It has to be one with a big Backspace key as well, of course. So, on the right side it has: big "Backspace" key (2 wide), underneath that, a two-row "Enter" key (top narrower than the bottom row part), and underneath a slightly smaller right "Shift" key and next to it the "Backslash/Pipe" key. And, old-school: 101 keys, naturally. Very hard to find nowadays.
Back in 1991, ponton european media art lab. Piazza Virtuale. I used a Nintendo 4 X 4 pad, a "brick" interface from the nintendo connector to Apple's ADB on a Mac IIfx, and then a MacroMedia Director script to send serial commands to a telephone interface, which would drop (or "censor") callers to a TV show. Was whole lot of fun to jump around in that studio and literally "kick" out annoying callers.
It's a really retarded idea to switch the whole country, all TV station, at once to the new technology. Also, this does not render old TVs useless.
Look at europe, in germany they started with one big city after another, switched from analog to DVB-T (the world's alternative to the USA's ATSC) and sold little converterboxes for about 50 bucks. People hook that up to their old TVs and got 2 or 3 times as many channels with a cable-like quality.
This way you can do a slow transition of the transmitter and receiver technology, deploy it region by region and learn from the mistakes at the previous deployment.
The US has a lot more "red tape" to cut through, but it's pretty much the same for everyone.
In Europe, if you're white, blonde and blue-eyed, you can do pretty much whaterver you like, e.g. work for years on an expired student visa. No such luck if you're latino or black, you might even have to sue the immigration perople to stay in the country.
The article left out the aspect of analog signals, VGA as well as component video. The current connectors in the market and their features are:
- DVI-D: digital 24 bit RGB (either ITU656 with embedded sync or ITU601 with separate analog H- and V-Sync) on 4 wire pairs - DVI-A: analog RGB with separate H- and V-Sync - DVI-I: combination of both - Sub-D 15 (VGA): analog RGB with separate H- and V-Sync - HDMI: digital 24 bit RGB ITU656 signal with optional digital audio data embedded in the banking areas of the video signal, same electrical spec as DVI-D - SCART (europe): Analog CVBS or RGB-with-composite-sync and analog stereo audio - 3 RCA (or Cynch): analog RGB with sync-on-green or YUV component - D4 (japan): analog YUV component on one mini connector
HDCP is an optional encryption protocol over DVI-D or HDMI connections. It encrypts the ITU656 data before mixing the 24 bit digital onto the 4 wire pairs and decypts them after the reverse on the receiver.
Overall, for a digital connection HDMI is the best, since it obsoletes the additional audio connection. It also features a mandatory set of resolutions and auto-sensing of plugging.
I'll say: if you need analog RGB from your PC to your monitor, use DVI-I, otherwise switch to HDMI.
Your cat will sleep at night if you keep it up during the day. Play with the little bugger. Well, get a good cat book, that will tell you about that and the other things.
If you're at the NAB, check out the LinuxTV Box at booth E-2333/07. We have a linux based box with DVB reception (Digital TV standard in the rest of the world), a PVR, DVD-Player, MP3 and Audio CD playback, a fast graphics library (DirectFB, http://directfb.org) that allowes true transparent windowing with GTK support, a MHP (multimedia home platform) stack and of course the variety of network access you are used to from a linux box. On top of that we have a nice user interface that glues it all together.
We are a german company, convergence integrated media, with offices in berlin, san francisco and amsterdam. Most of the software is open source, check out http://linuxtv.org for more info.
> thats why they have such good cell phone
> networks because the land lines networks are
> outdated shit. Have you ever tried to get a
> long distance line in Germany? It's a nightmere,
> easier to tell the people you want to talk
> to to call you if the are in the US, ATT may
> be the evil empire but at least they are
> good at what they do.
You are kidding, right? When was the last time you did a long distance call in gemany? 1969? Since about 5 years now they have finished changing all PBX to digital, even in the smallest villages. You can get ISDN lines for about $15/month, less than what you have to pay for 2 analog lines, and a lot of people have ISDN in their homes. No more touch tone or other analog crap.
There is, of course, alot of bad stuff as well
I always considered the american system of fixed length for the area code (3 digits) and phone number (7 digits) extremely stupid.
In other countries, e.g. in most european ones, you have variable length area codes and phone numbers, allowing for a kind of "huffman coding": A big city gets 8 or 9 digit telephone numbers and uses a 2 digit area code, to keep the overall number as short as possible. Smaller towns use 4 or 5 digit telephone numbers and 3 or 4 digit area codes, and medium sized cities can use 3 digit area codes with 5 to 8 digit numbers.
A look at the german numbering plan, for example, shows other advances:
You use the '0' as the long distance access code, and the '00' as international access code. E.g. 0-40-54325432 to call from berlin to hamburg, or 00-1-415-7654321 to call to san francisco. This way you waste only one digit and not 2 for access codes.
