the BBC hasn't done their research, they go way back to our hero, open-reel tape, 25 years before the cassette. or possibly to magnetic film in the 30s in Hollywood, where position jogging was also possible.
just because somebody out there with a tin desk and a red tie thinks I should replace everything I own with whatever they decided to sell this year... is not a reason to do so.
there are two reasons that we still have vinyl records, analog tape, VHS, boring passenger cars, bicycles, trains, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
first, there is plenty of the old technology around, it still works, and folks still use it and like it.
second, there is not enough money around, folks want to use it in ways that are more important to them than to the fool with a tin desk and a red tie.
not to mention, my LPs sound better off the Linn than my CDs do, and I have absolute right of use within my user license (copyright law) without some little robot determining that I have made six copies of "Don't Worry, Baby" from the same album over the past 35 years, for alternate mode use with no overlap in real time between the different sources, and therefore I can make no more.
the more of that BS they roll out, the higher the prices for analog stuff get on eBay.
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short version: I make the purchasing decisions around my house, not EIA.
I have a nice Go Video VCR/DVR that takes copying one format to the other to a one-button experience. assuming you don't have macrovision on the source marking it as a commercial product, of course.
if you hang an antenna, that is your sole limit of affectation in the 10 percent. of course, all TV is line of sight (4/3 pi radius(earth) squared tower_height is the equation for how fast somebody goes out of sight of the antenna on your tower, if you are so inclined to calculate it from the FCC public information on any particular station), calculated from height above averate terrain (haat). so there are small areas of the country that are not practically able to get the signal.
they live on the satellite, or on cable. directtv and dish are launching new generations of satellites that will have the capacity to offer the new local channels for dtv, high or otherwise in definition. and frankly, most programming will not be in 1080i HD. the cable outfits are fighting the broadcasters all over, because it will be most likely that broadcasters will be in multicast mode most of the time, sending 640 or 480 line dtv with several channels of different signal on their bandwidth, instead of one big pretty 1080i picture eating it all.
this means that KRAP DTV-44 in bogusville is not going to have a cable guest watching 44C, "The New Honeymooners Meet Frankenstein's Queer Guys With Blowdriers," because all MegaCableCo is going to have is 44A, "Dimtwit Blondes Trying To Use ATM Cards In Their Skivvies." which cuts down the revenue for channels 44B and 44C greatly.
that is a much bigger fight than when we all have to turn in our Crosleys for Samsungs.
only some little markets, and some few stations in larger markets, do NOT have active CPs or transmitters already. most of the delay is no-money situations, probably among tiniest markets and some educational stations, and no-tower situations, because DTV antenna farms are somewhat more elaborate (heavy and wind-loading) and almost all commercial TV towers were at design limits for hanging antennas. HDTV has been a boon to tower companies, and they have been the real limiting factor in conversions among stations that were ready to finance and build.
the likelihood is that if you live within 40 miles of a TV station, you could pick it up digital right now with an external antenna on its new frequency. call your local station of choice and ask 'em what the DTV channel is and whether they're on now.
long answer... uh, because it is the FCCs job, and they manage all airwaves in the US per the Communications Act of 1931 and 1939, as amemded.
besides, they want the VHF airwaves to about 180 MHz (in the neighborhood, but I'm not close to a spectrum map right now) for public service and cellphones, so to keep a live media out there with local service, considered critical for national security, they have to trade broadcasting up to channels 14 and above to approximately 49.
it all converged, and we have HDTV. a digital system, unlike the analog one japan perfected and was ready to sell to us lock, stock, and barrel at a per-device price. as it turns out, a better system. but with the crummy economy, the color programs/color TV sales issue has come alive again, and the critical mass of TVs has not arrived to hand back the analog channels and turn off those transmitters.
there were whiners who wanted congress to delay the shutoff date. the FCC has trumped that with their announcement of the final dates, which has been expected, but is a little sooner than the last date in congressional enabling legislation.
short answer:... because, now buy something and stop complaining.
methinks cringe overreaches on this one a bit. I think it's just IBM's inability to get the G5 heat dissipation and power use down for a laptop that triggered the chip switch. but I do agree that intel and m$ have been strange bedfellows lately, on the order of IBM and m$ when WNT (VMS plus one, if you remember NT 3.1) pushed out OS/2 as m$' product line of choice efforts.
I am surprised that nobody made a joke on the order of Apple OS/IX.MMLCXVII or their 63.99784372 bit OS when the first pentium-family macs come out. c'mon, dotters, reach for the punch lines....
they can't tunnel under the house, Our Illuminati already has too many sensors under there to plot their brainwaves. they better not put foil inserts in their shoes, or we'll have to abduct them and place anal probes..................
