I own an SUV --start the flames!!-- A Ford Expedition. I own it for two reasons: Size and height.
No, it doesn't get very good mileage (19-MPG on average). Yes, it may have a tendancy to roll over more than your sedans. But for comfort for me and my family, it can't be beat. When we want to, we can haul my family, and my in-laws on long trips, with all of our bicycles mounted on the receiver in the back... and we're still comfortable. Can't do that in a minivan.
I appreciate you other people who feel that driving a small car is a better thing to do. In fact, I do have a small car that I drive when I don't need to carry everybody else.
Am I still a high-and-mighty Suburbanite? If you want to feel that way, fine. I have my reasons...
I'd now like to start capturing 8 (or more) channels of raw (delivered via XLR cables from mics) audio.
Along with:
I don't want to add more USB/FireWire capture cards to the mix, and I don't want to pay a heap for a digital 8-track recorder such as Yamaha's AW16...
I'm sorry, that just doesn't make sense. Recording equipment is expensive any way you slice it. You either pay for the convenience, or live with the inconvenience.
Oh, and just for the "record", I use a Roland VS-2480 CD unit. Costs a few thousand dollars. Hard to use. Great sound. Very powerful. I recorded an entire album on it (the usual drums/guitar/bass/keys/vocals) and I can compare the results favorably against much higher-budget albums.
You can't beat the price/features for it. No, I don't work for Roland. Many years ago, I worked in a 24-track recording studio with the 2-inch tape and the works. This thing sounds better than that old studio could dream of, and for a very small fraction of the price.
I recently bought a computer from HP that I intended to put Linux on. It was a nice, cheap computer (it suited my needs). I asked if they could sell it to me without Windows on it (they would put FreeDOS on it). Turns out I would have had to pay about $200 more for it, because of the "discount structure". Go figure...
I have heard (through a guy that could fix *anything*) that a higher-frequency AC system would save enormous amounts of energy. 50~60 Hz is far too low. Something more like 500~1000 Hz is more transmittable and more efficient to convert to DC later.
Yeah, it's big, and it's a bit of a pain to lug around, but I don't lug around all that much. What I *love* about it though, is the numeric keypad. It's big enough to have your normal keyboard, plus enough space to have your numeric keypad as well.
You obviously didn't read TFA. It uses energy (from the battery, I believe) to crack the water into its components, then feeds the hydrogen into the intake. This makes for a cleaner and more effiecient burn in the cylinder.
It still uses fuel, but TFA says it will burn with much greater efficiency and much less pollution.
Let me preface the below with the statement that this is not intended to be a troll...
I realize that this would be a painful/inconvenient move for everybody, but if the end-result is more of what we want, isn't this a good thing?
Never mind the fact that this may be an incomplete standard; I realize that. But standards can be revised. Yes, we're talking Micro$oft here, but if they have the ability to do this when nobody else can, I say it's a Good Thing!
This clause, as part of a SELECT statement lets you view data, kind of in a spreadsheet format, with the ability to forecast trends based on existing data.
Every 5 years or so, I see an article about this flying car, and every time I see the article it says, "It'll be available to everyone in 10 to 15 years".
And my experience is just the opposite. My Verizon service is second-to-none. The only place I don't get a signal is inside the current building where I work, which has layers of RF-blocking layers. I used to have Cingular and service was quite spotty at best.
I traveled to China recently. I'll say this: Chinese food in the USA is nothing like real Chinese food.
I particularly remember some sweet/sour chicken I got there. In the US, you get these pretty nuggets of white meat and sauce on them. In China, you get... well pretty much the whole chicken. It's like the took the whole thing (minus the feathers and major organs) and chucked it into a shredder. Spinal cord and all.
It was an odd experience.
One of the best meals I had there was Kangaroo Tail.
I don't know exactly how they do it, but Oracle's RDBMS runs on all kinds of OSes. OSX, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux (among some others). Oracle is fast and it has the same feature set on all the platforms. Oracle on Linux works just like Oracle on Windows.
Now, they have an army of programmers, and I'm certain they write their own compatibility layer. Most bugs I have found in their RDBMS are platform independent - that is, a smallish percentage of bugs are specific to certain platforms.
It didn't really answer the question, but it obviously can be done on a large scale. Oracle has done it quite well.
We may be the exception, but our Windows program is written so that us developers can understand our code. Sure, our product is geared toward the end-user, but without solid code it would just fall apart.
We're in our 14th year of our product. Maintenance and enhancements are the norm. No product is bug-free, but for the complexity of our Windows program, it's relatively easy for one developer to take another developer's code and work with it. We have about 20 developers in our company.
Maybe I can see a use for turning it green, as it would help get the traffic in front out of the way, give them space to pull over, but for this to work, they'd have to activate it from a distance.
