I went to Hawaii for my honeymoon and I swear that they have interstates there. In fact, the same blue shield symbol with the I-xx in it. I don't remember the actual number, but the "I" is definitely there.
I lived in Erie from 1998 to 2005. I moved to Kansas City after that. I totally agree with you. Erie has horrible roads. I had to do alignments many times because of the pot holes. Once my wheel got dented because of a pothole and I had to replace it!!
Also, the roads are so narrow that it takes 20 minutes to go just 5 miles!! It is not even a big city - only about 100k people.
Man, I like the suburbs of Kansas City much better. So much space and very little snow.
Most studios only support one or the other format. Only Universal is HD-DVD only. So, if most movies are available in BD-ROM, then I don't think HD-DVD will win. Also, Netflix is already advertising both HD-DVD and BD-ROM.
That is not true. Local public TV and radio stations depend on pledges and underwriters a lot. For example in Pennsylvania, the state government funds nothing. The federal gives about 14%, 86% has to come from pledge drives.
If they don't get enough money, they will have to start cutting programs. Each program costs money. For example, Morning Edition on NPR costs something like $100k / year for the station. Other programs are cheaper, but still... That is why you see some public radio stations that don't subscribe to certain NPR programs and others that do. More pledges, more programs.
Netflix is $18/month for 3 DVDs at a time. I have a subscription for just 1 DVD at a time - $10/month. I get to watch about 8 movies per month. Still only a little over $1 / movie.
Well, I am no longer with the locomotive stuff. I moved to Kansas City to be with the railroad signaling division. However, I will forward your comments to some of my contacts. You should be able to contact them through regular channels too.
Locomotives don't run on turbines!!! I work for the division of GE that builds the locomotives. GE tried that in the 60s and it did not workout because of the fuel efficiency. A diesel locomotive is nothing but a diesel engine powering an alternator that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy (unfiltered AC), then goes through a rectifier to convert to DC and then for DC locomotives, the current is sent to the DC electric motors on the 6 axles. The same current is applied to all 6 axles.
For AC locomotives, the rectified DC power is sent through 6 separate inverters and converted to AC and then applied to the 6 axles. With AC locomotives, by controlling both the frequency and amplitude, you can control each axles and take care of wheel slippage, etc. and get better power efficiency.
So - no turbines in diesel locos. Turbines run at very high speeds and are not fuel efficient for locomotives. Locomotive engines typically run at about 900-1100 rpm. These are massive 12-16 cylinder engines that produce anywhere from 3000-6000 hp. Of course, these have turbochargers, etc.
Well, since DVDs are 480p native, I don't care if the MCE box does not upconvert it. My TV has upconversion built-in if I want it. Also, I would like to use component video for pictures, H.264 movie trailers, etc. Also, once you rip the DVDs and remove macrovision, those VIDEO_TS files will play fine.
HP Z556 ($1500) or HP Z558 ($2200) are a much better bargain than this trouble.
Here are the features in the HP that is not in the home built one.
1) Component video output ports that handle 720p/1080i in addition to DVI
2) 2 NTSC tuners and one ATSC tuner.
3) Gigabit ethernet and 802.11g
4) media bay storage (300 GB included) in addition to 300 GB HD.
5) Front LCD panel context sensitive.
6) Wireless Keyboard with built-in trackball
7) Dolby digital/DTS capable optical and coax digital audio output
8) Pre-outs for 7.1 channel sound
9) Firewire/USB ports in back and front
10) Media card reader in front
11) Built-like a home theater component
Even though this looks inviting especially since my HDTV only has component video inputs and no DVI, I am still not getting this because it runs Windows! I am still waiting for an elegant solution from Apple!
Several years ago, when I used to live in an apt, I was vacuuming in the evening (did not realize it was getting late). I was going to have company the next day. The downstairs neighbor (an asshole), called the cops instead of just telling me to shut off the vacuum. I had cops knocking the door of my apt and asking me to be quiet and I apologized and told them that I will go to sleep. One of the cops asked for my id. I was in my own apt and he came in and asked for id. It looks like asking for id has become so standard that we don't realize that is a severe invasion of privacy.
Credit cards sometime give you very good rates. I once got a 2.99% forever deal. Not an introductory rate. Not even car loans and mortgages can beat that!!
I bought a Toshiba SD9200 DVD player in 2001 for $699 on sale. The MSRP on that player before that was $1299.00. So, asking for $799 is actually bargain on new technology!! I still use my SD9200 and it is built like a tank (over 23 lbs). The new cheap DVD players look awful compared to this.
