This is a major reason I will not vote for Obama. He has associated with questionable characters at times. Such associations may well cost someone a job also.
Please see info regarding Keating Five. Few, if any, public servants are immune from having associated with some pretty shady characters.
Iridium is very heavy; slightly heavier than platinum, much heavier than 18 carat gold. Something light like titanium may feel flimsy and cheap. An iridium ring will be give you that "whoa" feeling when you feel its weight.
Titanium is light. In fact, it's pound for pound the strongest metal available that we know of. It is NOT flimsy. But they are inexpensive (around 100 bucks or so for a "plain" one). I love my titanium ring. I don't want to feel my ring on all the time. I like the fact that I don't notice it anymore.
Titanium cannot be re-sized. If you gain any appreciable weight, you'll have to buy a new ring. There are jewelers out there that specifically make Titanium rings. I have a "Boccia" ring (http://teno.com/rings2.html for a selection). However, I understand that there are issues with removing the ring if you have very bad swelling. Hospitals don't use Dremel cutting wheels to cut away rings...
Your post needs to be modded "+1 dangerous and not secure at all".
Closing an account does NOT guarantee that the charges don't get reversed back to you. If you fail to pay those reversed charges, it goes on your permanent credit report. In certain situations, they can dock your pay to repay the amount you owe them.
Is Western Union secure? Why does craigslist say to avoid any Western Union payers as a scammer?
While I can agree with the "talk to a lawyer" suggestions, to some extent, I do feel that lawyers are sometimes wholly unnecessary and are merely a moneypit. Send the email, get a response, and then decide whether or not a lawyer is called for. And don't forget your gut. It talks to you. Listen.
I disagree. My gut keeps telling me to eat more Krispy Kreme Donuts, and to drink more Ovaltine. And I don't think that I should be listening to it.
No. But looking at the total amount of cash back money I have available makes me sad that I've spent 100 times that much on crap I couldn't point to right now.
Consumer, indeed.
I've never noticed that I don't get at least 1% back on everything I buy. So for every 100 dollars I spend on credit, I get 1 dollar in my allotment.
Back when I was in the States (the only place where they asked), I took
plastic when I had a very small amount of stuff (1 plastic bag)
paper when I had somewhat more (1 paper bag, which tend to be larger than plastic)
plastic again when I had very much stuff (plastic bags have a more convenient handle, so you can carry more than one, whereas with paper this would be awkward).
Can the IBM system store such a complex decision process?
I think that there's a fantastic new idea for a patent, though!
I think that credit cards are more secure - I'm willing to bet I'll have zero money in my account long before VISA (or whoever else) will have a hard time paying off my grocery bill...
Communist MiG-17s, slow and maneuverable, would close into gun range to engage our fighters, who could of course not fight up close like that.
Almost. The main reason things were so wacky was because there was a requirement that you have visual confirmation that the blip on the radar was, in fact, a bogey. Visual range for positive ID isn't all that far, maybe a couple of miles. At that range, you're now in gun range, which, when you lack a gun is like the old adage:
"Never bring a Intercontinental Ballistic Missile with Nuclear Warheads to a Knife fight"
... What I was saying was that you don't take a mechanical engineer, who's never programmed a thing in his life, and ask him to design a CAD program. He would probably get the interface and concepts right, but I don't think the code would work without bugs, nor would it be easily maintainable.... Holy Cow! If your standards of good design is that the software is easily maintainable, and contain no bugs, then apparently NOBODY is a Software Engineer for any project beyond the trivial.
...
They've had this "right" since the country was formed, and older countries have had it for much longer. So how does the border patrol have the right to do things before their countries get formed?:)
...I carry my own means to do so. Wether that be a smartphone, iPod touch, PSP, laptop with wifi... That does you no good. If a public terminal connected to a wireless router has been hacked, there's no guarantee that the router hasn't also been hacked. A hacked router can make all kinds of things appear, like fake webpages that look like the real thing. Then they don't need anything like a fancy keylogger, since you're typing the info into their own pages.
