These companies are becoming more and more out of control of them selves. How about the internet providers simply black list them off of the DNS servers. I mean all servers! They lay claim to any and all content regardless of ownership. If we hinder their ability to rape the customers and the ISPs and force them into the conventional brick and mortar stores only they will very quickly realize that the power is not in their hands but that of the consumer the pipe provider to said consumer..
I bought the video because artist and content providers need to learn that there are positive results for trusting that the majority of persons are reasonable and honest. Providing the content at a reasonable price and unfettered by DRM need to be rewarded with our support. There are a number of artist that I would love to have in my collection but refuse to purchase because of the outrageous price of the album or DVD and the fact that the company selling them is the likes of Sony. The only way to fix them is to refuse to purchase from them.
There are allot of artist out there that if they had a website that I could send them money out of the chain of the label I would. I would then torrent their music comfortable knowing that they made more money from me directly compensating them than if I were to purchase their album through the normal channels.
For short cables, 1 to 2 Meters in length I totally agree. In the case of longer runs though, say 4+ meters and above it is essential to have a very good quality cable between the source and the display. Save your money and go cheap on the short runs for the digital cables.
Far to locked into a single controlling company that only has their own best interest in mind at all times.
If the device were based on totally open standards and a Linux OS like the laptops that they are giving away to the kids in the impoverished countries then I would be all over it. My fucking school taxes this year were in excess of $3700.00 and I don't even have children! For that much money I could have bought 40+ kids each an open source laptop.
It is just more BS corporate feeding at the public trough.
Tbhe iPad has nothing I need nor want. In fact apple has nothing I want in their entire line of products.
Some one needs to explain to me how this is going to benefit the kids, the schools, and the country by buying closed hardware from one of the most evil companies in the nation. Apple is the enemy of the open source community and does their very best to control any media they come into contact with. School books are not available in digital format in any great numbers as far as I have heard. You see, DRM is not in place to assure that the publishers are able to properly rape the schools yet. Of course Apple will be at the center of this as well. The country is going to hell in a hand bag because we have stopped expecting our students to perform and deliver excellence. We gave away our technological edge and export it to the east in the form of a cheap and good education system. We then cry about the loss of good paying jobs to the same countries that we educate the citizens of. These are not going to provide anything but another way for the kids to get on face book and play games. America owned the world in the 40's through the early 70's and our parents and grand parents didn't do it with fancy feel good hardware and nice thoughts.
We have a Silicon Dust HD home run for the local off air HD and all the ancillary channels that come with it. Cables basic was all standard def and they left out allot of channels. Add to it that we had a bunch of jeezoid/shopping/jibber jabber crap we didn't want so we dropped it. We use the cable company for the internet connection only, 768K up and 10M down. The cable company, time warner, throttles from what I can tell but it generally doesn't seem to be a problem. We use winblows7 for the player and DVR and music as well as Cyberlink platinum for blue ray/ DVD. Add Netflix for 10.00 a month and you just about got the full package. Looking at Myth to get away from MS and the DRM crap that comes with it. We watch on a Samsung 50" 1080P plasma and the quality is stunning considering the compression levels. All in all I highly recommend it if you can stand to wait for the programs etc.
The reason is simple... Apple know that there is a very large untapped market that they WILL sell to. They know that there are idiots that will buy it simply because it says Apple on it and they think it flew out of Jobs ass. Therefor it must be wonderful and they must have it. Simply put, Apple knows that they are going to sell a boat load of the things and negotiates parts and assembly based on those huge numbers.
Samsung on the other hand is just another pretty face in the crowd but they don't know if they will be picked up and taken to the ball. They could be stuck with a bunch of tablets that just sit on shelves and cost them and the retailers a fortune. The only way for them to have a go at apple is to throw their whole unflinching effort behind the tablet and future development and maintain a very strong support structure. Very likely that they are not going to do this.
