Of course there isnt, do you drive a car eveery morning on the way to work? Thats a risk.
People freely smoke 20 a day. That increses their likelyhood of a premature death to about 1 in 4. Life is full of risks, we minimise them as far as is practicle, however how boring would life be without risk?
Things to try 1) Mount satelite dish inside (will go thorugh a window). Only works if you have a clear view of 28 degrees east 2) Petition landlord for a satelite dish on the roof, with a coax cable running down into your flat. 3) Try a booster on the ariel for DTT. Try an indoor ariel (can work if theres a more pwoerful DTT transmitter nearby that your main ariel doesnt point to) 4) Get a big fat YAGI loft ariel, mount it *in* your flat, point to nearby transmitter (preferably through a window, but not essential
From where I live I can see 3 analog transmitters and 1 digital transmitter. That means I receive 17 UHF channels in good quality (assuming I rotate the ariel). 4 analog channels, from 3 transmitters, and 5 digital MUXes. In addition to this I get spilage from a couple more transmitters which mean that a TV station cant broadcast on those frequencys. The U only has 40 UHF channels to choose from, theres rarely room to squeeze an extra 1 channel (hence Channel 5 and DTT coverage is only about 60%. You have to be careful about interfereing across the channel too. Some areas can receive 30 UHF channels in good quality, however they are all repeats of the big 5, and digital muxes. Countries like the U.S. have local stations, which carry some network programming (like local radio in the UK). the UK doesnt have any local stations (aside from about 10 city-sized RSL's). The UK emphasises full coverage of every broadcast station, instead of maximum number of stations. Also theres less space alocated to channels in the UK (other countries have 70 UHF channels and VHF channels - twice as many as the UK)
Incidently I dont know a single country that has unregulated use of the UHF band.
No it wouldnt. If every tom, dick and harry stuck up a 100W transmitter, broadcasting god know what kind of unfiltered, unnicefied UHF signal, TV would be unwatchable. If they forced cable nets to be open, that might work.
We need something to convert the solar energy to electricity, perhaps some form of death clock^H^H^H^H^H^H "solar panel". We can then channel this electricty and emit it in a single direction, using a device which I'll call a "laser". This can then be beamed down to earth and used to heat grits.
Yeah, when columbus set sail the wrong way round the world, he made sure he took every safety precaution.
Safety is very important, but when it reaches a certain point its ridiculous. Attitudes like that will confine us to $10,000/pound low orbit flights for the next 500 years.
All the BBC channels are available on satelite for the cost of a box and dish (about £100 second hand - less then the cost of a DTT box and new ariel). You get loads more free channels too like boomerang (24 hour cartoons). They are also on DTT (""freeview"") too, as well as the digital only radio stations.
BBCi is the interactive part of BBC (Digital "teletext", the website, and extra video streams on news24). BBCi is not the Digital only channels.
I hate the way the BBC pumps my license fee into projects that are completely worthless (fame acadamy, eastenders). Fortunatly the BBC exists for the minority of the population. If we relyed on tabloid "mob rule", we'd have back to back football and big brother on TV, back to back Justin Timberlake on radio, and stupid flash and "Free Tonez" on bbci.
Back in the day when BBC pumped money into 625line TV, and then Color, and Teletext, and Nicam, it was exactly the same. Not everyone have Teletext, why should they have to subsidise teletext people? Why does the BBC maintain a website and broadcast radio online for people in america and beyond, that dont pay a license fee? They had a website back in the days when there was 30,000,000 internet users worldwide
Everything starts off as a minority, specialist, service. Then the mainstream get it.
Besides, I'd think the 5 million DST, 2 1/2 million DTT and 2 1/2 million cable subscribers is a large chunk of the license fee payers. More people can techincally receive BBC Four and Choice then can receive BBC Two on analog. A second hand digibox and dish from ebay - £100. Someone to install it - £50. That gives access to 50 channels with no subscription, anywhere in the UK (unless you cant put a dish up because of conservation issues). For the 50,000 people that cant have a dish, DTT and cable will cover about 90% of them. The rest are unlikely to receive a full analog signal anyway - the highlands of scotland viewers that cant receive BBC2 dont get a rebate on their license fee.
