I bought a SoundBlaster card for four-channel audio for my Mac >10 years ago. It did not work.
Cretive Labs' management clearly had decided to dump Macs, as months of emails with "we're trying to work on driver fixes, but, but, but," rang hollow.
I'm not worthy of your hardware, despite me giving you money? OK. Your choice.
Creative Labs has been dead to me for >10 years, and will remain so. I can get my A/D & D/A converters elsewhere, and I do. I program and use them, actually. And I teach University classes in the subject. Guess what provider never gets a mention.
Any company who gives a paying customer the middle finger deserves animosity, sharing of info with other consumers, and generally, well, eventually being overtaken by a business that provides what consumers pay them for.
Well, when your business model is to use donated, individual efforts to build a database —a database that you then use to make money via advertising with no contributor compensation. . .
Well, don't be surprised when some "hired gun" pretends to be one of us altruistic citizens contributing to your database. And they make stuff up.
SEO guys. Google Map spammers. The list goes on forever.
These "crowd-sourced" businesses, making money off of the altruism of anonymous individuals, have it coming to them. There is no free ride.
That is, chronic exposure leads to physiological dependence.
"Self-medicating" is fine for a month or two, but during that time one should seek a psychiatrist who can prescribe something to replace that "escapism" need. Hopefully.
If one does find a good advisor, and one follows the advice and prescriptions, normalcy and acceptance can soon follow. (Soon being within the scale of a human life-span, maybe 5 years.)
Animats: Laser weapons are in the same state - there are working demos, but they're not worth the trouble yet. Diode laser powered weapons are now up to 10KW (big array of 10W or so diodes), and can shoot down small rockets and artillery shells in demos. Current thinking is that, at 50KW-100KW, they'll be militarily useful.
Navy has (or is testing) some higher-powered ones, basically five or ten welding lasers strapped together, but the power and cooling requirements are huge.
Even some of the web-linked articles don't have images.
Bad click-bait article aside, it is typical that the USA (and other nations) develop weapons systems that they never end up "needing to use." Weapons systems can be seen as a kind of insurance policy, but it can be damned hard from keeping the hawks from wanting to go play with their toys (kill people) all the time.
I use this in my classes — the myDAQ from National Instruments (DAQ=digital acquisition).
It's USB plug-and-play, with a few basics like oscilloscope (200 kS/s, 16-bit), DSA (digital signal analyzer), signal generator, and Bode analyzer built-in, through use of it's "ELVISmx Instrument Launcher." Better yet is that it comes with a non-expiring copy of LabView.
It has:
* DMM ports (digital multimeter)
* 8 digital I/O
* A/D audio I/O, +/-2 V
* A/D I/O, +/- 10V
* Power supply +/- 15 V
* Counter
Cost it $180, for example through www.studica.com.
If law enforcement needs this type of equipment, then it has long abandoned any pretense of serving the people and has instead reverted to its original purpose of fighting the people for those in power.
Indeed. "To protect and to serve..." has been perverted into "To protect (ourselves) and to serve (those in power)..."
What I wonder every time I see this: do the law enforcement officers involved ever think something like, "wow, by doing this I become one of the jack-booted thugs working hard to bring tyranny and corruption to this nation!" Are they complete myrmidons?
Anyone with an IQ above 105-110 is barred from becoming a police officer.
Examples abound, in the US and elsewhere, so I'll let you find examples of this long-known fact.
With high powered lasers (that are surprisingly easy to come by) [wickedlasers.com] a fraction of a second is all it takes to cause serious and often permanent eye injury. [wikipedia.org]
Ahem. Beam divergence.
At the distance an aircraft would be from the laser-pointer, the spot will have spread sufficiently that this is not the case.
If you solve this problem (you're not), the Navy and Air Force will make you rich.
Why would I ever want my refrigerator to have internet access?
The marketers, sure, they want me to think that I need that. But, really, what conceivable value or advantage would the ($30-extra purchase price) confer to me?
None? Well, I must be a sucker.
Or, wait, I have to actually exert more effort to maintain the internet security of my refrigerator, which wasn't and should have never been internet-connected in the first place? If you find yourself in this latter situation, you are dumber than a sucker, mark, or rube. You are the problem.
Well, LAPD flies their helicopters at less than 50 feet altitude, in the middle of the night, in Santa Monica — which is NOT in their jurisdiction.
I've seen 4 X 8 foot panels of plywood flying around a home-remodeling site across the street due to the helicopter down-draft. And this was on a night with no major crimes. That is, it was "just for practice." Never mind that the public, whom they are supposed to protect and to serve, are being awakened for 2-3 hours in the middle of the night, and suffer property damage.
