And if local broadcasters can have 4 channels at the current picture quality instead of 1 supposedly higher quality channel, do you really expect them to forgo those other 3 chances to sell commercials?
For that matter, do you really expect them to give up their current channel with so many sets out there capable of receiving that signal? Remember, these are the people who got the government to make a rule that said cable companies have to carry their signal and have to pay them to carry that signal.
A most excellent post except that you left out where the humongous profits on long distance service in which they were expecting to share failed to fully materialize.
Are we talking about the same DSL that uses the same copper wires that your POTS does, the DSL you cannot get if the company that owns the last mile telephone wires doesn't want to offer DSL to you?
I don't know how "natural" it is, but DSL is just as much a monopoly as POTS if a single company gets to decide whether it's available at your location.
They may not have a monopoly on broadband, but they have a monopoly on broadband via DSL if they can control whether DSL is available.
"Originally the MBR had room for 4 pointers to partitions but that was extended later."
It's still limited to 4. One of them can be to an extended partition within which can be "logical" partitions.
To elaborate further on what you said, the info in the Master Boot Record includes whether one of those 4 partitions is set active (only one can be at any one time). The active one is the one the drive boots from. On modern hard drives the ("geographically") first partition starts beyond the first track.
"...I was trying to decide between TurboTax and QuickTax..."
As I understand it both are Intuit products, with TurboTax being the one geared for the U.S. market and QuickTax for the Canadian one. I wouldn't trust either.
Well a few months ago I tried to use the migrate utility for a lady moving from a Win98 machine to her brand new HP running XP and in the middle of things it just sort of forgot that the HP had a NIC (through which it was doing the transfer), so, yeah, I'd say it worked pretty well.
This isn't the only time or machine where I've seen XP "forget" hardware it previously knew about.
"Any sort of feedback loop can oscillate or ring if it's designed improperly..."
Aren't some of them supposed to do that?
And aren't those things you didn't get enough knowledge about in Computer Science the kinds of things that one studies electronics to learn about? Or are we getting into an unresolvable discussion about exactly what Computer Science is?
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Well, actually it was added underneath.
And if local broadcasters can have 4 channels at the current picture quality instead of 1 supposedly higher quality channel, do you really expect them to forgo those other 3 chances to sell commercials?
For that matter, do you really expect them to give up their current channel with so many sets out there capable of receiving that signal? Remember, these are the people who got the government to make a rule that said cable companies have to carry their signal and have to pay them to carry that signal.
Probably that those darned whales never shut up.
You live near Chicago and you can't get WGN or any of the NBC, CBS, or ABC affliates? Perhaps if you tried your VHF tuner instead of your UHF?
Actually minute (as in small) works quite well in that sentence.
....Ground Control to Major Bong, Ground Control to Major Bong....
Of course you can find major dicks practically anywhere.
...but only if we can get them all to try to land at the same time.
When Gil-Scott Heron recorded "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" BOC weren't around yet.
A most excellent post except that you left out where the humongous profits on long distance service in which they were expecting to share failed to fully materialize.
Assuming of course that they live somewhere where the local phone company can be bothered to offer DSL.
The last thing they want to do is compete. They want the market all to themselves. Besides, is it still a monopoly if it's shared?
Are we talking about the same DSL that uses the same copper wires that your POTS does, the DSL you cannot get if the company that owns the last mile telephone wires doesn't want to offer DSL to you?
I don't know how "natural" it is, but DSL is just as much a monopoly as POTS if a single company gets to decide whether it's available at your location.
They may not have a monopoly on broadband, but they have a monopoly on broadband via DSL if they can control whether DSL is available.
Well in that case screw you and the karma you rode in on :-)
It's still limited to 4. One of them can be to an extended partition within which can be "logical" partitions.
To elaborate further on what you said, the info in the Master Boot Record includes whether one of those 4 partitions is set active (only one can be at any one time). The active one is the one the drive boots from. On modern hard drives the ("geographically") first partition starts beyond the first track.
As I understand it both are Intuit products, with TurboTax being the one geared for the U.S. market and QuickTax for the Canadian one. I wouldn't trust either.
Or maybe it was slime. Which is the plural for slime.
Virus is Latin for scum. The plural of scum is scum.
Someone with only 5 mod points thought that it was worthwhile to spend one of them to mod this guy down for an innocent question. Sheesh.
Wasn't that particular "innovation" "pioneered" by Microsoft?
A freshly crashed Windows system is considered normal.
Well a few months ago I tried to use the migrate utility for a lady moving from a Win98 machine to her brand new HP running XP and in the middle of things it just sort of forgot that the HP had a NIC (through which it was doing the transfer), so, yeah, I'd say it worked pretty well.
This isn't the only time or machine where I've seen XP "forget" hardware it previously knew about.
Aren't some of them supposed to do that?
And aren't those things you didn't get enough knowledge about in Computer Science the kinds of things that one studies electronics to learn about? Or are we getting into an unresolvable discussion about exactly what Computer Science is?
Here is a pretty good explanation of its origin in the days of mainframes and terminals.
The SysRq (System Request) key is left over from the days of mainframes and terminals. I found a pretty good explanation here.
Perhaps we could get the best of both worlds by following the example of the military and consolidating Command and Control.