I was being half ironic, half serious. The more I read food labels the more I aim for basic whole foods that are as unprocessed as possible. A lot of people I know survive off of "health" food that is heavily processed. Many of them have trouble controlling their weight (which is why they aim for the "health" bars and supplements to begin with).
OTOH, I knew someone who is giant huge, fat fat fat. The standard breakfast? Donuts nuked in the microwave and buttered. They then complain about their weight (over 300 lb, 5 feet, 4 inches tall) bleating about being a victim of their metabolism...
Really, do it. I watch co-workers melt butter over powdered sugar donuts and chug a root beer for breakfast. These same people make fun of my oatmeal (then ask for help moving heavy stuff). One of said co-workers is sick for a minimum of four weeks every year, has type II diabetes and probably weighs about 250 to 300 lbs. Nail them for things in their control (news flash: for most people weight is, in fact, in their control). I'd also love to see smokers charged double.
Just don't use the fecking BMI, it's a POS. Use Body Fat %, maybe look at cardiac efficiency. I'm 6'1" and 190 pounds. According to the BMI I'm overweight yet I keep my BF below 20%.
My theory is that they use BMI because people don't like to feel all oooky when they find out their BF numbers are high, so they came out with BMI to gloss over it.
Really. I work with people who eat powerded sugar donuts with melted butter and a root beer for breakfast every day. They make fun of my oatmeal (then ask me to help carry stuff). Just don't use the f***ing BMI. Use fat percentages, alcohol intake and nicotine intake. I'm 6'1", 190 pounds at 18% BF. Yet the BMI says I'm obese. Riiigght.
Several years ago some marketing goob where I worked decided that if you set your printer drivers to the lowest possible resolution you would save toner since you were using "less dots". He sent this out to the entire company. Happily our IT guy publicly ripped him to pieces and told him to stop playing l337 Netwurk Dood.
It's been a looong time, but I'm positive the manufactures used to use 2^20, etc to calculate size. I remember reading in some article that a marketing droid found out they were doing this and started user 10 based counting to calculate drive size and all the other manufacturers jumped in. This was all ten or fifteen years ago.
I may have to drag out an old ST-251 and check sizes. Any older slashdotters remember it being this way too?
I suspect that was less about being open and more about providing a repair shop the needed info to carry out said repairs. Companies have learned that it's better to get you to buy a new one instead of getting it repaired. If you do actually want to repair it they want you to send it back to them instead of having an independent do the work.
They also discovered that they can *sell* you the schematics rather than sticking it inside the chassis. Again, more profit! That and the costs have dropped so much it's often not worth repairing it.
Figure out what the total cost of their BS idea would be. Then buy that many compact flourescent bulbs and hand them out for free to every household. I fucking HATE DST!
...but it didn't used to be. Red Hat used to be a pretty decent Desktop OS circa 1999. When they spun off the desktop product (2002 or so) as Fedora to focus on Server OS's I switched to Suse. Now that I've been screwed by Suse 10.1's update system it's time to switch again...
...for all the crappy audio gear they have been putting out for the past decade. Love it when stuff dies a week out of warranty. Better yet, it still works but since it's a build date of Oct 03, not Nov 03 it won't work with accessories.
...but did they ever fix their four day delay on voice mails? I had that problem for nearly two years, finally ditched them for AT&T. Talked to some friends a few years later and they STILL had the problem. AT&T was great until the infamous CRM upgrade they attempted.
What's stupid is that it really didn't save a dime. I have a friend who worked for the National Archives when that happened. She stayed home for a month without pay, then when the budget was approved she went back to work and got all back pay that was coming. Basically she got a paid vacation at the taxpayers expense.
As an IT worker I'm okay with this for me, but I also remember the dot com days when people like my bicycle repairman roommate suddenly became a Network Engineer. After the boom I spent most of my time fixing stuff that people like that "implemented".
