Clippy: "It looks like you're trying to pimp your presentation. Would you like some help with this?"
Options: "Yes. Show me how to pimp my document!"
"No, fuck off you annoying little shit!"
"If I have to turn you off in the options again I'm gonna bitchslap my laptop!"
nice! So really the only reason to have a NASA mainframe is to stop a door from swinging closed (and bragging rights, of course)...
I'm not that desperate, if I wanted a doorstop (that I wouldn't break my foot on if I tried kicking it out the way) I would just fuck off to Cornwall and buy a serpentinite one.
Camera: sounding like a better solution for those who don't mind the strange distortions you don't get with a flatbed. Shredder: wha? Why not just incinerate the originals?
Not trying to sound like a paid shill, but I find Acrobat covers the processing (correlating, straightening, OCR etc.) beautifully. Well worth the money if you're doing a LOT of document processing.
no, there isn't. If the scan is done at 200dpi (which is the minimum legally required), and certified as genuine (not hard to do - you can self-certify as long as the person doing the certifying has at some point has physical sight of the original) then there is absolutely no need to retain the paper original.
Enterprise-grade scanners are NOT expensive. I use an HP 7110 series MFD which OK, it snaffles an extra page now and again (it is rare this happens), but it is fast and has been reliable over the six years I've had it. While it is not 30ppm fast scanning at 600dpi, it is 3ppm fast which is SOHO fast (define "Enterprise grade" for us! I define it as "Not what you'd normally find in a home study"). I have used it to scan oh, probably half a million sides of A4 in the time I've had it.
Cost? Change out of £600 new IIRC. You can still get them secondhand for around £100.
On the one hand you don't want the wrong people getting a hold of such data, but on the other hand the more people with the ability to create an effective preventive or curative measure against such organisms have access to the data, the better. Who gets to decide who the right people are and (probably more importantly) who the wrong people are? The US? I wouldn't trust the American Government with my hat. My opinion follows: Science and international politics, to offer a simple solution, should be separated and kept separate. Science is about discovery and it's about knowledge, it should not be used as a weapon. So what if the application of such knowledge leads to weapons, benefits few and harms many; peaceful application of knowledge benefits everybody. Anybody who cannot or will not accept that has no place making decisions affecting it.
We're halfway there, what with txtspk... here's a joke from 1990 (possibly before, that's when I first came across it; I'll try and do it from memory):
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkurage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the langwij is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
- Postscript: That last paragraph looks slightly German to me. Hitler's dream come true (no you may not invoke Godwin's, it was a joke).
Yet an abnormally large proportion (compared with the general population) of Parliamentary members in the UK have criminal records, again a disproportionately large number of elected officials in local and national government have records for crimes against children. Yet, they still get "elected". Something be wrong with the system, methink.
...you can fit a hell of a lot more junk in a 50 litre, internally framed rucksack (sorry, had to be done. This thing is great, and at the expense of 15 litres capacity (the top and bottom will collapse somewhat and with the help of the many straps, maintain its shape) it qualifies as hand luggage!).
There's these things which look thoroughly uncomfortable and are WAY overpriced... not for me. Some minidisc recorders have spinny-clicky things, I have a couple and got pretty handy with that, although doing anything more than tracklisting would become an invitation for carpal tunnel treatment (IMO). I always figured that a single-handed five button job would be pretty easy to pick up; I figured this to be a logical progression from Braille, which uses six dots (ohreali?) and it doesn't take a blind person long to pick/that/ up. Let's see these hit mainstream, eh? And at slightly more sensible pricing than the Maltron...
I would imagine it would be something similar to shark skin. Run your hand from head to tail on a shark, and it's practically frictionless, run it the other way and you'll strip the skin off your hand before you get six inches. Now put the shark skin on the shell of an aircraft. Trailing edges of the scales (irregularities) create areas of differential pressure that deflect particles and prevent damage to the hard surface - or in the case of a shark, actually reduces hydrostatic pressure around the mass hence reducing the energy required to propel the fish through a substance that's 1200 times the density of air. If you run the skin the other direction, you'll have serious problems - turning a FBW into a powered brick which no amount of computer control would be able to correct.
Back to the golf ball thing, something I remember reading somewhere a while ago: distances covered in power drives haven't changed much over the past 40 or so years. You're still looking at between 270-290 yards. What's changed is the effort required to hit to the same distance consistently - it's reduced. Why? Lighter clubs, better ball design. Pro golfers, particularly power drivers, are considerably less fit than they used to be. Disclaimer: I used to blat golf balls around a 12-hole course off hours, my longest shot was 160 yards and I am SHIT at golf. I have trouble sinking a green shot from six feet!
