Yeah- I remember when I was working in my college's AV room my Boss told me about a job posting. They wanted some students to wire the Compsci building with fiber, and they wanted to pay some ridiculously small amount (6, 7 bucks an hour?) such that she said "if I was the kid doing that job and getting paid squat like that, I'd show up High every day."
Granted- she used to hang with John Waters, so maybe thats not an odd response.
If you use smaller cards, you'll feel the need to backup more frequently.
Don't bank on it. Lets assume you are not a professional photographer (if you are and you forget to back up your stuff, you are "stupid" (I beleive that's an industry term;) )
IF you are like me, you have 3-4 CF cards floating around. If you are a causual user, you are going to forget what is on each card. So you use one about half way, think you are going to take a lot of photographs, swap in a fresh card. Then you only fill that one half way. You then repeat. So you now have 3 cards, only half full, which doesn't justify the time it takes to sit in front of your machine to down load them. So you don't feel the need to back up more frequently, becuase your cards have "soo much room left on them"- as such, they languish.
Now your argument The problem is also that people tend to leave their photos in the card if it is big enough. Now imagine you didnt put a copy of the photos in you harddrive because you had plenty of space in the card? You would loose it all.
assumes that "age" is a factor for corruption. An equally likely candidate for some cameras is improper formatting and byte alignment. In that case, time isn't your enemy at all- picture order is.
I think in the end, it just comes down to what is easier- monolithic is simple- because there is only 1. If it makes sense for you to juggle around a lot of little cards, then by all means. I think the corruption argument is tenuous, given the different types of CF corruption (based upon my limited google researching) and the lack of accurate failure rates- regardless of you spanning your luck over 4 cards, if you lose that 1 picture that you wanted, you've still lost it.
actually, there's this small liberal arts college down the road, I think its called Harvard? Yeah, well they all do lunch quite frequently. (and I'm certain they share adjunct professors)
For right or wrong, a lot of hardware vendors seem to assume that people using high-level languages aren't writing serious programs. As a result, they don't bother to fully implement their interfaces.
Nor do they bother to comply with standards. Despite providing PCI token ring cards for their new e-servers, don't expect a device driver that is standards compliant from IBM. Never mind that we run a real time human grade system (thus, the olde skool token rings!)
I seem to remember another slashdot article (or was it a Journal Entry?) where a managing engineer asked a company to buy a license to see and modify a device driver, threatening to take their VERY BIG contract away. The companies response was a list of their 3 competitors. They would rather lose money than give up any "Secrets!" (secrets being defined as "turn on this poll bit of the PCI controller at this address", or something to that effect)
IBM used to print up GREAT guides for their hardware- how to check the Power Status registers or the front panel key position on their RS/6000 machines (what registers, what offset, etc.)- Now, they won't even give you an assembler reference manual for their POWER4 chips ("just look at the powerPC stuff, its close enough...")
(well, fitness room at work, but its close enough!)
I finished my part-time masters degree in may, and partied like it was 1999. I put on 15 pounds (And I was already tubby).
So what have I been doing? Counting Calories - the only way to lose weight it to burn more calories than you consume. I tried to stay at 1500 calories a day. After a while, you can kinda judge when you are over or not. What helps on cutting down is eating quality protein. For example, yogurt is a good afternoon snack- the protein makes you feel full. (this is pretty much the basis of the Atkins diet)
Another point- stop eating out- or cut down on eating out, or get a salad if you eat out (and NO heavy dressings!)
Exercising again- you gotta use calories. I had/have hip dysplasia, so I can't do anything high impact (or it hurts for weeks)- but a mix of Weight Traning, Cardio, and maybe a bit of power-yoga in there, 3 times a week.
Drinking lots of water This helps when you are trying to cut down on what you eat- if you drink a Big-Ass thing of water, your stomach is full. I have one of those Brita squeeze bottles, so everytime I want a snack I drink one of those first. Afterwards, I can usually go without a snack. Also, pre-emptive water drinking is good at curbing cravings.
Nowadays, I eat less naturally, I'm looking good, and I've dropped 17 pounds. 3 more to hit my "target" weight, and after that, I may try to drop another 5 (gotta loose those love handles).
As a networking engineer, I am very concerned about the impending doom of IPv4 addresses running out.
But I am even more-so concerened about the sun burning out, because that would mean catastrophe for the human race! (not to mention it would mess up our nift wi-fi stuff!)
Seriously- with stop-gaps like NAT and ISP's recycling IPs from a pool for all users, its not gonna kill us.
Let cell phones work out this ipv6 thing, then tunnel, then upgrade piece by piece.
