Tim answered most of your questions -
I don't know how muxh I'm using, but I do patch/update six W7 boxes at work
over it every month -- plus all my work email, browsing, Terminal server
sessions, etc. I get from a low of 700KBps to a high of 1.4MBps, depending
on location, time of day. Verizon is
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Craig wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:13:05 -0600 OK Don wrote:
>
>
> I'm rather ignorant about all of this, so I'm asking questions.
Hey, no fair! I'm the ignorant one! :)
>> I'm using a Sprint Evo 4G cell phone - that has a "Hot Spot" app that
>> provided In
Fmiser wrote:
Do you have a per-month cap? I often use 2-3 GB per month.
What I've seen so far is up to 5 GB max per month. I figure I
would run into that limit too often.
Virgin is uncapped for now, can always change though.
I have a grandfathered Verizon plan that's unlimited, currently on
Craig wrote:
How are you using a cell phone for data connections?
I'm not, but some people do tether their data enabled phones to their computers.
This is how I do it now. Had to put it on a USB extension and mount it on a box
to get it vertical, the internal antenna is not polarized for hor
On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:13:05 -0600 OK Don wrote:
I'm rather ignorant about all of this, so I'm asking questions.
> I'm using a Sprint Evo 4G cell phone - that has a "Hot Spot" app that
> provided Internet connectivity via WiFi to what ever.
So the phone gets data over its frequency and then r
I'm using a Sprint Evo 4G cell phone - that has a "Hot Spot" app that
provided Internet connectivity via WiFi to what ever. It works as well as a
USB data device, but is more convenient (to me anyway). We don't have 4G
yet, so it's still 3G, but decent. The data is "unlimited" - abd I've yet to
hav
i am a few hundred feet from a 4G tower. it's pretty impressive performance
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
> Fmiser wrote:
>
> You could have a house where the neighbors are so far away it's
>> hard to see the house. Where there's room to have a dozen or
>> more parts car
> Mitch Haley wrote:
> Fmiser wrote:
>
> > You could have a house where the neighbors are so far away
> > it's hard to see the house. Where there's room to have a
> > dozen or more parts cars. Where no one complains, care, or
> > probably even notices if you fire a shotgun. Or cannon.
> > Wher
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:30:19 -0500 Mitch Haley wrote:
> How far away are your cell towers?
> My phone line will not negotiate a x2 connection, so good dialup for me
> is about 3kBps. Verizon cellular is expensive, but it used to be fairly
> fast, now I've got tower congestion. I switched to Virgi
Fmiser wrote:
You could have a house where the neighbors are so far away it's
hard to see the house. Where there's room to have a dozen or
more parts cars. Where no one complains, care, or probably even
notices if you fire a shotgun. Or cannon. Where 50 kbps is
considered "fast".
How far a
> LWB250 wrote:
> Now if we could just get decent bandwidth everywhere
> I can't wait to get the housing situation resolved so we can
> be somewhere that has FIOS.
You could have a house where the neighbors are so far away it's
hard to see the house. Where there's room to have a dozen or
mo
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Now if we could just get decent bandwidth everywhere
My
they
purportedly are the same speed.
I can't wait to get the housing situation resolved so we can be somewhere that
has FIOS.
Dan
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> To: "Mercedes
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM, LWB250 wrote:
> Apple did little for Blu-ray, and for that matter Jobs has always referred
> to it as a "bag of hurt" for the platform, both hardware and software.
>
While this is true, Apple did join the Blu-Ray committee, and did back the
format.
> To this d
> Ed Booher wrote:
> Note: Betamax, as a format, is still alive and strong today.
> It just is not available in the consumer market any longer.
> Well, maybe not strong, digital camcorders have started to
> erode that strength. But even as short a time as 3 years ago
> or so, all TV stations used
LWB250 writes:
> Apple did little for Blu-ray, and for that matter Jobs has always
> referred to it as a "bag of hurt" for the platform, both hardware and
> software.
>
> To this day you cannot get a Blu-ray drive in a Mac, even Mac Pros,
> which do have third party options available.
>
> I suspe
> Mitch Haley wrote:
> Jim Cathey wrote:
>
> > No, LD is superior to any of the consumer tape formats.
> > DVD generally looks better yet, but LD has it over DVD
> > when it comes to the user being in control of the process.
>
> Is there a law that says the manufacturer of the player has to
> gi
so much an issue with storage as it is an effort to move
to the "cloud". At least that's the take that most analysts have, and it makes
sense.
MacDan
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aving a built in player
-Curt
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Curt Raymond
Laserdisc was still using analog for video; apparently one place it really
shows is the part of 2001 where he goes into the monolith (at the end); DVD
simply cannot replicate it.
