yeah, but a 3-month old daughter is a LOT more fun than a 7-month old son!:)
while not an SLR, I've been happy with my SLR-style Fuji Finepix S5000 w/10x optical zoom I picked up several months ago for @ $400. Only my 2nd digital camera and I basically point and shoot; traded the Olmypus z4000 for it (which also wasn't bad, but...). no doubt I need to take camera classes for better shots, but I'm happy with it.
I've been loading my stuff onto Shutterfly to share with family but am just about to bring my new server online with Gallery from gallery.sourceforge.net. Make it easier to manage and control.
nobody even mentioned filing a complaint with the apartment management for invasion of privacy and stupidity of maintenance personnel. might even be a civil lawsuit in there somewhere for causing you problems with the law that they had no right to even stir up. and no, I don't think any kind of "reasonable doubt" would be covered
for, what goes up fast, must come down fast, and speed is energy which must be bled off by either massive amounts of expensive and explosive rocket fuel, or through ablative heat transfer which has its own problems (as we have seen before).
the part I don't understand in this statement is if it goes up fast, why does it have to come down fast? why can't you get things to come down slow? if there are problems with heat transfer like on the space shuttle, why don't we have them come down at a slower speed, like say half-speed? wouldn't that be well-within the safety margins?
the reason that Dell uses those green hoods is so that airflow is properly routed over the fans and heatsinks to provide good cooling. if you remove them, you are asking for trouble
Shiner, TX (where they make that beer) is just down the road about 100 miles from us. http://www.shiner.com/home.html They even have "Shiner Sound and Motion" on their website to let you experience the full effect:)
Also, about 100 miles away is Brenham, TX, the home of Blue Bell ice cream. http://www.bluebell.com/Default.htm
Quite a bit of difference 'tween central (hill country) north (plains) south (coastal) east (woodlands) and west (desert) Texas; just like in Australia, going from Alice Springs to Sydney.
who knows where I'll be in 3 years. got to find those better paying jobs to support my family. we like it here, been here more than 9 years, but who knows?
you know, your statements combined with your attitude remind me simultaneously of 2 different things:
1) Robin Williams comedy routine where he imitates the French {French accent}."We're French,you pissant fucking Americains! Fuck off!"
and
2) the scene from The Matrix Reloaded where they are trying to get the keymaker in the restaurant and the Merovingian says "I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it."
AHH, to be young, single, in love with the world, and filthy rich enough to ride around it in 3 yrs.
anyhow, while I understand you want to burn pics to cd from storage media, the question is why? if for archival purposes until you get pics uploaded then by all means go for it. if you are doing it in order to upload pics because you are afraid of running out of space, that may not be necessary. you are carrying more than 1 quantity of digital pic storage, are you not? many photo processing places in the US nowadays allow you to bring in your xD/SD/Flashmem/etc storage media and create printed pics right on the spot as well as burning them to cdrom. uploading them to the web is up to you, though. now, if you had a wireless PDA that accepted Sony mem sticks and your digital camera also happened to use those, I foresee an easy way to bypass needing cdroms to upload to the 'net.
I remember something similar from years ago when I visited Carlsbad Caverns in southern New Mexico. They have a phone-shaped receiver that picks up the broadcasts as you move from station to station. The broadcasts are on an endless loop and just keep repeating. The only expensive part in this thingy that I can see would be the phone-shaped receiver. Not cheap, but you get a credit card as a downpayment and that prevents theft and damage.
Shorter=Your local state "pound-me-in-the-ass" penitentiary
Longer=Federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" penitentiary
I'm not sure what you meant by Congressmen being not that "well paid off". I think you should take another look at how much elected representatives actually make compared to the working man and the benefits that they get that you NEVER hear about. You would be shocked at some of those benefits.
As an example of poorly paid elected reps, witness where I live (Texas). They make less than $10,000 for the work they do (5 months of labor every 2 years). However, their retirement pay is something else altogether. Their retirement pay is linked to the number of years of elected rep service but is linked to the payscale of state judges. You ought to check that one out. I'm too lazy to Google so I'll just send you here.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=U TF -8&q=texas+representative+legislative+retirement+p ay
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/artic le s/print/LL/mzl1.html
http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news5608.htm
"Texas legislators contribute 8% of their salary toward their retirement, but their benefits are tied to the pensions of district judges. Consequently, one legislator who was never paid more than $7,200 per year in salary during his 39 years of legislative service retired with a pension of $92,704 annually.
