Comes with a realtime kernel, jack, and Ardour all set up and ready to go. There's no other distro to use for a home studio. I used it in my home studio years ago with an 8x8 PCI audio card, and it was great. I haven't used it in a while but the project is still being maintained, so you might check it out.
I grew up in NYC in the 70s, and it seems like a completely different city today. Giuliani really cleaned up the place, and despite Bloomberg and DiBlasio's efforts to undo all of his good work, for the most part it seems to remain a much safer and cleaner version today that it was back then.
Most sockets/jacks are only rated for so many mating cycles. I can't imagine these things are going to last long with 100 people/day plugging into them. Even the most durable, industrial connectors are typically only good for 10,000 or so mating cycles, and some are as few as ~1,000 (like microUSB)
I hope whomever designed this thing made the socket easily replaceable.
Listen up, kiddos. This is why you save your money from day 1 after you graduate. Forget the new beemer, swank apartment, and $50 bottles of vodka. From the day you graduate you should be stuffing as much as your income as you can into a tax-advantaged plan, and an equal amount to liquid investments (including a Roth).
You lived like a poor college student until you graduated, and so there's nothing wrong with living like a slightly less poor college student. That way, when something like this happens, you can be the hero who says "fuck you, you can keep your severance," and then head right over to the local TV station to spill all of the beans.
Freedom isn't free. When you take your $70K/year out of college and blow it on a nice car, a party lifestyle, and expensive booze, you should not be surprised to find yourselves in shackles eventually.
Methanol has more chemical potential energy than CO2, and that energy must come from somewhere. This is the same unicorn fantasy that the "water as fuel" people constantly buy into.
Sure, you can sequester CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it into combustible fuel, but you're going to spend a lot of energy to do it when there is a perfectly natural process for doing so, called "planting trees."
The massive push to regulate games was never about preventing violence. In fact, the big push to regulate anything is never about what they say it's about.
It is always about one thing and one thing only: money. The gaming industry is enormous, and largely unregulated. Politicians see a cash cow here but need a way to convince voters to give them the authority to regulate and tax it to death. Currently the federal government has very little authority, even under the Commerce Clause, to regulate or tax video games.
Politicians on both sides of the two-party aisle would love to get their grubby little paws into the gaming cookie jar. The leftists would love to say how they're protecting children while the whackjobs on the right want to protect our morals. Of course, that'll cost money - a lot of money - which they will spend on making policy friendly to their sponsors.
I imagine game companies everywhere would be busting down the doors on Capitol Hill the morning after game regulation authority was passed to make sure they set up large campaign contributions to the right politicians.
Yes, and this helps lower medical costs for people who DO pay for their medical care. This is just shifting the burden to people who involuntarily pay the costs to people who do. I don't have a problem with that.
You're right. AC coupled circuits actually don't arrive at a new quiescent point after a DC bias is applied to the input (which was actually the point, even though the words didn't add up). Too early in the AM, I guess, but thanks for calling that out so I could correct it.
Economies, on a macro level, are AC coupled. If you apply a DC bias, it will cause current to flow for a short time, but the circuit eventually arrives at a new quiescent point and the DC bias no longer has an effect.
It's hard to try to do something that IS protected by the constitution:
Buy a gun Film the police Record a government meeting Speak out against your government Get a fair trial Receive a punishment that fits the crime
The list goes on. And on. And on.
So, given that it is so difficult to do things that ARE protected by the Constitution, it really should come as no surprise that it would be difficult in the extreme to do things that aren't specifically protected.
After all, the government has slowly changed the tack to "it is the Constitution that grants rights, and the only rights you have are those enumerated in it," even though this is as false as it is farcical. My kid's social studies book even has a chapter section on how the Constitution grants rights. It'd be funny were it not so scary.
It's not Netflix, really. It's the production houses. Netflix licenses content from publishers, and the publishers impose restrictions upon where that content can be shown. Often this is because the publisher already has an exclusive arrangement with a streaming service somewhere, and cannot allow another streaming service to carry it.
It's similar to local blackouts in sports. The sports league sells the TV rights to a media company with the restriction that the content cannot be shown in the markets local to the stadium, because the league wants warm bodies in the stadium, not at home watching on TV. That's not the fault of the media company.
