Searching for Sarah Palin or Dakota Fanning takes you go geneology websites. Searches for most of the 2008 US Women's gymnastics team returns only a couple of results. However, do a search for "Dominique Moceanu", "Jodie Sweetin", "Sailor Moon" or "Dragonball Z" and see what you get
If they were smart, one or the other will have trademarked the name before the IOC. Of course, even if they did, the IOC will win. The first looks like a home-brewed online store, and I doubt that they will have the money to fight the IOC.
If you click on the link in the BoingBoing article, it takes you to the article on the CBC website. FTA
The lines "With glowing hearts" from the English version and "Des plus brillants exploits" from the French version will soon be emblazoned on Olympic merchandise and promotional material as a national campaign to promote the mottoes is rolled out across Canada this fall.
I like the codec well enough. I mean, it works for what it does. I mean, if you have buffering issues, either you do not have enough bandwidth, the server does not have enough bandwidth, or one of you just have a crappy ISP no matter how much bandwidth you have.
On Windows, I use Real Alternative. Let's me play Real content in either Windows Media Player (gasp! something even worse than Real Player) or VLC (YAY!!!!).
My question is, when did Real become evil? Was it when they decided they were going to take over all your media files? Practically any media player you install does that, and gives you the option to have it not to. Maybe it was when they decided it was going to launch on startup. Doesn't every other program do that as well(relatively speaking, not all programs do)? And you can also turn that off. Maybe it was when they decided to offer a pro version to go along side their free version that they have been offering since the begining, with only slighly more features than the free version.
No really, I am not a big fan, but I do not call them evil, so I want to know, why do others call them evil? Since when did it become evil to innovate, then give away a free version of it, and offer a pay version with only slightly more features? And didn't they also opensource the protocol and the encoding software with Helix? So, please, tell me, what makes Real evil?
I agree. Truthfully, If I had of been the buyer, I would have thought someone was having fun photographing some stuff to work on in Photoshop or something, and would have wiped the memory card. Actually, I probably would have done that right after getting the camera. Seriously, you have no clue what people are photographing, and I would not want to get busted because someone else was photographing something illegal (use your imagination). In fact, if I get ANYTHING with used storage, I zero out the drive before I use it.
I can vouch for the T1 to the 3G towers. A friend of mine spent a year setting these up. Now, this may be fine if you are out in someplace like Venus, Texas on an iPhone, as there will only be a few people on this tower at any given time. However, what about in someplace like Downtown Dallas? There are times when I cannot place a call because the network is jamed (although that is seeming to happen less and less, it seems like my carrier has recently upgraded their capacity).
The train between Fort Worth and Dallas has one of the first metro WiFi deployments in the country (whether more have come up since, I do not know). They use some type of cellular modem to provide this access. There are obviously areas and times of day where the speed is much faster than at others (and this is not due just to the fact that you have 30 people on one cellular connection either, there are times of day and areas where I am the only person on the train, and still have these issues).
Point is, I am kinda wonder, living about as far outside of the city as I am (and can still be considered to be in a suburb), how long it will take me to get fiber to the home if these providers cannot even run them to their towers.
You know, I cannot even seem to find other jobs in tech support because of my history in Tech Support. And only for about a month of that have I actually been the guy answering the phone. Its discrimination pure and simple. I am currently trying to move up in the company I am in now. I work in Desktop support now, but I am looking at moving into networking or programing. I suggest you do the same. Show the company you are working for that you are good for more than just answering phones, get the title change, then you can start looking at going to other companies. Otherwise, from my experience, you are up the creek.
Yeah, what a great idea that was. Let's give away scanners, and then people can scan a barcode and be taken to a website, so its ad supported. Problem was, to get that barcode, you pretty much had to own the item, at which time, you were like, um, what is the point of researching the item AFTER you buy it. Kind of a gimick.
Sadly, the CueCat did have a very practical application that I used it for, but I had to hack it first. There is a program out there called CatNip that will let you use the CueCat as a standard light pen. When combined with a a databasing program for media such as those from CollectorZ, which refrences your material to stuff it pulls off the internet, you suddenly have a very cool product. I can now scan a UPC symbol on a movie, it pulls the description off of IMDB and cover art from Amazon or DVDEmpire or one of the dozens of other DVD sites out there, and makes a nice list. I can then specify where the movie is located, and even check movies out to my friends, and know where they all are through this cool app. I can then publish the whole list to html and upload it to a site, so now all my friends can see what movies I have.