Correct, you'll only get nice standard def out of the svideo port. From what I've read the requirements to encode hidef would take a $2K (US) capture card, drivers, etc.
The way myth selects inputs (in my case) is based on your Zap2it listings. If you're not in the US YMMV.
In theory if your STB has firewire output you can capture the hidef stream from that, as long as it's unencrypted. If you do that you'll need a pretty meaty system to decode. Nvidia based video card, that sort of thing.
If you haven't been digging there already check out:
Lots of good info there. I don't know how far along you are, but if you are not to the point of having loaded the OS you may take a look at KnoppMyth. Not cutting edge but *very* nice compared to rolling your own. OTOH, if you want to do specialized stuff (my myth box also runs Asterisk) you'll be be doing your own build.
You can do exactly that, (with some caveats). If you have analog cable and NHL Center Ice is not scrambled then (assuming you have a supported tuner, PVR-150 is my current fave) you can just plus the cable right into the tuner card and you're done.
If NHL Center Ice is premium then you will need to take either the svideo (and audio) or the coax outputs and run them into the card. Some method of controlling the box will be needed, either through a serial port or using IR.
To give you a specfic example: I have a myth box with two PVR-150's. Standard analog cable goes into the coax input on each tuner. I also have an older DirectTV tuner that is serially controlled through a perl script (directv.pl, oddly enough). That runs into the Svideo/audio inputs on one of the tuner cards. The myth will select the needed input automagically.
I also put the Direct TV box as a lower priority for recording. That way if something comes on that is available on analog and DirectTV it'll record off the analog side so I can still watch the direct tv stuff rather than tie up that tuner needlessly.
Note: With this setup I can still only record two things at once, even with the three inputs. I probably watch too much TV anyway.
I should probably clarify my question: If I take an HD LCD (or plasma) monitor and run a signal in from a PC, then from a high end DVD player, will the PC look better due to some legal requirements that burden the player's quality?
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I was being half ironic, half serious. The more I read food labels the more I aim for basic whole foods that are as unprocessed as possible. A lot of people I know survive off of "health" food that is heavily processed. Many of them have trouble controlling their weight (which is why they aim for the "health" bars and supplements to begin with). OTOH, I knew someone who is giant huge, fat fat fat. The standard breakfast? Donuts nuked in the microwave and buttered. They then complain about their weight (over 300 lb, 5 feet, 4 inches tall) bleating about being a victim of their metabolism...
It's not from being a fat-ass, it's from being a victim of food! The food is leaping off the plate...
...I mean c'mon, if you're going to try and tweak everyone, go all the way...
Really, do it. I watch co-workers melt butter over powdered sugar donuts and chug a root beer for breakfast. These same people make fun of my oatmeal (then ask for help moving heavy stuff). One of said co-workers is sick for a minimum of four weeks every year, has type II diabetes and probably weighs about 250 to 300 lbs. Nail them for things in their control (news flash: for most people weight is, in fact, in their control). I'd also love to see smokers charged double.
Just don't use the fecking BMI, it's a POS. Use Body Fat %, maybe look at cardiac efficiency. I'm 6'1" and 190 pounds. According to the BMI I'm overweight yet I keep my BF below 20%.
My theory is that they use BMI because people don't like to feel all oooky when they find out their BF numbers are high, so they came out with BMI to gloss over it.
Really. I work with people who eat powerded sugar donuts with melted butter and a root beer for breakfast every day. They make fun of my oatmeal (then ask me to help carry stuff). Just don't use the f***ing BMI. Use fat percentages, alcohol intake and nicotine intake. I'm 6'1", 190 pounds at 18% BF. Yet the BMI says I'm obese. Riiigght.
...We'll be able to solve the world's energy crisis...
Several years ago some marketing goob where I worked decided that if you set your printer drivers to the lowest possible resolution you would save toner since you were using "less dots". He sent this out to the entire company. Happily our IT guy publicly ripped him to pieces and told him to stop playing l337 Netwurk Dood.
