You can absolutely test 911 from any phone line. Simply call 911 and immediately mention to the operator you are making a test call to verify address information. Tell her what you think your address should be in their system and he/she can confirm this for you. As long as you make clear right off the bat you are on a test call, there is not a problem.
The fondest memory I have re: the early GPUs was popping in my Diamond Monster 3d (4mb ram voodoo1 chipset) and starting quake. I nearly fainted. Never before and since has a hardware upgrade completely blown me away like that. Man, the walls were bi-linear filtered! No longer was there giant pixels when you got close to a wall, but a pleasant bluriness.:) Wow. All I can say is Quake/id started the GPU industry, and I will also forever remember this revolutionary game for the virtual worlds it created. Don't forget the full TCP/IP client/server model that was included with Quake as well. This created a vibrant online community and a whole ecosystem of clans, server browsers, web sites, mods, that many take for granted today. Online (internet) gaming was all hacks up until that point (not truly tcp/ip but ipx/spx hacked to work over the net, etc). Perhaps this is what was so special about Quake. It was truly revolutionary in both it's graphical technologies but also the networking tech. I'm glad I spent my teenage years playing it all night. =) For those levels became real worlds when populated with friends, and I get choked up just looking at screenshots... Shout out to everyone who played QWCTF!
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Actually, the delay would be less than a second with a 600 ping. 600ms to be precise. =) Honestly though, you played with a 600 ping? Even with QW's latency-hiding, 600 was ridiculous. I remember the high end for dialup was around 350ms, with around 210-250ms being more common. Sometimes I would even dip 200ms on really close servers. You should have downloaded QuakeSpy to find servers closer to you.:) This was all on a 26.4kbps dialup connection. Ah the good old days..
Nice to see Tivo do something smart, for a change. This company has disrespected and disowned the Mac platform since Tiger came out. A *one line* fix for the Tivo Desktop software is all they needed to release for final Tiger compatibility. As of today, that broken version is still on their web page. It also doesn't include aac audio support; a minor thing on other platforms, but a snub to the Mac users who have large aac collections. That version also lacks significant functionality that it's Windows counterpart contains. Noteably the TivoToGo (video downloading) feature. This is why I wrote TivoTool.
One goal of TivoTool is to represent what I think TivoToGo should be like on the Mac. It looks like soon I will be able to directly compare. The other goal of TivoTool is to put a friendly front-end on some "hacking" tools. You see, that is the catch - you need to decrypt their MPEG2 video streams to have true freedom. This requires you open the device (void your warranty) and hook up it's drive to your Linux box. Since there are many types of Tivos and many software versions, this process is not as easy as it should be.
In no particular order, here are some points about TivoTool v TivoToGo: * The Tivo network drivers are slow. Even with a USB2 device and hardware support, the drivers just don't take full advantage of what they have. Of course the enthusiast community has come up with faster drivers. * Streaming video right off your Tivo and watching it on any computer in the house is cool (TivoTool does this). I don't forsee Tivo adding this capability anytime soon. * With TivoTool, you can burn a DVD right from the main interface. TivoToGo requires that you purchase another program to do this. * You also need to pay for some sort of MPEG2 codec. TivoTool uses MPlayer which has MPEG2 support. * TivoTool can stream-compress to various formats such as avi and mp4 as you download it from the Tivo. * Other stuff, I don't want to totally start comparing dick sizes. There is a Linux version of TivoTool though!
Finally, I should point out that this new software from Tivo will only work on a specific subset of Tivo hardware. Specifically the "Series 2" with software version 7.x. If you have a DirecTV Tivo, sorry. If you have a Series 1, sorry. If you are in the UK or Aus, sorry. Yes, TivoTool works with all of the above.
Also, notice the Mac platform was never mentioned in their press release. Only "iPod support". This *might* be bad news for the Mac platform, but I'm putting a little faith in Tivo because I still love their device and what it does for me. They can't just put in iPod support for Windows. That would be insane.
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Remember back when companies had Q/A departments and procedures? Wrote test plans and tried various scenarios to make sure the software was idiot and bullet proof?
On my Suse 9.1, it's Ctrl-Alt-F7. On your distro, maybe something else. Hence the weakness of Linux. I can't definitively say how to fix your problem, since Linux is so fragmented.
Why do posts like this always come up when a neat hack is featured? How many times does it have to be said? Stuff like this isn't out there to be "useful", it's out there for people like me who think its just cool. Nothing more, nothing less.
In 1995 you have roughly 58 million citizens in the UK. In 1995 the US had roughly 263 million citizens. Even small amounts of information would take more space than a UK database. Rough math says a UK database of this type would be 250gigs. Doesn't seem that big to me.
What if only a small group of your friends stopped liking you, as is the case? There are 200+ countries in this world. How many opposed the war? How many offered support to the effort?
Stop perpetuating the myth that we went into Iraq "alone".
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You can absolutely test 911 from any phone line. Simply call 911 and immediately mention to the operator you are making a test call to verify address information. Tell her what you think your address should be in their system and he/she can confirm this for you. As long as you make clear right off the bat you are on a test call, there is not a problem.
