for the Americans reading - NZ (and Oz) were both included in a primarily spanish speaking region (South America - go figure) - there's lots of english language stuff that just isn't released for them
depends on the age of the house, my (almost 100 year old) house uses ceramic insulators holding insulated wires - looks like a small transmission line wandering over the ceiling - it would radiate nicely. In the US newer houses have their wires in grounded tubes which wouldn't be as much as a problem (on the other hand your xmas tree lights would make a nice fractalish antenna), other places use romex in which the wires are much closer together than in my old house.
In most other countries they use higher voltages (which would radiate more), but which means they can use smaller wires (usually a flexible stranded romex-like wiring) to carry the same amount of power. With half the voltage house wiring in the US is more expensive because of how much more copper they need (P=V^2/R - half the voltage and you have to reduce the resistance by 4 for the same power) - that's why romex is so hard to deal with - all that copper.
I still have an original Mac 128, it still works (mind you it's been upgraded to 1Mb and had a hard disk bolted on the back - which doesn't work any more).
IMHO the big advance on the Mac at the time was having a high-quality (for the time) bit-mapped display on a consumer priced PC - even then it seemed an amazing waste of memory
if they are going to do mars and the moon they will need a moon set and a mars one - mind you they could use the same one if they expanded it a bit and different filters on the camera so long as they just never filmed the 2 things at the same time. Better yet use identical rovers/landing equipment in both places - 'to save money' then they could just timeshare.
Mind you area 5 is surrounded by lots of nice desert - rip out the sagebrush and only film at night (everyone knows it's always night on the moon, we've seen the pictures...) and you could have a really big new set.... I bet Haliburton could do that for what 2-3Trillion?
Google is in the throws of an IPO - I suspect that in part this is to calm them and make sure they wont cave to SCO because they are in this very sensitive position (and unable to publically comment because the IPO is ticking) - on the other hand Google can point to this indemnification on their prospectus right next to the listing of risks that must include SCO
not just something that happens in India... I put source into escrow as part, of a contract at least 15 years ago, and it certainly wasn;t a new idea then
Yeah macrovision is a pain - but any good hardware/software hacker can remove it - it's pretty much a noop.
(note I have 15 years doing TV hardware and software - I have a little experience in this field)...
My main complaint with his pages are that he busts on component video (vs. RGB) because of macrovision - they're really two different things (you can but MV on RGB BTW). The main reason component exists (YPrPb) is because color TV has always worked that way (YIQ/YUV) these are all color spaces that have a luminance component (Y) basicly the brightness and a color vector component (PrPb/UV/IQ) and they use a lot more bandwidth for the Y - because that's where all the usefull information is. Component is basicly just the native color space (tweaked a little) coming out of MPEG/DVD/analog TV - by convention this is done in the TV.
Actually there are few interesting video artifacts he gave very short shrift to - dot crawl which is caused by the NTSC color subcarrier being dropped over a hi freq portion of the luminance signal so that it overlaps - if the rate of change along a scan line is too fast then it stomps on the color SC and changes the color of the spot on the screen - it means you can't do alternating black/white pixels on the screen and as a result you can't do test well. It also means you can wear clothing on US TV with fine detail - fine stripes, checks, tartans etc Before color TV people wore checked ties, houndstooth jackets etc etc - all that stuff went away because people don't see it being worn on TV and so don't consider it stylish - everything's all solid colors
A similar artifact is cause by the low refresh rate - the eye can't really see 60Hz but a single pixel high horizontal line only appears on every other field in an interlaced screen and flickers like mad at 30Hz (another reason why fine text doesn't work).
Secondly NTSC's color gamut sucks - you can't both represent skin tones and saturated colors - so you don't really see bright colors in american TV. PAL is different - try watching the green grass on a golf game some time - it's a mixed blessing though, PAL systems tend to have much more garish advertising - lots of bright oranges that you just can't see in the US:-(.
Finally a word about MPEG (ie DVD and digital cable or TV). Sadly they kept the luminence gamma correction that was originally put into the original B/W TV systems to reduce the cost of the TV sets - vacuum tubes are not really linear beasties rather than adding a circuit to fix this in each set they just put the circuit in back in back at the studio. That was a good idea in it's time but it results in compression of luma in a such a way that when the signal is digitized to 8 bits there are far fewer codes available to represent dark colors than bright colors - this results in banding artifacts (often the color is off for this reason) in dark scenes (check out Blade Runner on DVD some time - the dark scenes with smoke in them are a great example). I predict that in the future directors will avoid these sorts of dark scenes because they will know that they don't do well on the later DVD release (in much the same way no one wears checked ties any more)
I completely agree... I've always bought big chunky laptops.... hey - I'm a programmer - screen size and horsepower matter to me - 9-10lbs is a pain - but I couldn't live without my 16 inch screen
I carried mine in a bag with a shoulder strap for years, my back hurt, I couldn't carry it far, had to keep shifting it from shoulder to shoulder.... last time around I bought a backpack, I won't go back either.
