-> from my experience the vhs/dvd devices will power on as either a vhs device (if there is a tape in it), or a dvd device (if there is no tape in it). I think if you want to go from watching a tape to watching a dvd you have to power cycle the thing.
From my experience, You don't need to cycle power. In fact, the one I have has a copy from DVD to VHS function. In the manual, though, they add that CSS encoded DVD's disable that functionality.
~Ultimately, it's the cost of parking downtown that drives me to use the bus, though.
For me, its the cost of bringing the car into and out of the city. I live on Bainbridge Island.
My thought was simply thus: If you have the average person that doesn't *need* to use the major traffic choke points think twice about using the car, there will be less cars on the road. Thats why I used the $1.50 toll. Actually that price is quite a bargain, considering what the Jersey turnpike, or the NY thruway is nowadays.
If I need a car in Seattle, I tend to drive the long way anyhow (sr305-sr3-sr16-i5) which means unless I REALLY need the car, I take other means. (Kitsap bus to ferry-Ferry-bus in Downtown)
Mass transit fails in seattle because there is no incentive to use it.
Personally I'm thinking about Motorcycles lately for the extra hours, or the like.
~NY drivers are a bunch of aggressive, crazy, tail-gating, horn honking, assholes, but I would so rather drive with them and be an asshole with the rest of the assholes, than to drive with all of the appendixes** here in Seattle because the NY way is so much more efficient (banning non-hands-free cell phones in Seattle (like in NY) would also be a blessing). I'm not condoning road rage, but don't confuse aggressive driving with road rage.
Unless you've been on the Norther State parkway, i-278, i-495, The Garden state parkway, The Cross-Bronx, the Jersey Turnpike, or any other road that slows to a crawl ALL AROUND NYC, I wouldn't condone it either.
The difference between NYC highways and Seattle Highways are that Ny'ers are more agressive, and Seattle has less traffic nightmares. Thats it.
~OTOH, that means Seattle is the perfect candidate for mass transit as you have fewer routes to cover.
Having lived in NYC, The best idea would be the following.
1. Extend the Underground Tunnels. Seattle already has those Dual powered busses. why not use them. I could see it extending to Queen Anne/Magnolia on one end, and to Seatac on the other. It already connects to the Sounder Train in the International district. Also connect it to the Bus hubs (transit Centers) that already exist, Particularly those with parking.
2. Connect it to other commuter systems. The West Seattle and Coleman dock Come to mind.
3. Extend the Free Ride Zone, Only for the Underground system to the areas Underground.
4. Rip down that Godawful Alaskan way Viaduct. Its a health hazard in the next Major quake.
~My girlfriend (who grew up in Kitsap County) was telling me about those two incidents as we drove across the existing Narrows a few months ago, and I did a little sleuth work to get the scoop on my own.
Kitsap County is nothing like Seattle. I don't think that the worst traffic in the county (40 mph at worst) is at all like the least crowded areas in King County at its best.
~I got a solution for that family. Move, or pay the price by paying your fair share of the telephone bill.
dude, I left the city i was living to get away from terrorists (I was in the buildings during 9/11). Where I live is close enough to a city to be a suburb, but isn't. (there are places farther away from the downtown from me that are part of the city limits). Its a geography and political issue.
~I have no sympathy for someone bitching about the price of their internet connectivity when he/she chooses to live in the middle of bfe Montana.
How about this one: I live on the other side of Puget Sound, approximately 8 nautical miles east of downtown seattle. The only reason there isn't fiber travelling the sound is because of the US Navy fleet. Why should I have to pay for Bush's war over oil?
~so my food prices are reduced by taxes paid only BY rural folk that are returned TO rural farmers? What is this extra tax that rural folks pay that urban folks don't?
Oddly enough, the food costs more in the stores near where it is grown, then they do in the city.
~also, going by your logic, let's also get rid of all social services, public education, public transportation, and Student financial aid. those, too are handouts.
Lets not forget to get rid of the military as well
~And the last I heard, unless the laws of physics somehow work differently in your abode, not having broadband != "...cut off Telecom wise..." You still got TV, radio, telephones, satellite dishes, etc.
The other reasons that the gov't might want to bring broadband to this area;
SUBase Bangor, SUBase Keyport, and the Navy's pacific flt (in Bremerton).
Water company wants to lay cable, but qwest doesn't permit access (they claim its their public right of way). You do the math.
~The poor vote for Demoncrats because they believe the Demoncraticly controled media. They have no incentive to believ anything else.
