This might do what you want: http://forscan.org/ FORScan is a software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible adapters
So how can 62 senators pass a bill that supersedes the constitution? The constitution specifically states 2/3 of present senators must agree with the president in order to pass a treaty (article 2 section 2). The fast track law says a simple majority can pass a treaty which would then have the same force of law as the constitution.
I live in Iowa, we got 7 inches of snow today, the guy 1 block down from me has a heated driveway, he has no frozen water issues that I can see, but I haven't asked him. Concrete is porous, the snow probably leaks slow enough to seep through the concrete to the unfrozen ground below.
I agree on the stingray issues, etc. Which is why I bought one of the few thermostats that does not talk to its corporate website, it talks to my server and my server alone. Same with my home automation server and the Zwave switches and motion sensors and the electrical stats are down in house as well. Most of the consumer friendly thermostats, home automation stuff, and electrical trackers agreggate this info at corporate HQ and present a nice friendly website to the consumer, while stealing the data and selling it. But there are options that do not do that.
Your house plays a warning tone on your bedroom speaker you to let you know your teenager's window was opened after 10pm on a weekend night.
Because I raise my teenager like a veal in a hermetically sealed room. If she's opened the window, it means she wants fresh air. I don't need my house to parent for me.
Think of it like a firewall. If I want the kids to go out, I tell them they can go out the front door. If they go out the windows, that is opposite of parental authority.
These are some of the things you can do with a 'smart' house. pick and choose what you want to install.
Except, you're not going to "pick and choose" what you want to install. It's going to be a package deal and all of it will require an account where the data is stored in the cloud and the activities of my teenaged daughter are being sold to the highest bidder, ostensibly for market purposes.
Except I did pick and choose all of those, installed piecemeal over the last 15 years. My house already does all that and none of it goes out to a cloud account. All of it stays on my personal server that has a firewalled + snorted web interface to the outside world for my access alone.
Friend, how hard is to turn on a thermostat? You realize there are thermostats with timers on them for people who are away from their house for a long time, and they don't require an IP address or account with iPrison.com.
I have a large house and I am lazy, If I am in the basement and I decide to kick the heat up 3 degrees, I can do it from the comfort of my sofa. Again, pick and choose what interests you. If its not your cup of tea, great. If you cannot see why someone else might like some of these features I don't know what to tell you.
If the "Smart Home Revolution" has been prioritized ahead of personal jet packs and a robot to go shovel my driveway, there's something seriously wrong.
Shovel? The next thing on my list is a heated driveway, not a robot. heated driveways have been around for 20 years, and cost about the same as a snowblower, if you are installing a new driveway anyway.
Let me paint you a picture. Your house graphs the indoor and outdoor temperature with mrtg along with when your furnace or AC was on. It graphs the per outlet electricity usage on a minute by minute basis. Both graphs can go back for years. Your hallway and bathroom lights turn on and off automatically based on motion sensors, only they are smart enough to know that if you get up after you go to sleep you want hte lights to only come on at 50%, not 100%. Your doorbell rings and you get emailed on your smart phone with a picture of the front door of your house. Your house plays a warning tone on your bedroom speaker you to let you know your teenager's window was opened after 10pm on a weekend night. The camera system notices someone pulling into your driveway and pops up a picture in picture of the driveway on your tv while you are watching a movie. You decide to come home from work early so you login from your phone and turn the thermostat setback off, to warm the house before your arrival. These are some of the things you can do with a 'smart' house. pick and choose what you want to install.
To add some real content to this article, A wifi web server enabled device that monitors temperature of the food, the bbq pit, and controls the fan that allows it to turn temp up and down to control a sterady bbq temperature: http://www.thebbqguru.com/products/CyberQ-Wifi.html
Right now it takes my athlon 2100+ computer about 12 hours for the first pass and around 24-30 hours for the second pass to compress an HDTV full length movie (1280x720p) from 18 gigs to 3-4 gigs in Xvid 1.0 . So about 2 days to encode total. The quality is nearly perfect and it requires a 1.7ghz cpu to play.
