Answer: Each of our videos are streamed through in two parts: an audio portion and a scenic portion. When the connection speed is insufficient to stream both parts, the audio portion takes priority and the scenic portion is not processed. Therefore, the data transfer speed that you have selected on iFIT.com is greater than the actual transfer speed provided by either your modem or your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Answer: The music or video that accompanies your workout comes to you via an Internet technology called "streaming media". The maximum speed at which we can stream or transmit the workout to you is limited by the speed of your Internet connection. When you click to run your workout, you may have noticed that the workout music is "buffering" for a while before it begins to play. This means that the beginning of the music soundtrack is being temporarily stored in your computer's memory.

VPR and VPR Classical are both streamed live online. Recording industry laws prevent us from archiving our music programs. News and information content, including VPR News, Commentaries, Vermont Edition, and most locally-produced specials are archived online so you can download or replay them at your convenience after they have aired. National Public Radio news programs and specials are archived at www.npr.org.

In terms of physical scenery, Montreal is beautiful. The city is clean and modern with touches of traditional French architecture in Old Montreal. Unlike most cities, Montreal also has natural beauty with a large central mountain park (Mount Royal) and a charming waterfront in the Old Port. People watching, however, is what makes Montreal truly stunning. It is widely known that women in Montreal are some of the most beautiful in the world.

Yes. While the new default scenery is not photorealistic (it is based on classes of land, road networks, and individually placed objects for buildings), it is possible to use aerial or satelite photographs to make version 8 scenery.

We are hoping to release the global scenery this fall; sooner if possible. Global scenery is our highest priority.

Sergio Santagada is working on the artwork with Cristiano Maggi and Massimo Durando. Austin Meyer and Ben Supnik are working on the programming. There are also a lot of other people who are helping out with scenery in various ways; we appreciate their help a lot!

X-Plane 8 now supports ENV taxiway lines, as of version 815; upgrade to the latest X-Plane 8 to see them. However, our future plan is to have taxiway lines in the apt.dat file, not ENV files.

WorldMaker's scenery editing capabilities were implemented on top of the version 7 X-Plane scenery engine. When we totally rewrote the engine for version 8, we had to remove WorldMaker's scenery editing capabilities. To edit X-Plane 7 scenery, use WorldMaker from X-Plane 7.63 (available for free download). You can use WorldMaker 8 to edit airport and nav data. The new scenery editor will be a separate program from WorldMaker.

We will release the scenery tools after the global scenery is done and as soon as the user interface is refined enough for general use. Everyone will get access to the scenery tools at the same time - when we release them, we release them publicly. Following the xplane-news Yahoo group for release announcements.

Photo-Realistic scenery is scenery based primarily on high resolution aerial or satelite photographs. Essentially you are flying over a picture of what the area looks like in real life. Probably the greatest strength of photorealistic scenery is that while in flight, it looks almost exactly like what you see out the window of a real aircraft.

Landclass scenery is scenery based on catagories of land. The world is broken down into areas with catagories such as forests, cities, farms, etc. and then the terrain is textured based on these catagories. Landclass scenery can cover a large area with only a few image files (one for each land class), but a large area of a single land class can look repetitive (for example an area of repeating farms). More textures can be used to hide the repetitions.

No, I workout at home. My job as a Network Administrator keeps me on call pretty much 24/7, but I'm fortunate enough to be able to work from home. My responsibilities require that at any given time I'm able to get to my computers at a moment's notice, so going to a gym on a daily basis is not practical for me. I also find that it's much easier for me to stay motivated because all of my exercise equipment is in my house, challenging me to a workout every time I walk by my weight room.

Your workout is designed based upon your health history, your goals, any current limitations and your time available for exercise. Our focus is to educate you on all of the essential components of good health: flexibility, stamina, endurance, strength and weight reduction, and of course, take you through well developed training sessions. Clients generally start to feel better, physically and mentally, the first week they begin their training.

for young males that weigh between 150-200 lbs., deadlifts can move up 15-20 lbs. per workout, squats 10-15 lbs., with continued steady progress for 3-4 weeks before slowing down to half that rate. Bench presses, presses, and cleans (edit - and rows) can move up 5-10 lbs. per workout, with progress on these exercises slowing down to 2.5-5 lbs. per workout after only 2-3 weeks.

Answer: Online on demand is archived live webcast programs approved for Category 1 credit. Online on demand allows for users to view a program 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It also allows viewers to communicate via e-mail with the presenters of the program.

quot;Well I try to hit the gym at least twice a week, but sometimes I slack off. I am naturally slim, I guess I take after my mom's side."

No this is all one-on-one personal training however if you are a current client you are permitted to use the cardio equipment during normal business hours.

Contact iTAC's Media Development Center. You can also check out equipment such as digital still cameras, digital video camcorders, tripods and IC recorders from the MDC.

Possibly not. These previews represent various tests that the art team has done to evaluate various global scenery generation and texturing techniques. But the final product may not look as good. We need to keep the global scenery simple so that it will fit on a few DVDs. We also need to limit the number and size of the textures we use and the number of triangles so that all computers can run X-Plane 8 with global scenery.