You may already have a digital camera (still or camcorder)with video or hdmi out which you can plug into a TV or monitor. These have the advantage of zoom and autofocus and often have a power input for continuous use. It's steadier and less tiring to use a tripod or copy stand.
For camcorders, see the thread at http://www.avsforum.com/t/1302280/low-cost-cam-with-live-hdmi-pass-through
Another choice is to get some strong binocular loupe glasses from China via ebay. They come in a variety of strengths and you can examine or read by moving the material in front of you. They are cheap ($1-50) and portable. Some come with their own LED illuminators. Search for binocular loupe
You have some advice on mirroring/Raid. Be sure to address your points of failure/threat:
HD failure
Use SSD(s) rather than a hard disk, mirrored if possible
Power glitch
Get a UPS or run on a locked-up laptop.
Virus
no internet connection (do not share LAN with any internet-connected PC) + remove USB connections and disable them in OS
Equipment Theft
take daily backups home or to a safety deposit box. Keep 1 for every day of week + 1 for every week + 1 for every month
Lightning or motor surge
good surge supressor(s)
Equipment failure
have duplicates available, immediate for low-cost, at shop for hi-cost; replace failing/old stuff.
Andrew Carnegie and John D.Rockefeller are remembered, usually sans first names, because they gave money away to intellectual causes - Rockefeller grants, Carnegie Libraries, Carnegie hall, Carnegie-Mellon University. They made lots of money keeping down workers' wages and keeping prices high. But what do you do after you accumulate that pile? How could you spend a billion dollars on yourself? or forty? Time to turn over a new leaf and spend the money making people happy. But there is no Stephen P. Jobs Foundation anymore. Apple may live on, but Jobs is history.
Hey, the world needs more timbits and double-doubles! If he can deke them out well enuff, maybe sell them some hydro, get those hosers to buy some cases of 50, or maybe just some pop, KD, or a nanaimo bar or two.
The Apple][ had an open architecture with 8 open slots. These got filled with memory, z80 processor cards, HD interfaces, and lots more. It spawned an industry.
Now Apple is busy selling sizzle rather than protein, gloss rather than substance. But they do sell. There are more rich idiots than geeks.
Currently, integrated circuits like CPUs are fabricated using UV light, wavelength 10^-8m. Gamma rays are 10^-12m long. All other things being equal (but they never are...), this may lead to chips with 10^4*10^4=10^8 more features. This might be worth constructing a 100m long gamma ray lens or two.
Basically, UV, acids, and our atmosphere, especially in cities, is hostile to colours we use in images. Look at the faded signs as well as faded photos. But print on non-acid paper, with inert pigments rather than fragile organic dyes, and keep the air out with a sealed frame or box, and you can expect hundreds of years of stable colour life. So print it yourself (Canon and Epson have pigment inks on some photo printers) on no-acid paper and matte it under glass (UV protection), keep it out of the sun, and enjoy. (Not against the glass- it will stick. That's why the matte.) If you're storing photos away, make sure the environment is all non-acidic, too, eg, metal boxes not cardboard or plastic. Cost-wise, look for processors who advertise no-acid paper and pigment inks. See http://www.wilhelm-research.com/ for the most comprehensive look.
Want to learn A Programming Language? Learn APL. Nothing else approaches it in parallelism or will be as useful when we all have thousands/millions of processors in the box.
The biggest threat to life and liberty is the State. Israel has killed more civilians than Hamas, the US has killed more civilians than Al-Quaeda. The US constitution, despite its age, can be a strong limit on state power. But all three branches of government have to have principled people in them who are willing to enforce the constitution, not look the other way like they did during the internment of Japanese-origin Americans or the "rendition" to torture of Canadians and Americans of Arab origin.
This may be a subtle distinction. He was convicted of "inciting racial hatred", but his comments seem more to be expressing racial hatred than inciting.
He doesn't entice others to share his views, doesn't say anyone should be hurt (except "@UnknownCallerr yes it is you fucking cunt ! Go rape your mother!", or "@Kickthestoat go rape your dog! #Cunt!" which seem raceless)
So I think the conviction for "inciting" is wrong. He may be a racist drunk, but he didn't incite anything.
tsk, tsk, restructuring: While (Current TV broken)
Buy one that suits your current needs. If it costs over $1000, reevaluate concept of "wants" and "needs". Buy it (you were going to anyway)
It's a myth that your blood will "boil" in a vacuum, at least while it is still within you.Your blood pressure is higher than the vapor pressure of the water in your blood.
See http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html
So Dave can make it across the void and kill Hal. It was science fiction, not science fantasy.
tOM
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And your load steadily increases, especially if you have boys!