To compress 1920x1080i takes ALOT more, I recently compressed the 4 minute bjork performance from the olympics, I ran it thru twice, the first time it took about 1.5 hours for first pass and 6 hours to compress for the second pass, for a total of 7.5 hours at 1920x1080 (deinterlaced) in xvid. Unfortunately, my athlon 2100+ cpu could not play the resulting file, it took too much cpu even with ffdshow (estimated 3ghz-3.5 ghz to play). So I ran it thru again and it took about 1 hour and 2 hours to resize it down to 1280x720p xvid.
So yeah, it does take a long time to encode hdtv to xvid, but you can get it as small or smalelr then a DVD, depending on content. My typical HDTV movie compresses to 3-4 gigs, but some compress even more, toystory compressed well down to 1.2 gigs in 1280x720.
When I replaced my fridge and shut off my old fridge I forgot to defrost the the old fridge. When I woke up the next day I went to play a video on my HTPC, unfortunately it showed that the network cable was disconnected. I looked at the network cable saw it was still connected and followed it down to my server room in the basement. When I got there I listened and heard... silence. Not a good thing. All of the lights were also off on the switchs and computers. And they were all wet. WET! All three servers, cable modem, two switches, and UPS system, all dripping wet.
Needless to say I freaked. But, after drying everything off with fans and towels the only permanent damage appeared to by my UPS System. So I plugged everything back in and started it up, only My software RAID5 array was showing a missing disk, so I fiddled aroudn with it for a while and finally shut down and opened the case , only to find that one of hte hds was sitting face down in a pool of water... whilke I had had it running. but, once again, dried off the inside of the case this time and started her back up. And miraculously , the hard drive worked. So amazingly, the only thing Damaged was my UPS system.
Actually, its a combination. When I go camping/hiking I don't want to see any sign of man. I recently stopped going to my favorite fishing stream because they put a god damn concrete sidewalk next to the stream to make it wheelchair accessible. This in an area 20 miles from any small town and miles from the nearest person.
And secondly, I just plain don't want anyone to know where I am period. And the woods have such a small amount of people in it that any counter would point out where I was. When I go into the woods I want to BE alone and almost as important, I want to FEEL alone. I want to feel like no one knows where I am.
When I go into the woods it is to get away from people and technology. I don't want to be tracked and I will NOT go into woods that have such 'features'. Hell, I was pissed when they put a F'ing sidewalk on the bank of my favorite trout stream to make it 'wheelchair accessible'. I won't be going back there.
People that want these kind of amenities don't go where they an get lost, they go to the 'camp grounds' where they have electricity, running water and sewage. The rest of us actually want to be away from all of that stuff.
It just doesn't make sense, at 500$ per car, if 720k cars are made with this device per year then it will cost MORE to implement then the accidents cost to fix, and thats assuming this device stops 100% of those accidents (which it won't). This is a stupid idea.
What I really don't understand is why he reviewed the videos on an LCD monitor, LCD's that are known to have inferior color to CRTs. CRT's can't reproduce the range of colors that a CRT can.
There are no compression artifacts at 700megs/sec. Although I do compress it down to 1280x720P @30 fps. My typical encode is 350 megs for a 22 minute show and 600 megs for a 42 minutes (hour) show and the encodes look spectacular, way better then dvd.
I have convinced quite a few skeptics with similiar views to your own about this with my hdtv encodes. I think my encodes are at least 4 times better then dvd, although the skeptics I convinced thought the encodes were only 2x dvd quality.
30% larger is vastly incorrect. I have an HDTV card and its about 9 gigs per hour with mpeg2. Compressing with wme9 gets it down to around 700 megs/hr with only a slight quality loss, around 1200 megs/hr for no appreciable loss.
I've played around with encoding HDTV to Xvid also and the consensus on all the hdtv forums is that Xvid is slightly inferior to wme9 in terms of quality and file size. Although the benfit with Xvid is you can use AC3 sound instead of microsoft's proprietary surround sound codec.
quote " For tech, we see a lot of farming out to India, especially since they're are lot of competent English speakers there." Obviously you've never had to speak to one of those "english" speaking indians. Its like trying to decipher sanscrit.
