Nobody is going to benefit, except the places renting out rooms and the fancier restaurants in those areas.
Other business are being crippled, other reports have talked about smaller stores that may not survive a week of no one being able to get to them.
If Menino (the Mayor of Boston) wasn't so high on himself, he would've put thet convention at the super modern brand new convention center where it wouldn't have impacted anything, but no... he wanted to show off the city and as a result totally screwed up the Big Dig for the last six months, is making 3/4 of the city take a vacation on his schedule not theirs and costing taxpayers millions while schools and other services are critically underfunded.
My parents have had that in their development in Scottsdale, AZ, since the day the development opened.
And it sucks. Badly. Its a fiberoptic line running into their house. Phone, TV and internet come off it.
There's no option for any service other than that, nothing else was installed there. The problem is the telco they use is bankrupt, and hasn't upgraded anything in five years, so they've got horrid picture quality on TV since its all poorly compressed, comparably low bitrate digital, the internet is spotty, and they have the honor of paying for it all even if they choose to get satellite.
The Tivo info is wrong.
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I've owned four Tivos over the years and only once did I have to use a phone line for the initial setup, my very first Tivo back when there was no network support on them.
Okay, I'm risking burning some karma here, but I had a post modded +5 funny this morning, so I have a bit to burn.;-)
Have you ever considered that they couldn't care less about DRM on the media?
What possible reason would Microsoft, or more personally Bill Gates care about it? Seriously. They don't produce movies. They don't produce music.
The demand for it comes from the producers of content. They're a business and provide it. If they push to have their DRM standardized in commercial media systems, thats what they have to do... to provide that service to the content producers, it necessarily has to be pervasive.
If you want to Microsoft bash, I'm sure there'll be an IE security hole article today, but this doesn't seem like a supportable reason to.
TiVo is not 352x480, it supports three resolutions, and that happens to be the lowest one. If I recall correctly only if your Tivo is set to record over the air in basic quality does it use that low.
You'd get them everywhere. You only get them at the poles because the field shields the rest of the planet. During the period of largely no magnetic field of any significant organization (the 2000-8000 year "flipping" time people have commented on), you'd get them almost every night everywhere.
Interestingly, although I can't find a link to it, I've seen estimates that the added solar radiation (NOT UV, so sunblock won't help) will cause 100,000 additional cases of cancer a year, but likely less than 5,000 additional deaths based on current cure rates. Given the increase in cancer treatment technology, the end result could be gorgeous nights and no signficant health impact on the developed world, and gorgeous nights and another health issue to raise money for, for the developing world.
I'd personally worry more about a climatic flip to an ice age than a dramatic weakening/flip of the magnetic field. Its hard to grow food for ten billion people on half the land, after all.
I'm quite aware that people refer to the non US cars ROW, but a) Slashdot isn't all people in the US, b) not everyone here knows that and c) most 911 enthusiasts don't realize there was ROW 911L's, because most historical documentation says the L was created and sold in the US because of the inability of the S that year to meet emissions standards.
I had a lot of issues getting it registered and insured, although in most cases it was just a training issue -- the people I was dealing with didn't know how to enter it correctly.
The Massachusetts RMV had no idea what to do with an odometer in kilometers though, so my title says 9,999,999 miles on it.
At the risk of being flammed and losing some karma, how often really have you had XP bluescreen?
I've never had it happen. Now, I don't use any Windows products at home, but I use it constantly at work and in the two years I've been using this PC, its never ever bluescreened.
Both my iMac and my iBook have given me the gray power screen of death on at least three or four occasions each. My iPod has crapped the bed a few times.
I'm no Microsoft fanboi, but hit them where it hurts on security or something, not stability. They've done wonders with it.
To be fair, they usually significantly dumb down the track or drive simpler road tracks.
At Watkins Glen, for example, (my favorite track to drive), they skip the toe of the boot, which is the most complicated part of the track to drive well.
Not slamming NASCAR, but there's a world of difference in the type of driving they do.
They're all (F1, NASCAR, etc) pansies compared to the drivers in SCCA ProRally, CARS and WRC, though. I mean, really. They don't even have trees to hit!
This is a camera phone barcode reader for a special "dot" format, not a mouse/keyboard.
For what its worth, that sort of thing exists, too. I had a program on my mac, which I can't recall its name, that let me move the mouse, click, and control things like iTunes via bluetooth from the phone. Didn't work well.
Either way, the submitter doesn't seem to have read the article. Which is really weird, given the other comment someone posted that the submitter is the person who WROTE the article.
I have a vehicle that burns gas to heat the car. No, not in the engine, it burns the gas in a heat exchanger in front of the passeger's feet (a few inches from the gas tank! yikes!).