You can group area codes locally. E.g. Berlin has the '30' area code, smaller cities and towns nearby have '331' (Potsdam) or '3322' (Falkensee) or '33439' (Blumberg). Cities in the south of germany have areacodes starting with '7', '8' or '9' (Bavaria and Baden Wuertemberg) or '6' (greater Frankfurt area), others start with '2' (Ruhrarea) or '4' (Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein). This way you have at least a rough idea where in the country you're calling to.
You should adopt that system here, and there will be no more whining about 2, 3 or even 4 completely different area codes for the same city.
Well, thanks for the compliments on our bureaucracy, but it is still a buraeucracy and evil by definition. Everything that numbers human beings without looking at the personality is evil.
And let me assure you, that there are racisct "dendencies" amongst the people (especially the stupid ones) in germany. They have leared to live with the turkish and persian people here, but dark skin or asian people can have a really hard time. Not with real attacks or so, but just the way they are being looked at on the street, little things like that.
That's a problem in most countries, everything that's not "normal", that looks "strange" is looked at rather sceptical.
And the US bureaucracy works in most parts, the INS is only so slow by concept. The whole system is set up in a way that it leaves applicant in it's "mill" for years. This way they try to scare away immigrants.
My wife is a US citizen, and it took us a mere 2 hours at the foreigners office in Berlin, Germany, to get her a 3-year-permit-to-stay (and work). And after these 3 years, it can be extended to an unlimited permit-to-stay without problems.
And Germany is no 3rd world country, as you might know. And not so small either. We have about 30% of the US population on less than 4% the area, wich is a good example against the theory, the US is "full".
Sony presented a prototype of a 650MB data MiniDisc on the IFA, a german consumer electronics show, this september. They intend to use it for MPEG1 Video on MD (interesting, eh?), but who says your can't use it for mp3 as well? 8-) 11 CD-DA's on one MD!
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I love my big-enter-key keyboard.
It has to be one with a big Backspace key as well, of course. So, on the right side it has: big "Backspace" key (2 wide), underneath that, a two-row "Enter" key (top narrower than the bottom row part), and underneath a slightly smaller right "Shift" key and next to it the "Backslash/Pipe" key. And, old-school: 101 keys, naturally. Very hard to find nowadays.
Back in 1991, ponton european media art lab. Piazza Virtuale. I used a Nintendo 4 X 4 pad, a "brick" interface from the nintendo connector to Apple's ADB on a Mac IIfx, and then a MacroMedia Director script to send serial commands to a telephone interface, which would drop (or "censor") callers to a TV show. Was whole lot of fun to jump around in that studio and literally "kick" out annoying callers.
It's a really retarded idea to switch the whole country, all TV station, at once to the new technology. Also, this does not render old TVs useless.
Look at europe, in germany they started with one big city after another, switched from analog to DVB-T (the world's alternative to the USA's ATSC) and sold little converterboxes for about 50 bucks. People hook that up to their old TVs and got 2 or 3 times as many channels with a cable-like quality.
This way you can do a slow transition of the transmitter and receiver technology, deploy it region by region and learn from the mistakes at the previous deployment.
You are both right.
The US has a lot more "red tape" to cut through, but it's pretty much the same for everyone.
In Europe, if you're white, blonde and blue-eyed, you can do pretty much whaterver you like, e.g. work for years on an expired student visa. No such luck if you're latino or black, you might even have to sue the immigration perople to stay in the country.
Sounds pretty much like a certain Fassbinder movie from the seventies, Welt am Draht.
From the maker of the swiss army knife: SwissTool
Very good product, better than the Leatherman.
... that's the name of the black hole in the center of our galaxy, milky way. At least according to Perry Rhodan.
The article left out the aspect of analog signals, VGA as well as component video. The current connectors in the market and their features are:
- DVI-D: digital 24 bit RGB (either ITU656 with embedded sync or ITU601 with separate analog H- and V-Sync) on 4 wire pairs
- DVI-A: analog RGB with separate H- and V-Sync
- DVI-I: combination of both
- Sub-D 15 (VGA): analog RGB with separate H- and V-Sync
- HDMI: digital 24 bit RGB ITU656 signal with optional digital audio data embedded in the banking areas of the video signal, same electrical spec as DVI-D
- SCART (europe): Analog CVBS or RGB-with-composite-sync and analog stereo audio
- 3 RCA (or Cynch): analog RGB with sync-on-green or YUV component
- D4 (japan): analog YUV component on one mini connector
HDCP is an optional encryption protocol over DVI-D or HDMI connections. It encrypts the ITU656 data before mixing the 24 bit digital onto the 4 wire pairs and decypts them after the reverse on the receiver.
Overall, for a digital connection HDMI is the best, since it obsoletes the additional audio connection. It also features a mandatory set of resolutions and auto-sensing of plugging.
I'll say: if you need analog RGB from your PC to your monitor, use DVI-I, otherwise switch to HDMI.
