ISDN did not catch on because the phone companies were Greedy assholes and made ISDN prices near the price of a full T1. GTE here in the early 90's had a ISDN line cost $179 a month and a T1 cost you $250.00 Why get a paltry data rate that ISDN gives you plus voice when I could buy a T1 and sell the excess bandwidth to the neigbors and end up paying less?
But it requires everyone to have the software and know how to use it.
My asterisk server allows them to all call into it with their phones, and the ones that are not completely technically brain dead use a software sip phone app to call in to the conference bridge.
works great. I even have one call in from his iPhone using a SIP app regularly.
I have 2 broadvoice lines so that allows 4 regular phone calls inbound. the other 3 use a Sip phone (one uses a old siemens SIP phone and simply dials my IP address)
Hybrid Digital Audio is Not what you think is "HD".
You do NOT have HD phone calls that are sampled at 96Kbps at 48 bits, which is generally what is considered HD audio... although it's more important to have a $1500.00 microphone and a decent audio processor and a properly treated room to properly create what many people would consider "HD" audio... I typically use several 24" diameter glass plates with a boundary mic in the center hanging at least 18" from the ceiling in a room that are connected to a Biamp Nexia to properly process the audio to remove echos and any surface reflections like from the table. What I end up with is a conference call audio that kicks the crap out of the junk that Cisco, polycom, and all the other companies pass off as high end audio. duplicate this at both ends and you can do some tricks to get even more audio quality out of a POTS line. Although the ISDN calls and the VoiP calls that are far more common end up being CD quality.
As an owner of 1080p recording equipment, let me say that any phone that records 1080p will be a giant turd.
when you record at 1080p your lens quality becomes very important. even at 720p you can get away with the crappy NTSC lenses, but 1080p will show off bad glass right away.
1080p in a phone is a ragingly stupid thing. It's stupid in all the consumer camcorders t hat are under $1800.00 right now as well. (Nasty purple fringing and plain old awful lenses on these things coupled with really low recording bit-rates.
It's a marketing gimmick unless they have made HUGE advances in lens technology from just a week ago.
Actually Windows 7 wont work with MOST OpenGL games either. I tried running a couple of OSS games that used OpenGL on a really outdated Geforce 9800GT and a quad core i5 and it failed to run outside of software render mode.
Granted BZFlag is a super high end game that makes Crysys look like Wolfenstine 3d (That everyone is sarcasim)
If you are into gaming, dont use Windows 7 64 bit. It's incompatible as hell.
That's why the pool should be 50% random selection and 50% required of all 18 year old adults.
Graduated from highschool? Great! Here's your juror number. It's time you learned how the judicial system works instead of the bullshit they fed you in school civics class.
Unfortunately the law does not allow judges to keep stupid people off of juries. Some kind of anti discrimination thing...
Plus remember the Average IQ is 100, that means 2 out of 5 people are below 100 IQ and are therefore Morons. we cant discriminate against 2/3rds of the population.
you AGREED to it when you signed up to vote. That is where they pull jury choices from Voter records.
Here in michigan they use TWO. Drivers license records and Voter records. If you do NOT agree to being on a jury, then dont have a drivers license and dont register to vote.
This is spelled out clearly in the State and Federal EULA you agreed to when you became a US citizen.
Let me guess, you are one of those people that knows NOTHING about your rights, and responsibilities as set forth by your Laws and constitution.
Why? there is ZERO content on CableTV and broadcast that is 1080p or will EVER be 1080p because ATSC is 1080i maximum. the only content you can get that is 1080p is bluray. and honestly I have ripped many 1080p blurays to mkv and unless you have a HUGE bitrate it's not worth it.
1080p is a red herring for most people right now. in fact most BluRay discs are NOT 1080p content. they may be encoded at 1080p but the source material on them are not. In fact the copy of casablanca I have looks better on my DVD player with upscaler than on the BLuray... I really dont need to see clearer film grain. Granted I'm watching on a small 92" screen with 1080p projector... and we sit only 9 feet from the screen so I'm within the sweet spot for size and resolution.
Out of the 80 Blurays I have watched maybe 10 have been clear enough source material that I noticed it was 1080p.
I'll be 100% on your bandwagon the second you can tell me how to get a Netflix plugin for my XBMC
No A Windows Media center bloated monster is not the answer... I can build a XBMC device that will do 1080p for $199. that has HDMI out and fits behind the TV. You CAN NOT DO THAT with Windows Media center.
The apple TV 2 is a awesome device that will own the market. the $0.99 per tv show is a sweet point as well because it means that most people will spend less than their monthly cable bill for BASIC cable.
Tivo also has a huge disadvantage of the requirement of a $55.00 to $99.00 monthly service fee to get content. Oh and it's $13.00 a month guide service fee.
