This is a common item tossed out, but for convience, the lead and lag is ommitted, so the cause and effect are ignored. There is about a 3-5 year lead on temperatures which is followed by CO2 level changes. Warmer water can hold less CO2. Cold water can hold more CO2. Often a complex system is over symplified.
Two tire tracks on a beach have a close corrilation also, never more than 3 feet apart, but which track leads the other can be a debate. If you knew the rear tire of a bicycle always points at the front tire and at a fixed distance, you can then correctly determine both the distance between the front and rear tire, and which direction it traveled. The fact that both wandered together between the water line and 30 feet from it does not support which was made first.
The option is very important for intermittent use. Rechargeable batteries are often dead and dying after a couple years. For the semi-pro, shooting a wedding and 1/4 the reception is not an option. Having a full compliment of fully charged and full capacity batteries is rare. I gave up on proprietary batteries for this very reason. I carry a couple sets of rechargeable AA batteries, and a fresh box Costco batteries. Proprietary batteries do not fit the budget of being prepared for infrequent intense shooting sessions. Flash eats batteries. A spare camera as well as batteries are the norm.
Often overlooked in ROI is the energy costs are not fixed. I bought a Prius with a calculated ROI in fuel savings at 100,000 miles based on gas prices of $150 in the US. I have put 120,000 miles on it and it's still going strong. When gas prices went over $4.00/gallon and down to $2.00 the calculation never did return to the initial estimated fuel price of $1.50. Electricity rates may do the same.
I didn't want a geek. It sounds good at first, but when it comes time to divide the chores, having a compliment is better than having a twin. I fix the stuff, run the file server, networking, and such. She does the bookeeping, taxes, and laundry. Stuff many geeks avoid. She was a budget analysit for a school district, keeping track of the annual budget, benifits, investments, etc.
She has hobbies including crochet, needlepoint, sewing, photography, and other crafts. When she does crafts, I do Slashdot. We both garden and take care of the lawn and vegitable garden. We are both comfortable using the computers and tech, but don't call her a geek. She is a wizard with Excel and Filemaker, and super at tracking our investments.
How did I meet her? Believe it or not, my church organist encouraged me to learn to square dance. I took lessons and joined a singles square dance club. It is people who are fit, active, generaly non-smokers, and not couch potatoes. If you are a geek slob, you will want to clean up your act. It's worth it. I am now a grandfather.
Dance clubs tend to have a good ratio of ladies. Get to know them on breaks. The singles clubs are not all old people. There are even teen clubs that mix in swing dancing.
I'm wondering if the award will cover the loss as people start to refuse to do business with the music business. Some have already started. The ball is rolling a picking up speed. The industry is doing nothing to stop it.
I think this is the correct line. The question is then where does the current come from. For that we look a the Aurora. The magnetic field reaches into space and the charged particles from space seperate and enter the atmosphere at the earth's magnetic poles. The current generates a magnetic field, which seperates the charges in the solar wind. How much currnet? Take a look.
Once disconnected from the pole, a VOIP adapter using your high speed internet connection is in order to avoid long distance (Overseas) charges and airtime package prices. Get the cheaper cell phone package and offload some of your expensive calling to VOIP.
Beware, the market is full of LOCKED devices much like locked cell phones. Get just the adapter unlocked and shop for a provider.
That very issue is the number one reason I haven't started a garage business. I have a shop, tools, space, but can't afford the risk to take a product to market.
It's also the number one reason I don't use music in any of my video productions. The legal issues are very much a problem. Until the licensing is changed, I have no use for high risk music, so I don't buy any. Why face legal takedown and lawsuits, or prove the music is not in someone's catalog.
For a local band I just do lighting. So far that hasn't been a huge legal risk with a fight over royalties. Thank goodness the DMX512 standard is open. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512-A
As the US turns to heavy litigation, the targets flee. Start-ups consider greener pastures.
Want proof? The country that led the industrial revolution is now a service industry nation.
As consumer protection lawsuits pervail, industry leaves. Small planes, diving boards, vaccines, and other products are not made in the US simply because of litigation and the threat of litigation.
