They do have existing spinning liquid mirrors in service, one of which is in Whistler BC. At this time I don't remember the name of the observatory. The article I read outlined the stringent engineering requirements both to prevent vibrations as well as turbulence generated by the motion of the water.
How that would be applied on a lunar observatory is another story.
Going by available offerings in Canada:
1) As far as i know it is seperate from the data used with your DSL connection. From what I've see your line must have the capability for at least 6Mb downstream, and only 3Mb will be used for DDSL, the rest for TV.
2) They'd need a good network to allow four streams at once, the offerings here are two tuners at the moment.
3) I believe the full channel lineup are streamed to the central office of the subscriber (or more likely the closest adsl equipment) at which point each subscriber streams whichever channel(s) they are currently watching.
4) Going by above, the backbone to the central offices should be fully capable of streaming the channel lineup.
This definitely isn't the first ILEC to offer TV over IP: I know Telus up in Canada is offering it already.
Having used it quite a bit myself, it's very similar to digital cable (isn't that what it is?). There's also the added bonus of choosing very customizable channel packages and individual channels to subscribe to, which I think is a good change from the limited Tiers from cable companies.
I currently use Telus, I have a theoretical cap of 60 GB/month but having hit over 150 GB I haven't received a letter or anything. I believe Telus may look into enforcing caps at some point, but they haven't yet.
With Shaw after hitting around the 50 GB mark (at the time they had a cap of 30 GB/month, i believe it's 60 GB now) I was called and told to stop downloading or i'd be cut off.
While Shaw has higher limits in their advertising, they enforce them as soon as you go over: I had phone calls, disconnections, etc.
Meanwhile Telus advertises a limit of 30 GB on regular high speed, and i have download well over 150 without incident.
Shaw employee i'd guess? Because if you've used both, you'd realize who has the higher enforced limit
I find that interesting, maybe it's a difference between Canada and the United States. I work for the ILEC up in British Columbia, and we receive numerous calls from customers who recently ran off seeing some happy Vonage ad that later find out their alarm companies won't offer service on a VOIP line.
Maybe it shows they care about their customers more, rather than raking in the cash with a service that is subject to power outages, etc.
The blame is more with the artists/industry, again, and not the online retailers.
The fact is there ARE artists out there who put out albums that flow from track to track, and the listening experience is more enjoyable because of it. A lot of popular artists simply don't do that, and hence you find the average 14-year-old-itunes-using-pop-listener downloading only the song on the radio.. and i don't blame them.
Most pop music is about the latest hot track, and not enjoying an artist and their work.. maybe the music industry should think of marketing albums and bands instead of one track being played 20 times a day on MTV/MuchMusic?
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This fee is already charged in Alberta for the last couple of years. It was also introduced in Saskatchewan in February.
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It could also soon be charged in Ontario:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/06/12/42
They do have existing spinning liquid mirrors in service, one of which is in Whistler BC. At this time I don't remember the name of the observatory. The article I read outlined the stringent engineering requirements both to prevent vibrations as well as turbulence generated by the motion of the water.
How that would be applied on a lunar observatory is another story.
Going by available offerings in Canada: 1) As far as i know it is seperate from the data used with your DSL connection. From what I've see your line must have the capability for at least 6Mb downstream, and only 3Mb will be used for DDSL, the rest for TV. 2) They'd need a good network to allow four streams at once, the offerings here are two tuners at the moment. 3) I believe the full channel lineup are streamed to the central office of the subscriber (or more likely the closest adsl equipment) at which point each subscriber streams whichever channel(s) they are currently watching. 4) Going by above, the backbone to the central offices should be fully capable of streaming the channel lineup.
This definitely isn't the first ILEC to offer TV over IP: I know Telus up in Canada is offering it already.
Having used it quite a bit myself, it's very similar to digital cable (isn't that what it is?). There's also the added bonus of choosing very customizable channel packages and individual channels to subscribe to, which I think is a good change from the limited Tiers from cable companies.
I currently use Telus, I have a theoretical cap of 60 GB/month but having hit over 150 GB I haven't received a letter or anything. I believe Telus may look into enforcing caps at some point, but they haven't yet. With Shaw after hitting around the 50 GB mark (at the time they had a cap of 30 GB/month, i believe it's 60 GB now) I was called and told to stop downloading or i'd be cut off.
You are missing a very slight difference:
While Shaw has higher limits in their advertising, they enforce them as soon as you go over: I had phone calls, disconnections, etc.
Meanwhile Telus advertises a limit of 30 GB on regular high speed, and i have download well over 150 without incident.
Shaw employee i'd guess? Because if you've used both, you'd realize who has the higher enforced limit
I find that interesting, maybe it's a difference between Canada and the United States. I work for the ILEC up in British Columbia, and we receive numerous calls from customers who recently ran off seeing some happy Vonage ad that later find out their alarm companies won't offer service on a VOIP line. Maybe it shows they care about their customers more, rather than raking in the cash with a service that is subject to power outages, etc.
The blame is more with the artists/industry, again, and not the online retailers. The fact is there ARE artists out there who put out albums that flow from track to track, and the listening experience is more enjoyable because of it. A lot of popular artists simply don't do that, and hence you find the average 14-year-old-itunes-using-pop-listener downloading only the song on the radio.. and i don't blame them. Most pop music is about the latest hot track, and not enjoying an artist and their work.. maybe the music industry should think of marketing albums and bands instead of one track being played 20 times a day on MTV/MuchMusic?