I know nothing about how TVs work other than some basic ideas, but I have a question about what you posted.
I have a TV that's energy star compliant and if the TV has been off for more than say 30 seconds after hitting the power button I get sound. Then generally anywhere from 3-10 seconds later, I haven't counted but there is a very obvious delay, the picture will come up.
I always assumed something was getting charged up as there does not seem to be a big power draw when the TV first gets turned on. From what you posted though that may not be the case.
Dual core chips are still pretty new, right now it seems the emphasis is becoming getting more done per clock cycle and reducing power consumption as well as dual cores and other features.
I wish I could say I remember but I am probably imagining reading people talkinga bout quad core processors eventually. Could that be the next step in the march forward?
Would that not possibly be what the next-gen chips will look like?
There are two things at play here, how bad those two movies were, and the fact that I can no longer properly function on 3 hours of sleep in an a non-emergency work situation.
Heh, well its good to know that the mechanics weren't telling stories that day.:)
Yeah they still had to tilt the engine forward. I still can not believe it that was needed to replace the spark plugs; though it seemed that in order to do anything to that car you had to remove the sabilizer bars then remove the air intake and then go from there.
What a pain in the ass that car was to work on. Still I loved driving it, so I suppose that makes it a little okay.:)
I had similar experience with an old Plymouth Horizon a real POS (economically speaking)
My plymouth reliant was no bargain. But at least it was very cheap to fix.
At one point the front axle had to be replaced, don't ask cause I don't remember the details as to why, but it was about $90 for the part and about $200 for the labor!
Stupid labor. At least the inline-4 on that car made it very easy to replace the plugs for a tuneup. Too bad it had to be done every 15-18k miles. Man those cars sucked ass.
In fact, since you mentioned tune ups I will relate a short tale.
I owned a '97 Pontiac Grand Prix. At about 85k miles it was finally time for a tuneup, ok no problem. Took it to have it done, expected it to be expensive since I was having the work done by a mechanic after realizing I could not reach the rear bank of plugs.
So that evening I go pick up my Grand Prix and find a $500 bill for the work, almost $300 of it was labor. I inquired as to why it was so high, apparently in order to get the three rear plugs out, it is required to unmount the engine mostly and tilt the thing forward. This wasn't surprising since the clearance between the back of the engine and the firewall was only a couple of inches at best, probably not even that.
Little chance of my doing that in my home garage, that's for damn sure.
I miss my '78 Chevy Malibu. Had a 305 engine in it and very easy to work on. Learned to work on cars with that one, too bad now a days you have to have a lot of time or equipment to work on cars.
I won't even get into the nightmare that working on my '03 Jaguar X-Type would present if I were nutty enough to attempt it.
It took them two and a half weeks to get a replacement part in for that because the car is still new enough that parts like what failed in mine are still scarce. Thankfully the issue in that case did not leave the car undriveable.
I do not understand how the idea that bringing a camcorder into a movie theater does not coincide with the idea that one might get into some pretty deep shite for it.
But then again I am finding that perhaps I don't wear a tinfoil hat as much as I should.:)
Intresting, them maybe it is all the other excercise and stretching that I started shortly before the gripper started. Go figure, then again it never really got to the point where it was truely painful it was merely a dull ache from time to time. Now it seems that it never happens anymore, but then looking back I am far more active than I was at that point.
Well there is that plus the fact that I've quit smoking. Its amazing how many things quitting smoking seems to have reversed or cured in me. But that's neither here nor there though thanks for the information, if the problem comes back I will be sure to see my doc just to be safe.
A friend of mine is a produce manager and has what he claims his doctor says is BAD CTS. He does a similar types of work; moving cases of vegetables around all day long, not as heavy as a meat packer I imagine, but bad enough to cause it.
The bitch of it is that he is not able to take the time off to get the operation to fix the problem as once it was done he'd need about six weeks worth of recovery time, right now he is unable to afford being on workman's comp for those weeks and having the reduced salary.
So he deals with the pain and hopes it doesn't get worse. He keeps telling me that he thinks I'm going to get it, and my response is that if I don't have it after 12 years of fairly heavy computer use I will never get it.
