I really don't get how it's arrogant to expect the tech support for an American product to be able to speak clear American English. I don't think anyone is saying that the Indian tech support should be able to speak American English perfectly, they're saying that American techs should answer the phone. I for one agree completely. I have wasted many hours on the phone with Dell tech support for a problem that I had already diagnosed and simply required a warantee part to be shipped. I've gotten to the point where I can answer most of the scripted questions before the tech has a chance to ask them.
Quite simply, most of the Indian techs do not know what they are doing. They read from a script and that is it. I had one call for a system with a bad CPU where it took me a good half hour to get the tech to agree to ship out a new CPU. I had already swapped the CPU from another machine to verify that it was infact the CPU, and I had the tech trying to get me to swap the modem. Keep in mind I work for a university that deals almost exclusively with Dell and we pay a lot of money for our service contracts. I should not have to argue with tech support to get actual support. I have already done the hard work by diagnosing the problem.
Back on the point though, I find your prejudice to be astonishing. Just because someone is an American they are arrogant and stupid? I think you just want to complain about America. Do you think it would be reasonable if Sony out-sourced all of their support calls in Japan to Americans who spoke Japanese with a midwest accent? When you buy a product in a country from a company based in that country, it's perfectly reasonable to expect that support be given in the native language of that country.
Have you ever actually read the thing you sign when you purchase something on a credit card? I assure there is a contractual obligation that you will pay for the merchandise.
Like the other reply said, it's 24fps. And you can show each frame 100 times a second. You won't have 2400fps, you'll have 24fps with each frame shown 100 times a second.
If you assume 16bits for Y and 8bits each for U and V (ie 4:2:2 encoding) it works out to 4bytes per pixel, which gives you 33.75fps. Now if you start with 30fps progressive or 60fps interlaced and work backwards you get to 3,110,400,000,000 bytes uncompressed assuming 32 bits per pixel. Or you can get 60fps progressive if you work with 16bits per pixel (standard tv color depth). So my guess would either be 60 fields per second interlaced, with 32 bits per pixel, or 60 frames per second interlaced with 16 bits per pixel.
Now as much as I hate interlaced video, at over 4000 lines you really wouldn't be able to see the interlacing, and it would be worth it for the increased color depth and stay at 60fps.
Basically this system would knock your socks off, maybe even your shoes.
I really doubt frame rate had anything to do with the lack of emotional response. For one they were both shown at 24fps. Phantom Menace was just stupid.
Not totally wrong. Of the two main standards for HDTV one is progressive (720p) and one is interlaced (1080i). I think FOX and ABC are broadcasting in 720p, just aboute everyone else is 1080i.
I actually learned that nugget in chemistry. But the poster makes a good point. Units can change depending on the context. 99% of the public has no idea that Calorie is a short-hand for kilocalorie. But its usage is consitent. Subway doesn't list a Whopper as having 600,000 calories on their cups. The rest of the computer industry uses giga to mean 1024*1024*1024. HDD makers (and now DVDR makers) are the only ones who use 1,000,000,000 as a definition for giga.
And since it hasn't been said enough, bytes are not SI units, the SI prefixes don't have any meaning with regard to bytes.
What really pisses me off is CDRs vs. DVDRs. CDRs are measured in base 2 MBs, a 700MB CDR truely holds 700MBs (give or take a few bytes). A 4.7GB DVDR holds 4.3 GBs. Also, all of my DVD+Rs have "RW" stamped on the bottom, despite not being re-writable. Does RW mean "read/write" now?
Modems do support on the fly compression of data, and have for quite some time. Getting a true 20KB/s over a modem would be completely impossible. But if you are transfering a large text document, it'd be possible, just rare.
Man you GiB fan boys amaze me. As has been said 100 times already, bytes are not SI units, the SI prefixes do not apply. They are not metric units. A byte is a computer unit. We do this all the time in every day life, the same word can have different meanings in different contexts. If your NRA buddy is talking about a new rack, he could be refering to a gun rack. A nerd friend might be talking about a server rack. Another friend could be talking about a woman's breasts. It's the same word, but with different meanings.