I have a very rigorous hiring process. First of all, you cannot apply. I don't post job openings anywhere. There is no official mechanism to approach me for a job.
When I decide I need to hire someone, I seek out applicants on my own, based on reputation in industry, published works, patents, and other factors. When I identify someone I want to hire, I send my talent team to make contact in person (i.e. stalk them haha), often literally with a tap on the shoulder.
The process works. In 15 years, I've never had anyone leave (except to retire), and I've never had to let anyone go.
In the US, people who live in poverty are also more likely to be users of illegal drugs. The effects of using drugs during pregnancy are well-documented, as are second-hand effects.
Well, it's the same with cars. You can turn a license plate into an owner, but not a driver. You never know who is driving a car without snapping a photo, since anyone with a license can drive a car.
It's the same with airplanes. There is never a guarantee that a plane's owner is the one acting as pilot in command on a particular flight. However, if the PIC has filed a flight plan, you can look that up easily and get that information.
None of this diminishes my point, though, which is that ownership through clubs and holding companies has nothing to do with creating anonymity for pilots. Practical anonymity does not exist when it comes to flying. In fact, federal law even requires I show my pilot certificate to ANY law enforcement officer who asks for it, federal, state, or local, probable cause or not.
So, when I get pulled over for speeding on the highway and the cop says "Hey let me see your pilot's license," I get weird looks when I show it to them as federal law requires.
At the same time, though, if you want to know if someone is a pilot, all you have to do is punch their name into the FAA's pilot certificate search tool, and it will tell you.
Pilots do not have privacy with the FAA, and planes are not registered with holding companies for privacy purposes. It's all about taxes.
The government has a vested interest in having data centers on US soil where they can be easily accessed by various alphabet soup agencies. It only makes sense to incentivize placing them here.
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The Obama Administration has thus far not run into any problems with ignoring the Law. What makes you think that is suddenly going to change?
I am SO shocked that the man behind the worst privacy environment in the history of modern computing would come down on the side of the FBI.
Shocked, stunned, and completely amazed.
Not.
Comes with a realtime kernel, jack, and Ardour all set up and ready to go. There's no other distro to use for a home studio. I used it in my home studio years ago with an 8x8 PCI audio card, and it was great. I haven't used it in a while but the project is still being maintained, so you might check it out.
I grew up in NYC in the 70s, and it seems like a completely different city today. Giuliani really cleaned up the place, and despite Bloomberg and DiBlasio's efforts to undo all of his good work, for the most part it seems to remain a much safer and cleaner version today that it was back then.
Most sockets/jacks are only rated for so many mating cycles. I can't imagine these things are going to last long with 100 people/day plugging into them. Even the most durable, industrial connectors are typically only good for 10,000 or so mating cycles, and some are as few as ~1,000 (like microUSB)
I hope whomever designed this thing made the socket easily replaceable.
These people sure seem to think that IEEE Membership means something...
He was probably on his way to cash in his winning lottery ticket.
Listen up, kiddos. This is why you save your money from day 1 after you graduate. Forget the new beemer, swank apartment, and $50 bottles of vodka. From the day you graduate you should be stuffing as much as your income as you can into a tax-advantaged plan, and an equal amount to liquid investments (including a Roth).
You lived like a poor college student until you graduated, and so there's nothing wrong with living like a slightly less poor college student. That way, when something like this happens, you can be the hero who says "fuck you, you can keep your severance," and then head right over to the local TV station to spill all of the beans.
Freedom isn't free. When you take your $70K/year out of college and blow it on a nice car, a party lifestyle, and expensive booze, you should not be surprised to find yourselves in shackles eventually.
Because, you know, thermodynamics.
Methanol has more chemical potential energy than CO2, and that energy must come from somewhere. This is the same unicorn fantasy that the "water as fuel" people constantly buy into.
Sure, you can sequester CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it into combustible fuel, but you're going to spend a lot of energy to do it when there is a perfectly natural process for doing so, called "planting trees."
The massive push to regulate games was never about preventing violence. In fact, the big push to regulate anything is never about what they say it's about.
It is always about one thing and one thing only: money. The gaming industry is enormous, and largely unregulated. Politicians see a cash cow here but need a way to convince voters to give them the authority to regulate and tax it to death. Currently the federal government has very little authority, even under the Commerce Clause, to regulate or tax video games.
