Check out Sweet Maria's website. This can be done for much less. I use a Freshroast, under $100, but many people use old air popcorn poppers. My espresso machine is a Krups Gusto, which has since gone out of production, but was also under $100. Neither of these is really top end, but they work just fine. Often I just brew in a $10 press pot. I use a hand crank Zassenhaus grinder, which is first rate, but a bit of work.
That being said, home roasting is not a way to save money, although I thought so at first. It is a way to get really superior coffee and entertain yourself at the same time. Like any hobby worth getting into, there is a learning curve that never quite ends, although, unlike some, you can get to better than store bought in a couple or three batches.
I have been roasting for almost three years. The smell goes through stages. First grassy, then quite sweet, caramel-ish, finally like coffee, with visible smoke. If you do it indoors the place will smell for some time, mostly like you had gone on a popcorn binge, but it will also set off smoke detectors, even before there is anything visible.
When I moved into this apartment complex and started roasting on my balcony some people started looking for the kitchen fire. Now they like the smell and just smile.
There may be a lot of caffeine in a 20oz cup, but for an equal volume gourmet coffee should have less caffeine than the cheap stuff. The reason is that it is pure arabica, while utility grade coffee contains large amounts of robusta beans. Robustas have a lot more caffeine than arabicas. That assumes, of course, that the cheap coffee is not also brewed weaker than it should be.
If you want to rip a program to listen at another time, mplayer has a dumpaudio option that will dump the input stream to a file instead of decoding it. If you run this as a cron job with something to kill it when complete, it can be fairly automatic.
If you want to edit what you have ripped for archiving, you can use audacity.
Working with the wider bandwidth Shoutcast or Icecast streams, this can yield quite nice results. A 128kb mp3 stream has a slightly better bandpass than FM radio. 256kb, which is rare, is up there with CD. Of course, this is done by throwing out some of the data and fudging the rest a bit. Ripping the raw stream avoids going through any more stages than necessary.
You can use xmms to record mp3 streams out of the box. Just use the -dumpaudio function and it will go to a file, in raw mp3, rather than to your speakers. Most NPR stations provide streams of one sort or another. You can also choose from available streams on Icecast and Shoutcast.
http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/ has a much more involved discussion of how to record other stream types, or audio fed to a soundcard.
Times New Roman is intended for newspaper columns where it scans easily. For wider formats, like letters and memos, New Century Schoolbook or some other font intended to be read at that width is more appropriate.
Look at the high res image. There is a giant statue of a shmoo! Obviously, the Martians worship them, or are shmoon themselves. Of course, if they sent Al Capp to prepare the way, why do they keep shooting down our probes?
If their word is not good on one thing, why should one trust them on another? Not to mention, of course, the government's defaults on Social Security and Medicare.
You have it reversed. Harmonics are at integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. For a well designed system they should not be as intense as you indicate. I think the second harmonic for a transmitter is supposed to be down about 60dB.
I have seen this done quite effectively with wooden boxes painted black. The ones I saw were in a radio studio and had backs on them, but the equipment itself could provide the cross bracing for open backed ones.
If they did what the account seems to indicate, fired a chunk of foam at a stationary wing, then the impact would be much greater than if the wing were also moving at 500+mph. It is rather like the difference between chucking a beer bottle at a mailbox alongside the road as you pass by vs chucking it at one mounted on the bed of your truck.
Remember there were cell phone calls from some of the hijacked aircraft on 911.
I believe the main worry about cell phones in aircraft is that they hit too many cells at once and can mess up the system.
The ban against transmitters in general is quite old and may be a bit outmoded, with better controlled wireless devices and better receivers on the aircraft, but the last thing you want is a birdy from some one of 300 passenger's Acme wireless device getting into the ILS at 300 feet on a dark and stormy night.
BOFH is more satisfying, but this may better fit the feel of the job.
At the bottom line, the current titles are well enough understood. The alternatives sound like euphemisms, like "human resources" or "avoirdupoidenally gifted."
Since these devices answer, then play the SIT tones, a fair number of predictive dialers are immune to them anyway. The reason is that they detect answer supervision and move their tone detectors to another call. Real SITs are sent without answer supervision, and moving the detectors to the next call saves resources.