You should see those retirement paychecks after just 10 years of elected rep service!
You do not legally own the song. You own a license to listen to the song. The song itself is still owned by either the record company or the artist, or both.
I don't own an iPod or any portable mp3 player etc so don't read more into my comment than it says.
so he owns a license to listen to the song? even Congress and the courts have agreed that there is an issue called 'Fair Usage'. if I have a license to listen to that song, then I should be able to listen to it in ANY format that I choose, REGARDLESS of what the license or the DMCA says. and strictly speaking, I don't have a license to listen to the song, I have a license for a COPY of the song. if a license was required to listen then how do I hear it from my radio? the old Fair Usage has not been run out of town because DMCA was passed.
notice the comment in the cease and desist letter:
"...causing them enormous potential loss of revenue and reputation."
note the word POTENTIAL. the only way it is potential loss of revenue is if I circumvent the DRM and then illegally give away the music to other people who have not paid for the license to have their own copy of the song. if I haven't done this, then where is the problem? and don't tell me it goes against the license I agreed to. just because the restriction is in the license does not make it legal (remember Fair Usage?).
you want the school to kick your ass out because you threatened them with revealing their network secrets and not following their AUP (surely they have one?)?
instead, find some sympathetic influential faculty (especially if they have tenure) who can make life hell for those responsible. if they refuse to do anything, just report it to your local newspaper and document _EVERYTHING_ (either immediately write notes while in their presence or tape-record what their comments are while they deny any problems). if they turn purple or get irate, either way you got 'em by the short-n-curlies.
you shouldn't have to put up with stupid people who endanger your future life because they won't protect your data.
hmmm, I wonder if this would make them liable for future case of identity theft? potentially big bucks!
hey dipshit. I live in texas, you dipshit. what do you think the parent post was about, you dipshit? water on the ground, dipshit.
if I live adjacent to flowing water, I can divert as much as I want, you dipshit. your own link points it out, dipshit.
"Water flowing in Texas creeks, rivers, and bays is state water. This surface water is public property; however, the state confers on individuals and organizations the right to pump water from a stream, creek, pond, or lake or to impound water in a lake or pond."
what a dipshit. can't even bother to check his own fucking links.
you claimed that all states are like this. ok, dipshit, look up each and every state law and post it here.
btw, you really broke my heart with your pathetic attempt to make me look bad with my one typo. boo hoo hoo. what a fucking noob dipshit, you are.
wrong. in Texas, water belongs to whomever owns the land it sits on. The Texas Commission on Enivronmental Quality (they keep changing their damn name) does NOT have authority in many areas of water usage as you suggest.
example - I have a creek crossing my land. it runs for another 20 miles before dropping in to the local lake. in the process, it crosses (or parallels) about 30 other property lines. I can legally dam up the creek to make myself a fishing pond and water my crops with it, thereby using up ALL the water flow, and there is NOTHING that the downstream folks can do about it. yes, it's not a nice thing to do and will piss some people off that I have reduced creek flow.
it's called the "right of capture"
befire you start spouting off about laws across the country, you should either (1) check those laws, or (2) preface your statement with a phrase such as "I believe...."
I remember checking out a solar-powered house about 5 years ago on a multi-house tour of energy-saving homes here in Austin. The solar system itself is expensive and so are the batteries. The average payback for solar is about 10 years. But that depends on how many solar plates you have generating electricity. The batteries are expensive and do require replacement every so often (forget the # of years) but only take up about 2ft x 6ft area, not really a lot of space (this house had them outside in a specially built protected 'shed' right next to the house).
Depending on where you live, you can use several different (passive) methods for keeping your house warm or cool.
Methods -------- trees - get them big enough to shade your house, you'd be surprised at the temperature difference. if you can't get trees, have ivy grow on the walls, this will drop the temperature also by preventing sunlight from hitting the walls.
windows - use transom windows to create an airflow thru the house near the ceiling. in hot months, this gets rid of hot air by the ceiling. it also helps evaporate moisture off your skin which creates a cooling effect.
walls - _HEAVILY_ insulate your walls. I've ssen some houses with walls 2-3 ft thick, made out of either straw bales, poured concrete inside cinder blocks, or rammed earth. the insulation is so good, you'll barely touch your heating OR cooling equipment.
roof - if you put solar panels on the roof and mount them at least 4-6" off the roof shingles, you not only generate electricity, you prevent the sunlight from hitting the roof and thereby warming up the attic. also, put one of those cutouts along the roof peak to help draw off hot air. this place (http://www.scienceonline.co.uk/science_now/green_ roofs.html) even recommends planting grass on the roof if you can do it on your house. here's an excellent link to another website describing this stuff. you can also try a metal roof as this will actually reflect a lot of the solar gain rather than letting it soak in. an added bonus is that it will last at least 50 years compared to 25 yr shingles (less replacement cost).
all these methods will help you in saving electricity, not generating it.
for generating power, look to wind, water, and sun. you will have to evaluate where you live to see what is best.