Though here is the reason why I don't think I'll ever get it. Getting a hand strengthener (what I and have heard them referred to as a gripper) like those squeeze ones you see people using in a gym seems to ward it off. I was beginning to wonder if I was getting some form of RSI, then I started using one of those, doing about fifty each hand a day. No problems now plus my grip is much stronger than it ever was, which is helpful in more ways than you might imagine.
Now that's how I'd want to get rid of my hard drives.. Anyone have a furnace I can use to get rid of some crapped out drives that came from servers that have pissed me off?
Crash unexpectedly have you? Take that!
Turn them in to paperclips! Finally a way to come through with all those threats! HAH!
I hope they can cope with the demand as well. As soon as I saw that Second Reality was on the DVD there was no chance in hell that I was not going to order one. If that was the only thing on it I probably would've shelled out cash for it anyway. I have too many memories of being completely in awe of that demo.
I remember the multi configs.
I had several. One tailored towards using winblows 3.1, one specifically designed for my BBS, one for X-wing, one for running Second Reality. Yes I had one just for that demo. It was nice once I was able to place all the settings in to one file though.
There were others too that I don't remember now, though what I do not remember anymore would be how to setup one were I to have to go through that again.
The fact that Second Reality is on that DVD is the reason I bought it.
I recently spent more hours than I care to count or admit to in an attempt to ressurect some old hardware to run that demo on.
I have fun memories of being uhm... intoxicated while watching that demo. Nothing like those effects that make the screen look like its melting!
I have gone as far as going out on the net and finding a.mod player so I could listen to some of the tracks from the old demos, talk about nostalgia. I can't wait to get my copy of this.
I had forgotten about all those steps to get games to work sometimes.
Though my nintendo was pretty good, almost all the games I bought worked by just inserting the game and pressing down as normal.
My stepsisters NES though, ugh, it took a miracle to get that damn thing working. Though usually right about the point we'd get ready to give up, it seems the NES goes would smile upon us and allow the game to work.
That bears in mind that the internet were in existance in its present form, and that one was waiting for Empire Strikes Back instead of Episode II.
Were that the case I could see doing this, after being disappointed with EP:1 though waiting online for that long really seems kind of odd. It was cool for EP:1 because, lets face it, at that point it was more star wars! I was so psyched for that movie, for so long, at the time I didn't care about the flaws of the film and the things that annoy me about it now.
But time changes opinions, I think these people are nuts, but if that's what floats their boat, we live in a semi free country still, they can do whatever the hell they want. More power to them.
To be perfectly honest, I will more than likely see it, though I am greatly wondering if I will go through the trouble of getting tickets early as I did for Fellowship.
The addition of NSuck (even if you won't notice them, blah blah blah) as well as a lot of other things I have read, including the title, and the fact that while I enjoyed parts of EP:1 the movie on a whole really didn't thrill me. Its really a shame, I don't think I'm that far gone from my childhood that I can't put my mind back in, "Its star wars, I'll enjoy it." But it certainly seems that way.
Its intresting, this actually made me sit and thing for a few moments before I posted.
I'm working for a small but upcoming company and there are weeks that I approach 50-60 hours because we're swamped. Most weeks I'm in the office for 40 hours then spend about anywhere from 10-30 minutes outside the office if there is a downed server, but those don't happen with any regularity.
But it makes me wonder if I started documenting some of the oddball things I've figured, that everyone waits for me to set up, if it would allow me to be left alone more often when I'm out of the office.
Definatly something worth testing to check out.
Unfortunatly I am actually in a position where I am too important to leave early sometimes. Specifically since when the boss is away I'm next in command. Ahh well that's why he pays me the bigger bucks than everyone else.:)
That's funny, I was just thinking of something similar to this.
Really, what controls will there be so that we do not start seeing DoS attacks from the deepest most firey (sp?) corners of hell? I personally would LOVE to be able to get a 100 Mbp/s connection to my house, but the potential threat to the servers I run at work makes me very uneasy..
True, but DeCSS was a bit of code that could be written in to an HTML page--as the comments for it even, or a description of a file or anything and be unobtrusive. Plus when providing the DeCSS code your generally not providing the service and if requested to be removed its only a portion of the product that needs to be removed.
