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By this definition, your Internet service provider is a third party. If the blockchain is really several gigabytes, that can be more than a month of the typical data quota on cellular Internet, satellite Internet, or Iowa DSL, all of which are billed by the bit.
Most Android phones can easily create a wifi hotspot
I tried that on my cousin's Samsung Galaxy S-something but the phone instead displayed an error message to contact AT&T about upgrading the family plan.
No, because they don't actially offer "SD only service", it's all HD now.
Cable TV is all digital, but not necessarily high-definition. Operators of digital cable systems can and do use conditional access in the digital cable platform to give 480i or 1080i versions of a particular channel to particular customers. For example, Comcast charges a "monthly HD technology fee" if an XFINITY TV customer has HD in his plan. This was true as of this forum post three years ago, and another forum post from three months ago confirms that it still is being charged. Or was it very recently discontinued?
You'll still notice the difference between a movie and a "wrong region" error. I know the difference is not technical in nature, but one must still work around non-technical problems or do without.
Any user should be able to install the Bitcoin software, and then be able to transact instantaneously.
How? Without third parties, you won't have any BTC to spend.
Bitcoin [spawns] payment gateways that evolve into PayPal equivalents (once they're big enough they cut Bitcoin out of the loop).
But the important part of these is that they cut PayPal out of the loop. I imagine that a lot of BTC adopters got burned by some policy ruling by PayPal.
Were you going RCA video out?
Yes. All three of these devices were pre-HDMI and used S-Video output.
But most of the other video standards, like RCA, composite, S-video and such are 1-way. It would be *impossible* for the system to "know" that the TV doesn't match.
The Apex would scale 576i at 50 Hz to 480i at 60 Hz. The others just threw up their hands and gave up.
I've never had any DVD played on a computer (or by association, out the computer's video out) that cared about PAL/NTSC.
From roughly 1987 to 2006, it was rare to connect a PC to a TV-sized monitor. PCs were for desks, and "consumer electronics" devices were for the living room, and conventional wisdom was that never the twain shall meet. SDTVs of that era that couldn't display the VGA or DVI signals coming from a computer, unlike now where most TVs have VGA and HDMI inputs respectively, and one had to buy an obscure scan converter (or a desktop PC video card with a built-in scan converter) to convert the signals.
Perhaps you should try installing LUnix on your Commodore computer instead of *BSD.
So, it is probably more correct to say Linux without the GNU unless we should call Windows "GNU Windows" since one might choose to run a Mingw app.
MinGW is just GCC with the C library of Microsoft Visual C++ 6. If someone were to install Cygwin, on the other hand, that might stand a better chance of being called GNU/Windows. (In fact, Cygwin stands for Cygnus GNU/Windows.) And you're not the only person to present this sort of reduction to absurdity argument. So I set out to define a "GNU/$kernel" userland for myself as GNU Coreutils plus two other major GNU components, such as Bash, Emacs, GCC, or shared glibc. GNU/Linux counts, Cygwin counts, and MSYS counts.
Would "X11/Linux" be a better term to distinguish Fedora, Debian, and the like from Android and uses of Linux on router appliances?
Technology-wise: In rate-distortion terms, Theora is comparable to H.263-family codecs such as DivX (a popular implementation of MPEG-4 ASP). VP8 is comparable to the baseline profile of H.264. This means the picture can be more detailed at the same bitrate.
License-wise: WebM is distributed under the revised BSD license. As a free alternative to a patented format, it's in a similar position to Ogg Vorbis, for which RMS approved of use of the revised BSD license.
A 2160p picture with 4:2:0 chroma already contains as much chroma detail as a 1080p picture with 4:4:4 chroma.
Don't rely on YouTube. Upload the videos to a web site on your own domain, and use the HTML5 player. Also send counter-notices pursuant to 17 USC 512(g).
PAL/NTSC doesn't really exist in DVDs (yes, I know people will argue that, but I can put any DVD from any region, NTSC or PAL into my old DVD player and it'll output what NTSC or PAL based on a software switch).
Not all DVD players can do that. I own a copy of Wobbl and Bob, which is "region: all" and encoded in 576i/50. I've owned three "consumer" DVD players: an Apex, a PlayStation 2 slim (NTSC U/C), and a Magnavox, all region 1. Of the three, only the Apex would play it. The PS2 froze on a black screen with an error message "TV system doesn't match", and the Magnavox displayed a similar message with different wording.
Is that because cable providers charge more per year for high-definition service?
ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS.