I used to trade cassettes by mail with a friend for years. did my own collections on cassette for the car -- in fact, with access to broadcast studios and music libraries, in high school I was doing that for the bus trips on debate. currently, I have CDs in the car and my iPod for exercise and work.
now, that's the original alternative radio format, and you control it yourself, all of it, every bit. with shuffle and random play options on most everything except linear tape products, it's truly random (most-played on the 'pod is about the same as top rock radio.)
radio when it works has always been a locally-focussed medium... the jukebox aspect is the filler for the local chatter, news, information, sports, and the like. radio when it doesn't comes off the big bird and you get two drop-in spots at the half hour and can donut the top of the hour.
the point is, none of those guys do what you are used to. it once upon a time was a sure thing to expose you to new venues, music types, and new songs and artists, when you could have beach boys bumped up against patsy cline and followed with the frank chacksfield orchestra and nilsson.
three new songs a week on any top-chart station is all the new you get, and it's all of a sameness.
radio has to get back to local to save itself, and I mean without all the invective of screech radio. until then, I format it myself, which I have done since before I strained the ether with my college radio hour.
no, they don't. toyota started out as a maker of pretty dodgy trucks in the 20s or thereabouts in japan. after being bombed out, they restarted after WWII with major funding help from either GM or Ford (can't remember which), paid 'em back, and brought the saddest little waddlewagon to the US in the early 60s. very sad little thing, couldn't get out of its own way with the help of a missle in its trunk.
they learned. well. so well they are threatening to knock DC out of fourth place and are gaining fast on Ford as well.
if GM fails, the first outfit to get in line in bk court for certain selected assets, I predict, will be toyota. just so they don't have to build another half-dozen plants or so to take over the world; building plants takes time, more than occupying empty newer ones and refitting the production line equipment.
I do surely like my exploder, but it's a little too thirsty.
if I had cash, I'd get on the list for one now, frankly. they have done a lot of good things in a row with that machine, and toyota is very good about licensing their technology to other automakers. they did a techno-swap agreement with ford, and looks like the GM/DC combine is working on one now.
however, I strongly encourage everybody else to hate the car with a purple-veined passion, so when I do get into a position to.... errr, no, I just want you all to hate it. not saying why;) starting about a year or two from now.......
amazon is patenting sharing ideas and information.
whooo, that's a blockbuster app! just imagine what the world would be like if this had ever been done before!
totally awesome! I wonder what stock analysts would recommend I do about this, but of course they would never tell anybody. it's never been done, and now it could violate a patent.
at least xp doesn't blow away randomly like the Wx string of builds did.
oh, wait... there is the matter of the SMS pushes at least twice a week that reboot all the desktops right when maintenance window opens, and we are doing critical things with the switches. pushes that we can't stop, delay, or reschedule. pushes that require reboots, sometimes multiple reboots a night.
the only way this congress is going to give you the ability to watch the way you want (not the way they want, or the movie companies want) is if you pony up and outbid them for the congresscritters' attention.
this is truly the best government that money can buy.
so verizon is just catching up with qwest, eh?
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qwest has been selling naked dsl to all comers for over a year.
where they can, of course. you have to meet the technical specs, generally being low bridge tap, no voice coil loads on the pair, and within some 16-18 kilofeet of the dslam.
this unfortunately is the major limiting factor for DSL wannabuys; most lines were rebuilt or extended in the 60s and 70s, and coils were religion in those times every 6 kfeet apart.
but you gotta try and agitate if you can't qualify to get your section rehabbed or another dslam put in remotely to get the service.
first thought is that there is cross-ownership or cross-investment between intel and dell. second thought is that somebody (-ies) at dell is getting a little something under the table that hasn't made the old 1040 form. us tired old ex-newsmen never stop thinking "look for the money."
IMPHO his lowballing of the MCI bid, unawrranted rantings at the second bidder, Qwest, and buying one shareholder out at two and a half bucks over their MCI-accepted buyout offer all tend to paint "plays for real" terrible ivan as having an unusual number of disconnects recently.
financial mags were saying a year plus ago that he intended to retire in a year. he should have.
