>>>But trying to explain how you can roll this out to 20+:1 leveraging merely results in a torches & pitchforks response.
It sounds like Las Vegas or Atlantic City Odds to me. Maybe you think it's okay to gamble like that, but I don't. Neither do the currently-bankrupted companies who thought they could get away with it, but lost all their money at the table.
Everybody likes to make their job sound more important than it is.
Sure I could go on and on and on about FPGAs and VHDL and instantiations and timing skews and eye diagrams and so on. But the bottom line is: I lay-out wires that carry data.
You tried to obfuscate the facts with technobabble, but the current crisis is really not that difficult to understand. The banks invested heavily in home "stocks", but those stocks are now only worth half their value due to the declining home market. i.e. They are in an upside-down situation with more debt than assets, and that's created some fear & an unwillingness to lend money to those banks. (Would you loan more money to someone who is already $200,000 in debt, but only has a $100,000 house to back it up? No way!)
P.S. Since the television channels 2 to 51 have already been designated for "free" access for the citizens, it makes sense that any internet gadgets which share those channels would also require free access by citizens. The FCC Chair is just being consistent with established precedent for that VHF/UHF band.
>>>First of all, all of those things are already censored on cable.
False. The word "censorship" means "blocked by government restriction" but that is not the case. Some cable channels have made a conscience decision to remove content that might offend their customers. Others (FX, Spike, HBO) have decided not to. In both these cases, the decision was a private one not a government one.
The flaw with your argument is that *neither* of those were Canadian broadcast shows.
Stargate SG1's nudity was on *American* television - the Showtime channel.
Dead Like Me aired the same place - American television's Showtime.
A better example might have been Davinci's Inquest which was broadcast over Canadian airwaves, but still had to meet certain restrictions ("fuck" is censored and so too is nudity). Now that it's rerun in the States, they provide virtually the entire show unedited, so the differences between these two countries' over-the-air regulations is minimal.
Public over-the-air waves are censored in order to protect children from seeing things they should not see. It's been that way ever since the 1930s. If you want uncensored information, then you upgrade to cable television, satellite radio, or private subscription internet.
I'm more concerned about losing my television.
I can easily imagine the girl next door going for a jog & turning on her whitespace-enabled Ipod to stream Miley Cyrus radio. Then all my long-distance Washington D.C. stations will disappear, since her Ipod will think those are open channels & start broadcasting all over them. That's just great; just wonderful; how brilliant of the FCC Chair to take-away my free television.
Oh:
And the roads? The government can not take-away your right to travel freely. It's a God-given right, and last I checked, the government does not overrule God. If you want to hop into an old, unregistered Model T and go to the beach, the government can not stop you. It has not been granted the power by the constitution.
>>>Some people may go to considerable trouble to pick up weak DTV signals. Signals that are weak could not be easily detected by networking gear that didn't have a large antenna attached. >>>
Again, precisely. I can easily imagine the girl next door going for a jog & turning-on her whitespace-enabled Ipod to stream Miley Cyrus radio. Then all my Washington D.C. stations will disappear since her Ipod will think those are open channels. That's just great; just wonderful; how brilliant of the FCC Chair to take-away my free television.
With my Honda Insight which has an instant MPG gauge, plus average MPG calculation:
- When in lower gears, the economy is very poor.
- Best economy (highest MPG) is while driving in 5th gear, due to getting maximum distance from minimum engine power.
- Best speed is between 45 and 55 miles an hour.
- Below 20 miles an hour, the engine shuts off and I just coast to a stop.
- I also learned to avoid using the brake, since that too wastes energy (as heat). It's better to slow down by letting-off the throttle and just gradually lose speed.
The citizens of Eastern Europe rose-up against their governments. These citizens didn't even own guns. By your reckoning they should have been squashed, but that didn't happen. Most of the soldiers refused to fire on their own neighbors, and the governments collapsed under the sheer weight of numbers.
The politicians are just acting like the People they represent:
- If you want something, buy it. - If you don't have the money, borrow it.
The only way the U.S. is going to eliminate its government debt is to start from the ground up. The People will need to learn to stop buying things if they lack the money to do so, and then demand the politicians follow that example.
You sound like Congressman Ron Paul. The only difference is he thought we could recover by 2010.
