Of course, for the price of a nice Zeiss mechanical focus lens you can buy three Nikon/Canon/ Whatever lenses and let them break.
think you'll find the deal with zeiss is for those who primarily do vid work zeiss optics in that region have no focus breathing when pull/rack focus along with other things. There is more to good glass than sharpness, AF speed and IS despite what most the gear sites (with clueless writers) say or even worse the youtube personalities who are poor in their field and more marketing and scoail bs than technical and creative ability. Personally I use sigma stuff (apart from my canon 70-200) for stills work due to them working out much better for me in the stills department but even the sigma 50 art which I love has issues for DSLR videographers that the otus doesn't have.
The upgrades from the full systems pop up whether the useraccount is linked to the microsoft account or if you simply created a user on Windows 7.
And yes, if someone signs up specifically for a beta program were every click is analyzed and any feedback linked to an account I think it is OK to get the free copy connected to that account. Because this copy is free (as in beer, but not as in speech).
It does not upgrade a bought copy. The alternative would be that every installation of the beta gets a free copy, even if the user did not participate in the beta program.
I hated MS for diversifying the directx-bases because every new directx was only available if the user bought the newest windows. They nearly destroyed the pc as a gaming machine in order to push their xbox. They were evil in general and their monopolistic behaviour was illegal. They tried to kill Linux by FUD.
The free copy is the right thing to do to atone for the abomination that was windows 8 or even 8.1 (two different userinterfaces for account settings, nuff said). And a free copy for every one who beta tested seems fair. Even non genuine windows installs get the upgrade, but there will be nagging.
I don't see much change in their behaviour myself. Could be wrong but way it looks to me is free isn't a usable experience liked genuine (business) customers will get. Testing is going to be the suckers who buy into it and updates forced on those users with MS stating after months of testing on home versions it will be rolled out on the real customers machines. Months makes it sound liek they are releasing it with barely any testing done inhouse. Way to make people work for free, not sure that is how it will work but my gut says maybe;)
Maybe their paymasters thought it was a Music Download Festival and thought it'd be a good idea to have incriminating evidence complete with mugshots (nice for the world-wide facial recognition database) of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against the hard-working, living-off-scraps music community.
joking aside some of the met really are that stupid
Ah I got the wrong end of the stick so apologies for the mixup, I thought you meant that dual gtx980's was too limited and not enough when it sounds more like ENB can't utilise that power past a certain range more like. I wonder if you would get it to manage it if chucked more power or if there is some other issue when the higher you go the more inefficient it would get. By the sound of it is doesn't sound like enb does those things in a linear way and you are hitting some limitation and are at the envelope of its capabilities.
Probably more money than it is worth to try but I'd love to see a stream if you did get it to manage it with everything turned on. Not sure I'd drop for 4 x titans or 4 x 980ti's to try it but it would be sweet to see. I tend to try and aim for 60fps myself, I know skyrim in particular used to have weird physics at varied framerates or over 60 (I have vsync on anyway) so that is another reason to keep it stable which is probably part of your reason I imagine.
Depends on the resolution you use. Here I have two GTX980 (Gigabyte G1) in SLI and still is not enough to run my Skyrim at 3840x2160 with ENB (4K display user).
I get a gtx770 to push skyrim with enb, sweetfx, massive higher poly mesh and texture packs etc etc in 1440p so you should be able to handle that. Skyrim tweaked doesn't look the best compared to other things IMO, it just looks the most dramatically different from the stock versions highest settings from most games. Don't forget post can only add so much, and that is a dx9 games (hence enb ans sweet work for it well as the dx11 versions are not working properly last i tried, and it has very poor optimisation for pc. The latter point may be your issue, you seeing microstutter from SLI. Made worse due to lack of optimisations and one card will be doing all that pp, just a guess. Add to that you can hit texture limits quick as I notice from starcitizen and GTA V 1440p will hit those limits so you will have similar thing depending on texture packs. No card can make piss poor implementations efficient and give the best looking possible. PC GTA V maxed comes close with the lighting and shadows from dynamic lights such as headlights to that, faaaaar closer than skyrim so give that a shot see what you think, enjoy.
It would only be off topic if Dice weren't suppressing the biggest stories in the FOSS world this week.
They are suppressing it because it reflects badly on them. We have nowhere else to discuss it, so like Beta it'll get discussed everywhere until they finally listen.
I would if had points but it will do no good as they'll just keep removing them as admins have unlimited resource there essentially, as it is clear they're doing watching it for past few minutes alone. This post will go as others like it have. Time to take this discussion somewhere it can't be censored. You'd think they'd learn.
How is this different from other designs that use different substrate material than used in active layer? It is just prepreg epoxy paper with thin silicon or GaAs layer on rather than using silicon/GaAs for substrate as well and this has been looked at for some time. Full article even admits paper is one of the materials used in such designs previously and this seems more of the same but they are making it sound new calling it wood. It isn't wood because there is no lignin, hence alpha cellulose papers are called "wood free" papers.
They may have tweaked the design a little by changing the type of paper but this isn't some amazing breakthrough that turns IC design upside down the way they make out, also bashing GaAs as nasty implying this doesn't have it in because hey it is wholesome "gree" tech from trees when it will still have GaAs layer in all the same unless silicon is prefered as it is in many cases in which case moot point. About as new as changing the structural materials in FR4 for PCB construction from epoxy prepreg'd E-glass to paper (or both in CEMs) only they don't BS about making some eco friendly new way to mount circuits when they do that.
And the products which replaced it are useless. I notice the party of small government has yet to get the government out if that part of our lives. The whole behind the counter/mandatory ID thing is one of the most intrusive, idiotic things in the history of this country and a testament to the social, economic, and freedom disaster that is the war on drugs. End it.
As to this situation, how about we, you know, stop locking people up for wanting to briefly escape the miserable reality we force on too many and start offering proper treatment (including proper pain treatment where applicable) to those who need it? Addiction is no joke, but the crimes that go with it are largely the government's creation. They empower these drug dealers the same way they empowered gangs during prohibition. In a way they deserve each other, but we all end up paying for it.
aye the replacement (mainly phenyl eph) MAY work but not in the dosages that have been tested as safe. I tend to just buy ephedrine these days (in POM OTC asthma drugs in UK like chesteze) because I can just flash an inhaler if I get 20 questions where as blocked sinuses etc didn't seem to stop the 20 question BS here when buying pseudo in UK. Despite no ID needed etc not very intelligent pharmacy staff tend to get a little ott like you're asking to buy Methedrine pills ffs.
