"..yeah, no thanks. All I want or need is something that displays a 1080p signal well,"
Why? If all you watch are the most recent Movies on BluRay, then I can understand that. but ALL cableTV and ALL satellite TV is 720P heavy compressed. I dont care what your settings on the receiver are, the signal is 720p and will stay that way for a very long time.
Everyone pines for 1080p but very few have seen 1080p content that is crisp and at a viewing distance where they can actually tell the difference.
If you know your source material, and you sit close enough to see it, Awesome for you! I also chased the 1080p dragon for my theater and succeeded. You will not find ANYTHING that will be a decent quality 1080p from a streaming service within the next 5 years. You just dont have the bandwidth.
I instead made my own. XBMC with a server in the basement that has 5 1tb drives in it. I rip the bluray discs to the server and use XBMC to play them back. XBMC will do a AC3 passthrough as well as HD audio passthrough toslink to the receiver that will recreate the audio perfectly. My theater with VOD system I have in my media center was in total $12,500 excluding the walls, sound control and seating.
If you want really good 1080p you are going to not only pay for it, but do it all yourself.
They also charge $250.00 to give you the URL for the beta patch that fixes a bug in their Piece of Crap called Exchange. I have a couple of those patches that NEVER LEFT BETA and the problem still exists in exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 when you have Exchange servers using a Tiered storage model for a massive email system.
MSFT support is a double edge sword. they cut you whenever possible.
Thanks for the microsoft PR spew. Problem is it does not hold up to light. Both nintendo and PS3 do not rob game companies blind like MSFT does for patching.
In fact, Microsoft gets a buttload of money from "gold memberships" to enable online play that all the other platforms give out for free. Microsoft is raking in money pretty darn hard, dont even try to give us the company PR sob story.
Bother customers - Free Distribute Patch - Free if you TORRENT IT. Many game companies do this. Hell ID was king of posting patches on MegaUpload and FileFront. Again FREE. Patching is a fact of life for games, but it is not expensive at all to get the patch out to players. MSFT is simply gouging developers hard.
I'm guessing that cost is why Fallout III and New Vegas were bug riddled And Skyrim seems to be a bugfest as well.
It seems that our Exporting of Complete Stupidity has worked! Glad to see your Canadians are using the supply of completely corrupt and stupid people we have been offering. Nice to see you guys using them in Government Positions like we have down here!
I have had a self guided drone that will take off and land on it's own as well as fly to preprogrammed waypoints for over a year now. It runs off of an arduino http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8785
ham radio ATV is the video feed and I send packet data via cellphone to control it. I am hoping to get a Android phone to make it completely cellular based for video and control to avoid the problem with using Ham radio (long range is a problem with HAM and fast scan ATV.
I am glad a Professor has finally caught up to us hobbyests that have been dinking with it for years now.
Actually he will have a lower light vision. at Civil twilight when the visible spectrum is falling off UV spectrum is spiking. IT's why "day glo" color start to pop more to normal eyes.
Problem is very little is UV reflective in nature. so to him man made items will stand out significantly during twilight hours.
I am sick and tired of this..... Solyndra's failure is because of the CEO being a scumbag. That Rich man knew his business was doomed when he asked for a bail out. Solyndra's executives are still rich as hell, Place the blame where it belongs. Maybe if you idiots would get the real news instead of the made up crap shoveled out on Fox News you might have a clue.
I am tired of you idiots spouting off about Solyndra. Your moron president signed away most of our rights when he passed the PATRIOT act. yet you cowards never speak out about how he is Evil Incarnate.
If you are an example of what the Republican party has become, no wonder all your Presidential candidates are complete morons. You guys have ZERO chance of unseating Obama with the parade of idiots you guys have in the running.
I would LOVE to see a honest and level headed Republican running. Instead I am offered a Racist bible thumper, A Ultra rich moron that cant even hide his elitisim (yet you guys frothed at the mouth over any ultra rich Democrat) A womanizing scummy Gasbag that has ties to the cause fo the economy collapse.
your choices are SO bad they make Ron Paul look like fricking Abraham Lincoln.