About a year back I bought one of the big Sonys with the really big screen - it only just fit in the backpack I'd bought for my old 14 inch dell - recently the zip crapped out on my backpack - I went down to Frys which had a crappy assortment of backpacks, in the end I got a Targus one which just takes my laptop (I've no idea what happens if you have one of those new 17 inch wide ones) - it seems poorly though out, no little pockets for my wifi card.... but has one great feature - for some reason it lies really well on my back it's much more comfortable to carry than the old one
honestly people who are willing to take soldering irons and invade their consumer hardware are not a "huge market", at least not compared to say the market consisting of people willing to plug a different smart card into the slot in the back of their satellite box.
sure you could sell a few - but it's illegal in a way that chipping DVD players is not (there's a local cable company with lawyers in your town), you have to do it in secret, off the back of a truck so to speak, can't provide tech support when things go wrong etc etc
I browse with cookies disabled most of the time - it complained and then told me how to enable cookies on various flavors of IE.... nothing at all about konq
the X prize isn't about tourism - it's about creating alternates to the big govt controlled space programs and eventually getting the cost of space travell down so that you don't have to be a.com millionaire or pop star to be able to afford it
I fly rockets thru mach all the time - ply does quite well for fins, and cardboard for airframes so long as you build well enough (lots of epoxy in the right places and of course glassing fins helps too) - and don't spent too long in the transition reason - otherwise fin flutter will kill you
the smart card interface is a weak point - it's communication with the settop is what's usually been broken for satellite systems. The actualy on-the-air encryption is usually some form of 3DES with keys that change all thetime. In the US most settops use embedded encryption - no wires to the outside where you can plug in something to fake it out.
It's that easy-access smartcard port that makes digital piracy a commercial success - no one's going to make a business of selling people kits to solder into their settops
it's probably a placeholder/terminator for the spot where the filter goes (or used to go) for 'basic' cable - basicly a low pass filter that only let channels ~31 through - or the notch filter that gave you access to scrambled analog channels (this is going away as they move to digital - my neighborhood took this down a month ago as they built out the fiber to our block)
yes - but not the same gallons as the US who have their own unique 'gallon' - different from the rest of the world - only now they are just about the only people using the unit it probably no longer matters
M$ picks up an open source bug fix off the net, rolls it into IE and releases it real fast..... 2 weeks later the FSF comes a knocking wanting to know where the source for IE is and "didn't you say in court your browser is so highly integrated into your OS it can't be removed... we'll have the source to that too please"....
sadly I've read way too many patents - what I beleive they are patenting is the idea of making the CDROM looks RW to the user so they can drag files on to it, delete files from it etc etc untill you get it to look the way you want, then issuing a 'burn' command.
There's a bunch of references to 'operating systems' that might IMHO leave people like Roxio (and the linux equivalents, but maybe not Apple's implementation) - however the last few claims might include them too
more people actually use KDE than Gnome day to day - maybe not in the US, and maybe not in the future given the current set of business deals going down.... but past surveys have always shown more KDE users than Gnome ones. This is probably due to KDE originally getting to a useable state before Gnome
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for the Americans reading - NZ (and Oz) were both included in a primarily spanish speaking region (South America - go figure) - there's lots of english language stuff that just isn't released for them
This is just Watergate brought to the new millenium .... why should you be suprised .... only their spokespeople are slack jawed rednecks
really? so do I, maybe we're in the same sea of boxes .... put your hands in the air and yell "here I am" really loud
In most other countries they use higher voltages (which would radiate more), but which means they can use smaller wires (usually a flexible stranded romex-like wiring) to carry the same amount of power. With half the voltage house wiring in the US is more expensive because of how much more copper they need (P=V^2/R - half the voltage and you have to reduce the resistance by 4 for the same power) - that's why romex is so hard to deal with - all that copper.
IMHO the big advance on the Mac at the time was having a high-quality (for the time) bit-mapped display on a consumer priced PC - even then it seemed an amazing waste of memory
Mind you area 5 is surrounded by lots of nice desert - rip out the sagebrush and only film at night (everyone knows it's always night on the moon, we've seen the pictures ...) and you could have a really big new set .... I bet Haliburton could do that for what 2-3Trillion?
no - they are either blackpowder or AP/rubber. Both of which have their own oxidiser
Google is in the throws of an IPO - I suspect that in part this is to calm them and make sure they wont cave to SCO because they are in this very sensitive position (and unable to publically comment because the IPO is ticking) - on the other hand Google can point to this indemnification on their prospectus right next to the listing of risks that must include SCO
"The real revenue, which isn't shared with anyone, comes from subscribers who DON'T sponsor hotspots."
not just something that happens in India ... I put source into escrow as part, of a contract at least 15 years ago, and it certainly wasn;t a new idea then
(note I have 15 years doing TV hardware and software - I have a little experience in this field) ...