Following several false starts in attempting to bring it back, the drama will finally be premièred in a webcast on BBCi in the spring.
Not broadcast on one of the BBC's many channels (BBC Three would be good, kick people into getting Digital TV), but instead in dubious quality on the web?
What we need is a leap the size of a floppy to CD jump. 2.88MB floppys didnt really take off outside the warez community, Zip drives and LS120's were 10 times the leap from floppys as DVD's are from CD's. We need a leap on the order of 250fold - pushing the size of removable media up past 100GB, at a high speed and low price.
As an aside, Would it be possible to use mini-DV tapes as a cheap tape system? DV is arround 4MBytes/second - a 60 minute miniDV is about 15GB, still not good (as its linear and you'd ned 5 to backup a normal hard drive), but may help hoem user backups.
All law is open to interpretation. It's helpful if a law does re-afirm your rights. A pro-sony judge may decide that ripping a cd is illegal, even for fair use, as the DMCA isnt 100% clear. This bill would tell the judge that its legal, which would at the very least cut down the 1 in 1000 cases the judge decides incorrectly.
maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest [tilley.com] instead
Completely off topic, but just went to that site. Clicked international, and looked at the price - $350. OK, way too expensive for a shirt with pockets, but hey.
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Initially it will run at arround 150Megabytes a second, however should be able to increase to 600.
Of course there isnt, do you drive a car eveery morning on the way to work? Thats a risk.
People freely smoke 20 a day. That increses their likelyhood of a premature death to about 1 in 4. Life is full of risks, we minimise them as far as is practicle, however how boring would life be without risk?
So traffic lights support genocide? I'll use that next time I go through one on red
Things to try
1) Mount satelite dish inside (will go thorugh a window). Only works if you have a clear view of 28 degrees east
2) Petition landlord for a satelite dish on the roof, with a coax cable running down into your flat.
3) Try a booster on the ariel for DTT. Try an indoor ariel (can work if theres a more pwoerful DTT transmitter nearby that your main ariel doesnt point to)
4) Get a big fat YAGI loft ariel, mount it *in* your flat, point to nearby transmitter (preferably through a window, but not essential
From where I live I can see 3 analog transmitters and 1 digital transmitter. That means I receive 17 UHF channels in good quality (assuming I rotate the ariel). 4 analog channels, from 3 transmitters, and 5 digital MUXes. In addition to this I get spilage from a couple more transmitters which mean that a TV station cant broadcast on those frequencys. The U only has 40 UHF channels to choose from, theres rarely room to squeeze an extra 1 channel (hence Channel 5 and DTT coverage is only about 60%. You have to be careful about interfereing across the channel too. Some areas can receive 30 UHF channels in good quality, however they are all repeats of the big 5, and digital muxes. Countries like the U.S. have local stations, which carry some network programming (like local radio in the UK). the UK doesnt have any local stations (aside from about 10 city-sized RSL's). The UK emphasises full coverage of every broadcast station, instead of maximum number of stations. Also theres less space alocated to channels in the UK (other countries have 70 UHF channels and VHF channels - twice as many as the UK)
Incidently I dont know a single country that has unregulated use of the UHF band.
Perfect example, he risked all, suffered a mutiny, lost the pinta and nina, and had he not, We'd still be stuck in europe.
No it wouldnt. If every tom, dick and harry stuck up a 100W transmitter, broadcasting god know what kind of unfiltered, unnicefied UHF signal, TV would be unwatchable. If they forced cable nets to be open, that might work.
We need something to convert the solar energy to electricity, perhaps some form of death clock^H^H^H^H^H^H "solar panel". We can then channel this electricty and emit it in a single direction, using a device which I'll call a "laser". This can then be beamed down to earth and used to heat grits.
Yeah, when columbus set sail the wrong way round the world, he made sure he took every safety precaution.
