You're right. 3.5kw/year would work out to 0.4w. I don't see 0.4w anywhere on the list. They even have the PS1 figures wrong as 0.1w would add to 873.6w/year.
Yeah. They are completetly different machines internally than their big brothers, so I would expect different figures. Perhaps not drastically different, but different none the less.
Mod the parent DOWN! He has no idea what he is talking about.
The truth is these recivers use the same DishNetwork or DirecTV dish (46cm) that many of you already have attached to the side of your house. At worst you would need a 100cm dish.
In NA you can recieve DishNetwork and Bell ExpessVu for free with these cards. There are many different bits of software you can use to do it. Although you cannot use them to recieve DN HDTV signals from any of the satellites, BEV sat Nimiq 2 has almost 40 HD channels that can be recieved. Whith a 100cm dish, universal LNB and dish motor, there are literally thousands of channels across dozens of satellites that can be recieved. Both FTA and encrypted... even remote news feeds
For all you linux lovers out there, this is the perfect choice to build a HTPC using MythTV.
This site is the best place to find all the info you would ever need to get started.
I live in the same town as my NF distribution point. When a disc was marked as shipped in my NF queue, it would arrive the next day. When I returned the discs, even when dropping them at the very post office where the PO box fo NF is, they would take 3-5 days to be returned. Also during the 3 months I had my NF account, 4 discs were lost in transit.
This behavior was just way too suspicious for me, so I cancelled my account, but of course NF continued to bill me for two months (had to have my CC cancelled and reissued to stop them) because of the lost discs.
This reminds me of a/. article a few years ago about how they were about to start manufacturing flat CRT screens. The screens would be made using two panes of glass sandwiched together. One pane would have the individual phosphor pixels, while the other pane had some device to stimulate the phosphor on the other pane. Each individual pixel was to have its own stimulator. The circuitry and phosphors were to be printed on the glass with ink jet printing technology.
I've searched but cannot find the article. Anyone else remember that? Since the parts and manufacturing cost was supposed to be so low, they claimed we would have 50" flat screen HDTVs for less than $500 in a few years.
Yet, if all these things came with windows, like you're so thrilled they do with Linux, you and half a million of your buddies would be whining still. Only this time you'd be whining about how Microsoft is anti-competitive.
That's some of the stupidest crap I have ever heard. Ocean plowing? Wind powered pumps? ICEBERGS? This sounds like bad sci-fi. Why not use common sense, as in, DON'T LIVE IN A CITY THAT IS UNDER SEA LEVEL IN A HURICANE PRONE AREA! If are stupid enough to ignore that first peice of common sense, at least get the fuck out of the way if a hurricane comes.
That really makes no difference these days. I've got a DVD+-r/rw drive in my machine and a DVD player that will work with either kind of disk. Every DVD player at wal mart will work with either kind of disk.
I could read no more after page two when this jackass said this:
Talk about usability! I remember having to spend 5-10 minutes just configuring my network settings after installing XP so this was a definite delight in my eyes.
I have never had to configure the network in XP after the install, unless I was making very specific changes, even if I was using a static IP. It all happens during the install, same as with linux.
At VoipBuster, you can call any regular land based telephone in any of the countries listed in the right hand panel for FREE. However, to counter misuse of the network and reserve capacity we have limited these free calls to a maximum of 1 minute per call. In order to get UNLIMITED FREE CALLS upgrade your VoipBuster application, simply by buying 1,- worth of credit.
This has been done in the DIY energy crowd for years. I know a fellow in Washington with an underground house that built a solar lighting system using the exact same methods.... 20 years ago. He told me the hardest part about building the system was building the light "wiring harness". He used pine trees to stretch and direct mono filament fishing line into the right paths, and then wrapped the whole thing in mylar strips followed by electrical tape.
The collector mirror... you guessed it, a big ugly satellite dish that he bartered to have chrome plated, and a DIY sun tracking system that is powered by the sunlight it tracks!. The system provides more than enough light to light up his place, though it is a bit weird when clouds pass overhead.
At night and on stormy days he uses stored energy from solar panels. He used to use a 12 volt system, now he uses compact fluorescent bulbs and inverters. His entire nightime lighting system (every light in the house) uses less than 300 watts, where before he calculated it to use almost 800.
I bought Lumenlabs $20 "guide" even though I had already found it using ED2k.
You don't just get the PDF for the $20, you get access to the technical forums where Ideas and designs are discussed in detail. Without buying the membership, you get no access to the forums that allow posting of blueprints and designs that include step bystep howtos with measurements and part numbers and purchase points.
The moderators at lumenlabs keep the public portions of the forums preety clean of details like those. You can however look at the gallery and see for yourself what kind of picture quality is possible (It is VERY impressive - I built mine from a Kogi "15 I bought from ebay) The quality of the product is up to you since you build it yourself.
I have yet to use a p2p system that forced me to put a number in my name because someone else is using the nick I want. They have all allowed me to use any nick I want regardles of how many others were also using it.
Considering all this I can only come to the conclusion that making a weak Peanuts reference is the very pinnacle of comedy you will ever see on Slashdot.
I beleive they are reffering to Citizen Kane and not peanuts. Watch the movie... it's good.
In my area there are 9 stations I can recieve OTA. Only 2 are ATSC. As for cable... 74 NTSC, 84 Digital cable only including 5 crappy looking HD channels.
