It's interesting and I kinda like it. It should be noted, though, that the page looked normal and boring (one long column of text) until I ID'd as MSIE 6.
Curious, what kind of applications are you using? Is your machine up to the realistic hardware requirements for XP? I ask because my decidedly non-techie wife uses XP on her home machine and has never, in about fourteen months since we bought it, had a bluescreen. I use 2K server on my Frankenstein box and rarely (not "never", but rarely enough that it's a surprise and not a "oh no, not again" reaction) see bluescreens either, and I ride the system pretty hard. MS may not be everyone's favorite company but their main product has come a long way since the bad old days of 95/98/ME (98SE was actually better than ME!).
I always figured the A-Team were aiming to keep the bad guys' heads down. Why add (voluntary manslaughter|2nd degree|1st degree) to your list of outstanding warrants?
Anyway, its Kazaa, so as far as I know I may be currently downloading a copy of The Piano*shudder*, but, you rolls dem dice.....
You need AVI Preview, a nifty piece of software that lets you, well, preview AVIs as they're downloading. As soon as you have a couple megs or so of the file, load up AVI Preview and see what it is. That way if it's the "How to lose a guy in 10 days" trailer looped thirty-seven times instead of TTT, you don't have to download the whole thing.
Opera 7.02 b0rk edition, ID-ing as IE6, had no problem with that link. When you get there, click "Find Microsoft Windows Updates" to make it stop trying to install an ActiveX. Then download away.
Yes, but could you help the OP in getting his domain name transferred? Or is he stuck getting netsol to approve it before he can go to you?
I use Gandi myself, they have similar service levels. I don't understand why anyone would stay with netsol.
Somewhat OT, but you brought it up. I just finished installing Win2K-Pro as a guest OS in VMWare, running on Win2K-Server. I'll be installing TurboTax in the guest OS tonight and will post in some appropriate place about how it goes. I don't expect there will be any problems, but you never know.
Debit cards with PINs / Smartcards are the way to go.
Um, no. Your liability if someone steals and uses your credit card and it's provably your fault: $50. Your liability if someone steals and uses your debit card and it's provably your fault: every cent in your checking account, every cent in your linked savings, CD, brokerage accounts, and as many overdraw fees as your bank can stick you with.
You do realize that if all everyone did was leech then the entire system would collapse right?
If everyone (or a significant majority of everyone) set their participation level to "Supreme Being", it would just invalidate the whole "participation level" system and we'd be back where we were before it was added--from each according to his upstream, to each according to his downstream. IMO that would be a good thing. It's hard enough finding the right version of the song I'm looking for, not a bad cover or low-bitrate or RIAA-spoofed version. We don't need this artificial user rating system on top of it.
Get a bunch of xboxen (cheap at $250 per) all running this distributed computing project to crack the private RSA key which will allow you to run unsigned software, such as the private key cracking project, which will crack the private RSA key enabling unsigned software...
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The arrogance of "downlevel" infuriates me. They couldn't just say "other" or "non-Microsoft". The implicit assumption is that if it's not using IE, it's crap.
You use the tivo to delay the audio, and watch the DirecTV feed. So the Tivo buffers 6 seconds worth of audio, then starts playing. The DirecTV, which is already 6 seconds behind, plays normally. And wow. They're in sync.
---Audio-->Tivo, wait 6 seconds-----> TV
---Video-->No Tivo, already delayed-> TV
Ah-ha! I figured there had to be a way to get a TiVo into the picture somehow. More ammunition in my battle to get one. Well not a battle really, but my wife doesn't quite understand (she will be assimilated, resistance is futile).
Given an overall system processing delay more than an order of magnitude larger than the total signal propagation delay through space, why even bother mentioning it, let alone do the math? That 100K miles adds only a small fraction of a second to the many seconds of processing on the ground and in the transponder.
You're right and I should have edited that before posting it. The only delay I can truly account for is the speed-of-light effect between broadcaster, satellite, DirecTV, satellite, and me. It didn't seem like enough so I tried to figure out what the rest could be. Someone suggested above that either the broadcaster or DirecTV might have additional delays for censoring profanity (or outfield streakers) but I seem to recall a CBS affiliate getting in trouble last year for doing something like that with an NFL game. In any case, it doesn't really matter the cause of the delay, and I appreciate the suggestions made in this thread to work around it.
I wish I had some appropriate analogy for this this situation. The SF Giants are the only sports team I truly care about and the tools Fox has foisted upon us make me want to pull an Elvis on my TV.
