Everytime something gets announced or proposed with the intentions of spending billions or trillions of dollars on in the name of defense, it makes me think that all this time, all this money could have been pooled together to develop shield technology. Every alien race seems to have this technology from all the movies I've seen. We better get cracking.
Uh, tanks? I don't remember that. I guess it's been a while.
Jagged Alliance Unfinished Business is currently what I'm playing right now... on my core 2 duo with 2 GB RAM and an early 2006 high end ATI card. Yeah, great use of that hardware. The JA series is at the top of my list, and I'm surprised it's not mentioned as much as other favorites StarCon, XCom and MoM.
I recall another even uglier device being announced last week that claimed to be agnostic. Might have been 1080i/p capable as well. Anyway, it's difficult to tell, but either this Echoview thing doesn't have an audio out port, or it's that little minijack port which could potentially be only stereo. It'd be a shame.
Web Standards & Compatibility (e.g. ACID2, CSS2.1... Should I hold my breath as to whether some CSS "bugs" ever gets fixed in Firefox? Ever since version 0.x beta whatever, a couple of CSS things still irk me that might not be bugs but really look "wrong."
Add CSS borders around images and then make them change colors when hovering. Looks like it should in IE. In FF, it looks like a bucket underneath the image instead of a box around the image. Something like |_|
Make a div or table float to the left or right and place a table of data beneath it. In FF, the floating item is super-imposed into the table instead of pushing it down.
BTW - they mentioned Westinghouse. Who the hell is rolling the glass for them? I'm actually looking at a Westinghouse LCD at some time in the near-future. Is it decent overall?
I've had a 32" (or 81.3 cm for those at NASA moonbase) Westinghouse for about a year and a half now. It's had light use since it's in my bedroom, but the reliability and video quality is better than I've hoped from a sub-first-tier company. The main drawbacks on my particular model are that everything is controlled by remote (not a big deal), and the volume range is not very "rangey." What I mean is, when I set it to volume level 1, it's just about as loud as volume level 10. Increasing it to about 25, and I hear a difference. So when I set the sleep timer, I like the TV to be audible but really soft (the need for a true level 1), but it's still a little louder than I'd like. At 30, it's not as loud as I want it. All can be remedied by plugging in some external speakers or a receiver, but this is my bedroom and I haven't bothered.
Oh yeah, your question... I also got it because I read at the time that Westinghouse was using panels from the same factory(s) making Sony and Samsung panels. Not sure what the current situation is though.
I assume people are measured metrically in metric countries, right? It just doesn't seem as glamorous when a European basketball coach announces that he's successfully recruited a 2.1336 meter guy to play center.
When I was taking chemistry and physics classes in highschool (late 80s/early 90s) the teachers were typically teaching us everything in metric units. So I, for one, welcomed our centi-overlords.
It always seemed weird to me that kids were being taught the metric system (at least science oriented HS and college people) for a couple of decades now, yet step out on the street and everything's "miles this" or "feet that."
Maybe a civilization in some distant galaxy, 300,000 earth years more technologically advanced than ours still hasn't figured out the whole "How the hell do we travel to the nearest star system in any reasonable amount of time?" thing. So they're like, "F this, let's just worry about our species' survival inside our own region of the galaxy." And are working on a Dyson Sphere or something.
Our resources may be better spent creating parallel universes that we can somehow travel to through a box portal. Like leprechaun universe or pirate universe.
Feh. Backing up's for suckers! Actually, I do but it's less a pain in the ass to exchange for a new DVD than to restore a hard drive and hope the image is really really up to date and hope that everything works. At least for me.
You mean like how the DVDs scratch? Or the foil surface on the back starts peeling off? Yeah, but then that's just one movie isn't it? A hard drive if used for the purpose of storing movies would be storing a bunch... and you could potentially lose all of them if the drive crashes.
We're still hanging onto our HD DirecTivo until all the kinks get worked out with the Mpeg-4 HD DVR blah blah blah unit that D* has or will release. (I haven't kept up with that news).
As far as remotes go, I tell friends this all the time. The one tech device more important than anything else in your life except for a computer or cell phone is a great universal remote. One that can learn, has a good combination of LCD and hard buttons, well laid out, and does macros. We have two from Home Theater Master (now under a different brand name) for our two main TVs. Don't care and haven't cared in the last 5 years how good or bad is a remote control that comes with any device. Just enter the code or teach the main remote the necessary functions, and throw that other remote into a drawer.
I've got two 300GB hard drives on one of my computers. There's "only" 85 Gigs left on one drive and 5 Gigs remaining on the other. And I regularly clean out games I don't play anymore, and have a separate computer for testing out MSDN stuff. So, yeah we're always going to need more.
I'm still, to this day, surprised that the DIVX codec took off so well after having a name that's identical to such a hated video media format. That would be like some startup alternative energy company naming itself Enron Power or something, and then becoming a big success. But then maybe nobody remembers the DIVX disc debacle other than a handful of us.
Heck, I didn't buy Amadeus because of that until the 2 disc SE. As a side note, did they ever redo Sleepers and A Time to Kill? I think those are the only two flippers I still haven't replaced since those early days. Amadeus, Goodfellas I got around to.
Ah who cares, I stopped buying DVDs when this whole "limbo period" started. eg. HD resolution media's available, but I can't jump on it because of the format war, and I won't bother to buy DVDs anymore because I don't want to double dip. I guess they (competing formats) did F up.
I don't doubt it. CD defeated SACD and DVD-Audio quite convincingly... but then again, mp3 / various lossy formats are defeating CD.
