Tapes can be copied on off time. If they are standard audio cassette tapes, then they are not more than 45 minutes per side anyway so you are looking several tapes anyway.
Even assuming the worst case, 1 tape that is 4 hours long, you can feed the output of the player into the input of a computer, do a ogg (mp3) rip on the stream, and then fast forward to different places. There will be issues merging the copies, but still much less time per person than one person doing the entire thing. (but more work overall if that matters)
The technology to do this isn't really there. If the machine can learn how you speak, it can do it. If you limit yourself to just a few words (1000 perhaps?) it is easier. To do it in general for random speakers though?
The problem is people are too varied. I have trouble understanding people from the "deep south". The accent is too think for my ears. I'm sure they have the same problem with my accent.
That isn't to say don't try it, but don't get your hopes up. Vocie recignition is hard, and isn't done well. Just be glad you only have a few to do, my sister's full time job is typing things like that. (most of less interest as she describes it)
Some wires must be. However wireless keyboards and mice are nice. Wireless networking isn't THAT expensive either (compare to divorce if you must) so keep the internet connection in the basement or something. That gets rid of a few.
Put a USB hub on your desk (one wire, 2 if powered), when you need the printer, scanner, real keyboard/mouse (wireless doesn't always work for games), game pad, steering wheel, external CD drive, webcam, and so on, pull it out of the closet, plug it in and use it. Put away again when you are done.
Doesn't solve all problems, but helps a lot.
You might be able to move some things elsewhere too. Sure a printer means two cables, but buy her a comptuer and attach the printer to her machine. Use the network to print. Or put the printer in a different room.
Or better yet, get her a hobbie. Most of the women in my family sew, and can never have too much fabric. Once she has a room full of sewing stuff it is much easier for you to get a corner of cluttered stuff to yourself. Good luck.
I'll bet there is more than one large church in your town, and each one has wireless gear that they use for services sunday morning, and no other time. Just talk to them in advance and borrow their gear. Most would be more than willing if you ask correctly. (and take care of the equipment)
Note that there is an art to asking. Best is to have someone in the production (actor, teacher, think outside of tech crew) ask. I'm not sure about much else because as a tech guy I don't know how to ask.
He was asked while under oath, and he lied about it. Simple as that. Perhaps it was irrelavent, but in the case his lawyers should have objected then, and gotten the questioned dismissed (not sure what the legal term is). Even if the objected was voerruled, he can still plead the fifth, which he declined to do.
I never liked him, who he slept with wouldn't change that. I've favored polititions who have slept around (I didn't like it, but everyone has flaws). However Clinton went a step further and lied about it while under oath, do you see the difference yet? Not so much that he did it, or lied about it (though I never like liers), but that he lied under oath.
Check your library. My grandpa converted all his old films to VHS (and is think about going to DVD) at the library. He had to go downtown, and reserve the equipment, and they required some pre-editing, but now he has everything in a much easier to use format.
Of course don't ignore the other comments. I have no idea what to do about fungus, and a pro might.
If you know what you are looking at, Radio Shack does sell some nice stuff once in a while. A lot of junk too, but sometimes they get some quality gear, but since they are selling to consumers at a consumer price. (Might not be quite up to the specs of the high end gear, but a lot closer than anything else in the price range).
True for the standard consumer grade stuff you will pay more, but often you get something slightly better for the money than if you just picked something at random. If you know what you are doing you can sometimes find something better for simielar money. If you don't know what you are doing you will often get something better than average there (but in generaly pay too much).
I worked construction last summer (no computer jobs to be found, and I had to eat). We did a lot of old fashioned math. Sure the foreman had a calculator sometimes, they generally lasted a week. Even then he was often on the other side of the house. Much easier to grab our pencil and do the math on a nearby board. Whats 68 times 1.42, and everyone pauses for a moment and then announces their answer (and looks for their mistake when there is a disagreement)
P.S. Without looking anywhere, why did we multiply by 1.42? Hint: think trig, and a right triangle.
None as far as anyone knows. control-v was selected because it was very near control, on old [qwerty] keyboards. The interface designers realized that paste was a common enough operation that the hasstle to teach people what the short cut is, is more than out weighed by savings in time once they know it intuitivly.
Proper user interface design includes consideration of how to make the daily expert users fast, and control-v was an excellent decision from that standpoint, even though it means for the novice it is harder to use.
I've shot real guns when lying prone. Your scope still wonders. A good sniper can minimise these effects, but the scope is still wondering. The best shooters shoot sitting down not lying, with sandbags around their gun. Nothing moves, and they spend minutes aiming. When you look at the paper latter is is ammazing how accurate they are. (they spend a lot of money making their gun perfect, and are very picky about their amunition because it really makes a difference)
Wrong. Bolt action weapons are good for snipers because they are accurate. The bullet case doesn't move.
