Technological progress marches forward, assimilating all those who resist -- we know this well in our line of work, but sometimes you've got to stand up and say, "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!" Take the digital TV transition in the United States for example: all the analog TV signals will be shut off in February. It won't be pretty, but it'll be progress. Hawaii, though, has a dilemma: it just so happens that the analog towers that'll be torn down are awfully close to the nests of the state's adorable and endangered petrel birds, whose nesting season also occurs in February. Hence Hawaii's digital switch will occur a month early on January 15th, so you 17,000 affected Hawaiians have that much less time to grab
converter boxes, or you'll end up watching the next season of
Lost in person on your beautiful beaches instead of your ancient tube televisions.
posted Nov 11th 2008 7:02PM
It's OK - Jack can go build sand castles.
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sweet, winning lotto numbers!
watch it man, do not dis on jack johnson
BTW: The new season of LOST premiers Wednesday January 21, 2008 on ABC. The Premier will be 3 hours long! Can't wait.
Is there a time portal near London?
Yeah, I can't wait till January 2008.
Wait...
They're still on the island!?
How on earth did they manage to drag it out this long?
Only one of those hours is an actual new story though.
Ok, I meant January 2009. The three hour premiere will consist of a one hour recap (not a rerun, a recap), and 2 brand new episodes, "Because You Left" and "The Lie."
The (Cake Is A) Lie
@Ethan
Two hours actually.
@Ethan, didn't you die back in season one?
I thought it'd be like season 4 with one opener, because of the limited number of episodes. They must have a lot to explain in order to get the ball rolling.
I thought it'd be a sort of cultural impact documentary, then a clip show, then the opener. Now it turns out I only have to turn up one hour late to the 'event.'
I think there's actually a guy on engadget who's called themselves Ethan Rom.
Nice mish mash of iPhone icons and Star Trek TNG+ font!
You fail at Lost references.
I think that's a compliment.
oh iEye, you are bad.
too bad... in some years, iPod will be obsolete as well.
Since the show takes place in 2004-early 2005, obviously the iphone icons were stolen from whoever made this satellite phone.
"I won't preside over the demise of Ferengi civilization! … The line has to be drawn here! This far, and no further!" - Quark, in "The Dogs of War"
Best. Meta-reference. Ever.
THANK GOD I am not the only one to pick that up!
Really? I rather thought "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!" was Picard in ST:First Contact whilst talking to Lilly in his ready-room. Oh, the geek-manity!
who cares? there's COUGARS ON THE LOOSE!!!!!11111111111111
COUGARS? Cool, if they are hott I'll do 'em
they point at you. with really bad nail jobs.
wow, guess people really like their Cougar banner ads here.
So did they find a way to quickly channel surf in the US yet with digital? Over here on digital cable it's rather annoyingly slow as the buffer of every channel fills before it switches making channel surfing a thing just annoyingly enough so you quickly give up on it, which in turn makes you turn off the TV.
Ironically it's the only saving grace of regular TV, surfing, for shows you plan to watch it's better to use other non ad-laden venues and TV's use is really relegated to surfing.
Noticed the same thing whether it's over-the-air HD or satellite. I'm sure there's a way to get around that (maybe by buffering a single frame every 10 seconds or so from adjacent channels for quick display when flipping), but I'm no expert.
I always had this feeling that Hawaii's government was bad at planning this kind of thing. The state government is always on "Hawaiian time" so when the deadline nears, they make mistakes like this bird fiasco.
The biggest example is the H3 project but I'm sure the train/monorail project in the works will be just as bad.
I've got no doubt about your stance on the rail plans... but if you'll forgive my ignorance, might I ask what happened with the H3...? I wasn't living in the 808 at that stage...
on a side note, Jorge Garcia (Hugo) has been on that island for 5 seasons and is still a lardass.
He is now at least 30% dharma ranch dressing.
Yeah but they've only been on the island 108 days. (And there lots of empty calorie goodies in the hatch.)
he went to my high school :]]
did you change your icon to the phone button in hopes that someone might actually call you?
why not leave them up and use them for white space internet transmitters? or does itt not work like that?
It does work like that, provided all you want to do is transmit the entire internet; with broadcast communications, browsers don't request web pages, they just wait till the right page gets broadcast... otherwise, an "internet transmitter" isn't quite what you want.
Unfortunately, there's the question of where to start from, and in what order to stream the internet, not to mention that it's growing faster than you can broadcast, but I'd just start from 3.14159265 and keep going. It's all in there. (Or if not, we wind up proving (negatively) the normality of pi, which is even cooler!)
(Technically, of course, you could do an asymmetric solution like one-way satellite internet, where you use a high bandwidth, but one-way, downlink, and use a telephone line (or cellular, to go all-wireless) for uplink, but that still doesn't look like a good idea.)
Even if they just use the existing towers for a completely different technology, seems it'd be cheaper/easier to reuse an analog TV tower with new antennas, rather than building a whole new tower for LTE five feet away and tearing down the old one.
Do you guys remember when we thought this device looked like the iPhone.
Ah, yes the iPhone... I hear the next iPhone will be made out of CARBON FIBER!!!!
as always the iPhone will be 5 years ahead of the competition in UI, and now build materials...
Ass.
i'm pretty sure they already made phones with carbon fiber. n00b!!! sry guys for feeding the troll. we should starve him but it's not as fun as bursting his iBubble.
'i' have to agree with 'ieye' other phone manufactures are like 10years behind the iphone, thats why steve was born, to make the world a better place,
@ broli 'i' agree they should use iphone instead, the others a cheap iphone knock off
Wow, iEye's comments are becoming so faint, I have to copy-paste them into notes.
Oh, wait.
Sawyer won't mind, he's been sent back in time anyway, so he can make some more archaic references to tv programs I've never seen.
WALT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
people watch tv in hawaii? i would never watch tv if i'm in hawaii; there's too much fun to be had outside
Yes, we watch TV in Hawaii.
No, we do not have beautiful beaches.