Got 70v sound system here in the house, running an old Sansui reciever someone was tossing out. I've seen really cheap systems using a car CD player!
Step up the output of each channel with a 70v XFMR, and run your lines. Run 'em thru a potentiometer(volume control, read up on linear v. audio pots), and then step them down with one XFMR per channel per room. XFMR taps to speakers. figure about $20 per to step up a channel, $20-50 for volume control, $5 per channel per room to step it down.
You will still get what you pay for with amp & speakers!
A presumptive "AMEN BROTHER!!"
Sience has given us wonderful things- artificial hearts, donated organ transplants, nerve reattatchment, brain surgery, ad infinitum. It has also allowed us to move further away from being hunter-gatherers, trading in our clubs for briefcases. This is not inherently bad, but it speaks volumes about the "evolutionary process" we are currently going through. From running after our food to "Super Sizing", and then taking our hydroxycut, protein shake, phen-fen, tae-bo, trimspa.
This procedure seems to be best suited for the type of issues gained (for the most part) from a sedentary lifestyle. I know there are people with genetically derived degenerative issues, but let's face it, that has to cover a very small percentage of people with vascular deterioration.
If you could regenerate vessels quickly for trauma patients, that would be one thing, but allowing a 70 year old 50-year smoker (like my father) to die of something other than vascular problems is kind of a push in my book.
But I think it is exactly the place for this type of discussion. The issue is what will be the fruits of said discussion. If/.ers choose to make their voices heard outside this "forum", changes in the regulations surrounding "rights ownership and the legal nuances of piracy" could be made. If, however, it doesn't go beyond/.'s servers, it just becomes one of the 31 flavors.
Any Mass. residents called their elected representatives about the Open Document Format debate? HMMM?
That all we know about quantum physics is wrong? So the teaching, grants, studies, relativity theories, and other "scientific" methods that my tax money is funding has been a waste? Tell me again why teaching Creationism in schools is not "scientific"? Hell, it stands on more known TANGIBLE historical data than quantum physics (or evolution, for that matter).
Sophistry, again. How do you prove a given fossil is not half-way mutated? Oh, and if you'd like a living beastie, how about the duck-billed platypus?
OK then, how about transient species? Something with the traits of both the original "unevolved" and the new "evolved" species? Y'know, like Lucy or Piltdown Man--only not hoaxes.
And what, exactly is the platypus a "living beastie" amalgam of?
Background: I work for Uncle Sam in an "Enlisted" capacity. The facility I work in uses several OSs: Alpha, VAX, UNIX, M$, etc. Use a little FORTRAN IV and some proprietary stuff as well. I had the idea(still have it, BTW) that all of this could be rolled into a Linux-exclusive environment. Downloaded the SELinux kernel about 4 years ago, and pitched it to the IS guy at work. Said it could be used for all applications on both the red and black sides of the house, started trying to get the code to start setting everything up on 1 "box". Found myself beating my head against the wall because the IS guy was an MCSE who just had a bunch of cheat sheets on how to use the other stuff. All he could do was start/stop processes and reboot.
Now, the security level of the info is quite high, and it seems that the ultimate goal would be to have it as secure as possible. The only security some of this stuff has is obscurity! (Well, that and the crypto equipment-old KGs and whatnot)
You would think that IT departments would tire of pushing security fixes and try to find alternatives to the buggy, insecure crap we are using these days.
As a side note, we had an in-house mailserver running on an old 486 stuffed in a corner, used primarily for Squad leaders to push info to subordinates. Got a call from the NSA telling us we had to take it down or provide root access, as they could not access it remotely! This super secret squirrel secure box? Mandrake--without IPCHAINS!
So your experience is that Microsoft's new word processor pretty much processes words the same as their last word processor? Your assumptions on excel and access, IME, are incorrect as well. Microsoft has gone through several iterations of both VB and MSSQL. That which you open in 97 excel will cause 2k3 to puke and vice-versa. Not only that, but clippy will help you convert from the old format to the new, but I've really only see that work flawlessly for simple SUM()-type arithmetic spreadsheets. It's a good idea to back up both your raw data AND keep a copy of your macros handy. Then go drop 80 bucks on their latest "working with the new VB" book and do the conversions by hand. I have a database right now that is asking me if I want to "block unsafe expressions" because my version of JET is NEWER than the one running on the host box! MS Office is an unsecure dinosaur that needs to be rebuilt from scratch, not just have the code "tweaked" to create compatibility issues that force downstream users to upgrade or lose access to data.
So, there is no requirement on users to actually protect their "sensitive" data? I think it's time to stop using sysadmins and fallable network shares to maintain user level security. If, for example, a middle manager wants to tweak the payscale, that manager should have a plan in place to secure the working documents. We should all remember that placing data on any networked system is inherently insecure. It must be so to allow the most basic functionality of the network-to share data.
You mean instead of abortion? When you get right down to it, most[0] people who oppose abortion these days are really against the use of abortion as birth control. Children are a huuuuge responsibility, and sex is still the way most people have 'em. If people thought about not getting pregnant BEFORE having sex, there would be less "need" for abortions. Fact remains that pregnancy is 100% preventable--it should not have to be stopped.
