Yeah, finding a HDTV that will do 1080i is nearly impossible (for flatscreens). That is a resolution around 2000x1080, interlaced so that on 540 lines are drawn per pass.
The CRT models should handle it in most cases
I have an old 21 inch CRT monitor that does 2048x1536, so real 1080 works fine with my pchdtv card. Apple does have a couple of LCDs that can do it, but they are spendy.
We have put in Hunter douglas power rise blinds in almost every window of our house, honeycomb room darkening.
They currently run on 8 AA batteries, but they actually last a long time (like a couple of years, depending on use).
They sell a transformer, so you could run them off of wired DC, assuming you had the correct kinds of wires running to the top of every window.
We have security wires running to the base of every window for intrusion detection, but for the powered blinds you need power at the top of the window.
The IR remote is pretty sweet, and we have some on a timer.
The essence of the FCC's rule is in 47 CFR 73.9002(b) and the following sections: "No party shall sell or distribute in interstate commerce a Covered Demodulator Product that does not comply with the Demodulator Compliance Requirements and Demodulator Robustness Requirements."
The Demodulator Compliance Requirements insist that all HDTV demodulators must listen for the flag (or assume it to be present in all signals). Flagged content must be output only to "protected outputs" or in degraded form: through analog outputs or digital outputs with visual resolution of 720x480 pixels or less--less than 1/4 of HDTV's capability. Flagged content may be recorded only by "Authorized" methods, which may include tethering of recordings to a single device.
The Demodulator Robustness Requirements are particularly troubling for open-source developers. In order to prevent users from gaining access to the full digital signal, the FCC ties the hands of even sophisticated users and developers. Devices must be "robust" against user access or modifications that permit access to the full digital stream. Since open-source drivers are by design user-modifiable, a PC tuner card with open-source drivers would not be "robust." It's not even clear that binary-only drivers would qualify.
Together, these rules mean that future PVR developers will have to get permission from the FCC and/or Hollywood before building high-definition versions of the TiVo. The products that they do build will be epoxied against user experimentation and future improvement. The rules mean that open-source developers and hobbyists will be shut out of the HDTV loop altogether.
HDTV equipment manufactured or bought before July 1 without respect for the broadcast flag will be grandfathered in.
If you ever thought you wanted a hdtv pvr, buy a card now or you will not be legal.
http://www.pchdtv.com/
I just got mine, and I am working through the mythtv setup...
I assume they have to allow for future tivo / pvrs for HDTV that will respect the broadcast flag. But what kind of respect does that entail? Some programs cannot be time-shifted at all? I really dont' know what is to come.
I think a new US law requires that in July, all HDTV recievers will be mandated to respect the "do not record" bit so that the networks can limit what you do with "their" tv stream.
Old encoders will be grandfathered in, so I just bought a pcHDTV that works with linux. http://www.pchdtv.com/
Buch of crap. HDTV has been such a mess. What, 28 different broadcast "standards"? That is not a standard. Go ask the Best Buy drone if any of their pretty flat screens support 1080i. None do, some tube sets may.
My crappy 21" CRT does 2000x1500 which is more than enough for 1080 lines of resolution.
At nudie bars around here they give you change for a drink in $2 bills, thinking you pass twice as much to the strippers when you give them a tip, not that I would know;-)
I think there are minor problems in compatibility where MS does not follow the published standard, but I am not sure on this one as I have little personal experience.
Open office supposedly does a good job in recent versions opening MS docs.
Or you could run Wine and us MS Office viewer for free. I use the crossover office and MS office when needed.
Could you boot MythTV off a CD / DVD for a nice diskless system? You would need two CD/DVD drives, since I don't think you can eject a CD after you boot from it.
Ethanol - Water mixture will exhibit an azeotrope, which means you cannot separate the two beyond 95 % purity (190 proof) without a special process. Look up azeotrope for more info...
From my understanding, there are two ways that you can get pure EtOh. One is to add a third chemical into the mix to break the azeotrope. Then you have to deal with triple species phase diagrams that make my head hurt. So, you end up with ethanol and benzene boiling off, then separate the benzene and ethanol in another process, but you always get stuck with a bit of what you are trying to separate.
The other way to get the last 5% of water out is to chemisorb the water out, if I remember correctly. Get something that selectively reacts with the water over the ethanol so soak the water out.
Actually, you may be able to selectively freeze the water out, but you may need really cold temps.
It is pretty useless from what I hear, as pure ethanol is pretty volatile, evaporating pretty quickly.
Stick with 190 proof everclear, it will hurt you plenty.
Disclaimer, separations and thermo are not my specialty, drink responsibly.
You can store Hydrogen in the correct kind of material, but again, you have to consider cost, weight, and volume.
