OK. Here you go. Not to be rude, but I have a hunch you have a narrow definition that you haven't disclosed. Anyway, you can look at the fatalities and ecological disruptions, e.g. tritium and strontium in local water supplies, and see if they fit into your position.
OT: The links don't include ongoing problems uranium mining like the Atlas Mine Project in Moab, UT which are eliminated if we don't consider coal mining.
Given the consequences of an accident, the safety record of nuclear power is appalling.
What does the safety record (which is still 0 fatalities, 0 health side effects, 0 long term ecological disruptions) have to do with the potential outcome of an accident?/p>
Really? You must live in Washington or Colorado because you're definitely smoking something.
The OP didn't mention why the need to re-rip and why he's going with FLAC (other than the obvious FLAC benefits and a concern over media longevity), but if he has the CDs and is concerned about the time to rip, go lossy! And if so I'll add one more alternative that will save even more time:
Alternative F: Purchase one year of iTunes Match ($25 US) and you probably won't need to rip most of your CDs at all. Depending on what you have now the downloaded iTunes versions may be of better quality. I'm making the assumption he doesn't already have them in FLAC format because if so why re-rip?
Why would you care how long a drive takes to rip a CD/DVD? Do you sit and watch and wait for each one to be ripped? Are you using some strange OS that only lets you do one thing at a time? I did the same thing a few years ago. I just had a big stack next to my primary computers, and just swapped them out while I was working on them. How long each one took wasn't relevant.
Now I don't know what you do at your computer, but no matter if it's watching a movie or playing a game or studying or coding or whatever, interrupting myself all the time is rather annoying and detrimental to my enjoyment/performance. Been there, done that and I for sure cared how fast I could get it over with. These days I have double hard drives, it's as good a backups as the discs were since they were on-site anyway or I could get an external HDD for the same security as off-site discs. I only restored from them once, you know what the worst part was? Discs that had slight reading problems, they'd eventually finish but it could take up to an hour to read one disc. If you want to spend a week of your life swapping discs in case of a disk crash, optical media is a great backup. Otherwise I'd only take backup to another disk or online.
It's the same number of disks, the same number of interruptions. The difference is the faster drive will interrupt you more often for a given period of time, so if you want less interruptions per session you would go with the slower drive. If I'm watching a movie I'd rather be interrupted only six times instead of 18.
OCZ. My Corsair was nothing but trouble and the warranty replacement is sitting on the desk unopened. It was replaced with an OCZ and I purchased an OCZ for my laptop and haven't had trouble with either one. Both of their support forums are kind of bitchy, but Corsair's was the least helpful.
Definitely. And worse to watch four videos on a site that have the same unskippable ad at the beginning of each. It's a good time saver as it makes me realize I don't need to consume the content.
Well duh. We just upgraded to FF 17. FF 3.6 must have been 12 years ago. Of course it's slow today (or even two years ago when FF 15 must have been the norm).
Building your own, if you know what you're doing and know what you want is usually cheaper. But it does require work on your part, and while most of building a computer is pretty trivial some stuff (like correctly wiring a case to a mobo, or properly applying contact paste for a cooling fan) can really hold people back. Also, time and space.
Not really. It's hard to find as cheap parts that they use in the pre-built stuff. A quick look at NewEgg shows a Windows 7 mini-tower, AMD dual core x64, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD, AMD Radeon HD, integrated sound card, gigabit Ethernet, and 150W power supply for $229. Even if not a Cyber Monday price, picking the cheapest of everything quickly surpasses a pre-built PC these days. And for me it's difficult to pick the cheapest of every component.
The journalist uses the word "confetti" which does not mean "long strips of paper that were not crosscut shredded". Every shredder I've seen for the last decade has been a crosscut shredder instead of the old style. There's one in this office not ten feet from me that does crosscut shredding, and my Dad has one in his office too. These are the ordinary models that anyone can buy. So, were these police documents ribbons instead of confetti? The article doesn't say. Yet another proud day for journalism.
Also, not a proud day for reading comprehension. TFA states "shredded police documents mixed in with confetti". Other articles have photos and videos of the strips of paper which have complete lines of text.
You are taking his story at face value? Listen to his blog:
"She has also helped me evade detection by grabbing me and kissing me, in public, in a fashion that causes passerby's to feel embarrassment at the thought of staring and by creating emotional scenes that cause the curious to momentarily forget what they were looking for," he wrote. "She is acutely aware of her surroundings and is as street smart as a sober hobo."
I think he is delusional. That's not to say he can't evade the authorities in Belize for a while, but to what end?
I've heard iphone users complain that they can't get swype and can't get Google Maps or turn-by-turn navigation or any number of things that are on Android...
iOS 6 turn-by-turn navigation puts Garmin's app to shame.
Agreed. "TVs in the bedroom and dining room". My mom had a TV in the bedroom and living room since the early 60s. For the sarcasm challenged, she is not tech savvy. And I don't thin being "wired" by watching movies and playing game consoles is something to brag about. By that definition my seven year old is wired. Definitely a slow Sunday.
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OK. Here you go. Not to be rude, but I have a hunch you have a narrow definition that you haven't disclosed. Anyway, you can look at the fatalities and ecological disruptions, e.g. tritium and strontium in local water supplies, and see if they fit into your position.
OT: The links don't include ongoing problems uranium mining like the Atlas Mine Project in Moab, UT which are eliminated if we don't consider coal mining.
Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States
List of nuclear power accidents by country
Given the consequences of an accident, the safety record of nuclear power is appalling.
What does the safety record (which is still 0 fatalities, 0 health side effects, 0 long term ecological disruptions) have to do with the potential outcome of an accident? /p>
Really? You must live in Washington or Colorado because you're definitely smoking something.
