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Kinda off topic, but not completely. Going to weld up the stands and plumbing for it.
Just getting into the Bio-Diesel concept. The commercial home refineries are expensive. $4000.00 and up. One can be made at home for around one to two hundred dollars. If its worth having its worth making yourself.
Before I get flamed for the price of commercial bio diesel let me repeat myself. I'm going to be making it myself. I have some Chinese restaurants lined up to give me the used oil already. 0.75c VS 4.05 per gallon!
Here is a link to a good site I found on the subject.
A part of the project will include changing out my old gas burning V8 in my 67 chevy van, and putting in a diesel engine. Plenty of welding for new mounts, cross members, and storage tanks.
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mine eyes have seen the burning.
Col idea. I wish you luck with it.. I got stuck behind a Benz running this stuff. My eyes were on fire and it smelled like takeout deepfry...
Dont you have to rejet as well?Will it weld? I loooove electricity!
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No need to re-jet. I think some cars/trucks work better than others. Sounds like the guy in front of you didn't wash the diesel before putting it in his tank. There are trace amounts of soap in the oil made by the refining process. If not washed out it could make your eyes burn.
PS. It will smell like take out! So if your on a diet you decide for yourself.Dynasty 200 DX
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Good luck with the project, I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Just a word of caution though. I saw on the news a while ago where a guy got busted for tax evasion by making his own fuel. Money for road maintenance (and whatever else they decide to do with it) comes from the tax on fuel.To all who contribute to this board.
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As long as you have a supplier lined up and can keep them, good for you.
I know several guys that have either gone the home made bio route or run WVO. The big problem that they have is now many places are realizing that the "trash" oil has a value. Their oil supliers have started to sell the waste oil to companies that collect it and sell it to bio producers. The "free" oil is gone and they are stuck still paying for the equipment / conversions that they got.
Don't forget that the new diesel motor will have an expense in itself. A reman motor for my truck is $6-7K. Be advised that there have been a lot of problems with cloged filters in standard diesel engine that have been converted to bio. If you go with used parts expect to change fuel filters very frequently as the bio loosens up old deposits.
Also remember that most bio will gell at temps below about 50F. In cool or cold weather you will have to cut it with std diesel at least 50/50 to be able to use it. Still a savings, but if you've ever had a diesel engine that wont start due to gelled fuel, its not fun.
Have you considdered what you will do with the waste residue? From my understanding it's about 30-40% of the final product.
I looked into the idea. I use between 35-55gal of std diesel / week. That would mean procesing about a minimum of 55-75 gal of waste oil each week. The collection hasssles plus the fact that most places are starting to sell the waste oil to collection companies for $ just didn't make it worth it. If you can do it for $200 go for it.
Good point. There have even been instances where people have been caught stealing the oil. Once it is in the collection tank it belongs to the oil co. You have to set up your own 55gal drum for the guys to use. I think it depends largely upon where you live. Here in Los Angeles the restaurants pay to have the oil removed. The jell issue is not a problem here 95% of the time.
I drive on average 100 plus miles a day for work. The savings to me will be like getting a extra paycheck each month. Ya gotta do the math for your own circumstances to see if its a good alternative for yourself.Dynasty 200 DX
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Blue Collar Moto definately look into the waste by product issue. Your driving sounds a lot like mine. My 2000 7.3 get 15 mpg with 3.73's. The 08' 6.4 a stinkin 8 mpg. You will have a lot of oil to process and a lot of waste. Don't forget that you will need storage capasity and most likely a pump to transfer. Gravity is ok but thats a ton, literally, of weight to have up in the air. Diesel is a bit over 7 lb / gal.
I have a 115gal transfer tank in the F250 with a 12v pump and filter, a 275 gal home heating oil tank with a 115v pump and filter, and several 55 gal drums with a hand crank pump, that I use for fuel. You will definately want to get a filter for your pump. The kind I use screw on like an oil filter and have a water absorbing media in them. When they fill up with water they stop flowing. Water will be one of the biggest problems. Water in diesel injectors will quickly get VERY expensive.
If you are driving a small VW ignore most of this.
I have a friend that is making BIO in his Apt. geerage up here in LA.
If ya want his info let me know- I'm sure he would be interested in helping ya & show you his set-up and the amount he is producing
Cool guys.
I have it pretty well planed out. Going to do a solar pre heat box to keep the stored raw waste oil at a nice temp before going threw the second set of filters. First set will just be a cloth rag. Second filter 20 micron before processing. Third & fourth smaller still before going into the tank.