The risks to the nation are huge including massive trade defecits, collapse of the economy due to devalued hard currancy, and shortages of supplies in time of need as we depend on overseas manufacturing. The latest risk is the swine flu. Nobody in the US makes the vaccine. In a pandemic, demand in the home country may cut supplies off entirely as the limited capacity is used elsewhere. This is the result of runaway litigation.
I worked in a shop at one time where the owner refused to provide service to laywers. They were the second most likely bunch to not pay, or demand second and third services unpaid. Only on other group exceeded laywers in not paying for services.
Fair enough. If I want to use the music in the example given, I now have to add some kind of "Credits" page to credit the artist. I'll keep that in mind.
Point well taken. I just checked the link. It is simply not clear on the page if the FREE tracks are licensed for private home use only. Many sites do not have a way to contact the copyright owner directly to "Make a deal" for a use other than for private home use only.
A song attached to a posted video should be a technical issue, not a legal reasearch issue. Would ASCAP want to get involved? Is there a label involved? Is BMI involved? Unless I have it in writing someplace that the track comes with permission to post, it isn't worth fighting take down notices and possible legal action.
Someday maybe music will be licensed for use in a digital age. Until then, It's simply easer to do without.
By the way, nice dedication to Ray Beckman. Nice touch. I'll take a listen, but until I hear otherwise, I'm assuming it's licensed for private home use only. Any public performance is prohibited. This part of the standard for music licensing is out of date and needs fixed.
That motion looks really well researched and backed with a lot of precedent. And if the judge shuts down MediaSentry, well then there are a whole lot of settlements that might get resettled!
It's a nice thought, but unless there is a class action or something, most likely the settled stuff will remain as it is. If you have a current case with the RIAA, you may request a delay with the settlement center pending the outcome of this case. If you settle and later attempt to get a refund, it probably won't happen unless you fight for it. It's best to not pay them in the first place.
I simply don't use their product anymore. It's liability issues are excessive to consider the risk. Even online video I post don't have any music in the background. It'l remain that way until the legal landscape for using the product changes.
In reading the article, they noticed that when they hit a spot on the filimant, it burned brighter and jumped to all kinds of conclusions.. Something is missing.. Science.
In a series circuit, the high resistance spot will always run hotter. Is the spot on the filimant an effecient radiator, or simply a high resistance spot because the condutor has been blasted into a high resistance structure.
Remember, this is a spot on the filimant that was noticed burning brighter and not an entire filimant. Color temprature measurements of the spot were NOT taken. Is the spot more effecient, or just hotter creating a early failure of the bulb.
The article has jumped to way too many conclusions without enough tesing to see if it is indeed effeient or just a high resistance hot spot.
Wake me up when they have the color temprature of the hot spot compared to the rest of the filimant.
Be sure to let the supplier/publisher know of your problems. When I got one of the copy protected Sony DVD's they put out a recall and sent a free replacement. I let them know it wouldn't play on a Linux machne.. Let them KNOW DRM will kill sales and produce customer support costs. They will only do DRM if it is likely to improve the bottom line.
DRM is why I don't use Light Factory. I use Freestyler instead. I bought the starter pack and never upgraded and let them know why.
I don't know what Obama policies you are referring to, unless it is closing offshore tax loopholes.
This thinking is prevalent. The value a multinational corporation makes or is worth is often up for debate. Often the tax rates are based on the company bottom line regardless of how much of the work is done where.
Examples are Nike where most labor is overseas and Intel where the US fabs produce the chips that are packaged overseas. The completed product is made in 2 countries. If both countries try to tax for the total income, the company will most likely shut down operations in the expensive place.
It is true that a few tax havens exist where the corp headquarters is just a seal in a box somewhere in the Cayman Islands and this is a problem.
On the other hand, how much of the value of a completed microprocessor is manufactured in the USA and how much is manufactured in China. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000380 Some corporations have manufacturing in many places. Often the government will look at any overseas operation as a tax loophole. Closing these tax loopholes may mean the corporation may close operations altogether in the business unfriendly countries. The result is loss of jobs and a trade deficit as that country now has to rely more and more on foreign imports like the US. The US is rapidly becoming a service industry nation writing software and providing medical services, but most goods are imported. Try it, Visit Wal * Mart and look to see where the products are made. Notice an abundance of American brands?