It takes a LOT of electricity to generate any heat. Heat and A/C is where purely electric cars really start to have a lot of trouble. You can use high torque levels to get around the fact that you don't have a lot of KW available in an electric car but the energy you need to heat or cool becomes a much bigger percentage of the energy you've got in that case.
Heating could be fixed by using a propane bottle. It might seem like a step back from more modern heat in cars where it can use engine heat to heat the air, but burning a fuel for heat has been done in the past.
Off topic, but I'm really curious...
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Okay, I don't have kids, but the annoying excuse for a poor mother who was sitting behind me when I was watching it (and yapping through the whole damn movie) did... and among her continuous commentary track, I caught her during the thong scene saying "what kind of movie is this?"
What in the world is wrong with a thong making it something parents wouldn't want kids to know about? Of all the other stuff in that movie, violence, and the (make me laugh my ass off) scene where the three women were fighting to rub down Shrek and the black haired one complained she had nothing to rub and the other girls rolled their eyes, why in the world is the thong a big deal?
You posted unsubstantiated opinion, as did I. You claim its wrong, I claim you're wrong.
It isn't very hard to find references online to that being the specific reason all the big auto manfacturers dropped their electric car programs and switched to hybrid, that combined with the fact that the total envorinmental damage when the depletion of battery packs is taken into account is more than an order of magnitude worse than the worst cars have ever been.
So people can believe what they want, or maybe look it up for themselves.
For what its worth, its an extremely well informed opinion, not an uninformed guess, and your claim that its very wrong seems pretty out of place without some pretty substantial evidence to back up your claim.
Specific numbers a quick googling brought up: (according to US government studies) sulfur dioxide emissions are almost 800% higher for an electric cargo van vs diesel. If your battery pack is lead acid, your lead wasted into the environment is 600x what a leaded gasoline car produced.
So post some real numbers if you are going to claim my statement is very wrong.
People were talking up electric cars ten years ago... nevermind that the coal power plant that was buying and selling pollution credits to generate the electricity to charge the batteries was pulluting 10x what the engine in a normal car would've polluted.
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Note to Everyone Else: Its time for us to deal with Utah and kick their ass around the block. ;-)
Nobody is going to benefit, except the places renting out rooms and the fancier restaurants in those areas.
Other business are being crippled, other reports have talked about smaller stores that may not survive a week of no one being able to get to them.
If Menino (the Mayor of Boston) wasn't so high on himself, he would've put thet convention at the super modern brand new convention center where it wouldn't have impacted anything, but no... he wanted to show off the city and as a result totally screwed up the Big Dig for the last six months, is making 3/4 of the city take a vacation on his schedule not theirs and costing taxpayers millions while schools and other services are critically underfunded.
Right, but my point is the problem is "all your eggs in one basket".
You have one line into your house, you're at their mercy.
My parents have had that in their development in Scottsdale, AZ, since the day the development opened.
And it sucks. Badly. Its a fiberoptic line running into their house. Phone, TV and internet come off it.
There's no option for any service other than that, nothing else was installed there. The problem is the telco they use is bankrupt, and hasn't upgraded anything in five years, so they've got horrid picture quality on TV since its all poorly compressed, comparably low bitrate digital, the internet is spotty, and they have the honor of paying for it all even if they choose to get satellite.
I've owned four Tivos over the years and only once did I have to use a phone line for the initial setup, my very first Tivo back when there was no network support on them.
Okay, I'm risking burning some karma here, but I had a post modded +5 funny this morning, so I have a bit to burn. ;-)
Have you ever considered that they couldn't care less about DRM on the media?
What possible reason would Microsoft, or more personally Bill Gates care about it? Seriously. They don't produce movies. They don't produce music.
The demand for it comes from the producers of content. They're a business and provide it. If they push to have their DRM standardized in commercial media systems, thats what they have to do... to provide that service to the content producers, it necessarily has to be pervasive.
If you want to Microsoft bash, I'm sure there'll be an IE security hole article today, but this doesn't seem like a supportable reason to.
TiVo is not 352x480, it supports three resolutions, and that happens to be the lowest one. If I recall correctly only if your Tivo is set to record over the air in basic quality does it use that low.
Its usually 544x480.
Never, ever, EVER eat a bologna sandwich offered to you on a navy base or ship.
Ever.
You'd get them everywhere. You only get them at the poles because the field shields the rest of the planet. During the period of largely no magnetic field of any significant organization (the 2000-8000 year "flipping" time people have commented on), you'd get them almost every night everywhere.
Interestingly, although I can't find a link to it, I've seen estimates that the added solar radiation (NOT UV, so sunblock won't help) will cause 100,000 additional cases of cancer a year, but likely less than 5,000 additional deaths based on current cure rates. Given the increase in cancer treatment technology, the end result could be gorgeous nights and no signficant health impact on the developed world, and gorgeous nights and another health issue to raise money for, for the developing world.
