PCs and long analog cable runs can definitely be a negative, especially if your signals are low level.
My experiences with this sort of stuff is that you want to move the D/A converters as close to the experiment as possible and to use good instrumentation grade wiring with twisted pairs individually shielded plus a drain wire. If also sounds like your setup may be very sensitive to mechanical vibrations - if your noise source is mechanical nothing electronic will really fix the problem. You can filter stuff in the digital domain but you lose frequency response when you do.
I've had very good luck with Analog Devices D/A stuff in the past; not particularly expensive and pretty good quality modules that you use in a distributed fashion to get into the digital domain as quickly as possible.
by definition, "Cheese Food" and NOT real cheese, how can there be such a thing as "American Cheese" in the first place?
What is defined and regulated as American cheese by the USDA is actually a mild cheddar or sometimes Colby and is real cheese (i.e. pressed curd of milk, seasoned and aged). Of course more common in supermarkets is stuff like 'Processed American Cheese'.
"Cheese Food" along with variants like processed cheese etc. is defined by the USDA as cheese (usually Colby or mild cheddar) blends with added milk and milk products and or cream and an emusifier to prevent separation. These ingredients are added to aid melting and / or spreading or providing a smooth texture and improve storage characteristics.
So it really is real cheese at least at the start.
Well, least I can do is warn you not to buy anything from them... and don't trust me, check the other reviews online!
Well to be fair ebuyer is not in the same league as PriceRitePhoto in terms of being outright fraudulent. They actually make an attempt to fulfill your order at the price listed on the web site - and most of the time they get it right. The problem comes when something goes wrong in the fulfillment process or you want to cancel an order. Then you are in the house of pain.
Unless it is for gaming or for special and demanding applications, who needs all this muscle?
A traditional desktop PC has it all over a laptop when you need a lot storage space - it isn't just CPU speed, but when you have a lot of data to house. That is a pretty common need given a movie takes up 5 GB, or a CD 3/4 a GB.
Never buy anything that needs to be painted, fed or recharged. Another way to reduce the mess is to buy larger computer cases that hold more stuff, thus reducing the need for a lot of external doodads.
Also if you haven't used it in a year, give it away (maybe to a charity) so that you can write it off.
Yeah, but not for the cable companies. Many companies pack channels the way they do in order to get people to sign up for larger packages so they can get the 2 or 3 channels they want. Besides, I doubt the big cable companies will make the rates of a la carte TV reasonable.
I think that one huge obstacle to this might be that certain channels have bundle contracts - that is you get a certain per channel cost if the channel is carried in xyz package. Another place where problems could occur with ths model is when the cable company is also producing it's own content - costs of competing content may become prohibitive.
OTOH this may offer more transparency in pricing - a cable company will be able to tie the cost of a particular channel to the actual cost it has to pay for the channel. The result might be more pressure on the content providers to keep their costs in line.
It seems to me that one of the biggest drawbacks with use of software from MS and similar companies is the legal liabilities that ensue as a result of the licensing of this software. Bring this stuff into your organization and you open up the potential for massive lawsuits, disruption of operations and so forth. To avoid this you have to put in place a set of draconian corporate policies and definitely take on overhead in the form of license record keeping.
None of this appearrs in the purchase price for the license, yet it is a real cost.
A little known fact (not described in the High School history books) is that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth because they had run out of beer and needed to make more. I had always held the founders in high esteem, and this news just elevates that.
I don't see any fundamental technical problems here, anyway.
Yeah, unfortunately the problems are not at all technical. They are rather economic, social and institutional. A wiki is of zero use in addressing these.
Except this is unlikely to be the case in the situation the parent described.
Nope. 80% of Americans get their health insurance paid for by their employers. It is in fact very likely.
Most people employed in the only area of job expansion in the US - the burger flipping.
Nope. Here are the fastest growing ocupations in the US over the past 10 years:
Health aides 138% Human service workers 136% Personal and home care aids 130% Computer engineers and scientists 112% Systems analysts 110% Physical and corrective therapy assistants and aides 93% Physical therapists 88% Paralegals 86% Teachers, special education 74% Medical assistants 71%
In general the top categories are in health care. It seems to me that a nation with the terrible health care problems you claim would not be adding health care workers at that rate.