Sure there is no energy wasted in cyceling, but if cyceling energy was your concern you would just toss a little more powder into the case and be done with it. (don't try this, guns can only take so much powder before they explode in your face) In general designing loads is a complex task, and a real sniper takes into account the load he is shooting, and may carry several different loads which will be changed depending on the conditions when a target is seen. If energy used in the re-loading was the only factor, the loads used would be changed to account for that.
Where do you get programers then? I assume that you wouldn't hire me because I've worked for a different company before, and I might recreate something that the previous company did. Seriously, this boggles my mind, I've had access to source code from 2 different companies, plus a bunch of code [mostly trivial but not all] in school. I could accidentally be coping some of that code into your products.
Back in the early 80s, many good games for the atari 800 series (running at 1.6Mhz) were written in interprited BASIC. Today I've used computers running at 2.4Ghz, and interprited languages are less respected because they are so slow now, than back then!
Sure you can write faster code in C. You can get faster yet if you write in pure binary (though beware that the best binary for the P4 is different from the P3 is different from the althalon, and then there are various VIA and Transmeta CPUs with different optimal binary), if you have years to learn what makes a processor tick. In the end though, computers are fast regaurdless of which language you use.
Your lucky. RSI is a big problem for me. I have to be very careful about what I do. Breaks help, and some tasks are not done just in the name of avoiding RSI.
I've had carpil tunnel, but not from typing, I got it from a summer construction job. Using a hammer all day. It is painful when fingers go numb.
I've had wrist pain which is a different RSI (not carpil tunnel) from using the mouse all day in a game like lincity.
Each person is different. Some people won't have problems, but I assure you that they exist and for those that do have them it is painful.
Go ahead, use 3DES for your encryption, PLEASE. I'd love to be a spy next time you do a key exchange, so many ways to find out what your key is, and then read your data without you knowing. Please trust your data to 3DES.
For those who know nothing of encryption, 3DES and ECC solve different problems in practice. ECC is public key, meaning you can publicly give the key to everyone, and have no worrys that someone who copys your transmission will be able to understand what is said because there are actually two keys, one encrypts, one decrypts, knowing one doesn't help you do the other operation. 3DES has one key that you need to keep secure at all times. Typically you would use the two togather to achive security that is difficult to achive alone. The poster by suggesting using 3DES (which is very good) in place of ECC is forcing himself into a situation where a lot of security cannot be done.
Good advice, but when a car start sinking it normally sinks fast to just above the bottom of the door, than floats slowly down. Once water is over the bottom of the door there is no physical way to open it, too much external pressure is holding it shut. SO the window is your only option.
I've never had to do it, but I drive on lakes often enough that I'm scared it might happen sometime so I want to be ready.
What a waste, a Metro with a 4 cycelender engine. I have one with the 3, and I get better than 40 mpg all the time. I often drive 70 MPH. I've driven cars that are harder to drive on the freeway. The disel truck I had for work for instance, and it wasn't a problem. Even the v10 truck I drove a few times was harder (both because it was big, and the load we had on it ment that there was no acceleration despite the big engine)
If you know how to drive you do not need a big 300 hourse power engine in a car. Plan ahead a little, push your accelerator to the floor at the top of the enterance ramp, not at the end of the acceleration lane. Any iditio can drive an overpowered car, a good driver can deal with an underpowered one.
In the rest of the mid west towns, there is parrell parking, but you decide where you want to park, and 1 block before that pull over to the shoulder and drive on the shoulder until you get to that spot. It is easy to parrell park when you have an entire block of empty parking spaces to work with.
I've considered it. I think that I'd prefer to write my own loinux-like OS that runs the specific linux programs I want and nothing else though. xTux arena would play nice on a GBA, and doesn't need most of what linux provides. It would also play better if it didn't have the overhead of linux getting in the way. The CPU only runs at 16 mhz, and has very limited RAM you know.