Personally I hate Apple and their holly, we know what is best for you, attitude. Their DRM sucks and i will not support them. I also have a real tablet A TC1100.
As the content of cable and satellite providers becomes more and more laden with commercials and narrowed down content more people are going to flee them for alternate feeds of content and news. They are in a panic to re-secure the advertising revenue streams as well as open up new ones. They control both the content and in some cases the delivery making for the inevitable happening. Control of the content that transits their networks "for the good of the customers". In our area, upstate New York, they provide a small pipe to the internet to limit bandwidth. We pay for 10Mbps and get on average 2Mbps. Stand by, it's gonna get worse. This is not just about Fox, this is happening on a whole lot of fronts and will continue to be played out again and again until the media corporations find a model that provides them with total control of our viewing experience and a large, ongoing revenue stream. Remember that a captive viewer is an appealing thing to an advertiser and will further the financial goals of the media corporations.
The cost of even basic basic cable is getting out of hand. Cable and satellite providers are not even giving you all the locals in the area now that ATSC digital terrestrial is in place. For that we were paying $10.00 a month on top of the $30 we pay for their poor internet service. We now pull the locals via an antenna and get far better quality and more channels for free. Add in the internet based sources and we have a well rounded source of entertainment for the cost of the internet. The $10.00 we save a month goes to Netflix and further expands the content we have at our fingers. We use HD homerun dual tuner from SiliconDust and a media player and we record all the programs we want to watch and just skip past the commercials. Personally I don't mind one or two commercials but when I am literally stepping through 5 minutes of them to watch 6-7 minutes of content, I start to look for alternatives. They can try and narrow those but there are always ways around their road blocks.
Here this worthless tool sends a bunch of Emails to a bunch of idiots about penis enlargement and gets a fine of one billion plus.
On the other hand we have Citibank who misleads investors and regulators about Billions in losses and bad investments and they get a fine of 75 million. That is only a days worth of profits from laundering the drug cartels money.
Gotta love the FTC and the courts, they know where the priorities are!
I respond to you, Dude, you need to chill out... Take a walk, have a beer, get laid, watch a sunset.... Until then, please pipe down. You've made one or two reasonable points, but the nasty tone and slipshod logic of your post undermines both you and other, more emotionally stable people.
Actually done all those today. Might I suggest that you might also need to "pipe down" as well, Anonymous, if that is your real name.
I guess that a pair of full range Apogee Scintilla ribbons, a top of the line Krell CD player, a tricked out Linn Sondek with a MC cartridge playing into a Conrad Johnson Motif preamp might qualify as entry level audio equipment. And yes it was ABX with us taking turns in the sweet spot and another doing the switching.
As far as the knobs, I bet your ass would love to have them filling what I can only guess is a very large gap. Call it my little gift to your taint.
The reasons are many for this.
One reason is that though the CD cost of production has fallen the cost to the consumer has stayed the same or even risen. I for one refuse to pay that much for a CD when the majority of it goes to the record company and not the artist. Considering that DVDs are going for around $5-10 US and the cost of producing a movie is orders of magnitude greater I find the difference in prices hard to fathom.
A second reason, Vinyl just plain sounds better most of the time. Save your technical BS for those that have not listened to the same track on both using good equipment. This is fact. SHUT IT!
Third, downloaded digital music is fine but the quality sucks and the cost is even higher than that for the CD if you want the whole album/CD. Add in that some DL sites are using DRM and the smart people don't buy. DRM is a pain in the ass and only hurts the larger segment of the populace that just wants to listen to the music they have legally purchased. Very few share with others.
Hay assholes, did you ever think that if you were not trying to RAPE the customer at every turn of their heads and sell the content at a reasonable price that more would be willing to pay for it? When the cost is less than the effort to steal the content then you will have a license to print money wholesale. Until then, people will work hard to circumvent any mechanisms you put in place if for nothing more than pure spite.
