Something about the "I don't get paid for things I did 6 months ago" argument doesn't hold water for me.
If you are salaried, then you ARE being paid for things you did in the past (and the future). Unless today is your most productive day to date, then you are being paid for work you did in the past. It evens out, in theory- unless you are being ripped off by your employer, in which case you'd be pissed, too.
If your boss sold the widgets you designed for years after he paid your salary for that day, wouldn't you be pissed? You might say that you wouldn't, since you were paid to do the job knowing full well what the implications were. You might feel differently if you were paid minimum wage to make your employer rich, though. I'm sure you would admit that there is a middle ground here, between outright extortion from consumers and charity on the parts of the artists.
The arts are unlike manufacturing or service-based industries. No, you don't pay your lawyer every day you are not in jail. You do usually pay him/her a fantastic sum to keep you OUT of jail when you need it. That business model is different from insurance models, which is different from widget manufacturing models, etc.
All I'm saying is that comparing your salaried job to an artist's royalties is like comparing apples to a song about apples.
I work with a pseudo-audiophile (he likes vinyl but can't back up his argument).
When he burns CDs, he always puts them on the ones that say "Perfect Audio Reproduction" or some nonsense. He believes that the more expensive, 'audio' blanks are better for audio, even though I've explained it to him. I gave him a mix CD of soundboard Led songs, and he re-burned it onto the 'audio' CD.
No, I agree that the monitoring part is bad. That is totally out of line.
I was arguing against the people who were upset that the program was using a few bytes of their bandwidth. We're talking about enough data to send a cookie here, not streaming video.
The freaking apollo mission could handle this much data. Adobe is in the wrong here, but it makes us nerds look over-reactive and childish to complain that 1Kb of our monthly 8Gb connection is being 'stolen'.
It is laughable that we would even consider suing Adobe for $5.7220459 × 10-5 per user.
This is fascinating (and has driven me to research esoteric cats), but does not affect my rebuttal to the parent post. Unless a geneticist can prove me wrong, I still argue that new species do not spontaneously emerge from two normal, same-specied parents.
Where would you draw the line? A new species of human known for myopia, anti-social behavior, and poor hygiene (Homo/dottus)? A new species of short people (Homo homunculus)? A species of dumbasses (Homo stupere)?
My original point is that it is wrong to categorize humans based on natural and unavoidable genetic differences. History has shown us that it is indeed a slippery slope towards eugenics and genocide- even if the parent's post was probably well intentioned.
Lions and tigers are different species. They *can* breed, but they cannot produce fertile young, afaik.
A lion will not give birth to a tiger after mating with another lion. A lion may give birth to a deformed or striped lion, but it will be a lion nonetheless.
Anything that is the product of two humans mating will be a human.
Stop the 'different species' nonsense. It just makes it easier for society to dehumanize people with disabilities.
At first I was going to gloat over what seemed like a stupid thing- that a CRT is holding back thousands of pounds of pressure. Then I did the math (on a very simplified pyramid-shaped crt model) and found that a 19" screen would hold back about 16,000 pounds (assuming that the crt is a perfect vacuum). So, you were right.
OTOH, that only represents 14.7 psi over the surface area of the crt; aerosol cans made of.010" steel can withstand much more pressure.
You were either using a really dull bit, or you were using a bit that was too large and needed to be pilot drilled.
I work with titanium all the time, and we use the same cobalt steel bits for Ti work that we use for anything else. It is rough on end mills, but at that point you should be using specialized coolants and cutting speeds.
The best way to test for Ti? Heft. The stuff can look like steel to a layperson (I personally think it's easy to tell Ti vs CRES vs Fe) but the feel of it is very different. If you pick up a metal piece that feels like it should be hollow because it's so light, it might be titanium. Or it could be hollow, I suppose.
If the piece is large enough, you can ring it with another piece of metal and listen for the sustain. Titanium parts, e.g., guide vanes, will ring considerably longer and at a higher pitch than softer, heavier metals (steel) or softer, lighter metals (aluminum, except the harder allows like 7075).
Or send the parts to me, I'll take a look. If they're fakes, I'll just toss them on the scrap heap. Promise.
AFAIK, LEDs can be made from invisible infrared all the way up to red in color (at that end of the spectrum). The 'color temperature' we associate with incandescent bulbs could be reproduced with LEDs by using near-infrared components to add that special, olde-timey 'hot wire' color.