It's been a looong time, but I'm positive the manufactures used to use 2^20, etc to calculate size. I remember reading in some article that a marketing droid found out they were doing this and started user 10 based counting to calculate drive size and all the other manufacturers jumped in. This was all ten or fifteen years ago. I may have to drag out an old ST-251 and check sizes. Any older slashdotters remember it being this way too?
...the silicon space heater! This sucker can probably heat a room.
I suspect that was less about being open and more about providing a repair shop the needed info to carry out said repairs. Companies have learned that it's better to get you to buy a new one instead of getting it repaired. If you do actually want to repair it they want you to send it back to them instead of having an independent do the work. They also discovered that they can *sell* you the schematics rather than sticking it inside the chassis. Again, more profit! That and the costs have dropped so much it's often not worth repairing it.
Oddly enough, I had a similar problem! She didn't understand why there were brake rotors in the oven and wheel hubs in the freezer...
Figure out what the total cost of their BS idea would be. Then buy that many compact flourescent bulbs and hand them out for free to every household. I fucking HATE DST!
...more crap to break and distract people from actually driving.
...but it didn't used to be. Red Hat used to be a pretty decent Desktop OS circa 1999. When they spun off the desktop product (2002 or so) as Fedora to focus on Server OS's I switched to Suse. Now that I've been screwed by Suse 10.1's update system it's time to switch again...
...for all the crappy audio gear they have been putting out for the past decade. Love it when stuff dies a week out of warranty. Better yet, it still works but since it's a build date of Oct 03, not Nov 03 it won't work with accessories.
...but did they ever fix their four day delay on voice mails? I had that problem for nearly two years, finally ditched them for AT&T. Talked to some friends a few years later and they STILL had the problem. AT&T was great until the infamous CRM upgrade they attempted.
What's stupid is that it really didn't save a dime. I have a friend who worked for the National Archives when that happened. She stayed home for a month without pay, then when the budget was approved she went back to work and got all back pay that was coming. Basically she got a paid vacation at the taxpayers expense.
As an IT worker I'm okay with this for me, but I also remember the dot com days when people like my bicycle repairman roommate suddenly became a Network Engineer. After the boom I spent most of my time fixing stuff that people like that "implemented".
I would love it if my ratio was that low!
...getting sick of the term "mashup"?
...Three Days of the Condor for some reason.
...always used 655321...
The way myth selects inputs (in my case) is based on your Zap2it listings. If you're not in the US YMMV.
In theory if your STB has firewire output you can capture the hidef stream from that, as long as it's unencrypted. If you do that you'll need a pretty meaty system to decode. Nvidia based video card, that sort of thing.
If you haven't been digging there already check out:
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Lots of good info there. I don't know how far along you are, but if you are not to the point of having loaded the OS you may take a look at KnoppMyth. Not cutting edge but *very* nice compared to rolling your own. OTOH, if you want to do specialized stuff (my myth box also runs Asterisk) you'll be be doing your own build.
If NHL Center Ice is premium then you will need to take either the svideo (and audio) or the coax outputs and run them into the card. Some method of controlling the box will be needed, either through a serial port or using IR.
To give you a specfic example: I have a myth box with two PVR-150's. Standard analog cable goes into the coax input on each tuner. I also have an older DirectTV tuner that is serially controlled through a perl script (directv.pl, oddly enough). That runs into the Svideo/audio inputs on one of the tuner cards. The myth will select the needed input automagically.
I also put the Direct TV box as a lower priority for recording. That way if something comes on that is available on analog and DirectTV it'll record off the analog side so I can still watch the direct tv stuff rather than tie up that tuner needlessly.
Note: With this setup I can still only record two things at once, even with the three inputs. I probably watch too much TV anyway.
I should probably clarify my question: If I take an HD LCD (or plasma) monitor and run a signal in from a PC, then from a high end DVD player, will the PC look better due to some legal requirements that burden the player's quality?