1. I've heard the prismiq is pretty awful.. just looking at their support forums shows that people are having trouble getting even the basic functionality of the box to work without crashing. It looks as though the people that have one now are essentially beta testing the product for them... even though it shipping.
2. you'd better hope your neighbor is using a cantenna... since that's a directional antenna, you shouldn't have any problems unless he's pointing it at your TV.:D
3. The bandwidth required to stream a divx file across the network really isn't that huge... your average 20-minute tv show is about 160mb, or 8mb/min- which works out to a little over a megabit. Even on a congested network (as long as there are no drop-outs) it should work fine.
Probably quite a few... what many people fail to realize is how massive the numbers are for a relatively simple impact. Check out this article about dropping laptops. They dropped laptops in various bags from a height of 40 inches onto concrete to see what kind of shock loading the laptop experienced. The worst out of the bunch clocked in at a little over 200 G's!
55 G's really isn't that bad, when you think about it... and as long as you're mindful of the forces involved, designing an object around this is not that tough. Hell, laptop hard drives are designed to survive over 100 G's (while they are off, though.)
You used to be able to do lifetime with the directv tivos, and it is still possible to find units with lifetime service on ebay... like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em =3064481150&category=11725
That is the absolute cheapest way out, because you'll get a deal on the lifetime service, too. I have the sony SAT-T60, and paid over $600 for the unit and the lifetime service when I bought it over three years ago. I'd pay that much again, it's worth it. I've upgraded a lot of my home theater equipment since then, but quite honestly this unit is about as good as it gets. You can have my tivo when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
ok, now this is showing my true geekiness... MacGyver did the same thing! They used some top gun footage for one episode, and the majority of the mini chase scene from the original "Italian Job".
Now, when I was a kid I had no idea, but it's blatantly obvious now...
There are a number of factors. When talking to passengers in the car, you will not:
- take your hands off the wheel to use the phone - take your eyes off the road to answer the phone - take your eyes off the road to dial an outgoing call - use BOTH your eyes and hands to write down a phone number someone is telling you
And not only that, but the people in the car have the ability to know when to shut up and just let you drive, since they're seeing exactly what you are. People on the phone have no idea and they'll continue to ask you questions for which they are probably expecting a fairly quick answer to.
I remember seeing this about 3 or 4 years ago, when google was just a small office in downtown palo alto. They had a similar projector to that one, only it was aimed at the sidewalk in front of the building. It wasn't visible during the day, but at night you could watch the searches go by, and they did pretty quickly even then.
I just bought an iriver 395t a couple weeks ago, and I love it. It's their top of the line flash player, and as far as I know the only one out there that actually comes with 512mb of memory installed. It has a pretty damn good FM tuner, can record (and encode) at up to 320kbit, and is about the size of a pack of gum.
Anyway, back to my original point... iriver releases firmware updates on a fairly regular basis, so it's probably only a matter of time before all of their players will have ogg support.
Or maybe you were just a conscientious person who instead of ripping off your favorite artists (yes, they do get SOME of that money, just not much) were buying their discs and ripping them from legitimately purchased media and thereby also helping make sure that the labels saw how much they were selling.
Now porn on the other hand...
How the hell is that any different? I work for an adult company, and I'd say about 25% of my job is keeping people from stealing our content. There's a daily barrage of people trading our content in newsgroups, yahoo groups, message boards... you name it.
What you just said feeds off the stigma that adult content is somehow illicit, which it is not. As creators of content we have exactly the same rights as your "favorite artists" to protect their content.
If you had access to the full oxford english dictionary, you would find that architecting is, in fact, in there. I thought it wasn't and lost 5 bucks on it.;)
I'm not sure if this article is implying that norah jones was picked by the program as a hit, but it makes sense. The program doesn't look for a musical style, it only looks for some pretty basic musical elements... pitch, harmony, tone, etc. I would think that it would open up a lot more music to the world than close it off.
Yes, NAS at ames should have the 1024p cluster up by now. When I was interning there three years ago (yikes, was it that long??) they had a 512p cluster up, and it was the first of its kind. There was a port of doom that would run on the LCD status panels on the front of it... let me tell you, there's nothing quite like playing doom on a multimillion dollar hunk of iron.
Ok, so it was damn near impossible.. but amusing nonetheless.
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1. I had a teacher in high school whose only gig was vocabulary. I absolutely hated it then, but I do know a lot of words now...
2. No, but it sure was fun.. and he was being a jackass, so I was just speaking his language. I've been here long enough to not be afraid of the moderators (hell, I am one most of the time), otherwise I would have checked the "no +1 bonus" and "post anonymously" boxes.