This is the change that EVERYONE was waiting for. This puts Tv on demand at the pricepoint that even cheap-ass ol' me will even pay. That's $12.00 a year per TV show (as most tv shows are half assed and only release 12 episodes a year / season) So if I get rid of Comcast or Dish at even the low price rate of $39.00 a month. I can watch 39 specific TV show episodes per month for the same price. This is far more than I can watch anyways because 99% of what is on cableTV sucks. And these are commercial free.
This means I'll pay about 1/3rd of what I pay for cableTV a month to get the programming I want. The ONLY problem is that TV shows like Colbert Report and Daily show are 4 times a week, and I cant see the audience of those tv shows paying $32.00 a month just to watch those two shows.
Now, what I want to know is does the interface give me a custom "shows I like" menu that will show that I have not watched or what is new, or will it be like the crappy current interface where I have to go searching for everything......
Steve said over and over "it is easy to use" well; easy to use is a menu of only my stuff I like....
There have been these "ebook" thingies that are very rare and obscure you may not have heard of them
It seems that so many people are buying these things in secret that companies like Amazon.com have suddenly started selling more ebooks than hardcover books.
I know they are incredibly new and radical that your personal teletype has not spit the news about them out yet... hopefully you can take the next autogyro to the city and see for yourself at the Worlds Fair how wonderful these magical devices are and how most people find they are easy to read on.
Corporations care about the next 3 months. They do not give a rats ass about next year. If the CEO can make a bigbonus by destroying the company this quarter, he will do it.
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I can. I use Denon Cat 5 cables and directional speaker wire.
It cost me several thousand for the copper wires, so it HAS to give me superhuman powers...
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ISDN did not catch on because the phone companies were Greedy assholes and made ISDN prices near the price of a full T1. GTE here in the early 90's had a ISDN line cost $179 a month and a T1 cost you $250.00 Why get a paltry data rate that ISDN gives you plus voice when I could buy a T1 and sell the excess bandwidth to the neigbors and end up paying less?
But it requires everyone to have the software and know how to use it.
My asterisk server allows them to all call into it with their phones, and the ones that are not completely technically brain dead use a software sip phone app to call in to the conference bridge.
works great. I even have one call in from his iPhone using a SIP app regularly.
I have 2 broadvoice lines so that allows 4 regular phone calls inbound. the other 3 use a Sip phone (one uses a old siemens SIP phone and simply dials my IP address)
Hybrid Digital Audio is Not what you think is "HD".
You do NOT have HD phone calls that are sampled at 96Kbps at 48 bits, which is generally what is considered HD audio... although it's more important to have a $1500.00 microphone and a decent audio processor and a properly treated room to properly create what many people would consider "HD" audio... I typically use several 24" diameter glass plates with a boundary mic in the center hanging at least 18" from the ceiling in a room that are connected to a Biamp Nexia to properly process the audio to remove echos and any surface reflections like from the table. What I end up with is a conference call audio that kicks the crap out of the junk that Cisco, polycom, and all the other companies pass off as high end audio. duplicate this at both ends and you can do some tricks to get even more audio quality out of a POTS line. Although the ISDN calls and the VoiP calls that are far more common end up being CD quality.
You are simply a sucker for marketing lies.
Plus the encoding bitrate will be the same as the 720p mode so in fact the 1080p recording will actually be WORSE than the 720p recording.
As an owner of 1080p recording equipment, let me say that any phone that records 1080p will be a giant turd.
when you record at 1080p your lens quality becomes very important. even at 720p you can get away with the crappy NTSC lenses, but 1080p will show off bad glass right away.
1080p in a phone is a ragingly stupid thing. It's stupid in all the consumer camcorders t hat are under $1800.00 right now as well. (Nasty purple fringing and plain old awful lenses on these things coupled with really low recording bit-rates.
It's a marketing gimmick unless they have made HUGE advances in lens technology from just a week ago.
And it's still a worthless feature.
1080p that is not compressed to oblivion that looks like crap takes up 25GB per hour.
How about giving us real storage in these damned things FIRST?
250GB phone is more important than the 100% useless 1080p video playback.
You did that just as an exercise right? Because it's far easier to simply run Q3 native in linux.
Actually Windows 7 wont work with MOST OpenGL games either. I tried running a couple of OSS games that used OpenGL on a really outdated Geforce 9800GT and a quad core i5 and it failed to run outside of software render mode.
Granted BZFlag is a super high end game that makes Crysys look like Wolfenstine 3d (That everyone is sarcasim)
If you are into gaming, dont use Windows 7 64 bit. It's incompatible as hell.
Nor can it keep those who cant even understand they are reading a joke from posting either.
Hello?? It's funny!
Not liking a law they are charged with is FULL REASON to ignore the Judges instructions and perform Jury Nullification.
The Jury is the last line in the law. Unjust Law? Say not guilty in face of the law.
Honestly, if more Americans had the balls to do this, more unjust laws would be destroyed in the courts as they create precedence.
