Happy late or early (depending upon which Saturday) Birthday. As someone else once said, "When you turn 35 something terrible happens to music". Welcome to the non-target demographic.
Actually they aren't. When there's about to be an accident, but swift, skillful manuevering (that'll subject the car and contents to some high G forces) can possibly keep that accident from happening, the driver's belt helps keep the driver behind the wheel where they belong and the passenger belts help keep the passengers from winding up in the driver's lap where they would have a "negative utility factor"*.
"The more errors slashdot publishes, the more it'll get, as the geeks will think it's correct usage."
Oh dear, that's all the world needs, for Slashdot to be mistaken for a grammar and usage guide.
"...at least highlight or otherwise indicate the words which are wrong."The way to do this is with the word "sic" in parenthesis next to the misused or misspelled word. That's basically Latin for "Don't blame me, this is how I found it". Of course if they really did this wherever needed it would double the length of the front page.
I've got an older AIW card (2 actually, but only one works). What I want is for when I KVM to the computer in which it is installed I get the desktop on my SVGA monitor at 1024 x 768 with the tuner program minimized but going into the switcher feeding my TV I want just the TV picture (NTSC 15,750Hz horizontal, 60Hz vertical) and I want it to look at least as good as the output of my VCR at the lowest speed.
If I wanted to run a computer on a TV I'd dust off that Apple IIe that's lying around here somewhere.
I was hoping that perhaps you'd found some way to get it to do what I haven't been able to.
"I use a cheapy ATI TV Wonder that I've had for a few years anyway."
Can you get full screen NTSC video out of that thing (to go into the video input of a TV) with just the recorded television program and none of the computer desktop screen? Do you have to run the computer's video monitor at 800 x 600 in order to use the ATI card?
Do not touch your house wiring. The fact that you have asked the question which you have asked shows that you don't know enough to do it safely even if it were practical. Don't take this as a personal insult. Almost everybody who isn't an electrician falls into this category (not to mention some who are, allegedly, electricians).
It's almost certain that the wall sockets in the room are daisy chained with sockets in other rooms and all off of the same breaker. Same deal with the overhead lights. This makes your plan somewhat physically impractical.
If you are going to use this unit (the UPS), get the proper replacement battery or batteries. Do not even think of using automobile batteries or anything like that anywhere indoors. Do not think of using those types of batteries outdoors with a long cord running indoors to the UPS.
Get a licensed electrician to install a separate 30 amp circuit from your breaker panel to a single outlet in the room you have set aside as an office and plug the UPS into that outlet. Make sure that the UPS is working properly before going to the expense of installing the outlet.
Use the UPS to power your computer equipment (and perhaps a low wattage lamp), excepting of course any laser printers or the like.
As long as you're going to be talking to a real electrician you might inquire about the feasibility of setting up a generator and the necessary equipment to switch between it and the power company's wires. Unless you get a *very* large generator you'll need to have things set up so that the generator feeds selected circuits in the house (lights, refrigerator, wall outlets, but not the stove, the washer, the dryer, the water heater, the heat pump, etc.) while disconnecting the power company so that there's absolutely no way for the generator to feed power back into the power company's lines or for the power company to feed into the generator's output. Whether you get a generator that starts automatically and automatically disconnects the power company and connects itself, or one that has to be started and switched manually depends on how much money you can afford to throw at it.
You may want to look into swapping this unit (the UPS) for 2 or 3 lesser ones that can be plugged into your existing 15 amp outlets if you can find someone in the reverse of your situation. That way you won't need any special wiring (unless you go with the generator idea).
" Do you honestly think it takes MORE power to send a photon down fiber than it does to send an electron down copper?"
My ears cannot hear light, my mouth cannot speak it. It's not about power level, it's about complexity, or, more precisely, lack of complexity. As long as the local phone co. has that room full of tractor batteries down at the central office I don't have to worry about not being able to use the phone if my power goes out.
"If you have a ballpoint pen that will not write, but clearly has ink in it...just try writing a swear-word with it."
I'm sure that will work, but only if this is done in inappropriate circumstances, such as on a document where that word is the last thing you would want to inscribe upon it, or with someone looking on who you wouldn't ever want to be seen by using that word.
The power of profanity is directly proportional to its inappropriateness and potential for embaressment.
"Bitch" crossed over due to its use to mean "complain" and to a much lesser degree as a result of the "surfer's slang" term "bitchin'".
I can remember when "suck" was not ever used in polite company unless you were discussing soda straws or vacuum cleaners, otherwise it was considered a reference to fellatio. Then somewhere along the line as the sixties slid through the seventies to become the eighties it came into use as a general purpose non-sexual derogative.
