I have paint.net on my work computer. It's rare that I need to do that kind of stuff at work, but when it is necessary, paint.net is a perfect tool and I never find myself actually wishing I had PS.
I also suggest/install paint.net for people who need to do some image editing. It's a great tool that does everything most people need, has a TINY file size compared to the mammoth of PS, is 100% free, and is easy for people to understand because they think it is just an upgraded version of Paint.
I just wish they would have better advertising on their download page. They always have those ads that are a big DOWNLOAD button for some awful spyware/crapware infested junk which are right next to the actual download button for paint.net. The audience who needs paint.net (and didn't already know about it or already know how to pirate photoshop), is the same audience that is going to fall for these tricks. I just went to the page now--there is a giant blue button that takes you to download PDFCreator (presumably a crapware version) and at the bottom there is a text ad from AdChoices that says "Download Paint.Net Now!" but when I click the link, my office's scanner blocks the page as "Dangerous". These are the kinds of scam-ads you expect on the pirate bay, not a legitimate piece of software.
Maybe they found they were having trouble with traffic shaping/QOS type systems.
Have to keep something decently sized flowing through the connection or it gets de-prioritized and then when real content starts flowing again, it lags? I don't know if this is true, but it sounds like a reasonable explanation considering how skype's design is so heavily focused on being able to punch through hostile networking environments and maintain a workable stream.
Except that XP was a refinement of 2000, which was an iteration of NT (both of which were "good"). ME was a de-refinement of 98. And arguably...95 wasn't that bad. It was a pretty big departure from anything else, but was it really any worse than 3.1? Sure, 98 was way better, but so was everything else from that time...98 was a time of DVDs and USB and high speed internet proliferation. 95 was an OS for piles of systems with a CD-Rom, a maybe-56k modem, and a serial port.
But yes, it still holds that for the consumer OSs, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, has a pretty obvious pattern of which versions are going to be bad.
I'm pretty sure you can't add a new disk to the array though which would be the easiest for a home user. Initial setup would be a big case with a bunch of empty bays and 2-3 HDDs. As your storage needs grow with unraid, you can just stick a new drive in the case instead of having to replace all of the drives with a size larger.
except you can't simply expand a ZFS system by adding more disks or swapping in larger HDDs into an existing array.
For a home user who is probably going to grow the system (rather than just add new systems or depreciate and replace like a company might) this seems like a pretty key feature.
Unraid is also pretty great about managing data and shares--makes it super easy for someone who doesn't want ot worry about it. A single parity disk and no striping means you can eat a single disk loss, and since the drives don't have to match, you can build it with a bunch of different brand drives from different systems which makes a multiple disk loss in a short time span less likely. Also, it fully supports spinning down the individual disks in an array that are not in use. Streaming a movie will only require a single disk to be spinning in a 5 drive array.
And really...if you are not a typical/. nerd...you are not going to watch that video.
I don't really use Plex, but I feel like you are missing the point.
You don't need on the fly transcoding to stream to your 60" TV and 7.1 surround system. You need an xbmc box or something that can handle full uncompressed video output to your giant tv. If your hardware can handle the raw files, there is no need to transcode
You need on the fly transcoding when you are sending content to a device that can't handle it. That way you can still keep your uncompressed bluray rips for use on your TV, but also be able to watch them on your phone or across an internet connection.
Obviously, everything could be set up on a linux box manually, but unraid is designed for this. You've got to pay a small amount for it if you want to use a ton of hard drives (I think you have to pay if you want more than 3 HDDs or if you want fancy features like Active Directory), but it seems like a pretty slick system.
Everything just works and it is perfectly designed for media consolidation and storage (the writes are slow but the reads are fast and it doesn't require matched drives or anything...). I've been looking in to making one for myself to stream media to xbmc and keep my music and photo collections in one place (and then you only have to back up one device). In the past I would have tried to roll my own, but now I kind of want something that just works, and I have a job so paying for it isn't a problem if I exceed 3 drives.
