Thus, if you pack the trash too tightly, you create an anaerobic environment where organisms are less efficient at breaking things down.
What we really need is a better method of disposal
Ironically, a better method of disposal environmentally would be to toss it out the window. But that is frowned upon for other reasons.
I can't see the average (or even above average) 4 year old being interested color correction.
I've never used color correction. I guess I don't understand what the point is. Is her digital camera not capable of capturing the correct color? I've never had to touch any of the photos I've pulled off of my camera. I just upload them straight to Picasa and send a link to whomever might want to see them.
How can they legally get away with charging more in order for people to injury? I am within one standard deviation of the typical height of a human male, however, with the legroom provided, on short flights, I suffer discomfort, and on long flights, I suffer pain which continues for hours after the flight has ended. I don't know of any other industry that is allowed to provide accommodations that can actually cause pain to people with standard proportions.
Making customers happy is long term good business, and works fine in a deregulated market.
Case in point, another player in the travel industry: Cruise lines. If you are willing to take an inside room with no ocean view, you can take a 7 day cruise for as little as $400. Despite the fact that you may be paying 1/3 to 1/10 of what other passengers in more expensive accommodations are paying, you are treated like royalty. Cruise lines go out of their way to cater to even the silliest needs of people. Free room service is available 24 hours a day. Buffets are open 24 hours a day. Quality entertainment goes on at least 18 hours a day. You enjoy exotic locations that change every day. And the staff of about 1 employee for every 3 guests courteously waits on you night and day.
The airlines are just the opposite, herding you onto cabins built for the stature of Asian children, charging extra for overweight bags, food, drinks, and so forth. Having about one pillow and blanket available for every 12 people on board. One staff member for every 50 or so people. If you don't do exactly what the staff member says, you can be arrested.
The cost of both methods of transportation is about the same, yet the airlines are struggling, while the cruise lines seem to be holding their own. Of course, I am sure that there is simply NO WAY that the cruise lines (and Southwest airlines) are doing better because of their attitude toward their CUSTOMERS (you know, the people who pay money for the services they provide?)
I think people forget just how expensive air travel used to be
I know I easily forget how expensive it used to be, especially since it used to be much cheaper. I used to be able to fly from Oklahoma City to Chicago for $120 round trip. Now it would cost me over $240, and that is down about $60 from what it has been for the last several years.
I find it interesting that prices have more than doubled while the fuel cost has increased by about 50% and pilot salaries have dropped by about 2/3, many of the costly perks you used to get like food, decks of cards, etc. are no longer available. So from my perspective, their costs have gone down significantly, their prices have gone up significantly and yet they still teeter on the brink of bankruptcy at all times.
I don't know how they would have worked in real time. I could see speeding up or slowing down a tape loop, but since the note length would then be different, you'd have to splice in or remove enough tape to make the notes end at the same time.
Mine is digital and works in real time just fine. I only ever really used it for live stuff as in the studio, I would just have all the harmonies sung and recorded individually.
My harmonizer would let you do interesting things like assigning certain tracks as male and certain tracks as female and it would change your voice inflection to match appropriately.
As I mentioned, it also had a pitch corrector. When I first got it, I played around with the pitch corrector as a novelty, but I never used it in a performance or recording. Part of what makes a voice interesting is that it is not perfect. It is a fine line for certain. Too perfect sounds flat and boring. Too imperfect sounds dissonant and terrible. I like Sheryl Crow's voice because it is not perfect and it always sounds like she's just about to be badly off key, but it never happens.
Similarly, in orchestral music, if two perfectly in tune trumpets played, it would sound like one trumpet, which would not be that interesting. Two badly out of tune trumpets playing would sound like two badly out of tune trumpets playing and would sound awful. Two trumpets that are nearly but not exactly in tune gives just enough dissonance to give a rich, full sound.
I have a harmonizer that I bought back before this guy supposedly invented this process, which does pitch correction in realtime, and can definitely be used live.
Is hip-hop and R&B the only form of music?
Is hip-hop and R&B EVEN a form of music?
Actually, I kind of like R&B, but I refuse to recognize Hip-Hop as music. I mean sure, it's got a beat and you can kill cops to it, but it's still lacking something.
Hildebrand may have invented the particular algorithm which is used by many musicians, but the ability to electronically pitch correct has been around for quite some time. I have a harmonizer from that period of time which has a perfect pitch setting where it samples your voice and corrects it to the nearest pitch.
I was going to suggest that the vocoder was much older technology that does the same thing, however more research shows that Hilderbrands implementation actually uses a phase vocoder.
