The live CD heritage of Knoppix means you cannot update individual packages, which is fine if you like that, but for an always-on system like a MythTV back end, I'd prefer flexibility and configurability of a mainline distro.
Not sure I understand what he's trying to say here. I run Knoppmyth, and I've never had any trouble upgrading packages (Apache, PHP, mysql, etc.) and installing new ones using apt. It's basically Debian, so anything you can do with Debian you can do with Knoppmyth. Plus the nice thing is it runs well out of the box, so you can do your tweaking and updates later without having a large downtime if you are doing a fresh install.
I would like to see estimates for the number of people killed per watt produced of nuclear power, vs. that of coal. I suspect coal will come out as the far more dangerous alternative historically (even adjusted for the late introduction of nuclear power as a source).
Has anyone seen such a study? My suspicion is that dying from protracted respiratory disease is just not sexy enough to get people worked up like radiation poisoning.
Huge increase in mac sales since the intel switch? Massive profits? Stock well over $100? Yeah they made a mistake. Look, sometimes business decisions are just that: business, regardless of whether they're the most exciting decision from a technical or geek standpoint.
My Prius has averaged exactly 50 mpg over the last 3000 miles. Thanks. And it's large enough to fit a full drum kit, a passenger and my dog. And I'd venture that its a hell of a lot more comfortable and safer than the two cars you mentioned.
The hand santizing gels (I suspect you are thinking about these) are alcohol based and anti-septic. I don't think we'll see too many alcohol resitant microbes unless they start doing something really cool with their cell walls.
Anti-bacterial soap on the other hand....
-C
I'm not following that line of thinking... This is/. so I assume everyone here is aware that DVD's only output 480p, which is only marginally better than a television broadcast.
Well, most NTSC broadcasts are not really 720x480 as specified by NTSC, but are 480x480. And they are interlaced. So you have dvd's being 2x better simply in temporal resolution, plus a little extra spatially over broadcast. When compared to VHS, it's even more clear. DVD's can also utilize their full resolution in 16:9 format (as can ATSC of course).
On my HDTV, dvd's don't look awful at all compared to HD. Maybe I just have a crappy display, but I think a good scaler with pulldown detection can go a long way to bridging the gap.
Not quite right, DVD is 720x480 (or x576 if PAL) so that works out to 345600 pixels per field. Now, thats a huge improvement over VHS which is something like 352x240 (84460 pixels per field). Plus though 720x480 is NTSC, a lot of broadcast stuff ends up being effectively far less than that. So while DVD isn't HD, it's still a visible improvement over VHS, broadcast, etc. and with a good scalar/deinterlacer with 3:2 pulldown, current DVD resolution is purty close at a reasonable viewing distance to 720p to my eyes.
I work in the medical laser industry (as a software engineer, but I use the actual the devices all the time, and understand our hardware). We use a fiber laser. If the fiber were to break, the device would simply stop working.. because the fiber is clad in a metal armored jacket! I'm certain most delivery devices are similar. Part of the reason for this is you must maintain a minimum bend radius on the fiber, or it is very easy to exceed the total internal reflection constraints on it.
The second thing is, our lasers have back reflection fault indicators, which also can go off if anything optically bad happens down the line.
Anyone who knows of a medical device that has naked fiber being used to treat can feel free to correct me, but that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen for more reasons than the article states.
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Have the invention of antibiotics, modern farming techniques, medical diagnostic imaging, genetic therapy, high-speed communications, transportation, etc. taught us nothing? Man should spend more time being dirt farmers than trying to improve his own lot in the universe.
Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more. I don't want to give anyone the impression that $0.99 is a thing of the past... We are selling our songs through iPod, but we don't have a share of iPod's revenue
So I guess no songs should be LESS than $0.99. Apparantely that is the minimum value for all music clips of any length or quality.
Oh, and I like how they want a cut of the "iPod" revenue. Maybe they should go after CD player manufacturers and home stereo's too, by that logic.
Classic.
Well, that's an interesting comment. By that logic, oil prices would have been monotonically increasing throughout history (they haven't, in 1998 it was $10 a barrel) in spite of technological developments for production and extraction. What you also neglect is that the world market, including all methods of extraction and production will absorb whatever oil comes from shale and the price will fluctuate based on supply and demand from the total market. If you RTFA, you'd also note that Shell has been working on this since 1981.
I suggest you check out mysettopbox.tv (knoppmyth's home page). Their forums have lots of knowledgable people who have done just this. You might also search the mythtv-users group (available in archive or in a nicer threaded format on gossamer-threads.com). There are people there who have helped a bunch of others getting the correct X modelines, etc. Good luck!
-C
That's funny, cause I just finished wathcing a dvd I ripped using MythDVD in perfect quality. Oh, and I have a 30 gig mp3 collection that plays nicely in mythMusic. As for galleries, I've never been compelled by looking at photos on my TV, but mythGallery is there, never used it. Myth may be klunky, but its pretty powerful once its up and running.
-C
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"Panic: Free free'ing free frag" Maybe it was funnier having it hammered out on the console line printer. Can anyone guess to OS? -S
Are you volunteering?
It's subscription, run by the mythtv dev's. Right now it's $15 for 3mos, but they are hoping to change that to $20/yr if they get enough sign-ups.
