This. Depending on what it is and how lazy I am that day, every CD I have gets ripped to FLAC or ALAC. I may have some APE files in my old collection, though I think I scrubbed them all out about 5 years ago and converted to FLAC.
Knowing that no matter what format I choose (or am forced) to use in the future, the lossless masters will provide the best base from which to re-code to the codec-du-jour.
8ms is audible, but not quite echo or reverb, as it's considered acceptable for professional performers to have that kind of lag in their IEMs after running though a digital soundboard. And a more powerful rig, assuming the GP really has a mid-level consumer box, would cut that latency quite a bit with the multi-core xeon class processors that would be used for a high end lab.
Well, since the machine weighs no more under water, when filled with water, than the empty sub does when lifted onto and off of the ship, I'd say the scenario of the sub somehow dragging the mother ship to the bottom in the event that it floods is pretty far fetched.
Yes, but then you have to build not just a desalination plant, but a power generation plant, too, and deal with all the headaches of both. And, as a bonus, you'll be running brine through your boiler, which will greatly increase your cost of maintenance and operations.
Of course, nobody uses distillation as a cost effective method of desalination on large scale - reverse osmosis is much more cost effective. The point was the OP seemed to think, "oh, you just heat it up," not realizing how much power it takes to do so.
Only if you live in a city, for the most part. If you stop sucking off the teat of the Man and move out into the country there are no bullshit regulations like this.
I presume since this is slashdot, home of the libertarian and capitalist freedom thinkers, we're all okay with this.
This is a private company, not the government - so it should be totally okay. Since they're a corporation, the free market will decide if it's willing to keep them around. If nobody buys their stuff, they'll go out of business, and if you don't like what they do you can organize a boycott.
No, it's not. It's a perfect reason to block the funding bill for the department which operates and controls the drones. It's not a legitimate reason for stopping anything else, whether it be a judicial appointment, money for school lunches, or regulations regarding the Keystone XL pipeline.
Wars cannot be declared (in the congressional, send in the Marines way) against an entity which is not a sovereign nation. Congress can authorize "use of force" but can't declare "war". We didn't declare war on Afghanistan, we authorized the military to "use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups."
The vast majority of casualties in most wars are "not even suspected of anything but being in the wrong place at the wrong time," aka collateral damage.
I won't argue that killing people is a good way to get people mad enough at you to seek revenge. It's always been puzzling that when someone kills an American the response is all flags and guns and eye-for-an-eye, but when someone is killed as part of a military or int'l police exercise, Americans see that as justice and that somehow the people close to those we kill should just lay down their cards and shrug like they lost a hand at a game of poker.
Maybe MS should take Apple's stance and simply require, as the first troubleshooting option, that the user re-install the machine from scratch. I've stopped bothering with Apple tech support because I don't have a day to re-install all my shit everytime a device pukes with an error.
It's that little bit about boiling the water. Converting water from liquid to gaseous phase (aka boiling) is energy intensive (read:expensive). To go from room temp water (we'll say 20C) to all of it vaporized and ready for condensation takes about 0.72kWh for each liter of water. So before you run the plant, pump the water, cool the condensate, and prep it for delivery, you've got that much energy going in. Even if you had no other costs, and you paid the lowest (tier 1) residential rates from So Cal Edison, you're looking at $0.36/gal for water. Add processing, markup, delivery...you're north of $1/gal, I'd bet.
Of course, that's why they don't generally use distillation, but even in your scenario the cost of "just boiling the water" adds up very, very quickly.
You're missing the point. They (the information illuminati) don't care what your name is. They don't care who you are. Not even a little. You may as well be John Doe 338564 or Jesus Christ.
It doesn't matter who you are as long as they can figure out how to sell you more stuff. Their intent is not to release private information, but they do in their zeal to sell you as much as possible. As with the OP, perhaps sending you a glossy "welcome to motherhood " diaper coupon pack because they found out you're pregnant or - if you're a guy - a glossy "snip, snip - you're safe on Maury" labeled package for frozen peas and take-out pizza coupons after your vasectomy.
