I assume you get your content from the Firewire port. A few questions/comments:
I was messing around with MythTV a year or so ago, I think it was just getting the capability to acquire content over the firewire port, I assume that has matured and is a bit easier now. One of my gripes with MythTV was AT THE TIME, it was very hard to get working with the firewire port and would not change channels over the firewire port, where, with Windows, I could find utilities (CapDVHS) that made it trivial to capture content over firewire AND there were also utilities that could change channels over firewire, so no need for IR Blaster. Before people say its easy because I use Windows, all I had to do was downloaded a zip file, unpacked it, and run the executable. No install files or anything as it did't need to register itself.
Through the firewire port, I am not unable to record the "premium" HD stations (ESPN, HBO, Showtime,...) but am able to record the "over-the-air" (ABC, CBS, NBC,...) stations retransmitted by the cable company. Would a CableCard give me the ability to capture both the premium and over-the-air stations? If so, that would be a very big advantage. I currently have recorded in HD on my cable company supplied DVR cable box, the Maryland-Duke game and am unable to transfer it to my computer since it was on ESPN. A 2 hour HD recording takes up approximately 18% of the storage space for my 80 MB DVR.
P.S. I'm sure I will get a lecture about how easy it would have been for me to do under linux if I used linux all the time, but oh well, the simple fact is I don't, nor does that vast majority of Americans. I do use Ubuntu and gnucash though to keep track of business and personal finances, so I am not completely clueless when it comes to linux. Anyhow, I tried for hours on end to get firewire recording working to no avail, spending large amounts of time on the appropriate irc channels, most of the time finding people who thought it was offensive to their superior knowledge that I had to ask such questions. For somebody remotely computer literate, it just shouldn't be that difficult.
What you would rather do is fine and is your opinion, but companies are out to make money, and more people would like to watch millionaires on grass, ice, dirt, or wood hop on each other. Still others like to watch soon to be millionaires on grass or hardwood (not so much dirt or ice) hop on each other.
I think the threshhold on your sarcasm filter is set a little high. On a side note, I'm not a biologist and took no biology past 101, but in a class of 200+ for BIO101, I was one of the seven highest grades. The only reason I know, is that it got me out of taking the final, just thought it was ironic. Anyhow, you have convinced me, since are so compelling in the way you sidestep questions with more and more and more and more useless info not relevant to the discussion. When does nature evict me off of my property. We already determined it was before I "retire", but how much before?
You are good at reciting nothing more than what you have heard, with probably little understanding. You don't answer questions, you just throw out more alarmist crap. I better go get ready for the impending doom, I believe I only live 11 ft above sea level. Prime tsunami territory and I actually saw some of the local plants are evolving to not have feet.
You aren't much of an alarmist are you? Disappear before I retire, plastic from dead animals, mathmeticians are religious? You are equating flooding and tsunamis in your analysis, which aren't the same. I asked if you had statistics indicating how much worse tsunamis would be if the sea level rose an inch or two (due to the effect of melting ice). You said it is much more probably, without any quantification of what much more is. In what fields do you have a degree or degrees? You make some very simple mistakes. If WATER (not ice) didn't occupy more space in a frozen form, it wouldn't float in the first place. The fact that it occupies more space in a frozen form is precisely why it floats. The volume of water an object displaces is such that the weight of the water displaced is equal to the weight of the object. If the densities were exactly the same for ice and water, ice would displace the same volume of water (in other words, not float).
Do you have statistics that indicate how much more devastating a tsunami will when the starting sea level is 1 inch higher or is it just a seat of the pants "this can't be good" argument. Much more probably is a very vague statement. Also, is basic math or physics the reason the tub overflows? I thought the math we used were just to model the physical world, but instead math is the reason the physical world is the way it is?
If you have flex time, daylight savings time doesn't change anything. I can get up at the same equivalent time the Monday after, as the Friday before. However, for people that do have fixed schedules, that require them to be at work between 9:00 and 5:30, it does shift some daytime that would have been before work (when it probably wouldn't have been that useful) to afterwork where one is more likely to spend some time outdoors.
Should be informative, not funny, because sadly people think you can just make lost information reappear. I had somebody tell me that they could fit an entire HD movie, compressed losslessly, on a CD-R.
My main point was that what you are referring to would still be considered sonar. It is a system that uses echos bouncing off of objects to detect them. The rest of what you discuss just goes to the resolution of the system. Imaging is nothing more than detecting at a fine resolution.
