Heh, one of the things I love that people forget about the 2k election is that the news announced that the entire state of Floridas poles closed at 7pm Eastern. The segment of florida that is just south of Georgria and Alabama are in the Central time zone. They had a noticeably lower voter turnout there. Course, not surprising since that area is mosly white (and as such the votes don't count as much as if they were from a mostly black district).
Sad that people call any judge to rules according to the constituion and not a strict literal interpretation of the Bible an "Activist Judge"
Sorry, but after that judge in jersey ruled that the Boy Scouts fell under an anti-discrimination law that was made for hotels/motels, an activist judge is in no way anyone who "rules [strictly] according to the constituion"
Gah, let me clarify. I hate it when they try to say that people aren't paying enough in taxes and then only raise it on those they accuse of being "rich". I hate the progressive income tax because it leaves loopholes where people can get away with out paying anything.
Actually, for an tax instead of anything based on income we should go to a VAT tax and leave income alone. Kill the IRS and cut several billion dollars from the budget in one fell swoop.
The Democrats, if they want to survive as a viable party, desperately need a way that they can talk to somebody who's currently making $50,000 a year (and hopes to be making over $100,000 within the next five), and get that person to think the Democrats have their best interests at heart. Whining about the "gap" in the already-too-expensive medicare drug benifits ain't going to do it, and neither is constant harping on the war issues.
As one who is making $50k a year, they can start by stop trying to raise taxes and go to a friggin flat tax. I despise the progressive income tax and that close to 40% of the population who earns a pay check pays no income tax.
Also, if they can't *view* certain websites, what's keeping them from using a proxy (possibly an open proxy list) within their web browser to circumvent China's methods of blocking?
Because they also actively block the proxy servers maybe?
It sounds like the Chinese are pretty much limited to looking at propaganda sites and maybe a few for online businesses, and other sites run from within China.
makes you kind of wonder why China even allows people to connect to the rest of the worlds internet at all.
Well this attitude will probably in the long run cause some split. It allready did in navigation satelites, with europe launcing the galileo.
What? You think that becase the US Military researched, developed, paid for, launched, maintains and currently lets half the system be used by the public, that they should give up complete control of the system? If they wanted control over it, they should have helped pay for it.
There are a few things that you must consider that (I'm guessing) you don't know about.
First, Antena directions. Most likely your antena is directional. It needs to be pointing in the general direction of the DTV transmitter in order to recieve the signal. Try turning it to find the best signal. Not all of the DTV towers are in the same location as the analog towers. Try using http://antennaweb.org/aw/Address.aspx For getting your directions of your antennas
Second, Multipath interference. The built in ATSC tuners are generally crap. The only decent ones are seperate boxes. The 5th generation chipsets from TI handle multipath very well.
Third, transmitting power. Not all DTV transmitters are transmitting at full power. Most are still and have been transmitting at ~10% power and are only about now doing the buildout to 100% transmitting power. Once that occurs, you should recieve more.
Well, me and the other owners of those 33 million TVs might just give a hoot. Not everyone [wants|can afford] cable or dish service, y'know.
Lets see, 33 million? That's a lot of people when you think about it. New York state only has 19.1 million people in it. 33 million is more than the population of most states.
Just how much will I need to spend in order to keep watching TV once they ram this through?
Depends on how much a D/A downconverter box costs at that point. At Best Buy the Funai ATSC/HDTV Receiver with Indoor Antenna will recieve H/DTV (HDTV and SDTV) and convert them to analog ouputs. Cost? $229. It's still a little bit more than you need for your current TV as it will output DVI (although if you have an LCD monitor you can watch it on there).
The CEA (or at least some of its members) have been asking congress for a hard cut off date for when analog will be shut down. They then will start about 12-18 months prior to that date mass producing D/A converter boxes. They expect that they can produce them for sale for somewhere between $50-$80. Specific numbers I have read about are $50 and $66.
I suggest reading TV Technology as they cover the issue quite frequently.
I remember when those claims were made about nuclear power, about how it would be so cheap that it wouldn't be metered.
It was originally expected that "fast breeder reactors" would be used to recycle and re-enrich the spent fuel rods that came out of power plants. Instead, Carter used execuitive order to put a blanket ban on those types of plants. Fast breeder reactors would drastically cut hte amount of high level radioactive waste that comes out of power plants and cut the costs of operating a plant. Consider the nuclear version of recycling.
Give us humans a rational cause (global warming etc.) and we'll ignore it.
Give us a 'direct' feeling (evil enemy in (cold) war, money for gasoline), and we'll react promptly.
