I would say it's more like 50 year old COBOL air traffic control program that's been patched thousands of times by different people. Nothing is where it should be or done the way it should be, no guidelines were followed, but somehow it still manages to compile because each incremental change was tested before patching the source tree. (Hopefully someone can convert this to a car analogy for me.)
I've had the exact opposite experience. I got six analog channels from one city and I get 16 digital ones from three cities. I'm about 40 miles from the closest tower. The point being that yes, it did screw over a lot of people but probably a small fraction in the grand scheme of things. Also, digital signals interfere with the analog ones, so you may see a big boost in power come January.
There's a few things you may want to check with your setup. First, you need a 'recent' converter box. The chipsets improved a LOT over the years. Second, upgrade your RG59 to RG6. Third, if you're lucky like me then all your digital channels are at channel 14 and up (the REAL channel not the one the box tells you) - I was able to cut down most of my giant VHF antenna and raise the remaining tiny UHF part up another 10 feet....Oh, and there's one of those radioshack boosters in there somewhere, but the same old one from the analog days.
This being Slashdot there's a good chance I'm preaching to the choir. But try a little fungineering and you might have a better experience. That or get DirecTV;)
"Nobody panics when the expected people got killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gangbanger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will get blown up, nobody panics. But when I say one little old mayor will die, everyone loses their minds!"
I think this is the wrong take on this story. Bell is getting rid of its Labs because telephones are a solved problem. The people doing basic materials research are the people whose business it is actually relevant to today: Intel and IBM and CNSE.
But it was not the very first disk. That one is in space. In 2004 the Rosetta Space Probe was launched by the European Space Agency. This small craft was created to land on a comet in 2014. Before it blasted off, the ESA contacted us because we share names. They asked if we'd like to mount a version of the disk on their probe. Of course we would! We had manufactured a pure nickel disc with a subset of 6,000 pages of language translations, which was mounted on the payload section of the probe.
Modern hard drives can only read from one head at a time. The tracks are packed in such that thanks to uneven thermal expansion, only one track will be lined up under a head at any given time. But two sets of heads might work as gp suggested.
I'm too cheap to spend the 99 cents to buy a track on Amazon, much less a CD. But I just took a trip to see my favorite band $BAND in Toronto, and between tickets and merch I dropped about $100 at the venue alone. And as far as I'm concerned it was well worth it; my friends and I had a blast. More frequently I go to $5 shows in sketchy warehouses and such, which is a lot like what you're talking about. So it's pretty much like that everywhere I think.
All the hydrogen storage obstacles are for getting it dense enough to put in a vehicle. But it's no big deal to squeeze 2 lbs of H2 into your basement.
Chemists out there: Does electrolysis happen at arbitrarily high pressures? In that case you just produce it right in the tank, bypassing the compressor step.
I'm a little confused here. My full-sized Centrino laptop draws 22 watts at idle and 38 watts at full load. That includes the LCD. How are either of these an improvement?
The government never mandated HD in any way, shape or form! They're phasing out NTSC terrestrial broadcasts for the sole reason that the bandwidth is needed elsewhere.
Somewhat off-topic, but regardless of why they're doing it, why is Comcast allowed to send RST packets on your behalf? Isn't that basically impersonating you? Isn't that about as bad as FUCKinjecting random swearASSwords into my./ posts?
I wouldn't call Ada obsolete. C is only good because a lot of people know C and lots of COTS parts are C. But you can't beat Ada if you need a language that was built from the ground up for mission-critical reliability.
Humans get a lot of UV and background radiation on a daily basis and repair a remarkably high fraction of the damage, splicing back together DNA strands and such. But knock out one important transistor and you've boned a whole computer. Even a shielded computer needs to be rad hard.
Plus as sibling mentioned, 99% of spacecraft are unmanned satellites. And lead is... heavy.
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I would say it's more like 50 year old COBOL air traffic control program that's been patched thousands of times by different people. Nothing is where it should be or done the way it should be, no guidelines were followed, but somehow it still manages to compile because each incremental change was tested before patching the source tree. (Hopefully someone can convert this to a car analogy for me.)
Nope, the only station that's moving in my market is NBC, they're moving from 54 to 24. Still UHF. And I tried with and without the booster.
