OK, you're going to need: (1) a compass, (2) a stopwatch with a second hand, and (3) an astrolabe.
Or do it the old-fashioned way: press the 'on' button on your GPS.....:-)
Or you could just go to MAPTECH and find out "close enough" what your Lat & Lon is for any WX program. Surprise... it's accurate enough to play some geocaching - I found a cache near my house w/o any GPS using it.
The only exception I've noticed is during rush hour when the lights move to a timed interval pretty much ignoring the inductance plates.
I've driven around "down there" and noticed the same thing... I think it's just that all the sensors are covered up, so the computer has no other way to deal with it. If the data fed to the computer from all the sensors says full all the time, there is no other action it can take.
Your problem down in Illinois is your roads in general.... not trying to put you down, but with all the growth in the 'burbs... the roads down there can't be built or even maintained fast enough. The congestion down there at times in some areas can be overwhelming
Up here in SE Wisconsin we don't have it quite as bad yet, but it's getting there. We have intersections with multiple sensors... we even have some with yet another set of sensors quite a ways back - I love those, then you don't have to stop at all.
We also have a few of those -- Always red until someone has stopped for a while, that is the most annoying thing. From both sides. If I have to stop and wait I wait and wait, or from the other direction - there's 20 cars in a line coming and one car stops at the red and makes all 20 wait
Usually I just bookmark a useful site... the only problem is that when I'm not at the same computer or out in the field I can't remember what it is... and then sometimes I don't remember enough of where i found useful information to limit the search in google either.
Has anyone noticed the trend of some listings in the program guide being wrong. Where the the guide has either last week's or next week's description in it? I thought it was just an error at first, but it seems to happen so often that I suspect it's intentional. ---Why? well anyone using a MythTV or other DVR/PVR will either record a re-run, or it won't record it thinking it's a repeat.
I set up my MythTV so different shows / channels have higher or lower priority. Granted I may loose a little of a show, but the one I want more doesn't get cut off.
I found 3400 one time with ad-aware (1 search) and another 300 with spybot - plus more after rebooting and running again and again.... I was in awe that I could even boot the machine.
I can't tell you how many people think that deleting an icon means the program is gone. It's hilarious.
You're right, it is funnny... I try to make sure I explain exactly what happened to their stuff and why. Once they understand they always think it's great.
You know what else is funny? --- Just go into their control panel and jack up the mouse speed and slow down the double-click speed... everyone thinks their computer is really fast then
....then post your HJT logs and other stuff and someone should be able to help you.
I wish Google would stop indexing posted HJT logs. It used to be so easy to look up a file found in the start up or in one of the system directories... you just type it in to Google.... Now doing that just gives you 1000s of peoples HJT logs whith a bunch of useless speculative answers after them.
Not that I think people shouldn't post their HJT logs looking for help, I just wish Google would stop indexing them.
I charge $40.00 per hour --- If I'm feeling nice, if not it's $90.00 and then I usually take 2-3 hours fixing a computer. I don't just remove the spyware and adware I also fix the computer and take active steps to keep this from happening again. I also clean up and organize the computer. --- You might think that re-arranging a start menu or deleting useless desktop items might not be such a good idea, but I have found that it is the most appreciated service and it also gives the client something they can see that has changed. Now I am careful to ask a client how they use their computer before starting and MOST IMPORTANT, I explain what I have done and why and show the user how to use the computer.
The only down side is I usually never need to do it again, but the plus side is word-of-mouth. I usually get 5 new clients for each one I take and have had to turn away many potential clients. I can choose who I want to work for and I can work whenever I want. Everything is on my terms and the people are willing to bend over backwards for me. I usually get tips, free lunch/dinner, cases of beer, wine or cheese -and have been offered more than once to be flown across the country to do work for people.
