Horseshit. I remember the days when we had people of principle in government who would take their oath of office seriously, and stand up to criminals and corruption.
scientists and engineers (especially computer geeks) would be at a sever disadvantage in culture and law, and sports and physical attributes would be raised far above intelligence in societal worth.
It started with the Crusades, and then as the Turks took over after the Mongols pulled out it became an issue of control of trade routes and economic growth.
At one time the Ottoman empire stretched well into Europe, including Greece etc.
A regime change supported by the CIA during the cold war to fill a power vacuum left by the French and British colonial empires when they no longer were capable of playing the role of superpowers in the mideast. Give me a break. Europe has been mucking around fighting wars in that part of the world since before the sack of Baghdad by the sons of Genghis Khan. When Europe finally self destructed as a power in the Middle East due self-immolation in WWII the US had to pick up the pieces to prevent the Stalinists from overrunning Eurasia. Now all of a sudden this was a bad thing to do? Give me a goddam break. If this is the grasp of history that is prevalent in Europe your educational system is MUCH worse than is generally believed.
We are having and will continue to have major stability problems in the Middle East because of the mess Europe left behind when they ran home with their tails between their legs in the 40's and 50's. Unfortunately, and as usual the US is left to pick up the pieces and pay the bills in both dollars and lives. Now we are hearing COMPLAINTS from the Europeans on how it is being handled? Well, it is YOUR mess, get in there and clean it up.
$100 does not get you a good upconverting player. For that you are in the $200+ range. If you rent more than buy, the cost of movies is the same. There is no significant reason not to go with a HD-DVD player if you rent.
My cable company now offers 50 channels of HD. I never watch SD any more. DirectTV has a new bird in testing that will supposedly support 100 HDTV channels.
The excuse that there isn't enough HD programming is so last year.
What Net Neutrality laws? Also, if you require free access to all applications, what happens when an ISP blocks access to a port that is used primarily spread virii or spam? Or if the ISP tries to shut don a botnet?
I sure hope so. I've been holding off buying into one of these technologies until the format war ends. This sounds like it could be the beginning of the end.
FIOS ran cable through my neighborhood a few weeks ago. I have buried utilities in on my street. They had 3 people cutting tree roots and putting in a foundation for a distribution box in my front yard for almost a week. I think it cost them more than $1000.
Some analysts think laying the FIOS network is costing more like $9000 to $10000 per home. Hookup of the home after laying the network is more like $650 or so. The costs include the PON, the tap in the distribution box, wiring the house and so on.
And yes there was a Ditch Witch in use.
Oh, and 50 ft gets you about 1/4 of the way from the curb to the service entry point for my house.
Really. From the Comcast AUP prohibited use section:
un programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;
LOL. You are on crack. These adds all carry disclaimers at the bottom that refer you to the terms of service. The TOS on every major ISp forbid servers, which is what BT is.
It requires external network access and a software or firmware load. This is trivial for the manufacturer to leave the feature out of the product. No US manufacturer will lose export business because of this.
The bottleneck is still in the coax. You will never get FIOS speeds out of a cable system.
When you get FIOS, what kind of stuff do they run in your house? Coax. The bottleneck is NOT coax; coax is good up to at least 100 Mbps symmetrical. What is the difference between FIOS and HFC? One is fiber to the premises, the other is fiber to the pole.
I am sure that US telecom manufacturers can sell the same switch without the evesdropping card installed. In fact they probably have a different firmware load for the card depending on where the switch is going - one for China, another for England, one for Israel, one for Saudi Arabia one for Greece, etc. depending on what features the secret police of that country require.
Telecom switches have had wiretapping capability for decades. CALEA has been in place since 1994. There is a string of complaints in various forums, but not one of them actually cites what the new law is.
I don't think there is a new law. This is just the NSA trying to get an improvement in it's existing infrastructure.
Actually it has a lot to do with MP3s and the iPod. Overcompression directly follows the trend where music is listened to as an overlay to daily life. True dynamic range of music doesn't work in that lifestyle so we get ever increasing degrees of compression.
As far as it being worth the sacrifice, I don't think so. Popular music is so highly compressed and butchered that I can't stand listening to it. You may have an extensive collection, but it is a collection of very poor quality music that your father and grandfather would not want to listen to.
However, these same producers compress the living bejeezus out of their music during the production, killing all the dynamics. So frankly, the effect of a lower-bitrate mp3 isn't quite the castration of full-on sonic fidelity that's portrayed in the TFA.
They are both the same phenomena - music fidelity compromised to fit crappy playback systems. iPod and MP3 are destroying music quality.
MP3 and iPod is actively damaging the quality of the music we get because recording engineers are forced to compress the dynamic range and make other sound quality compromises to enhance listenability on this crappy delivery chain.
There is plenty of good quality music out there well worthy of high quality sound reproduction from the studio to the listener. This MP3 trash is destroying people's ability to purchase well recorded music.
As soon as this iPod fad dies out we'll start getting a renaissance in music.
"AT&T decided to do this the paper route instead of just supplying its customers with online, on-demand details."
LOL. Have you ever dealt with an AT&T online billing system? I doubt if they CAN supply online details.
Telecomm business management practices are the worst. After decades as a monopoly, then more decades divesting and requiring each other their info systems are a shambles. People wonder where that $200 billion went? I can GUARANTEE the phone companies DON'T KNOW!!!
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Horseshit. I remember the days when we had people of principle in government who would take their oath of office seriously, and stand up to criminals and corruption.
Here is one.
scientists and engineers (especially computer geeks) would be at a sever disadvantage in culture and law, and sports and physical attributes would be raised far above intelligence in societal worth.
This is different from the current situation how?
Now we know where lawyers and politicians come from.