The fondest memory I have re: the early GPUs was popping in my Diamond Monster 3d (4mb ram voodoo1 chipset) and starting quake. I nearly fainted. Never before and since has a hardware upgrade completely blown me away like that. Man, the walls were bi-linear filtered! No longer was there giant pixels when you got close to a wall, but a pleasant bluriness. :) Wow. All I can say is Quake/id started the GPU industry, and I will also forever remember this revolutionary game for the virtual worlds it created. Don't forget the full TCP/IP client/server model that was included with Quake as well. This created a vibrant online community and a whole ecosystem of clans, server browsers, web sites, mods, that many take for granted today. Online (internet) gaming was all hacks up until that point (not truly tcp/ip but ipx/spx hacked to work over the net, etc). Perhaps this is what was so special about Quake. It was truly revolutionary in both it's graphical technologies but also the networking tech. I'm glad I spent my teenage years playing it all night. =) For those levels became real worlds when populated with friends, and I get choked up just looking at screenshots... Shout out to everyone who played QWCTF!
Actually, the delay would be less than a second with a 600 ping. 600ms to be precise. =) Honestly though, you played with a 600 ping? Even with QW's latency-hiding, 600 was ridiculous. I remember the high end for dialup was around 350ms, with around 210-250ms being more common. Sometimes I would even dip 200ms on really close servers. You should have downloaded QuakeSpy to find servers closer to you. :) This was all on a 26.4kbps dialup connection. Ah the good old days..
Dude, I think he was kidding. Lighten up!
Then teach them.
Nice to see Tivo do something smart, for a change. This company has disrespected and disowned the Mac platform since Tiger came out. A *one line* fix for the Tivo Desktop software is all they needed to release for final Tiger compatibility. As of today, that broken version is still on their web page. It also doesn't include aac audio support; a minor thing on other platforms, but a snub to the Mac users who have large aac collections. That version also lacks significant functionality that it's Windows counterpart contains. Noteably the TivoToGo (video downloading) feature. This is why I wrote TivoTool.
One goal of TivoTool is to represent what I think TivoToGo should be like on the Mac. It looks like soon I will be able to directly compare. The other goal of TivoTool is to put a friendly front-end on some "hacking" tools. You see, that is the catch - you need to decrypt their MPEG2 video streams to have true freedom. This requires you open the device (void your warranty) and hook up it's drive to your Linux box. Since there are many types of Tivos and many software versions, this process is not as easy as it should be.
In no particular order, here are some points about TivoTool v TivoToGo:
* The Tivo network drivers are slow. Even with a USB2 device and hardware support, the drivers just don't take full advantage of what they have. Of course the enthusiast community has come up with faster drivers.
* Streaming video right off your Tivo and watching it on any computer in the house is cool (TivoTool does this). I don't forsee Tivo adding this capability anytime soon.
* With TivoTool, you can burn a DVD right from the main interface. TivoToGo requires that you purchase another program to do this.
* You also need to pay for some sort of MPEG2 codec. TivoTool uses MPlayer which has MPEG2 support.
* TivoTool can stream-compress to various formats such as avi and mp4 as you download it from the Tivo.
* Other stuff, I don't want to totally start comparing dick sizes. There is a Linux version of TivoTool though!
Finally, I should point out that this new software from Tivo will only work on a specific subset of Tivo hardware. Specifically the "Series 2" with software version 7.x. If you have a DirecTV Tivo, sorry. If you have a Series 1, sorry. If you are in the UK or Aus, sorry. Yes, TivoTool works with all of the above.
Also, notice the Mac platform was never mentioned in their press release. Only "iPod support". This *might* be bad news for the Mac platform, but I'm putting a little faith in Tivo because I still love their device and what it does for me. They can't just put in iPod support for Windows. That would be insane.
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Sounds like BitTorrent
secretary_betty@gmail.com forward to -> secretary_betty_2004@gmail.com
Dec. 31, 2004, change forward to secretary_betty_2005@gmail.com.
Remember back when companies had Q/A departments and procedures? Wrote test plans and tried various scenarios to make sure the software was idiot and bullet proof?
No.
You fail to realize the critical mass of people still on dialup.
On my Suse 9.1, it's Ctrl-Alt-F7. On your distro, maybe something else. Hence the weakness of Linux. I can't definitively say how to fix your problem, since Linux is so fragmented.
Why do posts like this always come up when a neat hack is featured? How many times does it have to be said? Stuff like this isn't out there to be "useful", it's out there for people like me who think its just cool. Nothing more, nothing less.
How do we know you don't work for Samsung :)
No, he's just your typical liberal still living in the year 2000. ;)
No, good news for Direct Connect.
Speaking English? :)
In 1995 you have roughly 58 million citizens in the UK. In 1995 the US had roughly 263 million citizens. Even small amounts of information would take more space than a UK database. Rough math says a UK database of this type would be 250gigs. Doesn't seem that big to me.
I was watching ST:TNG on Spike the other day and the scrolling message and black bar came up..
Their online store doesn't seem to be working, too bad :)
What if only a small group of your friends stopped liking you, as is the case? There are 200+ countries in this world. How many opposed the war? How many offered support to the effort?
Stop perpetuating the myth that we went into Iraq "alone".
Unless you don't drink cola....
Never underestimate the stupidity of people looking for snappy comebacks.
nuf said
It's not nice to make fun of people with speech impediments.
Printing blocks were invented by the Chinese, not the Koreans.
Water clocks were used by the Greeks ~325bc, 500 years before they were used in the far east.
Finally, TURTLE BOATS WERE NOT SUBMARINES