That said, the use of the autotune in the forefront I find absolutely atrocious. To me it's the musical equivalent of applying makeup in order to highlight the mole on your face.
Is *wanting* to give away your freedom, as it were, really better than having it taken from you?
This is something that has always fascinated me about the cutting edge gotta-have-it gadget seekers. Often the same people who speak out loudly about privacy, government observation and the necessity of tin foil hats, are the same people who absolutely have to have the latest toy of convenience, where convenience usually means storing your information for you, knowing where to find you, etc., etc.
Must be a challenge for marketing.
Not to mention that if you are going to have a person move the print head back and forth, you are going to have to feed that person, which uses more energy than the printer does.
If you consider humans to not be a part of nature, then actively preventing extinction would be unnatural. Putting a stop to activities which lead to extinction would be great, but putting together breeding programs and doing other human activities to increase the chances of a species to survive, is unnatural.
On the other hand, if you consider humans to be a part of nature, we can do whatever we want, for or against a species.
Obviously they would need one of each sex, but if they were otherwise identical other than that, they would probably have had some genetic variance by the time they reach adulthood. They would still be heavily susceptible to certain genetic diseases endemic to that particular DNA sequence. This is the whole reason why close breeding is discouraged. However, it would not be impossible to restart a species this way. However, with the genetic disease strike against them and the fact that they alreay died out once, they probably wouldn't last long.
Our company started out on Bugzilla. We actually had some informal training on that. The nice thing is it sends out e-mails, so I can actually look at my inbox and know that I have issues that need fixing. Then they switched to Netoffice. They never gave any training on Net Office, but at least NetOffice was good enough to send out e-mails as well. I didn't even know where Netoffice was located or what my password was, although they obviously set me up an account. So whenever I fixed a bug, I would just e-mail back the person telling them to close it because I didn't know how. Then, they switched to Jira. We no longer get e-mails when an issue is raised, although I am SURE that Jira has such a feature. Again, there has been no training, indication of where Jira can be found, or what my username or password is, although I again know that I have an account, because people occasionally send me an excel spreadsheet with all of my past due issues in Jira. Of course, that is another whole argument. When you report a bug, you don't get to set the due date. The receiver of the bug sets the due date. I have not yet received the bug, therefore it has no due date. On top of that, I still have bugs in bugzilla and netoffice that haven't gone away yet.
We have a stupidly high ratio of Project Managers to developers where I work. The assumption is that since they have all kinds of time to go to lunch, gab with each other, go home early, go socialize with the customers and eat breakfast and lunch on the company, that we in the development area (actually I am in operations, but my boss tells people I am in development) are similarly bored and just aching to go spend time each day perusing some website to see if there is more work to do.
Well, I don't think I've ever done that in GTA. As a matter of fact, I pretty much try not to hurt anybody in that game unless the progress in the game demands it, such as a rampage forcing you to kill gang members and so forth.
I HAVE learned stuff from games like Gran Turismo. I now find myself finding and driving the perfect line for a corner, even though I am not racing but driving within the speed limit. Of course, unlike in Gran Turismo, if there are lanes on the road, I won't go out of my lane to make the perfect turn. Although in real life, unlike in Gran Turismo, other cars would probably give up their lane if they saw you coming. In Gran Turismo, opponent cars absolutely WILL NOT BUDGE from the perfect line.
There are laws against calling people on the DNC list, too. But yet here we are discussing infractions.
Basically, shady businesses will ignore the laws, particularly if they think the people they are dealing with are unaware of the laws. If you catch them on it, they will say "oh, you are right. We'll never do that again (to you)."
A not insignificant number of people who put themselves on the DNC list are people who are aware that they have a difficult time saying "no" to people and probably end up buying crap from telemarketers. Therefore it makes sense to call the people on the DNC list on the hopes of reaching one of these people.
I agree with you. Collection agencies are at best only one step better than the deadbeats they try to collect from. If you do not legitimately owe a debt, but it has somehow been assigned to a collection agency, then they will harrass you even if you explain to them clearly how you do not owe the debt. On initial contact, they send you something telling you to notify them in writing or by phone if the debt is not valid. I have notified them in writing AND by phone, and still the next month I got a note saying "since you made no effort to contact us, we are considering this a valid debt."
I have had collection agencies call me regarding a late payment by my sister, who does not live with me, asking for her contact information. They also called my mother, my father and my grandmother.