Pumps that most $4000.00 systems use are just cheap $30.00 pumps from Harbor Freight.
As far as the byproduct disposal goes, I'm not sure about all that yet. Still doing research on a few things. Making soap out of it is not recommended despite what the commercial sellers of the equipment would have you believe. I know that some of it can go down the drain as it is just soap water. No different than washing your dishes. The solids can be processed more to be made safe for the trash man. (set out to dry)Dynasty 200 DX
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NEWBURY -- Jeans Guy is usually pretty easy to spot. He's the guy who isn't having a very good time on the bunny hill, probably because his legs are Popsicles.
We have all prejudged Jeans Guy. There's nothing less cool or harder to watch than Jeans Guy working his way down a run. Jeans Guy has to be careful because his pants have absolutely no padding and a fall can really hurt. Jeans Guy's jeans also have a tendency to get wet, then freeze to his thighs.
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He's from Pennsylvania and his ski gear was at home. Jeans Guy laughed heartily when he was asked about the jeans.
"I looked at the ski pants and they wanted $60 for the cheapest pair," he said. "I'm not going to spend that for one day of skiing."
The man has a point. You wear ski pants maybe 10 times a year; why should they cost four times more than a nice pair of Lee jeans that you wear 50 times a year?
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Lori Rowell has seen it all. She grew up skiing in Vermont and works in marketing at Pat's Peak in Henniker. Weekend warriors have the option to rent ski pants and jackets at Pat's Peak, though the ski area doesn't advertise the service. Still, Jeans Guy regularly shows up at Pat's Peak, sometimes wearing a poorly insulated Starter jacket.
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This is not a fashion issue. Some people wear full-body snow suits and others have fur-lined jackets. I don't understand either choice but at least they do two things. They keep you warm and they keep you dry.
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A guy on a beginner's ski hill once told me he didn't want to commit to buying snow pants because he wasn't sure he was going to like skiing. Who in their right mind is going to like skiing when their legs are painfully cold?
Michelle Isner and Melissa Page rode up a chairlift at Mount Sunapee and shook their heads when the topic of Jeans Guy came up. They'd seen a skier wearing windpants who was clearly having a bad day. With no insulation, anybody could be miserable. Having no fun on a ski hill? Don't be That Guy.
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Mr Man wrote:Hi robertkSo their study is conditioning their view? What is the motivation or movement towards study? Is it different to the movement towards meditation? Is it being driven by different forces? Is there a higher intention?robertk wrote:Possibly some of the students of Sujin study Abhidhamma, there might be a flavor of that in their thinking?
Of course their study conditions their views, . I am sure if I read you right, do you have doubts that it does?
It is a purely impersonal process.
Take the case of DF. She was psoting here for a while,
Then one day she sent me a pm asking me something and I think if she could meet Sujin. So at a convenient time, on her way home from her yearly long stays at a Myanmar meditation center she stopped over in Thailand and met Sujin for a short discussion. I was in Vietnam or Cambodia or somewhere so didnt even meet her.
Why, out of all the people on Dhammawheel was she interested in what I happened to write: even now almost 2 years later my total posts ad up to 700.
whereas some members have 15,000: you would think she would have been more influenced by one of them..
Or Beautiful Mind, he went to meet Sujin in Hua Hin last month, and he writes - viewtopic.php?f=13&t=15755&p=227593#p227593- how he 'hogged the mike"- for the 2 hours he was there . I see he is now writing on DSG and is unconvinced by anything out of Abhidhamma and I think favours a slighly Mahayana approach (sorry if I got your position wrong BM)- which is of course fine.
Myriad conditions work together to decide what we like and dont like, think or dont think.
Some people love Abhidhamma and thrive on it. Some love it but it makes them dry and distant. Some misinterpret it. Some get attached to it. Some reject it.
But why these differences.
It is all by conditions, there is no self who is like a manager deciding this and that. It is merely wisdom arising, or ignorance, or desire, or wrong view: and these conditioned mental factors, which always arises in assocation with cetana are performing the various functions.


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In 2009, Wisconsin enacted a law that would help victims of sex discrimination win bigger awards. Such victims already could file their cases with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in federal court, or with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. But lawmakers thought that once an accuser had won before an administrative-law judge — the final step of the process that starts with the Department of Workforce Development — she should then be allowed to file her case in a Wisconsin circuit court. Circuit courts were directed to award compensatory and punitive damages of up to $300,000 for large employers, whereas administrative-law judges may only make the accuser "whole" by awarding back pay, attorney's fees, etc.