Yup. I use SAS on AIX pretty much every day at work. Just a few (3-4?) years ago, they finished migrating from zOS.
I've never talked to anyone about the reasons why AIX was chosen over something else...it may have had more to do with the hardware they wanted to run (and/or re-use)
You don't see a market for it? What about the fully funded kickstarter project?
A fully funded kickstarter project means that by definition, there is a market for the product (since people already lined up and paid for it). Heck, for some kickstarter projects, that's all there is--one kickstarter run and that's it, even if people still want more. Usually that's for the more artistic (or at least artisan) items...pure manufactured utility items like this are likely intended to become a regular product available for sale, but you never know.
Yeah but there's a song for it...If you can't memorize it in the space of one class session (and solidify that memory with a few weeks of homework assignments and tests), you are probably an idiot. I can still sing that damn song and I haven't even thought about the quadratic formula in years.
Although that other stuff...yeah...that goes away if you don't practice it.
And it makes quite a lot of sense. The post office does do its best to deliver everything.
I had a friend in school (at UChicago no less) get a postcard from their parents who were traveling somewhere out of the country. Their parents couldn't remember the address and literally wrote something like
Firstname Lastname
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
The card eventually made it all of the way to campus. They lived in on campus housing, so once the card made it into the university's mail system, they must have figured out which mailbox was hers and delivered it. A bit odd that they wouldn't realize the postage was fake (although it was foreign and if it fell out of another package, it would have already made it partway through the system), but figuring out the correct zip code and writing it down seems plausable.
As to the point about it being the admissions department and thus clearly an elaborate application...the original post notes that that building used to be the geology department or something and only became the economics and admissions offices in recent history. Also, if you were applying to the school correctly, it would help to spell Illinois correctly.
It is a good thing that following that tragic incident, the National Dynamite Association continued their successful campaign to make it easier for the average person to purchase and carry dynamite.
I think it may have been a year ago that I last did this, so maybe they updated it the other way and now you can't search for free titles....or my memory fails me.
I don't know why you would want to do this full time. The director chose to have some things louder and some things quieter and it is a part of the movie. Explosions should be big and rumbly, quiet conversations should be soft and draw in your focus.
Obviously there are times when you might want compression--you might want to bring the high volume sections down late at night, or bring the low volume sections up if you are watching it while doing something noisy (sanding a woodworking project, running on a treadmill, etc) but doing it all of the time kind of ruins the idea of dynamic range. It's like listening to pop music on FM radio. Great for a car when you can't hear the soft spots, but not really the ideal listening scenario.
My last two receivers had something called "Midnight Mode" which was essentially a compressor. I don't know how well it works since I never really touch it, but this might be an option if you aren't watching something through a computer where you can use the VLC plugin.
I am pretty sure that by all reasonable measures of loudness, that counts as technically louder. If I am quietly telling you a story and in the middle of it, I make a loud clap of my hands and then continue telling you the story quietly, you would not say I am loud. The average volume is quite low. If someone walked in after my story and yelled a whole story at the volume of my clap, you would say that they were loud. For something like that, you can't just measure the peak, you have to weight it over some duration.
Compressing the dynamic range of a commercial to make the whole thing as loud as the peak volume of the TV show counts as "technically louder" unless you are using an unreasonable measure of loudness.
I mean, it is a shame that someone has to actually push through regulations to ban this. It's probably complicated and has all sorts of long definitions about what counts as loud (what if you were just watching a particularly quiet part of a show?)...but the advertisers have brought this burden on themselves. If they hadn't been dicks, nobody would force them to monitor the volume of their commercials.
This seems to be where it is going. Unfortunately I think this is going to turn out to be a Bad Thing.
