You can have all the gold in the world, but I'm not parting with any of my food or water for it, because at that instant gold has no value to me.
Gold would still have some value in that it can be made into jewelry to attract the female of the species. Women don't show off bitcoin wallets to their friends.
the attackers are logging into command-and-controls in from Korea and mainland China, among other locations, to periodically read the stolen SMS messages.
Rumor has it that they are paying James Earl Jones and Malcom McDowell to read those stolen SMS messages out loud.
But their special counting words are all decimal numbers multiplied by powers of two, which are 1, 2, 4, 8 . Specifically, takau equals 10; paua equals 20; tataua, 40; and varu, 80.
There are no issues with latency, quality, or bandwidth when I'm streaming my own movies to my TV - and I'll have them ten, twenty, even thirty years from now.
This is also why I like having a MythTV to record TV from an antenna. It's a standard MPEG2 stream with no encryption, and I can cut out the commercials and keep it forever.
When digital downloads are the only method to acquire media, then you can forget about buying used copies 30, 40, 50 years later.
What do you mean "when"? Many PC games have already been like that for years, especially Steam games. You have to go through online activation (or download a crack) before you can play a shrink-wrap copy of a game from a brick-and-mortar retail store. This requires entering a one-time code, making it impossible to buy used. Even then, the game may use a multi-player server which is taken down a few years after release. The only difference between the different activation methods is that Steam is more likely to be around 30 years from now than any other currently existing online activation, but you'll probably won't need the discs anyhow.
So far, console games will still play from an original disc without phoning home, thanks to physical changes on the discs to prevent copies (not even allowing honest backups). Microsoft wanted to change that with XBone games, but got serious backlash a few months ago when word got out.
FTFY. The problem isn't the digital nature of the media, it's the Digital Restrictions Management on the media that depends on the perpetual existence and benevolence (and whim) of a corporation that doesn't give a fuck about how you feel as long as they already have your money. And sometimes they don't care even before they have your money.
Note that DVD has DRM, but it was so badly implemented (as is the case with most crypto designed by people who don't understand crypto) that it is easy to decrypt, so it effectively has no DRM at all. As long as the physical media is intact, your Flashdance will continue to dance.
With DIVX-style DRM, it has to phone home for a key every time you want to play it. But with streaming (what TFA is talking about), you don't even have that much. You only get to see anything at the whim of the other end. You don't even get a copy of the home game. With DRM, you're a complete loser!
But you can see one of the reasons I don't want cable? I'd be paying fifty or more bucks a month just to waste more time on stuff like that, when I've got better (and cheaper) things to waste my time on.
I only download stuff I can't get on an antenna, like current season anime from Japan, and Dr. Who within hours of the BBC showing. MythTV gets stuff for me automatically, at full bit rate, and a lot of what I get isn't the prime-time stuff that you're going to find on TPB. Plus, you can't watch it live on the internet (while taking a bath, no less!) with other people commenting during the broadcast, if you have to wait to download it first.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's stupid.
The problem for me with getting LED bulbs is... waiting for the CF bulbs to die first! Really, only the living room light has burned out, twice in ten or so years, and that's only because I run it all the time when I'm away. (The back porch light did too, but it was still an incandescent because the fixture was crap and I didn't think it safe to use a CF until I fixed it last month.)
So a few months ago (or maybe it was last year?) when the living room light blew out again, I put in an LED, making sure to get one with a good light pattern and ventilation appropriate for being in a globe below a ceiling fan.The light it produces is just fine, and you can't tell what kind of light it uses without removing the globe. I also made sure to get a "dimmable" bulb, and will eventually rewire the light to be on a different switch from the fan (or just remove the stupid fan) so I can dim it.
If you want to sell it as a "television" (and not a "monitor") in the US, it is required to have an ATSC digital tuner. It may also be required to have an NTSC analog tuner (which many cable TV systems still use), but I haven't heard of TV sets with ATSC-only tuners, just external tuner boxes.
but ota also includes an episode guide.
The problem is that the guide data is almost always only for 12 hours ahead, and never that I've seen yet for more than 24. Apparently there were problems when they tried to make it longer, probably due to bugs in receivers. (I think the spec allows a full week.) There also seem to be some glitches with this data, because I have a DVR where the extended descriptions will randomly vanish, and on MythTV they often get attached to the wrong program. And one of the local PBS subchannels apparently has a guide encoder system that can't propely handle shows that don't start on exact half hour intervals (like:55). And then there's sports going into overtime, which the guide source can't automatically update to delay your recording.
