the suggestions is part of the reason I bought the TiVo. And it's not like it goes out and overwrites what you told it to record. Whatever you tell it to do will always happen before what the TiVo thinks. What's nice is that if you have extra space and the TiVo isn't recording something then it might go out and look for re-runs or something similar.. It's not like you'll come home and everything you told it to record will be gone and in it's place will be a bunch of stuff you don't want.
Ahh, that is true, but part 15 devices must take interference from hams. I thought the same thing being a ham (N1UEV), but hams are higher on the scale then your WiFi stuff. Sure they wouldn't go out of their way to screw you, but if I'm doing work with 2.4ghz trying to design a better antenna and I'm doing testing at 50watts and you're next door with your wireless internet connection and I bump you off, tough titties.
"My only concern is that we need to ensure that nothing will interfere with the wireless data. 802.11 shares spectrum with too many things."
Well to bad all 802.11 devices are part 15 devices. They can not interfere with other device but they must all acecpt it from other devices.. Meaning that if somebody's cell phone tower is causing problems, or the ham down the street is messing around with his 100 watt 2.4ghz setup and you're in his path you're out of luck.
this is 100% true, I used to work for an internet advertiser (i.e. banner ads) and that's what it was all about.. Best way to put it is how do you find out the click thru on a billboard?
I live in Manchester, NH, where Segway and Deka are located. I see Dean Kaman's helicopter every so often as he commutes to and from work...
As a result I see these all the time.. average is about 2-3 a day. Now a lot of you are saying what's the point, they're stupid, use a bike, use a car.. For Manchester they are very well suited. We have this long strip downtown.. going from one end to the other is a pain by car (lots of traffic, lights, no parking) going by bike sucks since you can't bike on the sidewalk (unsafe, and I'll get to that later) and if you only have 30mins for lunch then you probably can't walk to your favorite lunch place and back in that time (Even more so now that Capri burnt down).
The Segway is great for this task and that's what most people use them for, going to work further then 2-3 miles but not to far, getting lunch, and doing in city things.
As far as the safety thing.. I don't care how good you are on a bike you can't stop on a dime if you'er going at a good speed.. Until you actually see it in person you can't fully understand, but I saw a guy (from Deka) going down the side walk at probably 8-10mph.. he got to the intersection and STOPED, on a dime, because you have to lean back to make it stop you are already adjusting your center of balance, if you stopped that quickly on a bike you would either flip over the handle bars or wipe out. This is why a segway is safer.
You go to your friends house and he lives up a flight of stairs? you get off, stand next to your segway, it a button on it and it will walk itself up the stairs (you can't be on it because of the extream angle it's at)
Over all they're cool, I would get one and use it to get to work (about 7-8 miles) rather then drive my car. I would have never used it when I was living in Goffstown (next town over, small town) since there wasn't anything of interest for about 20 miles around me.. And if I lived in the building above where I worked, or a few blocks away, sure I would probably walk rather then use this, but not if I was 3 miles or more away.
With all this being said, I still can't wait to see how they are in the snow:)
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I always seem to see stuff like this. People really either hate blogs or like them, there isn't much in between. I keep a blog but I usually don't use it to just bitch about life or whatever. I talk about projects I'm working on, stuff that's going on with my life in general. I have a friend that uses his to talk about his home improvements that I find interesting since I'm going to be searching for a house soon and it gives me ideas on what to look for and how hard it will be to fix things that are wrong.
Sure, there are ones that are just a bitch fest for people, and I've used mine to complain about crappy things at work (usually about the shitty security in the computer system I don't have any control over) but if you don't like them, don't read them..
"The "dark side" of the moon is not always dark. The reason it is called the "dark side" is that that side of the moon is never visible from Earth. The moon's rotation and orbit are synchronized in such a way that we can only see one side. However, that "dark side" (or far side which is a more appropriate name!) does see the sun. For example, when we see only a sliver of the moon, most of the far side is facing the sun. During a solar eclipse, all of the far side is sunlit!"
Tuner cards -NEVER- have AM. Way to much interference from the stuff inside the computer. You're better off getting a normal radio and plugging it into the line in of your audio card (that's what I do for AM stuff)
1. If they're on CD-R SuperVideoCDs they're not DVD are they
2. Movies/videos are under the MPAA not the RIAA
3. The content of the DVD/SVCD are owned by the BBC, last I knew, not a member of the MPAA
First off, compairing a DVD-R to a TiVo is stupid. It's like compairing a VCR to a TiVo, they're not even close to the same thing. Perhaps when DVD-Rs start getting "season passes" and suggestions there might be some kind of compairison but you still have to change disks.
The examples they give would be the same for any PVR, not just TiVo, this includes ReplayTV and XBox2. And a TiVo is really not that hard to use. My mom that has a hard time with email can use my TiVo with no problem. They'll be more scared of a DVD-R because they won't want to waste a blank DVD (yes, even if it's rewritable).
Most of the time they're in another state and it's far more expensive for them to send somebody to represent them in small claims court then it is to just pay you the $500.
After reading some comments it seems like this doesn't even make the PS2 a PVR, but just because something records TV shows to a hard drive doesn't give it "TiVo-like functions". It gives it PVR/DVR functions.