It's harder to make a fake encrypted page that doesn't pop up a security warning, but I'm sure that it's possible to do. Heck, just pop up a frameless webpage that looks like the page is encrypted, and you're set.
I hate to say it, but there is really nothing that you can successfully do.
headphones however are a leading cause of hearing loss. I had to stop using headphones because i was having ringing in my ears, and I'm only 30. worst of all i had only been using headphones exclusively for 2 years before the ringing in my ears problem made me have to give them up. Headphones in general, or your usage of the headphones? I seriously doubt that there's any inherent problem in headphones that causes hearing loss - I suspect it's on the types of usage people do with them. Turning up the volume on earbud headphones to "drown out" sound around you is a recipe for disaster, and what I suspect causes the majority of hearing problems. I've had many headphones over the years (what I exclusively listen to music with) and all of them are semi-decent around the ear style (aka '70's style), and I can't say that I've ever had any issues with ringing in my ears. Sure, they're not as portable or small or subtle looking, but my hearing is more important (and now that I think about it, so is what I want to listen to).
but technically if you put those two speakers exactly opposite of each ear, you can still get very good positional sound from 2 speakers, it's having both speakers in-front of the user, that causes the havoc with positional sound. so then they added rear speakers, but people were making the sound effects blazingly loud, so they added a fifth channel for voices, then people wanted more base so they added a subwoofer. It doesn't really matter all that much where those 2 speakers are, as long as they're somewhat separated - Signal Processing is an amazing thing. True, if the speakers are directly opposite each other, it is probably an easier job of figuring out how to do the processing to simulate a fully 3D audio soundscape, but it would work OK for almost any reasonably separated 2 speaker system.
Either way, Aureal's 3D positional audio implementation was vastly superior to anything Creative had at the time (and oddly still has today). Even after Creative bought Aureal, I don't think that they did anything with that postional soundscape tech that Aureal very nearly "mastered".
That is not true. You could have the greatest product in the world, but it won't sell unless you are able to advertise to your customer base. It is the EXTREMELY rare exception that tools sell via word of mouth.
Curious. IT doesn't bother wasting time replacing parts like that at my current (very large) company. They just replace the entire device (aka the laptop). It's not cost effective to diagnose a hardware problem on the fly, then replace the one faulty piece of equipment.
That's what the point of hardware support contracts are.
We're talking Enterprise, not Small Business.
It's more expensive to pay a tech the time and effort to troubleshoot and diagnose a problem with hardware than it is to simply replace all of the hardware. Particularly in a very large Enterprise environment where you have tiered IT people - the simple techs can easily walk to someone's office and swap out the whole box. Making the advanced techs troubleshoot a single piece of hardware (like a laptop or desktop) is generally a waste of time and resources.
So maybe that means that Macs are in fact MORE Enterprise ready - they discourage a tech from tinkering with an individual piece of hardware, and just replace the whole system...
I'd rather see my >>70 FPS drop down to >70 FPS with VSYNC turned on. Either way, your screen can't show you (well) anything more than it's refresh rate - anything more than that shows tearing of the screen (which IMO looks awful). However, I do agree that generally having rediculous FPS means that when the rendering gets more complex, you may be less likely to drop below the actual refresh rate of the monitor.
I'm not whining. I was merely commenting that the person I was replying to said that the software wasn't feature-complete. You are correct in your statement that I haven't tried Kdenlive, however, I can also infer from your statement that you've never used iMovie. Therefore, you are equally as guilty of whining as myself.
The point is that if you can't get the software working, then what good is it? In my opinion (and it's just that, an opinion), if the software won't work on your computer, than it does you no good to use it, then does it (in fact, it's impossible to use if it won't work). Therefore, for your purposes, said software isn't ready for you to use.