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Oh the irony in that... you try to sound so smart by tacking on an accent, but end up sounding stupid in the process. There is and never has been an accent anywhere in that word, as it is not supposed to be pronounced with one. The mispronunciation of the word has become so widespread that it is now accepted, but it's still not proper usage. The correct pronunciation is FORT, and since you seem to be such a fan of accents, that would be fôrt.
Go read this, and get off your high horse, jackass.
interesting!! notice in the image searches, they limit it to "anime" image searches and holiday ones. Why? Because probably 80% of the people using the image search are using to try to find porn!
It would be interesting to actually see those stats, though.
"I still don't need to be subject to arbitrary, capricious rules created solely for the convenience of flight attendants."
If you believe that you have the proper mental faculties about you to determine whether the piece of electronics you're using is not going to affect the plane you're on, by all means- go right ahead. Those rules are not made for people like you and me- they're made for the idiots that don't know how a cellphone works, and think that bluetooth is something they need to go the dentist for. On a certain level I'm glad rules like that exist, but then there will always be stupid people to enforce the rules that don't understand exceptions.
So, as intelligent beings, what do we do? Fight for fewer rules? Fight for exceptions to the rules? or just bite your tongue every now and then? Personally I end up doing a combination of 2 and 3, which in the end is probably the safest course anyways.
even if it is, the last time I got on a flight they informed us that the use of PDA's was also now prohibited unless the plane was at the gate. They made a point of saying that you used to be able to use them in the air, but that recently they had tightened the rules back a bit.
Back to the article- The author mentions how hard it is to dial without having tactile buttons. THANK YOU! that's why I can't stand any of these hotshot new universal TV remotes, or even the apps for palm/visor that provide that functionality. I know my tv remote so well that I almost never look at it, except for those very infrequently used buttons. It should require no thought at all, and this is something the "combo" phone/pda makers haven't addressed much yet.
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1. I've heard the prismiq is pretty awful.. just looking at their support forums shows that people are having trouble getting even the basic functionality of the box to work without crashing. It looks as though the people that have one now are essentially beta testing the product for them... even though it shipping.
:D
2. you'd better hope your neighbor is using a cantenna... since that's a directional antenna, you shouldn't have any problems unless he's pointing it at your TV.
3. The bandwidth required to stream a divx file across the network really isn't that huge... your average 20-minute tv show is about 160mb, or 8mb/min- which works out to a little over a megabit. Even on a congested network (as long as there are no drop-outs) it should work fine.
damn filter... here's the link again:
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Probably quite a few... what many people fail to realize is how massive the numbers are for a relatively simple impact. Check out this article about dropping laptops. They dropped laptops in various bags from a height of 40 inches onto concrete to see what kind of shock loading the laptop experienced. The worst out of the bunch clocked in at a little over 200 G's!
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http://www.codidirect.com/reviews/mobileComputi
55 G's really isn't that bad, when you think about it... and as long as you're mindful of the forces involved, designing an object around this is not that tough. Hell, laptop hard drives are designed to survive over 100 G's (while they are off, though.)
oh, MAN, kangaroo jack came out on my birthday... No WONDER this year sucked so bad!!
You used to be able to do lifetime with the directv tivos, and it is still possible to find units with lifetime service on ebay... like this one:
t em =3064481150&category=11725
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i
That is the absolute cheapest way out, because you'll get a deal on the lifetime service, too. I have the sony SAT-T60, and paid over $600 for the unit and the lifetime service when I bought it over three years ago. I'd pay that much again, it's worth it. I've upgraded a lot of my home theater equipment since then, but quite honestly this unit is about as good as it gets. You can have my tivo when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
I read this and the first thing I thought of was bondage, not slavery. Sign number 472 that working for a porn company does mess with your head.
ok, now this is showing my true geekiness... MacGyver did the same thing! They used some top gun footage for one episode, and the majority of the mini chase scene from the original "Italian Job".
Now, when I was a kid I had no idea, but it's blatantly obvious now...
There are a number of factors. When talking to passengers in the car, you will not:
- take your hands off the wheel to use the phone
- take your eyes off the road to answer the phone
- take your eyes off the road to dial an outgoing call
- use BOTH your eyes and hands to write down a phone number someone is telling you
And not only that, but the people in the car have the ability to know when to shut up and just let you drive, since they're seeing exactly what you are. People on the phone have no idea and they'll continue to ask you questions for which they are probably expecting a fairly quick answer to.
I remember seeing this about 3 or 4 years ago, when google was just a small office in downtown palo alto. They had a similar projector to that one, only it was aimed at the sidewalk in front of the building. It wasn't visible during the day, but at night you could watch the searches go by, and they did pretty quickly even then.
