Just to be technically specific, a high SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) is good. High signal, low noise. I think you meant the SNR on Engadget is so darned low.
Just happened to finish reading a good book about the history of deep sea exploration "Eternal Darkness", by Robert Ballard. He has been involved in this field since the 1970's & was former director at Woods Hole.
Anyway, the US Navy hired these guys to find the Thresher, and they did. He also discovered the Titanic. Great book, highly recommended.
Yes! to own and touch (or even see) a Jimi Hendrix guitar...it's just a beat up guitar, but it was handled by a master. I could see mounting an author's IBM Model M keyboard in a glass case over the fireplace. Ever since mass production made things common, people have wanted the unique back again. Museums exist to display the patina and provenance of objects. It fascinates us.
When you grow up, you lose touch with friends. Not everyone is googleable 20 years later. You can only find some people when they come to Facebook.
The default security isn't bad, and don't play the stupid apps. I'd pay $39.99/yr to lose the ads, with that they could build infrastructure.
The recent Live/News feed debacle prompted me to buy a new dead-tree address book to fill in. I hope they don't go away, but want to remain in contact with a few good friends if they do.
The human ear is pretty good too, the average person should be able to hear a delay of this duration. Combine audio & visual inputs and now my screensaver is taking me places.
Will look into ReplayGain, never stumbled across it. Can tell you I have trouble with Pandora in this regard. A 'classical guitar' station always needs a boost for the xmitr to modulate well. It's also fairly common to play a CD through the thing so I can listen in another room and it just doesn't sound good. Either clips or sounds like mush, not enough incoming signal to drive the xmitr. This from cd's I wouldn't think are overly compressed.
Have a Squeezebox Classic which is I prefer. It will even scroll RSS feeds (like/.) in its display. You only get the headline and have to manually scroll through the story, but neat anyway.
Those look interesting, know if any 'auto level' the input? I am using two transmitters from CC.Crane http://www.ccrane.com/radios/fm-transmitters/fm-transmitter.aspx and they work well, but I am always having to adjust the input level pot on the side. Note, you can boost the RF output a bit by turning the trimpot hiding under the sticker on the bottom.
It might be tricky to find a clear frequency if you live in a metropolitan area. But you can set odd an odd spacing like 95.35 Mhz (assuming your receiver will tune that).
While pandora is not good for listening to a particular artist when you want to, it works well for something like this. I like classical guitar too but don't know many artists. Created an "Andres Segovia" channel and me and the baby are chillin' first thing in the morning.
Many towns and cities have been burned by spending millions on a proprietary system only to discover they can't talk to the next town over.
It would be nice if the DHS actually did something useful and put an end to that kind of crap.
This article http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/09/b1029179.html from 2005 stresses the importance ans suggests using WiFi. Maybe. But the most important aspect is "one digital protocol to rule them all", no matter what band you're on.
I think so, he was into "don't know know mind" right? He liked to hit people with sticks, the pain/confusion you felt when getting whacked by a stick out of the blue was your "don't know mind", if you could stay in that space, or go back to it at will, you are close.
He also was fond of saying buddha was everything and nothing, buddha is shit on a stick. I like this thought. It's kept me interested in this way of looking at life.
Here's a good margarita that doesn't use a strong mixer. I'm no tequila snob, any decent silver will do, Jose Cuervo Classico is just fine, but this would probably just get better with the quality of the tequila.
in a rocks glass, pour
1-1/2 oz silver tequila 1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice 1/2 oz Grand Marnier (float on top, or stir in, both good)
Wait, I went to film school, and we were encouraged to use tripods. Shakey was bad. That was the late eighties, though. I think it was the tv show NYPD Blue that popularized the shakey technique. Looked like the camera was mounted on a tripod or dolly but the camera assistant went nuts with the pan and tilt. Drove me nuts, watched only a few episodes.
Haven't seen Blair Witch Trial or last Summer's monster movie (all shot hand held?) because of this. Did watch Saving Private Ryan at home, which was intense enough, can't imagine sitting through the opening scene (Omaha beach) in the theater.
BSG doesn't bother me as much, it much more subtle, and I am 40.
No, just wanted to let him know what it might come to. I should've emphasized that you (and your SO) have to be okay with living in a construction zone. It does get old when your work place and "go home place" are the same. You get burnt out and find excuses to get out of the house, which makes the jobs take longer.
And I agree with those that stress getting permits. You really need to. My inspectors weren't that thorough, so you should be familiar with the codes yourself. I wanted my house to last another hundred years. Remember, the code is a minimum level of safety, you are free to do a better job than is called for.
The hardest part about getting permits was the time it took to create the floor plans. Xfig is my friend. Several plan reviewers did comment on how nice the printouts looked.
Have you considered doing work on the house yourself? The money you save may make the second job unnecessary.
My wife & I remodeled our previous house: tore off plaster, moved walls, rewired, tiled, etc. We hired out the roof tear off, rough plumbing work and some of the drywalling. Saved a ton of money. Eventually, it made more sense for me quit my low-paying job and become the full-time house repair dude while she worked her good job.
