Lots of good feedback already (no pun intended), but in addition to phase cancellation or documenting the noise with a db meter, you could also record it. Grab a copy of http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to visually show what's going on, and if you're still not believed, pitch-shift it down an octave or two and play it back. I guarantee they can hear 4,250Hz (I still can and I turned it off 30 seconds ago. Doh!).
If you simply can't get anyone to believe it's bothering you, plan-b is to disable it. Before you get a BB gun involved though, I'd try to just cut the power or turn it off. As has already been said, if he can't hear it on - he can't hear it off.
I have a similar (but tougher I think) issue that I might need to officially ask Slashdot - about light pollution. My yard would be a near perfect place to see astronomical events if it weren't for my neighbor's bazillion-watt mercury vapor light. He's already said he won't turn it off, and he's literally the stereotypical "pissed-off old guy with a shotgun" that lives next door. If you tripped and fell into his yard from mine, he'd be in the backyard with a gun yelling at you (he always yells as he's deaf, but wants to make sure you hear him). I'll admit that I haven't looked into his or my legal rights regarding the subject, but this thing is bright enough that everyone in the fam' that has a bedroom on that side of the house has to close their (room-darkening) blinds at night to get any sleep. I know the bulbs for the thing cost a fortune, but I haven't been pissed off enough yet to shoot the thing out. Oh - he also burns his garbage. A wonderful aroma with the windows open on a warm summer's day. I won't go into that one.
This is a problem that my mom's been freaking out over the past few years. Granted, I don't consider Kmart to be the best place to have professional pictures of your kids made, but the fact that they retain the copyrights to the images is absurd. I'm 30 - do the negatives for the poor quality prints we have still even exist?! My Photoshop abilities are probably in the intermediate-advanced range and I haven't been able to fix the images to my liking. Even if I could, wouldn't it technically be illegal for me to send them to Ofoto for more prints?
I think we ought to start a campaign against Kmart to try to get *our* negatives back! If anyone has looked into this, I'd be interested in hearing about your success or failure. Hey. Kmart headquarters are only 20 minutes from me and they didn't take my keys when I was doing contract work for them a while back. Let's just go get 'em!:o) jk
One thing I'd like to know - is the yellowing and general discoloration of the prints we have a result of the printing process or the media it's printed on? In other words, would the negatives be in any better shape that what we have?
Thanks.
Aaron
I third the SLAX idea. The whole experience is really smooth, allows you to use a nicely configured KDE or Fluxbox, includes a good amount of software without overdoing it. In my experience it also runs faster than any of the other live cd's.
It fits on a mini CD too, so it'll fit in your Christmas card envelopes.:-)
Similar scam, but I have their $4000 check.
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It's amazing how common these scams are online these days.
I was contacted by someone on a dating website who claimed to live in my area but was currently working in Africa. They claimed they couldn't cash their paycheck there and asked if they could send it to me to cash and send back to them via Western Union. Assuming it was just someone goofing around, I told them to go for it and received a cashiers check in the mail about a week later for $4000.
I took it right to my bank, knowing that they could check the routing numbers and such and it only took them about 30 seconds to notice that nothing on the check matched up. Apparently many people just mindlessly take these checks in and get the cash - then send it off to an address in Africa. About a week later when the bank tries to process the check, they discover it's a fake and the guy that cashed it is responsible for paying the money back.
I scanned everything and sent all the info I had to everyone that could possibly be involved - Yahoo (where we chatted and emailed), UPS (who delivered the fake check), the dating website, Western Union, the FBI, my local police department... and the only response I got was from the dating website telling me the offending profile would be removed.
It's kinda cool to show off my fake $4000 check from a fake African bank though.:)
The last hard drive I bought there was an amazing deal with large in-store and manufacturers rebates. When the drive was broken right off the bat, I returned it (within a few days) to get a replacement. I had already sent in the rebate stuff but that promotion had ended by the time I returned it. When I got there for the replacement, they INSISTED that the drives were now on sale and that they should give me $40 back! I'm pretty sure I wasn't entitled to that money, but I told them that about 4 times and they insisted that I was.
Maybe it's not their customers that they should be worrying about!
Actually, my experience is the other way around. I have left the last 3 movies I went to. Not because people were watching me - but because the audience was incredibly rude - snoring, talking, yelling! Even after three visits to the manager who sent a security guard back with me, the people were only quiet for the 5 minutes that the guard was there.
Either way, I'm not going back to the movies again either.
I made a "Back to the Future" Stomper at one point. It had a long metal hook coming out of the top and I had another bare wire on two posts that was connected to about 10 9volt batteries in parallel. The Stomper would just chug along at normal speed with it's AA battery, but when it hit the "high voltage" wire it would fly across the kitchen floor. I was pretty surprised that the motor didn't melt or something, but it lasted through about 6 runs of this.
Who needs movie branded toys when you can make your own!:)
I currently have a full 120G drive on my PC. Granted, it's mostly FLAC files that won't work on an iPod, but when I finally DO break down and buy a portable it will have to support SOME lossless format.
Ideally my portable would be large enough to store a "backup" of my entire CD collection. That way I can take it with me and free up the space on my computer.
