I use earthlink in Pasadena, CA, who provides service using SBC's hardware, and I can't use BT at home.
Everytime I try to use BT, my useful DSL thruput slowly drops to a trickle, and becomes unusable by any computer on my WiFi network. The only way to restore service is to reset both my DSL modem and my Airport.
And if I want to play WoW, I have to disable background downloading of patches, or I get disconnected within moments of logging into the game.
And now I'm hooked on Miro, thanks to the/. story last month. I've been getting by with using my MacBook on the LAN at work to d/l The Daily Show and PBS Kids programming, and to get WoW patches, but sooner or later the IT guys are going to get wise to that.
As a type 2 diabetic (without mod points today) who has eaten healthy (can has occasional cheezburger), I profusely thank you for your insightful and informative post. I came in here to ask a technical question about the article and was really disappointed to find all the stereotype-driven hate and disgust dominating the higher rated comments... From a (supposedly intelligent) crowd that prides itself on its four major food groups of sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and salt. The irony is not funny, just sad...
My question was: I was told I was insulin resistant, and that my body is not efficiently using the insulin it creates. I take Actos, which supposedly improves this efficiency, and glipizide during hyperglycemic episodes, to force my pancreas to overproduce insulin. How does finding an insulin production problem help an insulin resistant type 2 diabetic?
I want to throw a steak at her and knock her off the podium. Preferably mid-sentence with video footage. Big juicy porterhouse smacking her in the side of her head from out of nowhere.
If you want viral footage, you gotta do better than a copy of the yellow pages, so I funnied that up from chuckle to epic lol for you. No charge.
Well, 24 years ago, right out of high school, I worked at NIST Boulder (then NBS) in the quantum cryoelectronics lab, where they were first starting to play with Josephson Junctions and SQUIDs that are the building blocks of quantum electronics.
Yes, it was nerd heaven. It was fascinating work, in a pure research environment that I haven't seen since I left CU. But at the time, it didn't seem rewarding, because I was being given "educational" projects, and I wanted to contribute. I did not know that the director was groom ing me for a career there...
I left after just four months. It was probably the worst career mistake I ever made. By now, I could have had a secure, rewarding laid-back GS-17 job in one of the most beautiful cities in the country... but no, I was an idiot. [facepalm]
(At least I recovered from the error. I get to build rockets now. Or, after 20 years, I now manage those who do.)
When asked out-of-character, whether he really was female, he honestly answered, "no." Being 12 years old, the guy went hysterical. Welcome to the wonderful world of roleplaying, if you can't stand the players being something you don't like, don't roleplay.
That happened to me 10 years ago, in the 2nd gen Siumtronics MUD, Dragonrealms.
I had made a female character, one of my first online, and had decked her out with long blonde hair, blue eyes, a miniskirt, and thigh-high boots. (All described strictly in ASCII text, natch.)
Was out hunting orcs, and in a little over my head, when another character came upon me near dead and helped me out, and we started hunting as a team.
Wanting to be entirely open before anything beyond killing mobs started happening, I confessed before long that I was a male playing a female character. The guy freaked and ran off, leaving my character standing there in a cave full of hostile orcs.
In retrospect, I shoulda picked the location for my confession a little better. And consumed less gin and tonic.
You'd rather spend 30+ hours a week getting your cartoon ass stared at by other guys?
You know, I'd played female tabletop RPG characters with about equal frequency as male PCs for years, without having to worry about that. If the other players at the table bothered me "in that way," a quick shocking grasp or heat metal to the codpiece set them straight.
But my first female toon in WoW was a bank alt, and I dressed her in her undies and a buccaneer's shirt, cuz she looked good in them. Then I noticed other toons standing around and gawking at her.
And you know, I finally felt what most women must have to learn to deal with when they grow bewbs.
And the second revalation is that it only took me about 60 seconds to get over it, and ignore it. It's their problem, not mine.
