I don't think that's what I'm looking for. The manual seems to indicate it sends processed video, whereas I was looking for the straight datastream from the tuner (before it's been processed into an image).
If rural residents have phone lines running into their house, they should be able to get some kind of DSL which would be ~10 times faster than dialup (300-500 kbit/s) or maybe 20 times faster (600-1000 kb/s). ----- Plus DSL would be a lot cheaper than either cellular or satellite (~$15 versus $60 a month). The Verizons of the world just need to stop dragging their feet & install the necessary equipment to make DSL work. The phoneline wiring into everybody's home is already present and waiting to be used.
Also:
In defense of dialup, it's not that bad if you're just surfing the web. While traveling, I use Netscape ISP which uses image compression to give my phone-internet an effective speed equal to DSL at home.
>>>for the WiMax project, there will not be any bandwidth cap.
Riiiiight. And Comcast actually gives me the 10 megabits/second I paid for. Yep. Uh huh. Sure. Last I checked my Utorrent is maxing-out at just 100 kilobytes/s, aka ~1 Mbps, not 10.
WiiMax? Is that a Nintendo console with 720p or 1080i output? I bet there will be a long waiting line; and probably scalpers on Ebay charging $1000 to get one.. I'll wait and pick mine up after Christmas.
Most people (including me) probably don't know how. I have my resume & other documents backed-up in yahoo mail, but I have no idea where to find enough (free) online space to store several gigabytes worth of MP3s or videos.
>>>they swooped on his home and seized his camera and PC.
How nice. You try to be an honest citizen, and they steal your stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if they next decide to charge him for "trafficing" in playboy photos, illegal music, and/or downloaded movies.
There are some cable companies that DO provide unencrypted DTV - typically channels 60-99. The problem is that you can't use an ATSC/8-VSB tuner, because cable uses QAM.
As for me, I don't have cable, so my main interest is getting digital television via my antenna (ATSC).
Right on. And imagine how much energy we could all save if we became Amish. Windmill-powered laptops. Horse-drawn lexus carriages. No need to visit the grocery store; just milk a cow, butcher a cow, or eat fresh corn from your own backyard.
(I'm just joking).;-)
OKAY BACK TO TOPIC: This is yet another waste of taxpayer money. Most stores are already pursuing ways to conserve energy, such as Walmart replacing all their incandescent lighting with fluorescent. My local JCPenney installed skylights so they could turn-off the lights during the day. They also shortened their workers' hours from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. downto 9:30 to 9:30. (That's five hours saved times 364 days per year times 1000 stores == almost 2,000,000 hours of high-cost heating/air conditioning eliminated.)
These companies don't need additional incentives; they already have the built-in business incentive to cut costs whereever possible.
>>>"I can't seem to get further than the first interview..."
If the company liked your resume enough to bring you in for an interview, but you still don't get the job, then the problem is not your resume. The problem is your interview skills. I too have a hard time getting past in-person interviews.
So now I do contract work, which only requires a phone interview, a much easier hurdle to jump over. The employers are a lot less picky when they know you're only temporary. Perhaps you should contact some recruiting companies (headhunters) who will hire you as your employee & then "farm you out" on a contractual basis.
>>>You can cut that in half if you already have a compatible TV tuner.
Okay. Question:
How difficult would it be to modify one of those $60 ATSC-over-the-air tuners? I'd like to make it dump the raw data directly to a PC (perhaps via USB), so that I can read the raw ATSC data as it streams-in over the antenna. Anybody have links to websites that would be helpful?
I have a Panasonic DVR I bought refurbished off ebay. It includes lifetime service that is constantly providing guide data without me ever having to pay a dime. Sweet. It was my first DVR and I'm still extremely happy with its performance.
>>>You can cut that in half if you already have a compatible TV tuner.
Okay. Question:
How difficult would it be to modify one of those $60 ATSC-over-the-air tuners? I'd like to make it dump the raw data directly to a PC (perhaps over a serial port), so that I can read the raw MPEG2 data as it streams-in over the antenna. Anybody have links to websites that would be helpful?
Where the heck is Sid Meier? He created some of the best Commodore and PC games of the 1980s and 90s: F-15 Strike Eagle, Stealth Fighter, Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, Pirates, Civilization..... just to name a few.