Wal-Mart and other "service" industries do not have any such benefits
Wal-Mart does in fact offer health covereage to it's workers. The problem here is that their pay rate is so low that about half of them decline coverage.
Such benefits are today restricted mostly to the CEO class.
Utter nonsense. My insurance coverage, which I pay $25 a month for includes 100% hospital coverage, free prescriptions and $5 a visit copay to the doctor. Two years ago I needed an MRI for an ankle injury and was able to get an appointment in 3 days. Out of pocket cost was $0. I am definitely NOT a CEO class person.
An economist my ass.
A Nobel Prize winning economicist, actually.
It seems to me that you are living in some sort of weird fantasy world not connected in any way to what the reality is.
Slashdot itself can be seen as a peer-reviewed site, and it is doing quite well i'd say.
What a hoot. Slashdot is full or errors, duplicate stories, astroturfing and all sorts of editorial problems. I would hate to see scientific publication descend into such a mess.
As a publishing scientist, I would venture another question: "Why should I publish in a journal that is not freely available? Why would I pick a journal that limits its readership?"
The reason right now is that nobody would pay any attention to such a publication. The sound of one hand clapping, etc.
The problem is that internet publishing does not currently provide mechanisms critical to scientific publication.
- Peer review - Professional indexing (no Google search won't work) - Tracking citations - Archiving
Without these a publication does not recieve proper consideration, validation or preservation.
It makes no sense that the results of this research become locked away and unavailable to the public.
A noble sentiment, however there is no mechanism available that provides for making this material available for free yet also allows for the funding of the needs of scientific article publication. There are some pilot programs in place, but at least so far they are not proven to work. Until this evolves to a trustworthy process the traditional methods will have to continue.
Ultimately it sounds like these gamers are going to fail to pass along their genes, thus solving the problem.
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This is completely different from real property, which can actually be defended by its owner.
This difference seems rather weak - the concept of real property rights is not at all universal, and there are many types of what people currently view as real property rights that are in fact defended by governments rather than by the owners.
I'd say the best way to prove the absurdity of these "property" owners whining is to start taking away the ridiculous laws that government enforces on behalf of intellectual property, and see what happens.
History already provides the answer to this. Clue: You won't like the results. If you think copy protection is bad now, wait until you see what you get without IP laws.
The nice thing about ala carte vendors is that if you don't like their options on a particular build, just leave them out. If you don't lie the hard drive options, no big deal, order them seperately.
With the reality of outsourcing and the perception of IT as a cost that must be minimizws in all corporations (and taught as such in business shools) there is just the fact is that it will continue to be a bottom of barrel career choice.
There is no way I would try to recruit young people in to this field. Doing so would be a breach of trust.
I used to buld my systems from loose parts, and had fun doing it. Now though I find I like to save some time buy going to an ala cart shop like Monarch Computer. Using them I can pick out the system components I want and let them assemble/test the system. Monarch does a good job putting together a list of options and is pretty helpful with suggestions. It's much better than buying some off the shelf thing without knowing what is in it plus you get some help picking out a good combination of stuff.
As I understand the "problem" with Evolution as described by Darwin is that it may accurately describe what we observe, but it has no predictive power.
Then your understanding is very flawed. Evolution in fact has quite strong predictive power. For example, evolutionary theory is very useful in predicting the number of harmful genes in a particular animal's genome.
In fact one of the greatest trimuphs of science was the use by Darwin himself of evolution to predict existance of certain species of insects by examining the morphology of plants that they would pollinate.
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Any particular reason that it has to be a GUI? Something like an ncurses interface might be a lit easier.
PCs and long analog cable runs can definitely be a negative, especially if your signals are low level.
My experiences with this sort of stuff is that you want to move the D/A converters as close to the experiment as possible and to use good instrumentation grade wiring with twisted pairs individually shielded plus a drain wire. If also sounds like your setup may be very sensitive to mechanical vibrations - if your noise source is mechanical nothing electronic will really fix the problem. You can filter stuff in the digital domain but you lose frequency response when you do.