Not necessarily. If your old antenna can pick up VHF/UHF frequencies, it can pick up the digital transmission also. Remember the tranmission frequencies are similar but the data embedded in the tranmission is MPEG2 digital stream that needs to be decoded. In fact, I don't subscribe to cable anymore. I just put up an antenna and get 8 HD stations in the Kansas City area. If you live in a bigger metro, you might get even more stations. In crisp HD and Dolby digital 5.1 sound.
Completely lost you here. When analog broadcasts stop, TVs that use the NTSC tuner to tune to analog TV broadcasts will not be able to tune to them. By using this low cost box, the box will feed the NTSC TV analog signals that it creates by converting the ATSC transmission that it receives from the airwaves. These broadcast reception is exactly same as before. So, if the poor guy is using an outdoor antenna to watch Analog ABC, then he can watch Digital ABC using the box. So, what are you talking about blank!!
I don't know about other pursuits and comforts in life, but for the healing arts such as ayurveda, the ancient Indians treated this as a service than a way to make money. In fact, ayurveda was taught from generation to generation by disciplined teachers to disciplined students, and no money ever changed hands. The thought of material wealth was never present. That was the power of healing. That is also the reason why most of the ayurvedic medical technologies and the associated medicines were never patented.
Of course, the modern medical system (both in India and abroad) has completely changed that and now health care (or rather sick care) has become a money making industry!!
Too bad, due to the power of money, alternative medicine has not taken off much because there is no money in it. And, by alternative medicine, I don't mean a bunch of natural vitamins that people buy for big bucks at a healthfood store.
During my last visit to India, I was impressed with an ayurvedic hospital. My wife had severe body pains due to fibromylagia and she went through some intense hot medicinal oil therapy and she felt a lot better. I used to have severe sinus infections frequently and for the past 3 years I have been much better. I did some research and there are records of doctors doing some intensive surgery with anaesthesia using ayurvedic techniques at least 2000 years ago.
My dual 1.25 GHz G4 PowerMac decodes 720p H264 files fine (running Quicktime 7 and Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger). However, it craps out on 1080p content dropping the frame rate to about 12 fps. According to Apple's specs you need a dual 2.0 GHz G5 for 1080p performance. However, the broadcom chip on the new iPod can do native H.264 decoding upto 640x480. If a little chip in an iPod can do that, I am sure there are other chips that can do 1920x1080p realtime. Both HD-DVD and BD-ROM players need to support H.264 decoding as well as VC-1 and MPEG2. I guess the DVDs themselves can store any one of these formats. If that is correct, there might be a format war for encoded files within the confines of the HD-DVD and BD-ROM themselves. I hope H.264 wins because I hate Microsoft and I am sure they will figure out a way to control VC-1 unilaterally.
Also, I hope the DVD formats natively support 1080p instead of just 1080i just like how the DVD players today support 480p instead of just 480i. That way, when people start buying 1080p TV sets, they will be able to take advantage of it. I have seen Toshiba DLP TVs with 1080p chips in them.
I don't think that is true. Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) had stardates such as 8000, etc. However, TNG (The Next Generation) started using 41000 through 47999 (1st season episodes were 41xxx (aired in 1987), 2nd season were 42xxx, etc). DS9, Voyager carried on this convention.
TOS is approximately 100 years before TNG. I don't see the relationship!
You think american doctors are better than those in other countries. You are wrong!! I have had many doctors in India that were way better than the ones in the US. Also, my current family doctor is Indian (in the US) and consider him one of my best doctors. I agree. Doctors get paid way too much here. But they also get creamed by the insurance and law industries!
One of my TVs is made in Malaysia (Toshiba), while the other is made in the USA (Sanyo). My rice cooker is made in Japan (it is a fancy one), Denon Receiver (Japan), Toshiba DVD Player (SD9200 - Japan), Klipsch Speakers (USA) and errr iPod (China) - damn...
Many movies being shown in HD are derived from the original Film. In fact, every saturday night premier of HBO movies are in pure HD. When I watched Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, I thought - wow. Also, recently WB premiered Lord of the Rings - Two Towers in HD - amazing.
The big mistake you are making is that the iPod is expensive compared to the competition. It is not. All other manufacturers are shaking in their boots to compete with the iPod Nano because Apple got a 50% discount on the flash memory from Samsung and others cannot.
This price competitiveness from Apple will allow Apple to innovate and keep the marketshare.
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I went to Hawaii for my honeymoon and I swear that they have interstates there. In fact, the same blue shield symbol with the I-xx in it. I don't remember the actual number, but the "I" is definitely there.
