Framebuffer applies to playback of content within the machine to the TV output of the PVR-350 - In this case the 350 is performing as a playback device, not a capture device. Yes, the 350 supports raw framebuffer PLAYBACK. It does NOT support capturing raw YUV from the tuner inputs. (Supposedly the hardware does, but the drivers don't, no one has figured out how yet, and it is not a high priority for the ivtv people at all.)
Most likely your upstream rate is still not nearly high enough to stream video at a decent quality reliably.
MPEG-2 from a hardware encoder card at good quality will be 5-8 Mbits/sec. Transcoding to MPEG4 at good quality will take it down to around 1 Mbit/sec, which is still faster than 90% of the DSL upstream connections I've seen. Even with 1.5 mbit DSL, overhead means you're going to be pushing the limits of your connection.
For streaming internally within a LAN, Myth does EXTREMELY well. I routinely stream MPEG2 recordings over an 802.11g connection. (11b will not work for MPEG2 stuff, it will work for transcoded MPEG4.)
Some people prefer to have a semi-stable system for their TV-watching habits, even if it means sometimes waiting utterly forever for a new Myth release.
I fall into this category. Time to do an emerge sync and then emerge mythtv.:)
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Capture cards with onboard MPEG encoders (the kinds you *want* to be using with MythTV) have a 1-2 second delay inherent in their operation. They are completely unsuitable for most games out there, except for possibly puzzle games where reaction times mean nothing.
Yes, "dumb" capture cards are fine for games and I use an old BT848-based card with my Xbox, but such capture cards are not a wise choice for anyone serious about reliable TV recording, since they require large amounts of CPU on the encoder box.
Look for swillden's post a little bit less than halfway down. This is the approach i'm using now.
In short - LVM on top of multile "small" (50 GB per drive) RAID 5 partitions. LVM will let you automagically move all data off of a given "physical volume" if there is sufficient free space on a volume group. Note that in this case the "physical volume" is not actually physical, but is a RAID 5 mdX device instead. Once all data is moved off of one of the mdX volumes, you can nuke that array and rebuild it with an additional drive.
AT&T still has its own research division on par with Lucent's Bell Labs. Some of the top minds from the old AT&T days stayed with AT&T instead of Lucent. For example, Bjarne Stroustrup worked just down the hall from a friend of mine who interned at AT&T research in Florham Park quite a while after the Lucent split.
Not sure how the SBC merger will affect AT&T Labs...
While a corp may know they hold a patent, they may not know that their patent actually applies to a system. Also, there's the whole "left hand/right hand" issue - the patent may sit in a database unnoticed by the intellectual property department of the company until that patent and any related patents come under review by the IP department *or* a high-priced external consultant. (I know someone who falls into the latter category - some of his clients didn't realize the value of some of their patents until they hired him to do such evaluations.)
That said, in this case, it's pretty easy to know about the inner workings of MPEG-4, although while many of the people in corporate IP departments have engineering backgrounds, their technical expertise might not cover the area the patent does. It's harder than you might think for the IP people to talk to the engineers familiar with a technology, because aforementioned engineers usually have managers which want them to be doing things of more immediate benefit to their own department and not another one within the company.
I'd be inclined to disagree as far as whether a new player can truly compete in EVE against the experienced people. There's no way any player will stand a chance against players that have two years worth of extra skill points. Yes, you can specialize and compete against a player that didn't, but most of the PvPers always specialize in combat too.
EVE's system (and the one proposed in the article) are great for the casual gamer, but crap for new players to any game. It means they'll never catch up no matter how hard they try.
WoW's "increased XP after resting" system is a good compromise though. DAoC's free level system is also a good compromise. You get a free level every N days (N depends on your server/realm), IF you achieve a level in the normal XP grind fashion during that period.
Needless to say, some parts of DAoC are still grind-only. (Such as Trials of Atlantis master levels and artifacts, but the last 3-4 patches have made ToA MUCH less painful than it used to be.) Getting realm points and realm ranks is still a major grind on most servers, but if RvR isn't your thing, then you should be playing on Gaheris (DAoC's cooperative server) or another game anyway. Mythic HAS made it easier to earn RPs in active play though.
Given that there are non-TiO2-coated buildings in close proximity (getting the exact same rain), and those buildings are still a pain to clean, it's pretty likely that the paint is responsible.
