Generally, people who can hear the high-pitched whine of a TV or the whine of transformers can also hear hard drives whine and find all the whining noise annoying.
Freaks!
What are they doing behind a computer anyway? Shouldn't they bee in the jungle, listening out for the incoming predators?
*disclaimer: I CAN hear the TV-whine, despite having quite bad hearing in my right ear as of couple of years ago. But I have NEVER heard hard drive whining beyond the initial spin-up or the usual sound of heads moving.
I have a far better (and cheaper, and simpler) solution to the problem. A year or two (sometimes just a couple of months will suffice) of loud music. While any music will do, heavy metal IS recommended.
Hard drive noise becomes a thing of the past. And its probably environment friendly too. If you use headphones that is. Otherwise, your environment might become rather less friendly towards you if you start implementing the "sound therapy" late at night or early in the morning.
I don't want to get into these fights, but the Video the Vote folks have buried their CYA "please ask the poll workers" stuff in the middle of huge blocks of text that no one's likely to read, so I'm not optimistic.
- Go to http://videothevote.org/resources and get the.pdf or.html version of the "Guidelines for Election Day Conduct" text. - Print it out like you would a poster-flyer on a single sheet of paper, with "Video the Vote" clearly visible. - Then take the sections 3 (Get Permission before You Film) and 8 (Enter Polls with Authorization), enlarge them (a photocopy machine and some cutting/pasting tools should do) and stick them right next to the full text. - Copy the entire set (both texts) on colored paper (you can do the red-white-blue version if you feel like it) and place them at the locations where they are easily noticeable. - Also, have a printout of the law you mentioned earlier, that regulates filming/photo rules at the poles.
Well.. thanks for mentioning CS4. Otherwise, I had no direct link to the post above and actual pointlessness of so many cores.
And while it may seem as heresy to the proud owners of multiprocessor work stations - Photoshop was never really about processing power. Or graphic cards (completely worthless investment up until CS4).
Photoshop was, is and probably always will be primarily about memory. While processing power is great to have in excess the key component of any Photoshop station is memory. That is why every new edition concentrates on the amount of addressable memory, while multiprocessing is practically an afterthought. Its only logical. And you might even say that Apple is to blame (in part) for that - with all those years of Macs (primary platform back then) that allowed nearly nothing besides memory and drives to be upgradeable. But only in part. Cause it is all about being able to load that 500 MB multilayer B2 poster and work on it without raking all over your swap drives. Or B1... or your entire 2 GB card of 10 MP photos at once... or whatever. Thing is - the key to unhindered work with many and large bitmaps is memory. As fast as possible and as much as possible.
And that is where Macs are finally being pushed aside as primary Photoshop platform. CS4 does not have 64-bit support under OSX. 64-bit that would allow more memory for Photoshop, and more efficient use of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs4#New_in_Creative_Suite_4
And its not just a Photoshop thing. The new Premiere or After Effects won't be 64-bit on OSX either. The way it is going, we might live to see a Windows only Photoshop sooner than Photoshop for Linux. (To all the gimps out there - don't even start.)
Why Macs? Well, if you need a lot of power (I do a lot of PhotoShop) you can't get a Windows machine with 8 cores cheaper than you can get a Mac Pro - sorry. It's cheaper to buy the Mac Pro and put Windows on it (even with the cost of that license) than it is to buy an 8-core Windows machine. Go figure!
I just went to Facebook to copy/paste this news to a friend of mine who is a dedicated Wholigan. And one of those annoying ads tried to inform me about "Work in Britain - Find well paid work in the UK using the largest job search engine." etc. etc.
I just clicked on couple of the videos from the front page and they work (Money For Nothing, Never Gonna Give You Up, Under Pressure, Touch Of Grey, Welcome to the Jungle). But boy does the sound on the Under Pressure suck. Apparently MTV forgot what that M stands for cause video runs and looks just fine. Better than most youtube videos I've seen.