The charter could be written in such a way as to make it impossible for the municipality to exploit the end users and keep it from becoming a major revenue source via legislation. In Los Angeles, CA the DWP is profitable and also was far more reasonable in their rates than say the rapists at Edi$on or PG$E. IF they don't have to worry about use being able to leave them and they can continue to get away with providing sub standard services for premium prices, then I don't think we have much of a choice at this point.
I read this kind of article and think, The last mile services should be owned by the municipality. All coming to a central data center where ALL the players have to sit in the same CoLo and compete for customers. This of course relies on the municipality being able to maintain a basic level of service on their lines. This would require fibre to make it reliable and cost effective in the long run. It would also make it rather competitive as the providers would not have a captive customer. You could have dozens of providers and literally switch to another provider with a change in the routing table of the switch. The FCC is not here for the consumer, they are owned by the large communications corps and only work in their interest to help maintain obscene profits and control of the customers under them.
Seeing the issues and fixing them are on vastly different plains though..... We are destined to be bent over for a long time to come. Chattanooga, TN. is starting to look very good.
Here is the logic. If they are able to roll out as they plan then there will be allot of companies buying back haul from them rather than one of the incumbents. If the CoLo prices are reasonable then even more so. On the other side you would have companies like AT&T looking at them as a target for acquisition since they would be cutting into their high profit customer base and potential future revenue streams as well. They would almost have to or fall under their own weight. Either way the investors will win.
Are you all ready to have the same thing happen to your internet that happened to the fuel prices when they figured out that the government was in their pockets? It's coming and it's gonna hurt!
Look on Ebay for an ELM327 based OBD II to USB adapter. It should be in the $30.00 to $50.00 range and will do what you want. There is a boat load of software out there for free to get you rolling.
Mike
I posted this there, I bet it doesn't make it up, who knows.
"If the fact that the internet was begun by DARPA grants and colleges is not a hint at the original intent then please correct me.
Net neutrality should mean one thing and one thing only. That the providers of internet services are not allowed to censure, block, or constrict the flow and any information which a customer is putting over their networks. That said, it could be argued that this would not apply to spammers and hackers. That would be a narrow scope in such a case.
I have payed for generally substandard internet for the last 15+ years. Very seldom is the service equal to the bill of goods the provider tells you you are getting. Does the government need control of the internet at a granular level? I think not. Do they need the ability to keep companies like comcast, time warner, at&t, verizon, etc. from limiting certain types of traffic so that they can financially benefit with one of their inferior, competitive services? I think the answer is an absolute YES!
Paint this turd what ever happy color you want but it will still be crap underneath. I commend you for the attempt at spinning this though."
Make no mistake, internet neutrality will fall. The corporations have very deep pockets and will lobby any dirt bag sell out politician they need to to get total control of the internet. Then we are at the mercy of them. We are at the starting stages of the same kind of thing that happened with the gas companies. We have no choice and therefore no control.
The only way to stem this inevitable outcome would be to have the municipalities own the Fiber/copper to the home and force all providers to one point. In this way they are forced to compete with each other for the customer and his dollar. The down side to this are many as well. The municipality then would have to charge to maintain the lines. If they are like the DWP here in southern California they would turn this in to a revenue generator and continue to up prices for their out of control spending. This would happen even if they were to roll out a completely passive fiber network that required little to maintain or upgrade beyond the initial outlay. It would also provide a single point of attack for the nut cases we have to deal with from time to time. It would for sure bring into focus the possibility of traffic monitoring, snooping and outright spying and make it far easier for the government or the smart nefarious character.
At the end of the day I don't see much good on the horizon.
Mike
Don't know about you but I am not rich. Look at the fabrication work on that thing. For starters what do you do when the rain hits the reflectors. Water spots and wind blown dirt won't effect the performance of the reflector assembly in a detrimental way. I am sure that the proud owners will not mind in the least climbing up on the roof and cleaning the reflectors and admittance windows. Should be fun on a 12/12 pitch roof install. Dual tracking motors, those are really reliable and will never fail in service. The sun tracker and electronics should last for ever as well. There is no way that this thing is anywhere near a reasonable price. All that stainless steel and special assemblies.