I know there are t-shirts and such with the DeCSS on it, but the scope of my comments here is web based. I think runnning an OpenNap server, and copying the DeCSS code is a little like comparing apples and oranges. Yes there is a shall we say massive corporate dislike of both, but copying the DeCSS code is relativly simple and can be spread so damn fast its not worth going after anymore. The other at the very least has centralized points to go after and be hurt far more quickly, plus there may not always be those brave people who want to run an OpenNap server, and are just lucky enough to have a nice machine to run it off on as well as a fast net connection.
Then again, this IS all just speculation and who knows, for the rest of time, when I fire up audioGnome or Napigator there may be servers for me to go to. Or in a year we may have forgotten about running our own servers, even if we have not forgotten how much we dislike the MPAA, and how much we do miss Napster and OpenNap.
Will they? If they do how long can it last? How many people are willing to have lawyers threatening them?
I certaintly don't mean this as a flame or troll of any sort, I do ask it as a question though.
While shutting down your server after a week or a day of operation is no big deal, eventually you are going to run out of loyalists that are willing to take the risks of lawyers banging at the doors because your doing something that a huge corporate entity doesn't want you to do. Personally, I have enough stress in my life that I would just as assume not have a lawyer send me a letter. Who needs that, and supposing that there was some trial down the road, then I really wouldn't want them having my real name and information. Would you?
I don't like the shutdowns of OpenNap, and I certainly don't condone them, but while lots of people are idealists (is that even the right word?) at heart, their fear of the reprocussions will hold them from actions that would bring trouble, even if its only possible trouble, down on their own heads. So I ask you, how long will people be ready and willing to bring themselves before the corporate sharks just to keep OpenNap going?
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I hope it comes down in price as well, or else I may only get up their by way of having my creamated body shot in to space.:)
But I'll be hopefully and save my spare change and money in the hopes of paying my way in to space in the future. (Not too distant future hopefully)
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Interesting.
I know nothing about how TVs work other than some basic ideas, but I have a question about what you posted.
I have a TV that's energy star compliant and if the TV has been off for more than say 30 seconds after hitting the power button I get sound. Then generally anywhere from 3-10 seconds later, I haven't counted but there is a very obvious delay, the picture will come up.
I always assumed something was getting charged up as there does not seem to be a big power draw when the TV first gets turned on. From what you posted though that may not be the case.
Any idea?
Well I stand corrected, though I imagine they're a bit out of the range of the average desktop machine buyer.
However, looking at it from a server pricing standpoint they are actually quite reasonable.
Interesting reading, thanks again.
It seems there are always plateaus.
Dual core chips are still pretty new, right now it seems the emphasis is becoming getting more done per clock cycle and reducing power consumption as well as dual cores and other features.
I wish I could say I remember but I am probably imagining reading people talkinga bout quad core processors eventually. Could that be the next step in the march forward?
Would that not possibly be what the next-gen chips will look like?
I learned my lesson with Episodes one and two.
There are two things at play here, how bad those two movies were, and the fact that I can no longer properly function on 3 hours of sleep in an a non-emergency work situation.
Heh, well its good to know that the mechanics weren't telling stories that day. :)
:)
Yeah they still had to tilt the engine forward. I still can not believe it that was needed to replace the spark plugs; though it seemed that in order to do anything to that car you had to remove the sabilizer bars then remove the air intake and then go from there.
What a pain in the ass that car was to work on. Still I loved driving it, so I suppose that makes it a little okay.
I had similar experience with an old Plymouth Horizon a real POS (economically speaking)
My plymouth reliant was no bargain. But at least it was very cheap to fix.
At one point the front axle had to be replaced, don't ask cause I don't remember the details as to why, but it was about $90 for the part and about $200 for the labor!
Stupid labor. At least the inline-4 on that car made it very easy to replace the plugs for a tuneup. Too bad it had to be done every 15-18k miles. Man those cars sucked ass.
This is of no surprise.
In fact, since you mentioned tune ups I will relate a short tale.
I owned a '97 Pontiac Grand Prix. At about 85k miles it was finally time for a tuneup, ok no problem. Took it to have it done, expected it to be expensive since I was having the work done by a mechanic after realizing I could not reach the rear bank of plugs.
So that evening I go pick up my Grand Prix and find a $500 bill for the work, almost $300 of it was labor. I inquired as to why it was so high, apparently in order to get the three rear plugs out, it is required to unmount the engine mostly and tilt the thing forward. This wasn't surprising since the clearance between the back of the engine and the firewall was only a couple of inches at best, probably not even that.