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chopped fresh parsley
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ripe tomato, chopped
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salt and pepper to taste
This is a delicious recipe that has quickly become a favorite of my family. The only thing I change is I use half the oil, and for more flavor add two cloves of garlic, pressed. I have taken this salad to luncheons and everyone wants a copy of the recipe. Thanks for sharing!
Well, first hint, don't use dried dill.. tastes like sticks in the salad. Interesting, but missing something, maybe more olives, maybe some italian dressing instead of lemon/vinegar combo.. I don't know, I don't think I'll make it again.
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This is a light refreshing salad. Its a great dish, especially if you enjoy tomatoes and feta. I recommend trying to eat it quickly as if its in the fridge for more than a couple days it starts to go bad. I used Kalamata olives and added a splash of balsamic vinegar.
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Delicious! I added three tomatoes instead of one and less olive-oil (extra light). Fresh herbs really make it good! Be careful with adding salt: olives and feta are already salty.
Excellent as a side dish . Will use dried dill and parsley next time. The fresh herbs tasted too grassy. I added some chopped marinated artichoke hearts and its liquid, chopped cukes and a couple of dashes of balsamic vinegar. Makes a good amount.
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The Adobe Creative Cloud Storm
May 09, 2013, 06:55:32 PM »
There have, no doubt, been plenty of topics already started on this topic; and no doubt many have deleted fairly shortly afterwards as they descended into flamewars
I will comment only on the article MR posted here:
"For example, piracy has always been a huge problem. Now, that will be much reduced."
No, I think piracy will in all likelihood increase as a result. Activation and copy protection mechanisms have been hacked and cracked since they arrived on the scene two decades or more ago. Cloud based or not; this will be no exception.
As an aside, I'll note that I was one of those two version jumpers. I'm not paying Adobe four times more money than I do now; and I'm definitely not going to pay the (I think inevitable) massive price jump once they have us all exactly where they want us on the upgrade treadmill...
I'm not going to pirate; I'm just going to stop upgrading. Money talks, or in this case money walks.
I'm sure TheGIMP will eventually mature into an excellent product; maybe this will be the impetus it needs!
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May 09, 2013, 07:38:35 PM »
I thought Michael's piece was measured and on point. The video was the best part. I emailed it to both of my college age kids (each at a different university) and I added "not sure you have heard all the flap about Adobe going to a rental model?"
Both replied that they had heard, kids at school were talking about it, but it was "a non issue for us, since we all use everything we want illegally anyway."
Hmmm. (No jokes about what hoodlums I raised ok?)
But I wouldn't be so sure their protection scheme will be cracked. This is a new model. Probably part of the "every so often" checkin with the mother ship will download new bits such that the scheme changes all the time. I definitely thing one of their goals is to eliminate piracy, and I should think they have thought this through.
I do believe most of their creative suite user base are companies and companies are just fine with the subscription model (that would include my own company).
Basically... people don't like change. I wonder if it wouldn't be quite similar if the situation were reversed. We had always paid $20 a month to use PS. Now they come along and say "errr, it isn't going to work that way any more. You have to pay us SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS now. And then in one year, or two years, another TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, unless you don't want updates or new cameras supported."
I really believe we'd have the same sh*tstorm.
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Quote from: bobtowery on May 09, 2013, 07:38:35 PM
This is a new model.
google how M$ recent products are pirated where M$ is using the same call home every so many days scheme to maintain their activated state.
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May 09, 2013, 10:13:55 PM »
Quote from: AdrianW on May 09, 2013, 06:55:32 PM
I will comment only on the article MR posted here:
"For example, piracy has always been a huge problem. Now, that will be much reduced."
No, I think piracy will in all likelihood increase as a result. Activation and copy protection mechanisms have been hacked and cracked since they arrived on the scene two decades or more ago. Cloud based or not; this will be no exception.
+1 Living in Asia for so long I have what some would consider a worrisome attitude towards copy protection. In most SEA countries I've lived or done business I've observed all but the most westernised or successful local companies either use pirated software, or a good percentage of their software is pirated. Same goes for the Middle Eastern countries I've observed. And of course in these places pirated software, music, movies, are available for one to several dollars at most. A reliably working copy of CS6 complete with the crack that allows it to download the latest updates runs $4 in Thailand's infamous Pantip Plaza. And of course you can find the same but more risky because of the risk of malware.. on most torrent sites.