Give us humans a cause that occurs so slowly that no one will notice it if they haven't been observing for a hundred years or that requires a PHD to understand the nuances of (global warming etc.) and we'll ignore it.
Give us a 'direct' feeling that is right in front of our noses, we can actively see over the course of a month or year or two (evil enemy [we can see and feel] in (cold) war, money for gasoline), and we'll react promptly.
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How about we take a cue from the home theatre market? Direct to Video productions? Screw the movie theatres and the major networks, just release the episodes directly to DVD and make money that way.
There is the waste issue...I guess if you put all the world's nuclear waste in one spot and had an earthquake, you might have a big problem on that continent, but short of all-out nuclear war, it's hard to imagine nukes doing as much overall damage as fossil fuels.
Please research Fast Breeder Reactors. They are pretty much the sollution to long term high level readioactive waste.
Not sure what a Profile is. If you mean the equipment, we have an ADIC tape backup library for the LTO tapes. For the Video, we use Omneon broadcast video servers. Currently we use them for SD only. However, we will soon be moving to use them for HD.
At work we have to archive Broadcast Quality TV Shows (Yes, I work in a TV station). These are 50 Mbit/s for the video plus at least another 4 Mbit/s for the audio. Needless to say this takes up a lot of space. For this, we use LTO-1 tapes that store 100GByte per tage uncompressed (compression gets us zilch with the video and audio). The tapes have error correction that we pay attention to. If there are getting to be too many errors we replace the tape and have the info copied to the new tape. Since we have so many shows, we are moving to LTO-3 tapes that store 400GB per tape. The LTO tapes are expensive. However, as long as you do not do constant reading from them and use them as a true archinve they should be fine. For massive redundancy, put the same files on two different tapes. Also, the reader/writer is a little expensive, but you only need one. Also, LOT-3 drives can read/write to LTO-1 tapes (only as 100GB, not 400GB). Write speed is pretty good to, being above 14Mbyte/s. Shelf life in a temperature/humidity controlled environment is pretty long. A bank vault should be pretty good as well.
I'm just going to change some words here to more acurately reflect what is going to happen when some people decide to act.
If indeed the ramifications are not "random", as Justice O'Connor put it (and I think she's right), then what we'll see are pitched local [gun]battles taking place across the entire nation, with commercial developers vs., well, the people. This may finally be the tipping point that wakes everyone up and sparks a vast new wave of civic [lynching]. After all, the "local authorities" are democratically elected, and if they go off the deep end with seizing private property for pure commercial interests, it won't be long before people get out their [guns] to speak.
Don't you have the right to protect against home invasion?
Again, no. You have the right to attempt to protect yourself and then be sued by the invader for damages both physical and psychological. By the time you're done you'll have been robbed both by the robber himself as well as the courts and the lawyers.
That is why you SHOOT TO KILL. No one alive == No one to sue. I fully expect that the first person to try to rob my house is either going to be leaving feat first in a body bag or have a murder warrent out for their arrest.
I wonder how much this kind of fraud contributes to artificially(?) raising the unemployment rate. Maybe it's quite a bit lower than the reported rate due to the fraud?
They may want to consider figuring out that pesky 2nd Amendment thing first. Or invest in a lot of Kevlar.
Not that I'm advocating violence. But I do know a few "hicks" who take owning their own home very seriously.
I consider my self a conservative (on economic issues, not so much on social). I live in Northern VA and agree with you on the 2nd part. As do several people I know (who I met in college in CT) who live in New Jersey, New York, Pensylvania (I dare you to call the Jersey guy a hick) and when we read about this over a year ago, yeah, "You can have my property when you pry it from my cold dead hands" was pretty much the summary of our response.
This is one of the cases that make me wonder how long until we have an open revolt in the country. Or something similar.
There would be a clear public benefit for providing emergency services based at a location which minimizes response time.
Don't know about where you live but, Fire Departments around here (Northern VA) respond to medical emergencies (they have the public ambulances and the like, makes sense, think about what hte FDs respond to), the hospitals don't.
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Heh, one of the things I love that people forget about the 2k election is that the news announced that the entire state of Floridas poles closed at 7pm Eastern. The segment of florida that is just south of Georgria and Alabama are in the Central time zone. They had a noticeably lower voter turnout there. Course, not surprising since that area is mosly white (and as such the votes don't count as much as if they were from a mostly black district).
expect a lot of contentious issues (think Roe Vs Wade, Prayer in Schools, Pornography, Flag burning) to end up again at SCOTUS.
/. would like that one overturned.