So, yes, the CueCat was very cool and useful and I still use mine. Problem is, I found absolutely ZERO value in what they were actually trying to use it for.
Those that I have seen that are $2-$5 a month are not really that good. You have very few options other than basic e-mail, then its really not an e-mail persay. That is, its more like a social network - no outside internet access. Most I have seen you do not even have an address on, so they can only communicate with others on the service.
I have problems with this as well. In a couple of these, you are actually paying for someone else to read your kid's e-mails. Watch exactly what it is you are agreeing to if you sign up.
If you are really paranoid, I know years ago, AOL offered a REALLY good choice for children's e-mail accounts. You could set it up where only people on their buddy list could e-mail them (hence, they also had to be AOL members), you had the whitelist, you had the choice all AOL, and the whole internet, but this was really just a glorified whitelist.
Nah, I have looked at the so-called kid-friendly sites (sorry I did not mention that in my original post). Trust me, just get them an Gmail account, and police it. You will be so much happier. It has great spam filters. I poked through mine, and could not find the whitelist option, but you should be fine. You can go in there and set filters and ad options, so maybe there is an adult control. I am not really sure - I have IMAP setup on my GMail and always access it through Outlook, so I don't see any ads. You don't even have to use Outlook - just setup any client that has IMAP access. In fact, then you can setup the password yourself and jsut have it save it, and not give it to the kids so they are not e-mailing away from home. Makes it easier to police their e-mail.
Another option is to just let them get myspace, go in there and set the options where people have to enter Catchphas or whatever its called to leave comments, they have to know the kid's last name or e-mail address to request him as a kid, set it so that his profile is private, so that people over 18 cannot search him, and that only friends can send him messages. Yeah, people seem to think that Myspace is evil, but if you take appropriate precauations and check out their friends from time to time, you should be fine.
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Look, the problem here seems to be that the guy wants an e-mail company to do his (the parents' job). I totally agree, get them a free Gmail account (I RARELY have spam get through - maybe once every couple of months), and then police their e-mail accounts. They are YOUR kids, it is YOUR job to keep them safe, not the responsibility of the e-mail provider.
Now, I do have a bit of a tradeoff when I police the kid's myspace and stuff. They can have it, but I want access to it, otherwise they do not have one at all (they do not even get on the computer). The tradeoff is - if I know who your friends are, and I trust them, I won't dig through your mail. You can have your privacy. But if you are an underage girl, and have several older guys (even if they are minors) on your friends list, then we have a talk.
So, yeah, setup an e-mail account for them. You can set it up with whitelist only options. Go through their accounts if you have to, and if you see something in there you don't like or someone you don't know, read it or delete it. As the kids get older, and show you they are responsible, you start looking over their sholder less, until one day, you don't need to. But for the love of God, don't give a seven-year-old an e-mail account, never look into it, and expect a provider to filter everything for you. 15-year-old, a bit of a differnet story.
I agree. I paid $129 for my graphics card about a year ago, and thought it was a bit high. This was an Asus NVidia 6600 something or other. I really was not too concerned about the 3D acceleration, although I do play the occassional video game. I wanted a fairly cheap PCI-Express card (I just upgraded my motherboard and could not find one that had AGP), and something that had component out.
Truthfully, while Bioshock and Crysis all look pretty and run best on the newest cards, I can run all of these on the cheaper cards. You can pick up a GeForce FX 5200 for around $50 now, and they seem to run most newer games at medium quality. May have to go low quality and resolution for Crysis, but you should still be able to play.
Yeah, if you are not a heavy gamer, the cheaper cards should be fine. For people like me, I am more worried about my HD material and working in Photoshop and Adobe Premiere. I consider playing Bioshock a bonus, and may pop it in once every couple of weeks to relieve some stress. Quite frankly, Bioshock is the first game I have bought in years - I am still perfectly happy with UT2004 and Quake 3.
I am not sure if other news agencies are like this, but you normally have much of your article written out before hand, one for success, one for failure, that way, when it happens, you can just edit a couple of details, and be the first to have your article out. Its the world of media we live in. I mean, how can you have up-to-the-minute news if the person is too busy writing the article? The dialog sounds just like the script that NASA uses on most of their missions. You copy and paste, and if anything varies, you change the details before publishing.
