Remember, this is a European satellite, they're the ones really pushing ROHS. Many US Companies have adopted it, for various reasons including but not limited to making it easier to do business with Europe.
My particular reference was to NASA. Sometimes, according to testing facility that was established to make sure vendors weren't ripping us off like they did when the door fell off a shuttle, when they check solder on boards ordered from Europe specifying lead solder only with the aerospace waiver, they still come in ROHS. ROHS is BAD for aerospace applications, it tends to break under vibration where lead will hold up.
When we make our own stuff I guarantee you we have lead solder, usually SN-63 where I'm at.
BTW - hows that whole ROHS thing working out for you?
(I know, aerospace components have an ROHS waiver, but when we order stuff from Europe and try to use the ROHS waiver they still send us ROHS anyways half the time)
I've seen Teen Titans based on the cartoon instead of the original more mature version, I've seen other kid targeted comics but three is young. Go to the bookstore and get the age range targeted books, trust me there's no shortage of hero hosted educational and kid specific books. You may want to move on to Captain Underpants next until he's ready for the more mature titles. Remember, the Comics Code Authority is dead now and the comics are written accordingly.
3G support means nothing to me. I use WiFi or nothing. If I'm on the go and I need WiFi for my e-Reader and there's no hot-spots my phone provides one.
Really, I've got enough books stored up in advanced I could go a month of reading and not run out of books I've already downloaded.
If I'm going to limit myself to a 7" tablet I'm going to get the Nook. Same processor, twice the on-board storage, twice the RAM, has an SD slot, just as hackable and can run the Kindle app.
This is actually the earliest attempt I recall to maximize time use. When I was a little kid I remember that between a TV show and a commercial, then between one commercial and the next the screen would go black, usually for a fractional second, or when it was left in the hands of the yahoo's at the more local level sometimes several seconds, then the next commercial would load. This black in between buffer space was normal to me, it was a well defined border between content. Then it went away. I wasn't every old, 6 to 8 or so when it happened, when I mentioned it to my mother she looked at me like I was crazy, she didn't know what I was talking about.
I can actually get behind that particular move, it's the rest of them I care for less.
The problem with CableCARD is the licensing and certification process that pretty much guarantees the only way I'll ever be able to use it is with a Windows Media computer, and even then cable companies are notorious for pretending the law doesn't require them to provide FireWire tuners or CableCARDs if we request them.
I have difficulty accepting that I would have to buy new equipment and / or change my OS to go with the Apple option is a superior choice.
I'm already on the Amazon option, it saves me a ton of money in shipping cost, the free TV shows and movies are just icing, my family loves going through what's available when theyr'e around (I've explained to them how to stay in the free Prime area).
So if there were say I don't know, a 5 "conductor" multi-mode fiber bundle run from my place of living to a hut - I don't care if I own that bundle or if it's local government or a completely separate entity. A neutral third party owning the fibers and the hut with a maintenance fee distributed among everyone based on number of connections in use wouldn't be a bad idea. Say this hut had 30 different providers in it fighting to be the one who got to plug one of those conductors into their patch panel because the federal government got out of it and allowed that situation to occur. Are you saying it wouldn't be in my best interest?
XBMC is awesome! I bought my daughter a netbook for her birthday, set it to boot straight into XBMC and put all of her movies and some video games on it. My nephew, who actually has his own iPad he won in a contest, asked me to set one up for him he liked it so much.
They do for me. I have it in an above comment, but here it is again:
When the installer came to hook up my cable internet (actually did require access to a locked box so I couldn't have done it myself) he asked if I wanted cable hooked up to my TV.
I said no. Three times.
The fourth time he made it clear there was a splitter in his pocket (my cable modem is under my TV) and that it was free to me I said yes. My TV has a few channels on it now I don't watch, but my dad does when he visits so I guess that's alright.
I think he was genuinely shocked I didn't even want free cable because I don't watch it.
I find it disturbing you watched that particular show a first time. Of course you're touting an Apple product so I guess that show comes with the neighborhood.
Roku, Boxee, simply what's built into most modern LG devices, a Wii or a PS3 and a subscription to the content provider of choice is all you need without having to become an iSlave.
I don't dispute there's quite a few anti-copyright people on here, but I would argue that this isn't a strongly anti-copyright place, it's an anti-stupidity and despite the constant ripping into one another and trolling a pro-ethics website.
Most Slashdotters I think you will find actually agree with some sort of copyright protection, as long as it's fair and it expires. You will not find a consensus on what is a fair term. Most Slashdotters are pro creative talent making a profit and anti-big media exploiting that talent and its consumers.
You will find a lot of Humble Bundle, creative commons, and direct sales fans here but not many fans of Sony/BMG and their ilk.
Slashdot isn't full of underhanded thieves, it's full of people who want things to make sense and understand the right thing shouldn't take huge amounts of effort or unnecessary amounts of cash to do.
