Give your mom a box of backups and ask her to hold on to it, it is "stuff you made"
She'll never get rid of it. and if the house catches fire, it will be the first thing she grabs when she runs out.
That is why Jackson is shooting at 48 fps
He is shooting 2 movies at the EXACT SAME TIME.
Once the first film is "finished" they extract every other frame so they get TWO movies @ 24 fps!
Brilliant!
point taken. I have a feeling it has something to do with whatever purchasing agreement they have with the supplier. The store may say "We want every stand-alone A/C you can make" and the supplier may reply "OK, but you have to also agree to purchase X amount of these and these and these A/C units as well..."
This year I noticed my Home Depot has tons of 6000btu window units and nothing else. Last year they had hardly anything in stock after the first heat wave hit and the ones they had were 220v. Looks like they overcompensated for last year and missed the mark. I did not see how many units of all varieties they started out the season with.
last week when temps went to 101-102, we got undervoltage from ComEd.
normal voltage for me is between 115-199 I noticed one of my window A/C units would kick on, the compressor would struggle for a bit, then it would shut off, leaving only the fan blowing. After a couple of minutes it would try again valiently, but fail over and over.
Thinking that it finally broken, I started shopping for A/C units online at ABT, then I notice the other window A/C unit doing the same thing.
Checked the power and found 103 volts! "there's yer problem", called ComEd and apparently it was not really something they considered serious as my lights were not "flickering". They would not tell me what the the numerical threshold was for "undervoltage" vs "brownout".
Fired up the NG generator and plugged the 2 A/C units into it for about 8 hours until the voltage crept back up to 108, then the A/C compressors would work fine. Next day voltage was at 119
Today temps are higher and voltage is 110 and holding. I think I have a 3 volt margin? I am hesitant to leave and come back to find that some motor overheated due to undervoltage and caused my house to burn down, also don't want to leave with a generator running for the same reason (it is big and bolted down).
All in all, not really a huge problem compared to others in areas hit by fallen trees and no power at all.
We have a huge chest freezer that is mostly filled with 2 liter bottles of frozen water and small bottles of frozen water. These come in useful when a neighbor or family member nearby loses power. We bring them a pile of frozen bottles to stuff in their fridge and take their frozen stuff back to the chest freezer until the power comes back on.
expect more to appear as the weather gets better and people return them.
I have seen people returning A/C units after the worst part of the weather is over, sometimes close to the 90 day limit for returns.
There are people out there that use Lowes/Home Depot/Menards etc as a "lending library" for Air Conditioners.
yeah I know you've been modded down into oblivion, but I have to disagree.
Every Apple Store I have ever been in is filled with MILFs buying stuff for themselves or their kids.
If I was not happily married, I would consider hanging out there and "helping" customers, or....applying for a job so I could do it all day.
For the potential "action" of course.
or just ask your accounting department what they think. *cough*
Years ago I used to work in the film biz and we did a good number of commercials for the State Lottery.
There was always a call for lots of "money" floating about in various forms.
We got the most realistic "fake" money that was available from The Earl Hays Press in California.
Their website does not list it but I'm pretty sure they still provide it. It looks pretty real unless you compare it to another "real" bill.
Once, when I was visiting, someone there told me that the current incarnation was as far as they could go. They had apparently made something a bit more realistic, the Secret Service decided it was "too" good and confiscated the plates.
Anyways, for some jobs when we only needed a few bills to film for something we STILL had to use "fake" money.
The accounting dept people at the Ad Agency would always demand it to cover their asses. They read the rules as "any photographic reproduction" to apply to filming money so it could appear on a TV set as being involved in counterfitting.
So then I would bring out the "best" fake money available and they would complain that it did not look real enough. (???)
I once did this dance back and forth on a job and finally relented and showed them the most advanced "fake" money available for movie use, -it just became available this month-! It was a real $100 bill. They fell for it and filmed it.
No one went to jail or lost their job.
limited scope, but from my own person experience none-the-less:
Many years ago I was in the hospital for several days, for -what turned out to be- salmonella.
Six months after I am out, I get a "final notice" from the hospital for $7500. wtf is this? I never got the first bills. (not an excuse for non-payment but the truth)
Not only that, I had less than a week to pay or they would sue me!