I looked into wind power a few years ago and they have some _very_ efficient systems for generating power, and they are relatively inexpensive (less than $2000).
with water systems you will need some kind of current to move those waterwheels constantly. however, you will have to find a way to step up/down the speed of the current generating axles to match the needed speed for generating electricity and storing it in the batteries.
solar power has always been expensive. until they find a way to cut the manufacturing costs for the solar panels, it's too pricy for me compared to the other methods.
btw, no matter what system you choose, you WILL have to have batteries to store power. that is one cost you will not be able to avoid.
what if your iMac made you go blind from watching Steve Ballmer dance like a monkey on stage because you looked at that sexy SMP AMD-cpu, would you still thank Steve Jobs?:) or would that just make you swear never to look at another x86 pc?
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps we're seeding a new generation of pr0n stars...
:)
yeah, but think of the money you can make just for getting laid all the time!
yeah, but a 3-month old daughter is a LOT more fun than a 7-month old son! :)
while not an SLR, I've been happy with my SLR-style Fuji Finepix S5000 w/10x optical zoom I picked up several months ago for @ $400. Only my 2nd digital camera and I basically point and shoot; traded the Olmypus z4000 for it (which also wasn't bad, but...). no doubt I need to take camera classes for better shots, but I'm happy with it.
I've been loading my stuff onto Shutterfly to share with family but am just about to bring my new server online with Gallery from gallery.sourceforge.net. Make it easier to manage and control.
It would just have to be Steve Miller Band, "Living in the USA". They did the same thing with their video, speeded it up
nobody even mentioned filing a complaint with the apartment management for invasion of privacy and stupidity of maintenance personnel. might even be a civil lawsuit in there somewhere for causing you problems with the law that they had no right to even stir up. and no, I don't think any kind of "reasonable doubt" would be covered
for, what goes up fast, must come down fast, and speed is energy which must be bled off by either massive amounts of expensive and explosive rocket fuel, or through ablative heat transfer which has its own problems (as we have seen before).
the part I don't understand in this statement is if it goes up fast, why does it have to come down fast? why can't you get things to come down slow? if there are problems with heat transfer like on the space shuttle, why don't we have them come down at a slower speed, like say half-speed? wouldn't that be well-within the safety margins?
someone want to try and clarify this for me?
the only poster to even get it right and he posts Anonymous. give credit where credit is due, you should have posted with your nick
the reason that Dell uses those green hoods is so that airflow is properly routed over the fans and heatsinks to provide good cooling. if you remove them, you are asking for trouble
I don't get it... you gots any pictures you can show me since I is a visual type of guy?
:)
pics that can _REALLY_ explain the difference
I've been to Denton TX. if you think that's nice..... that's why I live in Austin
a ustin.com/wcv1.html
:)
http://www.oasis-austin.com/
http://www.oasis-
Shiner, TX (where they make that beer) is just down the road about 100 miles from us. http://www.shiner.com/home.html
They even have "Shiner Sound and Motion" on their website to let you experience the full effect
Also, about 100 miles away is Brenham, TX, the home of Blue Bell ice cream. http://www.bluebell.com/Default.htm
Quite a bit of difference 'tween central (hill country) north (plains) south (coastal) east (woodlands) and west (desert) Texas; just like in Australia, going from Alice Springs to Sydney.
who knows where I'll be in 3 years. got to find those better paying jobs to support my family. we like it here, been here more than 9 years, but who knows?
you know, your statements combined with your attitude remind me simultaneously of 2 different things:
1) Robin Williams comedy routine where he imitates the French {French accent}."We're French,you pissant fucking Americains! Fuck off!"
and
2) the scene from The Matrix Reloaded where they are trying to get the keymaker in the restaurant and the Merovingian says "I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it."