I'd personally worry more about a climatic flip to an ice age than a dramatic weakening/flip of the magnetic field. Its hard to grow food for ten billion people on half the land, after all.
Don't work in software, do you?
I'm quite aware that people refer to the non US cars ROW, but a) Slashdot isn't all people in the US, b) not everyone here knows that and c) most 911 enthusiasts don't realize there was ROW 911L's, because most historical documentation says the L was created and sold in the US because of the inability of the S that year to meet emissions standards.
Gray market european 1968 911L
My car has a seven digit number as a VIN.
I had a lot of issues getting it registered and insured, although in most cases it was just a training issue -- the people I was dealing with didn't know how to enter it correctly.
The Massachusetts RMV had no idea what to do with an odometer in kilometers though, so my title says 9,999,999 miles on it.
Now I feel old.
The moon pool -- their air pressure had to be at ambient, because they didn't use air/water locks to get out.
At the risk of being flammed and losing some karma, how often really have you had XP bluescreen?
I've never had it happen. Now, I don't use any Windows products at home, but I use it constantly at work and in the two years I've been using this PC, its never ever bluescreened.
Both my iMac and my iBook have given me the gray power screen of death on at least three or four occasions each. My iPod has crapped the bed a few times.
I'm no Microsoft fanboi, but hit them where it hurts on security or something, not stability. They've done wonders with it.
To be fair, they usually significantly dumb down the track or drive simpler road tracks.
At Watkins Glen, for example, (my favorite track to drive), they skip the toe of the boot, which is the most complicated part of the track to drive well.
Not slamming NASCAR, but there's a world of difference in the type of driving they do.
They're all (F1, NASCAR, etc) pansies compared to the drivers in SCCA ProRally, CARS and WRC, though. I mean, really. They don't even have trees to hit!
WTF, I have to find out on Slashdot!? Its just typical of these new management types here, to not have the sack to tell me in person.
Thats fine, I was sick of this crap anyway, I'm out of here.
You've worked for most non-profits?
Your resume must be huge.
Or at least make sure their server can handle it before they slashdot themselves?
This is a camera phone barcode reader for a special "dot" format, not a mouse/keyboard.
For what its worth, that sort of thing exists, too. I had a program on my mac, which I can't recall its name, that let me move the mouse, click, and control things like iTunes via bluetooth from the phone. Didn't work well.
Either way, the submitter doesn't seem to have read the article. Which is really weird, given the other comment someone posted that the submitter is the person who WROTE the article.
I have a vehicle that burns gas to heat the car. No, not in the engine, it burns the gas in a heat exchanger in front of the passeger's feet (a few inches from the gas tank! yikes!).
It takes a LOT of electricity to generate any heat. Heat and A/C is where purely electric cars really start to have a lot of trouble. You can use high torque levels to get around the fact that you don't have a lot of KW available in an electric car but the energy you need to heat or cool becomes a much bigger percentage of the energy you've got in that case.
Heating could be fixed by using a propane bottle. It might seem like a step back from more modern heat in cars where it can use engine heat to heat the air, but burning a fuel for heat has been done in the past.
Okay, I don't have kids, but the annoying excuse for a poor mother who was sitting behind me when I was watching it (and yapping through the whole damn movie) did... and among her continuous commentary track, I caught her during the thong scene saying "what kind of movie is this?"
What in the world is wrong with a thong making it something parents wouldn't want kids to know about? Of all the other stuff in that movie, violence, and the (make me laugh my ass off) scene where the three women were fighting to rub down Shrek and the black haired one complained she had nothing to rub and the other girls rolled their eyes, why in the world is the thong a big deal?
*shrug*
You posted unsubstantiated opinion, as did I. You claim its wrong, I claim you're wrong.
It isn't very hard to find references online to that being the specific reason all the big auto manfacturers dropped their electric car programs and switched to hybrid, that combined with the fact that the total envorinmental damage when the depletion of battery packs is taken into account is more than an order of magnitude worse than the worst cars have ever been.
So people can believe what they want, or maybe look it up for themselves.
For what its worth, its an extremely well informed opinion, not an uninformed guess, and your claim that its very wrong seems pretty out of place without some pretty substantial evidence to back up your claim.
Specific numbers a quick googling brought up: (according to US government studies) sulfur dioxide emissions are almost 800% higher for an electric cargo van vs diesel. If your battery pack is lead acid, your lead wasted into the environment is 600x what a leaded gasoline car produced.
So post some real numbers if you are going to claim my statement is very wrong.
People were talking up electric cars ten years ago... nevermind that the coal power plant that was buying and selling pollution credits to generate the electricity to charge the batteries was pulluting 10x what the engine in a normal car would've polluted.