I use plenty of software that's pre-1.0. I've even beta tested lots of software. In fact, I love the fact that I can use software that's free, or at least that the source code is available, if I would like to tinker with it. The reality is that for a great deal of others that aren't tinkerer's like myself, said software may not be sufficient for their needs, and probably won't be, at least until they reach some final milestone version. And that can occur long after a commercial version exists.
So the point of TFA is that the author believes (and on some fronts is correct) that Proprietary Software has a lead on the OSS which performs a similar function. That's all I'm trying to say. If you want to make comparisons, use software for which the Proprietary versions aren't even close in functionality or usability of the OSS similar versions.
My perception (which I am sure a few people are about to tell me is wholly wrong) is that there isn't any exciting development in the end user application space. Where is the application that beats the pants off of Final Cut Pro, or even iMovie?
I've heard LIVES and Cinelerra are quite good (though I couldn't get Cinelerra working at all). But I recently discovered Kdenlive, which seems nearly feature-complete. (Its media import library seems to be missing a few things, but that's ok, it's not version 1 yet.) They're probably not iMovie, but they're the best NLV editors I know of. -- You have just proven one of the points of the article. There exist proprietary software today (Final Cut Pro, iMovie) which have only "in development" status, not "ready for prime time" status. If you can't get it working, then it isn't really useful to you. Cinelerra may be the greatest piece of software when it's done, but if you can't get it working (show me a Mac that can run OSX but can't run Final Cut Pro with ease), then what good is it?
Kdenlive sounds like it could be interesting, but it's also not done (hence playing catchup).
How long has Final Cut Pro and iMovie been working seamlessly again?
If the last time you had a computer was when a P3 was spiffy, then it appears that you don't upgrade all that often. In that case, with what's been "looming over the horizon", a dual core processor seems to be a better fit for the future than the present. While the vast majority of games do better on a faster single core computer than a slower dual core processor, there are some games that have recently come out that have shown some measurable gains with multi-core processors (Quake4, Oblivion are two that pop into my mind right now).
While some may argue that multicore may be a fad in the current gaming space (based on the fact that programming safe, multi-threaded applications is no simple feat), I would disagree. The only real evidence (and it's tenuous at best) I have to show otherwise is the current "Next Gen Consoles". I am pretty sure that a lot of the tricks people learn to parallelize games to maximize game performance on their multicore processors will bleed over into the PC gaming market.
Call it a hunch.
That is a bit surprising about the Video card. I had thought that the advantage of that particular model (7900GT) over an equivalent ATI part is that it runs cooler and quieter. I'd suspsect a poorly seated heatsink first, however looking at the eVGA website, it looks like it's factory Over Clocked.
I've noticed some odd behavior with AVG's Free anti-Virus. It seems that when it notifies you with the fact that it's about to do an update, and has finished an update, it's very focus-grabby. While knee deep in a ZG run in WoW (while playing a full screen game, for those of you that don't understand the previous...), I've noticed that AVG drops me to the desktop to tell me that it's updating, and that it's finished updating. I can still click back on the WoW taskbar and get back, but it's kind of annoying. I also notice the same behavior in Oblivion...
I'm sure that it's a configurable item somewhere in AVG Free to not "pop up" status to the front of the screen, but I didn't find it (but didn't look that hard). So, I wound up just removing AVG (lazy).
That's my gaming computer, which I never use for email, never use IE, and rarely (if ever) go to "untrusted" websites. I never use any kind of shareware on that computer, no silly internet games (boggle online?), no screensavers outside of the default Windows one, no free "Icon packs" or any of the sort. While I'm not immune to viruses, I've tried to minimize my exposure.
Other than the "Extremely Focus Grabby" behavior (which I'm sure is a settable thing), AVG seemed fine.
Others have rated Avast! as good, and I'm sure there are others.