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if card solutions is acting like a RICO outfit, treat 'em like a RICO outfit. shut 'em down and auction off the office chairs for reimbursement.
keep no numbers, folks, pass 'em or bilge 'em.
the BBC hasn't done their research, they go way back to our hero, open-reel tape, 25 years before the cassette. or possibly to magnetic film in the 30s in Hollywood, where position jogging was also possible.
just because somebody out there with a tin desk and a red tie thinks I should replace everything I own with whatever they decided to sell this year... is not a reason to do so.
there are two reasons that we still have vinyl records, analog tape, VHS, boring passenger cars, bicycles, trains, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
first, there is plenty of the old technology around, it still works, and folks still use it and like it.
second, there is not enough money around, folks want to use it in ways that are more important to them than to the fool with a tin desk and a red tie.
not to mention, my LPs sound better off the Linn than my CDs do, and I have absolute right of use within my user license (copyright law) without some little robot determining that I have made six copies of "Don't Worry, Baby" from the same album over the past 35 years, for alternate mode use with no overlap in real time between the different sources, and therefore I can make no more.
the more of that BS they roll out, the higher the prices for analog stuff get on eBay.
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short version: I make the purchasing decisions around my house, not EIA.
I have a nice Go Video VCR/DVR that takes copying one format to the other to a one-button experience. assuming you don't have macrovision on the source marking it as a commercial product, of course.
that model of deck is now two years old.
bet you haven't surveyed the market....
the russians will understand your post.
nobody else will accept it as a viable option.
we need a compromise here... perhaps on the order of "kill all the spammers, but pray for their souls."
if you hang an antenna, that is your sole limit of affectation in the 10 percent. of course, all TV is line of sight (4/3 pi radius(earth) squared tower_height is the equation for how fast somebody goes out of sight of the antenna on your tower, if you are so inclined to calculate it from the FCC public information on any particular station), calculated from height above averate terrain (haat). so there are small areas of the country that are not practically able to get the signal.
they live on the satellite, or on cable. directtv and dish are launching new generations of satellites that will have the capacity to offer the new local channels for dtv, high or otherwise in definition. and frankly, most programming will not be in 1080i HD. the cable outfits are fighting the broadcasters all over, because it will be most likely that broadcasters will be in multicast mode most of the time, sending 640 or 480 line dtv with several channels of different signal on their bandwidth, instead of one big pretty 1080i picture eating it all.
this means that KRAP DTV-44 in bogusville is not going to have a cable guest watching 44C, "The New Honeymooners Meet Frankenstein's Queer Guys With Blowdriers," because all MegaCableCo is going to have is 44A, "Dimtwit Blondes Trying To Use ATM Cards In Their Skivvies." which cuts down the revenue for channels 44B and 44C greatly.
that is a much bigger fight than when we all have to turn in our Crosleys for Samsungs.
only some little markets, and some few stations in larger markets, do NOT have active CPs or transmitters already. most of the delay is no-money situations, probably among tiniest markets and some educational stations, and no-tower situations, because DTV antenna farms are somewhat more elaborate (heavy and wind-loading) and almost all commercial TV towers were at design limits for hanging antennas. HDTV has been a boon to tower companies, and they have been the real limiting factor in conversions among stations that were ready to finance and build.
the likelihood is that if you live within 40 miles of a TV station, you could pick it up digital right now with an external antenna on its new frequency. call your local station of choice and ask 'em what the DTV channel is and whether they're on now.
long answer... uh, because it is the FCCs job, and they manage all airwaves in the US per the Communications Act of 1931 and 1939, as amemded.
besides, they want the VHF airwaves to about 180 MHz (in the neighborhood, but I'm not close to a spectrum map right now) for public service and cellphones, so to keep a live media out there with local service, considered critical for national security, they have to trade broadcasting up to channels 14 and above to approximately 49.
it all converged, and we have HDTV. a digital system, unlike the analog one japan perfected and was ready to sell to us lock, stock, and barrel at a per-device price. as it turns out, a better system. but with the crummy economy, the color programs/color TV sales issue has come alive again, and the critical mass of TVs has not arrived to hand back the analog channels and turn off those transmitters.
there were whiners who wanted congress to delay the shutoff date. the FCC has trumped that with their announcement of the final dates, which has been expected, but is a little sooner than the last date in congressional enabling legislation.
short answer:... because, now buy something and stop complaining.
methinks cringe overreaches on this one a bit. I think it's just IBM's inability to get the G5 heat dissipation and power use down for a laptop that triggered the chip switch. but I do agree that intel and m$ have been strange bedfellows lately, on the order of IBM and m$ when WNT (VMS plus one, if you remember NT 3.1) pushed out OS/2 as m$' product line of choice efforts.
I am surprised that nobody made a joke on the order of Apple OS/IX.MMLCXVII or their 63.99784372 bit OS when the first pentium-family macs come out. c'mon, dotters, reach for the punch lines....
they can't tunnel under the house, Our Illuminati already has too many sensors under there to plot their brainwaves. they better not put foil inserts in their shoes, or we'll have to abduct them and place anal probes..................
just that simple.