I admit it, a few months ago a friend brought his hd over and I poppd it in my computer and started my computer up, next thing I know there is thick black smoke wafting out of the back of my computer.
I hurriedly shut my computer off and look inside to see what the problem was. Turns out I had plugged the power to my friend's HD into a molex connector on a fan that I had spliced to run off the motherboard 3 prong fan connector the year before. The ground wire had completely melted and vaporized.
I unplugged it and tried turning my computer on and no go, nothing that was plugged into my ups was working. I turn the UPS on and off and nothing, finally i unplug the ups from the wall and turn it on and off and suddenly everything turns back on. Everything worked fine after that, even my friend's hard drive.
It really freaks you out when you have thick black smoke coming out the back of your computer though. Or at least it did me.
It doesn't work. Last September when the patriot bill was being voted on I frantically sent an email to all of my state's congressmen pleading with them not to pass the bill and not give up our freedoms. In january I finally heard back from two of congressmen. Both of them said they were glad they got my letter but were sorry they didn't have time to read it, but don't worry about those pesky terrorists because they were luckily able to pass the patriot act. The other half of the congressmen never responded.
To say I was slightly pissed would be a large understatement. I will be voting against any one in office at the time until they finally get out of office. not like it matters.
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That small computer is cool and all, but what this guy did (and its not unique) is use the ultra cheap dallas semi conductor 1-wire chips. Which for around 10 bucks for the controller and 4 bucks in parts for each sensor is way cost effective compared to your 55 dollar single unit sensor. And the dallas units are not limited to strictly temperature sensors either. You can get humidity and dew point sensors also.
Here is a better site that is along the same lines. http://www.garyga.com/OCX/default.htm
You don't need any special programs to do this. You run poledit on the users machines and lock their machines down making it hard (although not impossible) to save stuff locally. Then set up defaults to their personal user directory on the server so everything by default is saved and loaded from there. Then you can backup your fileserver whenever you want.
many of those scan lines are overscan though, the Black bars above and below the screen which are not viewable. THey often hold other data like closed captioning.
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This might do what you want:
http://forscan.org/
FORScan is a software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible adapters
So how can 62 senators pass a bill that supersedes the constitution? The constitution specifically states 2/3 of present senators must agree with the president in order to pass a treaty (article 2 section 2). The fast track law says a simple majority can pass a treaty which would then have the same force of law as the constitution.
This seems illegal.
I live in Iowa, we got 7 inches of snow today, the guy 1 block down from me has a heated driveway, he has no frozen water issues that I can see, but I haven't asked him. Concrete is porous, the snow probably leaks slow enough to seep through the concrete to the unfrozen ground below.
I agree on the stingray issues, etc. Which is why I bought one of the few thermostats that does not talk to its corporate website, it talks to my server and my server alone. Same with my home automation server and the Zwave switches and motion sensors and the electrical stats are down in house as well. Most of the consumer friendly thermostats, home automation stuff, and electrical trackers agreggate this info at corporate HQ and present a nice friendly website to the consumer, while stealing the data and selling it. But there are options that do not do that.
Think of it like a firewall. If I want the kids to go out, I tell them they can go out the front door. If they go out the windows, that is opposite of parental authority.
Except I did pick and choose all of those, installed piecemeal over the last 15 years. My house already does all that and none of it goes out to a cloud account. All of it stays on my personal server that has a firewalled + snorted web interface to the outside world for my access alone.
I have a large house and I am lazy, If I am in the basement and I decide to kick the heat up 3 degrees, I can do it from the comfort of my sofa.
Again, pick and choose what interests you. If its not your cup of tea, great. If you cannot see why someone else might like some of these features I don't know what to tell you.
Shovel? The next thing on my list is a heated driveway, not a robot. heated driveways have been around for 20 years, and cost about the same as a snowblower, if you are installing a new driveway anyway.
