"...like making an LCD panel to display an analog clock, why mang why???.
I take it you've never tried to find a non-worn out replancement for, or tried to repair any of, the old electro-mechanical (mostly mechanical) dashboard clocks.
I've been out of broadcasting for a few years now (I was in radio) but back when "Must carry-must pay" was originally put through I was in a position to see most of the broadcasting trade magazines and that's the way the law was set up back then. There's also a provision that the channel has to be carried on the same frequency that they broadcast on (so that they can be channel 7 or 12 or whatever no matter how you get their signal), although the station can consent to being carried on a different frequency, for example a UHF can waive some or all of the "must pay" part in order to get themselves down in the channel 2-13 VHF range (supposedly this increases their chance of being watched). I remember something from several years ago about out local ABC affiliate being off the local cable for a day or three while the two "holders of government granted licenses to print money" worked out mutually agreeable terms. I'm also convinced that the recent addition of The Disney Channel to the non-scrambled line-up (previously a premium channel like HBO or Showtime) with an increase in the monthly cable subscription fee wasn't the result of viewer demand, as they would have us believe, but part of a deal between Time-Warner Cable and Disney so that TW could carry the ABC affiliates that ABC (and therefore Disney, since they own ABC) owns in the major markets where ABC has their "O & O"s. (Owned and Operated by the networks, like WABC, KABC, etc.) In other words, we're paying extra here in a medium market to keep TWC's major market customers happy.
You're paying an extra $5 per month to get the local channels downlinked to you from the satellite or to have an over the air (receiving) antenna fed into your satellite receiver?
If there were just some way to block down-convert satellite channels to the frequencies all my family's TVs and VCRs can tune so that they could all be on the co-ax inside the house and any channel available in any room with any other channel simultaneously available in any other room without having to screw around with a seperate receiver for each TV and for each VCR (the way the cable companies used to try to charge extra for each tap), I'd dump cable in a heartbeat.
Let's see, This Old House is WGBH, Boston, as is, if memory serves, Victory Garden, and perhaps Masterpiece Theater and Mystery. The Woodwright's Shop is WUNC, Chapel Hill, NC. Austin City Limits is (surprise) Austin. Washington Week in Review is WETV or something like that in Washington, D.C., KCET in San Diego, or is it L.A.? (I'm doing these from memory, folks) does at least one good show, but I can't remember which at the moment. Nightly Business Report is from the Florida affiliate and Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser was Maryland Public Television until they went insane a couple of weeks ago and gave Rukeyser the boot. (Apparently he wasn't bringing in enough of the pre-pubescent demographic to suit them. I'm expecting it to go to being just plain Wall Street Week and then just plain weak.)
Check the opening or closing credits on most of the PBS shows and you'll see that they come from specific affiliates or state PBS systems. I thing Houston is to blame for "Barney".
Not quite. The "must carry-must pay" law was rammed through on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters, the organization that buys congresscritters for the benefit of your local over the air broadcasters, not your local cable company.
Must carry-must pay says that the local cable company is legally required to carry any and all local broadcasters AND it has to pay or otherwise compensate those broadcasters for the "privilege" of re-transmitting that signal. The cable company, of course, passes that cost on to the subscribers, same as with the local franchise fee that the city or county collects. So if you are a cable subscriber you pay your local government to give the cable company a monopoly and you pay the local broadcasters to be able to have the cable company act as your "antenna" for the free, over the air signals of local channels, whether you actually want to recieve those channels or not.
"Or if you are seeing a movie, call your hospital and leave the number of the theater with them..."
Which will come in handy if the ER needs to hear the recording of which movies are showing when, but otherwise...
I've worked movie theaters before, and no, they probably don't have another phone line.
Never mind carpal tunnel, what about eyestrain?
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I realise my 17" monitor is kinda dinky by today's standards, but why do the keyboard makers' web sites use such small pictures of the keyboards? That old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words wasn't intended to suggest substituting one thousand words for a "big enough to get a decent look at it" picture.