>>>We might have been able to fix this 15 years ago during the last recession, but it's too late now.
Try 4 years ago. Remember the dot-com bubble and the crash which started in 1999? We finally recovered in 2004, but not we're going down again. You'd think banks would have learned not to invest in risky stocks, but apparently not.
If you're less than ten years away from retiring, then you should have your saving in a simple interest bank account. No stocks. That way a crash won't devalue your money.
Take me for example - my stocks devalued from $30,000 to $20,000. I don't care because I know it will eventually come back, but if I was going to retire in 2015, I'd be screwed. For short-term investments the best place is a stable bank account.
>>>Nothing is different except the assumed value of a few sheets of paper.
If the homeowners bail, rather than pay back their loans, then those sheets of paper won't be worth much more than firewood. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Inflation-1923.jpg - Or else, if the paper still holds value, your bank won't be able to repay you. "I'd like to withdraw $50,000 please." "Sorry sir but your neighbors abandoned their homes, and we the bank have no money to give you."
OUR savings are invested in homes. If the dwellers of those homes default, then the homes stand empty, and our savings disappear. Even if the home eventually sells for 50% its original value, that means we lost 50% of our savings.
Any money that is "created" is quickly eliminated by the process of paper devaluation. If I saved $2,000 in 1989, and it's now grown to around $4,000 in 2008, it would appear that I've doubled my money.
That appearance is mere illusion, because in reality $4000 today has no more value than $2000 in 1989. It doesn't buy any more goods, and when converted to gold it still amounts to just one pound (approximately). This is how the financial gurus have tricked everybody to think they are gaining wealth when in reality the wealth is the same (or even shrinking).
We need to return to gold-banked paper, rather than floating paper that can be so easily devalued by the government or Wall Street.
Yeah but it's not going to be SULEV (super ultra-low emission)-qualified like the Prius. Or even LEV qualified. A lot of those old cars get great economy, but would be illegal to sell under today's clean air standards.
Take the 2006 Jetta TDI for example. It too had 49mpg, but could not be sold in California. Volkswagen had to go back to the drawing board and make it cleaner before CA okayed the revised 2008 model.
>>> "now that these things exist, sites that carry series that have little to no commercial value, what point is there to 100+ channels?"
Ding, ding, ding! This is precisely why Comcast has implemented that 15-minute "bandwidth hog" window. They want to slowdown video streams from sites like nbc.com, fox.com, cwtv.com, et cetera. They call it bandwidth management, but it's really about blocking high bitrate television watching.
White-space devices won't hurt just Cable companies but also over-the-air viewers, because the WSDs have been demonstrated to not detect "weak" stations from long-distance locations (50-60 miles away).
As a result, the WSDs broadcast directly over top of existing programming. That is not acceptable. Over-the-air viewers have already given-up channels 52 to 83. Why can't WSDs use *that* spectrum and leave channels 2-51 alone???
Youtube probably lacks the ability to market European-centric advertising. After all, what good is it to advertise "Buy a new car at Carrmaxx" if the viewer lives on the opposite side of the ocean?
Plus as I stated elsewhere, these media companies would rather sell Europeans a DVD of "McGuyver" or sell these episodes on European reruns, rather than just give it away.
Yes this is the WWW, except that the American owners don't want non-americans looking at A-Team, McGuyver, et cetera. They want to sell those programs to Japanese stations for reruns, or on DVD directly to European citizens, and thereby maximize profit. If they gave this stuff for free via the web, they'd be killing their non-american market.
Everything makes sense if you just follow the dollar to its source and assume the owner is greedy.
Yes Squared. I watched the Canadian CBC-produced DaVinci's Inquest on youtube, and it looked just fine when blown-up to full screen size. About the same as over-the-air overly-compressed SDTV.;-)
The only drawback was the show was divided into ten-minute segments. I'm glad to see youtube will now allow 45-50 minute long episodes.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't get the joke. What relevance does Peter Griffin have to do with a Commodore 64 running GEOS?
>>>And if 'they' insist on Word files, you wouldn't want to work there anyway, as they are clearly deluded and stupid beyond measure.
hahahahahahahahaha!
>>>Not kidding either, actually.
Oh. :-| Most of my jobs have required either Word or plain text resume. Most of my jobs were government-contractor jobs; a coincidence?