My main complaint with his pages are that he busts on component video (vs. RGB) because of macrovision - they're really two different things (you can but MV on RGB BTW). The main reason component exists (YPrPb) is because color TV has always worked that way (YIQ/YUV) these are all color spaces that have a luminance component (Y) basicly the brightness and a color vector component (PrPb/UV/IQ) and they use a lot more bandwidth for the Y - because that's where all the usefull information is. Component is basicly just the native color space (tweaked a little) coming out of MPEG/DVD/analog TV - by convention this is done in the TV.
Actually there are few interesting video artifacts he gave very short shrift to - dot crawl which is caused by the NTSC color subcarrier being dropped over a hi freq portion of the luminance signal so that it overlaps - if the rate of change along a scan line is too fast then it stomps on the color SC and changes the color of the spot on the screen - it means you can't do alternating black/white pixels on the screen and as a result you can't do test well. It also means you can wear clothing on US TV with fine detail - fine stripes, checks, tartans etc Before color TV people wore checked ties, houndstooth jackets etc etc - all that stuff went away because people don't see it being worn on TV and so don't consider it stylish - everything's all solid colors
A similar artifact is cause by the low refresh rate - the eye can't really see 60Hz but a single pixel high horizontal line only appears on every other field in an interlaced screen and flickers like mad at 30Hz (another reason why fine text doesn't work).
Secondly NTSC's color gamut sucks - you can't both represent skin tones and saturated colors - so you don't really see bright colors in american TV. PAL is different - try watching the green grass on a golf game some time - it's a mixed blessing though, PAL systems tend to have much more garish advertising - lots of bright oranges that you just can't see in the US:-(.
Finally a word about MPEG (ie DVD and digital cable or TV). Sadly they kept the luminence gamma correction that was originally put into the original B/W TV systems to reduce the cost of the TV sets - vacuum tubes are not really linear beasties rather than adding a circuit to fix this in each set they just put the circuit in back in back at the studio. That was a good idea in it's time but it results in compression of luma in a such a way that when the signal is digitized to 8 bits there are far fewer codes available to represent dark colors than bright colors - this results in banding artifacts (often the color is off for this reason) in dark scenes (check out Blade Runner on DVD some time - the dark scenes with smoke in them are a great example). I predict that in the future directors will avoid these sorts of dark scenes because they will know that they don't do well on the later DVD release (in much the same way no one wears checked ties any more)
I carried mine in a bag with a shoulder strap for years, my back hurt, I couldn't carry it far, had to keep shifting it from shoulder to shoulder .... last time around I bought a backpack, I won't go back either.
About a year back I bought one of the big Sonys with the really big screen - it only just fit in the backpack I'd bought for my old 14 inch dell - recently the zip crapped out on my backpack - I went down to Frys which had a crappy assortment of backpacks, in the end I got a Targus one which just takes my laptop (I've no idea what happens if you have one of those new 17 inch wide ones) - it seems poorly though out, no little pockets for my wifi card .... but has one great feature - for some reason it lies really well on my back it's much more comfortable to carry than the old one
yeah one guy at work remarked this morning "cool now I don't have to check error returns ..."
sure you could sell a few - but it's illegal in a way that chipping DVD players is not (there's a local cable company with lawyers in your town), you have to do it in secret, off the back of a truck so to speak, can't provide tech support when things go wrong etc etc
I browse with cookies disabled most of the time - it complained and then told me how to enable cookies on various flavors of IE .... nothing at all about konq
the X prize isn't about tourism - it's about creating alternates to the big govt controlled space programs and eventually getting the cost of space travell down so that you don't have to be a .com millionaire or pop star to be able to afford it
I fly rockets thru mach all the time - ply does quite well for fins, and cardboard for airframes so long as you build well enough (lots of epoxy in the right places and of course glassing fins helps too) - and don't spent too long in the transition reason - otherwise fin flutter will kill you
the FTC has required that cable companies accept 3rd party boxes - expect Best Buy to be very busy that year
It's that easy-access smartcard port that makes digital piracy a commercial success - no one's going to make a business of selling people kits to solder into their settops
it's probably a placeholder/terminator for the spot where the filter goes (or used to go) for 'basic' cable - basicly a low pass filter that only let channels ~31 through - or the notch filter that gave you access to scrambled analog channels (this is going away as they move to digital - my neighborhood took this down a month ago as they built out the fiber to our block)
yes - but not the same gallons as the US who have their own unique 'gallon' - different from the rest of the world - only now they are just about the only people using the unit it probably no longer matters
M$ picks up an open source bug fix off the net, rolls it into IE and releases it real fast ..... 2 weeks later the FSF comes a knocking wanting to know where the source for IE is and "didn't you say in court your browser is so highly integrated into your OS it can't be removed ... we'll have the source to that too please" ....
There's a bunch of references to 'operating systems' that might IMHO leave people like Roxio (and the linux equivalents, but maybe not Apple's implementation) - however the last few claims might include them too
I disagree - KDE is 'still around' because it has a dedicated bunch of people who work on it.
more people actually use KDE than Gnome day to day - maybe not in the US, and maybe not in the future given the current set of business deals going down .... but past surveys have always shown more KDE users than Gnome ones. This is probably due to KDE originally getting to a useable state before Gnome