There used to be a TVGOS (TV Guide On Screen) signal that had one week for all local channels, but it was owned by (mac)Rovi(sion) and they abruptly ended it last year, demanding the equipment back. (Some Sony DVRs used TVGOS as the only way to set the clock!) It was also proprietary, though my Channel Master DVR could decode it. It was a sad day when it ended; now I basically have to check the schedules when I get home from work every afternoon to see if there's something I want to watch that I didn't already have scheduled by show name.
We've found that there are so many free options that it doesn't really make sense to pay for TV
Clearly you don't care about live sports, and neither do I. In my opinion, that's the only real reason to have cable. Sure, I like some of the shows on cable (whenever I visit my mom, I usually end up watching a whole day marathon of something like Pawn Stars), but it's not worth $50+ a month plus some crappy cable box with a slow UI.
I'm old enough to remember TV in the '70s, where you had an antenna and rotator and still got a crap signal, and how the original point of cable TV was to get a good picture. With ATSC, I do have to point my roof antenna toward the transmitter farm, but I get a perfect signal most of the time. I've even used ten feet of speaker wire as an antenna in a pinch. Bad weather can cause signal loss, especially high winds blowing the antenna, but usually I can get a whole show recorded without glitches.
I don't mind ads much, having gotten used to ignoring them, but there are some ads that are actively annoying. And there are some that are cool, too. I have more of a problem with ads taking up space in a DVR, but MythTV lets met cut them.
I recently built a MythTV with 4 OTA tuners (2x Hauppage 2250), and sometimes there's just stuff you want to watch on 3 or 4 channels at the same time, especially if your PBS has a good secondary channel like KLRU-Q. In fact, before I added the second tuner card, I had one time where I was recording two channels, and watching a third via my old Channel Master DVR. I'm finally confident enough in it that I think I can shut off the Channel Master now for one less splitter tap from the antenna. The best part, though, was finding that I can run the frontend on my laptop, and watch live TV anywhere in the house.
It's great knowing you can keep what you've recorded, but you have to watch out, that stuff can really pile up if you don't pay attention, even with just OTA. It took me a while to learn how to edit cuts and transcode, so I'm down to about 300G on a 1.5T partition with a lot of full-bitrate stuff that hasn't had commercials cut yet. I'll be adding a 3T drive at the end of the month. (And while it has a commercials detection function, I find it to be less than perfect, especially with false-positives.)
Do you count your time saved in not installing a replacement heatball every few months? I used to have to change at least one bulb a month in the house when using incandescent bulbs. When I replaced them one-by-one with CF, my arms were blissfully happy to not be above my head all the time. Since that time, there are some low-use lights that I have never had to replace, and a couple of high-use ones (like the living room) every few years.
I'd like to see MythTV and xbmc get packages to run on SteamOS. For me, that would even be a killer app to sign up for Steam (I simply don't like signing up for Yet Another Thing when I can help it, and Steam hasn't been necessary yet), since I've already got MythTV running on an Ubuntu install. It's hooked up to a 1080 TV, but I usually watch stuff streamed to a frontend on my laptop because I'm using the TV for games on the other computer (running XP) in the living room. (Yes, I have two PCs in the living room hooked up to different inputs on the same TV.)
In any case if Blue Origin want to supply recreational suborbital of LEO travel for the masses
If they only want to launch sub-orbital flights, 39A would be wasted on them. And by the way, "suborbital" and "LEO" are two completely different things. One is a toy that gets you into space for a few minutes, the other one gets you to stay up as long as you want. The only uses for sub-orbital are for recreational up-and-down flights, and very quick long-distance travel (the next step beyond Concorde).
I recommend you go read http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/ for his many articles on this very subject (39A). Summary: BO has no launch vehicle, zero mission manifest, and certainly no missions for what 39A is needed for, getting astronauts up to the ISS, for the five-year duration of this deal.
And SpaceX might even allow them to use the pad anyhow, if BO actually comes up with a launch vehicle that needs it.
Elon Musk quote:
However, rather than fight this issue, there is an easy way to determine the truth, which is simply to call their bluff. If they do somehow show up in the next 5 years with a vehicle qualified to NASA’s human rating standards that can dock with the Space Station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do, we will gladly accommodate their needs. Frankly, I think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct.