Those dont work as well as mine.
Mine works 100% of the time and will get you ejected before selection....
"I firmly believe in Jury Nullification"
Judges do NOT want that dangerous of a juror on a jury.
That's why the pool should be 50% random selection and 50% required of all 18 year old adults.
Graduated from highschool? Great! Here's your juror number. It's time you learned how the judicial system works instead of the bullshit they fed you in school civics class.
Unfortunately the law does not allow judges to keep stupid people off of juries. Some kind of anti discrimination thing...
Plus remember the Average IQ is 100, that means 2 out of 5 people are below 100 IQ and are therefore Morons. we cant discriminate against 2/3rds of the population.
You dont know much about the process do you.
you AGREED to it when you signed up to vote. That is where they pull jury choices from Voter records.
Here in michigan they use TWO. Drivers license records and Voter records. If you do NOT agree to being on a jury, then dont have a drivers license and dont register to vote.
This is spelled out clearly in the State and Federal EULA you agreed to when you became a US citizen.
Let me guess, you are one of those people that knows NOTHING about your rights, and responsibilities as set forth by your Laws and constitution.
Why? there is ZERO content on CableTV and broadcast that is 1080p or will EVER be 1080p because ATSC is 1080i maximum. the only content you can get that is 1080p is bluray. and honestly I have ripped many 1080p blurays to mkv and unless you have a HUGE bitrate it's not worth it.
1080p is a red herring for most people right now. in fact most BluRay discs are NOT 1080p content. they may be encoded at 1080p but the source material on them are not. In fact the copy of casablanca I have looks better on my DVD player with upscaler than on the BLuray... I really dont need to see clearer film grain. Granted I'm watching on a small 92" screen with 1080p projector... and we sit only 9 feet from the screen so I'm within the sweet spot for size and resolution.
Out of the 80 Blurays I have watched maybe 10 have been clear enough source material that I noticed it was 1080p.
you = fail.
I'll be 100% on your bandwagon the second you can tell me how to get a Netflix plugin for my XBMC
No A Windows Media center bloated monster is not the answer... I can build a XBMC device that will do 1080p for $199. that has HDMI out and fits behind the TV. You CAN NOT DO THAT with Windows Media center.
The apple TV 2 is a awesome device that will own the market. the $0.99 per tv show is a sweet point as well because it means that most people will spend less than their monthly cable bill for BASIC cable.
Tivo also has a huge disadvantage of the requirement of a $55.00 to $99.00 monthly service fee to get content. Oh and it's $13.00 a month guide service fee.
This is the change that EVERYONE was waiting for. This puts Tv on demand at the pricepoint that even cheap-ass ol' me will even pay. That's $12.00 a year per TV show (as most tv shows are half assed and only release 12 episodes a year / season) So if I get rid of Comcast or Dish at even the low price rate of $39.00 a month. I can watch 39 specific TV show episodes per month for the same price. This is far more than I can watch anyways because 99% of what is on cableTV sucks. And these are commercial free.
This means I'll pay about 1/3rd of what I pay for cableTV a month to get the programming I want. The ONLY problem is that TV shows like Colbert Report and Daily show are 4 times a week, and I cant see the audience of those tv shows paying $32.00 a month just to watch those two shows.
Now, what I want to know is does the interface give me a custom "shows I like" menu that will show that I have not watched or what is new, or will it be like the crappy current interface where I have to go searching for everything......
Steve said over and over "it is easy to use" well; easy to use is a menu of only my stuff I like....
Agreed! That damned printing press will destroy writers!
What? Xerox makes a machine that COPIES paper? THAT WILL DESTROY THE INDUSTRY!
The publishers have been screaming that the sky is falling for 100+ years. You really should ignore them and everyone that believes their tripe.
or your $100 kindle
in case you missed it....
There have been these "ebook" thingies that are very rare and obscure you may not have heard of them
It seems that so many people are buying these things in secret that companies like Amazon.com have suddenly started selling more ebooks than hardcover books.
I know they are incredibly new and radical that your personal teletype has not spit the news about them out yet... hopefully you can take the next autogyro to the city and see for yourself at the Worlds Fair how wonderful these magical devices are and how most people find they are easy to read on.
it's a miracle of the Steam age!
Then tell them they are making Shiva angry.
They dont care.
Period.
Corporations care about the next 3 months. They do not give a rats ass about next year. If the CEO can make a bigbonus by destroying the company this quarter, he will do it.
This is their next step after they get their protection racket pushed through.
The ISP's want it 3 ways.
Customer pays $X for service. Websites and services pay $X for access to those subscribers.
When that is done they will then start charging customers $X for "faster" access to popular things.
The ONLY legitimate thing they can charge for is the $X to the customer for service. Everything else is extortion money and flat out scumbaggery.
I so wished the FCC had the balls to force Internet ISP's to be Common Carrier Status to avoid all this crap.