Yea, I think the goal is to get Ka band rainfade no worse than Ku band rainfade. Which isnt too bad, but then again I live in the desert with 300 days of sunshine per year.
It only seems to apply to images the government buys. Its like they legislating exclusivity agreements, as well as revoking FOIA on this data. If a company puts up a satellite that takes pictures and they dont sell the images to the govt, how would it affect them? I dont think it would.
Yea, basically its just the ratio between your download speeds and the bitrate of the movie. If the movie bitrate was 4.5mbit/s and your download speeds were 3mbit/s you would need to wait til you had about 1/3 downloaded (say 40 minutes - about as long as it takes to cook and eat dinner, then a romantic movie). Plus a lot of cable companies are starting to up speeds, my cable company (Cox) already raised speeds around the country to 4/512 and 5/768; 5mbit/s down is enough to watch a very high quality movie in real time.
Probably only the movie. An entire DVD is typically 7-8GB. At 1.5mbit/s thats 11 hours for 8GB. Overnight is OK, but I'd hate to wait any longer than I had to.
No damned shopping channels and such, just give me news channels, History channel, TLC, Discovery, BBC, Speedvision, ESPN, TCM and broadband cable, with the OPTION of being able to order specific movies or events ON DEMAND when I want them.
Your cable bill would be the same. The economics work like this: most cable companies have to pay the provider (ESPN) so much $ per sub per month - ESPN is actually the #1 reason your bills go up so much. Shopping channels give your cable or satellite provider so much $ per sub per month...
This is an excellent move. I've got a netflix subscription, and I want to get a tivo. The idea of being able to get DVDs on demand over my Tivo (and watch x many times or y hours) is sweet. The only issue is bandwidth. I've got a 3mbit/s connection, and it would be nice to watch it in real time (a well compressed 3mbit/s strem can look nice - DirecTV's channels are a little less than 3mbit/s by comparison). Still, its wonderful to hear this.
The last time I checked the Series 2 tivos still suffered from LBA48 issues. I've been reading www.tivocommunity.com forums and I havent seen anyone mention a direct-from-tivo update to the software that allows LBA48 - people have hacked it of course, to allow for LBA48 support. But its far more substantial that just pluging in a new HD.
The whole DVDs-on-demand is the primary reason why it would be better to use a PC based PVR as opposed to a Tivo. If all you want is more TV, then get a Tivo.
Only up to 137GB due to long-LBA issues. Only the HiDef Tivo supports LBA48, allowing HDs larger than 137GB to be recognized correctly (it still recognizes larger HDs, but only sees the first 137GB). The most you can get for a regular Tivo is 300 hours of TV.
For the PC based Tivo, if I get a RAID 5 card and a few 250GB HDs, I could have 1TB+ of storage - enough for TV shows and a video on demand system with a bunch of my DVDs ripped. Yes, it gets a lot more expensive, but 250GB drives are under $150 these days (Fry's ad had both PATA and SATA 250GB drives for under $150 - no MIRs).
If you're doing 65 in a 35 without some sort of GPS unit and a GIS system where it knows the roads and the speed limits? Yea sure, I went 65mph on this day and time, but if you dont know whether I was on a highway or a residential street, piss off! How does it know when you run a red light (if you dont speed up for the little bit)? It cant. Unless it has some GPS system incorporated. And at that rate, they'll know where I was going, where I parked my car, for how long - in other words, big brother will be a corporation and not the government.
Its really about what other stuff you can get to the home. Excellent phone service, HDTV streams, videoconferencing, telecommuting, etc. I'm sure the **AAs are craping their pants however...
The problem with having one shared cache is fighting between processes (assuming two execution units). One can starve the other process from having any data in L2. This can been seen today on P4s with Hyperthreading....
I've saw this article at another website earlier today, and I though this wasnt really important. Each core should have its own cache, thats exactly what a dual core chip is. Not twice as many execution units crammed into the same space, or some other funny configuration, its two seperate chips on the same die, perhaps some modifications for inter-processor communication, but thats about it. With AMD's core design, you have the physical layer only of the hypertransport bus to connect the chips, and the integrated memory controller has one or two ports to talk to memory (single/dual channel) and two ports to talk to two seperate chips. It will be interesting to see if AMD couples dual-core chips with DDR2-667 or DDR2-800, that would make the most sense, as to keep the memory controller from being the bottleneck, as opposed to the system bus on the intel side.