Having personally observed the above behavior, it's essentially guaranteed that TFA's drones will be used in an escalating series of invasive methods – especially ones that the law does not yet specifically prohibit.
LAPD have long been known to be excessively power-hungry, abusive, racist, and eager to use excessive force. These drones are just another tool to enable their continuing subjugation of the citizenry.
I work without fear of losing progress in all of the numerous applications I use (pedestrian, scientific, graphical, audio, etc.).
This is with the singular exception of MS Office Applications. They still crash and lose one's input on a regular basis. I save after every sentence I type. This is a behavior developed through many agonizing losses thanks to buggy MS apps. PPT will still corrupt its own files, so I end up with 10-20 versions of the same presentation, simply out of fear for PPT mangling its own files.
NOTE: I have no choice but to use MS Office Apps, as everyone else does.
I have not purchased from Amazon for many years, due to their anti-worker labor practices. Now, they have dropped the mask completely and have revealed themselves to be clearly anti-publisher (in an effort to enslave authors).
Wal-Mart style tactics on a National, state-borderless, scale. Please blacklist their domain, as I have.
Something tells me the this company hasn't thought everything through.
...naturally-grown organic cotton...
Isn't cotton one of the most pesticide-intensive crops around? If, perhaps, they meant to use the other definition of organic — molecules based on carbon, but containing other elements — well, they're being redundant.
...uses entirely organic input materials that can be fully recycled at the end of their life...
From the first image presented, a dual carbon cell looks to require lithium, just like a lithium battery does.
Years ago, before my time, Columbia House or BMG might mail you some records (equivalent to CDs). Later, they would send you a bill for the goods that arrived un-ordered and un-asked-for. Then, mail fraud law caught up, and those scams went away.
This is not that case, but really, I wonder if those laws are applicable to the delivery of packages to the "wrong" person by UPS in such a case. If so, the mis-delivered or un-asked-for delivery is his/hers to keep — no strings.
Or, alternatively, why was something so costly being sent by regular delivery? I mean, really, would you UPS a Lamborghini to your customer?
I noticed this 20 years ago, when students who faithfully transcribed notes in class on their (super-expensive) portable computers usually ended up dropping out of EE/ME/etc. and into "Engineering Management," the home for those who couldn't hack an engineering (or straight science) degree.
They had futures either as court stenographers, or as PHBs.
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I bought a SoundBlaster card for four-channel audio for my Mac >10 years ago. It did not work.
Cretive Labs' management clearly had decided to dump Macs, as months of emails with "we're trying to work on driver fixes, but, but, but," rang hollow.
I'm not worthy of your hardware, despite me giving you money? OK. Your choice.
Creative Labs has been dead to me for >10 years, and will remain so. I can get my A/D & D/A converters elsewhere, and I do. I program and use them, actually. And I teach University classes in the subject. Guess what provider never gets a mention.
Any company who gives a paying customer the middle finger deserves animosity, sharing of info with other consumers, and generally, well, eventually being overtaken by a business that provides what consumers pay them for.
Well, when your business model is to use donated, individual efforts to build a database —a database that you then use to make money via advertising with no contributor compensation. . .
Well, don't be surprised when some "hired gun" pretends to be one of us altruistic citizens contributing to your database. And they make stuff up.
SEO guys. Google Map spammers. The list goes on forever.
These "crowd-sourced" businesses, making money off of the altruism of anonymous individuals, have it coming to them. There is no free ride.
Reason A can, and does turn into reason B.
That is, chronic exposure leads to physiological dependence.
"Self-medicating" is fine for a month or two, but during that time one should seek a psychiatrist who can prescribe something to replace that "escapism" need. Hopefully.
If one does find a good advisor, and one follows the advice and prescriptions, normalcy and acceptance can soon follow. (Soon being within the scale of a human life-span, maybe 5 years.)
Hang in there! It will get better.
Navy has (or is testing) some higher-powered ones, basically five or ten welding lasers strapped together, but the power and cooling requirements are huge.
Worthless article without images.
Even some of the web-linked articles don't have images.
Bad click-bait article aside, it is typical that the USA (and other nations) develop weapons systems that they never end up "needing to use." Weapons systems can be seen as a kind of insurance policy, but it can be damned hard from keeping the hawks from wanting to go play with their toys (kill people) all the time.
When I've lived in northern climates, I've occasionally had a couple of tanning sessions to fight the winter blues. It works great.
I use this in my classes — the myDAQ from National Instruments (DAQ=digital acquisition).
It's USB plug-and-play, with a few basics like oscilloscope (200 kS/s, 16-bit), DSA (digital signal analyzer), signal generator, and Bode analyzer built-in, through use of it's "ELVISmx Instrument Launcher." Better yet is that it comes with a non-expiring copy of LabView.