Sony, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Samsung, Panasonic, Pioneer, HP, Asus, Lexmark, Philips, Visio, RCA, Olevia, Viore, Sanyo, AOC, Wenzel, Coleman, Rubbermaid, Kalisto, etc.. Some of the above are built in the US. Many US brands are now just importers who re-brand.
Along those lines, many people missed the Redmond giant is building a new headquarters.. If taxes get bad, they are not locked into the US tax the evil corporations. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132007757.html They also see the lets get the evil corporations and their overseas tax havens. I hope the current administration gets a clue before world economic reality hits them in the forehead after they close the US operations.
What we see on a state by state basis to attract jobs while at the same time we try to make the evil multinational corporations pay (Obama and taxes) we may start to see many start ups simply avoid the US.
Intel has been accused many times of avoiding paying taxes for the massive tax breaks they get to have a location in the Portland Oregon area, but most people don't realize they not only pay salaries taxed by the state, they also are taxed for their property. Nike also in the area has a much lower inventory tax because they don't have a fab full of multi million dollar manufacturing tools. To attract Intel, the city of Hillsboro had to adjust for this.
Failure to do this would let them have a larger piece of nothing, With no concessions for the value of the factory equipment Intel would have built elsewhere. The clean water and moderate electricity rates are what attracted them. High local tax areas could soon erase the advantages.
I am afraid that Obama's economic plan will drive the rest of large manufacturing overseas. The Union obligations are already having a severe toll on the auto industry without the help of taxes driving them out of business.
Tax the rich simply is to send them elsewhere in a global market where conditions are better.
it's 1% of how they were measuring it. what you really want to know is how meaningful are the metrics used to produce that 1%.
slashdot, missing the point as usual....
Some of us have been here to see this hashed every year now for how many years. Eventually someone brings up the metric used if it can be found. It is often the number of machines sold with it pre-installed, or worse the % market share based on annual gross sales.
Most slashdoters understand the Linux machine they typically are using came neither with Linux installed nor was a high dollar investment made in a boxed retail Linux install, to the metric if it is of sales is a very good indicator there is trouble in Redmond. Sales of Linux machines and sales of boxed Linux distributions is just the tip of the iceberg and we know it.
Instead of a thumb drive, I carry a SD card and usb reader combo. The SD card has a write enable switch. Works 100% of the time on foreign untrusted systems.
RIAA's idiotic tactics are going to make people want to stop supporting musicians
Already has.
The licensing on most CD's is a show stopper for me. The times have changed and the things people want to use music for is PROHIBITED making is much less useful.
The phrase "For private home use only" Is the show stopper. Want music for an online video? Want music to sync to a Powerpoint slide show? Ever been asked to DJ a reception? Ever rip a CD to make an MP3 for your car player so you can leave the original home?
All the above is not permited. As such, I find little value in buying it. The added liabilty makes it too dangerous to support the current litigation machine. I'm in the process of starving the litigation machine. Unfortunately, the musicians are caught in the crossfire. The DRM and rootkits only is the icing on top of the main problem of high price and low value.
Some public hot spots are targets for identity thiefs by doing a man in the middle attack. A backpack can contain everyting nessary to hijack a public hotspot to add a splash screen set up to harvest CC numbers, email accounts, bank logins, etc.
For that very reason, I NEVER use a public hotspot for any secure transaction. I even cruise Slashdot while not logged in and I don't log into my mail.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a common item tossed out, but for convience, the lead and lag is ommitted, so the cause and effect are ignored. There is about a 3-5 year lead on temperatures which is followed by CO2 level changes. Warmer water can hold less CO2. Cold water can hold more CO2. Often a complex system is over symplified.
Two tire tracks on a beach have a close corrilation also, never more than 3 feet apart, but which track leads the other can be a debate. If you knew the rear tire of a bicycle always points at the front tire and at a fixed distance, you can then correctly determine both the distance between the front and rear tire, and which direction it traveled. The fact that both wandered together between the water line and 30 feet from it does not support which was made first.