So how is an image being formed under water using sound without using sonar? Also, I bet we could do the same thing above ground and maybe above the water we could try to image using radio waves. Since it is using radio waves, lets call it a radar.
Reminds me of this ninja sight I came across a long time ago ( http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm ). That guy had a corresponding sight for hippos I think that said the same thing except with Ninjas replaced by hippos.
My personal favorite tags occur whenever the headline poses a question. Inevitably, you get both "Yes" and "No" tags and if you are truly lucky a "Maybe" tag might be thrown in as well. Talk about useless tags.
Nintendo has done a good job as marketing Wii as something that is simple to play and that the whole family can enjoy. They make it look like a way to bond with your kids. The last video game system I owned was the Super Nintendo, and it was already getting to the point of having too many buttons. When you make games with so many buttons, there seems to be too steep of a learning curve, and whether that is true or just my perception I believe it may keep many people from getting interested in them. I could sit down and play Tecmo Bowl with my brother that barely ever played, and it could be close to competitive. If I sit down with one of my friends who plays Madden, it would quickly be 100 to nothing and most people don't have the time to invest to become "proficient" at the modern systems.
This should be modded +5 insightful. People aren't very good at following money, and think corporations and even moreso the government are magical entities that grow money on trees. People who don't think customers are footing the bill for this are the same people that think that municipal WIFI is free.
I assume CV = Curriculumn Vita (aka a very thourough resume). Just thought others may be wondering what CV is as I just recently found out what a CV is or the other option is that I am just stupid.
So last week there was a story about a man getting a free trip into space, but having to pay tax on the prize. Some people floated the suggestion to sell the trip for $1.00 or something like that to lower the tax burden, but it was discussed that this wouldn't work because you have to pay taxes on the fair value of the property/prize/service received. This brings up the questions, that if a company like Intel is giving Dell processors below fair value, to try to convince them to only sell Intel based products, should this discount have to be accounted for as income.
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Ahh, the Big Mic, I knew they had renamed some food but I was drawing a blank.
I'm going to start a company called McDowells and use Golden Arks on all my signs.
I was messing around with MythTV a year or so ago, I think it was just getting the capability to acquire content over the firewire port, I assume that has matured and is a bit easier now. One of my gripes with MythTV was AT THE TIME, it was very hard to get working with the firewire port and would not change channels over the firewire port, where, with Windows, I could find utilities (CapDVHS) that made it trivial to capture content over firewire AND there were also utilities that could change channels over firewire, so no need for IR Blaster. Before people say its easy because I use Windows, all I had to do was downloaded a zip file, unpacked it, and run the executable. No install files or anything as it did't need to register itself.
Through the firewire port, I am not unable to record the "premium" HD stations (ESPN, HBO, Showtime, ...) but am able to record the "over-the-air" (ABC, CBS, NBC, ...) stations retransmitted by the cable company. Would a CableCard give me the ability to capture both the premium and over-the-air stations? If so, that would be a very big advantage. I currently have recorded in HD on my cable company supplied DVR cable box, the Maryland-Duke game and am unable to transfer it to my computer since it was on ESPN. A 2 hour HD recording takes up approximately 18% of the storage space for my 80 MB DVR.
P.S. I'm sure I will get a lecture about how easy it would have been for me to do under linux if I used linux all the time, but oh well, the simple fact is I don't, nor does that vast majority of Americans. I do use Ubuntu and gnucash though to keep track of business and personal finances, so I am not completely clueless when it comes to linux. Anyhow, I tried for hours on end to get firewire recording working to no avail, spending large amounts of time on the appropriate irc channels, most of the time finding people who thought it was offensive to their superior knowledge that I had to ask such questions. For somebody remotely computer literate, it just shouldn't be that difficult.
What you would rather do is fine and is your opinion, but companies are out to make money, and more people would like to watch millionaires on grass, ice, dirt, or wood hop on each other. Still others like to watch soon to be millionaires on grass or hardwood (not so much dirt or ice) hop on each other.
Proud product of public schools. By the way, I just got off the phone with your village...
I think the threshhold on your sarcasm filter is set a little high. On a side note, I'm not a biologist and took no biology past 101, but in a class of 200+ for BIO101, I was one of the seven highest grades. The only reason I know, is that it got me out of taking the final, just thought it was ironic. Anyhow, you have convinced me, since are so compelling in the way you sidestep questions with more and more and more and more useless info not relevant to the discussion. When does nature evict me off of my property. We already determined it was before I "retire", but how much before?
