While we're on the topic - is there a good solution for recording HD from cable? I'm currently using analog cable with a Hauppauge card to record programs in standard definition. Potential solutions:
1) DVR from cable company. Problems: I've gotten anecdotal information that these DVR's have poorly designed UI's and tend to be somewhat flaky (worse than Windows). Also, they are a closed system, I can't move the recording to a mobile device for portable viewing. 2) PC + HD ATSC / Clear-QAM tuner card - this gives me the ability to record over the air broadcasts and cable channels that support Clear-QAM (which is a fairly small subset of cable channels). 3) PC + HD Tuner Card + Cable Card - does anyone make one of these? Anyone have any experience with this?
Science was the first instance of open source. If someone else can't freely check your data and replicate your experiments you've got nothing. The raw data and source code for the climate models should have been available from day one. The fact that they weren't and that large quantities of data were "lost" throws the conclusions into serious question.
Newspapers seem to be doing everything possible to fail. News becoming a commodity - no problem, let's get all our news from wire services and the NYT / Wash. Post. Free opinion / analysis readily available on the web - lets move opinion journalism to page one. Readership falling - put our product behind a pay wall and raise prices.
Here's what they SHOULD be doing:
1) National / international news is a commodity. Good state and local news is harder to obtain - report IN DEPTH on state and local stories. Report real news, not opinion, not agenda driven, not drivel (hint: if your "articles" appear regularly in Fark, you're doing it wrong).
2) Lose the dead trees - ELIMINATE print and distribution costs, go entirely on-line. Support not just the Web, but mobile devices and e-reader distribution.
3) Learn from Google, make the site searchable by keywords, topics, time, and geography. Especially advertising, let me find a store selling a particular product / service at a particular time near my home.
4) Leave the "print mentality" behind - use graphics, audio, and video on news sites (without looking like someone's myspace page).
5) Community - interact with your readers - particularly on local stories / issues. Tie in with web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, etc.
Stonehenge and Bath are day trips out of London (you can go via tour bus if you don't have a car). If you have an interest in history and neo-lithic and Roman engineering it's well worth a trip.
I'm a fan of Palm and REALLY want them to succeed, but they seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot. Syncing with ITunes was a clever hack, but why didn't they simply cut a deal with another company. I'm sure Amazon would have been delighted to work with them to make their music store (non-DRM'ed MP3's) accessible to the Palm Pre. For that matter they could have added Audible audio-books, and Kindle e-books too. Then Palm seems determined (per recent Slashdot articles) to prevent developers from deploying open source apps to the Pre. Palm has a small window to make the Pre a success. Apple is eventually going to make the IPhone available to other carriers. Palm needs to capture a reasonable market share before that happens. That's not going to happen as long as they keep sabotaging their own product.
I got a new wireless phone a year ago. It came with daily calls from collection agencies for people I've never heard of. Some were annoying automated calls. When called by live people, I told them they had the wrong number and to please update their database. Of course they didn't. Finally took a letter to the agencies legal departments to get them to stop.
I was staying at a (rental) cabin in the woods this past weekend and got a call from a collection agency on the cabin's landline. And no, they were calling for a random person, not they owner of the cabin (or me).
As near as I can tell, collection agencies use the following strategy when seeking debtors: call every number in the country till they find the person they're looking for.
Steve Jobs (via Itunes) has inserted Apple in the recording industry's supply chain. That gives Apple significant power over the recording industry. (Admittedly Jobs has more common sense than the whole recording industry combined - but that's irrelevant to my point).
Murdoch does not want Jim Bezos to beoome a similarly powerful intermediary in the news industry. Which means he'll either have to create his own e-reader device / software or somehow split distribution between Amazon and others (Sony?) and HOPE that Amazon doesn't end up dominating the market the way Apple dominates e-music distribution.
Personally, I think the news industry has FAR bigger problems than Amazon.
One copy for the desktop. One copy for the home theater PC. One copy for the laptop. One copy for the PDA/phone. One copy for the NAS/home server. One copy to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
No One Lives Forever was hilarious! A great first person shooter in it's own right, the dialog was really funny. It was a parody of spy movies of the 60's and had very amusing dialog between enemy thugs that you'd be sneaking up upon. I recall a lengthy dialog on the psychology of beer and criminality as well as one on faulty space station construction (after numerous accidents they "spaced" the design engineer"), not to mention the danger of "excessive simian casualties".
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How do you get a hockey stick graph from climate data. One way is to apply a hockey stick filter to the data! See ESR's blog for details.
While we're on the topic - is there a good solution for recording HD from cable? I'm currently using analog cable with a Hauppauge card to record programs in standard definition. Potential solutions:
1) DVR from cable company. Problems: I've gotten anecdotal information that these DVR's have poorly designed UI's and tend to be somewhat flaky (worse than Windows). Also, they are a closed system, I can't move the recording to a mobile device for portable viewing.
2) PC + HD ATSC / Clear-QAM tuner card - this gives me the ability to record over the air broadcasts and cable channels that support Clear-QAM (which is a fairly small subset of cable channels).