STFU about solyndra. unless you point out how Bush and all the Repubs were giving money hand over fist to Banks to keep the executives rich.
Whiny that Mass Effect and Dragon Age games, each version outsell everything he has ever made in his life.
My problem is that ME1 and DA1 both were VERY GOOD in control and customization, then some idiots got their hands on the games and dumbed them down.
Twisted metal was a fun game but it was not a fantastic game that made me want to play it obsessively over a long period of time. Mass Effect and Dragon age as well as Rage, Etc... all give the player a very strong desire to keep playing it until they finish it.
twisted metal was only placed once in a while when friends were over.
Travel with a "travel phone" it's a basic phone that does not contain anything important.... EVER.. and yes, wipe it a lot, but a wipe will not help if they flashed a new firmware with spy additions in it.
I would never even think of bringing my daily phone overseas. Bring a disposable that you dont care about.
I have an iridium phone. and I would much rather have a GPS in an emergency.
Iridium phones are like the ultra basic Phones from 1999. it also has crap for battery life so it will be useless in less than 1 day. The Iridium Extreme is the ONLY phone that has a GPS in it as well to send your location to search and rescue, that phone is expensive as hell compared to the basic iridium.
Instead of doing something stupid like blowing $1000 on a Iridium phone and a basic plan.
And you have always been able to "tweet" from an iridium phone. Iridium lets you SMS message. and you can SMS your twitter account. But only the filthy rich or those of us that actually hike in areas without cellphone coverage have Iridium, like my favorite... The wilds of alaska or canada.
I would rather someone spend the money on a good bug out bag and a small GPS than an Iridium phone.
If your addiction is that bad, please get some help. during emergencies you need to be paying attention to your safety and the safety of others not tweeting "day 14 without any food, no idea where to go, Wish I had a GPS instead of this crap Iridium phone."
That is what I did I took my pen and drew a line through that clause noting that I did not agree with it and initialed the spot. Then signed the contract.
I never signed an employment contract that I did not modify.
No it does not. I managed the SQL databases for Comcast's company wide Accounting systems in 2006 it ran off of 4 MSSQL servers. They were monstrous servers, with 8 processors each, (you count the cores) screaming fast Raid 50 arrays with a buttload of ram to deal with the pivot tables. 99% of payroll speed is the DB read and write times not mathematic calculations.
But you certainly do NOT need Big Iron to do a few million payroll calculations for hourly, Executive and Sales people every 2 weeks. Running payroll took 6 hours on tuesday. If something went wrong we ran it later t hat night.
IF they spent $100.00 on the fricking room they would make more of an increase in sound than $10,000 in gear.
Problem is Audiophiles, the type that read Audiophile magazine and Buy bullshit like B&W are not looking for sound quality, they are trying to show "HOW RICH I AM"
My home theater I built in the basement only tapers from front to back by 1 foot. the rear wall is 1 foot narrower than the front and the ceiling also tapers by that much. Floor is flat except for the riser. This cost me NOTHING extra in the build out.
I then covered the walls in cheap carpet tile and the ceiling is simply a drop ceiling with 3" of fiberglass batts laying on top of them for weight and more sound control (so I cant hear the wife stomping around upstairs)
It sounds better than the $200,000 theater rooms I have installed for rich people. Because I have reduced the room nodes significantly by eliminating parallel walls. (rear is parallel to front, but I have bass traps back there.)
The responsible thing to do is to make a TGZ of the contents and post it on Pirate bay. Zero the empty space to achieve the best compression, although someone might like rooting around in the raw data..
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"..yeah, no thanks. All I want or need is something that displays a 1080p signal well,"
Why? If all you watch are the most recent Movies on BluRay, then I can understand that. but ALL cableTV and ALL satellite TV is 720P heavy compressed. I dont care what your settings on the receiver are, the signal is 720p and will stay that way for a very long time.
Everyone pines for 1080p but very few have seen 1080p content that is crisp and at a viewing distance where they can actually tell the difference.
If you know your source material, and you sit close enough to see it, Awesome for you! I also chased the 1080p dragon for my theater and succeeded. You will not find ANYTHING that will be a decent quality 1080p from a streaming service within the next 5 years. You just dont have the bandwidth.