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Aftermarket radios have front panel input jacks (I believe the AIWA MP3 CD player had one... )
The other option is if you aren't using a trunk CD player and the head unit has RCA inputs, have an RCA to Mini adpater hanging out of your dash- then just plug and play.
You sounded pretty educated A ha! You have been fooled !;)
Actually, my response of relevence between Morrison and Lopez to this case is my way of "thinking outloud" about the topic (and hoping you would respond- ESPECIALLY if I was wrong!). I'm definitely interested, however of late I'm trying to find time between all the fires I'm fighting at work- so its bits and pieces of thinking here and there...
Based upon your recommendations, I will take the time to wrap my head around those cases and the decisions behind their holdings.
I love it when you can learn something from Slashdot! (aside from being told that I have been 0wnz0r3d)
yeah, I hear that. You can be a lawyer without being licensed to practice... (look at most law school professors- they let their memberships in BAR associations lapse).
BTW- I spoke to my wife- she knew Morrison off the top of her head! (so much for surprising her with my legal knowledge)
However to bring it to this convo- Morrison was about Sexual Assault, Lopez was about a gun in a school. This is about RADIO WAVES- due to broadcast being a prime channel for advertisements and commerce, there is a stronger argument for having an actual nexus of commerce (as opposed to Sexual Assault and a Gun in schools, which really have no relation to commerce at all).
So yes- Commerce Clause isn't the "get out of jail free" card (or rather, "get into jail free!" card) but its still loose enough that it would be at least worth arguing before a judge (who would be the final arbiter of wether it was affecting commerce or not).
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yep- Ford paid royalties until he had so much money he could "buy" his way out.
;)
Applicable googling left as an exercise for the lazy slashdot reader (When was the lasttime you got some exercise, anyway?
Why was the parent modded funny? It's all true!
Because sometimes, we have to laugh to keep ourselves from crying.
I mod the party -1, killjoy.
Yeah- I remember when I was working in my college's AV room my Boss told me about a job posting. They wanted some students to wire the Compsci building with fiber, and they wanted to pay some ridiculously small amount (6, 7 bucks an hour?) such that she said "if I was the kid doing that job and getting paid squat like that, I'd show up High every day."
Granted- she used to hang with John Waters, so maybe thats not an odd response.
Thank you for tempering one of those overarching "this is whats wrong with the world today!" comments.
My god.
In light of recent evidence, your advice SUCKS. R.I.P. Bill Biggart.
thats cute- I forgot that ALOHA called it "menehune"!
If you use smaller cards, you'll feel the need to backup more frequently.
;) )
Don't bank on it.
Lets assume you are not a professional photographer (if you are and you forget to back up your stuff, you are "stupid" (I beleive that's an industry term
IF you are like me, you have 3-4 CF cards floating around. If you are a causual user, you are going to forget what is on each card. So you use one about half way, think you are going to take a lot of photographs, swap in a fresh card. Then you only fill that one half way. You then repeat.
So you now have 3 cards, only half full, which doesn't justify the time it takes to sit in front of your machine to down load them.
So you don't feel the need to back up more frequently, becuase your cards have "soo much room left on them"- as such, they languish.
Now your argument The problem is also that people tend to leave their photos in the card if it is big enough. Now imagine you didnt put a copy of the photos in you harddrive because you had plenty of space in the card? You would loose it all.
assumes that "age" is a factor for corruption. An equally likely candidate for some cameras is improper formatting and byte alignment. In that case, time isn't your enemy at all- picture order is.
I think in the end, it just comes down to what is easier- monolithic is simple- because there is only 1. If it makes sense for you to juggle around a lot of little cards, then by all means.
I think the corruption argument is tenuous, given the different types of CF corruption (based upon my limited google researching) and the lack of accurate failure rates- regardless of you spanning your luck over 4 cards, if you lose that 1 picture that you wanted, you've still lost it.
If it gets corrupt you rescue the data from the card (plenty of tools to do that now) and re-format. Ta-da!
Its still the same problem if you have 4 CF cards and one (or all!) get corrupted- rescue the data, reformat.
But if you only have 1 card- its in your camera. If you lose that card, you have FAR greater problems on your hands!
Conversely- if you are juggling 4 different little pieces of plastic, the ability to lose one is a lot easier!
Without an LCD, I don't want it- its just not useful!
Dewd- yr bar tab is on me!
If I were a lawyer, I'd work in an "easment" joke here...
too bad I'm a geek.
Now, we sit in the FRONT row and sleep.
( and you KNOW I snored through my DiffEq class! It was at 10 am! It didn't help that I was also the ONLY ONE in the front row...)
actually, there's this small liberal arts college down the road, I think its called Harvard? Yeah, well they all do lunch quite frequently. (and I'm certain they share adjunct professors)
Oh yeah, and they have a law school, too!