In the computing world, the giga prefix means 2^30. In the physical world it means 10^9. Different contexts, different meanings. Give it up.
Let's face it, the [KMG]iB terms will never be accepted by the tech community. They sounds stupid, and AFAIK it was just decided one day that these terms would exist. Kilo in computers has always meant 1024 and always will mean 1024. Computers don't think in decimal. If you want to say kibibit, or gibibit, knock yourself out. I'm not going to join you, neither will a lot of people.
All of the SI terms deal with things in human terms. Meters and grams have meaning to people. They have no meaning to a computer. Bytes have a meaning to a computer, they have no meaning to a human. Humans think in base 10, computers think in base 2.
You can say that GiB is the "correct term" all you want. It doesn't make it true. Kilo has been defined as 1024 in the computer industry for decades now, and it's not going to change just because Maxtor wants to sell a few more hard drives. The iB terms are nothing more than revisionism.
The original poster was talking about the HDTV dongle that ATI provides I believe. It plugs into the video card and lets you do HDTV component out. Also, you can very easily send compressed HDTV over the PCI bus. This card and the FusionHDTV cards do exactly that. The MyHD card actually can send uncompressed HDTV over the PCI bus too I believe. It's just down scaled and not very good quality.
This really is too stupid to respond to, but...Slashdot is an American site. It is hosted in America, run by Americans, and most of the readers I would guess are Americans. It only makes sense to report from an American perspective, and to use American phrases. What term should have been used? Do you think "New England" would have made any sense to anyone outside of the US? And it wouldn't have been accurate anyway. NY, NJ, PA, OH, and MI are not considered to be part of New England. The only way I can think to put it that wouldn't involve using local terms would be to list every area affected, and that's just not practical for a short story blurb.
In summary, get over yourself. If you aren't an American and are reading an American psuedo-news site, don't complain about things being told from an American point of view.
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I'd guess a 1GB hdd would be damn hard to come by. A 20gig cost $43 acourding to pricewatch. $43 is a lot of money when you're talking about a $169 computer.
I work for a university that buys a LOT of Dell machines, and I can say that this is not true. In the past 6 months alone I think we have had well over 100 different Dell machines (optiplex desktops, inspiron laptops and latitude laptops). Every single one of them came with a full install cd. Also, I have had several laptops come in that were not purchased through the university's contract with Dell and they all had the Windows install cds.
Why does everyone think that this is the end of ReplayTV? So far everything looks like it's not going anywhere, and that there will probably be a lot more developement on the ReplayTV line. People were making the same comments two weeks ago when the deal between SonicBLUE and D&M "fell through". I think D&M was offering $40mil then. Yesterday they paid $36.2mil. That's $3.8mil more cash D&M has now. How is that a bad thing?
All indications so far show that the support will continue as is for everyone. Pissing off the loyal users is a really bad way to make money. It's not at all uncommon for people to have 3 or 4 ReplayTVs all with life time subscriptions. This would hurt them a lot.
I think this is one of those areas where you cannot waive your right to do something. Once I buy something physical, it's mine to do what I want with it, certain obvious items do not apply (guns, etc.). Now since there is copyrighted code on the MoBo, ie the ROM, then Apple might be able to argue something along those lines.
IIRC 1080p is at either 24fps or 30fps, while 1080i is at 60 *fields* per second, which are 1/2 the vertical resolution of a frame. So 1080p at 30fps requires the same bandwith as 1080i. 1080p at 24fps would require 1/6th less bandwith. IMHO all film material should be broadcast at 24fps progressive. That's how it was captured in the first place, that's how it should be shown.
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FAT32 can handle partitions > 30GB just fine. Windows XP just won't let you create them. IIRC the max partition size in FAT32 is 2TB.