What seems to have happened in this case is that someone hit "Publish" instead of "Save Draft". From the article, the mistake was noticed within a couple of hours and the article was taken down. Its not like they faked the launch.
You see, that is why I installed the Business Edition of Vista - No crap. Or so I thought, mail, photo gallery and Movie Maker are still there (just checked, really surprised me).
On the lighter side, if we can just now convince Linux vendors to stop installing 3 or more different web browsers and 4 different media players, among all the other crap.
The page you linked to was just a search on Amazon. The first link is the Silver Sensor, and if you read the reviews, while most people like it, it does not get as high as ratings as other antennas. In fact, the very first review on the page, the guy, who lived about 25 miles from Manhatten and had issues with signals being deflected and such, recommended this antenna. Makes sense, a good set of rabbit ears (those directional antennas are crap, I have tried one before, they do not work as well as a good set of rabbit ears) with a strong amplifier should really enhance the signal, as long as you are actually amplifying the signal and not noise.
This is a very well researched and documented piece. I am no engineer, but I disagree slightly.
I live in an area littered with high watertowers. Analog was notorious for ghosting effects. This was really noticable on the local PBS station.
When I first got into digital a few years back, many of the stations were weak. Some stations I was only getting 30% signal on. I was getting stuttering. PBS dropped frames left and right. I called and complained, telling them how far I lived from the transmission tower (I actually knew where they broadcast from), and what my signal strength was. They mentioned that they were still doing low-power tests. A week later, they increased their transmission power. I went from getting 30% signal to getting 98% signal. All of my stations are now coming in at that power. Then again, I live in one of the 5 largest TV markets in the US, according to Neilson, so we were probably one of the first to go full power.
My signal on ALL DTV stations is now stronger than anything I ever got on analog.
As I stated earlier, I am no engineer, but from my experience, it seems that all the stations need to do is increase their transmission power. They cannot do this currently, because they are not broadcasting on the same frequency, and increasing their power would cause bleedover to other channels in other markets. Once all analog channels get shut off, broadcasters should be able to start broadcasting at the same power that they were allowed to for their analog stations (that is, if the FCC properly spaced out the frequencies when issuing DTV licences).
I mean, getting 30% digital signal should be about equivilant to getting a mostly snow station on analog. You can see the picture and make out the sound, but you are not getting color, you can barely see the picture through the snow, and you almost cannot hear the dialog over the hiss and crackle. Even the stations I could barely pick up before on analog that are low power that have started broadcasting digital, I am still getting 60-70% signal on digital, so am able to pick up MORE than I was before.
So, yeah, just increase the signal strength. It may bounce, and echo, and all these other effects you are complaining about, but an increase in transmission power should give most, if not all, people in their previous broadcast area a decent enough signal to not get the dropouts and stutters and such.
Once again, I am no engineer, so I could be totally off on this
I think that in the US, the mass population that is, NOT the IT crowd, likes Open Source because they are trying to save money. The perfect example of this is Open Office. Let me tell you, my mom, pastor, sister, and my best friend all could care less if they had access to the source code. I would be shocked if a single one of them could program "Hello World". However, they LOVE the thought of not shelling out a couple of Hundred bucks to Microsoft. Not because they hate Microsoft, but because they want to save money. The sister I mentioned earlier also just graduated graphic arts school, and is a Gimp user, not because she has access to the source code or anything like that, but because it is free.
I pieced together a few computers for a church before, and we went Linux with Open Office, once again, because its free.
None of these were because they thought Linux, Open Office, or Gimp were better, in fact, all of these people would have prefered the pay program. People like free. People will do stupid stuff to get stuff for free. You know how many users I had to remove spyware and viruses from because they tried installing free 3D or Living Screensavers, 1000 free smilies at smily central, or animated coursers? In fact, I have tons of friend's myspace pages that I refuse to goto until they clean up their code and get rid of all those evil ActiveX and JavaScript controls.
You ought too see how many people will drive 30-45 miles across town to save 20 cents a gallon on gas. I point and laugh at those people.
Yet, not a single one of these people mind paying $18 for a pizza, $24.95 a month for dialup, or $120 a month for their cable bill.
Sorry if that came across harsh or something, it was not meant to. Actually, most of the issues I have seen from what you were describing are caused by IE or the OS being wacked out, and reinstalling should fix it. If not, that is very interesting.
It is the IT in me, I sometimes forget that the readers on Slashdot know a bit more about PCs than the users I have to support. I tend to dumb stuff down, sorry if it came across as condenscending (sp?) or something.