So, I say, let cross-gender roleplaying happen. It's educational.
Why? An officer that's shown to abuse people can't keep his job unless an elected official/body allows him/her to. There isn't a law enforcement officer of any type, working at any level in the US that doesn't answer to elected civilians.
Your argument would be persuasive except for one detail that you overlook.
For all practical purposes, elected officials aren't elected by the general poplace anymore. Sure, we get to vote for candidate A or B, but A and B are both pre-selected by corporate contributions and the entrenched power elite, who are the real interests represented by the elected officials.
Thus, the general populace are not represented by the officials any longer, especially at the Federal level. Compounding that, the differences between our interests and those of the corporate/elite are becoming greater in both degree and kind.
It's not a universal truism, but it is a valid concern these days, at a time when we are much closer to a society where the average citizen fears the police than we ever have been the past. Your argument ignores - implicitly rejects - that concern, in the face of increasingly frequent evidence to the contrary.
I don't know, I tend to think torrents are a lot easier than buying and configuring a tuner card, then setting up MythTV properly.
Well, perhaps you don't know. I suspect you've made some difficult choices to compare to torrent videos. I recommend you try an Elgato external tuner and their EyeTV 2 PVR application. I had it out of the box and was watching TV on my iMac rev A in under 5 minutes. Configuring the hardware was a matter of selecting my tuner hardware model number from a drop down list. The biggest hassle was waiting for the autotuner to find all the channels on my cable feed, but that took all of 2 minutes. It was exactly like setting up a new VCR.
I just downloaded Miro and set it up, and it is indeed easy -- relative to previous BT clients I've used. However, not compared to EyeTV -- it took more than 15 minutes to D/L and install the application, find an RSS for a program I wanted, figure out exactly which URL the application wanted, and get the download started. And then I waited an hour for the 22-minute program to download. If I were not already familiar with the concepts of BT and RSS, I probably wouldn't be calling it "easy," at all.
Now, if Miro came with RSS feeds to the entire repertoire of network programming, licensed by the networks, pre-configured and well-seeded -- THEN it would be easier.
If the networks were smart, they'd be looking at this application as a model for their future distribution medium. However, based on their past neophobic tendencies, i fear that they will be afraid of it rather than embrace it.
there are cases where piracy is not easier than purchase?
Yes, there are cases. Here are some examples:
- Content available on iTunes. So easy my wife does it.
- Content available via broadcast. Get a tuner card and EyeTV or MythTV. Add Toast Platinum if you want to watch on iPod.
- Content available via Netflix. (Wanna keep a copy? MacTheRipper + Toast. Not that I've done that...)
- Bittorrent breaks your Airport. I dunno, but it does. Thruput trickles to a halt in about 30 minutes, and nothing on the WiFi network can get any kind of bandwith, on any protocol, until the Airport is reset... Read somewhere that the packets confuse Apple's WEP encryption firmware.
If somebody wants to help me fix the last one, I'd be happy to use Miro for the things not available via the first three options. (Can't switch to WPA -- wife's Windows laptop VPN connection to her office breaks.)
I'm in charge of battery production at a small aerospace company. We buy COTS cells, screen them functionally, and select cells with matched performance characteristics to build 28-volt avionics and ordnance batteries.
Originally, our NiCd and LiIon cells were made in the US, and our screening yields were in the range of 75 to 95%, depending on the chemistry, manufacturer, and screening criteria.
Over the past three years, US manufacturers for the NiCd cells we buy have all outsourced their manufacturing. They are now all made in China, with the exception of one Sanyo cell we buy which is now made in Japan. Yields for the cells made in China are now in the range of 33 to 50%. Mind you, the US distributors are selling these under the same part numbers and performance specs as ever.
The Sanyo cell has actually improved, consistently achieving 95% to 99% yield, and the uniformity of actual capacity (in mA-hr) is extremely high, with sigma of less than 1% of the average actual capacity.