I think the american (and certainly other developed nations) economy has benefited greatly from a generation of workers who show up at their first job (or first classes that teach them about things professionals do) with strong computer skills. Millions of kids have grown up with a multipurpose PC in their home. Some of them learned how to program or edit photos or make 3d models; some of them just browsed the internet and did homework but learned how to use word and excel and how to do a bunch of basic computer functions (copy/paste, file management, print screen, etc) along the way. The kids in the first group may have gotten an early start on a future career; the kids in the second group are still going to have a leg up--nobody has to spend the first semester of their CS/engineering/etc degree learning "here's how a "real" computer works". Every kid I graduated college with has a better understanding of computer use than any non-technical 40/50/60 year old I have worked with (even though they have all been working with computers for 15-20+ years).
If you take this away and make them only comfortable with an ipad interface (which has been shown to operate at a level where babies can comprehend it), we are going to be stuck with a generation of people who will require a ton of training if they ever want to go from content consumer to content creator.
That is why I went with one of the korean ebay monitors for home. I'd rather cling to 16:10 (or even 5:4) but a 27" display at 2560x1440 does a pretty nice job of tiling two windows. I don't use my home desktop all that often these days, but I consider it a good $300 purchase.
Aren't most of those 500k benefits things like private jet flights and personal security coverage?
It is the same way with the US President...sure those things are technically benefits, but you can't expect your country's leader to fly economy or not be protected by 24/7 security personnel.
Yes, it allows discretion since it is hard to tell at what point a service has been rendered.
I think "I paid them $10 yesterday for a month/quarter/year of service and today they closed their business" is a pretty clear cut case for transaction reversal.
Of course, if they declared bankruptcy it would be different since you'd probably have to get in line with all the other creditors...but it seems like they just decided to close because the future didn't look good.
Err, I don't think you understand what public is. If I publish something in a newspaper, and you have to spend 50 cents to read it (or make a free account on the newspaper website), that information is still a public disclosure.
I wouldn't be suprised if there are newswires out there that require registration to see anything. If you want immediate access to press releases about a certain company, you subscribe to them for free and check the boxes for the PR you want delivered. If you are less concerned, then you wait for a newspaper or other news organization to republish the press release. This works well because the newspapers filter out the junk and only show you the press releases about major issues with important companies that you might care about.
I'm not sure about the requirement to file an 8k with this information, but IIRC, 8ks are usually filed after the fact and are not immediately available as soon as the article or press release is.
To be fair, a business usually has money to pay for services (and except for skype-to-skype calls, you have to pay for skype too). Why would you want 150k employees running a p2p app?
It's not a security risk, just a waste of bandwidth. Instead of clogging up your network with other people's skype traffic, why not just use a VOIP system that might cost slightly more but will just go straight from your network to the provider's network and then onto the phone lines?
But what do I know...we have an old school desk phone system (ROLM phones) and I love it. Call quality is great, the phones seem indestructible, and I have a nice speakerphone so that I can listen in on long conference calls where I don't have to talk. The phonemail system is ancient and archaic, but it still functions just fine. It gives me lots of transfer, conference, and hold options that mobile phones don't have, and unlike some software on my computer, I can still use it to call IT when my laptop can't connect to the network.
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It's probably not very good for your car to drive it constantly without even letting it get warmed up.
I also suggest/install paint.net for people who need to do some image editing. It's a great tool that does everything most people need, has a TINY file size compared to the mammoth of PS, is 100% free, and is easy for people to understand because they think it is just an upgraded version of Paint.
I just wish they would have better advertising on their download page. They always have those ads that are a big DOWNLOAD button for some awful spyware/crapware infested junk which are right next to the actual download button for paint.net. The audience who needs paint.net (and didn't already know about it or already know how to pirate photoshop), is the same audience that is going to fall for these tricks. I just went to the page now--there is a giant blue button that takes you to download PDFCreator (presumably a crapware version) and at the bottom there is a text ad from AdChoices that says "Download Paint.Net Now!" but when I click the link, my office's scanner blocks the page as "Dangerous". These are the kinds of scam-ads you expect on the pirate bay, not a legitimate piece of software.
