Your original post didn't make it clear that you were storing it now and watching it later, which is why I wondered what the point was of an analog to digital to analog conversion.
One more time: The National Electrical Code prohibits running electrically conductive communication cables in the same conduit as power cables, so, no copper (or any other metal, probably). It's also a bad idea because of induced signals.
If they're putting anything in the same conduit as insulated copper (or aluminum) wires carrying electricity at 120 or more Volts, it would have to be fiber optic and probably fiber optic with absolutely no conductive material whatsoever in its cladding in order not to violate several provisions of the National Electrical Code, not to mention good RF engineering practice.
Well obviously the first step is to provide all of us with free prototypes to play with. Strictly in the interest of market research of course. E-mail me for my shipping details:-)
Well, they're already grabbing every piece of computer equipment in the house when the evidence is only on the hard drive or other discs because they can auction off the complete system for more money, so expect to see video on the news of guys in blue windbreakers hauling off speakers and amplifiers and receivers and probably every piece of entertainment-related electronics in the house (except perhaps the microwave used to make the popcorn eaten while the illegal music or movie is enjoyed).
In the event of an almost accident, where some skillful driving that includes the vehicle moving radically to one side of the road and then back very quickly or something like that, the driver's seatbelt keeps him or her firmly in place behind the wheel where they have a chance of maintaining control of the vehicle and avoiding a collision, and the passenger's seatbelt keeps him or her from landing in the driver's lap or obscuring the driver's vision by smashing the windshield into an almost opaque collage of little pieces of glass glued to a sheet of plastic. Accident avoided, everybody's money saved.
When you say "demagnitizer" do you mean like an open reel bulk tape eraser? Does the "demagnitized" CD sound better than the "unaltered" one, or worse, or just different?
Too bad it's too late to boycott the original CD. You know, the medium just as likely, if not more so, as the vinyl phonograph record to suffer degradation from difficult to avoid fingerprints and scratches because they didn't bother to encase it in a protective shell such as the one on the 3.5" floppy. But then, if they'd done that, people wouldn't have to spend nearly as much on replacing damaged discs to regain access to content for which they'd already paid a licensing and usage fee.
"Any suburban subdivision with at least one technogeek in residence is better off getting T-1 than DSL or cablemodem."
Assuming that the controlling local municipality will let you dig up the right of way to bury cables out to everyones' house, which assumes that the local phone and cable TV company aren't in good with the local politicians.
"...a very outrageous quote to move our computers, telephony gear, and ethernet wiring to our new office."
Leave the wiring where it is and get the building owner to pay you something for it so that he can offer the next tenant a "network ready" office as additional incentive to rent from him at the price he's asking.
If that location in the suburbs is still under construction, hold a gun to somebody's head to force them to install conduit and a decent wiring closet. That way you can install non-plenum and replace it with fiber-optic or trilithium-sleeved flux capacitance ion stream waveguide hose or whatever the next big thing is ten or twenty years down the road just by hooking it to the old stuff and using the old stuff as a pull rope.
(Yes, my assumption that he meant that they were actually moving the wire is slightly tongue in cheek. But I'm deadly serious about the virtues of conduit.)
"...some form of updateable microcode on the processor..."
Does that mean that you can flash the processor, or does the OS load that microcode from the hard drive to somewhere in memory where it can override the CPU's original dodgy bits?
(Why, yes I am discussing something outside of my area of expertise.)
They may not have meant to mislead, but the use of the term lifetime for anything other than the life of the person paying for the lifetime "whatever" is a mistake because you make some people think that you're trying to scam them and have to go to a lot of extra trouble to make sure that everybody knows what your own particular definition of lifetime is. Also, if the hardware goes bad after the manufacturer's warranty has expired but you find a shop that can fix it, do you have to report that to them and buy another subscription? If you get it fixed and plug it back in without notifying them that it was down, can they get you for "theft of service"? It's just too big a can of worms.
I'd much rather look at Rocky and Bullwinkle, thanks.
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They have to bring back Jar-Jar so that he can be suffer the horrible death he so richly deserves for handing control of thousands of worlds over to Palpatine and setting in motion years of suffering and loss (not to mention the occasional reduction of a planet and its population to billions of little glittery bits).
Which of course is remarkably similar to the horrible death he so richly deserves just for the abomination of existing.
"Christopher Lee and Samuel Jackson were barely trying."
I thought Christopher Lee did pretty well for an 80 year old, and Jackson's character was an entirely different temperament from the characters he usually plays, so your reaction might have been different from what it would have been if you'd never seen him in anything before (or if the character had been played by a medium sized ordinary-looking white guy).
"Think of how the Batmobile and the costumes looked on the TV show. That wasn't good enough for the movies,..."
It wasn't even good enough for the comic books of the time. The television show would have had to have been a lot better for me to have been able to work up enough interest to be severely disappointed at what they did to a good comic book.
On second thought George Barris didn't do all that bad a job on the car. But the rest of it stunk on ice (except for the Yvonne Craig-shaped scenery 2nd or 3rd season).
"The biggest reason Spiderman is doing well *I think* is because there are a lot of people who have been waiting 20 years for it to come out."
More like over 35 years. Spiderman's been around since at least 1965, although at this late date some of my memories from those years tend to blur together, although I'm pretty sure he was post Fantastic Four and Howlin' Commmandos and pre-Daredevil (and much before Silver Surfer), though I'm not sure about The Avengers. Need to go get that box out of the attic and check copyright dates.