It is unfortunate that most directors are lazy and just slap the cutting room floor material in as "bonus cut scenes!". Yeah, fine I can sit there and watch them out of context, but it's better if you just go ahead and put them back in as long as you didn't re-cut other parts of the show to conflict with the cut material.
This is why we need to decrease federal government regulation in the communication arena and open up the utility lines to more services. Companies can be assholes with their caps all they want, I live near Houston and in my neighborhood Comcast is the ONLY broadband ISP available. If Comcast had to worry about an open DMARC concept where several cables were run to my apartment and the provider of my choice got to plug the cable of their choice into their data port at hut instead of having to worry about who owned that cable they might actually have an incentive to get rid of the cap.
Of course I also have Sprint WiMax which could directly compete with my cable internet if their WiMax service didn't suck ass outside of densely populated upscale areas. I live a short distance from a heavily blanketed WiMax area, if I stand in my parking with my phone I can sometimes catch a WiMax signal, yeah, that's useful.
For the purposes of my write-up I am referencing QAM and QAM alone, rather encrypted or not. QAM from the beginning was created for HD with backwards compatibility for lower resolutions.
If you're referring to one of the older even more underhanded than plain encrypted QAM services that uses non-QAM encryption and did so since the SD days while offering thinly veiled excuses as to why "it has to be that way" that patched their system to allow some HD content beside their original lock-in crap fest that's outside of the scope of my discussion.
Occasionally, especially if they put thought and dedication into it, a DVD set of a 44 minute show will have a collection of 52 minute shows. Battlestar Galactica did this on some episodes and I know other DVD sets have put cutting room floor material back in. It's usually hit and miss. I actually listened to a lot of the Ron Moore commentary on Galactica and he begged and pleaded to make certain episodes longer and would outline when they put something back in for the DVD. Roughly 10% of the episodes got something reinserted, the rest of the commentary usually had to do with "what we wanted to do with this episode but couldn't due to time constraints" commentary.
In the end show creators are usually artist who want to give us great quality stuff (and make a few bucks doing it), networks trim it down and request shit. Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain as a reference.
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Guy Fawkes Makup almost as good as a mask on some people.
Remember, this is a European satellite, they're the ones really pushing ROHS. Many US Companies have adopted it, for various reasons including but not limited to making it easier to do business with Europe.
My particular reference was to NASA. Sometimes, according to testing facility that was established to make sure vendors weren't ripping us off like they did when the door fell off a shuttle, when they check solder on boards ordered from Europe specifying lead solder only with the aerospace waiver, they still come in ROHS. ROHS is BAD for aerospace applications, it tends to break under vibration where lead will hold up.
When we make our own stuff I guarantee you we have lead solder, usually SN-63 where I'm at.
Yeah, you have NO IDEA how worried I am about a Voyager Spacecraft crashing into the Earth and contaminating it with minerals that came from it......
BTW - hows that whole ROHS thing working out for you?
(I know, aerospace components have an ROHS waiver, but when we order stuff from Europe and try to use the ROHS waiver they still send us ROHS anyways half the time)
I've seen Teen Titans based on the cartoon instead of the original more mature version, I've seen other kid targeted comics but three is young. Go to the bookstore and get the age range targeted books, trust me there's no shortage of hero hosted educational and kid specific books. You may want to move on to Captain Underpants next until he's ready for the more mature titles. Remember, the Comics Code Authority is dead now and the comics are written accordingly.
3G support means nothing to me. I use WiFi or nothing. If I'm on the go and I need WiFi for my e-Reader and there's no hot-spots my phone provides one.
Really, I've got enough books stored up in advanced I could go a month of reading and not run out of books I've already downloaded.
If I'm going to limit myself to a 7" tablet I'm going to get the Nook. Same processor, twice the on-board storage, twice the RAM, has an SD slot, just as hackable and can run the Kindle app.
Cost the same.
"Fade to black"
This is actually the earliest attempt I recall to maximize time use. When I was a little kid I remember that between a TV show and a commercial, then between one commercial and the next the screen would go black, usually for a fractional second, or when it was left in the hands of the yahoo's at the more local level sometimes several seconds, then the next commercial would load. This black in between buffer space was normal to me, it was a well defined border between content. Then it went away. I wasn't every old, 6 to 8 or so when it happened, when I mentioned it to my mother she looked at me like I was crazy, she didn't know what I was talking about.
I can actually get behind that particular move, it's the rest of them I care for less.
I have the knowledge, even setup and configure one of the most famous group of video systems on earth, yet I lack funding for my own.
The problem with CableCARD is the licensing and certification process that pretty much guarantees the only way I'll ever be able to use it is with a Windows Media computer, and even then cable companies are notorious for pretending the law doesn't require them to provide FireWire tuners or CableCARDs if we request them.
Encryption is the enemy of do it yourselfers.
I'm a Libertarian and I believe in reduced government regulation. I'm glad this law is off the books.