I almost would have preferred the winner to win the old fashion way. This dual formatting on either the player side or the disc side simply delays prices from coming down.
Many of the "standard" size bulbs in our house are on lamps that have dimmers. So I've had this problem quite a bit trying to integrate these things into my home. I've tried a few different manufacturers, but they all have the same problem of not working well with dimmers. On the other hand, like you, I haven't found one that explicitly claims to work with dimmers, though I hear they exist.
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Readyboost. This feature is only going to get better as flash drive technology continues to improve.
Everytime something gets announced or proposed with the intentions of spending billions or trillions of dollars on in the name of defense, it makes me think that all this time, all this money could have been pooled together to develop shield technology. Every alien race seems to have this technology from all the movies I've seen. We better get cracking.
Uh, tanks? I don't remember that. I guess it's been a while.
Jagged Alliance Unfinished Business is currently what I'm playing right now... on my core 2 duo with 2 GB RAM and an early 2006 high end ATI card. Yeah, great use of that hardware. The JA series is at the top of my list, and I'm surprised it's not mentioned as much as other favorites StarCon, XCom and MoM.
Admiral Crunch? "Well if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula."
I recall another even uglier device being announced last week that claimed to be agnostic. Might have been 1080i/p capable as well. Anyway, it's difficult to tell, but either this Echoview thing doesn't have an audio out port, or it's that little minijack port which could potentially be only stereo. It'd be a shame.
Add CSS borders around images and then make them change colors when hovering. Looks like it should in IE. In FF, it looks like a bucket underneath the image instead of a box around the image. Something like |_|
Make a div or table float to the left or right and place a table of data beneath it. In FF, the floating item is super-imposed into the table instead of pushing it down.
I've had a 32" (or 81.3 cm for those at NASA moonbase) Westinghouse for about a year and a half now. It's had light use since it's in my bedroom, but the reliability and video quality is better than I've hoped from a sub-first-tier company. The main drawbacks on my particular model are that everything is controlled by remote (not a big deal), and the volume range is not very "rangey." What I mean is, when I set it to volume level 1, it's just about as loud as volume level 10. Increasing it to about 25, and I hear a difference. So when I set the sleep timer, I like the TV to be audible but really soft (the need for a true level 1), but it's still a little louder than I'd like. At 30, it's not as loud as I want it. All can be remedied by plugging in some external speakers or a receiver, but this is my bedroom and I haven't bothered.
Oh yeah, your question... I also got it because I read at the time that Westinghouse was using panels from the same factory(s) making Sony and Samsung panels. Not sure what the current situation is though.
I assume people are measured metrically in metric countries, right? It just doesn't seem as glamorous when a European basketball coach announces that he's successfully recruited a 2.1336 meter guy to play center.
When I was taking chemistry and physics classes in highschool (late 80s/early 90s) the teachers were typically teaching us everything in metric units. So I, for one, welcomed our centi-overlords.
It always seemed weird to me that kids were being taught the metric system (at least science oriented HS and college people) for a couple of decades now, yet step out on the street and everything's "miles this" or "feet that."
Maybe a civilization in some distant galaxy, 300,000 earth years more technologically advanced than ours still hasn't figured out the whole "How the hell do we travel to the nearest star system in any reasonable amount of time?" thing. So they're like, "F this, let's just worry about our species' survival inside our own region of the galaxy." And are working on a Dyson Sphere or something. Our resources may be better spent creating parallel universes that we can somehow travel to through a box portal. Like leprechaun universe or pirate universe.
Feh. Backing up's for suckers! Actually, I do but it's less a pain in the ass to exchange for a new DVD than to restore a hard drive and hope the image is really really up to date and hope that everything works. At least for me.
Damn it! And Spiderman 3 is going to be a big push for the Blu-ray camp come Christmas season as well.
We're still hanging onto our HD DirecTivo until all the kinks get worked out with the Mpeg-4 HD DVR blah blah blah unit that D* has or will release. (I haven't kept up with that news). As far as remotes go, I tell friends this all the time. The one tech device more important than anything else in your life except for a computer or cell phone is a great universal remote. One that can learn, has a good combination of LCD and hard buttons, well laid out, and does macros. We have two from Home Theater Master (now under a different brand name) for our two main TVs. Don't care and haven't cared in the last 5 years how good or bad is a remote control that comes with any device. Just enter the code or teach the main remote the necessary functions, and throw that other remote into a drawer.
I wouldn't want to wait for the defrag time or the spyware/antivirus scanning times on these drives.
I've got two 300GB hard drives on one of my computers. There's "only" 85 Gigs left on one drive and 5 Gigs remaining on the other. And I regularly clean out games I don't play anymore, and have a separate computer for testing out MSDN stuff. So, yeah we're always going to need more.
I'm still, to this day, surprised that the DIVX codec took off so well after having a name that's identical to such a hated video media format. That would be like some startup alternative energy company naming itself Enron Power or something, and then becoming a big success. But then maybe nobody remembers the DIVX disc debacle other than a handful of us.
I don't doubt it. CD defeated SACD and DVD-Audio quite convincingly... but then again, mp3 / various lossy formats are defeating CD. I almost would have preferred the winner to win the old fashion way. This dual formatting on either the player side or the disc side simply delays prices from coming down.
Many of the "standard" size bulbs in our house are on lamps that have dimmers. So I've had this problem quite a bit trying to integrate these things into my home. I've tried a few different manufacturers, but they all have the same problem of not working well with dimmers. On the other hand, like you, I haven't found one that explicitly claims to work with dimmers, though I hear they exist.