It has:
* DMM ports (digital multimeter)
* 8 digital I/O
* A/D audio I/O, +/-2 V
* A/D I/O, +/- 10V
* Power supply +/- 15 V
* Counter
Cost it $180, for example through www.studica.com.
[citation needed]
I fear for my (soon to be former) country.
How many Roadside Bombs did we have in the USA in 2013?
None? Well, how about 2012?
None? Well, how about 2011?
None? Well, how about 2010?
Continue, ad infinitum.
Indeed. "To protect and to serve..." has been perverted into "To protect (ourselves) and to serve (those in power)..."
Anyone with an IQ above 105-110 is barred from becoming a police officer.
Examples abound, in the US and elsewhere, so I'll let you find examples of this long-known fact.
All lasers have a finite beam divergence. The light is not perfectly collimated (it is not from infinity).
Ahem. Beam divergence.
At the distance an aircraft would be from the laser-pointer, the spot will have spread sufficiently that this is not the case.
If you solve this problem (you're not), the Navy and Air Force will make you rich.
Why would I ever want my refrigerator to have internet access?
The marketers, sure, they want me to think that I need that. But, really, what conceivable value or advantage would the ($30-extra purchase price) confer to me?
None? Well, I must be a sucker.
Or, wait, I have to actually exert more effort to maintain the internet security of my refrigerator, which wasn't and should have never been internet-connected in the first place? If you find yourself in this latter situation, you are dumber than a sucker, mark, or rube. You are the problem.
DropBox will drop its pants for the NSA any time, anywhere, with no FISA court order required. Apple, not so much.
Well, LAPD flies their helicopters at less than 50 feet altitude, in the middle of the night, in Santa Monica — which is NOT in their jurisdiction.
I've seen 4 X 8 foot panels of plywood flying around a home-remodeling site across the street due to the helicopter down-draft. And this was on a night with no major crimes. That is, it was "just for practice." Never mind that the public, whom they are supposed to protect and to serve, are being awakened for 2-3 hours in the middle of the night, and suffer property damage.
Having personally observed the above behavior, it's essentially guaranteed that TFA's drones will be used in an escalating series of invasive methods – especially ones that the law does not yet specifically prohibit.
LAPD have long been known to be excessively power-hungry, abusive, racist, and eager to use excessive force. These drones are just another tool to enable their continuing subjugation of the citizenry.
Readers who do not understand the "one good seat" phenomenon of curved TVs are politely referred to any elementary geometry high-school textbook.
I work without fear of losing progress in all of the numerous applications I use (pedestrian, scientific, graphical, audio, etc.).
This is with the singular exception of MS Office Applications. They still crash and lose one's input on a regular basis. I save after every sentence I type. This is a behavior developed through many agonizing losses thanks to buggy MS apps. PPT will still corrupt its own files, so I end up with 10-20 versions of the same presentation, simply out of fear for PPT mangling its own files.
NOTE: I have no choice but to use MS Office Apps, as everyone else does.
Wow. OK.
I have not purchased from Amazon for many years, due to their anti-worker labor practices. Now, they have dropped the mask completely and have revealed themselves to be clearly anti-publisher (in an effort to enslave authors).
Wal-Mart style tactics on a National, state-borderless, scale. Please blacklist their domain, as I have.
You should be fired.
Something tells me the this company hasn't thought everything through.
...naturally-grown organic cotton...
...uses entirely organic input materials that can be fully recycled at the end of their life...
Isn't cotton one of the most pesticide-intensive crops around? If, perhaps, they meant to use the other definition of organic — molecules based on carbon, but containing other elements — well, they're being redundant.
From the first image presented, a dual carbon cell looks to require lithium, just like a lithium battery does.
It's already been done, using similar diseases.
See Japan Unit 731 from WWII.
Years ago, before my time, Columbia House or BMG might mail you some records (equivalent to CDs). Later, they would send you a bill for the goods that arrived un-ordered and un-asked-for. Then, mail fraud law caught up, and those scams went away.
This is not that case, but really, I wonder if those laws are applicable to the delivery of packages to the "wrong" person by UPS in such a case. If so, the mis-delivered or un-asked-for delivery is his/hers to keep — no strings.
Or, alternatively, why was something so costly being sent by regular delivery? I mean, really, would you UPS a Lamborghini to your customer?
I noticed this 20 years ago, when students who faithfully transcribed notes in class on their (super-expensive) portable computers usually ended up dropping out of EE/ME/etc. and into "Engineering Management," the home for those who couldn't hack an engineering (or straight science) degree.
They had futures either as court stenographers, or as PHBs.