Having no lawyer and no clue how to counter (I didn't have $7500 at the time), I contacted my landlord who had just finished telling me how wonderful this lawyer was that she had found after going through a bunch of shysters.
Contacted the lawyer, laid everything out for him, asked him how much it would cost, he said he would file a response and request a jury trial.
He seemed pretty sure that they would throw up their hands and walk away from it rather than agree to a jury trial.
Sure enough, I never heard a word from them again. Still use the same doctor.
They never sent me another bill, never tried to set up a payment plan, never dinged my credit report
Lawyer's estimate was $350, he ended up charging me $750 before I told him to stop "monitoring" the case and billing me for each time he "checked up on it."
/ymmv //I can see how this would work (or not work) depending on who it was that was suing you. This would not work in all cases.
For any scenario other than the bachelor scenario, the "remote" needs to stay with the TV.
I was only addressing the "charging" issue, which I see as a "non" issue based on how some iPad owners use their devices.
My wife and I both have iPads, but we also watch TV together, not alone.
Both of us use the iPad for remotely controlling the TV, which includes not just the AppleTV, but searching for programs and adding them to the RECORD queue while never touching U-Verse remote.
Does that count as a "scenario other than the bachelor scenario"?
If not, I need to inform my wife of our new relationship status.
You seem to be treating the iPad as a dedicated TV remote that never gets used for anything else.
The iPad is already next to me whenever I am watching TV. I check texts, emails, look up actors that are in the movies we are watching, etc etc.
When I am done watching TV, I don't leave the iPad on the couch, it goes with me, unlike the remote that is normally dedicated to the TV.
Apps are written in Python. There are currently about 250 now.
I was shocked when I saw a friend's AppleTV... there was no web browser - stay in the garden children.
True, if you use the simple -out-of-the-box- minimal remote that comes with the device.
But if you use your iPhone/iPad/iPad Touch as a WiFi remote (with the free Remote app from Apple), you have a really sweet remote that also does mirroring via Airplay. Anything visible on the screen of the i-Device shows up on the TV.
I'm always surprised at how many I-Device owners had no idea that they could use their device as a remote control and display content on their TVs.
At family gatherings we just turn on the TV, fire up the AppleTV and then everyone pulls out their iPhones and shares photos.
It *can*, I've done hundreds and it does them very very fast. Doing both sides at the same time is nice because many people have written notes on the back of their photos. Now you don't have to copy down the notes.
Downside is that the scanner was apparently not intended for glossy photos. I get the occasional odd fine green line through one section of the image or a 1/4" of color "noise" at the leading edge of the image.
Support says it is an artifact that appears with scanned glossy images and there is no real good way to get around (at least not with this scanner.)
If you happen to already HAVE the scanner and you can put up with some minor imperfections on the scans of those shoeboxes full of pics you never ever go through but are always meaning to before you die, it will probably be fine.
...You'll have the book later, if you ever wish to peruse it again, and you can search/highlight/unhighlight parts of the book.
That is not always the case. Depending on the publisher, you actually "rent" the books for 6-9 months. At that point your "license" expires and you are no longer able to access the information you purchased a license to access. This market is evolving. This is not the case for all publishers, but it is for many of the ones I looked at.
One of the Med-Surg books I wanted to keep handy on my iPad was available as a "flash" content file (no iPad) or as individual chapters that could be downloaded that had time-limits on them. (also no more than 3 chapters at a time)
Since I had purchased the 2000 page two book set already, I tore the cover off, chopped the spine and ran everything through a ScanSnap double-sided scanner creating PDFs. NOW I can keep the book(s) on my iPad, but the initial cost in both time and money is probably beyond the means of the average student.
...many students will use the device to play Angry Birds or check Facebook instead of paying attention in class. If we are to adopt ebooks, I'd much prefer something that can also work on a laptop or PC,...
because of course you can't play games or check Facebook on your laptop in class.
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then I would stay home and pilot everything via my iPad.
That way when the ship capsized, I would be fine and still be able to send out my backup ship.
You DO have a backup ship right?
that Walt Jr. can have BOTH pancakes AND cereal for breakfast?
Give your mom a box of backups and ask her to hold on to it, it is "stuff you made"
She'll never get rid of it.
and if the house catches fire, it will be the first thing she grabs when she runs out.
