You might be better off with a paraglider. A helicopter (say a full sized Bell) costs over $500 an hour to operate. A small one will cost at least $200. If you get an ultralight (one that flies under 14 CFR part 103), you will probably be labelled an idiot or dead within a year. Your per-hour cost will be about $60 though! Av-gas is either 100 octane LL (low lead) or a 107 octane compound. It costs over $3 a gallon. you need to get it at an airport, most of which won't land ultralights.
go with a paraglider. http://www.paraglidermagazine.com/ is a good place to start. It is an awsome alternative to a car, and quite a bit easier then a personal helicopter.
Your main decent helo choice (for a certified, non kit SAFE helo) is a schweizer-aircraft 300C.
I agree. Do ALL communication through that lawyer. That alone will probably scare them into making changes.
DO NOT give up the protection of a lawyer under any circumstance, because they will screw you over. If changes aren't made, have your lawyer send a cease and desist for violating FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Lawyers are expensive. I bet you could find one to take this on pro-bono. Ask around, email the ACLU and EFF.
Premiere is not an Avid Symphony (used by national geographic) or a FCP (used everywhere. Recently : Cold Mountain), but it IS capable of quite a bit. A lot of ad agencies use it, and a lot of independent film makers use it before onlining and layback. True, the other systems are better, but Adobe did OK with Premiere.
11)Click import/play and watch your disk space meter turn from green to red. About every 9 minutes 48 seconds of continuous video, the computer will automatically split the video into a new clip.
You can then edit and do other stuff, like add weird titles and export to DVD. If you are asking whether you can compress movies on the fly...Well, plan on spending 20-40K on an Avid suite. Raw DV formatted video takes up a LOT of space. If you end up buying an external hard drive, get a PCI based firewire card, because one 1394 bus can't handle video and disk streaming at the same time.
Go for the band. You will regret not doing it. IT jobs will be there in some form for a while. Have fun.
I probably have one of the most stable jobs in the music industry. I write music for TV. Music is fun, and you always meet interesting people. You might even meet musicians who need IT skills. Or, if you are brave, set yourself up with a DAW, Protools or Digital Performer and mix your skills.
You are involved in two industries that are very unstable. Go for what you want. Have fun. It is not a black mark on your resume, it is an "enhancing experience".
Not all the specialist jobs are in computers. Anyone who has ever TOUCHED an Oshkosh truck is probably up, as Oshkosh makes most of the support vehicles now being used.
How do I pay for promotion? that comes out of the 630,000, as does web-market hosting, salaries, the cost of recording the music in the first place (studio rates start at about $100 an hour).
Decently priced CDs are still the best route for an artist to get their music to the public while making enough to make another CD. And face it: a million purchases on a web site is like a CD going platinium, it is not very likely.
IAAM (I am a musician) and let me tell you how right you are. A mere 45 cents per CD? Shit, I can barely pay the bills, even if it goes gold...especially if I am part of a band.
Maybe an Indie label can follow this price scheme: 10 dollars (US) retail for a CD. Wholesales at $7.50. Label takes a dollar, duplication takes 1.50. Producers and artists get to divide up that 5 dollars! A gold CD yields half a million? Divided amongst 5 people? That is a VERY decent wage for a years work on an album.
Besides, you have Powell's, the best bookstore in the world (which also has a website...)
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I have an old E-Mu morpheus that died...and some stuff for sale...
But that is true, for specialized stuff, I have hardly ever seen it misspelled. The expensive stuff is usually spelled correctly as well. Otari and Atari are NOT the same.
Comon sense is a job for all of us, including Microsoft. Most vendors use common sense when they delay a product release due to security problems. Microsoft has historicaly not done that.
I think that it is great that less critical problems are being found now then with Windows 2000, and I hope the trend continues.
As an aside, I installed OS X on my grandmother's computer, and until now, forgot about her. Thanks for the reminder to write. Unfortunately, even that is not maintenence-free. Apple has had their own security problems of late.
Re-splice the cord to your power supplies or UPSes. Go to Home Depot and get 30-amp rated 3 wire power cabling and some plugs. Should work well. Run it through floor conduit (those platic troughs) so people don't rip the cords out.
