My friend has a phone installed in his home with live tone. (came with the house) He doesn't actually have service to this phone. He relies on his cell phone and has a cable modem for internet access.
One day, the phone rings and the guy asks where the phone is because they don't know what this line is.
Mike's response, "This phone isn't supposed to ring."
He followed up that it was a residental installation that was never activated.
So far, every place I have moved to has had live tone and I can call the operator to have the service activated. Everytime they always sent someone out to check the box and charge a lovely 90$ activation fee.
Another problem has been actually getting the numbers to map to 911 service.
This is currently taken care of by the local telco for a traditional phone.
As mentioned in a previous article, E911 services have been troubling in that some don't actually freely give out the direct number to voip providers. This has been a stated problem from the begining and I'm not sure why emergency services are so paranoid about this.
So now, because they can't do it, it looks like they are going to purchase the mappings from telcos.
If you have seen a telco coverage map it can get rather nasty. A metropolitan area will typically have a very large coverage area, but when you look at other smaller districts it can get rather colorful with respect to providers. This really varies a great deal though. I've seen certain sections in ohio that are just one small area (lots of customers) and in a rural area another small area in between a large one with very few customers.
This can quickly become one large mess when you understand that telcos may not want to work with their competitors.
It's kinda handy if the tracker goes down. Additionally, if you don't want your torrent to operate in this distributed fashion you flag the torrent to not operate in distributed mode.
Yeah, it works a little differently depending on how your market is metered.
If you are actually in a metered market you get a lovely box to put in place. However, if no one wants to pay for the metering then you of course get a paper ballot system.
So, you may not be in a posistion to make falsehoods...
It wasn't actually know she had done anything like that until the third or so season. (Memory is a bit sketchy) So it was far too late to make her go away.
They eventually let Yar come back and play as well.
A take home test is a group test. Everyone knows that!
Do you think professors are naive? Of they course they know what you are going to do.
Engineering ethics... says nothing about a resume... seems more like they would be saying like... don't build shit that will break and kill people.
Lying on your resume is how most people get employment! Though I have never had to do this, but I had a friend whose resume was a complete and utter lie. He did manage to learn EVERYTHING on the job and I do mean everything.
PSIP data is your guide data, ratings, descriptions, and everything else except the new version of closed captions. EIA-708? There is actually more to the full protocol, but that is really outside this discussion
See, a broadcast shop will generally have a PSIP generator which feeds the encoder a data stream. It generally provides 12 hours or more of data. (I would have to look, but I think its 3 four hour block or 4 3 hour blocks)
Newer or more expensive encoders are capable of generating PSIP information on their own and take input over the network. Which is just a little too expensive... so everyone in the industry scrambled to bolt on PSIP generators for a cost effective solution... unless you were lucky enough to have one of the nice models.
Granted, most shops are probably just getting all of their data fed to them from a provider, but some places (those who value money) will generate this on their own.
So yeah, the broadcast flag is embedded in there and could be set by someone further upstream, but the control always has been in the broadcasters hands.
Here, we just extract the information from the database of our traffic/billing program and feed it into a vendor software package which then shoots it off to the PSIP generator. This generator in turn feeds directly into our encoder via an ASI port. The encoder provides an mpeg stream our DTV transmitter finds tasty. (God awful design if you ask me, but the full PSIP protocol wasn't required until Januarish... so most of the older units take dynamic PSIP data from an ASI port)
So it might remain there as a legacy item, but I'm sure most will get an update or two that will remove it.
Now, to be perfectly honest, when I went over the standards for PSIP... I don't recall the broadcast flag being in there, but it was probably labeled something else.
Mind you, not everything in the protocol is required... you would have to read up on the FCC rules and regulations (September 04 release) for a large portion of the specifics.
Well since the Broadcast Flag is passed through PSIP information present with the DTV broadcast it will be fairly easy to remove. PSIP is the fundamental protocol behind guide data, ratings and some other useful stuff recently imposed on broadcasters for DTV.
This will merely require a firmware update to the existing PSIP generator systems to remove the feature.
The BF itself is embedded in the data that originates from the broadcaster. So, even if the PSIP generator contains the ability to pass along the broadcast flag, content providers need not simply provide the setting. (Which in this case, apparently makes it unlawful to do so.. though I haven't yet read the article)
I guess we need to figure out how we kill Jedi in a soft well meaning conservitive and correct manner. (They can't all whisk away to ghosts can they? What's that about anyway?)