I don't see why 5000K LED light differs from 5000K incandescent light. A mixture of different-colored LEDs formulated to produce 5000K light wouldn't have any 'coldness', as it would use more of the spectrum than the first generation of blue-white LED lamps that you could get at the Sharper Image.
I hate to break it to you, but the military is not a bunch of rough-chinned drill sergeants waving 1911 pistols around. You'd be hard pressed to walk into a room on a modern military base that doesn't have a computer in it.
Detritus from Mars lands on Earth all the time. The best place to find it (and other space dust) is the south pole.
While there is some contention about it, it is commonly accepted that life compatible with ours would be destroyed during the process of being transported here.
I wonder what kind of climate effects we'd see from that dust. Would it warm the surface of the planet? Would it get warm enough for free water to thaw and start the water cycle anew?
If the surface warmed just enough, you'd have huge quantities of water vapor and carbon dioxide released from ice caps into the atmosphere. It would be a tremendous learning opportunity re: global warming.
Fortunately, humankind survived the 3 days without TV or subzero Jag-shots and defeated the robot invasion with a few well-placed shots to the power-stations' transformers.
Playing the devil's advocate here, you *could* say that if the entire universe were created at once, it would take at least 4 or so years for the first light from other stars to reach us, thus making earth seem to be older than the stars. The night sky would be completely dark but for a few planets, if the alignment was right.
But yeah, it all falls apart under logical examination.
Galileo was not actually persecuted for claiming a heliocentric solar system per se- he was put on trial for interpreting biblical scripture (by himself) in order to make his views jibe with the cosmology of the church.
His crime, then, really was in the realm of the church. His science was never really questioned. Play with fire, get burned, i guess.
I get what you're saying re: some legacy programs, but as for
>>All good points, but what you don't seem to realize is that some of us >>don't have a choice in running or not running a certain OS. At work, I >>get to use what they give me. It's even partially locked-down to the point >>where I can't choose my own antivirus package, etc.
That part doesn't really apply to what I was getting at, since (I assume) you didn't have to pay for your work copy of windows. I am saying that if I pay for an OS, I want certain features and I don't want to be held back by non-features. Any product that falls short of that will not receive my money. I have not upgraded to 10.5, fwiw.
1. Install MS OS on parallels VM in OS X 2. ???? 3. Profit!
Seriously, I'm not trying to be a troll here. This whole fiasco is almost funny to watch. Imagine a conversation like this:
The key to a more stable Ford truck: 1. Replace the factory tires. Not difficult, and you'll save gas, go faster, and crash less. 2. Downgrade the factory CD player to the '02 tape deck. You won't experience skipping, and it's not difficult. 3. Place vinyl seat covers over the factory leather to prevent stains. It sucks that you can't sit on the expensive leather that you paid for, but that's life. 4. Don't replace any parts on the truck with OEM parts. They are unreliable. (But the truck itself isn't, once you follow these instructions) 5. Don't use the OnStar system that you paid for. It will crash the Ford. Use "Map Classic". You'll need someone in the passenger seat to read "Map Classic" to prevent the Ford from crashing. 6. Pull all the fuses for the radio, headlights, wipers, heated seats, etc. to make start-up troubleshooting simpler. You can activate those services once the Ford is running. It's not difficult to crawl under the dashboard to do so, and it saves time.
When I pay for something, I want tangible value for my money (and time is money). Your list, while helpful and probably spot on, demonstrates why Windows is unacceptable for me.
The nice thing about the ocean is that objects are more buoyant in salt water. Landing in fresh water might make things unworkable from an engineering perspective, despite the issues with corrosion.
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I'll take my $500 now.
-b
Something about the "I don't get paid for things I did 6 months ago" argument doesn't hold water for me.
If you are salaried, then you ARE being paid for things you did in the past (and the future). Unless today is your most productive day to date, then you are being paid for work you did in the past. It evens out, in theory- unless you are being ripped off by your employer, in which case you'd be pissed, too.
If your boss sold the widgets you designed for years after he paid your salary for that day, wouldn't you be pissed? You might say that you wouldn't, since you were paid to do the job knowing full well what the implications were. You might feel differently if you were paid minimum wage to make your employer rich, though. I'm sure you would admit that there is a middle ground here, between outright extortion from consumers and charity on the parts of the artists.
The arts are unlike manufacturing or service-based industries. No, you don't pay your lawyer every day you are not in jail. You do usually pay him/her a fantastic sum to keep you OUT of jail when you need it. That business model is different from insurance models, which is different from widget manufacturing models, etc.