TiVo is MUCH more then recording shows to a hard drive. It's got suggestions, season passes, thumbs up/down. This is stuff that ReplayTV doesn't have (well they have the season pass).
Just making sure that you all keep in mind that slapping a TV card in your computer and making it record the simpsons to you hard drive may be cool (and it is) and may make it a PVR, it doesn't come close to what TiVo can do.
Well I just tried it and to say it's crash happy is an understatement. I use gaim in linux and it's great, but for windows I think I'll stick with trillian.
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Well to bad all 802.11 devices are part 15 devices. They can not interfere with other device but they must all acecpt it from other devices.. Meaning that if somebody's cell phone tower is causing problems, or the ham down the street is messing around with his 100 watt 2.4ghz setup and you're in his path you're out of luck.
"which amongst other things hosts a SURFnet PoP as well as security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org "
security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org are GONE (well, burning, hopefully data can be recovered). Yes there's mirrors, but it still sucks.
You have to pull it a little, but it has enough torque to basically pull itself up the stairs with little effort (that and very grippy tires)
As a result I see these all the time.. average is about 2-3 a day. Now a lot of you are saying what's the point, they're stupid, use a bike, use a car.. For Manchester they are very well suited. We have this long strip downtown.. going from one end to the other is a pain by car (lots of traffic, lights, no parking) going by bike sucks since you can't bike on the sidewalk (unsafe, and I'll get to that later) and if you only have 30mins for lunch then you probably can't walk to your favorite lunch place and back in that time (Even more so now that Capri burnt down).
The Segway is great for this task and that's what most people use them for, going to work further then 2-3 miles but not to far, getting lunch, and doing in city things.
As far as the safety thing.. I don't care how good you are on a bike you can't stop on a dime if you'er going at a good speed.. Until you actually see it in person you can't fully understand, but I saw a guy (from Deka) going down the side walk at probably 8-10mph.. he got to the intersection and STOPED, on a dime, because you have to lean back to make it stop you are already adjusting your center of balance, if you stopped that quickly on a bike you would either flip over the handle bars or wipe out. This is why a segway is safer.
You go to your friends house and he lives up a flight of stairs? you get off, stand next to your segway, it a button on it and it will walk itself up the stairs (you can't be on it because of the extream angle it's at)
Over all they're cool, I would get one and use it to get to work (about 7-8 miles) rather then drive my car. I would have never used it when I was living in Goffstown (next town over, small town) since there wasn't anything of interest for about 20 miles around me.. And if I lived in the building above where I worked, or a few blocks away, sure I would probably walk rather then use this, but not if I was 3 miles or more away.
With all this being said, I still can't wait to see how they are in the snow :)
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Sure, there are ones that are just a bitch fest for people, and I've used mine to complain about crappy things at work (usually about the shitty security in the computer system I don't have any control over) but if you don't like them, don't read them..
From: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/ qmoon_motion.html
"The "dark side" of the moon is not always dark. The reason it is called the "dark side" is that that side of the moon is never visible from Earth. The moon's rotation and orbit are synchronized in such a way that we can only see one side. However, that "dark side" (or far side which is a more appropriate name!) does see the sun. For example, when we see only a sliver of the moon, most of the far side is facing the sun. During a solar eclipse, all of the far side is sunlit!"
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part2/secti on-22.html s .html
http://sm3a.gsfc.nasa.gov/messages/676.html
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/telescope
Just to name a few.
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#! /bin/bash
#Kill off anybody using /dev/dsp
/sbin/fuser -k /dev/dsp
#change to the right freq
/usr/local/bin/fmio -d v4l -f 89.1 -v 7
#set correct mixer settings
/usr/local/bin/smixer -s /root/mixersettings/recordshow.mix
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
/usr/local/bin/mpegrec -b 32 -l 3600 -x "-b 32 --resample 32 -m m" -o /home/travis/radioshows/Car_Talk/Car_Talk_-_$DATE. mp3
/usr/local/bin/smixer -s /root/mixersettings/default.mix /home/travis/radioshows
chown -R travis.travis
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Hope that helps some, works great. You can use a bitrate of 16, but my portable MP3 player won't play it if it's that low for some stupid reason.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_356.html
2. Movies/videos are under the MPAA not the RIAA
3. The content of the DVD/SVCD are owned by the BBC, last I knew, not a member of the MPAA
The examples they give would be the same for any PVR, not just TiVo, this includes ReplayTV and XBox2. And a TiVo is really not that hard to use. My mom that has a hard time with email can use my TiVo with no problem. They'll be more scared of a DVD-R because they won't want to waste a blank DVD (yes, even if it's rewritable).
You don't think you can get money from these scumbags? Think again. Friend of mine has gotten $1500 (if not more). See here: http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/telemarketing/
Most of the time they're in another state and it's far more expensive for them to send somebody to represent them in small claims court then it is to just pay you the $500.
TiVo is MUCH more then recording shows to a hard drive. It's got suggestions, season passes, thumbs up/down. This is stuff that ReplayTV doesn't have (well they have the season pass).
Just making sure that you all keep in mind that slapping a TV card in your computer and making it record the simpsons to you hard drive may be cool (and it is) and may make it a PVR, it doesn't come close to what TiVo can do.