I've had very good luck with Analog Devices D/A stuff in the past; not particularly expensive and pretty good quality modules that you use in a distributed fashion to get into the digital domain as quickly as possible.
by definition, "Cheese Food" and NOT real cheese, how can there be such a thing as "American Cheese" in the first place?
What is defined and regulated as American cheese by the USDA is actually a mild cheddar or sometimes Colby and is real cheese (i.e. pressed curd of milk, seasoned and aged). Of course more common in supermarkets is stuff like 'Processed American Cheese'.
"Cheese Food" along with variants like processed cheese etc. is defined by the USDA as cheese (usually Colby or mild cheddar) blends with added milk and milk products and or cream and an emusifier to prevent separation. These ingredients are added to aid melting and / or spreading or providing a smooth texture and improve storage characteristics.
So it really is real cheese at least at the start.
What can you expect from a nation that has 300 kinds of cheese?
Well, least I can do is warn you not to buy anything from them... and don't trust me, check the other reviews online!
Well to be fair ebuyer is not in the same league as PriceRitePhoto in terms of being outright fraudulent. They actually make an attempt to fulfill your order at the price listed on the web site - and most of the time they get it right. The problem comes when something goes wrong in the fulfillment process or you want to cancel an order. Then you are in the house of pain.
Unless it is for gaming or for special and demanding applications, who needs all this muscle?
A traditional desktop PC has it all over a laptop when you need a lot storage space - it isn't just CPU speed, but when you have a lot of data to house. That is a pretty common need given a movie takes up 5 GB, or a CD 3/4 a GB.
Mod parent up.
Never buy anything that needs to be painted, fed or recharged. Another way to reduce the mess is to buy larger computer cases that hold more stuff, thus reducing the need for a lot of external doodads.
Also if you haven't used it in a year, give it away (maybe to a charity) so that you can write it off.
Yeah, but not for the cable companies. Many companies pack channels the way they do in order to get people to sign up for larger packages so they can get the 2 or 3 channels they want. Besides, I doubt the big cable companies will make the rates of a la carte TV reasonable.
I think that one huge obstacle to this might be that certain channels have bundle contracts - that is you get a certain per channel cost if the channel is carried in xyz package. Another place where problems could occur with ths model is when the cable company is also producing it's own content - costs of competing content may become prohibitive.
OTOH this may offer more transparency in pricing - a cable company will be able to tie the cost of a particular channel to the actual cost it has to pay for the channel. The result might be more pressure on the content providers to keep their costs in line.
I'd second the Earthsea series. LeGuin is a wonderful writer.
Right now someone I know is trying to track down a Java memory leak.
Yes, but it is unlikely that somebody you know is trying to track down a Java double free error.
It seems to me that one of the biggest drawbacks with use of software from MS and similar companies is the legal liabilities that ensue as a result of the licensing of this software. Bring this stuff into your organization and you open up the potential for massive lawsuits, disruption of operations and so forth. To avoid this you have to put in place a set of draconian corporate policies and definitely take on overhead in the form of license record keeping.
None of this appearrs in the purchase price for the license, yet it is a real cost.
A little known fact (not described in the High School history books) is that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth because they had run out of beer and needed to make more. I had always held the founders in high esteem, and this news just elevates that.
I don't see any fundamental technical problems here, anyway.
Yeah, unfortunately the problems are not at all technical. They are rather economic, social and institutional. A wiki is of zero use in addressing these.
Except this is unlikely to be the case in the situation the parent described.
Nope. 80% of Americans get their health insurance paid for by their employers. It is in fact very likely.
Most people employed in the only area of job expansion in the US - the burger flipping.
Nope. Here are the fastest growing ocupations in the US over the past 10 years:
Health aides 138%
Human service workers 136%
Personal and home care aids 130%
Computer engineers and scientists 112%
Systems analysts 110%
Physical and corrective therapy assistants and aides 93%
Physical therapists 88%
Paralegals 86%
Teachers, special education 74%
Medical assistants 71%
In general the top categories are in health care. It seems to me that a nation with the terrible health care problems you claim would not be adding health care workers at that rate.