It was pointed out to me that Joe Buck isn't that bad and is actually tolerable. McCarver on the other hand is just awful. I can't stand how he'll keep going ON and ON and ON about some pointless minutia that happened three innings ago, or worse, in a Yankees game three weeks ago. Notice how he always gets a mention of the Yankees in there?
Anyway the PD software mentioned above looks like a complex, but workable solution. If I can make it work I'll follow up here.
All professional TV broadcasters have equipment that does MPEG processing in realtime (I'm one of the techs that fixes it when it breaks). Yeah, I guess maybe it could contribute a few ms of delay, but nothing you couldn't compensate for with the delay setting in a good reciever, and it is still probably less than the delay introduced by retransmitting, which still doesn't account for the 13-15s your talking about (6s + typical 7-8s delay on live radio).
I appreciate the different perspective. I originally talked about the problem with my dad, a signal engineer from the old days at Bell Labs, and we more or less agreed that the speed-of-light delay wasn't enough to produce the effect I was seeing. DirecTV MPEG processing was the only other thing I could think of that might affect it.
It's much more likely that KTVU has a playback delay set on their video server, mainly for the same reason that radio has one: bleeping out profanity before it hits the air.
Which explains why I heard J.T. Snow screaming "FUCK!" very loudly after screwing something up last week? I'm often surprised at what gets on the air on baseball broadcasts.
Using Windows Media Player you can connect to the encoder (either on your local machine or a network machine) and listen to the streamed audio. There will naturally be a delay, which you should be able to tweak by playing with the buffer settings in WME and WMP.
But what about "Any reproduction or retransmission of this broadcast... etc, etc."? Wouldn't want MLB to get on my case.
Seriously though, good idea and I'll give it a try, along with the PD software mentioned above.
Thanks for all the responses.
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It's interesting and I kinda like it. It should be noted, though, that the page looked normal and boring (one long column of text) until I ID'd as MSIE 6.
Curious, what kind of applications are you using? Is your machine up to the realistic hardware requirements for XP?
I ask because my decidedly non-techie wife uses XP on her home machine and has never, in about fourteen months since we bought it, had a bluescreen.
I use 2K server on my Frankenstein box and rarely (not "never", but rarely enough that it's a surprise and not a "oh no, not again" reaction) see bluescreens either, and I ride the system pretty hard. MS may not be everyone's favorite company but their main product has come a long way since the bad old days of 95/98/ME (98SE was actually better than ME!).
I always figured the A-Team were aiming to keep the bad guys' heads down. Why add (voluntary manslaughter|2nd degree|1st degree) to your list of outstanding warrants?
Opera 7.02 b0rk edition, ID-ing as IE6, had no problem with that link. When you get there, click "Find Microsoft Windows Updates" to make it stop trying to install an ActiveX. Then download away.
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Yes, but could you help the OP in getting his domain name transferred? Or is he stuck getting netsol to approve it before he can go to you?
I use Gandi myself, they have similar service levels. I don't understand why anyone would stay with netsol.
Somewhat OT, but you brought it up. I just finished installing Win2K-Pro as a guest OS in VMWare, running on Win2K-Server. I'll be installing TurboTax in the guest OS tonight and will post in some appropriate place about how it goes. I don't expect there will be any problems, but you never know.
Your liability if someone steals and uses your debit card and it's provably your fault: every cent in your checking account, every cent in your linked savings, CD, brokerage accounts, and as many overdraw fees as your bank can stick you with.
All I know is that it's making me work today. And I'm not exactly happy about that.
If everyone (or a significant majority of everyone) set their participation level to "Supreme Being", it would just invalidate the whole "participation level" system and we'd be back where we were before it was added--from each according to his upstream, to each according to his downstream. IMO that would be a good thing. It's hard enough finding the right version of the song I'm looking for, not a bad cover or low-bitrate or RIAA-spoofed version. We don't need this artificial user rating system on top of it.
"You work for the cable company, don't you."
"Uh, yeah."
"Yeah."
Get a bunch of xboxen (cheap at $250 per) all running this distributed computing project to crack the private RSA key which will allow you to run unsigned software, such as the private key cracking project, which will crack the private RSA key enabling unsigned software...
LLNL offers tours Tuesdays and Thursdays, including:There are some restrictions and rules about visiting, read the linked page for details.
The arrogance of "downlevel" infuriates me. They couldn't just say "other" or "non-Microsoft". The implicit assumption is that if it's not using IE, it's crap.
In any case, it doesn't really matter the cause of the delay, and I appreciate the suggestions made in this thread to work around it.
Anyway the PD software mentioned above looks like a complex, but workable solution. If I can make it work I'll follow up here.
Seriously though, good idea and I'll give it a try, along with the PD software mentioned above.
Thanks for all the responses.