Our perception is that it's a difference in cultural ethic. In general, we are often reluctant to buy materials of any kind from China, because very frequently, the parts that we receive do not match our Purchase Order specifications, or in some cases, have no resemblance whatsoever to the material we ordered. It's like they receive the order, throw something in a carton or crate, label it to match our PO, and ship it (with an invoice). There is no guarantee from supplier to supplier, or even from order to order, that the manufacturer takes any steps to ensure product quality. It's a crap shoot. But we never have problems like this with Japanese or European suppliers.
And on our end, its usually far cheaper to just order the material again, from another supplier, rather than to return the material and try to get the Chinese supplier to fulfill the terms of the order.
For these reasons, our customers (large aerospace prime contractors) generally frown on us using Chinese-made parts.
Well, beyond the scope or not, they did discuss it briefly, pointing out other papers that may lend insight.
But one possible cause they did not address is selection bias. Have they shown that they did not introduce any selection bias in the sampling of galaxies? I would hope for at least a list of hypothetical sources of bias that they then shoot down.
Let the playback devices have the option to add compression for people who want loud, crushed music and keep the recordings with the full dynamic range (as there's no way to get it back when it's gone.) I first came in here to post the same comment, then realized this will never happen.
Why? Because if the recording execs and producers are compressing music out of some sense of competition, then they will never leave this variable up to the control of the user.
Modern DAC and DSP chips are powerful enough to give the user much more control of the audio, both spectrally and dynamically. Until the current paradigm of music publishing and production is dead, however, we're not likely to see anything like this available to anyone but professional audio engineers, or those who can afford professional tools.
Actually, that's what "30 second skip forward" is for.
And if you're thinking "TIVO disabled that years ago," then you need to go buy a cheap laptop or a Mac Mini, a 500GB firewire 800 drive, a nice big LCD display, and a CATV tuner, then install EyeTV or MythTV. You won't be sorry.
I haven't watched a TV commercial for months!
(At least not one without boobies.)
As for the "Loudness War," I've solved that by NOT BUYING CDs. Except from independant labels. There's enough free-as-in-beer music out there that's well-engineered and not overly compressed or poorly encoded to satisfy most fans of modern genres...
Unfortunately, if you like classic rock or older popular music, it will cost you real money to go buy collectors-item vinyl and 80's-published CDs. I suggest you find or form a club with people of similar interests and share the expenses.
Somehow I'm not convinced Monster is going to be concerned enough to take action, at least not until it threatens to cost them significant money.
I've been job searching recently, and Monster is the worst when it comes to privacy and security. First, when creating an online "resume" on Monster, between every "real" page, there's an ad page that looks like a Monster form to fill out, but it's actually a phishing page, an advertisement posing as a form that's asking for your personal information.
Second, I use different email addresses for each job search site, and the one I registered with Monster.com is getting all kinds of phishing-like emails, with no specific information, or for jobs in completely unrelated fields, with links to click that have forms asking for personal information.
Also, the month after I posted a PDF resume, the email address on the resume started getting the same kinds of emails.
You'd think, that with the detailed personal information that's available on sites like CareerBuilder, Monster, and Rice that they'd take an extra measure of security.
I hate all RoleMaster system games with a never ending passion...
Oh, as a GM, I love Rolemaster (and Spacemaster). The learning curve on the mechanics is a bit steep, but the mortality of the crit tables is the GM's best friend.
Got a problem player character? Throw a difficult combat encounter at 'em. No more problem, and no need to antagonize the players with a smite pulled outta thin air.
And, as a result, the players tend to roleplay more. Since they know combat is so deadly, the game doesn't devolve into hack and slash.
Interesting. The brochure you link to mentions Navy diver trials... perhaps the some of those involved in the 1970's tests are developing this under a DARPA contract today?
