autopilots in aircraft work when aircraft are separated by a couple of miles, and you don't have young children (and moronic adults) running out in front of moving aircraft without looking.
What the summary DOESN'T tell you is that on the internal battery talk time is 12 minutes. There is an optional extended battery available from the third parties, such as Optima, Diehard, EverStart, Autolite, etc.;)
What's different now is what Obama wants, Obama gets, even though 70%-80% of the people don't want it.
The best part of the health care bill is that Congress and the President are not subject to it; they get their own health care, alternative so social security, etc. and they never borrow from those funds like they do from the Medicare and Social Security funds.
House them? Fuck that. Load them into a cargo plane and drop them deep in the middle of Mexico. I'd wholeheartedly approve giving each one a parachute at no charge rather than have to fund their housing, food, health care, etc. while they don't pay a fucking dime.
Then YOU should provide healthcare for illegal immigrants.
The correct term for such invaders is illegal aliens. Please stop referring to them as illegal immigrants, as immigrants enter the country legally. Illegal aliens do not.
You need to adjust and monitor audio levels while recording; clipping is the audio equivalent of blowing out highlights in photography. You may need to manually turn off the mic preamp ("Microphone Boost" on some sound cards) and then adjust the gain controls.
And if you're the audio equivalent of a wine snob that thinks he/she can taste the difference between a $100 and $1,000 bottle, than I'm sure someone is willing to sell you an automagnetic bit-harmonizing inductive-conditioning audio conduit interface for the price of a small car.
And, if you are that type, I'll happily sell you wooden cones to set your sound card on, to eliminate jitter, wow,and flutter. I'll also sell you a special marker which you can use to eliminate the dispersement of laser on your CD-Rs. You apply it around the perimeter of the CD and it helps correct errors while writing and reading audio CDs. All for the low, low price of $1,199.99 and will even include a set of premium gold-plated terminator, triple-braided oxygen free line level audio transmission cables, but only if you buy today.;)
The company did use better safety standards: they retained the usefulness of the tool by not encumbering it with extra crap that only gets in the way, and provided pages of guidelines and warnings of things you should and should not do if you want to work safely with the tool. Unfortunately the other tool in the equation (the tool who bought the cheap tool rather than the sawstop) chose to ignore the manual, and then cried wolf after he screwed himself.
In Jr. High everyone was required to take both wood shop and home ec. The shop classes included table saws, hand held power saws, routers, rotary and drum sanders, and a bunch of other power tools. The first week was just safety and the shop instructor showed what can happen if the blade catches the wood and kicks back, or if it jams against the guide and yanks the wood and it was clear to all that if you stood behind the blade or had your hands within a couple of inches of it you'd be heading to the hospital. No one got injured at all.
In home ec similar principles were taught covering sewing machines. No one stuck a finger in the machines when they were running.
Keep in mind this was in the mid to late 80s - safety features were only just starting to show up on tools (common sense and personal responsibility still existed to some small extent then) but the schools didn't have the latest and the greatest due to budget limitations - the equipment was all high end but under ten years old and in good working order, so why spend the money? The teachers did the right thing by teaching safety and making the equipment malfunction to illustrate the injury potential, and the students who wanted to keep their digits intact paid attention.
I don't know what they do in shop and home ec in schools now. in Home Ec is sewing ever taught or is it too dangeous? (I suppose it's not allowed now because both hand sewing and machine needles are DANGEROUS WEAPONS and therefore not allowed under zero-tolerance rules) Is cooking taught, or are hot stoves, knives, and mixers deemed too hazardous so it's limited to heating microwavable bags of processed food and emptying it onto a plate? Does wood shop consist of precut/prefab kits, or Popsicle sticks and nontoxic/edible white glue? Does metal shop even exist in today's public schools?
I'm thankful I caught the tail end of common sense in schools, where personal responsibility still existed.
The kind who knew Sawstop exists and chose to buy a $150 Ryobi with no safety features, and ignored the gadzillion pages of warnings and safety guidelines. You know, like the idiot in the article who filed the frivolous lawsuit.