You seem to have missed the link that explains what the "draconian new laws" are, or their effect on home prices. And FWIW, in Oklahoma, "Theft of Copper" is a felony. I know this because a case was on the TV news a few years ago when I went up for a few days to visit relatives.
It's the 4chan live-viewing threads that keep me watching some OTA shows live (and I have a 4-tuner MythTV now, so I don't have to watch live). Nothing like watching a show with a couple dozen other people making snarky commentary during the show. The best is when someone predicts some stupid thing happening later in the episode, and then it happens.
I live in a part of town where the utility wires are buried underground, and there's no alley road behind houses. So there aren't any poles for Google to use. Somehow I don't expect it to be one of the first fiberhoods.
A few years ago, Time Warner used a hammer mole thingy to make a hole underground down the backyards, pushing 2-inch conduit pipe behind it, only digging a small hole every other backyard or so to ensure it was going in the right direction. The most amusing part of this was that they used the bottom half of a coke can to cover the leading end of the pipe to keep dirt out. I'm going to guess that TW won't exactly be going out of their way to offer to let Google share their pipe.
Because they were HIGH quality graphics for the day. Consumer computer graphics pixel resolution (at least in the 2D era) was mostly limited by the cost of RAM. I boggle at modern graphic cards having a gigabyte or more of video RAM, especially when they're in a computer with 4GB RAM.
I remember when cable TV started in the US, it was merely a way not to have to fuck around with an antenna and rotator and still get a crappy signal. The "cable-only" channels came later in the early '80s, but only the "movie" channels (HBO, Showtime, etc.) didn't have ads. Must be a difference in how cable TV started in the UK, I suppose.
I've been happily back to antenna for over a decade, especially since it went digital. (It works as long as you don't care to watch live sports, which are mostly on cable/sat-only channels now.)
What happened to the good old days when advertising meant something was merely "sponsored by" a company, rather than a company trying to get up to your face, wave their arms around, and shout loudly in your ear?
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You can have all the gold in the world, but I'm not parting with any of my food or water for it, because at that instant gold has no value to me.
Gold would still have some value in that it can be made into jewelry to attract the female of the species. Women don't show off bitcoin wallets to their friends.
the attackers are logging into command-and-controls in from Korea and mainland China, among other locations, to periodically read the stolen SMS messages.
Rumor has it that they are paying James Earl Jones and Malcom McDowell to read those stolen SMS messages out loud.
But their special counting words are all decimal numbers multiplied by powers of two, which are 1, 2, 4, 8 . Specifically, takau equals 10; paua equals 20; tataua, 40; and varu, 80.
That's not binary, it's BCD.
There are no issues with latency, quality, or bandwidth when I'm streaming my own movies to my TV - and I'll have them ten, twenty, even thirty years from now.
This is also why I like having a MythTV to record TV from an antenna. It's a standard MPEG2 stream with no encryption, and I can cut out the commercials and keep it forever.
When digital downloads are the only method to acquire media, then you can forget about buying used copies 30, 40, 50 years later.
What do you mean "when"? Many PC games have already been like that for years, especially Steam games. You have to go through online activation (or download a crack) before you can play a shrink-wrap copy of a game from a brick-and-mortar retail store. This requires entering a one-time code, making it impossible to buy used. Even then, the game may use a multi-player server which is taken down a few years after release. The only difference between the different activation methods is that Steam is more likely to be around 30 years from now than any other currently existing online activation, but you'll probably won't need the discs anyhow.
So far, console games will still play from an original disc without phoning home, thanks to physical changes on the discs to prevent copies (not even allowing honest backups). Microsoft wanted to change that with XBone games, but got serious backlash a few months ago when word got out.
gotta love DRM content
FTFY. The problem isn't the digital nature of the media, it's the Digital Restrictions Management on the media that depends on the perpetual existence and benevolence (and whim) of a corporation that doesn't give a fuck about how you feel as long as they already have your money. And sometimes they don't care even before they have your money.
Note that DVD has DRM, but it was so badly implemented (as is the case with most crypto designed by people who don't understand crypto) that it is easy to decrypt, so it effectively has no DRM at all. As long as the physical media is intact, your Flashdance will continue to dance.
With DIVX-style DRM, it has to phone home for a key every time you want to play it. But with streaming (what TFA is talking about), you don't even have that much. You only get to see anything at the whim of the other end. You don't even get a copy of the home game. With DRM, you're a complete loser!
