NAB is "National Association of Broadcasters". If you have to ask the price of an Arri, Red, or Sony cinema camera, a 100,000 watt transmitter, green-screen compositing software, room-sized media storage arrays, etc you probably can't afford it, and that's to be expected. You're probably not in the industry anyway. It's fun to look at that stuff though. A single broadcast or cinema camera runs upwards of 6 figures, so that's probably what pays the rent at multi-market companies like Sony.
Exhibitors also include JVC, Canon, and Panasonic who make a ton of consumer crap, semi-pro gear, and very high-end professional gear. They showcase all of their lines at NAB, which is nice for people trying to decide between consumer crap and semi-pro. CES generally concentrates on the consumer lines and is aimed at retailers. NAB's focus is more about content creators and infrastructure operators.
The LVCC is about 2 million square feet. Bring good shoes and salt tablets so you don't have to piss too often. The restroom facilities are criminally inadequate for a facility that size. I'm arriving Saturday so I can do laps around the strip for a couple days to get in shape.
Use a couple of USB cables (up to about 16 feet) and a 7-button programmable mouse on the arm of your chair or couch. That will get you most common functions. If the distance is too far for USB, use a USB-over-Cat5 or USB-over-WiFi extender. If you need the keyboard often, plug a wireless keyboard/mouse receiver into the USB extension and keep the keyboard on the end table or coffee table.
ABC is a broadcast network and falls under "must carry" for all cable providers in the US (don't know if Canada has must-carry rules). They can't withhold it. I'd be extremely happy if I could opt out of subsidizing sports though, and I have no interest in the disney channels either. I've heard that ESPN charges the cablecos something like $25 per subscriber for their bundle. Fuck them. There are more than enough sports junkies in the world to foot the bill for pro sports programming without forcing it down the throats of people who don't want to support it.
I'd be wildly enthusiastic about blocking the shopping networks and the bible-thumping scumbag con-artist channels too, both of which only exist to steal money from the old and senile.
The best way that I can explain this is how the whole system is made. One big distinction is tube vs solid state amps. When operating any amp in compression, it will generate harmonics. (think of the difference between a sine wave vs a square wave when looking at the frequency spectrum). If you add multiple sine waves (ie a chord on a guitar). Each frequency for each note of the chord will mix together when going through the amp, which are called intermodulation products. These intermod products give a certain profile to the sound that come out of the amplifier that give each amp its own unique sound. The differences come from the design of the amp. Many people claim that tubes give a 'warmer' sound from the better intermods that they create. This is probably true, but I don't have any evidence one way or the other. It would make sense that the transition from linear to nonlinear (ie approaching saturation) in a tube amp would be different vs a solid state amp which will affect the harmonic creation.
Another way that the sound is different would be what kind of speaker cabinet the amplifier is connected to. The acoustic performance will also shape the sound.
In simple terms, overdriven tube amplifier circuits generate more odd-order harmonics (3rd, 5th, 7th) and overdriven solid-state circuits tend to generate more even-order harmonics (2nd, 4th, 6th). Odd-order harmonics are much more "musical" and pleasant to listen to. Even-order harmonics sound like a chainsaw going thru a metal garbage can full of cats. (not that there's anything wrong with that) Compare the guitar tones of Hendrix and Dimebag. The difference is obvious.
Over the years, devices have been created to enhance odd-order harmonics to "sweeten" the sound of harsh transistor amplification paths. Examples are the Tube Screamer pedal and hordes of rack-mounted tube preamps for live work and the Eventide Harmonizer and its successors for studio work. Now that touring PA systems are in the megawatt range, the onstage volume of individual instrument amps is irrelevant, so the tube amp is again king in most music genres because of its superior musical tone. Everything is close-miked and sent thru the mains and monitors at appropriate volumes.
Exactly. Cardholders, card issuers (mostly banks), merchant account issuers (mostly banks), processing gateways (Authorize, etc), and network operators (Visa, MC, Disc) never lose a dime on credit card fraud. All costs are born by the merchants who accept cards for goods and services. Not only are the disputed amounts forcibly taken from the merchant's bank account, an additional administrative/punitive fee of between $20 and $75 (depending on the merchant account issuer) is levied for EACH chargeback.
In this case, Visa/MC may issue steep fines to the entity that had the security breach, but ultimately any fraudulent transactions made with the stolen card numbers will be absorbed by the merchants, and those costs will be passed onto you - the consumer - in the form of higher prices on goods and services purchased with credit cards.