A software company knows there are several popular ways of getting people to use their product. Sell it. Give it away. Or develop an inadequate protection system knowing full well a great many will pirate their product. They also know this isn't all a downside. There are upsides to having your product pirated. Someone might like it enough to actually buy it, but mostly it increases the user base. If your competitor in Thailand is using the latest best software (for free without penalty) then you'll need to go pay for it to complete. It's more complex than this but you get the picture.
And Adobe or any other company can easily prevent this. So can Microsoft and the others. But if they did, billions would be using some Chinese brand (and paying for it, countries don't let their citizens pirate their own software) and that company would further develop their product into a very good or better alternative that we'd start buying. There is no good solution to the problem other than international cooperation, but even that isn't going to get a private citizen making $150 a month to pay $200 for the latest version of Win7. They'd have to charge roughly the same percentage of the average income.. and then tourist and others would travel and buy it, or create a rampant black market.
So they allow piracy because it benefits them and keeps them on top of the game. Which is all well and good until they take some single mom to court and try and collect $200,000 because her son downloaded the lastest Justin Beiber CD.. Our entire judicial punishment system is predicated on the "make an example of" mindset..
So ya, I agree. CC will become available on torrent sites just like CS6 is now, as well cracks to circumvent the phone in requirement just like there is to circumvent the activation requirement now. And more people will pirate and feel they're justified BECAUSE Adobe changed their policy to something they see as unfair. And face it, any company doubling their price (or worse) will be seen as unfair.
Now let's talk about subscriptions.. something else I've written about forever. Any company that can get their customers to "subscribe" becomes golden. Their worth, their credit, their ability to raise investors, all of it. Subscription is the holy grail of business. Newspapers and then magazines discovered this by accident.. and it really took off.
If you look at what you're subscribing too already: Electricity, water, sewer, trash, in a way a mortgage, cable, internet, cell phones, regular phones, pest control, gardeners, auto leases, and even auto loans are a structured subscription. and then there are subscriptions on top of subscriptions. What you say? Yep, your regular phone and then line protection on top of that. Water and line protection. Cable, cablebox, modem, Voip, AND line protection. The list is very long. When you add to this the average American's credit card debt.. because "payments" like "subscriptions" trick many consumers into buying more than they can afford.. there's nothing left for food. But no worries, many diet companies will send your meals to you. For a low monthly price..
Anyone forgotten what cash feels like? I challenge you to get your next pay check in cash. Hold it in your hand.. look at it. And then go to the post office and start buying money orders for all of your subscriptions. See if that changes your perspective a bit. We rarely hold cash in our hands any more.. it's all electronic. Not real.
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May 09, 2013, 10:46:01 PM »
Piracy in itself is not an issue, the issue is the loss of revenue resulting from piracy.
This means that the millions of pirated private copies of PS will not generate much money for Adobe even if CC were uncrackable because the owners of most of these pirated copies would not purchase CC or the perpetual version anyway.
It may be different for companies using pirated copies if their business relies on Adobe products.
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May 09, 2013, 10:46:36 PM »
I've been using Photoshop for a long time - since version 2 (not CS2), and I've bought their Master Collection since CS2, updating to every new edition along the way. So a subscription should, I suppose, be cheaper for me.
But I've always been an owner, not a renter.
I go to a lot of trouble to keep all of my computer data files archival. I've got virtual machines that I use just to be able to read the data files from applications made by companies that have gone under. I have terabytes of scanned slides and negatives, which I made so that I could still work with those images, years after they were originally made.
With the new rent-only plan, I have to assume that I will be willing to pay an Adobe tax for as long as I'm still alive, and I'm not willing to commit to that plan.
The pace of innovation has been slowing at Adobe, and I don't see huge changes in the future for most of Adobe's applications. Photoshop has seem some welcome changes of late (well, mostly ACR), but it's something of an anomaly. For the most part, successive upgrades have been minor, and I suspect that more and more people have been opting to only purchase every other upgrade (which must be why Adobe changed their upgrade policy with CS6).
Adobe must be desperate to maintain their cash flow, and presumably decided that this was the only way to guarantee a steady revenue stream. Maybe it will work for them, and maybe it won't. But I think that CS6 will be my last version of Photoshop, and it's pretty certain that CS6 will be my last version of everything else in CS. I don't know what I'll do when Adobe decides to only rent Lightroom.