Assuming this isn't early April 1st story....
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I've got some 1 Meg sticks I could spare, and might want some of those 512s just so I could say I had them. Mostly I'm curious as to what you're doing with those 386s. E-mail me, we'll work something out. Put Slashdot and 30 pin in the subject line so that I know it ain't Spam.
:...planned merger between Dell, Compaq, Apple, and General Electric. You may find it hard to believe now, but you'll see on April 21st when the news is made official."
Are you sure it isn't going to be on the first of April?:-)
Perhaps you aren't old enough to remember all the speakers and headphones marketed as "Digital Ready" when audio CD's first came out. It involved the advanced technology of slapping a sticker on the package.
Re:This is a trojan horse, plain and simple.
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Apparently the problem here isn't so much Spy vs. Spy as it is Spouse vs. Spouse. If the computer in question is jointly owned and marital partners can, as with business partners (non-incorporated partnership), legally act on behalf of, and bind, both, can one program, legally purchased and installed, legally interfere with another legally purchased and installed program? Does it make a legal difference if the anti-spyware was already installed before the spyware was installed?
What that number means is that the speakers can withstand 250 Watts for about one-millionth of a second. Any longer than that, of course, and the voice coil vaporizes.:-)
Amplifiers are often misleadingly advertised as well. I used to sell consumer audio stuff back in the '70s and trying to explain to the non-technically minded the differences between peak, peak to peak, instantaneous peak to peak, RMS, IHF, peak music power, and the acronym of the week was a major occupational hazard.
By the way, that's RMS as in root-mean-square, not that other RMS. Trying to explain him to potential customers would have been an adventure I'd just as soon have done without.
Also of the U.S. was Edwin Armstrong, inventor of (in addition to a lot of other stuff that advanced broadcasting in general) wide-band FM, which is how television sound is broadcast, at least in the U.S.
Depends on how you define telco, I guess. If I want a landline at my house there is only one company I can get it from, and I expect it's that way for the majority.
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I take it you've never tried to find a non-worn out replancement for, or tried to repair any of, the old electro-mechanical (mostly mechanical) dashboard clocks.
I've been out of broadcasting for a few years now (I was in radio) but back when "Must carry-must pay" was originally put through I was in a position to see most of the broadcasting trade magazines and that's the way the law was set up back then. There's also a provision that the channel has to be carried on the same frequency that they broadcast on (so that they can be channel 7 or 12 or whatever no matter how you get their signal), although the station can consent to being carried on a different frequency, for example a UHF can waive some or all of the "must pay" part in order to get themselves down in the channel 2-13 VHF range (supposedly this increases their chance of being watched).
I remember something from several years ago about out local ABC affiliate being off the local cable for a day or three while the two "holders of government granted licenses to print money" worked out mutually agreeable terms. I'm also convinced that the recent addition of The Disney Channel to the non-scrambled line-up (previously a premium channel like HBO or Showtime) with an increase in the monthly cable subscription fee wasn't the result of viewer demand, as they would have us believe, but part of a deal between Time-Warner Cable and Disney so that TW could carry the ABC affiliates that ABC (and therefore Disney, since they own ABC) owns in the major markets where ABC has their "O & O"s. (Owned and Operated by the networks, like WABC, KABC, etc.) In other words, we're paying extra here in a medium market to keep TWC's major market customers happy.
If there were just some way to block down-convert satellite channels to the frequencies all my family's TVs and VCRs can tune so that they could all be on the co-ax inside the house and any channel available in any room with any other channel simultaneously available in any other room without having to screw around with a seperate receiver for each TV and for each VCR (the way the cable companies used to try to charge extra for each tap), I'd dump cable in a heartbeat.
