Your friend is lying in order to cover up his shameful addiction. It's all about levelling. After that it's all about hanging around the bank on a unicorn, or was that UO?
Where do you plug the embryo vat freezing unit into on this raft? May as well ditch it if you can't..
Unless you crashed the plane in the Arctic Ocean of course in which case you're all screwed anyway (apart from the embryos but they have no frigging idea what's going on).
One thing that most never seem to mention, but for me was one of the biggest bonuses of the Eee, is that the charger is like a mobile phone charger.. The transformer part of it is in the plug itself, not another box with a load of heavy wires. It's a nice thin cable. The main prob with laptops for me in the past was the bulk of the charger once you wrapped the cable up around the transformer. It was hard to keep everything nice and compact. Not an issue with the tiny Eee PC and its small and LIGHT charger.
I think he needs to run AdAware. Seriously.. I've entered a bunch of the usual suspects into google trying to find these hordes of.cn sites that pop up. No joy yet.. Anyone else found one?
"''Spider-Man 3'' will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format when it is released by Sony Pictures, while people with Blu-ray players won't be able to enjoy the action-thriller ''The Bourne Ultimatum,'' which Universal Pictures will release only in HD DVD."
I hear a slow, solemn, lazy church bell ringing in the background.
HDMI and component are the only way of getting an HD signal from your STB to your TV. You can use an S-Video lead or even a crappy old scart if you like but the signal on your TV will not be HD.
Trying to prove the point with I love Lucy does seem a little out of whack though!
I was using might in a sarcastic way for your benefit but you seem to have missed that.. You can read it as "will"
The fact you need to include the "might factor" in your product design proves my point exactly. We cater for stupid people. I didn't say we shouldn't. I did in fact say we need to.
You don't have to be an intellectual to realise that the ticking timer might signify that your game is BEING save rather than it automagically saving it instantly.
You also don't have to be an intellectual to realise that turning off your machine while its doing this might lose your save game altogether.
I don't have a great understanding of solid state physics or engineering but I possess enough common sense to realise the bleeding obvious when it's staring me in the face..
I grew up with Ghostbusters and Star Wars but I never once thought that when I grew up I'd be creeping around old libraries with a Nuclear Device as a backback or tickling an Ewok under its chin while flying my spaceship around like it was a jet fighter.
Some people just worry too much and can't face the simple fact that plently of people out there are just plain stupid. Always have been, always will be.
This is why we need "Mind your Head" signs and warnings not to remove game cartridges or turn off the power when saving your game..
That said if showing some kids a 2 minute clip of Superman gets them to sit their ass down through a whole Physics lecture they wouldn't normally have attended then it certainly isn't a bad thing.
Actually it's hard to get any BBC signal from the Astra2 sat past Southern Italy and Malta. My dad lives in Malta and despite having a dish over 2m he still can't get any of the BBC channels, just the Sky ones and Channel4. Something to do with the footprint there I've heard.
On top of that the DRM issue is indeed valid. A lot of 3rd party companies make stuff for the BBC and they demand that in this case DRM must be used. My wife just left the BBC in Manchester and I spoke to a few employees there about this at her leaving do.
Yep.. Happens a lot.
Last year I was with a team trying to find a water pipe that was leaking when their JCB dug right through an electrical cable in the water filled hole.
The resulting fireball singed the eyebrows off one of the guys who was leaning over the hole to look in.
It left a whole Business Park without electricity. The employees loved it because they all got sent home. The companies themselves were less than pleased though!
You can expect problems pairing any HDTV up to any video card using Vista, MythTV, any Media Center type solution really.
It can be hard work getting them both talking to each other and having the display output the correct resolution but again that applies to an solution you choose for the job.
Whether it's hard or easy it will be possible and if you post on site like http://www.avforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f= 302 they (me included) will happily try to help you out when you get there, or indeed before you make your mind up on a TV and system.
Not buying it? For building Media Centers they are.. and I certainly am too.
No point building one with MCE2005 if you're putting it together right now and the features built in to it are actually really good.
Record and watch TV (multiple channels at a time with a regularly updated TV Guide). Play Internet Radio Rip and play CDs. Play DivX, Xvid, HD movies (okay so you need to install codecs for the first two, but only the same as you have to for any other system). Flick straight over to a familiar web browser of your choice (your own PC running away quite happily in the background). Play DVDs Install plug-ins or use the SDK (Vista's or MCESoft's) to create your own. Skip adverts instantly (My favourite bit). I hit skip twice and they're gone! Yay!
