The news coming from inside the U.S. vs outside sure has a different spin on this ordeal.
### U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that, while the operation was centred on Britain, it was international in scope and sophisticated, and involved many people. (... BS, it was the brits)
"This operation is in some respects suggestive of an al Qaeda plot, but because the investigation is still under way, we cannot yet form a definitive conclusion," Chertoff said. (... ahh US government spreading the fear again)
British police sources did not rule out an al Qaeda link, but played down direct involvement by the global militant group. Police sources said some of those arrested were British Muslims. (... also notably missing from any british reports are the words "terrorist cell", instead calling them a "group") ###
The only people publicly saying anything about al Qaeda is the US government. I also don't believe the US authorities knew or did didly squat, but they sure are making the rounds now. Makes me sick to see the US reporters blindly quoting Chertoff the jerkoff.
Forbes might be right, frivolous lawsuits are shutting down small "companies" like these as well as tearing our fragile society apart. That's why we should simply hang 'em.
they are doing the same to AM except they can't contain the digital signal within the allowed range (FCC licensed contour) at night. so for now no digital am at night. For both FM and AM the current licensed contour of the station is not allowed to be increased by adding digital - so it doesn't interfere with far off stations that use the same or adjacent channels.
depends upon how the station engineers have setup their system (only a few stations have this right now). analog and digital signal are processed separately so one might be higher volume than the other - besides just sounding different. digital is going to have a delay with encoding, data buffer and decoding - so hopefully they match the delay in the analog signal.
you can blame the FCC for not alocating a new frequency range for DAB - like they did for HD TV. And i've heard their latest algorithm at 32,64 and 96 - all I can say is ehh for 64 and 96, and 'someone kill me' for 32.
in low signal areas the signal will bounce back and forth from digital to analog. so when you don't get the digital stream, you get the old analog signal. sounds wonderful doesn't it...
rock stations are already saying they are going to coninue being "loud". public radio stations will most likely allow for my dynamic range.
don't forget that the analog and digital have sound kinda the same - since the reciever will switch back and forth in low signal areas.
96kbps with a proprietary compression algorithm. if using secondary audio channel it's 64kbps for the main and 32kbps for the second. when digital stream fails the receiver falls back to the analog.
96kbps stream is not CD quality. Their algorithm is proprietary - no chance for an online comparison to ogg/mp3. Then when the station starts using the secondary audio channel for added revenue at 32kbps, their main channel is now 64kbps... gee wiz, sign me up for upgrading all my radios.
The FCC should have done the same for radio broadcasters that they did for TV broadcasters. Given them a new frequency band for digital. Instead radio broadcaster have to squeeze this digital stream on the same packed frequency band the analogs are on. (until all the analog receivers are gone and then they'll go all digital - that's the "plan" anyway - lame).
AM is on the same path by the way. except 32kbps. they also can't figure out how to keep the digital signal contained at night. so no digital at night for AM.
Digital would be great given higher bit rates, but this is not the way!!
I'm a network engineer working for a statewide non-profit organization. We have RedHat linux servers all over the state doing many different things - routers, VPN tunnels, icecast servers, web servers, dns servers, etc. We have never needed RedHat support (google has all the answers). We used a single free RedHat Network account to check and obtain security updates via up2date - then distributed the RPMs to the other servers ourselves. Even the least expensive RedHat Enterprise is more expensive than Microsoft Servers charity licensing.
Our company is not interested in being a part of a beta test group for RedHat distros (ie. Fedora). Now I am forced to look at other distros, which I'm sure will be fine in the end. But the point is you are driving your customers away because RedHat has become profit hungry.
I guess here is my question: Did you even consider that non-profits and educational facilities actually used RedHat for their critical business services?
(again Fedora, "For developers and enthusiasts who want the latest technology" can't be part of your answer - non-profit orgs look for stable linux distros too)
It's good to see these types of reports, but they need more press. False advertising by the marketing machines have been lying to the sheepish public for years. with terms of "CD Quality", "100% Digital", etc etc.
IBOC is coming to american radio waves, sometime in the nearish future... For FM signals programming will be encoded at 96kbps (64kbps if optional data/program channel is used). For AM 36kbps... There will be no listening tests for the public, they'll get what they get. They haven't divulged a whole lot on what encoder is to be used but it was internally developed by Ibiquity ( the joint venture developing IBOC ).
Anyway, it's good that the public understands the bad side of the great "digital" realm. It will help in my fight with DirecTV... They've been increasing the compression of their channels - looks like I'm watching an internet stream. But when the other sheep complain to DirecTV, they actually believe the cop-out tech support answer, 'Your dish needs re-alignment' or 'Try some of those gold plated connectors' - um yeah, okay. if they only knew how DirecTV and Dish squeeze channel after channel into their fixed bandwidth satellite feed. Same goes for digital cable, Satellite Radio (XM & Sirrius), and soon FM/AM radio.
And just think, if all the sheep start buying music by downloading the crappy 128kbps files that are offered at most of these legit online music sites, they'll stop selling CDs and only offer music online. say good-bye to your 256kbps VBR rips.
If we the public don't understand it and therefor can't fight it - we'll all die early of compression fatigue.
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The news coming from inside the U.S. vs outside sure has a different spin on this ordeal.