Like maybe that emminent domain rulling as well? It looks like a good number of people on
Sad that people call any judge to rules according to the constituion and not a strict literal interpretation of the Bible an "Activist Judge"
Sorry, but after that judge in jersey ruled that the Boy Scouts fell under an anti-discrimination law that was made for hotels/motels, an activist judge is in no way anyone who "rules [strictly] according to the constituion"
Gah, let me clarify. I hate it when they try to say that people aren't paying enough in taxes and then only raise it on those they accuse of being "rich". I hate the progressive income tax because it leaves loopholes where people can get away with out paying anything.
Actually, for an tax instead of anything based on income we should go to a VAT tax and leave income alone. Kill the IRS and cut several billion dollars from the budget in one fell swoop.
The Democrats, if they want to survive as a viable party, desperately need a way that they can talk to somebody who's currently making $50,000 a year (and hopes to be making over $100,000 within the next five), and get that person to think the Democrats have their best interests at heart. Whining about the "gap" in the already-too-expensive medicare drug benifits ain't going to do it, and neither is constant harping on the war issues.
As one who is making $50k a year, they can start by stop trying to raise taxes and go to a friggin flat tax. I despise the progressive income tax and that close to 40% of the population who earns a pay check pays no income tax.
Also, if they can't *view* certain websites, what's keeping them from using a proxy (possibly an open proxy list) within their web browser to circumvent China's methods of blocking?
Because they also actively block the proxy servers maybe?
It sounds like the Chinese are pretty much limited to looking at propaganda sites and maybe a few for online businesses, and other sites run from within China.
makes you kind of wonder why China even allows people to connect to the rest of the worlds internet at all.
Well this attitude will probably in the long run cause some split. It allready did in navigation satelites, with europe launcing the galileo.
What? You think that becase the US Military researched, developed, paid for, launched, maintains and currently lets half the system be used by the public, that they should give up complete control of the system? If they wanted control over it, they should have helped pay for it.
There are a few things that you must consider that (I'm guessing) you don't know about.
First, Antena directions. Most likely your antena is directional. It needs to be pointing in the general direction of the DTV transmitter in order to recieve the signal. Try turning it to find the best signal. Not all of the DTV towers are in the same location as the analog towers. Try using http://antennaweb.org/aw/Address.aspx For getting your directions of your antennas
Second, Multipath interference. The built in ATSC tuners are generally crap. The only decent ones are seperate boxes. The 5th generation chipsets from TI handle multipath very well.
Third, transmitting power. Not all DTV transmitters are transmitting at full power. Most are still and have been transmitting at ~10% power and are only about now doing the buildout to 100% transmitting power. Once that occurs, you should recieve more.
Well, me and the other owners of those 33 million TVs might just give a hoot. Not everyone [wants|can afford] cable or dish service, y'know.
Lets see, 33 million? That's a lot of people when you think about it. New York state only has 19.1 million people in it. 33 million is more than the population of most states.
Just how much will I need to spend in order to keep watching TV once they ram this through?
Depends on how much a D/A downconverter box costs at that point. At Best Buy the Funai ATSC/HDTV Receiver with Indoor Antenna will recieve H/DTV (HDTV and SDTV) and convert them to analog ouputs. Cost? $229. It's still a little bit more than you need for your current TV as it will output DVI (although if you have an LCD monitor you can watch it on there).
The CEA (or at least some of its members) have been asking congress for a hard cut off date for when analog will be shut down. They then will start about 12-18 months prior to that date mass producing D/A converter boxes. They expect that they can produce them for sale for somewhere between $50-$80. Specific numbers I have read about are $50 and $66.
I suggest reading TV Technology as they cover the issue quite frequently.
Disclaimer: I work at a TV Network.
I remember when those claims were made about nuclear power, about how it would be so cheap that it wouldn't be metered.
It was originally expected that "fast breeder reactors" would be used to recycle and re-enrich the spent fuel rods that came out of power plants. Instead, Carter used execuitive order to put a blanket ban on those types of plants. Fast breeder reactors would drastically cut hte amount of high level radioactive waste that comes out of power plants and cut the costs of operating a plant. Consider the nuclear version of recycling.
Give us humans a rational cause (global warming etc.) and we'll ignore it.
Give us a 'direct' feeling (evil enemy in (cold) war, money for gasoline), and we'll react promptly.
Give us humans a cause that occurs so slowly that no one will notice it if they haven't been observing for a hundred years or that requires a PHD to understand the nuances of (global warming etc.) and we'll ignore it.