Actually, to save you a bit more time, I suggest creating your configuration, and then creating a ghost image or something. That way, you do not have to go through all that installation crap. 20 minutes to reimage versus at least 30 to install the OS, plus the software you have to install? Just a thought, not really sure if it will help or not.
Once again, sorry, I was just trying to be helpful.
Ah, well, you are not going to please everyone with your default theme. Its why we have Blackbox, KDE, Gnome, and tons of other things, and then why every single distro futher customizes X. I am not crazy about the Ubuntu GUI myself - I prefer RedHat or Mandrake (yeah, old school).
What would ROCK is if Windows 7 provided about half a dozen different User Interfaces, and give the user at first startup the choice of which they would like. Nothing so mind-boggingly different that it would make supporting them difficult, just different "Themes" or something.
:-( Evolution works through the OWA interface, and does not connect directly to the Exchange server. This is a lot like Entourage works. I find it surprising that Evolution does not work with Exchange 2007. If Entourage did that, people would be screaming bloody murder. Throw out your Evolution prefrences and set it up from scratch, and try it again. I would be VERY surprised if it did not work.
Okay, I just did a Google search, and suprisingly, it doesn't work, but many people are stating that it should work thorough MAPI or IMAP. Of course, you would not be able to sync your calendar or contacts with the server, and in effect, your smartphone on the BES or Good server, but at least you could work.
Or just install Crossover Office and install Outlook 2007. I would be shocked if your company did not have a license for it, and its actually a pretty nice little e-mail program.
The real thing I've noticed is that Windows Explorer no longer accepts custom columns, which is a major pain for a shop that uses TortoiseSVN. That is an interface issue that I resent. That and the much more subtle (than in XP) difference between active and inactive title bars.
I just realized you said custom Columns, not colors. My bad.
I think you are looking for right clicking in an Explorer Window, Sort By, More, although I am not for sure. I have used subversion in Vista, so not really sure what it is you are refering to.
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it is because you searched for "Sarah Palin" and not for sarah palin
Searching for Sarah Palin or Dakota Fanning takes you go geneology websites. Searches for most of the 2008 US Women's gymnastics team returns only a couple of results. However, do a search for "Dominique Moceanu", "Jodie Sweetin", "Sailor Moon" or "Dragonball Z" and see what you get
If they were smart, one or the other will have trademarked the name before the IOC. Of course, even if they did, the IOC will win. The first looks like a home-brewed online store, and I doubt that they will have the money to fight the IOC.
If you click on the link in the BoingBoing article, it takes you to the article on the CBC website. FTA
The lines "With glowing hearts" from the English version and "Des plus brillants exploits" from the French version will soon be emblazoned on Olympic merchandise and promotional material as a national campaign to promote the mottoes is rolled out across Canada this fall.
I like the codec well enough. I mean, it works for what it does. I mean, if you have buffering issues, either you do not have enough bandwidth, the server does not have enough bandwidth, or one of you just have a crappy ISP no matter how much bandwidth you have.
On Windows, I use Real Alternative. Let's me play Real content in either Windows Media Player (gasp! something even worse than Real Player) or VLC (YAY!!!!).
My question is, when did Real become evil? Was it when they decided they were going to take over all your media files? Practically any media player you install does that, and gives you the option to have it not to. Maybe it was when they decided it was going to launch on startup. Doesn't every other program do that as well(relatively speaking, not all programs do)? And you can also turn that off. Maybe it was when they decided to offer a pro version to go along side their free version that they have been offering since the begining, with only slighly more features than the free version.
No really, I am not a big fan, but I do not call them evil, so I want to know, why do others call them evil? Since when did it become evil to innovate, then give away a free version of it, and offer a pay version with only slightly more features? And didn't they also opensource the protocol and the encoding software with Helix? So, please, tell me, what makes Real evil?
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The police have reportedly replaced the seized equipment, at a cost of £1,000.
I agree. Truthfully, If I had of been the buyer, I would have thought someone was having fun photographing some stuff to work on in Photoshop or something, and would have wiped the memory card. Actually, I probably would have done that right after getting the camera. Seriously, you have no clue what people are photographing, and I would not want to get busted because someone else was photographing something illegal (use your imagination). In fact, if I get ANYTHING with used storage, I zero out the drive before I use it.