All I'm saying is that comparing your salaried job to an artist's royalties is like comparing apples to a song about apples.
-b
I work with a pseudo-audiophile (he likes vinyl but can't back up his argument).
When he burns CDs, he always puts them on the ones that say "Perfect Audio Reproduction" or some nonsense. He believes that the more expensive, 'audio' blanks are better for audio, even though I've explained it to him. I gave him a mix CD of soundboard Led songs, and he re-burned it onto the 'audio' CD.
Some people are just idiots, I'm sorry.
-b
No, I agree that the monitoring part is bad. That is totally out of line.
I was arguing against the people who were upset that the program was using a few bytes of their bandwidth. We're talking about enough data to send a cookie here, not streaming video.
The freaking apollo mission could handle this much data. Adobe is in the wrong here, but it makes us nerds look over-reactive and childish to complain that 1Kb of our monthly 8Gb connection is being 'stolen'.
It is laughable that we would even consider suing Adobe for $5.7220459 × 10-5 per user.
-b
The iTunes ToS allow you to burn your digital songs to CDs- all songs, even RIAA-labeled songs.
I just don't see what's so different about ripping from CD to MP3.
This assumes that all the music is used for personal use, which I don't see a problem with.
-b
Yeah, and we should bill Macromedia for their cpu-intensive (and thus power-hungry) plugins. Electricity isn't free.
And I should bill Betty Crocker because the cost of their cake mix doesn't take into account the electricity that my oven will use.
And Peter Jackson, since his movies were so long that they required 20% more electricity to watch. That money comes from somewhere, folks.
-b
This is fascinating (and has driven me to research esoteric cats), but does not affect my rebuttal to the parent post. Unless a geneticist can prove me wrong, I still argue that new species do not spontaneously emerge from two normal, same-specied parents.
Where would you draw the line? A new species of human known for myopia, anti-social behavior, and poor hygiene (Homo/dottus)? A new species of short people (Homo homunculus)? A species of dumbasses (Homo stupere)?
My original point is that it is wrong to categorize humans based on natural and unavoidable genetic differences. History has shown us that it is indeed a slippery slope towards eugenics and genocide- even if the parent's post was probably well intentioned.
-b
Lions and tigers are different species. They *can* breed, but they cannot produce fertile young, afaik.
A lion will not give birth to a tiger after mating with another lion. A lion may give birth to a deformed or striped lion, but it will be a lion nonetheless.
Anything that is the product of two humans mating will be a human.
Stop the 'different species' nonsense. It just makes it easier for society to dehumanize people with disabilities.
-b
At first I was going to gloat over what seemed like a stupid thing- that a CRT is holding back thousands of pounds of pressure. Then I did the math (on a very simplified pyramid-shaped crt model) and found that a 19" screen would hold back about 16,000 pounds (assuming that the crt is a perfect vacuum). So, you were right.
.010" steel can withstand much more pressure.
OTOH, that only represents 14.7 psi over the surface area of the crt; aerosol cans made of
Interesting.
-b
You were either using a really dull bit, or you were using a bit that was too large and needed to be pilot drilled.
I work with titanium all the time, and we use the same cobalt steel bits for Ti work that we use for anything else. It is rough on end mills, but at that point you should be using specialized coolants and cutting speeds.
The best way to test for Ti? Heft. The stuff can look like steel to a layperson (I personally think it's easy to tell Ti vs CRES vs Fe) but the feel of it is very different. If you pick up a metal piece that feels like it should be hollow because it's so light, it might be titanium. Or it could be hollow, I suppose.
If the piece is large enough, you can ring it with another piece of metal and listen for the sustain. Titanium parts, e.g., guide vanes, will ring considerably longer and at a higher pitch than softer, heavier metals (steel) or softer, lighter metals (aluminum, except the harder allows like 7075).
Or send the parts to me, I'll take a look. If they're fakes, I'll just toss them on the scrap heap. Promise.
-b
Thanks for that explanation. I didn't really cull the main concept you were getting at from the other reading I did.
-b
AFAIK, LEDs can be made from invisible infrared all the way up to red in color (at that end of the spectrum). The 'color temperature' we associate with incandescent bulbs could be reproduced with LEDs by using near-infrared components to add that special, olde-timey 'hot wire' color.