Give us a 'direct' feeling that is right in front of our noses, we can actively see over the course of a month or year or two (evil enemy [we can see and feel] in (cold) war, money for gasoline), and we'll react promptly.
How about we take a cue from the home theatre market? Direct to Video productions? Screw the movie theatres and the major networks, just release the episodes directly to DVD and make money that way.
There is the waste issue...I guess if you put all the world's nuclear waste in one spot and had an earthquake, you might have a big problem on that continent, but short of all-out nuclear war, it's hard to imagine nukes doing as much overall damage as fossil fuels.
Please research Fast Breeder Reactors. They are pretty much the sollution to long term high level readioactive waste.
..you can blame all those simpering faggots who voted for Tony Blair
Why do you Yanks keep using meatballs (or do you mean kindling?) as an insult? Never understood that one!
Not sure if you are serious or not but, here we go...
Currently, the most commonly used deffinition of "faggot" is a derogatory term for a gay man. Here's a link on its origin.
Yes. Via ICBM. 2 hour delivery or your order's free.
2 hours? I think you mean 20 minutes.
Not sure what a Profile is. If you mean the equipment, we have an ADIC tape backup library for the LTO tapes. For the Video, we use Omneon broadcast video servers. Currently we use them for SD only. However, we will soon be moving to use them for HD.
My guess is that they're using DVCPRO50 for compression, which won't be compressable any further without loss of detail.
Actually, I Frame only MPEG-2. Not uncompressed. Uncompressed is 270 Mbit/s
At work we have to archive Broadcast Quality TV Shows (Yes, I work in a TV station). These are 50 Mbit/s for the video plus at least another 4 Mbit/s for the audio. Needless to say this takes up a lot of space. For this, we use LTO-1 tapes that store 100GByte per tage uncompressed (compression gets us zilch with the video and audio). The tapes have error correction that we pay attention to. If there are getting to be too many errors we replace the tape and have the info copied to the new tape. Since we have so many shows, we are moving to LTO-3 tapes that store 400GB per tape. The LTO tapes are expensive. However, as long as you do not do constant reading from them and use them as a true archinve they should be fine. For massive redundancy, put the same files on two different tapes. Also, the reader/writer is a little expensive, but you only need one. Also, LOT-3 drives can read/write to LTO-1 tapes (only as 100GB, not 400GB). Write speed is pretty good to, being above 14Mbyte/s. Shelf life in a temperature/humidity controlled environment is pretty long. A bank vault should be pretty good as well.
I'm just going to change some words here to more acurately reflect what is going to happen when some people decide to act.
If indeed the ramifications are not "random", as Justice O'Connor put it (and I think she's right), then what we'll see are pitched local [gun]battles taking place across the entire nation, with commercial developers vs., well, the people. This may finally be the tipping point that wakes everyone up and sparks a vast new wave of civic [lynching]. After all, the "local authorities" are democratically elected, and if they go off the deep end with seizing private property for pure commercial interests, it won't be long before people get out their [guns] to speak.
Don't you have the right to protect against home invasion?
Again, no. You have the right to attempt to protect yourself and then be sued by the invader for damages both physical and psychological. By the time you're done you'll have been robbed both by the robber himself as well as the courts and the lawyers.
That is why you SHOOT TO KILL. No one alive == No one to sue. I fully expect that the first person to try to rob my house is either going to be leaving feat first in a body bag or have a murder warrent out for their arrest.
Either live with it, or vote the bums out.
Unfortunately, the bums [Supreme Court Justices] in this case are in their office for life. Can't vote them out at all.
I wonder how much this kind of fraud contributes to artificially(?) raising the unemployment rate. Maybe it's quite a bit lower than the reported rate due to the fraud?
They may want to consider figuring out that pesky 2nd Amendment thing first. Or invest in a lot of Kevlar. Not that I'm advocating violence. But I do know a few "hicks" who take owning their own home very seriously.
I consider my self a conservative (on economic issues, not so much on social). I live in Northern VA and agree with you on the 2nd part. As do several people I know (who I met in college in CT) who live in New Jersey, New York, Pensylvania (I dare you to call the Jersey guy a hick) and when we read about this over a year ago, yeah, "You can have my property when you pry it from my cold dead hands" was pretty much the summary of our response.
This is one of the cases that make me wonder how long until we have an open revolt in the country. Or something similar.
There would be a clear public benefit for providing emergency services based at a location which minimizes response time.
Don't know about where you live but, Fire Departments around here (Northern VA) respond to medical emergencies (they have the public ambulances and the like, makes sense, think about what hte FDs respond to), the hospitals don't.