It is tricky work. And dangerous, if you're not 100% sure you killed the breakers that serve any wires going through the wall.
And it's not just *any* drill. You have to get a special drill with the bit on the end of a 3-foot twisty wire thingie. And even that is of limited utility if you have to go across the wall rather than through the floor.
It's only easy if all you have to do is go straight through a wall, and for that you don't even need a drill. Just a claw hammer to poke out a rectangular hole in both sides and pound some brads into the wiring box you install.
He's arguing against setting up a tax structure that allows and encourages setting up tax havens. Similarly, Mr. Death would probably be against setting up a criminal justice system that does the same for murder.
Since there are international treaties governing both commerce and extradition, it behooves us to make sure that in both areas we discourage people of taking advantage of international political necessities.
Getting rid of the death penalty would help in the latter area wrt. other countries' extradition policies. But since the corporate tax environment is an entirely artificial construct, we don't have to make extradition equivalents. We can just set up the tax structure so that there is no advantage in overseas shell games.
The Prius is not a green vehicle. Not when you compare it to, say, a Ford Focus. Sipping gas is only part of the equation.
There is a waiting list because people are more concerned with image than the environment, and "caring for the environment" is the image people think they're conveying by buying a Prius.
Hey, wait.. I do that. The AP is literally ~12 feet away from the computer that uses it. 12 feet, mostly vertical.
Seriously, though, If you've only got one or two computers, wires are pretty unsightly, and the only way to get rid of them is a *lot* of work and considerable up-front expense (compared to a chap wireless route) if you don't already have the tools or know someone with the tools. And how many people have fish tape, really.
So what you're telling me is that you and your friends preferred to fetishize ovular numerals rather than use the opportunity to "realize the truth" as an excuse for a second, even better, mondo party-for-the-millennium a year later?
Well, the problem is that the product isn't different no matter who they get it from. And that's going to be true for any mass-produced, mass-marked item.
Customer help in the store nice, but they have to give it away free before the customer buys anything, and then the customer can save $200 by just going to best buy, so they could easily end up just being unpaid BB reps.
They are, but check the model numbers. I'm not convinced that apparently identical models really are. I've been very disappointed with walmart products for the last four years or so on everything from skivvies to skittles. And let's not forget about the snapper lawnmower dealy.
Then you should absolutely not be relying on the GPS for instrument flight. The government might be in the habit of announcing selective availability zones beforehand but suppose you're in a zone where they need to use it quick?
Raw -> tiff loses data due to the pattern of the sensor. The tiff will save things as three arrays of pixels, when really there was only one array of pixels and an algorithm to mix those up into a three-color picture.
So.. sure, you lose data converting raw to jpeg, but at high enough quality levels, the jpeg is more than sufficient for all practical purposes. I really fail to see what historical use there could be in saving the specific camera pattern that generated the photo. Any photo, really, but this one in particular.
And you've neglected the fact that you lose the greatest amount of data going from a 3d wavefront to a 2d image sensor. We should really be recording all that phase information that you need to reconstruct the full wavefront. Oh would that future generations be able to fully comprehend the texture of the whitehead on Obama's left nostril in glorious IMAX 3D!
Anyway, every step along the way is a representation of something with much greater detail, but really, the photographer's final submission is plenty sufficient for posterity's sake and is not likely to disappear from records for a long time. Sure, archive the RAW, but I see no reason to get bent out of shape over the fact that it's not film.
Besides, film *might* last a hundred years or so, but it WILL degrade. Digital files will last as long as you're careful about refreshing them.
The first is the most obvious, because it's the same as with a film camera: use aperture stops.
The next is less obvious: play games with the A-D or sensor supply voltage to cut the bin depth. Every digital camera does this, it's what happens when you change the "iso" setting.
Do the previous in software (will look like even more crap, though, at the faster settings)
take many pictures and combine them into a single image.*
And these are just the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. The last one is really, really versatile, astronomers at all levels do it all the time. You can drop frames that have transient events you want to exclude (like an inopportune airplane), color correct or translate & rotate between frames, and as long as you store the originals, you can make your "time lapse" have any interval you choose (as long as it's an integer multiple of snaps)
Popular files, like say.. a presidential portrait, will be stored on many computers and passed along.
There are now open source jpeg, gif decoders, and many other image formats as well. It is really unlikely that images will be lost as long as people take the precaution of, every time they buy a new computer, moving the big "all-my-pictures" directory to the new machine.
Programs like Picasa and iPhoto are making it even easier to store all photos under one big directory, by allowing tagging and other database tools to organize photos and providing backup tools.
