But this article isn't about changing our relationship with Canada. It's about using UAV's for surveilling our border.
I don't particularly agree with locking down the borders because it's a waste of resources. If some one wants to get in this country illegally they will.
I was just responding to way the government might want to keep an eye on the national borders both northern and southern.
Yes there is less hiss in the background, but to say that the vocals are unchanged is wrong. I don't know what you were expecting here, but the point was to get it to sound as close as possible to hearing him playing live. The tone and pitch is correct, the high nasal voice is common in folk music, and that is how other Guthrie recordings sound.
If you read TFA you would know that they used different mathematical approaches to compensate for kinks, and breaks in the original wire recording media, and various slow downs, and speed ups during recording which change the pitch when played back.
And I have to say... Banjo? WTF! If you can't tell the difference between a banjo and an acoustic guitar you have no business commenting on this article.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the ones who are saying that they can't tell the difference between these two clips, aren't the same ones who are always claiming they can tell the difference between mp3's encoded at 198 vs. 256.
I would like to update you on where we stand with bargaining with the AMPTP. While we have made important progress since the companies re-engaged us in serious talks, negotiations continue. Regardless of what you hear or read, there are many significant points that have yet to be worked out.
In order to keep members abreast of the latest developments, informational meetings are being planned by both Guilds for this weekend - details to be announced. Neither the Negotiating Committee, nor the West Board or the East Council, will take action on the contract until after the membership meetings.
As the talks proceed, never forget that during this period it is critical for us to remain on the picket lines united and strong. We are all in this together.
I might go on a buying spree of old classics and some of the new stuff. This is one of the things that the big media companies have been living off of for years. 78's to LP's to 8-track to cassette to CD to Digital for the record co's. VHS to DVD to HD-DVD for film co's. Every time a new more convenient format comes along they have an opportunity to get more money from you for the same content.
Until now they they have done this quite well because they were the ones pushing the new format. This time around since the format came from outside the industry they didn't know how to deal with it, and it's taking a long time to find the clue bat.
What I think is going to cause problems for the media co's in the long run is this. When consumers buy their products in digital form as long as there are no data loss calamities on your media server, with no backups. That means eventually they will be selling almost nothing but new releases.
I think this is already going on to a certain extent, and this is what is accounting for some of the "lost" CD/DVD sales.
Messed up a bit there. The post you replied to did use the word "stealing", but only in the sense of trying to provide context. What I meant was that the GP post didn't use that word.
But I stand behind my copying is infringement, and infringement is illegal statements.
Hmmm. I didn't go out to see a movie yesterday. That means I didn't give the theater $20. I stole from them!
That's what I'd call one hell of a straw man. No one said that not consuming their product was "stealing" from them.
What the post you replied to is saying is that if you use a service, download a movie or song, etc. without paying for it then you have broken the law. That post didn't actually use the word "steal" BTW it said "copy".
Besides, you're assuming that these people who download these movies would pay for them otherwise. If you're not willing to pay to see a given movie then don't go see it, rent it, buy it. If in your opinion a movie isn't worth paying to see, why do you want to see it for free? That's a stupid way of justifying copyright infringement. Which although it isn't "stealing" it is against the law.
I'm no fan of the **IAA's, but lame ass excuses, and straw man arguments for breaking the law doesn't somehow give you the moral high ground.
Don't shop around much do you?
The MacBook Pro as tested by PC World was a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM, 17" inch display, and a 160GB HDD. That listed at $2949. For half that much money you won't touch those specs from Dell or HP.
A quick check at Dell.com shows that their low end laptops (Inspiron) don't even offer a chip that fast. Going to the XPS line speced out as above will run you a cool $3474.
Now granted that is just hitting their Home/Home Office link real quick, but still blows that old "Apple costs twice as much for the same hardware" line out of the water.
My first reaction to your post was, "but command lines don't work well with graphics programs." But then I thought about how I use Autocad.
I've been using Autocad since 1988 or so. At the time there was a side menu, and a command line. The side menu could be turned off to free up screen space (a 17" EGA monitor was a still a pretty big deal on a PC back then), and since every command was available through the command line you were still good to go.
Now over the years with the conversion to GUI based versions on windows, and the people coming into the trade who have only ever used GUI based OS'es. They all want to do everything by clicking on a menu to get at the command. While I still know all of the 2 letter shortcuts for the most used commands. I keep my right hand on the mouse, my left on the keyboard, and can work away without having to keep moving the cursor away from the part of the screen where I'm working. Makes things so much faster.
Oh yea, and now I've got dual 19" displays.
Hotmail wasn't started by Microsoft. They purchased it in '97 after it already had millions of users. And it took them years to get it fully transitioned off of FreeBSD, and Solaris onto Windows.
Just another example of them being behind the curve, buying their way into the market, and then dicking it up.
Angle of attack only has meaning when related to airspeed. The effect of an AoA of 15 degrees when you're going 150 knots is very different than it is when going 70 knots.
So airspeed is more important than AoA for predicting stalls.
I work with a lot of former and current naval aviators, most of whom also fly for pleasure, and a few inquiries of them tells me that an AoA indicator isn't on any list of instruments required for VFR.
