What really buggs me is not that cheap phones get useless features. It's that they don't get the useful ones!
I want a phone that has a good adressbook and a calendar that you can sync with your computer. That is my *only* requirement. The expensive models has had this for several years, I got hooked on this when I had my nokia 6210 4-5 years ago. If all you want is games, colourscreen, java, polyphonic signals, bluetooth, camera, etc, you can go for the cheap models, but good and syncable adressbooks and calendars are still reserved for the upper-midrange to expensive models. =(
Wasn't the question "How to I hook this up to my pc, since I have no TV?"? The ps2-linux kit is a great expansion for the ps2, but it wouldn't solve his problem.
I think he's on the wrong track, wanting to connect his ps2 via a tv-tuner, though. The DV-camera is no problem, just get a firewireport in the computer and you're there... Or you could get the ps2-linux kit and use the fw-port in the ps2, but that would probably be more expensive. But the ps2 really should be connected directly to the monitor with one of those ps2->vga adapters. Then you'll get really good videoquality for the games, etc. Going through a tv-tuner and then to the monitor will be a *major* setback in quality...
Just curious. How good is the mp3-encoder it uses and has it got error correcting cd-ripping? If it's not as good or better than the Exact Audio Copy / Lame combination, the cd-rip feature is not worth paying for. (I read that you had to pay for the cd-rip version.) EAC/Lame is fast, easy and makes good mp3's for free. =)
Or you could use your 400,000 dollars to get a second hand *real* aircraft. And you would still have enough left to get a respectable car and an aircraft-license. Hell, the Cessna at my dropzone was only about 50,000$!
Hmm... Well, I haven't actually tried one out but reading about it on matrox own site it says that it is supposed to drive one 22" LCD screen at 3840 x 2400 using two LFH-60 (that is two dual DVI connections = four DVI channels) for the same screen. Take a look here
Why just the PC? It would be great to also see the other platforms, so that you could compare the speed of development. Read about the advanced SGI machines, the video-toster, mac, atari, C64, amiga, etc. ^_^ If games had been the driving factor in the 80's, as it is today, I wonder what would have happened.:/ The PC was really lousy at graphics and sound until around 91 - 92... Unless you spent hysterical amounts of money. But back then computers with, by those days standards, powerful graphics and sound was seen as toys because you could play games on them. Hmm... But the PC might have come out on top anyway, since it was the only open platform. (That is: Lots of different manufactures of the hardware and a choice of different OS's, since MS wasn't dominant yet.) The other ones was like mac today. One manufacturer, one os. Ok... Today there's PPC-linux too... Well, my rant is over. I'll be quiet now.
You can't. That's part of the deal if you want one of these beauties. But selling *both* your kidneys is a really stupid idea. Better go with one kidney and one lung. Come on, you *know* you don't need redundancy! =)
But have you taken a look at their Parhelia HR256? Quad DVI interface to drive LCD's at 3840 x 2400 pixels... =) Now we're talking space! Ok, maybe not something for those gamers out there. Don't think that the Parhelia, or any other card, has the power to run any kind of game at reasonable speeds at those resolutions. But for any kind of serious work: WOW! I'd love one of these! =)
Because that's where the funding is. Tell a paranoid goverment "with this you can build better weapons and monitor your citicens" and they'll pour money over you...
But the article *did* say that the company was talking about various applications, so there are probably lots and lots of legitimate usages for this too. ^_^ A chip like this would probably do wonders in medical imaging devices and such...
But the Korean version didn't use sms. It had a separate tranceiever for sending credit data, working just like your creditcard. The way I understood the article, you not only had to point it at the reciever, it was also encrypted and you had to enter a code to use it. Which would, hopefully, make it harder to copy than the magnetic stripe on your creditcard. That's one of the *really* bad things about creditcards. They're easy to copy and many places do not require your code before accepting payment.