On a side note, comments like this make me feel old. And I'm not even 30 yet. XD
Someone commenting on Under Pressure by Queen an David Bowie:
dawimp523 10.29.08 02:11AM I never saw this video until now! I've seen their live performance, but never the actual video! It's really weird, but in a good way! It seems like a bunch of random clips but it somehow fits the song! That was pretty ballsy for Queen and Bowie not to be in the video. But anyway, thank you MTV Music, for showing obscure videos that we might have missed or haven't seen in a long time!
Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin of the belt in our solar system, while the outer asteroid belt holds 20 times more material. Moreover, the presence of these three rings of material implies that unseen planets confine and shape them.
but I think it might be a scary thing to provide my medical and genetic history anywhere it might be accessed by my insurance company.
You ever heard of "investigators"? Insurance companies have entire divisions of those. Granted - it costs way too much to use them just to get your premium up, but be sure that when the time comes for you to actually USE your insurance for intended purposes - someone, somewhere will happily give your private info to "The Investigator" in exchange for a relatively small amount of money. Or no money at all. Much info can be acquired just by asking the right questions in the right way.
And in most cases - your private information is anything BUT private. A true story. Persons described live couple of hundred meters from me and the details are "Just between us girls..." kind of thing.
Back in the 1970s, my mother's (and father's) generation was fresh out of university, finding places to work at (it was one job for entire life back then), places to live at and people to live with for the rest of the life. One of my mother's acquaintances - I'll call her Alice - could not decide which one of her boyfriends would make a better husband.
Both looked, acted and earned (VERY important category for potential husband) about the same... But who is to say that any of that will last, right? Today's moneymaking Apollo might be bald and broke tomorrow. To eliminate as many unknowns as possible Alice, who was a resourceful young woman, went to one of her friends who was a doctor at the local hospital and asked if she could get her the medical records of both of her boyfriends. She could, and she did. Cause they were friends, and it was "Just between us girls...".
So, Alice compared their medical records and picked the healthier one. They eventually got married, had kids and lived happily ever after. The other guy is still alive and well too. Married, had kids etc. Only he didn't get to be Mr. Alice.
And don't get me started on "casual reading" of other peoples records by the people working for the phone company. There is no such thing as privacy. Only "private" information you have is that what only you know about. Be extra careful if you talk in your sleep.
See... Its a running joke on slashdot to point out other people's high slashdot ID numbers while loudly exclaiming "Ha-HA!" in a Nelson Muntz manner. Then, just as you point out the slashdotter with 7-digit (or close) ID, a 5 or 4 digit ID slashdotter comes along and points at you. And so on, and so forth, all the way to the 1-3 digit IDs. Using the old geezer talk (Get off my lawn!) is often a part of the ritual.
You should have picked up on that one by now during those 2 years.
As for your question... I was always under the impression that most people join slashdot at around nine, and leave for more important things couple of years later - when they discover girls. OK, OK... when they discover porn.
1. Wait in front of mobile-selling location. 2. Spot mobile-buying victim. 3. Follow victim for a while. 4. Club victim on the head, grab bag, run.
You get: one or more mobile phones and cards, one or more forms of ID, money, credit card(s), car and/or house key(s), one or more packet(s) of tissues, one or more packet(s) of gum, various other bonuses.
Or are you perhaps one of those pussy terrorists that is afraid of hitting people on the head and only does suicide bombings?
That being a low paying job, I am guessing it employs many immigrants. From like... I don't know... Nigeria?
And what are the current UK laws on creating and carrying around a obviously fake passport? You know... kind that would have big red letters saying "FAKE PASSPORT! NOT REAL! NOT A FORM OF IDENTIFICATION! FOR JOKE PURPOSES ONLY!" on it?
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Generally, people who can hear the high-pitched whine of a TV or the whine of transformers can also hear hard drives whine and find all the whining noise annoying.
Freaks!
What are they doing behind a computer anyway?
Shouldn't they bee in the jungle, listening out for the incoming predators?
*disclaimer:
I CAN hear the TV-whine, despite having quite bad hearing in my right ear as of couple of years ago.
But I have NEVER heard hard drive whining beyond the initial spin-up or the usual sound of heads moving.
I have a far better (and cheaper, and simpler) solution to the problem.
