Seems like it's standard operating procedure to axe EVERY show, just to see if there's enough fans who care to deliver 9 tonnes of nuts or not. It's probably a lot more accurate, and cheaper than running nielson polls or whatever.
Perhaps everyone should download the shows, or use mythtv, and watch it without advertising in protest of this ridiculous trend. Oh wait...
Thinking about it more, someone should write a strongly worded letter to encourage Google to start funding sci-fi shows, with some clever google-esque unobtrusive, embedded advertising... hotlinks directly in the file, available for free download... they could even write a mythtv plugin to automate the whole shebang.
On good sci-fi, Farscape rocked. Minimal CG. Some cool puppets, a kickass storyline, plenty of comedy, drama, action... no blatantly unexplainable physics violations (yes it matters *lol*).
I don't know if the product is commercial yet, but a quick google brings up another possibility -- Symmetricon has a GoLong product which allows extending DSL up to 30,000 feet using mid-loop amplifiers. They estimate it at $500-700 per customer.
Another option is to use real video cameras (reasonably cheap now - sub 100$ models readily available)... Coax them to a central location (100M run shouldn't be an issue) and you've then got the option to put in a video switcher and a single framegrabber, or you could put in multiple framegrabbers. A real video monitor or TV could be used to get a much better realtime image.
For the grabbing, a video switcher and single framegrabber has the benefit you only need one capture card - biggest disadvantage is figuring out which camera you just grabbed from -- however this might be a limitiation you can live with.
The multiple video capture cards will probably be more expensive, and while easier to figure out which source the image came from it could be a problem setting up drivers. Some capture cards have multiple inputs on a single card (eg the bt878 chipset allows up to four inputs on one card). Ready made software to do the webcam thing probably won't be readily available, though a competent user shouldn't have too much issue scripting something themselves.
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...totally a map of the sky! Dippers are clearly visible in between the first and second section...
Anyone know how to do an analysis to figure out the date when the northern sky looked like that?
Seems like it's standard operating procedure to axe EVERY show, just to see if there's enough fans who care to deliver 9 tonnes of nuts or not. It's probably a lot more accurate, and cheaper than running nielson polls or whatever.
Perhaps everyone should download the shows, or use mythtv, and watch it without advertising in protest of this ridiculous trend. Oh wait...
Thinking about it more, someone should write a strongly worded letter to encourage Google to start funding sci-fi shows, with some clever google-esque unobtrusive, embedded advertising... hotlinks directly in the file, available for free download... they could even write a mythtv plugin to automate the whole shebang.
On good sci-fi, Farscape rocked. Minimal CG. Some cool puppets, a kickass storyline, plenty of comedy, drama, action... no blatantly unexplainable physics violations (yes it matters *lol*).
I don't know if the product is commercial yet, but a quick google brings up another possibility -- Symmetricon has a GoLong product which allows extending DSL up to 30,000 feet using mid-loop amplifiers.
They estimate it at $500-700 per customer.
Another option is to use real video cameras (reasonably cheap now - sub 100$ models readily available)... Coax them to a central location (100M run shouldn't be an issue) and you've then got the option to put in a video switcher and a single framegrabber, or you could put in multiple framegrabbers.
A real video monitor or TV could be used to get a much better realtime image.
For the grabbing, a video switcher and single framegrabber has the benefit you only need one capture card - biggest disadvantage is figuring out which camera you just grabbed from -- however this might be a limitiation you can live with.
The multiple video capture cards will probably be more expensive, and while easier to figure out which source the image came from it could be a problem setting up drivers. Some capture cards have multiple inputs on a single card (eg the bt878 chipset allows up to four inputs on one card).
Ready made software to do the webcam thing probably won't be readily available, though a competent user shouldn't have too much issue scripting something themselves.
Good luck.