AHH, to be young, single, in love with the world, and filthy rich enough to ride around it in 3 yrs.
l t.htm
anyhow, while I understand you want to burn pics to cd from storage media, the question is why? if for archival purposes until you get pics uploaded then by all means go for it. if you are doing it in order to upload pics because you are afraid of running out of space, that may not be necessary. you are carrying more than 1 quantity of digital pic storage, are you not? many photo processing places in the US nowadays allow you to bring in your xD/SD/Flashmem/etc storage media and create printed pics right on the spot as well as burning them to cdrom. uploading them to the web is up to you, though.
now, if you had a wireless PDA that accepted Sony mem sticks and your digital camera also happened to use those, I foresee an easy way to bypass needing cdroms to upload to the 'net.
As for your travels, swing on by, we'll hold a cold one for you and keep the view beautiful.
I have no idea who these guys are http://www.texastrials.com/subwebs/txtrials/defau
are you sure about that ? black I mean? not midnight grey or satin black, but regular flat black? what if it's velvet black?
I remember something similar from years ago when I visited Carlsbad Caverns in southern New Mexico. They have a phone-shaped receiver that picks up the broadcasts as you move from station to station. The broadcasts are on an endless loop and just keep repeating. The only expensive part in this thingy that I can see would be the phone-shaped receiver. Not cheap, but you get a credit card as a downpayment and that prevents theft and damage.
Shorter=Less ass rape Longer=Tons of ass rape
:)
U TF -8&q=texas+representative+legislative+retirement+p ay
c le s/print/LL/mzl1.html
so what you're really saying is
Shorter=Your local state "pound-me-in-the-ass" penitentiary
Longer=Federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" penitentiary
I'm not sure what you meant by Congressmen being not that "well paid off". I think you should take another look at how much elected representatives actually make compared to the working man and the benefits that they get that you NEVER hear about. You would be shocked at some of those benefits.
As an example of poorly paid elected reps, witness where I live (Texas). They make less than $10,000 for the work they do (5 months of labor every 2 years). However, their retirement pay is something else altogether. Their retirement pay is linked to the number of years of elected rep service but is linked to the payscale of state judges. You ought to check that one out. I'm too lazy to Google so I'll just send you here.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/arti
http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news5608.htm
"Texas legislators contribute 8% of their salary toward their retirement, but their benefits are tied to the pensions of district judges. Consequently, one legislator who was never paid more than $7,200 per year in salary during his 39 years of legislative service retired with a pension of $92,704 annually.
You should see those retirement paychecks after just 10 years of elected rep service!
I followed the link and that is a GREAT website. very enjoyable!
You do not legally own the song. You own a license to listen to the song. The song itself is still owned by either the record company or the artist, or both.
I don't own an iPod or any portable mp3 player etc so don't read more into my comment than it says.
so he owns a license to listen to the song? even Congress and the courts have agreed that there is an issue called 'Fair Usage'. if I have a license to listen to that song, then I should be able to listen to it in ANY format that I choose, REGARDLESS of what the license or the DMCA says. and strictly speaking, I don't have a license to listen to the song, I have a license for a COPY of the song. if a license was required to listen then how do I hear it from my radio? the old Fair Usage has not been run out of town because DMCA was passed.
notice the comment in the cease and desist letter:
"...causing them enormous potential loss of revenue and reputation."
note the word POTENTIAL. the only way it is potential loss of revenue is if I circumvent the DRM and then illegally give away the music to other people who have not paid for the license to have their own copy of the song. if I haven't done this, then where is the problem? and don't tell me it goes against the license I agreed to. just because the restriction is in the license does not make it legal (remember Fair Usage?).
you want the school to kick your ass out because you threatened them with revealing their network secrets and not following their AUP (surely they have one?)?
instead, find some sympathetic influential faculty (especially if they have tenure) who can make life hell for those responsible. if they refuse to do anything, just report it to your local newspaper and document _EVERYTHING_ (either immediately write notes while in their presence or tape-record what their comments are while they deny any problems). if they turn purple or get irate, either way you got 'em by the short-n-curlies.
you shouldn't have to put up with stupid people who endanger your future life because they won't protect your data.
hmmm, I wonder if this would make them liable for future case of identity theft? potentially big bucks!
hey dipshit. I live in texas, you dipshit. what do you think the parent post was about, you dipshit? water on the ground, dipshit.
if I live adjacent to flowing water, I can divert as much as I want, you dipshit. your own link points it out, dipshit.