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Your original post didn't make it clear that you were storing it now and watching it later, which is why I wondered what the point was of an analog to digital to analog conversion.
You're getting it off the cable as analog and when it gets to your TV it's analog and what was the reason for all the stuff in between?
If you think that was a guy I'd say either your memory needs work or your TV set does :-)
Trust us...it's music. If you disagree, you must be stupid"
Even funnier than the parent post.
Although I think it's supposed to be spelled emperor.
One more time: The National Electrical Code prohibits running electrically conductive communication cables in the same conduit as power cables, so, no copper (or any other metal, probably). It's also a bad idea because of induced signals.
If they're putting anything in the same conduit as insulated copper (or aluminum) wires carrying electricity at 120 or more Volts, it would have to be fiber optic and probably fiber optic with absolutely no conductive material whatsoever in its cladding in order not to violate several provisions of the National Electrical Code, not to mention good RF engineering practice.
Well obviously the first step is to provide all of us with free prototypes to play with. Strictly in the interest of market research of course. E-mail me for my shipping details :-)
Well, they're already grabbing every piece of computer equipment in the house when the evidence is only on the hard drive or other discs because they can auction off the complete system for more money, so expect to see video on the news of guys in blue windbreakers hauling off speakers and amplifiers and receivers and probably every piece of entertainment-related electronics in the house (except perhaps the microwave used to make the popcorn eaten while the illegal music or movie is enjoyed).
Actually it takes one cut apiece to silence the complaints of the other two.
But if you had one of those original Socket 4 Pentiums with a big heat sink and no fan it made an excellent waffle iron.
In the event of an almost accident, where some skillful driving that includes the vehicle moving radically to one side of the road and then back very quickly or something like that, the driver's seatbelt keeps him or her firmly in place behind the wheel where they have a chance of maintaining control of the vehicle and avoiding a collision, and the passenger's seatbelt keeps him or her from landing in the driver's lap or obscuring the driver's vision by smashing the windshield into an almost opaque collage of little pieces of glass glued to a sheet of plastic. Accident avoided, everybody's money saved.
When you say "demagnitizer" do you mean like an open reel bulk tape eraser? Does the "demagnitized" CD sound better than the "unaltered" one, or worse, or just different?
Too bad it's too late to boycott the original CD. You know, the medium just as likely, if not more so, as the vinyl phonograph record to suffer degradation from difficult to avoid fingerprints and scratches because they didn't bother to encase it in a protective shell such as the one on the 3.5" floppy. But then, if they'd done that, people wouldn't have to spend nearly as much on replacing damaged discs to regain access to content for which they'd already paid a licensing and usage fee.
Assuming that the controlling local municipality will let you dig up the right of way to bury cables out to everyones' house, which assumes that the local phone and cable TV company aren't in good with the local politicians.
Is there a technical reason why you can't get DSL over a "dry loop"?
Leave the wiring where it is and get the building owner to pay you something for it so that he can offer the next tenant a "network ready" office as additional incentive to rent from him at the price he's asking.
If that location in the suburbs is still under construction, hold a gun to somebody's head to force them to install conduit and a decent wiring closet. That way you can install non-plenum and replace it with fiber-optic or trilithium-sleeved flux capacitance ion stream waveguide hose or whatever the next big thing is ten or twenty years down the road just by hooking it to the old stuff and using the old stuff as a pull rope.
(Yes, my assumption that he meant that they were actually moving the wire is slightly tongue in cheek. But I'm deadly serious about the virtues of conduit.)
Does that mean that you can flash the processor, or does the OS load that microcode from the hard drive to somewhere in memory where it can override the CPU's original dodgy bits?
(Why, yes I am discussing something outside of my area of expertise.)
Tell me again which brand Microsoft is associated with?
They may not have meant to mislead, but the use of the term lifetime for anything other than the life of the person paying for the lifetime "whatever" is a mistake because you make some people think that you're trying to scam them and have to go to a lot of extra trouble to make sure that everybody knows what your own particular definition of lifetime is. Also, if the hardware goes bad after the manufacturer's warranty has expired but you find a shop that can fix it, do you have to report that to them and buy another subscription? If you get it fixed and plug it back in without notifying them that it was down, can they get you for "theft of service"? It's just too big a can of worms.
I'd much rather look at Rocky and Bullwinkle, thanks.
Which of course is remarkably similar to the horrible death he so richly deserves just for the abomination of existing.
I thought Christopher Lee did pretty well for an 80 year old, and Jackson's character was an entirely different temperament from the characters he usually plays, so your reaction might have been different from what it would have been if you'd never seen him in anything before (or if the character had been played by a medium sized ordinary-looking white guy).
Now that might have made it worth reading.
It wasn't even good enough for the comic books of the time. The television show would have had to have been a lot better for me to have been able to work up enough interest to be severely disappointed at what they did to a good comic book.
On second thought George Barris didn't do all that bad a job on the car. But the rest of it stunk on ice (except for the Yvonne Craig-shaped scenery 2nd or 3rd season).
More like over 35 years. Spiderman's been around since at least 1965, although at this late date some of my memories from those years tend to blur together, although I'm pretty sure he was post Fantastic Four and Howlin' Commmandos and pre-Daredevil (and much before Silver Surfer), though I'm not sure about The Avengers. Need to go get that box out of the attic and check copyright dates.