As to sending false CLID, a PRI trunk can be made to do it, if the carrier doesn't enforce checking. For that much outbound calling, probably a lot of carriers would be more than happy, if they bother doing that in any case.
I don't know, or perhaps don't recall, where the name lookup is done. If it is from the A end, it would be equally easy to fake. If it is done at the receiving telco, they would have to give the real number of the institution being faked.
There is a plethora of discussion on Telezappers in comp.dcom.telecom. Check the Google archive.
This warning is only part of a required filing. There is a section in which they have to discuss every plausible risk. Look at the 10Qs from other companies and you will see similar risk discussions.
Standing out in the cold at the opening of the polls a couple years ago, I and my counterpart from the other party came up with the idea that if people can be induced to vote for a few cigarettes, etc., that we ought to shake down the local merchants to set up at the exit to the polls to dispense coupons and free samples. Each voter would be given a plastic "I voted" shopping bag to carry home the loot, and merchants would be pressured to supply it as their "patriotic duty." If we made the bags of recycled paper maybe even the Greens would go along.
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I doubt the material has they staying power of acid free paper, which can last for hundreds of years with proper storage. Likely anything printed on this new material will be lost in a few decades.
Having been on the other side of a number of these, that is a good start. We usually wanted the right to make and use as many copies as we wanted inside the company, and the rights to read and modify the source. Sometimes we granted an unlimited license to the modifications back to the original vendor if they wanted to add them to the maintenance bundle. Starting with something like this boilerplate and keeping an open mind to modifications from both sides can produce a fairly detailed list of rights, but one that avoids any disputes in the future.
Sometimes, if the vendor doesn't want to cough up the source code, there is an agreement to put a copy in escrow with a third party in case the vendor goes casters up. I can recall once when we did this. Turns out the working level people on both sides just shared the source anyway, which wasn't a problem.
Those are the least of it. I recall IBM, which was as careful as anyone, had problems with trichlor leaking into the ground water at their NY chip plant.
HF is generally mixed with HNO3. The nitric oxidizes the Si into glass, which the HF eats. It is buffered with acetic acid. That stuff is seriously nasty.I don't recall any accidents with it, but there were a couple of legends.
The processes also involve heavy metals.
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That being said, home roasting is not a way to save money, although I thought so at first. It is a way to get really superior coffee and entertain yourself at the same time. Like any hobby worth getting into, there is a learning curve that never quite ends, although, unlike some, you can get to better than store bought in a couple or three batches.
When I moved into this apartment complex and started roasting on my balcony some people started looking for the kitchen fire. Now they like the smell and just smile.
There may be a lot of caffeine in a 20oz cup, but for an equal volume gourmet coffee should have less caffeine than the cheap stuff. The reason is that it is pure arabica, while utility grade coffee contains large amounts of robusta beans. Robustas have a lot more caffeine than arabicas. That assumes, of course, that the cheap coffee is not also brewed weaker than it should be.
If you want to rip a program to listen at another time, mplayer has a dumpaudio option that will dump the input stream to a file instead of decoding it. If you run this as a cron job with something to kill it when complete, it can be fairly automatic.
If you want to edit what you have ripped for archiving, you can use audacity.
Working with the wider bandwidth Shoutcast or Icecast streams, this can yield quite nice results. A 128kb mp3 stream has a slightly better bandpass than FM radio. 256kb, which is rare, is up there with CD. Of course, this is done by throwing out some of the data and fudging the rest a bit. Ripping the raw stream avoids going through any more stages than necessary.
You can use xmms to record mp3 streams out of the box. Just use the -dumpaudio function and it will go to a file, in raw mp3, rather than to your speakers. Most NPR stations provide streams of one sort or another. You can also choose from available streams on Icecast and Shoutcast. http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/ has a much more involved discussion of how to record other stream types, or audio fed to a soundcard.
Times New Roman is intended for newspaper columns where it scans easily. For wider formats, like letters and memos, New Century Schoolbook or some other font intended to be read at that width is more appropriate.
I wonder if they have filed for a patent?