I teach image processing at a University level, and I won't teach Photoshop-only material any more.
It seems to me that this is a huge opportunity for open source image editors like Gimp, and potentially for another commercial photo editor.
For years, I've admired Adobe's shrewd business sense, and their ability to avoid the mire that Microsoft has dug themselves into. I don't think that way anymore. I really like both Photoshop and Lightroom, but I don't want to be an Adobe customer anymore. I hope that I can support a different company in the years to come.
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May 10, 2013, 01:18:50 AM »
Hopefully GIMP will get its act together and pick up the slack for those using the Windows platform.
If anything, this may be the kicker that turns it into a serious competitor.
How much does GIMP cost?
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May 10, 2013, 01:26:19 AM »
Quote from: dreed on May 10, 2013, 01:18:50 AM
How much does GIMP cost?
So, how much is it worth? Precisely? (put a real price on itdare ya).
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May 10, 2013, 02:04:02 AM »
At least the prices now are more equitable. Used to be that PS was 30-50% more expensive here in Australia. Now the subscription makes it actually cheaper. US$50 = AU$48 or thereabouts.
As to the subscription model - time will tell. But having looked at the cheaper offerings like Elements and Pixelmator I think I do need CMYK, proper colour management and channels. Do other apps offer this? I don't know and I'm not going to trawl through demo after demo to find out what they lack. I have Elements, I just tried Pixelmator and it's great, but only up to a point.
My take is that it's only
on par price-wise for those who have ALL the Adobe products and upgrade
version. For everyone else is will cost more per year in dollar terms. The modifiers are if you
need the apps that are only available through CC (Muse etc) , need the 20GB Cloud space and the web hosting.
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May 10, 2013, 02:16:42 AM »
If Adobe focuses on professionals, where do all these 2'500'000 subscribers come from? All pro or might it be that Adobe desperately needs to open new customer segments?
Poor me that I don't qualify as pro, I only teach Photoshop and use it for my job since version 5.5, but the resident LL evangelist said so.
Did I mention that I don't rent software?
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Quote from: Schewe on May 10, 2013, 01:26:19 AM
So, how much is it worth? Precisely? (put a real price on itdare ya).
How much is GIMP (OSS) worth when it costs $0 to download and use?
Hard question to answer.
Do you quantify its worth in the number of human hours that have gone into writing it?
Do you quantify its worth in how much money you save from using it instead of Photoshop?
Or do you quantify its worth in some other fashion, such as if I pay $0 for something then it is worth $0?
Or do you simply say that its worth is not something that can be measured with money?
From the perspective of a person that also works on OSS, the my goal isn't to create something that sells or is worth money but rather to do something that contributes to society as a whole.
How do you calculate the worth of program that enables the world at large to edit their images without having to pay for the privilege?
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May 10, 2013, 02:23:26 AM »
Quote from: dreed on May 10, 2013, 02:18:53 AM
How do you calculate the worth of program that enables the world at large to edit their images without having to pay for the privilege?
So, that's what I'm asking...what's Gimp worth?
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Quote from: Schewe on May 10, 2013, 02:23:26 AM
..what's Gimp worth?
More than it was a week ago, and less than it will be in the months and years to come, courtesy of Adobe.
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Quote from: Schewe on May 10, 2013, 02:23:26 AM
So, that's what I'm asking...what's Gimp worth?
Interesting question. It seems you aren't asking how much it would sell for if a price were put on it, but rather for some kind of non-market dollar value that could be attributed to freeware. Assuming that is a meaningful concept, is there any standard way of calculating it, or do you have one in mind? If not, the answer would require a long post which explained and justified the respondent's methodology before coming up with a figure.
Is there an economist in the house?
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Quote from: Nick Rains on May 10, 2013, 02:04:02 AM
At least the prices now are more equitable. Used to be that PS was 30-50% more expensive here in Australia. Now the subscription makes it actually cheaper. US$50 = AU$48 or thereabouts.
Indeed. The upgrade price from PS CS5 to PS CS6 was AUD$307.00. The 18 month price for PS CC is AUD$239.82 (12x9.99 + 6x19.99) - so a 27% saving! Yes of course Adobe is in the position of raising the monthly/annual subscription price, but then they raised the upgrade/new prices each version as well. The thing is that before you could decide to stop upgrading and still have full access to your layered files. Now you will only have access to flattened TIFFs/JPEGs (leaving raw files out it) - if you already have an existing copy of PS.
