Well that's worthless. In the photo essay (photo#8) they show that there's clearly enough space for a standard 1/4" phono plug jack. Is there some sort of (audio quality) reason why they went with a proprietary connection rather than the 100-year standard phono plug which works with literally everything in existence?
I just want something I can plug a standard speaker cable from my HT-5H guitar amp's headphone jack to my headphones directly. I might just hack my own solution this is ridiculous.
I noticed these have a 1/4" input jack. I'm in the same boat as you, far too many of my headphones have failed where the cord meets the 'phones. Of course if you're spending more than $100 on headphones and they break more than likely a) they're still under warranty and if not b) any competent TV repair shop should be able to fix the headphones for $20 in less than half an hour. I'm gonna keep browsing this thread, hoping someone posts a link to an affordable brand of decent headphones that has a 1/4" input jack. If not I'm going into business selling quality gamer/audiophile headphones with exactly that feature - I already own the correct domain name for such a business - nearlydeaf.com:)
Can you recommend a good pair of headphones that have a 1/4" input jack as shown on the HD800? Preferably something under $120. I checked and it looks like from the pics on amazon the input cable is permanently attached to the headphones. I'm sure the cable detaching from the headphones isn't a big issue on higher end 'phones but that's been the mode of failure for my last 4 sets of $30+ headphones over the last five years or so.
I just thought about this, I haven't set foot in a blockbuster in probably 7 years, 2003 being the last year in college we all went out to a video store to rent something. Back in high school however a group of 10 of us or so on Friday nights would rent an A movie (new release), a B movie (oldie but a goodie, usually a Kevin Smith type movie), and a C movie (killer clowns from outerspace, MST3K etc). Everyone came for the A movie, most would stay for the B and half the remainder would fall asleep durring the C movie. After 2003 I got a netflix account and used it for a few months before getting bored of it. Nowadays I'm lucky if I watch more than one movie I download a week.
Sounds like they're likely to just buyout LOVEFiLM just the same way Walmart bought out your major supermaket chains (Tetco, they're called I think?). Assuming they haven't already.
Let's say 18,000. Divided by 28 (half the servers are 32 players, half are 24). That gives you 642 servers. Probably 100 of those are servers people have favorited, the other 550 are some random server that has no following or is/has never been favorited by someone because it's empty 99% of the time.
Outside of a couple instances of 4chan-ing it, there's absolutely nothing to gain from doing this. The TF2 community is already highly compartmentalized with only maybe 100 truly active servers and/or communities. The rest are either empty most of the time or empty most of the time and employing these awful tactics described above. This fix just makes it easier for people new to the game to find a non-shit server that's actually populated. Plus they already have a several week baseline that they've been monitoring.
Shit, you're lucky if they can even find the start button in XP. Whenever my mom's desktop fills up with files, she will call me to clean them up. Anything not directly clickable from the desktop is an enigma to her. The start button was a brilliant idea, but it still relies on the "things hidden behind interface", similar to digging through nested folders on the desktop. Some people just can't (more likely won't) grasp that concept.
Tabbed browsing scares the fuck out of older people. My friend has an Ubuntu box setup for his mom. It has a 1024x768 resolution, and the only icon on the desktop is firefox, as a 256x256 icon that immediately opens into hotmail. This is really all she needs and he literally hasn't had need to touch or upgrade the system since he set it up for her in early 2007, with him studying abroad and then working in Beijing for a year+
You'd be shocked how many people can barely work their computer's "Basic" functions.
Can we get the coders of GIMP to give up their octo-core SSD-drive dev boxes? My lowly core2duo with 2 gigs of ram and a mechanical hard drive absolutely crawls with the major overhaul of The GIMP. Whatever they did to their in program file browsing code,... I don't know but it shouldn't take 3-5 seconds to populate a folder of 50 jpgs all less than 500k each. This is on a work computer with no issues running only firefox, gimp and two proprietary buisness apps. Wtf.
