But according to this: http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/te xt/Pd/biol.html "all palladium compounds should be considered highly toxic and carcinogenic".
Pardon my ignorance (it's been a very long time since my last physics class) but aren't lasers *SUPPOSED* to be monochromatic? I thought one thing that characterizes a laser is that all the photons are in the same phase. It must be a limitation of my imagination but how can this happen if you have multiple wavelengths?
Can someone who know more tell me what's going on here?
You know a really virulent virus is coming when Microsoft insiders sudden sell as much MS stock as they can. Just like the Enron higher ups they'll cut and run.
This brings up a question: If a real devastating security flaw is reported to them; they keep mum about it and then a massive security breach occurs that wipes out most MS OS machines out there (you know it's bound to happen:) does that mean that the SEC can move on them due to insider information?
I believe AT&T Mediaone is starting a pilot in the Bay area.
If you have satellite TV (DirecTV and Dish Network) it's even better - you can already get it integrated to your receiver and it saves the original MPEG-2 stream so you get the full quality playback without losing recording capacity.
... and why it took me two months to buy my second.
After first reading about Tivo I resolved to try to do the same thing with my current computer and capture card. So I spent the next two years researching and playing around with my computer.
First I started with capturing straight to MPEG-1 with WinVCR. Worked well enough but it became problematic (audio sync) when capturing very long video segments. I also noticed that I couldn't get the video quality to as good as where I wanted. Also, scheduling multiple shows tended to hang the machine up in the middle of recording. Could've kept working on my setup but I finally gave up on it.
I then tried using PowerVCR and it was fine for a while but the quality still left a little more to be desired.
In search of better capture quality I finally took the hard way out and started using AVI_IO and capture the scheduled video to MJPEG AVI files. This allows me to convert the files to either DivX or MPEG or even Real Media and the quality of the final product is as good as I want it to be.
After two years of refining my video capture approach I ended up needing to schedule more than the 10 events that I can set my satellite receiver to schedule. I considered getting an IR transceiver for my computer so that I can program it to change the channels of my satellite receiver but it dawned upon me that this is starting to get too complicated (I hit my complexity threshold here). I finally bit the bullet and got my first DirecTivo just so that I can schedule all the events I wanted.
The Tivo ended up working even better that I've ever imagined. I still capture to AVI on my computer for the shows that I want to have a long-term archive (Babylon 5 rules!) but use my Tivo to schedule this and record other shows. My Dad and brother saw it in action and were green with envy. To prevent family discord I got another one for the family room's TV. Of course, it also helped that you can start getting 35 hour DirecTivo systems for as low as $90.
My other brother ended up getting one for Christmas and I managed to talk a friend into making sure that he had PVR capability with his satellite subscription.
In short, I had to try to do it by myself for two years because of the challenge of getting it to work. After I got the first one everything just works so well that I had to buy another.
"AMAZING COMPRESSION" - I can see it now, this is the title of the next flurry of spam to come out of the dregs of the Internet. I guess this is the opposite of all the "Enlarge your penis" spams:)
Can't say it!??! Can't link to it?!?!?! It must be *HOLY* !!!!
This is what DeCSS is all about! It's actually one of the possible expressions of the name of "The One".
Quick! It is a religious prerogative to find out all the possible ways in which it can be expressed! Let the Beowolf clusters begin their processing... we need to enumerate the 2^128 names of Bleep
Switching to DSL or a different provider is not as easy as it sounds. In a lot of areas you only have one choice for cable Internet access. Switching to DSL with the lead times involved is also a pathetic joke. Also bear in mind that DSL service has its own set of headaches.
Most AT&T customers are better off waiting to see if AT&T can complete their cutover from Excite within the ten days promised. In the interim, some will have to make do with dialup access.
What I personally find disappointing is that the judge allowed the service cutoffs to occur because he thought there were no "life-threatening" consequences involved. Obviously, he doesn't have a broadband network connection.
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Her husband was Dr. DOS (whereabouts unknown) - there is speculation that the murderer entered and left through the broken Windows.
Ms Dos' twin P.C. Dos was unavailable for comment.
I don't think you necessarily have to have an encoding farm (although a capture farm is required) - the machine doing the capture can compress the stream real time in DivX or MPEG. I record my daily dose of SciFi.com using AVI_IO and DivX. At 352x240 and 30fps the utilization on my machine (600MHz Celeron @900MHz overclock)hardly ever exceeds 50% (at least while I was looking:).
There are also real time MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 software-only products out there that may also do the job. Just make sure that whichever package you choose can gracefully handle the file system limitations of you OS.
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I second the motion!
Now if only there was a Linux version...
find-food-demon?
Is that anything like a cookie monster?
well if the romans can't help but shout everytime they write then good riddance to their empire!
:-)
aneeway its oll da stoopid barberians hu kant spel and dont give a thot to ritin and ritmitik dat beet dem in de end
P.S.
Hmmmm...
It seems to me that the people who would actually buy such a crippled PC must be having stupid enemas regularly.
But according to this: http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/te xt/Pd/biol.html "all palladium compounds should be considered highly toxic and carcinogenic".
And Microsoft considers GPL a cancer.
Heh!
I'm voting with my checkbook. If HDTV won't let me do what I can do with my Tivo today I'm not buying it.
Everyone join up and let's see how this affects the MPAA's revenue.
