Except for most of us it's faster to write with your hands.
Writing by hand, you can jump letters and make abbrevs, you can draw diagrams right in there, and not to mention it feels a lot better. I don't know why but sitting and typing on my computer, and same when I used to paint minis, feels painful and stuffy. With the option of either typing or writing I'd definately take writing. Sure, with typing on a computer you can erase stuff quickly, but text editors have always been shitty for me (stuff like AbiWord often having graphical glitches or plain slow, text editors too or just lame feeling) and hitting a bunch of blocks to make words does not feel as good as actually writing down the words.
I never mastered cursive properly. I write "script", but write while skipping letters in my notes and using small symbols (batman symbol, drawn as a W in a circle, for example, is distress; three points is "donc", ds dans, etc and it changes depending on context). I write fairly fast, and imho much faster than when I type, if only because when I type I often hit the wrong keys; often being once a paragraph, and it's often because I can't get my mind straight on the keymap, or my fingers hit in the wrong order.
I don't know; even though the Acer Aspire One with 8GB SSD is only 300$ (although I can't find it at WorstBuy/PrehistoricShop anymore) and it also comes with an option for a 120GB HDD, LED backlit screen...
The Dell E is passively cooled. No moving parts whatsoever. Sure, it's 80$ more here to match the 8GB of the Aspire One... But passively cooled! For the screen and keyboard, HP has everybody beat. So I don't know anymore. Can you stand a winey fan? (and I hear Dell's E keyboard is not too bad) Not to mention, you'll be trying to match Dell pricing, and I'm hoping the price will fall down to 300$ very fast.
MiniITX. CN896 supports PCIE. I have no idea what other chipsets support it or will support it. Good news is that Logicsupply.com (just lurking there lately) has one of those boards with PCIEx16 (1.5GHz CPU, a lot like SN, but without CompactFlash though that adapter costs like 4$ at DealExtreme) for 144$.
Cooler does not look bad. Considering you're using a card, you'd need an "expandable" case the kind with room for cards. So you could easily slap a dual-slot cooler if you want it passively cooled, because you have room for two slots. (although where will the TV tuner go?)
If it can encode HD (720p/1080i/1080p, at least the first two, with a fairly high-bitrate h.264) then it's sold. There's no point to using Windows on your HTPC with a noisy video card when you can use this with MythTV (if there was any advantage to windows on a machine like that in the first place...).
If IBM gives us an MIT/BSD licensed option (or is this only kernel/userland? in which case GPL or apache would be ok) then it's sold sold sold, easily, and I would buy one the day I could find one. On the other hand if it's closed it's game over from the start, because it's likely going to be windows support only, and so no dice because those people are using geforces/radeons.
I was thinking something along those lines, using it to speed up decodes on Linux. The problem is, when would support come, assuming support is necessary?
There's all sorts of ARM CPUs that can do h.264 (OSD2 is supposed to ship with one, but only for SDTV/EDTV, beagleboard does 720p but I'm not too sure what formats). The problem there is that they don't do HD.
Should this work really well under Linux, I could easily see VIA boards fitting dual PCIE (or seeing this card for a different bus, or using a riser). VIA Nano 1GHz would use 5W or less depending on the model; should be more than enough for all your background tasks. Offload the video onto the PCIE card, and even with a PicoPSU-120 you should have more than enough power. Stick in an HD4450 or something similar on another PCIEx16 slot, and now you can game too.
Before people weren't real sex maniacs. (at least, "normal people" weren't) Somebody here was posting about places in SF where some fellow claimed to have 2500 partners. I don't see ultra-religious 700s-1800s (or maybe 1700s) Europe/NA allowing that. And I'm sure the self-imposed monogamy was in Asia too.
I hate to say this as it sounds harsh and trollish, but somebody once posted here saying "homosexuals are a genetic defect"... And that got me wondering. Did we start being ultra-monogomous (I mean stuff like "no sex before marriage", not, "one partner forever") to stop the spread of diseases like AIDS?
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How much did it cost for the video card that replaced the stock video card that lacked an S-video output?
30$ at WalMart.
And how much did it cost you in time to learn how to install a video card?
About a few minutes to scan the manual for the case to find out how to open it, then unscrewing the PCI plate, then putting the card in, then screwing it in. I'd say 5-10 minutes, maybe 20 minutes to carry it up on my bigger desk. Since everybody at slashdot screams time is money, that means I was so losing out on 100$.
Are most end users willing to spend that much money and that much time on setting up an HTPC, or are they just going to play Nintendo-approved games on their Wii and skip the entire indie game market?
You're confusing two markets here.