Besides, I'd rather not watch an hour and a half of G.I. Joe style combat.
And there lies the problem with legitimizing such services.
See, under the old regime, no one would have attempted to attack such a gambling site. You see, they would joyfully agree to bring the money in cash and ask for protection services to be extended to attack their competition.
Now, when they meet the guys for the case of cash, our beloved criminals would shoot them dead.
So, they broke their word, brought their guns and demonstrated how wrong it is to mess with the bad guys.
I don't even read the local paper and I'm not about to purchase NYT.
However, I do have a subscription to slashdot that I renew whenver it runs out. With the slashdot model it seems I have to plop out some cash once a year.
So, I'm certain there are a good deal of people who don't want NYT, but might still actually pay for something.
So I work in the broadcat industry and every once in a while I find something that makes me go "oh shit."
So I watching the begining of "the empire/enterprise" and I see the meeting with zepharym? cochran. I'm thinking... oh shit... someone is playing the movie... were going to get a severe beating... wtf. I'm kinda glued to the screen kinda wondering how bad this is going to go down and then try to recall who would have made this mistake in the control room.
Then of course they shoot the vulcan... I was so completely relieved.
Though currently I do use zap2it service as well, but really everyone in some fashion is using zap2it. Most individuals just don't know your listings are coming from the same place.
There are demographics which have a considerably less pronounced income then other areas. This doesn't mean they will do without, but rather new fads and especially technological fads take time to adopt.
Here, we have very few broadcast channels and a great deal of those consumers do not possess the technology to recieve digital television in broadcast form. In fact, you would have to travel an hour and thirty minutes to actually buy one. Unless I am mistaken, our local wal-mart does not even carry them.
I suspect, if this happens, we will have quite a few people going dark. Ya know what's great... even working in television... I hope they do go dark and we see even few television hours in the house hold.
It's such a horrible addiction consumers need to break.;)
They will quote a price from Harris and say something like, "This is an insignificant cost to the industry and thus no pleas for delay will be accepted."
What's entirely beautiful, the wording on FCC documents is quite odd. They can go on for a few chapters about how you must do something and then reference a foot note which is located several pages down. In this footnote you will see a vast list of exceptions or otherwise goofy things that could have been worded better.
This is a wet dream for sales folk and they will quote everything word for word... except the foot notes. The worst ones continue to lie about requirements even after being quoted the foot notes.
In any event, now it's going to start touching the consumer and the fcc might remotely listen. For those who don't know, full power digital transmission is required By July 1st 2005 if you are switching channels from your previously assigned low power DTV transmission assignment and all the rest are required to provide full power DTV service by July 1st 2006. (Full power in this case means, your digital transmission must cover your designated broadcast area)
The big factor is whether or not to count digital set top cable box's in the pool of those who would be DTV capable. If they do that, then sure the nation looks like it has the pop count to really utilize those DTV transmissions. In my area, I really don't know more then one or two people who are currently DTV capable. (unless you count cable!)
As it stands, broadcasters can designate their DTV transmission as "must carry" over their analogue broadcast. So everything really is in place for such a move... we just have to forget about those people who actually use broadcast. Silly consumer.
Now, it's going to be interesting if we actualy see requirements for HD broadcasts. Remember, digital transmission does not require high definition broadast. I have a feeling it's not high on their hit list as they really just want to sell off that spectrum. (IMHO)
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I really didn't have to wait a few days.
I said I wasn't going to do it, but I was rather bored and did it anyway.
So it took four hours to download HL2 without the pre-cache files.
Work did take a few days though... but their connection is considerably slower then my cable modem.
Funny story too btw...
My friend has a phone installed in his home with live tone. (came with the house) He doesn't actually have service to this phone. He relies on his cell phone and has a cable modem for internet access.
One day, the phone rings and the guy asks where the phone is because they don't know what this line is.
Mike's response, "This phone isn't supposed to ring."
He followed up that it was a residental installation that was never activated.
So far, every place I have moved to has had live tone and I can call the operator to have the service activated. Everytime they always sent someone out to check the box and charge a lovely 90$ activation fee.
Another problem has been actually getting the numbers to map to 911 service.
This is currently taken care of by the local telco for a traditional phone.
As mentioned in a previous article, E911 services have been troubling in that some don't actually freely give out the direct number to voip providers. This has been a stated problem from the begining and I'm not sure why emergency services are so paranoid about this.
So now, because they can't do it, it looks like they are going to purchase the mappings from telcos.
