Purchase - ACME Online Widget Company: $9.99 Federal Transaction Regulation Charge: $1.35 Wireless Financial Transaction Cost Recovery: $3.92 Local Universal Wheelchair Access Charge: $0.87 Federal Regulatory Cost Recovery Surcharge: $1.24 State Regulatory Cost Recovery Surcharge: $0.74 Local Regulatory Cost Recovery Surcharge: $0.39 Multiple Bit Transfer Data Access Charge: $1.42 Third Party Transportation Service Fee: $2.97
In many ways, USB sound cards are better, mostly because you can put the input A/D close to the source rather than wavelengths away. In reality, the best situation is to have the A/D right on the instrument, with a S/PDIF digital output on the instrument itself.
The closer the A/D is to the source of what you want to record, the better.
Everyone is different. You cannot paint all people with such a broad brush. There are always morning people. When I was in High School, I was up at 4AM every day (and still am) to do my homework and/or study for tests.
For me, mornings were for learning, and afternoons were for doing. My brain has always worked that way. A late school day would have been horrible for me.
All email, phone conversations, meetings with lobbyists, and any other interaction by/with any government official in any capacity that is not classified as National Security, should be logged, recorded, and made public immediately. Government officials should have ZERO expectation of privacy, and indeed should have zero privacy at all while acting in an official capacity.
The People should be able to log into their congressperson's website on Monday and listen to every phone call that was made the day before, read every email sent or received, view all faxes, and watch every meeting. The technology exists, and it should be done...... not that it ever will. The People have the Right to know everything their government does.
A line-input jack takes up one of the most valuable resources on a laptop - space. Laptops are also electrically noisy because they are designed to be small and energy efficient, not electrically quiet. A laptop is not meant to be a good recording device.
Almost every PC sold has at least one Line-input jack. My PC has a line input jack and a coaxial digital S/PDIF input on the motherboard. You can buy USB devices all day long that have up to 24 input channels. I have a pair of 10-channel boards, each having 8 unbalanced analog, 2 XLR, and 1 more coaxial S/PDIF port.
That's what's holding it up. When monitors integrate the pen tablet and portrait layout, then a paperless office will be feasible. Until then, forget about it.
He wet his hand and held his finger firmly to the surface of the table, which minimizes the resistivity between the saw blade and the ground reference. In an actual real world scenario, the user of the saw would have to be connected to the ground reference with some kind of conductor, and the amount of current would be far less, and I imagine the saw would take longer to respond.
This was an idealized demonstration not representative of actual use. I'd bet that a real-world scenario would involve blood.
Pyramid schemes are only legal in the US if they are being run by the government.
The most popular government pyramid scheme is called "social security," where the payout you receive after retirement depends on how many additional payers you and everyone else bring into the system throughout your lifetimes.
The article itself establishes the premise that the work they needed to do was "outside their core technology," which is another way to say "we don't know how to do it, and so we're floundering."
Hiring 20 college kids who are familiar with the technology you're trying to work on is obviously going to be a huge help.
Second, they took these steps:
Know who the best people are and only hire them. Pay well. Divide tasks to be as loosely-coupled as possible. Design your projects in advance.
Ok, geniuses. You've figured out how you should be running your company. If companies would just do these things, they would never find themselves in a position where they would be late in the first place.
Most companies opt for:
Know who the cheapest people are and hire them. Pay as little as possible. Tightly couple tasks so PMs can some up with daily SPI numbers to satisfy management's constant need to feed on numbers. Design your projects concurrent with executing them to reduce total calendar time, and worry about working in changes after initial release.
Oxidizing also means stealing electrons, although since Gasoline is not an ionic compound, one would have to break bonds in order to steal them, and anyone who has ever had 5th grade chemistry knows that a double bond has more potential energy than a single bond, so what good does it do?
That's absolutely true. In addition to brute-force decryption and other methods, the NSA has discovered what scammers have known all along. You don't need to decrypt someone's stuff if they'll give you the keys themselves. It's easier to compromise someone's box and keylog their keys than it is to decrupt the information by force.
The NSA spends a tremendous amount of effort on social engineering and subversive key acquisition. Those methods are much faster and easier.
