The article claims that AIT Radeon does not support monitor spanning. My Dell C610 has a Mobility Radeon and I am currently running two monitors with my desktop spanned across both. It took updating the windows 2k ati driver, but it supports both horizontal and vertical spanning as well as cloning. Is this feature just unique to ATI's mobile chipsets?
What it can't do is Dual View, which would be nice since my other monitor is a 21in. crt and I either have to have very small text on my laptop's monitor or suffer with a 60hz refresh rate on the crt.
First, I'm sure its not alone in this. Iridium only had 66 + 11 spare satellite. There are a lot more satellites and other bits of junk up there. Not to mention the planned launches of more satellite constellations as well as more satellites.
Second. The hardware was difficult to upgrade. The software was very upgradeable and was done so many times. Most stellite communication is not compatible and Iridium phones (at least some models) could be converted to use the cell network of you choice by simply inserting another card into the phone.
Second part two. The problem with stupid satellites you can only bounce the signal to a ground station that the bird can see. Necessitating many ground stations. Iridium only needs one since the call can be routed in space. (which it is despite another posters comments to the contrary). So it is a design trade off and as such a matter of opinion. All satellites have a limited lifespan. Space is a harsh environment and eventually manuvering fuel and batteries are used up.
Third. Stupid economics did apply. It was expensive, although not as expensive as I've seen stated. $2000 for a phone. Minimum of $5/min for a phone call. For a while iridium phone to iridium phone calls were free.
Fourth. The quality was not there at the begining. It has improved a lot. You can tell its a staellite call, but it sounds good.
You should beleive him because he's right. The US goverment is extreamly anal about electronic systems. I happen to work for a goverment contractor and there are more rules than you can shake a stick at. You can't even bring any electronic devices/media near classified systems let alone hook them up to a public network.
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The article claims that AIT Radeon does not support monitor spanning. My Dell C610 has a Mobility Radeon and I am currently running two monitors with my desktop spanned across both. It took updating the windows 2k ati driver, but it supports both horizontal and vertical spanning as well as cloning. Is this feature just unique to ATI's mobile chipsets?
What it can't do is Dual View, which would be nice since my other monitor is a 21in. crt and I either have to have very small text on my laptop's monitor or suffer with a 60hz refresh rate on the crt.
I notice the press release didn't mention expected price. Pioneer's current DVD-R drive is $5400. Hardly affordable.
http://www.pioneerusa.com/dvdrmedia.html#dvdrec
First, I'm sure its not alone in this. Iridium only had 66 + 11 spare satellite. There are a lot more satellites and other bits of junk up there. Not to mention the planned launches of more satellite constellations as well as more satellites.
Second. The hardware was difficult to upgrade. The software was very upgradeable and was done so many times. Most stellite communication is not compatible and Iridium phones (at least some models) could be converted to use the cell network of you choice by simply inserting another card into the phone.
Second part two. The problem with stupid satellites you can only bounce the signal to a ground station that the bird can see. Necessitating many ground stations. Iridium only needs one since the call can be routed in space. (which it is despite another posters comments to the contrary). So it is a design trade off and as such a matter of opinion. All satellites have a limited lifespan. Space is a harsh environment and eventually manuvering fuel and batteries are used up.
Third. Stupid economics did apply. It was expensive, although not as expensive as I've seen stated. $2000 for a phone. Minimum of $5/min for a phone call. For a while iridium phone to iridium phone calls were free.
Fourth. The quality was not there at the begining.
It has improved a lot. You can tell its a staellite call, but it sounds good.
You should beleive him because he's right. The US goverment is extreamly anal about electronic systems. I happen to work for a goverment contractor and there are more rules than you can shake a stick at. You can't even bring any electronic devices/media near classified systems let alone hook them up to a public network.