People who are paranoid seem petrified that big-corp will find out who you are. They don't care, they just want to guide your buying experience. They also seem to have a tremendous sense of self-worth, expecting that the Government is watching them at every moment, ready to "take them out" for some political reason. Unless you're running for office and in the cross-hairs of a viscous opponent above the state level who also has corrupt friends willing to risk their careers and livelihood on an illegal leak, or you owe them money, or are hunting down and killing agents, they don't give a rats ass about you.
So, really, if you use a loyalty card - even with cash - they will have a profile on you. If you share it, it's an aggregate profile, but one of a small number of your friends - still statistically valid for marketing (targeted register coupons, etc.).
BTW - if want loyalty discounts without the hassle of tracking, just give them your phone number: (area code) 867-5309. It's worked in every state and every store I've ever tried. That's a profile that - no doubt - has a lot of action, or at least a good time.;-)
He's a libertarian and a capitalist. There are no such things as friends, only adversaries and customers. The government is presumed to be utterly ineffectual, such that all the data they have on him is inaccessible for his use. His business contacts know him only though electronic communications because he never sees them in person. Why would he? They're just adversaries or customers, neither of which he has any use for personally. The only personal contact he has is for sex, and that's with prostitutes (a fair night's wage for a fair night's work). He's probably already killed his close family and buried them in the land on the back of his Freedom Ranch.
For the rest of us with personal contacts - the teller we see at the bank on a regular basis, the guys we hang out with, family close and far - will easily get us though losing everything. They know who we are, and can vouch for us. The DMV will issue a duplicate license, our Social Security number still exists, and we can order a duplicate birth certificate from our birth state. Even our credit card companies will send us brand new cards in the mail (overnight for no extra cost if you're a good customer) with nothing more than a phone call.
As with anything, you lose your paper documents, old photos, heirlooms - but your identity is really not at risk.
Personally? $48,000 is getting off easy. I'd add another order of magnitude onto it.
Let's not be unreasonable - he may have merely caused peril to life and limb in a limited number of cases. $480k+ fines should be for real, quantifiable damage. Like sharing a bunch of Miley Cyrus and Metallica mp3s online.
It does work, with some caveats. I was about to post that it wouldn't, and then remembered the first shuttle payload I worked on : http://istd.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo... which transferred helium between to dewars without pumps in a microgravity enuvronment. It's been a couple of decades, and I wasn't on the principal investigators team (I was carrier support), so I don't remember the details of how the transfer worked.
I believe the limit on height is the pressure at which water turns from liquid to a gas at the ambient temperature. If it were to remain liquid at all pressures, then the water column could be lifted the height where the weight of the water equals the pressure of the atmosphere (which would be roughly 33' at STP).
What good is 45Mbps when you hit your monthly cap in just under 12 minutes, and then get charged $1.50 per minute of full-rate data after that?
When compared to AT&T, Verizon wired, Comcast, and TW, the cost for wireless "broadband" (even capped at 250GB/mo) is astronomincal, running over $1000 per month.
The people who take pride in their work are the reason they're sought after. If they just weld shit together and set the torch down when the whistle blows are not. I work with them too.
Just for the record, the line is "The world needs ditch diggers, too."
(On a serious note, tradesmen in the difficult trades will make barely and average wage. The ones who make a lot of money go on to own or run businesses either instead of or in addition to their trade. A smart, motivated individual will make good money as a welder by ultimately running a welding or ironworking business. You're average unmotivated wage employee who is a certified welder will simply make an average living.)
That doesn't mean you have to use it. That's why they make transfer switches. And if you ever want to sell your house, you can be damned sure you'll get a better ROI if it's hooked to the grid.
Here's a juicy tidbit for those not familiar with the Codes: Builders and Fire Marshalls are not the only ones writing the codes. The mortgage underwriters and the insurance companies also have their hands in the pie (in addition to all the manufacturing special interests, like sprinkler manufacturers and hurricane strap companies). The insurance people want to minimize losses in major events, and the mortgage underwriters want to make sure they can resell your house when you default on the loan. Look at the codes with an eye to *who* wants to preserve their business helps to see how some otherwise odd provisions get put in.
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This. Depending on what it is and how lazy I am that day, every CD I have gets ripped to FLAC or ALAC. I may have some APE files in my old collection, though I think I scrubbed them all out about 5 years ago and converted to FLAC.
Knowing that no matter what format I choose (or am forced) to use in the future, the lossless masters will provide the best base from which to re-code to the codec-du-jour.