But you can see one of the reasons I don't want cable? I'd be paying fifty or more bucks a month just to waste more time on stuff like that, when I've got better (and cheaper) things to waste my time on.
I only download stuff I can't get on an antenna, like current season anime from Japan, and Dr. Who within hours of the BBC showing. MythTV gets stuff for me automatically, at full bit rate, and a lot of what I get isn't the prime-time stuff that you're going to find on TPB. Plus, you can't watch it live on the internet (while taking a bath, no less!) with other people commenting during the broadcast, if you have to wait to download it first.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's stupid.
The problem for me with getting LED bulbs is... waiting for the CF bulbs to die first! Really, only the living room light has burned out, twice in ten or so years, and that's only because I run it all the time when I'm away. (The back porch light did too, but it was still an incandescent because the fixture was crap and I didn't think it safe to use a CF until I fixed it last month.)
So a few months ago (or maybe it was last year?) when the living room light blew out again, I put in an LED, making sure to get one with a good light pattern and ventilation appropriate for being in a globe below a ceiling fan.The light it produces is just fine, and you can't tell what kind of light it uses without removing the globe. I also made sure to get a "dimmable" bulb, and will eventually rewire the light to be on a different switch from the fan (or just remove the stupid fan) so I can dim it.
Unfortunately, most new tvs no longer include it
If you want to sell it as a "television" (and not a "monitor") in the US, it is required to have an ATSC digital tuner. It may also be required to have an NTSC analog tuner (which many cable TV systems still use), but I haven't heard of TV sets with ATSC-only tuners, just external tuner boxes.
but ota also includes an episode guide.
The problem is that the guide data is almost always only for 12 hours ahead, and never that I've seen yet for more than 24. Apparently there were problems when they tried to make it longer, probably due to bugs in receivers. (I think the spec allows a full week.) There also seem to be some glitches with this data, because I have a DVR where the extended descriptions will randomly vanish, and on MythTV they often get attached to the wrong program. And one of the local PBS subchannels apparently has a guide encoder system that can't propely handle shows that don't start on exact half hour intervals (like :55). And then there's sports going into overtime, which the guide source can't automatically update to delay your recording.
There used to be a TVGOS (TV Guide On Screen) signal that had one week for all local channels, but it was owned by (mac)Rovi(sion) and they abruptly ended it last year, demanding the equipment back. (Some Sony DVRs used TVGOS as the only way to set the clock!) It was also proprietary, though my Channel Master DVR could decode it. It was a sad day when it ended; now I basically have to check the schedules when I get home from work every afternoon to see if there's something I want to watch that I didn't already have scheduled by show name.
We've found that there are so many free options that it doesn't really make sense to pay for TV
Clearly you don't care about live sports, and neither do I. In my opinion, that's the only real reason to have cable. Sure, I like some of the shows on cable (whenever I visit my mom, I usually end up watching a whole day marathon of something like Pawn Stars), but it's not worth $50+ a month plus some crappy cable box with a slow UI.
I'm old enough to remember TV in the '70s, where you had an antenna and rotator and still got a crap signal, and how the original point of cable TV was to get a good picture. With ATSC, I do have to point my roof antenna toward the transmitter farm, but I get a perfect signal most of the time. I've even used ten feet of speaker wire as an antenna in a pinch. Bad weather can cause signal loss, especially high winds blowing the antenna, but usually I can get a whole show recorded without glitches.
I don't mind ads much, having gotten used to ignoring them, but there are some ads that are actively annoying. And there are some that are cool, too. I have more of a problem with ads taking up space in a DVR, but MythTV lets met cut them.
I recently built a MythTV with 4 OTA tuners (2x Hauppage 2250), and sometimes there's just stuff you want to watch on 3 or 4 channels at the same time, especially if your PBS has a good secondary channel like KLRU-Q. In fact, before I added the second tuner card, I had one time where I was recording two channels, and watching a third via my old Channel Master DVR. I'm finally confident enough in it that I think I can shut off the Channel Master now for one less splitter tap from the antenna. The best part, though, was finding that I can run the frontend on my laptop, and watch live TV anywhere in the house.
It's great knowing you can keep what you've recorded, but you have to watch out, that stuff can really pile up if you don't pay attention, even with just OTA. It took me a while to learn how to edit cuts and transcode, so I'm down to about 300G on a 1.5T partition with a lot of full-bitrate stuff that hasn't had commercials cut yet. I'll be adding a 3T drive at the end of the month. (And while it has a commercials detection function, I find it to be less than perfect, especially with false-positives.)