Let's see, This Old House is WGBH, Boston, as is, if memory serves, Victory Garden, and perhaps Masterpiece Theater and Mystery. The Woodwright's Shop is WUNC, Chapel Hill, NC. Austin City Limits is (surprise) Austin. Washington Week in Review is WETV or something like that in Washington, D.C., KCET in San Diego, or is it L.A.? (I'm doing these from memory, folks) does at least one good show, but I can't remember which at the moment. Nightly Business Report is from the Florida affiliate and Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser was Maryland Public Television until they went insane a couple of weeks ago and gave Rukeyser the boot. (Apparently he wasn't bringing in enough of the pre-pubescent demographic to suit them. I'm expecting it to go to being just plain Wall Street Week and then just plain weak.)
Check the opening or closing credits on most of the PBS shows and you'll see that they come from specific affiliates or state PBS systems. I thing Houston is to blame for "Barney".
Must carry-must pay says that the local cable company is legally required to carry any and all local broadcasters AND it has to pay or otherwise compensate those broadcasters for the "privilege" of re-transmitting that signal. The cable company, of course, passes that cost on to the subscribers, same as with the local franchise fee that the city or county collects. So if you are a cable subscriber you pay your local government to give the cable company a monopoly and you pay the local broadcasters to be able to have the cable company act as your "antenna" for the free, over the air signals of local channels, whether you actually want to recieve those channels or not.
"...tried to run MS Windows on it."
Well no wonder they expect it to crash.
As you seem to have no sig I humbly suggest the above. It's a great line.
You don't know just how cheap movie theater owning companies are, do you?
Which will come in handy if the ER needs to hear the recording of which movies are showing when, but otherwise...
I've worked movie theaters before, and no, they probably don't have another phone line.
I realise my 17" monitor is kinda dinky by today's standards, but why do the keyboard makers' web sites use such small pictures of the keyboards? That old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words wasn't intended to suggest substituting one thousand words for a "big enough to get a decent look at it" picture.
As long as you're hot-swapping the drives and not the drive bays, why not run a separate power feed to the fan on the drive bay?
Why not? They screw everybody else.
I've got some 1 Meg sticks I could spare, and might want some of those 512s just so I could say I had them. Mostly I'm curious as to what you're doing with those 386s. E-mail me, we'll work something out. Put Slashdot and 30 pin in the subject line so that I know it ain't Spam.
Are you sure it isn't going to be on the first of April? :-)
Or, as he's known during the Christmas ads, the Dell Fairy.
Perhaps you aren't old enough to remember all the speakers and headphones marketed as "Digital Ready" when audio CD's first came out. It involved the advanced technology of slapping a sticker on the package.
Apparently the problem here isn't so much Spy vs. Spy as it is Spouse vs. Spouse. If the computer in question is jointly owned and marital partners can, as with business partners (non-incorporated partnership), legally act on behalf of, and bind, both, can one program, legally purchased and installed, legally interfere with another legally purchased and installed program? Does it make a legal difference if the anti-spyware was already installed before the spyware was installed?
Yeah, but he was looking to work *inside* the box.
I think they call that particular technique "The PBS".
Amplifiers are often misleadingly advertised as well. I used to sell consumer audio stuff back in the '70s and trying to explain to the non-technically minded the differences between peak, peak to peak, instantaneous peak to peak, RMS, IHF, peak music power, and the acronym of the week was a major occupational hazard.
By the way, that's RMS as in root-mean-square, not that other RMS. Trying to explain him to potential customers would have been an adventure I'd just as soon have done without.
Even after having made 3 or 4 shows for PBS?
Somebody tell the Supreme Court we've got that ironclad, airtight definition of obscenity they're looking for.
Also of the U.S. was Edwin Armstrong, inventor of (in addition to a lot of other stuff that advanced broadcasting in general) wide-band FM, which is how television sound is broadcast, at least in the U.S.
I wondered when someone was going to get around to mentioning Katz.
Depends on how you define telco, I guess. If I want a landline at my house there is only one company I can get it from, and I expect it's that way for the majority.