Well, that's a little exaggerated. While I don't like Starbucks regular brewed coffee, their espresso is pretty good - and my regular drink, a "quad three pump vanilla espresso" is only $2.76. If you could live without the sweetener it would be less. If you go to Starbucks as often as I do, you'll probably also get a freebie one out of every four as I do.:)
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Lots of good feedback already (no pun intended), but in addition to phase cancellation or documenting the noise with a db meter, you could also record it. Grab a copy of http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to visually show what's going on, and if you're still not believed, pitch-shift it down an octave or two and play it back. I guarantee they can hear 4,250Hz (I still can and I turned it off 30 seconds ago. Doh!). If you simply can't get anyone to believe it's bothering you, plan-b is to disable it. Before you get a BB gun involved though, I'd try to just cut the power or turn it off. As has already been said, if he can't hear it on - he can't hear it off. I have a similar (but tougher I think) issue that I might need to officially ask Slashdot - about light pollution. My yard would be a near perfect place to see astronomical events if it weren't for my neighbor's bazillion-watt mercury vapor light. He's already said he won't turn it off, and he's literally the stereotypical "pissed-off old guy with a shotgun" that lives next door. If you tripped and fell into his yard from mine, he'd be in the backyard with a gun yelling at you (he always yells as he's deaf, but wants to make sure you hear him). I'll admit that I haven't looked into his or my legal rights regarding the subject, but this thing is bright enough that everyone in the fam' that has a bedroom on that side of the house has to close their (room-darkening) blinds at night to get any sleep. I know the bulbs for the thing cost a fortune, but I haven't been pissed off enough yet to shoot the thing out. Oh - he also burns his garbage. A wonderful aroma with the windows open on a warm summer's day. I won't go into that one.
This is a problem that my mom's been freaking out over the past few years. Granted, I don't consider Kmart to be the best place to have professional pictures of your kids made, but the fact that they retain the copyrights to the images is absurd. I'm 30 - do the negatives for the poor quality prints we have still even exist?! My Photoshop abilities are probably in the intermediate-advanced range and I haven't been able to fix the images to my liking. Even if I could, wouldn't it technically be illegal for me to send them to Ofoto for more prints? I think we ought to start a campaign against Kmart to try to get *our* negatives back! If anyone has looked into this, I'd be interested in hearing about your success or failure. Hey. Kmart headquarters are only 20 minutes from me and they didn't take my keys when I was doing contract work for them a while back. Let's just go get 'em! :o) jk
One thing I'd like to know - is the yellowing and general discoloration of the prints we have a result of the printing process or the media it's printed on? In other words, would the negatives be in any better shape that what we have?
Thanks.
Aaron
take a deep breath... it's ok... really.
I only saw one other mention of contrails and it didn't include a picture. If you know what they look like, my message wasn't intended for you.
I definitely don't claim to be an expert, as I only visited this website about a week ago, but it looks kinda like the "contrail shadows" found here:
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/rayshad.htThat doesn't really explain the flash - but that looks unrelated to me anyway.
I third the SLAX idea. The whole experience is really smooth, allows you to use a nicely configured KDE or Fluxbox, includes a good amount of software without overdoing it. In my experience it also runs faster than any of the other live cd's.
:-)
It fits on a mini CD too, so it'll fit in your Christmas card envelopes.
It's amazing how common these scams are online these days. I was contacted by someone on a dating website who claimed to live in my area but was currently working in Africa. They claimed they couldn't cash their paycheck there and asked if they could send it to me to cash and send back to them via Western Union. Assuming it was just someone goofing around, I told them to go for it and received a cashiers check in the mail about a week later for $4000. I took it right to my bank, knowing that they could check the routing numbers and such and it only took them about 30 seconds to notice that nothing on the check matched up. Apparently many people just mindlessly take these checks in and get the cash - then send it off to an address in Africa. About a week later when the bank tries to process the check, they discover it's a fake and the guy that cashed it is responsible for paying the money back. I scanned everything and sent all the info I had to everyone that could possibly be involved - Yahoo (where we chatted and emailed), UPS (who delivered the fake check), the dating website, Western Union, the FBI, my local police department... and the only response I got was from the dating website telling me the offending profile would be removed. It's kinda cool to show off my fake $4000 check from a fake African bank though. :)
The last hard drive I bought there was an amazing deal with large in-store and manufacturers rebates. When the drive was broken right off the bat, I returned it (within a few days) to get a replacement. I had already sent in the rebate stuff but that promotion had ended by the time I returned it. When I got there for the replacement, they INSISTED that the drives were now on sale and that they should give me $40 back! I'm pretty sure I wasn't entitled to that money, but I told them that about 4 times and they insisted that I was. Maybe it's not their customers that they should be worrying about!
Actually, my experience is the other way around. I have left the last 3 movies I went to. Not because people were watching me - but because the audience was incredibly rude - snoring, talking, yelling! Even after three visits to the manager who sent a security guard back with me, the people were only quiet for the 5 minutes that the guard was there. Either way, I'm not going back to the movies again either.
If the FPS given in the titlebar of the demo app are accurate, it's doing 160FPS on my modest machine (P4 2.8Ghz, 1Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 7500).
I made a "Back to the Future" Stomper at one point. It had a long metal hook coming out of the top and I had another bare wire on two posts that was connected to about 10 9volt batteries in parallel. The Stomper would just chug along at normal speed with it's AA battery, but when it hit the "high voltage" wire it would fly across the kitchen floor. I was pretty surprised that the motor didn't melt or something, but it lasted through about 6 runs of this.
:)
Who needs movie branded toys when you can make your own!
I currently have a full 120G drive on my PC. Granted, it's mostly FLAC files that won't work on an iPod, but when I finally DO break down and buy a portable it will have to support SOME lossless format.
Ideally my portable would be large enough to store a "backup" of my entire CD collection. That way I can take it with me and free up the space on my computer.
Well, that's a little exaggerated. While I don't like Starbucks regular brewed coffee, their espresso is pretty good - and my regular drink, a "quad three pump vanilla espresso" is only $2.76. If you could live without the sweetener it would be less. If you go to Starbucks as often as I do, you'll probably also get a freebie one out of every four as I do. :)
has it all figured out already. Just ask him. http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.php?reposid=/ multimedia/busey/busey_103b.html