ATI has been shit since the day the went into business. They simply cannot write a driver that works. It's always been that way and it will never change. It's a shitty company that has always made shitty products. After fighting with Nvidia drivers for a few years, I determined that they are almost as bad. That's why I switched to Intel everywhere about a decade ago and haven't seen a BSOD since. My laptop and video workstations all have onboard Intel chips and since I don't give a rat's ass about gaming or any other 3D applications, I don't have any need for high-end video cards and their associated driver issues.
6. Wireless/ 4G
Clear/Sprint (formerly Clearwire) operates in major cities.
Seattle has had other Wimax-type providers for years, although they were aimed at business and were pretty expensive
7. Wireless/ Satellite -
Limited traffic allotment and horrible latency, but available pretty much anywhere in the US with a view of the sky
8. Wireless/ Infrared -
I don't know if it's still in operation, but a couple of years ago, someone rolled out a line-of-site infrared system on the tops of the downtown Seattle office buildings
9. T1
This old dog is still out there and is offered by a number of providers in most markets served by copper.
10. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives going 70 miles an hour
If you're crossing a border with ANYTHING on a laptop besides the operating system, you're just asking for trouble. If you need to work in multiple countries or just like to travel a lot, lease, colo, or home-base your own server and keep your stuff there. When you get to your destination, download and install an SCP client, then access the files you need. Download and install TrueCrypt, create an encrypted file, and use that to store local working copies of things as necessary. Download and install a non-factory web browser and use that to access your own secure web mail system.
Before going back across the border, save any work back to your remote server and delete the SCP client, browser, Truecrypt, and the encrypted file. If you're really paranoid, reinstall the OS from the rescue partition.
The secret to staying out of jail is pretty simple - don't be lazy, don't be stupid, don't poke the bear.
The alleged "authority of experts" is questionable marketing bravado. In the last century, a large percentage of their articles were gleaned from popular media sources of the day and the authors were newspaper and magazine contributors.
I happen to have a set that I inherited from my grandfather. He was kind of a hustler and wore a lot of hats in his life, including drummer in a swing band, bootlegger, and minister. At one point he tried his hand at selling encyclopaedias. What I have is his demo set. It's dated 1929. Since the articles were written one or two years before the edition went to print, the article on the booming stock market and the forecast of endless prosperity is both chilling and hilarious. It's written by a financial editor from the Wall Street Journal. Equally amusing are the ones on being a proper and obedient wife and homemaker from an article in a women's magazine.
Skills that are fully buzzword-compliant as opposed to coding in Cobol, manufacturing buggy whips, or operating a VCR. If you can fully actualize the cloud paradigm, you're hired!
If so many people didn't "use" the content until a sudden "drop in hormones" then demand a refund it wouldn't be an issue.
Don't blame paypal, blame people who abuse the system.
(I worked for an ISP once who also provided cable, lot of people wanted to refund adult content if their night didn't turn out as planned, or after watching 3 minutes of it if you know what I mean)
That's an extremely rare edge case. The reason for 99.9999% of chargebacks in adult content are one of the following
Stolen credit card number
Adult male busted buying porn by wife/girlfriend and then claiming "it wasn't me. Someone must have stolen my/your card number"
Adolescent male using family member's credit card without authorization, then claiming "it wasn't me. Someone must have stolen your card number"
Nonsense. I've been using Cogent continuously since 2005, first at ThePlanet and then in a Seattle Colo. It's cheap and it typically has lower latency than most other Tier 1 providers. Planned maintenance happens exactly on schedule and is usually done faster than their estimate. By some metrics (miles of fiber I think) it's the largest network in the world. As the other poster pointed out, the only problems that ever severely affected users is when they were in a transit disputes with Sprint and Level 3, and those incidents happened years ago.
For years, they've offered full 42u racks with a 100 mbps drop for something like $600 per month in their own DCs. I don't use their various urban facilities because I do my own hardware work and I live about 4 miles from my current DC in the suburbs.
That's the main reason I went to GOMplayer on Windows years ago. VLC simply didn't do what I wanted it to do (stepping forward/backward, perfect vidcapping, pan & scan, speed adjustments, contrast/brightness/saturation/color controls).
Years ago, I tried installing VLC on my video file servers to do vidcaps/thumbnails via scripts, but it simply wouldn't compile without a full X-window installation to solve dependencies. At one point, there was a console-only version, but it had long since been abandoned and wouldn't compile on a REAL server OS (RHE, Centos) because the developers only saw fit to make it work on Fedora and other non-professional and experimental distros. I eventually figured out how to compile Mplayer in the exact console configuration I wanted on ANY flavor of Linux and never looked back.
Children can't legally or emotionally consent to sex; there's no such thing as "voluntary pedophilia."
