The NBC starting early has been a hotly debated topic. Despite the conspiracy theory, the consesus is that it isn't to make TiVo's not work. (Afterall NBC is a TiVo investor).
The current theories are: 1) Starting early allows them to bill for the higher ad rate. 30 seconds of 'ER Time' goes for much more than 30 seconds of nameless comedy that precedes ER.
2) They've always started early, ER has been 1-2 minutes early for a couple of years now, just now the times are accurate.
3) It allows them to retain viewers. TBS used to do this with 'Turner Time' which had the shows start/end 5 minutes later than everybody else. Viewers didnt want to switch away and miss the end of their show, nor did they want to change to a different show already in progress, in some cases.
The current solution to the NBC odd start time is to use a Manual Recording for ER and Record CSI like normal. You do loose 1 minute of ER but my experience has been, that minute is rarely crucial.
A long term fix would be negative padding, to allow Tivo to record part of a show when 2 overlap. (This is available as a hack if you look for it)
I live in NY (not the city, but you said NY, it is a whole state too:) )
All the 911 PSAP's I can think of, have a 10 digit emergency number, most of them are holdovers from the pre-911 days.
What this means is that the Ambulance (or any other vehicle running authorized L&S) in its operation basically "can't hurt anyone or break anything" but they can disregard traffic laws otherwise. When the L&S are off, the IR emitter (usually they are tied together) should be off as well as traffic laws apply.
They dont have to stop for red lights, but they do have to exercise caution, I've had intersections blocked by a police car for me that I didn't pause (much) for, these IR devices creating 4 way reds has a similar effect, but you still need to exercise caution for the guy who runs the red, is drunk, etc.
At my previous place of employment,9 was used to get an outside line, and dialing 911 (fire/police) was a common occurence with the mistakee then hanging up when they realize their mistake.
As someone who has worked with 911 alot,
On silent lines or hangups, the 911 protocol is to send *at least* one unit to investigate, some places send everything (fire/pd/ems)
Some states regulate this with Pre-existiing condition type laws, citing limits on excluding conditions and/or jacking your rates up because you are sick.
These vary state by state, but if I remember right, most of the rate-limiting laws used the "Community Average" for figuring out the rate.
I am deaf, and your pretty much right, at least some of the time. Without context, I find lipreading very hard to impossible, with context I can get maybe 80% of the words and can fill in the blanks.
I know others can lipread better than I can but even in lipreading class they said that you wont be able to catch everything and have to fill in the blanks.
Just to note, All Deaf people can't lipread and not all people can be lipread. Bushy Mustaches, not moving your mouth when you talk are two big obstacles. (a personal peeve when someone expects me to lipread them)
Sure You can:
Two Digital Cable Boxes
1 Splitter
and probably a switch so you don't have to move cables around. I sometimes do something similar to this, I use the internal TV AV switch to that I can watch Analog Channels while the TiVO is recording something off digital cable.
One Cable Box is hooked to your Tivo and One is hooked directly to your TV.
In the latest Tivo newsletter, they explained why they have no plans to incorporate dual tuners, but alas I've deleted it already. It basically came down to, they'd have to replicate a lot of hardware to do it. And as someone else pointed out, you'd still need a 2nd box from the cable company to decode the additional digital cable channel anyways.
Why the dual tuner is possible with DirectTV; it is incorporated with the recveiver (decoder) so you don't need a second box and through it's integration there's probably less components needed for each tuner. The regular Tivos have a tuner to accept RF, AV and I beleive S-Video (it's been a while since Ive seen the back of mine).
They come in two forms (at least the AOL ones did when I was a contractor there) A Key chain Fob and one that looks like a Credit Card Calculator.
If I remember right, the system also automatically marks the login code invalid once a successful login is achieved. So someone can't use a Key Sniffer to steal your code. If you logged in and got disconnected for some reason, you needed to wait for your SecurID to rollover to the next code.
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Or in my case.. I'm deaf and I wear a vibrating watch (insert lame joke here, I've heard them all) and it really does come in handy. Sure my cell phone has a clock but I use an older StarTrac, so to read the clock I have to take it out of it's holster and open it up. It also doesn't have the flexibility for vibration notifications (such as a Countdown timer, I can't hear the Kitchen timer:)
But you seem to be inferring the only triaging goes "He's not saveable, He is"
ANY Multi-Victim accident has some triaging, not as formal, we don't break out the tags but it might be just as simple as deciding which patient your going to go to first, the guy with the nosebleed or the guy in cardiac arrest or Calling for a Second Unit and deciding which patient needs to go in the first unit.
Your medical records REALLY don't have that much effect on how they treat you, if your impaled on the Steering Wheel, I don't care that you have Colon Cancer.
