Look, I'm sorry if you considered the directive in my previous post ("blow me for FP!") as flamebait. I already failed at FP, now you subject me to further humiliation by modding me down? What kind of man are you?
Error correction is irrelevant when you're watching TV. It's the same reason why UDP doesn't have error correction in video streaming. If you get a bad packet, you have to move on. You can't have your antenna request another packet or try to reconstruct something, video and audio would not stay in sync and you wouldn't want to jump backwards half a second anyway.
You're right about the fragility of digital signal. See other comments in this thread about the flaws in the ATSC standard and why audio is so vulnerable to dropouts.
I agree with what you said 100%. I am not a broadcast engineer, but I can assure you that they could have done better than ATSC and 8VSB. The DVB standards used in Europe seem superior in almost every way, and have been in use for decades. I am not sure why they didn't use them here.
Try the Silver Sensor Antenna for UHF reception. It's cheap and widely reputed to be the best indoor HD antenna out there. Digital TV reception is very directional though, you will have to play around on it and you might have to get several antennas hooked together to get all your channels depending on where you live.
Digital channels have sub-channels, so you'll usually get several originating from one place (they have names like 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 etc). The.1 feed is the main network feed, and if it's a news channel, they tend to have a weather subchannel (.2 or.3) and the third channel is usually community programming or infomercials.
Digital TV reception is very directional, you should try pointing your TV antenna slightly askew and starting channel search again. You might get some completely different channels. The worst thing about it is that it doesn't degrade gracefully, so you will have to have close to 100% reception to get anything watchable.
It frees up bandwidth and allows far better sound and video from the signal (theoretically). In reality, the signal does not degrade gracefully so you will have to have nearly 100% clear signal to get a watchable picture. Also, it's very directional, so if your antenna wiggles to the left or right, your signal will drop to zero.
Mod parent up. This is a major problem with OTA digital TV-it does not degrade gracefully. It's also very directional-at my old house, I was about to get 3 digital channels at about 100% and the rest of them at zero with my antenna pointing vertically, and 3 others if I tilted the antenna horizontally. I lived on the 2nd floor in a middle of a major city, and I needed 2 antennas just to get ABC and FOX at the same time! I don't know how they are going to do it.
On the other hand, something like 90% of TV viewers are subscribed to either cable or satellite, so I don't think this will affect them at all.
So, now that we've got the Cell CPU out the door, do you think we're going to see a G6 soon? The PowerPC line of CPUs has never been so prosperous!
I doubt that Apple's ditching Intel anytime soon, but since they already have a PPC compatible OS, might they dip their toe back into those waters again?
I work in a lab, and the equipment's software never gets updated. Why should they? You've got a captive market, it's not like someone else is writing software for your $250,000 flow cytometry machine. We have a plate reader that still comes with this software that was developed for Windows 3.1. Another piece of equipment is running an embedded version of MS-DOS that's old enough to drink, and it still requires floppy drives. But what can we do about it? The company doesn't care, and as long as it 'works' (hooked to an ancient PC that is getting harder and harder to find in the wild) that has to be good enough.
Have fun trying to live on $50K in any major or minor city in the USA, particularly if you want to have a family.
Are you kidding? You must live in San Francisco or something.
You can afford a home living in Houston making $35k/yr. Making $50k/yr in San Antonio is living like a king. If you're not living in NY, DC, or the West Coast, $50k/yr isn't bad.
You never met my high school chemistry teacher. He was seventy years old and didn't mind handling mercury without gloves. He'd make giant pressure detection systems with mercury flowing through tiny glass tubes for fun. Inevitably, someone would accidentally break the tiny glass tubes and he'd clear out the lab and pick up the little bits of mercury himself while we waited in the hall. Fun times. He also taught us how to make those explosive "BANG SNAP" things.
Yes, and what about that "writing" invention? When people start using that, they'll lose their memories! And flying like a bird? God would have given us wings if He had intended that! And what's with these "antibiotics?" No one should be taking pills like this! It just ain't natural!
Remember Bernie Goetz? That guy was lionized for shooting some kids on a subway for allegedly trying to rob him. Hell this guy is still giving interviews in the press almost a quarter century later.
Allegedly? The perpetrators have admitted they were trying to rob him. And guess what? Most of the perps participated in armed robbery AFTER being shot, one of them was even a convicted rapist. I'm not a gun nut, but get the facts straight-the people that were after him were thugs.
Batman and Robin is the only movie I've ever seen where normal, everyday theater patrons were genuinely pissed off about the movie. The movie exudes a contempt for its audience that's so palpable even normal people could pick it up. They were hooting, yelling, and throwing popcorn at the screen. It was a late night showing on a weekend, so it's possible that some of the people were drunk, but not everyone. It was an angry mob-type scene. And if Joel Schumacher had been in attendence, he probably would have been tarred and feathered.
Yes, if you consider opening terminal and going through the same steps as you would on a UNIX box to be too much effort, I can't conceive how you ever post to slashdot. I mean, that involves picking up your fingers and pressing them down a keyboard.
"That's a hoop in my book! Who do you think I am, Michael Jordan! I don't do hoops!" That's what you say in your everyday life when presented with anything that requires effort. You are a lazy asshole and nobody likes you, except the cashier at the grocery store where you purchase your adult diapers because stopping to use the toilet is a hoop.
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Look, I'm sorry if you considered the directive in my previous post ("blow me for FP!") as flamebait. I already failed at FP, now you subject me to further humiliation by modding me down? What kind of man are you?
You can always get a job in the Savings and Loan industry!
Oh and blow me for FP!