###
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that, while the operation was centred on Britain, it was international in scope and sophisticated, and involved many people. (... BS, it was the brits)
"This operation is in some respects suggestive of an al Qaeda plot, but because the investigation is still under way, we cannot yet form a definitive conclusion," Chertoff said. (... ahh US government spreading the fear again)
British police sources did not rule out an al Qaeda link, but played down direct involvement by the global militant group. Police sources said some of those arrested were British Muslims. (... also notably missing from any british reports are the words "terrorist cell", instead calling them a "group")
###
The only people publicly saying anything about al Qaeda is the US government. I also don't believe the US authorities knew or did didly squat, but they sure are making the rounds now. Makes me sick to see the US reporters blindly quoting Chertoff the jerkoff.
Forbes might be right, frivolous lawsuits are shutting down small "companies" like these as well as tearing our fragile society apart. That's why we should simply hang 'em.
in fear of flame from regex super gods, i won't dare post my regex example here... but really, could it be that hard to remove something@place.com ???
they are doing the same to AM except they can't contain the digital signal within the allowed range (FCC licensed contour) at night. so for now no digital am at night. For both FM and AM the current licensed contour of the station is not allowed to be increased by adding digital - so it doesn't interfere with far off stations that use the same or adjacent channels.
depends upon how the station engineers have setup their system (only a few stations have this right now). analog and digital signal are processed separately so one might be higher volume than the other - besides just sounding different. digital is going to have a delay with encoding, data buffer and decoding - so hopefully they match the delay in the analog signal.
you can blame the FCC for not alocating a new frequency range for DAB - like they did for HD TV. And i've heard their latest algorithm at 32,64 and 96 - all I can say is ehh for 64 and 96, and 'someone kill me' for 32.
in low signal areas the signal will bounce back and forth from digital to analog. so when you don't get the digital stream, you get the old analog signal. sounds wonderful doesn't it...
rock stations are already saying they are going to coninue being "loud". public radio stations will most likely allow for my dynamic range. don't forget that the analog and digital have sound kinda the same - since the reciever will switch back and forth in low signal areas.
96kbps with a proprietary compression algorithm. if using secondary audio channel it's 64kbps for the main and 32kbps for the second. when digital stream fails the receiver falls back to the analog.
96kbps stream is not CD quality. Their algorithm is proprietary - no chance for an online comparison to ogg/mp3. Then when the station starts using the secondary audio channel for added revenue at 32kbps, their main channel is now 64kbps... gee wiz, sign me up for upgrading all my radios. The FCC should have done the same for radio broadcasters that they did for TV broadcasters. Given them a new frequency band for digital. Instead radio broadcaster have to squeeze this digital stream on the same packed frequency band the analogs are on. (until all the analog receivers are gone and then they'll go all digital - that's the "plan" anyway - lame). AM is on the same path by the way. except 32kbps. they also can't figure out how to keep the digital signal contained at night. so no digital at night for AM. Digital would be great given higher bit rates, but this is not the way!!
I'm a network engineer working for a statewide non-profit organization. We have RedHat linux servers all over the state doing many different things - routers, VPN tunnels, icecast servers, web servers, dns servers, etc. We have never needed RedHat support (google has all the answers). We used a single free RedHat Network account to check and obtain security updates via up2date - then distributed the RPMs to the other servers ourselves. Even the least expensive RedHat Enterprise is more expensive than Microsoft Servers charity licensing.
Our company is not interested in being a part of a beta test group for RedHat distros (ie. Fedora). Now I am forced to look at other distros, which I'm sure will be fine in the end. But the point is you are driving your customers away because RedHat has become profit hungry.
I guess here is my question: Did you even consider that non-profits and educational facilities actually used RedHat for their critical business services?
(again Fedora, "For developers and enthusiasts who want the latest technology" can't be part of your answer - non-profit orgs look for stable linux distros too)
It's good to see these types of reports, but they need more press. False advertising by the marketing machines have been lying to the sheepish public for years. with terms of "CD Quality", "100% Digital", etc etc.
IBOC is coming to american radio waves, sometime in the nearish future... For FM signals programming will be encoded at 96kbps (64kbps if optional data/program channel is used). For AM 36kbps... There will be no listening tests for the public, they'll get what they get. They haven't divulged a whole lot on what encoder is to be used but it was internally developed by Ibiquity ( the joint venture developing IBOC ).
Anyway, it's good that the public understands the bad side of the great "digital" realm. It will help in my fight with DirecTV... They've been increasing the compression of their channels - looks like I'm watching an internet stream. But when the other sheep complain to DirecTV, they actually believe the cop-out tech support answer, 'Your dish needs re-alignment' or 'Try some of those gold plated connectors' - um yeah, okay. if they only knew how DirecTV and Dish squeeze channel after channel into their fixed bandwidth satellite feed. Same goes for digital cable, Satellite Radio (XM & Sirrius), and soon FM/AM radio.
And just think, if all the sheep start buying music by downloading the crappy 128kbps files that are offered at most of these legit online music sites, they'll stop selling CDs and only offer music online. say good-bye to your 256kbps VBR rips.
If we the public don't understand it and therefor can't fight it - we'll all die early of compression fatigue.