Yeah, no kidding. I'm a part time sound engineer and DJ, and the "Power" indicator on my mixing board is an ungodly bright blue light. I usually end up setting something on top of it to keep it from blinding me in an otherwise-typically-low-light environment.

This is my favourite bit:

If /dev/null is fast and web scale, I will use it. Is it web scale?

I have had no problem with LEDs burning out, nor with them not dimming at least as well as incandescent. There are currently seven deployed in my home, three on dimmers. I am typically in the $8-20 range for these bulbs.

Actually, that's per copy per picture.

This makes me wonder if video will be counted as 24/25/30/50/60 pictures per second of video. It would only take 17 seconds of 720p to run up a $1,000,000 fine.

I suppose, but the reason I play by the rules is because it gives me the right to tell them to go fuck themselves if they get upset about it.

Glad I could help ;-)

I do, but I have it in the contract that I won't accommodate such requests, nor will I play a CD/DVD/other media that someone brings me during the gig because you never know when it's going to be scratched in just the wrong place, or a copy of a 24kbps flange-a-thon.

I do ensure the proper licensing is in place, thank you very much.

I am a DJ who frequently plays gigs in places aptly described as "out in the middle of nowhere". As a reference, the last two gigs both involved a client telling me, "If you need more power, let me know. I'll go get the generator". I sent an SMS to my wife at the start of my most recent gig, and it got to her when I got back in range, an hour an a half after I left. Connectivity is zero. If I need connectivity to play it, I can't play it. I will be happy to tell anyone at the gig why I can't play it.

They'll need to find a new name for the company now. ORACLE = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

I don't think they're idiots. I think that they think we are idiots.

Channels don't exist on a carrier.

Unhelpful pedantics. My point, as you correctly gathered, os one of there being or not/being sufficient bandwidth to do the job.

Where is "there", incidentally? I think it might be helpful to have some idea of how far out in which set of sticks we're talking about.

VNC might be really slow over dialup though, you'd need to use Tight encoding with JPEG quality cranked all the way down to make it usable at all.

I will admit to trying such stupidity and confirm that this is true. Watching a screen refresh, even when using -compresslevel 9 and -bgr233 is very painful over dialup. Try to avoid it if at all possible.

SSH, OTOH, is fairly usable by dialup.

I have heard that two 720p channels can coexist on one carrier. I haven't heard of anyone doing this with 1080i or 1080p, and I don't know if the 720p channels were running 30 or 60 FPS.