I miss personal responsibility. Personal responsibility really needs to make a comeback in America.
The idiot who knew sawstop exists and chose not to buy it, then ignored multiple pages of warnings in the table saw manual gets to decide whether or not he gets to live, or keep all of his digits, etc.
. . . and people who buy them are liable for being enablers.
By the way, do you think $100-$300 table saws will continue to exist? Check out the video of the tech at the top right of http://www.sawstop.com/ - the technology to do that isn't cheap enough for homeowners and hobbiests on a budget.
Animation wise, technology has developed significantly since Futurama first aired, and in addition to the high-definition technology used for the films, season 6 (and presumably any subsequent seasons) will be broadcast in widescreen and high-definition where available.
Thank god it's in high def! Now maybe we can finally see Amy's erotic tattoo!
Seriously though, who cares. The CGI portions will improve but honestly standard-def is just fine for Futurama. I'm not complaining mind you, I just don't think high def is that big of a deal for an animated series made up mostly of classic 2D line drawings. But then again, my frame of reference for high-def animation is Comcast's overly-compressed 720p feeds, so I may be completely off base.
The only franchise "Reboot" I've liked is Reboot iself.
Futurama is perfection as designed; a good mix of classic cel and modern CGI animation, the perfect mix of fart jokes, puns, and science and math humor, as well as subtle story arcs (well, mainly the on-again off-again almost-romance between Fry and Leela, Fry's being the most important "person" in the Universe, and Nibbler's continual influence on keeping society going) that don't cause you to lose interest if you miss a few episodes, but add lot to the show.
I hope the "rebirth" doesn't mean a Tim Burton or Lucas-style franchise reboot.
I like a lot of his work but his Planet of the Apes reboot was absolutely horrible. "Batman" wasn't great, but it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been - "Dark Knight" showed a much better take on the comic book character.
If the media really cared about open government and barring corruption, they would be publishing daily headlines about denials to FOIA requests, how long they have been waiting, and what the alleged reason is. If the press did their job and informed the people rather than preach propaganda, people could be better armed with information to put pressure on elected officials and force them to move on come election day if the officials don't mend their ways.
It's analogous to chain mail armor; it's effective against old weapons like broadswords and crap, but completely useless against guns. Today's malware are the equivalent of heavy artillary and most antivirus software is akin to chain mail or even leather armor.
Or, to put it in a car analogy: many antivirus programs would be like wiping a coat of mineral oil ("baby oil") on your unpainted/freshly sandblasted car, and then driving your car through the winter in New England where they salt the roads very heavily. You're hoping the car will still be nice and shiny come April, but sorry, the body is totally rust-covered and has been perforated in several spots.
There are quite a few options actually. I'll list them in order of effectiveness.
1. BSD or Linux. You won't get hit by viruses or any crap like that, unless you're enough of a moron to run everything as root and go out of your way to make the system open. Unfortunately neither option will run 100% of your Windows software.
2. Unplug your Windows box. Guaranteed 100% effective. The drawback is that apps won't run.;)
3. Comodo antivirus; http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html I have been trying it on various workstations and have found it to be reasonably good. Less effective than the above options!;) Seriously though it's pretty good. It's not antispyware though, and it doesn't slow the system to a crawl like some other programs. That should be a non-issue. If not, then why are you running MSIE after you've been warned for years?;)
4. Microsoft Security Essentials: Microsoft actually did a very good job with this basic suite. It's not bloated at all, is straight and to the point, and catches some spyware even malwarebytes misses. It's good now, but then again, Microsoft has dropped the ball with every antivirus and antispyware software they have installed to date.
5. You could try Norton Internet Security. I understand they've completely rearchitected it and brought over NO legacy code and are not bloated so you might want to try it, but I haven't looked at the Norton suite since the 2003 version that turned their antivirus into a failed abortion.
I was using Moon Secure on various systems for a while: it's free, open source, etc. but it has not been updated in forever and is rapidly becoming less and less effective, plus it has quite a few defects including making the Windows logon process EXTREMELY slow on some configurations.