You are good at reciting nothing more than what you have heard, with probably little understanding. You don't answer questions, you just throw out more alarmist crap. I better go get ready for the impending doom, I believe I only live 11 ft above sea level. Prime tsunami territory and I actually saw some of the local plants are evolving to not have feet.
You aren't much of an alarmist are you? Disappear before I retire, plastic from dead animals, mathmeticians are religious? You are equating flooding and tsunamis in your analysis, which aren't the same. I asked if you had statistics indicating how much worse tsunamis would be if the sea level rose an inch or two (due to the effect of melting ice). You said it is much more probably, without any quantification of what much more is. In what fields do you have a degree or degrees? You make some very simple mistakes. If WATER (not ice) didn't occupy more space in a frozen form, it wouldn't float in the first place. The fact that it occupies more space in a frozen form is precisely why it floats. The volume of water an object displaces is such that the weight of the water displaced is equal to the weight of the object. If the densities were exactly the same for ice and water, ice would displace the same volume of water (in other words, not float).
Do you have statistics that indicate how much more devastating a tsunami will when the starting sea level is 1 inch higher or is it just a seat of the pants "this can't be good" argument. Much more probably is a very vague statement. Also, is basic math or physics the reason the tub overflows? I thought the math we used were just to model the physical world, but instead math is the reason the physical world is the way it is?
So earthquakes are caused by increased CO2 emissions as well? News to me.
If you have flex time, daylight savings time doesn't change anything. I can get up at the same equivalent time the Monday after, as the Friday before. However, for people that do have fixed schedules, that require them to be at work between 9:00 and 5:30, it does shift some daytime that would have been before work (when it probably wouldn't have been that useful) to afterwork where one is more likely to spend some time outdoors.
Should be informative, not funny, because sadly people think you can just make lost information reappear. I had somebody tell me that they could fit an entire HD movie, compressed losslessly, on a CD-R.
My main point was that what you are referring to would still be considered sonar. It is a system that uses echos bouncing off of objects to detect them. The rest of what you discuss just goes to the resolution of the system. Imaging is nothing more than detecting at a fine resolution.
So how is an image being formed under water using sound without using sonar? Also, I bet we could do the same thing above ground and maybe above the water we could try to image using radio waves. Since it is using radio waves, lets call it a radar.
Reminds me of this ninja sight I came across a long time ago ( http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm ). That guy had a corresponding sight for hippos I think that said the same thing except with Ninjas replaced by hippos.
My personal favorite tags occur whenever the headline poses a question. Inevitably, you get both "Yes" and "No" tags and if you are truly lucky a "Maybe" tag might be thrown in as well. Talk about useless tags.
Nintendo has done a good job as marketing Wii as something that is simple to play and that the whole family can enjoy. They make it look like a way to bond with your kids. The last video game system I owned was the Super Nintendo, and it was already getting to the point of having too many buttons. When you make games with so many buttons, there seems to be too steep of a learning curve, and whether that is true or just my perception I believe it may keep many people from getting interested in them. I could sit down and play Tecmo Bowl with my brother that barely ever played, and it could be close to competitive. If I sit down with one of my friends who plays Madden, it would quickly be 100 to nothing and most people don't have the time to invest to become "proficient" at the modern systems.
This should be modded +5 insightful. People aren't very good at following money, and think corporations and even moreso the government are magical entities that grow money on trees. People who don't think customers are footing the bill for this are the same people that think that municipal WIFI is free.
I assume CV = Curriculumn Vita (aka a very thourough resume). Just thought others may be wondering what CV is as I just recently found out what a CV is or the other option is that I am just stupid.
So last week there was a story about a man getting a free trip into space, but having to pay tax on the prize. Some people floated the suggestion to sell the trip for $1.00 or something like that to lower the tax burden, but it was discussed that this wouldn't work because you have to pay taxes on the fair value of the property/prize/service received. This brings up the questions, that if a company like Intel is giving Dell processors below fair value, to try to convince them to only sell Intel based products, should this discount have to be accounted for as income.
We don't get enough dupes on the main page, so people have resorted to posting dupes in their comments.
I'm surprised how quickly the former Governor of Maryland is adapting to non-government life.
Does he know that the pen is mightier than the sword?
Sorry, you there is only one Q in Scrabble, therefore anything with 4 q's is a non-starter :) I'll save my Q for quazar on a triple word score.
So you believe in free will then? It seems to me one or the other has to be true, because they are at odds and I believe they cover the whole gamut.