I never understood why people didn't like the Sci-Fi channel's Dune, especially since the movie was so mediocre. I liked the fact that it was more about the story than the special effects.
Whether or not the Shuttle was a worthy program is irrelavant to the issues at hand. Since the nation has chosen to have a Space Shuttle it should have been funded well enough to insure its safety.
It is now coming out that it wasn't.
The Washington Post is now reporting that many people have been saying for months that the program was underfunded and cutting corners on safety.
If it does turn out that cost cutting played a role, would the loss of seven people and many billions of dollars of equipment be a reasonable thing, from a human or even accounting stand point?
>>I can't really see a way around this viewing problem, though, as to view an image at a decent size (at least 7 x 5 inch), you need a screen of that size, which precludes a PDA before you start. If you make the screen big enough, it's now a tablet instead of a PDA
Imagine if you are traveling in a remote part of China or Africa. Many people may not have ever seen a picture of themselves. A quick and easy way of sharing the photos you just took of some people with them would be a nice thing to do. It would be a quick and easy moment of bonding between you and them.
It is of course to early to say what happened. But consider this;
Bush appointed an ACCOUNTANT as NASA administrator, not a space scientist. It is a totally bizarre thing to do. When the head of an agency is primarily concerned with counting beans and not the mission of the organization, prioities get out of whack. That might not be so bad if you are talking about the Agriculture Department, but in this case it could have had some sort of impact.
Sending a crew of people into space requires a certain amount of reasources. If you have a bean counter in charge, who knows what kind of corners may have been cut in the name of saving some money.
Again, its too early to say if this played ANY role, but for me it would be a line of inquiry.
Nobody is saying you have to share memorysticks between the two devices. However, it is an advantage if you are capable of doing it.
For example, if you were taking a lot of photos with your DSC-P9 and you wanted to view them on something with a bigger screen, you could swap the memorystick into the Clie and have a look at the photos or even edit them on a 320 x 480 screen. You could then e-mail the photos off via wifi or bluetooth. It would an ultra-mobile,photo-editing delivery platform.
Secondly, for people who can't afford to put a lot of money into memorysticks, being able to share one between multiple devices is a plus.
Also, since Sony has announced gigabyte memorystick, one may be all one ever needs.
However, it occurs to me that there may be a two device alternative to the NZ90 that might be better.
The two devices are the Sony DSC-P9 camera and the Sony CLie NX70V.
The camera gives you a 4.0 magapixel camera that also takes small video clips. The 4.0 megapixels of course gives you much better prints. I have to believe that you'll be a lot happier with the quality of the images from the camera than the Clie.
You could exchange the memory sticks between the camera and the Clie. This allows you to display the images on the Clie's 320x430 16 bit screen. You could also do a slide show or wired the photos. (Yes I'd like a faster processor!!!)
With the exception of the camera, I believe the NX70 has the same specs as the NZ90.
The combination of these two devices gives you more mobile capabilities and performance. Together the two devices aren't much bigger than the NZ90
I mean if your ready to pay $800 for a PDA you could go $1000 for two toys.
A couple of years ago a campaign to complain about proposed organic standards that favored the big agribusinesses was successful in forcing the FDA to make a complete reversal and impose standards that favored the consumer. A few hundred thousand complaints were made by e-mail and snail mail. It was considered one of the largest responses to a call for public comment in US history.
So yes, a similar campaign may work in this case.
Write the letters. Send your e-mails. Getting the issue before the media would help, too! -
Since Sirius uses the fact it is commercial free as their number one selling point, I seriously doubt they are going to introduce commercials. I haven't seen anything to make me believe they would do this.
By the way the reception is excellent, not crappy and the overwhelming majority of people will be receiving the broadcast directly from the satelites. Most of the population do not live in major cities. Only in places like midtown Manhatten and Chicago are extra antennas necessary.
Also, you've obviously haven't heard Sirius because you think they filled all sixty music channels with pop music. If you had actually experienced the incredible variety of Sirius, or XM for that matter, you would understand the appeal.
But as a listener, NO WAY. I can't tell you how nice it is not listening to commercials. Its like you've died and gone to heaven. Why should I pay money to listen to commercials. ARE YOU LISTENING DISH NETWORK???
