The switch over should be a money maker for the government even with subsidies. T-mobile just spent $4,200,000,000 for access to the airwaves. It really comes down to 3 ways of paying for this:
either 1) it is open for all we all gain from that and we can all chip in for it (taxes). or 2) It is sold off to corporations, the sale price can include the money being made to include this cost (the government then pays for it with auction money from the FCC). or 3) A combination of both
Whatever happens we win with lots of money or lots of unused spectrum (unless the government sits on it).
Don't mean to double reply, but is it likley/possible that DTVs will end up crashing when non DTV data is sent on frequencies they are scanning, or will it no be an issue because it will just look like static to them?
I can say that 2 screens are nice, the stylus sucks for me so far. The only game I play with it is Meteos. Most other games don't use it or are annoying with it (Age of Empires for example).
I really like haveing 2 screens though. I find it much easier to keep track of 2 things on the 2 screens than on one big one (I also use 2 17 LCD's instead of one big widescreen so it may just be me).
Right now each station has 2 channels (one analog and one digital) I believe the idea is to free up spectrum when the analog broadcast is shut off. I am not 100% sure though. It also appears to me that frequency has less to do with channel with DTV.
For example a line from antennaweb.org (my notes in parens)
* yellow - uhf WPSG-DT 57.1(channel) CW PHILADELPHIA PA 263° 2.7 32 (frequency)
Though I guess the station would need something in the proper frequency slot to tell the TV where to look.
I always like to type my CC SS numbers into public access terminals. Especially ones that run windows. It is certainly safer to do that than to trust an open source program.
note: I think both using a public terminal and a brand new software package (closed or open source) is crazy, but between the two choices I would take the software, and in a few years I may use the software, but never a public terminal.
Google maps is imperfect for sure, but it is better than paging through hundreds of listings in different catagories (if you can guess the right one) and then needing to call and find out if it is what you are looking for.
I use google maps, and then check websites to see if it is a viable place for what I want. It doesn't need to be a nice website, as long as there is a blurb.
Last time I used the book was for auto glass repair, but a tip from a cop when I filed the police report, along with a google map search to get the phone number of the place ended up being the way to go.
If someone can't reserve an IP or set it static on their computer and port forward then they probably can't keep services off/up to date or setup a firewall that at its face looks un-needed.
It is hard enough telling people to protect their wireless networks which is relativly easy.
It is unusable in the sense that many applications no longer work on it in there newest version.
As time goes on this becomes a bigger problem. It is not only the cost of the upgrade (cheaper than the apps) but the cost of happiness when things are not exactly the same.
e.g. os 10.3 added expose, captured keyboard shortcuts from Quark Xpress. Maybe I was sloppy in not becoming a Quark Xpress expert to do my job, but it was completly unexpected.
Quark 7.0 will not run in os 10.3. The obvious solution is to upgrade the 3+ year old computers and get a shiny new tower. Except CS2 does not run nativly in on Intel. I am left with the choice of upgrading osX on the old computer, upgrading Quark, and then migrating its activation when we get a new computer after CS3 comes out. At this point an OSX upgrade is wasted money and the disruption is inreased too.
We work with customer files where I am so it is not as simple as "doesn't what you have work?"
Until very recently using Windows 98 on a few computers was no trouble, I have computers that were still functional for doing quickbooks and MS office stuff that are older than the oldest MAC we still use (though we are less demanding of them).
The real thing that will force an upgrade is probably when new stuffit files stop working in version 10.x (they already don't work in 8.x) since stuffit 11 is OS 10.4
"unusable" is an exageration, since old softwar still works, but it is a big nuisance.
FWIW I wasn't trying to make the PS3 look reasonable. To me 18 months of car repair is a huge amount of money. If I wanted it to look cheap I would have said 2 weeks of a house or something.
Comparing play station costs to car repair makes it look very expensive indeed (I spend more time in my car than I could ever dream of playing games).
There is no where around me that will do those car services for even close to either of thos prices (50 or 300) so I can only assume that car work is very differently priced depending on location.
oil change 20 plugs and wires 50 (I always do this myself,since the parts are about 25 and it takes less than 20 minutes) Filters air filter is about 30 oil filter included with the change.
These are the low end of prices from places I would want to service my car (there are a few gas stations that do only oil for a few dollars less).
A hand car wash is going to cost 25 alone.
That said 300 is starting to be what I consider a big repair. I drive cheap cars and it has been years and years since I paid that much all at once. The PS3 probably costs as much as I spend in car maintanance in 18 months.
I work at a design place and we have less than 10 Macs.
I get so many bullshit problems on the Macs that I can't even fathom how they happen.
Example 1: "I right click and my whole desktop dis-appears and then comes back but no menu" (no idea where to start) Example 2: fonts turn to gobley-gook in some applications Example 3: Office just randomly stopped working on a computer
The other problem I have with the Macs is the fast upgrade cycle. OS 10.3 is becoming un-usable and is not so old. People still complain about spotlight.