I can vouch for the T1 to the 3G towers. A friend of mine spent a year setting these up. Now, this may be fine if you are out in someplace like Venus, Texas on an iPhone, as there will only be a few people on this tower at any given time. However, what about in someplace like Downtown Dallas? There are times when I cannot place a call because the network is jamed (although that is seeming to happen less and less, it seems like my carrier has recently upgraded their capacity).
The train between Fort Worth and Dallas has one of the first metro WiFi deployments in the country (whether more have come up since, I do not know). They use some type of cellular modem to provide this access. There are obviously areas and times of day where the speed is much faster than at others (and this is not due just to the fact that you have 30 people on one cellular connection either, there are times of day and areas where I am the only person on the train, and still have these issues).
Point is, I am kinda wonder, living about as far outside of the city as I am (and can still be considered to be in a suburb), how long it will take me to get fiber to the home if these providers cannot even run them to their towers.
You know, I cannot even seem to find other jobs in tech support because of my history in Tech Support. And only for about a month of that have I actually been the guy answering the phone. Its discrimination pure and simple. I am currently trying to move up in the company I am in now. I work in Desktop support now, but I am looking at moving into networking or programing. I suggest you do the same. Show the company you are working for that you are good for more than just answering phones, get the title change, then you can start looking at going to other companies. Otherwise, from my experience, you are up the creek.
Yeah, what a great idea that was. Let's give away scanners, and then people can scan a barcode and be taken to a website, so its ad supported. Problem was, to get that barcode, you pretty much had to own the item, at which time, you were like, um, what is the point of researching the item AFTER you buy it. Kind of a gimick.
Sadly, the CueCat did have a very practical application that I used it for, but I had to hack it first. There is a program out there called CatNip that will let you use the CueCat as a standard light pen. When combined with a a databasing program for media such as those from CollectorZ, which refrences your material to stuff it pulls off the internet, you suddenly have a very cool product. I can now scan a UPC symbol on a movie, it pulls the description off of IMDB and cover art from Amazon or DVDEmpire or one of the dozens of other DVD sites out there, and makes a nice list. I can then specify where the movie is located, and even check movies out to my friends, and know where they all are through this cool app. I can then publish the whole list to html and upload it to a site, so now all my friends can see what movies I have.
So, yes, the CueCat was very cool and useful and I still use mine. Problem is, I found absolutely ZERO value in what they were actually trying to use it for.
Those that I have seen that are $2-$5 a month are not really that good. You have very few options other than basic e-mail, then its really not an e-mail persay. That is, its more like a social network - no outside internet access. Most I have seen you do not even have an address on, so they can only communicate with others on the service.
I have problems with this as well. In a couple of these, you are actually paying for someone else to read your kid's e-mails. Watch exactly what it is you are agreeing to if you sign up.
If you are really paranoid, I know years ago, AOL offered a REALLY good choice for children's e-mail accounts. You could set it up where only people on their buddy list could e-mail them (hence, they also had to be AOL members), you had the whitelist, you had the choice all AOL, and the whole internet, but this was really just a glorified whitelist.
Nah, I have looked at the so-called kid-friendly sites (sorry I did not mention that in my original post). Trust me, just get them an Gmail account, and police it. You will be so much happier. It has great spam filters. I poked through mine, and could not find the whitelist option, but you should be fine. You can go in there and set filters and ad options, so maybe there is an adult control. I am not really sure - I have IMAP setup on my GMail and always access it through Outlook, so I don't see any ads. You don't even have to use Outlook - just setup any client that has IMAP access. In fact, then you can setup the password yourself and jsut have it save it, and not give it to the kids so they are not e-mailing away from home. Makes it easier to police their e-mail.
Another option is to just let them get myspace, go in there and set the options where people have to enter Catchphas or whatever its called to leave comments, they have to know the kid's last name or e-mail address to request him as a kid, set it so that his profile is private, so that people over 18 cannot search him, and that only friends can send him messages. Yeah, people seem to think that Myspace is evil, but if you take appropriate precauations and check out their friends from time to time, you should be fine.
Look, the problem here seems to be that the guy wants an e-mail company to do his (the parents' job). I totally agree, get them a free Gmail account (I RARELY have spam get through - maybe once every couple of months), and then police their e-mail accounts. They are YOUR kids, it is YOUR job to keep them safe, not the responsibility of the e-mail provider.