You pays your money and makes your (much limited) choice...
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Quote from: Schewe on May 10, 2013, 02:23:26 AM
So, that's what I'm asking...what's Gimp worth?
For photographers that don't agree with Adobe's new direction, it's invaluable.
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Quote from: Schewe on May 10, 2013, 02:23:26 AM
So, that's what I'm asking...what's Gimp worth?
Not my native language, but isn't the correct English adjective: invaluable ...
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PIRACY will be reduced....
please don´t be naive.
piracy will not be reduced at all.. why should it?
there is no technical reason.. the software still runs localy on your PC.
server side activation can be cracked... there is no unsolvable problem with that.
from STEAM to KMS... there will always be a way for clever reverse engineers.
i think piracy will actually increase.
because people who hate the cloud/subscription will now think about using a pirated copy.
and user of a pirated copy don´t have to connect every 30 days.
it´s just the same as with games and NO-CD cracks.
in the end the legal customer will be bothered with copy protection mechanism and the warez user laughs....
it´s always the same. from dongles to DVD protection to server side activation.
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Quote from: daws on May 10, 2013, 02:34:43 AM
More than it was a week ago, and less than it will be in the months and years to come, courtesy of Adobe.
Regardless what I think about Adobe's current plans, the solution for me is not Gimp. With Gimp, you are bound to 8Bit color-depth in any color-space called RGB ( which could be sRGB, AdobeRGB,anything else in between). Furthermore, it uses only one core of my CPU, so the performance will not be as good as using PS.
For minor changes, you click more than three times of what you do in PS, when you want to work with a better performance, you will have to learn thousands of keystrokes, nearly all different from the one you are familiar with when using PS.
So, to come back to Jeff's question, for me personally, Gimp is worth not very much.
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Quote from: Robert-Peter Westphal on May 10, 2013, 04:35:16 AM
With Gimp, you are bound to 8Bit color-depth in any color-space called RGB ( which could be sRGB, AdobeRGB,anything else in between).
Hi Robert,
Not for too long, they hope. The website mentions;
Unstable version of GIMP is now capable of working in 16 and 32 bit per channel modes, both integer and float. Color management has been improved as well, and thanks to support by AMD and Google the GEGL library can do GPU-side rendering and processing with OpenCL.
Furthermore, it uses only one core of my CPU, so the performance will not be as good as using PS.
That depends on how well the single core is utilized. It also depends on how well the GPUs are exploited ...
For minor changes, you click more than three times of what you do in PS, when you want to work with a better performance, you will have to learn thousands of keystrokes, nearly all different from the one you are familiar with when using PS.
Could that have to do with a learning curve? Maybe there are more efficient possibilities to achieve a result, once you learn how? I also see a lot of functions and filters and plugins that offer things that are harder to achieve in Photoshop. I guess it has to do with embracing a tool, and wanting to get to know it, including its idiosyncrasies.
Who knows, it seems there are also contacts with Google (who purchased NIK software), maybe this is the start of something interesting.
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Just wanted to post a few questions about this course.
1. With the recent changes and added length are any of the holes considered a par 4? Whats an average score here from a regular? I have been learning the course and I have been shooting -2 to +5 on average, still trying to figure out what discs to use on the gauntlet.
2. Are there still any tournaments held at this course? if not currently have you considered changing the day and time? Maybe a Tuesday around 5:30pm-6pm start time? I know Wills is Wednesday and Oregon is Thursday which are close by. I also see Redan has Tuesday doubles but they are an hour away and shouldn't affect any locals that would play here.
3. Is there a particular day of the week or time when its best to run into regulars here? I have started to play this course more recently but usually on Wednesday Thursday evenings, my days off, between 4-6pm.


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I've heard many competing theories and opinions about how discs fly differently at altitude. Many say discs tend to fly more overstable in thinner air (higher altitude) as compared to sea-level, while some others have said the opposite. While this kind of competing (mis)information is common throughout our society, it does us little good when making informed decisions. We need some way of sorting fact from BS/opinion.
Because I'm planning a trip to (hopefully) play in the mountains soon, I'm in need of advice about what changes to make in my bag before leaving. So, I'm starting this discussion with the hope of definitively answering this question:
How does an increase in altitude alter the flight characteristics of golf discs?