You may already have a digital camera (still or camcorder)with video or hdmi out which you can plug into a TV or monitor. These have the advantage of zoom and autofocus and often have a power input for continuous use. It's steadier and less tiring to use a tripod or copy stand. For camcorders, see the thread at http://www.avsforum.com/t/1302280/low-cost-cam-with-live-hdmi-pass-through Another choice is to get some strong binocular loupe glasses from China via ebay. They come in a variety of strengths and you can examine or read by moving the material in front of you. They are cheap ($1-50) and portable. Some come with their own LED illuminators. Search for binocular loupe
Even if you could specify a set of rules, how would you trace violators? If TOR can protect child porn addicts, why not "Defence" departments?
You have some advice on mirroring/Raid. Be sure to address your points of failure/threat: HD failure Use SSD(s) rather than a hard disk, mirrored if possible Power glitch Get a UPS or run on a locked-up laptop. Virus no internet connection (do not share LAN with any internet-connected PC) + remove USB connections and disable them in OS Equipment Theft take daily backups home or to a safety deposit box. Keep 1 for every day of week + 1 for every week + 1 for every month Lightning or motor surge good surge supressor(s) Equipment failure have duplicates available, immediate for low-cost, at shop for hi-cost; replace failing/old stuff.
Andrew Carnegie and John D.Rockefeller are remembered, usually sans first names, because they gave money away to intellectual causes - Rockefeller grants, Carnegie Libraries, Carnegie hall, Carnegie-Mellon University. They made lots of money keeping down workers' wages and keeping prices high.
But what do you do after you accumulate that pile? How could you spend a billion dollars on yourself? or forty? Time to turn over a new leaf and spend the money making people happy.
But there is no Stephen P. Jobs Foundation anymore. Apple may live on, but Jobs is history.
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Hey, the world needs more timbits and double-doubles! If he can deke them out well enuff, maybe sell them some hydro, get those hosers to buy some cases of 50, or maybe just some pop, KD, or a nanaimo bar or two.
Give em all longnecks. Heineken for the suits, Bud for the blue collars. No glass, no cleaning, then take a nap.
The Apple][ had an open architecture with 8 open slots. These got filled with memory, z80 processor cards, HD interfaces, and lots more. It spawned an industry. Now Apple is busy selling sizzle rather than protein, gloss rather than substance. But they do sell. There are more rich idiots than geeks.
Use a diaper bag.
Currently, integrated circuits like CPUs are fabricated using UV light, wavelength 10^-8m. Gamma rays are 10^-12m long. All other things being equal (but they never are...), this may lead to chips with 10^4*10^4=10^8 more features. This might be worth constructing a 100m long gamma ray lens or two.
Basically, UV, acids, and our atmosphere, especially in cities, is hostile to colours we use in images. Look at the faded signs as well as faded photos. But print on non-acid paper, with inert pigments rather than fragile organic dyes, and keep the air out with a sealed frame or box, and you can expect hundreds of years of stable colour life.
So print it yourself (Canon and Epson have pigment inks on some photo printers) on no-acid paper and matte it under glass (UV protection), keep it out of the sun, and enjoy. (Not against the glass- it will stick. That's why the matte.)
If you're storing photos away, make sure the environment is all non-acidic, too, eg, metal boxes not cardboard or plastic.
Cost-wise, look for processors who advertise no-acid paper and pigment inks.
See http://www.wilhelm-research.com/ for the most comprehensive look.
Want to learn A Programming Language? Learn APL. Nothing else approaches it in parallelism or will be as useful when we all have thousands/millions of processors in the box.
If the US can't stop many, many tons of weed and coke coming in, what's to prevent an atomic weapon arriving the same way?
Release drugs by a laser shot? It usually takes a handgun or cash for me to release my drugs....
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=santorum
Politicians lying? Whenever does that happen?
The biggest threat to life and liberty is the State. Israel has killed more civilians than Hamas, the US has killed more civilians than Al-Quaeda.
The US constitution, despite its age, can be a strong limit on state power. But all three branches of government have to have principled people in them who are willing to enforce the constitution, not look the other way like they did during the internment of Japanese-origin Americans or the "rendition" to torture of Canadians and Americans of Arab origin.
Actually, we get 1,000 watts from sunlight per square metre, so it would take a very minor portion of the earth's landmass to power our civilisation.
Just quoting from the article gets a score of 4????
See them all at http://chirpstory.com/li/5261
He doesn't entice others to share his views, doesn't say anyone should be hurt (except "@UnknownCallerr yes it is you fucking cunt ! Go rape your mother!", or "@Kickthestoat go rape your dog! #Cunt!" which seem raceless)
So I think the conviction for "inciting" is wrong. He may be a racist drunk, but he didn't incite anything.
tsk, tsk, restructuring:
While (Current TV broken)
Buy one that suits your current needs. If it costs over $1000, reevaluate concept of "wants" and "needs". Buy it (you were going to anyway)
I thought doctors had dogs lick head wounds to cure them.
It would make more sense to move server farms to the arctic where the heat could be used to keep greenhouses warm.
It's a myth that your blood will "boil" in a vacuum, at least while it is still within you.Your blood pressure is higher than the vapor pressure of the water in your blood. See http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html So Dave can make it across the void and kill Hal. It was science fiction, not science fantasy. tOM