If you live in a metropolitan area (sounds like it by the number of analogue signals) then you probably have interferance on all of your digital channels.
You can watch it all on a scope and see the run over caused.
Digital really doesn't co-exist in reality as well as it does on paper. The difference being, your set top box doesn't show you any of the problems, but rather locks on to the best signal it can find.
Currently, if broadcasters are keeping the same digital channel they are not yet required to be full power. However, on July 1st 2006 they will be required to provide full power digital service. (Full power is described as covering the same area of the DMA they currently cover)
You are quite correct in that no one is going to actively seek to lose customers.
It's not so quite bad here, but a friend recently just did a sight survey in Chicago or somewhere large. He said every channel had interferance and I was kinda surprised at that. (Mostly the number of digital channels available)
Maybe once a virus or disease is labeled an epidemic then funding should come directly from the government for said development?
If its a threat to a great many people, then perhaps those tax dollars we pay should go to funding a cure for the people.
Maybe it is a crazy idea, but there should be some way to meet at the middle on this one. You have to balance endangering the industries profits versus the common wealth of the people.
I think they had that planned with their DRM anyway. Think iTunes and multiple registered computers. So you could share out your hd-dvd stuff to another device (probably with a codec shuffle or recompression).
They have simply dropped the media and pushing digital distribution.
That might work somewhere else, but I didn't think HD codecs were good enough for the typical broadband found in American homes.
It's just a grab for something in the mist, but I don't believe the media partners are going to follow his tune right now. The problem lies in rallying the proverbial troops to push a consumer demand for a product they don't currently possess.
So basically Bill Gates just said download ITMS and watch Lost.
This is a good tactic to get your client off the hook as people tend to be greedy. This might not work on every judge of course, but it's not a bad tactic to try if you have the money to spend. Who knows... maybe he was not legally intoxicated. The truth is the person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law (unless you wave that right).
In another sense... it is a good stepping stone to have those "mysterious" inner workings of other sensitive devices exposed. Oh noes screams the company... we can no longer hide behind the curtain.
Yeah, it sucks it is being started out with a DUI case with scrutiny being eyed on a critical piece of equipment as a breathalizer, but the trend has to start somewhere.
Notice, when you do a scan with your card it steps through the channels. It is tuning just like an FM radio would do or even a television set.
On a lot of cards the tuner is more then likely limited to one frequency at a time.
Now, the way I understand the A,B,G cards... they are software tuned... but I really doubt the whole mess just sends everything to the driver.
The concept is fairly simple. Filter out everything you don't want to hear, lock onto a carrier and adjust slightly for any signal drift. A sliding window of sorts really. While I haven't delved too deeply into wireless cards I'm going to assumme they abide by the same engineering that most of radio communications do as well. So if you want multiple channel reception it has to be designed that way and that costs extra.
So, provided both AP's are on the same frequency, then you could of course do all of the communication in real time. (assumming the card doesn't do anything in hardware or is capable of a pure raw dump which the virtual driver could sort)
I could be entirely wrong though... but then I start thinking about bus limitations with two frequencies at the same time.
Oddly, some of these Senators aren't entirely informed on the issue.
I was talking about the broadcast flag trying to make its way back up and a friend of mine was curious about it. On his first hearing of my tale, he thought I was crazy that people would be able to flag something as not being recordable or maybe severe limitations placed on it.
So he said, let me tell my grand father about this...
Turns out, his grand father (whom he seems to speak to nightly) is a Senator. I met the man too. (Not to say I didn't believe him... just kinda odd for me in a tech circle to meet politicians)
Unfortunately, the only other politician I know is a state representative. He used to have a local office in my building, but that was before the rep upgrade. Not sure how serious he will take me since our last conversation was about how I like saturday morning cartoons.
If I can see him in passing I'll see if I can make conversation.
Anyhow, the point is... make your opinion heard. You really don't know how informed your politicians are unless you make it an issue for them.
I'm fairly certain that low end Dell's now ship with it. They have a lot of stuff installed... even Office trial that can be purchased. I'm not sure, but I think WP was the full version, but only included on CD.
So yeah, that might explain the price break on the new equipment and boy does it slow them down. So of course I wipe and reinstall... then create an image disk for all of the systems.
Unfortunately, I can't go back and confirm it on the dozen new systems, because they no longer have the factory install.
I had a friend whine and complain about his audio with his SB Live (some edition) and he was right about things being broken. It was EAX or something at the time not working when it was supposed to be.
Oddly, in that same week, someone wrote on the white board in the lab a horribly long url to compaq's version of the drivers.
So I downloaded the 100mb+ crap and burned it to cd.