I don't know of any (good) DJs that use lossy compression, not least because it sounds shit on large speakers. My bro uses FLAC or PCM WAV exclusively when it comes to digital content, apart from the CCDA/DVDA (man, that looks dodgy) on the opticals. I would imagine that a DJ that uses lossy compression isn't that good to begin with (no offence meant, what I'm saying is he can't know much about acoustics or the nuances of the genres he's playing with), and thoroughly deserves to have the PRS breathe down his neck for not carrying inlays because he's bringing the collective quality and esteem of the industry down.
Sorry for the mini rant, but I'm an acoustics freak and get pretty upset when newbs drop behind the mixing desk and whip out their Windows netbook and brag about the number of tracks they crammed on there - at 32kbps. Start at the source: if the source cuts at 500Hz and 14kHz, no amount of Monster Cable or number of AR monitors is going to make it sound any good at all. If the source runs the gamut of human hearing and beyond, you could use a Bose tinpot and it would sound fantastic in a church hall.
If all you want is a nuclear powered toaster, get a Mac. If all you want is a toaster and don't care if it's powered by a burning hamster, get a Windows box. If you want to know more about how a toaster works or you want fine control of how brown your toast ends up, get a Linux box.
Pull down a copy of Truecrypt. It'll do secure erasure by writing random bits to each sector (apparently) - still takes a couple days on a 160GB drive, and what with the HDD light on solid I'm pretty sure it's doing something close to what it says on the tin..
1. buy car battery 2. buy 1m of heavy gauge single core cable (2.5TE grounding conductor is ideal) 3. wrap cable around hard drive no more than three times 4. trim cable so the ends reach to the conductors on the battery and no more 5. apply cable to battery, wait for the spark. No more data.
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Clippy: "It looks like you're trying to pimp your presentation. Would you like some help with this?"
Options: "Yes. Show me how to pimp my document!"
"No, fuck off you annoying little shit!"
"If I have to turn you off in the options again I'm gonna bitchslap my laptop!"
nice! So really the only reason to have a NASA mainframe is to stop a door from swinging closed (and bragging rights, of course)...
I'm not that desperate, if I wanted a doorstop (that I wouldn't break my foot on if I tried kicking it out the way) I would just fuck off to Cornwall and buy a serpentinite one.
...can I get a mainframe for $5 shipped on BuyItNow?
(I wish!)
1 page every 3.6 seconds... doable, I reckon, even with just one person (would need a remote shutter release though) and a fast enough camera.
Camera: sounding like a better solution for those who don't mind the strange distortions you don't get with a flatbed.
Shredder: wha? Why not just incinerate the originals?
Not trying to sound like a paid shill, but I find Acrobat covers the processing (correlating, straightening, OCR etc.) beautifully. Well worth the money if you're doing a LOT of document processing.
You not figured out the three seashells?
no, there isn't. If the scan is done at 200dpi (which is the minimum legally required), and certified as genuine (not hard to do - you can self-certify as long as the person doing the certifying has at some point has physical sight of the original) then there is absolutely no need to retain the paper original.
I've not seen that feature on a camera before... I've used a Kodak C633 (don't ask) to snap images of documents (don't ask). OCR was a nightmare.
Enterprise-grade scanners are NOT expensive. I use an HP 7110 series MFD which OK, it snaffles an extra page now and again (it is rare this happens), but it is fast and has been reliable over the six years I've had it. While it is not 30ppm fast scanning at 600dpi, it is 3ppm fast which is SOHO fast (define "Enterprise grade" for us! I define it as "Not what you'd normally find in a home study"). I have used it to scan oh, probably half a million sides of A4 in the time I've had it.
Cost? Change out of £600 new IIRC. You can still get them secondhand for around £100.
Good point. Topic adjusted.
On the one hand you don't want the wrong people getting a hold of such data, but on the other hand the more people with the ability to create an effective preventive or curative measure against such organisms have access to the data, the better. Who gets to decide who the right people are and (probably more importantly) who the wrong people are? The US? I wouldn't trust the American Government with my hat. My opinion follows: Science and international politics, to offer a simple solution, should be separated and kept separate. Science is about discovery and it's about knowledge, it should not be used as a weapon. So what if the application of such knowledge leads to weapons, benefits few and harms many; peaceful application of knowledge benefits everybody. Anybody who cannot or will not accept that has no place making decisions affecting it.
love the WG/Trek references...
