That's a great idea, but they'll probably need special permission from the Transportation Department to implement it, or risk losing some of their federal highway funds. The issue is that many urban highway construction projects are funded with conditions requiring HOV (high-occupancy vehicle) lanes (or other specific things to encourage carpooling or mass transit).
Of course, with the current administration, such a waiver shouldn't be difficult to obtain.
Obviously they're following through on expectations and announcing significant changes to their product line. The Apple Store web site is closed right now. They say that they'll be back up within the hour. (Once they are, that may be one of the best places to get solid specs on the new systems.)
Don't be surprised if that doesn't work. I'm not sure about IBM, but in some cases the storage vendor installs custom firmware on the drives. If you install a different drive in the system, it might not behave correctly.
Note that that list is old, listing both HP and Compaq as having Class A networks. Does this mean that HP now has two class A blocks? Or is the list old, with much of that space having been reallocated?
The original was a lot of fun, but it killed itself with the superbaby junk. But it seems that there aren't enough original ideas out there, so everyone is looking for something to make a sequel of or more to a new medium (e.g., comic books moving to movies).
I did this with an old P120 laptop, and I had over 500 days of uptime (well, it rolled over at 497).
Some cautions to consider: laptops aren't designed as servers. I've heard stories of hard drives not surviving continuous use. Newer systems with fans still generate noise and heat--be sure it's ventilated.
That's not terribly surprising. I heard years ago that tobacco is one of the easiest plants to genetically alter. That's god news for the growers as their traditional customers become more scarce.
This would be fine for a good percentage of Americans, but it would cut off access to many who can't afford the monthly cost of cable or sattelite.
What they might want to do is to reduce the bandwidth dedicate to TV by reducing the number of UHF channels. Outside the larger markets, they could probably eliminate UHF altogether.
Of course, that would limit the potential growth of broadcast TV, further supporting the existing large players by making new competition more difficult.
If they want to eliminate broadcast TV altogether, then they need to work out a deal where cable and sattelite companies give free access to a dozen or so local channels.
You do have some good points in your rant. But what about Canada, Denmark, Sweeden, and such? The USA isn't as bad as some make it out to be, but there are examples of where it could be better.
On ReplayTV (with the 4000 and up models), there is a feature allowing you to send shows to other units, and another to stream video to another unit. Because the send show feature can go to any unit over the Internet, this is one feature that they're being sued over.
The hack portion of it is a bit of software you run on a computer that emulates the ReplayTV protocol, allowing you to send shows to and from a PC. This allows you to burn archival copies, as well as to effectively use the PC's hard drive for additional show storage. Running that software would be considered a "hack" as it was independently developed and not officially supported by ReplayTV.
I thought video extraction was one of the most popular hacks, not something people made an effort to stay away from. Certainly in the ReplayTV crowd, video extraction is one of the most popular hacks, right up there with drive upgrades.
And unlike bypassing subscriptions, it's not something that is going to cost TiVo money, so I don't see why they would be concerned by it.
First, the features that D&M is talking of dropping are for future models, possibly to allow for differences between low-end and high-end models.
Second, the 30-second skip is not one of the features in question. That was a misunderstanding by the/. editors when posting the previous story. They were talking about Commericial Advance, which is the feature whereby the unit detects commercial breaks and automatically skips over them for you without pressing any buttons. (That's also one of two features, along with show sharing, that SonicBlue is being sued over--I haven't heard if the lawsuit was transferred as part of the sale.)
Oh, and ReplayTV also has a x-minute skip available--just hit a number followed by the skip (or instant replay) to skip that many minutes. I've programmed my remote with this sequence so that I have a 2-minute skip button--I use that, and then fine tune it with the 30-second skip and the 8-second instant replay buttons. (I'm beginning to think that 3-minute skip may be better.)
Right, but you're seriously degrading the quality doing it that way. You get an extra round of compression artifacts, not to mention noise from the digital-analog-digital conversion.
In the USA, non-citizens generally need a green card (permanent resident status) in order to get a job. There are several special limited-time visas available. The H1-B visas are for technology workers. The idea is that there are more technology jobs in the US than there are qualified workers, or at least that was the common perception when the law was passed. One of the restrictions for an H1-B visa is that a company hiring someone with such a visa mush demonstrate that they are not taking a job away from a citizen or permanent resident. Hence, job postings for already-filled positions with bizarre requirements such that only that one person will qualify.
Yes, the job postings are likely blatant fakes. Many job postings, especially those with bizarre requirements, are for positions already filled by people with H1-B visas, and they have to advertise the positions to demonstrate that there are no U.S. citizens that can fill them, so they are justified in renewing the visas.
Also, the company is probably trying to get rid of the chaff. But the primary reason is probably as stated to save money, and they can do that with the least pain by laying off the least productive people ("chaff").
Actually, we have some wonderful hand-made soap that a friend of ours in the SCA made. My wife bartered some caligraphy for it, along with some home-brewed mead.