The EMT's aren't the end all be all of your Emergency Treatment, they basically get you to the hospital, provide some stablization and try to keep things from getting any worse. The ER staff takes it from there, and they might care about your medical records, but they are also (usually) at a Hospital and would have access to them. Either in their own records or by calling someplace that does.
Airlift is expensive, which is why I don't think you'll see it rolling instead of an ambulance as the first responder on the scene.
There's also ALOT less Air Ambulances than there are ground Ambulances, where I am there is just 1 Air Ambulance that serves a rather large area (probably 1000+ Ground Ambulances). Calling them out for every accident that the black box deems necessary seems like an unwise use of resources.
It also takes time for them to get in the Air and get to the accident scene. The rule we had to go by with Calling for the Helicopter is if you had excess extrication time (getting the victim out of the wreck) or excess transportation time (you were a long way from the hospital).
There's also the side bits of things like setting up a landing zone (so bystanders don't get their arms chopped off in the rotor or the helicopter crashes because it was fouled by debris), telling the Air Ambulance Crew where they are going, triaging which patients are serious enough to go (most Air Ambulances Can take 2 patients max).
And for the record, yes I was an EMT but I am now deaf so I am a retired EMT.
Actually it's not a long complicated domain anymore. It's vtext.com now. You can also sign up for a alphanumeric email address to use in addition to your phone number.
I don't have a GSM phone, but my Cell Phone has SMS. I use that pretty extensively. I was using AIM via the WAP browser but AOL blocked Verizon Access and the AIM SMS thing that replaced it stinks.
I do know that the Danger Sidekick (GSM) has taken off in a big way in the deaf community. Sadly the GSM coverage where I'm at is very poor.
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Pure Genius, that
Off to find my papers from the government
PS The reason for using IP-Relay is it doesnt require a TTY. If you have a TTY, you'd likely use 711.
The NBC starting early has been a hotly debated topic. Despite the conspiracy theory, the consesus is that it isn't to make TiVo's not work. (Afterall NBC is a TiVo investor).
The current theories are:
1) Starting early allows them to bill for the higher ad rate. 30 seconds of 'ER Time' goes for much more than 30 seconds of nameless comedy that precedes ER.
2) They've always started early, ER has been 1-2 minutes early for a couple of years now, just now the times are accurate.
3) It allows them to retain viewers. TBS used to do this with 'Turner Time' which had the shows start/end 5 minutes later than everybody else. Viewers didnt want to switch away and miss the end of their show, nor did they want to change to a different show already in progress, in some cases.
The current solution to the NBC odd start time is to use a Manual Recording for ER and Record CSI like normal. You do loose 1 minute of ER but my experience has been, that minute is rarely crucial.
A long term fix would be negative padding, to allow Tivo to record part of a show when 2 overlap. (This is available as a hack if you look for it)
I live in NY (not the city, but you said NY, it is a whole state too :) )
All the 911 PSAP's I can think of, have a 10 digit emergency number, most of them are holdovers from the pre-911 days.
What this means is that the Ambulance (or any other vehicle running authorized L&S) in its operation basically "can't hurt anyone or break anything" but they can disregard traffic laws otherwise.
When the L&S are off, the IR emitter (usually they are tied together) should be off as well as traffic laws apply.
They dont have to stop for red lights, but they do have to exercise caution, I've had intersections blocked by a police car for me that I didn't pause (much) for, these IR devices creating 4 way reds has a similar effect, but you still need to exercise caution for the guy who runs the red, is drunk, etc.
I learned in an EVOC (Emerency Vehicle Operations Course)that due to some obscure Federal Law that USPS vehicles have the ultimate right of way.
But snopes says different http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/fourway.asp
At my previous place of employment,9 was used to get an outside line, and dialing 911 (fire/police) was a common occurence with the mistakee then hanging up when they realize their mistake.
As someone who has worked with 911 alot,
On silent lines or hangups, the 911 protocol is to send *at least* one unit to investigate, some places send everything (fire/pd/ems)
Some states regulate this with Pre-existiing condition type laws, citing limits on excluding conditions and/or jacking your rates up because you are sick.
These vary state by state, but if I remember right, most of the rate-limiting laws used the "Community Average" for figuring out the rate.
Of course they can still flat out deny coverage.
Best way to get a dollar in coin form that I've found is the Stamp Machine at the Post Office, it gives them as change.
I doubt the terrorists were navigating on Instruments and cell phones dont usually affect VFR navigation.
That should be: NOT All deaf people CAN lipread.
I am deaf, and your pretty much right, at least some of the time. Without context, I find lipreading very hard to impossible, with context I can get maybe 80% of the words and can fill in the blanks.