Funny thing is hardly any meth would be made from the pills since the price is extortionate and when you consider amount needed, yields (chemistry wise I mean) and all the waste in decanting/filtering etc it would be hundreds of times more expensive before any markup. Most street meth across the globe is either diverted legit supplies or illicit made by crew from bulk precursors (various amphetamines and phenethylamines) bought it MASSIVE amounts. The kind of amounts that get LE knocking or rival crews coming to tax or hurt you because the amount wont go unnoticed. Only time homebrew is worth it is during droughts, similar to the desomorphine homebrew in Australia and later Russia (when it got krokodil name) because users couldn't get heroin. Russian thing is probably due to cost rather than true drought as a lot of global heroin moves that way from Afghanistan green zone.
Somebody who thinks a photograph is just a record doesn't understand photography at all.
My photography is a record in one I can think, of the vision I had behind making the pic but certainly isn't one of reality. Even leaving post processing out of it to prove even capture stage is heavily influenced by the shooters view and not objective. Lighting with flash/strobes means the lighting is nowhere near record of reality. Add focal length distortions/exaggerations from wide angle depth "stretching" to compression in telephoto, various amount of bokeh, narrow dynamic range (regardless of 12-14bit raw capture it ends up in 6-8bit display formats from rendering on 8bit monitors to print)..... that is just the basics to start and you have something VERY different from both what the human eye sees.
The reality of what is there is different again to the what the eye sees and what we see normally isn't even that but is our brains interpretation of the info which is different again depending on your processing model (such as top down visual) hence the arguments over that blue/black/white/gold dress which came down to top down processing of some peoples brains filling in blanks is you like incorrectly NOT whiteblalance as some articles suggested because they didn't take into account viewers of same screen at same time (identical lighting etc) saw it different but the scientific press tend to be rather uneducated.
The way to "get around" the law is to change the law.
You cannot change the law without public support. One way to get public support for repeal is to show that a law is dysfunctional. If drug prohibition laws actually worked, did what they were designed to do, and had fewer bad side effects, then support for repeal would be much weaker. We are better off if people buy their drugs online, then if they get them on street corners. The only people harmed by these online markets are the drug dealers, the police, and the incarceration industry.
considering the funding, behind the scenes pressures over intrests and the privatisation of the prison system (not just the US sadly) somehow I think police and the prison industry wins the most. The goal isn't to "stop" drugs which is clear from methods of operations and who is targeted when
I have a Ducky Shine 3 TenKeyLess with Cherry MX Brown switches and I concur. It feels as solid as granite. Best keyboard I've owned and since all of the keys are switch-mounted (in some cases like the spacebar, with additional switch-shaped mounts) I find it easier to clean than other mechanical keyboards.
The solidness of the keyboard makes a big difference on noise. TneKeyLess keeps it even more solid. Yes, the Cherry switches "click", but the my girlfriend has commented that her aging Logitech G110 is actually louder to use because it's so loose and rattles so much in comparison.
I use shine 3 mx browns and in fairness there is not much click unless you bottom them out. If you bottom out any mech keys consider using o-rings
Side note on the ducky is some batches had led's burn out fast, most of those are gone now as happened after a led supplier switch and was sorted BUT [as all brands can experience] the good ones every now and then can burn out an led, my Q started dying. A flangeless 3mm LED are easy to find (some keyboard shops sell them) and easy enough to desolder and bang a new one in. Doing this you realise how well made the shine 3's are, not just the dual pcb but everything else about it is tank like.
Somebody has allowed "them" to rule the world. They aren't really smart, actually most of them are pretty stupid, they are just very good at lobbying, they've been doing it for 2000 years. Americans let "them" in after WWII. Now have fun living in a country whose financial, media, and internet industries are controlled by "them".
In fairness they do have their detractors but it is the same media that is tar & feathering critics who dare point out such lack of fairness and abuses as antisemitic. There are some like that but many are pretty tolerant decent people just calling out various human rights abuse, endemic child abuse that rivals catholic church, conflicts of interest and biased media coverage.
One of the critics is a rabbi for goodness sake so he is hardly anti Jew. Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg is worth looking up, he's had bleach thrown in his face and completely ostracised for whistleblowing on child abuse cases but nothings been done but like he says these people are one of the biggest donators and have family and friends in most the national government and regulatory boards to financial sectors from banking to IMF. The conspiracy BS annoys me as most the info is public knowledge and boils down to bring but simple answer of it is all about money and control.
>"Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next?"
Here is what I *HOPE* is next:
1) Stop trying to be and look like Chrome. Just stop.
2) Stop trying to force users to not have tabs on bottom, having a menu bar, having separate buttons, etc. Let users control their user interface how they want.
3) Remove all that developer stuff that 99.99% of users don't use or care about and put it in an addon.
4) Remove all that chat and conferencing stuff that 99% of users don't care about and put that also in an addon.
5) Focus on speed, security, stability, bug-fixing, and documentation. You don't have to be a feature-of-the-month club.
6) Continue to support as many platforms and systems as possible, including old ones.
Oh- and thank you for all the hard work that went into Firefox- the browser of my choice (and that for my users, family, and friends) for the last decade.
these are why I switched to palemoon, firefox built the right way for vast majority of pc users. No reason to play catchup with chrome when the reality is the other way around. Functionality and core use come first thus status bar present as aesthetics second to essential functional stuff, and niche things like accessibility and none common needs are not pushed on everyone "just in case".
Monsanto developed that system and last I checked they had NEVER used it for any regular seeds. It was only used in test fields to prevent genes escaping into the wild during testing.
My view on gene patenting is that any natural gene should not be patent able but the process for insertion should be. However, for any custom developed gene that should be patent able.
you can't really patent the process since it is pretty much standard across the industry so you can't slap patents on ligase etc etc. Essentially all the gene subtractions/additions are cut with sticky ends, insert if needed, restick it. Inserting that into something for replication may have a novel process but even thena lot may not be particularly unique. I'm pro some GM and against others, sadly the better stuff tends to be suppressed by the uneducated and the stuff that gets through regardless of pressure is stuff better for company profits and those creating a monopoly on something and the consumer gets little out of it. Still sad the tomato with the gene for enzyme that breaks down pectin got labelled "Frankenstein food" (after his monster not the doc himself) but the uneducated and never heard of it since.