I've managed to get MythTV working pretty well on an old carppy 500 MHz Compaq. I use a PVR 250 card and a 160 GB HD and the only time I get anything choppy is when I play and record simultaneously. ---I want a PVR 350 card which would allow the hardware to do the M-PEG decoding and it's also another tuner card so I will be able to play and record at the same time, then I could even record two shows simultaneously while playing since I'll keep the 250 card in it too:)
But then, using equal temperament on normal intruments is a sick travesty:)
Well yes it is... unless those instruments are playing with another instrument that is better off in equal temporament.... It can be worse sometimes to play several different instruments together at the same time all in their own temporaments.
There is also a difference of some notes that ought to be the same. This is based on the temperamant of the tuning.
A piano normally uses Equal Temperament Tuning. In this case an A# and a Bb are the same note. This is not the case with the tuning of other instruments and many attempts have been made to deal with this. There are pianos that have the black key for A#/Bb actually split in two (front and back) to try and deal with this.
Other tuning temporaments have also been developed, such as mean-tone temporament. Basically they are slight changes in the tuning intervals between the notes.
Basically trying to preserve the intervals of octaves and fifths and seventh or thirds - Equal temporament is kind of a compromise, equal isn't always the best solution to make the best sound, but it can be the easiest solution to make an acceptably good sound on many different instruments... It's easier for a guitar player or a violinist to make it sound closer to equal temporament when played than it is to retune a piano everytime you change the key you are playing in.
So depending on the temporament of an instrument you can't always really get away with simply transposing into another key, some times it realy won't sound quite right.
At the local Menard's hardware store. They are CF replacements to the old colored "party bulbs" They run at 15 Watts and produce as much light as a 60 Watt bulb... which is great when compared to those 25 watt party bulbs.
For a long time you could get Yellow/Amber CF "bug lights" and sometimes you could find CF Black Lights. But they now come in Red, Green, Blue too! - I found them just before halloween.
What I'm still looking for is CF colored Flood lights. It's been hard to find a retailer that has CF floods at all reliably around here.. Now you see 'em, now you don't kinda thing. But for Holiday lighting I want CF colored floods! I had thought of using was the old colored filters for floodlights my grampa used to have, I have been unable to find them anywhere:(
As for a tax on incandescent bulbs... Get Real, the last thing we need is to make up another way to give our money to the government. If you think it will help, think carefully of what you are asking for. Want to talk about waste, just give the government more money, I'll show you a waste.
What you fail to think about in your post is that I mentioned how this was one of the reasons Galileo got in trouble. You see he got in trouble with the Holy See; Vatican; Pope; Catholic Church. Which in my understanding, wouldn't use an English translation of the Bible.
The Catholic Church at the time would have looked at the Bible in Latin, and also would have references in Greek and Hebrew. It was the theologians of the Church who would have inturpreted the Bible. The view was considered valid at the time.
You come back with so much fury that I wonder if you have some kind of A-theist (hyphen for emphasis) agenda. If you would have read what I said I was making the point that the verses in Joshua were used to support the very thing you were questioning.
I said I did believe in a heliocentric solar system... Helios meaning SUN as in the sun in the center.
You asked for a reference in the Bible that would have meant the Earth was in the center, I gave you one. I did not say that the interpretation of that verse correct, however it had been historically inturpreted in that fasion - for which I provided an example.
Comparisons between English and Hebrew are pointless in this argument as English was in no part of the discussion in the historical context.
I did provide you with references too, so don't go off on me about English vs. Hebrew because you looked it up in a concordance or something, I'm stating a fact about history that that was the way it WAS interpreted.
If you want to tear apart that interpretation; be my guest, it's not mine.
How strong of an argument do you want from a book that isn't a scientific treatise?
My whole point of bringing it up is it is in the Bible and relevant and is the argument used to condemn Galileo. The argument was that the Bible said the Sun stoped not the Earth, therefor the Earth is unmoving, and everything else revolves around it. and therefore the center of the universe.
IANAT [Theologian] SO I will not argue the accracy of this interpetation, but this has been a way it has been interpreted.