Shark? Wouldn't a dolphin be a better choice? People are afraid of sharks, it would be shoot. But imagine someone, like an enemy child or soldier seeing that dolphin. "Aww, what a cute fish! Come here, fishie. *ZAP!*"
And, yes, I do know dolphins aren't fish, but the person being zapped apparently didn't. This should be obvious, but since this is slashdot I make sure to point it out so that I don't get a million "Youre stuppid! Dlopings arent not fish!" messages. ^_^
Nope... Just thought "Ahh... What the heck, people know how to cut and paste." I'm lazy. ^_^ Just wanted to point out that I knew I had made a misstake so that I wouldn't get 200 "You didn't make it a link." replies.;-) Hmm... But since this is slashdot, I'll probably get those anyway, plus a few "You did *pick one* grammar misstake." too. o_O
Ok, ok... I had originally written "only wireless short range technology" but choose to remove "short range" since the subject was short range wireless technology and it thus was implied by context.
Well... In the case of Miyazakis movies it's actually motivated. They are mostly movies that can be appreciated by the whole family, just like Disneys. If you are going to watch a movie with your 10 year old brother/sister or your child, they would get very little enjoyment from it if it was subtitled.
That said, I always try to find a theatre that's showing the original dub when I'm going to the movies myself, and I choose the original dub when watching dvd... I was really glad that when Spirited away went up here in Sweden, it was the original japanese dub with subtitles. I wish that they would have done at least a *few* showings with a Swedish dub so that my brothers children could have watched it too, though. And all my anime dvd's are English and Japanese only, so that's no use either.
Even though there are lots of anime that's not appropriate for a very young audience, most of what's produced is targeted towards people who would have a hard time understanding subtitled ones.
Most modern notebooks already comes with bluetooth, or at least have it as an option, just like with 802.11a/b/g. It is also the *only* wireless technology availible in mobile-phones. And for now there isn't any other wireless standard to replace it. In the niche "short range, non-tcp/ip, low bandwidth" communications, it's the only widespread standard. By the way, has anyone tried using one of those bluetooth headsets for mobilephones with a pc for ip-telephony or in games that supports verbal communication? If it works, that would be great. =)
I'd rather use the VIA EPIA-V mini-ITX C3-533MHz. They've got more powerful versions of this, but those require a cpu fan. This one only need a passive heatsink. =) If you add a ide->compactflash converter and use one of their fanless 55w psu's you've got a machine with *no* moving parts.
What I don't understand is how telemarketing can be profitable at all. Does *anyone* actually buy anything or go anywhere or vote for anywone, etc, who's been pestering them with phonecalls? I usually get irritated, hang up, and then try to avoid the company, person or organisation that hired the telemarketer, since they obviously are idiots who doesn't respect my privacy...
Unlike spamming, hireing a telemarketer cost money. For some reason it seem like they actually make more profit than it costs.
You would still have to fsck if you turn off your computer without syncing and unmounting you disks. Or maybe you were refering to the temporary parking of the head? But that only lasts for a short moment. If you're in the middle of a read or write, it will be held up for a little and then continue.
Something that's been bugging me for years is that computers and OS's that's capable of saving state to disk and then turn off won't let me create a state-image of my newly booted environment and then always load it at power on instead. (Wah! That was a long one.) I've been wondering about this since I got my first IBM Thinkpad around 1998. It could hibernate to disk and then power off. This was done to a separate partition and was independent of OS. To "boot" again took the time to read 24 MB from the harddrive. (It had 24 MB ram) But even though I can now do exactly the same thing in windows, I still can't keep a hibernationfile for fast booting. Is this possible in Linux? I've searched for it, but haven't been able to find anything.
Or rather: How long before you have to pay a royalty to some pharmacutical company for using "their" genes when creating a child?
"Ehh? We own the gene for blond hair! Your child includes some of our intellectual property, pay up or terminate it..."
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It's probably more of an experience problem. My native tounge is not english, nor do I live in a englishspeaking country, but I had no problem what so ever reading the post. I do, however, read a lot of english litterature and have been doing so for the last 13 years.
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What really buggs me is not that cheap phones get useless features.
It's that they don't get the useful ones!
I want a phone that has a good adressbook and a calendar that you can sync with your computer.
That is my *only* requirement.
The expensive models has had this for several years, I got hooked on this when I had my nokia 6210 4-5 years ago.