I'd wait a week or two. If the stock dip after 9/11 taught me anything, it's that irrational sell-offs take a little while to turn around. (it was ~2 months btw for that one, but I'm not sure how that scales to a single company.)
It's a design decision. You could just fill in the gap and not have to worry about mechanical part failure, extra weight on the roof, and torques on the roof due to wind loading.
I've often wondered why the ups is *before* the computer power supply, anyway. It seems to me that a couple of lithium cells in the right places could keep the important bits going for just long enough to get through short power hiccups.
e.g. keep just the ram and proc going for a few seconds before suspending to ram, followed ultimately with some kind of chipset-powered auto-hibernate when cell voltage indicates that it can't hold the suspend much longer and still retain the option of hibernation.
There is one already: USB power. Fairly low current, but a host of consumer devices from bluetooth headsets to GPS devices to iPods use it as their standard charging source.
It's a little awkward because there are more pins than ought to be strictly necessary, but it's a relatively reasonable compromise over the former solution of no common standard at all.
Works fine if you only have one row of panels that spans the entire width of the roof. But depending on your house's orientation, and power needs, that could be one gigantic frame, and a massive, potentially roof-killing sail.
Plus there's the moving parts.
More than one row of panels, though, and it's pointless. The overlap will just kill the back panels and you'll be lucky to get exactly the same amount of power as fixed.
For wind reasons, it's probably best to just go flush with the roof, and try to buy a house with the roof at a convenient angle. You're still going to get less power in the winter, though, due to the extra thickness of atmosphere the light has to pass through.
Get your air conditioning checked, it's either the wrong size, or there is a problem with it. Even a window unit, which will cost far less than $400/month to operate should be able to dispatch the less than a kilowatt of waste heat you're generating with that load.
3*50 + 3*250 (assuming they're both wasteful processors and CRT monitors)
Yeah, but that murder rate is skewed by urban areas with gun control. Further, murders not committed with a gun ought to be filtered out.
Even so, doing a cursory google search,
According to the FBI, the US murder rate is under 6 per 100,000.
According to nationmaster, the US rate is high (though their number is lower than the FBI number), but you can find European nations with both higher and lower numbers, and the UK and France are more than half the US rate.
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It is tricky work. And dangerous, if you're not 100% sure you killed the breakers that serve any wires going through the wall.
And it's not just *any* drill. You have to get a special drill with the bit on the end of a 3-foot twisty wire thingie. And even that is of limited utility if you have to go across the wall rather than through the floor.
It's only easy if all you have to do is go straight through a wall, and for that you don't even need a drill. Just a claw hammer to poke out a rectangular hole in both sides and pound some brads into the wiring box you install.
What, are we using dB_{$} now?
He's arguing against setting up a tax structure that allows and encourages setting up tax havens. Similarly, Mr. Death would probably be against setting up a criminal justice system that does the same for murder.
Since there are international treaties governing both commerce and extradition, it behooves us to make sure that in both areas we discourage people of taking advantage of international political necessities.
Getting rid of the death penalty would help in the latter area wrt. other countries' extradition policies. But since the corporate tax environment is an entirely artificial construct, we don't have to make extradition equivalents. We can just set up the tax structure so that there is no advantage in overseas shell games.
The Prius is not a green vehicle. Not when you compare it to, say, a Ford Focus. Sipping gas is only part of the equation.
There is a waiting list because people are more concerned with image than the environment, and "caring for the environment" is the image people think they're conveying by buying a Prius.
Hey, wait.. I do that. The AP is literally ~12 feet away from the computer that uses it. 12 feet, mostly vertical.
Seriously, though, If you've only got one or two computers, wires are pretty unsightly, and the only way to get rid of them is a *lot* of work and considerable up-front expense (compared to a chap wireless route) if you don't already have the tools or know someone with the tools. And how many people have fish tape, really.
So what you're telling me is that you and your friends preferred to fetishize ovular numerals rather than use the opportunity to "realize the truth" as an excuse for a second, even better, mondo party-for-the-millennium a year later?
Ah well, it's too late now, I guess.
Well, the problem is that the product isn't different no matter who they get it from. And that's going to be true for any mass-produced, mass-marked item.
Customer help in the store nice, but they have to give it away free before the customer buys anything, and then the customer can save $200 by just going to best buy, so they could easily end up just being unpaid BB reps.
They are, but check the model numbers. I'm not convinced that apparently identical models really are. I've been very disappointed with walmart products for the last four years or so on everything from skivvies to skittles. And let's not forget about the snapper lawnmower dealy.
The days start at one.
The months start at one.
Why would you expect the years to start at zero?
Then you should absolutely not be relying on the GPS for instrument flight. The government might be in the habit of announcing selective availability zones beforehand but suppose you're in a zone where they need to use it quick?