Let me think about that a moment
ABC (owned by disney, if i remember correctly has a strict anti-union policy)
NBC (Owned by GE, very conservative company that contributes to GOP causes and pollutes the hudson river)
CBS (Owned by Viacom, member of RIAA and MPAA)
CNN (Owned by AOL/TW, who is trying to out fox FNC)
Fox (Owned by Rupert Murdoch, member of the birch society)
um which democratic media are you referring to?
I would refer you to the myth of the liberal media
~And the last I heard, unless the laws of physics somehow work differently in your abode, not having broadband != "...cut off Telecom wise..." You still got TV, radio, telephones, satellite dishes, etc.
You mean those nice Line of Sight things (Radio, TV), and things that go nicely in clear weather, unlike ferexample the seattle area (you've heard of the hills here right? kinda limits line of sight and um, the rain???
The question is about Adding tax (anti-capitalist) to subsidize monopolies (anti-capitalist) put internet (or even more than one phone line per house) in an area.
I'd love to have more than one option for internet. Heck I've heard of this concept called 'Competition' which is alleged to lower prices over time? Tell me when did your cable bill go down for the basic service? How about your Phone bill? Electric? DSL? Water? Gas? Oil?
Where is that promised market forces that are supposed to drive competition? In some cities it doesn't really exist. (like try getting someone to provide DSL in NYC aside from verizon).
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->Something else about the feature list: SVG support, that's pretty cool!
What abt Pantone?
->Another difference is the IRS has its own court system and judges!
Yet another, is that you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
-> from my experience the vhs/dvd devices will power on as either a vhs device (if there is a tape in it), or a dvd device (if there is no tape in it). I think if you want to go from watching a tape to watching a dvd you have to power cycle the thing.
From my experience, You don't need to cycle power. In fact, the one I have has a copy from DVD to VHS function. In the manual, though, they add that CSS encoded DVD's disable that functionality.
~Renton is suburban hell
Thats an oxymoron. Suburban = hell. Might be why i live on Bainbridge Island instead of the vast suburban wasteland that is the east side.
~Ultimately, it's the cost of parking downtown that drives me to use the bus, though.
For me, its the cost of bringing the car into and out of the city. I live on Bainbridge Island.
My thought was simply thus: If you have the average person that doesn't *need* to use the major traffic choke points think twice about using the car, there will be less cars on the road. Thats why I used the $1.50 toll. Actually that price is quite a bargain, considering what the Jersey turnpike, or the NY thruway is nowadays.
If I need a car in Seattle, I tend to drive the long way anyhow (sr305-sr3-sr16-i5) which means unless I REALLY need the car, I take other means. (Kitsap bus to ferry-Ferry-bus in Downtown)
Mass transit fails in seattle because there is no incentive to use it.
Personally I'm thinking about Motorcycles lately for the extra hours, or the like.
~NY drivers are a bunch of aggressive, crazy, tail-gating, horn honking, assholes, but I would so rather drive with them and be an asshole with the rest of the assholes, than to drive with all of the appendixes** here in Seattle because the NY way is so much more efficient (banning non-hands-free cell phones in Seattle (like in NY) would also be a blessing). I'm not condoning road rage, but don't confuse aggressive driving with road rage.
Unless you've been on the Norther State parkway, i-278, i-495, The Garden state parkway, The Cross-Bronx, the Jersey Turnpike, or any other road that slows to a crawl ALL AROUND NYC, I wouldn't condone it either.
The difference between NYC highways and Seattle Highways are that Ny'ers are more agressive, and Seattle has less traffic nightmares. Thats it.
Why don't they just put a frikkin' toll on I-5, I-90, 405, 520. Make it $1.50.
1. I-5's road surface is terrible. Particularly between Tacoma and Seatac. Maybe with that they can afford to maintain the damn road.
2. Pricing it at $1.50 makes it competitive in price with the bus system. Ergo it minimizes the advantage of Single Occupancy vehicles.
3. Might even solve WA State's Budget deficit. Not like anyone here pays state income tax or anything.
~OTOH, that means Seattle is the perfect candidate for mass transit as you have fewer routes to cover.
Having lived in NYC, The best idea would be the following.
1. Extend the Underground Tunnels. Seattle already has those Dual powered busses. why not use them. I could see it extending to Queen Anne/Magnolia on one end, and to Seatac on the other. It already connects to the Sounder Train in the International district. Also connect it to the Bus hubs (transit Centers) that already exist, Particularly those with parking.