Photoshopping a single image can be done easily in ways that make the edits virtually undetectable, even for the casual home user. But an amateur attempting to edit two nearly-identical images (e.g., to modify body shapes, or skin tone, or to get rid of unwanted parts of the scene) would almost certainly leave behind inconsistencies that simple image analysis could detect.
...Today, that is.
There will probably be a niche for home-use 3D Photoshop extensions that perform activities like airbrushing, texture duplication, etc. on two images simultaneously in a manner that always results in a clean combination of the two by effectively performing the edits in 3-space. Heck, such technology may already be in use in movie studios that are cranking out 3D movies with live actors that must be composited with generated scenes.
don't see why this can't be done, working on adding control points in some panoramic software auto adds the points in overlapping images in the right place with little need to tweak despite differences due to parallax error when I've shot with no panohead or attempt to rotate around the nodal point. Having similar functionality in photoshop would work well with many common retouching workflows like freqency sep, dodge and burn, local sharpening and so on. May get awkward with layer masking stuff due to image differences but for most things your average home user needs it'd be fine.
You don't sound trollish, just naive. The basis of social engineering is "cast the net wide". This is about individuals, not businesses. 95 out of 100 may avoid the hit, but that says more about luck than savy.
if you read my previous comment earlier in this thread you'll see I said that and agree with you on that whole hearted. People are the weakness here which is why I said you need a good admin, stop the none tech staff from being able to break things that much. I've seen it first hand work rather well in 3 large organisations. One the ngo I mention, the other a UK gov service, and the last a little different but same principle was friend who designed the NHS central server system. The most they can do is make a mess in their home folder, they can't do damage to important parts on their own machines never mind wreck a whole network.
Our company also got hacked. Management sent everyone home, restored from backups. Then we spent a bunch of time figuring out what files were modified in the last 36 hours, and redoing that work over. Note that the hackers target only certain file types, eg..doc, and.pdf, but not.xls, so were talking mostly about documentation. Unfortunately, our PC's are now limping along because the virus scanner is running all the time now, and so chews up resources.
Our company is Windows-centric for everything except code development (which is Linux using a VM under Windows), and this is a clear example of why Linux is more secure than Windows. Not necessarily inherently, but because Windows desktops are the "mainstream". And hackers target the mainstream!
To wit, I switched to Windows for a year, but subsequently, every search I did to fix Windows problems required putting "Windows" in the search box. This inevitably led to ever more heinously cunning hacker/virus/spyware results which had to be waded through. Try as you might to avoid them, eventually one of them ends up getting you. It ends up being about as much fun as a potato-sack race through a mine-field.
Don't mean this to sound trollish but sounds like you need a better sys admin. Plenty of businesses manage, I have a friend who manages networks for multinational ngo which is mainly windows based on the operator end without problems. Nearly all the users are none IT literate aside from basic how to use spreadsheets/email etc obviously but if admin does their job properly then everything just works fine and smooth for users and it remains secure without unnecessary expense or exotic solutions.
Best advice is GET THE HELL OFF WINDOWS!! I have a thriving little business upgrading people who are still on XP over to either XUbuntu or Mint. I've gotten calls after an upgrade with the user saying "I got this weird error when I open this email", and it turned out that the user had an email with the Cryptolocker vector, and the odd error was the malware *trying* (and failing) to encrypt files on an ext4 filesystem... At this point in time, THAT aint happening....
The fault lies with uneducated users NOT the OS choice. The assumption that migrating users to none windows OS will solve this is wrong. Linux isn't immune from these problems like some think, I've run a slackware box since '97ish and never had a problem but don't kid myself about it being immune to malware. I've run a windows box along side and never had problems on that with malware either. It's my actions and understanding which keeps me problem free not the OS.
Also Ubuntu and derivatives are even more of a target due to being very popular and having large part of their user base being none power users with minimal tech skills. Sec through obscurity wont work for long on such large distros either. Old windows OSes like XP may be low hanging fruit but plenty still target the rest of the tree. Won't take long for authors to catch up and tap those niches since they become more profitable as they grow in size, I've already noticed this with mac users starting to experience this more. People need to be educated and understand consequences if they don't become so. There is no quick substitute to learning, safezoning people without supervision never works.
Only thing I found works without educating users is when I've set up slack boxes for family/close friends and I don't give them root access, I set proper permissions and their influence doesn't spread past their home folder on another drive/partion etc. All the browsers are kept up to date by me, adblock/ghostery/noscript permissions tweaked by me on a need basis so occassionally I get a "this site wont work" and within minutes I sort it but most popular sites and their cdn's are allowed already (between ghostery and noscript I can whitelist and blacklist the same scripts on different sites hence the two in tandem). It isn't that much work once it has been going for a short time and it never breaks and there are never issues but only because of active protection, there is no automation that is safe to do this.
Of course you can eat 3000kal/day, you can also eat 4000 if your metabolism is fully functional it will not store excess fat unless you are stressed
Nonsense. Metabolism is mostly driven by demand (how much you move), and only to a small degree by available calories. Your argument also make no sense from an evolutionary survival perspective. Excess calories should be stored as fat to survive future times where food may be scarce.
that isn't true, it is not that simple. Muscles actually prefer burning fats at rest and storing glucose from (or converted to from) food as glycogen so there is a store for aerobic erxercise but more importantly for the brain since fats can't cross the blood brain barrier. We need the fats to store fat soluble vitamins too. There are many many factors driving metabolism, the basic ones are activity, hormone levels (made more complex in that some like hgh's have insulin effects), food types eaten and fast periods (including hour(s) long not just days/weeks/months), climate, daylight length, genetics etc etc so it gets complicated and no generalisations can be made.
Most people ask nutritionalists and personal trainers who understand very little and some of it they know the right answer but their reasoning is wrong so they form extra conclusions which are crap. What you really need is to be asking biochemists and molecular biologists and the like those questions or medical practitioners strong in those areas.
A completely sedentary person may burn 2000 kcal/day. An hour of exercise can increase that to 2500 kcal. That's significant enough. Of course, it doesn't mean that you can eat 3000 kcal/day. Strenuous of exercise, like weightlifting, can also increase metabolism for up to 48 hours after the actual exercise.