More recently, the Colorado Department of Employment security sold my account to a collection agency. It seems that they had been sending me notices to an invalid address for years, and I somehow owed them about $500 in back taxes. The collection agency was harassing my employee in Colorado about this "debt". I attempted to reach the collection agent but was unsuccessful and left a message with my contact information and explicit instructions to not harass my employee. They continued to harass my employee. I spoke to the Colorado Department of Employment Security, they corrected my mailing address, we determined that the delinquent reports were for quarters preceding the assumption of my business in Colorado, however to humor them, I went ahead and filed zero dollar reports anyway, and the debt with them was settled for $0 dollars. The collection agency was notified of this. however, they continued to harass my employee.
Come to think of it, maybe they are a couple of steps below the people they try to collect from. Even the ones that legitimately owe money.
When the harm you cause others is greater than the benefit you create for yourself, that is textbook economic inefficiency.
I was just thinking along these lines today regarding school snow days. We had a little ice storm here in Oklahoma, as we tend to do about once a year. The schools are closed. The roads are not really that bad, but the schools don't want to get sued by someone getting in an accident taking their kid to school. So instead of kids having a chance of getting in an accident on the way to school, now parents have to either stay home or take the kids probably 10 to 20 times the difference and take them in to work with them. The odds are significantly higher of a kid getting hurt by the school being out session, however the school doesn't care because at least the legal burden is not on their shoulders.
Good grief. I remember I used to have a problem with the available drive sizes filling up too quickly. I had a system with four drives and then I had an Iomega Jaz drive with four disks.
But nowadays, I seem to be getting along just fine. I bought a Dell with an 120 GB drive back when up to 240 were available. That lasted me fine up until about two years ago, when I put in an additional 60 GB drive from an even older machine that I had laying around.
Of course, now I am a hypocrite because I went and bought a 320 GB drive, copied everything off of the 60 onto that, and then disabled the 60. I'm currently using 63 GB of my 320 and 90 on my 120.
That didn't work for me when I moved out of Cingular's service area. They just told me that it wasn't their fault I moved. They did cut the ETF in half.
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Thus, if you pack the trash too tightly, you create an anaerobic environment where organisms are less efficient at breaking things down.
What we really need is a better method of disposal
Ironically, a better method of disposal environmentally would be to toss it out the window. But that is frowned upon for other reasons.
I can't see the average (or even above average) 4 year old being interested color correction.
I've never used color correction. I guess I don't understand what the point is. Is her digital camera not capable of capturing the correct color? I've never had to touch any of the photos I've pulled off of my camera. I just upload them straight to Picasa and send a link to whomever might want to see them.
How can they legally get away with charging more in order for people to injury? I am within one standard deviation of the typical height of a human male, however, with the legroom provided, on short flights, I suffer discomfort, and on long flights, I suffer pain which continues for hours after the flight has ended. I don't know of any other industry that is allowed to provide accommodations that can actually cause pain to people with standard proportions.
Nonsense. Square feet stack better than your typical semi-oval ones.
Making customers happy is long term good business, and works fine in a deregulated market.
Case in point, another player in the travel industry: Cruise lines. If you are willing to take an inside room with no ocean view, you can take a 7 day cruise for as little as $400. Despite the fact that you may be paying 1/3 to 1/10 of what other passengers in more expensive accommodations are paying, you are treated like royalty. Cruise lines go out of their way to cater to even the silliest needs of people. Free room service is available 24 hours a day. Buffets are open 24 hours a day. Quality entertainment goes on at least 18 hours a day. You enjoy exotic locations that change every day. And the staff of about 1 employee for every 3 guests courteously waits on you night and day.
The airlines are just the opposite, herding you onto cabins built for the stature of Asian children, charging extra for overweight bags, food, drinks, and so forth. Having about one pillow and blanket available for every 12 people on board. One staff member for every 50 or so people. If you don't do exactly what the staff member says, you can be arrested.
The cost of both methods of transportation is about the same, yet the airlines are struggling, while the cruise lines seem to be holding their own. Of course, I am sure that there is simply NO WAY that the cruise lines (and Southwest airlines) are doing better because of their attitude toward their CUSTOMERS (you know, the people who pay money for the services they provide?)
I think people forget just how expensive air travel used to be
I know I easily forget how expensive it used to be, especially since it used to be much cheaper. I used to be able to fly from Oklahoma City to Chicago for $120 round trip. Now it would cost me over $240, and that is down about $60 from what it has been for the last several years.