I know others can lipread better than I can but even in lipreading class they said that you wont be able to catch everything and have to fill in the blanks.
Just to note, All Deaf people can't lipread and not all people can be lipread. Bushy Mustaches, not moving your mouth when you talk are two big obstacles. (a personal peeve when someone expects me to lipread them)
Sure You can:
Two Digital Cable Boxes
1 Splitter
and probably a switch so you don't have to move cables around.
I sometimes do something similar to this, I use the internal TV AV switch to that I can watch Analog Channels while the TiVO is recording something off digital cable.
One Cable Box is hooked to your Tivo and One is hooked directly to your TV.
In the latest Tivo newsletter, they explained why they have no plans to incorporate dual tuners, but alas I've deleted it already. It basically came down to, they'd have to replicate a lot of hardware to do it. And as someone else pointed out, you'd still need a 2nd box from the cable company to decode the additional digital cable channel anyways.
Why the dual tuner is possible with DirectTV; it is incorporated with the recveiver (decoder) so you don't need a second box and through it's integration there's probably less components needed for each tuner. The regular Tivos have a tuner to accept RF, AV and I beleive S-Video (it's been a while since Ive seen the back of mine).
Most deaf don't use braille, blind use braille.
And iControl is SLOW, at least here. Between when you click the button, there's about a 3 second delay before it performs the action.
And iControl doesn't offer closed captioning (yet), but that's another story
If everyone had one, you wouldn't need the flying car because there would be no traffic jam.
SecurID is a physical token. it's not something stored in the computer.
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http://www.rsasecurity.com/products/securid/token
They come in two forms (at least the AOL ones did when I was a contractor there) A Key chain Fob and one that looks like a Credit Card Calculator.
If I remember right, the system also automatically marks the login code invalid once a successful login is achieved. So someone can't use a Key Sniffer to steal your code. If you logged in and got disconnected for some reason, you needed to wait for your SecurID to rollover to the next code.
Or in my case.. I'm deaf and I wear a vibrating watch (insert lame joke here, I've heard them all) and it really does come in handy. Sure my cell phone has a clock but I use an older StarTrac, so to read the clock I have to take it out of it's holster and open it up. It also doesn't have the flexibility for vibration notifications (such as a Countdown timer, I can't hear the Kitchen timer :)
But you seem to be inferring the only triaging goes "He's not saveable, He is"
ANY Multi-Victim accident has some triaging, not as formal, we don't break out the tags but it might be just as simple as deciding which patient your going to go to first, the guy with the nosebleed or the guy in cardiac arrest or Calling for a Second Unit and deciding which patient needs to go in the first unit.
Your medical records REALLY don't have that much effect on how they treat you, if your impaled on the Steering Wheel, I don't care that you have Colon Cancer.
The EMT's aren't the end all be all of your Emergency Treatment, they basically get you to the hospital, provide some stablization and try to keep things from getting any worse.
The ER staff takes it from there, and they might care about your medical records, but they are also (usually) at a Hospital and would have access to them. Either in their own records or by calling someplace that does.
Airlift is expensive, which is why I don't think you'll see it rolling instead of an ambulance as the first responder on the scene.
There's also ALOT less Air Ambulances than there are ground Ambulances, where I am there is just 1 Air Ambulance that serves a rather large area (probably 1000+ Ground Ambulances). Calling them out for every accident that the black box deems necessary seems like an unwise use of resources.
It also takes time for them to get in the Air and get to the accident scene. The rule we had to go by with Calling for the Helicopter is if you had excess extrication time (getting the victim out of the wreck) or excess transportation time (you were a long way from the hospital).
There's also the side bits of things like setting up a landing zone (so bystanders don't get their arms chopped off in the rotor or the helicopter crashes because it was fouled by debris), telling the Air Ambulance Crew where they are going, triaging which patients are serious enough to go (most Air Ambulances Can take 2 patients max).
And for the record, yes I was an EMT but I am now deaf so I am a retired EMT.
Actually it's not a long complicated domain anymore. It's vtext.com now. You can also sign up for a alphanumeric email address to use in addition to your phone number.
Isn't viewer supported TV programming called PBS?
I don't have a GSM phone, but my Cell Phone has SMS. I use that pretty extensively. I was using AIM via the WAP browser but AOL blocked Verizon Access and the AIM SMS thing that replaced it stinks.
I do know that the Danger Sidekick (GSM) has taken off in a big way in the deaf community. Sadly the GSM coverage where I'm at is very poor.
Yep, they put a restriction on your license:
Wide View Mirror or Hearing Aid
DMV couldn't find anything that says what exactly constitutes a wide view mirror though.
Also in NYS, Deaf Drivers can't have a CDL (Commercial Driver's License) but most other states this ok