Little chance of my doing that in my home garage, that's for damn sure.
I miss my '78 Chevy Malibu. Had a 305 engine in it and very easy to work on. Learned to work on cars with that one, too bad now a days you have to have a lot of time or equipment to work on cars.
I won't even get into the nightmare that working on my '03 Jaguar X-Type would present if I were nutty enough to attempt it.
It took them two and a half weeks to get a replacement part in for that because the car is still new enough that parts like what failed in mine are still scarce. Thankfully the issue in that case did not leave the car undriveable.
Great great post!
:)
You beat me to everything I was going to post.
I do not understand how the idea that bringing a camcorder into a movie theater does not coincide with the idea that one might get into some pretty deep shite for it.
But then again I am finding that perhaps I don't wear a tinfoil hat as much as I should.
The stormtrooper spoof can be found under the fan film section on theforce.net.
Really is a great spoof.
Intresting, them maybe it is all the other excercise and stretching that I started shortly before the gripper started. Go figure, then again it never really got to the point where it was truely painful it was merely a dull ache from time to time. Now it seems that it never happens anymore, but then looking back I am far more active than I was at that point.
Well there is that plus the fact that I've quit smoking. Its amazing how many things quitting smoking seems to have reversed or cured in me. But that's neither here nor there though thanks for the information, if the problem comes back I will be sure to see my doc just to be safe.
I'd have to agree with some of your points.
A friend of mine is a produce manager and has what he claims his doctor says is BAD CTS. He does a similar types of work; moving cases of vegetables around all day long, not as heavy as a meat packer I imagine, but bad enough to cause it.
The bitch of it is that he is not able to take the time off to get the operation to fix the problem as once it was done he'd need about six weeks worth of recovery time, right now he is unable to afford being on workman's comp for those weeks and having the reduced salary.
So he deals with the pain and hopes it doesn't get worse. He keeps telling me that he thinks I'm going to get it, and my response is that if I don't have it after 12 years of fairly heavy computer use I will never get it.
Though here is the reason why I don't think I'll ever get it. Getting a hand strengthener (what I and have heard them referred to as a gripper) like those squeeze ones you see people using in a gym seems to ward it off. I was beginning to wonder if I was getting some form of RSI, then I started using one of those, doing about fifty each hand a day. No problems now plus my grip is much stronger than it ever was, which is helpful in more ways than you might imagine.
Now that's how I'd want to get rid of my hard drives.. Anyone have a furnace I can use to get rid of some crapped out drives that came from servers that have pissed me off?
Crash unexpectedly have you? Take that!
Turn them in to paperclips! Finally a way to come through with all those threats! HAH!
I hope they can cope with the demand as well. As soon as I saw that Second Reality was on the DVD there was no chance in hell that I was not going to order one. If that was the only thing on it I probably would've shelled out cash for it anyway. I have too many memories of being completely in awe of that demo.
I remember the multi configs.
I had several. One tailored towards using winblows 3.1, one specifically designed for my BBS, one for X-wing, one for running Second Reality. Yes I had one just for that demo. It was nice once I was able to place all the settings in to one file though.
There were others too that I don't remember now, though what I do not remember anymore would be how to setup one were I to have to go through that again.
The fact that Second Reality is on that DVD is the reason I bought it.
... intoxicated while watching that demo. Nothing like those effects that make the screen look like its melting!
.mod player so I could listen to some of the tracks from the old demos, talk about nostalgia. I can't wait to get my copy of this.
I recently spent more hours than I care to count or admit to in an attempt to ressurect some old hardware to run that demo on.
I have fun memories of being uhm
I have gone as far as going out on the net and finding a
LOL...
I had forgotten about all those steps to get games to work sometimes.
Though my nintendo was pretty good, almost all the games I bought worked by just inserting the game and pressing down as normal.
My stepsisters NES though, ugh, it took a miracle to get that damn thing working. Though usually right about the point we'd get ready to give up, it seems the NES goes would smile upon us and allow the game to work.
This would have been an intresting idea.
That bears in mind that the internet were in existance in its present form, and that one was waiting for Empire Strikes Back instead of Episode II.