Your cat will sleep at night if you keep it up during the day. Play with the little bugger. Well, get a good cat book, that will tell you about that and the other things.
> (whats a D4 connector?)
D4 is a japanese connector that combines the three coax cables of a component connection. 1 D4 == 3 RCA
San Francisco cancelled it's number 42 bus line just weeks after his death. That's what i call condolences!
I can only second that. qmail runs like a charm and scales.
Check out cr.yp.to/qmail.html and www.qmail.org
Yeah, that's the spirit!
> I saw some 3" CD-R's [...]
> [...] same as ten 5-1/4" CD-R's.
dude, it's 8 and 12 centimeters. The CD
was developed by Philips in the Netherlands,
therefore it's metric (like everywhere
but in the US of A)
If you're at the NAB, check out the LinuxTV Box at booth E-2333/07. We have a linux based box with DVB reception (Digital TV standard in the rest of the world), a PVR, DVD-Player, MP3 and Audio CD playback, a fast graphics library (DirectFB, http://directfb.org) that allowes true transparent windowing with GTK support, a MHP (multimedia home platform) stack and of course the variety of network access you are used to from a linux box. On top of that we have a nice user interface that glues it all together.
We are a german company, convergence integrated media, with offices in berlin, san francisco and amsterdam. Most of the software is open source, check out http://linuxtv.org for more info.
Have fun,
Christian Wolff.
> thats why they have such good cell phone
> networks because the land lines networks are
> outdated shit. Have you ever tried to get a
> long distance line in Germany? It's a nightmere,
> easier to tell the people you want to talk
> to to call you if the are in the US, ATT may
> be the evil empire but at least they are
> good at what they do.
You are kidding, right? When was the last time you did a long distance call in gemany? 1969? Since about 5 years now they have finished changing all PBX to digital, even in the smallest villages. You can get ISDN lines for about $15/month, less than what you have to pay for 2 analog lines, and a lot of people have ISDN in their homes. No more touch tone or other analog crap.
There is, of course, alot of bad stuff as well
I always considered the american system of fixed length for the area code (3 digits) and phone number (7 digits) extremely stupid.
In other countries, e.g. in most european ones, you have variable length area codes and phone numbers, allowing for a kind of "huffman coding": A big city gets 8 or 9 digit telephone numbers and uses a 2 digit area code, to keep the overall number as short as possible. Smaller towns use 4 or 5 digit telephone numbers and 3 or 4 digit area codes, and medium sized cities can use 3 digit area codes with 5 to 8 digit numbers.
A look at the german numbering plan, for example, shows other advances:
You use the '0' as the long distance access code, and the '00' as international access code. E.g. 0-40-54325432 to call from berlin to hamburg, or 00-1-415-7654321 to call to san francisco. This way you waste only one digit and not 2 for access codes.
You can group area codes locally. E.g. Berlin has the '30' area code, smaller cities and towns nearby have '331' (Potsdam) or '3322' (Falkensee) or '33439' (Blumberg). Cities in the south of germany have areacodes starting with '7', '8' or '9' (Bavaria and Baden Wuertemberg) or '6' (greater Frankfurt area), others start with '2' (Ruhrarea) or '4' (Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein). This way you have at least a rough idea where in the country you're calling to.
You should adopt that system here, and there will be no more whining about 2, 3 or even 4 completely different area codes for the same city.
Think about it,
Christian.
I might be halucinating, but all the OpenSSH dirs on all mirror ftp servers are empty. What happened? Does anyone have a copy of the portable source?
Well, thanks for the compliments on our bureaucracy, but it is still a buraeucracy and evil by definition. Everything that numbers human beings without looking at the personality is evil.
And let me assure you, that there are racisct "dendencies" amongst the people (especially the stupid ones) in germany. They have leared to live with the turkish and persian people here, but dark skin or asian people can have a really hard time. Not with real attacks or so, but just the way they are being looked at on the street, little things like that.
That's a problem in most countries, everything that's not "normal", that looks "strange" is looked at rather sceptical.
And the US bureaucracy works in most parts, the INS is only so slow by concept. The whole system is set up in a way that it leaves applicant in it's "mill" for years. This way they try to scare away immigrants.
My wife is a US citizen, and it took us a mere 2 hours at the foreigners office in Berlin, Germany, to get her a 3-year-permit-to-stay (and work). And after these 3 years, it can be extended to an unlimited permit-to-stay without problems.
And Germany is no 3rd world country, as you might know. And not so small either. We have about 30% of the US population on less than 4% the area, wich is a good example against the theory, the US is "full".
Sony presented a prototype of a 650MB data MiniDisc on the IFA, a german consumer electronics show, this september. They intend to use it for MPEG1 Video on MD (interesting, eh?), but who says your can't use it for mp3 as well? 8-) 11 CD-DA's on one MD!