Don't get me wrong, it is a beautifully crafted device from the pictures but the fabrication is gonna be stupid expensive. They are not going to give it away. Another rich mans folly.
I recently did a fair bit of work at a theater in Southern California. They installed a pair of digital projectors with 3D systems fitted. The general feeling is that it is a fad that will fade. There are a couple of reasons I can see for this.
First, 2D films converted to 3D. It looks like crap, The customer will only get taken to the cleaners on this once, twice at the most, before they just say no to all 3D. Personally I feel this is the road to failure. They will reap profits in the short term from older movies and present ones produced in 2D. BUT they are going to kill the enthusiasm for 3D in the long term and hurt even more.
The second reason? The present 3D systems have ridiculous license fees involved. In the case of each projector it is costing them $30K each, per year. It doesn't take an MBA to see that this is not a profitable model for the theater. They must have really compelling content to draw in the customer or they will just go for the 2D or watch it at home instead. Most have heard this: "Theaters make little profit on the movies and garner most of their profits from the concessions." Guess what happens when we stay home. The Studios might do well to keep this in mind when thinking about converting 2D movies to 3D flops.
Cell antennas are usually 120 degree radiators with a down tilt bias for terrestrial service. IF the antennas are on the same plane as one of the walls of the apartment you are thinking of buying then likely there is little to no issue here. The antenna have very little side lobe. FYI, The output power from a cell tower is several hundred Watts. A couple of hundred should get someone to do an RF sweep of the pat to either confirm or allay fears.
So let me get this right, RAMBUS has a higher priced, poorer performing product. They get in bed with Intel and try and ram (no pun intended) this shit down our throats along with ridiculous license fees for what is a dubious technology at best. Now Samsung, those caves in after ten years! I wonder who is going to be getting the butt sex on this one, AGAIN? If you failed to guess, go to the corner, put on your butt sex dunce hat, and bend over the stool! We the consumer are going to pay for this shit again. Most of these companies have figured it out, from gas to semiconductor manufacturers, to HMO and insurance companies. Jack the rates when you get hit with fees or just want to bump your bottom line. It pisses me off that now my money is going to be going into the pockets of RAMBUS each time I buy RAM.
FUCK RAMBUS AND FUCK SAMSUNG FOR CAVING!
I could not get through even 30 seconds of it and I am in shame for that. I would rather light my ball hairs on fire and have a bondage trans sexual primordial dwarf beat the fire out with a sledge hammer than have to watch another second of that bowel evacuating drivel! The camera work sucks too.
Mike
Now lets see. We buy the highly compressed music that we can only play on our phone and can't move around. We can't burn a backup copy, We don't get the original PCM media file for backup. We don't get the sleeve. UH, YAHH, I am so not all over that. I am with this guy, rip and compress my self.
I rip all my CDs at 256Kbps and DVDs are stripped of all the jibber jabber languages and the BS warnings about copy and the like and stored as MPEG2 files with no transcoding. They are then stored on a large NAS that is a little over a terabyte in size and easily expandable. Any content can be played from any monitor from the plasma in the bedroom to the TV in the garage at will and any computer on the network. Later I will also add the ability to stream my personal content via a VPN to other locals and enjoy them there. The combo of VPN and on the fly encryption makes the deep packet inspection scheme of the RIAA and the MPAA assholes a non issue. If I am at a friends and we want to watch a movie I will be able to simply log in to my home network via the VPN, select the movie we want to see and play it. The same will apply to the music as well.
I buy the content, it's mine you greedy pricks! I will watch it how, when, where, and on what ever I choose and there is not a fu@king thing that you can do to stop me. The days of ripping off both the artist and the consumer are drawing to an end. I have not and will not buy any DCM based devices or content now or ever!