Wii does not play DVDs, because DVD playback is overrated; I have too many DVD players, and now you want to sell me more?!? The Wii's DVD drive is also very reliable; unlike a "normal" one, it reads at a constant rate, so the parts inside don't get as worn out.
For HTPCs, not all HTPCs play games. Games and video often contradict themselves, unless it's "party games" like N64 games being emulated. In which case, you still need a fairly good CPU/board... If it's only video (upto 720p) and maybe some Quake(3?) then you have things like the BeagleBoard, tiny computers. If you're gaming then you almost invariably end up with a fairly large and noisy computer. I mean, it's a computer, but still... But 1080p playback will require that, although I only know two people who own 1080p sets, both of whom are idiots for it IMHO. =/
My PC can do that. MY PC. That old piece of shit people don't even use for compairasons anymore. Sure, it can't play everything at 720p; but "720p" is a fucking joke.
At least on my Bravia 32" 720p TV, when I'm watching cartoons on cable it looks just fine. Problems arise when watching "real life" shows. But that might just be me...
Considering, imho, Nintendo is known for colourful games (or even just cartoon'ed stuff, not necessarily cell shading (but that helps) but it's not like CoD4 or Crysis where you try to be "realistic"). That goes up pretty well.
A Wii HD would be interesting. I probably wouldn't buy it. I really don't see the point, all things considered. Hard disks fail, not everybody has a "HD" TV (I only have one because my old TV went caput, dead caps), and not to mention if it's only 720p it's not really that great, by 2011 I'm sure we'll see 720p done easily by these sort of chips...
But it would be nice, don't get me wrong. Fingers crossed.
My first consoles and computer were without moving parts and still work to this day; on the other hand can't say the same about the old Pentium 4 machine a friend of mine had, whose disk now doesn't work and whose fans died...
Not to mention, Japan, South Korea, and Sweden (Finland too?), have the fastest internet speeds but speak a language only spoken there (at least in significant so-more-than-1 numbers). If you're in Japan/Sweden/SouthKorea, with the exception of a video on US YouTube, you're going to prefer getting your stuff on Japanese/Korean/Swedish sites, sites in your language and relevant to your interests.
But on the other hand, me in Canada, and our friends in Australia/NZ, most of the stuff they want to get to is in the US, because let's face it it's the centre of the english world right now.
Or something like less than 30% of the US GDP (but that's if the GDP is only 13 trillion; I'm pretty sure it's much larger than that. It's over double the German GDP, which is something like 6-7 trillion)
There are countries worse off than you. Of course, I profit from your misery (when it's reasonable, as it is now and in the 70s when we trading for 1.30$). But look at most European countries; a hostile workforce, half your GDP in debt, and that debt keeps rising because your currency keeps rising and because of that you're unlikely to get any manufacturing done.
(I wonder though if the weak situation in the US got you more industries? We've seen some layoffs in the south, namely the detroit companies bleeding in windsor)
I hear hibernation on Linux is the same as shutting down. But I don't know if it's supported by everything, and all I have to go by is the fact that you can unplug the machine safely if it's in hibernation...
I shutdown my computer at night. Some of us have to sleep. Waste of power, too, especially in the summer. (the air coming out of it is cold all year round, so no point in actually using the excess heat to help heat up a room...)
(Please do not show "relatif" charts (like, temps in relation to 40s-70s as people often do) because it's not getting you anything. And of course it's going to get fucking warmer compared to the last few thousand years. We're recovering from an ice age...)
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Except for most of us it's faster to write with your hands.
Writing by hand, you can jump letters and make abbrevs, you can draw diagrams right in there, and not to mention it feels a lot better. I don't know why but sitting and typing on my computer, and same when I used to paint minis, feels painful and stuffy. With the option of either typing or writing I'd definately take writing. Sure, with typing on a computer you can erase stuff quickly, but text editors have always been shitty for me (stuff like AbiWord often having graphical glitches or plain slow, text editors too or just lame feeling) and hitting a bunch of blocks to make words does not feel as good as actually writing down the words.
I never mastered cursive properly. I write "script", but write while skipping letters in my notes and using small symbols (batman symbol, drawn as a W in a circle, for example, is distress; three points is "donc", ds dans, etc and it changes depending on context). I write fairly fast, and imho much faster than when I type, if only because when I type I often hit the wrong keys; often being once a paragraph, and it's often because I can't get my mind straight on the keymap, or my fingers hit in the wrong order.
Except, you know, Japan and the PRC, the largest Asian markets (in that order!), cap out at about 3-4 trillion dollars.