Those bastards must have rewritten a lot of stuff or simply fixed all the broken pieces. Everything worked, no more audio problems and even his EAX stuff started working. Now the drivers were marked for only working on certain compaq system... um... yeah... right... so I wrote Compaq on his Dell.
So no shit their drivers are broken. I have this terribly odd thought on occassion... that since I haven't used a product for so long... if I come back to that company they have their shit worked out. Apparently, I'm horribly wrong on this one.
I'm always one to push another contender. If you liked MythTV's interface then you would probably enjoy SnapStream. It's got plugin support and even hooks for scripted events if you don't want to dig too deep. (warning though, be prepared to use a real scripting language like Python because I ran into severe limitations with batch scripts)
Me, I've switched from SnapStream to MythTV. Not because I didn't dislike SnapStream. At the time, my hang up was wmv9 becoming the defacto compression in the last version I used. I sat down and wrote a small script to use mencoder and compress to divx and I thought later I would switch to xvid. I just stopped using windows at the house and dual booting isn't dvr friendly.
Anyhow, if you are windows I do recommend trying it out.
I'm not even a serious DBA and I know the problems.
I use postgres off and on when I need DB applications. Sometimes an app balances between a bdb hash file and then there are some that do need that extra umph.
Still, that said... there are so many extra little things I had to do when writing code for mysql. Try postgresql and see how much time it saves you. (assumming you don't write your code just like you do for mysql). I haven't touched mysql in a long time and maybe it has changed A LOT.
Anyhow, MySQL has a footprint... can't argue that... but comon folks... try something else.
I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
However, I'm not really burnt out or upset about my job. It's not precisely what I want to do with my life, my hours can be long and we don't see eye to eye on how things should be done. (elegant vs cheap)
At then end of the day, if it all comes crumbling down... I still get my paycheck. It's a nice paycheck too... so I really don't get bummed out at all.
In fact, just recently I managed to get rid of my previous boss.
He was a great deal of things... none of which were remotely considered good.
Ah, the world from a different vantage point can look entirely different.
The main problem with sliders happened towards the end.
When sci-fi picked it up it suddenly had to have a solid and specific enemy. So they made goofy looking nazi's to hate.
I always liked the idea that anyone could die in the series and be replaced with another one of themselves from a slightly alternate reality.
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That's why we have companies that will track down a reel that is in public domain and recover it.
Sure technology that is even 10 years old gets lost.
It's the nature of the beast.
There are ways to store data so that it lasts. It's just a little expensive.
Someone should burn a cd, lock it away and come back and tell us how it works in 5 years. Do it again in 10. I bet you can get 5 or so mod points out of it.
I've made plenty of good buys just because someone either tires of what they have or needs some extra cash.
If you want to scrounge and look for deals then you can really move. If you can afford to do this and have the desire, energy and time... a modern day trader is born.
I see it all the time on major auction sites. (Not ebay which I rarely see good deals on and no I'm not telling... I don't need any more competition... I'm just a consumer fighting among the big fish)
So if you can afford to move lots of cheap stuff to other consumers... it might look like a fence, but it's more then plausible.
I know... you are thinking... cheap laptop... gotta be hot. This is entirely not always the case. I've had already a handful of offers this year, but I generally pass the info onto my friends. Sometimes it's great and sometimes you get bitten six months down the road. (Yeah, I should really fix my friends laptop soon... he probably hates me now)
So do I think he knew it was stolen? I'm really divided on this, but I have to apply past experience and understand it is plausible.
So now, it comes down to the courts and if I'm correct recieving stolen goods is certainly illegal despite ignorance. I still believe that can be over looked if the jury feels its genuine and they should not harm this soul in society.
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If you live in a metropolitan area (sounds like it by the number of analogue signals) then you probably have interferance on all of your digital channels.
You can watch it all on a scope and see the run over caused.
Digital really doesn't co-exist in reality as well as it does on paper. The difference being, your set top box doesn't show you any of the problems, but rather locks on to the best signal it can find.
Currently, if broadcasters are keeping the same digital channel they are not yet required to be full power. However, on July 1st 2006 they will be required to provide full power digital service. (Full power is described as covering the same area of the DMA they currently cover)
You are quite correct in that no one is going to actively seek to lose customers.
It's not so quite bad here, but a friend recently just did a sight survey in Chicago or somewhere large. He said every channel had interferance and I was kinda surprised at that. (Mostly the number of digital channels available)
Maybe once a virus or disease is labeled an epidemic then funding should come directly from the government for said development?
If its a threat to a great many people, then perhaps those tax dollars we pay should go to funding a cure for the people.
Maybe it is a crazy idea, but there should be some way to meet at the middle on this one. You have to balance endangering the industries profits versus the common wealth of the people.