And with shared backups I don't even need to upload all of them - I just use the backups of others in case I need to restore!
8ms is audible, but not quite echo or reverb, as it's considered acceptable for professional performers to have that kind of lag in their IEMs after running though a digital soundboard. And a more powerful rig, assuming the GP really has a mid-level consumer box, would cut that latency quite a bit with the multi-core xeon class processors that would be used for a high end lab.
Well, since the machine weighs no more under water, when filled with water, than the empty sub does when lifted onto and off of the ship, I'd say the scenario of the sub somehow dragging the mother ship to the bottom in the event that it floods is pretty far fetched.
Yes, but then you have to build not just a desalination plant, but a power generation plant, too, and deal with all the headaches of both. And, as a bonus, you'll be running brine through your boiler, which will greatly increase your cost of maintenance and operations.
Of course, nobody uses distillation as a cost effective method of desalination on large scale - reverse osmosis is much more cost effective. The point was the OP seemed to think, "oh, you just heat it up," not realizing how much power it takes to do so.
Only if you live in a city, for the most part. If you stop sucking off the teat of the Man and move out into the country there are no bullshit regulations like this.
I presume since this is slashdot, home of the libertarian and capitalist freedom thinkers, we're all okay with this.
This is a private company, not the government - so it should be totally okay. Since they're a corporation, the free market will decide if it's willing to keep them around. If nobody buys their stuff, they'll go out of business, and if you don't like what they do you can organize a boycott.
That's how the free market works, right?
Right?
No, it's not. It's a perfect reason to block the funding bill for the department which operates and controls the drones. It's not a legitimate reason for stopping anything else, whether it be a judicial appointment, money for school lunches, or regulations regarding the Keystone XL pipeline.
No, Afghanistan is accurate. Saudi Arabia is where they were from, not where they were based.
Wars cannot be declared (in the congressional, send in the Marines way) against an entity which is not a sovereign nation. Congress can authorize "use of force" but can't declare "war". We didn't declare war on Afghanistan, we authorized the military to "use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups."
The vast majority of casualties in most wars are "not even suspected of anything but being in the wrong place at the wrong time," aka collateral damage.
I won't argue that killing people is a good way to get people mad enough at you to seek revenge. It's always been puzzling that when someone kills an American the response is all flags and guns and eye-for-an-eye, but when someone is killed as part of a military or int'l police exercise, Americans see that as justice and that somehow the people close to those we kill should just lay down their cards and shrug like they lost a hand at a game of poker.
Maybe MS should take Apple's stance and simply require, as the first troubleshooting option, that the user re-install the machine from scratch. I've stopped bothering with Apple tech support because I don't have a day to re-install all my shit everytime a device pukes with an error.
It's that little bit about boiling the water. Converting water from liquid to gaseous phase (aka boiling) is energy intensive (read:expensive). To go from room temp water (we'll say 20C) to all of it vaporized and ready for condensation takes about 0.72kWh for each liter of water. So before you run the plant, pump the water, cool the condensate, and prep it for delivery, you've got that much energy going in. Even if you had no other costs, and you paid the lowest (tier 1) residential rates from So Cal Edison, you're looking at $0.36/gal for water. Add processing, markup, delivery...you're north of $1/gal, I'd bet.
Of course, that's why they don't generally use distillation, but even in your scenario the cost of "just boiling the water" adds up very, very quickly.
So, how's Montana doing on the whole "we love a diverse population that looks like the whole world" thing?
And in a hurricane, both fly equally well, but the chickens are marginally better at landing.
FTFY. (I used to raise chickens)
That was my thought: "Wants to remain completely anonymous; still connects with friends and family on Facebook and buys stuff on Amazon."
You're missing the point. They (the information illuminati) don't care what your name is. They don't care who you are. Not even a little. You may as well be John Doe 338564 or Jesus Christ.
It doesn't matter who you are as long as they can figure out how to sell you more stuff. Their intent is not to release private information, but they do in their zeal to sell you as much as possible. As with the OP, perhaps sending you a glossy "welcome to motherhood " diaper coupon pack because they found out you're pregnant or - if you're a guy - a glossy "snip, snip - you're safe on Maury" labeled package for frozen peas and take-out pizza coupons after your vasectomy.
