1. You do need a new IRD and a triple-LNB dish, but aiming the dish isn't considerably harder than aiming the standard dish.
2. DirecTV also offers Showtime in HD. You won't get your local stations in HD, but can continue to recieve the standard feed of your local stations. Also, several HD-capable DirecTV IRDs also include a built-in tuner for local OTA HD stations. Add a standard antenna, and you have local stations in HD.
None of the terrestrial cable systems that I am aware of are currently offering HD signals. AT&T here won't even indicate when or if they will start carrying HD feeds.
DirecTV has to add additional satellites to add capacity. Local terrestial carriers have to upgrade their distribution networks to add more capacity. Where's the difference?
I can't comment on Time Warner's quality, but I can on AT&T in this area. AT&T cable has frequent dropouts on many digital channels, and horrible pixelation everywhere. Analog channels are fuzzy and ghosty. My DirecTV picture has never dropped out, even in the worst weather, and pixellation is minimal on everything I watch. AT&T can't compete on price, either. I have a comparable set of channels as my in-laws down the street, yet I pay about $15 less for my service than they do for theirs, even after including the charges I pay for additional recievers (2 at $5 each) - which they would also have to pay in order to recieve digital cable on more than one set (assuming they had more than one TV).
I'm a happy DirecTV subscriber. I don't yet have HD-DirecTV at home, mostly because I am unwilling to give up my TiVo. Now, if someone builds a box which integrates TiVo service, DirecTV standard and HD tuner, and a local OTA HD tuner, I'll buy it.
Nonsense. You can change the port to almost whatever port you want. login.oscar.aol.com listens on 1600 different ports, all with the same service. Try one, like say, port 80. Watch your network with tcpdump. You won't see anything on port 5190, and AIM will work just fine.
Monkey's Audio isn't a free (libre) format, and the encoder and decoder are only available for Windows OS's.
Shorten and FLAC are both freely available. Ports of the encoder and decoder exist for many platforms, and the source code for both is freely available.
That is, would a story on a site like CNN get a higher ranking in google on a keyword "Gulf War" than say a site (gulfwarveterans.com) that deals 100% with the Gulf War?
In this specific example, it's pretty obvious that it doesn't. Searching for Gulf War returns a lot of pages dealing entirely with the war (gulfweb.org, gulfwarvets.com) and not a single hit for CNN in the first few pages of links.
Carnegie Mellon also provides accounts to everyone on campus on their distributed AFS/Kerberos based system. In fact, AFS was developed as part of "Andrew", Carnegie Mellon's campus-wide computing system.
In the NFS scenario, the physical location of accounts is totally decentralized and distributed across all the machines that users actually work on.
This is not a requirement of NFS. In fact, I've never seen a setup like this anywhere. In every case where I've seen NFS used on a large scale, the NFS servers are kept in a central location, with physical access controlled.
However, AFS is harder to maintain, and you probably have to pay Transarc for a commercial version.
AFS is no harder to maintain in the long run than NFS. AFS generally has a steep learning curve, but once you have it set up, maintaining the system is no harder than on any other system. Also, you don't have to pay Transarc for anything. Check out the OpenAFS project for a free implementation (both client and server).
String Cheese Incident and Keller Williams are both on SCI Fidelity, a record label started by the members of the String Cheese Incident. They actively support the trading community, even releasing soundboard recordings of selected shows in MP3 and Shorten format.
Phish and the Grateful Dead have had very public trading comminities throughout their existence, with the support of their record labels.
Not everyone signs away all of their rights when getting a record deal.
Actually, it does matter what the band says. Lots of bands have kept the rights to their music themselves, and there are public thriving music trading communities who trade only legal music.
Phish. Grateful Dead. String Cheese Incident. Keller Williams. Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Bela Fleck. Rusted Root. moe. Dave Matthews. Galactic. Gov't Mule.
Have a look at etree for one community that specializes in trading these bands.
No, it isn't. The incoming bitstream from the satellite is variable rate. Sports and premium channels are generally encoded at a higher rate than the talking heads on CNN.
The DirecTiVo will get about 30 hours on average, but not always.
It does directly record the digital stream from the satellite as the previous poster said, so there is no loss of quality over watching it live.
The link should be to memepool.com
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CMU has had a Campus-wide wireless network for a while now. The Wireless Andrew project was started in 1994, using 915 MHz technology, and was later upgraded to 2.4 GHz 802.11-based technology from Lucent/Orinoco.
All of the academic buildings have coverage. A large portion of the outdoor academic campus is also covered. (No coverage in the dorms, though.)
