Just out of spite, what would be the free/opensource alternative?
Since you asked in spite;) . . . Unless Movie Maker has improved greatly since the last time I attempted to use it, any FOSS package that crashes frequently and trashes your work would be a fine substitute.
A person who understands theory can figure out anything. A person who learns how to click a specific button in a specific place is useless.
It's not a vocational school, so don't teach to a vocation.
Exactly. I was about to say about the same thing. The original question seems to imply -- and by "seems to imply" I really mean "states clearly" -- that the class in question is a high school multimedia class. There are a lot of commenters saying that these kids won't be ready to earn a living as web designers, graphic artists and video editors with the skills they learn if they don't get "trained" on the right software. But I suspect that the majority of them will not actually pursue such a career, and those who do will go on to additional schooling before looking for a job. Additionaly, learning FOSS software would be very helpful for those that don't, since your average amateur dabbler can't afford/justify the costs of professional software just for an avocation.
The Queen's English seems to mandate the use of the plural when referring to ourganizatiouns. Kind ouf like the extra 'U's in wourds like "Coummounwealth".
Not only is someone able to find out about you, but of what others think of you along with a ton of other information you may not even be aware of as being accessible via the internet.
As bad as it might be to not get a job, especially if you really need one now, I think it would be even worse to work for a firm that used unsubstantiated, uncorroborated online data about its potential employees to make hiring decisions. That might indicate that they make other decisions similarly. You cite the possibility of libel, but there's certainly also the possibility of eliminating a candidate for information that is unrelated to him/her in any way.
Just curious, how does 118/139 W translate to 189/210 VA?
It's because it's AC, and the voltage and current are out of phase with each other. Usually this happens because the load is capacitive or inductive. In theory (perfect conductors), this reactive power should be returned to the power company, but in practice much is lost to heating. The ratio of W to VA is called Power Factor, which you want to be close to 1. Take in inverse cosine of the PF to find the actual phase mismatch. In my case, the power factor of the computer supply was lousy, about 0.66, and much heat was generated for no work done.
What he saves on his electricity bill, he will have to spend on his heating bill.
Where I live, electricity is about twice as expensive as natural gas for heating, so heating with waste heat is not quite as economical as one would think. Plus it's an extra liability in cooling season. But when I heated with resistive electric in an apartment, I too didn't worry too much about leaving things on in the wintertime.
The Kill-A-Watt (and its competitors) are a handy item. I was surprised to find that my desktop PC was pulling 118W doing "nothing" and 139W when working pretty hard. Even more surprising, when I switched to Volt-amp mode, the numbers were 189 and 210 VA, respectively. My office is usually too hot anyway, so I figured that was a good excuse for a new power supply. I got an "80 Plus" power supply, and now "Hymie" pulls under 88W/89VA when slacking and about 95W/96VA breathing hard. The power factor correction isn't just a gimmick. The case is much cooler, and I unplugged several of the now-unneeded fans, saving a couple more watts. On top of that, my immediate desk area is more comfortable and quieter. See website http://80plus.org/ for more info on "80 plus" program.
nyway. I must believe you don't work in USA then, because I've never seen an IT job without a non-compete requirement in the last 13 years of my career.
It's much less common to have a non-compete in a small company for IT, programming, engineering, etc. If the firm is small enough, the maybe the founder remembers struggling with those same stupid agreements and doesn't put those in contracts just out of principle. Sure the benefits are lousy, but big company benefits are heading the same direction, so at least you can be ahead of the curve in something for once!
The cards are free, but you have to fill out some demographic information on the application.
Food club cards are fun to trade with friends and strangers. Not so much to screw with the FBI or NSA as to pollute the grocery stores' databases. I don't think I've accurately filled out the application for a food club card since I realized what they were doing with them.
As to the slice, you are aware that BP, Exon and Shell are busy installing wind generators all over, yes?
When I looked into solar panels this past summer, one of the larger suppliers was BP, so I'm sure they have contingency plans for this part of the pie, too.
Gotcha. Oh wait, you wants laws, but just the ones you agree with. Who the hell hired you to be mr. law smarty pants?
Wow. It's like you looked deep into my soul, man . . . how do you do it? I give up. Just gonna go smoke a pill, now. Maybe that'll erase the pain . . .