Of course you can eat 3000kal/day, you can also eat 4000 if your metabolism is fully functional it will not store excess fat unless you are stressed. Eating and exercise is not enough to explain the obesity epidemic, it is just the only two things worth talking about to stop it, as the we do not have enough information about the factors that influence the metabolism.
I'd argue we do have enough info on metabolism. It was a hell of a large part of my studies (biochem) in 1 and 2nd year and that was in the 90's and understanding has increased not decreased since then. We know a hell of a lot and understand it extremely well right down to the molecular physics of excatly how it does that not just the fact it does.
The problem is most people I know outside of those education subjects and careers don't know it, including a health care professional who is an expert nutritionalist who I've had to give extra info to a lot as she admits she never heard that but comes back surprised after research at it being well known. People want simple answers and the human body is complex; we want magic bullets, instant solutions, and 1 word answers is my guess at the real problem.
The gp displays the standard ignorance of a novice photographer, who doesn't even know that he knows nothing about photography because his hardware allows him to take pictures he deems "good". There's a reason there are professional photographers out there that get paid well and use "pro" equipment, but until gp tries to take pictures outside the limited scope of a P&S, he won't realize how limited he is. Should he use a pro-sumer or better grade camera, he may be disappointed in his pictures not being "better" than the P&S, that's not a fault of the equipment but more his failure to understand how to use that equipment to get great pictures. And even then, great pictures don't just happen automatically, it is luck or many tries, and sometimes significant post-processing before a great picture is realized. To be fair, sometimes that is also achievable with a P&S.
Truth to this but lighting is the magic ingredient. PS skills especially well done work frequency sep and subtle accurate changes only go so far if it is poorly lit. I don't just mean artificially lit stuff but same goes for available light although admittedly I tend to use monoblocks in portraiture. Not a quality thing more for the control I have over all light sources and "on tap" perfect light any time of day.
I'm a big fan of eizo monitors and they tend to produce stuff they know there is a niche for. This seems perfect for mfd use for a lot of different applications. I'm mainly familiar with the coloredge cx and cg series but most of their range ticks all the boxes for many people. I tend to design/edit/grade on a 27" screen and use a 20" just for tool panels and common controls I use whilst wanting to see adjustments large screen. I can utilise the screen realestate on the bigger screen for just workspace/pasteboard/footage and so on and declutter but have instant access to controls at the same time this way.
Thing with this kind of setup is the bigger the primary screen the better and the other screen doesn't matter so much and I'd rather have a CX271 or CG277 and 1 or 2 smaller screens than shrink the primary display to fit slightly bigger secondary/tertiary monitors onto my desk. Side monitors in portrait orientation doesn't always work well either so this seems like a good idea and that is just for my personal needs so I'd consider it but there are probably many more uses.
closest thing i've found to realistic is how Chris Roberts is implementing his space physics, fun first but without completely throwing realism out the window https://robertsspaceindustries...
prescribing benzos with ssri/ssnri is done in Europe but not for those reasons. The suicide risk increase has been found significant but the cause isn't fully understood and most will be cautious prescribing fluoxetine, paroxetine and the like to young adults/teenagers. That theory is far from proven and there are others more fitting and the risk found are lower than expected for that theory of "motivation". Also other classes such as treatment with TCAs and some SSNRI/SSRI don't have the same (if any) risk increase for the same therapeutic action/relief of symptoms.
I kind of do my own non-profit buisness of building computers for everyone I know or am related to. So I've got a small business account with newegg and do about $25k in computers a year. Asus was my board of choice for years, but about 3yrs ago they just went to shit. I've no idea why but suddenly I had massive failures, massive compatibility issues, etc... When a computer I build actually catches fire, that worries me. Asus was decent about the RMAs... which actually worried me more. A MB manufacturer will rarely take a return with scorch marks on it unless they know there's an issue. When the RMA boards I got back from them started blowing caps as well, I knew something was terribly wrong.
Also on my banned list:
Gigabyte - I had several Gigabyte MB and Gigabyte Video cards. They would not work with each other and Gigabyte claimed it was a capability issue and not their problem, despite having put their names on both the card and the board! This was purely a customer service issue, they should have shipped me a different card to make things right.
Zotac - For 2yrs I shipped the same video card back to them over and over again. They just kept replacing it with defective cards. Some came to me dirty, or with blown components. You can't just dig around in the RMA'd parts bin and ship some other broken piece of crap back to me. I'm currently awaiting about the 4th RMA on that card and my warranty will run out. At least they're paying for the shipping.
Anyways, I'm done building computers for people. Components are just too unreliable now. I don't need to be spending half my life in the UPS shipping office.
I've found msi make the list too, lot of others find the same. Seems common across wide range of experiences of rig builders and no guaranteed reliable manufacturers now IMO. I just use handful of UK stores with great support whop replace no questions asked for free and honour the warranties for products; the 3 main places I use cover everything without specifics for 12month but do 3 to 5 year on certain products. I always always use psu's that are reliable and tested by good sources. Takes a week of reading around before purchase and always pay more than a crap one but it is worth it IMO but even with more positive than negative experiences I'd be foolish to trust in something completely. Consumer products just aren't made to be failproof, redundant failsafes and seriously over-engineered are things that do not mix with commercial products with sane pricetags for items with limited life before they become obsolete. Failure will always be part of the chain if you make enough machines for you/others. All you can do is insulate yourself from how likely it is by picking tested combos and good warranty scheme for if it did come to crunch
Even free shipping back as places have various policies from courier to pick up defective one when they deliver your replacement, email prepay post label to print out or post prepay box to ship back in (failure to do so gets you billed to stop scams). My advice to friends/family is only use someone with good returns policy who wont palm the problem off on the oem as none seem to give a toss with all products unless it is major known issue.
FWIW the last 2 rigs I made for me (msi mobo with i3 2120 xfx gtx460 and asus w/ i7 4790k gigabyte gtx770 both with corsair ram (I have less issues with gskill tbh)) are fine. Shockingly the msi mobo one going strong for 4 years nearly despite how many rma's in the first week of life on the mobo alone. I received numerous new boards (due to way it was returned I know it was not the same one shipped back out) and all had issues with DOA/, faulty or refusing to play nice with other components despite listed on msi and component manufacturers sites as tested confirmed compatible when it wasn't. Never had bad luck like that on single part in building rigs since mid 90's for myself/ family/ friends/ their friends etc etc. I'd tried other new components and tested working older parts t
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Of course, for the price of a nice Zeiss mechanical focus lens you can buy three Nikon/Canon/ Whatever lenses and let them break.
think you'll find the deal with zeiss is for those who primarily do vid work zeiss optics in that region have no focus breathing when pull/rack focus along with other things. There is more to good glass than sharpness, AF speed and IS despite what most the gear sites (with clueless writers) say or even worse the youtube personalities who are poor in their field and more marketing and scoail bs than technical and creative ability. Personally I use sigma stuff (apart from my canon 70-200) for stills work due to them working out much better for me in the stills department but even the sigma 50 art which I love has issues for DSLR videographers that the otus doesn't have.