This is precisely what this system does. I used to live in a place that this system worked like a champ... I saw one time the light change to red just before an ambulance approached, the sensor picked the ambulance up and immediately switched back to green for him to go through. At the time, I wasn't aware such a system existed; I was both suprised and very pleased to see this.
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I own an SUV --start the flames!!-- A Ford Expedition. I own it for two reasons: Size and height.
No, it doesn't get very good mileage (19-MPG on average). Yes, it may have a tendancy to roll over more than your sedans. But for comfort for me and my family, it can't be beat. When we want to, we can haul my family, and my in-laws on long trips, with all of our bicycles mounted on the receiver in the back... and we're still comfortable. Can't do that in a minivan.
I appreciate you other people who feel that driving a small car is a better thing to do. In fact, I do have a small car that I drive when I don't need to carry everybody else.
Am I still a high-and-mighty Suburbanite? If you want to feel that way, fine. I have my reasons...
Oh, and just for the "record", I use a Roland VS-2480 CD unit. Costs a few thousand dollars. Hard to use. Great sound. Very powerful. I recorded an entire album on it (the usual drums/guitar/bass/keys/vocals) and I can compare the results favorably against much higher-budget albums.
You can't beat the price/features for it. No, I don't work for Roland. Many years ago, I worked in a 24-track recording studio with the 2-inch tape and the works. This thing sounds better than that old studio could dream of, and for a very small fraction of the price.
NO WAY!!!!
I recently bought a computer from HP that I intended to put Linux on. It was a nice, cheap computer (it suited my needs). I asked if they could sell it to me without Windows on it (they would put FreeDOS on it). Turns out I would have had to pay about $200 more for it, because of the "discount structure". Go figure...
Could anybody confirm this?
Hey, just write whatever it is in Java. You know, "write once, run anywhere". Simple!!!
Yes, this is a joke.
Yeah, it's big, and it's a bit of a pain to lug around, but I don't lug around all that much. What I *love* about it though, is the numeric keypad. It's big enough to have your normal keyboard, plus enough space to have your numeric keypad as well.
That's why they are journalists! :P
It still uses fuel, but TFA says it will burn with much greater efficiency and much less pollution.
Let me preface the below with the statement that this is not intended to be a troll...
I realize that this would be a painful/inconvenient move for everybody, but if the end-result is more of what we want, isn't this a good thing?
Never mind the fact that this may be an incomplete standard; I realize that. But standards can be revised. Yes, we're talking Micro$oft here, but if they have the ability to do this when nobody else can, I say it's a Good Thing!
This clause, as part of a SELECT statement lets you view data, kind of in a spreadsheet format, with the ability to forecast trends based on existing data.
Pretty heady stuff...
Actually I did... The SYSTEM process was the thing using up my CPU. I don't know if the cause was Trend-Micro or not though...
I couldn't figure it out - had to boot to safe mode just to backup my files before I re-installed the OS.
I'm quite skeptical.
And my experience is just the opposite. My Verizon service is second-to-none. The only place I don't get a signal is inside the current building where I work, which has layers of RF-blocking layers. I used to have Cingular and service was quite spotty at best.
I traveled to China recently. I'll say this: Chinese food in the USA is nothing like real Chinese food.
I particularly remember some sweet/sour chicken I got there. In the US, you get these pretty nuggets of white meat and sauce on them. In China, you get... well pretty much the whole chicken. It's like the took the whole thing (minus the feathers and major organs) and chucked it into a shredder. Spinal cord and all.
It was an odd experience.
One of the best meals I had there was Kangaroo Tail.
If you listen to the music in the trailer, it's the same music used in Men In Black. That's the first thing I noticed.
Now, they have an army of programmers, and I'm certain they write their own compatibility layer. Most bugs I have found in their RDBMS are platform independent - that is, a smallish percentage of bugs are specific to certain platforms.
It didn't really answer the question, but it obviously can be done on a large scale. Oracle has done it quite well.
Uh, no... It's one *drive* with multiple platters.
I recently installed it on my laptop (1.2 GHz) and the whole installation took less than 1 second. Amazing.
I've never understood why so many people like it, because I've *never* liked MP3.
We're in our 14th year of our product. Maintenance and enhancements are the norm. No product is bug-free, but for the complexity of our Windows program, it's relatively easy for one developer to take another developer's code and work with it. We have about 20 developers in our company.
Do you really think somebody would want something called a "mouse" attached to their computer?
This is precisely what this system does. I used to live in a place that this system worked like a champ... I saw one time the light change to red just before an ambulance approached, the sensor picked the ambulance up and immediately switched back to green for him to go through. At the time, I wasn't aware such a system existed; I was both suprised and very pleased to see this.