The option is very important for intermittent use. Rechargeable batteries are often dead and dying after a couple years. For the semi-pro, shooting a wedding and 1/4 the reception is not an option. Having a full compliment of fully charged and full capacity batteries is rare. I gave up on proprietary batteries for this very reason. I carry a couple sets of rechargeable AA batteries, and a fresh box Costco batteries. Proprietary batteries do not fit the budget of being prepared for infrequent intense shooting sessions. Flash eats batteries. A spare camera as well as batteries are the norm.
Often overlooked in ROI is the energy costs are not fixed. I bought a Prius with a calculated ROI in fuel savings at 100,000 miles based on gas prices of $150 in the US. I have put 120,000 miles on it and it's still going strong. When gas prices went over $4.00/gallon and down to $2.00 the calculation never did return to the initial estimated fuel price of $1.50. Electricity rates may do the same.
This award should show the product should have at least a 5 million dollar liabality maluse insurance policy in effect before purchasing the product.
Messing with high risk stuff without proper insurance is now a factor for not buying CD's.
Music is too risky to have in the house. If miss-used by anyone, it could be a problem.
I didn't want a geek. It sounds good at first, but when it comes time to divide the chores, having a compliment is better than having a twin. I fix the stuff, run the file server, networking, and such. She does the bookeeping, taxes, and laundry. Stuff many geeks avoid. She was a budget analysit for a school district, keeping track of the annual budget, benifits, investments, etc.
She has hobbies including crochet, needlepoint, sewing, photography, and other crafts. When she does crafts, I do Slashdot. We both garden and take care of the lawn and vegitable garden. We are both comfortable using the computers and tech, but don't call her a geek. She is a wizard with Excel and Filemaker, and super at tracking our investments.
How did I meet her? Believe it or not, my church organist encouraged me to learn to square dance. I took lessons and joined a singles square dance club. It is people who are fit, active, generaly non-smokers, and not couch potatoes. If you are a geek slob, you will want to clean up your act. It's worth it. I am now a grandfather.
Dance clubs tend to have a good ratio of ladies. Get to know them on breaks. The singles clubs are not all old people. There are even teen clubs that mix in swing dancing.
I'm wondering if the award will cover the loss as people start to refuse to do business with the music business. Some have already started. The ball is rolling a picking up speed. The industry is doing nothing to stop it.
I think this is the correct line. The question is then where does the current come from. For that we look a the Aurora. The magnetic field reaches into space and the charged particles from space seperate and enter the atmosphere at the earth's magnetic poles. The current generates a magnetic field, which seperates the charges in the solar wind. How much currnet? Take a look.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF5/506.html
This makes more sense to me than a little salt water on an extremely thin crust of the planet.
Once disconnected from the pole, a VOIP adapter using your high speed internet connection is in order to avoid long distance (Overseas) charges and airtime package prices. Get the cheaper cell phone package and offload some of your expensive calling to VOIP.
Beware, the market is full of LOCKED devices much like locked cell phones. Get just the adapter unlocked and shop for a provider.
That very issue is the number one reason I haven't started a garage business. I have a shop, tools, space, but can't afford the risk to take a product to market.
It's also the number one reason I don't use music in any of my video productions. The legal issues are very much a problem. Until the licensing is changed, I have no use for high risk music, so I don't buy any. Why face legal takedown and lawsuits, or prove the music is not in someone's catalog.
For a local band I just do lighting. So far that hasn't been a huge legal risk with a fight over royalties. Thank goodness the DMX512 standard is open. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512-A
As the US turns to heavy litigation, the targets flee. Start-ups consider greener pastures.
Want proof? The country that led the industrial revolution is now a service industry nation.
As consumer protection lawsuits pervail, industry leaves. Small planes, diving boards, vaccines, and other products are not made in the US simply because of litigation and the threat of litigation.
The risks to the nation are huge including massive trade defecits, collapse of the economy due to devalued hard currancy, and shortages of supplies in time of need as we depend on overseas manufacturing. The latest risk is the swine flu. Nobody in the US makes the vaccine. In a pandemic, demand in the home country may cut supplies off entirely as the limited capacity is used elsewhere. This is the result of runaway litigation.