Do you count your time saved in not installing a replacement heatball every few months? I used to have to change at least one bulb a month in the house when using incandescent bulbs. When I replaced them one-by-one with CF, my arms were blissfully happy to not be above my head all the time. Since that time, there are some low-use lights that I have never had to replace, and a couple of high-use ones (like the living room) every few years.
I'd like to see MythTV and xbmc get packages to run on SteamOS. For me, that would even be a killer app to sign up for Steam (I simply don't like signing up for Yet Another Thing when I can help it, and Steam hasn't been necessary yet), since I've already got MythTV running on an Ubuntu install. It's hooked up to a 1080 TV, but I usually watch stuff streamed to a frontend on my laptop because I'm using the TV for games on the other computer (running XP) in the living room. (Yes, I have two PCs in the living room hooked up to different inputs on the same TV.)
In any case if Blue Origin want to supply recreational suborbital of LEO travel for the masses
If they only want to launch sub-orbital flights, 39A would be wasted on them. And by the way, "suborbital" and "LEO" are two completely different things. One is a toy that gets you into space for a few minutes, the other one gets you to stay up as long as you want. The only uses for sub-orbital are for recreational up-and-down flights, and very quick long-distance travel (the next step beyond Concorde).
I recommend you go read http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/ for his many articles on this very subject (39A). Summary: BO has no launch vehicle, zero mission manifest, and certainly no missions for what 39A is needed for, getting astronauts up to the ISS, for the five-year duration of this deal.
And SpaceX might even allow them to use the pad anyhow, if BO actually comes up with a launch vehicle that needs it.
Elon Musk quote:
However, rather than fight this issue, there is an easy way to determine the truth, which is simply to call their bluff. If they do somehow show up in the next 5 years with a vehicle qualified to NASA’s human rating standards that can dock with the Space Station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do, we will gladly accommodate their needs. Frankly, I think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct.
http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/37389musk-calls-out-blue-origin-ula-for-%E2%80%98phony-blocking-tactic%E2%80%99-on-shuttle-pad
>directly linking to a 4chan thread
>being this new to 4chan
Submitter needs to get back to reddit.
You seem to have missed the link that explains what the "draconian new laws" are, or their effect on home prices. And FWIW, in Oklahoma, "Theft of Copper" is a felony. I know this because a case was on the TV news a few years ago when I went up for a few days to visit relatives.
It's the 4chan live-viewing threads that keep me watching some OTA shows live (and I have a 4-tuner MythTV now, so I don't have to watch live). Nothing like watching a show with a couple dozen other people making snarky commentary during the show. The best is when someone predicts some stupid thing happening later in the episode, and then it happens.
I live in a part of town where the utility wires are buried underground, and there's no alley road behind houses. So there aren't any poles for Google to use. Somehow I don't expect it to be one of the first fiberhoods.
A few years ago, Time Warner used a hammer mole thingy to make a hole underground down the backyards, pushing 2-inch conduit pipe behind it, only digging a small hole every other backyard or so to ensure it was going in the right direction. The most amusing part of this was that they used the bottom half of a coke can to cover the leading end of the pipe to keep dirt out. I'm going to guess that TW won't exactly be going out of their way to offer to let Google share their pipe.
Because they were HIGH quality graphics for the day. Consumer computer graphics pixel resolution (at least in the 2D era) was mostly limited by the cost of RAM. I boggle at modern graphic cards having a gigabyte or more of video RAM, especially when they're in a computer with 4GB RAM.
12 cent ramen? Ewwww, that's the crap stuff. I'll keep splurging on the 16.7 cent Maruchan ramen, thank you very much.
I remember when cable TV started in the US, it was merely a way not to have to fuck around with an antenna and rotator and still get a crappy signal. The "cable-only" channels came later in the early '80s, but only the "movie" channels (HBO, Showtime, etc.) didn't have ads. Must be a difference in how cable TV started in the UK, I suppose.
I've been happily back to antenna for over a decade, especially since it went digital. (It works as long as you don't care to watch live sports, which are mostly on cable/sat-only channels now.)
What happened to the good old days when advertising meant something was merely "sponsored by" a company, rather than a company trying to get up to your face, wave their arms around, and shout loudly in your ear?