I was thinking along the same lines. What is wrong with "The MetLife VLA" or "The Microsoft VLA" ? It is worth more than first blush when you consider that the name will be registered and trademarked so that news stories and other publications need to reference the whole name.
I too am doing OTA DTV in the NYC burbs. After 2 months my feelings are mixed but much of my problems are related to antenna location (attic) than DTV itself.
Prior poster is correct that UHF signals (what DTV goes on) are far more directional and subject to reflection than VHF. In addition DTV is an all or nothing situation, just like anything else in the digital world. Failure is absolute, graceful (snow) is not possible.
The picture quality of DTV is better than analog and HD signals are better than those on cable, sat or fiber (I've directly compared sat. to ota) as nobody is doing extra compression.
As to available stations, I in fact have *more* available as there are multiple programs on each signal, ie 4-1,4-3,4-4, 21-2,21-3,21-4 etc. The PBS/non-big 4 stations seem to make better use of the extra programming opportunity.
I'll be upgrading my antenna to one that can go outside and not raise the ire of my HOA. This should clear up most of my reception issues. While I do miss ESPN and FUEL, neither is worth paying $70+ a month for sat/cable/fios. Free is for me and I'm reading more to boot.
So in other words they are scared that French (European) ideas will fail in the face of neo-nazi or other facist ideas? Are democracy and equal rights that weak in Europe that people fear the use of symbolism and therefore try to make it illegal?
Just because you find the opinion or viewpoint repulsive does not mean you have a right to ban it. Violence is illegal, not thought or expression.
I tried about a month ago but was unable to get it to work at all. Dont know if it was a firewall, XP , video or dual cpu issue... their tech people really weren't that helpful and 7days were almost up so cancelled. Maybe I'll give it a go again on the linux box.
You offer a perfect example of why it is completely
pointless to attempt any reasonable argument with the left of center. You state no facts, back up nothing, and toss out oil conspiracy theories. Yes we are just loading those american tankers for free and sending them home.
and I'll have no problem filing charges for any DOS attack. The left preaches tolerance, but in reality they are only tolerant of those who agree with them. Just check DemocraticUnderground for one of many examples.
How many conservatives were arrested for disrupting the Dem convention? How many DOS attacks were there on Dem sites? This becomes more like the civil war each passing day, just without the clearly defined borders.
Not to mention that they could make the decision to mothball FIRE in its current state for a 1 or 2 year period at a fraction of the cost. If ITER 'details' can't be solved it would then be easy to restart FIRE. ANd like the poster said, this is just one of many programs.
Every CF card I have used to transfer photos has been brutually slow, and I don't think its the USB2 interface which should be on a par capability wise with udma mode 3. And when I say slow.. I mean slower than just about any diskdrive I've owned for the past 15 years.
Evenso, the xfer rates come in a pretty wide range on this device: 14 to 110 MB/sec Sustained R/W Rate. But thats still probably way ahead of an array of CF cards.
All of these disc based media are limited to a RPM speed of 7200-10,000 before they basically tear themselves apart. Given that his beam size is roughly 1/10th the size of current, wouldn't that only translate to a gain of about 100X in storage capaicity?
And if we accept his density claim, its gonna take a damn long time to read/write the whole disc.
do many games actually make full use of this much or more ram? and what is the real world performance hit for not having stuff in the onboard ram when needed?
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I was thinking along the same lines. What is wrong with "The MetLife VLA" or "The Microsoft VLA" ? It is worth more than first blush when you consider that the name will be registered and trademarked so that news stories and other publications need to reference the whole name.
The rich have stolen democracy. Return democracy to the 99%
Really? No, from your perspective and those of the majority of the "protesters" the rich have stolen communism from you and won't give it back.
I too am doing OTA DTV in the NYC burbs. After 2 months my feelings are mixed but much of my problems are related to antenna location (attic) than DTV itself.
Prior poster is correct that UHF signals (what DTV goes on) are far more directional and subject to reflection than VHF. In addition DTV is an all or nothing situation, just like anything else in the digital world. Failure is absolute, graceful (snow) is not possible.
The picture quality of DTV is better than analog and HD signals are better than those on cable, sat or fiber (I've directly compared sat. to ota) as nobody is doing extra compression.
As to available stations, I in fact have *more* available as there are multiple programs on each signal, ie 4-1,4-3,4-4, 21-2,21-3,21-4 etc. The PBS/non-big 4 stations seem to make better use of the extra programming opportunity.
I'll be upgrading my antenna to one that can go outside and not raise the ire of my HOA. This should clear up most of my reception issues. While I do miss ESPN and FUEL, neither is worth paying $70+ a month for sat/cable/fios. Free is for me and I'm reading more to boot.
And its nice to see octal again too!
So in other words they are scared that French (European) ideas will fail in the face of neo-nazi or other facist ideas? Are democracy and equal rights that weak in Europe that people fear the use of symbolism and therefore try to make it illegal?
Just because you find the opinion or viewpoint repulsive does not mean you have a right to ban it. Violence is illegal, not thought or expression.
I just want to crank out a quick letter or memo. I doubt I'm far removed from the typical word user who could give a rats about XML.
I tried about a month ago but was unable to get it to work at all. Dont know if it was a firewall, XP , video or dual cpu issue... their tech people really weren't that helpful and 7days were almost up so cancelled. Maybe I'll give it a go again on the linux box.
You offer a perfect example of why it is completely pointless to attempt any reasonable argument with the left of center. You state no facts, back up nothing, and toss out oil conspiracy theories. Yes we are just loading those american tankers for free and sending them home.
and I'll have no problem filing charges for any DOS attack. The left preaches tolerance, but in reality they are only tolerant of those who agree with them. Just check DemocraticUnderground for one of many examples.
How many conservatives were arrested for disrupting the Dem convention? How many DOS attacks were there on Dem sites? This becomes more like the civil war each passing day, just without the clearly defined borders.
Not to mention that they could make the decision to mothball FIRE in its current state for a 1 or 2 year period at a fraction of the cost. If ITER 'details' can't be solved it would then be easy to restart FIRE. ANd like the poster said, this is just one of many programs.
Every CF card I have used to transfer photos has been brutually slow, and I don't think its the USB2 interface which should be on a par capability wise with udma mode 3. And when I say slow.. I mean slower than just about any diskdrive I've owned for the past 15 years.
Evenso, the xfer rates come in a pretty wide range on this device: 14 to 110 MB/sec Sustained R/W Rate. But thats still probably way ahead of an array of CF cards.
All of these disc based media are limited to a RPM speed of 7200-10,000 before they basically tear themselves apart. Given that his beam size is roughly 1/10th the size of current, wouldn't that only translate to a gain of about 100X in storage capaicity? And if we accept his density claim, its gonna take a damn long time to read/write the whole disc.
do many games actually make full use of this much or more ram? and what is the real world performance hit for not having stuff in the onboard ram when needed?