If you go back and reread my post, free of the foregone conclusion that I'm putting the burden of proof on someone, you'll notice at least four details:
1 - I don't actually draw any conclusions about global warming,
2 - I specifically don't state my opinion about global warming, and
3 - My message is that GW critics (like you) will claim that this development "disproves" global warming.
4 - That GW critics, specifically, are an irrational and unscientific bunch. Thanks for backing that one up, BTW.
For the record, I'm an agnostic on GW, still waiting for some solid data that offers direct proof. There is, nonetheless, enough circumstantial evidence to convince me we should be concerned, and play it safe when it comes to contributing to the accumulation of greenhouse gasses.
However, my strongest opinion is distaste for people who defend foregone conclusions with vitriol and rancor and who filter and spin facts to fit their opinions. And interestingly, these same people never hold any credentials in the fields of atmospheric science or climatology, yet they feel as if their opinions on this topic should hold the same weight as scientists and climatologists.
I see this as (yet another) great victory of the scientific method, and in this case, aided by a sharp-eyed blogger. The beauty and strength of scientific truth lies in its "weakness": its provisionality - things are only true until proven otherwise.
Unfortunately, the critics of global warming -- most of whom have no science credentials whatsoever, and certainly not in climatology, but will cherrypick scientific results to support their edified conclusions -- will be all over this "weakness." Now, whenever the subject of temperature records comes up, this error will be used to "invalidate" it, and they will ignore the fact that the data are now in fact stronger because these records have been independently reviewed and debugged.
Now, every time global warming comes up, especially in the MSM, this issue will be the distraction that prevents a real, rational discussion from taking place. And every critic of GW will latch on to this bug as "evidence" that global warming is a fallacy.
This is very bad news.
Now we have to wait for Manhattan and Ft. Meyers to be submerged before the critics will desist from their fanatical denials, hypocritical projections of bias, ad homenim attacks on past Vice Presidents, and willfully ignorant conflation of weather with climate.
Someone prominent needs to come out, and make a very big splash in the MSM to estabish the fact that the data - and whatever deductions can be made from them - are now stronger, rather than weaker.
I use TitanTV with my EyeTV-based PVR setup, and it works pretty seamlessly. And TitanTV is the ONLY listing service, either print or intertubed, that gets the correct channel lineup for my basic analog cable service (Charter in Altadena, CA).
The ads can be annoying occasionally, but the site can be configured with your favorite channels, and to display the listings in fonts readable from across the room and is somewhat navigable with the TAB key and directional arrows, which I like, since I am using a wireless keyboard as my "remote."
The only thing it can't do that some other listing services can do is allow me to browse the listings from work, and send programming instructions to my PVR at home.
I was thinking along the same lines. (Not magnetic field lines, though.)
In my experience with incremental integration of complex systems, problems like this are unpredictable in that you cannot forsee every problem, but you should always predict to troubleshoot failures caused by unexpected interactions of subsystems.
I'm suspecting a conducted emission from the new power conditioning system is interfering with the computers. Do the array regulators use switching power supplies? Are there emi filters on the busses for the computers?
They'll fix it soon enough... even if they have to kludge it.
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Everytime I try to use BT, my useful DSL thruput slowly drops to a trickle, and becomes unusable by any computer on my WiFi network. The only way to restore service is to reset both my DSL modem and my Airport.
And if I want to play WoW, I have to disable background downloading of patches, or I get disconnected within moments of logging into the game.
And now I'm hooked on Miro, thanks to the /. story last month. I've been getting by with using my MacBook on the LAN at work to d/l The Daily Show and PBS Kids programming, and to get WoW patches, but sooner or later the IT guys are going to get wise to that.
I sure would like to be able to use BT at home.
Look closer. It already is ballistic.
My question was: I was told I was insulin resistant, and that my body is not efficiently using the insulin it creates. I take Actos, which supposedly improves this efficiency, and glipizide during hyperglycemic episodes, to force my pancreas to overproduce insulin. How does finding an insulin production problem help an insulin resistant type 2 diabetic?