It started with the Crusades, and then as the Turks took over after the Mongols pulled out it became an issue of control of trade routes and economic growth.
At one time the Ottoman empire stretched well into Europe, including Greece etc.
A regime change supported by the CIA during the cold war to fill a power vacuum left by the French and British colonial empires when they no longer were capable of playing the role of superpowers in the mideast. Give me a break. Europe has been mucking around fighting wars in that part of the world since before the sack of Baghdad by the sons of Genghis Khan. When Europe finally self destructed as a power in the Middle East due self-immolation in WWII the US had to pick up the pieces to prevent the Stalinists from overrunning Eurasia. Now all of a sudden this was a bad thing to do? Give me a goddam break. If this is the grasp of history that is prevalent in Europe your educational system is MUCH worse than is generally believed.
We are having and will continue to have major stability problems in the Middle East because of the mess Europe left behind when they ran home with their tails between their legs in the 40's and 50's. Unfortunately, and as usual the US is left to pick up the pieces and pay the bills in both dollars and lives. Now we are hearing COMPLAINTS from the Europeans on how it is being handled? Well, it is YOUR mess, get in there and clean it up.
What a bunch of hypocritical idiots.
$100 does not get you a good upconverting player. For that you are in the $200+ range. If you rent more than buy, the cost of movies is the same. There is no significant reason not to go with a HD-DVD player if you rent.
My cable company now offers 50 channels of HD. I never watch SD any more. DirectTV has a new bird in testing that will supposedly support 100 HDTV channels.
The excuse that there isn't enough HD programming is so last year.
What Net Neutrality laws? Also, if you require free access to all applications, what happens when an ISP blocks access to a port that is used primarily spread virii or spam? Or if the ISP tries to shut don a botnet?
I sure hope so. I've been holding off buying into one of these technologies until the format war ends. This sounds like it could be the beginning of the end.
FIOS ran cable through my neighborhood a few weeks ago. I have buried utilities in on my street. They had 3 people cutting tree roots and putting in a foundation for a distribution box in my front yard for almost a week. I think it cost them more than $1000.
Some analysts think laying the FIOS network is costing more like $9000 to $10000 per home. Hookup of the home after laying the network is more like $650 or so. The costs include the PON, the tap in the distribution box, wiring the house and so on.
And yes there was a Ditch Witch in use.
Oh, and 50 ft gets you about 1/4 of the way from the curb to the service entry point for my house.
Really?
Really. From the Comcast AUP prohibited use section:
un programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;
LOL. You are on crack. These adds all carry disclaimers at the bottom that refer you to the terms of service. The TOS on every major ISp forbid servers, which is what BT is.
wouldn't Net Neutrality prohibit Comcast from engaging in this sort of behavior?
No. Net Neutrality has nothing to do with this sort of traffic shaping.
Public schools will NEVER do a good job with geniuses. The best thing they can do is just get out of our way.
I want to get into line to have the memories of my first marriage erased. That she-bitch from hell will no longer haunt my dreams!!!!!!
It requires external network access and a software or firmware load. This is trivial for the manufacturer to leave the feature out of the product. No US manufacturer will lose export business because of this.
http://www.naradnetworks.com/hardware.html
Good to at least 100 Mbps symmetrical over a modern cable system.
The bottleneck is still in the coax. You will never get FIOS speeds out of a cable system.
When you get FIOS, what kind of stuff do they run in your house? Coax. The bottleneck is NOT coax; coax is good up to at least 100 Mbps symmetrical. What is the difference between FIOS and HFC? One is fiber to the premises, the other is fiber to the pole.
http://www.naradnetworks.com/hardware.html
I am sure that US telecom manufacturers can sell the same switch without the evesdropping card installed. In fact they probably have a different firmware load for the card depending on where the switch is going - one for China, another for England, one for Israel, one for Saudi Arabia one for Greece, etc. depending on what features the secret police of that country require.
Telecom switches have had wiretapping capability for decades. CALEA has been in place since 1994. There is a string of complaints in various forums, but not one of them actually cites what the new law is.
I don't think there is a new law. This is just the NSA trying to get an improvement in it's existing infrastructure.
Where is this law?
Actually it has a lot to do with MP3s and the iPod. Overcompression directly follows the trend where music is listened to as an overlay to daily life. True dynamic range of music doesn't work in that lifestyle so we get ever increasing degrees of compression.
As far as it being worth the sacrifice, I don't think so. Popular music is so highly compressed and butchered that I can't stand listening to it. You may have an extensive collection, but it is a collection of very poor quality music that your father and grandfather would not want to listen to.
However, these same producers compress the living bejeezus out of their music during the production, killing all the dynamics. So frankly, the effect of a lower-bitrate mp3 isn't quite the castration of full-on sonic fidelity that's portrayed in the TFA.
They are both the same phenomena - music fidelity compromised to fit crappy playback systems. iPod and MP3 are destroying music quality.
MP3 and iPod is actively damaging the quality of the music we get because recording engineers are forced to compress the dynamic range and make other sound quality compromises to enhance listenability on this crappy delivery chain.
There is plenty of good quality music out there well worthy of high quality sound reproduction from the studio to the listener. This MP3 trash is destroying people's ability to purchase well recorded music.
As soon as this iPod fad dies out we'll start getting a renaissance in music.
"AT&T decided to do this the paper route instead of just supplying its customers with online, on-demand details."
LOL. Have you ever dealt with an AT&T online billing system? I doubt if they CAN supply online details.
Telecomm business management practices are the worst. After decades as a monopoly, then more decades divesting and requiring each other their info systems are a shambles. People wonder where that $200 billion went? I can GUARANTEE the phone companies DON'T KNOW!!!
In this case by the 300 mph hydrogen fuel cell Buckeye Bullet.
http://jalopnik.com/cars/alternative-energy/300%2