they compress the hell out of them to fit in more. thus achieving a worse than analog picture.
That is an entirely different situation. First of all, that involves converting from analog, to digital, then back to analog, whereas HDTV is digital all the way.
In addition, cable TV and OTA broadcast TV is very different. With cable, you don't get the signal loss, serious ghosting, interference, etc, that you get from OTA TV.
I would lay money down that once it becomes a requirement, a nearly identical model with an ATSC tuner would be available at the same price by the end of the year.
You can bet on it all you want, but until it happens, it's entirely disingenuous to list (current) prices based on that speculation.
Programming is none of their business. You should know that by now. Especially after the "Janet" thing. Technical standards are the only thing theFCC should be messing with.
Right, because I want hard core porn during childrens shows, so the stations gets better ratings.
As far as I can tell the ones who really get screwed are the cable/satellite viewers, who never really use the tuner in their TV set.
Satellite viewers don't get screwed, because satellite providers are charging extra for local channels... When OTA is digital anyhow, I expect to see a lot of satellite users stop paying for local channels.
Cable users get screwed over only if the cable companies continue to force their cable boxes on everyone. If they would provide normal HDTV signals over the lines, everyone would be happy. Personally, the only reason I stick with cable is so that I don't have to pay $5 more for each reciever. The instant they absolutely require a cable box, I'll be switching to satellite.
It's HD-"READY", which means you have to buy an HDTV tuner seperately. Unless they are free (hah!), that TV is going to end up costing you a lot more before you can watch anything on it.
In a few months, a TV like that will be required to receive free over-the-air transmissions,
Not a TV like that, because it has no tuner. It will be just as useless as your current analog TV when the switchover happens.
5) There's a 26" Widescreen Samsung CRT on that same site for $450, so it's $120 more.
Again, that TV doesn't have a tuner. The nearly identical TV with HDTV tuner is $649.99. That seems to be the cheapest HDTV you can get from Best Buy.
What I'm also looking for are criticisms of DTV-- other then the obvious arguments about DTV being expensive.
There's not too much to criticize. Everyone knows it's an inevitable step in the right direction.
You can complain about artifacts of digital video, but it's still better than the artifacts of analog broadcast. You can complain about the reduced broadcast range. You can complain that they didn't go further, making 1080 progressive. You can complain that they didn't choose a better codec, such as MPEG-4, VP3, VP6, wavelet-based codec, etc. You could say they dedicated too much of the bandwidth to audio (or you could say too little if you're an insane audiophile).
Because the FCC, who represents the public interest, has decided that the switch to digital TV will be a better use for the public airwaves.
When the FCC forces a company to do something like this, people cheer. When the FCC does something that affects the public, you get nothing but complaints.
I certainly believe the FCC has handled this whole thing quite poorly, but saying that cheap TV sets are a right is completely ridiculous. When everything switched over from black and white to color, nobody expected color TVs to be as cheap as black and white TV. The only difference now is, after many many decades, we now have an incompatible change to the standard, so everyone has to switch at the same time.
I think this movie has a chance if they bring back some writers from earlier in the show's history.
The writers from very early on weren't very funny... The show was good up until the past two seasons (and even then, Haloween Special 13 was very good), so any writers from 2 years ago would be fine. Conan did the show way back when there were only a handful of characters, there was no history, etc. Plus, he simply doesn't work for Fox anymore. There's a better chance he'd write for SNL than The Simpsons.
"There weren't any gas stations around before there were mass produced cars.
Not true at all. Back when cars were individually produced, and the exclusive domain of the rich, there were gas stations...
It's also a terrible analogy.
The PowerPC machines that were around before were: 1. Random little boards like the AmigaOne 2. Hideously expensive workstations from IBM and a few others. 3. Macs too old to run OSX
Though his SMTP setup is very intelligently done, and works well, it's all just a temporary workaround.
99.999% of his spam filtering depends on a handful of bugs in spammers' mini-SMTP implimentations. It works for now, but as soon as any significant number of people do this, spammers will fix their servers to properly handle these parts of the RFCs, and all these techniques will fall flat.
Getting around Spam-Asassin is infinitely more complicated/difficult than fixing an SMTP implimentation, yet spammers managed that very quickly.
2. A reasonably priced printer that prints on both sides of the paper.
Why would you want that? If you're printing more than a handful of pages, it's much faster to print out the odd pages, turn them over, load them into the paper tray, then print the even pages on the back.
It's significantly faster, mainly because you don't have to wait for each page to dry before it can print on the back. While one page is drying, the next is being printed, and all but the very last page is dry immediately after the even-numbered pages are printed.
2. Given that Darwin, the underpinnings of OSX, runs quite well on stock PC hardware, it seems unlikely to me that someone won't figure out how to get OSX/x86 running on standard PCs.
Well non-Apple PPC hardware has been around for a long time, and I haven't heard of anyone getting Mac OS working (natively) on any of it.
There will be more interest when it's x86, but I don't see any fundamental change here.
I'd really like to see everyone adopt SPF so I can start refusing domains that don't have SPF records published for them.