I personally use A Twinhan VP1020A PCI DVB-S card along with a 100cm dish and HH motor that allows me to tune all FTA DVB satellite channels (and many encrypted ones to, including most of dish network).
So they have a neat hi-tech remote controlled car. What are the practical use for this? I mean there is no place to put manipulation devices, cargo or sensors. AND it is connected to a driver by a bunch of wires.
Really, can this even be called a robot any more than a cheap assed wired remote control car can?
CAUTION, I saw the idiot with a red hat at the corner of 15th and K selling crack, he must be stopped, please avoid him at all costs and call the cops!!! Can I be charged for that also?
That depends on whether the person you told buys crack or calls the police.
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You're right. 3.5kw/year would work out to 0.4w. I don't see 0.4w anywhere on the list.
They even have the PS1 figures wrong as 0.1w would add to 873.6w/year.
Yeah. They are completetly different machines internally than their big brothers, so I would expect different figures. Perhaps not drastically different, but different none the less.
I hope you didn't waste a DL disc on this, 'cause it fits quite nicely on a DVD5. The ISO is only 4100MB.
Didin't dialpad make you listen to a 20 second or so advert before connecting your call? I have often wondered why this didn't catch on.
Blanks don't count!
The truth is these recivers use the same DishNetwork or DirecTV dish (46cm) that many of you already have attached to the side of your house. At worst you would need a 100cm dish.
For all you linux lovers out there, this is the perfect choice to build a HTPC using MythTV.
This site is the best place to find all the info you would ever need to get started.
I live in the same town as my NF distribution point. When a disc was marked as shipped in my NF queue, it would arrive the next day. When I returned the discs, even when dropping them at the very post office where the PO box fo NF is, they would take 3-5 days to be returned. Also during the 3 months I had my NF account, 4 discs were lost in transit.
This behavior was just way too suspicious for me, so I cancelled my account, but of course NF continued to bill me for two months (had to have my CC cancelled and reissued to stop them) because of the lost discs.
How well could that work?
I've searched but cannot find the article. Anyone else remember that? Since the parts and manufacturing cost was supposed to be so low, they claimed we would have 50" flat screen HDTVs for less than $500 in a few years.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a Winner!
Yet, if all these things came with windows, like you're so thrilled they do with Linux, you and half a million of your buddies would be whining still. Only this time you'd be whining about how Microsoft is anti-competitive.
That's some of the stupidest crap I have ever heard. Ocean plowing? Wind powered pumps? ICEBERGS?
This sounds like bad sci-fi.
Why not use common sense, as in, DON'T LIVE IN A CITY THAT IS UNDER SEA LEVEL IN A HURICANE PRONE AREA! If are stupid enough to ignore that first peice of common sense, at least get the fuck out of the way if a hurricane comes.
It doesn't matter anymore.
Talk about usability! I remember having to spend 5-10 minutes just configuring my network settings after installing XP so this was a definite delight in my eyes.
I have never had to configure the network in XP after the install, unless I was making very specific changes, even if I was using a static IP. It all happens during the install, same as with linux.
At VoipBuster, you can call any regular land based telephone in any of the countries listed in the right hand panel for FREE. However, to counter misuse of the network and reserve capacity we have limited these free calls to a maximum of 1 minute per call. In order to get UNLIMITED FREE CALLS upgrade your VoipBuster application, simply by buying 1,- worth of credit.
The collector mirror... you guessed it, a big ugly satellite dish that he bartered to have chrome plated, and a DIY sun tracking system that is powered by the sunlight it tracks!. The system provides more than enough light to light up his place, though it is a bit weird when clouds pass overhead.
At night and on stormy days he uses stored energy from solar panels. He used to use a 12 volt system, now he uses compact fluorescent bulbs and inverters. His entire nightime lighting system (every light in the house) uses less than 300 watts, where before he calculated it to use almost 800.
You don't just get the PDF for the $20, you get access to the technical forums where Ideas and designs are discussed in detail. Without buying the membership, you get no access to the forums that allow posting of blueprints and designs that include step bystep howtos with measurements and part numbers and purchase points.
The moderators at lumenlabs keep the public portions of the forums preety clean of details like those. You can however look at the gallery and see for yourself what kind of picture quality is possible (It is VERY impressive - I built mine from a Kogi "15 I bought from ebay) The quality of the product is up to you since you build it yourself.
I have yet to use a p2p system that forced me to put a number in my name because someone else is using the nick I want. They have all allowed me to use any nick I want regardles of how many others were also using it.
I beleive they are reffering to Citizen Kane and not peanuts. Watch the movie... it's good.
In my area there are 9 stations I can recieve OTA. Only 2 are ATSC. As for cable... 74 NTSC, 84 Digital cable only including 5 crappy looking HD channels. I personally use A Twinhan VP1020A PCI DVB-S card along with a 100cm dish and HH motor that allows me to tune all FTA DVB satellite channels (and many encrypted ones to, including most of dish network).
Really, can this even be called a robot any more than a cheap assed wired remote control car can?
With DejaNews I could search back through years of archived usenet posts, Google threw all that away. It's all gone.
A kidnapping risk in "some parts of the country" and wars financed by drugs in no way denote the destruction of an entire culture. Try again.
No you cannot be charged with distribution, but you can be charged as an accessory before the fact, possibly even as an accomplice.
CAUTION, I saw the idiot with a red hat at the corner of 15th and K selling crack, he must be stopped, please avoid him at all costs and call the cops!!! Can I be charged for that also?
That depends on whether the person you told buys crack or calls the police.