In fact, a lot of the new digital broadcast is going to be 480p so that broadcasters can broadcast more channels rather then better quality channels.
In fact, I only get two channels (not counting weather radars) that are in SD. That's the local Spanish-language station, and one of the two PBS subchannels. ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, WB, PBS HD, all broadcast HD all the time, even when they're upconverting NTSC 480i shows to HD. For someone who knows "in fact", I don't think you know all that much fact after all.
What about someone who buys a couple of his songs on iTunes, then decides to buy a bunch of CDs?
Even more so, what about the older fans like me who have most of his CDs anyhow (I have 11 of 'em which I ripped into my iTunes, though only six songs are on my iPod nano) and have no reason to buy off of iTunes?
Verizon FIOS is only 15 Mbps, not 15 MBps. The/. summary is incorrect (shocking I know).
That's still better than what SBC&T is going to offer (as near as I can tell) from Project Lightspeed. They're apparently going to cap you at 6Mbits down and 1Mbit or so up, no matter how close you are to the box. (at 500-1000 feet, VDSL2+ gives 50-100 Mbps bi-directional)
Then I can sit in a corner and play with my Wii for a year or two, waiting for the PS3 price to go down and library to build up, then that awesome shelf life means that I'll still be able to get lots of use out of it.
I like the idea of a music player that is open source and will allow you to play any time of music as well as copy it off and use it in another player. vs. iTunes proprietary format.
The only "proprietary" format is the DRM from the Music Store, and maybe ALAC lossless (I don't know if ALAC is open or not). It plays industry standard MP3 and AAC files just fine.
As long as you don't care about buying music online, there is nothing proprietary about an iPod.
I've got SBC DSL, on the 3M-6M down / 384K-604K up plan with five fixed IPs, and I get the full 6M down and somewhere between 512K and 604K up. FWIW, I do have my house wired the "right" way, with a cat5 from the demarc to a splitter (just a cheap 2-jack line splitter), with the modem in one and the rest of the house plugged into the other. Also, because of the fixed IP, I'm running bridged Ethernet instead of that PPPoE crap, which probably helps a little bit.
But that's not what I'm concerned about. They finished installing the Project Lightspeed box just up the street a few months ago, and I'm close enough that if they really do use VDSL2+, I can get 50-100 Mbits bidirectional. But guess what? They're only offering 6M down / 1.5M up for the near future. The rest of it is reserved for their stupid cable-over-IP service, and I really don't want pay TV, no matter which company or technology it's coming from. I'm quite happy with free over-the-air ATSC, especially PBS.
However, I am aware that the DSL I get is technically a business class DSL (it's the same price as the equivalent business class service), so maybe in a few months when they start hooking it up, they might have a business class option that's a bit faster.
The really amazing part is not just that over half of the passengers survived, it's that in simulators, nobody could fly the plane at all when they knew what was going on.
Then it's at least nine years new. The second edition of the bat-book dates to January 1997. (I don't think I've ever seen a copy of the first edition, so I don't know if the m4 config is as old as late 1993.) I've been using the m4 config since early 2000 when I first got fixed IP DSL.
Anyhow, in my experience, Sendmail also won't work right if your DNS is broken. Both the IP and MX records have to be right.
Another reason: there are these strange people there which some call "women". If you're willing to take an hour or three away from swinging rattan around and engage in strange rituals such as "dancing", you might even get to know a few of them.
Now, with this new development, even if we did find a few nickles, since we're no longer an active business, we can't even go after these people because there's no rubber mallet to beat them with anymore....
That's when you take the consolation prize and sell out to the patent trolls for a few million.
If you were trapped on a tropical island with Ginger and Mary Ann, would you be in a real hurry to escape?
And here all this time I was thinking that the reason he couldn't get them off the island was because Gilligan's klutziness was more powerful than the Professor's science. Clearly he was a wiser man than I ever thought he was.
...from Brainstorm. Because he has More Cowbell[tm].
Seriously, though, how about Q from the 007 series?
Some others: Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow - "Where are we going? Planet Ten! When? Real soon!"), Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis - "Don't cross the streams"), Doctor Detroit (Dan Akroyd), and of course, Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder - "Frakensteen!")