Hmmm. I learned something new. By definition an arcade game is one that collects money (just like the pinball machines it shares space with), so Galaxy Game would not qualify. Computer Space would be first in 1971.
And you're right, the Odyssey was the first home console. Those programmers should be included in the list too, if they created anything memorable. After all, the creator of Pac-Man is in the list... the guys who created Asteroids and Space Invaders and other famous 70s-era games ought to be in the list too.
Along with Activision founders David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead who demanded name recognition for their work.
There are not many famous women engineers either. I suspect women simply don't have as much interest in "gadgets" as we men do. Likewise we men don't have much interest in shopping sprees for the latest clothing & shoe styles.
BACK TO LIST:
Where are the programmers from Atari, Commodore, and Activision? They *definitely* deserve to be there since they created the first arcade game (Pong), first home videogames (Atari 2600 cartridges), and first third-party development company (David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead) because they DEMANDED that programmers receive credit on their creations, rather than be treated like anonymous laborers.
(deep breath)
Perhaps I'm just an old curmudgeon, but it annoys me how these lists so often "forget" the contributions to computer industry that occurred during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It's almost as if the authors of these lists think nothing existed prior to 1990 except Apple, Gates, Microsoft, and Jobs.
Most long-distance calls are not much more expensive than local calls (in the U.S. anyway). 10 cents for local versus 25 cents to call Europe or Japan. I don't have any problem with just lumping it all together & paying a flat rate.
Yes that was precisely my point. We never know when we might get another Clinton (who rifled through FBI files to uncover secret information about Congressmen) or Bush (who abused his power to have the FBI listen to everybody's phone calls). We need to limit government power in order to protect ourselves from some future tyrant who will use the Database, not to for legitimate purposes, but for illegitimate purposes.
Today Finland's censorship system might only be used to screen-out child porn & other illegal activities.
But some day in the future another Milosovich might rise-up and use the system to censor websites that oppose his views (i.e. violate the right to free speech). We must guard against the eventuality, because history shows it WILL happen. All governments eventually become corrupt & abusive of their own citizens.
But if Canada's provinces seceded and joined the E.U. as member states (I can easily imagine separatist-Quebec doing that), I don't think the U.S. would allow it to happen. The U.S. doesn't want a superpower like the E.U. parked on its northern border. There would always be the fear that Europe might invade.
The U.S. would likely take-over the seceding provinces by force (same way we took the Southeast from Mexico). Or possibly lend military aid to the Canadian government to hold the pieces together & maintain the status quo.
The coriolis force does NOT affect how water spins down a drain.
As I said, that is an urban legend. (Maybe YOU need to learn your science.) In fact my water drains one way 50% of the time, and the other way the other 50% of the time.
>>>I want ISPs to prioritise traffic based on type.....I use cFosSpeed to prioritise real-time applications (VOIP) highest...
P.S.
Just because YOU prioritize VoIP highest does not mean your ISP will do the same. For example my ISP is Verizon Phone Company. They might decide (reasonably) that VoIP interferes with their primary business & give it LOW priority to discourage its use.
Obviously that would be bad. Net neutrality, where my phone company does not slow-down my VoIP or any other application, is better.
>>>I want ISPs to prioritise traffic based on type
That seems logical, but given how companies like Comcast act, they'd decide that the NBC.com "type" or the CWTV.com "type" should be given low-priority simply because it competes with Comcast's own television sales. It is better, I think, to simply tell ISP's to ignore the content. Be neutral.
Rather than have the ISP control traffic, let the sender adjust dynamically to congestion. For example CWTV.com's video player is constantly fluctuating from 128k to 500kbit/s based upon changing conditions. (BTW Voice-over-Internet is hardly a demanding application. I don't about your country, but in the U.S. telephones are only 56k wide. That's all you really need for voice-quality connections over VoIP.)
And finally, ISPs need to stop being lazy. They should be constantly upgrading the network & adding more bandwidth. I get the impression ISPs want to just sit on their butts & "freeze" capacities at current levels rather than add more. So they are trying to limit usage, rather than expand.
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I see a lot of traditional banks failing.
WaMu.
Wachovia.
I don't think that's what I'm looking for. The manual seems to indicate it sends processed video, whereas I was looking for the straight datastream from the tuner (before it's been processed into an image).