Now, I do have a bit of a tradeoff when I police the kid's myspace and stuff. They can have it, but I want access to it, otherwise they do not have one at all (they do not even get on the computer). The tradeoff is - if I know who your friends are, and I trust them, I won't dig through your mail. You can have your privacy. But if you are an underage girl, and have several older guys (even if they are minors) on your friends list, then we have a talk.
So, yeah, setup an e-mail account for them. You can set it up with whitelist only options. Go through their accounts if you have to, and if you see something in there you don't like or someone you don't know, read it or delete it. As the kids get older, and show you they are responsible, you start looking over their sholder less, until one day, you don't need to. But for the love of God, don't give a seven-year-old an e-mail account, never look into it, and expect a provider to filter everything for you. 15-year-old, a bit of a differnet story.
And in case you do not believe me....
Youtube video of Crysis on 6600GT
because we know if its on Youtube, its got to be true
I am running it on a 6600 presently, and ran it on a 5600.
I agree. I paid $129 for my graphics card about a year ago, and thought it was a bit high. This was an Asus NVidia 6600 something or other. I really was not too concerned about the 3D acceleration, although I do play the occassional video game. I wanted a fairly cheap PCI-Express card (I just upgraded my motherboard and could not find one that had AGP), and something that had component out.
Truthfully, while Bioshock and Crysis all look pretty and run best on the newest cards, I can run all of these on the cheaper cards. You can pick up a GeForce FX 5200 for around $50 now, and they seem to run most newer games at medium quality. May have to go low quality and resolution for Crysis, but you should still be able to play.
Yeah, if you are not a heavy gamer, the cheaper cards should be fine. For people like me, I am more worried about my HD material and working in Photoshop and Adobe Premiere. I consider playing Bioshock a bonus, and may pop it in once every couple of weeks to relieve some stress. Quite frankly, Bioshock is the first game I have bought in years - I am still perfectly happy with UT2004 and Quake 3.
I am not sure if other news agencies are like this, but you normally have much of your article written out before hand, one for success, one for failure, that way, when it happens, you can just edit a couple of details, and be the first to have your article out. Its the world of media we live in. I mean, how can you have up-to-the-minute news if the person is too busy writing the article? The dialog sounds just like the script that NASA uses on most of their missions. You copy and paste, and if anything varies, you change the details before publishing.
What seems to have happened in this case is that someone hit "Publish" instead of "Save Draft". From the article, the mistake was noticed within a couple of hours and the article was taken down. Its not like they faked the launch.
You see, that is why I installed the Business Edition of Vista - No crap. Or so I thought, mail, photo gallery and Movie Maker are still there (just checked, really surprised me).
On the lighter side, if we can just now convince Linux vendors to stop installing 3 or more different web browsers and 4 different media players, among all the other crap.
The page you linked to was just a search on Amazon. The first link is the Silver Sensor, and if you read the reviews, while most people like it, it does not get as high as ratings as other antennas. In fact, the very first review on the page, the guy, who lived about 25 miles from Manhatten and had issues with signals being deflected and such, recommended this antenna. Makes sense, a good set of rabbit ears (those directional antennas are crap, I have tried one before, they do not work as well as a good set of rabbit ears) with a strong amplifier should really enhance the signal, as long as you are actually amplifying the signal and not noise.
This is a very well researched and documented piece. I am no engineer, but I disagree slightly.
I live in an area littered with high watertowers. Analog was notorious for ghosting effects. This was really noticable on the local PBS station.
When I first got into digital a few years back, many of the stations were weak. Some stations I was only getting 30% signal on. I was getting stuttering. PBS dropped frames left and right. I called and complained, telling them how far I lived from the transmission tower (I actually knew where they broadcast from), and what my signal strength was. They mentioned that they were still doing low-power tests. A week later, they increased their transmission power. I went from getting 30% signal to getting 98% signal. All of my stations are now coming in at that power. Then again, I live in one of the 5 largest TV markets in the US, according to Neilson, so we were probably one of the first to go full power.
My signal on ALL DTV stations is now stronger than anything I ever got on analog.
As I stated earlier, I am no engineer, but from my experience, it seems that all the stations need to do is increase their transmission power. They cannot do this currently, because they are not broadcasting on the same frequency, and increasing their power would cause bleedover to other channels in other markets. Once all analog channels get shut off, broadcasters should be able to start broadcasting at the same power that they were allowed to for their analog stations (that is, if the FCC properly spaced out the frequencies when issuing DTV licences).