I just bought an iriver 395t a couple weeks ago, and I love it. It's their top of the line flash player, and as far as I know the only one out there that actually comes with 512mb of memory installed. It has a pretty damn good FM tuner, can record (and encode) at up to 320kbit, and is about the size of a pack of gum.
Anyway, back to my original point... iriver releases firmware updates on a fairly regular basis, so it's probably only a matter of time before all of their players will have ogg support.
Yeah, and anybody can make music too!
Or maybe you were just a conscientious person who instead of ripping off your favorite artists (yes, they do get SOME of that money, just not much) were buying their discs and ripping them from legitimately purchased media and thereby also helping make sure that the labels saw how much they were selling.
...
Now porn on the other hand
How the hell is that any different? I work for an adult company, and I'd say about 25% of my job is keeping people from stealing our content. There's a daily barrage of people trading our content in newsgroups, yahoo groups, message boards... you name it.
What you just said feeds off the stigma that adult content is somehow illicit, which it is not. As creators of content we have exactly the same rights as your "favorite artists" to protect their content.
yeah, me too. The street cred is nice and all, but I think $250 would be much cooler.
what are four-digit UID's going for these days, anyhow? ;)
Ok, so maybe this wasn't exactly what they were talking about. It's still kind of fun though...
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If you had access to the full oxford english dictionary, you would find that architecting is, in fact, in there. I thought it wasn't and lost 5 bucks on it. ;)
I'm not sure if this article is implying that norah jones was picked by the program as a hit, but it makes sense. The program doesn't look for a musical style, it only looks for some pretty basic musical elements... pitch, harmony, tone, etc. I would think that it would open up a lot more music to the world than close it off.
Slightly faster? 12.5 mph equates to a 4:48 mile. 10mph is a 6 minute mile. That's a helluva jog, son!
Yes, NAS at ames should have the 1024p cluster up by now. When I was interning there three years ago (yikes, was it that long??) they had a 512p cluster up, and it was the first of its kind. There was a port of doom that would run on the LCD status panels on the front of it... let me tell you, there's nothing quite like playing doom on a multimillion dollar hunk of iron.
Ok, so it was damn near impossible.. but amusing nonetheless.
1. I had a teacher in high school whose only gig was vocabulary. I absolutely hated it then, but I do know a lot of words now...
2. No, but it sure was fun.. and he was being a jackass, so I was just speaking his language. I've been here long enough to not be afraid of the moderators (hell, I am one most of the time), otherwise I would have checked the "no +1 bonus" and "post anonymously" boxes.
Oh the irony in that... you try to sound so smart by tacking on an accent, but end up sounding stupid in the process. There is and never has been an accent anywhere in that word, as it is not supposed to be pronounced with one. The mispronunciation of the word has become so widespread that it is now accepted, but it's still not proper usage. The correct pronunciation is FORT, and since you seem to be such a fan of accents, that would be fôrt.
Go read this, and get off your high horse, jackass.
700 xmas lights: about $30
700 white LED's: about $2100
And 700 xmas lights are hardly hazardous; we had over 1500 of them in our dorm room. It was just right
interesting!! notice in the image searches, they limit it to "anime" image searches and holiday ones. Why? Because probably 80% of the people using the image search are using to try to find porn!
It would be interesting to actually see those stats, though.
"I still don't need to be subject to arbitrary, capricious rules created solely for the convenience of flight attendants."
If you believe that you have the proper mental faculties about you to determine whether the piece of electronics you're using is not going to affect the plane you're on, by all means- go right ahead. Those rules are not made for people like you and me- they're made for the idiots that don't know how a cellphone works, and think that bluetooth is something they need to go the dentist for. On a certain level I'm glad rules like that exist, but then there will always be stupid people to enforce the rules that don't understand exceptions.
So, as intelligent beings, what do we do? Fight for fewer rules? Fight for exceptions to the rules? or just bite your tongue every now and then? Personally I end up doing a combination of 2 and 3, which in the end is probably the safest course anyways.
even if it is, the last time I got on a flight they informed us that the use of PDA's was also now prohibited unless the plane was at the gate. They made a point of saying that you used to be able to use them in the air, but that recently they had tightened the rules back a bit.
Back to the article- The author mentions how hard it is to dial without having tactile buttons. THANK YOU! that's why I can't stand any of these hotshot new universal TV remotes, or even the apps for palm/visor that provide that functionality. I know my tv remote so well that I almost never look at it, except for those very infrequently used buttons. It should require no thought at all, and this is something the "combo" phone/pda makers haven't addressed much yet.