As uncomfortable as this may make you feel, what you state is factually incorrect.
Legally, age of consent varies from roughly 13 to 18 around the world. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't consider someone 13 years old to be a child.
Emotionally, the average age of first sexual encounter, world-wide, is 14. Being the average, a significant number (probably somewhere near half) would be younger than that. For your statement ot be true, one would have to believe that half, or more, of the human beings that have had sex did so non-consentually. That kind of claim would require some seriously well-researched evidence.
It's actually 12 in Vatican City, but judging by their track record, it probably doesn't involve any females
You know what? The situation is far from perfect but I can live with it, considering that for the vast majority of human history, the two sides of that coin were "government" and "religion".
Since 75% of the malicious attacks on my networks originate in China, that's half a billion people who will continue to be blocked from my retail networks. Years ago, before I started blocking them, Chinese addresses were involved in a substantial percentage of the chargebacks I received. It will be decades before anyone I know would even consider taking them seriously as a source of legitimate customers.
It would help a lot if they could manage to shut down all the illegal (and unpatched) copies of Microsoft's leaky piece-of-shit operating systems that they're running (as botnet nodes, more often than not) and replace them with Linux (they have their own distro from what I understand). Right now, Chinese visitors are about as welcome to US merchants as 10 Somalis in a speedboat are to a cargo ship off the coast of Africa.
For web hosting, there are already a number of (GUI) web front ends available on Windows - cPanel, Helm, etc. For file management, FTP or WinSCP provides drag & drop functionality. I don't know what tools are available for MS databases, but on Linux, phpMyAdmin is a very nice Web-based management application for MySQL.
Actually, this move would have made a lot more sense back around Windows Server 2000, when most people were on 32-bit OSes. Setting an 8meg video address range for basic CLI "crash cart" video or going completely headless instead of allocating 128 megs or more of address space for desktop-grade video from the meager 4-gig range frees up a lot of memory addresses that can be used for file caching, SQL tables, etc.
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NAB is "National Association of Broadcasters". If you have to ask the price of an Arri, Red, or Sony cinema camera, a 100,000 watt transmitter, green-screen compositing software, room-sized media storage arrays, etc you probably can't afford it, and that's to be expected. You're probably not in the industry anyway. It's fun to look at that stuff though. A single broadcast or cinema camera runs upwards of 6 figures, so that's probably what pays the rent at multi-market companies like Sony.
Exhibitors also include JVC, Canon, and Panasonic who make a ton of consumer crap, semi-pro gear, and very high-end professional gear. They showcase all of their lines at NAB, which is nice for people trying to decide between consumer crap and semi-pro. CES generally concentrates on the consumer lines and is aimed at retailers. NAB's focus is more about content creators and infrastructure operators.
The LVCC is about 2 million square feet. Bring good shoes and salt tablets so you don't have to piss too often. The restroom facilities are criminally inadequate for a facility that size. I'm arriving Saturday so I can do laps around the strip for a couple days to get in shape.
Use a couple of USB cables (up to about 16 feet) and a 7-button programmable mouse on the arm of your chair or couch. That will get you most common functions. If the distance is too far for USB, use a USB-over-Cat5 or USB-over-WiFi extender. If you need the keyboard often, plug a wireless keyboard/mouse receiver into the USB extension and keep the keyboard on the end table or coffee table.
ABC is a broadcast network and falls under "must carry" for all cable providers in the US (don't know if Canada has must-carry rules). They can't withhold it. I'd be extremely happy if I could opt out of subsidizing sports though, and I have no interest in the disney channels either. I've heard that ESPN charges the cablecos something like $25 per subscriber for their bundle. Fuck them. There are more than enough sports junkies in the world to foot the bill for pro sports programming without forcing it down the throats of people who don't want to support it.
I'd be wildly enthusiastic about blocking the shopping networks and the bible-thumping scumbag con-artist channels too, both of which only exist to steal money from the old and senile.
The best way that I can explain this is how the whole system is made. One big distinction is tube vs solid state amps. When operating any amp in compression, it will generate harmonics. (think of the difference between a sine wave vs a square wave when looking at the frequency spectrum). If you add multiple sine waves (ie a chord on a guitar). Each frequency for each note of the chord will mix together when going through the amp, which are called intermodulation products. These intermod products give a certain profile to the sound that come out of the amplifier that give each amp its own unique sound. The differences come from the design of the amp. Many people claim that tubes give a 'warmer' sound from the better intermods that they create. This is probably true, but I don't have any evidence one way or the other. It would make sense that the transition from linear to nonlinear (ie approaching saturation) in a tube amp would be different vs a solid state amp which will affect the harmonic creation. Another way that the sound is different would be what kind of speaker cabinet the amplifier is connected to. The acoustic performance will also shape the sound.