Let me paint you a picture. Your house graphs the indoor and outdoor temperature with mrtg along with when your furnace or AC was on. It graphs the per outlet electricity usage on a minute by minute basis. Both graphs can go back for years. Your hallway and bathroom lights turn on and off automatically based on motion sensors, only they are smart enough to know that if you get up after you go to sleep you want hte lights to only come on at 50%, not 100%. Your doorbell rings and you get emailed on your smart phone with a picture of the front door of your house. Your house plays a warning tone on your bedroom speaker you to let you know your teenager's window was opened after 10pm on a weekend night. The camera system notices someone pulling into your driveway and pops up a picture in picture of the driveway on your tv while you are watching a movie. You decide to come home from work early so you login from your phone and turn the thermostat setback off, to warm the house before your arrival. These are some of the things you can do with a 'smart' house. pick and choose what you want to install.
To add some real content to this article,
A wifi web server enabled device that monitors temperature of the food, the bbq pit, and controls the fan that allows it to turn temp up and down to control a sterady bbq temperature:
http://www.thebbqguru.com/products/CyberQ-Wifi.html
A nice set of add on parts for the webser smokey mountain BBQ unit:
http://cajunbandit.com/wsm-parts-mods/
A review of 50 different bags of charcoal:
http://www.nakedwhiz.com/lumpdatabase/lumpbag6.htm
Right now it takes my athlon 2100+ computer about 12 hours for the first pass and around 24-30 hours for the second pass to compress an HDTV full length movie (1280x720p) from 18 gigs to 3-4 gigs in Xvid 1.0 . So about 2 days to encode total. The quality is nearly perfect and it requires a 1.7ghz cpu to play.
To compress 1920x1080i takes ALOT more, I recently compressed the 4 minute bjork performance from the olympics, I ran it thru twice, the first time it took about 1.5 hours for first pass and 6 hours to compress for the second pass, for a total of 7.5 hours at 1920x1080 (deinterlaced) in xvid. Unfortunately, my athlon 2100+ cpu could not play the resulting file, it took too much cpu even with ffdshow (estimated 3ghz-3.5 ghz to play). So I ran it thru again and it took about 1 hour and 2 hours to resize it down to 1280x720p xvid.
So yeah, it does take a long time to encode hdtv to xvid, but you can get it as small or smalelr then a DVD, depending on content. My typical HDTV movie compresses to 3-4 gigs, but some compress even more, toystory compressed well down to 1.2 gigs in 1280x720.
When I replaced my fridge and shut off my old fridge I forgot to defrost the the old fridge. When I woke up the next day I went to play a video on my HTPC, unfortunately it showed that the network cable was disconnected. I looked at the network cable saw it was still connected and followed it down to my server room in the basement. When I got there I listened and heard... silence. Not a good thing. All of the lights were also off on the switchs and computers. And they were all wet. WET! All three servers, cable modem, two switches, and UPS system, all dripping wet.
... whilke I had had it running. but, once again, dried off the inside of the case this time and started her back up. And miraculously , the hard drive worked. So amazingly, the only thing Damaged was my UPS system.
Needless to say I freaked. But, after drying everything off with fans and towels the only permanent damage appeared to by my UPS System. So I plugged everything back in and started it up, only My software RAID5 array was showing a missing disk, so I fiddled aroudn with it for a while and finally shut down and opened the case , only to find that one of hte hds was sitting face down in a pool of water
I've got windows 2003 running on an old AMD K6 450 (underclocked to 300 for power conservation) right now. It runs fine. I use it as a fileserver.
Actually, its a combination. When I go camping/hiking I don't want to see any sign of man. I recently stopped going to my favorite fishing stream because they put a god damn concrete sidewalk next to the stream to make it wheelchair accessible. This in an area 20 miles from any small town and miles from the nearest person.
And secondly, I just plain don't want anyone to know where I am period. And the woods have such a small amount of people in it that any counter would point out where I was. When I go into the woods I want to BE alone and almost as important, I want to FEEL alone. I want to feel like no one knows where I am.
When I go into the woods it is to get away from people and technology. I don't want to be tracked and I will NOT go into woods that have such 'features'. Hell, I was pissed when they put a F'ing sidewalk on the bank of my favorite trout stream to make it 'wheelchair accessible'. I won't be going back there.