Of course, what you'll find in the SCA depends on where you are. When you have smaller groups, they tend to focus on fewer things (generally fighting). In areas like Boston, there are people doing all sorts of things.
I expect that most of those advocating a replacement for the shuttle are doing so for several reasons, foremost being economics. A new system could conceivably be much cheaper to operate. And ignoring the economics, the act of developing a new system will help push technology forward and signal a renewed commitment to science and exploration.
This solves half the problem. The other half is that the ads are still loaded, just not displayed. I'm using a variant of the style sheet hack, along with Proxy Auto Config to redirect requests to ad sites to a server that returns transparent gifs for every request. It works much like JunkBuster, only it's integrated with the browser, so you don't have the side effects of using a proxy for every request (e.g., it's not any slower).
Now I hardly ever see ads, and the ads I don't see never get loaded in the first place, saving my bandwidth. Of course, that means that the web sites I visit never record a hits on their ad servers from me, whereas using the style sheet alone is completely transparent to the server.
Oh, and both the Proxy Auto Config and the Style Sheet hacks should work just fine with most web browsers, not just Mozilla and Safari.
I bought a $29.95 remote at Radio shack, along with a DB25 connector, cut apart an old IDE cable and soldered it to the DB25, and now I can program every button to do exactly what I want it to. (I think that there are people who will sell pre-made cables for a reasonable fee if you ask nicely.) Like most universal remotes, it comes pre-programmed with device code for most common brands, but you can't program every key to do exactly what you want it to in each of the modes; that is, until you hook up the JP1 cable.
Now when I copy shows from my ReplayTV to VHS (usually for a friend), the Replay Quick Skip button is active in VCR mode, so I can pause the VCR, skip the commercials, and unpause, all without changing modes on the remote.
Oh, and I can download the settings from the remote and archive them in case it ever breaks.
Serial, parallel, PS/2 (keyboard/mouse) ports are being replaced by USB.
Internal busses are moving from parallel to serial. While moving fewer bits at a time, they don't have to synchronize between the lines, so the overall speed is much higher. Hence, ATA->Serial ATA and PCI->PCI Express.
At many of these sites, you can get the full article on one page by selecting the "print this article" option. That works fine in this case and makes it much easier to read.
There are lots of rumors about why the sequel never happened. Many of them have to do with strange (illegal or at least unorthodox) financial dealings involving the first movie.
There was a proposal to make a TV series, and if you get the DVD you'll see some preliminary work they did on it, which looked pretty bad.
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That's a great idea, but they'll probably need special permission from the Transportation Department to implement it, or risk losing some of their federal highway funds. The issue is that many urban highway construction projects are funded with conditions requiring HOV (high-occupancy vehicle) lanes (or other specific things to encourage carpooling or mass transit).
Of course, with the current administration, such a waiver shouldn't be difficult to obtain.
Obviously they're following through on expectations and announcing significant changes to their product line. The Apple Store web site is closed right now. They say that they'll be back up within the hour. (Once they are, that may be one of the best places to get solid specs on the new systems.)
Don't be surprised if that doesn't work. I'm not sure about IBM, but in some cases the storage vendor installs custom firmware on the drives. If you install a different drive in the system, it might not behave correctly.
Note that that list is old, listing both HP and Compaq as having Class A networks. Does this mean that HP now has two class A blocks? Or is the list old, with much of that space having been reallocated?
The original was a lot of fun, but it killed itself with the superbaby junk. But it seems that there aren't enough original ideas out there, so everyone is looking for something to make a sequel of or more to a new medium (e.g., comic books moving to movies).
Consider a used notebook. While the built-in screen is a nice convenience, you could possibly find one really cheap with a broken screen.
I did this with an old P120 laptop, and I had over 500 days of uptime (well, it rolled over at 497).
Some cautions to consider: laptops aren't designed as servers. I've heard stories of hard drives not surviving continuous use. Newer systems with fans still generate noise and heat--be sure it's ventilated.
That's not terribly surprising. I heard years ago that tobacco is one of the easiest plants to genetically alter. That's god news for the growers as their traditional customers become more scarce.
This would be fine for a good percentage of Americans, but it would cut off access to many who can't afford the monthly cost of cable or sattelite.
What they might want to do is to reduce the bandwidth dedicate to TV by reducing the number of UHF channels. Outside the larger markets, they could probably eliminate UHF altogether.
Of course, that would limit the potential growth of broadcast TV, further supporting the existing large players by making new competition more difficult.
If they want to eliminate broadcast TV altogether, then they need to work out a deal where cable and sattelite companies give free access to a dozen or so local channels.
You do have some good points in your rant. But what about Canada, Denmark, Sweeden, and such? The USA isn't as bad as some make it out to be, but there are examples of where it could be better.
What inspections?
Not all states have mandatory annual inspections. I'm not sure of Oregon has them, but I know that Idaho didn't when I was living there.