They fact the media companies are choosing to use this extra rope we've given them to hang themselves is evidence of Darwinism in action.
I have difficulty accepting that I would have to buy new equipment and / or change my OS to go with the Apple option is a superior choice.
I'm already on the Amazon option, it saves me a ton of money in shipping cost, the free TV shows and movies are just icing, my family loves going through what's available when theyr'e around (I've explained to them how to stay in the free Prime area).
So if there were say I don't know, a 5 "conductor" multi-mode fiber bundle run from my place of living to a hut - I don't care if I own that bundle or if it's local government or a completely separate entity. A neutral third party owning the fibers and the hut with a maintenance fee distributed among everyone based on number of connections in use wouldn't be a bad idea. Say this hut had 30 different providers in it fighting to be the one who got to plug one of those conductors into their patch panel because the federal government got out of it and allowed that situation to occur. Are you saying it wouldn't be in my best interest?
On another note -
Can anyone spare a netbook for an eight year old?
XBMC is awesome! I bought my daughter a netbook for her birthday, set it to boot straight into XBMC and put all of her movies and some video games on it. My nephew, who actually has his own iPad he won in a contest, asked me to set one up for him he liked it so much.
They do for me. I have it in an above comment, but here it is again:
When the installer came to hook up my cable internet (actually did require access to a locked box so I couldn't have done it myself) he asked if I wanted cable hooked up to my TV.
I said no.
Three times.
The fourth time he made it clear there was a splitter in his pocket (my cable modem is under my TV) and that it was free to me I said yes. My TV has a few channels on it now I don't watch, but my dad does when he visits so I guess that's alright.
I think he was genuinely shocked I didn't even want free cable because I don't watch it.
Will not watch again list.
I find it disturbing you watched that particular show a first time. Of course you're touting an Apple product so I guess that show comes with the neighborhood.
Roku, Boxee, simply what's built into most modern LG devices, a Wii or a PS3 and a subscription to the content provider of choice is all you need without having to become an iSlave.
I don't dispute there's quite a few anti-copyright people on here, but I would argue that this isn't a strongly anti-copyright place, it's an anti-stupidity and despite the constant ripping into one another and trolling a pro-ethics website.
Most Slashdotters I think you will find actually agree with some sort of copyright protection, as long as it's fair and it expires. You will not find a consensus on what is a fair term. Most Slashdotters are pro creative talent making a profit and anti-big media exploiting that talent and its consumers.
You will find a lot of Humble Bundle, creative commons, and direct sales fans here but not many fans of Sony/BMG and their ilk.
Slashdot isn't full of underhanded thieves, it's full of people who want things to make sense and understand the right thing shouldn't take huge amounts of effort or unnecessary amounts of cash to do.
just because it's sort of on topic
Scary Comic
It is unfortunate that most directors are lazy and just slap the cutting room floor material in as "bonus cut scenes!". Yeah, fine I can sit there and watch them out of context, but it's better if you just go ahead and put them back in as long as you didn't re-cut other parts of the show to conflict with the cut material.
This is why we need to decrease federal government regulation in the communication arena and open up the utility lines to more services. Companies can be assholes with their caps all they want, I live near Houston and in my neighborhood Comcast is the ONLY broadband ISP available. If Comcast had to worry about an open DMARC concept where several cables were run to my apartment and the provider of my choice got to plug the cable of their choice into their data port at hut instead of having to worry about who owned that cable they might actually have an incentive to get rid of the cap.
Of course I also have Sprint WiMax which could directly compete with my cable internet if their WiMax service didn't suck ass outside of densely populated upscale areas. I live a short distance from a heavily blanketed WiMax area, if I stand in my parking with my phone I can sometimes catch a WiMax signal, yeah, that's useful.
For the purposes of my write-up I am referencing QAM and QAM alone, rather encrypted or not. QAM from the beginning was created for HD with backwards compatibility for lower resolutions.
If you're referring to one of the older even more underhanded than plain encrypted QAM services that uses non-QAM encryption and did so since the SD days while offering thinly veiled excuses as to why "it has to be that way" that patched their system to allow some HD content beside their original lock-in crap fest that's outside of the scope of my discussion.
The the grandparent mentioned iPlayer and DVD rentals it does.
Occasionally, especially if they put thought and dedication into it, a DVD set of a 44 minute show will have a collection of 52 minute shows. Battlestar Galactica did this on some episodes and I know other DVD sets have put cutting room floor material back in. It's usually hit and miss. I actually listened to a lot of the Ron Moore commentary on Galactica and he begged and pleaded to make certain episodes longer and would outline when they put something back in for the DVD. Roughly 10% of the episodes got something reinserted, the rest of the commentary usually had to do with "what we wanted to do with this episode but couldn't due to time constraints" commentary.
In the end show creators are usually artist who want to give us great quality stuff (and make a few bucks doing it), networks trim it down and request shit. Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain as a reference.
Will somebody please tell these two yahoos you use a forward slash to close a tag?