TiO2-coated buildings actually cleanse NOx out of the air, essentially removing the root cause of acid rain.
One disadvantage is that they do this by converting it into nitric acid, so very dilute nitric acid WILL eventually reach the groundwater anyway. That said, the nitric acid is being produced in a much more controllable manner (i.e. it's not in the air, etching away at anything and everything, including people's lungs). Also at least one of the TiO2-based photocatalytic paint manufacturers, EcoPaint, mixes calcium carbonate into the paint to neutralize any nitric acid generated for the first 3-5 years.
Is make many of those much easier to clean/wipe off.
This is why many buildings are now being coated with TiO2-based paints - While incredibly strong and nasty cleaning agents used to be needed to wash gunk off the buildings, normal old rain is now sufficient to completely wash those buildings.
Likewise, stuff you used to need ammonia/rubbing-alcohol-based cleaning products for will most often only require plain old water to clean.
Unless you liked EVE's PvP, it was BORING AS HELL.
And many people didn't like EVE's 3-hours-of-boredom/jumping-for-ten-seconds-of-comb at PvP system. (I didn't.)
I had my account for a year starting at release, so in terms of skill points I wasn't far behind most other people. (I was deficient in combat skill points, given that I intentionally planned to be a commerce/production/science guy and my main character was Gallente because of that.)
For those not familiar with EVE, your character's stats affected how rapidly you gained skills. Each skill category (combat, science, etc) had a primary and secondary stat. Gallente characters had GREAT stats for the science/production/commerce stuff, but were AWFUL and took as much as twice the time to learn combat and ship navigation skills.
Pretty much, unless you only did combat and intentionally planned your character around combat and nothing else from the beginning, EVE got boring as hell once you obtained your first battleship.
By the time I quit, the only thing exciting about EVE for me was the fact that 90% of the client code was byte compiled Python, which one could convert back to human readable source code with a Python decompiler, and then *have the game recompile the source*. Yay for autopilot code that automagically hit afterburners and chose appropriate instajump bookmarks (if you had them) for you. That excitement lasted only a month before I outright quit.
Even if GAIM has SIP/SIMPLE in the 2.0.0 beta releases, it's only for the text portions of SIP. (Yes, SIP supports text-based instant messaging. Shockingly, Microsoft Windows Messenger (not MSN Messenger) uses SIP as its default protocol.
GAIM does *NOT* have "vv" (voice and video) support in the current 2.0.0 beta release, and will not have it in 2.0.0 final. It was planned, but removed because it wasn't anywhere close to ready. RTFGN (Read The Fing GAIM News).
Will you be able to find a good system that contains that CPU?
Whether or not the Turion 64 is better or worse than the Pentium M, the fact is that every Turion 64 system I've seen has been either from a small-time OEM vendor or has been a relatively low end system (e.g. 14" display, crappy peripherals, looks flimsy).
Sadly, AMD is still way behind in the OEM market. If you build your own systems, AMD is the clear choice, and all of my desktop machines are AMD-based. For prebuilt systems from a reputable manufacturer, Intel-based systems win in the "total system solution" arena. This is why my laptop (Inspiron 8200) is Intel-based, its replacement will almost surely be Intel-based (Probably an XPS M170 or Inspiron 9400), and I went with a PowerEdge when speccing a prebuilt fileserver for my dad.
The other poster summed up the issues of preamp nonlinearity pretty well.
I'll address coding gain - Yes, it's possible to improve performance of a given system at a given SNR by employing some sort of error correction coding. That said, there are pretty hard limits on performance of a communications system no matter what coding scheme you use. (Refer to Shannon's Law). Thus, it is still VERY beneficial to have a preamp with a very low noise figure if it is practical to do so. Given two systems using identical coding schemes, the one with the noisier preamp will perform worse.
Airplane racing used to be HUGE back in the early days of aviation.
Unfortunately, due to safety concerns (there were quite a few crashes, some of the racing courses were right over densely populated urban areas), air racing was mostly legislated out of existence.
If these guys can come up with a reasonably safe system that remains exciting, air racing will come back.