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autopilots in aircraft work when aircraft are separated by a couple of miles, and you don't have young children (and moronic adults) running out in front of moving aircraft without looking.
Agreed. Today's supercomputer is tomorrow's soft drink can.
What the summary DOESN'T tell you is that on the internal battery talk time is 12 minutes. There is an optional extended battery available from the third parties, such as Optima, Diehard, EverStart, Autolite, etc. ;)
They invaded our country, and there needs to be severe consequences for such actions.
What's different now is what Obama wants, Obama gets, even though 70%-80% of the people don't want it.
The best part of the health care bill is that Congress and the President are not subject to it; they get their own health care, alternative so social security, etc. and they never borrow from those funds like they do from the Medicare and Social Security funds.
House them? Fuck that. Load them into a cargo plane and drop them deep in the middle of Mexico. I'd wholeheartedly approve giving each one a parachute at no charge rather than have to fund their housing, food, health care, etc. while they don't pay a fucking dime.
The correct term for such invaders is illegal aliens. Please stop referring to them as illegal immigrants, as immigrants enter the country legally. Illegal aliens do not.
You would use a condenser mic with a real preamp.
I wouldn't consider them unless they have braided leads. ;)
You need to adjust and monitor audio levels while recording; clipping is the audio equivalent of blowing out highlights in photography. You may need to manually turn off the mic preamp ("Microphone Boost" on some sound cards) and then adjust the gain controls.
And, if you are that type, I'll happily sell you wooden cones to set your sound card on, to eliminate jitter, wow,and flutter. I'll also sell you a special marker which you can use to eliminate the dispersement of laser on your CD-Rs. You apply it around the perimeter of the CD and it helps correct errors while writing and reading audio CDs. All for the low, low price of $1,199.99 and will even include a set of premium gold-plated terminator, triple-braided oxygen free line level audio transmission cables, but only if you buy today. ;)
Sorry dude, that last one was, like, totally my bad. I fed my mogwai after midnight last night and one of them got loose. :(
The company did use better safety standards: they retained the usefulness of the tool by not encumbering it with extra crap that only gets in the way, and provided pages of guidelines and warnings of things you should and should not do if you want to work safely with the tool. Unfortunately the other tool in the equation (the tool who bought the cheap tool rather than the sawstop) chose to ignore the manual, and then cried wolf after he screwed himself.
In Jr. High everyone was required to take both wood shop and home ec. The shop classes included table saws, hand held power saws, routers, rotary and drum sanders, and a bunch of other power tools. The first week was just safety and the shop instructor showed what can happen if the blade catches the wood and kicks back, or if it jams against the guide and yanks the wood and it was clear to all that if you stood behind the blade or had your hands within a couple of inches of it you'd be heading to the hospital. No one got injured at all.
In home ec similar principles were taught covering sewing machines. No one stuck a finger in the machines when they were running.
Keep in mind this was in the mid to late 80s - safety features were only just starting to show up on tools (common sense and personal responsibility still existed to some small extent then) but the schools didn't have the latest and the greatest due to budget limitations - the equipment was all high end but under ten years old and in good working order, so why spend the money? The teachers did the right thing by teaching safety and making the equipment malfunction to illustrate the injury potential, and the students who wanted to keep their digits intact paid attention.
I don't know what they do in shop and home ec in schools now. in Home Ec is sewing ever taught or is it too dangeous? (I suppose it's not allowed now because both hand sewing and machine needles are DANGEROUS WEAPONS and therefore not allowed under zero-tolerance rules) Is cooking taught, or are hot stoves, knives, and mixers deemed too hazardous so it's limited to heating microwavable bags of processed food and emptying it onto a plate? Does wood shop consist of precut/prefab kits, or Popsicle sticks and nontoxic/edible white glue? Does metal shop even exist in today's public schools?
I'm thankful I caught the tail end of common sense in schools, where personal responsibility still existed.
The kind who knew Sawstop exists and chose to buy a $150 Ryobi with no safety features, and ignored the gadzillion pages of warnings and safety guidelines. You know, like the idiot in the article who filed the frivolous lawsuit.
