One thing to keep in mind is perception VS screen size. If you have a screen less than 60" I agress totally, it's not uncommon to have 100+" screens. I dunn'o. I've seen DLP at my local theater, holy crap did it look horible. I mean, bad, really, really bad. Sure, it's a 50 foot wide screen showing 720P, but at some point you'll see it on the small screens.
I believe you. Too bad your link is broken. It's still not a plug and play option any joe six pack user can enable. And DirecTV/Tivo is actively shutting down sites that tell how to add HMO to direcTIVO. Although they do provide API info for sharing media off of linux to the tivo via HMO on the series 2 SA Tivo.
As far as the link, yes, DISH Network is compliant with GNU. They serve the source off of a 721 they have running web services. It's been covered on slashdot for christ sake. How dense are you????
DVHS is not VHS, it's DVHS, it's records at better bitrates than over the air HDTV. Besides, it's firewire, meaning it would also archive to any future BlueRay/ DVD-HD writters. Jesus, you're wrong and talking out you're ass, admit it.
Do a little more research Seth. While Tivo does have better software (i.e. Season Pass), there a lot of things the DirecTV version of Tivo does not have.
HMO is NOT an option for any DirecTV based Tivo. It says so right in Tivo's FAQ.
The 921 DOES run on Linux you idiot. In fact the baby brother PVR, the 721 also runs on Linux. Dish network serves the Linux PVR GNU codebase off an internet attached DVR 721. It's even got the lame X Window screen savers and 6 or so GNU games.
The DVR-921 has "Dishwire" aka, Firewire, which, when enabled, and connected to a JVC DVHS recorder will allow you to archive your time shifted progams.
The HD Tivo (and in fact all DirecTV HD STBs) has no firewire.
I'm sad to see most of these comment suck. I hope this get through the signal to noise ratio.
Okay, here's the deal. There's not a whole lot of law out there to protect privacy. You could go after each Spamer, but that's like hearding cats.
That being said, they issued you a credit card. In order to do that they pulled your credit record. They were not authorized to do that. They are therefor in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Both you, and the credit reporting agentcy can collect money from the credit card company. Read the actual text of th FCRA for details and damage limits. Then send them a certified letter indicating you'll settle your claim for X dollars. If you can get a local lawyer to sign it and put it on their letter head even better. If anything you can be a real thorn in their side. Assuming you have a copy of the real application you've already won. You should write the credit reporting agentcies and indicate that company issued a card with out consent, and you want it removed from your credit record.
You may also consider reporting them to the FTC. Although with the current pro-business administration it may not go as far as it did pre 2000. If the FTC did decide to act it would cost them serious dollars as well.
The Bravo D1 doesn't have HDCP. Hence it's been very popular with all the people who own DVI displays that are pre-HDCP. This is OLD news to anyone who reads AVS forum.
Molo needs to be modded to something other than informative beceause he isn't correct.
Samsung also makes a DVI DVD player. It does have HDCP turned on. For pretty much everything.
The problem with the FBI is they are all about making a name for themselves. They have no desire to get involved if there isn't a major loss. Even when they do, often they will go about it all half cocked.
Actually I'm a BSD zealot, oh, and an MCP. I worked for U S West (a big unix shop) which was subject to a hostile take over from Qwest (a big Microsoft shop). I've seen first hand how a few BSD based servers running apache, creating dynamic content, could run circles around IIS/VB trying to do the same thing.
The real fun was when we sold consumer ISP accounts to MSN. We got to talk to MSN architects and developers. We also got to see how much Windows Based boxes it took to handle the load of the a pretty small number BSD boxes. Oh, and the best part, U S West worked very hard to make it so BSD could support front page. We actually had a guy hex edit the binary MS provided to make it work on a box with a large number of users. MSN, didn't even support front page extentions. WTF?
You can point fingers at Linux Zealots all you want, but I've yet to meet a MS Zealot who knows jack squat about *nix.