If all you want is games, colourscreen, java, polyphonic signals, bluetooth, camera, etc, you can go for the cheap models, but good and syncable adressbooks and calendars are still reserved for the upper-midrange to expensive models. =(
Wasn't the question "How to I hook this up to my pc, since I have no TV?"?
The ps2-linux kit is a great expansion for the ps2, but it wouldn't solve his problem.
I think he's on the wrong track, wanting to connect his ps2 via a tv-tuner, though.
The DV-camera is no problem, just get a firewireport in the computer and you're there...
Or you could get the ps2-linux kit and use the fw-port in the ps2, but that would probably be more expensive.
But the ps2 really should be connected directly to the monitor with one of those ps2->vga adapters.
Then you'll get really good videoquality for the games, etc.
Going through a tv-tuner and then to the monitor will be a *major* setback in quality...
Just curious. How good is the mp3-encoder it uses and has it got error correcting cd-ripping?
If it's not as good or better than the Exact Audio Copy / Lame combination, the cd-rip feature is not worth paying for. (I read that you had to pay for the cd-rip version.)
EAC/Lame is fast, easy and makes good mp3's for free. =)
But the global hotkey does seem interesting...
Or you could use your 400,000 dollars to get a second hand *real* aircraft.
And you would still have enough left to get a respectable car and an aircraft-license.
Hell, the Cessna at my dropzone was only about 50,000$!
Hmm... Well, I haven't actually tried one out but reading about it on matrox own site it says that it is supposed to drive one 22" LCD screen at 3840 x 2400 using two LFH-60 (that is two dual DVI connections = four DVI channels) for the same screen.
Take a look here
Why just the PC? :/
It would be great to also see the other platforms, so that you could compare the speed of development.
Read about the advanced SGI machines, the video-toster, mac, atari, C64, amiga, etc. ^_^
If games had been the driving factor in the 80's, as it is today, I wonder what would have happened.
The PC was really lousy at graphics and sound until around 91 - 92... Unless you spent hysterical amounts of money.
But back then computers with, by those days standards, powerful graphics and sound was seen as toys because you could play games on them.
Hmm... But the PC might have come out on top anyway, since it was the only open platform.
(That is: Lots of different manufactures of the hardware and a choice of different OS's, since MS wasn't dominant yet.)
The other ones was like mac today. One manufacturer, one os. Ok... Today there's PPC-linux too...
Well, my rant is over. I'll be quiet now.
You can't. That's part of the deal if you want one of these beauties.
But selling *both* your kidneys is a really stupid idea.
Better go with one kidney and one lung.
Come on, you *know* you don't need redundancy! =)
But have you taken a look at their Parhelia HR256?
Quad DVI interface to drive LCD's at 3840 x 2400 pixels... =)
Now we're talking space!
Ok, maybe not something for those gamers out there. Don't think that the Parhelia, or any other card, has the power to run any kind of game at reasonable speeds at those resolutions.
But for any kind of serious work: WOW!
I'd love one of these! =)
Because that's where the funding is.
Tell a paranoid goverment "with this you can build better weapons and monitor your citicens" and they'll pour money over you...
But the article *did* say that the company was talking about various applications, so there are probably lots and lots of legitimate usages for this too. ^_^
A chip like this would probably do wonders in medical imaging devices and such...
But the Korean version didn't use sms.
It had a separate tranceiever for sending credit data, working just like your creditcard.
The way I understood the article, you not only had to point it at the reciever, it was also encrypted and you had to enter a code to use it.
Which would, hopefully, make it harder to copy than the magnetic stripe on your creditcard.
That's one of the *really* bad things about creditcards. They're easy to copy and many places do not require your code before accepting payment.
Shark?
Wouldn't a dolphin be a better choice?
People are afraid of sharks, it would be shoot.
But imagine someone, like an enemy child or soldier seeing that dolphin.
"Aww, what a cute fish! Come here, fishie. *ZAP!*"
And, yes, I do know dolphins aren't fish, but the person being zapped apparently didn't.