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On Dec 22, 2010, at 16:18, OK Don wro
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
> A few years ago I had a guy in class who said Blu-Ray was about to win the
> HD war because it had finally allowed porn. Within 3 months Toshiba gave up
> on HDDVD...
>
> -Curt
>
There is porn available on HD-DVD as well. That war had more
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Actually, what sealed the deal was pr0n. That is also why Blu Ray has won, and
also why video over the internet exists and works so well. I read about th
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
> Now THAT is something! Laserdisc, better quality than original DVD, but
> bigger.
>
> W
nly one I've ever seen that allowed that.
-Curt
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Max Dillon wrote:
> Actually, what sealed the deal was pr0n. That is also why Blu Ray has won,
> and
> also why video over the internet exists and works so well. I read about
> this in
> a safe-for-work magazine several years ago.
>
> -Max (why do I need to expl
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
Now THAT is something! Laserdisc, better quality than original DVD, but
bigger.
What was that old vinyl record style video system RCA had? Anyone have one?
:p
Walt
Laserdisc
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Allan Streib wrote:
> Mitch Haley writes:
>
> > Is there a law that says the manufacturer of the player has to give
> > the manufacture of the DVD authority to override the user controls so
> > they can force you to sit through 1/2 hour of previews of movies you
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
> Now THAT is something! Laserdisc, better quality than original DVD, but
> bigger.
>
> What
Mitch Haley writes:
> Is there a law that says the manufacturer of the player has to give
> the manufacture of the DVD authority to override the user controls so
> they can force you to sit through 1/2 hour of previews of movies you
> didn't buy?
>
> Seems like one could get rich selling a player
Mitch Haley writes:
> Is there a law that says the manufacturer of the player has to give
> the manufacture of the DVD authority to override the user controls so
> they can force you to sit through 1/2 hour of previews of movies you
> didn't buy?
>
> Seems like one could get rich selling a player
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
> Now THAT is something! Laserdisc, better quality than original DVD, but
> bigger.
>
> What was that old vinyl record style video system RCA had? Anyone have one?
> :p
>
> Walt
Laserdisc, though on a plastic disc, was not digital. The RCA sy
I think you hack your DVD player to get that functionality (and more). Google
knows all...
-Max
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Jim Cathey wrote:
No, LD is superior to any of the consumer tape formats.
DVD generally looks better yet, but LD has it over DVD
when it comes to the user being in control of the process.
Is there a law that says the manufacturer of the player has to give the
manufacture of the DVD authority
Think so? I was under the impression the generally accepted comparison
was Laserdisc was about the same as VHS. DVD has twice the vertical
lines of resolution. Digital compression throws a monkey wrench in to
but I generally prefer DVD for quality.
No, LD is superior to any of the consumer tap
Don
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Laserdisc blew away VHS and Beta. I haven't seen it side-by-side with DVD,
but I expect that it will hold it's own. I'
Laserdisc blew away VHS and Beta. I haven't seen it side-by-side with DVD,
but I expect that it will hold it's own. I'll verify next time I'm at my
brother's house - he still has both.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
> Think so? I was under the impression the generally accep
My grandfather had a portable record-maker. He bought it in the 40s
or 50s. When he died in 1959, my aunt appropriated it, and it was
never seen again. About 10 years ago, a cousin sent my dad a
cassette recorded from a record my Grandpa sent to his mother back
when. It was great! Grandpa
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Now THAT is something! Laserdisc, better quality than original DVD, but
bigger.
What was that old vinyl record style
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
>
> I've toyed with the idea of using a record cutter as a way to hide data in
> plain sight, dump a low-baud modem into it, dump the data(with some ecc) to
> it, then frame it on the wall.
>
You'd have an easier time doing that with cassette
Walt Zarnoch wrote:
That's the one!
I'm glad laserdisc won out, or we'd be in the stone age still... Was all
before my time, but it helped shape life as I know it.
I've toyed with the idea of using a record cutter as a way to hide data in
plain sight, dump a low-baud modem into it, dump the data
That's the one!
I'm glad laserdisc won out, or we'd be in the stone age still... Was all
before my time, but it helped shape life as I know it.
I've toyed with the idea of using a record cutter as a way to hide data in
plain sight, dump a low-baud modem into it, dump the data(with some ecc) to
it,
What was that old vinyl record style video system RCA had? Anyone have
one?
Scrape-o-vision? (RCA Selectavision.) Sold by Radio Shack, Sears, etc.
My friend has one. I think there was another system too. I recall
that there were three competitors in the relatively small videodisc
market, whi
Now THAT is something! Laserdisc, better quality than original DVD, but
bigger.
What was that old vinyl record style video system RCA had? Anyone have one?
:p
Walt
On Dec 22, 2010 2:02 AM, "Jim Cathey" wrote:
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