Most pre-release screenings I've done were on 35mm film, either for film critics or test audiences. We got a borked copy of Opal Dreams once and had to run the DVD screener on a DLP projector, but for the most part prerelease screenINGS are completely different from screenERS
Sounds about right. An episode on itunes is $2. A tyson fight runs around how much these days?
just because it costs a company X amount to produce something doesn't mean that's what its worth to the consumer. HBO and the other pay networks make fantastic content that people are willing to pay for. For some reason when advertisers are paying for it the quality of the content drops dramatically. When customers pay (vote) with their own dollars, quality goes through the roof. I used to have a (pay) account with netflix but I don't have the time/desire to sit in front of a tv for more than an hour a day. I'm sure others would find they don't ether if they had to actually pay for quality entertainment on a regular basis. American idol might be $5 but reruns of the drew carrey show at 2am probably costs the advertiser less than 10 cents per impression - on par with online banner ads.
I'd say the majority of movie theaters in the US aren't downtown and are not subject to parking shortages. Here in the US people just show up 30-45 minutes early if they want good seats.
every time I've ever asked (at any cinema/chain), I'm told exactly how many seats have been sold and how many are left That's because they're staring at the screen which has that relevant info presented right there. Take them away from them and they can probably tell you what the largest and smallest theaters are in the complex but not the number of seats. I have our company's phone # taped to the side of my monitor and probably repeat it 2-3 times a day but for the life of me I couldn't tell it to you off hand from memory other than it's a 1-800 number.
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3. Piracy taught a new generation of users it's more convenient to watch shows on a computer screen.
How is it more convenient to watch video on a computer screen, than in a living room designed specifically around a television set with a large screen?
It's more convenient to watch them on your computer screen when you only spend a small fraction (45 minutes a day typically) watching videos. Keep in mind the living room has been designed around the TV only for the last 50 years or so. If he only watches an hour a day of video his viewpoints are going to be drastically different from someone who spends the majority of their leisure time watching ad-funded TV on the sofa.
For example I only have a TV so that my friends don't think it's odd, or so they have something to watch while eating.
Ads might be a neccessary evil, but once you've "unplugged" from mainstream advertising, if you go to someone's house and watch something live, like say the Superbowl, ads (even amazing ads like superbowl ads) seem obnoxiously obtrusive. You might not mind ads simply because you've always been exposed to them, the same way a 4th grader doesn't think he needs glasses simply because he's always gotten along without them just fine. Once you get used to glasses you wonder how the rest of the world got along for thousands of years without them.
3)Every theater probably will get its own watermark, digital projectors could probably add a new one with each showing.
They've been doing this for a while. It's specific to each reel, of which there's 4-8 reels in a film depending on a variety of factors. It's been getting a lot worse since 2006 or so.
The worst part is, once you know about it, it's impossible to miss.
Prerelease screenings are complete clusterfucks. I've seen security people come up into the projection booth to make sure you're not telesyncing, and security people with hand held metal dectectors for video cameras, etc but there's absolutely no assigned seating, except maybe the first or second rows of the stadium seating (below that are the nosebleed floorseating) for the director and PR people. Most tickets are free and to top that off, most (modern) movie theaters don't even have seat numbers. Hell ask a theater employee and you're lucky if they can tell you within 100 seats how many people each theater seats.
What search strings are you using for mainframes? I've been looking for about a year for a fridge-sized mainframe on ebay and have yet to find one. The physically biggest computer ive seen on ebay was no larger than a Marshall Half Stack. Craigslist has been no help, if you seriously know where I can pick one up cheap please respond.
Guaranteed to take up 90% of cycles and 75% of RAM
I thought this was a joke, and I thought my mom's computer was virus-laden, but after 3 years of agonizingly slow response time i finally uninstalled norton and installed SVG and lo and behold, the computer runs normally again(!). Turns out even though she had a 1.8ghz P4, she only had 512mb ram which was causing the comptuer to absolutely crawl when trying to run norton in the "background". Might as well have had the computer encoding h.264 videos continiously for all the good it did.