This should be obvious, but since this is slashdot I make sure to point it out so that I don't get a million "Youre stuppid! Dlopings arent not fish!" messages. ^_^
And, yes, I'm sarcastic and cynical. ^_^
Nope... Just thought "Ahh... What the heck, people know how to cut and paste." ;-)
I'm lazy. ^_^
Just wanted to point out that I knew I had made a misstake so that I wouldn't get 200 "You didn't make it a link." replies.
Hmm... But since this is slashdot, I'll probably get those anyway, plus a few "You did *pick one* grammar misstake." too. o_O
Argh! Damn, forgot to make it a link. ^_^
My bad.
"a bit too literally when working on their Nuclear Engineering merit badge."
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You mean like this guy? =)
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/n1782_
Ok, ok... I had originally written "only wireless short range technology" but choose to remove "short range" since the subject was short range wireless technology and it thus was implied by context.
Well... In the case of Miyazakis movies it's actually motivated.
They are mostly movies that can be appreciated by the whole family, just like Disneys.
If you are going to watch a movie with your 10 year old brother/sister or your child, they would get very little enjoyment from it if it was subtitled.
That said, I always try to find a theatre that's showing the original dub when I'm going to the movies myself, and I choose the original dub when watching dvd...
I was really glad that when Spirited away went up here in Sweden, it was the original japanese dub with subtitles. I wish that they would have done at least a *few* showings with a Swedish dub so that my brothers children could have watched it too, though. And all my anime dvd's are English and Japanese only, so that's no use either.
Even though there are lots of anime that's not appropriate for a very young audience, most of what's produced is targeted towards people who would have a hard time understanding subtitled ones.
Hehe... Forgot about those. =)
And also, we have the keys on the keyboard and the mouse. ^_^
And the screen moves photons too...
Most modern notebooks already comes with bluetooth, or at least have it as an option, just like with 802.11a/b/g.
It is also the *only* wireless technology availible in mobile-phones.
And for now there isn't any other wireless standard to replace it. In the niche "short range, non-tcp/ip, low bandwidth" communications, it's the only widespread standard.
By the way, has anyone tried using one of those bluetooth headsets for mobilephones with a pc for ip-telephony or in games that supports verbal communication?
If it works, that would be great. =)
I'd rather use the VIA EPIA-V mini-ITX C3-533MHz.
They've got more powerful versions of this, but those require a cpu fan.
This one only need a passive heatsink. =)
If you add a ide->compactflash converter and use one of their fanless 55w psu's you've got a machine with *no* moving parts.
What I don't understand is how telemarketing can be profitable at all.
Does *anyone* actually buy anything or go anywhere or vote for anywone, etc, who's been pestering them with phonecalls?
I usually get irritated, hang up, and then try to avoid the company, person or organisation that hired the telemarketer, since they obviously are idiots who doesn't respect my privacy...
Unlike spamming, hireing a telemarketer cost money.
For some reason it seem like they actually make more profit than it costs.
I do not understand...
You would still have to fsck if you turn off your computer without syncing and unmounting you disks.
Or maybe you were refering to the temporary parking of the head?
But that only lasts for a short moment.
If you're in the middle of a read or write, it will be held up for a little and then continue.
Something that's been bugging me for years is that computers and OS's that's capable of saving state to disk and then turn off won't let me create a state-image of my newly booted environment and then always load it at power on instead. (Wah! That was a long one.)
I've been wondering about this since I got my first IBM Thinkpad around 1998.
It could hibernate to disk and then power off.
This was done to a separate partition and was independent of OS.
To "boot" again took the time to read 24 MB from the harddrive. (It had 24 MB ram)
But even though I can now do exactly the same thing in windows, I still can't keep a hibernationfile for fast booting.
Is this possible in Linux? I've searched for it, but haven't been able to find anything.
Or rather: How long before you have to pay a royalty to some pharmacutical company for using "their" genes when creating a child?
"Ehh? We own the gene for blond hair! Your child includes some of our intellectual property, pay up or terminate it..."
Ai! Me bad! Make sutipd mistajk! Typed the wrongly typed word. Sory. =)
It's probably more of an experience problem.
My native tounge is not english, nor do I live in a englishspeaking country, but I had no problem what so ever reading the post.
I do, however, read a lot of english litterature and have been doing so for the last 13 years.