There have been several stories published on slashdot about why SPF is useless. Spammers just buy dozens of disposible domains, publish SPF records, and send out spam from their listed server.
The only way you can get any use out of SPF is if you whitelist only popular domains, and throw away e-mails from everywhere else.
and I get maybe 5-10 a day TOTAL. Are my providers just much better at filtering? Am I just more careful about who gets my email address?
No doubt it's mostly the latter.
If you've ever posted a message on any mailing list, your e-mail address is on the web forever... If you've ever written any public documents, such as Linux HOWTOs, no doubt your e-mail address is spread far and wide in the copyright notice. If you've ever given your e-mail address out anywhere, it's sure to get huge ammounts of spam eventually. Even if that's not the case, just having common words/names in your e-mail address can make you an easy target. No doubt the likes of "fred@mail.com" and "bill@hotmail.com" get a huge ammount of spam.
My teenage son and his friends all listen to 1970s and 1980s rock music. When I was his age, I would not have been caught dead listening to my dad's ragtime...
That sounds like a change in social norms, nothing to do with music......or it might be that your son and his friends are just unusual...
That wouldn't surprise me at all, as almost all of my old friends from school listened to the same music I did.
They were the first to release 64-bit desktop processors... *cough*
They would never use specially crafted benchmarks to claim that G5 processors are Nearly Two Times Faster Than Pentium 4, then turn around and start using Intel CPUs. *cough*
Get real. If AMD is so power efficient, why are they only in 5% of laptops?
That's incredibly easy to answer.
Intel has been the mobile-power-effeciency leader for a long time, and it's only over the past year or so that AMD has really surpassed them. You will start seeing AMD chips in Laptops more, but the switch takes time.
Besides that, look at the desktop CPUs... AMD's CPUs have been better than Intel's for several years now, but AMD still has the minority share. The fact that AMD is better doesn't directly equal market-share. There is a lot of politics, contracts, etc. involved in the issue.
Far fewer seem to feel that the concept of digital rights is important enough to sacrifice one's livelihood. I view the political system we have today is an arena of Darwinism for ideologies--survival of the fittest, the ones that can inspire people to make actual sacrifices.
The analogy is a poor one. With something like environmentalism, the actions of one person can directly accomplish something. With digital rights, it's a case of one less drop of water in the ocean.
You must chose your battles. Those that chose to waste their lives fighting tooth and nail for something that makes absolutely no difference to the world, would be completely stupid.
Not every motherboard has a northbridge fan. Thank goodness.
Unfortunately, Northbridges are getting much hotter. If you're getting a motherboard that accepts DDR400, the Northbridge is almost certain to be drawing ~30watts even when using slower RAM.
I have a couple motherboards like this (Asus/MSI), which I chose because they did not have a Northbridge fan, only to find that the northbridge heatsink is terribly hot, and should not be run without a fan cooling it.
I would understand if this was PCChips, but I'm talking Asus/MSI. Which good brands don't do crap like this? I certainly don't know of any.
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That is an entirely different situation. First of all, that involves converting from analog, to digital, then back to analog, whereas HDTV is digital all the way.
In addition, cable TV and OTA broadcast TV is very different. With cable, you don't get the signal loss, serious ghosting, interference, etc, that you get from OTA TV.
You can bet on it all you want, but until it happens, it's entirely disingenuous to list (current) prices based on that speculation.
Right, because I want hard core porn during childrens shows, so the stations gets better ratings.
Satellite viewers don't get screwed, because satellite providers are charging extra for local channels... When OTA is digital anyhow, I expect to see a lot of satellite users stop paying for local channels.
Cable users get screwed over only if the cable companies continue to force their cable boxes on everyone. If they would provide normal HDTV signals over the lines, everyone would be happy. Personally, the only reason I stick with cable is so that I don't have to pay $5 more for each reciever. The instant they absolutely require a cable box, I'll be switching to satellite.
It's HD-"READY", which means you have to buy an HDTV tuner seperately. Unless they are free (hah!), that TV is going to end up costing you a lot more before you can watch anything on it.
Not a TV like that, because it has no tuner. It will be just as useless as your current analog TV when the switchover happens.
Again, that TV doesn't have a tuner. The nearly identical TV with HDTV tuner is $649.99. That seems to be the cheapest HDTV you can get from Best Buy.
There's not too much to criticize. Everyone knows it's an inevitable step in the right direction.
You can complain about artifacts of digital video, but it's still better than the artifacts of analog broadcast. You can complain about the reduced broadcast range. You can complain that they didn't go further, making 1080 progressive. You can complain that they didn't choose a better codec, such as MPEG-4, VP3, VP6, wavelet-based codec, etc. You could say they dedicated too much of the bandwidth to audio (or you could say too little if you're an insane audiophile).
What else is there to criticize?
That price is off by AT LEAST an order of magnitude.
Because the FCC, who represents the public interest, has decided that the switch to digital TV will be a better use for the public airwaves.
When the FCC forces a company to do something like this, people cheer. When the FCC does something that affects the public, you get nothing but complaints.