I worked in a shop at one time where the owner refused to provide service to laywers. They were the second most likely bunch to not pay, or demand second and third services unpaid. Only on other group exceeded laywers in not paying for services.
Welcome to a litigious society.
Fair enough. If I want to use the music in the example given, I now have to add some kind of "Credits" page to credit the artist. I'll keep that in mind.
Point well taken. I just checked the link. It is simply not clear on the page if the FREE tracks are licensed for private home use only. Many sites do not have a way to contact the copyright owner directly to "Make a deal" for a use other than for private home use only.
A song attached to a posted video should be a technical issue, not a legal reasearch issue. Would ASCAP want to get involved? Is there a label involved? Is BMI involved? Unless I have it in writing someplace that the track comes with permission to post, it isn't worth fighting take down notices and possible legal action.
Someday maybe music will be licensed for use in a digital age. Until then, It's simply easer to do without.
By the way, nice dedication to Ray Beckman. Nice touch. I'll take a listen, but until I hear otherwise, I'm assuming it's licensed for private home use only. Any public performance is prohibited. This part of the standard for music licensing is out of date and needs fixed.
That motion looks really well researched and backed with a lot of precedent. And if the judge shuts down MediaSentry, well then there are a whole lot of settlements that might get resettled!
It's a nice thought, but unless there is a class action or something, most likely the settled stuff will remain as it is. If you have a current case with the RIAA, you may request a delay with the settlement center pending the outcome of this case. If you settle and later attempt to get a refund, it probably won't happen unless you fight for it. It's best to not pay them in the first place.
I simply don't use their product anymore. It's liability issues are excessive to consider the risk. Even online video I post don't have any music in the background. It'l remain that way until the legal landscape for using the product changes.
In reading the article, they noticed that when they hit a spot on the filimant, it burned brighter and jumped to all kinds of conclusions.. Something is missing.. Science.
In a series circuit, the high resistance spot will always run hotter. Is the spot on the filimant an effecient radiator, or simply a high resistance spot because the condutor has been blasted into a high resistance structure.
Remember, this is a spot on the filimant that was noticed burning brighter and not an entire filimant. Color temprature measurements of the spot were NOT taken. Is the spot more effecient, or just hotter creating a early failure of the bulb.
The article has jumped to way too many conclusions without enough tesing to see if it is indeed effeient or just a high resistance hot spot.
Wake me up when they have the color temprature of the hot spot compared to the rest of the filimant.
Due to corporate laibility and the assumed role of suport, many for profit corporations don't wish the exposuer for legal and ecconomic reasons.
On the plus side, many in the IT department are free to contribute on a personal level and therefore do not place liability issues on the corporation.
Where do you think these trained coders come from. Most have a job somewhere to pay the bills.
I think the issue raised is simply a red herring and not an issue at all.
Be sure to let the supplier/publisher know of your problems. When I got one of the copy protected Sony DVD's they put out a recall and sent a free replacement. I let them know it wouldn't play on a Linux machne.. Let them KNOW DRM will kill sales and produce customer support costs. They will only do DRM if it is likely to improve the bottom line.
DRM is why I don't use Light Factory. I use Freestyler instead. I bought the starter pack and never upgraded and let them know why.
I don't know what Obama policies you are referring to, unless it is closing offshore tax loopholes.
This thinking is prevalent. The value a multinational corporation makes or is worth is often up for debate. Often the tax rates are based on the company bottom line regardless of how much of the work is done where.
Examples are Nike where most labor is overseas and Intel where the US fabs produce the chips that are packaged overseas. The completed product is made in 2 countries. If both countries try to tax for the total income, the company will most likely shut down operations in the expensive place.
It is true that a few tax havens exist where the corp headquarters is just a seal in a box somewhere in the Cayman Islands and this is a problem.
On the other hand, how much of the value of a completed microprocessor is manufactured in the USA and how much is manufactured in China.
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000380 Some corporations have manufacturing in many places. Often the government will look at any overseas operation as a tax loophole. Closing these tax loopholes may mean the corporation may close operations altogether in the business unfriendly countries. The result is loss of jobs and a trade deficit as that country now has to rely more and more on foreign imports like the US. The US is rapidly becoming a service industry nation writing software and providing medical services, but most goods are imported. Try it, Visit Wal * Mart and look to see where the products are made. Notice an abundance of American brands?