>>>But trying to explain how you can roll this out to 20+:1 leveraging merely results in a torches & pitchforks response.
It sounds like Las Vegas or Atlantic City Odds to me. Maybe you think it's okay to gamble like that, but I don't. Neither do the currently-bankrupted companies who thought they could get away with it, but lost all their money at the table.
Everybody likes to make their job sound more important than it is.
Sure I could go on and on and on about FPGAs and VHDL and instantiations and timing skews and eye diagrams and so on. But the bottom line is: I lay-out wires that carry data.
You tried to obfuscate the facts with technobabble, but the current crisis is really not that difficult to understand. The banks invested heavily in home "stocks", but those stocks are now only worth half their value due to the declining home market. i.e. They are in an upside-down situation with more debt than assets, and that's created some fear & an unwillingness to lend money to those banks. (Would you loan more money to someone who is already $200,000 in debt, but only has a $100,000 house to back it up? No way!)
P.S. Since the television channels 2 to 51 have already been designated for "free" access for the citizens, it makes sense that any internet gadgets which share those channels would also require free access by citizens. The FCC Chair is just being consistent with established precedent for that VHF/UHF band.
>>>First of all, all of those things are already censored on cable.
False. The word "censorship" means "blocked by government restriction" but that is not the case. Some cable channels have made a conscience decision to remove content that might offend their customers. Others (FX, Spike, HBO) have decided not to. In both these cases, the decision was a private one not a government one.
The flaw with your argument is that *neither* of those were Canadian broadcast shows.
Stargate SG1's nudity was on *American* television - the Showtime channel.
Dead Like Me aired the same place - American television's Showtime.
A better example might have been Davinci's Inquest which was broadcast over Canadian airwaves, but still had to meet certain restrictions ("fuck" is censored and so too is nudity). Now that it's rerun in the States, they provide virtually the entire show unedited, so the differences between these two countries' over-the-air regulations is minimal.
Public over-the-air waves are censored in order to protect children from seeing things they should not see. It's been that way ever since the 1930s. If you want uncensored information, then you upgrade to cable television, satellite radio, or private subscription internet.
I'm more concerned about losing my television.
I can easily imagine the girl next door going for a jog & turning on her whitespace-enabled Ipod to stream Miley Cyrus radio. Then all my long-distance Washington D.C. stations will disappear, since her Ipod will think those are open channels & start broadcasting all over them. That's just great; just wonderful; how brilliant of the FCC Chair to take-away my free television.
Oh:
And the roads? The government can not take-away your right to travel freely. It's a God-given right, and last I checked, the government does not overrule God. If you want to hop into an old, unregistered Model T and go to the beach, the government can not stop you. It has not been granted the power by the constitution.
Precisely.
>>>Some people may go to considerable trouble to pick up weak DTV signals. Signals that are weak could not be easily detected by networking gear that didn't have a large antenna attached.
>>>
Again, precisely. I can easily imagine the girl next door going for a jog & turning-on her whitespace-enabled Ipod to stream Miley Cyrus radio. Then all my Washington D.C. stations will disappear since her Ipod will think those are open channels. That's just great; just wonderful; how brilliant of the FCC Chair to take-away my free television.
With my Honda Insight which has an instant MPG gauge, plus average MPG calculation:
- When in lower gears, the economy is very poor.
- Best economy (highest MPG) is while driving in 5th gear, due to getting maximum distance from minimum engine power.
- Best speed is between 45 and 55 miles an hour.
- Below 20 miles an hour, the engine shuts off and I just coast to a stop.
- I also learned to avoid using the brake, since that too wastes energy (as heat). It's better to slow down by letting-off the throttle and just gradually lose speed.
The citizens of Eastern Europe rose-up against their governments. These citizens didn't even own guns. By your reckoning they should have been squashed, but that didn't happen. Most of the soldiers refused to fire on their own neighbors, and the governments collapsed under the sheer weight of numbers.
The politicians are just acting like the People they represent:
- If you want something, buy it.
- If you don't have the money, borrow it.
The only way the U.S. is going to eliminate its government debt is to start from the ground up. The People will need to learn to stop buying things if they lack the money to do so, and then demand the politicians follow that example.
You sound like Congressman Ron Paul. The only difference is he thought we could recover by 2010.