I would vote you up if I had modpoints today.
The upgrades from the full systems pop up whether the useraccount is linked to the microsoft account or if you simply created a user on Windows 7.
And yes, if someone signs up specifically for a beta program were every click is analyzed and any feedback linked to an account I think it is OK to get the free copy connected to that account. Because this copy is free (as in beer, but not as in speech).
It does not upgrade a bought copy. The alternative would be that every installation of the beta gets a free copy, even if the user did not participate in the beta program.
I hated MS for diversifying the directx-bases because every new directx was only available if the user bought the newest windows. They nearly destroyed the pc as a gaming machine in order to push their xbox. They were evil in general and their monopolistic behaviour was illegal. They tried to kill Linux by FUD.
The free copy is the right thing to do to atone for the abomination that was windows 8 or even 8.1 (two different userinterfaces for account settings, nuff said). And a free copy for every one who beta tested seems fair. Even non genuine windows installs get the upgrade, but there will be nagging.
I don't see much change in their behaviour myself. Could be wrong but way it looks to me is free isn't a usable experience liked genuine (business) customers will get. Testing is going to be the suckers who buy into it and updates forced on those users with MS stating after months of testing on home versions it will be rolled out on the real customers machines. Months makes it sound liek they are releasing it with barely any testing done inhouse. Way to make people work for free, not sure that is how it will work but my gut says maybe ;)
Maybe their paymasters thought it was a Music Download Festival and thought it'd be a good idea to have incriminating evidence complete with mugshots (nice for the world-wide facial recognition database) of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against the hard-working, living-off-scraps music community.
joking aside some of the met really are that stupid
Ah I got the wrong end of the stick so apologies for the mixup, I thought you meant that dual gtx980's was too limited and not enough when it sounds more like ENB can't utilise that power past a certain range more like. I wonder if you would get it to manage it if chucked more power or if there is some other issue when the higher you go the more inefficient it would get. By the sound of it is doesn't sound like enb does those things in a linear way and you are hitting some limitation and are at the envelope of its capabilities.
Probably more money than it is worth to try but I'd love to see a stream if you did get it to manage it with everything turned on. Not sure I'd drop for 4 x titans or 4 x 980ti's to try it but it would be sweet to see. I tend to try and aim for 60fps myself, I know skyrim in particular used to have weird physics at varied framerates or over 60 (I have vsync on anyway) so that is another reason to keep it stable which is probably part of your reason I imagine.
Depends on the resolution you use. Here I have two GTX980 (Gigabyte G1) in SLI and still is not enough to run my Skyrim at 3840x2160 with ENB (4K display user).
I get a gtx770 to push skyrim with enb, sweetfx, massive higher poly mesh and texture packs etc etc in 1440p so you should be able to handle that. Skyrim tweaked doesn't look the best compared to other things IMO, it just looks the most dramatically different from the stock versions highest settings from most games. Don't forget post can only add so much, and that is a dx9 games (hence enb ans sweet work for it well as the dx11 versions are not working properly last i tried, and it has very poor optimisation for pc. The latter point may be your issue, you seeing microstutter from SLI. Made worse due to lack of optimisations and one card will be doing all that pp, just a guess. Add to that you can hit texture limits quick as I notice from starcitizen and GTA V 1440p will hit those limits so you will have similar thing depending on texture packs. No card can make piss poor implementations efficient and give the best looking possible. PC GTA V maxed comes close with the lighting and shadows from dynamic lights such as headlights to that, faaaaar closer than skyrim so give that a shot see what you think, enjoy.
It would only be off topic if Dice weren't suppressing the biggest stories in the FOSS world this week.
They are suppressing it because it reflects badly on them. We have nowhere else to discuss it, so like Beta it'll get discussed everywhere until they finally listen.
I would if had points but it will do no good as they'll just keep removing them as admins have unlimited resource there essentially, as it is clear they're doing watching it for past few minutes alone. This post will go as others like it have. Time to take this discussion somewhere it can't be censored. You'd think they'd learn.
How is this different from other designs that use different substrate material than used in active layer? It is just prepreg epoxy paper with thin silicon or GaAs layer on rather than using silicon/GaAs for substrate as well and this has been looked at for some time. Full article even admits paper is one of the materials used in such designs previously and this seems more of the same but they are making it sound new calling it wood. It isn't wood because there is no lignin, hence alpha cellulose papers are called "wood free" papers.
They may have tweaked the design a little by changing the type of paper but this isn't some amazing breakthrough that turns IC design upside down the way they make out, also bashing GaAs as nasty implying this doesn't have it in because hey it is wholesome "gree" tech from trees when it will still have GaAs layer in all the same unless silicon is prefered as it is in many cases in which case moot point. About as new as changing the structural materials in FR4 for PCB construction from epoxy prepreg'd E-glass to paper (or both in CEMs) only they don't BS about making some eco friendly new way to mount circuits when they do that.
And the products which replaced it are useless. I notice the party of small government has yet to get the government out if that part of our lives. The whole behind the counter/mandatory ID thing is one of the most intrusive, idiotic things in the history of this country and a testament to the social, economic, and freedom disaster that is the war on drugs. End it.
As to this situation, how about we, you know, stop locking people up for wanting to briefly escape the miserable reality we force on too many and start offering proper treatment (including proper pain treatment where applicable) to those who need it? Addiction is no joke, but the crimes that go with it are largely the government's creation. They empower these drug dealers the same way they empowered gangs during prohibition. In a way they deserve each other, but we all end up paying for it.
aye the replacement (mainly phenyl eph) MAY work but not in the dosages that have been tested as safe. I tend to just buy ephedrine these days (in POM OTC asthma drugs in UK like chesteze) because I can just flash an inhaler if I get 20 questions where as blocked sinuses etc didn't seem to stop the 20 question BS here when buying pseudo in UK. Despite no ID needed etc not very intelligent pharmacy staff tend to get a little ott like you're asking to buy Methedrine pills ffs.
