My route: important documents and long term secrets (including pw to encrypted disk and instructions) in safety deposit box; more volatile secured data on the encrypted disk -virtual disk- along with frequently needed secrets; strong password securing disk; backup the disk regularly.
The myth you stated (the founding myth that Adam Smith used in creating the field of economics) is just that. The fantasy world of barter never existed. The historic progression is from virtual money (ancient Mesopotamia where one silver shekel = one bushel barley =... and the silver never left the treasury) to coinage (much later) to barter (used mainly by people who were used to cash transactions when currency wasn't available and a system of credit didn't exist.)
Look to John Maynard Keynes (his self described "Babylonian madness") attempting to ascertain the origins of money or a significant body of anthropological research if you wish to dissuade yourself of the fiction in intro economics texts. You will find exceptional uses of barter amongst indigenous peoples (typically were either the parties involved are mimicking or actually near violent conflict or the parties don't know each other and don't expect to encounter each other again so they attempt to swindle each other by bartering.)
No, a more common human endeavor before the state creation of money was that people pooled there excess materials and equitably portioned them out as needed (ex. Iroquois longhouses.) Gifting exchanges were long the norm in some areas until states created markets based on money via taxes. Another alternative still exists commonly, obligations. Debt being the commodification of obligations with a fixed monetization.
For a setting where coinage is scarce or one would protest the state that issues such coinage barter is the historical norm.
Open Cobalt, opencobalt.org, is the successor to Croquet, and it does indeed do all that the OP required with the possible exception of the requirement to not "lock me in to a particular mind-set." To me Smalltalk and Morphic, the interface paradigm, constitute mind-sets, and while one could subclass the Smalltalk compiler within Open Cobalt and play with the metaobject system to be able to work in a language of ones own design there would be a considerable bit of work to mask Morphic to allow work in a different mind-set. I don't think that Morphic would impose the limits that seem implied as the cause for this requirement though. Morphic provides for arbitrarily shaped widgets/windows (allowing for holes and non-contiguous surfaces) as well as focus tracking and interaction across 3D surfaces.
Yes, I have experience with Croquet -though it was some time ago.
======8X-----cut-here----- Now for my wish that the OP would have a hand at fixing the SlashDot interface and get it implemented. After typing a longer and more detailed response I Previewed that response only to find that these days white space isn't preserved in posts by default. No problem, Continue Editing to get back to that Options button (just over from the non-destructive Preview button) and see what can be done about inserting some blank lines for readability. Only problem is that clicking on Options and choosing to switch to the old plain text option wound up loosing the comment I'd just typed in. I'm frustrated and sad that Slashdot exhibits this behavior. Please fix it. sigh
(word on the homepage of a GoDaddy misdirected site) on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. All three responded with NO matches.
Given that "photosparks" doesn't bring up any seemingly related matches either (eg. the search engines have no pages referencing the site) the site might just not have been indexed yet.
NOTE: I repeated this test with a few other misdirected sites obtaining similar results.
Having made a similar transition to the asker, I concur with the parent.
I picked the DVX100 because it has two balanced, XLR, audio inputs with good sound quality and excellent video (cine gamma with 24p or not can do nice things.) Forget about anybody's built in mics.
The DVX100 also provides enough pro camera options (white/black balance, selectable percentage on zebra striping,...) to be plenty of camera to manage any project the asker is likely to shoot until HD is required.
Having used FCP since its first release, its now excellent and should serve especially well when editing audio with Logic (rewired to Live or not.)
If looking to use the video as a portfolio or include it in a portfolio its worth considering DVD Studio Pro. While iDVD will cut it for family/friends... To really show off the audio (5.1,...) in a slick menu driven package its worth springing for DVD SP 3.
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My route:
important documents and long term secrets (including pw to encrypted disk and instructions) in safety deposit box;
more volatile secured data on the encrypted disk -virtual disk- along with frequently needed secrets;
strong password securing disk;
backup the disk regularly.
The myth you stated (the founding myth that Adam Smith used in creating the field of economics) is just that. The fantasy world of barter never existed. The historic progression is from virtual money (ancient Mesopotamia where one silver shekel = one bushel barley = ... and the silver never left the treasury) to coinage (much later) to barter (used mainly by people who were used to cash transactions when currency wasn't available and a system of credit didn't exist.)
Look to John Maynard Keynes (his self described "Babylonian madness") attempting to ascertain the origins of money or a significant body of anthropological research if you wish to dissuade yourself of the fiction in intro economics texts. You will find exceptional uses of barter amongst indigenous peoples (typically were either the parties involved are mimicking or actually near violent conflict or the parties don't know each other and don't expect to encounter each other again so they attempt to swindle each other by bartering.)
No, a more common human endeavor before the state creation of money was that people pooled there excess materials and equitably portioned them out as needed (ex. Iroquois longhouses.) Gifting exchanges were long the norm in some areas until states created markets based on money via taxes. Another alternative still exists commonly, obligations. Debt being the commodification of obligations with a fixed monetization.
For a setting where coinage is scarce or one would protest the state that issues such coinage barter is the historical norm.
Open Cobalt, opencobalt.org, is the successor to Croquet, and it does indeed do all that the OP required with the possible exception of the requirement to not "lock me in to a particular mind-set." To me Smalltalk and Morphic, the interface paradigm, constitute mind-sets, and while one could subclass the Smalltalk compiler within Open Cobalt and play with the metaobject system to be able to work in a language of ones own design there would be a considerable bit of work to mask Morphic to allow work in a different mind-set. I don't think that Morphic would impose the limits that seem implied as the cause for this requirement though. Morphic provides for arbitrarily shaped widgets/windows (allowing for holes and non-contiguous surfaces) as well as focus tracking and interaction across 3D surfaces.
Yes, I have experience with Croquet -though it was some time ago.
======8X-----cut-here-----
Now for my wish that the OP would have a hand at fixing the SlashDot interface and get it implemented. After typing a longer and more detailed response I Previewed that response only to find that these days white space isn't preserved in posts by default. No problem, Continue Editing to get back to that Options button (just over from the non-destructive Preview button) and see what can be done about inserting some blank lines for readability. Only problem is that clicking on Options and choosing to switch to the old plain text option wound up loosing the comment I'd just typed in. I'm frustrated and sad that Slashdot exhibits this behavior. Please fix it. sigh
Given that "photosparks" doesn't bring up any seemingly related matches either (eg. the search engines have no pages referencing the site) the site might just not have been indexed yet.
NOTE: I repeated this test with a few other misdirected sites obtaining similar results.
Having made a similar transition to the asker, I concur with the parent.
I picked the DVX100 because it has two balanced, XLR, audio inputs with good sound quality and excellent video (cine gamma with 24p or not can do nice things.) Forget about anybody's built in mics.
The DVX100 also provides enough pro camera options (white/black balance, selectable percentage on zebra striping,...) to be plenty of camera to manage any project the asker is likely to shoot until HD is required.
Having used FCP since its first release, its now excellent and should serve especially well when editing audio with Logic (rewired to Live or not.)
If looking to use the video as a portfolio or include it in a portfolio its worth considering DVD Studio Pro. While iDVD will cut it for family/friends... To really show off the audio (5.1,...) in a slick menu driven package its worth springing for DVD SP 3.
All the best to the asker!