If you want viral footage, you gotta do better than a copy of the yellow pages, so I funnied that up from chuckle to epic lol for you. No charge.
No karma bonus, no votes please.
That's funny. I saw plaid-garbed boobies.
Yes, it was nerd heaven. It was fascinating work, in a pure research environment that I haven't seen since I left CU. But at the time, it didn't seem rewarding, because I was being given "educational" projects, and I wanted to contribute. I did not know that the director was groom ing me for a career there...
I left after just four months. It was probably the worst career mistake I ever made. By now, I could have had a secure, rewarding laid-back GS-17 job in one of the most beautiful cities in the country... but no, I was an idiot. [facepalm]
(At least I recovered from the error. I get to build rockets now. Or, after 20 years, I now manage those who do.)
That happened to me 10 years ago, in the 2nd gen Siumtronics MUD, Dragonrealms.
I had made a female character, one of my first online, and had decked her out with long blonde hair, blue eyes, a miniskirt, and thigh-high boots. (All described strictly in ASCII text, natch.)
Was out hunting orcs, and in a little over my head, when another character came upon me near dead and helped me out, and we started hunting as a team.
Wanting to be entirely open before anything beyond killing mobs started happening, I confessed before long that I was a male playing a female character. The guy freaked and ran off, leaving my character standing there in a cave full of hostile orcs.
In retrospect, I shoulda picked the location for my confession a little better. And consumed less gin and tonic.
You know, I'd played female tabletop RPG characters with about equal frequency as male PCs for years, without having to worry about that. If the other players at the table bothered me "in that way," a quick shocking grasp or heat metal to the codpiece set them straight.
But my first female toon in WoW was a bank alt, and I dressed her in her undies and a buccaneer's shirt, cuz she looked good in them. Then I noticed other toons standing around and gawking at her.
And you know, I finally felt what most women must have to learn to deal with when they grow bewbs.
And the second revalation is that it only took me about 60 seconds to get over it, and ignore it. It's their problem, not mine.
So, I say, let cross-gender roleplaying happen. It's educational.
Your argument would be persuasive except for one detail that you overlook.
For all practical purposes, elected officials aren't elected by the general poplace anymore. Sure, we get to vote for candidate A or B, but A and B are both pre-selected by corporate contributions and the entrenched power elite, who are the real interests represented by the elected officials.
Thus, the general populace are not represented by the officials any longer, especially at the Federal level. Compounding that, the differences between our interests and those of the corporate/elite are becoming greater in both degree and kind.
It's not a universal truism, but it is a valid concern these days, at a time when we are much closer to a society where the average citizen fears the police than we ever have been the past. Your argument ignores - implicitly rejects - that concern, in the face of increasingly frequent evidence to the contrary.
Well, perhaps you don't know. I suspect you've made some difficult choices to compare to torrent videos. I recommend you try an Elgato external tuner and their EyeTV 2 PVR application. I had it out of the box and was watching TV on my iMac rev A in under 5 minutes. Configuring the hardware was a matter of selecting my tuner hardware model number from a drop down list. The biggest hassle was waiting for the autotuner to find all the channels on my cable feed, but that took all of 2 minutes. It was exactly like setting up a new VCR.
I just downloaded Miro and set it up, and it is indeed easy -- relative to previous BT clients I've used. However, not compared to EyeTV -- it took more than 15 minutes to D/L and install the application, find an RSS for a program I wanted, figure out exactly which URL the application wanted, and get the download started. And then I waited an hour for the 22-minute program to download. If I were not already familiar with the concepts of BT and RSS, I probably wouldn't be calling it "easy," at all.
Now, if Miro came with RSS feeds to the entire repertoire of network programming, licensed by the networks, pre-configured and well-seeded -- THEN it would be easier.