I instead made my own. XBMC with a server in the basement that has 5 1tb drives in it. I rip the bluray discs to the server and use XBMC to play them back. XBMC will do a AC3 passthrough as well as HD audio passthrough toslink to the receiver that will recreate the audio perfectly. My theater with VOD system I have in my media center was in total $12,500 excluding the walls, sound control and seating.
If you want really good 1080p you are going to not only pay for it, but do it all yourself.
They also charge $250.00 to give you the URL for the beta patch that fixes a bug in their Piece of Crap called Exchange. I have a couple of those patches that NEVER LEFT BETA and the problem still exists in exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 when you have Exchange servers using a Tiered storage model for a massive email system.
MSFT support is a double edge sword. they cut you whenever possible.
Thanks for the microsoft PR spew. Problem is it does not hold up to light. Both nintendo and PS3 do not rob game companies blind like MSFT does for patching.
In fact, Microsoft gets a buttload of money from "gold memberships" to enable online play that all the other platforms give out for free. Microsoft is raking in money pretty darn hard, dont even try to give us the company PR sob story.
Funds from Every patch goes to buy more chairs for Steve Ballmer.
Bother customers - Free
Distribute Patch - Free if you TORRENT IT. Many game companies do this. Hell ID was king of posting patches on MegaUpload and FileFront. Again FREE.
Patching is a fact of life for games, but it is not expensive at all to get the patch out to players. MSFT is simply gouging developers hard.
I'm guessing that cost is why Fallout III and New Vegas were bug riddled And Skyrim seems to be a bugfest as well.
It seems that our Exporting of Complete Stupidity has worked! Glad to see your Canadians are using the supply of completely corrupt and stupid people we have been offering. Nice to see you guys using them in Government Positions like we have down here!
Several of us have been doing this for years now. http://diydrones.com/
I have had a self guided drone that will take off and land on it's own as well as fly to preprogrammed waypoints for over a year now. It runs off of an arduino http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8785
ham radio ATV is the video feed and I send packet data via cellphone to control it. I am hoping to get a Android phone to make it completely cellular based for video and control to avoid the problem with using Ham radio (long range is a problem with HAM and fast scan ATV.
I am glad a Professor has finally caught up to us hobbyests that have been dinking with it for years now.
Actually he will have a lower light vision. at Civil twilight when the visible spectrum is falling off UV spectrum is spiking. IT's why "day glo" color start to pop more to normal eyes.
Problem is very little is UV reflective in nature. so to him man made items will stand out significantly during twilight hours.
" Plus, it's healthcare; they have money to burn."
Yet the bastards whine they are not paid enough...
I am sick and tired of this..... Solyndra's failure is because of the CEO being a scumbag. That Rich man knew his business was doomed when he asked for a bail out. Solyndra's executives are still rich as hell, Place the blame where it belongs. Maybe if you idiots would get the real news instead of the made up crap shoveled out on Fox News you might have a clue.
I am tired of you idiots spouting off about Solyndra. Your moron president signed away most of our rights when he passed the PATRIOT act. yet you cowards never speak out about how he is Evil Incarnate.
If you are an example of what the Republican party has become, no wonder all your Presidential candidates are complete morons. You guys have ZERO chance of unseating Obama with the parade of idiots you guys have in the running.
I would LOVE to see a honest and level headed Republican running. Instead I am offered a Racist bible thumper, A Ultra rich moron that cant even hide his elitisim (yet you guys frothed at the mouth over any ultra rich Democrat) A womanizing scummy Gasbag that has ties to the cause fo the economy collapse.
your choices are SO bad they make Ron Paul look like fricking Abraham Lincoln.
STFU about solyndra. unless you point out how Bush and all the Repubs were giving money hand over fist to Banks to keep the executives rich.
News Flash: my cheap travel phone has it's voice channel travel over IP.
Whiny that Mass Effect and Dragon Age games, each version outsell everything he has ever made in his life.
My problem is that ME1 and DA1 both were VERY GOOD in control and customization, then some idiots got their hands on the games and dumbed them down.