Seriously, how long are we going to keep feeding this poor nutcase's attention habit?
When he stops acting like Charlie Sheen giving Britney Spears a piggyback ride.
There's probably also a lot of other types of links that can get you fired. It's your responsibility, not the editors.
Because he is the geek equivalent to Charlie Sheen
I'd say more like Britney Spears. Charlie has style and presentation.
True. I'm not sure at this point if the authorities are "after him" at all.
The OP didn't mention why the need to re-rip and why he's going with FLAC (other than the obvious FLAC benefits and a concern over media longevity), but if he has the CDs and is concerned about the time to rip, go lossy! And if so I'll add one more alternative that will save even more time:
Alternative F: Purchase one year of iTunes Match ($25 US) and you probably won't need to rip most of your CDs at all. Depending on what you have now the downloaded iTunes versions may be of better quality. I'm making the assumption he doesn't already have them in FLAC format because if so why re-rip?
Why would you care how long a drive takes to rip a CD/DVD? Do you sit and watch and wait for each one to be ripped? Are you using some strange OS that only lets you do one thing at a time? I did the same thing a few years ago. I just had a big stack next to my primary computers, and just swapped them out while I was working on them. How long each one took wasn't relevant.
Now I don't know what you do at your computer, but no matter if it's watching a movie or playing a game or studying or coding or whatever, interrupting myself all the time is rather annoying and detrimental to my enjoyment/performance. Been there, done that and I for sure cared how fast I could get it over with. These days I have double hard drives, it's as good a backups as the discs were since they were on-site anyway or I could get an external HDD for the same security as off-site discs. I only restored from them once, you know what the worst part was? Discs that had slight reading problems, they'd eventually finish but it could take up to an hour to read one disc. If you want to spend a week of your life swapping discs in case of a disk crash, optical media is a great backup. Otherwise I'd only take backup to another disk or online.
It's the same number of disks, the same number of interruptions. The difference is the faster drive will interrupt you more often for a given period of time, so if you want less interruptions per session you would go with the slower drive. If I'm watching a movie I'd rather be interrupted only six times instead of 18.
OCZ. My Corsair was nothing but trouble and the warranty replacement is sitting on the desk unopened. It was replaced with an OCZ and I purchased an OCZ for my laptop and haven't had trouble with either one. Both of their support forums are kind of bitchy, but Corsair's was the least helpful.
Definitely. And worse to watch four videos on a site that have the same unskippable ad at the beginning of each. It's a good time saver as it makes me realize I don't need to consume the content.
It works:
http://the-pc-decrapifier.en.softonic.com/
Ironic that they use a download manager.
Well duh. We just upgraded to FF 17. FF 3.6 must have been 12 years ago. Of course it's slow today (or even two years ago when FF 15 must have been the norm).
IIRC FF 3.6 was about 9 months ago. Ba-dum.
And they mark up for it.
Building your own, if you know what you're doing and know what you want is usually cheaper. But it does require work on your part, and while most of building a computer is pretty trivial some stuff (like correctly wiring a case to a mobo, or properly applying contact paste for a cooling fan) can really hold people back. Also, time and space.
Not really. It's hard to find as cheap parts that they use in the pre-built stuff. A quick look at NewEgg shows a Windows 7 mini-tower, AMD dual core x64, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD, AMD Radeon HD, integrated sound card, gigabit Ethernet, and 150W power supply for $229. Even if not a Cyber Monday price, picking the cheapest of everything quickly surpasses a pre-built PC these days. And for me it's difficult to pick the cheapest of every component.
The journalist uses the word "confetti" which does not mean "long strips of paper that were not crosscut shredded". Every shredder I've seen for the last decade has been a crosscut shredder instead of the old style. There's one in this office not ten feet from me that does crosscut shredding, and my Dad has one in his office too. These are the ordinary models that anyone can buy. So, were these police documents ribbons instead of confetti? The article doesn't say. Yet another proud day for journalism.
Also, not a proud day for reading comprehension. TFA states "shredded police documents mixed in with confetti". Other articles have photos and videos of the strips of paper which have complete lines of text.
Yeah, because regulatory compliance and associated paperwork, government inspections, lawsuits, and penalties impose 0 costs on businesses.
If you want to see what zero costs looks like, I suggest you turn off Rush and read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
Why not just keep your millions stateside, pay your taxes like a good boy, and get old and fat without these kinds of worries?
I've got 2 thru 3 covered. #1 is turning out to be a problem.
It did. He was acquitted of two counts of murder.
You are taking his story at face value? Listen to his blog:
I think he is delusional. That's not to say he can't evade the authorities in Belize for a while, but to what end?
It sounds like he has High Anxiety.
That's what he's trying to avoid. According to him, "court" is a beaten confession or a bullet to the back of the head.
The articles I read did bring his competence into question which is why he was let go.
Stud finder: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/studfinder-emf/id444985057?mt=8
I've heard iphone users complain that they can't get swype and can't get Google Maps or turn-by-turn navigation or any number of things that are on Android...
iOS 6 turn-by-turn navigation puts Garmin's app to shame.
As they discovered in Nebraska, even slowly rising floodwater causes problems to a plant when it reaches a certain level.
I wired my house with 30 pin cables and now I have to rip it out and pull 8 pin cables.
Agreed. "TVs in the bedroom and dining room". My mom had a TV in the bedroom and living room since the early 60s. For the sarcasm challenged, she is not tech savvy. And I don't thin being "wired" by watching movies and playing game consoles is something to brag about. By that definition my seven year old is wired. Definitely a slow Sunday.