Sony, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Samsung, Panasonic, Pioneer, HP, Asus, Lexmark, Philips, Visio, RCA, Olevia, Viore, Sanyo, AOC, Wenzel, Coleman, Rubbermaid, Kalisto, etc.. Some of the above are built in the US. Many US brands are now just importers who re-brand.
Use this one.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7725221.stm Microsoft has a new headquarters in Edinburgh Ireland.
Point well taken. Yeah do like Ireland did! Whoring themselves out to multinationals has worked out *perfectly* for them.
Multinational corporations are quick to use the competitive advantages to use as a bargaining chip. As in my earlier example, Intel.
http://www.intel.com/community/ireland/index.htm Intel does have a manufacturing plant there.
Along those lines, many people missed the Redmond giant is building a new headquarters.. If taxes get bad, they are not locked into the US tax the evil corporations.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132007757.html They also see the lets get the evil corporations and their overseas tax havens. I hope the current administration gets a clue before world economic reality hits them in the forehead after they close the US operations.
What we see on a state by state basis to attract jobs while at the same time we try to make the evil multinational corporations pay (Obama and taxes) we may start to see many start ups simply avoid the US.
Intel has been accused many times of avoiding paying taxes for the massive tax breaks they get to have a location in the Portland Oregon area, but most people don't realize they not only pay salaries taxed by the state, they also are taxed for their property. Nike also in the area has a much lower inventory tax because they don't have a fab full of multi million dollar manufacturing tools. To attract Intel, the city of Hillsboro had to adjust for this.
Failure to do this would let them have a larger piece of nothing, With no concessions for the value of the factory equipment Intel would have built elsewhere. The clean water and moderate electricity rates are what attracted them. High local tax areas could soon erase the advantages.
I am afraid that Obama's economic plan will drive the rest of large manufacturing overseas. The Union obligations are already having a severe toll on the auto industry without the help of taxes driving them out of business.
Tax the rich simply is to send them elsewhere in a global market where conditions are better.
it's 1% of how they were measuring it. what you really want to know is how meaningful are the metrics used to produce that 1%.
slashdot, missing the point as usual....
Some of us have been here to see this hashed every year now for how many years. Eventually someone brings up the metric used if it can be found. It is often the number of machines sold with it pre-installed, or worse the % market share based on annual gross sales.
Most slashdoters understand the Linux machine they typically are using came neither with Linux installed nor was a high dollar investment made in a boxed retail Linux install, to the metric if it is of sales is a very good indicator there is trouble in Redmond. Sales of Linux machines and sales of boxed Linux distributions is just the tip of the iceberg and we know it.
Instead of a thumb drive, I carry a SD card and usb reader combo. The SD card has a write enable switch. Works 100% of the time on foreign untrusted systems.
Did you notice that most people who reference the Ten Commandments only mean the last seven and disregard the first three?
Who cares what the ten commandments might theoretically say?
RIAA's idiotic tactics are going to make people want to stop supporting musicians
Already has.
The licensing on most CD's is a show stopper for me. The times have changed and the things people want to use music for is PROHIBITED making is much less useful.
The phrase "For private home use only" Is the show stopper. Want music for an online video? Want music to sync to a Powerpoint slide show? Ever been asked to DJ a reception? Ever rip a CD to make an MP3 for your car player so you can leave the original home?
All the above is not permited. As such, I find little value in buying it. The added liabilty makes it too dangerous to support the current litigation machine. I'm in the process of starving the litigation machine. Unfortunately, the musicians are caught in the crossfire. The DRM and rootkits only is the icing on top of the main problem of high price and low value.
Some public hot spots are targets for identity thiefs by doing a man in the middle attack. A backpack can contain everyting nessary to hijack a public hotspot to add a splash screen set up to harvest CC numbers, email accounts, bank logins, etc.
For that very reason, I NEVER use a public hotspot for any secure transaction. I even cruise Slashdot while not logged in and I don't log into my mail.