Additionally, i forgot to mention that the North American providers aren't too cooperative; if you want to pay for programming you need to buy their receiver. So there's no option to pay for programming that you want.
Unless you happen to like eccentric religious programming and bizarre foreign channels, you'll quickly find there is nothing to see in FTA DVB broadcasts in North America.
You'll also quickly find out that most of the information about "free to air" receivers is actually put up under the guise of providing information for a similar and considerably more common activity; reprogramming the receivers with firmware that can decrypt, in software, the encryption schemes used by Dish Network and Bell ExpressVu (who both use the DVB standard for their broadcasts, DirecTV uses a proprietary standard).
satellite transmission delays.. it's always this way.
times square -> satellite -> studio/control -> satellite -> cable -> you (or in the case of direct-to-home satellite, it goes satellite -> dish/directv/expressvu/starchoice -> satellite -> you)
Each of those satellite uplinks is gonna add another second of delay. So The studio is going to be getting the feed from times square a second after it happens, but it's a few more seconds later by the time you see it due to the transmission delays.
VLC uses DeCSS to break the encryption. So it doesn't much matter, but WinDVD or any other commercial player will complain because the drive will not hando ver the decryption keys when the region does not match.
Not sure where you go to college, but the sign was probably explaining the difference between an Asian-style toilet (i.e. hole in the ground you squat over) and a Western-style toilet.
I've done it several times; 128kbit WMA to 192kbit VBR MP3 in iTunes; and (though the originals sound like shit) the transcoded files are even worse.
Perhaps Vorbis pulls off a much better job of it but it still avoids the question of why converting one's MP3s to Vorbis is necessary in the first place, since the quality has nowhere to go but down.
There will be a substantial loss in converting MP3 to OGG -- the quality will only get worse from the re-compression, however high you compress it at.
I would reccomend leaving your existing music in MP3 and ripping your new music to OGG or, if you have tons of hard drive space, FLAC or Apple Lossless (so you can re-encode from a perfect source for playing on portable devices).
No, that's halogen bulbs like you find in the stand-up lamps. (they typically run 300-400W or so). And the implosion will only occur if they are breach while on; i.e. you hit it with a hammer while it's running or you handle the bulb with your hands (contrary to the instructions) getting skin oil on it causing it to break when it heats up.
Florescent bulbs just shatter like an ordinary piece of gas.
Since it's reasonably on-topic, this seems like a decent place to ask Slashdot as a whole for some advice/wisdom:
I'm in the unfortunate position of being 3 houses away from where the cable line stops (relatively rural area), and it is the only affordable means of high-speed internet access where I am.
I'm looking at making a deal with a neighbour 150-300m up the street to split the cost of cable internet access, and then use bog-standard 802.11b access points and cantennas to beam it down to where I am.
Problem is, there are some rather tall trees in between me and my neighbours. I can probably attach an antenna to my television aerial, which will clear some of the trees, but not all of them -- additionally I may not be able to find a cooperative neighbour with an aerial up the street, since that area has long been served with cable.
Is it feasable to get a single 150-300m in a straight line through some trees, when using cantennas?
This article is full of errors -- such as this "ZIP-compressed" Divx 5 video business (doing such a thing wouldn't really provide any benefit at all, nor is such a thing common practive like TFA claims), and its' claims that "MPEG codecs update only the most different elements of a frame at any time, and sometimes drop most or all of a frame when little or no change is detected" are only in a way accurate, and imply something that is totally untrue (that MPEG codecs drop frames to save space).
Well, here in Canada at least all publications are Copyright Queen's Printers', but they are licensed such that they can be used for non-commercial purposes without explicit permission.
My point, anyway, was that you just can't win at this copyright nonsense.
... is that this is an *EXCELLENT* example of what BitTorrent is for; that is to say, not for distributing pirates movies/games/music, but for reducing bandwidth load on servers.
Next time the media does a story on the "illegal file-trading site BitTorrent", you can point to this and say, "See? It really has little to do with that at all.."