A year or two (sometimes just a couple of months will suffice) of loud music.
While any music will do, heavy metal IS recommended.
Hard drive noise becomes a thing of the past.
And its probably environment friendly too. If you use headphones that is.
Otherwise, your environment might become rather less friendly towards you if you start implementing the "sound therapy" late at night or early in the morning.
- Go to http://videothevote.org/resources and get the .pdf or .html version of the "Guidelines for Election Day Conduct" text.
- Print it out like you would a poster-flyer on a single sheet of paper, with "Video the Vote" clearly visible.
- Then take the sections 3 (Get Permission before You Film) and 8 (Enter Polls with Authorization), enlarge them (a photocopy machine and some cutting/pasting tools should do) and stick them right next to the full text.
- Copy the entire set (both texts) on colored paper (you can do the red-white-blue version if you feel like it) and place them at the locations where they are easily noticeable.
- Also, have a printout of the law you mentioned earlier, that regulates filming/photo rules at the poles.
Well... it is true at least, right?
Lets add other fun !-tags.
Lets see... !aardvark, !aardwolf, !aargau, !aare, !aaron, !aascu...
Its KINGDOM of Dumbfuckistan!
Well.. thanks for mentioning CS4.
Otherwise, I had no direct link to the post above and actual pointlessness of so many cores.
And while it may seem as heresy to the proud owners of multiprocessor work stations - Photoshop was never really about processing power.
Or graphic cards (completely worthless investment up until CS4).
Photoshop was, is and probably always will be primarily about memory.
While processing power is great to have in excess the key component of any Photoshop station is memory.
That is why every new edition concentrates on the amount of addressable memory, while multiprocessing is practically an afterthought.
Its only logical.
And you might even say that Apple is to blame (in part) for that - with all those years of Macs (primary platform back then) that allowed nearly nothing besides memory and drives to be upgradeable.
But only in part. Cause it is all about being able to load that 500 MB multilayer B2 poster and work on it without raking all over your swap drives.
Or B1... or your entire 2 GB card of 10 MP photos at once... or whatever.
Thing is - the key to unhindered work with many and large bitmaps is memory. As fast as possible and as much as possible.
And that is where Macs are finally being pushed aside as primary Photoshop platform.
CS4 does not have 64-bit support under OSX. 64-bit that would allow more memory for Photoshop, and more efficient use of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs4#New_in_Creative_Suite_4
And its not just a Photoshop thing. The new Premiere or After Effects won't be 64-bit on OSX either.
The way it is going, we might live to see a Windows only Photoshop sooner than Photoshop for Linux. (To all the gimps out there - don't even start.)
If only there was some use for all those cores...
Scroll down for graphs of Power Macintosh G5 routinely outperforming Mac Pro in Photoshop:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macpro.ars/7
Read the text to see why it does not really matter (in most cases) if you have 8 or 2 cores:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/12/photoshop_and_multicore.html
I just went to Facebook to copy/paste this news to a friend of mine who is a dedicated Wholigan.
And one of those annoying ads tried to inform me about "Work in Britain - Find well paid work in the UK using the largest job search engine." etc. etc.
Which videos?
I just clicked on couple of the videos from the front page and they work (Money For Nothing, Never Gonna Give You Up, Under Pressure, Touch Of Grey, Welcome to the Jungle).
But boy does the sound on the Under Pressure suck.
Apparently MTV forgot what that M stands for cause video runs and looks just fine. Better than most youtube videos I've seen.
On a side note, comments like this make me feel old. And I'm not even 30 yet. XD
Someone commenting on Under Pressure by Queen an David Bowie:
From TFA:
Two rings of rocks, and one of ice.
but I think it might be a scary thing to provide my medical and genetic history anywhere it might be accessed by my insurance company.
You ever heard of "investigators"?
Insurance companies have entire divisions of those.
Granted - it costs way too much to use them just to get your premium up, but be sure that when the time comes for you to actually USE your insurance for intended purposes - someone, somewhere will happily give your private info to "The Investigator" in exchange for a relatively small amount of money.
Or no money at all. Much info can be acquired just by asking the right questions in the right way.