Depends on if you Live in Maine or Miami and the time of year. Peak power usage is typically from 4-6pm when all the offices are still powered up and computers running virus checkers, and people are getting home, cranking their AC (in the summer, or heat in the winter) booting up their 42" tv, 1000w home stereo, pop a microwave dinner in the nuke machine and maybe do the laundry and the dishes. Timmy and Johnny just finished their homework and booted up the PS3 to play the next level in Metal Gear Solid 4 before dinner. I know in Dallas by the end of february it's light out still at 5 and starts getting dark around 6pm. By July/August it's closer to 9:30. And in Dallas it never gets below 85 in the summer, even in the middle of the night. Which means AC units run continiously from May-October here. If everyone in the state got a $7,000 waiver towards a 10,000w panel there would be a waiting list halfway across the state. We pay between 13 and 18 cents a kw-hr here in Dallas, $300 a month in the summer is about average for a house, and it's not uncommon to hear of $500/mo if you like to keep the house below 75 degrees.
Yeah this most likely is a reference design, similar to what Nvidia and ATi do. Call their sales rep and you too can licence their technology to manufacture your own brand of Wall-E Wartz or whatever Chinglish sounding brand name you come up with.
I don't disagree with what you say, but you're refusing to acknowledge the slippery slope argument. If you have enough police chiefs asking pubs and other regulated businesses to add CCTV "for their protection" as part of their licensing scheme, eventually one is going to relent and then you have your legal precedent to do this in other pubs when their license comes up for renewal.
Yes, it is a little sensationalistic, but a) If you shame public figures into not making such requests, hopefully they'll stop and b) the article will be more widely read, better shaming the public figures. If nobody is a whistleblower for these sort of issues, eventually measures like this will come to pass, and once in place are much harder to remove than it was to put them in place in the first case.
Plus the UK doing this somehow legitimizes doing this in the US, so whatever we can do to stop it there will delay it happening in my neighborhood.
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Well that's worthless. In the photo essay (photo#8) they show that there's clearly enough space for a standard 1/4" phono plug jack. Is there some sort of (audio quality) reason why they went with a proprietary connection rather than the 100-year standard phono plug which works with literally everything in existence?
I just want something I can plug a standard speaker cable from my HT-5H guitar amp's headphone jack to my headphones directly. I might just hack my own solution this is ridiculous.
It looks like the HD800 uses a stereo 1/4" to two mono 1/4" cables? Or am I mistaken?
I noticed these have a 1/4" input jack. I'm in the same boat as you, far too many of my headphones have failed where the cord meets the 'phones. Of course if you're spending more than $100 on headphones and they break more than likely a) they're still under warranty and if not b) any competent TV repair shop should be able to fix the headphones for $20 in less than half an hour. I'm gonna keep browsing this thread, hoping someone posts a link to an affordable brand of decent headphones that has a 1/4" input jack. If not I'm going into business selling quality gamer/audiophile headphones with exactly that feature - I already own the correct domain name for such a business - nearlydeaf.com :)
Can you recommend a good pair of headphones that have a 1/4" input jack as shown on the HD800? Preferably something under $120. I checked and it looks like from the pics on amazon the input cable is permanently attached to the headphones. I'm sure the cable detaching from the headphones isn't a big issue on higher end 'phones but that's been the mode of failure for my last 4 sets of $30+ headphones over the last five years or so.
I just thought about this, I haven't set foot in a blockbuster in probably 7 years, 2003 being the last year in college we all went out to a video store to rent something. Back in high school however a group of 10 of us or so on Friday nights would rent an A movie (new release), a B movie (oldie but a goodie, usually a Kevin Smith type movie), and a C movie (killer clowns from outerspace, MST3K etc). Everyone came for the A movie, most would stay for the B and half the remainder would fall asleep durring the C movie. After 2003 I got a netflix account and used it for a few months before getting bored of it. Nowadays I'm lucky if I watch more than one movie I download a week.
Sounds like they're likely to just buyout LOVEFiLM just the same way Walmart bought out your major supermaket chains (Tetco, they're called I think?). Assuming they haven't already.
