Posts by Paul Campbell
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BTW - be careful when you see mention of "Dish-TV" online - one of the two major US satellite operators is called "Dish-TV" AFAIK they have absolutely nothing to the settops of the same name sold in NZ
I've always been a bit amazed there's not been some sort of trademark suit there
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Hard News: On Telly, Telly Off, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I'm surprised that so many people use the signal to the tower rather than the signal to the satellite. Is that through choice because it offers more, or avoiding the cost of installing a dish on the house?
Remember that the signal from the tower is higher bandwidth than the signal from the satellite - that meansas a rule, more mpeg compression on the satellite signal and not as high a quality (YMMV depending on the channel).
We have cheap dishes in NZ (one simple LNB, all polarised the same way) that means that we have less satellite bandwidth available for local TV than say in the US (where most TV uses 2-4 satellites and every other transponder polarised differently so they can squeeze them in a bit more) I suspect that Sky's running close to its capacity throwing another satellite up wont help without replacing every LNB (the little receiver knob in the middle of the dish)and rewiring every house (or at least every house with mysky) in the country - (building a new house, wiring it for Sky? stick in 2 sets of coax rather than just 1)
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So they're selling off all the soon to be unused TV spectrum - where's the money going? to fund more NACT tax cuts? in the US they at least used some of the revenue from the sale of spectrum to pay for set top boxes - everyone got a $50 voucher.
I'm still hoping that they're setting aside a goodly chunk of spectrum, free for all of use to use, something bigger and better than the microwave oven ghetto that became wifi
Sadly I doubt our politicians can see beyond the immediate $$ signs to plan for the future
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done - more PA is always good!
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Time to channel Tim Minchen
"You know what they call alternative medicine. That's been proved to work? Medicine"
All the rest doesn't work and is bunk
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Surely what we've found out in the past few weeks is that the NSA is running the infrastructure, even in places here in NZ, the GCSB has already lost control.
Frankly I don't think we can trust any of them, their interests are not aligned with ours - we have to build our own
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So you're planning on selling your power company. ..... today would be a bad time for a Lockheed skunkworks project to announce their cheap fusion project
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see I feel the opposite - something like that means that free seats on the AKL<->SFO flight are harder to come by should one need one at little notice
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We were talking the other day about how the Americas Cup boats keep getting bigger and bigger, more and more expensive and how the govt. is subsidising what's basically a rich man's sport.
We decided that if NZ wins it's time for a reset, I suggested nominating P-class yachts, a friend suggested Lasers - I think that P-classes armed with industrial strength lasers would be really cool .....
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talking about counting in preferential systems - the current reporting in the press of the labour leader result Cunnliffe got:
He received 18.2 per cent of the caucus vote, which was worth 40 per cent of the total.
He received 27.11 per cent of the membership vote, which was also worth 40 per cent.
And he got 15.6 per cent of the affiliated union vote, which made up 20 per cent of the total.is quote arse-backwards - based on this the middle phrase should be more like:
“he won 67% of the membership vote which counts as 40% resulting in 27.11% of the total vote”
(rejigg the other two the same way)
Someone doesn't really understand this stuff at all
