The only thin g that happening is they are weakening their own credibiklity (what's left of it) by their continued transparent lies, deceit and attempts to cover their tracks.

Anyone with a little empathy.

...from Amazon and Disney

Yet anyother reason not to patronise either.

Done, in spite of all the FUD and backstabbing. Nobody can now say (with any credibility) that it can't be done for a 'large' oganisation. I especially like that Munich never tried to cover up difficulties they had during the process, but instead calmly adjusted and compensated.

Really really impressed with this project, and now Munich truly owns their data unlike any other government.

I think you would find it difficult these days to find an OS that could not meet your requirements. However, any software package requires practice (lots of it) to get the most out of it. If the O/P is familiar and comfortable with Linux then why change? Audacity was a good choice for the O/P as a starter, as it has a shallow learning curve. Ardour will do much more (including very valuable non-destructive editing) but will take some time to get to grips with. The version coming out soon will also have extensive MIDI capabilities.

If the O/P is going down the road of keyboard instruments, he/she can save an enormous amount of money and buy a dumb keyboard then link to one of the many excellent free soft-synths - more learning of course, so maybe stick to the accoustic material first then gradually bring in other stuff. A recipe for disaster is to try and do it all at once.

The bottom line is that you don't need a lot of expensive hardware and software to produce first class results, but you do need to know how to make the best use of what you have and, most important of all, you need to develop you musical abilites as far as possible. I have heard astonishingly good music produced on the simplest of kit, and utter rubbish using top-line professional stuff.

Anyone else notice you just can't get the same class of zombie apocalypse that you used to see years ago?

One giant leap backwards :(

yet every time I think officialdom can't get any more stupid, they go and prove me wrong... again!

We have centuries of data, and - most importantly - from different sources. Yes, the accuracy deteriorates the further back you go, but with things like dendrology you can improve the accuracy by making comparisons with samples from different regions, as well as comparing ancient patterns with recent ones. Also, ice cores from both the poles and from glaciers give very long timescale information.

I have a piece of technology that totally wipes out their tricks. It is called a shopping list. I buy what's on it, and that's all. I have no store or loyalty cards and tell them I don't want a tracking card if they ask. I also frequently pay with cash. Finally I won't use the self checkouts. When they try to direct me to them I say something like "I'm in no hurry to put you out of a job".

How quaint. I can't remember the last time I saw one of those (except where deliberately created for loop counters etc.).

Oh I don't know... throughing rocks has real class, a certain appeal, and is completely justified :)

I do wish people would stop calling it a 'memory effect'. It's probably the least descriptive term your could apply.

I don't know about Lithium batteries but NiCad cells exhibit a second plateau which gradually gets more difficult for the charge system to punch through. The usual cure is a couple of heavy charge/discharge cycles.

Don't think I want to try that with Lithium though!

Instead of forcing how about nagging, wherever possible bring up a reminder message saying the the default is set, is the same as many others and *bad* people will know it is admin:12345

Used to be a nice little earner for me repairing these in the late 1960s - the real ones. All electromechanical, none of your wimpy solid state rubbish.
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