Not sure I understand what he's trying to say here. I run Knoppmyth, and I've never had any trouble upgrading packages (Apache, PHP, mysql, etc.) and installing new ones using apt. It's basically Debian, so anything you can do with Debian you can do with Knoppmyth. Plus the nice thing is it runs well out of the box, so you can do your tweaking and updates later without having a large downtime if you are doing a fresh install.
I was speaking worldwide which would have to include Chernobyl.
I would like to see estimates for the number of people killed per watt produced of nuclear power, vs. that of coal. I suspect coal will come out as the far more dangerous alternative historically (even adjusted for the late introduction of nuclear power as a source). Has anyone seen such a study? My suspicion is that dying from protracted respiratory disease is just not sexy enough to get people worked up like radiation poisoning.
Huge increase in mac sales since the intel switch? Massive profits? Stock well over $100? Yeah they made a mistake. Look, sometimes business decisions are just that: business, regardless of whether they're the most exciting decision from a technical or geek standpoint.
You are missing a possibility:
That some broadcasters ARE making a small profit and will be pushed into becoming money-losing ventures by this decision.
I first heard one of these broadcasts at the end of 'Even Less' by Porcupine Tree. Very weird stuff.
-C
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Or: Slashdot! Slashdot? Slashdot! Slashdot? Slashdot! Dupe!
My Prius has averaged exactly 50 mpg over the last 3000 miles. Thanks. And it's large enough to fit a full drum kit, a passenger and my dog. And I'd venture that its a hell of a lot more comfortable and safer than the two cars you mentioned.
You SIR, have obviously never spent a SECOND in academia. -S
Perhaps you should change the icon from Einstein to Miss Cleo.
HTH, HAND.
The hand santizing gels (I suspect you are thinking about these) are alcohol based and anti-septic. I don't think we'll see too many alcohol resitant microbes unless they start doing something really cool with their cell walls. Anti-bacterial soap on the other hand.... -C
I'm not following that line of thinking... This is /. so I assume everyone here is aware that DVD's only output 480p, which is only marginally better than a television broadcast.
Well, most NTSC broadcasts are not really 720x480 as specified by NTSC, but are 480x480. And they are interlaced. So you have dvd's being 2x better simply in temporal resolution, plus a little extra spatially over broadcast. When compared to VHS, it's even more clear. DVD's can also utilize their full resolution in 16:9 format (as can ATSC of course).
On my HDTV, dvd's don't look awful at all compared to HD. Maybe I just have a crappy display, but I think a good scaler with pulldown detection can go a long way to bridging the gap.
-S
Boy I'm sure glad we never had any voting fraud by Republicans or Democrats before these new-fangled electric votatron tabultors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley -S
Not quite right, DVD is 720x480 (or x576 if PAL) so that works out to 345600 pixels per field.
Now, thats a huge improvement over VHS which is something like 352x240
(84460 pixels per field). Plus though 720x480 is NTSC, a lot of broadcast stuff ends up being effectively far less than that. So while DVD isn't HD, it's still a visible improvement over VHS, broadcast, etc. and with a good scalar/deinterlacer with 3:2 pulldown, current DVD resolution is purty close at a reasonable viewing distance to 720p to my eyes.
-S
I work in the medical laser industry (as a software engineer, but I use the actual the devices all the time, and understand our hardware). We use a fiber laser. If the fiber were to break, the device would simply stop working.. because the fiber is clad in a metal armored jacket! I'm certain most delivery devices are similar. Part of the reason for this is you must maintain a minimum bend radius on the fiber, or it is very easy to exceed the total internal reflection constraints on it. The second thing is, our lasers have back reflection fault indicators, which also can go off if anything optically bad happens down the line. Anyone who knows of a medical device that has naked fiber being used to treat can feel free to correct me, but that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen for more reasons than the article states.
Have the invention of antibiotics, modern farming techniques, medical diagnostic imaging, genetic therapy, high-speed communications, transportation, etc. taught us nothing? Man should spend more time being dirt farmers than trying to improve his own lot in the universe.
So I guess no songs should be LESS than $0.99. Apparantely that is the minimum value for all music clips of any length or quality. Oh, and I like how they want a cut of the "iPod" revenue. Maybe they should go after CD player manufacturers and home stereo's too, by that logic. Classic.
Well, that's an interesting comment. By that logic, oil prices would have been monotonically increasing throughout history (they haven't, in 1998 it was $10 a barrel) in spite of technological developments for production and extraction. What you also neglect is that the world market, including all methods of extraction and production will absorb whatever oil comes from shale and the price will fluctuate based on supply and demand from the total market. If you RTFA, you'd also note that Shell has been working on this since 1981.
I suggest you check out mysettopbox.tv (knoppmyth's home page). Their forums have lots of knowledgable people who have done just this. You might also search the mythtv-users group (available in archive or in a nicer threaded format on gossamer-threads.com). There are people there who have helped a bunch of others getting the correct X modelines, etc. Good luck! -C
That's funny, cause I just finished wathcing a dvd I ripped using MythDVD in perfect quality. Oh, and I have a 30 gig mp3 collection that plays nicely in mythMusic. As for galleries, I've never been compelled by looking at photos on my TV, but mythGallery is there, never used it. Myth may be klunky, but its pretty powerful once its up and running. -C
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