I lived in Erie from 1998 to 2005. I moved to Kansas City after that. I totally agree with you. Erie has horrible roads. I had to do alignments many times because of the pot holes. Once my wheel got dented because of a pothole and I had to replace it!! Also, the roads are so narrow that it takes 20 minutes to go just 5 miles!! It is not even a big city - only about 100k people. Man, I like the suburbs of Kansas City much better. So much space and very little snow.
Most studios only support one or the other format. Only Universal is HD-DVD only. So, if most movies are available in BD-ROM, then I don't think HD-DVD will win. Also, Netflix is already advertising both HD-DVD and BD-ROM.
That is not true. Local public TV and radio stations depend on pledges and underwriters a lot. For example in Pennsylvania, the state government funds nothing. The federal gives about 14%, 86% has to come from pledge drives. If they don't get enough money, they will have to start cutting programs. Each program costs money. For example, Morning Edition on NPR costs something like $100k / year for the station. Other programs are cheaper, but still... That is why you see some public radio stations that don't subscribe to certain NPR programs and others that do. More pledges, more programs.
Netflix is $18/month for 3 DVDs at a time. I have a subscription for just 1 DVD at a time - $10/month. I get to watch about 8 movies per month. Still only a little over $1 / movie.
Well, I am no longer with the locomotive stuff. I moved to Kansas City to be with the railroad signaling division. However, I will forward your comments to some of my contacts. You should be able to contact them through regular channels too.
Locomotives don't run on turbines!!! I work for the division of GE that builds the locomotives. GE tried that in the 60s and it did not workout because of the fuel efficiency. A diesel locomotive is nothing but a diesel engine powering an alternator that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy (unfiltered AC), then goes through a rectifier to convert to DC and then for DC locomotives, the current is sent to the DC electric motors on the 6 axles. The same current is applied to all 6 axles. For AC locomotives, the rectified DC power is sent through 6 separate inverters and converted to AC and then applied to the 6 axles. With AC locomotives, by controlling both the frequency and amplitude, you can control each axles and take care of wheel slippage, etc. and get better power efficiency. So - no turbines in diesel locos. Turbines run at very high speeds and are not fuel efficient for locomotives. Locomotive engines typically run at about 900-1100 rpm. These are massive 12-16 cylinder engines that produce anywhere from 3000-6000 hp. Of course, these have turbochargers, etc.
The AOpen model uses a celeron not a core duo/solo and is not much cheaper. The Mac Mini is a better deal.
Well, since DVDs are 480p native, I don't care if the MCE box does not upconvert it. My TV has upconversion built-in if I want it. Also, I would like to use component video for pictures, H.264 movie trailers, etc. Also, once you rip the DVDs and remove macrovision, those VIDEO_TS files will play fine.
HP Z556 ($1500) or HP Z558 ($2200) are a much better bargain than this trouble. Here are the features in the HP that is not in the home built one. 1) Component video output ports that handle 720p/1080i in addition to DVI 2) 2 NTSC tuners and one ATSC tuner. 3) Gigabit ethernet and 802.11g 4) media bay storage (300 GB included) in addition to 300 GB HD. 5) Front LCD panel context sensitive. 6) Wireless Keyboard with built-in trackball 7) Dolby digital/DTS capable optical and coax digital audio output 8) Pre-outs for 7.1 channel sound 9) Firewire/USB ports in back and front 10) Media card reader in front 11) Built-like a home theater component Even though this looks inviting especially since my HDTV only has component video inputs and no DVI, I am still not getting this because it runs Windows! I am still waiting for an elegant solution from Apple!
Several years ago, when I used to live in an apt, I was vacuuming in the evening (did not realize it was getting late). I was going to have company the next day. The downstairs neighbor (an asshole), called the cops instead of just telling me to shut off the vacuum. I had cops knocking the door of my apt and asking me to be quiet and I apologized and told them that I will go to sleep. One of the cops asked for my id. I was in my own apt and he came in and asked for id. It looks like asking for id has become so standard that we don't realize that is a severe invasion of privacy.
Credit cards sometime give you very good rates. I once got a 2.99% forever deal. Not an introductory rate. Not even car loans and mortgages can beat that!!
You pay $60/month!!! I pay $16.99/month with SBC DSL and I get decent service. No outage. 3mb/sec download, 768kb/sec upload.
I bought a Toshiba SD9200 DVD player in 2001 for $699 on sale. The MSRP on that player before that was $1299.00. So, asking for $799 is actually bargain on new technology!! I still use my SD9200 and it is built like a tank (over 23 lbs). The new cheap DVD players look awful compared to this.