Hah, no. The millennium started in January, 2001.
Raw -> tiff loses data due to the pattern of the sensor. The tiff will save things as three arrays of pixels, when really there was only one array of pixels and an algorithm to mix those up into a three-color picture.
So.. sure, you lose data converting raw to jpeg, but at high enough quality levels, the jpeg is more than sufficient for all practical purposes. I really fail to see what historical use there could be in saving the specific camera pattern that generated the photo. Any photo, really, but this one in particular.
And you've neglected the fact that you lose the greatest amount of data going from a 3d wavefront to a 2d image sensor. We should really be recording all that phase information that you need to reconstruct the full wavefront. Oh would that future generations be able to fully comprehend the texture of the whitehead on Obama's left nostril in glorious IMAX 3D!
Anyway, every step along the way is a representation of something with much greater detail, but really, the photographer's final submission is plenty sufficient for posterity's sake and is not likely to disappear from records for a long time. Sure, archive the RAW, but I see no reason to get bent out of shape over the fact that it's not film.
Besides, film *might* last a hundred years or so, but it WILL degrade. Digital files will last as long as you're careful about refreshing them.
There are *lots* of ways to "slow exposure time"
And these are just the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. The last one is really, really versatile, astronomers at all levels do it all the time. You can drop frames that have transient events you want to exclude (like an inopportune airplane), color correct or translate & rotate between frames, and as long as you store the originals, you can make your "time lapse" have any interval you choose (as long as it's an integer multiple of snaps)
Popular files, like say.. a presidential portrait, will be stored on many computers and passed along.
There are now open source jpeg, gif decoders, and many other image formats as well. It is really unlikely that images will be lost as long as people take the precaution of, every time they buy a new computer, moving the big "all-my-pictures" directory to the new machine.
Programs like Picasa and iPhoto are making it even easier to store all photos under one big directory, by allowing tagging and other database tools to organize photos and providing backup tools.
I'd wait a week or two. If the stock dip after 9/11 taught me anything, it's that irrational sell-offs take a little while to turn around. (it was ~2 months btw for that one, but I'm not sure how that scales to a single company.)
You're starting to see the issue.
It's a design decision. You could just fill in the gap and not have to worry about mechanical part failure, extra weight on the roof, and torques on the roof due to wind loading.
For more information, lookup lampbert's law.
If it only takes 1 cycle to reach full output, It's going to have some awful headache inducing flicker.
I've often wondered why the ups is *before* the computer power supply, anyway. It seems to me that a couple of lithium cells in the right places could keep the important bits going for just long enough to get through short power hiccups.
e.g. keep just the ram and proc going for a few seconds before suspending to ram, followed ultimately with some kind of chipset-powered auto-hibernate when cell voltage indicates that it can't hold the suspend much longer and still retain the option of hibernation.
There is one already: USB power. Fairly low current, but a host of consumer devices from bluetooth headsets to GPS devices to iPods use it as their standard charging source.
It's a little awkward because there are more pins than ought to be strictly necessary, but it's a relatively reasonable compromise over the former solution of no common standard at all.
I..
Why would you assume that "reagent grade" is equivalent to "food grade"?
Yeah, I can't see why a History major would be interested in experiencing a sailor's life on an actual sailing ship.
Works fine if you only have one row of panels that spans the entire width of the roof. But depending on your house's orientation, and power needs, that could be one gigantic frame, and a massive, potentially roof-killing sail.
Plus there's the moving parts.
More than one row of panels, though, and it's pointless. The overlap will just kill the back panels and you'll be lucky to get exactly the same amount of power as fixed.
For wind reasons, it's probably best to just go flush with the roof, and try to buy a house with the roof at a convenient angle. You're still going to get less power in the winter, though, due to the extra thickness of atmosphere the light has to pass through.
Get your air conditioning checked, it's either the wrong size, or there is a problem with it. Even a window unit, which will cost far less than $400/month to operate should be able to dispatch the less than a kilowatt of waste heat you're generating with that load.
3*50 + 3*250 (assuming they're both wasteful processors and CRT monitors)
Yeah, but that murder rate is skewed by urban areas with gun control. Further, murders not committed with a gun ought to be filtered out.
Even so, doing a cursory google search,
According to the FBI, the US murder rate is under 6 per 100,000.
According to nationmaster, the US rate is high (though their number is lower than the FBI number), but you can find European nations with both higher and lower numbers, and the UK and France are more than half the US rate.
Where did you get your 10x number from?
I thought sea-mester was on tall ships, not the leviathan floating cities Royal McCarnival Caribbean wants you to think is a nautical experience.