I don't believe the bible says the earth is at the center of the universe. Would you like to cite an actual passage that says it does, or instead to stop spewing misinformation?
I believe that what you are looking for is in the book of Joshua: 10:1-15.
Josh 10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Josh 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Josh 10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel
This is one of the priciple arguments against Galileo. No episode in the history of the Catholic Church is so misunderstood as the condemnation of Galileo. One of the main things it boils down to is that the Bible says that the Sun stood still, not the Earth. The Earth to them could not have stood still since it was un-moving.
Before Galileo had forced this argument into theology, the Church was for the new astronomy. It had encouraged the work of Copernicus and sheltered Kepler against the persecutions of Calvinists. Problems only arose when the debate went beyond the mere question of celestial mechanics. Galileo's friend Archbishop Piero Dini warned him that he could write freely so long as he "kept out of the sacristy." But Galileo threw caution to the winds, and it was on this point -- his apparent trespassing on the theologians' turf -- that his enemies were finally able to nail him. see this link for more
If all this doesn't make you wondeer, there are Myths of "The Long Night" There are stories of a long day in Africa and Europe and Asia, there are sories of a long night in the Americas and Oceana. Though I believe in the heliocentric solar system, I do wonder what just may have happened on that day.
Can I call redundant on the original post?
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c'mon, Why say something and then quote the same something again?
But in an answer to "Can he own every song ever recorded?" Um Sure, why not?... sheesh
It's more, "We're Apple and our Mac revenues have been a little dissapointing but our iPods have been selling like gangbusters so we're going to keep doing what we believe is best to keep selling more iPods."
Sony sold a lot of BetaMAXs too... ---Now now, I do think iPod, and Apple and iTMS doe shave a good thing here, but face it Apple has a track record of screwing up the marketing of a good thing. AT some point it will be adventageous to open it up... And at that point will Apple open it and make even more money or will they stay in the same rut and eventually loose out?
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That was the Joke, they only have one season now! Road Con(de?)struction :)
Have you tried Video Lan it works on any OS - Even Windows.
We have that already, they are called Pop-Up Ads
Whenever I hear PPC I always think of a Power PC (Mac)
I am not a Mac guy
Or do it the old-fashioned way: press the 'on' button on your GPS.....
Or you could just go to MAPTECH and find out "close enough" what your Lat & Lon is for any WX program. Surprise... it's accurate enough to play some geocaching - I found a cache near my house w/o any GPS using it.
Boy you got that right...
Here in Wisconsin the Law is:
Yellow means Stop if you can do so safely and clear the intersection.
I would like someone out there to tell me: What the hell is so difficult about that?
While we are talking about traffice I'd also want to know what's so difficult about a four way stop, or a stop sign at all for that matter???????
I've driven around "down there" and noticed the same thing... I think it's just that all the sensors are covered up, so the computer has no other way to deal with it. If the data fed to the computer from all the sensors says full all the time, there is no other action it can take.
Your problem down in Illinois is your roads in general.... not trying to put you down, but with all the growth in the 'burbs... the roads down there can't be built or even maintained fast enough. The congestion down there at times in some areas can be overwhelming
Up here in SE Wisconsin we don't have it quite as bad yet, but it's getting there. We have intersections with multiple sensors... we even have some with yet another set of sensors quite a ways back - I love those, then you don't have to stop at all.
We also have a few of those -- Always red until someone has stopped for a while, that is the most annoying thing. From both sides. If I have to stop and wait I wait and wait, or from the other direction - there's 20 cars in a line coming and one car stops at the red and makes all 20 wait
Usually I just bookmark a useful site... the only problem is that when I'm not at the same computer or out in the field I can't remember what it is... and then sometimes I don't remember enough of where i found useful information to limit the search in google either.