Of course, the question must assume a constant state where all other variables remain equal (ceteris paribus). I'm particularly hoping for responses from those of you who have personal experience playing with the same discs at different altitudes, as well as from the many disc gurus abundant here on DGRUS. Any other information/links on the subject would also be most welcome.
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Discs are most overstable at higher altitudes- it should have something to do with less air= less resistance where resistance= unstability. I have played from sea level to 12,500ft and I know at even 5,000ft elevation I had to get some more understable plastic in the bag just to throw straight and it became harder to turn things over.
Hey Steve! Which mountains are you planning to play?
The simple question is: yes--altitude affects a discs flight. Where I live in New Mexico, at 7,000 feet, my 171 Sidewinder might fly flat, helix a bit, and then fade reliably. If I were to throw it in you're neck of the woods, back in the STL, it would turn over straight into the ground and become nothing but a colorful paper weight.
I find throwing at altitude is more difficult than throwing at sea level. A few tips for altitude:
If you come through Santa Fe, hit me up!
here is a Q & A on the topic I submitted to a Marshall Street contest a few months back:
Please enlighten me with you brilliant wisdom and insight. Can you explain to me why discs become so much more stable at higher altitudes and how players can prepare to deal with stability issues while traveling between sea level (Marshall Street) and high altitudes (my home in Santa Fe)? A physics lesson is in order…
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Flava Flave!
Well, let me just say that I failed physics… but I did get a 4.0 in Visual Reconstruction: Applied Spatial Re-Creation.
The reason for a discs change in stability is relative to the air molecules which make up the space in which our objects travel. The denser the air is the less stable a disc will become. Conversely, less dense air will make a disc act more overstable.
While thinking of the best way to properly answer this pretty tough question, my exercises in VR: ASR were coming back to me.
If we were to, for a moment, think of the air surrounding us as a vacuum (empty space/nothing which thankfully, it's not)… In this case, air molecules could be best represented as the type of person who (now stay with me) decides its a good idea to flip over parked cars once their hometown teams wins the Championship, whichever sport it may be.
Here's why…
Ok. So your hometown team just won the championship. People are flooding the streets, the bars are still open, and common sense has just left with any sense of decency to go back to his place. The night is getting blurry, and the law needs to be broken in order for this buzz to keep going. Right now, there's only a few knuckleheads (air molecules) out there, and they're having a hard time flipping those parked cars. Think of this time of the night as being in a higher altitude (Santa Fe) throwing a disc. There's less of these chumps (air molecules) with hands on a car, so it's going to be harder for them to "flip" or "turn over" that car (your disc). This would make your disc appear more overstable than it would be at a lower altitude.
Now the bars are closed and I'm willing to bet there were a ton of Jaegerbombs ordered at last call. High on energy drinks and liquor, more boneheads flood the streets. And what better way to act as a concerned citizen, than to help his fellow man… tip over a parked car. So now there's an overabundance of blockheads (air molecules) rocking these cars, and they are getting easier to flip. Think of this time of the night as being in a lower altitude (MSt) throwing a disc. There's more of these dolts (air molecules) with hands on a car, so it's going to be easier to "flip" or "turn over" that car (your disc). This would make your disc appear more understable than it would be at a higher altitude.
To summarize and to use the real boring answer, the higher you go the more overstable you get… get low, and get understable.
Thanks Ben. I was 90+% sure this was the case, but its nice to hear it from someone definitively. Hopefully yours and Ryan's answers will be useful to others as well.
Hey Ryan! Thanks for the response. I was actually hoping/expecting to heard from you, so your input is much appreciated.
The mountains my discs will be slamming into faster are the Rockies...I'll be in Colorado next month and I'm planning a trip up to Vail to play a mountain course there. I may play a course near Denver as well.
All three of your suggestions above are great, and I will definitely heed them. And your (below) description for Marshall Street is also awesome!
Thanks again for your input and hope we cross disc golf paths again soon!
what about the other factors- glide speed fade- how do they vary at different levels?
Ben is very right. Ive thrown at 6250 for years and had to adjust goin to sea level. In altitude your discs will go farther and come back with more predictability. Also in high altitiude you can throw HARD as it will be more forgiving to perfect form. When I played at sea level I would turn discs into the ground way to easy and had to concentrate on form over power. I throw Lefty Forehand primarily.
I would really recommend playing Aspen while you are here. If you can't make it over there Beaver Creek has a course too, right next to Vail. Winter Park has a fantastic course as well.
