By far the best place is indeed avsforum. just one warning, everyone raves about the infocus X1 over there.
That being said if you are going for a true home theatre system make sure you keep in mind your requirements like:
- image format (4:3, 16:9)
- room type (controlled light, living room etc..)
- What will you watch the most? (tv, dvd, pc etc..)
- What will you use to feed the projector? (tuner card, PC, video switch etc..)
- Will you need true HD ? (requires true HD components like HDTV tuner cards etc..)
and don't fall into the fallacies of buying a PC projector if that's not what you want (I have seen many people do this).
just my 2cp as a proud owner of a Epson Home lite 10 using myhtpc.
Let's face it MS's business practice would make a crack-addict prostitute blush, but that doesn't mean that they can't help.
MS is too "afraid" of open source to embrasse it in any ways, and we are renforcing the idea that it's MS Vs open source. What says they can't help integrate somethings, like port their office platform to linux it doesn't force them into anything, they can still sell it but it makes linux stronger and flushes through the whole system. Now I know what you're thinking "why would MS do that ?", well they have to come to a point where they realize that no matter how much money and resources they have as the younger "GPL aware" computer user grow up they will stop purchasing MS OSes (one can hope at least).
all in all I still think that MS can turn around at some point and help instead of destroy.
It is an interesting dilema indeed, and my first reaction is tell them, just because I would want any applicant to tell me things like that. Will it hurt your chances of getting the job, most definitely ! You could consider contract style work as well, getting a 12 months contract, mostly in those hard times, isn't that uncommon. If you don't tell them you will indeed make out like a bandit however you are likely to burn bridges and if this is the industry you want to work in be careful, everyone one knows everyone "once removed". The number of times where I had someone apply for a position and someone in the company knew them from previous worlplaces is just astounding.
All in all I would strongly suggest looking for contract work since to me neither alternative looks good, lie and potentially burn bridges, tell the truth and probably not get the job... then again it depends on the job you are applying for as well.
It used to be that the basic software that local isp would send you was a browser (90% of the time it was Netscape) and an email program (like pegasus) that was mostly since most OSes didn't come with anything at all (win 3.x, old Mac OS) but now unless you have a portal what's the point in handing anything out as more then a "nice option" ?? VNC for support is just silly (like someone said above) no connection no support.. only thing I would see as usefull would be a virus scanner or something like that.
I have been using MS natural keyboards for a long time now and had to keep cleaning mine and "babying" it because none of the keyboards out there were as good as the good old sturdy 3x2, nice wide arrows ones, but MS has finaly brought back some of that with the Natural keyboard Pro. The feature button at the top are actualy pretty nice to have but I haven't found a way to get them to work properly on Linux yet.
Never the less those new ones bring back the nice arrow keys (if you are like me you don't really use those for games anyways).
For me it's back to MS natural keyboard pro and this time I bought a few just to make sure I get to keep something I am comfy with.
There are so many ways to track your typical Web user nowadays that not collecting Email or using 3rd party cookies is like saying I don't use my knife to kill anymore just atomic weapons. There are so many UIN in all sorts of software (windows media player, quicktime, realplayer etc.. etc..) they don't even need that much specific info anymore.
My company has been working on this problem for some time and so far the best (for us) we found is NetShell. the only reason we picked that one is because it gives you a linux style shell on any remote machine. It's based on a lot of the Cygwin stuff but it really lets you build your own content management package. They do sell a GUI for their system but the price is just wrong.
Hum.. did you actually check the CNet page ? they rate it 5/10, which granted is not fantastic but can you really consider it negative ?
Also the User feedback is 95% positive 5% negative.. I would call that a positive thing...
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By far the best place is indeed avsforum. just one warning, everyone raves about the infocus X1 over there. That being said if you are going for a true home theatre system make sure you keep in mind your requirements like: - image format (4:3, 16:9) - room type (controlled light, living room etc..) - What will you watch the most? (tv, dvd, pc etc..) - What will you use to feed the projector? (tuner card, PC, video switch etc..) - Will you need true HD ? (requires true HD components like HDTV tuner cards etc..) and don't fall into the fallacies of buying a PC projector if that's not what you want (I have seen many people do this). just my 2cp as a proud owner of a Epson Home lite 10 using myhtpc.
Let's face it MS's business practice would make a crack-addict prostitute blush, but that doesn't mean that they can't help.
MS is too "afraid" of open source to embrasse it in any ways, and we are renforcing the idea that it's MS Vs open source. What says they can't help integrate somethings, like port their office platform to linux it doesn't force them into anything, they can still sell it but it makes linux stronger and flushes through the whole system. Now I know what you're thinking "why would MS do that ?", well they have to come to a point where they realize that no matter how much money and resources they have as the younger "GPL aware" computer user grow up they will stop purchasing MS OSes (one can hope at least).
all in all I still think that MS can turn around at some point and help instead of destroy.
man am I an optimist or what !
It is an interesting dilema indeed, and my first reaction is tell them, just because I would want any applicant to tell me things like that. Will it hurt your chances of getting the job, most definitely !
You could consider contract style work as well, getting a 12 months contract, mostly in those hard times, isn't that uncommon.
If you don't tell them you will indeed make out like a bandit however you are likely to burn bridges and if this is the industry you want to work in be careful, everyone one knows everyone "once removed".
The number of times where I had someone apply for a position and someone in the company knew them from previous worlplaces is just astounding.
All in all I would strongly suggest looking for contract work since to me neither alternative looks good, lie and potentially burn bridges, tell the truth and probably not get the job... then again it depends on the job you are applying for as well.
and that was my 2cents worth
tomorrow we find out that some of those oh so obviously fake stories were true
what the odds right
It used to be that the basic software that local isp would send you was a browser (90% of the time it was Netscape) and an email program (like pegasus) that was mostly since most OSes didn't come with anything at all (win 3.x, old Mac OS)
but now unless you have a portal what's the point in handing anything out as more then a "nice option" ??
VNC for support is just silly (like someone said above) no connection no support
only thing I would see as usefull would be a virus scanner or something like that.
I have been using MS natural keyboards for a long time now and had to keep cleaning mine and "babying" it because none of the keyboards out there were as good as the good old sturdy 3x2, nice wide arrows ones, but MS has finaly brought back some of that with the Natural keyboard Pro.
The feature button at the top are actualy pretty nice to have but I haven't found a way to get them to work properly on Linux yet.
Never the less those new ones bring back the nice arrow keys (if you are like me you don't really use those for games anyways).
For me it's back to MS natural keyboard pro and this time I bought a few just to make sure I get to keep something I am comfy with.
There are so many ways to track your typical Web user nowadays that not collecting Email or using 3rd party cookies is like saying I don't use my knife to kill anymore just atomic weapons.
There are so many UIN in all sorts of software (windows media player, quicktime, realplayer etc.. etc..) they don't even need that much specific info anymore.
My company has been working on this problem for some time and so far the best (for us) we found is NetShell. the only reason we picked that one is because it gives you a linux style shell on any remote machine. It's based on a lot of the Cygwin stuff but it really lets you build your own content management package.
They do sell a GUI for their system but the price is just wrong.
hum.. can you say "Lafayette" ??? ..
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or do you even know your own history
bah sad day for me to see this very very very silly thread on
How about so if you want to you can form your own opinion.... ?
Hum.. did you actually check the CNet page ? they rate it 5/10, which granted is not fantastic but can you really consider it negative ? .. I would call that a positive thing ...
Also the User feedback is 95% positive 5% negative
Well anyone in this industry who even thinks of using words like "unbreakable" or "100% " is just asking to get beaten to death with a stick.