I find it interesting that prices have more than doubled while the fuel cost has increased by about 50% and pilot salaries have dropped by about 2/3, many of the costly perks you used to get like food, decks of cards, etc. are no longer available. So from my perspective, their costs have gone down significantly, their prices have gone up significantly and yet they still teeter on the brink of bankruptcy at all times.
I don't know how they would have worked in real time. I could see speeding up or slowing down a tape loop, but since the note length would then be different, you'd have to splice in or remove enough tape to make the notes end at the same time.
Mine is digital and works in real time just fine. I only ever really used it for live stuff as in the studio, I would just have all the harmonies sung and recorded individually.
My harmonizer would let you do interesting things like assigning certain tracks as male and certain tracks as female and it would change your voice inflection to match appropriately.
As I mentioned, it also had a pitch corrector. When I first got it, I played around with the pitch corrector as a novelty, but I never used it in a performance or recording. Part of what makes a voice interesting is that it is not perfect. It is a fine line for certain. Too perfect sounds flat and boring. Too imperfect sounds dissonant and terrible. I like Sheryl Crow's voice because it is not perfect and it always sounds like she's just about to be badly off key, but it never happens.
Similarly, in orchestral music, if two perfectly in tune trumpets played, it would sound like one trumpet, which would not be that interesting. Two badly out of tune trumpets playing would sound like two badly out of tune trumpets playing and would sound awful. Two trumpets that are nearly but not exactly in tune gives just enough dissonance to give a rich, full sound.
I have a harmonizer that I bought back before this guy supposedly invented this process, which does pitch correction in realtime, and can definitely be used live.
Is hip-hop and R&B the only form of music?
Is hip-hop and R&B EVEN a form of music?
Actually, I kind of like R&B, but I refuse to recognize Hip-Hop as music. I mean sure, it's got a beat and you can kill cops to it, but it's still lacking something.
Hildebrand may have invented the particular algorithm which is used by many musicians, but the ability to electronically pitch correct has been around for quite some time. I have a harmonizer from that period of time which has a perfect pitch setting where it samples your voice and corrects it to the nearest pitch.
I was going to suggest that the vocoder was much older technology that does the same thing, however more research shows that Hilderbrands implementation actually uses a phase vocoder.
That said, the use of the autotune in the forefront I find absolutely atrocious. To me it's the musical equivalent of applying makeup in order to highlight the mole on your face.
Is *wanting* to give away your freedom, as it were, really better than having it taken from you?
This is something that has always fascinated me about the cutting edge gotta-have-it gadget seekers. Often the same people who speak out loudly about privacy, government observation and the necessity of tin foil hats, are the same people who absolutely have to have the latest toy of convenience, where convenience usually means storing your information for you, knowing where to find you, etc., etc.
Must be a challenge for marketing.
No, the $25,000 comes out of the potential bonuses of the actual workers. The C level people will remain unaffected.
I have an idea for a contraption that eats raw sewage and pisses oil. What? No, I have no idea HOW it does that. This is just a DESIGN contest.
Not to mention that if you are going to have a person move the print head back and forth, you are going to have to feed that person, which uses more energy than the printer does.
Funny, the page doesn't have a link to a printer-friendly copy of the article.
Are you sure? Maybe your printer is just out of coffee.
If you consider humans to not be a part of nature, then actively preventing extinction would be unnatural. Putting a stop to activities which lead to extinction would be great, but putting together breeding programs and doing other human activities to increase the chances of a species to survive, is unnatural.
On the other hand, if you consider humans to be a part of nature, we can do whatever we want, for or against a species.
Obviously they would need one of each sex, but if they were otherwise identical other than that, they would probably have had some genetic variance by the time they reach adulthood. They would still be heavily susceptible to certain genetic diseases endemic to that particular DNA sequence. This is the whole reason why close breeding is discouraged. However, it would not be impossible to restart a species this way. However, with the genetic disease strike against them and the fact that they alreay died out once, they probably wouldn't last long.
Our company started out on Bugzilla. We actually had some informal training on that. The nice thing is it sends out e-mails, so I can actually look at my inbox and know that I have issues that need fixing. Then they switched to Netoffice. They never gave any training on Net Office, but at least NetOffice was good enough to send out e-mails as well. I didn't even know where Netoffice was located or what my password was, although they obviously set me up an account. So whenever I fixed a bug, I would just e-mail back the person telling them to close it because I didn't know how. Then, they switched to Jira. We no longer get e-mails when an issue is raised, although I am SURE that Jira has such a feature. Again, there has been no training, indication of where Jira can be found, or what my username or password is, although I again know that I have an account, because people occasionally send me an excel spreadsheet with all of my past due issues in Jira. Of course, that is another whole argument. When you report a bug, you don't get to set the due date. The receiver of the bug sets the due date. I have not yet received the bug, therefore it has no due date. On top of that, I still have bugs in bugzilla and netoffice that haven't gone away yet.