I will say that I have 3 file servers and 20-30 desktops I maintain ranging from Win98 to XP and OS 10.2 to 10.4 and it is not a full time job for one person without any special admin software, so i cannot see 30-40 boxes/admin as making any sense at all.
I heard a newscaster on the radio describing the Audi entry into Le Mans as quite enough that no-one would call the police if it drove through a sub-urban neighborhood.
Considering that is pretty much the peak inperformance I would say diesel can be quiet.
At the buttom of this page is some more anecdotal evidence.
As the article has a quote about it, here's specifically WHY I am against "Net Neutrality" -- the ISP has no control over throttling particular sites or protocols that can have major negative effects on their overall user experience. I've already noticed some network slowdowns, but in the past 60 days I dumped broadband and rely primarily on my EDGE connection from T-Mobile (200kbps). Latency isn't too shabby. When I use my T1 at the office though, I have noticed some slowdowns.
"net Nutrality" does not prevent throttleing ports. It would even allow bandwidth capping from video sites if the policy was #GB/site or something. It does not allow the site to get improved performance by paying money or partnering or being owned by the provider. the only way a site or protocal would get better performance would be by the user paying extra. (a lot like what you describe).
Is it true that 'one's "warm" may be another's "daylight."' or is that hypothetical?
I have only purchased 2 brands and they have been pretty much the same. I have always assumed there has been a fairly narrow temperature range that each description includes and that there is no way opposite ends overlap.
It would of course be much better if they included temperature and CRI on every package, but I would like to know how much corn syrup is in my soda too. I don't really expect to be told either.
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The switch over should be a money maker for the government even with subsidies. T-mobile just spent $4,200,000,000 for access to the airwaves. It really comes down to 3 ways of paying for this:
either 1) it is open for all we all gain from that and we can all chip in for it (taxes).
or 2) It is sold off to corporations, the sale price can include the money being made to include this cost (the government then pays for it with auction money from the FCC).
or 3) A combination of both
Whatever happens we win with lots of money or lots of unused spectrum (unless the government sits on it).
Don't mean to double reply, but is it likley/possible that DTVs will end up crashing when non DTV data is sent on frequencies they are scanning, or will it no be an issue because it will just look like static to them?
I can say that 2 screens are nice, the stylus sucks for me so far. The only game I play with it is Meteos. Most other games don't use it or are annoying with it (Age of Empires for example).
I really like haveing 2 screens though. I find it much easier to keep track of 2 things on the 2 screens than on one big one (I also use 2 17 LCD's instead of one big widescreen so it may just be me).
That's cool. It is quite fast too, way quicker than changing channel on digital cable (which I hate).
What I really like is that I get perfect reception from channels that were VERY snowy on my old TV.
Right now each station has 2 channels (one analog and one digital) I believe the idea is to free up spectrum when the analog broadcast is shut off. I am not 100% sure though. It also appears to me that frequency has less to do with channel with DTV.
For example a line from antennaweb.org (my notes in parens)
* yellow - uhf WPSG-DT 57.1(channel) CW PHILADELPHIA PA 263° 2.7 32 (frequency)
Though I guess the station would need something in the proper frequency slot to tell the TV where to look.
I always like to type my CC SS numbers into public access terminals. Especially ones that run windows. It is certainly safer to do that than to trust an open source program.
note: I think both using a public terminal and a brand new software package (closed or open source) is crazy, but between the two choices I would take the software, and in a few years I may use the software, but never a public terminal.
It would be great if you were to put a generalization of your results and let us know.
I think it ould make more sense to make things easier to keep safe, and then if they want to offer something to the world they hire geek squad.
I havn't used yellow pages in ages.
Google maps is imperfect for sure, but it is better than paging through hundreds of listings in different catagories (if you can guess the right one) and then needing to call and find out if it is what you are looking for.
I use google maps, and then check websites to see if it is a viable place for what I want. It doesn't need to be a nice website, as long as there is a blurb.
Last time I used the book was for auto glass repair, but a tip from a cop when I filed the police report, along with a google map search to get the phone number of the place ended up being the way to go.
A standard Home or Office NAT acts as a total firewall blocking all incoming connections.
It makes the difficult to configure option the less easy instead of the easier option.
Those are exactly the people that NAT helps.
If someone can't reserve an IP or set it static on their computer and port forward then they probably can't keep services off/up to date or setup a firewall that at its face looks un-needed.
It is hard enough telling people to protect their wireless networks which is relativly easy.
Except the auto pilot could add another way.
Onto a secured military base.
yeah, it was sarcastic.
That explains the GC being the first system to be cracked in the last gen also.
Nintendo wants to make it easy for everyone.
It is unusable in the sense that many applications no longer work on it in there newest version.