If the networks were smart, they'd be looking at this application as a model for their future distribution medium. However, based on their past neophobic tendencies, i fear that they will be afraid of it rather than embrace it.
Yes, there are cases. Here are some examples:
- Content available on iTunes. So easy my wife does it.
- Content available via broadcast. Get a tuner card and EyeTV or MythTV. Add Toast Platinum if you want to watch on iPod.
- Content available via Netflix. (Wanna keep a copy? MacTheRipper + Toast. Not that I've done that...) - Bittorrent breaks your Airport. I dunno, but it does. Thruput trickles to a halt in about 30 minutes, and nothing on the WiFi network can get any kind of bandwith, on any protocol, until the Airport is reset... Read somewhere that the packets confuse Apple's WEP encryption firmware.
If somebody wants to help me fix the last one, I'd be happy to use Miro for the things not available via the first three options. (Can't switch to WPA -- wife's Windows laptop VPN connection to her office breaks.)
Originally, our NiCd and LiIon cells were made in the US, and our screening yields were in the range of 75 to 95%, depending on the chemistry, manufacturer, and screening criteria.
Over the past three years, US manufacturers for the NiCd cells we buy have all outsourced their manufacturing. They are now all made in China, with the exception of one Sanyo cell we buy which is now made in Japan. Yields for the cells made in China are now in the range of 33 to 50%. Mind you, the US distributors are selling these under the same part numbers and performance specs as ever.
The Sanyo cell has actually improved, consistently achieving 95% to 99% yield, and the uniformity of actual capacity (in mA-hr) is extremely high, with sigma of less than 1% of the average actual capacity.
Our perception is that it's a difference in cultural ethic. In general, we are often reluctant to buy materials of any kind from China, because very frequently, the parts that we receive do not match our Purchase Order specifications, or in some cases, have no resemblance whatsoever to the material we ordered. It's like they receive the order, throw something in a carton or crate, label it to match our PO, and ship it (with an invoice). There is no guarantee from supplier to supplier, or even from order to order, that the manufacturer takes any steps to ensure product quality. It's a crap shoot. But we never have problems like this with Japanese or European suppliers.
And on our end, its usually far cheaper to just order the material again, from another supplier, rather than to return the material and try to get the Chinese supplier to fulfill the terms of the order.
For these reasons, our customers (large aerospace prime contractors) generally frown on us using Chinese-made parts.
But one possible cause they did not address is selection bias. Have they shown that they did not introduce any selection bias in the sampling of galaxies? I would hope for at least a list of hypothetical sources of bias that they then shoot down.
Why? Because if the recording execs and producers are compressing music out of some sense of competition, then they will never leave this variable up to the control of the user.
Modern DAC and DSP chips are powerful enough to give the user much more control of the audio, both spectrally and dynamically. Until the current paradigm of music publishing and production is dead, however, we're not likely to see anything like this available to anyone but professional audio engineers, or those who can afford professional tools.
And if you're thinking "TIVO disabled that years ago," then you need to go buy a cheap laptop or a Mac Mini, a 500GB firewire 800 drive, a nice big LCD display, and a CATV tuner, then install EyeTV or MythTV. You won't be sorry.
I haven't watched a TV commercial for months!
(At least not one without boobies.) As for the "Loudness War," I've solved that by NOT BUYING CDs. Except from independant labels. There's enough free-as-in-beer music out there that's well-engineered and not overly compressed or poorly encoded to satisfy most fans of modern genres...
Unfortunately, if you like classic rock or older popular music, it will cost you real money to go buy collectors-item vinyl and 80's-published CDs. I suggest you find or form a club with people of similar interests and share the expenses.
I've been job searching recently, and Monster is the worst when it comes to privacy and security. First, when creating an online "resume" on Monster, between every "real" page, there's an ad page that looks like a Monster form to fill out, but it's actually a phishing page, an advertisement posing as a form that's asking for your personal information.
