The don't do tech much, preferring clean water initiatives, but they are into education as well. Many large clubs are looking for international projects, and yours may be eager to help out in both funding and manpower.
Somebody needs to work on their reading comprehension skills:
Q Why does the IRS even have a film studio? A...to make training films and informational videos for taxpayers.
If you'd even browsed you'd find out that they have one for training videos because they found out they could do them cheaper in house than farming them out. It's not too surprising if you have either (a) a large number of videos to produce or (b) in-house technical staff with surplus time. I suspect (a) is correct as the congress changes tax law - Every Fucking Year - and all of the agents need to be retrained. Sending in-person trainers is even more expensive.
You'd be surprised at how many large companies have their own film and sound studios for in-house work. It doesn't take too big an operation to justify having one over paying a contractor to do it every time you need something updated.
Actually, you've proven the GP's point. You can't tell the difference if you are listening to the program. Turning a program up in the "soft sections" is exactly what you should never, ever do when listening to a program. You may as well put on the IR headset with compression that came with your TV so you can watch late night TV without disturbing your wife.
Mastering is an entirely different ball of wax and, yes, you want all the headroom you can get. It's no different than photographers using RAW formats instead of JPGs (even lossless JPGs) out of the camera. You want all the bits you can get. But after your done mastering, dropping to 16bits isn't going to affect the outcome. That's the whole point of mastering - if we didn't want to be that soft, we would have engineered it to be louder.
No matter how much space is on my current player, I never have enough space to hold my whole collection (well, except on my 160GB iPod classic...but I digress). That means either juggling what is and isn't on my device, or compression, or both. And, its entirely possible that I might choose a player that doesn't work well with the format I've chosen (cough*mp3Pro*cough).
Having a lossless version of everything means never having to worry about re-compression. My perception trails off between 200-230kbps. I can deal with 192 pretty easily, and 128 isn't the end of the world if I'm in my car or am on a cheap pair of earbuds. Heck, on my SwimP3, 64kbps is overkill. But a 200kbps that then gets re-coded to 128 can really end up with some weird sounding shit. So all my old CDs were ripped to FLAC. When I switched from Creative players to iStuff, I just recoded all of my library from FLAC to ALAC. No loss, no worries, no re-ripping. Most of what I buy today gets ripped straight to ALAC, but if I ever ditch apple, I can just recode it back over to FLAC.
It matters that you get a lossless format because then you can convert it to any format that works for you. And if you change formats in the future, just re-code and never worry.
They were fired for being overheard in (essentally) a public place. Being crass to a colleague who finds it funny - when there is nobody around who is bound to sit and listen to it who cannot effect a change - shouldn't result in losing your livelihood and possibly everything you own.
If they had pulled out their headphone jack while listening to a song exposing rape, should they have been *fired* or being offensive?
I suppose, in your world, driving 36mph in a 35mph zone is a license-revoking offense.
Well, aside from the semi-phonetic use of the language - this is actually the best suggestion. If you can customize the version, that's the best idea. In fact, if you want to distribute a trial, make it a fully functional one and put a tasteful "Trial version - not for commercial use" on it. People who are just dinking around will probably not care - and probably won't buy it anyway. A reasonable fraction of those who might not otherwise pay for it, but who use it for "work" will be shamed into buying a copy.
If it's really useful, and only $5-10, you've really done all you can. I'm not going to claim to be the most ethical software user on the planet, but I do have about half a dozen shareware licenses I've paid for. Those are the utilities which are so straightforward and timeless that I reinstall them on every machine I get. Usually I "try" software for a year or two. I know, that seems long, but I may only get to use it a couple of times. I know that if I reinstall it on the next new HD or machine, it's worth my while and worth paying the developer. I feel better sending someone like you $10 to register a great utility than the $1000/year extortion I pay to Autodesk.
I'll buy the "millions" across the state, but more like 2 or 3, not 24.
