I've tried a lot of headphones and earbuds, and these are my recommendations:
earbuds: klipsch s2m - $50 - great isolating earbuds with decent sound, easy to insert and cheap. (I got them for about $30) klipsch s4i - $99 - great sound and isolation, but a bit harder to put in (wrap around back of ears)
headphones: sennheiser hd201 - less than $20 -- great isolating, over the ear sound for cheap. sennheiser hd5xx - $$ - I've owned the HD580 (wore them out!) and HD595 models and love them. Comfortable for hours and hours. Only quibble is they use 1/4" jacks which nothing uses nowadays. You might want to check the PC3xx series for headphones with mic.
also the guys at http://www.heaphone.com/ give great advice (not affiliated with them in any way)
Thank goodness they are protecting the US GPS Satellites. If someone were to try to shoot down a GPS satellite, the missile would be diverted to destroy the GPS jammer truck, protecting Global Positioning for the benefit of the world!
I think the most important things I would want to learn are -- am I exercising well? Is it affecting my sleep? Am I getting enough sleep? Am I over-training?
So I would love to track when I eat, maybe what I eat, when I exercise, when and how well I sleep (I have a Zeo which already does this), and resting heart rate.
So exercising is really good for you... UNLESS you start over-training. If you over-train, your sleep quality goes down and your resting heart rate goes up. I think a LOT of people over-train and it makes exercise unnecessarily grueling and potentially harmful. It also robs you of energy instead of giving it to you.
Also, if you exercise, you need more sleep. Knowing if you get enough sleep is important.
Food and drink can drastically affect your exercise and recovery and your sleep too.
I was going to post something about reversible computing. I found it an interesting concept when I read that Richard Feynman did some work in computation and was a proponent of it. As far as I can tell, the idea was largely ignored.
I think reversible computing would not only be more energy efficient, but from what I understand might make for some interesting debugging, because I think you could run the program counter backward to an error.
I've read FAR more books per year in the last couple years on my kindle and iPhone than physical books in the years before.
I have also played more computer games too.
Although there are distractions, there is much more "computer" time available as I carry my devices with me. I wasn't able to carry physical books and magazines to the same extent ever in my life.
I've done the same thing. I have a lot of.jpg files sitting around on my hard disk with images from over the years -- all done with a DSLR and an inverted tripod. Many tripods allow you to reverse the center column so the camera hangs downward underneath the tripod, which is a big win.
What's interesting is now I do the same thing -- better -- with my iphone.
I always have my phone with me, so I can snap a photo of documents as I get them and immediately put them in the discard file. It can also do large batches if needed, although at some point you'll have to let it go off and process all the images.
The reason it is better is that there are plenty of apps that take pictures and spit out.PDF files. They do lots of sophisticated things -- if you handhold they will wait to take the picture when you hand is stable using the accelerometer. They will scan in batches of photos and process them later. You can get batches of photos from your camera roll. They do edge detection and de-skewing so you end up with a true page in a.pdf instead of a picture with a page in the middle. They can enhance the image in various ways to make them more readable. And they can do OCR (though I never found one that worked as well as I expected), and annotate.pdf files. You can instantly mail or fax your.pdf file, or save it to the cloud.
Oh, one significant advantage of the digital phone vs the DSLR is that you automatically carry your documents with you on the phone. I've scanned in calendars/schedules and referred to them many many times later to see when something is scheduled or when it starts.
The app I currently favor is CamScanner+, but I also use JotNot Pro too. There seem to be other apps that pop up all the time (but you can't find anything in the app store so it's trial and error to find them)
All this will do is trip off use of PGP that includes a "duress" password.
Using it will scramble the disk beyond ANY recoverability.
...and then they will restore from backup and put you back at the keyboard.
The better "duress" password will decrypt alternate, non-incriminating data.
Or possibly alternate, semi-incriminating data that will show you had something plausibly private to hide like photos of you trying on underwear, or something else that was embarassing, but nothing that would convict you of a crime.
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Shriners. that is all.
Why would you assume that, I do!
I think software will reside in the cloud, or somehow become a service of some sort instead of traditional software.
It might be fair use. I suspect any copyright on the village might have expired long ago. :)
I've tried a lot of headphones and earbuds, and these are my recommendations:
earbuds:
klipsch s2m - $50 - great isolating earbuds with decent sound, easy to insert and cheap. (I got them for about $30)
klipsch s4i - $99 - great sound and isolation, but a bit harder to put in (wrap around back of ears)
headphones:
sennheiser hd201 - less than $20 -- great isolating, over the ear sound for cheap.
sennheiser hd5xx - $$ - I've owned the HD580 (wore them out!) and HD595 models and love them. Comfortable for hours and hours. Only quibble is they use 1/4" jacks which nothing uses nowadays. You might want to check the PC3xx series for headphones with mic.
also the guys at http://www.heaphone.com/ give great advice (not affiliated with them in any way)
Thank goodness they are protecting the US GPS Satellites. If someone were to try to shoot down a GPS satellite, the missile would be diverted to destroy the GPS jammer truck, protecting Global Positioning for the benefit of the world!