Keep in mind that safety and excitement are not mutually exclusive - NASCAR vehicles have so many safety systems that drivers often walk away from rather spectacular crashes without a scratch. Despite the very high safety of those vehicles, lots of people watch it anyway. (Personally, I don't. I probably won't watch rocket racing myself unless they can come up with a good way to simulate dogfighting safely, which will be EXTREMELY hard. I would love to be able to watch a dogfight!:)
Yes, while the idea of SDRs to support multiple standards in a single band (or a small number of discrete bands) is easily feasible, and in fact is already put into practice in many cases, the fact is that obtaining wideband RF coverage without compromising performance is expensive at best, if not impossible.
For example, the best noise figure I've seen for wideband MMIC preamps is on the order of 2-3 dB. Most such units have noise figures around 5 dB. I've seen narrowband preamps with noise figures less than 0.5 dB (note: lower is better here.).
Also, if you don't perform analog filtering prior to your receive preamp, if you put your receiver near any high (or even moderate to low) power transmitter, the preamp will get overloaded and the receiver's performance will be severely degraded, if the thing even works at all. This is why hams looking for a good 2 meter or 70cm transceiver often frown on any units that have wide receiver coverage - except for extremely expensive ones, almost all wide-coverage receivers have shitty intermodulation performance.
It doesn't matter what advances are made in terms of signal processing - "garbage in garbage out" will continue to apply, and in the case of receiver frontend intermodulation/desense/etc from insufficient filtering prior to your first amplifier stage, garbage is what's going to go into your DSP chain. Advances in device physics and manufacturing (eventually someone will figure out how to make GaAs RF transistors on a consistent and economical basis, manufacturers have been promising it "within 1-2 years" for over a decade now...) will gain us a few more dB at best, but definately not any "magic bullet" that will remove the need for receiver frontend filtering.
Verizon is rolling out new infrastructure, most of which is earmarked for these new VOD services.
Keep in mind that these VOD services won't be free. They'll be in addition to the basic Internet service Verizon is already offering.
Now, if Verizon doesn't charge for their new VOD service, then the question is:
WHAT pays for the infrastructure upgrades?
If Verizon were taking existing capacity, earmarking 80% of it for VOD, and making users pay the same price for the remaining 20%, that would be Bad. But what they're doing, is taking the existing 100%, adding another 500%, and users that stick with the original 100% pay the same price. Users who want to use something from the extra 500% pay extra. To me, that's better than all users having to pay for the new infrastructure even if they didn't want/need the upgrade.
Firewalls that are "deny by default" are standard at most large corporations. I know it's been the default at every large corporation I work at.
No need to explicitly ban Skype, even without corporate policies, Skype wouldn't be able to get through many firewalls. It's designed to do NAT traversal, not punch through firewalls that block everything and only allow through whatever the proxy machine lets through. (Plus even if Skype could fake the proxy into thinking it was one of the allowed protocols, the latency through the proxy would make Skype practically unusable.)
Guarana is just an alternative source of caffeine. Bawls doesn't have any of the other vitamins usually found in energy drinks. While they haven't been proven to actually do anything, my general experience is that Bawls is no more effective than any normal run-of-the-mill caffeinated drink such as Mountain Dew. (At least in terms of energy. It DOES taste really good, but not enough to warrant the significant difference in price given its lack of performance energy-wise.)
If you're going to spend the money, look into something else. Some people love Monster, some hate it. From what I recall, it was kind of similar in taste to Bawls, so if you like the taste of Bawls you might like Monster. (I LOVE the taste of Monster myself.)
In fact, in many cases, I would consider the guafenesin (expectorant) more important than the suppressant.
The suppressant suppresses the symptoms, the expectorant actually helps somewhat in dealing with the root cause. When looking for cough syrup, I always try to buy expectorant-without-suppressant (guafenesin).
Actually, Sudafed Sinus is great if you have a cold - pseudoephedrine for nasal/sinus decongestant, and guafenesin to soften up lung and nose/sinus mucus. (The combo of PE and guafenesin works far better than either one alone on clogged sinuses.)
I've had the low-carb version of SoBe No Fear. I didn't like it, but I don't like the taste of iced tea in general. If you like iced tea, you might like No Fear.
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Framebuffer applies to playback of content within the machine to the TV output of the PVR-350 - In this case the 350 is performing as a playback device, not a capture device. Yes, the 350 supports raw framebuffer PLAYBACK. It does NOT support capturing raw YUV from the tuner inputs. (Supposedly the hardware does, but the drivers don't, no one has figured out how yet, and it is not a high priority for the ivtv people at all.)