In simple terms, overdriven tube amplifier circuits generate more odd-order harmonics (3rd, 5th, 7th) and overdriven solid-state circuits tend to generate more even-order harmonics (2nd, 4th, 6th). Odd-order harmonics are much more "musical" and pleasant to listen to. Even-order harmonics sound like a chainsaw going thru a metal garbage can full of cats. (not that there's anything wrong with that) Compare the guitar tones of Hendrix and Dimebag. The difference is obvious.
Over the years, devices have been created to enhance odd-order harmonics to "sweeten" the sound of harsh transistor amplification paths. Examples are the Tube Screamer pedal and hordes of rack-mounted tube preamps for live work and the Eventide Harmonizer and its successors for studio work. Now that touring PA systems are in the megawatt range, the onstage volume of individual instrument amps is irrelevant, so the tube amp is again king in most music genres because of its superior musical tone. Everything is close-miked and sent thru the mains and monitors at appropriate volumes.
Exactly. Cardholders, card issuers (mostly banks), merchant account issuers (mostly banks), processing gateways (Authorize, etc), and network operators (Visa, MC, Disc) never lose a dime on credit card fraud. All costs are born by the merchants who accept cards for goods and services. Not only are the disputed amounts forcibly taken from the merchant's bank account, an additional administrative/punitive fee of between $20 and $75 (depending on the merchant account issuer) is levied for EACH chargeback.
In this case, Visa/MC may issue steep fines to the entity that had the security breach, but ultimately any fraudulent transactions made with the stolen card numbers will be absorbed by the merchants, and those costs will be passed onto you - the consumer - in the form of higher prices on goods and services purchased with credit cards.
ATI has been shit since the day the went into business. They simply cannot write a driver that works. It's always been that way and it will never change. It's a shitty company that has always made shitty products. After fighting with Nvidia drivers for a few years, I determined that they are almost as bad. That's why I switched to Intel everywhere about a decade ago and haven't seen a BSOD since. My laptop and video workstations all have onboard Intel chips and since I don't give a rat's ass about gaming or any other 3D applications, I don't have any need for high-end video cards and their associated driver issues.
I look forward to the Zuckmeister going after pretty much anyone using the term "sportsbook", especially in the general vicinity of Las Vegas.
don't bring a lawyer to a "baseball bat to the kneecaps" fight
The rest have been well-paid to support anything desired by anyone carrying the title "employer" ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H JOB CREATOR.
Please use approved terms when referencing your superiors
6. Wireless/ 4G Clear/Sprint (formerly Clearwire) operates in major cities. Seattle has had other Wimax-type providers for years, although they were aimed at business and were pretty expensive
7. Wireless/ Satellite - Limited traffic allotment and horrible latency, but available pretty much anywhere in the US with a view of the sky
8. Wireless/ Infrared - I don't know if it's still in operation, but a couple of years ago, someone rolled out a line-of-site infrared system on the tops of the downtown Seattle office buildings
9. T1 This old dog is still out there and is offered by a number of providers in most markets served by copper.
10. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives going 70 miles an hour
If you're crossing a border with ANYTHING on a laptop besides the operating system, you're just asking for trouble. If you need to work in multiple countries or just like to travel a lot, lease, colo, or home-base your own server and keep your stuff there. When you get to your destination, download and install an SCP client, then access the files you need. Download and install TrueCrypt, create an encrypted file, and use that to store local working copies of things as necessary. Download and install a non-factory web browser and use that to access your own secure web mail system.
Before going back across the border, save any work back to your remote server and delete the SCP client, browser, Truecrypt, and the encrypted file. If you're really paranoid, reinstall the OS from the rescue partition.
The secret to staying out of jail is pretty simple - don't be lazy, don't be stupid, don't poke the bear.
The alleged "authority of experts" is questionable marketing bravado. In the last century, a large percentage of their articles were gleaned from popular media sources of the day and the authors were newspaper and magazine contributors.
I happen to have a set that I inherited from my grandfather. He was kind of a hustler and wore a lot of hats in his life, including drummer in a swing band, bootlegger, and minister. At one point he tried his hand at selling encyclopaedias. What I have is his demo set. It's dated 1929. Since the articles were written one or two years before the edition went to print, the article on the booming stock market and the forecast of endless prosperity is both chilling and hilarious. It's written by a financial editor from the Wall Street Journal. Equally amusing are the ones on being a proper and obedient wife and homemaker from an article in a women's magazine.