2. Determine your application: office? games? media center?
3. Determine your desired lifecycle
4. Choose hardware that suits the result of #2 and 3
if games:
spend money on video card and processor, but maybe not so much on anything else
if office (lots of hours/day of use):
spend money on ergonomics such as IPS monitor, ergo keyboard and mouse, office s/w, etc...
if media center:
spend money on TV Tuner card, IR remote, good media center S/W, Bluray drive, HDMI video card
--
A note on multicore processors. They are useful if you run a lot of background services or multiple CPU-intensive applications, but 99.9% of S/W is not written to take advantage of the architecture directly. Multicore procs are most useful today for background services. Unless you have a specific piece of software that utilizes multiple cores in a deliberate way, more than 2 cores is probably a waste of money for you.
I have three PCs at home: An Athlon X2-5200, a Phenom X4-940, and a Core i7-920. I can't tell a difference between any of them for 99.9% of the stuff that I do.
Oh, and an SSD makes a gigantic difference if you can afford it. All three of my PCs have a 60GB SSD for the system and a 1TB hard disk for everything else. The SSD makes all the difference in the world in terms of making the PC more snappy and responsive.
It won't be long before we have public registries of parents whose kids misbehave in school, registries of people who buy pr0n, and registries of people who do anything else the masses of paranoid freak helicopter soccer moms don't like...
If converting Methane (CH4) to carbon dioxide (CO2) reduces its greenhouse effect by a factor of 25, while at the same time providing heat, electricity, or locomotion, then this seems like a no-brainer of a win-win situation.
I might disagree with you. I think there's a staggering difference between an environmentalist and a conservationist. To me, environmentalists are more political, emotional, and activist than conservationists, who are more scientific, educated, and credible. Both have similar goals, but there is always a smarter way to do things.
Conservation during the great depression was also different than what conservation is today. I used to speak at length with my grandmother about the Great Depression. She was in her late teens and early twenties and had many memories, diaries, and other honest information about it. Conservation back then meant self-sufficiency as much as it meant anything else.
Most everyone in her town grew their own food, and people traded what they didn't need for what they did. The official unemployment rate was high, but that's not really because of unemployment. It was largely a small-scale barter society that was under the radar of taxation.
Today, conservation is about using fewer resources and polluting less. Yesteryear, conservation was much more about conserving the system and the ability to produce in the absence of available capital to finance it, in addition to reducing consumption as much as possible, because everything was finite. The outcomes are similar, but I do see them as different approaches.
Subject line speaks for itself. It is far more important to me to have reliability than speed. This drive is still a lot faster than a platter drive, but is obviously a quality offering to boot.
Well, "conservation alone" is far from "comprehensive," so what he said is actually very true. It takes a lot more that "conservation alone" to craft a "comprehensive" energy policy.
A "comprehensive" energy policy addresses conservation, diversification of supply, efficiency, infrastructure, and encourages change of societal habits through taxation and subsidy.
The Bush energy policy subsidized insulation, efficient windows, efficient HVAC system installation, and many other steps taken to better insulate the home. We already know that better insulation is the best way to reduce energy usage, so I don't see how the Bush administration was wrong on that one. (not speaking to many of its other deplorable policies)
In addition to my new insulation, I installed a SEER 15 central air (replacing the old SEER 8 unit) and an 87% efficient oil burner (replacing the old one which was making about 67%. Tax credits paid for roughly half of the installation cost. I would not have been able to afford it without them, so at least in my case, the policy worked, and the government got far better bang for its buck that it would have had that money gone into a PV system or Ethanol or whatever, and my bills are amazingly lower than they used to be. I got 30% from the new HVAC and another 30% from the insulation, basically halving my heating and cooling costs overall.
In any case, what Cheney said (as you quoted it) was absolutely true. "Conservation alone" does not make a "comprehensive" policy. The words "alone" and "comprehensive" basically mean the opposite things in this context.
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Yeah I can see it now:
Purchase - ACME Online Widget Company: $9.99
Federal Transaction Regulation Charge: $1.35
Wireless Financial Transaction Cost Recovery: $3.92
Local Universal Wheelchair Access Charge: $0.87
Federal Regulatory Cost Recovery Surcharge: $1.24
State Regulatory Cost Recovery Surcharge: $0.74
Local Regulatory Cost Recovery Surcharge: $0.39
Multiple Bit Transfer Data Access Charge: $1.42
Third Party Transportation Service Fee: $2.97
In many ways, USB sound cards are better, mostly because you can put the input A/D close to the source rather than wavelengths away. In reality, the best situation is to have the A/D right on the instrument, with a S/PDIF digital output on the instrument itself.