Micron most likely has a point on this one. Although labor is certainly much lower there, it's not like the equiptment is any cheaper there. And the number of employees a FAB has in operations is typically pretty low. The cost per Mb of Memory out of a Asian Fab when you take shipping into account shouldn't be all that much less than a US FAB, yet it is. Drastically less usually.
Cargill and Dow have had a comercial Corn based platic for years. It enviromentally safe, degrades when when Heat, Mosture, and Darkness are applied. However, because of the way our Ag system works, petro based platic is still cheaper.
The number one selling comics are those dumb ass archie dealies at the check out line. Comics decline is tied closely with the decline of the news stand. The publishers have choosen to go the safe route.
When you go to the supermarket news stand you're incure a risk. Every issue that doesn't get sold you have to refund back to the retailer. And it's not like you get product back. All you get is the cover back.
"Successful" comics of today sell at rates that would be considered failures 15-20 years ago. Marvel and DC are in the position of being more and more dependant on merchandising monies.
And it's not like the industry doesn't know this. The simple fact is it's too late. Comics are painted into a corner. You need capital to reinvent the distribution chain. And even if you were to get the capital you'd piss off the existing chain (comic book stores). And if you manage to reinvent the chain, it would mean the deal of the comic book store. Blah!
So when you ask about these small indie lables trying to be big, you have to ask yourself "why"? Being big means being leveraged up the wazoo to investors and banks. Being big means have to suck up to hollywood to get some movie money.
Having worked with Amazon for one of Amazons largest online stores I can say SOAP is very much here to stay. Although many may use RIST, the big online partners use SOAP. Or rather Amazons implimentation of SOAP. With does some funky stuff with MIME attachments.
Still, once you get it worked out the process is actually pretty smooth. All my complaints are about how they use their data, not how it's transported.
But DSL uses a POTS Spliter to seperate DSL and Analog phone service at the CO. The Phone service continues the normal path. The DSL hits a DSLAM and it tossed on a ATM network that routes the traffic to whatever ISP you've choosen.
The whole 53K Vs 56K thing only matters until your analog call gets converted to digital and placed on the phone network. Which can happen as far as your local central office or as close as your phone pole. After that it's delivered to your ISP via T1 (or T3, or even a simple ISDN circuit). Which happens to be 64K channels.
Well, according to the article it empowers the Dept of Commerce to enforce labeling rules. That would seem to indicate that the it would fall under commerce Consumers Affairs and Product Safety. Of which Ron Wyden is the ranking memeber under Peter Fitzgerald (R).
Memebers: Peter G. Fitzgerald, IL, Chairman Conrad Burns, MT Gordon Smith, OR Ron Wyden, OR, Ranking Byron Dorgan, ND
I disagree totally. The target audience for this film is kids. Kid's don't care if it's in Anime style. Just look at moring and afternoon kids programming on TV. It's dubbed japanese imports. All Disney had to do was give the movie the same treatment as any of their other films. That say "Hey new Disney Film out, Ebert and Reoper give it two thumbs up, now hand the mouse the cash and no one gets hurt."
That didn't happen. You had a fairly limited release. Not thousands of screens like most Disney films, but hundreds of screens. Some cities were targeted and got more. Most cities got little to nothing.
So let's get this straight. Spirited Away wins the Oscar, yet Disney didn't market this movie worth sh*t! I'm in a top 15 media market and all the ass clowns at Disney do is put it in a couple art houses.
Settle down. It's just a video scaler with a built in tuner. If you wanted your monitor to display component HDTV signals you could just buy a Component to VGA transcoder for $150.
I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of it is. You still need a Digital TV turner. A PC digital TV turner already has all the features this thing has. At best I could see it as a good utility box for hooking up large scale VGA monitors to Set Top Boxes that don't have VGA out. Many of the boxes the cable company rents do not have VGA out. It also could be helpful to legagy LCD projectors that can't handle Component Video and have subpar results with the mentioned transcoder.
V6 2 wheel drive version. It's the same engine in the Lexus LS300. The 2003 version is rated at 23 MPG, I have no idea why the 2001 had the extra mile.