I buy it in anticipation of playing some good games. After I have it I realize that it is a good computer sitting in my livingroom. Why not use it, instead of create a new computer for my livingroom (likely ugly unless you have good case building skills)? TIVO, mp3 jukebox, and so on are all good uses for this machine when you are not playing games, and when you are playing games you don't need the other functionality. (you will need a computer elsewhere to store your mp3s, and do the TV recording, but that machine can be in the computer room)
TV only as I understand it. However that isn't all bad. If you network it you can use it as a diskless terminal for your livingroom enertainment system. Think TVIO and mp3 jukebox in a system your wife will allow next to the TV. (that is the kids will be on your side of having it in the livingroom because they will be playing games on it)
The interface is left as an exercise to the reader. This isn't trivial, the Gamecube wasn't designed for keyboards so you will have to custom design an interface that runs from the controlers. (IIRC there is no remote for the gamecube)
Can't remember who, but as I understand it someone took this to court, and essentially the court said that putting a trademarked and copyrighted image in your roms without permission isn't a violation of any law because the device won't function without an exact copy of the image. In other words copys functional code may fall under fair use if there is no other way. This was pre DMCA, but there is a section on interoperability there so I'm not sure.
Kids need controled rights. Up to the parent to decide which rights the kid can handle. At 5 the kids every movement needs to be supervised (not nessicarly closely, it is good enough for one parent on the block to take a bunch to the park). At 13 the kid can make decisions, and be unsupervised for a time. However kids still do stupid things, so the parent needs to keep watch on them. Each kid is different, so exactly what needs to be done differes from kid to kid and situation to situation.
All this needs to work out that on or before the kid turns 18 the kid is fully ready to live an adult life with no supervision. Good luck to those parents trying this, it is hard. Some will fail (not nessicarly your own fault), because some kids are good for nothing more than life without parole no matter how good the parents are. Other kids will turn out wonderfully despite bad parents. There are things are parent can do (or not do) that will influence how the kid turns out though, so parents need to try their best.
No it is not. Prostitution is perfectly legal in the US as a whole. Except for Nevada (even in Nevada only a few parts allow it) all the individual states have baned it. See the difference? The US is a large country with a lot of different view points. We do not all agree.
This perhaps is one thing you can bring up. Just say that the office is too political, your a tech guy, and cannot do your job and also figgure out the politics of the situations. Have everyone (if this is a real problem everyone will agree with you) nod in agreement. Then when anyone is put on the spot have them say "Joe is right, I'm afraid to tell you anything because I don't understand the politics involved." If you boss is even slightly good it should be "Joe is right, us lowly techs don't understand the politics of the situation, ask Mary [boss you like], she does a good job of deflecting most of it from us". The latter is much more powerful because you have just put your boss in a good light, and that can rarely hurts.
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Tapes can be copied on off time. If they are standard audio cassette tapes, then they are not more than 45 minutes per side anyway so you are looking several tapes anyway.
Even assuming the worst case, 1 tape that is 4 hours long, you can feed the output of the player into the input of a computer, do a ogg (mp3) rip on the stream, and then fast forward to different places. There will be issues merging the copies, but still much less time per person than one person doing the entire thing. (but more work overall if that matters)
The technology to do this isn't really there. If the machine can learn how you speak, it can do it. If you limit yourself to just a few words (1000 perhaps?) it is easier. To do it in general for random speakers though?
The problem is people are too varied. I have trouble understanding people from the "deep south". The accent is too think for my ears. I'm sure they have the same problem with my accent.
That isn't to say don't try it, but don't get your hopes up. Vocie recignition is hard, and isn't done well. Just be glad you only have a few to do, my sister's full time job is typing things like that. (most of less interest as she describes it)
Some wires must be. However wireless keyboards and mice are nice. Wireless networking isn't THAT expensive either (compare to divorce if you must) so keep the internet connection in the basement or something. That gets rid of a few.
Put a USB hub on your desk (one wire, 2 if powered), when you need the printer, scanner, real keyboard/mouse (wireless doesn't always work for games), game pad, steering wheel, external CD drive, webcam, and so on, pull it out of the closet, plug it in and use it. Put away again when you are done.
Doesn't solve all problems, but helps a lot.
You might be able to move some things elsewhere too. Sure a printer means two cables, but buy her a comptuer and attach the printer to her machine. Use the network to print. Or put the printer in a different room.
Or better yet, get her a hobbie. Most of the women in my family sew, and can never have too much fabric. Once she has a room full of sewing stuff it is much easier for you to get a corner of cluttered stuff to yourself. Good luck.
I'll bet there is more than one large church in your town, and each one has wireless gear that they use for services sunday morning, and no other time. Just talk to them in advance and borrow their gear. Most would be more than willing if you ask correctly. (and take care of the equipment)
Note that there is an art to asking. Best is to have someone in the production (actor, teacher, think outside of tech crew) ask. I'm not sure about much else because as a tech guy I don't know how to ask.
