Dude Ben is smart but he used to get beat on a semi-regular basis on Win Ben Steins Money. This guy is the Alpha Geek, he would crush Ben without breaking a sweat.
Never claimed it was, I just think that the parent poster was more than a little bit harsh in claiming that you would have to be stupid to pick the PC based PVR.
What kind of remote control support do you have with a PC based PVR? Good but not as easy to setup as it should be.
How does a PC based PVR react when power is interrupted? A UPS solves the potential for a problem, I already had one for all my non-tv A/V stuff.
How reliable is the programming guide that is used with a PC based PVR? I download the guide data nightly from zap2it, just like a Tivo
Can a PC based PVR be unobtrusively placed inside a TV stand? Sure, buy a slimline PC in media colors or go with one of the really nice but expensive cases that look just like a piece of AV equipment
Will the system automatically upgrade all of the software if a patch is released for any portion of the software? Well I have XP setup to auto-update, I test Media Portal on my main PC before uploading it to the media PC, it's changing daily at this point so things break and I like to make sure that doesn't happen to my HTPC.
How stable is the software used with a PC based PVR? Can most wives use a PC based PVR? Well the Media Portal stuff is pretty stable and my wife has no problems with it, neither do my parents when they come over.
Let see, can a Tivo:
Play my media files from a network share?
Display my pictures from my digital camera?
Timeshift radio including net radio streams?
Support multiple input sources?
The answer of course is no, but you can with a PC based PVR. There is an opensource project with all of those features present or on the todo list available from source forge it's windows 2k or XP only but it's really nice. I know there's a Linux based player with similar features.
Telemarketers ALREADY provide their own outgoing caller-ID and I'm sure there are backdoors to the PBX software which allow them to ignore the private flag on the CID info. If you have a trunk line and are willing to ignore standards there is all sorts of info you can glean from the phone system.
hmm, that's funny, the first thing I do when setting up a new computer with Mozilla is to set image.animation_mode(once). I can't stand being distracted by annoying animations at the corner of my vision. In fact on the rare occasion where there IS a need for animation you can either do DHTML tricks or use flash.
500 was the average per tech at a previous job. Of course we weren't first line support (generally) but it was hectic for me with only 250, I can't imagine 500. Hell the 250 begun my ongoing hairloss problem =)
Hmm, Butterfly Effect gets a 7.4/10.0 at imdb, not what I would call a horrible movie by any stretch. Along Came Polly garnered a 5.7/10.0, considering that imdb's audience is pretty highly squewed towards the male half of the species that's not too bad. Btw the production cost of Butterfly Effect was only $13 million its US box office reciepts were $58 million, quite a handsome profit. Along Came Polly grossed $88 million on a budget of $42 million. If you wanted to quote stinkers or flops there are plenty of examples out there but neither of the films you listed were good ones.
SDLT600 is quite nice with good transfer rates and acceptable $/GB. It has the advantage of being able to read your old DLT-IV tapes if you have them. There are of course some organizations that used LTO-1 and for them an LTO-2 solution would likewise make sense. Basically it comes down to legacy support and vendor support, $/GB is pretty comparable for most tape solutions of the same generation since they are based on the same material science breakthroughs.
Not sure exactly how much T2 gas compresses to form a liquid but the Tritrium Reclemation Center will be recieving several overpack's of commercially produced netron absorber rods per year and The total amount of tritium per overpack is equivalent to 15,411 standard cc of T2 linky
15K cubic centimeters at STP is quite a bit, probably not a couple kg but still quite a bit more than a few hundred mg.
Um, that is exactly how you test it. Of course you do it during a maintenance window before you start the actual work. That way if something goes wrong due to the UPS you can fix that problem and reschedule the work you were suposed to do during the maint window.
Actually it depends on his contract with Lions Gate. Since online download is a seperate distribution channel (just like the DVD rights are seperate) it might not be covered. As such the origional author MAY be able to offer a gratis license to obtain the film via a unique distribution channel not specifically covered by the agreement signed with the distributor. Most music contracts in the last few years have covered this but I'm not sure if the movie studios have caught on yet.
It's called TLC and I've never seen a cable network that didn't have it. (I've been all over the west including California, along the east coast, and live in the midwest, so the Missippi states are about the only ones I don't have first hand knowledge of)
Yeah except most C-Band dish's are 5-10' across, significantly larger than the 1m exemption that the FCC gives. In fact the only C-Band dish I am aware of under 1m is the phased array type used for RV's. The exemption was basically written for the DISH Network/DirectTV type applications.