This is all good solid advice.
Also, I would pass up on raid (except maybe mirroring the entire drive) in favor of one hard disk, one partition.
see:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
You need to put a server in a well-ventilated area. Putting it in a closed closet will just lead to grief.
Grief means: slowly rising temperatures, premature component failures (hard disks), then data loss.
The acceptance of new technology is always overestimated in the short term, and underestimated in the long term.
That's the one I made. No tape and pretty stable.
I also made this one a lot:
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/trapplan.php
I found this particular video showed me what you could do in a visual way I wouldn't have picked up by reading about it.
Yes, I agree that sometimes you can't watch a video where you could read text though.
Could this be because war requires leaders to make the kind of hard, unpopular decisions that women are often bad at?
It could be because the Matriarchs don't let the men start sh*t.
I think the most important things I would want to learn are -- am I exercising well? Is it affecting my sleep? Am I getting enough sleep? Am I over-training?
So I would love to track when I eat, maybe what I eat, when I exercise, when and how well I sleep (I have a Zeo which already does this), and resting heart rate.
So exercising is really good for you... UNLESS you start over-training. If you over-train, your sleep quality goes down and your resting heart rate goes up.
I think a LOT of people over-train and it makes exercise unnecessarily grueling and potentially harmful. It also robs you of energy instead of giving it to you.
Also, if you exercise, you need more sleep. Knowing if you get enough sleep is important.
Food and drink can drastically affect your exercise and recovery and your sleep too.
I was thinking it was a good thing
I was going to post something about reversible computing. I found it an interesting concept when I read that Richard Feynman did some work in computation and was a proponent of it. As far as I can tell, the idea was largely ignored.
I think reversible computing would not only be more energy efficient, but from what I understand might make for some interesting debugging, because I think you could run the program counter backward to an error.
factoid: An asterisk that has fallen to earth is called an asteroid.
Trying to make a news story out of nothing...
I've read FAR more books per year in the last couple years on my kindle and iPhone than physical books in the years before.
I have also played more computer games too.
Although there are distractions, there is much more "computer" time available as I carry my devices with me. I wasn't able to carry physical books and magazines to the same extent ever in my life.
...would you give up a finger to get a virtual finger interface?
Just think of the possibilities...
A species-action lawsuit. Maybe Harvey Birdman will take the case..
Yeah, you'll see ultraviolet... Ultraviolet STARS after I clobber you!
I've done the same thing. I have a lot of .jpg files sitting around on my hard disk with images from over the years -- all done with a DSLR and an inverted tripod. Many tripods allow you to reverse the center column so the camera hangs downward underneath the tripod, which is a big win.
What's interesting is now I do the same thing -- better -- with my iphone.
I always have my phone with me, so I can snap a photo of documents as I get them and immediately put them in the discard file. It can also do large batches if needed, although at some point you'll have to let it go off and process all the images.
The reason it is better is that there are plenty of apps that take pictures and spit out .PDF files. They do lots of sophisticated things -- if you handhold they will wait to take the picture when you hand is stable using the accelerometer. They will scan in batches of photos and process them later. You can get batches of photos from your camera roll. They do edge detection and de-skewing so you end up with a true page in a .pdf instead of a picture with a page in the middle. They can enhance the image in various ways to make them more readable. And they can do OCR (though I never found one that worked as well as I expected), and annotate .pdf files. You can instantly mail or fax your .pdf file, or save it to the cloud.
Oh, one significant advantage of the digital phone vs the DSLR is that you automatically carry your documents with you on the phone. I've scanned in calendars/schedules and referred to them many many times later to see when something is scheduled or when it starts.
The app I currently favor is CamScanner+, but I also use JotNot Pro too. There seem to be other apps that pop up all the time (but you can't find anything in the app store so it's trial and error to find them)
Apple tried this a long time ago with predictable results. (well, predictable to most of us anyway)
All this will do is trip off use of PGP that includes a "duress" password.
Using it will scramble the disk beyond ANY recoverability.
...and then they will restore from backup and put you back at the keyboard.
The better "duress" password will decrypt alternate, non-incriminating data.
Or possibly alternate, semi-incriminating data that will show you had something plausibly private to hide like photos of you trying on underwear, or something else that was embarassing, but nothing that would convict you of a crime.
A friend of mine actually built a dome (in texas), but it was next to impossible to get a permit.
So... He built the dome in an unincorporated area just outside town. After it was all built, the town immediately annexed him, which was amusing.
In many other countries, everyone lives in concrete block housing.