You get the full article, rather than 4 pages that eventually require you to "sign in" or "register", if you access the PRINT option.
Link HERE
to save mankind.
Doctors already employ remote units to gather data- they are called NURSES.
That is why Jackson is shooting at 48 fps
He is shooting 2 movies at the EXACT SAME TIME.
Once the first film is "finished" they extract every other frame so they get TWO movies @ 24 fps!
Brilliant!
I have a feeling it has something to do with whatever purchasing agreement they have with the supplier.
The store may say "We want every stand-alone A/C you can make" and the supplier may reply "OK, but you have to also agree to purchase X amount of these and these and these A/C units as well..."
This year I noticed my Home Depot has tons of 6000btu window units and nothing else. Last year they had hardly anything in stock after the first heat wave hit and the ones they had were 220v. Looks like they overcompensated for last year and missed the mark.
I did not see how many units of all varieties they started out the season with.
normal voltage for me is between 115-199
I noticed one of my window A/C units would kick on, the compressor would struggle for a bit, then it would shut off, leaving only the fan blowing. After a couple of minutes it would try again valiently, but fail over and over.
Thinking that it finally broken, I started shopping for A/C units online at ABT, then I notice the other window A/C unit doing the same thing.
Checked the power and found 103 volts! "there's yer problem",
called ComEd and apparently it was not really something they considered serious as my lights were not "flickering".
They would not tell me what the the numerical threshold was for "undervoltage" vs "brownout".
Fired up the NG generator and plugged the 2 A/C units into it for about 8 hours until the voltage crept back up to 108, then the A/C compressors would work fine. Next day voltage was at 119
Today temps are higher and voltage is 110 and holding. I think I have a 3 volt margin?
I am hesitant to leave and come back to find that some motor overheated due to undervoltage and caused my house to burn down, also don't want to leave with a generator running for the same reason (it is big and bolted down).
All in all, not really a huge problem compared to others in areas hit by fallen trees and no power at all.
We have a huge chest freezer that is mostly filled with 2 liter bottles of frozen water and small bottles of frozen water. These come in useful when a neighbor or family member nearby loses power. We bring them a pile of frozen bottles to stuff in their fridge and take their frozen stuff back to the chest freezer until the power comes back on.
expect more to appear as the weather gets better and people return them.
I have seen people returning A/C units after the worst part of the weather is over, sometimes close to the 90 day limit for returns.
There are people out there that use Lowes/Home Depot/Menards etc as a "lending library" for Air Conditioners.
a new startup! (as of today)
And a dedicated room (very very small...) for the computer!
use my company! You can trust me... er, my company.
but they always do it with the Pizza Delivery guy!
are you telling me those are not documentaries?
yeah I know you've been modded down into oblivion, but I have to disagree.
Every Apple Store I have ever been in is filled with MILFs buying stuff for themselves or their kids.
If I was not happily married, I would consider hanging out there and "helping" customers, or....applying for a job so I could do it all day.
For the potential "action" of course.
sorry! hope I didn't ruin it for someone...
"Who would have thought?"
wow
:/
That is what 21st Century Pong looks like.
or just ask your accounting department what they think. *cough*
Years ago I used to work in the film biz and we did a good number of commercials for the State Lottery.
There was always a call for lots of "money" floating about in various forms.
We got the most realistic "fake" money that was available from The Earl Hays Press in California.
Their website does not list it but I'm pretty sure they still provide it. It looks pretty real unless you compare it to another "real" bill.
Once, when I was visiting, someone there told me that the current incarnation was as far as they could go. They had apparently made something a bit more realistic, the Secret Service decided it was "too" good and confiscated the plates.
Anyways, for some jobs when we only needed a few bills to film for something we STILL had to use "fake" money.
The accounting dept people at the Ad Agency would always demand it to cover their asses. They read the rules as "any photographic reproduction" to apply to filming money so it could appear on a TV set as being involved in counterfitting.
So then I would bring out the "best" fake money available and they would complain that it did not look real enough. (???)
I once did this dance back and forth on a job and finally relented and showed them the most advanced "fake" money available for movie use, -it just became available this month-!
It was a real $100 bill. They fell for it and filmed it.