I don't see why 5000K LED light differs from 5000K incandescent light. A mixture of different-colored LEDs formulated to produce 5000K light wouldn't have any 'coldness', as it would use more of the spectrum than the first generation of blue-white LED lamps that you could get at the Sharper Image.
-b
Using LEDs, you could create a lightsource that perfectly mimics incandescent lighting. Want more red? Increase the % of red LEDs in the matrix.
-b
You're creating a false dilemma.
There are more light sources than the fluorescent vs incandescent.
-Electroluminescent (EL) lamps
-LED sources (perfect for traffic lights, my city already uses them)
-Cherenkhov radiation from broken toshiba nuclear reactors
There's a good list that compares the relative efficiency of different light sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy
-b
I hate to break it to you, but the military is not a bunch of rough-chinned drill sergeants waving 1911 pistols around. You'd be hard pressed to walk into a room on a modern military base that doesn't have a computer in it.
Stop talking about things you don't understand.
-b
Detritus from Mars lands on Earth all the time. The best place to find it (and other space dust) is the south pole.
While there is some contention about it, it is commonly accepted that life compatible with ours would be destroyed during the process of being transported here.
-b
I wonder what kind of climate effects we'd see from that dust. Would it warm the surface of the planet? Would it get warm enough for free water to thaw and start the water cycle anew?
If the surface warmed just enough, you'd have huge quantities of water vapor and carbon dioxide released from ice caps into the atmosphere. It would be a tremendous learning opportunity re: global warming.
This could be a windfall scientific event.
-b
In the Big Picture, that is a Good Thing.
Why do you want your gov't to be smarter, faster, and better-looking than you?
I'd rather have my tax money house the unfortunate than be spent developing robots whose only purpose in violating the constitution.
-b
Fortunately, humankind survived the 3 days without TV or subzero Jag-shots and defeated the robot invasion with a few well-placed shots to the power-stations' transformers.
Good bedtime story, though.
-b
Playing the devil's advocate here, you *could* say that if the entire universe were created at once, it would take at least 4 or so years for the first light from other stars to reach us, thus making earth seem to be older than the stars. The night sky would be completely dark but for a few planets, if the alignment was right.
But yeah, it all falls apart under logical examination.
-b
Galileo was not actually persecuted for claiming a heliocentric solar system per se- he was put on trial for interpreting biblical scripture (by himself) in order to make his views jibe with the cosmology of the church.
His crime, then, really was in the realm of the church. His science was never really questioned. Play with fire, get burned, i guess.
-b
Do you mean 1-1-1970? ;)
I get what you're saying re: some legacy programs, but as for
>>All good points, but what you don't seem to realize is that some of us
>>don't have a choice in running or not running a certain OS. At work, I
>>get to use what they give me. It's even partially locked-down to the point
>>where I can't choose my own antivirus package, etc.
That part doesn't really apply to what I was getting at, since (I assume) you didn't have to pay for your work copy of windows. I am saying that if I pay for an OS, I want certain features and I don't want to be held back by non-features. Any product that falls short of that will not receive my money. I have not upgraded to 10.5, fwiw.
-b
1. Install MS OS on parallels VM in OS X
2. ????
3. Profit!
Seriously, I'm not trying to be a troll here. This whole fiasco is almost funny to watch. Imagine a conversation like this:
The key to a more stable Ford truck:
1. Replace the factory tires. Not difficult, and you'll save gas, go faster, and crash less.
2. Downgrade the factory CD player to the '02 tape deck. You won't experience skipping, and it's not difficult.
3. Place vinyl seat covers over the factory leather to prevent stains. It sucks that you can't sit on the expensive leather that you paid for, but that's life.
4. Don't replace any parts on the truck with OEM parts. They are unreliable. (But the truck itself isn't, once you follow these instructions)
5. Don't use the OnStar system that you paid for. It will crash the Ford. Use "Map Classic". You'll need someone in the passenger seat to read "Map Classic" to prevent the Ford from crashing.
6. Pull all the fuses for the radio, headlights, wipers, heated seats, etc. to make start-up troubleshooting simpler. You can activate those services once the Ford is running. It's not difficult to crawl under the dashboard to do so, and it saves time.
When I pay for something, I want tangible value for my money (and time is money). Your list, while helpful and probably spot on, demonstrates why Windows is unacceptable for me.
-b
The nice thing about the ocean is that objects are more buoyant in salt water. Landing in fresh water might make things unworkable from an engineering perspective, despite the issues with corrosion.
-b