Re:Voom went down because they had no customers
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Voom No More
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Upconversion doesn't need to mean creating content where none existed. Superresolution techniques can extract subpixel detail by integrating over time.
I'm about to migrate away as my contract comes to an end, but it was about £10/month for 10 months - so it was very comparable with buying my own adapter and using a cheaper provider.
My UK line is from BT - Broadband Voice. They gave me a free Cisco ATA-186 with my subscription, so that's why I chose them. My US number if from Iconnecthere. No problems with voice quality, although I have had occasional problems getting a line from them.
Because both lines are IP, the hardware for incoming calls is just my ADSL modem.
Ok, I'll confess. I've spent way too long designing a circuit that would fit in a light socket based around the Philips LPC2100 series ARM microcontroller and TDA5051 mains modem. My car has a bluetooth handsfree, so... Ok, I'll stop!
I perform CLI grooming, so Asterisk knows that it's my mobile calling. Only I get the menu.
I'm in the UK. I call the US a lot, from home or from my mobile. Asterisk allows me to telephone a UK number from my mobile, thus using my free talk time, but have the call routed to the US over IP. I can also use the server to deliver my home voicemail to my work email.
I'm working on a system where each of my computers (at home, work, and my parent's house) is fitted with a Bluetooth dongle which will discover if my mobile phone is nearby. If it is, calls to my Asterisk server will be routed to the landline phone I'm sitting at.
Geeky, I know, but I started my engineering life in telecoms and can't seem to shake it off...
I doubt it - the BBC often records new (expensive) programmes in high definition to make it easier to sell them in the US and Japan, oh, and for when the UK does move to HD. Before the days of HD, it'd be recorded on film. CBC's copy won't be a PAL-NTSC conversion.
Not true, colour information is superimposed onto the B&W video signal in PAL also.
What the UK did have was a low resolution B&W only service (405 lines) on different frequencies for a while before switching to entirely SD (625 line) on 2 Jan 1985.
The BBC also get a significant amount of funding by selling programmes to foreign broadcasters. This leak will reduce the value of the first episode - perhaps not by much, but by some - so the BBC will lose money due to this.
In the UK, DVRs are already commodities. The model I have (Humax 8000T) costs $220, with no subscription. My parents have the Thomson DHD4000, which can record two channels at once and play a third, and that costs $250 - again with no subscription.
There is a free 14 day TV guide that comes over the air, although the advanced scheduling that Tivo provides isn't available. However, the BBC and others have been researching embedding URL type metadata, called Content Reference IDentifiers, into TV programmes. This information will allow you to automatically record all programmes in a series, perhaps even from a trailer. Take a look at TV Anytime http://www.tv-anytime.org/
Never thought I'd see Prospect on Slashdot - it has a print circulation of under 25,000, but it's my favourite magazine...
Re:They're still cost effective.
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The VHS is Dead
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For NTSC maybe - the degredation is significant from PAL transmissions.
I'm addicted to my Freeview PVR now though - bit accurate off air MPEG2. Almost!
I also found it just amazing that one company claimed that under Linux there were few options for an SQL server, with Oracle being the only one.
Not quite what the article says: Combe's Web applications needed a database, and the only option available to the company was one from Oracle Corp."
The database isn't the same as the database server. It might just be that the schema/application is what only Oracle could supply off the shelf.
ARM was designed for general purpose computation too - ie in the Acorn Archimedes. However, the way the company grew and evolved means that ARM cores are now most often found in embedded designs.
ARM also has higher code density than most other architectures - including x86.
I disagree - I find Europeans much more trusting of government than Americans. For example, most Europeans couldn't care less about CCTV. Certainly in the UK, we're fairly trusting because the Civil Service is fully independant of government. And if their political masters start pissing them off, then they find a way to get rid of them (as one minister found out this week!)
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Upconversion doesn't need to mean creating content where none existed. Superresolution techniques can extract subpixel detail by integrating over time.
I'm about to migrate away as my contract comes to an end, but it was about £10/month for 10 months - so it was very comparable with buying my own adapter and using a cheaper provider.
Because both lines are IP, the hardware for incoming calls is just my ADSL modem.
I perform CLI grooming, so Asterisk knows that it's my mobile calling. Only I get the menu.
I'm working on a system where each of my computers (at home, work, and my parent's house) is fitted with a Bluetooth dongle which will discover if my mobile phone is nearby. If it is, calls to my Asterisk server will be routed to the landline phone I'm sitting at.
Geeky, I know, but I started my engineering life in telecoms and can't seem to shake it off...
I doubt it - the BBC often records new (expensive) programmes in high definition to make it easier to sell them in the US and Japan, oh, and for when the UK does move to HD. Before the days of HD, it'd be recorded on film. CBC's copy won't be a PAL-NTSC conversion.
Like Yes Minister is actually about politics... Fantastic show.
Not true, colour information is superimposed onto the B&W video signal in PAL also. What the UK did have was a low resolution B&W only service (405 lines) on different frequencies for a while before switching to entirely SD (625 line) on 2 Jan 1985.
The BBC also get a significant amount of funding by selling programmes to foreign broadcasters. This leak will reduce the value of the first episode - perhaps not by much, but by some - so the BBC will lose money due to this.
No. But there are lots of PVRs on the market here - pop down to Comet or John Lewis or Dixons.
In the UK, DVRs are already commodities. The model I have (Humax 8000T) costs $220, with no subscription. My parents have the Thomson DHD4000, which can record two channels at once and play a third, and that costs $250 - again with no subscription. There is a free 14 day TV guide that comes over the air, although the advanced scheduling that Tivo provides isn't available. However, the BBC and others have been researching embedding URL type metadata, called Content Reference IDentifiers, into TV programmes. This information will allow you to automatically record all programmes in a series, perhaps even from a trailer. Take a look at TV Anytime http://www.tv-anytime.org/
53 years ago, Southampton University was part of London University.
Never thought I'd see Prospect on Slashdot - it has a print circulation of under 25,000, but it's my favourite magazine...
For NTSC maybe - the degredation is significant from PAL transmissions. I'm addicted to my Freeview PVR now though - bit accurate off air MPEG2. Almost!
Well, Symbian started as EPOC, and is now son of EPOC. It's not dead!
I also found it just amazing that one company claimed that under Linux there were few options for an SQL server, with Oracle being the only one.
Not quite what the article says:
Combe's Web applications needed a database, and the only option available to the company was one from Oracle Corp."
The database isn't the same as the database server. It might just be that the schema/application is what only Oracle could supply off the shelf.
O wet header file...
(With apologies to Giles Brandreth)
ARM was designed for general purpose computation too - ie in the Acorn Archimedes. However, the way the company grew and evolved means that ARM cores are now most often found in embedded designs. ARM also has higher code density than most other architectures - including x86.
I disagree - I find Europeans much more trusting of government than Americans. For example, most Europeans couldn't care less about CCTV. Certainly in the UK, we're fairly trusting because the Civil Service is fully independant of government. And if their political masters start pissing them off, then they find a way to get rid of them (as one minister found out this week!)