If you have seen a telco coverage map it can get rather nasty. A metropolitan area will typically have a very large coverage area, but when you look at other smaller districts it can get rather colorful with respect to providers. This really varies a great deal though. I've seen certain sections in ohio that are just one small area (lots of customers) and in a rural area another small area in between a large one with very few customers.
This can quickly become one large mess when you understand that telcos may not want to work with their competitors.
Just my impressions anyway.
I think we've found a new location for piratebay2.com
Actually,
It's kinda handy if the tracker goes down. Additionally, if you don't want your torrent to operate in this distributed fashion you flag the torrent to not operate in distributed mode.
It's more like a hydra in this fashion...
Yeah, it works a little differently depending on how your market is metered.
...
If you are actually in a metered market you get a lovely box to put in place. However, if no one wants to pay for the metering then you of course get a paper ballot system.
So, you may not be in a posistion to make falsehoods
You completely forgot about Marina Sirtis!
It wasn't actually know she had done anything like that until the third or so season. (Memory is a bit sketchy) So it was far too late to make her go away.
They eventually let Yar come back and play as well.
Shit...
A take home test is a group test. Everyone knows that!
Do you think professors are naive? Of they course they know what you are going to do.
Engineering ethics... says nothing about a resume... seems more like they would be saying like... don't build shit that will break and kill people.
Lying on your resume is how most people get employment! Though I have never had to do this, but I had a friend whose resume was a complete and utter lie. He did manage to learn EVERYTHING on the job and I do mean everything.
If I see a pack of deer, I tend not to worry too much, but rather slow down my driving speed.
If I happen to find myself surrounded by a pack of coyotes... well... I get very scared.
Actually having been surrounded by a pack of coyotes I can say it's not quite as peaceful as being around a pack of deer.
Now, when someone says, don't go out late because there are coyotes around... really... listen... they apparently aren't mythical beasts.
It's a slippery slope actually.
Unless your state has specific labor laws, they can say anything that is factually true or believed to be held as a reasonable opinion.
Obviously, if they go on the deep end, they risk a law suit and most organizations just verify employment.
Yes,
... unless you were lucky enough to have one of the nice models.
PSIP data is your guide data, ratings, descriptions, and everything else except the new version of closed captions. EIA-708? There is actually more to the full protocol, but that is really outside this discussion
See, a broadcast shop will generally have a PSIP generator which feeds the encoder a data stream. It generally provides 12 hours or more of data. (I would have to look, but I think its 3 four hour block or 4 3 hour blocks)
Newer or more expensive encoders are capable of generating PSIP information on their own and take input over the network. Which is just a little too expensive... so everyone in the industry scrambled to bolt on PSIP generators for a cost effective solution
Granted, most shops are probably just getting all of their data fed to them from a provider, but some places (those who value money) will generate this on their own.
So yeah, the broadcast flag is embedded in there and could be set by someone further upstream, but the control always has been in the broadcasters hands.
Here, we just extract the information from the database of our traffic/billing program and feed it into a vendor software package which then shoots it off to the PSIP generator. This generator in turn feeds directly into our encoder via an ASI port. The encoder provides an mpeg stream our DTV transmitter finds tasty. (God awful design if you ask me, but the full PSIP protocol wasn't required until Januarish... so most of the older units take dynamic PSIP data from an ASI port)
So it might remain there as a legacy item, but I'm sure most will get an update or two that will remove it.
Now, to be perfectly honest, when I went over the standards for PSIP... I don't recall the broadcast flag being in there, but it was probably labeled something else.
I might be wrong... feel free to read up on it...
http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_65b.pdf
Mind you, not everything in the protocol is required... you would have to read up on the FCC rules and regulations (September 04 release) for a large portion of the specifics.
Well since the Broadcast Flag is passed through PSIP information present with the DTV broadcast it will be fairly easy to remove. PSIP is the fundamental protocol behind guide data, ratings and some other useful stuff recently imposed on broadcasters for DTV.
This will merely require a firmware update to the existing PSIP generator systems to remove the feature.
The BF itself is embedded in the data that originates from the broadcaster. So, even if the PSIP generator contains the ability to pass along the broadcast flag, content providers need not simply provide the setting. (Which in this case, apparently makes it unlawful to do so.. though I haven't yet read the article)
Ok...
I guess we need to figure out how we kill Jedi in a soft well meaning conservitive and correct manner. (They can't all whisk away to ghosts can they? What's that about anyway?)