$2000 with installation, yes. $5000, maybe. $22,000, you'd have to be installing ever single one of them in a separate building on top of a tower in an otherwise inaccessible location in WV, along with setting up the entire networking system and backhaul grid. For $22,000, you can buy an exceptionally nice, industrial quality router an still pay a technician for a month to install it. One router.
Clearly, somebody made some epically bad decisions and they are covering up the massive fuck-up and waste of federal money.
Political will is trumped (or, rather, bought) but corporate profits. There will be no $20 high speed internet for the masses. 20Mb service is limited to those in isolated, affluent areas, and bundled with "telephone" and "cable TV" services for $100+/mo, or $100+/mo unbundled (what a bargain!). Want that without caps? Double it.
Most places are either too sparse (or too mountainous) to be worth putting up a tower, or already locked into a monopoly provider agreement with the wired providers. And corporations have already proven that they will sue any municipality (and likely win) who tries to provide broadband as a public service.
And yet, amazingly, if you should damage your disc they won't send you another one for a nominal or zero fee. You have to re-buy the movie or music at prevailing retail rates - essentially resulting in you owning two licenses and only one piece of media.
Software is going away from this model with free downloads and licensing controlled by DRM - if you lose your copy you can download another for free, using your old installation serial number to re-install it.
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The don't do tech much, preferring clean water initiatives, but they are into education as well. Many large clubs are looking for international projects, and yours may be eager to help out in both funding and manpower.
Go command line or go home.
Somebody needs to work on their reading comprehension skills:
Q Why does the IRS even have a film studio? ...to make training films and informational videos for taxpayers.
A
If you'd even browsed you'd find out that they have one for training videos because they found out they could do them cheaper in house than farming them out. It's not too surprising if you have either (a) a large number of videos to produce or (b) in-house technical staff with surplus time. I suspect (a) is correct as the congress changes tax law - Every Fucking Year - and all of the agents need to be retrained. Sending in-person trainers is even more expensive.
You'd be surprised at how many large companies have their own film and sound studios for in-house work. It doesn't take too big an operation to justify having one over paying a contractor to do it every time you need something updated.
You don't actually go to concerts of classical music, do you? There is no volume at your seat for the "soft" movements.
If gambling is already illegal...why do they need another law? Perhaps they need to fix their gambling statute instead.
Actually, you've proven the GP's point. You can't tell the difference if you are listening to the program. Turning a program up in the "soft sections" is exactly what you should never, ever do when listening to a program. You may as well put on the IR headset with compression that came with your TV so you can watch late night TV without disturbing your wife.
Mastering is an entirely different ball of wax and, yes, you want all the headroom you can get. It's no different than photographers using RAW formats instead of JPGs (even lossless JPGs) out of the camera. You want all the bits you can get. But after your done mastering, dropping to 16bits isn't going to affect the outcome. That's the whole point of mastering - if we didn't want to be that soft, we would have engineered it to be louder.
No matter how much space is on my current player, I never have enough space to hold my whole collection (well, except on my 160GB iPod classic...but I digress). That means either juggling what is and isn't on my device, or compression, or both. And, its entirely possible that I might choose a player that doesn't work well with the format I've chosen (cough*mp3Pro*cough).
Having a lossless version of everything means never having to worry about re-compression. My perception trails off between 200-230kbps. I can deal with 192 pretty easily, and 128 isn't the end of the world if I'm in my car or am on a cheap pair of earbuds. Heck, on my SwimP3, 64kbps is overkill. But a 200kbps that then gets re-coded to 128 can really end up with some weird sounding shit. So all my old CDs were ripped to FLAC. When I switched from Creative players to iStuff, I just recoded all of my library from FLAC to ALAC. No loss, no worries, no re-ripping. Most of what I buy today gets ripped straight to ALAC, but if I ever ditch apple, I can just recode it back over to FLAC.
It matters that you get a lossless format because then you can convert it to any format that works for you. And if you change formats in the future, just re-code and never worry.