But natural and artificial caves provide excellent cell-phone blocking. One could locate a no-cellphone establishment in such an environment. Sure the view sucks, but a little paint . ..
I actually did work for a while in such a place (you insensitive clods), and while the total lack of sunlight was a major blow to the psyche, it was a cellphone-free paradise. Visitors would come in and just keep checking their phones while meeting with us, probably wondering the whole time why no one had called them yet. All the while, their batteries were draining at a much higher than usual rate, since the instruments kept looking for service with none to be found.
How about this, I ain't in the IT field, it's a hobby for me. I'm a biker and a truck driver. I _DARE_ you to even try and touch my phone. I would eat you for breakfast. If you are nice and repent I might not break your face.
It's full circle. Now we're right back where we began with people surreptitiously carrying and using cell-jammers.
Doctors and pharmacists use "mcg" for micrograms, since it would be nearly impossible to tell a lower-case mu from a lower case "m" in a physician's handwriting, and a factor of 1000 almost always makes a big difference. At least that's their story when I asked about the non-standard notation.
Access to the source of the code running on a machine that you have no control over is useless. You cannot confirm that it is the source of the running code. You cannot confirm that there are no hardware issues - intentional or otherwise - that are affecting the correct operation of the code.
Amen to that. I worked for a temp firm for a contractor to ES&S when they were prepping the code for audit by a 3rd party under the previous version of the voting machine audit standards. The code needed major cleanup to comply with the coding standards (for readability), and we were in a time crunch, so everyone dropped what he was doing and worked on sanitizing the iVotronic code. After it was done, we had beautiful code. All variables were declared at the top of functions and names that made sense. No more globals. Functions had meaningful names and headers describing purpose, input, output, method, etc., etc., etc. We sent that software off to be audited for use in US elections. Of course, that code was never compiled. And it never made it back into the production s/w vault.
So how freaking hard is it to burn one PROM with the questions/canadates names to be displayed on the screen and a second PROM to contain the "Voting Control Keys"?
You're suggestions mitigate tampering by a 3rd party, but don't necessarily prevent fraud on the part of the manufacturer. This is a concern to many in the US, due to ties between the DVR makers and politicians. E.g. Diebold with the Republic Party and ES&S with (former) US Senator Exon, just to name some of the known associations.
Don't you have a Shift key? That was an intentionally dorky quote from the Brady Bunch Movie. But apparently it got quite a few people's panties in a bunch.
This stupid employee came over to visit my brother and told him (in front of me) how he managed to get away with it and just assumed (incorrectly) that I wouldn't mention it to my manager or the store manager the next day.
By tattling on your friends, you're just telling them that you're a tattletale.
AFA? Top google results: American Family Association Air Force Association . ..
Don't forget the American Ferret Association -- they'll weasel out of it, somehow.
Seriously, though, a few pages into the google search, I found "Action for Animals". That must be it. From their website: "AFA strives to end animal suffering through educational outreach, demonstrations, and media involvement." Plus they've got a video narrated by Alec Baldwin, so what further proof does one need to declare someone a terrorist?
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Since you asked in spite ;) . . . Unless Movie Maker has improved greatly since the last time I attempted to use it, any FOSS package that crashes frequently and trashes your work would be a fine substitute.
I noticed that in several discussions -- a lot of missed jokes. If anything, my crime above was plagiarizing Dave Barry.
The Queen's English seems to mandate the use of the plural when referring to ourganizatiouns. Kind ouf like the extra 'U's in wourds like "Coummounwealth".
As bad as it might be to not get a job, especially if you really need one now, I think it would be even worse to work for a firm that used unsubstantiated, uncorroborated online data about its potential employees to make hiring decisions. That might indicate that they make other decisions similarly. You cite the possibility of libel, but there's certainly also the possibility of eliminating a candidate for information that is unrelated to him/her in any way.
It's because it's AC, and the voltage and current are out of phase with each other. Usually this happens because the load is capacitive or inductive. In theory (perfect conductors), this reactive power should be returned to the power company, but in practice much is lost to heating. The ratio of W to VA is called Power Factor, which you want to be close to 1. Take in inverse cosine of the PF to find the actual phase mismatch. In my case, the power factor of the computer supply was lousy, about 0.66, and much heat was generated for no work done.