As in, there's nothing to gain by having a bunch of people jump in and out of a server to abuse the scoring system and bring its score down.
Let's say 18,000. Divided by 28 (half the servers are 32 players, half are 24). That gives you 642 servers. Probably 100 of those are servers people have favorited, the other 550 are some random server that has no following or is/has never been favorited by someone because it's empty 99% of the time.
Outside of a couple instances of 4chan-ing it, there's absolutely nothing to gain from doing this. The TF2 community is already highly compartmentalized with only maybe 100 truly active servers and/or communities. The rest are either empty most of the time or empty most of the time and employing these awful tactics described above. This fix just makes it easier for people new to the game to find a non-shit server that's actually populated. Plus they already have a several week baseline that they've been monitoring.
Shit, you're lucky if they can even find the start button in XP. Whenever my mom's desktop fills up with files, she will call me to clean them up. Anything not directly clickable from the desktop is an enigma to her. The start button was a brilliant idea, but it still relies on the "things hidden behind interface", similar to digging through nested folders on the desktop. Some people just can't (more likely won't) grasp that concept.
Tabbed browsing scares the fuck out of older people. My friend has an Ubuntu box setup for his mom. It has a 1024x768 resolution, and the only icon on the desktop is firefox, as a 256x256 icon that immediately opens into hotmail. This is really all she needs and he literally hasn't had need to touch or upgrade the system since he set it up for her in early 2007, with him studying abroad and then working in Beijing for a year+
You'd be shocked how many people can barely work their computer's "Basic" functions.
Can we get the coders of GIMP to give up their octo-core SSD-drive dev boxes? My lowly core2duo with 2 gigs of ram and a mechanical hard drive absolutely crawls with the major overhaul of The GIMP. Whatever they did to their in program file browsing code, ... I don't know but it shouldn't take 3-5 seconds to populate a folder of 50 jpgs all less than 500k each. This is on a work computer with no issues running only firefox, gimp and two proprietary buisness apps. Wtf.
Most pre-release screenings I've done were on 35mm film, either for film critics or test audiences. We got a borked copy of Opal Dreams once and had to run the DVD screener on a DLP projector, but for the most part prerelease screenINGS are completely different from screenERS
Sounds about right. An episode on itunes is $2. A tyson fight runs around how much these days?
just because it costs a company X amount to produce something doesn't mean that's what its worth to the consumer. HBO and the other pay networks make fantastic content that people are willing to pay for. For some reason when advertisers are paying for it the quality of the content drops dramatically. When customers pay (vote) with their own dollars, quality goes through the roof. I used to have a (pay) account with netflix but I don't have the time/desire to sit in front of a tv for more than an hour a day. I'm sure others would find they don't ether if they had to actually pay for quality entertainment on a regular basis. American idol might be $5 but reruns of the drew carrey show at 2am probably costs the advertiser less than 10 cents per impression - on par with online banner ads.
I'd say the majority of movie theaters in the US aren't downtown and are not subject to parking shortages. Here in the US people just show up 30-45 minutes early if they want good seats.
every time I've ever asked (at any cinema/chain), I'm told exactly how many seats have been sold and how many are left That's because they're staring at the screen which has that relevant info presented right there. Take them away from them and they can probably tell you what the largest and smallest theaters are in the complex but not the number of seats. I have our company's phone # taped to the side of my monitor and probably repeat it 2-3 times a day but for the life of me I couldn't tell it to you off hand from memory other than it's a 1-800 number.
Observe. This is how it's done: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/3253972437/.
Cleanup your goddamn house.
It's more convenient to watch them on your computer screen when you only spend a small fraction (45 minutes a day typically) watching videos. Keep in mind the living room has been designed around the TV only for the last 50 years or so. If he only watches an hour a day of video his viewpoints are going to be drastically different from someone who spends the majority of their leisure time watching ad-funded TV on the sofa.
For example I only have a TV so that my friends don't think it's odd, or so they have something to watch while eating.