Most of the vehicles you suggested get their millage by being smaller. Most of them are compared against the RAV4 in reviews, the Highlander actually has more cargo room than the 4Runner. At the V6 level the Ford get's worse millage, the GM and Mazzda are the same car, and the Saturn is a pumped up station wagen with limited towing capacity. At the very least we're not talking about a cut and dry apples to apples comparison.
Next year Toyota will start selling it's Hybrid SUV in the Lexus line. It will perform like a V8 when you want to accelerate, and scale power back when you are cruising down the highway. You could say Ford has a HEV Escape slated for this year. I would counter they said the exact thing for 2003. Toyota and Honda have at least a consistant track record we getting the vehicles out there.
As for quality, I actually base it Articles I've read. JD Powers VDI (Vehicle Dependability Index) has 13 years of data behind it. The top five companies are all japanese. Of the top 10, only two are US companies (Cadilac and Buick).
I'm not a truck guy my self. But domestic truck sales have lost 8% in market share. *shrug*
Since the country of origin is printed right on the window sticker, yeah I know. I bought the Toyota Highlander. 24 MPG, as much interior room as any other mid size SUV, better interior trim, and 98% Japanese.
Sure, Toyota, Honda, and other "imports" make plenty of cars in plants all over the the world. Many in the US. But the quality of Japanese made cars is pretty much summed up in the opening scenes of the movie Gung Ho. "Badges or shame!"
I like the Badges or Shame concept. Does some dude in Detroit feel bad when he's done a crappy job? Does the guy in the Chevy plant in Mexico? I'm willing to bet no. The Japanese badges of shame method ensures that my car is built right.
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One thing to keep in mind is perception VS screen size. If you have a screen less than 60" I agress totally, it's not uncommon to have 100+" screens. I dunn'o. I've seen DLP at my local theater, holy crap did it look horible. I mean, bad, really, really bad. Sure, it's a 50 foot wide screen showing 720P, but at some point you'll see it on the small screens.
I believe you. Too bad your link is broken. It's still not a plug and play option any joe six pack user can enable. And DirecTV/Tivo is actively shutting down sites that tell how to add HMO to direcTIVO. Although they do provide API info for sharing media off of linux to the tivo via HMO on the series 2 SA Tivo.
As far as the link, yes, DISH Network is compliant with GNU. They serve the source off of a 721 they have running web services. It's been covered on slashdot for christ sake. How dense are you????
DVHS is not VHS, it's DVHS, it's records at better bitrates than over the air HDTV. Besides, it's firewire, meaning it would also archive to any future BlueRay/ DVD-HD writters. Jesus, you're wrong and talking out you're ass, admit it.
I have the 721. It's a good PVR, but the SD DirecTivo is better. Name based timers really make it all work.
That being said, the 921 will have firewire to archive HD material to DVHS, HD DirecTivo will not. Which pulls dish ahead IMHO.
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Do a little more research Seth. While Tivo does have better software (i.e. Season Pass), there a lot of things the DirecTV version of Tivo does not have.
HMO is NOT an option for any DirecTV based Tivo. It says so right in Tivo's FAQ.
The 921 DOES run on Linux you idiot. In fact the baby brother PVR, the 721 also runs on Linux. Dish network serves the Linux PVR GNU codebase off an internet attached DVR 721. It's even got the lame X Window screen savers and 6 or so GNU games.
The DVR-921 has "Dishwire" aka, Firewire, which, when enabled, and connected to a JVC DVHS recorder will allow you to archive your time shifted progams.
The HD Tivo (and in fact all DirecTV HD STBs) has no firewire.
FYI: The 921 won best of show for 2003, so it's a pretty even match.
Don't forget Tridge was also the creator of the original TivoNET card. And the first to figure out how to remove the video from Tivo as well.
I'm sad to see most of these comment suck. I hope this get through the signal to noise ratio.
Okay, here's the deal. There's not a whole lot of law out there to protect privacy. You could go after each Spamer, but that's like hearding cats.
