Efficiency is good, here. Skyglow is an evil thing, and stupid, in my estimation. If all those lights could be replaced with LEDs of limited frequency spread, perhaps filtering the interference could be enabled. Legislation, anyone? I am not an astronomer, but this is one more area where I feel violated, and fuck all of y'all if you think ruining MY night sky is alright.
SD cards are pretty cheap relative to the effort required to upload the data. Also I believe that rewriting over the media eventually leads to increased failure. It isn't meant to be archival media, but it is SO cheap, I have decided not to reuse it. For me, that is the "better solution". It's not really for redundancy or anything. I never re-formatted used floppies either, I guess I must be new here.
I feel a little out of it, on this thread, with my leetle camera, but I get 1600~ pix on a 2GB SD card. That is quite enough to overwhelm my filing system, I don't even use any bigger ones.
All the cheap, consumer grade stuff have is SD. If I had the money, I'd get nothing but CF for the speed. My little snapshot camera does not support that, but I always get the "fast" SDs.
I fill and store my SD cards. I am hoping to start a tag and list system to keep them organised, not critical yet as I've only got about a half-dozen. (I lost a bunch with the camera & bag that Toad got when he took my Volvo out for that wild ride.) IMHO a flash ROM that's been written to once only is adequately reliable to back up the.jpgs that have been stored on HDDs. I have dated each SD to when it was used, I'll start a file describing the contents. Real soon.
I still get a twinge thinking of the old Linotype. I never worked on it myself, but UC Printing Services kept one going in Berkeley for years after it's obsolescence, just to print diplomas and such. What a cool bit of old school tech. Of course, reliability was on a different order of magnitude, but I maintain that there is some merit to a device that can be built or repaired with common hand tools. The Skilled Mechanic is the real loser here. Habitat loss will wipe them all out soon, I fear.
At the farm, I am re-engineering a natural fen in order to improve its efficiency. (In case there's an oil spill on the road or something, it is only 20 meters to the creek.) We bought a small piece of the great north woods, and we are trying to re-forest it a bit. I wish I could find some mule-skinners to pull the old wood out. My most extreme hubris would be slipping some exotic trees into a hemlock/red-cedar ecosystem. I'm engineering it to prevent transferring fungi or pathogens, otherwise presuming on the resilient nature of...nature, to save us all from catastrophe.
I am experiencing a strange phenomenon. The jaw-drop reflex has been popping my mouth open for several minutes and won't stop. If I focus I can close it, but then it pops open again. wow.
The feckless youth I see texting in public do not appear to be the sort who employ reason or critical faculties. That's the kind of customer base dreams are made of.
The only way to open iexplore.exe in my home computers is through the "run" tab. This is to prevent unfit users from not using one of the other browsae. I seldom format & install windows now, unlike before I took that measure.
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Efficiency is good, here. Skyglow is an evil thing, and stupid, in my estimation. If all those lights could be replaced with LEDs of limited frequency spread, perhaps filtering the interference could be enabled. Legislation, anyone? I am not an astronomer, but this is one more area where I feel violated, and fuck all of y'all if you think ruining MY night sky is alright.
In order for the light to remain the same, you'd probably have to reduce the power to the lamp.
SD cards are pretty cheap relative to the effort required to upload the data. Also I believe that rewriting over the media eventually leads to increased failure. It isn't meant to be archival media, but it is SO cheap, I have decided not to reuse it. For me, that is the "better solution". It's not really for redundancy or anything. I never re-formatted used floppies either, I guess I must be new here.
Skies are very nice.
I feel a little out of it, on this thread, with my leetle camera, but I get 1600~ pix on a 2GB SD card. That is quite enough to overwhelm my filing system, I don't even use any bigger ones.
All the cheap, consumer grade stuff have is SD. If I had the money, I'd get nothing but CF for the speed. My little snapshot camera does not support that, but I always get the "fast" SDs.
I fill and store my SD cards. I am hoping to start a tag and list system to keep them organised, not critical yet as I've only got about a half-dozen. (I lost a bunch with the camera & bag that Toad got when he took my Volvo out for that wild ride.) IMHO a flash ROM that's been written to once only is adequately reliable to back up the .jpgs that have been stored on HDDs. I have dated each SD to when it was used, I'll start a file describing the contents. Real soon.
Sounds like an apt description of MY neighbors. Add edentate.
I always read that with a Yorkshire accent.
A far more stimulating demise, IMHO.
I got a dime. Kids.
Edentulous. I always used edentate. Waddyaknow.
I still get a twinge thinking of the old Linotype. I never worked on it myself, but UC Printing Services kept one going in Berkeley for years after it's obsolescence, just to print diplomas and such. What a cool bit of old school tech. Of course, reliability was on a different order of magnitude, but I maintain that there is some merit to a device that can be built or repaired with common hand tools. The Skilled Mechanic is the real loser here. Habitat loss will wipe them all out soon, I fear.
I knew there had to be a logical basis behind the guard's actions.
I question anyone who claims to be "Professional".
At the farm, I am re-engineering a natural fen in order to improve its efficiency. (In case there's an oil spill on the road or something, it is only 20 meters to the creek.) We bought a small piece of the great north woods, and we are trying to re-forest it a bit. I wish I could find some mule-skinners to pull the old wood out. My most extreme hubris would be slipping some exotic trees into a hemlock/red-cedar ecosystem. I'm engineering it to prevent transferring fungi or pathogens, otherwise presuming on the resilient nature of ...nature, to save us all from catastrophe.
Or even one, stale, backup.
I am experiencing a strange phenomenon. The jaw-drop reflex has been popping my mouth open for several minutes and won't stop. If I focus I can close it, but then it pops open again. wow.
That should be enough for anybody.
The feckless youth I see texting in public do not appear to be the sort who employ reason or critical faculties. That's the kind of customer base dreams are made of.
It's on my list.
... a happy ending?
Not really pissed off... Can't quite relate it to the Majel Roddenberry issue however. I must be new here.
Sorry, it WAS a typo, but I liked how it turned out, and thought I'd run it.
The only way to open iexplore.exe in my home computers is through the "run" tab. This is to prevent unfit users from not using one of the other browsae. I seldom format & install windows now, unlike before I took that measure.