Previous versions of Notes (6.5 is what I'm used to) did let you sort by anything you wanted to. The trick was to figure out how to tell Notes that's what you wanted to do. Unfortunately, that meant re-creating a new "view" into the database backend which let you now sort on "Subject Line"
I'll concede that Notes seems to have a huge amount of stuff that it CAN do (it's scripting capability is pretty powerful, if you take the time to learn how to use and program in it), the hard part is sitting down and learning that.
With that said, there are far too many incredibly dumb things that Notes does that just don't make any sense from a UI perspective - how do you, in EVERY OTHER APPLICATION ON THE PLANET select a linear range of entries? Click the first entry, scroll to where you want to finish, hold shift, then click on the last entry you want in the picklist. In Notes? You can't do that - you have to literally hold down the mouse button and "drag" all the way to the end message. This doesn't normally sound all that bad. However, pick the case where something freaks out and dumps about 5000 email messages into your inbox. How do you delete those, while keeping the other 300 messages you want to keep? You guessed it, you have to scroll through all 5000 messages of them. Or, you can try to figure out how the filtering mechanism works, figuring out what's common to all 5000 of the bad messages, but doesn't exist in the 300 good messages, and do a "select all" delete from there. Even then, does that work?
I love Notes! Yay!
(grumble grumble)
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This is a major reason I will not vote for Obama. He has associated with questionable characters at times. Such associations may well cost someone a job also.
Please see info regarding Keating Five. Few, if any, public servants are immune from having associated with some pretty shady characters.
Iridium is very heavy; slightly heavier than platinum, much heavier than 18 carat gold. Something light like titanium may feel flimsy and cheap. An iridium ring will be give you that "whoa" feeling when you feel its weight.
Titanium is light. In fact, it's pound for pound the strongest metal available that we know of. It is NOT flimsy. But they are inexpensive (around 100 bucks or so for a "plain" one). I love my titanium ring. I don't want to feel my ring on all the time. I like the fact that I don't notice it anymore.
Titanium cannot be re-sized. If you gain any appreciable weight, you'll have to buy a new ring. There are jewelers out there that specifically make Titanium rings. I have a "Boccia" ring (http://teno.com/rings2.html for a selection). However, I understand that there are issues with removing the ring if you have very bad swelling. Hospitals don't use Dremel cutting wheels to cut away rings...
Your post needs to be modded "+1 dangerous and not secure at all".
Closing an account does NOT guarantee that the charges don't get reversed back to you. If you fail to pay those reversed charges, it goes on your permanent credit report. In certain situations, they can dock your pay to repay the amount you owe them.
Is Western Union secure? Why does craigslist say to avoid any Western Union payers as a scammer?
While I can agree with the "talk to a lawyer" suggestions, to some extent, I do feel that lawyers are sometimes wholly unnecessary and are merely a moneypit. Send the email, get a response, and then decide whether or not a lawyer is called for. And don't forget your gut. It talks to you. Listen.
I disagree. My gut keeps telling me to eat more Krispy Kreme Donuts, and to drink more Ovaltine. And I don't think that I should be listening to it.
Get it straight. It's the dump trucks that run from Data Center to Data Center.
No. But looking at the total amount of cash back money I have available makes me sad that I've spent 100 times that much on crap I couldn't point to right now.
Consumer, indeed.
I've never noticed that I don't get at least 1% back on everything I buy. So for every 100 dollars I spend on credit, I get 1 dollar in my allotment.
Back when I was in the States (the only place where they asked), I took
Can the IBM system store such a complex decision process?
I think that there's a fantastic new idea for a patent, though!
I think that credit cards are more secure - I'm willing to bet I'll have zero money in my account long before VISA (or whoever else) will have a hard time paying off my grocery bill...
Communist MiG-17s, slow and maneuverable, would close into gun range to engage our fighters, who could of course not fight up close like that.