That being said, they issued you a credit card. In order to do that they pulled your credit record. They were not authorized to do that. They are therefor in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Both you, and the credit reporting agentcy can collect money from the credit card company. Read the actual text of th FCRA for details and damage limits. Then send them a certified letter indicating you'll settle your claim for X dollars. If you can get a local lawyer to sign it and put it on their letter head even better. If anything you can be a real thorn in their side. Assuming you have a copy of the real application you've already won. You should write the credit reporting agentcies and indicate that company issued a card with out consent, and you want it removed from your credit record.
You may also consider reporting them to the FTC. Although with the current pro-business administration it may not go as far as it did pre 2000. If the FTC did decide to act it would cost them serious dollars as well.
I an not a lawyer, this was not legal advise.
Until some jag-off decided to post it to slashdot...
The Bravo D1 doesn't have HDCP. Hence it's been very popular with all the people who own DVI displays that are pre-HDCP. This is OLD news to anyone who reads AVS forum.
Molo needs to be modded to something other than informative beceause he isn't correct.
Samsung also makes a DVI DVD player. It does have HDCP turned on. For pretty much everything.
The problem with the FBI is they are all about making a name for themselves. They have no desire to get involved if there isn't a major loss. Even when they do, often they will go about it all half cocked.
Actually I'm a BSD zealot, oh, and an MCP. I worked for U S West (a big unix shop) which was subject to a hostile take over from Qwest (a big Microsoft shop). I've seen first hand how a few BSD based servers running apache, creating dynamic content, could run circles around IIS/VB trying to do the same thing.
The real fun was when we sold consumer ISP accounts to MSN. We got to talk to MSN architects and developers. We also got to see how much Windows Based boxes it took to handle the load of the a pretty small number BSD boxes. Oh, and the best part, U S West worked very hard to make it so BSD could support front page. We actually had a guy hex edit the binary MS provided to make it work on a box with a large number of users. MSN, didn't even support front page extentions. WTF?
You can point fingers at Linux Zealots all you want, but I've yet to meet a MS Zealot who knows jack squat about *nix.
As long as they use Windows to power the thing google doesn't have to worry about MSN being king of the hill for search engines.
Micron most likely has a point on this one. Although labor is certainly much lower there, it's not like the equiptment is any cheaper there. And the number of employees a FAB has in operations is typically pretty low. The cost per Mb of Memory out of a Asian Fab when you take shipping into account shouldn't be all that much less than a US FAB, yet it is. Drastically less usually.
Cargill and Dow have had a comercial Corn based platic for years. It enviromentally safe, degrades when when Heat, Mosture, and Darkness are applied. However, because of the way our Ag system works, petro based platic is still cheaper.
To quote Mel Brooks from SpaceBalls "Merchandising! That's where the real money is!"
The number one selling comics are those dumb ass archie dealies at the check out line. Comics decline is tied closely with the decline of the news stand. The publishers have choosen to go the safe route.
When you go to the supermarket news stand you're incure a risk. Every issue that doesn't get sold you have to refund back to the retailer. And it's not like you get product back. All you get is the cover back.
"Successful" comics of today sell at rates that would be considered failures 15-20 years ago. Marvel and DC are in the position of being more and more dependant on merchandising monies.
And it's not like the industry doesn't know this. The simple fact is it's too late. Comics are painted into a corner. You need capital to reinvent the distribution chain. And even if you were to get the capital you'd piss off the existing chain (comic book stores). And if you manage to reinvent the chain, it would mean the deal of the comic book store. Blah!
So when you ask about these small indie lables trying to be big, you have to ask yourself "why"?
Being big means being leveraged up the wazoo to investors and banks. Being big means have to suck up to hollywood to get some movie money.
Having worked with Amazon for one of Amazons largest online stores I can say SOAP is very much here to stay. Although many may use RIST, the big online partners use SOAP. Or rather Amazons implimentation of SOAP. With does some funky stuff with MIME attachments.
Still, once you get it worked out the process is actually pretty smooth. All my complaints are about how they use their data, not how it's transported.
But DSL uses a POTS Spliter to seperate DSL and Analog phone service at the CO. The Phone service continues the normal path. The DSL hits a DSLAM and it tossed on a ATM network that routes the traffic to whatever ISP you've choosen.