It's not that hard, you learn new skills, have an excuse to aquire tools, and have something to be proud of. It did take seven years, though. YMMV
This time around, we are paying others as much as we can, but we'll probably be left with a weathered-in shell.
It's also a good way to find out you your friends really are. Forget moving day, real friends help you demo and haul.
If it's an older STR-AV receiver, the fix is to put star washers under all screws that hold the main board to the chassis. Install washers between the circuit board and the tabs on the chassis, not under the screw heads. The idea is to improve the grounding. I was a tech at a Sony authorized repair center for five years.
If yours isn't in the STR-AV, then look for cold solder joints. Good luck.
Yes they have. In 2001 I got to play with two PowerEdge 6300 servers. Nice machines--as big as a microwave, multi proc, raid, redundant power supplies, etc. They shipped with RedHat 6.2 IIRC. Trouble was that you couldn't upgrade the kernel because the raid driver was a proprietary binary. Don't think Dell ever did supply updates for that distro for the year I was responsible for those machines.
Also failed to get X running on their high-end workstations because the Nvidia cards were oem'ed for Dell and would not work with any existing Linux drivers.
They're a tease. F*** 'em.
When RedHat decided my $60 wasn't good enough and went 'strictly commercial' I went back to SUSE (then SuSE). Gave Fedora a pass out of protest. SUSE went to shit, what's left--Ubunto, which is sorely lacking. Sound broken, hot-plug usb media reader broken.
We're going backwards. You can't buy Linux at Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy or anywhere, WTF!
I'm glad to hear RHEL is making money, bully on them. It was a sad/fateful day when they pulled the plug on their retail distro. My New Year's wish is for them to reconsider their userbase. Their success was built by hobbiests that grew up to be IT professionals and sold their product for them. Why'd they pull that plug?
Wow, thanks for hippin' me to Cory Doctorow's site. Looks like something to read in a couple of weeks after I get my wisdom teeth pulled and I'm high on Percocet!
Cheers,
Kyle A>
Using potable water to flush a toilet is just dumb. There's a story about a woman who brought an African to (England?) for some political reason. She was mortified when she discovered that he had crapped in the sink. He of course was embarassed. The reason was he had never seen a toilet and could not imagine that someone would defile perfectly good water and the sink was his best guess as to what these first world people did with their waste.
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Negra Modelo from Mexico should be easy enough to locate in a grocery store near you for the curious.
ha! funny +1
Awesome sentence! Beautiful, thanks.
Just to be technically specific, a high SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) is good. High signal, low noise. I think you meant the SNR on Engadget is so darned low.
Just happened to finish reading a good book about the history of deep sea exploration "Eternal Darkness", by Robert Ballard. He has been involved in this field since the 1970's & was former director at Woods Hole.
Anyway, the US Navy hired these guys to find the Thresher, and they did. He also discovered the Titanic. Great book, highly recommended.
Janis Joplin knew: "Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man."
Robots in the surveying industry.
A (very cool) computer with optics on a stick.
Yes! to own and touch (or even see) a Jimi Hendrix guitar...it's just a beat up guitar, but it was handled by a master. I could see mounting an author's IBM Model M keyboard in a glass case over the fireplace. Ever since mass production made things common, people have wanted the unique back again. Museums exist to display the patina and provenance of objects. It fascinates us.
When you grow up, you lose touch with friends. Not everyone is googleable 20 years later. You can only find some people when they come to Facebook.
The default security isn't bad, and don't play the stupid apps. I'd pay $39.99/yr to lose the ads, with that they could build infrastructure.
The recent Live/News feed debacle prompted me to buy a new dead-tree address book to fill in. I hope they don't go away, but want to remain in contact with a few good friends if they do.
A good FPS player will notice lags of a few ms.
The human ear is pretty good too, the average person should be able to hear a delay of this duration. Combine audio & visual inputs and now my screensaver is taking me places.
Will look into ReplayGain, never stumbled across it. Can tell you I have trouble with Pandora in this regard. A 'classical guitar' station always needs a boost for the xmitr to modulate well. It's also fairly common to play a CD through the thing so I can listen in another room and it just doesn't sound good. Either clips or sounds like mush, not enough incoming signal to drive the xmitr. This from cd's I wouldn't think are overly compressed.
/.) in its display. You only get the headline and have to manually scroll through the story, but neat anyway.
Have a Squeezebox Classic which is I prefer. It will even scroll RSS feeds (like
Those look interesting, know if any 'auto level' the input? I am using two transmitters from CC.Crane http://www.ccrane.com/radios/fm-transmitters/fm-transmitter.aspx and they work well, but I am always having to adjust the input level pot on the side. Note, you can boost the RF output a bit by turning the trimpot hiding under the sticker on the bottom.
It might be tricky to find a clear frequency if you live in a metropolitan area. But you can set odd an odd spacing like 95.35 Mhz (assuming your receiver will tune that).
While pandora is not good for listening to a particular artist when you want to, it works well for something like this. I like classical guitar too but don't know many artists. Created an "Andres Segovia" channel and me and the baby are chillin' first thing in the morning.
