wrong, NTSC is going away in the United States. It is being replaced by ATSC, the new digital standard.. NTSC is inherently an analog standard, there is no such thing as "digital NTSC" for broadcast.
"ATSC Standards document a digital television format which will replace (in the United States) the analog NTSC television system by February 17, 2009."
Umm, it's not a check either. It's a $40 voucher good only as a discount on the price of a converter box. It has no cash value (and since it should be easy to get one, selling it wouldn't be profitable either)
You won't get a subsidy to buy a Hi-Def TV. All you'll get is a $40 voucher to buy a convertor box that will let you watch digital TV signals on your analog TVs. Of course, this won't magically make your TVs hi-def.
Sigh...do my fellow Americans understand basic civics anymore?
In a democracy, legislatures do not draft laws under non-disclosure agreements. The proper operation of a democracy hinges on transparency. There is a strong possibility here that Google was asking the legislators to violate the open meeting or sunshine laws of their own state, which guarantee that government business is done in the open. This is why some legislators refused to sign the NDAs.
DirecTV is actually a TiVo licensee. Up until recently, all DirecTV DVRs actually ran TiVo software. Three months ago, TiVo signed a deal with DirecTV to extend the licensing arrangement until 2009. TiVo will continue to service the ~2 million DirecTV DVRs based on TiVo software, and both parties specifically agreed not to sue each other over patents as happened with Dish Network/Echostar.
This should have been posted to the front page, to balance out all of those "Google is so great, I'm having googlegasms" stories that slashdot is doing so many of these days.
Perhaps this is a contrarian viewpoint, but perhaps it is time for Google to think about what its real core mission is. It can be argued that becoming a bank (which after all is what Paypal is) is not really part of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful". It seems to me that Google is veering off in far too many directions, with some of them being flat out flops (Web Accelerator), while others are weakly executed or missed opportunities (Orkut, Blogger, and Froogle). Even the core product, search, is often cluttered with poor results. Google needs to focus on a smaller number of things they can execute well, rather than overextending themselves into every area just because they can.
Ah, but closed source software can hide faults which potentially are serious enough to outweigh the good aspects. Taking your example, what if the proprietary/closed source software that ran a medical device had a flaw that could kill a patient?
The LifeDrive runs PalmOS Garnet, which is not Linux based. Only PalmOS Cobalt is Linux based, and to my knowledge there are no PDAs currently available running Cobalt.
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wrong, NTSC is going away in the United States. It is being replaced by ATSC, the new digital standard.. NTSC is inherently an analog standard, there is no such thing as "digital NTSC" for broadcast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsc
"ATSC Standards document a digital television format which will replace (in the United States) the analog NTSC television system by February 17, 2009."
Umm, it's not a check either. It's a $40 voucher good only as a discount on the price of a converter box. It has no cash value (and since it should be easy to get one, selling it wouldn't be profitable either)
The FAQ for the program is here:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon/faq.html
You won't get a subsidy to buy a Hi-Def TV. All you'll get is a $40 voucher to buy a convertor box that will let you watch digital TV signals on your analog TVs. Of course, this won't magically make your TVs hi-def.
Sigh...do my fellow Americans understand basic civics anymore?
In a democracy, legislatures do not draft laws under non-disclosure agreements. The proper operation of a democracy hinges on transparency. There is a strong possibility here that Google was asking the legislators to violate the open meeting or sunshine laws of their own state, which guarantee that government business is done in the open. This is why some legislators refused to sign the NDAs.
That's where the evil is.
DirecTV is actually a TiVo licensee. Up until recently, all DirecTV DVRs actually ran TiVo software. Three months ago, TiVo signed a deal with DirecTV to extend the licensing arrangement until 2009. TiVo will continue to service the ~2 million DirecTV DVRs based on TiVo software, and both parties specifically agreed not to sue each other over patents as happened with Dish Network/Echostar.
http://www.tivo.com/cms_static/press_85.html
if you pay the $3/month, it works just like SkypeIn, where you're assigned a real phone number that anyone can call. From voice.yahoo.com:
Phone In
Get your very own phone number for your PC. Then people can call your PC, just like it's a regular phone.
Asked Microsoft spokepeople at the show....they verified that they've tried Virtual PC 7.0 on the Intel Macs, and all it does is crash so far.
From my usage, the application works identically on Firefox for OS X.
Both IE and Firefox are supported.
yes, the new interface is optional and you can switch back and forth between old and new.
This should have been posted to the front page, to balance out all of those "Google is so great, I'm having googlegasms" stories that slashdot is doing so many of these days.
Perhaps this is a contrarian viewpoint, but perhaps it is time for Google to think about what its real core mission is. It can be argued that becoming a bank (which after all is what Paypal is) is not really part of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful". It seems to me that Google is veering off in far too many directions, with some of them being flat out flops (Web Accelerator), while others are weakly executed or missed opportunities (Orkut, Blogger, and Froogle). Even the core product, search, is often cluttered with poor results. Google needs to focus on a smaller number of things they can execute well, rather than overextending themselves into every area just because they can.
Ah, but closed source software can hide faults which potentially are serious enough to outweigh the good aspects. Taking your example, what if the proprietary/closed source software that ran a medical device had a flaw that could kill a patient?
The LifeDrive runs PalmOS Garnet, which is not Linux based. Only PalmOS Cobalt is Linux based, and to my knowledge there are no PDAs currently available running Cobalt.
and it works very similarly...here's the result for the same movie: http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=FP-pull-web-t&p= kicking+screaming