And in most cases - your private information is anything BUT private.
A true story. Persons described live couple of hundred meters from me and the details are "Just between us girls..." kind of thing.
Back in the 1970s, my mother's (and father's) generation was fresh out of university, finding places to work at (it was one job for entire life back then), places to live at and people to live with for the rest of the life.
One of my mother's acquaintances - I'll call her Alice - could not decide which one of her boyfriends would make a better husband.
Both looked, acted and earned (VERY important category for potential husband) about the same...
But who is to say that any of that will last, right? Today's moneymaking Apollo might be bald and broke tomorrow.
To eliminate as many unknowns as possible Alice, who was a resourceful young woman, went to one of her friends who was a doctor at the local hospital and asked if she could get her the medical records of both of her boyfriends.
She could, and she did. Cause they were friends, and it was "Just between us girls...".
So, Alice compared their medical records and picked the healthier one. They eventually got married, had kids and lived happily ever after.
The other guy is still alive and well too. Married, had kids etc. Only he didn't get to be Mr. Alice.
And don't get me started on "casual reading" of other peoples records by the people working for the phone company.
There is no such thing as privacy. Only "private" information you have is that what only you know about.
Be extra careful if you talk in your sleep.
Quantum plural which is plural and singular at the same time?
Here you go... thinking about bacteria...
Well, terrorist or no terrorist - someone wearing several mobile phones in plain sight should be arrested.
Terrorist are known to not eat pork.
Have you noticed any vegetarians who don't eat pork for no obvious reason?
Terrorists often wear beards.
Have you noticed anyone wearing a beard for no obvious reason?
Terrorists are known to eat food.
Have you noticed anyone eating for no obvious reason?
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You'd me amazed how often people see "a translucent hologram" as just a "shiny thingy". Which is very similar to any other shiny thingy.
And lets not forget older/sight impaired people.
It was joke. You know.. a funny.
See... Its a running joke on slashdot to point out other people's high slashdot ID numbers while loudly exclaiming "Ha-HA!" in a Nelson Muntz manner.
Then, just as you point out the slashdotter with 7-digit (or close) ID, a 5 or 4 digit ID slashdotter comes along and points at you.
And so on, and so forth, all the way to the 1-3 digit IDs.
Using the old geezer talk (Get off my lawn!) is often a part of the ritual.
You should have picked up on that one by now during those 2 years.
As for your question...
I was always under the impression that most people join slashdot at around nine, and leave for more important things couple of years later - when they discover girls.
OK, OK... when they discover porn.
Hey, its not my fault you were born so early and discovered interweb so late.
I guess its a trade off for all those years of AIDS-less sex.
Look at his ID number.
USB was probably around all his life.
You mean those 3% that actually benefit anyone?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-big-question-are-cctv-cameras-a-waste-of-money-in-the-fight-against-crime-822079.html
or these 3%?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1
And god forbid someone comes up with the idea to use advanced CCTV evading technology.
My thoughts exactly. I've just wrapped them in couple of layers of sarcasm.
1. Wait in front of mobile-selling location.
2. Spot mobile-buying victim.
3. Follow victim for a while.
4. Club victim on the head, grab bag, run.
You get: one or more mobile phones and cards, one or more forms of ID, money, credit card(s), car and/or house key(s), one or more packet(s) of tissues, one or more packet(s) of gum, various other bonuses.
Or are you perhaps one of those pussy terrorists that is afraid of hitting people on the head and only does suicide bombings?
...in recognizing fake passports?
That being a low paying job, I am guessing it employs many immigrants.
From like... I don't know... Nigeria?
And what are the current UK laws on creating and carrying around a obviously fake passport?
You know... kind that would have big red letters saying "FAKE PASSPORT! NOT REAL! NOT A FORM OF IDENTIFICATION! FOR JOKE PURPOSES ONLY!" on it?
I guess you didn't bother to read TFA either?
Did you ever happen to read any Proust or if not Proust then perhaps some Goethe?
Goldberg at least used commas, parentheses and semicolons.
Read the TFA. At least the first sentence.