High pressure tanks get you maybe 1-2% by weight I believe. I have also heard that 1 gallon of gas is about the same as 1 kg of H2, when you factor in the efficiency of the fuel cell. So you need like 10 kg of H2 for a personal use. At 2% efficiency, that is like 500 kg of H2 storage (about 1000 lbs).
There are other methods than high pressure storage (chemisorption) but then you have problems getting the H2 in and out of the storage system.
Solar / Wind / nuclear are effectively clean energy production, no CO2 emmissions and good almost indefinitely.
You really need to look at overall efficiency. If you use solar to make electricity, then use that electricity for hydrolosys making H2, then use that in a fuel cell, is that more or less efficient than just charging a battery. From what I hear, you have less loss, more energy density, and lower cost using batteries right now.
Supposedly, making H2 from H20 and electricty is around 50% efficient. The fuel cell adds another loss, so you get maybe 25% of your electricy you managed to collect to the motor.
There is no clear cut solution, but there are many options and many things one must consider when looking into these problems.
I would love to be able to track a kid, especially a rather young one, say 4-14.
I know the civil liberties / big brother complaints. These days, your cell has GPS, your car has GPS, and the gubermit probably has enough KH sats to watch you whenever you go outside if they want.
Was it McNeely at Sun that said something like "Americans have no privacy, they need to get over it." Scary, but true.
I still want to know where my kids are and have some notification when they break boundaries or curfew.
You are right. It would be a lot easier to configure squid, then configure squidguard, then get this little bit up and running, then make your browser use a proxy. Simple! I will just click on the "do all that stuff and make it work" button. Wait, I don't see that on my desktop.
A simple bookmark is probably the best way for 90% of the people out there. For the rest, have fun getting it to work!
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Will they target VMware? Supposedly you need a full official copy of Windows to run office on a VMware emulator?
How could they ever tell?
Codeweaver's crossover office is awesome, if you have to use word, get it!
Yeah, finding a HDTV that will do 1080i is nearly impossible (for flatscreens). That is a resolution around 2000x1080, interlaced so that on 540 lines are drawn per pass.
The CRT models should handle it in most cases
I have an old 21 inch CRT monitor that does 2048x1536, so real 1080 works fine with my pchdtv card. Apple does have a couple of LCDs that can do it, but they are spendy.
We have put in Hunter douglas power rise blinds in almost every window of our house, honeycomb room darkening.
They currently run on 8 AA batteries, but they actually last a long time (like a couple of years, depending on use).
They sell a transformer, so you could run them off of wired DC, assuming you had the correct kinds of wires running to the top of every window.
We have security wires running to the base of every window for intrusion detection, but for the powered blinds you need power at the top of the window.
The IR remote is pretty sweet, and we have some on a timer.
And the latest NV drivers play hell with Fedora Core 3. Like no display, Nvidia image locked up kind of hell.
Supposedly it is a simple fix, but it has not worked for me yet.
Ed
HDTV equipment manufactured or bought before July 1 without respect for the broadcast flag will be grandfathered in.
If you ever thought you wanted a hdtv pvr, buy a card now or you will not be legal.
http://www.pchdtv.com/
I just got mine, and I am working through the mythtv setup...
I assume they have to allow for future tivo / pvrs for HDTV that will respect the broadcast flag. But what kind of respect does that entail? Some programs cannot be time-shifted at all? I really dont' know what is to come.
I think a new US law requires that in July, all HDTV recievers will be mandated to respect the "do not record" bit so that the networks can limit what you do with "their" tv stream.
Old encoders will be grandfathered in, so I just bought a pcHDTV that works with linux. http://www.pchdtv.com/
Buch of crap. HDTV has been such a mess. What, 28 different broadcast "standards"? That is not a standard. Go ask the Best Buy drone if any of their pretty flat screens support 1080i. None do, some tube sets may.
My crappy 21" CRT does 2000x1500 which is more than enough for 1080 lines of resolution.
Blah blah blah
At nudie bars around here they give you change for a drink in $2 bills, thinking you pass twice as much to the strippers when you give them a tip, not that I would know
X Files was that way too, geek show on a Friday night.
Pathetic losers. Stay home to watch Sculley on a Friday.
My PCI based VooDoo 5500 had an extra cable to hook into an unused hard drive power cord. I assume they could not pull enough power off the PCI bus.
The card also basically took two slots since both GPUs had big honkin cooling fans.
Ah, the good old days. Quake 3 at decent FPS in 1600x1200 was sweet, but not as sweet as nethack on a vterm...
I was just about to buy a pchdtv card to get in before the July deadline where all hardware has to respec the broadcast flag.
I assumed they would elliminate time shifting, but this seems a bit more reasonable.
cheers
The way USB / SD / memory cards are going, that is probably the best option.
I just priced 1 GB SD cards around $100.
Ideally you could put your DVD images on the backend Myth machine and have a totally silent front end Myth box.