Wal-Mart and other "service" industries do not have any such benefits
Wal-Mart does in fact offer health covereage to it's workers. The problem here is that their pay rate is so low that about half of them decline coverage.
Such benefits are today restricted mostly to the CEO class.
Utter nonsense. My insurance coverage, which I pay $25 a month for includes 100% hospital coverage, free prescriptions and $5 a visit copay to the doctor. Two years ago I needed an MRI for an ankle injury and was able to get an appointment in 3 days. Out of pocket cost was $0. I am definitely NOT a CEO class person.
An economist my ass.
A Nobel Prize winning economicist, actually.
It seems to me that you are living in some sort of weird fantasy world not connected in any way to what the reality is.
Dang. Now my precious Victory Hop Devil Ale will become hard to obtain.
First Bird Flu now this.
we have tonnes of green land
Every time I've been to Canada the land has been white.
If you had the choice, would you really uproot to a new country especially one where the lifestyle isn't that much different than your own?
It seems to me that a lifestyle that includes warm weather would be reason enough.
Slashdot itself can be seen as a peer-reviewed site, and it is doing quite well i'd say.
What a hoot. Slashdot is full or errors, duplicate stories, astroturfing and all sorts of editorial problems. I would hate to see scientific publication descend into such a mess.
As a publishing scientist, I would venture another question: "Why should I publish in a journal that is not freely available? Why would I pick a journal that limits its readership?"
The reason right now is that nobody would pay any attention to such a publication. The sound of one hand clapping, etc.
The problem is that internet publishing does not currently provide mechanisms critical to scientific publication.
- Peer review
- Professional indexing (no Google search won't work)
- Tracking citations
- Archiving
Without these a publication does not recieve proper consideration, validation or preservation.
It makes no sense that the results of this research become locked away and unavailable to the public.
A noble sentiment, however there is no mechanism available that provides for making this material available for free yet also allows for the funding of the needs of scientific article publication. There are some pilot programs in place, but at least so far they are not proven to work. Until this evolves to a trustworthy process the traditional methods will have to continue.
a an anti-gaming college club
Ultimately it sounds like these gamers are going to fail to pass along their genes, thus solving the problem.
This is completely different from real property, which can actually be defended by its owner.
This difference seems rather weak - the concept of real property rights is not at all universal, and there are many types of what people currently view as real property rights that are in fact defended by governments rather than by the owners.
I'd say the best way to prove the absurdity of these "property" owners whining is to start taking away the ridiculous laws that government enforces on behalf of intellectual property, and see what happens.
History already provides the answer to this. Clue: You won't like the results. If you think copy protection is bad now, wait until you see what you get without IP laws.
The nice thing about ala carte vendors is that if you don't like their options on a particular build, just leave them out. If you don't lie the hard drive options, no big deal, order them seperately.
With the reality of outsourcing and the perception of IT as a cost that must be minimizws in all corporations (and taught as such in business shools) there is just the fact is that it will continue to be a bottom of barrel career choice.
There is no way I would try to recruit young people in to this field. Doing so would be a breach of trust.
I used to buld my systems from loose parts, and had fun doing it. Now though I find I like to save some time buy going to an ala cart shop like Monarch Computer. Using them I can pick out the system components I want and let them assemble/test the system. Monarch does a good job putting together a list of options and is pretty helpful with suggestions. It's much better than buying some off the shelf thing without knowing what is in it plus you get some help picking out a good combination of stuff.
As I understand the "problem" with Evolution as described by Darwin is that it may accurately describe what we observe, but it has no predictive power.
Then your understanding is very flawed. Evolution in fact has quite strong predictive power. For example, evolutionary theory is very useful in predicting the number of harmful genes in a particular animal's genome.
In fact one of the greatest trimuphs of science was the use by Darwin himself of evolution to predict existance of certain species of insects by examining the morphology of plants that they would pollinate.