Ads might be a neccessary evil, but once you've "unplugged" from mainstream advertising, if you go to someone's house and watch something live, like say the Superbowl, ads (even amazing ads like superbowl ads) seem obnoxiously obtrusive. You might not mind ads simply because you've always been exposed to them, the same way a 4th grader doesn't think he needs glasses simply because he's always gotten along without them just fine. Once you get used to glasses you wonder how the rest of the world got along for thousands of years without them.
3)Every theater probably will get its own watermark, digital projectors could probably add a new one with each showing.
They've been doing this for a while. It's specific to each reel, of which there's 4-8 reels in a film depending on a variety of factors. It's been getting a lot worse since 2006 or so.
The worst part is, once you know about it, it's impossible to miss.
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That's really going to fuck up the IR send/receive devices for the hard of hearing in every single theater in the US.
Prerelease screenings are complete clusterfucks. I've seen security people come up into the projection booth to make sure you're not telesyncing, and security people with hand held metal dectectors for video cameras, etc but there's absolutely no assigned seating, except maybe the first or second rows of the stadium seating (below that are the nosebleed floorseating) for the director and PR people. Most tickets are free and to top that off, most (modern) movie theaters don't even have seat numbers. Hell ask a theater employee and you're lucky if they can tell you within 100 seats how many people each theater seats.
What search strings are you using for mainframes? I've been looking for about a year for a fridge-sized mainframe on ebay and have yet to find one. The physically biggest computer ive seen on ebay was no larger than a Marshall Half Stack. Craigslist has been no help, if you seriously know where I can pick one up cheap please respond.
Guaranteed to take up 90% of cycles and 75% of RAM
I thought this was a joke, and I thought my mom's computer was virus-laden, but after 3 years of agonizingly slow response time i finally uninstalled norton and installed SVG and lo and behold, the computer runs normally again(!). Turns out even though she had a 1.8ghz P4, she only had 512mb ram which was causing the comptuer to absolutely crawl when trying to run norton in the "background". Might as well have had the computer encoding h.264 videos continiously for all the good it did.
Depends on if you Live in Maine or Miami and the time of year. Peak power usage is typically from 4-6pm when all the offices are still powered up and computers running virus checkers, and people are getting home, cranking their AC (in the summer, or heat in the winter) booting up their 42" tv, 1000w home stereo, pop a microwave dinner in the nuke machine and maybe do the laundry and the dishes. Timmy and Johnny just finished their homework and booted up the PS3 to play the next level in Metal Gear Solid 4 before dinner. I know in Dallas by the end of february it's light out still at 5 and starts getting dark around 6pm. By July/August it's closer to 9:30. And in Dallas it never gets below 85 in the summer, even in the middle of the night. Which means AC units run continiously from May-October here. If everyone in the state got a $7,000 waiver towards a 10,000w panel there would be a waiting list halfway across the state. We pay between 13 and 18 cents a kw-hr here in Dallas, $300 a month in the summer is about average for a house, and it's not uncommon to hear of $500/mo if you like to keep the house below 75 degrees.
Yeah this most likely is a reference design, similar to what Nvidia and ATi do. Call their sales rep and you too can licence their technology to manufacture your own brand of Wall-E Wartz or whatever Chinglish sounding brand name you come up with.
I don't disagree with what you say, but you're refusing to acknowledge the slippery slope argument. If you have enough police chiefs asking pubs and other regulated businesses to add CCTV "for their protection" as part of their licensing scheme, eventually one is going to relent and then you have your legal precedent to do this in other pubs when their license comes up for renewal.
Yes, it is a little sensationalistic, but a) If you shame public figures into not making such requests, hopefully they'll stop and b) the article will be more widely read, better shaming the public figures. If nobody is a whistleblower for these sort of issues, eventually measures like this will come to pass, and once in place are much harder to remove than it was to put them in place in the first case.
Plus the UK doing this somehow legitimizes doing this in the US, so whatever we can do to stop it there will delay it happening in my neighborhood.