If rural residents have phone lines running into their house, they should be able to get some kind of DSL which would be ~10 times faster than dialup (300-500 kbit/s) or maybe 20 times faster (600-1000 kb/s). ----- Plus DSL would be a lot cheaper than either cellular or satellite (~$15 versus $60 a month). The Verizons of the world just need to stop dragging their feet & install the necessary equipment to make DSL work. The phoneline wiring into everybody's home is already present and waiting to be used.
Also:
In defense of dialup, it's not that bad if you're just surfing the web. While traveling, I use Netscape ISP which uses image compression to give my phone-internet an effective speed equal to DSL at home.
>>>for the WiMax project, there will not be any bandwidth cap.
Riiiiight. And Comcast actually gives me the 10 megabits/second I paid for. Yep. Uh huh. Sure. Last I checked my Utorrent is maxing-out at just 100 kilobytes/s, aka ~1 Mbps, not 10.
WiiMax? Is that a Nintendo console with 720p or 1080i output? I bet there will be a long waiting line; and probably scalpers on Ebay charging $1000 to get one.. I'll wait and pick mine up after Christmas.
Nice Simpsons reference.
Most people (including me) probably don't know how. I have my resume & other documents backed-up in yahoo mail, but I have no idea where to find enough (free) online space to store several gigabytes worth of MP3s or videos.
>>>they swooped on his home and seized his camera and PC.
How nice. You try to be an honest citizen, and they steal your stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if they next decide to charge him for "trafficing" in playboy photos, illegal music, and/or downloaded movies.
There are some cable companies that DO provide unencrypted DTV - typically channels 60-99. The problem is that you can't use an ATSC/8-VSB tuner, because cable uses QAM.
As for me, I don't have cable, so my main interest is getting digital television via my antenna (ATSC).
"Hole" Foods?
You mean they specialize in donuts? (ducking and running)
Right on. And imagine how much energy we could all save if we became Amish. Windmill-powered laptops. Horse-drawn lexus carriages. No need to visit the grocery store; just milk a cow, butcher a cow, or eat fresh corn from your own backyard.
(I'm just joking). ;-)
OKAY BACK TO TOPIC: This is yet another waste of taxpayer money. Most stores are already pursuing ways to conserve energy, such as Walmart replacing all their incandescent lighting with fluorescent. My local JCPenney installed skylights so they could turn-off the lights during the day. They also shortened their workers' hours from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. downto 9:30 to 9:30. (That's five hours saved times 364 days per year times 1000 stores == almost 2,000,000 hours of high-cost heating/air conditioning eliminated.)
These companies don't need additional incentives; they already have the built-in business incentive to cut costs whereever possible.
>>>"I can't seem to get further than the first interview..."
If the company liked your resume enough to bring you in for an interview, but you still don't get the job, then the problem is not your resume. The problem is your interview skills. I too have a hard time getting past in-person interviews.
So now I do contract work, which only requires a phone interview, a much easier hurdle to jump over. The employers are a lot less picky when they know you're only temporary. Perhaps you should contact some recruiting companies (headhunters) who will hire you as your employee & then "farm you out" on a contractual basis.
>>>You can cut that in half if you already have a compatible TV tuner.
Okay. Question:
How difficult would it be to modify one of those $60 ATSC-over-the-air tuners? I'd like to make it dump the raw data directly to a PC (perhaps via USB), so that I can read the raw ATSC data as it streams-in over the antenna. Anybody have links to websites that would be helpful?
>>>There are very few serial ports in PCs that can handle the 19.2Mbps
The Universal Serial Bus 2.0 can handle that. ;-)
Correction:
".....so that I can read the raw ATSC data as it streams-in over the antenna."
I have a Panasonic DVR I bought refurbished off ebay. It includes lifetime service that is constantly providing guide data without me ever having to pay a dime. Sweet. It was my first DVR and I'm still extremely happy with its performance.
>>>You can cut that in half if you already have a compatible TV tuner.
Okay. Question:
How difficult would it be to modify one of those $60 ATSC-over-the-air tuners? I'd like to make it dump the raw data directly to a PC (perhaps over a serial port), so that I can read the raw MPEG2 data as it streams-in over the antenna. Anybody have links to websites that would be helpful?
P.S.