I've had the exact opposite experience. I got six analog channels from one city and I get 16 digital ones from three cities. I'm about 40 miles from the closest tower. The point being that yes, it did screw over a lot of people but probably a small fraction in the grand scheme of things. Also, digital signals interfere with the analog ones, so you may see a big boost in power come January.
...Oh, and there's one of those radioshack boosters in there somewhere, but the same old one from the analog days.
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There's a few things you may want to check with your setup. First, you need a 'recent' converter box. The chipsets improved a LOT over the years. Second, upgrade your RG59 to RG6. Third, if you're lucky like me then all your digital channels are at channel 14 and up (the REAL channel not the one the box tells you) - I was able to cut down most of my giant VHF antenna and raise the remaining tiny UHF part up another 10 feet.
This being Slashdot there's a good chance I'm preaching to the choir. But try a little fungineering and you might have a better experience. That or get DirecTV
Actually it appears that the way around it is to post it to Slashdot. I just changed my status and it wasn't censored.
"Nobody panics when the expected people got killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gangbanger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will get blown up, nobody panics. But when I say one little old mayor will die, everyone loses their minds!"
I think this is the wrong take on this story. Bell is getting rid of its Labs because telephones are a solved problem. The people doing basic materials research are the people whose business it is actually relevant to today: Intel and IBM and CNSE.
Well, for quite a while an nForce chipset was the only (good) way to connect your Athlon to your GeForce. Can't sell a car if there's no roads.
But it was not the very first disk. That one is in space. In 2004 the Rosetta Space Probe was launched by the European Space Agency. This small craft was created to land on a comet in 2014. Before it blasted off, the ESA contacted us because we share names. They asked if we'd like to mount a version of the disk on their probe. Of course we would! We had manufactured a pure nickel disc with a subset of 6,000 pages of language translations, which was mounted on the payload section of the probe.
Where can I get more information about this "Super Titrenderer 7"?
Modern hard drives can only read from one head at a time. The tracks are packed in such that thanks to uneven thermal expansion, only one track will be lined up under a head at any given time. But two sets of heads might work as gp suggested.
Yeah, this is about as productive as claiming pro wrestling is fake.
I've never had to hunt down a driver for my Thinkpad. Everything "Just Works" in Ubuntu.
I'm too cheap to spend the 99 cents to buy a track on Amazon, much less a CD. But I just took a trip to see my favorite band $BAND in Toronto, and between tickets and merch I dropped about $100 at the venue alone. And as far as I'm concerned it was well worth it; my friends and I had a blast. More frequently I go to $5 shows in sketchy warehouses and such, which is a lot like what you're talking about. So it's pretty much like that everywhere I think.
All the hydrogen storage obstacles are for getting it dense enough to put in a vehicle. But it's no big deal to squeeze 2 lbs of H2 into your basement.
Chemists out there: Does electrolysis happen at arbitrarily high pressures? In that case you just produce it right in the tank, bypassing the compressor step.
I'm a little confused here. My full-sized Centrino laptop draws 22 watts at idle and 38 watts at full load. That includes the LCD. How are either of these an improvement?
I don't think there are any more patents on MPEG2/1080i than there are on MPEG2/480i. But I could be mistaken.
The government never mandated HD in any way, shape or form! They're phasing out NTSC terrestrial broadcasts for the sole reason that the bandwidth is needed elsewhere.
Hey, man. Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.
IANAB but I don't see that being a problem for ocean life or insect-size land creatures, right? Probably no birds though.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/24/75-threatening-to-move-to-canada/
Somewhat off-topic, but regardless of why they're doing it, why is Comcast allowed to send RST packets on your behalf? Isn't that basically impersonating you? Isn't that about as bad as FUCKinjecting random swearASSwords into my ./ posts?
I wouldn't call Ada obsolete. C is only good because a lot of people know C and lots of COTS parts are C. But you can't beat Ada if you need a language that was built from the ground up for mission-critical reliability.
Humans get a lot of UV and background radiation on a daily basis and repair a remarkably high fraction of the damage, splicing back together DNA strands and such. But knock out one important transistor and you've boned a whole computer. Even a shielded computer needs to be rad hard. Plus as sibling mentioned, 99% of spacecraft are unmanned satellites. And lead is... heavy.
Actually with a bit of coaxing you can get Linux onto the 360.
It's kind of ironic (suspicious?) that you can pirate 360 games way easier then you can run homebrew/Linux on it.
If the teachers have such an evil, all-powerful union, why do they make shit for pay?