I certainly believe the FCC has handled this whole thing quite poorly, but saying that cheap TV sets are a right is completely ridiculous. When everything switched over from black and white to color, nobody expected color TVs to be as cheap as black and white TV. The only difference now is, after many many decades, we now have an incompatible change to the standard, so everyone has to switch at the same time.
And the way to change this, is to not give them any more business...
AMD couldn't possibly expand, with 2 years advanced notice, and the promise of lots of steady income...
Sorry, no, I don't buy the supply BS. I'm still waiting to hear a good reason why Apple chose Intel.
That's okay, you don't have to say it. I'm sure EVERYONE ELSE will be happy to say it for you...
The writers from very early on weren't very funny... The show was good up until the past two seasons (and even then, Haloween Special 13 was very good), so any writers from 2 years ago would be fine. Conan did the show way back when there were only a handful of characters, there was no history, etc. Plus, he simply doesn't work for Fox anymore. There's a better chance he'd write for SNL than The Simpsons.
Not true at all. Back when cars were individually produced, and the exclusive domain of the rich, there were gas stations...
It's also a terrible analogy.
I must just be imagining this, then: http://www.pegasosppc.com/products.php
There is absolutely no change there, AT ALL. PPC systems are commodity hardware, the underlying OS was already running on it.
The problem is that Apple puts their signature in the ROM, and MacOS won't run unless it sees that... No doubt that will also be the case on x86.
CnQ (Cool n Quiet) is an AMD technology for Opteron processors.
Your motherboard should be automatically underclocking the processor while it is idle.
Why is that (CnQ) not sufficent for your purposes?
Though his SMTP setup is very intelligently done, and works well, it's all just a temporary workaround.
99.999% of his spam filtering depends on a handful of bugs in spammers' mini-SMTP implimentations. It works for now, but as soon as any significant number of people do this, spammers will fix their servers to properly handle these parts of the RFCs, and all these techniques will fall flat.
Getting around Spam-Asassin is infinitely more complicated/difficult than fixing an SMTP implimentation, yet spammers managed that very quickly.
Why would you want that? If you're printing more than a handful of pages, it's much faster to print out the odd pages, turn them over, load them into the paper tray, then print the even pages on the back.
It's significantly faster, mainly because you don't have to wait for each page to dry before it can print on the back. While one page is drying, the next is being printed, and all but the very last page is dry immediately after the even-numbered pages are printed.
USB 2.0 would have no problem at all transfering 150 uncompressed 600x600 images in a minute. It could handle MUCH more than that.
Well non-Apple PPC hardware has been around for a long time, and I haven't heard of anyone getting Mac OS working (natively) on any of it.
There will be more interest when it's x86, but I don't see any fundamental change here.
There have been several stories published on slashdot about why SPF is useless. Spammers just buy dozens of disposible domains, publish SPF records, and send out spam from their listed server.
The only way you can get any use out of SPF is if you whitelist only popular domains, and throw away e-mails from everywhere else.
No doubt it's mostly the latter.
If you've ever posted a message on any mailing list, your e-mail address is on the web forever... If you've ever written any public documents, such as Linux HOWTOs, no doubt your e-mail address is spread far and wide in the copyright notice. If you've ever given your e-mail address out anywhere, it's sure to get huge ammounts of spam eventually. Even if that's not the case, just having common words/names in your e-mail address can make you an easy target. No doubt the likes of "fred@mail.com" and "bill@hotmail.com" get a huge ammount of spam.
That sounds like a change in social norms, nothing to do with music...
That wouldn't surprise me at all, as almost all of my old friends from school listened to the same music I did.
Not according to Apple. Apple has been saying for quite a long time how much faster PowerPC processors are than Pentium processors.
I think "liars" and "hypocrits" would be more appropriate, but "bastards" is also okay.
Apple? Dishonest? No....
They were the first to release 64-bit desktop processors... *cough*
They would never use specially crafted benchmarks to claim that G5 processors are Nearly Two Times Faster Than Pentium 4, then turn around and start using Intel CPUs. *cough*
That's incredibly easy to answer.
Intel has been the mobile-power-effeciency leader for a long time, and it's only over the past year or so that AMD has really surpassed them. You will start seeing AMD chips in Laptops more, but the switch takes time.
Besides that, look at the desktop CPUs... AMD's CPUs have been better than Intel's for several years now, but AMD still has the minority share. The fact that AMD is better doesn't directly equal market-share. There is a lot of politics, contracts, etc. involved in the issue.
The analogy is a poor one. With something like environmentalism, the actions of one person can directly accomplish something. With digital rights, it's a case of one less drop of water in the ocean.
You must chose your battles. Those that chose to waste their lives fighting tooth and nail for something that makes absolutely no difference to the world, would be completely stupid.
Unfortunately, Northbridges are getting much hotter. If you're getting a motherboard that accepts DDR400, the Northbridge is almost certain to be drawing ~30watts even when using slower RAM.
I have a couple motherboards like this (Asus/MSI), which I chose because they did not have a Northbridge fan, only to find that the northbridge heatsink is terribly hot, and should not be run without a fan cooling it.
I would understand if this was PCChips, but I'm talking Asus/MSI. Which good brands don't do crap like this? I certainly don't know of any.