Where I live, electricity is about twice as expensive as natural gas for heating, so heating with waste heat is not quite as economical as one would think. Plus it's an extra liability in cooling season. But when I heated with resistive electric in an apartment, I too didn't worry too much about leaving things on in the wintertime.
The Kill-A-Watt (and its competitors) are a handy item. I was surprised to find that my desktop PC was pulling 118W doing "nothing" and 139W when working pretty hard. Even more surprising, when I switched to Volt-amp mode, the numbers were 189 and 210 VA, respectively. My office is usually too hot anyway, so I figured that was a good excuse for a new power supply. I got an "80 Plus" power supply, and now "Hymie" pulls under 88W/89VA when slacking and about 95W/96VA breathing hard. The power factor correction isn't just a gimmick. The case is much cooler, and I unplugged several of the now-unneeded fans, saving a couple more watts. On top of that, my immediate desk area is more comfortable and quieter. See website http://80plus.org/ for more info on "80 plus" program.
Go watch "Westworld" first, and the gags will be funnier afterwards. Then ask yourself, "Hmm, isn't 'Jurassic Park' just 'Westworld' with dinos?"
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It's much less common to have a non-compete in a small company for IT, programming, engineering, etc. If the firm is small enough, the maybe the founder remembers struggling with those same stupid agreements and doesn't put those in contracts just out of principle. Sure the benefits are lousy, but big company benefits are heading the same direction, so at least you can be ahead of the curve in something for once!
Food club cards are fun to trade with friends and strangers. Not so much to screw with the FBI or NSA as to pollute the grocery stores' databases. I don't think I've accurately filled out the application for a food club card since I realized what they were doing with them.
When I looked into solar panels this past summer, one of the larger suppliers was BP, so I'm sure they have contingency plans for this part of the pie, too.
Wow. It's like you looked deep into my soul, man . . . how do you do it? I give up. Just gonna go smoke a pill, now. Maybe that'll erase the pain . . .
Simple and authoritarian, what's not to love?
That's nobody's business but the Turks'
But natural and artificial caves provide excellent cell-phone blocking. One could locate a no-cellphone establishment in such an environment. Sure the view sucks, but a little paint . . .
I actually did work for a while in such a place (you insensitive clods), and while the total lack of sunlight was a major blow to the psyche, it was a cellphone-free paradise. Visitors would come in and just keep checking their phones while meeting with us, probably wondering the whole time why no one had called them yet. All the while, their batteries were draining at a much higher than usual rate, since the instruments kept looking for service with none to be found.
It's full circle. Now we're right back where we began with people surreptitiously carrying and using cell-jammers.
Doctors and pharmacists use "mcg" for micrograms, since it would be nearly impossible to tell a lower-case mu from a lower case "m" in a physician's handwriting, and a factor of 1000 almost always makes a big difference. At least that's their story when I asked about the non-standard notation.
Amen to that. I worked for a temp firm for a contractor to ES&S when they were prepping the code for audit by a 3rd party under the previous version of the voting machine audit standards. The code needed major cleanup to comply with the coding standards (for readability), and we were in a time crunch, so everyone dropped what he was doing and worked on sanitizing the iVotronic code. After it was done, we had beautiful code. All variables were declared at the top of functions and names that made sense. No more globals. Functions had meaningful names and headers describing purpose, input, output, method, etc., etc., etc. We sent that software off to be audited for use in US elections. Of course, that code was never compiled. And it never made it back into the production s/w vault.
Why must you hate our free market? About time the little guy got in on the action.
You're suggestions mitigate tampering by a 3rd party, but don't necessarily prevent fraud on the part of the manufacturer. This is a concern to many in the US, due to ties between the DVR makers and politicians. E.g. Diebold with the Republic Party and ES&S with (former) US Senator Exon, just to name some of the known associations.
Don't you have a Shift key? That was an intentionally dorky quote from the Brady Bunch Movie. But apparently it got quite a few people's panties in a bunch.
By tattling on your friends, you're just telling them that you're a tattletale.
Don't forget the American Ferret Association -- they'll weasel out of it, somehow.
Seriously, though, a few pages into the google search, I found "Action for Animals". That must be it. From their website: "AFA strives to end animal suffering through educational outreach, demonstrations, and media involvement." Plus they've got a video narrated by Alec Baldwin, so what further proof does one need to declare someone a terrorist?