It actually does what it says on the tin really, really well and runs stably (as long as you don't dick around on it too much and go installing huge bloated codec packs on it that you don't really need anyway).
As consumers we're still a ways off being able to let your dad buy one off the shelf and expect to take it home without him calling you up all night asking how he should get his TV working properly with it but for experienced computer users it's at a decent user frienly stage compared to how it was years ago!
Micorsoft bashing is fun and everything but I'm afraid in this case they're way ahead of their competition IMHO.
Once HDTVs get more popular and people are more familiar with PCs (all people, not just us) it'll be a seamless piece of goodness we often wonder how we did without. Until then it'll cause headaches until it gets stamped with a user friendly badge.
DVD is fairly decent but video and regular TV signals look atrocious when played on a large screen television (which are egtting cheaper and cheaper these days and'll be the norm soon).
Agreed.
Vista handles hi-def transport streams and mpeg HD just as well as MCE2005 did. No problems at all.
More than likely some people are having trouble setting their resolutions to match their TV. That was the same problem people had with MCE2005 so nothing new here. They just need to go on support forums or as said above get a decent HDMI card and not rely on crappy onboard video to watch Hidef with!
It's not Vista this one I'm afraid! I imagine it's just as much fun as trying to get your Linux box running
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/mythhd.php - a similar experience to getting your TV working under MCE2005. Much easier now with Vista and an HDMI card and a HDTV.
Before now you were heavliy reliant on using Powerstrip (a great program for the job but not for non-techies. The day of Media Centers being completely plug and play for home users is still a little way off assuming they want to do more than just listen to music on it.
We're getting there though:)
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Your friend is lying in order to cover up his shameful addiction. It's all about levelling. After that it's all about hanging around the bank on a unicorn, or was that UO?
It'll probably still be cheaper to hire a driver than buy one of these.
Also your driver won't blindly follow a GPS the wrong way down a one way street.
Where do you plug the embryo vat freezing unit into on this raft? May as well ditch it if you can't..
Unless you crashed the plane in the Arctic Ocean of course in which case you're all screwed anyway (apart from the embryos but they have no frigging idea what's going on).
One thing that most never seem to mention, but for me was one of the biggest bonuses of the Eee, is that the charger is like a mobile phone charger.. The transformer part of it is in the plug itself, not another box with a load of heavy wires. It's a nice thin cable. The main prob with laptops for me in the past was the bulk of the charger once you wrapped the cable up around the transformer. It was hard to keep everything nice and compact. Not an issue with the tiny Eee PC and its small and LIGHT charger.
Bafta have their own video game awards these days as well as their TV and Movie awards. It's nice to see an organisation recognising the fact that it's a huge industry these days. http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/video-game-awards-nominations,99,BA.html
I think he needs to run AdAware. Seriously.. I've entered a bunch of the usual suspects into google trying to find these hordes of .cn sites that pop up. No joy yet.. Anyone else found one?
My sofa is six feet from the wall.. Reckon that's too close?
Is it easy to switch from a regular card and get used to using this one though?!
I know how mine works and am too frightened to make the change!
Will it be compatible with my existing wallet or will I need to download a third party money clip?
"''Spider-Man 3'' will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format when it is released by Sony Pictures, while people with Blu-ray players won't be able to enjoy the action-thriller ''The Bourne Ultimatum,'' which Universal Pictures will release only in HD DVD."
I hear a slow, solemn, lazy church bell ringing in the background.The above URL links to page 3 of the article. Here's the fist page http://www.theregister.com/2007/08/18/opera_ceo_in terview/
Yup..
HDMI and component are the only way of getting an HD signal from your STB to your TV. You can use an S-Video lead or even a crappy old scart if you like but the signal on your TV will not be HD.
Trying to prove the point with I love Lucy does seem a little out of whack though!
Indeed.
I was using might in a sarcastic way for your benefit but you seem to have missed that.. You can read it as "will"
The fact you need to include the "might factor" in your product design proves my point exactly. We cater for stupid people. I didn't say we shouldn't. I did in fact say we need to.
You don't have to be an intellectual to realise that the ticking timer might signify that your game is BEING save rather than it automagically saving it instantly.
You also don't have to be an intellectual to realise that turning off your machine while its doing this might lose your save game altogether.