Where the heck is Sid Meier? He created some of the best Commodore and PC games of the 1980s and 90s: F-15 Strike Eagle, Stealth Fighter, Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, Pirates, Civilization..... just to name a few.
Hmmm. I learned something new. By definition an arcade game is one that collects money (just like the pinball machines it shares space with), so Galaxy Game would not qualify. Computer Space would be first in 1971.
And you're right, the Odyssey was the first home console. Those programmers should be included in the list too, if they created anything memorable. After all, the creator of Pac-Man is in the list... the guys who created Asteroids and Space Invaders and other famous 70s-era games ought to be in the list too.
Along with Activision founders David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead who demanded name recognition for their work.
There are not many famous women engineers either. I suspect women simply don't have as much interest in "gadgets" as we men do. Likewise we men don't have much interest in shopping sprees for the latest clothing & shoe styles.
BACK TO LIST:
Where are the programmers from Atari, Commodore, and Activision? They *definitely* deserve to be there since they created the first arcade game (Pong), first home videogames (Atari 2600 cartridges), and first third-party development company (David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead) because they DEMANDED that programmers receive credit on their creations, rather than be treated like anonymous laborers.
(deep breath)
Perhaps I'm just an old curmudgeon, but it annoys me how these lists so often "forget" the contributions to computer industry that occurred during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It's almost as if the authors of these lists think nothing existed prior to 1990 except Apple, Gates, Microsoft, and Jobs.
Most long-distance calls are not much more expensive than local calls (in the U.S. anyway). 10 cents for local versus 25 cents to call Europe or Japan. I don't have any problem with just lumping it all together & paying a flat rate.
Yes that was precisely my point. We never know when we might get another Clinton (who rifled through FBI files to uncover secret information about Congressmen) or Bush (who abused his power to have the FBI listen to everybody's phone calls). We need to limit government power in order to protect ourselves from some future tyrant who will use the Database, not to for legitimate purposes, but for illegitimate purposes.
Today Finland's censorship system might only be used to screen-out child porn & other illegal activities.
But some day in the future another Milosovich might rise-up and use the system to censor websites that oppose his views (i.e. violate the right to free speech). We must guard against the eventuality, because history shows it WILL happen. All governments eventually become corrupt & abusive of their own citizens.
Yep very interesting article.
But if Canada's provinces seceded and joined the E.U. as member states (I can easily imagine separatist-Quebec doing that), I don't think the U.S. would allow it to happen. The U.S. doesn't want a superpower like the E.U. parked on its northern border. There would always be the fear that Europe might invade.
The U.S. would likely take-over the seceding provinces by force (same way we took the Southeast from Mexico). Or possibly lend military aid to the Canadian government to hold the pieces together & maintain the status quo.
The coriolis force does NOT affect how water spins down a drain.
As I said, that is an urban legend. (Maybe YOU need to learn your science.) In fact my water drains one way 50% of the time, and the other way the other 50% of the time.
>>>I want ISPs to prioritise traffic based on type.....I use cFosSpeed to prioritise real-time applications (VOIP) highest...
P.S.
Just because YOU prioritize VoIP highest does not mean your ISP will do the same. For example my ISP is Verizon Phone Company. They might decide (reasonably) that VoIP interferes with their primary business & give it LOW priority to discourage its use.
Obviously that would be bad. Net neutrality, where my phone company does not slow-down my VoIP or any other application, is better.
>>>I want ISPs to prioritise traffic based on type
That seems logical, but given how companies like Comcast act, they'd decide that the NBC.com "type" or the CWTV.com "type" should be given low-priority simply because it competes with Comcast's own television sales. It is better, I think, to simply tell ISP's to ignore the content. Be neutral.
Rather than have the ISP control traffic, let the sender adjust dynamically to congestion. For example CWTV.com's video player is constantly fluctuating from 128k to 500kbit/s based upon changing conditions. (BTW Voice-over-Internet is hardly a demanding application. I don't about your country, but in the U.S. telephones are only 56k wide. That's all you really need for voice-quality connections over VoIP.)
And finally, ISPs need to stop being lazy. They should be constantly upgrading the network & adding more bandwidth. I get the impression ISPs want to just sit on their butts & "freeze" capacities at current levels rather than add more. So they are trying to limit usage, rather than expand.