I'm pissed at how little of the Olympics will be broadcast. The network covering this years events has like 7 cable channels which means they have potentially 1,200+ hours per week to cover the events yet they will only have that many hours of coverage over three weeks, and much of that dedicated to the "major" events.
What's worse is that the stupid licensing agreements make it impossible for them to webcast niche events to those who would pay for them because then some channel in zimbabwe that wasn't going to broadcast the event anyways isn't getting their money's worth =( Oh yeah and the events are hard to keep up on because the participants are bared from reporting on their OWN participation on a weblog or similar self publication.
So what we need is a low speed standard for communications between consumer A/V devices. Something along the lines of MIDI with a standardized vocabulary would be very cool. If your TV could tell your stereo to switch to the same input as the tv is tuned to then most of the problems with advanced setups would go away.
Won't work as the iTrip needs to sit IN the iPod's headphone jack to draw power from the power ring which was origionally meant for the controller on the optional headphone w/controlls.
Of COURSE we limit the goverment more than private citizens. They are the ones with the (nearly) unlimited funds, the big guns, and the ability to ruin your life by throwing you in a cell. I'm not really worried about PI's or bounty hunters but the idea of an uncontrolled secret police scares the bejesus out of me.
No, if you deny read and execute it automatically checks list folder contents, if you uncheck read folder contents then it unchecks deny execute. If you go into advanced properties you can deny JUST traverse folder/execute file but it still screws you up if you have multiple subdirectories where you want to apply no execute to the root folder. Windows unfortunatly considers traversing a folder and listing its contents as the same thing as executing an executable. Like I said the model is inherintly flawed. An ACL system that works (like NDS) is definitly the best system available, I just hate this one glaring flaw in the NTFS/Windows model.
Wow, tell your IT guys to use psshutdown from systinternals with a 30 second shutdown flag. Works wonderfully for me and if the user can't be bothered to save in 30 seconds the document isn't that important.
Or if there was the option to chmod -x say the IE Temporary directory, but NO, read AND execute have to be the SAME DAMN ACL in NTFS for folders. This is the one thing that pisses me off about securing windows, the design makes it inherintly difficult to do =(
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Dude Ben is smart but he used to get beat on a semi-regular basis on Win Ben Steins Money. This guy is the Alpha Geek, he would crush Ben without breaking a sweat.
Never claimed it was, I just think that the parent poster was more than a little bit harsh in claiming that you would have to be stupid to pick the PC based PVR.
What kind of remote control support do you have with a PC based PVR?
Good but not as easy to setup as it should be.
How does a PC based PVR react when power is interrupted?
A UPS solves the potential for a problem, I already had one for all my non-tv A/V stuff.
How reliable is the programming guide that is used with a PC based PVR?
I download the guide data nightly from zap2it, just like a Tivo
Can a PC based PVR be unobtrusively placed inside a TV stand?
Sure, buy a slimline PC in media colors or go with one of the really nice but expensive cases that look just like a piece of AV equipment
Will the system automatically upgrade all of the software if a patch is released for any portion of the software?
Well I have XP setup to auto-update, I test Media Portal on my main PC before uploading it to the media PC, it's changing daily at this point so things break and I like to make sure that doesn't happen to my HTPC.
How stable is the software used with a PC based PVR? Can most wives use a PC based PVR?
Well the Media Portal stuff is pretty stable and my wife has no problems with it, neither do my parents when they come over.
Let see, can a Tivo:
Play my media files from a network share?
Display my pictures from my digital camera?
Timeshift radio including net radio streams?
Support multiple input sources?
The answer of course is no, but you can with a PC based PVR. There is an opensource project with all of those features present or on the todo list available from source forge it's windows 2k or XP only but it's really nice. I know there's a Linux based player with similar features.
Telemarketers ALREADY provide their own outgoing caller-ID and I'm sure there are backdoors to the PBX software which allow them to ignore the private flag on the CID info. If you have a trunk line and are willing to ignore standards there is all sorts of info you can glean from the phone system.
hmm, that's funny, the first thing I do when setting up a new computer with Mozilla is to set image.animation_mode(once). I can't stand being distracted by annoying animations at the corner of my vision. In fact on the rare occasion where there IS a need for animation you can either do DHTML tricks or use flash.
500 was the average per tech at a previous job. Of course we weren't first line support (generally) but it was hectic for me with only 250, I can't imagine 500. Hell the 250 begun my ongoing hairloss problem =)
The bottom 100 all rank 3.5 or lower.
On average the NYSE doubles every 12 years so investment capital should grow at around the rate you think is dangerous.
