't a non-sequitur. Call that even. BTW, I'd be flattered if someone compared me to Spike.
You haven't read SM's WWII books? -1 for you.