Streaming video over the net would be nice but I would settle for something much simpler, live feeds over one or more sat feeds, I dont care about commercials (hell, run them like banner adds on non encrypted channels and encrypt the feeds for retransmission (or A vs. D)) this would allow for the broadcast company to determine what they want to show (on the terestrial re-broadcast) but let people who want to see real time events to get their fill as well.
As for why the IOC is protecting their clients (the stations that buy rights) check out the income they get,
BROADCAST RIGHTS FACTS AND FIGURES 738 million for Salt Lake, 1.3 billion for Sydney, and projected 832 million for Torino with 1.5 billion for Athens
Actually, if both ends are using directional antennas and fixed point to point you can get quite a lot more power through the sustem. The rule for fixed p-p is that you need to lower input 1 db for each 3 db gain over 6db
Example:
two systems interconnected with a 21 db dish at each point
Your total radiated power at each end would be 30dbm+(21db-(21db-6db/3)) or 46dbm which is aprox. 39.8 watts Eirp (on each side)
This is not ment to imply that you can break out that old russian amp and crank it up to 40 W of output (that would be putting out WAY to much power{around }) your output after amp should be a bit over 250mW
ps: 30 dbm = 1 W
pps: I know someone posted something close to this but I need to get octave to compile to do the proper calcs (on a 150 mhz laptop (8h))
ATT is doing this with 802.11 equip and charted planes to check for open accesss points. Yhea, its stupid but they claim to have shut a few people down.
If I remeber this is one of the new chic things to do in eastern asiatic countries (that is to add one of the "lucky" numbers to your/your offspring's name)
Unless these are made out of some novel new material (ie non magnetic and can't cary a curent) you could never have an MRI (at least not a quick one {faster scan=stronger magnet}), hope you dont have a back injury or get into a bad car crash.
I wonder how long it would be before a suit was filed for injuries from an MRI performed on a person that this was forced upon. Ex-con gets in car wreck, MRI while he/she is out, chip comes flying out of arm and through (insert soft body part here).
A properly designed faraday cage will refect most of the EM spectrum and dissapate the rest to ground (depending on both the polarization and the phase). The cage dosent deterine inside from outside, it simply provides a boundry.
Two questions first, are you paying ~$50 a month and getting 1.5 Mb/s if so please shut the hell up unless you can get a better deal. If you can then great but this seems like a major flame. When I went with PacBell (SBC) DSL it took 2 weeks to install, was up for a week then went down for 3, and never had the speeds advertised. ATT came in and installed within 3 days (time from first call) This is my third outage with ATT in the past year. BFD 13 days down in a year isnt that bad when 4 of those were because of cars hitting above ground junctions. I had more then that with dialup's. It seems that a lot of people are bitching about the best connection they have had.
According to hersay (a friend of mine in the atheletics department) the school district that I am in spent over 20,000 dollars to set up a football (American style) game. I was cool and all having two Palo Alto HS(s) playing football in the Stanford stadium, but the choir, band, and robotics (engr.paly.net) could have all been funded for a year off of that.
PS: sorry for not going with a html link, I'm too damn tired.
Assuming that VIA is in fact trying to make a P4 clone, is it possibable that they are trying to force a takeover. If VIA is having internal problems might they be trying to get Intel to sue for stock?
Otherwise this information is either a leak of gargantuan proportions or a hoax. I would personaly put my cash in the hoax theory.
Once again we go back to philosophy. If you take the point of view of the terrorist who kills the (from our frame innocent) people you would probably find that he (all terrorists were reported to be male) didnt think that the act was wrong.
I have to be clear here, I am not preaching moral relativism, I am mearly stating that from what I think is logical point one cant make a statment of absolute morals. IANAL (I am not a logician {SP?})
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"Boston Edison gets its Subtotal for downtown crossing from the above General Electric "And Lead Us Not Into Temptation"" -Mystery Writer (Boston)
I dont think that TR likes cards in promiscuous mode much. TR is not ether. I'm pretty sure that promiscuous mode fubars it bad. Did you see if it worked when you wernt in promiscuous mode?
HyperCard does have it's good point, the fact that a 7 year old can figure out how to use it (I should know, I started making stacks in 2'nd grade). The only thing that HyperCard was used for in my middle school and high school was to make simple one dimensional presentations. Not to bad mouth HyperCard but has anyone ever heard of HTML???
I have no love lost for this defunct program, and I hope that it's phased out as quickly as possible.
On the Carl Sagan bit, no S*** we need to be carefull, if we mess up we can't fix it.
That said I personally think that if the gov. and "evil" corprations were a bit smarter then they would both think further into the future and start listening to the "useless" advisors. In most of the really bad cases where science is the "bad guy" a small group of smart people (smart people generaly don't form mobs) spoke out against it.
I am not trying to bash environmentalism, only point out that we need to take a less reacionary, longer term look at the situation. In fact, ignoring any part of the enviro. would be the exact thing that I think we must stop. We must care for enviroment if we wish to survive.
Ok, last point. All-out nuclear war is a lot less of a concern to me than bio/chem/nano (in a few years) warfare.
Up here in the SF Bay Area there were news clips of people saying how they would never change their lifestyle, no matter what it cost them. I wonder what they will do if an earthquake hits and takes out the power. It would be sort of funny to see a suburban family staring at a blank TV screen wating popcorn. Oh, and they had 2 SUV's in the driveway. I guess some people just don't have to worry about the cost of nat. resources or polution.