I really don't get how it's arrogant to expect the tech support for an American product to be able to speak clear American English. I don't think anyone is saying that the Indian tech support should be able to speak American English perfectly, they're saying that American techs should answer the phone. I for one agree completely. I have wasted many hours on the phone with Dell tech support for a problem that I had already diagnosed and simply required a warantee part to be shipped. I've gotten to the point where I can answer most of the scripted questions before the tech has a chance to ask them.
Quite simply, most of the Indian techs do not know what they are doing. They read from a script and that is it. I had one call for a system with a bad CPU where it took me a good half hour to get the tech to agree to ship out a new CPU. I had already swapped the CPU from another machine to verify that it was infact the CPU, and I had the tech trying to get me to swap the modem. Keep in mind I work for a university that deals almost exclusively with Dell and we pay a lot of money for our service contracts. I should not have to argue with tech support to get actual support. I have already done the hard work by diagnosing the problem.
Back on the point though, I find your prejudice to be astonishing. Just because someone is an American they are arrogant and stupid? I think you just want to complain about America. Do you think it would be reasonable if Sony out-sourced all of their support calls in Japan to Americans who spoke Japanese with a midwest accent? When you buy a product in a country from a company based in that country, it's perfectly reasonable to expect that support be given in the native language of that country.
It's not the original. The original pledge had no reference to god, as has been said several times already, it was added in the 1950s.
Have you ever actually read the thing you sign when you purchase something on a credit card? I assure there is a contractual obligation that you will pay for the merchandise.
I just got an NEC 1300a for about $120 before shipping. It does DVD+RW and -RW.
Like the other reply said, it's 24fps. And you can show each frame 100 times a second. You won't have 2400fps, you'll have 24fps with each frame shown 100 times a second.
If you assume 16bits for Y and 8bits each for U and V (ie 4:2:2 encoding) it works out to 4bytes per pixel, which gives you 33.75fps. Now if you start with 30fps progressive or 60fps interlaced and work backwards you get to 3,110,400,000,000 bytes uncompressed assuming 32 bits per pixel. Or you can get 60fps progressive if you work with 16bits per pixel (standard tv color depth). So my guess would either be 60 fields per second interlaced, with 32 bits per pixel, or 60 frames per second interlaced with 16 bits per pixel.
Now as much as I hate interlaced video, at over 4000 lines you really wouldn't be able to see the interlacing, and it would be worth it for the increased color depth and stay at 60fps.
Basically this system would knock your socks off, maybe even your shoes.
I really doubt frame rate had anything to do with the lack of emotional response. For one they were both shown at 24fps. Phantom Menace was just stupid.
Not totally wrong. Of the two main standards for HDTV one is progressive (720p) and one is interlaced (1080i). I think FOX and ABC are broadcasting in 720p, just aboute everyone else is 1080i.
I actually learned that nugget in chemistry. But the poster makes a good point. Units can change depending on the context. 99% of the public has no idea that Calorie is a short-hand for kilocalorie. But its usage is consitent. Subway doesn't list a Whopper as having 600,000 calories on their cups. The rest of the computer industry uses giga to mean 1024*1024*1024. HDD makers (and now DVDR makers) are the only ones who use 1,000,000,000 as a definition for giga.
And since it hasn't been said enough, bytes are not SI units, the SI prefixes don't have any meaning with regard to bytes.
What really pisses me off is CDRs vs. DVDRs. CDRs are measured in base 2 MBs, a 700MB CDR truely holds 700MBs (give or take a few bytes). A 4.7GB DVDR holds 4.3 GBs. Also, all of my DVD+Rs have "RW" stamped on the bottom, despite not being re-writable. Does RW mean "read/write" now?
Modems do support on the fly compression of data, and have for quite some time. Getting a true 20KB/s over a modem would be completely impossible. But if you are transfering a large text document, it'd be possible, just rare.
Man you GiB fan boys amaze me. As has been said 100 times already, bytes are not SI units, the SI prefixes do not apply. They are not metric units. A byte is a computer unit. We do this all the time in every day life, the same word can have different meanings in different contexts. If your NRA buddy is talking about a new rack, he could be refering to a gun rack. A nerd friend might be talking about a server rack. Another friend could be talking about a woman's breasts. It's the same word, but with different meanings.