I used to trade cassettes by mail with a friend for years. did my own collections on cassette for the car -- in fact, with access to broadcast studios and music libraries, in high school I was doing that for the bus trips on debate. currently, I have CDs in the car and my iPod for exercise and work.
now, that's the original alternative radio format, and you control it yourself, all of it, every bit. with shuffle and random play options on most everything except linear tape products, it's truly random (most-played on the 'pod is about the same as top rock radio.)
radio when it works has always been a locally-focussed medium... the jukebox aspect is the filler for the local chatter, news, information, sports, and the like. radio when it doesn't comes off the big bird and you get two drop-in spots at the half hour and can donut the top of the hour.
the point is, none of those guys do what you are used to. it once upon a time was a sure thing to expose you to new venues, music types, and new songs and artists, when you could have beach boys bumped up against patsy cline and followed with the frank chacksfield orchestra and nilsson.
three new songs a week on any top-chart station is all the new you get, and it's all of a sameness.
radio has to get back to local to save itself, and I mean without all the invective of screech radio. until then, I format it myself, which I have done since before I strained the ether with my college radio hour.
that's inside information, and the boilerplate phrase everybody uses is that it all stays inside.
but that's OK, we have two competing channels here, and let the best one win.
that will be the one with iTunes and links to Pixar trailers and 32-inch screens that you can drown in....
no, they don't. toyota started out as a maker of pretty dodgy trucks in the 20s or thereabouts in japan. after being bombed out, they restarted after WWII with major funding help from either GM or Ford (can't remember which), paid 'em back, and brought the saddest little waddlewagon to the US in the early 60s. very sad little thing, couldn't get out of its own way with the help of a missle in its trunk.
they learned. well. so well they are threatening to knock DC out of fourth place and are gaining fast on Ford as well.
if GM fails, the first outfit to get in line in bk court for certain selected assets, I predict, will be toyota. just so they don't have to build another half-dozen plants or so to take over the world; building plants takes time, more than occupying empty newer ones and refitting the production line equipment.
I do surely like my exploder, but it's a little too thirsty.
if I had cash, I'd get on the list for one now, frankly. they have done a lot of good things in a row with that machine, and toyota is very good about licensing their technology to other automakers. they did a techno-swap agreement with ford, and looks like the GM/DC combine is working on one now.
;) starting about a year or two from now.......
however, I strongly encourage everybody else to hate the car with a purple-veined passion, so when I do get into a position to.... errr, no, I just want you all to hate it. not saying why
amazon is patenting sharing ideas and information.
whooo, that's a blockbuster app! just imagine what the world would be like if this had ever been done before!
totally awesome! I wonder what stock analysts would recommend I do about this, but of course they would never tell anybody. it's never been done, and now it could violate a patent.
damn, what wonders occur these days...
why doesn't ford work with microsoft to create computers that don't crash?
than kew, than kew.
I know you're out there, I can hear you sighing...
period.
at least xp doesn't blow away randomly like the Wx string of builds did.
oh, wait... there is the matter of the SMS pushes at least twice a week that reboot all the desktops right when maintenance window opens, and we are doing critical things with the switches. pushes that we can't stop, delay, or reschedule. pushes that require reboots, sometimes multiple reboots a night.
guess it DOESN'T just work... barely......
forbid use of national weather service data by all private forecasting companies.
hey, they're the private sector, they can do better all on their own without pesky government interference, right?
the only way this congress is going to give you the ability to watch the way you want (not the way they want, or the movie companies want) is if you pony up and outbid them for the congresscritters' attention.
this is truly the best government that money can buy.
qwest has been selling naked dsl to all comers for over a year.
where they can, of course. you have to meet the technical specs, generally being low bridge tap, no voice coil loads on the pair, and within some 16-18 kilofeet of the dslam.
this unfortunately is the major limiting factor for DSL wannabuys; most lines were rebuilt or extended in the 60s and 70s, and coils were religion in those times every 6 kfeet apart.
but you gotta try and agitate if you can't qualify to get your section rehabbed or another dslam put in remotely to get the service.
first thought is that there is cross-ownership or cross-investment between intel and dell. second thought is that somebody (-ies) at dell is getting a little something under the table that hasn't made the old 1040 form. us tired old ex-newsmen never stop thinking "look for the money."
you'd have made some sense.
IMPHO his lowballing of the MCI bid, unawrranted rantings at the second bidder, Qwest, and buying one shareholder out at two and a half bucks over their MCI-accepted buyout offer all tend to paint "plays for real" terrible ivan as having an unusual number of disconnects recently.
financial mags were saying a year plus ago that he intended to retire in a year. he should have.