We're halfway there, what with txtspk... here's a joke from 1990 (possibly before, that's when I first came across it; I'll try and do it from memory):
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkurage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the langwij is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
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Postscript: That last paragraph looks slightly German to me. Hitler's dream come true (no you may not invoke Godwin's, it was a joke).
Depends much on what it is you're securing. I have datagrams secreted away that not even POTUS gets to look at. Therefore, my clearance exceeds his.
Yet an abnormally large proportion (compared with the general population) of Parliamentary members in the UK have criminal records, again a disproportionately large number of elected officials in local and national government have records for crimes against children. Yet, they still get "elected". Something be wrong with the system, methink.
I doubt they'd be connected via public WAN... or could the US Government possibly be that stupid??
...apparently the launch keys for each and every silo-based ICBM were/are all "0000000000" (ten zeroes). Scary.
...you can fit a hell of a lot more junk in a 50 litre, internally framed rucksack (sorry, had to be done. This thing is great, and at the expense of 15 litres capacity (the top and bottom will collapse somewhat and with the help of the many straps, maintain its shape) it qualifies as hand luggage!).
There's these things which look thoroughly uncomfortable and are WAY overpriced... not for me. Some minidisc recorders have spinny-clicky things, I have a couple and got pretty handy with that, although doing anything more than tracklisting would become an invitation for carpal tunnel treatment (IMO). I always figured that a single-handed five button job would be pretty easy to pick up; I figured this to be a logical progression from Braille, which uses six dots (ohreali?) and it doesn't take a blind person long to pick /that/ up. Let's see these hit mainstream, eh? And at slightly more sensible pricing than the Maltron...
I would imagine it would be something similar to shark skin. Run your hand from head to tail on a shark, and it's practically frictionless, run it the other way and you'll strip the skin off your hand before you get six inches. Now put the shark skin on the shell of an aircraft. Trailing edges of the scales (irregularities) create areas of differential pressure that deflect particles and prevent damage to the hard surface - or in the case of a shark, actually reduces hydrostatic pressure around the mass hence reducing the energy required to propel the fish through a substance that's 1200 times the density of air. If you run the skin the other direction, you'll have serious problems - turning a FBW into a powered brick which no amount of computer control would be able to correct.
Back to the golf ball thing, something I remember reading somewhere a while ago: distances covered in power drives haven't changed much over the past 40 or so years. You're still looking at between 270-290 yards. What's changed is the effort required to hit to the same distance consistently - it's reduced. Why? Lighter clubs, better ball design. Pro golfers, particularly power drivers, are considerably less fit than they used to be. Disclaimer: I used to blat golf balls around a 12-hole course off hours, my longest shot was 160 yards and I am SHIT at golf. I have trouble sinking a green shot from six feet!
I don't know of any (good) DJs that use lossy compression, not least because it sounds shit on large speakers. My bro uses FLAC or PCM WAV exclusively when it comes to digital content, apart from the CCDA/DVDA (man, that looks dodgy) on the opticals. I would imagine that a DJ that uses lossy compression isn't that good to begin with (no offence meant, what I'm saying is he can't know much about acoustics or the nuances of the genres he's playing with), and thoroughly deserves to have the PRS breathe down his neck for not carrying inlays because he's bringing the collective quality and esteem of the industry down.
Sorry for the mini rant, but I'm an acoustics freak and get pretty upset when newbs drop behind the mixing desk and whip out their Windows netbook and brag about the number of tracks they crammed on there - at 32kbps. Start at the source: if the source cuts at 500Hz and 14kHz, no amount of Monster Cable or number of AR monitors is going to make it sound any good at all. If the source runs the gamut of human hearing and beyond, you could use a Bose tinpot and it would sound fantastic in a church hall.
If all you want is a nuclear powered toaster, get a Mac.
If all you want is a toaster and don't care if it's powered by a burning hamster, get a Windows box.
If you want to know more about how a toaster works or you want fine control of how brown your toast ends up, get a Linux box.
Pull down a copy of Truecrypt. It'll do secure erasure by writing random bits to each sector (apparently) - still takes a couple days on a 160GB drive, and what with the HDD light on solid I'm pretty sure it's doing something close to what it says on the tin..
1. buy car battery
2. buy 1m of heavy gauge single core cable (2.5TE grounding conductor is ideal)
3. wrap cable around hard drive no more than three times
4. trim cable so the ends reach to the conductors on the battery and no more
5. apply cable to battery, wait for the spark. No more data.
home improvised EMP bombs rock.