In comparaison the US caps out at about 14 trillion. So does the entire European Union.
I don't know; even though the Acer Aspire One with 8GB SSD is only 300$ (although I can't find it at WorstBuy/PrehistoricShop anymore) and it also comes with an option for a 120GB HDD, LED backlit screen...
The Dell E is passively cooled. No moving parts whatsoever. Sure, it's 80$ more here to match the 8GB of the Aspire One... But passively cooled! For the screen and keyboard, HP has everybody beat. So I don't know anymore. Can you stand a winey fan? (and I hear Dell's E keyboard is not too bad) Not to mention, you'll be trying to match Dell pricing, and I'm hoping the price will fall down to 300$ very fast.
No, it's a TDP of 4W. (unless you meant the "mobile atom"?)
The Atom does nothing new. It's a 45nm version of the VIA C7, with HyperThreading and now dual-core with the 330.
ARM on the other hand can be powered over USB.
Yeah. That's low power.
Well, RAM is a TI issue, and as for HDMI the BeagleBoard has one (and it's the native video output) so I don't know why the Pandora doesn't have it.
(oh, and isn't the BB cortex a9? what the heck is up with all the ARMs?)
However, if it works under Linux, you can bet your ass that means the hardware has been "figured out" and so could be brought to other OSs.
Open docs always works best, but what can you do? =/
MiniITX. CN896 supports PCIE. I have no idea what other chipsets support it or will support it. Good news is that Logicsupply.com (just lurking there lately) has one of those boards with PCIEx16 (1.5GHz CPU, a lot like SN, but without CompactFlash though that adapter costs like 4$ at DealExtreme) for 144$.
Cooler does not look bad. Considering you're using a card, you'd need an "expandable" case the kind with room for cards. So you could easily slap a dual-slot cooler if you want it passively cooled, because you have room for two slots. (although where will the TV tuner go?)
This can encode, however.
If it can encode HD (720p/1080i/1080p, at least the first two, with a fairly high-bitrate h.264) then it's sold. There's no point to using Windows on your HTPC with a noisy video card when you can use this with MythTV (if there was any advantage to windows on a machine like that in the first place...).
If IBM gives us an MIT/BSD licensed option (or is this only kernel/userland? in which case GPL or apache would be ok) then it's sold sold sold, easily, and I would buy one the day I could find one. On the other hand if it's closed it's game over from the start, because it's likely going to be windows support only, and so no dice because those people are using geforces/radeons.
Assuming they can upgrade the firmware on the Wii like any OS, couldn't they upgrade it to support SDHC USB readers, if it doesn't already?
Then it's solving the problem, although not properly, good enough because if you start making new Wiis some stuff might be changed for the worse.
I was thinking something along those lines, using it to speed up decodes on Linux. The problem is, when would support come, assuming support is necessary?
There's all sorts of ARM CPUs that can do h.264 (OSD2 is supposed to ship with one, but only for SDTV/EDTV, beagleboard does 720p but I'm not too sure what formats). The problem there is that they don't do HD.
Should this work really well under Linux, I could easily see VIA boards fitting dual PCIE (or seeing this card for a different bus, or using a riser). VIA Nano 1GHz would use 5W or less depending on the model; should be more than enough for all your background tasks. Offload the video onto the PCIE card, and even with a PicoPSU-120 you should have more than enough power. Stick in an HD4450 or something similar on another PCIEx16 slot, and now you can game too.
A mispeled pokemon of course.
About five minutes.
How long would it take you to find this miraculesly easy device that takes no time to find or set up? What about the cabling?
And we call those boxen that play games on TVs game consoles.
Before people weren't real sex maniacs. (at least, "normal people" weren't) Somebody here was posting about places in SF where some fellow claimed to have 2500 partners. I don't see ultra-religious 700s-1800s (or maybe 1700s) Europe/NA allowing that. And I'm sure the self-imposed monogamy was in Asia too.
I hate to say this as it sounds harsh and trollish, but somebody once posted here saying "homosexuals are a genetic defect"... And that got me wondering. Did we start being ultra-monogomous (I mean stuff like "no sex before marriage", not, "one partner forever") to stop the spread of diseases like AIDS?
How much did it cost for the video card that replaced the stock video card that lacked an S-video output?
30$ at WalMart.
And how much did it cost you in time to learn how to install a video card?
About a few minutes to scan the manual for the case to find out how to open it, then unscrewing the PCI plate, then putting the card in, then screwing it in. I'd say 5-10 minutes, maybe 20 minutes to carry it up on my bigger desk. Since everybody at slashdot screams time is money, that means I was so losing out on 100$.