Actually, I've heard that nearly all open source sells in Australia for double what I pay for it in the US. It's everywhere, it tell you.
(1) I've never seen useful Adobe tech support and
(2) Gmail much?
They were fired for being overheard in (essentally) a public place. Being crass to a colleague who finds it funny - when there is nobody around who is bound to sit and listen to it who cannot effect a change - shouldn't result in losing your livelihood and possibly everything you own.
If they had pulled out their headphone jack while listening to a song exposing rape, should they have been *fired* or being offensive?
I suppose, in your world, driving 36mph in a 35mph zone is a license-revoking offense.
Well, aside from the semi-phonetic use of the language - this is actually the best suggestion. If you can customize the version, that's the best idea. In fact, if you want to distribute a trial, make it a fully functional one and put a tasteful "Trial version - not for commercial use" on it. People who are just dinking around will probably not care - and probably won't buy it anyway. A reasonable fraction of those who might not otherwise pay for it, but who use it for "work" will be shamed into buying a copy.
If it's really useful, and only $5-10, you've really done all you can. I'm not going to claim to be the most ethical software user on the planet, but I do have about half a dozen shareware licenses I've paid for. Those are the utilities which are so straightforward and timeless that I reinstall them on every machine I get. Usually I "try" software for a year or two. I know, that seems long, but I may only get to use it a couple of times. I know that if I reinstall it on the next new HD or machine, it's worth my while and worth paying the developer. I feel better sending someone like you $10 to register a great utility than the $1000/year extortion I pay to Autodesk.
Which is why I always use admin/root for username and password on my systems. You'd think these people would learn not to be so careless. :-)
I'll buy the "millions" across the state, but more like 2 or 3, not 24.
$2000 with installation, yes. $5000, maybe. $22,000, you'd have to be installing ever single one of them in a separate building on top of a tower in an otherwise inaccessible location in WV, along with setting up the entire networking system and backhaul grid. For $22,000, you can buy an exceptionally nice, industrial quality router an still pay a technician for a month to install it. One router.
Clearly, somebody made some epically bad decisions and they are covering up the massive fuck-up and waste of federal money.
Every single kid on Facebook or Google+ lied. You can't get an account if you're under 13.
Oppression and liberty are all in the eye of the beholder.
Political will is trumped (or, rather, bought) but corporate profits. There will be no $20 high speed internet for the masses. 20Mb service is limited to those in isolated, affluent areas, and bundled with "telephone" and "cable TV" services for $100+/mo, or $100+/mo unbundled (what a bargain!). Want that without caps? Double it.
Most places are either too sparse (or too mountainous) to be worth putting up a tower, or already locked into a monopoly provider agreement with the wired providers. And corporations have already proven that they will sue any municipality (and likely win) who tries to provide broadband as a public service.
Those were essentially extortion offers. Pay us or we'll break your financial knees.
If you have to work for someone else to pay for your basic expenses you aren't really free, are you?
If you figure they've been playing this game for companies, and companies are basically people now, it only makes sense to play this game with people.
Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.
Based on everyone here who wants to make it permanent, it appears to be an actual modification of the physics of the universe.
Just get a job as an actor or a musician - you'll never have to get up before the crack of noon, and ST/DT won't matter a bit.
Maybe you should either get to work earlier? Why should the rest of us plan our days around your idiosyncracies - or anyone's for that matter.
You do know that, effectively, that's what you're doing anyway with DST. Solar physics doesn't actually change.
And yet, amazingly, if you should damage your disc they won't send you another one for a nominal or zero fee. You have to re-buy the movie or music at prevailing retail rates - essentially resulting in you owning two licenses and only one piece of media.
Software is going away from this model with free downloads and licensing controlled by DRM - if you lose your copy you can download another for free, using your old installation serial number to re-install it.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/14/pf/health-insurance-premiums/index.html
Nice troll, there AC.