The closer the A/D is to the source of what you want to record, the better.
Everyone is different. You cannot paint all people with such a broad brush. There are always morning people. When I was in High School, I was up at 4AM every day (and still am) to do my homework and/or study for tests.
For me, mornings were for learning, and afternoons were for doing. My brain has always worked that way. A late school day would have been horrible for me.
All email, phone conversations, meetings with lobbyists, and any other interaction by/with any government official in any capacity that is not classified as National Security, should be logged, recorded, and made public immediately. Government officials should have ZERO expectation of privacy, and indeed should have zero privacy at all while acting in an official capacity.
The People should be able to log into their congressperson's website on Monday and listen to every phone call that was made the day before, read every email sent or received, view all faxes, and watch every meeting. The technology exists, and it should be done... ... not that it ever will. The People have the Right to know everything their government does.
A line-input jack takes up one of the most valuable resources on a laptop - space. Laptops are also electrically noisy because they are designed to be small and energy efficient, not electrically quiet. A laptop is not meant to be a good recording device.
Almost every PC sold has at least one Line-input jack. My PC has a line input jack and a coaxial digital S/PDIF input on the motherboard. You can buy USB devices all day long that have up to 24 input channels. I have a pair of 10-channel boards, each having 8 unbalanced analog, 2 XLR, and 1 more coaxial S/PDIF port.
That's what's holding it up. When monitors integrate the pen tablet and portrait layout, then a paperless office will be feasible. Until then, forget about it.
He wet his hand and held his finger firmly to the surface of the table, which minimizes the resistivity between the saw blade and the ground reference. In an actual real world scenario, the user of the saw would have to be connected to the ground reference with some kind of conductor, and the amount of current would be far less, and I imagine the saw would take longer to respond.
This was an idealized demonstration not representative of actual use. I'd bet that a real-world scenario would involve blood.
Pyramid schemes are only legal in the US if they are being run by the government.
The most popular government pyramid scheme is called "social security," where the payout you receive after retirement depends on how many additional payers you and everyone else bring into the system throughout your lifetimes.
"They told me that that the team who put together the blog post and video was unaware of the similarities at the time of inclusion."
Unaware? Bullshit. That was a copy/paste job. Every pixel is identical.
... why does the government recommend you consume 2000mg/day of it?
Why do you pass out and go brain dead if you have a deficiency of it?
Why is it absolutely necessary for normal functioning of the nervous system?
These people are IDIOTS.
Don't forget the speech where some democrat actually said they should repeal the laws of thermodynamics so green energy could work.
The article itself establishes the premise that the work they needed to do was "outside their core technology," which is another way to say "we don't know how to do it, and so we're floundering."
Hiring 20 college kids who are familiar with the technology you're trying to work on is obviously going to be a huge help.
Second, they took these steps:
Know who the best people are and only hire them.
Pay well.
Divide tasks to be as loosely-coupled as possible.
Design your projects in advance.
Ok, geniuses. You've figured out how you should be running your company. If companies would just do these things, they would never find themselves in a position where they would be late in the first place.
Most companies opt for:
Know who the cheapest people are and hire them.
Pay as little as possible.
Tightly couple tasks so PMs can some up with daily SPI numbers to satisfy management's constant need to feed on numbers.
Design your projects concurrent with executing them to reduce total calendar time, and worry about working in changes after initial release.
Oxidizing also means stealing electrons, although since Gasoline is not an ionic compound, one would have to break bonds in order to steal them, and anyone who has ever had 5th grade chemistry knows that a double bond has more potential energy than a single bond, so what good does it do?
That's absolutely true. In addition to brute-force decryption and other methods, the NSA has discovered what scammers have known all along. You don't need to decrypt someone's stuff if they'll give you the keys themselves. It's easier to compromise someone's box and keylog their keys than it is to decrupt the information by force.
The NSA spends a tremendous amount of effort on social engineering and subversive key acquisition. Those methods are much faster and easier.
