Apartment buildings have multipath; I bet you had ghosting.
More importantly, the digital transmitters are not coexisting with the analog ones. The physical PBS digital frequency is 61 (the 'channel number' is 13), but will be moving back to physical channel 13 after the transition. Powers will also increase
PBS used to come in fine analog, but comes in shit digital. What will happen after the cut-over is that the digital signal will come from the same frequency and location as the analog one used to, giving a much better signal.
In short, it will improve after the cut-over to pretty much what it used to be. Which is why delays suck
Yes. ABC ran a full half-hour program a couple of weekends ago, on a late Sunday afternoon. I was damn surprised...
Not to mention a commercial every break with a website, phone number, and often a mailing address, as well as a crawl.
I'm very careful with stupid vs. ignorant but I posit that it takes a special kind of stupid to, if you care about TV, not do anything when the damn thing is screaming at you "WARNING I MIGHT STOP" for a full year.
I believe it. PBS (Channel 13, analog) in my area is digital on some channel 60-70 something BS and it doesn't come through. I was going to wait until the cutoff date and just hope that the channel (moving back to physical 13) would be better by then.
Fuck. Guess I'm spending $100 on an outdoor antenna, and a weekend on its installation. Where's my fucking coupon?
I'd argue the problem he is trying to fix is the loss of our credibility (aside from the moral issues) from claiming to be for human rights (and against torture), but practicing torture...
tl;dr The problem is we are doing torture. How is it 'fixing a symptom' to close the places where torture is allowed to happen?
I've got it running in 12 real MB (105 virt, but real is the best indication) with wobbly windows, cube, cube transform (it's a cylinder now) and a couple of switchers/nice effects.
This has a particular significance to myself; I am 17.
I want you to ask yourself what would be different, I mean really different, if these girls and boys were 2 years older.
They aren't any more smart about sex. From experience, people who are stupid about sex by age 15 (or before) stay stupid.
They aren't any more rational. Similarly to the above, people who make bad decisions at 16 won't do any better.
The only difference is that they wouldn't be arrested and have their lives destroyed.
Let me quote one of your statements:
these are not adults making a rational decision about these pictures, these are teenagers who think it is exciting.
What exactly happens when you turn 18, and go from being a 'teenager who thinks it is exciting' to '[an] adult making a rational decision'?
I can tell you right now that you don't remember yourself at 16, nor your age group. Nothing much changes in those two years except wisdom (and this isn't a wisdom problem)
That happened when 'I hate elitists' (e.g. people who rubbed it in your face) became 'I hate the elite' (people who succeeded in life)
This meant that people started getting into office *because* they hadn't succeeded. Doing well in life (which requires knowledge, or at least business sense) became a disqualification.
You can guess which political party was responsible.
I must be missing something big, but isn't the point of a Blackberry the fact that everything goes through a $business-controlled server? One that can nuke the device from orbit whenever the admin says so? One that stores all the data securely?
I thought that's pretty much why RIM was able to get Blackberries into so many businesses - they could just buy a server that would integrate with their stuff and keep it all safe.
I'd actually be upset if he wasn't using a blackberry, but a less-secure cellphone
Or am I way off the mark for some reason, and why?
Except Verizon sucks and probably would *never* agree to the kind of unlimited bandwidth you get through the iPhone. Especially not for $30/mo (which incidentally existed for their smartphones for years)
And even *if* they did all that, they'd be a lot more restrictive about the functionality allowed because it's Verizon.
I think the iPhone is plenty popular enough for AT&T. Literally more than half the people I know with an iPhone switched off Verizon to get one.
Of course, for the history of Unix almost any application you could come up with would work non-root. System-wide packages and stuff that needed a more intimate relationship with the kernel (virtual machines, etc) are just about the only classes of software that need root to run.
I wouldn't use my Minesweeper program if it needed root. Why the hell would it need root?
It's not that Vista is incapable of having your minesweeper download installed per-user, it just rarely is because ten years of software needs administrator to install or run.
No trivial piece of software will succeed on Linux if it needs root.
It was fairly painless - I got my two converter boxes (and used them, thank you very much) and it looks amazing.
Except, it doesn't. The signal strength (especially on the local PBS affiliate) is crap because the physical channel is in the sixties. When the switch is over, they'll be back on good ol' 13 where it works fine.
I have no sympathy for those who don't have the necessary equipment - how do you miss the notices? They're on every other break!
Just get it over with. There will be problems at any point, all from the same people. So stop pissing off the people who get it.
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Apartment buildings have multipath; I bet you had ghosting.
More importantly, the digital transmitters are not coexisting with the analog ones. The physical PBS digital frequency is 61 (the 'channel number' is 13), but will be moving back to physical channel 13 after the transition. Powers will also increase
PBS used to come in fine analog, but comes in shit digital. What will happen after the cut-over is that the digital signal will come from the same frequency and location as the analog one used to, giving a much better signal.
In short, it will improve after the cut-over to pretty much what it used to be. Which is why delays suck
Yes. ABC ran a full half-hour program a couple of weekends ago, on a late Sunday afternoon. I was damn surprised...
Not to mention a commercial every break with a website, phone number, and often a mailing address, as well as a crawl.
I'm very careful with stupid vs. ignorant but I posit that it takes a special kind of stupid to, if you care about TV, not do anything when the damn thing is screaming at you "WARNING I MIGHT STOP" for a full year.
including thunderbird. Just click the little hierarchical thread-thing header, all the way to the left.