Nah,
I think they had that planned with their DRM anyway. Think iTunes and multiple registered computers. So you could share out your hd-dvd stuff to another device (probably with a codec shuffle or recompression).
They have simply dropped the media and pushing digital distribution.
That might work somewhere else, but I didn't think HD codecs were good enough for the typical broadband found in American homes.
It's just a grab for something in the mist, but I don't believe the media partners are going to follow his tune right now. The problem lies in rallying the proverbial troops to push a consumer demand for a product they don't currently possess.
So basically Bill Gates just said download ITMS and watch Lost.
Hey now...
I bought Q3 for linux and I didn't even have drivers for my card at the time.
Had to download the windows binaries for the sucker to work....
3 months later I had accelerated opengl in linux!
In one light,
This is a good tactic to get your client off the hook as people tend to be greedy. This might not work on every judge of course, but it's not a bad tactic to try if you have the money to spend. Who knows... maybe he was not legally intoxicated. The truth is the person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law (unless you wave that right).
In another sense... it is a good stepping stone to have those "mysterious" inner workings of other sensitive devices exposed. Oh noes screams the company... we can no longer hide behind the curtain.
Yeah, it sucks it is being started out with a DUI case with scrutiny being eyed on a critical piece of equipment as a breathalizer, but the trend has to start somewhere.
Back in college...
I remember my friend telling me about BeOS running on an 8 way Pentium Pro board doing software opengl.
The tea pots were spinning so damned fast...
So fast...
Anyhow, I always wanted to try software quake on an 8 way soft processor.
Notice, when you do a scan with your card it steps through the channels. It is tuning just like an FM radio would do or even a television set.
On a lot of cards the tuner is more then likely limited to one frequency at a time.
Now, the way I understand the A,B,G cards... they are software tuned... but I really doubt the whole mess just sends everything to the driver.
The concept is fairly simple. Filter out everything you don't want to hear, lock onto a carrier and adjust slightly for any signal drift. A sliding window of sorts really. While I haven't delved too deeply into wireless cards I'm going to assumme they abide by the same engineering that most of radio communications do as well. So if you want multiple channel reception it has to be designed that way and that costs extra.
So, provided both AP's are on the same frequency, then you could of course do all of the communication in real time. (assumming the card doesn't do anything in hardware or is capable of a pure raw dump which the virtual driver could sort)
I could be entirely wrong though... but then I start thinking about bus limitations with two frequencies at the same time.
Oddly, some of these Senators aren't entirely informed on the issue.
I was talking about the broadcast flag trying to make its way back up and a friend of mine was curious about it. On his first hearing of my tale, he thought I was crazy that people would be able to flag something as not being recordable or maybe severe limitations placed on it.
So he said, let me tell my grand father about this...
Turns out, his grand father (whom he seems to speak to nightly) is a Senator. I met the man too. (Not to say I didn't believe him... just kinda odd for me in a tech circle to meet politicians)
Unfortunately, the only other politician I know is a state representative. He used to have a local office in my building, but that was before the rep upgrade. Not sure how serious he will take me since our last conversation was about how I like saturday morning cartoons.
If I can see him in passing I'll see if I can make conversation.
Anyhow, the point is... make your opinion heard. You really don't know how informed your politicians are unless you make it an issue for them.
While it's too late now.
I'm fairly certain that low end Dell's now ship with it. They have a lot of stuff installed... even Office trial that can be purchased. I'm not sure, but I think WP was the full version, but only included on CD.
So yeah, that might explain the price break on the new equipment and boy does it slow them down. So of course I wipe and reinstall... then create an image disk for all of the systems.
Unfortunately, I can't go back and confirm it on the dozen new systems, because they no longer have the factory install.
Funny thing...
I had a friend whine and complain about his audio with his SB Live (some edition) and he was right about things being broken. It was EAX or something at the time not working when it was supposed to be.
Oddly, in that same week, someone wrote on the white board in the lab a horribly long url to compaq's version of the drivers.
So I downloaded the 100mb+ crap and burned it to cd.
Those bastards must have rewritten a lot of stuff or simply fixed all the broken pieces. Everything worked, no more audio problems and even his EAX stuff started working. Now the drivers were marked for only working on certain compaq system... um... yeah... right... so I wrote Compaq on his Dell.
So no shit their drivers are broken. I have this terribly odd thought on occassion... that since I haven't used a product for so long... if I come back to that company they have their shit worked out. Apparently, I'm horribly wrong on this one.
I'm always one to push another contender. If you liked MythTV's interface then you would probably enjoy SnapStream. It's got plugin support and even hooks for scripted events if you don't want to dig too deep. (warning though, be prepared to use a real scripting language like Python because I ran into severe limitations with batch scripts)
Me, I've switched from SnapStream to MythTV. Not because I didn't dislike SnapStream. At the time, my hang up was wmv9 becoming the defacto compression in the last version I used. I sat down and wrote a small script to use mencoder and compress to divx and I thought later I would switch to xvid. I just stopped using windows at the house and dual booting isn't dvr friendly.