Safety is very important, but when it reaches a certain point its ridiculous. Attitudes like that will confine us to $10,000/pound low orbit flights for the next 500 years.
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Hurrah, I feel so superior when a moderator on crack doesnt understand the meaning of basic english words like ass, hole, and redundant.
All the BBC channels are available on satelite for the cost of a box and dish (about £100 second hand - less then the cost of a DTT box and new ariel). You get loads more free channels too like boomerang (24 hour cartoons). They are also on DTT (""freeview"") too, as well as the digital only radio stations.
BBCi is the interactive part of BBC (Digital "teletext", the website, and extra video streams on news24). BBCi is not the Digital only channels.
I hate the way the BBC pumps my license fee into projects that are completely worthless (fame acadamy, eastenders). Fortunatly the BBC exists for the minority of the population. If we relyed on tabloid "mob rule", we'd have back to back football and big brother on TV, back to back Justin Timberlake on radio, and stupid flash and "Free Tonez" on bbci.
Back in the day when BBC pumped money into 625line TV, and then Color, and Teletext, and Nicam, it was exactly the same. Not everyone have Teletext, why should they have to subsidise teletext people? Why does the BBC maintain a website and broadcast radio online for people in america and beyond, that dont pay a license fee? They had a website back in the days when there was 30,000,000 internet users worldwide
Everything starts off as a minority, specialist, service. Then the mainstream get it.
Besides, I'd think the 5 million DST, 2 1/2 million DTT and 2 1/2 million cable subscribers is a large chunk of the license fee payers. More people can techincally receive BBC Four and Choice then can receive BBC Two on analog. A second hand digibox and dish from ebay - £100. Someone to install it - £50. That gives access to 50 channels with no subscription, anywhere in the UK (unless you cant put a dish up because of conservation issues). For the 50,000 people that cant have a dish, DTT and cable will cover about 90% of them. The rest are unlikely to receive a full analog signal anyway - the highlands of scotland viewers that cant receive BBC2 dont get a rebate on their license fee.
hey, dont insult kyle like that!
Following several false starts in attempting to bring it back, the drama will finally be premièred in a webcast on BBCi in the spring.
Not broadcast on one of the BBC's many channels (BBC Three would be good, kick people into getting Digital TV), but instead in dubious quality on the web?
What we need is a leap the size of a floppy to CD jump. 2.88MB floppys didnt really take off outside the warez community, Zip drives and LS120's were 10 times the leap from floppys as DVD's are from CD's. We need a leap on the order of 250fold - pushing the size of removable media up past 100GB, at a high speed and low price.
As an aside, Would it be possible to use mini-DV tapes as a cheap tape system? DV is arround 4MBytes/second - a 60 minute miniDV is about 15GB, still not good (as its linear and you'd ned 5 to backup a normal hard drive), but may help hoem user backups.
Somehow I've got images of the next series of 24 involving this.
One copy eh? So if I want to play it on my laptop/car/mp3 player I have to rip it again and again and again?
Copy protection wont work until microphones and speakers are banned. Why bother trying?
I'm doing a bachelors degree, I too manage to avoid campus (apart from the pub)
The question is, which is more likely to pass. Sometimes ends justify means
All law is open to interpretation. It's helpful if a law does re-afirm your rights. A pro-sony judge may decide that ripping a cd is illegal, even for fair use, as the DMCA isnt 100% clear. This bill would tell the judge that its legal, which would at the very least cut down the 1 in 1000 cases the judge decides incorrectly.
A device that will film me smoking after sex
:p
Yeah, you wish
nope, clicked international. You'd think they'd make it clear if it was CDM or USD
He makes mention of sleeping in some unusual places, but he never mentions a towel!#
A credit to the geek name
maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest [tilley.com] instead
Completely off topic, but just went to that site. Clicked international, and looked at the price - $350. OK, way too expensive for a shirt with pockets, but hey.
I then went back, anc clicked on "U.S.". $280.
$70 difference for ordering from abroad?
Yes. All you need is a hammer, works every time.