Funny thing is hardly any meth would be made from the pills since the price is extortionate and when you consider amount needed, yields (chemistry wise I mean) and all the waste in decanting/filtering etc it would be hundreds of times more expensive before any markup. Most street meth across the globe is either diverted legit supplies or illicit made by crew from bulk precursors (various amphetamines and phenethylamines) bought it MASSIVE amounts. The kind of amounts that get LE knocking or rival crews coming to tax or hurt you because the amount wont go unnoticed. Only time homebrew is worth it is during droughts, similar to the desomorphine homebrew in Australia and later Russia (when it got krokodil name) because users couldn't get heroin. Russian thing is probably due to cost rather than true drought as a lot of global heroin moves that way from Afghanistan green zone.
Somebody who thinks a photograph is just a record doesn't understand photography at all.
My photography is a record in one I can think, of the vision I had behind making the pic but certainly isn't one of reality. Even leaving post processing out of it to prove even capture stage is heavily influenced by the shooters view and not objective. Lighting with flash/strobes means the lighting is nowhere near record of reality. Add focal length distortions/exaggerations from wide angle depth "stretching" to compression in telephoto, various amount of bokeh, narrow dynamic range (regardless of 12-14bit raw capture it ends up in 6-8bit display formats from rendering on 8bit monitors to print)..... that is just the basics to start and you have something VERY different from both what the human eye sees.
The reality of what is there is different again to the what the eye sees and what we see normally isn't even that but is our brains interpretation of the info which is different again depending on your processing model (such as top down visual) hence the arguments over that blue/black/white/gold dress which came down to top down processing of some peoples brains filling in blanks is you like incorrectly NOT whiteblalance as some articles suggested because they didn't take into account viewers of same screen at same time (identical lighting etc) saw it different but the scientific press tend to be rather uneducated.
The way to "get around" the law is to change the law.
You cannot change the law without public support. One way to get public support for repeal is to show that a law is dysfunctional. If drug prohibition laws actually worked, did what they were designed to do, and had fewer bad side effects, then support for repeal would be much weaker. We are better off if people buy their drugs online, then if they get them on street corners. The only people harmed by these online markets are the drug dealers, the police, and the incarceration industry.
considering the funding, behind the scenes pressures over intrests and the privatisation of the prison system (not just the US sadly) somehow I think police and the prison industry wins the most. The goal isn't to "stop" drugs which is clear from methods of operations and who is targeted when
I have a Ducky Shine 3 TenKeyLess with Cherry MX Brown switches and I concur. It feels as solid as granite. Best keyboard I've owned and since all of the keys are switch-mounted (in some cases like the spacebar, with additional switch-shaped mounts) I find it easier to clean than other mechanical keyboards.
The solidness of the keyboard makes a big difference on noise. TneKeyLess keeps it even more solid. Yes, the Cherry switches "click", but the my girlfriend has commented that her aging Logitech G110 is actually louder to use because it's so loose and rattles so much in comparison.
I use shine 3 mx browns and in fairness there is not much click unless you bottom them out. If you bottom out any mech keys consider using o-rings
Side note on the ducky is some batches had led's burn out fast, most of those are gone now as happened after a led supplier switch and was sorted BUT [as all brands can experience] the good ones every now and then can burn out an led, my Q started dying. A flangeless 3mm LED are easy to find (some keyboard shops sell them) and easy enough to desolder and bang a new one in. Doing this you realise how well made the shine 3's are, not just the dual pcb but everything else about it is tank like.
Somebody has allowed "them" to rule the world. They aren't really smart, actually most of them are pretty stupid, they are just very good at lobbying, they've been doing it for 2000 years. Americans let "them" in after WWII. Now have fun living in a country whose financial, media, and internet industries are controlled by "them".
In fairness they do have their detractors but it is the same media that is tar & feathering critics who dare point out such lack of fairness and abuses as antisemitic. There are some like that but many are pretty tolerant decent people just calling out various human rights abuse, endemic child abuse that rivals catholic church, conflicts of interest and biased media coverage. One of the critics is a rabbi for goodness sake so he is hardly anti Jew. Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg is worth looking up, he's had bleach thrown in his face and completely ostracised for whistleblowing on child abuse cases but nothings been done but like he says these people are one of the biggest donators and have family and friends in most the national government and regulatory boards to financial sectors from banking to IMF. The conspiracy BS annoys me as most the info is public knowledge and boils down to bring but simple answer of it is all about money and control.
>"Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next?"
Here is what I *HOPE* is next:
1) Stop trying to be and look like Chrome. Just stop.
2) Stop trying to force users to not have tabs on bottom, having a menu bar, having separate buttons, etc. Let users control their user interface how they want.
3) Remove all that developer stuff that 99.99% of users don't use or care about and put it in an addon.
4) Remove all that chat and conferencing stuff that 99% of users don't care about and put that also in an addon.
5) Focus on speed, security, stability, bug-fixing, and documentation. You don't have to be a feature-of-the-month club.
6) Continue to support as many platforms and systems as possible, including old ones.
Oh- and thank you for all the hard work that went into Firefox- the browser of my choice (and that for my users, family, and friends) for the last decade.
these are why I switched to palemoon, firefox built the right way for vast majority of pc users. No reason to play catchup with chrome when the reality is the other way around. Functionality and core use come first thus status bar present as aesthetics second to essential functional stuff, and niche things like accessibility and none common needs are not pushed on everyone "just in case".
Sterile plants are almost never used.
Monsanto developed that system and last I checked they had NEVER used it for any regular seeds. It was only used in test fields to prevent genes escaping into the wild during testing.
My view on gene patenting is that any natural gene should not be patent able but the process for insertion should be. However, for any custom developed gene that should be patent able.
you can't really patent the process since it is pretty much standard across the industry so you can't slap patents on ligase etc etc. Essentially all the gene subtractions/additions are cut with sticky ends, insert if needed, restick it. Inserting that into something for replication may have a novel process but even thena lot may not be particularly unique. I'm pro some GM and against others, sadly the better stuff tends to be suppressed by the uneducated and the stuff that gets through regardless of pressure is stuff better for company profits and those creating a monopoly on something and the consumer gets little out of it. Still sad the tomato with the gene for enzyme that breaks down pectin got labelled "Frankenstein food" (after his monster not the doc himself) but the uneducated and never heard of it since.