"Water flowing in Texas creeks, rivers, and bays is state water. This surface water is public property; however, the state confers on individuals and organizations the right to pump water from a stream, creek, pond, or lake or to impound water in a lake or pond."
what a dipshit. can't even bother to check his own fucking links.
you claimed that all states are like this. ok, dipshit, look up each and every state law and post it here.
btw, you really broke my heart with your pathetic attempt to make me look bad with my one typo. boo hoo hoo. what a fucking noob dipshit, you are.
if you've got THAT much rain, you won't be using a metal roof anyway. and it won't rust if you hook up a sacrificial zinc anode.
but you could hook up some waterwheel generators to your rain gutter downspouts. think of all the free electricity....
wrong. in Texas, water belongs to whomever owns the land it sits on. The Texas Commission on Enivronmental Quality (they keep changing their damn name) does NOT have authority in many areas of water usage as you suggest.
example - I have a creek crossing my land. it runs for another 20 miles before dropping in to the local lake. in the process, it crosses (or parallels) about 30 other property lines. I can legally dam up the creek to make myself a fishing pond and water my crops with it, thereby using up ALL the water flow, and there is NOTHING that the downstream folks can do about it.
yes, it's not a nice thing to do and will piss some people off that I have reduced creek flow.
it's called the "right of capture"
befire you start spouting off about laws across the country, you should either (1) check those laws, or (2) preface your statement with a phrase such as "I believe...."
I remember checking out a solar-powered house about 5 years ago on a multi-house tour of energy-saving homes here in Austin. The solar system itself is expensive and so are the batteries. The average payback for solar is about 10 years. But that depends on how many solar plates you have generating electricity. The batteries are expensive and do require replacement every so often (forget the # of years) but only take up about 2ft x 6ft area, not really a lot of space (this house had them outside in a specially built protected 'shed' right next to the house).
_ roofs.html) even recommends planting grass on the roof if you can do it on your house. here's an excellent link to another website describing this stuff.
Depending on where you live, you can use several different (passive) methods for keeping your house warm or cool.
Methods
--------
trees - get them big enough to shade your house, you'd be surprised at the temperature difference.
if you can't get trees, have ivy grow on the walls, this will drop the temperature also by preventing sunlight from hitting the walls.
windows - use transom windows to create an airflow thru the house near the ceiling. in hot months, this gets rid of hot air by the ceiling. it also helps evaporate moisture off your skin which creates a cooling effect.
walls - _HEAVILY_ insulate your walls. I've ssen some houses with walls 2-3 ft thick, made out of either straw bales, poured concrete inside cinder blocks, or rammed earth. the insulation is so good, you'll barely touch your heating OR cooling equipment.
roof - if you put solar panels on the roof and mount them at least 4-6" off the roof shingles, you not only generate electricity, you prevent the sunlight from hitting the roof and thereby warming up the attic. also, put one of those cutouts along the roof peak to help draw off hot air. this place (http://www.scienceonline.co.uk/science_now/green
you can also try a metal roof as this will actually reflect a lot of the solar gain rather than letting it soak in. an added bonus is that it will last at least 50 years compared to 25 yr shingles (less replacement cost).
all these methods will help you in saving electricity, not generating it.
for generating power, look to wind, water, and sun. you will have to evaluate where you live to see what is best.
I looked into wind power a few years ago and they have some _very_ efficient systems for generating power, and they are relatively inexpensive (less than $2000).
with water systems you will need some kind of current to move those waterwheels constantly. however, you will have to find a way to step up/down the speed of the current generating axles to match the needed speed for generating electricity and storing it in the batteries.
solar power has always been expensive. until they find a way to cut the manufacturing costs for the solar panels, it's too pricy for me compared to the other methods.
btw, no matter what system you choose, you WILL have to have batteries to store power. that is one cost you will not be able to avoid.
Good luck!
"The web site on which this Software is posted is operated by a U.S. entity and is governed by the state and federal laws of the United States"
which state? I don't know of any state called the United States. Looks like they screwed up their license contract. BIG LOOPHOLE!
so apply it to the corporate mgmt board of the company, V.P.'s et al. Then fire the lowest ranking corp mgmt ....nah, THAT would never happen.......
what if your iMac made you go blind from watching Steve Ballmer dance like a monkey on stage because you looked at that sexy SMP AMD-cpu, would you still thank Steve Jobs? :) or would that just make you swear never to look at another x86 pc?
and then this one time in band camp, the ATM machine.........