2. Connect it to other commuter systems. The West Seattle and Coleman dock Come to mind.
3. Extend the Free Ride Zone, Only for the Underground system to the areas Underground.
4. Rip down that Godawful Alaskan way Viaduct. Its a health hazard in the next Major quake.
~My girlfriend (who grew up in Kitsap County) was telling me about those two incidents as we drove across the existing Narrows a few months ago, and I did a little sleuth work to get the scoop on my own.
Kitsap County is nothing like Seattle. I don't think that the worst traffic in the county (40 mph at worst) is at all like the least crowded areas in King County at its best.
~The current Soviet style system and it's Soviet style lines and shortages has got to go.
Yes, I have patented the material called 'Air', its distribution methods and now plan to charge a fee for using it.
the fee shall be reasonable. only a penny a Cubic meter.
~Wait a minute, to what corporate interest is the state of Washington pandering here?
Very possibly Boeing.
~Make it Redmond instead and you've got yourself a deal!
but I-5 doesn't go to Redmond.
Puhleese.
I still can't believe that people complain about the traffic in Seattle. Having commuted in both NYC and SEA, I can tell you that NC is FAR worse.
Pantiwaste Seattlites think a half hour commute is too long. geez.
~"Unix" has become just like "Xerox".
You mean irrelevent?
duh-vor-zhak
Like the composer.
drivers for linux?
and are they open source?
~I got a solution for that family. Move, or pay the price by paying your fair share of the telephone bill.
dude, I left the city i was living to get away from terrorists (I was in the buildings during 9/11). Where I live is close enough to a city to be a suburb, but isn't. (there are places farther away from the downtown from me that are part of the city limits). Its a geography and political issue.
~I bet there will be more people than ever subscribing to cable modem service now!!
Not yet, but maybe after the deflationary spiral that bush put us on hits.
~I have no sympathy for someone bitching about the price of their internet connectivity when he/she chooses to live in the middle of bfe Montana.
How about this one: I live on the other side of Puget Sound, approximately 8 nautical miles east of downtown seattle. The only reason there isn't fiber travelling the sound is because of the US Navy fleet. Why should I have to pay for Bush's war over oil?
~so my food prices are reduced by taxes paid only BY rural folk that are returned TO rural farmers? What is this extra tax that rural folks pay that urban folks don't?
Oddly enough, the food costs more in the stores near where it is grown, then they do in the city.
~also, going by your logic, let's also get rid of all social services, public education, public transportation, and Student financial aid. those, too are handouts.
Lets not forget to get rid of the military as well
~And the last I heard, unless the laws of physics somehow work differently in your abode, not having broadband != "...cut off Telecom wise..." You still got TV, radio, telephones, satellite dishes, etc.
The other reasons that the gov't might want to bring broadband to this area;
SUBase Bangor, SUBase Keyport, and the Navy's pacific flt (in Bremerton).
Water company wants to lay cable, but qwest doesn't permit access (they claim its their public right of way). You do the math.
~The poor vote for Demoncrats because they believe the Demoncraticly controled media. They have no incentive to believ anything else.
Let me think about that a moment ABC (owned by disney, if i remember correctly has a strict anti-union policy) NBC (Owned by GE, very conservative company that contributes to GOP causes and pollutes the hudson river) CBS (Owned by Viacom, member of RIAA and MPAA) CNN (Owned by AOL/TW, who is trying to out fox FNC) Fox (Owned by Rupert Murdoch, member of the birch society)
um which democratic media are you referring to?
I would refer you to the myth of the liberal media
~And the last I heard, unless the laws of physics somehow work differently in your abode, not having broadband != "...cut off Telecom wise..." You still got TV, radio, telephones, satellite dishes, etc.
You mean those nice Line of Sight things (Radio, TV), and things that go nicely in clear weather, unlike ferexample the seattle area (you've heard of the hills here right? kinda limits line of sight and um, the rain???
The question is about Adding tax (anti-capitalist) to subsidize monopolies (anti-capitalist) put internet (or even more than one phone line per house) in an area.
I'd love to have more than one option for internet. Heck I've heard of this concept called 'Competition' which is alleged to lower prices over time? Tell me when did your cable bill go down for the basic service? How about your Phone bill? Electric? DSL? Water? Gas? Oil?
Where is that promised market forces that are supposed to drive competition? In some cities it doesn't really exist. (like try getting someone to provide DSL in NYC aside from verizon).
~"In 2001, 36 percent of U.S. households, most earning less than $40,000, had income tax liabilities of zero"
And how many households that earned MORE than $40,000 had Income tax liabilities of zero?
How many Large Businesses has zero or even negative tax liabilities? Enron anyone? in 2001, the government owed Enron money.