Look at the high res image. There is a giant statue of a shmoo! Obviously, the Martians worship them, or are shmoon themselves. Of course, if they sent Al Capp to prepare the way, why do they keep shooting down our probes?
If their word is not good on one thing, why should one trust them on another? Not to mention, of course, the government's defaults on Social Security and Medicare.
You have it reversed. Harmonics are at integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. For a well designed system they should not be as intense as you indicate. I think the second harmonic for a transmitter is supposed to be down about 60dB.
I have seen this done quite effectively with wooden boxes painted black. The ones I saw were in a radio studio and had backs on them, but the equipment itself could provide the cross bracing for open backed ones.
So you think they really got him out of one of their prisons?
whether he has to go back to jail now.
If they did what the account seems to indicate, fired a chunk of foam at a stationary wing, then the impact would be much greater than if the wing were also moving at 500+mph. It is rather like the difference between chucking a beer bottle at a mailbox alongside the road as you pass by vs chucking it at one mounted on the bed of your truck.
Remember there were cell phone calls from some of the hijacked aircraft on 911.
I believe the main worry about cell phones in aircraft is that they hit too many cells at once and can mess up the system.
The ban against transmitters in general is quite old and may be a bit outmoded, with better controlled wireless devices and better receivers on the aircraft, but the last thing you want is a birdy from some one of 300 passenger's Acme wireless device getting into the ILS at 300 feet on a dark and stormy night.
BOFH is more satisfying, but this may better fit the feel of the job. At the bottom line, the current titles are well enough understood. The alternatives sound like euphemisms, like "human resources" or "avoirdupoidenally gifted."
Once they run the numbers on the lap dances vs configuring routers, you are out of business.
Since these devices answer, then play the SIT tones, a fair number of predictive dialers are immune to them anyway. The reason is that they detect answer supervision and move their tone detectors to another call. Real SITs are sent without answer supervision, and moving the detectors to the next call saves resources.
As to sending false CLID, a PRI trunk can be made to do it, if the carrier doesn't enforce checking. For that much outbound calling, probably a lot of carriers would be more than happy, if they bother doing that in any case.
I don't know, or perhaps don't recall, where the name lookup is done. If it is from the A end, it would be equally easy to fake. If it is done at the receiving telco, they would have to give the real number of the institution being faked.
There is a plethora of discussion on Telezappers in comp.dcom.telecom. Check the Google archive.
This warning is only part of a required filing. There is a section in which they have to discuss every plausible risk. Look at the 10Qs from other companies and you will see similar risk discussions.
Standing out in the cold at the opening of the polls a couple years ago, I and my counterpart from the other party came up with the idea that if people can be induced to vote for a few cigarettes, etc., that we ought to shake down the local merchants to set up at the exit to the polls to dispense coupons and free samples. Each voter would be given a plastic "I voted" shopping bag to carry home the loot, and merchants would be pressured to supply it as their "patriotic duty." If we made the bags of recycled paper maybe even the Greens would go along.
I doubt the material has they staying power of acid free paper, which can last for hundreds of years with proper storage. Likely anything printed on this new material will be lost in a few decades.
Having been on the other side of a number of these, that is a good start. We usually wanted the right to make and use as many copies as we wanted inside the company, and the rights to read and modify the source. Sometimes we granted an unlimited license to the modifications back to the original vendor if they wanted to add them to the maintenance bundle. Starting with something like this boilerplate and keeping an open mind to modifications from both sides can produce a fairly detailed list of rights, but one that avoids any disputes in the future. Sometimes, if the vendor doesn't want to cough up the source code, there is an agreement to put a copy in escrow with a third party in case the vendor goes casters up. I can recall once when we did this. Turns out the working level people on both sides just shared the source anyway, which wasn't a problem.
Those are the least of it. I recall IBM, which was as careful as anyone, had problems with trichlor leaking into the ground water at their NY chip plant. HF is generally mixed with HNO3. The nitric oxidizes the Si into glass, which the HF eats. It is buffered with acetic acid. That stuff is seriously nasty.I don't recall any accidents with it, but there were a couple of legends. The processes also involve heavy metals.