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These companies are becoming more and more out of control of them selves. How about the internet providers simply black list them off of the DNS servers. I mean all servers! They lay claim to any and all content regardless of ownership. If we hinder their ability to rape the customers and the ISPs and force them into the conventional brick and mortar stores only they will very quickly realize that the power is not in their hands but that of the consumer the pipe provider to said consumer..
I bought the video because artist and content providers need to learn that there are positive results for trusting that the majority of persons are reasonable and honest. Providing the content at a reasonable price and unfettered by DRM need to be rewarded with our support. There are a number of artist that I would love to have in my collection but refuse to purchase because of the outrageous price of the album or DVD and the fact that the company selling them is the likes of Sony. The only way to fix them is to refuse to purchase from them. There are allot of artist out there that if they had a website that I could send them money out of the chain of the label I would. I would then torrent their music comfortable knowing that they made more money from me directly compensating them than if I were to purchase their album through the normal channels.
The car I drive has OnStar built in. After the first free year I simply unplugged the antenna for the GPS and the transmitter. Problem solved.
For short cables, 1 to 2 Meters in length I totally agree. In the case of longer runs though, say 4+ meters and above it is essential to have a very good quality cable between the source and the display. Save your money and go cheap on the short runs for the digital cables.
Far to locked into a single controlling company that only has their own best interest in mind at all times. If the device were based on totally open standards and a Linux OS like the laptops that they are giving away to the kids in the impoverished countries then I would be all over it. My fucking school taxes this year were in excess of $3700.00 and I don't even have children! For that much money I could have bought 40+ kids each an open source laptop. It is just more BS corporate feeding at the public trough. Tbhe iPad has nothing I need nor want. In fact apple has nothing I want in their entire line of products.
Some one needs to explain to me how this is going to benefit the kids, the schools, and the country by buying closed hardware from one of the most evil companies in the nation. Apple is the enemy of the open source community and does their very best to control any media they come into contact with. School books are not available in digital format in any great numbers as far as I have heard. You see, DRM is not in place to assure that the publishers are able to properly rape the schools yet. Of course Apple will be at the center of this as well. The country is going to hell in a hand bag because we have stopped expecting our students to perform and deliver excellence. We gave away our technological edge and export it to the east in the form of a cheap and good education system. We then cry about the loss of good paying jobs to the same countries that we educate the citizens of. These are not going to provide anything but another way for the kids to get on face book and play games. America owned the world in the 40's through the early 70's and our parents and grand parents didn't do it with fancy feel good hardware and nice thoughts.
We have a Silicon Dust HD home run for the local off air HD and all the ancillary channels that come with it. Cables basic was all standard def and they left out allot of channels. Add to it that we had a bunch of jeezoid/shopping/jibber jabber crap we didn't want so we dropped it. We use the cable company for the internet connection only, 768K up and 10M down. The cable company, time warner, throttles from what I can tell but it generally doesn't seem to be a problem. We use winblows7 for the player and DVR and music as well as Cyberlink platinum for blue ray/ DVD. Add Netflix for 10.00 a month and you just about got the full package. Looking at Myth to get away from MS and the DRM crap that comes with it. We watch on a Samsung 50" 1080P plasma and the quality is stunning considering the compression levels. All in all I highly recommend it if you can stand to wait for the programs etc.
The reason is simple... Apple know that there is a very large untapped market that they WILL sell to. They know that there are idiots that will buy it simply because it says Apple on it and they think it flew out of Jobs ass. Therefor it must be wonderful and they must have it. Simply put, Apple knows that they are going to sell a boat load of the things and negotiates parts and assembly based on those huge numbers. Samsung on the other hand is just another pretty face in the crowd but they don't know if they will be picked up and taken to the ball. They could be stuck with a bunch of tablets that just sit on shelves and cost them and the retailers a fortune. The only way for them to have a go at apple is to throw their whole unflinching effort behind the tablet and future development and maintain a very strong support structure. Very likely that they are not going to do this. Personally I hate Apple and their holly, we know what is best for you, attitude. Their DRM sucks and i will not support them. I also have a real tablet A TC1100.