Error correction is irrelevant when you're watching TV. It's the same reason why UDP doesn't have error correction in video streaming. If you get a bad packet, you have to move on. You can't have your antenna request another packet or try to reconstruct something, video and audio would not stay in sync and you wouldn't want to jump backwards half a second anyway.
You're right about the fragility of digital signal. See other comments in this thread about the flaws in the ATSC standard and why audio is so vulnerable to dropouts.
I agree with what you said 100%. I am not a broadcast engineer, but I can assure you that they could have done better than ATSC and 8VSB. The DVB standards used in Europe seem superior in almost every way, and have been in use for decades. I am not sure why they didn't use them here.
Try the Silver Sensor Antenna for UHF reception. It's cheap and widely reputed to be the best indoor HD antenna out there. Digital TV reception is very directional though, you will have to play around on it and you might have to get several antennas hooked together to get all your channels depending on where you live.
Digital channels have sub-channels, so you'll usually get several originating from one place (they have names like 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 etc). The .1 feed is the main network feed, and if it's a news channel, they tend to have a weather subchannel (.2 or .3) and the third channel is usually community programming or infomercials.
Digital TV reception is very directional, you should try pointing your TV antenna slightly askew and starting channel search again. You might get some completely different channels. The worst thing about it is that it doesn't degrade gracefully, so you will have to have close to 100% reception to get anything watchable.
It frees up bandwidth and allows far better sound and video from the signal (theoretically). In reality, the signal does not degrade gracefully so you will have to have nearly 100% clear signal to get a watchable picture. Also, it's very directional, so if your antenna wiggles to the left or right, your signal will drop to zero.
Mod parent up. This is a major problem with OTA digital TV-it does not degrade gracefully. It's also very directional-at my old house, I was about to get 3 digital channels at about 100% and the rest of them at zero with my antenna pointing vertically, and 3 others if I tilted the antenna horizontally. I lived on the 2nd floor in a middle of a major city, and I needed 2 antennas just to get ABC and FOX at the same time! I don't know how they are going to do it.
On the other hand, something like 90% of TV viewers are subscribed to either cable or satellite, so I don't think this will affect them at all.
Yes. It's really very simple. The Cubs suck, and they will never again win a World Series.
If so, text "Text" to 8398 for updates! Standard text messaging rates apply!
Or, alternatively, The Orchestrion!
It's like when you see a Spinel, and you have to buy it, so you tell the dude "I'll buy that at a high price!"
So, now that we've got the Cell CPU out the door, do you think we're going to see a G6 soon? The PowerPC line of CPUs has never been so prosperous!
I doubt that Apple's ditching Intel anytime soon, but since they already have a PPC compatible OS, might they dip their toe back into those waters again?
Trumpy, you can do magic things!
Mod parent up.
I work in a lab, and the equipment's software never gets updated. Why should they? You've got a captive market, it's not like someone else is writing software for your $250,000 flow cytometry machine. We have a plate reader that still comes with this software that was developed for Windows 3.1. Another piece of equipment is running an embedded version of MS-DOS that's old enough to drink, and it still requires floppy drives. But what can we do about it? The company doesn't care, and as long as it 'works' (hooked to an ancient PC that is getting harder and harder to find in the wild) that has to be good enough.
Have fun trying to live on $50K in any major or minor city in the USA, particularly if you want to have a family.
Are you kidding? You must live in San Francisco or something.
You can afford a home living in Houston making $35k/yr. Making $50k/yr in San Antonio is living like a king. If you're not living in NY, DC, or the West Coast, $50k/yr isn't bad.
I have yet to meet a haphazard chemist.
You never met my high school chemistry teacher. He was seventy years old and didn't mind handling mercury without gloves. He'd make giant pressure detection systems with mercury flowing through tiny glass tubes for fun. Inevitably, someone would accidentally break the tiny glass tubes and he'd clear out the lab and pick up the little bits of mercury himself while we waited in the hall. Fun times. He also taught us how to make those explosive "BANG SNAP" things.
Yes, and what about that "writing" invention? When people start using that, they'll lose their memories! And flying like a bird? God would have given us wings if He had intended that! And what's with these "antibiotics?" No one should be taking pills like this! It just ain't natural!
There are quite a few people who cannot exorcise.
Your mother runs on the treadmills in Hell, Karras!
My point is, get your fucking facts straight before posting. I don't have any other points than that.
Remember Bernie Goetz? That guy was lionized for shooting some kids on a subway for allegedly trying to rob him. Hell this guy is still giving interviews in the press almost a quarter century later.
Allegedly? The perpetrators have admitted they were trying to rob him. And guess what? Most of the perps participated in armed robbery AFTER being shot, one of them was even a convicted rapist. I'm not a gun nut, but get the facts straight-the people that were after him were thugs.
Batman and Robin is the only movie I've ever seen where normal, everyday theater patrons were genuinely pissed off about the movie. The movie exudes a contempt for its audience that's so palpable even normal people could pick it up. They were hooting, yelling, and throwing popcorn at the screen. It was a late night showing on a weekend, so it's possible that some of the people were drunk, but not everyone. It was an angry mob-type scene. And if Joel Schumacher had been in attendence, he probably would have been tarred and feathered.
What about Cable? He's just as responsible. At least we won't ever see him in the movies.
Yes, if you consider opening terminal and going through the same steps as you would on a UNIX box to be too much effort, I can't conceive how you ever post to slashdot. I mean, that involves picking up your fingers and pressing them down a keyboard.
"That's a hoop in my book! Who do you think I am, Michael Jordan! I don't do hoops!" That's what you say in your everyday life when presented with anything that requires effort. You are a lazy asshole and nobody likes you, except the cashier at the grocery store where you purchase your adult diapers because stopping to use the toilet is a hoop.