Are most end users willing to spend that much money and that much time on setting up an HTPC, or are they just going to play Nintendo-approved games on their Wii and skip the entire indie game market?
You're confusing two markets here.
Wii does not play DVDs, because DVD playback is overrated; I have too many DVD players, and now you want to sell me more?!? The Wii's DVD drive is also very reliable; unlike a "normal" one, it reads at a constant rate, so the parts inside don't get as worn out.
For HTPCs, not all HTPCs play games. Games and video often contradict themselves, unless it's "party games" like N64 games being emulated. In which case, you still need a fairly good CPU/board... If it's only video (upto 720p) and maybe some Quake(3?) then you have things like the BeagleBoard, tiny computers. If you're gaming then you almost invariably end up with a fairly large and noisy computer. I mean, it's a computer, but still... But 1080p playback will require that, although I only know two people who own 1080p sets, both of whom are idiots for it IMHO. =/
(a bit unrelated but w/e)
720p: 1280x720...
My PC can do that. MY PC. That old piece of shit people don't even use for compairasons anymore. Sure, it can't play everything at 720p; but "720p" is a fucking joke.
At least on my Bravia 32" 720p TV, when I'm watching cartoons on cable it looks just fine. Problems arise when watching "real life" shows. But that might just be me...
Considering, imho, Nintendo is known for colourful games (or even just cartoon'ed stuff, not necessarily cell shading (but that helps) but it's not like CoD4 or Crysis where you try to be "realistic"). That goes up pretty well.
A Wii HD would be interesting. I probably wouldn't buy it. I really don't see the point, all things considered. Hard disks fail, not everybody has a "HD" TV (I only have one because my old TV went caput, dead caps), and not to mention if it's only 720p it's not really that great, by 2011 I'm sure we'll see 720p done easily by these sort of chips...
But it would be nice, don't get me wrong. Fingers crossed.
Yuck, hard drives? What happens when it fails?
My first consoles and computer were without moving parts and still work to this day; on the other hand can't say the same about the old Pentium 4 machine a friend of mine had, whose disk now doesn't work and whose fans died...
Bombs don't produce CO2?
Who the heck are you with, with a 25$ for a 4mbps plan?
Not to mention, Japan, South Korea, and Sweden (Finland too?), have the fastest internet speeds but speak a language only spoken there (at least in significant so-more-than-1 numbers). If you're in Japan/Sweden/SouthKorea, with the exception of a video on US YouTube, you're going to prefer getting your stuff on Japanese/Korean/Swedish sites, sites in your language and relevant to your interests.
But on the other hand, me in Canada, and our friends in Australia/NZ, most of the stuff they want to get to is in the US, because let's face it it's the centre of the english world right now.
Or something like less than 30% of the US GDP (but that's if the GDP is only 13 trillion; I'm pretty sure it's much larger than that. It's over double the German GDP, which is something like 6-7 trillion)
There are countries worse off than you. Of course, I profit from your misery (when it's reasonable, as it is now and in the 70s when we trading for 1.30$). But look at most European countries; a hostile workforce, half your GDP in debt, and that debt keeps rising because your currency keeps rising and because of that you're unlikely to get any manufacturing done.
(I wonder though if the weak situation in the US got you more industries? We've seen some layoffs in the south, namely the detroit companies bleeding in windsor)
(for no such god would reward nasty characters with so much talent)
Oh, don't worry about that.
They're going to be paying for the rest of their lives if they don't pay with their lives first. Suicides, heart attacks, murders, calling all bets!
I hear hibernation on Linux is the same as shutting down. But I don't know if it's supported by everything, and all I have to go by is the fact that you can unplug the machine safely if it's in hibernation...
I shutdown my computer at night. Some of us have to sleep. Waste of power, too, especially in the summer. (the air coming out of it is cold all year round, so no point in actually using the excess heat to help heat up a room...)
Huh. I thought that was Tesla's work?
Considering the years with the most CO2 in the air, so 1940s to 1970s, also went down in record as being the coldest years (recorded!)...
That the IPCC is a polit. org,
AGW has become a cult parading as an idea,
And that temperatures have been able to drop...
I don't think you have a leg to stand on with a bassackwards chart.
No, record low amounts of Arctic ice are due to volcanic activity and a lot of human activity in the north.
Ohai, iz eruptinz ur ice:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=81bb2fd3-63f1-476f-b0be-f48c0dc90304
(Please do not show "relatif" charts (like, temps in relation to 40s-70s as people often do) because it's not getting you anything. And of course it's going to get fucking warmer compared to the last few thousand years. We're recovering from an ice age...)