I'm still somewhat uncomfortable hearing it used by those younger than me or anywhere other than somewhat restricted subsets of the public, such as in a bar or as part of a bunch of guys framing a building.
I'm more of a hypocrite than a prude, though, and still have to be careful about my verbal reactions when something goes wrong in the church soundbooth.
"(1) Request that Congress grant express authority to the Federal Communications Commission to protect digital broadcasts from illegal copying and redistribution;..."
Notice it says digital broadcasts, not just the songs that might be part of the broadcasts, because it'll certainly be cheaper to make the whole bitstream uncopy-able than to add a circuit to the receiver to turn protection on and off at the beginning and end of each song.
So, if I were still working as an announcer, I wouldn't even be able to record a digital aircheck of my own voice unless I took the post D/A converter analog audio and converted it back to digital, and we can all guess how easy that will be once the RIAA can dictate design and features to manufacturers.
"One might argue that a 49/51 result indicates people are undecided..."
One might, but one would probably be mistaken. If we're talking Bush vs. Gore or Bush vs. Kerry it's more likely a case of:
48% No way would I vote for Bush 48% No way would I vote for Bush's opponent 02% Could go either way
So in the above case the vast majority are bitterly divided, definitely decided, and so nearly numerically equal that you only have to fiddle a per cent or so of the total vote to change the outcome.
"Furthermore, just having a paper trail means that Diebold will have to redesign and retest the machines that they've already sold in the marketplace."
You do know that these machines already have built-in printers, don't you?
"My primary interest as a voter and citicen is to ensure that the vast majority of votes is counted correctly..."
Most people would consider 99% to be a vast majority but "flipping" 1% of the votes changes a 49/51 split to a 51/49 split and that's enough, with "winner takes all" electoral college rules, to change the outcome of a national election.
"...Florida's Kathleen Harris...hired a private company--Voter Identification Services--to purge Florida roles of all the "darkies" because of their tendancy to vote for Democrats. VIS purged some 57,000 voters from the roles claiming they were ex-felons...and, therefore, ineligible to vote. Nevermind that their accuracy rate was a dismal 5% because their system passed judgment on name alone. If gross incompetence by the head of Florida Bush/Chenney isn't fraud in your book, I wonder what you require as proof."
What incompetance? Not blocking even more of the voters likely to vote Democratic? Otherwise it seems they accomplished their objective quite competently.
I'm using a mix of ClosetMaid, Spur, and K&W parts. I'm not using the wire shelves, I'm using the "arms" that hook into the vertical members and putting wood shelves on the "arms". By mounting the horizontal member that the vertical members hang from (what I call "the runner") about 8" down from the ceiling instead of on the top and tie plates I get to use more of the length of the verticals. Using the uppermost slots gives me a shelf about 12" down from the ceiling instead of the about 4" I would have if I mounted the runner to the top and tie plates. Besides, the studs aren't that hard to locate and screwing both the runner and the verticals into the studs lets you support a lot more weight.
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Happy late or early (depending upon which Saturday) Birthday. As someone else once said, "When you turn 35 something terrible happens to music". Welcome to the non-target demographic.
Actually they aren't. When there's about to be an accident, but swift, skillful manuevering (that'll subject the car and contents to some high G forces) can possibly keep that accident from happening, the driver's belt helps keep the driver behind the wheel where they belong and the passenger belts help keep the passengers from winding up in the driver's lap where they would have a "negative utility factor"*.
*that's Dr. Who-speak for "worse than useless".
Except in Carteret County, NC, where the machines provide a black hole for the votes to fall into before they've even been counted.
I finally registered after being an AC for years!"
Just think, if you'd only waited a little while longer you could have gotten that "one Millionth User" ID number.
No, he's saving all his "than"s to use when he should be using "from" (as in different from). :-)
Oh dear, that's all the world needs, for Slashdot to be mistaken for a grammar and usage guide.
"...at least highlight or otherwise indicate the words which are wrong."The way to do this is with the word "sic" in parenthesis next to the misused or misspelled word. That's basically Latin for "Don't blame me, this is how I found it". Of course if they really did this wherever needed it would double the length of the front page.
If I wanted to run a computer on a TV I'd dust off that Apple IIe that's lying around here somewhere.
I was hoping that perhaps you'd found some way to get it to do what I haven't been able to.
Can you get full screen NTSC video out of that thing (to go into the video input of a TV) with just the recorded television program and none of the computer desktop screen? Do you have to run the computer's video monitor at 800 x 600 in order to use the ATI card?
Care to share the details of what hardware, OS, and recording software?
It's almost certain that the wall sockets in the room are daisy chained with sockets in other rooms and all off of the same breaker. Same deal with the overhead lights. This makes your plan somewhat physically impractical.