We have a stupidly high ratio of Project Managers to developers where I work. The assumption is that since they have all kinds of time to go to lunch, gab with each other, go home early, go socialize with the customers and eat breakfast and lunch on the company, that we in the development area (actually I am in operations, but my boss tells people I am in development) are similarly bored and just aching to go spend time each day perusing some website to see if there is more work to do.
Well, I don't think I've ever done that in GTA. As a matter of fact, I pretty much try not to hurt anybody in that game unless the progress in the game demands it, such as a rampage forcing you to kill gang members and so forth.
I HAVE learned stuff from games like Gran Turismo. I now find myself finding and driving the perfect line for a corner, even though I am not racing but driving within the speed limit. Of course, unlike in Gran Turismo, if there are lanes on the road, I won't go out of my lane to make the perfect turn. Although in real life, unlike in Gran Turismo, other cars would probably give up their lane if they saw you coming. In Gran Turismo, opponent cars absolutely WILL NOT BUDGE from the perfect line.
There are laws against calling people on the DNC list, too. But yet here we are discussing infractions.
Basically, shady businesses will ignore the laws, particularly if they think the people they are dealing with are unaware of the laws. If you catch them on it, they will say "oh, you are right. We'll never do that again (to you)."
A not insignificant number of people who put themselves on the DNC list are people who are aware that they have a difficult time saying "no" to people and probably end up buying crap from telemarketers. Therefore it makes sense to call the people on the DNC list on the hopes of reaching one of these people.
I agree with you. Collection agencies are at best only one step better than the deadbeats they try to collect from. If you do not legitimately owe a debt, but it has somehow been assigned to a collection agency, then they will harrass you even if you explain to them clearly how you do not owe the debt. On initial contact, they send you something telling you to notify them in writing or by phone if the debt is not valid. I have notified them in writing AND by phone, and still the next month I got a note saying "since you made no effort to contact us, we are considering this a valid debt."
I have had collection agencies call me regarding a late payment by my sister, who does not live with me, asking for her contact information. They also called my mother, my father and my grandmother.
More recently, the Colorado Department of Employment security sold my account to a collection agency. It seems that they had been sending me notices to an invalid address for years, and I somehow owed them about $500 in back taxes. The collection agency was harassing my employee in Colorado about this "debt". I attempted to reach the collection agent but was unsuccessful and left a message with my contact information and explicit instructions to not harass my employee. They continued to harass my employee. I spoke to the Colorado Department of Employment Security, they corrected my mailing address, we determined that the delinquent reports were for quarters preceding the assumption of my business in Colorado, however to humor them, I went ahead and filed zero dollar reports anyway, and the debt with them was settled for $0 dollars. The collection agency was notified of this. however, they continued to harass my employee.
Come to think of it, maybe they are a couple of steps below the people they try to collect from. Even the ones that legitimately owe money.
When the harm you cause others is greater than the benefit you create for yourself, that is textbook economic inefficiency.
I was just thinking along these lines today regarding school snow days. We had a little ice storm here in Oklahoma, as we tend to do about once a year. The schools are closed. The roads are not really that bad, but the schools don't want to get sued by someone getting in an accident taking their kid to school. So instead of kids having a chance of getting in an accident on the way to school, now parents have to either stay home or take the kids probably 10 to 20 times the difference and take them in to work with them. The odds are significantly higher of a kid getting hurt by the school being out session, however the school doesn't care because at least the legal burden is not on their shoulders.
Good grief. I remember I used to have a problem with the available drive sizes filling up too quickly. I had a system with four drives and then I had an Iomega Jaz drive with four disks.
But nowadays, I seem to be getting along just fine. I bought a Dell with an 120 GB drive back when up to 240 were available. That lasted me fine up until about two years ago, when I put in an additional 60 GB drive from an even older machine that I had laying around.
Of course, now I am a hypocrite because I went and bought a 320 GB drive, copied everything off of the 60 onto that, and then disabled the 60. I'm currently using 63 GB of my 320 and 90 on my 120.
That didn't work for me when I moved out of Cingular's service area. They just told me that it wasn't their fault I moved. They did cut the ETF in half.