He was asked while under oath, and he lied about it. Simple as that. Perhaps it was irrelavent, but in the case his lawyers should have objected then, and gotten the questioned dismissed (not sure what the legal term is). Even if the objected was voerruled, he can still plead the fifth, which he declined to do.
I never liked him, who he slept with wouldn't change that. I've favored polititions who have slept around (I didn't like it, but everyone has flaws). However Clinton went a step further and lied about it while under oath, do you see the difference yet? Not so much that he did it, or lied about it (though I never like liers), but that he lied under oath.
Check your library. My grandpa converted all his old films to VHS (and is think about going to DVD) at the library. He had to go downtown, and reserve the equipment, and they required some pre-editing, but now he has everything in a much easier to use format.
Of course don't ignore the other comments. I have no idea what to do about fungus, and a pro might.
If you know what you are looking at, Radio Shack does sell some nice stuff once in a while. A lot of junk too, but sometimes they get some quality gear, but since they are selling to consumers at a consumer price. (Might not be quite up to the specs of the high end gear, but a lot closer than anything else in the price range).
True for the standard consumer grade stuff you will pay more, but often you get something slightly better for the money than if you just picked something at random. If you know what you are doing you can sometimes find something better for simielar money. If you don't know what you are doing you will often get something better than average there (but in generaly pay too much).
I worked construction last summer (no computer jobs to be found, and I had to eat). We did a lot of old fashioned math. Sure the foreman had a calculator sometimes, they generally lasted a week. Even then he was often on the other side of the house. Much easier to grab our pencil and do the math on a nearby board. Whats 68 times 1.42, and everyone pauses for a moment and then announces their answer (and looks for their mistake when there is a disagreement)
P.S. Without looking anywhere, why did we multiply by 1.42? Hint: think trig, and a right triangle.
None as far as anyone knows. control-v was selected because it was very near control, on old [qwerty] keyboards. The interface designers realized that paste was a common enough operation that the hasstle to teach people what the short cut is, is more than out weighed by savings in time once they know it intuitivly.
Proper user interface design includes consideration of how to make the daily expert users fast, and control-v was an excellent decision from that standpoint, even though it means for the novice it is harder to use.
I've shot real guns when lying prone. Your scope still wonders. A good sniper can minimise these effects, but the scope is still wondering. The best shooters shoot sitting down not lying, with sandbags around their gun. Nothing moves, and they spend minutes aiming. When you look at the paper latter is is ammazing how accurate they are. (they spend a lot of money making their gun perfect, and are very picky about their amunition because it really makes a difference)
Wrong. Bolt action weapons are good for snipers because they are accurate. The bullet case doesn't move.
Sure there is no energy wasted in cyceling, but if cyceling energy was your concern you would just toss a little more powder into the case and be done with it. (don't try this, guns can only take so much powder before they explode in your face) In general designing loads is a complex task, and a real sniper takes into account the load he is shooting, and may carry several different loads which will be changed depending on the conditions when a target is seen. If energy used in the re-loading was the only factor, the loads used would be changed to account for that.
Where do you get programers then? I assume that you wouldn't hire me because I've worked for a different company before, and I might recreate something that the previous company did. Seriously, this boggles my mind, I've had access to source code from 2 different companies, plus a bunch of code [mostly trivial but not all] in school. I could accidentally be coping some of that code into your products.
Back in the early 80s, many good games for the atari 800 series (running at 1.6Mhz) were written in interprited BASIC. Today I've used computers running at 2.4Ghz, and interprited languages are less respected because they are so slow now, than back then!
Sure you can write faster code in C. You can get faster yet if you write in pure binary (though beware that the best binary for the P4 is different from the P3 is different from the althalon, and then there are various VIA and Transmeta CPUs with different optimal binary), if you have years to learn what makes a processor tick. In the end though, computers are fast regaurdless of which language you use.
Your lucky. RSI is a big problem for me. I have to be very careful about what I do. Breaks help, and some tasks are not done just in the name of avoiding RSI.
I've had carpil tunnel, but not from typing, I got it from a summer construction job. Using a hammer all day. It is painful when fingers go numb.
I've had wrist pain which is a different RSI (not carpil tunnel) from using the mouse all day in a game like lincity.
Each person is different. Some people won't have problems, but I assure you that they exist and for those that do have them it is painful.
Go ahead, use 3DES for your encryption, PLEASE. I'd love to be a spy next time you do a key exchange, so many ways to find out what your key is, and then read your data without you knowing. Please trust your data to 3DES.