Define "full rate ADSL"
Most likely your upstream rate is still not nearly high enough to stream video at a decent quality reliably.
MPEG-2 from a hardware encoder card at good quality will be 5-8 Mbits/sec. Transcoding to MPEG4 at good quality will take it down to around 1 Mbit/sec, which is still faster than 90% of the DSL upstream connections I've seen. Even with 1.5 mbit DSL, overhead means you're going to be pushing the limits of your connection.
For streaming internally within a LAN, Myth does EXTREMELY well. I routinely stream MPEG2 recordings over an 802.11g connection. (11b will not work for MPEG2 stuff, it will work for transcoded MPEG4.)
Some people prefer to have a semi-stable system for their TV-watching habits, even if it means sometimes waiting utterly forever for a new Myth release.
:)
I fall into this category. Time to do an emerge sync and then emerge mythtv.
Capture cards with onboard MPEG encoders (the kinds you *want* to be using with MythTV) have a 1-2 second delay inherent in their operation. They are completely unsuitable for most games out there, except for possibly puzzle games where reaction times mean nothing.
Yes, "dumb" capture cards are fine for games and I use an old BT848-based card with my Xbox, but such capture cards are not a wise choice for anyone serious about reliable TV recording, since they require large amounts of CPU on the encoder box.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/26/03 37226
Look for swillden's post a little bit less than halfway down. This is the approach i'm using now.
In short - LVM on top of multile "small" (50 GB per drive) RAID 5 partitions. LVM will let you automagically move all data off of a given "physical volume" if there is sufficient free space on a volume group. Note that in this case the "physical volume" is not actually physical, but is a RAID 5 mdX device instead. Once all data is moved off of one of the mdX volumes, you can nuke that array and rebuild it with an additional drive.
The number of inodes in a filesystem is an option that can only be specified upon filesystem creation. i.e. to mke2fs, not tune2fs.
AT&T still has its own research division on par with Lucent's Bell Labs. Some of the top minds from the old AT&T days stayed with AT&T instead of Lucent. For example, Bjarne Stroustrup worked just down the hall from a friend of mine who interned at AT&T research in Florham Park quite a while after the Lucent split.
Not sure how the SBC merger will affect AT&T Labs...
While a corp may know they hold a patent, they may not know that their patent actually applies to a system. Also, there's the whole "left hand/right hand" issue - the patent may sit in a database unnoticed by the intellectual property department of the company until that patent and any related patents come under review by the IP department *or* a high-priced external consultant. (I know someone who falls into the latter category - some of his clients didn't realize the value of some of their patents until they hired him to do such evaluations.)
That said, in this case, it's pretty easy to know about the inner workings of MPEG-4, although while many of the people in corporate IP departments have engineering backgrounds, their technical expertise might not cover the area the patent does. It's harder than you might think for the IP people to talk to the engineers familiar with a technology, because aforementioned engineers usually have managers which want them to be doing things of more immediate benefit to their own department and not another one within the company.
I'd be inclined to disagree as far as whether a new player can truly compete in EVE against the experienced people. There's no way any player will stand a chance against players that have two years worth of extra skill points. Yes, you can specialize and compete against a player that didn't, but most of the PvPers always specialize in combat too.
EVE's system (and the one proposed in the article) are great for the casual gamer, but crap for new players to any game. It means they'll never catch up no matter how hard they try.
WoW's "increased XP after resting" system is a good compromise though. DAoC's free level system is also a good compromise. You get a free level every N days (N depends on your server/realm), IF you achieve a level in the normal XP grind fashion during that period.
Needless to say, some parts of DAoC are still grind-only. (Such as Trials of Atlantis master levels and artifacts, but the last 3-4 patches have made ToA MUCH less painful than it used to be.) Getting realm points and realm ranks is still a major grind on most servers, but if RvR isn't your thing, then you should be playing on Gaheris (DAoC's cooperative server) or another game anyway. Mythic HAS made it easier to earn RPs in active play though.
Given that there are non-TiO2-coated buildings in close proximity (getting the exact same rain), and those buildings are still a pain to clean, it's pretty likely that the paint is responsible.
TiO2-coated buildings actually cleanse NOx out of the air, essentially removing the root cause of acid rain.