Photoshopping a single image can be done easily in ways that make the edits virtually undetectable, even for the casual home user. But an amateur attempting to edit two nearly-identical images (e.g., to modify body shapes, or skin tone, or to get rid of unwanted parts of the scene) would almost certainly leave behind inconsistencies that simple image analysis could detect.
There will probably be a niche for home-use 3D Photoshop extensions that perform activities like airbrushing, texture duplication, etc. on two images simultaneously in a manner that always results in a clean combination of the two by effectively performing the edits in 3-space. Heck, such technology may already be in use in movie studios that are cranking out 3D movies with live actors that must be composited with generated scenes.
don't see why this can't be done, working on adding control points in some panoramic software auto adds the points in overlapping images in the right place with little need to tweak despite differences due to parallax error when I've shot with no panohead or attempt to rotate around the nodal point. Having similar functionality in photoshop would work well with many common retouching workflows like freqency sep, dodge and burn, local sharpening and so on. May get awkward with layer masking stuff due to image differences but for most things your average home user needs it'd be fine.
You don't sound trollish, just naive. The basis of social engineering is "cast the net wide". This is about individuals, not businesses. 95 out of 100 may avoid the hit, but that says more about luck than savy.
if you read my previous comment earlier in this thread you'll see I said that and agree with you on that whole hearted. People are the weakness here which is why I said you need a good admin, stop the none tech staff from being able to break things that much. I've seen it first hand work rather well in 3 large organisations. One the ngo I mention, the other a UK gov service, and the last a little different but same principle was friend who designed the NHS central server system. The most they can do is make a mess in their home folder, they can't do damage to important parts on their own machines never mind wreck a whole network.
Our company also got hacked. Management sent everyone home, restored from backups. Then we spent a bunch of time figuring out what files were modified in the last 36 hours, and redoing that work over. Note that the hackers target only certain file types, eg. .doc, and .pdf, but not .xls, so were talking mostly about documentation. Unfortunately, our PC's are now limping along because the virus scanner is running all the time now, and so chews up resources.
Our company is Windows-centric for everything except code development (which is Linux using a VM under Windows), and this is a clear example of why Linux is more secure than Windows. Not necessarily inherently, but because Windows desktops are the "mainstream". And hackers target the mainstream!
To wit, I switched to Windows for a year, but subsequently, every search I did to fix Windows problems required putting "Windows" in the search box. This inevitably led to ever more heinously cunning hacker/virus/spyware results which had to be waded through. Try as you might to avoid them, eventually one of them ends up getting you. It ends up being about as much fun as a potato-sack race through a mine-field.
Don't mean this to sound trollish but sounds like you need a better sys admin. Plenty of businesses manage, I have a friend who manages networks for multinational ngo which is mainly windows based on the operator end without problems. Nearly all the users are none IT literate aside from basic how to use spreadsheets/email etc obviously but if admin does their job properly then everything just works fine and smooth for users and it remains secure without unnecessary expense or exotic solutions.
Best advice is GET THE HELL OFF WINDOWS!! I have a thriving little business upgrading people who are still on XP over to either XUbuntu or Mint. I've gotten calls after an upgrade with the user saying "I got this weird error when I open this email", and it turned out that the user had an email with the Cryptolocker vector, and the odd error was the malware *trying* (and failing) to encrypt files on an ext4 filesystem... At this point in time, THAT aint happening....
The fault lies with uneducated users NOT the OS choice. The assumption that migrating users to none windows OS will solve this is wrong. Linux isn't immune from these problems like some think, I've run a slackware box since '97ish and never had a problem but don't kid myself about it being immune to malware. I've run a windows box along side and never had problems on that with malware either. It's my actions and understanding which keeps me problem free not the OS.
Also Ubuntu and derivatives are even more of a target due to being very popular and having large part of their user base being none power users with minimal tech skills. Sec through obscurity wont work for long on such large distros either. Old windows OSes like XP may be low hanging fruit but plenty still target the rest of the tree. Won't take long for authors to catch up and tap those niches since they become more profitable as they grow in size, I've already noticed this with mac users starting to experience this more. People need to be educated and understand consequences if they don't become so. There is no quick substitute to learning, safezoning people without supervision never works.
Only thing I found works without educating users is when I've set up slack boxes for family/close friends and I don't give them root access, I set proper permissions and their influence doesn't spread past their home folder on another drive/partion etc. All the browsers are kept up to date by me, adblock/ghostery/noscript permissions tweaked by me on a need basis so occassionally I get a "this site wont work" and within minutes I sort it but most popular sites and their cdn's are allowed already (between ghostery and noscript I can whitelist and blacklist the same scripts on different sites hence the two in tandem). It isn't that much work once it has been going for a short time and it never breaks and there are never issues but only because of active protection, there is no automation that is safe to do this.
Of course you can eat 3000kal/day, you can also eat 4000 if your metabolism is fully functional it will not store excess fat unless you are stressed
Nonsense. Metabolism is mostly driven by demand (how much you move), and only to a small degree by available calories. Your argument also make no sense from an evolutionary survival perspective. Excess calories should be stored as fat to survive future times where food may be scarce.
that isn't true, it is not that simple. Muscles actually prefer burning fats at rest and storing glucose from (or converted to from) food as glycogen so there is a store for aerobic erxercise but more importantly for the brain since fats can't cross the blood brain barrier. We need the fats to store fat soluble vitamins too. There are many many factors driving metabolism, the basic ones are activity, hormone levels (made more complex in that some like hgh's have insulin effects), food types eaten and fast periods (including hour(s) long not just days/weeks/months), climate, daylight length, genetics etc etc so it gets complicated and no generalisations can be made.
Most people ask nutritionalists and personal trainers who understand very little and some of it they know the right answer but their reasoning is wrong so they form extra conclusions which are crap. What you really need is to be asking biochemists and molecular biologists and the like those questions or medical practitioners strong in those areas.
A completely sedentary person may burn 2000 kcal/day. An hour of exercise can increase that to 2500 kcal. That's significant enough. Of course, it doesn't mean that you can eat 3000 kcal/day. Strenuous of exercise, like weightlifting, can also increase metabolism for up to 48 hours after the actual exercise.