As the content of cable and satellite providers becomes more and more laden with commercials and narrowed down content more people are going to flee them for alternate feeds of content and news. They are in a panic to re-secure the advertising revenue streams as well as open up new ones. They control both the content and in some cases the delivery making for the inevitable happening. Control of the content that transits their networks "for the good of the customers". In our area, upstate New York, they provide a small pipe to the internet to limit bandwidth. We pay for 10Mbps and get on average 2Mbps. Stand by, it's gonna get worse. This is not just about Fox, this is happening on a whole lot of fronts and will continue to be played out again and again until the media corporations find a model that provides them with total control of our viewing experience and a large, ongoing revenue stream. Remember that a captive viewer is an appealing thing to an advertiser and will further the financial goals of the media corporations. The cost of even basic basic cable is getting out of hand. Cable and satellite providers are not even giving you all the locals in the area now that ATSC digital terrestrial is in place. For that we were paying $10.00 a month on top of the $30 we pay for their poor internet service. We now pull the locals via an antenna and get far better quality and more channels for free. Add in the internet based sources and we have a well rounded source of entertainment for the cost of the internet. The $10.00 we save a month goes to Netflix and further expands the content we have at our fingers. We use HD homerun dual tuner from SiliconDust and a media player and we record all the programs we want to watch and just skip past the commercials. Personally I don't mind one or two commercials but when I am literally stepping through 5 minutes of them to watch 6-7 minutes of content, I start to look for alternatives. They can try and narrow those but there are always ways around their road blocks.
Here this worthless tool sends a bunch of Emails to a bunch of idiots about penis enlargement and gets a fine of one billion plus. On the other hand we have Citibank who misleads investors and regulators about Billions in losses and bad investments and they get a fine of 75 million. That is only a days worth of profits from laundering the drug cartels money. Gotta love the FTC and the courts, they know where the priorities are!
I respond to you, Dude, you need to chill out... Take a walk, have a beer, get laid, watch a sunset.... Until then, please pipe down. You've made one or two reasonable points, but the nasty tone and slipshod logic of your post undermines both you and other, more emotionally stable people. Actually done all those today. Might I suggest that you might also need to "pipe down" as well, Anonymous, if that is your real name. I guess that a pair of full range Apogee Scintilla ribbons, a top of the line Krell CD player, a tricked out Linn Sondek with a MC cartridge playing into a Conrad Johnson Motif preamp might qualify as entry level audio equipment. And yes it was ABX with us taking turns in the sweet spot and another doing the switching. As far as the knobs, I bet your ass would love to have them filling what I can only guess is a very large gap. Call it my little gift to your taint.
The reasons are many for this. One reason is that though the CD cost of production has fallen the cost to the consumer has stayed the same or even risen. I for one refuse to pay that much for a CD when the majority of it goes to the record company and not the artist. Considering that DVDs are going for around $5-10 US and the cost of producing a movie is orders of magnitude greater I find the difference in prices hard to fathom. A second reason, Vinyl just plain sounds better most of the time. Save your technical BS for those that have not listened to the same track on both using good equipment. This is fact. SHUT IT! Third, downloaded digital music is fine but the quality sucks and the cost is even higher than that for the CD if you want the whole album/CD. Add in that some DL sites are using DRM and the smart people don't buy. DRM is a pain in the ass and only hurts the larger segment of the populace that just wants to listen to the music they have legally purchased. Very few share with others. Hay assholes, did you ever think that if you were not trying to RAPE the customer at every turn of their heads and sell the content at a reasonable price that more would be willing to pay for it? When the cost is less than the effort to steal the content then you will have a license to print money wholesale. Until then, people will work hard to circumvent any mechanisms you put in place if for nothing more than pure spite.