No one went to jail or lost their job.
limited scope, but from my own person experience none-the-less:
Many years ago I was in the hospital for several days, for -what turned out to be- salmonella.
Six months after I am out, I get a "final notice" from the hospital for $7500. wtf is this? I never got the first bills. (not an excuse for non-payment but the truth)
Not only that, I had less than a week to pay or they would sue me!
Having no lawyer and no clue how to counter (I didn't have $7500 at the time), I contacted my landlord who had just finished telling me how wonderful this lawyer was that she had found after going through a bunch of shysters.
Contacted the lawyer, laid everything out for him, asked him how much it would cost, he said he would file a response and request a jury trial.
He seemed pretty sure that they would throw up their hands and walk away from it rather than agree to a jury trial.
Sure enough, I never heard a word from them again. Still use the same doctor.
They never sent me another bill, never tried to set up a payment plan, never dinged my credit report
Lawyer's estimate was $350, he ended up charging me $750 before I told him to stop "monitoring" the case and billing me for each time he "checked up on it."
For any scenario other than the bachelor scenario, the "remote" needs to stay with the TV.
I was only addressing the "charging" issue, which I see as a "non" issue based on how some iPad owners use their devices.
My wife and I both have iPads, but we also watch TV together, not alone.
Both of us use the iPad for remotely controlling the TV, which includes not just the AppleTV, but searching for programs and adding them to the RECORD queue while never touching U-Verse remote.
Does that count as a "scenario other than the bachelor scenario"?
If not, I need to inform my wife of our new relationship status.
You seem to be treating the iPad as a dedicated TV remote that never gets used for anything else.
The iPad is already next to me whenever I am watching TV. I check texts, emails, look up actors that are in the movies we are watching, etc etc.
When I am done watching TV, I don't leave the iPad on the couch, it goes with me, unlike the remote that is normally dedicated to the TV.
So why wouldn't I charge it every day?
Apps are written in Python. There are currently about 250 now. I was shocked when I saw a friend's AppleTV... there was no web browser - stay in the garden children.
True, if you use the simple -out-of-the-box- minimal remote that comes with the device.
But if you use your iPhone/iPad/iPad Touch as a WiFi remote (with the free Remote app from Apple), you have a really sweet remote that also does mirroring via Airplay. Anything visible on the screen of the i-Device shows up on the TV.
I'm always surprised at how many I-Device owners had no idea that they could use their device as a remote control and display content on their TVs.
At family gatherings we just turn on the TV, fire up the AppleTV and then everyone pulls out their iPhones and shares photos.
It *can*, I've done hundreds and it does them very very fast. Doing both sides at the same time is nice because many people have written notes on the back of their photos. Now you don't have to copy down the notes.
Downside is that the scanner was apparently not intended for glossy photos.
I get the occasional odd fine green line through one section of the image or a 1/4" of color "noise" at the leading edge of the image.
Support says it is an artifact that appears with scanned glossy images and there is no real good way to get around (at least not with this scanner.)
If you happen to already HAVE the scanner and you can put up with some minor imperfections on the scans of those shoeboxes full of pics you never ever go through but are always meaning to before you die, it will probably be fine.
say 16 Doctors*,
"you're just going to die anyways."
*not necessarily medical doctors"
...You'll have the book later, if you ever wish to peruse it again, and you can search/highlight/unhighlight parts of the book.
That is not always the case. Depending on the publisher, you actually "rent" the books for 6-9 months. At that point your "license" expires and you are no longer able to access the information you purchased a license to access. This market is evolving. This is not the case for all publishers, but it is for many of the ones I looked at.
One of the Med-Surg books I wanted to keep handy on my iPad was available as a "flash" content file (no iPad) or as individual chapters that could be downloaded that had time-limits on them. (also no more than 3 chapters at a time)
Since I had purchased the 2000 page two book set already, I tore the cover off, chopped the spine and ran everything through a ScanSnap double-sided scanner creating PDFs. NOW I can keep the book(s) on my iPad, but the initial cost in both time and money is probably beyond the means of the average student.
...many students will use the device to play Angry Birds or check Facebook instead of paying attention in class. If we are to adopt ebooks, I'd much prefer something that can also work on a laptop or PC,...
because of course you can't play games or check Facebook on your laptop in class.