If you are going to use this unit (the UPS), get the proper replacement battery or batteries. Do not even think of using automobile batteries or anything like that anywhere indoors. Do not think of using those types of batteries outdoors with a long cord running indoors to the UPS.
Get a licensed electrician to install a separate 30 amp circuit from your breaker panel to a single outlet in the room you have set aside as an office and plug the UPS into that outlet. Make sure that the UPS is working properly before going to the expense of installing the outlet.
Use the UPS to power your computer equipment (and perhaps a low wattage lamp), excepting of course any laser printers or the like.
As long as you're going to be talking to a real electrician you might inquire about the feasibility of setting up a generator and the necessary equipment to switch between it and the power company's wires. Unless you get a *very* large generator you'll need to have things set up so that the generator feeds selected circuits in the house (lights, refrigerator, wall outlets, but not the stove, the washer, the dryer, the water heater, the heat pump, etc.) while disconnecting the power company so that there's absolutely no way for the generator to feed power back into the power company's lines or for the power company to feed into the generator's output. Whether you get a generator that starts automatically and automatically disconnects the power company and connects itself, or one that has to be started and switched manually depends on how much money you can afford to throw at it.
You may want to look into swapping this unit (the UPS) for 2 or 3 lesser ones that can be plugged into your existing 15 amp outlets if you can find someone in the reverse of your situation. That way you won't need any special wiring (unless you go with the generator idea).
My ears cannot hear light, my mouth cannot speak it. It's not about power level, it's about complexity, or, more precisely, lack of complexity. As long as the local phone co. has that room full of tractor batteries down at the central office I don't have to worry about not being able to use the phone if my power goes out.
I'm sure that will work, but only if this is done in inappropriate circumstances, such as on a document where that word is the last thing you would want to inscribe upon it, or with someone looking on who you wouldn't ever want to be seen by using that word.
The power of profanity is directly proportional to its inappropriateness and potential for embaressment.
I can remember when "suck" was not ever used in polite company unless you were discussing soda straws or vacuum cleaners, otherwise it was considered a reference to fellatio. Then somewhere along the line as the sixties slid through the seventies to become the eighties it came into use as a general purpose non-sexual derogative.
I'm still somewhat uncomfortable hearing it used by those younger than me or anywhere other than somewhat restricted subsets of the public, such as in a bar or as part of a bunch of guys framing a building.
I'm more of a hypocrite than a prude, though, and still have to be careful about my verbal reactions when something goes wrong in the church soundbooth.
Notice it says digital broadcasts, not just the songs that might be part of the broadcasts, because it'll certainly be cheaper to make the whole bitstream uncopy-able than to add a circuit to the receiver to turn protection on and off at the beginning and end of each song.
So, if I were still working as an announcer, I wouldn't even be able to record a digital aircheck of my own voice unless I took the post D/A converter analog audio and converted it back to digital, and we can all guess how easy that will be once the RIAA can dictate design and features to manufacturers.
One might, but one would probably be mistaken. If we're talking Bush vs. Gore or Bush vs. Kerry it's more likely a case of:
48% No way would I vote for Bush
48% No way would I vote for Bush's opponent
02% Could go either way
So in the above case the vast majority are bitterly divided, definitely decided, and so nearly numerically equal that you only have to fiddle a per cent or so of the total vote to change the outcome.
You do know that these machines already have built-in printers, don't you?
I thought that was the system we already have, except perhaps not in quite so blatant a manner.
Most people would consider 99% to be a vast majority but "flipping" 1% of the votes changes a 49/51 split to a 51/49 split and that's enough, with "winner takes all" electoral college rules, to change the outcome of a national election.
I like what one guy said. "I'm an American. Anywhere I'm standing is a free speech zone!"
What incompetance? Not blocking even more of the voters likely to vote Democratic? Otherwise it seems they accomplished their objective quite competently.
And despite that you were modded insightful?
I'm using a mix of ClosetMaid, Spur, and K&W parts. I'm not using the wire shelves, I'm using the "arms" that hook into the vertical members and putting wood shelves on the "arms". By mounting the horizontal member that the vertical members hang from (what I call "the runner") about 8" down from the ceiling instead of on the top and tie plates I get to use more of the length of the verticals. Using the uppermost slots gives me a shelf about 12" down from the ceiling instead of the about 4" I would have if I mounted the runner to the top and tie plates. Besides, the studs aren't that hard to locate and screwing both the runner and the verticals into the studs lets you support a lot more weight.
So, apparently, was that poor freshman.
So easy to remove that sometimes XP will remove them on its own, while the device is in use.
Never mind that. What about "details"?