People that want these kind of amenities don't go where they an get lost, they go to the 'camp grounds' where they have electricity, running water and sewage. The rest of us actually want to be away from all of that stuff.
Cept of course they tell the FBI everything you've ever checked out.
It just doesn't make sense, at 500$ per car, if 720k cars are made with this device per year then it will cost MORE to implement then the accidents cost to fix, and thats assuming this device stops 100% of those accidents (which it won't). This is a stupid idea.
I work for Toyota (in America) and they are currently in the process of outsourcing my job to india.
which one is that? the women or the ps/2?
What I really don't understand is why he reviewed the videos on an LCD monitor, LCD's that are known to have inferior color to CRTs. CRT's can't reproduce the range of colors that a CRT can.
There are no compression artifacts at 700megs/sec. Although I do compress it down to 1280x720P @30 fps. My typical encode is 350 megs for a 22 minute show and 600 megs for a 42 minutes (hour) show and the encodes look spectacular, way better then dvd.
I have convinced quite a few skeptics with similiar views to your own about this with my hdtv encodes. I think my encodes are at least 4 times better then dvd, although the skeptics I convinced thought the encodes were only 2x dvd quality.
30% larger is vastly incorrect. I have an HDTV card and its about 9 gigs per hour with mpeg2. Compressing with wme9 gets it down to around 700 megs/hr with only a slight quality loss, around 1200 megs/hr for no appreciable loss.
I've played around with encoding HDTV to Xvid also and the consensus on all the hdtv forums is that Xvid is slightly inferior to wme9 in terms of quality and file size. Although the benfit with Xvid is you can use AC3 sound instead of microsoft's proprietary surround sound codec.
quote " For tech, we see a lot of farming out to India, especially since they're are lot of competent English speakers there."
Obviously you've never had to speak to one of those "english" speaking indians. Its like trying to decipher sanscrit.
I admit it, a few months ago a friend brought his hd over and I poppd it in my computer and started my computer up, next thing I know there is thick black smoke wafting out of the back of my computer.
I hurriedly shut my computer off and look inside to see what the problem was. Turns out I had plugged the power to my friend's HD into a molex connector on a fan that I had spliced to run off the motherboard 3 prong fan connector the year before. The ground wire had completely melted and vaporized.
I unplugged it and tried turning my computer on and no go, nothing that was plugged into my ups was working. I turn the UPS on and off and nothing, finally i unplug the ups from the wall and turn it on and off and suddenly everything turns back on. Everything worked fine after that, even my friend's hard drive.
It really freaks you out when you have thick black smoke coming out the back of your computer though. Or at least it did me.
It doesn't work. Last September when the patriot bill was being voted on I frantically sent an email to all of my state's congressmen pleading with them not to pass the bill and not give up our freedoms. In january I finally heard back from two of congressmen. Both of them said they were glad they got my letter but were sorry they didn't have time to read it, but don't worry about those pesky terrorists because they were luckily able to pass the patriot act. The other half of the congressmen never responded.
To say I was slightly pissed would be a large understatement. I will be voting against any one in office at the time until they finally get out of office. not like it matters.
That small computer is cool and all, but what this guy did (and its not unique) is use the ultra cheap dallas semi conductor 1-wire chips. Which for around 10 bucks for the controller and 4 bucks in parts for each sensor is way cost effective compared to your 55 dollar single unit sensor. And the dallas units are not limited to strictly temperature sensors either. You can get humidity and dew point sensors also.
Here is a better site that is along the same lines.
http://www.garyga.com/OCX/default.htm
Is there any way to mod the entire story as flame bait?
You don't need any special programs to do this. You run poledit on the users machines and lock their machines down making it hard (although not impossible) to save stuff locally. Then set up defaults to their personal user directory on the server so everything by default is saved and loaded from there. Then you can backup your fileserver whenever you want.
many of those scan lines are overscan though, the Black bars above and below the screen which are not viewable. THey often hold other data like closed captioning.