For those who know nothing of encryption, 3DES and ECC solve different problems in practice. ECC is public key, meaning you can publicly give the key to everyone, and have no worrys that someone who copys your transmission will be able to understand what is said because there are actually two keys, one encrypts, one decrypts, knowing one doesn't help you do the other operation. 3DES has one key that you need to keep secure at all times. Typically you would use the two togather to achive security that is difficult to achive alone. The poster by suggesting using 3DES (which is very good) in place of ECC is forcing himself into a situation where a lot of security cannot be done.
Good advice, but when a car start sinking it normally sinks fast to just above the bottom of the door, than floats slowly down. Once water is over the bottom of the door there is no physical way to open it, too much external pressure is holding it shut. SO the window is your only option.
I've never had to do it, but I drive on lakes often enough that I'm scared it might happen sometime so I want to be ready.
What a waste, a Metro with a 4 cycelender engine. I have one with the 3, and I get better than 40 mpg all the time. I often drive 70 MPH. I've driven cars that are harder to drive on the freeway. The disel truck I had for work for instance, and it wasn't a problem. Even the v10 truck I drove a few times was harder (both because it was big, and the load we had on it ment that there was no acceleration despite the big engine)
If you know how to drive you do not need a big 300 hourse power engine in a car. Plan ahead a little, push your accelerator to the floor at the top of the enterance ramp, not at the end of the acceleration lane. Any iditio can drive an overpowered car, a good driver can deal with an underpowered one.
In the rest of the mid west towns, there is parrell parking, but you decide where you want to park, and 1 block before that pull over to the shoulder and drive on the shoulder until you get to that spot. It is easy to parrell park when you have an entire block of empty parking spaces to work with.
I've considered it. I think that I'd prefer to write my own loinux-like OS that runs the specific linux programs I want and nothing else though. xTux arena would play nice on a GBA, and doesn't need most of what linux provides. It would also play better if it didn't have the overhead of linux getting in the way. The CPU only runs at 16 mhz, and has very limited RAM you know.
I buy it in anticipation of playing some good games. After I have it I realize that it is a good computer sitting in my livingroom. Why not use it, instead of create a new computer for my livingroom (likely ugly unless you have good case building skills)? TIVO, mp3 jukebox, and so on are all good uses for this machine when you are not playing games, and when you are playing games you don't need the other functionality. (you will need a computer elsewhere to store your mp3s, and do the TV recording, but that machine can be in the computer room)
TV only as I understand it. However that isn't all bad. If you network it you can use it as a diskless terminal for your livingroom enertainment system. Think TVIO and mp3 jukebox in a system your wife will allow next to the TV. (that is the kids will be on your side of having it in the livingroom because they will be playing games on it)
The interface is left as an exercise to the reader. This isn't trivial, the Gamecube wasn't designed for keyboards so you will have to custom design an interface that runs from the controlers. (IIRC there is no remote for the gamecube)
Can't remember who, but as I understand it someone took this to court, and essentially the court said that putting a trademarked and copyrighted image in your roms without permission isn't a violation of any law because the device won't function without an exact copy of the image. In other words copys functional code may fall under fair use if there is no other way. This was pre DMCA, but there is a section on interoperability there so I'm not sure.
Kids need controled rights. Up to the parent to decide which rights the kid can handle. At 5 the kids every movement needs to be supervised (not nessicarly closely, it is good enough for one parent on the block to take a bunch to the park). At 13 the kid can make decisions, and be unsupervised for a time. However kids still do stupid things, so the parent needs to keep watch on them. Each kid is different, so exactly what needs to be done differes from kid to kid and situation to situation.
All this needs to work out that on or before the kid turns 18 the kid is fully ready to live an adult life with no supervision. Good luck to those parents trying this, it is hard. Some will fail (not nessicarly your own fault), because some kids are good for nothing more than life without parole no matter how good the parents are. Other kids will turn out wonderfully despite bad parents. There are things are parent can do (or not do) that will influence how the kid turns out though, so parents need to try their best.
No it is not. Prostitution is perfectly legal in the US as a whole. Except for Nevada (even in Nevada only a few parts allow it) all the individual states have baned it. See the difference? The US is a large country with a lot of different view points. We do not all agree.
This perhaps is one thing you can bring up. Just say that the office is too political, your a tech guy, and cannot do your job and also figgure out the politics of the situations. Have everyone (if this is a real problem everyone will agree with you) nod in agreement. Then when anyone is put on the spot have them say "Joe is right, I'm afraid to tell you anything because I don't understand the politics involved." If you boss is even slightly good it should be "Joe is right, us lowly techs don't understand the politics of the situation, ask Mary [boss you like], she does a good job of deflecting most of it from us". The latter is much more powerful because you have just put your boss in a good light, and that can rarely hurts.