I miss personal responsibility. Personal responsibility really needs to make a comeback in America.
The idiot who knew sawstop exists and chose not to buy it, then ignored multiple pages of warnings in the table saw manual gets to decide whether or not he gets to live, or keep all of his digits, etc.
Who the hell puts a styrofoam cup filled with hot coffee in one's crotch when driving a stick shift?
. . . and people who buy them are liable for being enablers.
By the way, do you think $100-$300 table saws will continue to exist? Check out the video of the tech at the top right of http://www.sawstop.com/ - the technology to do that isn't cheap enough for homeowners and hobbiests on a budget.
If you're all thumbs you could take the advice of the subject of the article and just use the table to lop off the extra thumbs. Problem solved!
Thank god it's in high def! Now maybe we can finally see Amy's erotic tattoo!
Seriously though, who cares. The CGI portions will improve but honestly standard-def is just fine for Futurama. I'm not complaining mind you, I just don't think high def is that big of a deal for an animated series made up mostly of classic 2D line drawings. But then again, my frame of reference for high-def animation is Comcast's overly-compressed 720p feeds, so I may be completely off base.
The only franchise "Reboot" I've liked is Reboot iself.
Futurama is perfection as designed; a good mix of classic cel and modern CGI animation, the perfect mix of fart jokes, puns, and science and math humor, as well as subtle story arcs (well, mainly the on-again off-again almost-romance between Fry and Leela, Fry's being the most important "person" in the Universe, and Nibbler's continual influence on keeping society going) that don't cause you to lose interest if you miss a few episodes, but add lot to the show.
I hope the "rebirth" doesn't mean a Tim Burton or Lucas-style franchise reboot.
Did I?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133152/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/
I like a lot of his work but his Planet of the Apes reboot was absolutely horrible. "Batman" wasn't great, but it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been - "Dark Knight" showed a much better take on the comic book character.
If the media really cared about open government and barring corruption, they would be publishing daily headlines about denials to FOIA requests, how long they have been waiting, and what the alleged reason is. If the press did their job and informed the people rather than preach propaganda, people could be better armed with information to put pressure on elected officials and force them to move on come election day if the officials don't mend their ways.
It's analogous to chain mail armor; it's effective against old weapons like broadswords and crap, but completely useless against guns. Today's malware are the equivalent of heavy artillary and most antivirus software is akin to chain mail or even leather armor.
Or, to put it in a car analogy: many antivirus programs would be like wiping a coat of mineral oil ("baby oil") on your unpainted/freshly sandblasted car, and then driving your car through the winter in New England where they salt the roads very heavily. You're hoping the car will still be nice and shiny come April, but sorry, the body is totally rust-covered and has been perforated in several spots.
There are quite a few options actually. I'll list them in order of effectiveness.
1. BSD or Linux. You won't get hit by viruses or any crap like that, unless you're enough of a moron to run everything as root and go out of your way to make the system open. Unfortunately neither option will run 100% of your Windows software.
2. Unplug your Windows box. Guaranteed 100% effective. The drawback is that apps won't run. ;)
3. Comodo antivirus; http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html I have been trying it on various workstations and have found it to be reasonably good. Less effective than the above options! ;) Seriously though it's pretty good. It's not antispyware though, and it doesn't slow the system to a crawl like some other programs. That should be a non-issue. If not, then why are you running MSIE after you've been warned for years? ;)
4. Microsoft Security Essentials: Microsoft actually did a very good job with this basic suite. It's not bloated at all, is straight and to the point, and catches some spyware even malwarebytes misses. It's good now, but then again, Microsoft has dropped the ball with every antivirus and antispyware software they have installed to date.
5. You could try Norton Internet Security. I understand they've completely rearchitected it and brought over NO legacy code and are not bloated so you might want to try it, but I haven't looked at the Norton suite since the 2003 version that turned their antivirus into a failed abortion.
I was using Moon Secure on various systems for a while: it's free, open source, etc. but it has not been updated in forever and is rapidly becoming less and less effective, plus it has quite a few defects including making the Windows logon process EXTREMELY slow on some configurations.