Someone goes on vacation for 6 months, and returns to find 35,000 emails in their inbox. 200 spams a day is normal for quite a few people. Said person gets carpal tunnel syndrome by having to check a box 35,000 times. Said person wastes 9.7 hours deleting spam. (one delete per second).
NOW, imagine if that person (individual user) deletes spam at the same rate per day. they waste three minutes a day deleting spam. 19.4 hours a year. Now, if there are, say 5 million people with a spam problem that bad (a conservatve estimate) that means 97 million hours are wasted a year because of spammers. 11,000 years of time gone, because of Spam.
What if that time were spent raising children (as individual users tend to do) or helping kids learn to read? What if that three minutes a day were spent on a few situps? Maybe the US wouldn't have the obesity problem it does today. What if everyone could sit down for three minutes more a day and relax?
Also, IF those 5 million people were dealing with spam at work, that is 1.5 trillion in lost wages ($15 an hour) in ONE YEAR. Hell, these spammers are costing us more then our national debt.
I say YES, it is too hard to hit that check box and hit delete.
I know it is not a method of legal recourse, but CALL them, preferably not at a general sales number, but a direct line (to someone in legal). This should get results.
Unfortunately, I think only the government can enforce the new law, so us private citizens are royally fucked over.
Someone above mentioned charging them on an increasing scale. Go ahead, but only after you have sent them a bill. If they don't accept certified mail, send it guaranteed delivery. They can't ignore that either, unless it is out of gross negligence (the mail room lost it...) or stupidity.
Can you stop doing business with them? Then do so, and wait exactly 18 months to the day. Then, bill them for taking up your time ($50 an hour), server space ($5 a Kilobyte), and bandwith ($10 a meg transfered) on an increasing scale.
My 2 cents...as above, IANAL...BIHBTC (but I have been to court).
Yeah, I spoke too soon. There is a guy I know offing some fairly bare, older Xpress systems for around 5K because he is retiring and wants a quick out.
I guess a mac is the best choice. Besides, I have only been playing with editing for a year. Take the advice of someone with 12 times the experience. Perhaps we should start a 12 step group: ComputerUser anon.
"Hello, my name is littlerubberfeet, and I use a mac."
"Hello littlerubberfeet."
"It started when I was using apple IIs and my mom was working at Apple. I have not been able to stop since. I now have a G5 with Digital Performer 4 at work. I just can't seem to stop using."
"Uhm, littlerubberfeet, this is the windows user's meeting..."
Yeah, The federal law sucks, but can someone clarify?
I can't sue them for the Act of Spamming, but I DO think I can sue them for other stuff...Perhaps individuals can sue for mail fraud? Or damages when a kid sees "Girl and Horse free pictures!!!"? What about suing them for interfering with my business by overloading my servers (If I was an incompetent Admin... Darl )? The bill doesn't ban me from sueing over the secondary effects of spam, does it?
To expand a bit: pick up an used AVID. now that symphony is rolled out, the older, but still decent systems can be had for 5 grand. Add some storage. What is gonna cost you are the tape decks to digitize your source material. 7K for a Sony DV deck? Ouch.
Then there is the whole online/offline issue with used systems...
Very odd...At work, I have yet to run across a format or codec (video or audio) that I can't play. I know it is public, but can you tell me what files you can't play, or where they came from?
I know final cut pro (and hopefully therefore express) includes some extra codec stuff for importing...Maybe you should download a copy for "evaluation". Good luck
Sailplanes are a good place to start. Get a copy of "Fundamentals of Sailplane Design" by Fred Thomas, printed by the college park press in MD. ISBN: 0966955307. It has a bunch of equations you are probably sick of (Stokes anyone?) and wing profiles and data for some gliders, including the Eta Uberglider.
If L/D is all you need, it should be easy, though there are some other numbers in the book that are probably useful. Good luck! Also, it never hurts to ask...Have you tried the military? Sometimes they give up random tidbits of data without a FOIA request.
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You might be better off with a paraglider. A helicopter (say a full sized Bell) costs over $500 an hour to operate. A small one will cost at least $200. If you get an ultralight (one that flies under 14 CFR part 103), you will probably be labelled an idiot or dead within a year. Your per-hour cost will be about $60 though! Av-gas is either 100 octane LL (low lead) or a 107 octane compound. It costs over $3 a gallon. you need to get it at an airport, most of which won't land ultralights.
go with a paraglider.
http://www.paraglidermagazine.com/ is a good place to start. It is an awsome alternative to a car, and quite a bit easier then a personal helicopter.