Many towns and cities have been burned by spending millions on a proprietary system only to discover they can't talk to the next town over.
It would be nice if the DHS actually did something useful and put an end to that kind of crap.
This article http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/09/b1029179.html from 2005 stresses the importance ans suggests using WiFi. Maybe. But the most important aspect is "one digital protocol to rule them all", no matter what band you're on.
I think so, he was into "don't know know mind" right? He liked to hit people with sticks, the pain/confusion you felt when getting whacked by a stick out of the blue was your "don't know mind", if you could stay in that space, or go back to it at will, you are close.
He also was fond of saying buddha was everything and nothing, buddha is shit on a stick. I like this thought. It's kept me interested in this way of looking at life.
Here's a good margarita that doesn't use a strong mixer.
I'm no tequila snob, any decent silver will do, Jose Cuervo Classico is just fine, but this would probably just get better with the quality of the tequila.
in a rocks glass, pour
1-1/2 oz silver tequila
1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
1/2 oz Grand Marnier (float on top, or stir in, both good)
serve over rocks (ice). Done and delicious.
You'll thank me later,
Cheers!
Wait, I went to film school, and we were encouraged to use tripods. Shakey was bad. That was the late eighties, though. I think it was the tv show NYPD Blue that popularized the shakey technique. Looked like the camera was mounted on a tripod or dolly but the camera assistant went nuts with the pan and tilt. Drove me nuts, watched only a few episodes.
Haven't seen Blair Witch Trial or last Summer's monster movie (all shot hand held?) because of this. Did watch Saving Private Ryan at home, which was intense enough, can't imagine sitting through the opening scene (Omaha beach) in the theater.
BSG doesn't bother me as much, it much more subtle, and I am 40.
I used to do the same and saw that exact message in WordStar for CP/M.
No, just wanted to let him know what it might come to. I should've emphasized that you (and your SO) have to be okay with living in a construction zone. It does get old when your work place and "go home place" are the same. You get burnt out and find excuses to get out of the house, which makes the jobs take longer.
And I agree with those that stress getting permits. You really need to. My inspectors weren't that thorough, so you should be familiar with the codes yourself. I wanted my house to last another hundred years. Remember, the code is a minimum level of safety, you are free to do a better job than is called for.
The hardest part about getting permits was the time it took to create the floor plans. Xfig is my friend. Several plan reviewers did comment on how nice the printouts looked.
My wife & I remodeled our previous house: tore off plaster, moved walls, rewired, tiled, etc. We hired out the roof tear off, rough plumbing work and some of the drywalling. Saved a ton of money. Eventually, it made more sense for me quit my low-paying job and become the full-time house repair dude while she worked her good job.
It's not that hard, you learn new skills, have an excuse to aquire tools, and have something to be proud of. It did take seven years, though. YMMV
This time around, we are paying others as much as we can, but we'll probably be left with a weathered-in shell.
It's also a good way to find out you your friends really are. Forget moving day, real friends help you demo and haul.
Good luck.
If it's an older STR-AV receiver, the fix is to put star washers under all screws that hold the main board to the chassis. Install washers between the circuit board and the tabs on the chassis, not under the screw heads. The idea is to improve the grounding. I was a tech at a Sony authorized repair center for five years.
If yours isn't in the STR-AV, then look for cold solder joints. Good luck.
Yes they have. In 2001 I got to play with two PowerEdge 6300 servers. Nice machines--as big as a microwave, multi proc, raid, redundant power supplies, etc. They shipped with RedHat 6.2 IIRC. Trouble was that you couldn't upgrade the kernel because the raid driver was a proprietary binary. Don't think Dell ever did supply updates for that distro for the year I was responsible for those machines. Also failed to get X running on their high-end workstations because the Nvidia cards were oem'ed for Dell and would not work with any existing Linux drivers. They're a tease. F*** 'em.
When RedHat decided my $60 wasn't good enough and went 'strictly commercial' I went back to SUSE (then SuSE). Gave Fedora a pass out of protest. SUSE went to shit, what's left--Ubunto, which is sorely lacking. Sound broken, hot-plug usb media reader broken.
We're going backwards. You can't buy Linux at Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy or anywhere, WTF!
I'm glad to hear RHEL is making money, bully on them. It was a sad/fateful day when they pulled the plug on their retail distro. My New Year's wish is for them to reconsider their userbase. Their success was built by hobbiests that grew up to be IT professionals and sold their product for them. Why'd they pull that plug?
Kyle A.
Wow, thanks for hippin' me to Cory Doctorow's site. Looks like something to read in a couple of weeks after I get my wisdom teeth pulled and I'm high on Percocet! Cheers, Kyle A>
Using potable water to flush a toilet is just dumb. There's a story about a woman who brought an African to (England?) for some political reason. She was mortified when she discovered that he had crapped in the sink. He of course was embarassed. The reason was he had never seen a toilet and could not imagine that someone would defile perfectly good water and the sink was his best guess as to what these first world people did with their waste.