Have to keep something decently sized flowing through the connection or it gets de-prioritized and then when real content starts flowing again, it lags? I don't know if this is true, but it sounds like a reasonable explanation considering how skype's design is so heavily focused on being able to punch through hostile networking environments and maintain a workable stream.
Most teenagers don't have the insight to recognize the ills of bad parenting.
But yes, it still holds that for the consumer OSs, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, has a pretty obvious pattern of which versions are going to be bad.
I'm pretty sure you can't add a new disk to the array though which would be the easiest for a home user. Initial setup would be a big case with a bunch of empty bays and 2-3 HDDs. As your storage needs grow with unraid, you can just stick a new drive in the case instead of having to replace all of the drives with a size larger.
For a home user who is probably going to grow the system (rather than just add new systems or depreciate and replace like a company might) this seems like a pretty key feature.
Unraid is also pretty great about managing data and shares--makes it super easy for someone who doesn't want ot worry about it. A single parity disk and no striping means you can eat a single disk loss, and since the drives don't have to match, you can build it with a bunch of different brand drives from different systems which makes a multiple disk loss in a short time span less likely. Also, it fully supports spinning down the individual disks in an array that are not in use. Streaming a movie will only require a single disk to be spinning in a 5 drive array.
And really...if you are not a typical /. nerd...you are not going to watch that video.
You don't need on the fly transcoding to stream to your 60" TV and 7.1 surround system. You need an xbmc box or something that can handle full uncompressed video output to your giant tv. If your hardware can handle the raw files, there is no need to transcode
You need on the fly transcoding when you are sending content to a device that can't handle it. That way you can still keep your uncompressed bluray rips for use on your TV, but also be able to watch them on your phone or across an internet connection.
Obviously, everything could be set up on a linux box manually, but unraid is designed for this. You've got to pay a small amount for it if you want to use a ton of hard drives (I think you have to pay if you want more than 3 HDDs or if you want fancy features like Active Directory), but it seems like a pretty slick system.
Everything just works and it is perfectly designed for media consolidation and storage (the writes are slow but the reads are fast and it doesn't require matched drives or anything...). I've been looking in to making one for myself to stream media to xbmc and keep my music and photo collections in one place (and then you only have to back up one device). In the past I would have tried to roll my own, but now I kind of want something that just works, and I have a job so paying for it isn't a problem if I exceed 3 drives.
I've never talked to anyone about the reasons why AIX was chosen over something else...it may have had more to do with the hardware they wanted to run (and/or re-use)
A fully funded kickstarter project means that by definition, there is a market for the product (since people already lined up and paid for it). Heck, for some kickstarter projects, that's all there is--one kickstarter run and that's it, even if people still want more. Usually that's for the more artistic (or at least artisan) items...pure manufactured utility items like this are likely intended to become a regular product available for sale, but you never know.
Although that other stuff...yeah...that goes away if you don't practice it.
I had a friend in school (at UChicago no less) get a postcard from their parents who were traveling somewhere out of the country. Their parents couldn't remember the address and literally wrote something like
Firstname Lastname
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
The card eventually made it all of the way to campus. They lived in on campus housing, so once the card made it into the university's mail system, they must have figured out which mailbox was hers and delivered it. A bit odd that they wouldn't realize the postage was fake (although it was foreign and if it fell out of another package, it would have already made it partway through the system), but figuring out the correct zip code and writing it down seems plausable.
As to the point about it being the admissions department and thus clearly an elaborate application...the original post notes that that building used to be the geology department or something and only became the economics and admissions offices in recent history. Also, if you were applying to the school correctly, it would help to spell Illinois correctly.
oh wait...
I think it may have been a year ago that I last did this, so maybe they updated it the other way and now you can't search for free titles....or my memory fails me.
I seem to recall being able to search for only free videos on my parents' roku last year. Those are pretty dang common for "most" people.