For more information, see:
http://www.cmu.edu/computing/wireless/
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1. You do need a new IRD and a triple-LNB dish, but aiming the dish isn't considerably harder than aiming the standard dish.
2. DirecTV also offers Showtime in HD. You won't get your local stations in HD, but can continue to recieve the standard feed of your local stations. Also, several HD-capable DirecTV IRDs also include a built-in tuner for local OTA HD stations. Add a standard antenna, and you have local stations in HD.
None of the terrestrial cable systems that I am aware of are currently offering HD signals. AT&T here won't even indicate when or if they will start carrying HD feeds.
DirecTV has to add additional satellites to add capacity. Local terrestial carriers have to upgrade their distribution networks to add more capacity. Where's the difference?
I can't comment on Time Warner's quality, but I can on AT&T in this area. AT&T cable has frequent dropouts on many digital channels, and horrible pixelation everywhere. Analog channels are fuzzy and ghosty. My DirecTV picture has never dropped out, even in the worst weather, and pixellation is minimal on everything I watch. AT&T can't compete on price, either. I have a comparable set of channels as my in-laws down the street, yet I pay about $15 less for my service than they do for theirs, even after including the charges I pay for additional recievers (2 at $5 each) - which they would also have to pay in order to recieve digital cable on more than one set (assuming they had more than one TV).
I'm a happy DirecTV subscriber. I don't yet have HD-DirecTV at home, mostly because I am unwilling to give up my TiVo. Now, if someone builds a box which integrates TiVo service, DirecTV standard and HD tuner, and a local OTA HD tuner, I'll buy it.
Nonsense. You can change the port to almost whatever port you want. login.oscar.aol.com listens on 1600 different ports, all with the same service. Try one, like say, port 80. Watch your network with tcpdump. You won't see anything on port 5190, and AIM will work just fine.
Monkey's Audio isn't a free (libre) format, and the encoder and decoder are only available for Windows OS's.
Shorten and FLAC are both freely available. Ports of the encoder and decoder exist for many platforms, and the source code for both is freely available.
In this specific example, it's pretty obvious that it doesn't. Searching for Gulf War returns a lot of pages dealing entirely with the war (gulfweb.org, gulfwarvets.com) and not a single hit for CNN in the first few pages of links.
Carnegie Mellon also provides accounts to everyone on campus on their distributed AFS/Kerberos based system. In fact, AFS was developed as part of "Andrew", Carnegie Mellon's campus-wide computing system.
In the NFS scenario, the physical location of accounts is totally decentralized and distributed across all the machines that users actually work on.
This is not a requirement of NFS. In fact, I've never seen a setup like this anywhere. In every case where I've seen NFS used on a large scale, the NFS servers are kept in a central location, with physical access controlled.
However, AFS is harder to maintain, and you probably have to pay Transarc for a commercial version.
AFS is no harder to maintain in the long run than NFS. AFS generally has a steep learning curve, but once you have it set up, maintaining the system is no harder than on any other system. Also, you don't have to pay Transarc for anything. Check out the OpenAFS project for a free implementation (both client and server).
Perhaps you should "look it up" before posting.
String Cheese Incident and Keller Williams are both on SCI Fidelity, a record label started by the members of the String Cheese Incident. They actively support the trading community, even releasing soundboard recordings of selected shows in MP3 and Shorten format.
Phish and the Grateful Dead have had very public trading comminities throughout their existence, with the support of their record labels.
Not everyone signs away all of their rights when getting a record deal.
Actually, it does matter what the band says. Lots of bands have kept the rights to their music themselves, and there are public thriving music trading communities who trade only legal music.
Phish. Grateful Dead. String Cheese Incident. Keller Williams. Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Bela Fleck. Rusted Root. moe. Dave Matthews. Galactic. Gov't Mule.
Have a look at etree for one community that specializes in trading these bands.
So a 30hr DirecTiVo is 30hrs... Always.
No, it isn't. The incoming bitstream from the satellite is variable rate. Sports and premium channels are generally encoded at a higher rate than the talking heads on CNN.
The DirecTiVo will get about 30 hours on average, but not always.
It does directly record the digital stream from the satellite as the previous poster said, so there is no loss of quality over watching it live.
The correct link for memepool is http://www.memepool.com/, not .org.
CMU has had a Campus-wide wireless network for a while now. The Wireless Andrew project was started in 1994, using 915 MHz technology, and was later upgraded to 2.4 GHz 802.11-based technology from Lucent/Orinoco.
All of the academic buildings have coverage. A large portion of the outdoor academic campus is also covered. (No coverage in the dorms, though.)
For more information, see:
http://www.cmu.edu/computing/wireless/