Nukes are safer then coal or nat. gas., they polute less and worst comes to worst, launch the waste at > escape velocity towards the sun.
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As for why the IOC is protecting their clients (the stations that buy rights) check out the income they get,
BROADCAST RIGHTS FACTS AND FIGURES 738 million for Salt Lake, 1.3 billion for Sydney, and projected 832 million for Torino with 1.5 billion for Athens
Example:
two systems interconnected with a 21 db dish at each point
Your total radiated power at each end would be 30dbm+(21db-(21db-6db/3)) or 46dbm which is aprox. 39.8 watts Eirp (on each side)
This is not ment to imply that you can break out that old russian amp and crank it up to 40 W of output (that would be putting out WAY to much power{around }) your output after amp should be a bit over 250mW
ps: 30 dbm = 1 W
pps: I know someone posted something close to this but I need to get octave to compile to do the proper calcs (on a 150 mhz laptop (8h))
ATT is doing this with 802.11 equip and charted planes to check for open accesss points. Yhea, its stupid but they claim to have shut a few people down.
If I remeber this is one of the new chic things to do in eastern asiatic countries (that is to add one of the "lucky" numbers to your/your offspring's name)
Unless these are made out of some novel new material (ie non magnetic and can't cary a curent) you could never have an MRI (at least not a quick one {faster scan=stronger magnet}), hope you dont have a back injury or get into a bad car crash.
I wonder how long it would be before a suit was filed for injuries from an MRI performed on a person that this was forced upon. Ex-con gets in car wreck, MRI while he/she is out, chip comes flying out of arm and through (insert soft body part here).
Please forgive any gram./spelling errs it's 4am
Sorry, that's incorrect.
A properly designed faraday cage will refect most of the EM spectrum and dissapate the rest to ground (depending on both the polarization and the phase). The cage dosent deterine inside from outside, it simply provides a boundry.
Two questions first, are you paying ~$50 a month and getting 1.5 Mb/s if so please shut the hell up unless you can get a better deal. If you can then great but this seems like a major flame. When I went with PacBell (SBC) DSL it took 2 weeks to install, was up for a week then went down for 3, and never had the speeds advertised. ATT came in and installed within 3 days (time from first call) This is my third outage with ATT in the past year. BFD 13 days down in a year isnt that bad when 4 of those were because of cars hitting above ground junctions. I had more then that with dialup's. It seems that a lot of people are bitching about the best connection they have had.
According to hersay (a friend of mine in the atheletics department) the school district that I am in spent over 20,000 dollars to set up a football (American style) game. I was cool and all having two Palo Alto HS(s) playing football in the Stanford stadium, but the choir, band, and robotics (engr.paly.net) could have all been funded for a year off of that.
PS: sorry for not going with a html link, I'm too damn tired.
Assuming that VIA is in fact trying to make a P4 clone, is it possibable that they are trying to force a takeover. If VIA is having internal problems might they be trying to get Intel to sue for stock?
Otherwise this information is either a leak of gargantuan proportions or a hoax. I would personaly put my cash in the hoax theory.
actually its between .5 and .8 seconds
because then they can release all of their cd's in "protected" form and beat people over the head with the DMCA
I know its off topic but the correction would be
Larry "God dosent think he's me" Ellison
Once again we go back to philosophy. If you take the point of view of the terrorist who kills the (from our frame innocent) people you would probably find that he (all terrorists were reported to be male) didnt think that the act was wrong.
I have to be clear here, I am not preaching moral relativism, I am mearly stating that from what I think is logical point one cant make a statment of absolute morals. IANAL (I am not a logician {SP?})
__________________________
"Boston Edison gets its Subtotal for downtown crossing from the above General Electric "And Lead Us Not Into Temptation"" -Mystery Writer (Boston)
*Whacks mjh upside the head*
I dont think that TR likes cards in promiscuous mode much. TR is not ether. I'm pretty sure that promiscuous mode fubars it bad. Did you see if it worked when you wernt in promiscuous mode?
one word: retainer
This was a comment stating that it wasn't hard to switch to *nix or BSD and configure a web server.
Those were the days.
|:D
actually it's molten salt
I have no love lost for this defunct program, and I hope that it's phased out as quickly as possible.
Handy Dandy HC to HTML converter
Requires Flash 5
Data Drive
MD Still Camera
Video Camera
Because there are at least 3 competing Mpeg-4 "standards"
yup coo=$"Chief Operations Officer"
That said I personally think that if the gov. and "evil" corprations were a bit smarter then they would both think further into the future and start listening to the "useless" advisors. In most of the really bad cases where science is the "bad guy" a small group of smart people (smart people generaly don't form mobs) spoke out against it.
I am not trying to bash environmentalism, only point out that we need to take a less reacionary, longer term look at the situation. In fact, ignoring any part of the enviro. would be the exact thing that I think we must stop. We must care for enviroment if we wish to survive.
Ok, last point. All-out nuclear war is a lot less of a concern to me than bio/chem/nano (in a few years) warfare.
Nukes are safer then coal or nat. gas., they polute less and worst comes to worst, launch the waste at > escape velocity towards the sun.