Hmm, Butterfly Effect gets a 7.4/10.0 at imdb, not what I would call a horrible movie by any stretch. Along Came Polly garnered a 5.7/10.0, considering that imdb's audience is pretty highly squewed towards the male half of the species that's not too bad. Btw the production cost of Butterfly Effect was only $13 million its US box office reciepts were $58 million, quite a handsome profit. Along Came Polly grossed $88 million on a budget of $42 million. If you wanted to quote stinkers or flops there are plenty of examples out there but neither of the films you listed were good ones.
SDLT600 is quite nice with good transfer rates and acceptable $/GB. It has the advantage of being able to read your old DLT-IV tapes if you have them. There are of course some organizations that used LTO-1 and for them an LTO-2 solution would likewise make sense. Basically it comes down to legacy support and vendor support, $/GB is pretty comparable for most tape solutions of the same generation since they are based on the same material science breakthroughs.
Here's another process talking about production rates of 1.6kg/0.8hr. So that several kg sphere could quite obviously exist =)
Not sure exactly how much T2 gas compresses to form a liquid but the Tritrium Reclemation Center will be recieving several overpack's of commercially produced netron absorber rods per year and
The total amount of tritium per overpack is equivalent to 15,411 standard cc of T2
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15K cubic centimeters at STP is quite a bit, probably not a couple kg but still quite a bit more than a few hundred mg.
Sure they did, they were 56K leased lines that made T-1 pricing look sane =)
Um, that is exactly how you test it. Of course you do it during a maintenance window before you start the actual work. That way if something goes wrong due to the UPS you can fix that problem and reschedule the work you were suposed to do during the maint window.
Actually it depends on his contract with Lions Gate. Since online download is a seperate distribution channel (just like the DVD rights are seperate) it might not be covered. As such the origional author MAY be able to offer a gratis license to obtain the film via a unique distribution channel not specifically covered by the agreement signed with the distributor. Most music contracts in the last few years have covered this but I'm not sure if the movie studios have caught on yet.
It's called TLC and I've never seen a cable network that didn't have it. (I've been all over the west including California, along the east coast, and live in the midwest, so the Missippi states are about the only ones I don't have first hand knowledge of)
Yeah except most C-Band dish's are 5-10' across, significantly larger than the 1m exemption that the FCC gives. In fact the only C-Band dish I am aware of under 1m is the phased array type used for RV's. The exemption was basically written for the DISH Network/DirectTV type applications.
I'm pissed at how little of the Olympics will be broadcast. The network covering this years events has like 7 cable channels which means they have potentially 1,200+ hours per week to cover the events yet they will only have that many hours of coverage over three weeks, and much of that dedicated to the "major" events.
What's worse is that the stupid licensing agreements make it impossible for them to webcast niche events to those who would pay for them because then some channel in zimbabwe that wasn't going to broadcast the event anyways isn't getting their money's worth =( Oh yeah and the events are hard to keep up on because the participants are bared from reporting on their OWN participation on a weblog or similar self publication.
So what we need is a low speed standard for communications between consumer A/V devices. Something along the lines of MIDI with a standardized vocabulary would be very cool. If your TV could tell your stereo to switch to the same input as the tv is tuned to then most of the problems with advanced setups would go away.
Won't work as the iTrip needs to sit IN the iPod's headphone jack to draw power from the power ring which was origionally meant for the controller on the optional headphone w/controlls.
Of COURSE we limit the goverment more than private citizens. They are the ones with the (nearly) unlimited funds, the big guns, and the ability to ruin your life by throwing you in a cell. I'm not really worried about PI's or bounty hunters but the idea of an uncontrolled secret police scares the bejesus out of me.
No, if you deny read and execute it automatically checks list folder contents, if you uncheck read folder contents then it unchecks deny execute. If you go into advanced properties you can deny JUST traverse folder/execute file but it still screws you up if you have multiple subdirectories where you want to apply no execute to the root folder. Windows unfortunatly considers traversing a folder and listing its contents as the same thing as executing an executable. Like I said the model is inherintly flawed. An ACL system that works (like NDS) is definitly the best system available, I just hate this one glaring flaw in the NTFS/Windows model.
Wow, tell your IT guys to use psshutdown from systinternals with a 30 second shutdown flag. Works wonderfully for me and if the user can't be bothered to save in 30 seconds the document isn't that important.
Or if there was the option to chmod -x say the IE Temporary directory, but NO, read AND execute have to be the SAME DAMN ACL in NTFS for folders. This is the one thing that pisses me off about securing windows, the design makes it inherintly difficult to do =(