As for the stability, I just got back from Worlds where I had to switch out a whole lot of plastic from the bag I normally carry here. I think the humidity played a role too but discs that are stable to overstable here flipped so bad they were out of the bag. Also, when playing in the mountains really over exaggerate throwing down the mountain. If you get the nose up at all it will hyzer fast and you will spend a long day looking for discs in heavy trees lining the ski runs. I know a lot of people stay with mids and putters on the really steep downhill holes but I throw high speed drivers making sure to really snap them and keep them LOW with the nose down.
David, there is an enormous difference in glide also. Especially with putting and max distance. At elevation, I have found that things drop a lot more. I am not sure if it is due to more gravity or thinner air or any particular factor. I know that push putting works very well here in NM. I live at 5000 and regularly play at 5-10k. most good putters here utilize the push because they DROP hard here at a prescribed point. As soon as they slow a little, they tank. I went to a tourney in TX this year and upon a few practice putts, switched solely back to spinning, because they would glide right into the basket on the same line without much drop. ALL my push putts were normal for me but ALL of them flew clear over the basket by 5 inches. even a 15 footer had No Drop. The elevation for in regards to max distance does help bad form and also helps discs turn less, or (due to the drop) appear more overstable, although that may not be the case. They Do want to land sooner, which means hyzer out and die but, I can throw a beat up roc here and make it not come back and at the TX tourney, the same roc in the same general wind would helix. So that disc would appear to be MORE over stable at lower elevation. I thnk the truth is that they are more overstable but it doesn't turn a leopard into a Flick and it doesn't turn a Valk into a Boss. You have to throw harder and faster here to get distance. The air is thinner, so they do fly faster. But they do want to land faster too. So you have to get it out faster from you so it will fly farther. Distance here= a frozen rope line, while distance at lower elevation=huge anny lines, high up in the air.
My advice is to bring a bunch of beat up stuff and also your regular stuff. If you are competing in a tourney go get feild practice to get confidence. If you have no confidence and are learning the course you will compete on, you will only learn the lay out of the course and that you don't throw confidently there otherwise :)
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taking cover off dynasty
Which Dynasty is it
if you indend to take the cover off, I could supply you some preventative maintanance pointers.
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Cruizer, I think Jess has a 200DX
The brass nuts on the backs of the output studs that hold the voltage feedback wires tend to loosen off, best to tighten them and use a locktite to hold them into place. (This will cause an erratic weld if left loose)
The input strain relief on the primary going into the machine tends to over tighten the primary cable to such a degree that it breaks the cable. We've been replacing this with a metal sleeved version 3/4 x 3/4" rubber sleeved strain relief
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thanx Leon
yes, i have a dynasty 200dx..
so, you say that i will not trip some kind of self destructive device inside ?
output studs. those are where the working cables , - & +, connect to the front of the machine ?
i will check the strain relief. does this happen on machines that are very mobil, or all machines ? my machine doesn't move around much.
i will check the Hall device.
i will check all connections.
thanx a ton. anythink else ?


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Lewis Hamilton admits Mercedes still have to work to do after failing to match Ferrari and Lotus in Sunday's Shanghai GP.
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- Jane Lynch says she feels "horrible" for upsetting Newtown families with the recent school shooting episode of 'Glee.' [Contact Music]
- NBC is developing a version of 'The Voice' for children. [Hypable]
- Watch a preview of battle round of Judith Hill and Karina Iglesias' performance of 'It's a Man's Man's Man's World,' on tonight's 'The Voice.' [Rickey]
- Go behind the scenes of The-Dream's 'IV Play' video. [TheDrop.fm]
- After saying Anne Frank may have been a Belieber, what other messages would Justin Bieber leave at other landmarks around the world? [TheFW]
- Listen to Charli XCX's 'What I Like,' remix featuring Danny Brown. [SoundCloud]
- See photos of Sky Ferreira performing at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. [Pop Bytes]


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Texas GOP Chairman welcomes 'Battleground Texas' by offering tips to Dems
It's understandable for Texas Republicans to be a little sour over Democrats' plans to reverse the state's red status. But not Texas Republican Chairman Steve Munisteri. In a statement, Munisteri gladly welcomed the liberal "migrants" to the state. On Tuesday, Democratic leaders launched 'Battleground Texas' a grassroots effort to make Texas a more politically competitive […] [Read More]