I mean, all they need to do is put a trap on the line that filters out the analog signals, cable modems run on digital channels anyway.
Wrong. Everything on the cable system (including digital cable) is pumped into the analog portion of the system (on it's own respective frequencies) before it gets to the fiber portion of the network, and comes into your house in the same analog fashion that's been used for years. The only difference between a "digital" and "analog" channles to the cable system is... well.... there isn't one. It's all about the sending and receiving equipment. Digial cable channels actually take up space in the spectrum where a normal channel would go.. the difference is that they take up less bandwidth (2MHz per digital channel as opposed to 6Mhz per analog channel) so you can squeeze more channels into the same space.. even more if they're all "low-bandwith" channels (not a lot of movement), the digital video is, after all, Mpeg2, and the less movement you have the less datarate yuo need.
Digial cable boxen are essentially cable modems with a built-in tuner and video output features... they even run on IP for communiactions with the head-end.
From what i was able to divine from our senior cable engineer, cable companies HAVE to (legally) deliver local broadcast content if you're getting any service at all.. Hence the common $10 surcharge if you have only cable modem service. The diference is they don't have to tell you about it.
Actually, i think it was a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder... which is the formula for Thermite..... from what the special (if it was the same one) theorized was that one of the panels became electrically separated from one of the adjacent ones and built up a large static potential form the stormy air..... same basic idea though...... a big hydrogen ballon wrapped in stuff that likes to burn REALLY hot...... and poor hydrogen got the bad rap...
funny, the PS2 read my home-brew DVD-Rs just fine. I haven't tried games, perhaps there's some software-based restrictions on loading games from DVD-R, but the hardware will read the disks without a problem.
On top of all that, it'd make quite the convenient mp3(pro)/ogg/whatever player.. big on-screen display, remote (if you work in controller functionality), and generally located right near the stereo =)
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I mean, all they need to do is put a trap on the line that filters out the analog signals, cable modems run on digital channels anyway. Wrong. Everything on the cable system (including digital cable) is pumped into the analog portion of the system (on it's own respective frequencies) before it gets to the fiber portion of the network, and comes into your house in the same analog fashion that's been used for years. The only difference between a "digital" and "analog" channles to the cable system is... well.... there isn't one. It's all about the sending and receiving equipment. Digial cable channels actually take up space in the spectrum where a normal channel would go.. the difference is that they take up less bandwidth (2MHz per digital channel as opposed to 6Mhz per analog channel) so you can squeeze more channels into the same space.. even more if they're all "low-bandwith" channels (not a lot of movement), the digital video is, after all, Mpeg2, and the less movement you have the less datarate yuo need. Digial cable boxen are essentially cable modems with a built-in tuner and video output features... they even run on IP for communiactions with the head-end. From what i was able to divine from our senior cable engineer, cable companies HAVE to (legally) deliver local broadcast content if you're getting any service at all.. Hence the common $10 surcharge if you have only cable modem service. The diference is they don't have to tell you about it.
Actually, i think it was a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder... which is the formula for Thermite..... from what the special (if it was the same one) theorized was that one of the panels became electrically separated from one of the adjacent ones and built up a large static potential form the stormy air..... same basic idea though...... a big hydrogen ballon wrapped in stuff that likes to burn REALLY hot...... and poor hydrogen got the bad rap...
2 mirrored drives.... get 'em replaced and swap 'em back and forth....
then why 10k and 15k scsi drives and only 5400 and 7200 ide?
even with child porn laws they're worth a few words... "You have the right to remain silent..."
funny, the PS2 read my home-brew DVD-Rs just fine. I haven't tried games, perhaps there's some software-based restrictions on loading games from DVD-R, but the hardware will read the disks without a problem.
On top of all that, it'd make quite the convenient mp3(pro)/ogg/whatever player.. big on-screen display, remote (if you work in controller functionality), and generally located right near the stereo =)
-jerm