Your main decent helo choice (for a certified, non kit SAFE helo) is a schweizer-aircraft 300C.
It sounds like you live in DC or LA. Good luck!
God help us if people start driving cars under IFRs.
Then again, if people were trained to drive like pilots are trained to fly, maybe I wouldn't get rear-ended so much.
I agree. Do ALL communication through that lawyer. That alone will probably scare them into making changes.
DO NOT give up the protection of a lawyer under any circumstance, because they will screw you over. If changes aren't made, have your lawyer send a cease and desist for violating FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Lawyers are expensive. I bet you could find one to take this on pro-bono. Ask around, email the ACLU and EFF.
It's possible. It just requires a ferry ride over the Suez. Get a globe and trace with your finger.
Premiere is not an Avid Symphony (used by national geographic) or a FCP (used everywhere. Recently : Cold Mountain), but it IS capable of quite a bit. A lot of ad agencies use it, and a lot of independent film makers use it before onlining and layback. True, the other systems are better, but Adobe did OK with Premiere.
Yes, Macs do this VERY easely. Step by step:
0)Connect the camera to the firewire port
01)Open iMovie
10)click the import tab
11)Click import/play and watch your disk space meter turn from green to red. About every 9 minutes 48 seconds of continuous video, the computer will automatically split the video into a new clip.
You can then edit and do other stuff, like add weird titles and export to DVD. If you are asking whether you can compress movies on the fly...Well, plan on spending 20-40K on an Avid suite. Raw DV formatted video takes up a LOT of space. If you end up buying an external hard drive, get a PCI based firewire card, because one 1394 bus can't handle video and disk streaming at the same time.
Go for the band. You will regret not doing it. IT jobs will be there in some form for a while. Have fun.
I probably have one of the most stable jobs in the music industry. I write music for TV. Music is fun, and you always meet interesting people. You might even meet musicians who need IT skills. Or, if you are brave, set yourself up with a DAW, Protools or Digital Performer and mix your skills.
You are involved in two industries that are very unstable. Go for what you want. Have fun. It is not a black mark on your resume, it is an "enhancing experience".
true, M$ != everything. Just ask a tank mechanic.
Not all the specialist jobs are in computers. Anyone who has ever TOUCHED an Oshkosh truck is probably up, as Oshkosh makes most of the support vehicles now being used.
How do I pay for promotion? that comes out of the 630,000, as does web-market hosting, salaries, the cost of recording the music in the first place (studio rates start at about $100 an hour).
Decently priced CDs are still the best route for an artist to get their music to the public while making enough to make another CD. And face it: a million purchases on a web site is like a CD going platinium, it is not very likely.
Oasiscd.com
IAAM (I am a musician) and let me tell you how right you are. A mere 45 cents per CD? Shit, I can barely pay the bills, even if it goes gold...especially if I am part of a band.
Maybe an Indie label can follow this price scheme:
10 dollars (US) retail for a CD. Wholesales at $7.50. Label takes a dollar, duplication takes 1.50. Producers and artists get to divide up that 5 dollars! A gold CD yields half a million? Divided amongst 5 people? That is a VERY decent wage for a years work on an album.
Nothing is private any more. I wholly agree. But:
Anyone else notice that the site is msnbc.msn.com? Isn't Microsoft trying to develop a google competitor?
Am I just another cynical bastard?
Besides, you have Powell's, the best bookstore in the world (which also has a website...)
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Thank you.
I have an old E-Mu morpheus that died...and some stuff for sale...
But that is true, for specialized stuff, I have hardly ever seen it misspelled. The expensive stuff is usually spelled correctly as well. Otari and Atari are NOT the same.
Comon sense is a job for all of us, including Microsoft. Most vendors use common sense when they delay a product release due to security problems. Microsoft has historicaly not done that.
I think that it is great that less critical problems are being found now then with Windows 2000, and I hope the trend continues.
As an aside, I installed OS X on my grandmother's computer, and until now, forgot about her. Thanks for the reminder to write. Unfortunately, even that is not maintenence-free. Apple has had their own security problems of late.
How about an honest embrace of common sense?