IMHO, marketing and advertising are evil. If I ran the world, anyone in marketing or advertising would be thrown down a volcano.
Sirius got a later start and has fewer subscribers, but it has a few advantages.
Its finances are in better shape. XM has heavy debt.
It has much better news and talk stations. In addition to what XM has, Sirius has 2 NPR stations, PRI International, and the World Radio Network. You can get news reporting from all over the world. Oh wait... Americans don't care about the rest of the world. Dang.
I've read that Sirius has three satelites, where XM has two. Additionally Sirius' satelites are in higher orbits. The result is that Sirius has a more reliable signal and fewer loses of signal.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, NONE of Sirius' channels have commercials, where some of XM's do.
I saw that, but just because the encoding is being done without thae cpu, doesn't mean that system reasources aren't being used. The PC still has to constantly write the data to disk and organize the recording schedule. That is going to give you a perfomance hit.
I'm not going to mention how much a giggle I got out the idea of playing UT 2003 with a P3 1.0 gig gave me. Ooops, I guess I did.
I as aware of this possiblity and knew I was taking a chance. However, I looked at the finances of Sirius and XM and determined that although SIrius has fewer subscribers currently, its finances are in better order. I think Sirius has at least two years to make a go of it. If it fails in two or threre years, well, that will have been a fun two or three years for me.
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I never understood why people didn't like the Sci-Fi channel's Dune, especially since the movie was so mediocre. I liked the fact that it was more about the story than the special effects.
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You can build one from the instructions here;
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
But, hurry, it won't be long to til the satelittes turn your brain into jelly!!!!!
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In my experience and iPod's battery will last between 9-10 hours. Of course, it isn't broadcasting the music via 802.11b.
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Whether or not the Shuttle was a worthy program is irrelavant to the issues at hand. Since the nation has chosen to have a Space Shuttle it should have been funded well enough to insure its safety.
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It is now coming out that it wasn't.
The Washington Post is now reporting that many people have been saying for months that the program was underfunded and cutting corners on safety.
See;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/arti
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You have no soul.
If it does turn out that cost cutting played a role, would the loss of seven people and many billions of dollars of equipment be a reasonable thing, from a human or even accounting stand point?
>>I can't really see a way around this viewing problem, though, as to view an image at a decent size (at least 7 x 5 inch), you need a screen of that size, which precludes a PDA before you start. If you make the screen big enough, it's now a tablet instead of a PDA
Imagine if you are traveling in a remote part of China or Africa. Many people may not have ever seen a picture of themselves. A quick and easy way of sharing the photos you just took of some people with them would be a nice thing to do. It would be a quick and easy moment of bonding between you and them.
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It is of course to early to say what happened. But consider this;
Bush appointed an ACCOUNTANT as NASA administrator, not a space scientist. It is a totally bizarre thing to do. When the head of an agency is primarily concerned with counting beans and not the mission of the organization, prioities get out of whack. That might not be so bad if you are talking about the Agriculture Department, but in this case it could have had some sort of impact.
Sending a crew of people into space requires a certain amount of reasources. If you have a bean counter in charge, who knows what kind of corners may have been cut in the name of saving some money.
Again, its too early to say if this played ANY role, but for me it would be a line of inquiry.
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Nobody is saying you have to share memorysticks between the two devices. However, it is an advantage if you are capable of doing it.
For example, if you were taking a lot of photos with your DSC-P9 and you wanted to view them on something with a bigger screen, you could swap the memorystick into the Clie and have a look at the photos or even edit them on a 320 x 480 screen. You could then e-mail the photos off via wifi or bluetooth. It would an ultra-mobile,photo-editing delivery platform.
Secondly, for people who can't afford to put a lot of money into memorysticks, being able to share one between multiple devices is a plus.
Also, since Sony has announced gigabyte memorystick, one may be all one ever needs.
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I have been lusting after the NZ90, too.
However, it occurs to me that there may be a two device alternative to the NZ90 that might be better.
The two devices are the Sony DSC-P9 camera and the Sony CLie NX70V.
The camera gives you a 4.0 magapixel camera that also takes small video clips. The 4.0 megapixels of course gives you much better prints. I have to believe that you'll be a lot happier with the quality of the images from the camera than the Clie.