Has anyone noticed the trend of some listings in the program guide being wrong. Where the the guide has either last week's or next week's description in it? I thought it was just an error at first, but it seems to happen so often that I suspect it's intentional. ---Why? well anyone using a MythTV or other DVR/PVR will either record a re-run, or it won't record it thinking it's a repeat.
I set up my MythTV so different shows / channels have higher or lower priority. Granted I may loose a little of a show, but the one I want more doesn't get cut off.
I found 3400 one time with ad-aware (1 search) and another 300 with spybot - plus more after rebooting and running again and again.... I was in awe that I could even boot the machine.
You're right, it is funnny... I try to make sure I explain exactly what happened to their stuff and why. Once they understand they always think it's great.
You know what else is funny? --- Just go into their control panel and jack up the mouse speed and slow down the double-click speed... everyone thinks their computer is really fast then
I wish Google would stop indexing posted HJT logs. It used to be so easy to look up a file found in the start up or in one of the system directories... you just type it in to Google.... Now doing that just gives you 1000s of peoples HJT logs whith a bunch of useless speculative answers after them.
Not that I think people shouldn't post their HJT logs looking for help, I just wish Google would stop indexing them.
I charge $40.00 per hour --- If I'm feeling nice, if not it's $90.00 and then I usually take 2-3 hours fixing a computer. I don't just remove the spyware and adware I also fix the computer and take active steps to keep this from happening again. I also clean up and organize the computer. --- You might think that re-arranging a start menu or deleting useless desktop items might not be such a good idea, but I have found that it is the most appreciated service and it also gives the client something they can see that has changed. Now I am careful to ask a client how they use their computer before starting and MOST IMPORTANT, I explain what I have done and why and show the user how to use the computer.
The only down side is I usually never need to do it again, but the plus side is word-of-mouth. I usually get 5 new clients for each one I take and have had to turn away many potential clients. I can choose who I want to work for and I can work whenever I want. Everything is on my terms and the people are willing to bend over backwards for me. I usually get tips, free lunch/dinner, cases of beer, wine or cheese -and have been offered more than once to be flown across the country to do work for people.
I've managed to get MythTV working pretty well on an old carppy 500 MHz Compaq. I use a PVR 250 card and a 160 GB HD and the only time I get anything choppy is when I play and record simultaneously. ---I want a PVR 350 card which would allow the hardware to do the M-PEG decoding and it's also another tuner card so I will be able to play and record at the same time, then I could even record two shows simultaneously while playing since I'll keep the 250 card in it too :)
But then, using equal temperament on normal intruments is a sick travesty :)
Well yes it is... unless those instruments are playing with another instrument that is better off in equal temporament.... It can be worse sometimes to play several different instruments together at the same time all in their own temporaments.
There is also a difference of some notes that ought to be the same. This is based on the temperamant of the tuning.
A piano normally uses Equal Temperament Tuning. In this case an A# and a Bb are the same note. This is not the case with the tuning of other instruments and many attempts have been made to deal with this. There are pianos that have the black key for A# /Bb actually split in two (front and back) to try and deal with this.
Other tuning temporaments have also been developed, such as mean-tone temporament. Basically they are slight changes in the tuning intervals between the notes.
Basically trying to preserve the intervals of octaves and fifths and seventh or thirds - Equal temporament is kind of a compromise, equal isn't always the best solution to make the best sound, but it can be the easiest solution to make an acceptably good sound on many different instruments... It's easier for a guitar player or a violinist to make it sound closer to equal temporament when played than it is to retune a piano everytime you change the key you are playing in.
So depending on the temporament of an instrument you can't always really get away with simply transposing into another key, some times it realy won't sound quite right.
I have recently found CFs in Colors!
At the local Menard's hardware store. They are CF replacements to the old colored "party bulbs" They run at 15 Watts and produce as much light as a 60 Watt bulb... which is great when compared to those 25 watt party bulbs.
For a long time you could get Yellow/Amber CF "bug lights" and sometimes you could find CF Black Lights. But they now come in Red, Green, Blue too! - I found them just before halloween.