Of course from the other comments, it sounds like they left so many loopholes that most advertisers will never be bothered by this.
Obviously there are times when you might want compression--you might want to bring the high volume sections down late at night, or bring the low volume sections up if you are watching it while doing something noisy (sanding a woodworking project, running on a treadmill, etc) but doing it all of the time kind of ruins the idea of dynamic range. It's like listening to pop music on FM radio. Great for a car when you can't hear the soft spots, but not really the ideal listening scenario.
My last two receivers had something called "Midnight Mode" which was essentially a compressor. I don't know how well it works since I never really touch it, but this might be an option if you aren't watching something through a computer where you can use the VLC plugin.
Compressing the dynamic range of a commercial to make the whole thing as loud as the peak volume of the TV show counts as "technically louder" unless you are using an unreasonable measure of loudness.
I mean, it is a shame that someone has to actually push through regulations to ban this. It's probably complicated and has all sorts of long definitions about what counts as loud (what if you were just watching a particularly quiet part of a show?)...but the advertisers have brought this burden on themselves. If they hadn't been dicks, nobody would force them to monitor the volume of their commercials.
I think the american (and certainly other developed nations) economy has benefited greatly from a generation of workers who show up at their first job (or first classes that teach them about things professionals do) with strong computer skills. Millions of kids have grown up with a multipurpose PC in their home. Some of them learned how to program or edit photos or make 3d models; some of them just browsed the internet and did homework but learned how to use word and excel and how to do a bunch of basic computer functions (copy/paste, file management, print screen, etc) along the way. The kids in the first group may have gotten an early start on a future career; the kids in the second group are still going to have a leg up--nobody has to spend the first semester of their CS/engineering/etc degree learning "here's how a "real" computer works". Every kid I graduated college with has a better understanding of computer use than any non-technical 40/50/60 year old I have worked with (even though they have all been working with computers for 15-20+ years).
If you take this away and make them only comfortable with an ipad interface (which has been shown to operate at a level where babies can comprehend it), we are going to be stuck with a generation of people who will require a ton of training if they ever want to go from content consumer to content creator.
That is why I went with one of the korean ebay monitors for home. I'd rather cling to 16:10 (or even 5:4) but a 27" display at 2560x1440 does a pretty nice job of tiling two windows. I don't use my home desktop all that often these days, but I consider it a good $300 purchase.
It is the same way with the US President...sure those things are technically benefits, but you can't expect your country's leader to fly economy or not be protected by 24/7 security personnel.
I think "I paid them $10 yesterday for a month/quarter/year of service and today they closed their business" is a pretty clear cut case for transaction reversal.
Of course, if they declared bankruptcy it would be different since you'd probably have to get in line with all the other creditors...but it seems like they just decided to close because the future didn't look good.
I wouldn't be suprised if there are newswires out there that require registration to see anything. If you want immediate access to press releases about a certain company, you subscribe to them for free and check the boxes for the PR you want delivered. If you are less concerned, then you wait for a newspaper or other news organization to republish the press release. This works well because the newspapers filter out the junk and only show you the press releases about major issues with important companies that you might care about.
I'm not sure about the requirement to file an 8k with this information, but IIRC, 8ks are usually filed after the fact and are not immediately available as soon as the article or press release is.
It's not a security risk, just a waste of bandwidth. Instead of clogging up your network with other people's skype traffic, why not just use a VOIP system that might cost slightly more but will just go straight from your network to the provider's network and then onto the phone lines?
But what do I know...we have an old school desk phone system (ROLM phones) and I love it. Call quality is great, the phones seem indestructible, and I have a nice speakerphone so that I can listen in on long conference calls where I don't have to talk. The phonemail system is ancient and archaic, but it still functions just fine. It gives me lots of transfer, conference, and hold options that mobile phones don't have, and unlike some software on my computer, I can still use it to call IT when my laptop can't connect to the network.