Of course you can eat 3000kal/day, you can also eat 4000 if your metabolism is fully functional it will not store excess fat unless you are stressed. Eating and exercise is not enough to explain the obesity epidemic, it is just the only two things worth talking about to stop it, as the we do not have enough information about the factors that influence the metabolism.
I'd argue we do have enough info on metabolism. It was a hell of a large part of my studies (biochem) in 1 and 2nd year and that was in the 90's and understanding has increased not decreased since then. We know a hell of a lot and understand it extremely well right down to the molecular physics of excatly how it does that not just the fact it does.
The problem is most people I know outside of those education subjects and careers don't know it, including a health care professional who is an expert nutritionalist who I've had to give extra info to a lot as she admits she never heard that but comes back surprised after research at it being well known. People want simple answers and the human body is complex; we want magic bullets, instant solutions, and 1 word answers is my guess at the real problem.
The gp displays the standard ignorance of a novice photographer, who doesn't even know that he knows nothing about photography because his hardware allows him to take pictures he deems "good". There's a reason there are professional photographers out there that get paid well and use "pro" equipment, but until gp tries to take pictures outside the limited scope of a P&S, he won't realize how limited he is. Should he use a pro-sumer or better grade camera, he may be disappointed in his pictures not being "better" than the P&S, that's not a fault of the equipment but more his failure to understand how to use that equipment to get great pictures. And even then, great pictures don't just happen automatically, it is luck or many tries, and sometimes significant post-processing before a great picture is realized. To be fair, sometimes that is also achievable with a P&S.
Truth to this but lighting is the magic ingredient. PS skills especially well done work frequency sep and subtle accurate changes only go so far if it is poorly lit. I don't just mean artificially lit stuff but same goes for available light although admittedly I tend to use monoblocks in portraiture. Not a quality thing more for the control I have over all light sources and "on tap" perfect light any time of day.
I'm a big fan of eizo monitors and they tend to produce stuff they know there is a niche for. This seems perfect for mfd use for a lot of different applications. I'm mainly familiar with the coloredge cx and cg series but most of their range ticks all the boxes for many people. I tend to design/edit/grade on a 27" screen and use a 20" just for tool panels and common controls I use whilst wanting to see adjustments large screen. I can utilise the screen realestate on the bigger screen for just workspace/pasteboard/footage and so on and declutter but have instant access to controls at the same time this way.
Thing with this kind of setup is the bigger the primary screen the better and the other screen doesn't matter so much and I'd rather have a CX271 or CG277 and 1 or 2 smaller screens than shrink the primary display to fit slightly bigger secondary/tertiary monitors onto my desk. Side monitors in portrait orientation doesn't always work well either so this seems like a good idea and that is just for my personal needs so I'd consider it but there are probably many more uses.
closest thing i've found to realistic is how Chris Roberts is implementing his space physics, fun first but without completely throwing realism out the window https://robertsspaceindustries...
prescribing benzos with ssri/ssnri is done in Europe but not for those reasons. The suicide risk increase has been found significant but the cause isn't fully understood and most will be cautious prescribing fluoxetine, paroxetine and the like to young adults/teenagers. That theory is far from proven and there are others more fitting and the risk found are lower than expected for that theory of "motivation". Also other classes such as treatment with TCAs and some SSNRI/SSRI don't have the same (if any) risk increase for the same therapeutic action/relief of symptoms.
I kind of do my own non-profit buisness of building computers for everyone I know or am related to. So I've got a small business account with newegg and do about $25k in computers a year. Asus was my board of choice for years, but about 3yrs ago they just went to shit. I've no idea why but suddenly I had massive failures, massive compatibility issues, etc... When a computer I build actually catches fire, that worries me. Asus was decent about the RMAs... which actually worried me more. A MB manufacturer will rarely take a return with scorch marks on it unless they know there's an issue. When the RMA boards I got back from them started blowing caps as well, I knew something was terribly wrong.
Also on my banned list: Gigabyte - I had several Gigabyte MB and Gigabyte Video cards. They would not work with each other and Gigabyte claimed it was a capability issue and not their problem, despite having put their names on both the card and the board! This was purely a customer service issue, they should have shipped me a different card to make things right.
Zotac - For 2yrs I shipped the same video card back to them over and over again. They just kept replacing it with defective cards. Some came to me dirty, or with blown components. You can't just dig around in the RMA'd parts bin and ship some other broken piece of crap back to me. I'm currently awaiting about the 4th RMA on that card and my warranty will run out. At least they're paying for the shipping.
Anyways, I'm done building computers for people. Components are just too unreliable now. I don't need to be spending half my life in the UPS shipping office.
I've found msi make the list too, lot of others find the same. Seems common across wide range of experiences of rig builders and no guaranteed reliable manufacturers now IMO. I just use handful of UK stores with great support whop replace no questions asked for free and honour the warranties for products; the 3 main places I use cover everything without specifics for 12month but do 3 to 5 year on certain products. I always always use psu's that are reliable and tested by good sources. Takes a week of reading around before purchase and always pay more than a crap one but it is worth it IMO but even with more positive than negative experiences I'd be foolish to trust in something completely. Consumer products just aren't made to be failproof, redundant failsafes and seriously over-engineered are things that do not mix with commercial products with sane pricetags for items with limited life before they become obsolete. Failure will always be part of the chain if you make enough machines for you/others. All you can do is insulate yourself from how likely it is by picking tested combos and good warranty scheme for if it did come to crunch
Even free shipping back as places have various policies from courier to pick up defective one when they deliver your replacement, email prepay post label to print out or post prepay box to ship back in (failure to do so gets you billed to stop scams). My advice to friends/family is only use someone with good returns policy who wont palm the problem off on the oem as none seem to give a toss with all products unless it is major known issue.
FWIW the last 2 rigs I made for me (msi mobo with i3 2120 xfx gtx460 and asus w/ i7 4790k gigabyte gtx770 both with corsair ram (I have less issues with gskill tbh)) are fine. Shockingly the msi mobo one going strong for 4 years nearly despite how many rma's in the first week of life on the mobo alone. I received numerous new boards (due to way it was returned I know it was not the same one shipped back out) and all had issues with DOA/, faulty or refusing to play nice with other components despite listed on msi and component manufacturers sites as tested confirmed compatible when it wasn't. Never had bad luck like that on single part in building rigs since mid 90's for myself/ family/ friends/ their friends etc etc. I'd tried other new components and tested working older parts t