For right or wrong, a lot of hardware vendors seem to assume that people using high-level languages aren't writing serious programs. As a result, they don't bother to fully implement their interfaces.
Nor do they bother to comply with standards. Despite providing PCI token ring cards for their new e-servers, don't expect a device driver that is standards compliant from IBM. Never mind that we run a real time human grade system (thus, the olde skool token rings!)
I seem to remember another slashdot article (or was it a Journal Entry?) where a managing engineer asked a company to buy a license to see and modify a device driver, threatening to take their VERY BIG contract away. The companies response was a list of their 3 competitors. They would rather lose money than give up any "Secrets!" (secrets being defined as "turn on this poll bit of the PCI controller at this address", or something to that effect)
IBM used to print up GREAT guides for their hardware- how to check the Power Status registers or the front panel key position on their RS/6000 machines (what registers, what offset, etc.)- Now, they won't even give you an assembler reference manual for their POWER4 chips ("just look at the powerPC stuff, its close enough...")
Wait, you get to drink beer at your office? Damn, I want to work at a place like that. Do you also get to hit on the boss's secretary?
He IS the boss's secretary!
(well, fitness room at work, but its close enough!)
I finished my part-time masters degree in may, and partied like it was 1999. I put on 15 pounds (And I was already tubby).
So what have I been doing?
Counting Calories - the only way to lose weight it to burn more calories than you consume. I tried to stay at 1500 calories a day. After a while, you can kinda judge when you are over or not.
What helps on cutting down is eating quality protein. For example, yogurt is a good afternoon snack- the protein makes you feel full. (this is pretty much the basis of the Atkins diet)
Another point- stop eating out- or cut down on eating out, or get a salad if you eat out (and NO heavy dressings!)
Exercising again- you gotta use calories. I had/have hip dysplasia, so I can't do anything high impact (or it hurts for weeks)- but a mix of Weight Traning, Cardio, and maybe a bit of power-yoga in there, 3 times a week.
Drinking lots of water This helps when you are trying to cut down on what you eat- if you drink a Big-Ass thing of water, your stomach is full. I have one of those Brita squeeze bottles, so everytime I want a snack I drink one of those first. Afterwards, I can usually go without a snack. Also, pre-emptive water drinking is good at curbing cravings.
Nowadays, I eat less naturally, I'm looking good, and I've dropped 17 pounds. 3 more to hit my "target" weight, and after that, I may try to drop another 5 (gotta loose those love handles).
We'll use micropayments! Flooz, anyone?
Don't worry, we'll set up a linux only site featuring RMS' greatest hits! Infact, We'll pay you to download 'em!
As a networking engineer, I am very concerned about the impending doom of IPv4 addresses running out.
But I am even more-so concerened about the sun burning out, because that would mean catastrophe for the human race! (not to mention it would mess up our nift wi-fi stuff!)
Seriously- with stop-gaps like NAT and ISP's recycling IPs from a pool for all users, its not gonna kill us.
Let cell phones work out this ipv6 thing, then tunnel, then upgrade piece by piece.
Aftermarket radios have front panel input jacks (I believe the AIWA MP3 CD player had one... )
The other option is if you aren't using a trunk CD player and the head unit has RCA inputs, have an RCA to Mini adpater hanging out of your dash- then just plug and play.
"A witty quote proves nothing" ;)
You sounded pretty educated ;)
A ha! You have been fooled !
Actually, my response of relevence between Morrison and Lopez to this case is my way of "thinking outloud" about the topic (and hoping you would respond- ESPECIALLY if I was wrong!). I'm definitely interested, however of late I'm trying to find time between all the fires I'm fighting at work- so its bits and pieces of thinking here and there...
Based upon your recommendations, I will take the time to wrap my head around those cases and the decisions behind their holdings.
I love it when you can learn something from Slashdot! (aside from being told that I have been 0wnz0r3d)
yeah, I hear that. You can be a lawyer without being licensed to practice... (look at most law school professors- they let their memberships in BAR associations lapse).
BTW- I spoke to my wife- she knew Morrison off the top of her head! (so much for surprising her with my legal knowledge)
However to bring it to this convo-
Morrison was about Sexual Assault, Lopez was about a gun in a school. This is about RADIO WAVES- due to broadcast being a prime channel for advertisements and commerce, there is a stronger argument for having an actual nexus of commerce (as opposed to Sexual Assault and a Gun in schools, which really have no relation to commerce at all).
So yes- Commerce Clause isn't the "get out of jail free" card (or rather, "get into jail free!" card) but its still loose enough that it would be at least worth arguing before a judge (who would be the final arbiter of wether it was affecting commerce or not).