I for one would like to see that lawsuit happen :-)
I felt so much smarter calling it 1394 too... oh well.
...Purgery...??
As far as I'm concerned MS execs can take as many laxatives as they want.
Not exactly. In Salon's case it's more like: Stop, Ignore the ad, Download.
It's the tentacles!!! It's all about the tentacles!!!
;-)
I wish I had tentacles.
Pardon my ignorance (it's been a very long time since my last physics class) but aren't lasers *SUPPOSED* to be monochromatic? I thought one thing that characterizes a laser is that all the photons are in the same phase. It must be a limitation of my imagination but how can this happen if you have multiple wavelengths?
Can someone who know more tell me what's going on here?
You know a really virulent virus is coming when Microsoft insiders sudden sell as much MS stock as they can. Just like the Enron higher ups they'll cut and run.
:) does that mean that the SEC can move on them due to insider information?
This brings up a question: If a real devastating security flaw is reported to them; they keep mum about it and then a massive security breach occurs that wipes out most MS OS machines out there (you know it's bound to happen
I guess that's why it's a *barred* galaxy. :)
I believe AT&T Mediaone is starting a pilot in the Bay area.
If you have satellite TV (DirecTV and Dish Network) it's even better - you can already get it integrated to your receiver and it saves the original MPEG-2 stream so you get the full quality playback without losing recording capacity.
... and why it took me two months to buy my second.
After first reading about Tivo I resolved to try to do the same thing with my current computer and capture card. So I spent the next two years researching and playing around with my computer.
First I started with capturing straight to MPEG-1 with WinVCR. Worked well enough but it became problematic (audio sync) when capturing very long video segments. I also noticed that I couldn't get the video quality to as good as where I wanted. Also, scheduling multiple shows tended to hang the machine up in the middle of recording. Could've kept working on my setup but I finally gave up on it.
I then tried using PowerVCR and it was fine for a while but the quality still left a little more to be desired.
In search of better capture quality I finally took the hard way out and started using AVI_IO and capture the scheduled video to MJPEG AVI files. This allows me to convert the files to either DivX or MPEG or even Real Media and the quality of the final product is as good as I want it to be.
After two years of refining my video capture approach I ended up needing to schedule more than the 10 events that I can set my satellite receiver to schedule. I considered getting an IR transceiver for my computer so that I can program it to change the channels of my satellite receiver but it dawned upon me that this is starting to get too complicated (I hit my complexity threshold here). I finally bit the bullet and got my first DirecTivo just so that I can schedule all the events I wanted.
The Tivo ended up working even better that I've ever imagined. I still capture to AVI on my computer for the shows that I want to have a long-term archive (Babylon 5 rules!) but use my Tivo to schedule this and record other shows. My Dad and brother saw it in action and were green with envy. To prevent family discord I got another one for the family room's TV. Of course, it also helped that you can start getting 35 hour DirecTivo systems for as low as $90.
My other brother ended up getting one for Christmas and I managed to talk a friend into making sure that he had PVR capability with his satellite subscription.
In short, I had to try to do it by myself for two years because of the challenge of getting it to work. After I got the first one everything just works so well that I had to buy another.
"AMAZING COMPRESSION" - I can see it now, this is the title of the next flurry of spam to come out of the dregs of the Internet. I guess this is the opposite of all the "Enlarge your penis" spams :)
And they claim it to be lossless... But if the data is truly random would it matter if you lose some when uncompressing?
This is great! Now all we need is the mandatory removal of thumbs at birth and we can all get everyone started counting the right way!
:)
If we remove the big toes too then hexadecimal counting might win the day
I don't know about "more secure" but this is certainly dramatic :)
Jehovah!
Can't say it!??! Can't link to it?!?!?! It must be *HOLY* !!!!
This is what DeCSS is all about! It's actually one of the possible expressions of the name of "The One".
Quick! It is a religious prerogative to find out all the possible ways in which it can be expressed! Let the Beowolf clusters begin their processing... we need to enumerate the 2^128 names of Bleep
Calags
- "Are there any women here today?"
Switching to DSL or a different provider is not as easy as it sounds. In a lot of areas you only have one choice for cable Internet access. Switching to DSL with the lead times involved is also a pathetic joke. Also bear in mind that DSL service has its own set of headaches.
Most AT&T customers are better off waiting to see if AT&T can complete their cutover from Excite within the ten days promised. In the interim, some will have to make do with dialup access.
What I personally find disappointing is that the judge allowed the service cutoffs to occur because he thought there were no "life-threatening" consequences involved. Obviously, he doesn't have a broadband network connection.
Her husband was Dr. DOS (whereabouts unknown) - there is speculation that the murderer entered and left through the broken Windows.
Ms Dos' twin P.C. Dos was unavailable for comment.
This has got to be the scariest story I've heard this Halloween.
Evidently Microsoft manage to "Trick" us all by providing "Treats" to the right politicians.
I don't think you necessarily have to have an encoding farm (although a capture farm is required) - the machine doing the capture can compress the stream real time in DivX or MPEG. I record my daily dose of SciFi.com using AVI_IO and DivX. At 352x240 and 30fps the utilization on my machine (600MHz Celeron @900MHz overclock)hardly ever exceeds 50% (at least while I was looking :).
There are also real time MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 software-only products out there that may also do the job. Just make sure that whichever package you choose can gracefully handle the file system limitations of you OS.