In the computing world, the giga prefix means 2^30. In the physical world it means 10^9. Different contexts, different meanings. Give it up.
Let's face it, the [KMG]iB terms will never be accepted by the tech community. They sounds stupid, and AFAIK it was just decided one day that these terms would exist. Kilo in computers has always meant 1024 and always will mean 1024. Computers don't think in decimal. If you want to say kibibit, or gibibit, knock yourself out. I'm not going to join you, neither will a lot of people.
All of the SI terms deal with things in human terms. Meters and grams have meaning to people. They have no meaning to a computer. Bytes have a meaning to a computer, they have no meaning to a human. Humans think in base 10, computers think in base 2.
You can say that GiB is the "correct term" all you want. It doesn't make it true. Kilo has been defined as 1024 in the computer industry for decades now, and it's not going to change just because Maxtor wants to sell a few more hard drives. The iB terms are nothing more than revisionism.
wow, i think you're taking it to an extreme. there is a huge difference between drinking and driving, and using irc.
The original poster was talking about the HDTV dongle that ATI provides I believe. It plugs into the video card and lets you do HDTV component out. Also, you can very easily send compressed HDTV over the PCI bus. This card and the FusionHDTV cards do exactly that. The MyHD card actually can send uncompressed HDTV over the PCI bus too I believe. It's just down scaled and not very good quality.
This really is too stupid to respond to, but...Slashdot is an American site. It is hosted in America, run by Americans, and most of the readers I would guess are Americans. It only makes sense to report from an American perspective, and to use American phrases. What term should have been used? Do you think "New England" would have made any sense to anyone outside of the US? And it wouldn't have been accurate anyway. NY, NJ, PA, OH, and MI are not considered to be part of New England. The only way I can think to put it that wouldn't involve using local terms would be to list every area affected, and that's just not practical for a short story blurb.
In summary, get over yourself. If you aren't an American and are reading an American psuedo-news site, don't complain about things being told from an American point of view.
I'd guess a 1GB hdd would be damn hard to come by. A 20gig cost $43 acourding to pricewatch. $43 is a lot of money when you're talking about a $169 computer.
I work for a university that buys a LOT of Dell machines, and I can say that this is not true. In the past 6 months alone I think we have had well over 100 different Dell machines (optiplex desktops, inspiron laptops and latitude laptops). Every single one of them came with a full install cd. Also, I have had several laptops come in that were not purchased through the university's contract with Dell and they all had the Windows install cds.
Spider Solitaire absolutely *does* run under 2k. I have it running fine on my 2k box at work.
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Why does everyone think that this is the end of ReplayTV? So far everything looks like it's not going anywhere, and that there will probably be a lot more developement on the ReplayTV line. People were making the same comments two weeks ago when the deal between SonicBLUE and D&M "fell through". I think D&M was offering $40mil then. Yesterday they paid $36.2mil. That's $3.8mil more cash D&M has now. How is that a bad thing?
All indications so far show that the support will continue as is for everyone. Pissing off the loyal users is a really bad way to make money. It's not at all uncommon for people to have 3 or 4 ReplayTVs all with life time subscriptions. This would hurt them a lot.
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I think this is one of those areas where you cannot waive your right to do something. Once I buy something physical, it's mine to do what I want with it, certain obvious items do not apply (guns, etc.). Now since there is copyrighted code on the MoBo, ie the ROM, then Apple might be able to argue something along those lines.
IIRC 1080p is at either 24fps or 30fps, while 1080i is at 60 *fields* per second, which are 1/2 the vertical resolution of a frame. So 1080p at 30fps requires the same bandwith as 1080i. 1080p at 24fps would require 1/6th less bandwith. IMHO all film material should be broadcast at 24fps progressive. That's how it was captured in the first place, that's how it should be shown.