I've been thinking about switching to callvantage soon, I'm interested to see how it pans out... $35/mo, but you get a lot of extra stuff (like locate-me and do-not-disturb). I like the idea that I can tell my phone not to ring from 10pm to 6am unless its really urgent. I figure between callvantage and a cell phone I'm set.
Also, people WANT to be able to do this...so the computer companies will be driven by that DESIGN goal.
That is one of the reasons why hard drives havent got much bigger lately. Back in the day, we went from 10GB to 30GB in one year, tripling the capacity. This year we've gone from 250GB to 400GB, less than double (and there arent a whole lot of 400GB drives out there yet, shipping in large quantites). Hi-Def PVRs are the only thing driving larger HD capacities (250GB holds about 30-40 hrs of Hi Def and 200 hrs of SD content). To hold 80 hrs of HD content you'd need a 600GB drive(s).
Why? Because major trading firms restricted access on who could invest in google. A few reporters reported that after being asked a bunch of questions, they were denied the ability to purchase google shares. I cant find the article now, but I read it just the other day...
So this card cant recieve encrypted QAM data, so unless your cable company is giving away their HD content (leaving it unencrypted - HA fat chance outside of the local channels which you can get OTA anyways) its not all that useful. Until a decoder/capture card is CableCard enabled (allowing it to be authorized to decrypt the HD channels) its not all that useful as an HD capture card. I know my local cable co (Cox) scrambles all digital content except for the PPV-Preview channels as well as the local HD simulcasts.
A 2005 non-hybrid escape gets 22/25, and costs $20,000 A 2005 hybrid escape gets 35/30, and costs $27,000 (Front wheel drive)
So to make up the $7,000 difference, even after a $1,500 tax credit, is $5500. I only drive 8000 miles per year. So at a 60/40 ratio of city/highway, I save about $200/yr at $2/gallon. So I'd save $1,000 over 5 years. No thanks Ford.
I got a 3GHz P4, 1GB DDR 400, and a Ti 4200, and I can play 8x6 medium just fine. Gets a little choppy (I measure my framerate with FRAPS) but its still fun. I'd want a higher framerate for multiplayer - but for single player it runs just fine...
RAID 5: 12 x 250GB WD SATA HDs (10 data, 1 parity, 1 hot spare) = $2064 from Newegg
Card: 3ware Escalade 12 port RAID 5 card: $770
Case: Lian-Li Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Case: $311
PS: Two Antec 550 Watt Power Supply With 2 Fans (wired together so they turn on at the same time): $204
2.5TB, or about 310 uncompressed DVDs (full ISO), for $3,349. And you havent bought a motherboard, processor, RAM, boot HD, etc.
I'm looking to do the same thing, store my DVDs on my computer, and in full ISO. The problem is that good RAID 5 controller cards are expensive. You could take a risk and use windows dynamic disks and do software RAID-5 (or the equivalent in linux) but you run the risk of low performance (which isnt a big deal if you only use it for backup and only read a few DVDs at a time). I've got an IC7-MaxIII, which has in total 6 SATA ports on it, and I'm tempted to do windows dynamic disks because I dont need performance since its not a fileserver, just being used to store DVDs and watch them occasionally. Even 6 250GB HDs will provide me with about 1TB of space, or about 125 DVDs. I'd need a new case and power supply if I went up from there...
This is America, its not capitalistic anymore, its a fight to get a monopoly - either through lobbying for laws to protect, enhance or create your monopoly. Corporations hate competition and free markets.
I find this very interesting.. people who work 40-60 hours a week dont have time to be playing EQ for 10 hours a day everyday, or likewise, any game that wastes my time (and doesnt allow me to skip past the bullshit to the actual game). I noticed when I was on spring break or winter break back in college, I had all this free time to sit and play video games. Now I come home from work, cook/eat, pay bills, etc. And then maybe I have time for a video game.
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Yea, I think the goal is to get Ka band rainfade no worse than Ku band rainfade. Which isnt too bad, but then again I live in the desert with 300 days of sunshine per year.
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The boeing 702 satellite platfom has an end-of-life power output of 12kW. This is the spaceway and D*10 and D*11 platforrms.