As time goes on this becomes a bigger problem. It is not only the cost of the upgrade (cheaper than the apps) but the cost of happiness when things are not exactly the same.
e.g. os 10.3 added expose, captured keyboard shortcuts from Quark Xpress. Maybe I was sloppy in not becoming a Quark Xpress expert to do my job, but it was completly unexpected.
Quark 7.0 will not run in os 10.3. The obvious solution is to upgrade the 3+ year old computers and get a shiny new tower. Except CS2 does not run nativly in on Intel. I am left with the choice of upgrading osX on the old computer, upgrading Quark, and then migrating its activation when we get a new computer after CS3 comes out. At this point an OSX upgrade is wasted money and the disruption is inreased too.
We work with customer files where I am so it is not as simple as "doesn't what you have work?"
Until very recently using Windows 98 on a few computers was no trouble, I have computers that were still functional for doing quickbooks and MS office stuff that are older than the oldest MAC we still use (though we are less demanding of them).
The real thing that will force an upgrade is probably when new stuffit files stop working in version 10.x (they already don't work in 8.x) since stuffit 11 is OS 10.4
"unusable" is an exageration, since old softwar still works, but it is a big nuisance.
FWIW I wasn't trying to make the PS3 look reasonable. To me 18 months of car repair is a huge amount of money. If I wanted it to look cheap I would have said 2 weeks of a house or something.
Comparing play station costs to car repair makes it look very expensive indeed (I spend more time in my car than I could ever dream of playing games).
There is no where around me that will do those car services for even close to either of thos prices (50 or 300) so I can only assume that car work is very differently priced depending on location.
oil change 20
plugs and wires 50 (I always do this myself,since the parts are about 25 and it takes less than 20 minutes)
Filters air filter is about 30 oil filter included with the change.
These are the low end of prices from places I would want to service my car (there are a few gas stations that do only oil for a few dollars less).
A hand car wash is going to cost 25 alone.
That said 300 is starting to be what I consider a big repair. I drive cheap cars and it has been years and years since I paid that much all at once. The PS3 probably costs as much as I spend in car maintanance in 18 months.
I work at a design place and we have less than 10 Macs.
I get so many bullshit problems on the Macs that I can't even fathom how they happen.
Example 1: "I right click and my whole desktop dis-appears and then comes back but no menu" (no idea where to start)
Example 2: fonts turn to gobley-gook in some applications
Example 3: Office just randomly stopped working on a computer
The other problem I have with the Macs is the fast upgrade cycle. OS 10.3 is becoming un-usable and is not so old. People still complain about spotlight.
I will say that I have 3 file servers and 20-30 desktops I maintain ranging from Win98 to XP and OS 10.2 to 10.4 and it is not a full time job for one person without any special admin software, so i cannot see 30-40 boxes/admin as making any sense at all.
I heard a newscaster on the radio describing the Audi entry into Le Mans as quite enough that no-one would call the police if it drove through a sub-urban neighborhood.
Considering that is pretty much the peak inperformance I would say diesel can be quiet.
At the buttom of this page is some more anecdotal evidence.
Diesel does not need to be loud.
If you make money it is income.
Income is taxed.
As the article has a quote about it, here's specifically WHY I am against "Net Neutrality" -- the ISP has no control over throttling particular sites or protocols that can have major negative effects on their overall user experience. I've already noticed some network slowdowns, but in the past 60 days I dumped broadband and rely primarily on my EDGE connection from T-Mobile (200kbps). Latency isn't too shabby. When I use my T1 at the office though, I have noticed some slowdowns.
"net Nutrality" does not prevent throttleing ports. It would even allow bandwidth capping from video sites if the policy was #GB/site or something. It does not allow the site to get improved performance by paying money or partnering or being owned by the provider. the only way a site or protocal would get better performance would be by the user paying extra. (a lot like what you describe).
Or even a matching USB hard drive.
There are 2 USB ports if I am not mistaken, so if one is reserved for the network, there is still space for an HD.
I agree.
I looked at it, but for $50/account it is a lot of money ($1200 vs free) and I can't upgrade only select accounts.
If it were $50/10GB I would get it, because I only have 2 accounts that need more space.
Also, does anybody know if it lifts the tiny 10MB email limit? If I could send 50MB files it would be a lot more valuable.
Is it true that 'one's "warm" may be another's "daylight."' or is that hypothetical?
I have only purchased 2 brands and they have been pretty much the same. I have always assumed there has been a fairly narrow temperature range that each description includes and that there is no way opposite ends overlap.
It would of course be much better if they included temperature and CRI on every package, but I would like to know how much corn syrup is in my soda too. I don't really expect to be told either.
I actually was using packaging adjectives to help people interested in shopping (that was what the quotes were for).
here is a chart on color temperature (of course they do invert it just for fun).
here is a chart of CRI ("full spectrum is greater than 90", and higher means more colors are distinguishable, it makes a HUGE difference).