Speaking of disguises...
Re-splice the cord to your power supplies or UPSes. Go to Home Depot and get 30-amp rated 3 wire power cabling and some plugs. Should work well. Run it through floor conduit (those platic troughs) so people don't rip the cords out.
You sir, are an ass.
Someone goes on vacation for 6 months, and returns to find 35,000 emails in their inbox. 200 spams a day is normal for quite a few people. Said person gets carpal tunnel syndrome by having to check a box 35,000 times. Said person wastes 9.7 hours deleting spam. (one delete per second).
NOW, imagine if that person (individual user) deletes spam at the same rate per day. they waste three minutes a day deleting spam. 19.4 hours a year. Now, if there are, say 5 million people with a spam problem that bad (a conservatve estimate) that means 97 million hours are wasted a year because of spammers. 11,000 years of time gone, because of Spam.
What if that time were spent raising children (as individual users tend to do) or helping kids learn to read? What if that three minutes a day were spent on a few situps? Maybe the US wouldn't have the obesity problem it does today. What if everyone could sit down for three minutes more a day and relax?
Also, IF those 5 million people were dealing with spam at work, that is 1.5 trillion in lost wages ($15 an hour) in ONE YEAR. Hell, these spammers are costing us more then our national debt.
I say YES, it is too hard to hit that check box and hit delete.
I know it is not a method of legal recourse, but CALL them, preferably not at a general sales number, but a direct line (to someone in legal). This should get results.
Unfortunately, I think only the government can enforce the new law, so us private citizens are royally fucked over.
Someone above mentioned charging them on an increasing scale. Go ahead, but only after you have sent them a bill. If they don't accept certified mail, send it guaranteed delivery. They can't ignore that either, unless it is out of gross negligence (the mail room lost it...) or stupidity.
Can you stop doing business with them? Then do so, and wait exactly 18 months to the day. Then, bill them for taking up your time ($50 an hour), server space ($5 a Kilobyte), and bandwith ($10 a meg transfered) on an increasing scale.
My 2 cents...as above, IANAL...BIHBTC (but I have been to court).
Yeah, I spoke too soon. There is a guy I know offing some fairly bare, older Xpress systems for around 5K because he is retiring and wants a quick out.
I guess a mac is the best choice. Besides, I have only been playing with editing for a year. Take the advice of someone with 12 times the experience. Perhaps we should start a 12 step group: ComputerUser anon.
"Hello, my name is littlerubberfeet, and I use a mac."
"Hello littlerubberfeet."
"It started when I was using apple IIs and my mom was working at Apple. I have not been able to stop since. I now have a G5 with Digital Performer 4 at work. I just can't seem to stop using."
"Uhm, littlerubberfeet, this is the windows user's meeting..."
"Oops..."
Yeah, The federal law sucks, but can someone clarify?
I can't sue them for the Act of Spamming, but I DO think I can sue them for other stuff...Perhaps individuals can sue for mail fraud? Or damages when a kid sees "Girl and Horse free pictures!!!"? What about suing them for interfering with my business by overloading my servers (If I was an incompetent Admin... Darl )? The bill doesn't ban me from sueing over the secondary effects of spam, does it?
To expand a bit: pick up an used AVID. now that symphony is rolled out, the older, but still decent systems can be had for 5 grand. Add some storage. What is gonna cost you are the tape decks to digitize your source material. 7K for a Sony DV deck? Ouch.
Then there is the whole online/offline issue with used systems...
Very odd...At work, I have yet to run across a format or codec (video or audio) that I can't play. I know it is public, but can you tell me what files you can't play, or where they came from?
I know final cut pro (and hopefully therefore express) includes some extra codec stuff for importing...Maybe you should download a copy for "evaluation". Good luck
Yeah, its called a Mac.
Sailplanes are a good place to start. Get a copy of "Fundamentals of Sailplane Design" by Fred Thomas, printed by the college park press in MD. ISBN: 0966955307. It has a bunch of equations you are probably sick of (Stokes anyone?) and wing profiles and data for some gliders, including the Eta Uberglider.
If L/D is all you need, it should be easy, though there are some other numbers in the book that are probably useful. Good luck! Also, it never hurts to ask...Have you tried the military? Sometimes they give up random tidbits of data without a FOIA request.