1. Set your budget.
2. Determine your application: office? games? media center?
3. Determine your desired lifecycle
4. Choose hardware that suits the result of #2 and 3
if games:
spend money on video card and processor, but maybe not so much on anything else
if office (lots of hours/day of use):
spend money on ergonomics such as IPS monitor, ergo keyboard and mouse, office s/w, etc...
if media center:
spend money on TV Tuner card, IR remote, good media center S/W, Bluray drive, HDMI video card
--
A note on multicore processors. They are useful if you run a lot of background services or multiple CPU-intensive applications, but 99.9% of S/W is not written to take advantage of the architecture directly. Multicore procs are most useful today for background services. Unless you have a specific piece of software that utilizes multiple cores in a deliberate way, more than 2 cores is probably a waste of money for you.
I have three PCs at home: An Athlon X2-5200, a Phenom X4-940, and a Core i7-920. I can't tell a difference between any of them for 99.9% of the stuff that I do.
Oh, and an SSD makes a gigantic difference if you can afford it. All three of my PCs have a 60GB SSD for the system and a 1TB hard disk for everything else. The SSD makes all the difference in the world in terms of making the PC more snappy and responsive.
... quantum parity!
It won't be long before we have public registries of parents whose kids misbehave in school, registries of people who buy pr0n, and registries of people who do anything else the masses of paranoid freak helicopter soccer moms don't like...
I thought it was the Arctic that had the proverbial crack?
If converting Methane (CH4) to carbon dioxide (CO2) reduces its greenhouse effect by a factor of 25, while at the same time providing heat, electricity, or locomotion, then this seems like a no-brainer of a win-win situation.
I might disagree with you. I think there's a staggering difference between an environmentalist and a conservationist. To me, environmentalists are more political, emotional, and activist than conservationists, who are more scientific, educated, and credible. Both have similar goals, but there is always a smarter way to do things.
Conservation during the great depression was also different than what conservation is today. I used to speak at length with my grandmother about the Great Depression. She was in her late teens and early twenties and had many memories, diaries, and other honest information about it. Conservation back then meant self-sufficiency as much as it meant anything else.
Most everyone in her town grew their own food, and people traded what they didn't need for what they did. The official unemployment rate was high, but that's not really because of unemployment. It was largely a small-scale barter society that was under the radar of taxation.
Today, conservation is about using fewer resources and polluting less. Yesteryear, conservation was much more about conserving the system and the ability to produce in the absence of available capital to finance it, in addition to reducing consumption as much as possible, because everything was finite. The outcomes are similar, but I do see them as different approaches.
Subject line speaks for itself. It is far more important to me to have reliability than speed. This drive is still a lot faster than a platter drive, but is obviously a quality offering to boot.
Can't wait to try it...
Well, "conservation alone" is far from "comprehensive," so what he said is actually very true. It takes a lot more that "conservation alone" to craft a "comprehensive" energy policy.
A "comprehensive" energy policy addresses conservation, diversification of supply, efficiency, infrastructure, and encourages change of societal habits through taxation and subsidy.
The Bush energy policy subsidized insulation, efficient windows, efficient HVAC system installation, and many other steps taken to better insulate the home. We already know that better insulation is the best way to reduce energy usage, so I don't see how the Bush administration was wrong on that one. (not speaking to many of its other deplorable policies)
In addition to my new insulation, I installed a SEER 15 central air (replacing the old SEER 8 unit) and an 87% efficient oil burner (replacing the old one which was making about 67%. Tax credits paid for roughly half of the installation cost. I would not have been able to afford it without them, so at least in my case, the policy worked, and the government got far better bang for its buck that it would have had that money gone into a PV system or Ethanol or whatever, and my bills are amazingly lower than they used to be. I got 30% from the new HVAC and another 30% from the insulation, basically halving my heating and cooling costs overall.
In any case, what Cheney said (as you quoted it) was absolutely true. "Conservation alone" does not make a "comprehensive" policy. The words "alone" and "comprehensive" basically mean the opposite things in this context.
Amen to that. I put $400 worth of insulation in my attic last year and cut my heating and cooling effort by 30% - paid for itself in 12 months.
It should actually be called the "conservation of angular momentum" effect, because that is the correct term for it.
Of course, it has to be stupid-ed down in monumental proportions because of our failed education system.
When an error message pops up, they have 10 seconds to retype it into a dialog box, or they get 25kV in the arse.
After they retype it, they get 10kV anyway, just for being stupid.