Anyhow, if you are windows I do recommend trying it out.
It's not precisely competitition when they both make heavy use of managed ports.
In most places whether its, AOL, Earthlink or MSN... you are connecting to a third party POP like UU.net.
Funny how that works...
If it hasn't previously aired on sci-fi then it's not a bad idea to flag it as new.
This is good for DVR owners like myself who schedule all new recordings of a show.
With all of the repeats (like marathons) it could fill my unit up faster then I want.
Also, didn't sci-fi get 4 unaired episodes?
Thank you...
I'm not even a serious DBA and I know the problems.
I use postgres off and on when I need DB applications. Sometimes an app balances between a bdb hash file and then there are some that do need that extra umph.
Still, that said... there are so many extra little things I had to do when writing code for mysql. Try postgresql and see how much time it saves you. (assumming you don't write your code just like you do for mysql). I haven't touched mysql in a long time and maybe it has changed A LOT.
Anyhow, MySQL has a footprint... can't argue that... but comon folks... try something else.
I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
Oh I had to do it...
Except now the chip has to be recertified for aviation.
In effect, the article states it has already been modified and there was some sentiment that it really should be re-certified yet once again.
I do qualify for burn out under those terms.
However, I'm not really burnt out or upset about my job. It's not precisely what I want to do with my life, my hours can be long and we don't see eye to eye on how things should be done. (elegant vs cheap)
At then end of the day, if it all comes crumbling down... I still get my paycheck. It's a nice paycheck too... so I really don't get bummed out at all.
In fact, just recently I managed to get rid of my previous boss.
He was a great deal of things... none of which were remotely considered good.
Ah, the world from a different vantage point can look entirely different.
The main problem with sliders happened towards the end.
When sci-fi picked it up it suddenly had to have a solid and specific enemy. So they made goofy looking nazi's to hate.
I always liked the idea that anyone could die in the series and be replaced with another one of themselves from a slightly alternate reality.
That's why we have companies that will track down a reel that is in public domain and recover it.
Sure technology that is even 10 years old gets lost.
It's the nature of the beast.
There are ways to store data so that it lasts. It's just a little expensive.
Someone should burn a cd, lock it away and come back and tell us how it works in 5 years. Do it again in 10. I bet you can get 5 or so mod points out of it.
I don't have time to watch 32 dvd's....
With an average time of 1 hour 20 minutes... thats roughly 42 hours of entertaining. A full work week needs to be dedicated to viewing pleasure!
However, on a smaller less profitable scale I could see this working out on a smaller scale.
It's too late...
Even before you made it to Spartacus... we had a new religion formed around him.
He gives hope to the people and the people give him hope. (or something like that... work in progress ya know)
Anyhow, becareful what you say or you might start offending some worshippers.
America, home of the F---ad
Psst..
News people think they are a joke too
(however, it's affordable compared to the rest... a great deal use AP Wire... despite being "non-profit" is horribly expensive)
I'll sell you mine.
It's the deal of a lifetime, at a dollar per point match.
That's only $55,734! (Act now and I'll discount it 10% for eagerness)
Just think, you can skirt around slashdot with your sexy new low uid. (relatively speaking of course)
I just wish I had uid 99999... boy will he make a killing.
That's not completely fair.
I've made plenty of good buys just because someone either tires of what they have or needs some extra cash.
If you want to scrounge and look for deals then you can really move. If you can afford to do this and have the desire, energy and time... a modern day trader is born.
I see it all the time on major auction sites. (Not ebay which I rarely see good deals on and no I'm not telling... I don't need any more competition... I'm just a consumer fighting among the big fish)
So if you can afford to move lots of cheap stuff to other consumers... it might look like a fence, but it's more then plausible.
I know... you are thinking... cheap laptop... gotta be hot. This is entirely not always the case. I've had already a handful of offers this year, but I generally pass the info onto my friends. Sometimes it's great and sometimes you get bitten six months down the road. (Yeah, I should really fix my friends laptop soon... he probably hates me now)
So do I think he knew it was stolen? I'm really divided on this, but I have to apply past experience and understand it is plausible.
So now, it comes down to the courts and if I'm correct recieving stolen goods is certainly illegal despite ignorance. I still believe that can be over looked if the jury feels its genuine and they should not harm this soul in society.
Unless you are in a closet... you already know about Dell.
Chances are you probably have one in your corporate office already.
Maybe I'm strange, but I found it funny. Too bad I just ordered new systems or I would have picked up a couple of their low end systems.