Not necessarily. If your old antenna can pick up VHF/UHF frequencies, it can pick up the digital transmission also. Remember the tranmission frequencies are similar but the data embedded in the tranmission is MPEG2 digital stream that needs to be decoded. In fact, I don't subscribe to cable anymore. I just put up an antenna and get 8 HD stations in the Kansas City area. If you live in a bigger metro, you might get even more stations. In crisp HD and Dolby digital 5.1 sound.
Completely lost you here. When analog broadcasts stop, TVs that use the NTSC tuner to tune to analog TV broadcasts will not be able to tune to them. By using this low cost box, the box will feed the NTSC TV analog signals that it creates by converting the ATSC transmission that it receives from the airwaves. These broadcast reception is exactly same as before. So, if the poor guy is using an outdoor antenna to watch Analog ABC, then he can watch Digital ABC using the box. So, what are you talking about blank!!
I don't know about other pursuits and comforts in life, but for the healing arts such as ayurveda, the ancient Indians treated this as a service than a way to make money. In fact, ayurveda was taught from generation to generation by disciplined teachers to disciplined students, and no money ever changed hands. The thought of material wealth was never present. That was the power of healing. That is also the reason why most of the ayurvedic medical technologies and the associated medicines were never patented.
Of course, the modern medical system (both in India and abroad) has completely changed that and now health care (or rather sick care) has become a money making industry!!
Too bad, due to the power of money, alternative medicine has not taken off much because there is no money in it. And, by alternative medicine, I don't mean a bunch of natural vitamins that people buy for big bucks at a healthfood store.
During my last visit to India, I was impressed with an ayurvedic hospital. My wife had severe body pains due to fibromylagia and she went through some intense hot medicinal oil therapy and she felt a lot better. I used to have severe sinus infections frequently and for the past 3 years I have been much better. I did some research and there are records of doctors doing some intensive surgery with anaesthesia using ayurvedic techniques at least 2000 years ago.
HDTV encoded with H.264 can be had for about 8Mbit/sec not 100. -Siva
My dual 1.25 GHz G4 PowerMac decodes 720p H264 files fine (running Quicktime 7 and Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger). However, it craps out on 1080p content dropping the frame rate to about 12 fps. According to Apple's specs you need a dual 2.0 GHz G5 for 1080p performance. However, the broadcom chip on the new iPod can do native H.264 decoding upto 640x480. If a little chip in an iPod can do that, I am sure there are other chips that can do 1920x1080p realtime. Both HD-DVD and BD-ROM players need to support H.264 decoding as well as VC-1 and MPEG2. I guess the DVDs themselves can store any one of these formats. If that is correct, there might be a format war for encoded files within the confines of the HD-DVD and BD-ROM themselves. I hope H.264 wins because I hate Microsoft and I am sure they will figure out a way to control VC-1 unilaterally. Also, I hope the DVD formats natively support 1080p instead of just 1080i just like how the DVD players today support 480p instead of just 480i. That way, when people start buying 1080p TV sets, they will be able to take advantage of it. I have seen Toshiba DLP TVs with 1080p chips in them.
I don't think that is true. Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) had stardates such as 8000, etc. However, TNG (The Next Generation) started using 41000 through 47999 (1st season episodes were 41xxx (aired in 1987), 2nd season were 42xxx, etc). DS9, Voyager carried on this convention. TOS is approximately 100 years before TNG. I don't see the relationship!
You think american doctors are better than those in other countries. You are wrong!! I have had many doctors in India that were way better than the ones in the US. Also, my current family doctor is Indian (in the US) and consider him one of my best doctors. I agree. Doctors get paid way too much here. But they also get creamed by the insurance and law industries!
One of my TVs is made in Malaysia (Toshiba), while the other is made in the USA (Sanyo). My rice cooker is made in Japan (it is a fancy one), Denon Receiver (Japan), Toshiba DVD Player (SD9200 - Japan), Klipsch Speakers (USA) and errr iPod (China) - damn...
Many movies being shown in HD are derived from the original Film. In fact, every saturday night premier of HBO movies are in pure HD. When I watched Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, I thought - wow. Also, recently WB premiered Lord of the Rings - Two Towers in HD - amazing.
Google's market cap today is about $94 Billion. Twice as big as Apple.
The big mistake you are making is that the iPod is expensive compared to the competition. It is not. All other manufacturers are shaking in their boots to compete with the iPod Nano because Apple got a 50% discount on the flash memory from Samsung and others cannot. This price competitiveness from Apple will allow Apple to innovate and keep the marketshare.