Besides, I'd rather not watch an hour and a half of G.I. Joe style combat.
And there lies the problem with legitimizing such services.
;)
See, under the old regime, no one would have attempted to attack such a gambling site. You see, they would joyfully agree to bring the money in cash and ask for protection services to be extended to attack their competition.
Now, when they meet the guys for the case of cash, our beloved criminals would shoot them dead.
So, they broke their word, brought their guns and demonstrated how wrong it is to mess with the bad guys.
A sad state of affairs this world has become.
Then of course, there are people like myself.
I don't even read the local paper and I'm not about to purchase NYT.
However, I do have a subscription to slashdot that I renew whenver it runs out. With the slashdot model it seems I have to plop out some cash once a year.
So, I'm certain there are a good deal of people who don't want NYT, but might still actually pay for something.
Or you can build a steam collector at the top of your computer.
You know your really pumping those frames when your system percolates.
Or every saturday night at 10p, you can listen to kdk prank calls... streamed live.... on the internet.
(archives available too)
So I work in the broadcat industry and every once in a while I find something that makes me go "oh shit."
So I watching the begining of "the empire/enterprise" and I see the meeting with zepharym? cochran. I'm thinking... oh shit... someone is playing the movie... were going to get a severe beating... wtf. I'm kinda glued to the screen kinda wondering how bad this is going to go down and then try to recall who would have made this mistake in the control room.
Then of course they shoot the vulcan... I was so completely relieved.
The problem with eBay cafeteria...
The lunch lady is using her alternate account to pump of the bid price.
Might as well cover titantv.com listings as well.
Though currently I do use zap2it service as well, but really everyone in some fashion is using zap2it. Most individuals just don't know your listings are coming from the same place.
Maybe they should discriminate against IIS...
They have to right the wrongs and balance the scales of course.
It's the only way to maintain the balance!
Two negatives multiplied equal a positive correct? Thus, two wrongs do make a right!
While you offer a bit of an exagerated tale...
;)
There are demographics which have a considerably less pronounced income then other areas. This doesn't mean they will do without, but rather new fads and especially technological fads take time to adopt.
Here, we have very few broadcast channels and a great deal of those consumers do not possess the technology to recieve digital television in broadcast form. In fact, you would have to travel an hour and thirty minutes to actually buy one. Unless I am mistaken, our local wal-mart does not even carry them.
I suspect, if this happens, we will have quite a few people going dark. Ya know what's great... even working in television... I hope they do go dark and we see even few television hours in the house hold.
It's such a horrible addiction consumers need to break.
Nah,
They will quote a price from Harris and say something like, "This is an insignificant cost to the industry and thus no pleas for delay will be accepted."
What's entirely beautiful, the wording on FCC documents is quite odd. They can go on for a few chapters about how you must do something and then reference a foot note which is located several pages down. In this footnote you will see a vast list of exceptions or otherwise goofy things that could have been worded better.
This is a wet dream for sales folk and they will quote everything word for word... except the foot notes. The worst ones continue to lie about requirements even after being quoted the foot notes.
In any event, now it's going to start touching the consumer and the fcc might remotely listen. For those who don't know, full power digital transmission is required By July 1st 2005 if you are switching channels from your previously assigned low power DTV transmission assignment and all the rest are required to provide full power DTV service by July 1st 2006. (Full power in this case means, your digital transmission must cover your designated broadcast area)
The big factor is whether or not to count digital set top cable box's in the pool of those who would be DTV capable. If they do that, then sure the nation looks like it has the pop count to really utilize those DTV transmissions. In my area, I really don't know more then one or two people who are currently DTV capable. (unless you count cable!)
As it stands, broadcasters can designate their DTV transmission as "must carry" over their analogue broadcast. So everything really is in place for such a move... we just have to forget about those people who actually use broadcast. Silly consumer.
Now, it's going to be interesting if we actualy see requirements for HD broadcasts. Remember, digital transmission does not require high definition broadast. I have a feeling it's not high on their hit list as they really just want to sell off that spectrum. (IMHO)
I thought slashdot radio was funny.
Sure they just rehashed the last weeks slashdot, but there were some laughs in there.
Yeah,
Then of course, just because you compile programs with GCC or write a script that uses the PHP interpreter does not make it open source.
I think this story should be -2 Troll
I really don't understand how someone reaches the belief that a font would require the document to be open source as well.
Unless you are storing your fonts inside the document itself.