On ReplayTV (with the 4000 and up models), there is a feature allowing you to send shows to other units, and another to stream video to another unit. Because the send show feature can go to any unit over the Internet, this is one feature that they're being sued over.
The hack portion of it is a bit of software you run on a computer that emulates the ReplayTV protocol, allowing you to send shows to and from a PC. This allows you to burn archival copies, as well as to effectively use the PC's hard drive for additional show storage. Running that software would be considered a "hack" as it was independently developed and not officially supported by ReplayTV.
I thought video extraction was one of the most popular hacks, not something people made an effort to stay away from. Certainly in the ReplayTV crowd, video extraction is one of the most popular hacks, right up there with drive upgrades.
And unlike bypassing subscriptions, it's not something that is going to cost TiVo money, so I don't see why they would be concerned by it.
First, the features that D&M is talking of dropping are for future models, possibly to allow for differences between low-end and high-end models.
/. editors when posting the previous story. They were talking about Commericial Advance, which is the feature whereby the unit detects commercial breaks and automatically skips over them for you without pressing any buttons. (That's also one of two features, along with show sharing, that SonicBlue is being sued over--I haven't heard if the lawsuit was transferred as part of the sale.)
Second, the 30-second skip is not one of the features in question. That was a misunderstanding by the
Oh, and ReplayTV also has a x-minute skip available--just hit a number followed by the skip (or instant replay) to skip that many minutes. I've programmed my remote with this sequence so that I have a 2-minute skip button--I use that, and then fine tune it with the 30-second skip and the 8-second instant replay buttons. (I'm beginning to think that 3-minute skip may be better.)
Right, but you're seriously degrading the quality doing it that way. You get an extra round of compression artifacts, not to mention noise from the digital-analog-digital conversion.
In the USA, non-citizens generally need a green card (permanent resident status) in order to get a job. There are several special limited-time visas available. The H1-B visas are for technology workers. The idea is that there are more technology jobs in the US than there are qualified workers, or at least that was the common perception when the law was passed. One of the restrictions for an H1-B visa is that a company hiring someone with such a visa mush demonstrate that they are not taking a job away from a citizen or permanent resident. Hence, job postings for already-filled positions with bizarre requirements such that only that one person will qualify.
Yes, the job postings are likely blatant fakes. Many job postings, especially those with bizarre requirements, are for positions already filled by people with H1-B visas, and they have to advertise the positions to demonstrate that there are no U.S. citizens that can fill them, so they are justified in renewing the visas.
Also, the company is probably trying to get rid of the chaff. But the primary reason is probably as stated to save money, and they can do that with the least pain by laying off the least productive people ("chaff").
Actually, we have some wonderful hand-made soap that a friend of ours in the SCA made. My wife bartered some caligraphy for it, along with some home-brewed mead.
Of course, what you'll find in the SCA depends on where you are. When you have smaller groups, they tend to focus on fewer things (generally fighting). In areas like Boston, there are people doing all sorts of things.
I expect that most of those advocating a replacement for the shuttle are doing so for several reasons, foremost being economics. A new system could conceivably be much cheaper to operate. And ignoring the economics, the act of developing a new system will help push technology forward and signal a renewed commitment to science and exploration.
Now I hardly ever see ads, and the ads I don't see never get loaded in the first place, saving my bandwidth. Of course, that means that the web sites I visit never record a hits on their ad servers from me, whereas using the style sheet alone is completely transparent to the server.
Oh, and both the Proxy Auto Config and the Style Sheet hacks should work just fine with most web browsers, not just Mozilla and Safari.
Doesn't MythTV have a music module?
Absolutely!
I bought a $29.95 remote at Radio shack, along with a DB25 connector, cut apart an old IDE cable and soldered it to the DB25, and now I can program every button to do exactly what I want it to. (I think that there are people who will sell pre-made cables for a reasonable fee if you ask nicely.) Like most universal remotes, it comes pre-programmed with device code for most common brands, but you can't program every key to do exactly what you want it to in each of the modes; that is, until you hook up the JP1 cable.
Now when I copy shows from my ReplayTV to VHS (usually for a friend), the Replay Quick Skip button is active in VCR mode, so I can pause the VCR, skip the commercials, and unpause, all without changing modes on the remote.
Oh, and I can download the settings from the remote and archive them in case it ever breaks.
A quick summary:
Serial, parallel, PS/2 (keyboard/mouse) ports are being replaced by USB.
Internal busses are moving from parallel to serial. While moving fewer bits at a time, they don't have to synchronize between the lines, so the overall speed is much higher. Hence, ATA->Serial ATA and PCI->PCI Express.
The traditional BIOS is being rethought.
At many of these sites, you can get the full article on one page by selecting the "print this article" option. That works fine in this case and makes it much easier to read.
There are lots of rumors about why the sequel never happened. Many of them have to do with strange (illegal or at least unorthodox) financial dealings involving the first movie.
There was a proposal to make a TV series, and if you get the DVD you'll see some preliminary work they did on it, which looked pretty bad.