People who are paranoid seem petrified that big-corp will find out who you are. They don't care, they just want to guide your buying experience. They also seem to have a tremendous sense of self-worth, expecting that the Government is watching them at every moment, ready to "take them out" for some political reason. Unless you're running for office and in the cross-hairs of a viscous opponent above the state level who also has corrupt friends willing to risk their careers and livelihood on an illegal leak, or you owe them money, or are hunting down and killing agents, they don't give a rats ass about you.
So, really, if you use a loyalty card - even with cash - they will have a profile on you. If you share it, it's an aggregate profile, but one of a small number of your friends - still statistically valid for marketing (targeted register coupons, etc.).
BTW - if want loyalty discounts without the hassle of tracking, just give them your phone number: (area code) 867-5309. It's worked in every state and every store I've ever tried. That's a profile that - no doubt - has a lot of action, or at least a good time. ;-)
*troll mode*
He's a libertarian and a capitalist. There are no such things as friends, only adversaries and customers. The government is presumed to be utterly ineffectual, such that all the data they have on him is inaccessible for his use. His business contacts know him only though electronic communications because he never sees them in person. Why would he? They're just adversaries or customers, neither of which he has any use for personally. The only personal contact he has is for sex, and that's with prostitutes (a fair night's wage for a fair night's work). He's probably already killed his close family and buried them in the land on the back of his Freedom Ranch.
For the rest of us with personal contacts - the teller we see at the bank on a regular basis, the guys we hang out with, family close and far - will easily get us though losing everything. They know who we are, and can vouch for us. The DMV will issue a duplicate license, our Social Security number still exists, and we can order a duplicate birth certificate from our birth state. Even our credit card companies will send us brand new cards in the mail (overnight for no extra cost if you're a good customer) with nothing more than a phone call.
As with anything, you lose your paper documents, old photos, heirlooms - but your identity is really not at risk.
Personally? $48,000 is getting off easy. I'd add another order of magnitude onto it.
Let's not be unreasonable - he may have merely caused peril to life and limb in a limited number of cases. $480k+ fines should be for real, quantifiable damage. Like sharing a bunch of Miley Cyrus and Metallica mp3s online.
It does work, with some caveats. I was about to post that it wouldn't, and then remembered the first shuttle payload I worked on : http://istd.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo... which transferred helium between to dewars without pumps in a microgravity enuvronment. It's been a couple of decades, and I wasn't on the principal investigators team (I was carrier support), so I don't remember the details of how the transfer worked.
I believe the limit on height is the pressure at which water turns from liquid to a gas at the ambient temperature. If it were to remain liquid at all pressures, then the water column could be lifted the height where the weight of the water equals the pressure of the atmosphere (which would be roughly 33' at STP).
Now that corporations are people, we should all just live on as corporations - exempt from both legal constraints and the limits of our human bodies.
What good is 45Mbps when you hit your monthly cap in just under 12 minutes, and then get charged $1.50 per minute of full-rate data after that?
When compared to AT&T, Verizon wired, Comcast, and TW, the cost for wireless "broadband" (even capped at 250GB/mo) is astronomincal, running over $1000 per month.
The people who take pride in their work are the reason they're sought after. If they just weld shit together and set the torch down when the whistle blows are not. I work with them too.
Just for the record, the line is "The world needs ditch diggers, too."
(On a serious note, tradesmen in the difficult trades will make barely and average wage. The ones who make a lot of money go on to own or run businesses either instead of or in addition to their trade. A smart, motivated individual will make good money as a welder by ultimately running a welding or ironworking business. You're average unmotivated wage employee who is a certified welder will simply make an average living.)
That doesn't mean you have to use it. That's why they make transfer switches. And if you ever want to sell your house, you can be damned sure you'll get a better ROI if it's hooked to the grid.
Here's a juicy tidbit for those not familiar with the Codes: Builders and Fire Marshalls are not the only ones writing the codes. The mortgage underwriters and the insurance companies also have their hands in the pie (in addition to all the manufacturing special interests, like sprinkler manufacturers and hurricane strap companies). The insurance people want to minimize losses in major events, and the mortgage underwriters want to make sure they can resell your house when you default on the loan. Look at the codes with an eye to *who* wants to preserve their business helps to see how some otherwise odd provisions get put in.