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But this article isn't about changing our relationship with Canada. It's about using UAV's for surveilling our border. I don't particularly agree with locking down the borders because it's a waste of resources. If some one wants to get in this country illegally they will. I was just responding to way the government might want to keep an eye on the national borders both northern and southern.
Wasn't the "Millennium Bomber" trying to enter from Canada?
Yes there is less hiss in the background, but to say that the vocals are unchanged is wrong. I don't know what you were expecting here, but the point was to get it to sound as close as possible to hearing him playing live. The tone and pitch is correct, the high nasal voice is common in folk music, and that is how other Guthrie recordings sound.
If you read TFA you would know that they used different mathematical approaches to compensate for kinks, and breaks in the original wire recording media, and various slow downs, and speed ups during recording which change the pitch when played back.
And I have to say... Banjo? WTF! If you can't tell the difference between a banjo and an acoustic guitar you have no business commenting on this article.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the ones who are saying that they can't tell the difference between these two clips, aren't the same ones who are always claiming they can tell the difference between mp3's encoded at 198 vs. 256.
Actually C. Should be $305,326.13
Until now they they have done this quite well because they were the ones pushing the new format. This time around since the format came from outside the industry they didn't know how to deal with it, and it's taking a long time to find the clue bat.
What I think is going to cause problems for the media co's in the long run is this. When consumers buy their products in digital form as long as there are no data loss calamities on your media server, with no backups. That means eventually they will be selling almost nothing but new releases.
I think this is already going on to a certain extent, and this is what is accounting for some of the "lost" CD/DVD sales.
But I stand behind my copying is infringement, and infringement is illegal statements.
That's what I'd call one hell of a straw man. No one said that not consuming their product was "stealing" from them.
What the post you replied to is saying is that if you use a service, download a movie or song, etc. without paying for it then you have broken the law. That post didn't actually use the word "steal" BTW it said "copy".
Besides, you're assuming that these people who download these movies would pay for them otherwise. If you're not willing to pay to see a given movie then don't go see it, rent it, buy it. If in your opinion a movie isn't worth paying to see, why do you want to see it for free? That's a stupid way of justifying copyright infringement. Which although it isn't "stealing" it is against the law.
I'm no fan of the **IAA's, but lame ass excuses, and straw man arguments for breaking the law doesn't somehow give you the moral high ground.
Too bad I used up the last of my mod points earlier today!
This same thing applies to any reflexive defense.
It applied to the Maginot Line early in the 20th century, and applies to Anti-Ballistic Missile shields, and packet filtering today.
Don't shop around much do you? The MacBook Pro as tested by PC World was a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM, 17" inch display, and a 160GB HDD. That listed at $2949. For half that much money you won't touch those specs from Dell or HP. A quick check at Dell.com shows that their low end laptops (Inspiron) don't even offer a chip that fast. Going to the XPS line speced out as above will run you a cool $3474. Now granted that is just hitting their Home/Home Office link real quick, but still blows that old "Apple costs twice as much for the same hardware" line out of the water.
Ah, the true sign of one "Who Knows Art." Self important snobbery.
That's funny because they actually sponsor a car and advertise during the races a lot.
Politics is involved because money is involved. 'Nuff said
It doesn't matter how dry the turds are. When you throw enough of them at the wall some of that shit will stick.
Neither were the Stray Cats. And even if you disagree Stray Cat Strut wouldn't have been it. Would've been Rock This Town.
But just think how big you would have to be in order to move the rock it was under.
My first reaction to your post was, "but command lines don't work well with graphics programs." But then I thought about how I use Autocad. I've been using Autocad since 1988 or so. At the time there was a side menu, and a command line. The side menu could be turned off to free up screen space (a 17" EGA monitor was a still a pretty big deal on a PC back then), and since every command was available through the command line you were still good to go. Now over the years with the conversion to GUI based versions on windows, and the people coming into the trade who have only ever used GUI based OS'es. They all want to do everything by clicking on a menu to get at the command. While I still know all of the 2 letter shortcuts for the most used commands. I keep my right hand on the mouse, my left on the keyboard, and can work away without having to keep moving the cursor away from the part of the screen where I'm working. Makes things so much faster. Oh yea, and now I've got dual 19" displays.
Hotmail wasn't started by Microsoft. They purchased it in '97 after it already had millions of users. And it took them years to get it fully transitioned off of FreeBSD, and Solaris onto Windows. Just another example of them being behind the curve, buying their way into the market, and then dicking it up.
True, but this is what the appeals process is for. There are more avenues than escape from prison.
Is it a perfect system? Of course not, but it serve it's purpose "for the most part."
It's only felony convictions that cause you to lose such rights. even though some aspects are being reconsidered in some places.
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/winter04/felon.html
I was thinking along the same lines. Like maybe it has nothing to do with the muscles and such, but instead just makes them obsessive compulsives.
I'd prefer a "Fscking Duh!" tag myself
Angle of attack only has meaning when related to airspeed. The effect of an AoA of 15 degrees when you're going 150 knots is very different than it is when going 70 knots. So airspeed is more important than AoA for predicting stalls. I work with a lot of former and current naval aviators, most of whom also fly for pleasure, and a few inquiries of them tells me that an AoA indicator isn't on any list of instruments required for VFR.
Yea, I remember seeing footage of Igor Sikorsky test flying one his first helos in a suit wearing a bowler hat.