Almost. The main reason things were so wacky was because there was a requirement that you have visual confirmation that the blip on the radar was, in fact, a bogey. Visual range for positive ID isn't all that far, maybe a couple of miles. At that range, you're now in gun range, which, when you lack a gun is like the old adage:
"Never bring a Intercontinental Ballistic Missile with Nuclear Warheads to a Knife fight"
... What I was saying was that you don't take a mechanical engineer, who's never programmed a thing in his life, and ask him to design a CAD program. He would probably get the interface and concepts right, but I don't think the code would work without bugs, nor would it be easily maintainable.... Holy Cow! If your standards of good design is that the software is easily maintainable, and contain no bugs, then apparently NOBODY is a Software Engineer for any project beyond the trivial.
... They've had this "right" since the country was formed, and older countries have had it for much longer. So how does the border patrol have the right to do things before their countries get formed?
...I carry my own means to do so. Wether that be a smartphone, iPod touch, PSP, laptop with wifiThat is not true. You could have the greatest product in the world, but it won't sell unless you are able to advertise to your customer base. It is the EXTREMELY rare exception that tools sell via word of mouth.
Curious. IT doesn't bother wasting time replacing parts like that at my current (very large) company. They just replace the entire device (aka the laptop). It's not cost effective to diagnose a hardware problem on the fly, then replace the one faulty piece of equipment.
That's what the point of hardware support contracts are.
We're talking Enterprise, not Small Business.
It's more expensive to pay a tech the time and effort to troubleshoot and diagnose a problem with hardware than it is to simply replace all of the hardware. Particularly in a very large Enterprise environment where you have tiered IT people - the simple techs can easily walk to someone's office and swap out the whole box. Making the advanced techs troubleshoot a single piece of hardware (like a laptop or desktop) is generally a waste of time and resources.
So maybe that means that Macs are in fact MORE Enterprise ready - they discourage a tech from tinkering with an individual piece of hardware, and just replace the whole system...
I'd rather see my >>70 FPS drop down to >70 FPS with VSYNC turned on. Either way, your screen can't show you (well) anything more than it's refresh rate - anything more than that shows tearing of the screen (which IMO looks awful). However, I do agree that generally having rediculous FPS means that when the rendering gets more complex, you may be less likely to drop below the actual refresh rate of the monitor.
As to why you're not using TiVO (or similar stunningly brilliant Digital Video Recorder technology) I'll never know ... :)
Seriously, who watches Commercials anymore??
I'm not whining. I was merely commenting that the person I was replying to said that the software wasn't feature-complete. You are correct in your statement that I haven't tried Kdenlive, however, I can also infer from your statement that you've never used iMovie. Therefore, you are equally as guilty of whining as myself.
The point is that if you can't get the software working, then what good is it? In my opinion (and it's just that, an opinion), if the software won't work on your computer, than it does you no good to use it, then does it (in fact, it's impossible to use if it won't work). Therefore, for your purposes, said software isn't ready for you to use.
I use plenty of software that's pre-1.0. I've even beta tested lots of software. In fact, I love the fact that I can use software that's free, or at least that the source code is available, if I would like to tinker with it. The reality is that for a great deal of others that aren't tinkerer's like myself, said software may not be sufficient for their needs, and probably won't be, at least until they reach some final milestone version. And that can occur long after a commercial version exists.
So the point of TFA is that the author believes (and on some fronts is correct) that Proprietary Software has a lead on the OSS which performs a similar function. That's all I'm trying to say. If you want to make comparisons, use software for which the Proprietary versions aren't even close in functionality or usability of the OSS similar versions.
My perception (which I am sure a few people are about to tell me is wholly wrong) is that there isn't any exciting development in the end user application space. Where is the application that beats the pants off of Final Cut Pro, or even iMovie?
I've heard LIVES and Cinelerra are quite good (though I couldn't get Cinelerra working at all). But I recently discovered Kdenlive, which seems nearly feature-complete. (Its media import library seems to be missing a few things, but that's ok, it's not version 1 yet.) They're probably not iMovie, but they're the best NLV editors I know of.