One disadvantage is that they do this by converting it into nitric acid, so very dilute nitric acid WILL eventually reach the groundwater anyway. That said, the nitric acid is being produced in a much more controllable manner (i.e. it's not in the air, etching away at anything and everything, including people's lungs). Also at least one of the TiO2-based photocatalytic paint manufacturers, EcoPaint, mixes calcium carbonate into the paint to neutralize any nitric acid generated for the first 3-5 years.
Is make many of those much easier to clean/wipe off.
This is why many buildings are now being coated with TiO2-based paints - While incredibly strong and nasty cleaning agents used to be needed to wash gunk off the buildings, normal old rain is now sufficient to completely wash those buildings.
Likewise, stuff you used to need ammonia/rubbing-alcohol-based cleaning products for will most often only require plain old water to clean.
Unless you liked EVE's PvP, it was BORING AS HELL.
b at PvP system. (I didn't.)
And many people didn't like EVE's 3-hours-of-boredom/jumping-for-ten-seconds-of-com
I had my account for a year starting at release, so in terms of skill points I wasn't far behind most other people. (I was deficient in combat skill points, given that I intentionally planned to be a commerce/production/science guy and my main character was Gallente because of that.)
For those not familiar with EVE, your character's stats affected how rapidly you gained skills. Each skill category (combat, science, etc) had a primary and secondary stat. Gallente characters had GREAT stats for the science/production/commerce stuff, but were AWFUL and took as much as twice the time to learn combat and ship navigation skills.
Pretty much, unless you only did combat and intentionally planned your character around combat and nothing else from the beginning, EVE got boring as hell once you obtained your first battleship.
By the time I quit, the only thing exciting about EVE for me was the fact that 90% of the client code was byte compiled Python, which one could convert back to human readable source code with a Python decompiler, and then *have the game recompile the source*. Yay for autopilot code that automagically hit afterburners and chose appropriate instajump bookmarks (if you had them) for you. That excitement lasted only a month before I outright quit.
Even if GAIM has SIP/SIMPLE in the 2.0.0 beta releases, it's only for the text portions of SIP. (Yes, SIP supports text-based instant messaging. Shockingly, Microsoft Windows Messenger (not MSN Messenger) uses SIP as its default protocol.
GAIM does *NOT* have "vv" (voice and video) support in the current 2.0.0 beta release, and will not have it in 2.0.0 final. It was planned, but removed because it wasn't anywhere close to ready. RTFGN (Read The Fing GAIM News).
ATi graphics chipset = non-starter for me. I care about driver quality.
Plus, it's only a 15.4" screen.
Last, my previous experience with Acer laptops has been less than pleasant.
Will you be able to find a good system that contains that CPU?
Whether or not the Turion 64 is better or worse than the Pentium M, the fact is that every Turion 64 system I've seen has been either from a small-time OEM vendor or has been a relatively low end system (e.g. 14" display, crappy peripherals, looks flimsy).
Sadly, AMD is still way behind in the OEM market. If you build your own systems, AMD is the clear choice, and all of my desktop machines are AMD-based. For prebuilt systems from a reputable manufacturer, Intel-based systems win in the "total system solution" arena. This is why my laptop (Inspiron 8200) is Intel-based, its replacement will almost surely be Intel-based (Probably an XPS M170 or Inspiron 9400), and I went with a PowerEdge when speccing a prebuilt fileserver for my dad.
As another poster mentioned, the Inspiron 9400 is one of them.
It isn't sold in the Home section though, you have to look in the Small Business section.
Dell's site organization is a bit weird...
The other poster summed up the issues of preamp nonlinearity pretty well.
I'll address coding gain - Yes, it's possible to improve performance of a given system at a given SNR by employing some sort of error correction coding. That said, there are pretty hard limits on performance of a communications system no matter what coding scheme you use. (Refer to Shannon's Law). Thus, it is still VERY beneficial to have a preamp with a very low noise figure if it is practical to do so. Given two systems using identical coding schemes, the one with the noisier preamp will perform worse.
Airplane racing used to be HUGE back in the early days of aviation.
:)
Unfortunately, due to safety concerns (there were quite a few crashes, some of the racing courses were right over densely populated urban areas), air racing was mostly legislated out of existence.
If these guys can come up with a reasonably safe system that remains exciting, air racing will come back.