What I'm still looking for is CF colored Flood lights. It's been hard to find a retailer that has CF floods at all reliably around here.. Now you see 'em, now you don't kinda thing. But for Holiday lighting I want CF colored floods! I had thought of using was the old colored filters for floodlights my grampa used to have, I have been unable to find them anywhere :(
As for a tax on incandescent bulbs... Get Real, the last thing we need is to make up another way to give our money to the government. If you think it will help, think carefully of what you are asking for. Want to talk about waste, just give the government more money, I'll show you a waste.
All those links... you could have just sent them here.
But you miss the point ...I have more fun driving than you do. :P
What you fail to think about in your post is that I mentioned how this was one of the reasons Galileo got in trouble. You see he got in trouble with the Holy See; Vatican; Pope; Catholic Church. Which in my understanding, wouldn't use an English translation of the Bible.
The Catholic Church at the time would have looked at the Bible in Latin, and also would have references in Greek and Hebrew. It was the theologians of the Church who would have inturpreted the Bible. The view was considered valid at the time.
You come back with so much fury that I wonder if you have some kind of A-theist (hyphen for emphasis) agenda. If you would have read what I said I was making the point that the verses in Joshua were used to support the very thing you were questioning.
I said I did believe in a heliocentric solar system... Helios meaning SUN as in the sun in the center.
You asked for a reference in the Bible that would have meant the Earth was in the center, I gave you one. I did not say that the interpretation of that verse correct, however it had been historically inturpreted in that fasion - for which I provided an example.
Comparisons between English and Hebrew are pointless in this argument as English was in no part of the discussion in the historical context.
I did provide you with references too, so don't go off on me about English vs. Hebrew because you looked it up in a concordance or something, I'm stating a fact about history that that was the way it WAS interpreted.
If you want to tear apart that interpretation; be my guest, it's not mine.
How strong of an argument do you want from a book that isn't a scientific treatise?
My whole point of bringing it up is it is in the Bible and relevant and is the argument used to condemn Galileo. The argument was that the Bible said the Sun stoped not the Earth, therefor the Earth is unmoving, and everything else revolves around it. and therefore the center of the universe.
IANAT [Theologian] SO I will not argue the accracy of this interpetation, but this has been a way it has been interpreted.
I believe that what you are looking for is in the book of Joshua: 10:1-15.
Josh 10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.Josh 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Josh 10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel
This is one of the priciple arguments against Galileo. No episode in the history of the Catholic Church is so misunderstood as the condemnation of Galileo. One of the main things it boils down to is that the Bible says that the Sun stood still, not the Earth. The Earth to them could not have stood still since it was un-moving.
Before Galileo had forced this argument into theology, the Church was for the new astronomy. It had encouraged the work of Copernicus and sheltered Kepler against the persecutions of Calvinists. Problems only arose when the debate went beyond the mere question of celestial mechanics. Galileo's friend Archbishop Piero Dini warned him that he could write freely so long as he "kept out of the sacristy." But Galileo threw caution to the winds, and it was on this point -- his apparent trespassing on the theologians' turf -- that his enemies were finally able to nail him. see this link for more
If all this doesn't make you wondeer, there are Myths of "The Long Night" There are stories of a long day in Africa and Europe and Asia, there are sories of a long night in the Americas and Oceana. Though I believe in the heliocentric solar system, I do wonder what just may have happened on that day.
c'mon, Why say something and then quote the same something again?
But in an answer to "Can he own every song ever recorded?" Um Sure, why not?... sheesh
Sony sold a lot of BetaMAXs too... ---Now now, I do think iPod, and Apple and iTMS doe shave a good thing here, but face it Apple has a track record of screwing up the marketing of a good thing. AT some point it will be adventageous to open it up... And at that point will Apple open it and make even more money or will they stay in the same rut and eventually loose out?