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You have just proven one of the points of the article. There exist proprietary software today (Final Cut Pro, iMovie) which have only "in development" status, not "ready for prime time" status. If you can't get it working, then it isn't really useful to you. Cinelerra may be the greatest piece of software when it's done, but if you can't get it working (show me a Mac that can run OSX but can't run Final Cut Pro with ease), then what good is it?
Kdenlive sounds like it could be interesting, but it's also not done (hence playing catchup).
How long has Final Cut Pro and iMovie been working seamlessly again?
If the last time you had a computer was when a P3 was spiffy, then it appears that you don't upgrade all that often. In that case, with what's been "looming over the horizon", a dual core processor seems to be a better fit for the future than the present. While the vast majority of games do better on a faster single core computer than a slower dual core processor, there are some games that have recently come out that have shown some measurable gains with multi-core processors (Quake4, Oblivion are two that pop into my mind right now).
While some may argue that multicore may be a fad in the current gaming space (based on the fact that programming safe, multi-threaded applications is no simple feat), I would disagree. The only real evidence (and it's tenuous at best) I have to show otherwise is the current "Next Gen Consoles". I am pretty sure that a lot of the tricks people learn to parallelize games to maximize game performance on their multicore processors will bleed over into the PC gaming market.
Call it a hunch.
That is a bit surprising about the Video card. I had thought that the advantage of that particular model (7900GT) over an equivalent ATI part is that it runs cooler and quieter. I'd suspsect a poorly seated heatsink first, however looking at the eVGA website, it looks like it's factory Over Clocked.
I've noticed some odd behavior with AVG's Free anti-Virus. It seems that when it notifies you with the fact that it's about to do an update, and has finished an update, it's very focus-grabby. While knee deep in a ZG run in WoW (while playing a full screen game, for those of you that don't understand the previous...), I've noticed that AVG drops me to the desktop to tell me that it's updating, and that it's finished updating. I can still click back on the WoW taskbar and get back, but it's kind of annoying. I also notice the same behavior in Oblivion...
I'm sure that it's a configurable item somewhere in AVG Free to not "pop up" status to the front of the screen, but I didn't find it (but didn't look that hard). So, I wound up just removing AVG (lazy).
That's my gaming computer, which I never use for email, never use IE, and rarely (if ever) go to "untrusted" websites. I never use any kind of shareware on that computer, no silly internet games (boggle online?), no screensavers outside of the default Windows one, no free "Icon packs" or any of the sort. While I'm not immune to viruses, I've tried to minimize my exposure.
Other than the "Extremely Focus Grabby" behavior (which I'm sure is a settable thing), AVG seemed fine.
Others have rated Avast! as good, and I'm sure there are others.
Previous versions of Notes (6.5 is what I'm used to) did let you sort by anything you wanted to. The trick was to figure out how to tell Notes that's what you wanted to do. Unfortunately, that meant re-creating a new "view" into the database backend which let you now sort on "Subject Line" I'll concede that Notes seems to have a huge amount of stuff that it CAN do (it's scripting capability is pretty powerful, if you take the time to learn how to use and program in it), the hard part is sitting down and learning that. With that said, there are far too many incredibly dumb things that Notes does that just don't make any sense from a UI perspective - how do you, in EVERY OTHER APPLICATION ON THE PLANET select a linear range of entries? Click the first entry, scroll to where you want to finish, hold shift, then click on the last entry you want in the picklist. In Notes? You can't do that - you have to literally hold down the mouse button and "drag" all the way to the end message. This doesn't normally sound all that bad. However, pick the case where something freaks out and dumps about 5000 email messages into your inbox. How do you delete those, while keeping the other 300 messages you want to keep? You guessed it, you have to scroll through all 5000 messages of them. Or, you can try to figure out how the filtering mechanism works, figuring out what's common to all 5000 of the bad messages, but doesn't exist in the 300 good messages, and do a "select all" delete from there. Even then, does that work? I love Notes! Yay! (grumble grumble)