According to Skype's website, Skype is P2P (of course it's fucking P2P -- Computer A contacts Computer B to make a phone call.. buzzword nonsense), and nothing goes through their servers.
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Turtles all the way down on wikipedia.
Unfortunately for you, "wanker" is not a sexual orientation.
FWIW, they also downsample SD to 480x480.
Additionally, i forgot to mention that the North American providers aren't too cooperative; if you want to pay for programming you need to buy their receiver. So there's no option to pay for programming that you want.
You'll also quickly find out that most of the information about "free to air" receivers is actually put up under the guise of providing information for a similar and considerably more common activity; reprogramming the receivers with firmware that can decrypt, in software, the encryption schemes used by Dish Network and Bell ExpressVu (who both use the DVB standard for their broadcasts, DirecTV uses a proprietary standard).
Those frequencies are likely already in use for some other purpose in the US.
satellite transmission delays.. it's always this way. times square -> satellite -> studio/control -> satellite -> cable -> you (or in the case of direct-to-home satellite, it goes satellite -> dish/directv/expressvu/starchoice -> satellite -> you) Each of those satellite uplinks is gonna add another second of delay. So The studio is going to be getting the feed from times square a second after it happens, but it's a few more seconds later by the time you see it due to the transmission delays.
VLC uses DeCSS to break the encryption. So it doesn't much matter, but WinDVD or any other commercial player will complain because the drive will not hando ver the decryption keys when the region does not match.
Not sure where you go to college, but the sign was probably explaining the difference between an Asian-style toilet (i.e. hole in the ground you squat over) and a Western-style toilet.
Google for ncpfs, and this site will be particularly helpful too, with step by step instructions.
Disclaimer: I am Canadian.
Try toronto's freecycle group and freeTOreuse.
Perhaps Vorbis pulls off a much better job of it but it still avoids the question of why converting one's MP3s to Vorbis is necessary in the first place, since the quality has nowhere to go but down.
I would reccomend leaving your existing music in MP3 and ripping your new music to OGG or, if you have tons of hard drive space, FLAC or Apple Lossless (so you can re-encode from a perfect source for playing on portable devices).
Florescent bulbs just shatter like an ordinary piece of gas.
I'm in the unfortunate position of being 3 houses away from where the cable line stops (relatively rural area), and it is the only affordable means of high-speed internet access where I am.
I'm looking at making a deal with a neighbour 150-300m up the street to split the cost of cable internet access, and then use bog-standard 802.11b access points and cantennas to beam it down to where I am.
Problem is, there are some rather tall trees in between me and my neighbours. I can probably attach an antenna to my television aerial, which will clear some of the trees, but not all of them -- additionally I may not be able to find a cooperative neighbour with an aerial up the street, since that area has long been served with cable.
Is it feasable to get a single 150-300m in a straight line through some trees, when using cantennas?
This article is full of errors -- such as this "ZIP-compressed" Divx 5 video business (doing such a thing wouldn't really provide any benefit at all, nor is such a thing common practive like TFA claims), and its' claims that "MPEG codecs update only the most different elements of a frame at any time, and sometimes drop most or all of a frame when little or no change is detected" are only in a way accurate, and imply something that is totally untrue (that MPEG codecs drop frames to save space).
It's looking for employment by making a request, rather than job applications being solicited by the [potential] employer..
I'm in Canada, and would love to have my buggered m105 replaced.
My point, anyway, was that you just can't win at this copyright nonsense.
Who owns the copyright to the seven second FBI warning?
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SystranSoft's Systran is behind almost all of the machine translation srevices on the Internet, lincluding Google's.
Next time the media does a story on the "illegal file-trading site BitTorrent", you can point to this and say, "See? It really has little to do with that at all.."
According to Skype's website, Skype is P2P (of course it's fucking P2P -- Computer A contacts Computer B to make a phone call.. buzzword nonsense), and nothing goes through their servers.
It's not even difficult to setup -- there is a Winamp plugin -- pick it and hit "Play" and you have a radio station.
Doing it this way requires to to plug a physical device (MP3 player, radio) into your soundcard..