Rainfade is dealt with by ramping up power, plus a little bit larger dish, plus the higher frequency band has more gain on the same size dish.
It only seems to apply to images the government buys. Its like they legislating exclusivity agreements, as well as revoking FOIA on this data. If a company puts up a satellite that takes pictures and they dont sell the images to the govt, how would it affect them? I dont think it would.
With 6mbit/s, you're likely to be able to watch DVDs in real time. Lucky you.
Yea, basically its just the ratio between your download speeds and the bitrate of the movie. If the movie bitrate was 4.5mbit/s and your download speeds were 3mbit/s you would need to wait til you had about 1/3 downloaded (say 40 minutes - about as long as it takes to cook and eat dinner, then a romantic movie). Plus a lot of cable companies are starting to up speeds, my cable company (Cox) already raised speeds around the country to 4/512 and 5/768; 5mbit/s down is enough to watch a very high quality movie in real time.
Probably only the movie. An entire DVD is typically 7-8GB. At 1.5mbit/s thats 11 hours for 8GB. Overnight is OK, but I'd hate to wait any longer than I had to.
No damned shopping channels and such, just give me news channels, History channel, TLC, Discovery, BBC, Speedvision, ESPN, TCM and broadband cable, with the OPTION of being able to order specific movies or events ON DEMAND when I want them.
Your cable bill would be the same. The economics work like this: most cable companies have to pay the provider (ESPN) so much $ per sub per month - ESPN is actually the #1 reason your bills go up so much. Shopping channels give your cable or satellite provider so much $ per sub per month...
This is an excellent move. I've got a netflix subscription, and I want to get a tivo. The idea of being able to get DVDs on demand over my Tivo (and watch x many times or y hours) is sweet. The only issue is bandwidth. I've got a 3mbit/s connection, and it would be nice to watch it in real time (a well compressed 3mbit/s strem can look nice - DirecTV's channels are a little less than 3mbit/s by comparison). Still, its wonderful to hear this.
About damn time.
The last time I checked the Series 2 tivos still suffered from LBA48 issues. I've been reading www.tivocommunity.com forums and I havent seen anyone mention a direct-from-tivo update to the software that allows LBA48 - people have hacked it of course, to allow for LBA48 support. But its far more substantial that just pluging in a new HD.
The whole DVDs-on-demand is the primary reason why it would be better to use a PC based PVR as opposed to a Tivo. If all you want is more TV, then get a Tivo.
Only up to 137GB due to long-LBA issues. Only the HiDef Tivo supports LBA48, allowing HDs larger than 137GB to be recognized correctly (it still recognizes larger HDs, but only sees the first 137GB). The most you can get for a regular Tivo is 300 hours of TV.
For the PC based Tivo, if I get a RAID 5 card and a few 250GB HDs, I could have 1TB+ of storage - enough for TV shows and a video on demand system with a bunch of my DVDs ripped. Yes, it gets a lot more expensive, but 250GB drives are under $150 these days (Fry's ad had both PATA and SATA 250GB drives for under $150 - no MIRs).
If you're doing 65 in a 35 without some sort of GPS unit and a GIS system where it knows the roads and the speed limits? Yea sure, I went 65mph on this day and time, but if you dont know whether I was on a highway or a residential street, piss off! How does it know when you run a red light (if you dont speed up for the little bit)? It cant. Unless it has some GPS system incorporated. And at that rate, they'll know where I was going, where I parked my car, for how long - in other words, big brother will be a corporation and not the government.
I sincerely hope he can enjoy what time he has left, and that he is happy. Thats all any of us should want.
Its really about what other stuff you can get to the home. Excellent phone service, HDTV streams, videoconferencing, telecommuting, etc. I'm sure the **AAs are craping their pants however...
The problem with having one shared cache is fighting between processes (assuming two execution units). One can starve the other process from having any data in L2. This can been seen today on P4s with Hyperthreading....
And yes, I am a computer engineer.
I've saw this article at another website earlier today, and I though this wasnt really important. Each core should have its own cache, thats exactly what a dual core chip is. Not twice as many execution units crammed into the same space, or some other funny configuration, its two seperate chips on the same die, perhaps some modifications for inter-processor communication, but thats about it. With AMD's core design, you have the physical layer only of the hypertransport bus to connect the chips, and the integrated memory controller has one or two ports to talk to memory (single/dual channel) and two ports to talk to two seperate chips. It will be interesting to see if AMD couples dual-core chips with DDR2-667 or DDR2-800, that would make the most sense, as to keep the memory controller from being the bottleneck, as opposed to the system bus on the intel side.