Were that the case I could see doing this, after being disappointed with EP:1 though waiting online for that long really seems kind of odd. It was cool for EP:1 because, lets face it, at that point it was more star wars! I was so psyched for that movie, for so long, at the time I didn't care about the flaws of the film and the things that annoy me about it now.
But time changes opinions, I think these people are nuts, but if that's what floats their boat, we live in a semi free country still, they can do whatever the hell they want. More power to them.
To be perfectly honest, I will more than likely see it, though I am greatly wondering if I will go through the trouble of getting tickets early as I did for Fellowship.
The addition of NSuck (even if you won't notice them, blah blah blah) as well as a lot of other things I have read, including the title, and the fact that while I enjoyed parts of EP:1 the movie on a whole really didn't thrill me. Its really a shame, I don't think I'm that far gone from my childhood that I can't put my mind back in, "Its star wars, I'll enjoy it." But it certainly seems that way.
If only there hadn't been jar-jar..
Its intresting, this actually made me sit and thing for a few moments before I posted. :)
I'm working for a small but upcoming company and there are weeks that I approach 50-60 hours because we're swamped. Most weeks I'm in the office for 40 hours then spend about anywhere from 10-30 minutes outside the office if there is a downed server, but those don't happen with any regularity.
But it makes me wonder if I started documenting some of the oddball things I've figured, that everyone waits for me to set up, if it would allow me to be left alone more often when I'm out of the office.
Definatly something worth testing to check out.
Unfortunatly I am actually in a position where I am too important to leave early sometimes. Specifically since when the boss is away I'm next in command. Ahh well that's why he pays me the bigger bucks than everyone else.
There is something mildly disturbing about that ...
That's funny, I was just thinking of something similar to this.
Really, what controls will there be so that we do not start seeing DoS attacks from the deepest most firey (sp?) corners of hell? I personally would LOVE to be able to get a 100 Mbp/s connection to my house, but the potential threat to the servers I run at work makes me very uneasy..
Yup, Verisign bought out thawte, though blessedly Thawtes prices have not gone up to the silly levels that Verisign puts them at.
oops.. dislike the MPAA should've been RIAA.. Its getting late and I didn't catch it even with two previews...
True, but DeCSS was a bit of code that could be written in to an HTML page--as the comments for it even, or a description of a file or anything and be unobtrusive. Plus when providing the DeCSS code your generally not providing the service and if requested to be removed its only a portion of the product that needs to be removed.
I know there are t-shirts and such with the DeCSS on it, but the scope of my comments here is web based. I think runnning an OpenNap server, and copying the DeCSS code is a little like comparing apples and oranges. Yes there is a shall we say massive corporate dislike of both, but copying the DeCSS code is relativly simple and can be spread so damn fast its not worth going after anymore. The other at the very least has centralized points to go after and be hurt far more quickly, plus there may not always be those brave people who want to run an OpenNap server, and are just lucky enough to have a nice machine to run it off on as well as a fast net connection.
Then again, this IS all just speculation and who knows, for the rest of time, when I fire up audioGnome or Napigator there may be servers for me to go to. Or in a year we may have forgotten about running our own servers, even if we have not forgotten how much we dislike the MPAA, and how much we do miss Napster and OpenNap.
Will they? If they do how long can it last? How many people are willing to have lawyers threatening them?
I certaintly don't mean this as a flame or troll of any sort, I do ask it as a question though.
While shutting down your server after a week or a day of operation is no big deal, eventually you are going to run out of loyalists that are willing to take the risks of lawyers banging at the doors because your doing something that a huge corporate entity doesn't want you to do. Personally, I have enough stress in my life that I would just as assume not have a lawyer send me a letter. Who needs that, and supposing that there was some trial down the road, then I really wouldn't want them having my real name and information. Would you?
I don't like the shutdowns of OpenNap, and I certainly don't condone them, but while lots of people are idealists (is that even the right word?) at heart, their fear of the reprocussions will hold them from actions that would bring trouble, even if its only possible trouble, down on their own heads. So I ask you, how long will people be ready and willing to bring themselves before the corporate sharks just to keep OpenNap going?
I hope it comes down in price as well, or else I may only get up their by way of having my creamated body shot in to space. :)
But I'll be hopefully and save my spare change and money in the hopes of paying my way in to space in the future. (Not too distant future hopefully)