>>>We might have been able to fix this 15 years ago during the last recession, but it's too late now.
Try 4 years ago. Remember the dot-com bubble and the crash which started in 1999? We finally recovered in 2004, but not we're going down again. You'd think banks would have learned not to invest in risky stocks, but apparently not.
If you're less than ten years away from retiring, then you should have your saving in a simple interest bank account. No stocks. That way a crash won't devalue your money.
Take me for example - my stocks devalued from $30,000 to $20,000. I don't care because I know it will eventually come back, but if I was going to retire in 2015, I'd be screwed. For short-term investments the best place is a stable bank account.
>>>Nothing is different except the assumed value of a few sheets of paper.
If the homeowners bail, rather than pay back their loans, then those sheets of paper won't be worth much more than firewood. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Inflation-1923.jpg - Or else, if the paper still holds value, your bank won't be able to repay you. "I'd like to withdraw $50,000 please." "Sorry sir but your neighbors abandoned their homes, and we the bank have no money to give you."
OUR savings are invested in homes. If the dwellers of those homes default, then the homes stand empty, and our savings disappear. Even if the home eventually sells for 50% its original value, that means we lost 50% of our savings.
(shrug)
Any money that is "created" is quickly eliminated by the process of paper devaluation. If I saved $2,000 in 1989, and it's now grown to around $4,000 in 2008, it would appear that I've doubled my money.
That appearance is mere illusion, because in reality $4000 today has no more value than $2000 in 1989. It doesn't buy any more goods, and when converted to gold it still amounts to just one pound (approximately). This is how the financial gurus have tricked everybody to think they are gaining wealth when in reality the wealth is the same (or even shrinking).
We need to return to gold-banked paper, rather than floating paper that can be so easily devalued by the government or Wall Street.
Yeah but it's not going to be SULEV (super ultra-low emission)-qualified like the Prius. Or even LEV qualified. A lot of those old cars get great economy, but would be illegal to sell under today's clean air standards.
Take the 2006 Jetta TDI for example. It too had 49mpg, but could not be sold in California. Volkswagen had to go back to the drawing board and make it cleaner before CA okayed the revised 2008 model.
I prefer cars that look like a college woman.
- curvy exterior
- firm
- no blemishes or rust
Okay BBC is supported by taxes (a tax by any other name, is still a tax).
What about the commercial-supported European networks? They too block access to U.S. viewers.
>>> "now that these things exist, sites that carry series that have little to no commercial value, what point is there to 100+ channels?"
Ding, ding, ding! This is precisely why Comcast has implemented that 15-minute "bandwidth hog" window. They want to slowdown video streams from sites like nbc.com, fox.com, cwtv.com, et cetera. They call it bandwidth management, but it's really about blocking high bitrate television watching.
White-space devices won't hurt just Cable companies but also over-the-air viewers, because the WSDs have been demonstrated to not detect "weak" stations from long-distance locations (50-60 miles away).
As a result, the WSDs broadcast directly over top of existing programming. That is not acceptable. Over-the-air viewers have already given-up channels 52 to 83. Why can't WSDs use *that* spectrum and leave channels 2-51 alone???
Or bittorrent.
Youtube probably lacks the ability to market European-centric advertising. After all, what good is it to advertise "Buy a new car at Carrmaxx" if the viewer lives on the opposite side of the ocean?
Plus as I stated elsewhere, these media companies would rather sell Europeans a DVD of "McGuyver" or sell these episodes on European reruns, rather than just give it away.
Yes this is the WWW, except that the American owners don't want non-americans looking at A-Team, McGuyver, et cetera. They want to sell those programs to Japanese stations for reruns, or on DVD directly to European citizens, and thereby maximize profit. If they gave this stuff for free via the web, they'd be killing their non-american market.
Everything makes sense if you just follow the dollar to its source and assume the owner is greedy.
I've never seen a high-quality option. You just get what you get.
Analog television maxes-out at 480x486, so youtube would be about the same as analog if it had lots of macroblocking.
Yes Squared. I watched the Canadian CBC-produced DaVinci's Inquest on youtube, and it looked just fine when blown-up to full screen size. About the same as over-the-air overly-compressed SDTV. ;-)
The only drawback was the show was divided into ten-minute segments. I'm glad to see youtube will now allow 45-50 minute long episodes.