The whole 53K Vs 56K thing only matters until your analog call gets converted to digital and placed on the phone network. Which can happen as far as your local central office or as close as your phone pole. After that it's delivered to your ISP via T1 (or T3, or even a simple ISDN circuit). Which happens to be 64K channels.
Well, according to the article it empowers the Dept of Commerce to enforce labeling rules. That would seem to indicate that the it would fall under commerce Consumers Affairs and Product Safety. Of which Ron Wyden is the ranking memeber under Peter Fitzgerald (R).
Memebers:
Peter G. Fitzgerald, IL, Chairman
Conrad Burns, MT
Gordon Smith, OR
Ron Wyden, OR, Ranking
Byron Dorgan, ND
There's not a whole lot of kids stuff out now. You've got spring break everywhere. They should release it in 3000 theaters.
The mouse has a love hate relationship with the movie. They want the money it will make, but they don't want it to overshadow the in house animation.
I disagree totally. The target audience for this film is kids. Kid's don't care if it's in Anime style. Just look at moring and afternoon kids programming on TV. It's dubbed japanese imports. All Disney had to do was give the movie the same treatment as any of their other films. That say "Hey new Disney Film out, Ebert and Reoper give it two thumbs up, now hand the mouse the cash and no one gets hurt."
That didn't happen. You had a fairly limited release. Not thousands of screens like most Disney films, but hundreds of screens. Some cities were targeted and got more. Most cities got little to nothing.
So let's get this straight. Spirited Away wins the Oscar, yet Disney didn't market this movie worth sh*t! I'm in a top 15 media market and all the ass clowns at Disney do is put it in a couple art houses.
Settle down. It's just a video scaler with a built in tuner. If you wanted your monitor to display component HDTV signals you could just buy a Component to VGA transcoder for $150.
I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of it is. You still need a Digital TV turner. A PC digital TV turner already has all the features this thing has. At best I could see it as a good utility box for hooking up large scale VGA monitors to Set Top Boxes that don't have VGA out. Many of the boxes the cable company rents do not have VGA out. It also could be helpful to legagy LCD projectors that can't handle Component Video and have subpar results with the mentioned transcoder.
That being said the title is very misleading.
V6 2 wheel drive version. It's the same engine in the Lexus LS300. The 2003 version is rated at 23 MPG, I have no idea why the 2001 had the extra mile.
Most of the vehicles you suggested get their millage by being smaller. Most of them are compared against the RAV4 in reviews, the Highlander actually has more cargo room than the 4Runner. At the V6 level the Ford get's worse millage, the GM and Mazzda are the same car, and the Saturn is a pumped up station wagen with limited towing capacity. At the very least we're not talking about a cut and dry apples to apples comparison.
Next year Toyota will start selling it's Hybrid SUV in the Lexus line. It will perform like a V8 when you want to accelerate, and scale power back when you are cruising down the highway. You could say Ford has a HEV Escape slated for this year. I would counter they said the exact thing for 2003. Toyota and Honda have at least a consistant track record we getting the vehicles out there.
As for quality, I actually base it Articles I've read. JD Powers VDI (Vehicle Dependability Index) has 13 years of data behind it. The top five companies are all japanese. Of the top 10, only two are US companies (Cadilac and Buick).
I'm not a truck guy my self. But domestic truck sales have lost 8% in market share. *shrug*
Since the country of origin is printed right on the window sticker, yeah I know. I bought the Toyota Highlander. 24 MPG, as much interior room as any other mid size SUV, better interior trim, and 98% Japanese.
Sure, Toyota, Honda, and other "imports" make plenty of cars in plants all over the the world. Many in the US. But the quality of Japanese made cars is pretty much summed up in the opening scenes of the movie Gung Ho. "Badges or shame!"
I like the Badges or Shame concept. Does some dude in Detroit feel bad when he's done a crappy job? Does the guy in the Chevy plant in Mexico? I'm willing to bet no. The Japanese badges of shame method ensures that my car is built right.