I mean, getting 30% digital signal should be about equivilant to getting a mostly snow station on analog. You can see the picture and make out the sound, but you are not getting color, you can barely see the picture through the snow, and you almost cannot hear the dialog over the hiss and crackle. Even the stations I could barely pick up before on analog that are low power that have started broadcasting digital, I am still getting 60-70% signal on digital, so am able to pick up MORE than I was before.
So, yeah, just increase the signal strength. It may bounce, and echo, and all these other effects you are complaining about, but an increase in transmission power should give most, if not all, people in their previous broadcast area a decent enough signal to not get the dropouts and stutters and such.
Once again, I am no engineer, so I could be totally off on this
America had several advantages, a larger number of people united by one language and culture with open borders for a longer time
You must be refering to Spanish and that fence we are building along the southern boarder.
I think that in the US, the mass population that is, NOT the IT crowd, likes Open Source because they are trying to save money. The perfect example of this is Open Office. Let me tell you, my mom, pastor, sister, and my best friend all could care less if they had access to the source code. I would be shocked if a single one of them could program "Hello World". However, they LOVE the thought of not shelling out a couple of Hundred bucks to Microsoft. Not because they hate Microsoft, but because they want to save money. The sister I mentioned earlier also just graduated graphic arts school, and is a Gimp user, not because she has access to the source code or anything like that, but because it is free.
I pieced together a few computers for a church before, and we went Linux with Open Office, once again, because its free.
None of these were because they thought Linux, Open Office, or Gimp were better, in fact, all of these people would have prefered the pay program. People like free. People will do stupid stuff to get stuff for free. You know how many users I had to remove spyware and viruses from because they tried installing free 3D or Living Screensavers, 1000 free smilies at smily central, or animated coursers? In fact, I have tons of friend's myspace pages that I refuse to goto until they clean up their code and get rid of all those evil ActiveX and JavaScript controls.
You ought too see how many people will drive 30-45 miles across town to save 20 cents a gallon on gas. I point and laugh at those people.
Yet, not a single one of these people mind paying $18 for a pizza, $24.95 a month for dialup, or $120 a month for their cable bill.
Sorry if that came across harsh or something, it was not meant to. Actually, most of the issues I have seen from what you were describing are caused by IE or the OS being wacked out, and reinstalling should fix it. If not, that is very interesting.
It is the IT in me, I sometimes forget that the readers on Slashdot know a bit more about PCs than the users I have to support. I tend to dumb stuff down, sorry if it came across as condenscending (sp?) or something.
Actually, to save you a bit more time, I suggest creating your configuration, and then creating a ghost image or something. That way, you do not have to go through all that installation crap. 20 minutes to reimage versus at least 30 to install the OS, plus the software you have to install? Just a thought, not really sure if it will help or not.
Once again, sorry, I was just trying to be helpful.
Ah, well, you are not going to please everyone with your default theme. Its why we have Blackbox, KDE, Gnome, and tons of other things, and then why every single distro futher customizes X. I am not crazy about the Ubuntu GUI myself - I prefer RedHat or Mandrake (yeah, old school).
What would ROCK is if Windows 7 provided about half a dozen different User Interfaces, and give the user at first startup the choice of which they would like. Nothing so mind-boggingly different that it would make supporting them difficult, just different "Themes" or something.
:-( Evolution works through the OWA interface, and does not connect directly to the Exchange server. This is a lot like Entourage works. I find it surprising that Evolution does not work with Exchange 2007. If Entourage did that, people would be screaming bloody murder. Throw out your Evolution prefrences and set it up from scratch, and try it again. I would be VERY surprised if it did not work.
Okay, I just did a Google search, and suprisingly, it doesn't work, but many people are stating that it should work thorough MAPI or IMAP. Of course, you would not be able to sync your calendar or contacts with the server, and in effect, your smartphone on the BES or Good server, but at least you could work.
Or just install Crossover Office and install Outlook 2007. I would be shocked if your company did not have a license for it, and its actually a pretty nice little e-mail program.
The real thing I've noticed is that Windows Explorer no longer accepts custom columns, which is a major pain for a shop that uses TortoiseSVN. That is an interface issue that I resent. That and the much more subtle (than in XP) difference between active and inactive title bars.
I just realized you said custom Columns, not colors. My bad.
I think you are looking for right clicking in an Explorer Window, Sort By, More, although I am not for sure. I have used subversion in Vista, so not really sure what it is you are refering to.