3) PC + HD Tuner Card + Cable Card - does anyone make one of these? Anyone have any experience with this?
Science was the first instance of open source. If someone else can't freely check your data and replicate your experiments you've got nothing. The raw data and source code for the climate models should have been available from day one. The fact that they weren't and that large quantities of data were "lost" throws the conclusions into serious question.
Newspapers seem to be doing everything possible to fail. News becoming a commodity - no problem, let's get all our news from wire services and the NYT / Wash. Post. Free opinion / analysis readily available on the web - lets move opinion journalism to page one. Readership falling - put our product behind a pay wall and raise prices.
Here's what they SHOULD be doing:
1) National / international news is a commodity. Good state and local news is harder to obtain - report IN DEPTH on state and local stories. Report real news, not opinion, not agenda driven, not drivel (hint: if your "articles" appear regularly in Fark, you're doing it wrong).
2) Lose the dead trees - ELIMINATE print and distribution costs, go entirely on-line. Support not just the Web, but mobile devices and e-reader distribution.
3) Learn from Google, make the site searchable by keywords, topics, time, and geography. Especially advertising, let me find a store selling a particular product / service at a particular time near my home.
4) Leave the "print mentality" behind - use graphics, audio, and video on news sites (without looking like someone's myspace page).
5) Community - interact with your readers - particularly on local stories / issues. Tie in with web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, etc.
I see. Violence and intimidation. Minus the violence...
Tell that to Kenneth Gladney who got beat up by Obama's SEIU pals.
Stonehenge and Bath are day trips out of London (you can go via tour bus if you don't have a car). If you have an interest in history and neo-lithic and Roman engineering it's well worth a trip.
Turn off the Rush Limbaugh and stop watching Fox News.
Welcome to Slashdot Mr. Olbermann!
Sounds like a wildly expensive boondoggle. I'm surprised they didn't get stimulus funds for it.
We already have state-run media. They might as well get paid by the government for their services.
I'm a fan of Palm and REALLY want them to succeed, but they seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot. Syncing with ITunes was a clever hack, but why didn't they simply cut a deal with another company. I'm sure Amazon would have been delighted to work with them to make their music store (non-DRM'ed MP3's) accessible to the Palm Pre. For that matter they could have added Audible audio-books, and Kindle e-books too. Then Palm seems determined (per recent Slashdot articles) to prevent developers from deploying open source apps to the Pre. Palm has a small window to make the Pre a success. Apple is eventually going to make the IPhone available to other carriers. Palm needs to capture a reasonable market share before that happens. That's not going to happen as long as they keep sabotaging their own product.
Yeap, and before rap music, rock and roll destroyed our moral framework
D&D, comic books, and probably cave paintings.
I got a new wireless phone a year ago. It came with daily calls from collection agencies for people I've never heard of. Some were annoying automated calls. When called by live people, I told them they had the wrong number and to please update their database. Of course they didn't. Finally took a letter to the agencies legal departments to get them to stop.
I was staying at a (rental) cabin in the woods this past weekend and got a call from a collection agency on the cabin's landline. And no, they were calling for a random person, not they owner of the cabin (or me).
As near as I can tell, collection agencies use the following strategy when seeking debtors: call every number in the country till they find the person they're looking for.
I had to flip switches on a front panel, in binary
PDP-11?
Steve Jobs (via Itunes) has inserted Apple in the recording industry's supply chain. That gives Apple significant power over the recording industry. (Admittedly Jobs has more common sense than the whole recording industry combined - but that's irrelevant to my point).
Murdoch does not want Jim Bezos to beoome a similarly powerful intermediary in the news industry. Which means he'll either have to create his own e-reader device / software or somehow split distribution between Amazon and others (Sony?) and HOPE that Amazon doesn't end up dominating the market the way Apple dominates e-music distribution.
Personally, I think the news industry has FAR bigger problems than Amazon.
More like the 1980's called ...
Nroff, troff, LaTex, ...
Don't expect me to buy DRM'ed music ever.
This could have been handled much better via a private message (or phone call) than in a public forum.
Common sense prevails. Nuclear is the best option we have right now for clean, cheap, reliable energy
Or maybe not.
So, I should cancel my plans to land on Europa?
The Kindle is now equipped with a memory hole.
Three of state's reserve forests - Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench - have been adjudged among the best managed tiger reserves in the country."
Have you counted the tigers there recently?
One copy for the desktop.
One copy for the home theater PC.
One copy for the laptop.
One copy for the PDA/phone.
One copy for the NAS/home server.
One copy to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
I'm sure Windows 7 developers will still be employable after the October release.
No One Lives Forever was hilarious! A great first person shooter in it's own right, the dialog was really funny. It was a parody of spy movies of the 60's and had very amusing dialog between enemy thugs that you'd be sneaking up upon. I recall a lengthy dialog on the psychology of beer and criminality as well as one on faulty space station construction (after numerous accidents they "spaced" the design engineer"), not to mention the danger of "excessive simian casualties".
Bond: Do you expect me to talk? ... play World of Warcraft.
Auric Goldfarmer: No Mr. Bond, I expect you to