I also recommend "Venus On the Half-shell" by Kilgore Trout (a character of Vonnegut, but used as a pseudonym by Farmer)
Bullshit. I saw a documentary way back in the 60's that clearly showed the wheel and axle existing in the stone age. It was called The Flintstones.
Skills that are fully buzzword-compliant as opposed to coding in Cobol, manufacturing buggy whips, or operating a VCR. If you can fully actualize the cloud paradigm, you're hired!
If so many people didn't "use" the content until a sudden "drop in hormones" then demand a refund it wouldn't be an issue. Don't blame paypal, blame people who abuse the system.
(I worked for an ISP once who also provided cable, lot of people wanted to refund adult content if their night didn't turn out as planned, or after watching 3 minutes of it if you know what I mean)
That's an extremely rare edge case. The reason for 99.9999% of chargebacks in adult content are one of the following
Nonsense. I've been using Cogent continuously since 2005, first at ThePlanet and then in a Seattle Colo. It's cheap and it typically has lower latency than most other Tier 1 providers. Planned maintenance happens exactly on schedule and is usually done faster than their estimate. By some metrics (miles of fiber I think) it's the largest network in the world. As the other poster pointed out, the only problems that ever severely affected users is when they were in a transit disputes with Sprint and Level 3, and those incidents happened years ago. For years, they've offered full 42u racks with a 100 mbps drop for something like $600 per month in their own DCs. I don't use their various urban facilities because I do my own hardware work and I live about 4 miles from my current DC in the suburbs.
Around '94, my Motorola bag phone had a sealed lead-acid battery. I didn't see a newer technology until about 96-97.
That's the main reason I went to GOMplayer on Windows years ago. VLC simply didn't do what I wanted it to do (stepping forward/backward, perfect vidcapping, pan & scan, speed adjustments, contrast/brightness/saturation/color controls).
Years ago, I tried installing VLC on my video file servers to do vidcaps/thumbnails via scripts, but it simply wouldn't compile without a full X-window installation to solve dependencies. At one point, there was a console-only version, but it had long since been abandoned and wouldn't compile on a REAL server OS (RHE, Centos) because the developers only saw fit to make it work on Fedora and other non-professional and experimental distros. I eventually figured out how to compile Mplayer in the exact console configuration I wanted on ANY flavor of Linux and never looked back.
Sounds to me like VLC is still lacking.
Children can't legally or emotionally consent to sex; there's no such thing as "voluntary pedophilia."
As uncomfortable as this may make you feel, what you state is factually incorrect.
Legally, age of consent varies from roughly 13 to 18 around the world. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't consider someone 13 years old to be a child.
Emotionally, the average age of first sexual encounter, world-wide, is 14. Being the average, a significant number (probably somewhere near half) would be younger than that. For your statement ot be true, one would have to believe that half, or more, of the human beings that have had sex did so non-consentually. That kind of claim would require some seriously well-researched evidence.
It's actually 12 in Vatican City, but judging by their track record, it probably doesn't involve any females
Hi, I'm your nephew. Please sign this power of attorney.
The Faraday hats, however...
You know what? The situation is far from perfect but I can live with it, considering that for the vast majority of human history, the two sides of that coin were "government" and "religion".
You forgot to put "music" in quotes.
Since 75% of the malicious attacks on my networks originate in China, that's half a billion people who will continue to be blocked from my retail networks. Years ago, before I started blocking them, Chinese addresses were involved in a substantial percentage of the chargebacks I received. It will be decades before anyone I know would even consider taking them seriously as a source of legitimate customers.
It would help a lot if they could manage to shut down all the illegal (and unpatched) copies of Microsoft's leaky piece-of-shit operating systems that they're running (as botnet nodes, more often than not) and replace them with Linux (they have their own distro from what I understand). Right now, Chinese visitors are about as welcome to US merchants as 10 Somalis in a speedboat are to a cargo ship off the coast of Africa.
For web hosting, there are already a number of (GUI) web front ends available on Windows - cPanel, Helm, etc. For file management, FTP or WinSCP provides drag & drop functionality. I don't know what tools are available for MS databases, but on Linux, phpMyAdmin is a very nice Web-based management application for MySQL.
Actually, this move would have made a lot more sense back around Windows Server 2000, when most people were on 32-bit OSes. Setting an 8meg video address range for basic CLI "crash cart" video or going completely headless instead of allocating 128 megs or more of address space for desktop-grade video from the meager 4-gig range frees up a lot of memory addresses that can be used for file caching, SQL tables, etc.