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Once the terrorists gain access to the scores from Wimbledon then it's all over for the free world. They could use our own tennis scores against us.
Be on the lookout for blacmanges with AK-47s.
They get to drive around in this way-cool VW Beetle with the words "Geek Squad" on the side. That's soooo l33t.
In fact, a lot of the new digital broadcast is going to be 480p so that broadcasters can broadcast more channels rather then better quality channels.
In fact, I only get two channels (not counting weather radars) that are in SD. That's the local Spanish-language station, and one of the two PBS subchannels. ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, WB, PBS HD, all broadcast HD all the time, even when they're upconverting NTSC 480i shows to HD. For someone who knows "in fact", I don't think you know all that much fact after all.
What about someone who buys a couple of his songs on iTunes, then decides to buy a bunch of CDs?
Even more so, what about the older fans like me who have most of his CDs anyhow (I have 11 of 'em which I ripped into my iTunes, though only six songs are on my iPod nano) and have no reason to buy off of iTunes?
That's still better than what SBC&T is going to offer (as near as I can tell) from Project Lightspeed. They're apparently going to cap you at 6Mbits down and 1Mbit or so up, no matter how close you are to the box. (at 500-1000 feet, VDSL2+ gives 50-100 Mbps bi-directional)
Then I can sit in a corner and play with my Wii for a year or two, waiting for the PS3 price to go down and library to build up, then that awesome shelf life means that I'll still be able to get lots of use out of it.
I'd be careful about switching to IP version 7.
The only "proprietary" format is the DRM from the Music Store, and maybe ALAC lossless (I don't know if ALAC is open or not). It plays industry standard MP3 and AAC files just fine.
As long as you don't care about buying music online, there is nothing proprietary about an iPod.
A few weeks ago. It's bedtime already.
But that's not what I'm concerned about. They finished installing the Project Lightspeed box just up the street a few months ago, and I'm close enough that if they really do use VDSL2+, I can get 50-100 Mbits bidirectional. But guess what? They're only offering 6M down / 1.5M up for the near future. The rest of it is reserved for their stupid cable-over-IP service, and I really don't want pay TV, no matter which company or technology it's coming from. I'm quite happy with free over-the-air ATSC, especially PBS.
However, I am aware that the DSL I get is technically a business class DSL (it's the same price as the equivalent business class service), so maybe in a few months when they start hooking it up, they might have a business class option that's a bit faster.
The really amazing part is not just that over half of the passengers survived, it's that in simulators, nobody could fly the plane at all when they knew what was going on.
Then it's at least nine years new. The second edition of the bat-book dates to January 1997. (I don't think I've ever seen a copy of the first edition, so I don't know if the m4 config is as old as late 1993.) I've been using the m4 config since early 2000 when I first got fixed IP DSL.
Anyhow, in my experience, Sendmail also won't work right if your DNS is broken. Both the IP and MX records have to be right.
Another reason: there are these strange people there which some call "women". If you're willing to take an hour or three away from swinging rattan around and engage in strange rituals such as "dancing", you might even get to know a few of them.
The zeroth rule of Fight Club is, you don't post about Fight Club on Slashdot.
"The system is down! The system is down!"
"Hey The Cheat! I told you, no more light switch raves!"
(You insensitive clods)
I'm waiting for their toilet-mounted model so I can play Katamari Damacy.
(give or take a few neutrons, anyhow)
That's when you take the consolation prize and sell out to the patent trolls for a few million.
How could you pass up the obvious pun, "Cry me an iRiver"? Shame on you.
Hey, you found John Dvorak's stash! Don't bogart it, pass it around and let everybody else take a hit off it!
And here all this time I was thinking that the reason he couldn't get them off the island was because Gilligan's klutziness was more powerful than the Professor's science. Clearly he was a wiser man than I ever thought he was.
Well, Apollo 13 depicts engineers from around 1970 as the rocket scientists they really were.
Here, have some more engineers.
Seriously, though, how about Q from the 007 series?
Some others: Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow - "Where are we going? Planet Ten! When? Real soon!"), Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis - "Don't cross the streams"), Doctor Detroit (Dan Akroyd), and of course, Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder - "Frakensteen!")