The charter could be written in such a way as to make it impossible for the municipality to exploit the end users and keep it from becoming a major revenue source via legislation. In Los Angeles, CA the DWP is profitable and also was far more reasonable in their rates than say the rapists at Edi$on or PG$E. IF they don't have to worry about use being able to leave them and they can continue to get away with providing sub standard services for premium prices, then I don't think we have much of a choice at this point.
I read this kind of article and think, The last mile services should be owned by the municipality. All coming to a central data center where ALL the players have to sit in the same CoLo and compete for customers. This of course relies on the municipality being able to maintain a basic level of service on their lines. This would require fibre to make it reliable and cost effective in the long run. It would also make it rather competitive as the providers would not have a captive customer. You could have dozens of providers and literally switch to another provider with a change in the routing table of the switch. The FCC is not here for the consumer, they are owned by the large communications corps and only work in their interest to help maintain obscene profits and control of the customers under them. Seeing the issues and fixing them are on vastly different plains though..... We are destined to be bent over for a long time to come. Chattanooga, TN. is starting to look very good.
Here is the logic. If they are able to roll out as they plan then there will be allot of companies buying back haul from them rather than one of the incumbents. If the CoLo prices are reasonable then even more so. On the other side you would have companies like AT&T looking at them as a target for acquisition since they would be cutting into their high profit customer base and potential future revenue streams as well. They would almost have to or fall under their own weight. Either way the investors will win.
Are you all ready to have the same thing happen to your internet that happened to the fuel prices when they figured out that the government was in their pockets? It's coming and it's gonna hurt!
Look on Ebay for an ELM327 based OBD II to USB adapter. It should be in the $30.00 to $50.00 range and will do what you want. There is a boat load of software out there for free to get you rolling. Mike
I posted this there, I bet it doesn't make it up, who knows. "If the fact that the internet was begun by DARPA grants and colleges is not a hint at the original intent then please correct me. Net neutrality should mean one thing and one thing only. That the providers of internet services are not allowed to censure, block, or constrict the flow and any information which a customer is putting over their networks. That said, it could be argued that this would not apply to spammers and hackers. That would be a narrow scope in such a case. I have payed for generally substandard internet for the last 15+ years. Very seldom is the service equal to the bill of goods the provider tells you you are getting. Does the government need control of the internet at a granular level? I think not. Do they need the ability to keep companies like comcast, time warner, at&t, verizon, etc. from limiting certain types of traffic so that they can financially benefit with one of their inferior, competitive services? I think the answer is an absolute YES! Paint this turd what ever happy color you want but it will still be crap underneath. I commend you for the attempt at spinning this though." Make no mistake, internet neutrality will fall. The corporations have very deep pockets and will lobby any dirt bag sell out politician they need to to get total control of the internet. Then we are at the mercy of them. We are at the starting stages of the same kind of thing that happened with the gas companies. We have no choice and therefore no control. The only way to stem this inevitable outcome would be to have the municipalities own the Fiber/copper to the home and force all providers to one point. In this way they are forced to compete with each other for the customer and his dollar. The down side to this are many as well. The municipality then would have to charge to maintain the lines. If they are like the DWP here in southern California they would turn this in to a revenue generator and continue to up prices for their out of control spending. This would happen even if they were to roll out a completely passive fiber network that required little to maintain or upgrade beyond the initial outlay. It would also provide a single point of attack for the nut cases we have to deal with from time to time. It would for sure bring into focus the possibility of traffic monitoring, snooping and outright spying and make it far easier for the government or the smart nefarious character. At the end of the day I don't see much good on the horizon. Mike
Don't know about you but I am not rich. Look at the fabrication work on that thing. For starters what do you do when the rain hits the reflectors. Water spots and wind blown dirt won't effect the performance of the reflector assembly in a detrimental way. I am sure that the proud owners will not mind in the least climbing up on the roof and cleaning the reflectors and admittance windows. Should be fun on a 12/12 pitch roof install. Dual tracking motors, those are really reliable and will never fail in service. The sun tracker and electronics should last for ever as well. There is no way that this thing is anywhere near a reasonable price. All that stainless steel and special assemblies. Don't get me wrong, it is a beautifully crafted device from the pictures but the fabrication is gonna be stupid expensive. They are not going to give it away. Another rich mans folly.