Politicians on both sides of the two-party aisle would love to get their grubby little paws into the gaming cookie jar. The leftists would love to say how they're protecting children while the whackjobs on the right want to protect our morals. Of course, that'll cost money - a lot of money - which they will spend on making policy friendly to their sponsors.
I imagine game companies everywhere would be busting down the doors on Capitol Hill the morning after game regulation authority was passed to make sure they set up large campaign contributions to the right politicians.
Yes, and this helps lower medical costs for people who DO pay for their medical care. This is just shifting the burden to people who involuntarily pay the costs to people who do. I don't have a problem with that.
You're right. AC coupled circuits actually don't arrive at a new quiescent point after a DC bias is applied to the input (which was actually the point, even though the words didn't add up). Too early in the AM, I guess, but thanks for calling that out so I could correct it.
Busch league mental error, for sure.
There is no need for the ad hominem, though.
Economies, on a macro level, are AC coupled. If you apply a DC bias, it will cause current to flow for a short time, but the circuit eventually arrives at a new quiescent point and the DC bias no longer has an effect.
It's hard to try to do something that IS protected by the constitution:
Buy a gun
Film the police
Record a government meeting
Speak out against your government
Get a fair trial
Receive a punishment that fits the crime
The list goes on. And on. And on.
So, given that it is so difficult to do things that ARE protected by the Constitution, it really should come as no surprise that it would be difficult in the extreme to do things that aren't specifically protected.
After all, the government has slowly changed the tack to "it is the Constitution that grants rights, and the only rights you have are those enumerated in it," even though this is as false as it is farcical. My kid's social studies book even has a chapter section on how the Constitution grants rights. It'd be funny were it not so scary.
Let's just say I don't pay poorly at all.
I love all of the funny responses! You guys are a trip.
It's not Netflix, really. It's the production houses. Netflix licenses content from publishers, and the publishers impose restrictions upon where that content can be shown. Often this is because the publisher already has an exclusive arrangement with a streaming service somewhere, and cannot allow another streaming service to carry it.
It's similar to local blackouts in sports. The sports league sells the TV rights to a media company with the restriction that the content cannot be shown in the markets local to the stadium, because the league wants warm bodies in the stadium, not at home watching on TV. That's not the fault of the media company.
I have a very rigorous hiring process. First of all, you cannot apply. I don't post job openings anywhere. There is no official mechanism to approach me for a job.
When I decide I need to hire someone, I seek out applicants on my own, based on reputation in industry, published works, patents, and other factors. When I identify someone I want to hire, I send my talent team to make contact in person (i.e. stalk them haha), often literally with a tap on the shoulder.
The process works. In 15 years, I've never had anyone leave (except to retire), and I've never had to let anyone go.
Write it in assembly.
I'll keep my mercury switch, thanks.
Methane leaking from a well doesn't smell like rotten eggs, because that smell is added by the gas company before it goes into distribution.
Methane in its natural, unadulterated gaseous phase is colorless and odorless.
In the US, people who live in poverty are also more likely to be users of illegal drugs. The effects of using drugs during pregnancy are well-documented, as are second-hand effects.
Well, it's the same with cars. You can turn a license plate into an owner, but not a driver. You never know who is driving a car without snapping a photo, since anyone with a license can drive a car.
It's the same with airplanes. There is never a guarantee that a plane's owner is the one acting as pilot in command on a particular flight. However, if the PIC has filed a flight plan, you can look that up easily and get that information.
None of this diminishes my point, though, which is that ownership through clubs and holding companies has nothing to do with creating anonymity for pilots. Practical anonymity does not exist when it comes to flying. In fact, federal law even requires I show my pilot certificate to ANY law enforcement officer who asks for it, federal, state, or local, probable cause or not.
So, when I get pulled over for speeding on the highway and the cop says "Hey let me see your pilot's license," I get weird looks when I show it to them as federal law requires.
At the same time, though, if you want to know if someone is a pilot, all you have to do is punch their name into the FAA's pilot certificate search tool, and it will tell you.
Pilots do not have privacy with the FAA, and planes are not registered with holding companies for privacy purposes. It's all about taxes.
The government has a vested interest in having data centers on US soil where they can be easily accessed by various alphabet soup agencies. It only makes sense to incentivize placing them here.