You could exchange the memory sticks between the camera and the Clie. This allows you to display the images on the Clie's 320x430 16 bit screen. You could also do a slide show or wired the photos. (Yes I'd like a faster processor!!!)
With the exception of the camera, I believe the NX70 has the same specs as the NZ90.
The combination of these two devices gives you more mobile capabilities and performance. Together the two devices aren't much bigger than the NZ90
I mean if your ready to pay $800 for a PDA you could go $1000 for two toys.
True story.
During a long plane flight, my brother-in-law and I pitted my Palm III vs. his Pocket PC in a game of chess.
His Pocket PC was clearly winning when my Palm III crashed, something it rarely does.
Just goes to show that technology isn't above having a temper tantrum and kicking the chess board over.
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A couple of years ago a campaign to complain about proposed organic standards that favored the big agribusinesses was successful in forcing the FDA to make a complete reversal and impose standards that favored the consumer. A few hundred thousand complaints were made by e-mail and snail mail. It was considered one of the largest responses to a call for public comment in US history.
So yes, a similar campaign may work in this case.
Write the letters. Send your e-mails. Getting the issue before the media would help, too!
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Uh, the independant tests quote are actually the opinions of three people. Hardly conclusive "testing".
Can anyone explain how my original post was moderated flamebait? Especially when two other people gave it and interesting and an imformative?
I guess we will have to wait and see which one survives.
You are wrong pretty much on all counts.
Since Sirius uses the fact it is commercial free as their number one selling point, I seriously doubt they are going to introduce commercials.
I haven't seen anything to make me believe they would do this.
By the way the reception is excellent, not crappy and the overwhelming majority of people will be receiving the broadcast directly from the satelites. Most of the population do not live in major cities. Only in places like midtown Manhatten and Chicago are extra antennas necessary.
Also, you've obviously haven't heard Sirius because you think they filled all sixty music channels with pop music. If you had actually experienced the incredible variety of Sirius, or XM for that matter, you would understand the appeal.
>>Cry me a river you fucking victim. When the rest of the world does something worth caring about, wake me up.
Obviously you've never heard of a little thing called civilization!!!
Um... Maybe for Sirius it would be better.
But as a listener, NO WAY. I can't tell you how nice it is not listening to commercials. Its like you've died and gone to heaven. Why should I pay money to listen to commercials. ARE YOU LISTENING DISH NETWORK???
IMHO, marketing and advertising are evil. If I ran the world, anyone in marketing or advertising would be thrown down a volcano.
Be very glad I don't run the world!!!
There is competition for XM. Sirius satelitte radio.
Monopolies are not illegal. Using your power as a monopoly in unfair ways is what is illegal.
If XM were to keep Sirius from entering the market, that would be illegal.
Sirius got a later start and has fewer subscribers, but it has a few advantages.
Its finances are in better shape. XM has heavy debt.
It has much better news and talk stations. In addition to what XM has, Sirius has 2 NPR stations, PRI International, and the World Radio Network. You can get news reporting from all over the world. Oh wait... Americans don't care about the rest of the world. Dang.
I've read that Sirius has three satelites, where XM has two. Additionally Sirius' satelites are in higher orbits. The result is that Sirius has a more reliable signal and fewer loses of signal.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, NONE of Sirius' channels have commercials, where some of XM's do.
I just saw this mame cocktail cabinet at a Tampa distributor. Scroll down to the bottom of this page;
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My Replay 4500s are very stable. I haven't had any problems with them.
Also, my Replays have no problems determining which shows are repeats. If an episode is already on the Replay, it does not record it a second time.
I saw that, but just because the encoding is being done without thae cpu, doesn't mean that system reasources aren't being used. The PC still has to constantly write the data to disk and organize the recording schedule. That is going to give you a perfomance hit.
I'm not going to mention how much a giggle I got out the idea of playing UT 2003 with a P3 1.0 gig gave me. Ooops, I guess I did.
I as aware of this possiblity and knew I was taking a chance. However, I looked at the finances of Sirius and XM and determined that although SIrius has fewer subscribers currently, its finances are in better order. I think Sirius has at least two years to make a go of it. If it fails in two or threre years, well, that will have been a fun two or three years for me.
Got Replay, Not Interested