Keep in mind that safety and excitement are not mutually exclusive - NASCAR vehicles have so many safety systems that drivers often walk away from rather spectacular crashes without a scratch. Despite the very high safety of those vehicles, lots of people watch it anyway. (Personally, I don't. I probably won't watch rocket racing myself unless they can come up with a good way to simulate dogfighting safely, which will be EXTREMELY hard. I would love to be able to watch a dogfight!
Yes, while the idea of SDRs to support multiple standards in a single band (or a small number of discrete bands) is easily feasible, and in fact is already put into practice in many cases, the fact is that obtaining wideband RF coverage without compromising performance is expensive at best, if not impossible.
For example, the best noise figure I've seen for wideband MMIC preamps is on the order of 2-3 dB. Most such units have noise figures around 5 dB. I've seen narrowband preamps with noise figures less than 0.5 dB (note: lower is better here.).
Also, if you don't perform analog filtering prior to your receive preamp, if you put your receiver near any high (or even moderate to low) power transmitter, the preamp will get overloaded and the receiver's performance will be severely degraded, if the thing even works at all. This is why hams looking for a good 2 meter or 70cm transceiver often frown on any units that have wide receiver coverage - except for extremely expensive ones, almost all wide-coverage receivers have shitty intermodulation performance.
It doesn't matter what advances are made in terms of signal processing - "garbage in garbage out" will continue to apply, and in the case of receiver frontend intermodulation/desense/etc from insufficient filtering prior to your first amplifier stage, garbage is what's going to go into your DSP chain. Advances in device physics and manufacturing (eventually someone will figure out how to make GaAs RF transistors on a consistent and economical basis, manufacturers have been promising it "within 1-2 years" for over a decade now...) will gain us a few more dB at best, but definately not any "magic bullet" that will remove the need for receiver frontend filtering.
Verizon is rolling out new infrastructure, most of which is earmarked for these new VOD services.
Keep in mind that these VOD services won't be free. They'll be in addition to the basic Internet service Verizon is already offering.
Now, if Verizon doesn't charge for their new VOD service, then the question is:
WHAT pays for the infrastructure upgrades?
If Verizon were taking existing capacity, earmarking 80% of it for VOD, and making users pay the same price for the remaining 20%, that would be Bad. But what they're doing, is taking the existing 100%, adding another 500%, and users that stick with the original 100% pay the same price. Users who want to use something from the extra 500% pay extra. To me, that's better than all users having to pay for the new infrastructure even if they didn't want/need the upgrade.
More for me... App was filed in mid-late 2003, granted in mid-late 2005. Still, much faster than the OP in this thread.
Firewalls that are "deny by default" are standard at most large corporations. I know it's been the default at every large corporation I work at.
No need to explicitly ban Skype, even without corporate policies, Skype wouldn't be able to get through many firewalls. It's designed to do NAT traversal, not punch through firewalls that block everything and only allow through whatever the proxy machine lets through. (Plus even if Skype could fake the proxy into thinking it was one of the allowed protocols, the latency through the proxy would make Skype practically unusable.)
Guarana is just an alternative source of caffeine. Bawls doesn't have any of the other vitamins usually found in energy drinks. While they haven't been proven to actually do anything, my general experience is that Bawls is no more effective than any normal run-of-the-mill caffeinated drink such as Mountain Dew. (At least in terms of energy. It DOES taste really good, but not enough to warrant the significant difference in price given its lack of performance energy-wise.)
If you're going to spend the money, look into something else. Some people love Monster, some hate it. From what I recall, it was kind of similar in taste to Bawls, so if you like the taste of Bawls you might like Monster. (I LOVE the taste of Monster myself.)
In fact, in many cases, I would consider the guafenesin (expectorant) more important than the suppressant.
The suppressant suppresses the symptoms, the expectorant actually helps somewhat in dealing with the root cause. When looking for cough syrup, I always try to buy expectorant-without-suppressant (guafenesin).
Actually, Sudafed Sinus is great if you have a cold - pseudoephedrine for nasal/sinus decongestant, and guafenesin to soften up lung and nose/sinus mucus. (The combo of PE and guafenesin works far better than either one alone on clogged sinuses.)
I've had the low-carb version of SoBe No Fear. I didn't like it, but I don't like the taste of iced tea in general. If you like iced tea, you might like No Fear.