Second, I use different email addresses for each job search site, and the one I registered with Monster.com is getting all kinds of phishing-like emails, with no specific information, or for jobs in completely unrelated fields, with links to click that have forms asking for personal information.
Also, the month after I posted a PDF resume, the email address on the resume started getting the same kinds of emails.
You'd think, that with the detailed personal information that's available on sites like CareerBuilder, Monster, and Rice that they'd take an extra measure of security.
Yep, they're counting on you thinking that.
Got a problem player character? Throw a difficult combat encounter at 'em. No more problem, and no need to antagonize the players with a smite pulled outta thin air.
And, as a result, the players tend to roleplay more. Since they know combat is so deadly, the game doesn't devolve into hack and slash.
I have two slogans for Rolemaster GMs:
1. "Too many f*cking books!"
and
2. "Full Hard Cover is better than sex."
Interesting. The brochure you link to mentions Navy diver trials... perhaps the some of those involved in the 1970's tests are developing this under a DARPA contract today?
1 - I don't actually draw any conclusions about global warming,
2 - I specifically don't state my opinion about global warming, and
3 - My message is that GW critics (like you) will claim that this development "disproves" global warming.
4 - That GW critics, specifically, are an irrational and unscientific bunch. Thanks for backing that one up, BTW.
For the record, I'm an agnostic on GW, still waiting for some solid data that offers direct proof. There is, nonetheless, enough circumstantial evidence to convince me we should be concerned, and play it safe when it comes to contributing to the accumulation of greenhouse gasses.
However, my strongest opinion is distaste for people who defend foregone conclusions with vitriol and rancor and who filter and spin facts to fit their opinions. And interestingly, these same people never hold any credentials in the fields of atmospheric science or climatology, yet they feel as if their opinions on this topic should hold the same weight as scientists and climatologists.
Unfortunately, the critics of global warming -- most of whom have no science credentials whatsoever, and certainly not in climatology, but will cherrypick scientific results to support their edified conclusions -- will be all over this "weakness." Now, whenever the subject of temperature records comes up, this error will be used to "invalidate" it, and they will ignore the fact that the data are now in fact stronger because these records have been independently reviewed and debugged.
Now, every time global warming comes up, especially in the MSM, this issue will be the distraction that prevents a real, rational discussion from taking place. And every critic of GW will latch on to this bug as "evidence" that global warming is a fallacy.
This is very bad news.
Now we have to wait for Manhattan and Ft. Meyers to be submerged before the critics will desist from their fanatical denials, hypocritical projections of bias, ad homenim attacks on past Vice Presidents, and willfully ignorant conflation of weather with climate.
Someone prominent needs to come out, and make a very big splash in the MSM to estabish the fact that the data - and whatever deductions can be made from them - are now stronger, rather than weaker.
And I would much rather they copy my pr0n and take it home, than -ahem- "enjoy" it while operating my computer.
MPU - this is the first response I've seen that addresses the OP's error in reasoning.
I use TitanTV with my EyeTV-based PVR setup, and it works pretty seamlessly. And TitanTV is the ONLY listing service, either print or intertubed, that gets the correct channel lineup for my basic analog cable service (Charter in Altadena, CA).
The ads can be annoying occasionally, but the site can be configured with your favorite channels, and to display the listings in fonts readable from across the room and is somewhat navigable with the TAB key and directional arrows, which I like, since I am using a wireless keyboard as my "remote."
The only thing it can't do that some other listing services can do is allow me to browse the listings from work, and send programming instructions to my PVR at home.
In my experience with incremental integration of complex systems, problems like this are unpredictable in that you cannot forsee every problem, but you should always predict to troubleshoot failures caused by unexpected interactions of subsystems.
I'm suspecting a conducted emission from the new power conditioning system is interfering with the computers. Do the array regulators use switching power supplies? Are there emi filters on the busses for the computers?
They'll fix it soon enough... even if they have to kludge it.