Looks fantastic and is a heck of an improvement only if either:
- You have a paid TV service, in which case this mandated broadcast switchover has nothing to do with you, or
- You live in or very near the closest largish city so can get decent reception.
Try living way out in the rural boonies like my Mom and her husband. Even with a tower mounted antenna, they get blockiness, dropouts, pauses and stuttering that make it almost unwatchable. To add insult to injury, every time they re-orient the antenna to a different station/city, they need to "re-scan" for usable signals (yes, they could set them all in manually then not touch it, but you try explaining things like "channel 8-1 is actually on channel 9" to a 70 and 80 year old).
For them, this is not better than their old static-filled, but watchable, analog signal.
That and "niche" applications.
The only reason there is a Windoze box in my house is that my wife is a quilter. The current version of Electric Quilt (AFAICT) will not run acceptably under WINE. There is no reasonable FOSS equivalent.
Will my taxes go up because this project is so expensive?
No. The funds for constructing the fiber network come from bonds issued by the City of Wilson. Tax revenues are not being used to fund this project in any way.
Most Americans I know are so lazy they'll circle the parking lot for minutes looking for a place in the first few rows instead of (*gasp*) walk from the far side, or even the middle of the lot.
Add in places like Chicago where it may be life-threateningly cold in the winter or here in Dallas where it's so hot in summer--even in the early morning that just a 10 minute walk will put you at work quite unprofessionally sweaty and there's no way I'm taking the bus that drops off about 10 minutes away though I cannot wait until they finish the rail line that will drop off across the street.
Hard drives are not as fragile as you might think. I was running our tiny company's "data center" (3 consumer '486s, two HDs each, screwed down to a metal rack bolted to the wall) 35 miles from Northridge during the 6.75 Northridge quake.
Didn't lose a single drive.
May depend on the composition of the faults/rock.
The larger ones in Southern California definitely make noise. I always called it "grinding," but "roar" could also be an appropriate term.
I built my 1st Myth system by hand without one of the new "nice" installers. Using apt-get and Jarod's guide. I got 95% of functionality working in one evening on the first try. Then proceeded pulling my hair out for 3 months to get the $@%ing remote to work. Totally existing P3/450. Only new hardware was the PVR-350.
Getting it working should be simple. Making it "wife friendly," maybe not so much.
Why? Is Obama really that much better than McCain?
Yes. McCain wanted to tax the poor to pay the wealthy. McCain was two footsteps from the grave with a ditzy anti-choice, creationist VP.
Would McCain have been worse than Bush?
I don't think that's possible. ANYONE but Clinton is better than Bush. That doesn't mean we can't do better than McCain.
I just saw two complete liars campaigning. Obama just got away with telling bigger lies. The only thing I can hope for is that the Republicans can filibuster the Democrats' bills. Not so much to push a Republican agenda, but to keep either party from screwing us any more than they currently do.
Molog
If I ruled the world, my agenda for the Obama presidency:
- Fix Bush's financial mess.
- Re-establish our Constitutional rights (like, ban the PATRIOT act).
- Pull us out of Iraq ASAP.
- Go after Bin Laden where he really might be.
[...]Obama's political spectrum and priorities far outweigh any relation an internet engineer could bring to the table. Seriously, if the fact that this dude is endorsing Obama ends up swaying a voter, then I think it can only be qualified as laughable -- not newsworthy.
The great unwashed masses hardly vote rationally. Witness the "P.U.M.A"s who were for Clinton but now plan to vote McCain (a diametric opposite) simply because Clinton losing hurt their feelings.
Nope, NT 3.1 circa '93.
We were an early adopter on a currently top of the line Pentium (1)--50 MHz, I believe.
Thing would BSOD if you more than looked at it funny.
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No, helium is actually acquired from castrated human testicles.
So airships are a feminist plot?
Submit that one then examine the links. Appears to be a line from the TV show "Lost."
Yeah, I didn't know, either.
As long as I can turn it off. Permanently in my login profile.
I do not want the inane ramblings of some twittering teen-ager littering my Google results.
... and Texas is doing it also!!
That would result in the Earth being attacked from Mars. After all, there's ample evidence that the Earth has weapons of mass destruction.
,,, and more importantly to Bush/Cheney, oil!
Looks fantastic and is a heck of an improvement only if either:
- You have a paid TV service, in which case this mandated broadcast switchover has nothing to do with you, or
- You live in or very near the closest largish city so can get decent reception.