I don't have a great understanding of solid state physics or engineering but I possess enough common sense to realise the bleeding obvious when it's staring me in the face..
I grew up with Ghostbusters and Star Wars but I never once thought that when I grew up I'd be creeping around old libraries with a Nuclear Device as a backback or tickling an Ewok under its chin while flying my spaceship around like it was a jet fighter.
Some people just worry too much and can't face the simple fact that plently of people out there are just plain stupid. Always have been, always will be.
This is why we need "Mind your Head" signs and warnings not to remove game cartridges or turn off the power when saving your game..
That said if showing some kids a 2 minute clip of Superman gets them to sit their ass down through a whole Physics lecture they wouldn't normally have attended then it certainly isn't a bad thing.
Actually it's hard to get any BBC signal from the Astra2 sat past Southern Italy and Malta. My dad lives in Malta and despite having a dish over 2m he still can't get any of the BBC channels, just the Sky ones and Channel4. Something to do with the footprint there I've heard.
On top of that the DRM issue is indeed valid. A lot of 3rd party companies make stuff for the BBC and they demand that in this case DRM must be used. My wife just left the BBC in Manchester and I spoke to a few employees there about this at her leaving do.
Yep.. Happens a lot. Last year I was with a team trying to find a water pipe that was leaking when their JCB dug right through an electrical cable in the water filled hole. The resulting fireball singed the eyebrows off one of the guys who was leaning over the hole to look in. It left a whole Business Park without electricity. The employees loved it because they all got sent home. The companies themselves were less than pleased though!
What happens when you make a moebius strip out of it? Does it lose half of its power or not?
It's research to see if they can actually find a company that hasn't heard of Google advertising.
You can expect problems pairing any HDTV up to any video card using Vista, MythTV, any Media Center type solution really. It can be hard work getting them both talking to each other and having the display output the correct resolution but again that applies to an solution you choose for the job. Whether it's hard or easy it will be possible and if you post on site like http://www.avforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f= 302 they (me included) will happily try to help you out when you get there, or indeed before you make your mind up on a TV and system.
Not buying it? For building Media Centers they are.. and I certainly am too.
No point building one with MCE2005 if you're putting it together right now and the features built in to it are actually really good.
Record and watch TV (multiple channels at a time with a regularly updated TV Guide).
Play Internet Radio
Rip and play CDs.
Play DivX, Xvid, HD movies (okay so you need to install codecs for the first two, but only the same as you have to for any other system).
Flick straight over to a familiar web browser of your choice (your own PC running away quite happily in the background).
Play DVDs
Install plug-ins or use the SDK (Vista's or MCESoft's) to create your own.
Skip adverts instantly (My favourite bit). I hit skip twice and they're gone! Yay!
It actually does what it says on the tin really, really well and runs stably (as long as you don't dick around on it too much and go installing huge bloated codec packs on it that you don't really need anyway).
As consumers we're still a ways off being able to let your dad buy one off the shelf and expect to take it home without him calling you up all night asking how he should get his TV working properly with it but for experienced computer users it's at a decent user frienly stage compared to how it was years ago!
Micorsoft bashing is fun and everything but I'm afraid in this case they're way ahead of their competition IMHO.
Once HDTVs get more popular and people are more familiar with PCs (all people, not just us) it'll be a seamless piece of goodness we often wonder how we did without. Until then it'll cause headaches until it gets stamped with a user friendly badge.
All part of the fun.
Surely everyone is buying Vista now so they won't need any more keys, right?
DVD is fairly decent but video and regular TV signals look atrocious when played on a large screen television (which are egtting cheaper and cheaper these days and'll be the norm soon).
Agreed. Vista handles hi-def transport streams and mpeg HD just as well as MCE2005 did. No problems at all. More than likely some people are having trouble setting their resolutions to match their TV. That was the same problem people had with MCE2005 so nothing new here. They just need to go on support forums or as said above get a decent HDMI card and not rely on crappy onboard video to watch Hidef with! It's not Vista this one I'm afraid! I imagine it's just as much fun as trying to get your Linux box running http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/mythhd.php - a similar experience to getting your TV working under MCE2005. Much easier now with Vista and an HDMI card and a HDTV. Before now you were heavliy reliant on using Powerstrip (a great program for the job but not for non-techies. The day of Media Centers being completely plug and play for home users is still a little way off assuming they want to do more than just listen to music on it. We're getting there though :)
Biomimetic Man just doesn't have the same ring to it..