I recently did a fair bit of work at a theater in Southern California. They installed a pair of digital projectors with 3D systems fitted. The general feeling is that it is a fad that will fade. There are a couple of reasons I can see for this. First, 2D films converted to 3D. It looks like crap, The customer will only get taken to the cleaners on this once, twice at the most, before they just say no to all 3D. Personally I feel this is the road to failure. They will reap profits in the short term from older movies and present ones produced in 2D. BUT they are going to kill the enthusiasm for 3D in the long term and hurt even more. The second reason? The present 3D systems have ridiculous license fees involved. In the case of each projector it is costing them $30K each, per year. It doesn't take an MBA to see that this is not a profitable model for the theater. They must have really compelling content to draw in the customer or they will just go for the 2D or watch it at home instead. Most have heard this: "Theaters make little profit on the movies and garner most of their profits from the concessions." Guess what happens when we stay home. The Studios might do well to keep this in mind when thinking about converting 2D movies to 3D flops.
Cell antennas are usually 120 degree radiators with a down tilt bias for terrestrial service. IF the antennas are on the same plane as one of the walls of the apartment you are thinking of buying then likely there is little to no issue here. The antenna have very little side lobe. FYI, The output power from a cell tower is several hundred Watts. A couple of hundred should get someone to do an RF sweep of the pat to either confirm or allay fears.
So let me get this right, RAMBUS has a higher priced, poorer performing product. They get in bed with Intel and try and ram (no pun intended) this shit down our throats along with ridiculous license fees for what is a dubious technology at best. Now Samsung, those caves in after ten years! I wonder who is going to be getting the butt sex on this one, AGAIN? If you failed to guess, go to the corner, put on your butt sex dunce hat, and bend over the stool! We the consumer are going to pay for this shit again. Most of these companies have figured it out, from gas to semiconductor manufacturers, to HMO and insurance companies. Jack the rates when you get hit with fees or just want to bump your bottom line. It pisses me off that now my money is going to be going into the pockets of RAMBUS each time I buy RAM. FUCK RAMBUS AND FUCK SAMSUNG FOR CAVING!
I could not get through even 30 seconds of it and I am in shame for that. I would rather light my ball hairs on fire and have a bondage trans sexual primordial dwarf beat the fire out with a sledge hammer than have to watch another second of that bowel evacuating drivel! The camera work sucks too. Mike
Now lets see. We buy the highly compressed music that we can only play on our phone and can't move around. We can't burn a backup copy, We don't get the original PCM media file for backup. We don't get the sleeve. UH, YAHH, I am so not all over that. I am with this guy, rip and compress my self. I rip all my CDs at 256Kbps and DVDs are stripped of all the jibber jabber languages and the BS warnings about copy and the like and stored as MPEG2 files with no transcoding. They are then stored on a large NAS that is a little over a terabyte in size and easily expandable. Any content can be played from any monitor from the plasma in the bedroom to the TV in the garage at will and any computer on the network. Later I will also add the ability to stream my personal content via a VPN to other locals and enjoy them there. The combo of VPN and on the fly encryption makes the deep packet inspection scheme of the RIAA and the MPAA assholes a non issue. If I am at a friends and we want to watch a movie I will be able to simply log in to my home network via the VPN, select the movie we want to see and play it. The same will apply to the music as well. I buy the content, it's mine you greedy pricks! I will watch it how, when, where, and on what ever I choose and there is not a fu@king thing that you can do to stop me. The days of ripping off both the artist and the consumer are drawing to an end. I have not and will not buy any DCM based devices or content now or ever!