Try living way out in the rural boonies like my Mom and her husband. Even with a tower mounted antenna, they get blockiness, dropouts, pauses and stuttering that make it almost unwatchable. To add insult to injury, every time they re-orient the antenna to a different station/city, they need to "re-scan" for usable signals (yes, they could set them all in manually then not touch it, but you try explaining things like "channel 8-1 is actually on channel 9" to a 70 and 80 year old).
For them, this is not better than their old static-filled, but watchable, analog signal.
That and "niche" applications.
The only reason there is a Windoze box in my house is that my wife is a quilter. The current version of Electric Quilt (AFAICT) will not run acceptably under WINE. There is no reasonable FOSS equivalent.
Old comedy routine/song.
Ok, how is parent a troll? He's right.
Most Americans I know are so lazy they'll circle the parking lot for minutes looking for a place in the first few rows instead of (*gasp*) walk from the far side, or even the middle of the lot.
Add in places like Chicago where it may be life-threateningly cold in the winter or here in Dallas where it's so hot in summer--even in the early morning that just a 10 minute walk will put you at work quite unprofessionally sweaty and there's no way I'm taking the bus that drops off about 10 minutes away though I cannot wait until they finish the rail line that will drop off across the street.
Ok, we have the PC OSes, of course.
We have the Amiga OS, ok.
We have Commodore OSes, ok, if you must.
We have TRSDOS, ok, for the few who used it.
Why no DOS 3.3 or ProDos?
Hard drives are not as fragile as you might think. I was running our tiny company's "data center" (3 consumer '486s, two HDs each, screwed down to a metal rack bolted to the wall) 35 miles from Northridge during the 6.75 Northridge quake.
Didn't lose a single drive.
May depend on the composition of the faults/rock.
The larger ones in Southern California definitely make noise. I always called it "grinding," but "roar" could also be an appropriate term.
And the rub there also is a modern 7x7 aircraft in is much lower for most of its descent than it is for its takeoff....
I sure hope you're being ironic.
I built my 1st Myth system by hand without one of the new "nice" installers. Using apt-get and Jarod's guide. I got 95% of functionality working in one evening on the first try. Then proceeded pulling my hair out for 3 months to get the $@%ing remote to work. Totally existing P3/450. Only new hardware was the PVR-350.
Getting it working should be simple. Making it "wife friendly," maybe not so much.
alias adu='du -k|grep "^[1-9][0-9]* \./[^/]*$"|sort -n'
Restricts to 1st level directories.
Why? Is Obama really that much better than McCain?
Yes. McCain wanted to tax the poor to pay the wealthy. McCain was two footsteps from the grave with a ditzy anti-choice, creationist VP.
Would McCain have been worse than Bush?
I don't think that's possible. ANYONE but Clinton is better than Bush. That doesn't mean we can't do better than McCain.
I just saw two complete liars campaigning. Obama just got away with telling bigger lies. The only thing I can hope for is that the Republicans can filibuster the Democrats' bills. Not so much to push a Republican agenda, but to keep either party from screwing us any more than they currently do.
Molog
If I ruled the world, my agenda for the Obama presidency: - Fix Bush's financial mess. - Re-establish our Constitutional rights (like, ban the PATRIOT act). - Pull us out of Iraq ASAP. - Go after Bin Laden where he really might be.
Last time I checked you can't "void" a check you no longer possess. You can, however, put a stop on it, but that costs more than $2.56 at most banks.
Most major banks will stop (a limited number of) checks for free with person's of deposits the size I'm sure Mr. Knuth is capable of making.
Holy blank lines, Batman!!!
(^M is carriage return. ^H is backspace)
[...]Obama's political spectrum and priorities far outweigh any relation an internet engineer could bring to the table. Seriously, if the fact that this dude is endorsing Obama ends up swaying a voter, then I think it can only be qualified as laughable -- not newsworthy.
The great unwashed masses hardly vote rationally. Witness the "P.U.M.A"s who were for Clinton but now plan to vote McCain (a diametric opposite) simply because Clinton losing hurt their feelings.
I see the Gulf of Mexico that-a-way.
Sam Johnson (HR, TX) has done the exact same to me.
Twice.
Nope, NT 3.1 circa '93. We were an early adopter on a currently top of the line Pentium (1)--50 MHz, I believe. Thing would BSOD if you more than looked at it funny.