Twisted metal was a fun game but it was not a fantastic game that made me want to play it obsessively over a long period of time. Mass Effect and Dragon age as well as Rage, Etc... all give the player a very strong desire to keep playing it until they finish it.
twisted metal was only placed once in a while when friends were over.
Travel with a "travel phone" it's a basic phone that does not contain anything important.... EVER.. and yes, wipe it a lot, but a wipe will not help if they flashed a new firmware with spy additions in it.
I would never even think of bringing my daily phone overseas. Bring a disposable that you dont care about.
I have an iridium phone. and I would much rather have a GPS in an emergency.
Iridium phones are like the ultra basic Phones from 1999. it also has crap for battery life so it will be useless in less than 1 day. The Iridium Extreme is the ONLY phone that has a GPS in it as well to send your location to search and rescue, that phone is expensive as hell compared to the basic iridium.
Instead of doing something stupid like blowing $1000 on a Iridium phone and a basic plan.
If you really care about safety you will get a http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10820&minisite=10020/ Delorme In reach. as it's affordable and does not require you to spend a few hundred monthly to keep the thing active.
And you have always been able to "tweet" from an iridium phone. Iridium lets you SMS message. and you can SMS your twitter account. But only the filthy rich or those of us that actually hike in areas without cellphone coverage have Iridium, like my favorite... The wilds of alaska or canada.
I would rather someone spend the money on a good bug out bag and a small GPS than an Iridium phone.
Last time I took the QE-II I was able to use internet. so unless you are tweeting from a container ship or a life raft it's stupid.
" allowing users to tweet during emergencies"
If your addiction is that bad, please get some help. during emergencies you need to be paying attention to your safety and the safety of others not tweeting "day 14 without any food, no idea where to go, Wish I had a GPS instead of this crap Iridium phone."
That is what I did I took my pen and drew a line through that clause noting that I did not agree with it and initialed the spot. Then signed the contract.
I never signed an employment contract that I did not modify.
"Does payroll really require a Big Iron?"
No it does not. I managed the SQL databases for Comcast's company wide Accounting systems in 2006 it ran off of 4 MSSQL servers. They were monstrous servers, with 8 processors each, (you count the cores) screaming fast Raid 50 arrays with a buttload of ram to deal with the pivot tables. 99% of payroll speed is the DB read and write times not mathematic calculations.
But you certainly do NOT need Big Iron to do a few million payroll calculations for hourly, Executive and Sales people every 2 weeks. Running payroll took 6 hours on tuesday. If something went wrong we ran it later t hat night.
Plus with my last experience with OpenMoko, making a phone call was still on their to-do list.
They made a rockband sequel to Contra?
That's COOL!
They already have a "green" fuel. They used it in the Main stage of the Saturn V rocket.
Kerosene + LOx = OMFG that is a LOT of Thrust!
If you have crazed friends that run around trying to light things on fire? sure.
cheap floor carpet tile is just fine on the wall.
I can fit all of that in a standard "hoodie" or other normal jacket that costs a lot less than the horribly overpriced $70.00 thing he is showing.
slap an ipad and a netbook in there and I'll be impressed.
IF they spent $100.00 on the fricking room they would make more of an increase in sound than $10,000 in gear.
Problem is Audiophiles, the type that read Audiophile magazine and Buy bullshit like B&W are not looking for sound quality, they are trying to show "HOW RICH I AM"
My home theater I built in the basement only tapers from front to back by 1 foot. the rear wall is 1 foot narrower than the front and the ceiling also tapers by that much. Floor is flat except for the riser. This cost me NOTHING extra in the build out.
I then covered the walls in cheap carpet tile and the ceiling is simply a drop ceiling with 3" of fiberglass batts laying on top of them for weight and more sound control (so I cant hear the wife stomping around upstairs)
It sounds better than the $200,000 theater rooms I have installed for rich people. Because I have reduced the room nodes significantly by eliminating parallel walls. (rear is parallel to front, but I have bass traps back there.)
The responsible thing to do is to make a TGZ of the contents and post it on Pirate bay. Zero the empty space to achieve the best compression, although someone might like rooting around in the raw data..