I believe it. PBS (Channel 13, analog) in my area is digital on some channel 60-70 something BS and it doesn't come through. I was going to wait until the cutoff date and just hope that the channel (moving back to physical 13) would be better by then.
Fuck. Guess I'm spending $100 on an outdoor antenna, and a weekend on its installation. Where's my fucking coupon?
Yeah. The sequel is called Cryo.
There's a public demo up at Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/
If you were joking, lol. If you weren't, I wish you were right but they actually mean it.
I'd argue the problem he is trying to fix is the loss of our credibility (aside from the moral issues) from claiming to be for human rights (and against torture), but practicing torture...
tl;dr The problem is we are doing torture. How is it 'fixing a symptom' to close the places where torture is allowed to happen?
I've got it running in 12 real MB (105 virt, but real is the best indication) with wobbly windows, cube, cube transform (it's a cylinder now) and a couple of switchers/nice effects.
Folks, I propose we take this good fellow as the perfect example of a non-biased and uncharged commentator.
Kudos to you on your stellar objectivity!
This has a particular significance to myself; I am 17.
I want you to ask yourself what would be different, I mean really different, if these girls and boys were 2 years older.
They aren't any more smart about sex. From experience, people who are stupid about sex by age 15 (or before) stay stupid.
They aren't any more rational. Similarly to the above, people who make bad decisions at 16 won't do any better.
The only difference is that they wouldn't be arrested and have their lives destroyed.
Let me quote one of your statements:
these are not adults making a rational decision about these pictures, these are teenagers who think it is exciting.
What exactly happens when you turn 18, and go from being a 'teenager who thinks it is exciting' to '[an] adult making a rational decision'?
I can tell you right now that you don't remember yourself at 16, nor your age group. Nothing much changes in those two years except wisdom (and this isn't a wisdom problem)
It's a a sex crime, so no. It stays with them forever and ever, even the charges do (if they are acquitted)
He managed the politics of a lab, didn't he? After the machinations of the academic world, politics will probably be a breath of fresh air.
That happened when 'I hate elitists' (e.g. people who rubbed it in your face) became 'I hate the elite' (people who succeeded in life)
This meant that people started getting into office *because* they hadn't succeeded. Doing well in life (which requires knowledge, or at least business sense) became a disqualification.
You can guess which political party was responsible.
WEP is not encrypted. It's worse than encrypted, because it gives somebody a reason to come looking ;)
I must be missing something big, but isn't the point of a Blackberry the fact that everything goes through a $business-controlled server? One that can nuke the device from orbit whenever the admin says so? One that stores all the data securely?
I thought that's pretty much why RIM was able to get Blackberries into so many businesses - they could just buy a server that would integrate with their stuff and keep it all safe.
I'd actually be upset if he wasn't using a blackberry, but a less-secure cellphone
Or am I way off the mark for some reason, and why?
Except Verizon sucks and probably would *never* agree to the kind of unlimited bandwidth you get through the iPhone. Especially not for $30/mo (which incidentally existed for their smartphones for years)
And even *if* they did all that, they'd be a lot more restrictive about the functionality allowed because it's Verizon.
I think the iPhone is plenty popular enough for AT&T. Literally more than half the people I know with an iPhone switched off Verizon to get one.
Of course, for the history of Unix almost any application you could come up with would work non-root. System-wide packages and stuff that needed a more intimate relationship with the kernel (virtual machines, etc) are just about the only classes of software that need root to run.
I wouldn't use my Minesweeper program if it needed root. Why the hell would it need root?
It's not that Vista is incapable of having your minesweeper download installed per-user, it just rarely is because ten years of software needs administrator to install or run.
No trivial piece of software will succeed on Linux if it needs root.
They're trying to prevent people from hitting them. It kills a lot of people each year.
No. Stupid is returning a product that works because you're too stupid* to read the back of the package that says THIS MUST BE FORMATTED.
All digital cameras have a format option.
*And I meant stupid, not ignorant. Ignorant would be 'well I didn't know I had to do that, but now I do'. Stupid is not even checking.
NTFS doesn't absolutely suck, and it works on all of 'em.
Mac has MacFUSE... though I can't comment on that personally.
The problem comes when the browser sees IPv6 enabled, thinks it's on a supported network, and tries to connect to the AAAA.
DNS is (by nature) hard-coded to an IP - if only v4 works correctly, that'll be an IPv4 address.
That, and the fact that no ISP I know uses the root servers directly. All have their own caching resolver.
Your list is irrelevant.
and this is fucking me over.
It was fairly painless - I got my two converter boxes (and used them, thank you very much) and it looks amazing.
Except, it doesn't. The signal strength (especially on the local PBS affiliate) is crap because the physical channel is in the sixties. When the switch is over, they'll be back on good ol' 13 where it works fine.
I have no sympathy for those who don't have the necessary equipment - how do you miss the notices? They're on every other break!
Just get it over with. There will be problems at any point, all from the same people. So stop pissing off the people who get it.
If users have IPv6 enabled (most do) and otherwise incorrectly set up networks, the connection will time out or take a reeeealy long time.
Google doesn't want the middling-but-still-incompetent users who don't understand routing badmouthing Google.
By that you mean client-2-3 as your default lookup zone is city.state.example.com.
That's an amazing suggesti