[0] Yes, I talked to everyone. I called you and left a message.
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Got 70v sound system here in the house, running an old Sansui reciever someone was tossing out. I've seen really cheap systems using a car CD player!
Step up the output of each channel with a 70v XFMR, and run your lines. Run 'em thru a potentiometer(volume control, read up on linear v. audio pots), and then step them down with one XFMR per channel per room. XFMR taps to speakers. figure about $20 per to step up a channel, $20-50 for volume control, $5 per channel per room to step it down.
You will still get what you pay for with amp & speakers!
A presumptive "AMEN BROTHER!!"
Sience has given us wonderful things- artificial hearts, donated organ transplants, nerve reattatchment, brain surgery, ad infinitum.
It has also allowed us to move further away from being hunter-gatherers, trading in our clubs for briefcases. This is not inherently bad, but it speaks volumes about the "evolutionary process" we are currently going through. From running after our food to "Super Sizing", and then taking our hydroxycut, protein shake, phen-fen, tae-bo, trimspa.
This procedure seems to be best suited for the type of issues gained (for the most part) from a sedentary lifestyle.
I know there are people with genetically derived degenerative issues, but let's face it, that has to cover a very small percentage of people with vascular deterioration.
If you could regenerate vessels quickly for trauma patients, that would be one thing, but allowing a 70 year old 50-year smoker (like my father) to die of something other than vascular problems is kind of a push in my book.
But I think it is exactly the place for this type of discussion. /.ers choose to make their voices heard outside this "forum", changes in the regulations surrounding "rights ownership and the legal nuances of piracy" could be made. If, however, it doesn't go beyond /.'s servers, it just becomes one of the 31 flavors.
The issue is what will be the fruits of said discussion. If
Any Mass. residents called their elected representatives about the Open Document Format debate? HMMM?
That all we know about quantum physics is wrong?
So the teaching, grants, studies, relativity theories, and other "scientific" methods that my tax money is funding has been a waste?
Tell me again why teaching Creationism in schools is not "scientific"? Hell, it stands on more known TANGIBLE historical data than quantum physics (or evolution, for that matter).
And what, exactly is the platypus a "living beastie" amalgam of?
unless someone both knew of the mailserver AND spoofed their STU-III key material.
Background: I work for Uncle Sam in an "Enlisted" capacity. The facility I work in uses several OSs: Alpha, VAX, UNIX, M$, etc. Use a little FORTRAN IV and some proprietary stuff as well. I had the idea(still have it, BTW) that all of this could be rolled into a Linux-exclusive environment. Downloaded the SELinux kernel about 4 years ago, and pitched it to the IS guy at work. Said it could be used for all applications on both the red and black sides of the house, started trying to get the code to start setting everything up on 1 "box". Found myself beating my head against the wall because the IS guy was an MCSE who just had a bunch of cheat sheets on how to use the other stuff. All he could do was start/stop processes and reboot. Now, the security level of the info is quite high, and it seems that the ultimate goal would be to have it as secure as possible. The only security some of this stuff has is obscurity! (Well, that and the crypto equipment-old KGs and whatnot) You would think that IT departments would tire of pushing security fixes and try to find alternatives to the buggy, insecure crap we are using these days. As a side note, we had an in-house mailserver running on an old 486 stuffed in a corner, used primarily for Squad leaders to push info to subordinates. Got a call from the NSA telling us we had to take it down or provide root access, as they could not access it remotely! This super secret squirrel secure box? Mandrake--without IPCHAINS!
So your experience is that Microsoft's new word processor pretty much processes words the same as their last word processor?
Your assumptions on excel and access, IME, are incorrect as well.
Microsoft has gone through several iterations of both VB and MSSQL. That which you open in 97 excel will cause 2k3 to puke and vice-versa. Not only that, but clippy will help you convert from the old format to the new, but I've really only see that work flawlessly for simple SUM()-type arithmetic spreadsheets. It's a good idea to back up both your raw data AND keep a copy of your macros handy. Then go drop 80 bucks on their latest "working with the new VB" book and do the conversions by hand.
I have a database right now that is asking me if I want to "block unsafe expressions" because my version of JET is NEWER than the one running on the host box!
MS Office is an unsecure dinosaur that needs to be rebuilt from scratch, not just have the code "tweaked" to create compatibility issues that force downstream users to upgrade or lose access to data.
So, there is no requirement on users to actually protect their "sensitive" data?
I think it's time to stop using sysadmins and fallable network shares to maintain user level security. If, for example, a middle manager wants to tweak the payscale, that manager should have a plan in place to secure the working documents. We should all remember that placing data on any networked system is inherently insecure. It must be so to allow the most basic functionality of the network-to share data.
You mean instead of abortion?
When you get right down to it, most[0] people who oppose abortion these days are really against the use of abortion as birth control. Children are a huuuuge responsibility, and sex is still the way most people have 'em. If people thought about not getting pregnant BEFORE having sex, there would be less "need" for abortions. Fact remains that pregnancy is 100% preventable--it should not have to be stopped.
[0] Yes, I talked to everyone. I called you and left a message.