I thought the Word format was available-
I think there are minor problems in compatibility where MS does not follow the published standard, but I am not sure on this one as I have little personal experience.
Open office supposedly does a good job in recent versions opening MS docs.
Or you could run Wine and us MS Office viewer for free. I use the crossover office and MS office when needed.
If you ever get to Orlando, take an afternoon to hit the DisneyQuest in downtown disney.
For like $20 you get to play all the old school and new school games as much as you want.
Plus you can play all the cool 3d VR games they have, and Disney has done a great job on them.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/entertainm
My favorite was the sealed bumper cars where you drive around and pick up nerf soccer balls and shoot them at other cars. We played that 10+ times.
Wife and I hit it on a nice sunny day so people were at the usual parks, not here. It was deserted until about 8:00 or so.
Could you boot MythTV off a CD / DVD for a nice diskless system? You would need two CD /DVD drives, since I don't think you can eject a CD after you boot from it.
Google for microsoft astroturf
http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/edcurry/astroturf.
Ethanol - Water mixture will exhibit an azeotrope, which means you cannot separate the two beyond 95 % purity (190 proof) without a special process. Look up azeotrope for more info...
From my understanding, there are two ways that you can get pure EtOh. One is to add a third chemical into the mix to break the azeotrope. Then you have to deal with triple species phase diagrams that make my head hurt. So, you end up with ethanol and benzene boiling off, then separate the benzene and ethanol in another process, but you always get stuck with a bit of what you are trying to separate.
The other way to get the last 5% of water out is to chemisorb the water out, if I remember correctly. Get something that selectively reacts with the water over the ethanol so soak the water out.
Actually, you may be able to selectively freeze the water out, but you may need really cold temps.
It is pretty useless from what I hear, as pure ethanol is pretty volatile, evaporating pretty quickly.
Stick with 190 proof everclear, it will hurt you plenty.
Disclaimer, separations and thermo are not my specialty, drink responsibly.
Why not just increase the gas tax?
The bigger (less efficient) your car, the more your drive, the more you pay in tax.
Simple and easy to collect.
For that matter, gas tax should be percent based rather than volume based. Higher gas prices = higher tax collection.
I guess CA has some zero and low emissions cars, but they get a break on tax, like I would assume CA would like to encourage.
I think that sealand was an abandoned military base, after WWI by the Brits. Not an oilrig.
They were outside of territorial boundaries when it started, but the UK extended those boundaries to include sealand. Read all about it
http://www.sealandgov.com/history.html
You can store Hydrogen in the correct kind of material, but again, you have to consider cost, weight, and volume.
High pressure tanks get you maybe 1-2% by weight I believe. I have also heard that 1 gallon of gas is about the same as 1 kg of H2, when you factor in the efficiency of the fuel cell. So you need like 10 kg of H2 for a personal use. At 2% efficiency, that is like 500 kg of H2 storage (about 1000 lbs).
There are other methods than high pressure storage (chemisorption) but then you have problems getting the H2 in and out of the storage system.
Solar / Wind / nuclear are effectively clean energy production, no CO2 emmissions and good almost indefinitely.
You really need to look at overall efficiency. If you use solar to make electricity, then use that electricity for hydrolosys making H2, then use that in a fuel cell, is that more or less efficient than just charging a battery. From what I hear, you have less loss, more energy density, and lower cost using batteries right now.
Supposedly, making H2 from H20 and electricty is around 50% efficient. The fuel cell adds another loss, so you get maybe 25% of your electricy you managed to collect to the motor.
There is no clear cut solution, but there are many options and many things one must consider when looking into these problems.
I have been a pretty heavy drinker for about a decade now. Maybe 6-8 cups per day.
Now, if I don't have a cup or two on the weekend I do get headaches pretty bad.
The headaches don't kick in in the afternoon of a normal workday, so for me at least it takes a day or two to really hurt.
I would love to be able to track a kid, especially a rather young one, say 4-14.
I know the civil liberties / big brother complaints. These days, your cell has GPS, your car has GPS, and the gubermit probably has enough KH sats to watch you whenever you go outside if they want.
Was it McNeely at Sun that said something like "Americans have no privacy, they need to get over it." Scary, but true.
I still want to know where my kids are and have some notification when they break boundaries or curfew.
You are right. It would be a lot easier to configure squid, then configure squidguard, then get this little bit up and running, then make your browser use a proxy. Simple! I will just click on the "do all that stuff and make it work" button. Wait, I don't see that on my desktop.
A simple bookmark is probably the best way for 90% of the people out there. For the rest, have fun getting it to work!
I should have cited the original comment where I got this from:
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/. colors on all pages" check box in our prefs...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120887&thre
This trick was originally posted by tqft (619476), but tqft cited Jesse Rudderman (Moz/FF/etc guy) as the original source.
Now if taco (or some outsource programmer in Mumbai) could just get us a nice little "use normal