I've been thinking about switching to callvantage soon, I'm interested to see how it pans out... $35/mo, but you get a lot of extra stuff (like locate-me and do-not-disturb). I like the idea that I can tell my phone not to ring from 10pm to 6am unless its really urgent. I figure between callvantage and a cell phone I'm set.
Also, people WANT to be able to do this...so the computer companies will be driven by that DESIGN goal.
That is one of the reasons why hard drives havent got much bigger lately. Back in the day, we went from 10GB to 30GB in one year, tripling the capacity. This year we've gone from 250GB to 400GB, less than double (and there arent a whole lot of 400GB drives out there yet, shipping in large quantites). Hi-Def PVRs are the only thing driving larger HD capacities (250GB holds about 30-40 hrs of Hi Def and 200 hrs of SD content). To hold 80 hrs of HD content you'd need a 600GB drive(s).
Why? Because major trading firms restricted access on who could invest in google. A few reporters reported that after being asked a bunch of questions, they were denied the ability to purchase google shares. I cant find the article now, but I read it just the other day...
So this card cant recieve encrypted QAM data, so unless your cable company is giving away their HD content (leaving it unencrypted - HA fat chance outside of the local channels which you can get OTA anyways) its not all that useful. Until a decoder/capture card is CableCard enabled (allowing it to be authorized to decrypt the HD channels) its not all that useful as an HD capture card. I know my local cable co (Cox) scrambles all digital content except for the PPV-Preview channels as well as the local HD simulcasts.
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One wasnt as bad as 2, 3, 4 and the TV series on Sci-Fi. The first one was fun in a B-movie sorta way...
A 2005 non-hybrid escape gets 22/25, and costs $20,000
A 2005 hybrid escape gets 35/30, and costs $27,000
(Front wheel drive)
So to make up the $7,000 difference, even after a $1,500 tax credit, is $5500. I only drive 8000 miles per year. So at a 60/40 ratio of city/highway, I save about $200/yr at $2/gallon. So I'd save $1,000 over 5 years. No thanks Ford.
I got a 3GHz P4, 1GB DDR 400, and a Ti 4200, and I can play 8x6 medium just fine. Gets a little choppy (I measure my framerate with FRAPS) but its still fun. I'd want a higher framerate for multiplayer - but for single player it runs just fine...
RAID 5:
12 x 250GB WD SATA HDs (10 data, 1 parity, 1 hot spare) = $2064 from Newegg
Card:
3ware Escalade 12 port RAID 5 card: $770
Case:
Lian-Li Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Case: $311
PS:
Two Antec 550 Watt Power Supply With 2 Fans (wired together so they turn on at the same time): $204
2.5TB, or about 310 uncompressed DVDs (full ISO), for $3,349. And you havent bought a motherboard, processor, RAM, boot HD, etc.
I'm looking to do the same thing, store my DVDs on my computer, and in full ISO. The problem is that good RAID 5 controller cards are expensive. You could take a risk and use windows dynamic disks and do software RAID-5 (or the equivalent in linux) but you run the risk of low performance (which isnt a big deal if you only use it for backup and only read a few DVDs at a time). I've got an IC7-MaxIII, which has in total 6 SATA ports on it, and I'm tempted to do windows dynamic disks because I dont need performance since its not a fileserver, just being used to store DVDs and watch them occasionally. Even 6 250GB HDs will provide me with about 1TB of space, or about 125 DVDs. I'd need a new case and power supply if I went up from there...
This is America, its not capitalistic anymore, its a fight to get a monopoly - either through lobbying for laws to protect, enhance or create your monopoly. Corporations hate competition and free markets.
I find this very interesting.. people who work 40-60 hours a week dont have time to be playing EQ for 10 hours a day everyday, or likewise, any game that wastes my time (and doesnt allow me to skip past the bullshit to the actual game). I noticed when I was on spring break or winter break back in college, I had all this free time to sit and play video games. Now I come home from work, cook/eat, pay bills, etc. And then maybe I have time for a video game.
Growing up sucks...