I've noticed the same thing. MP4, MKV, AVI, etc. are instant, but ogv (ogm according to GSpot) has multi-second delays when seeking to specific parts of the video.
I must be doing something wrong... and yet it's the same for every media player I try.
Yep, way better than Sony's response to bricking operating systems.
McAffee will probably only have a small percentage of their customer base take them up on the offer - but costs could be as high as $150 for every customer that does.
You can use floppy emulation on CD. I have one DVD that I use to flash BIOS's for plenty of different motherboards. Interestingly, it seems to get around the floppy size limit, too. I've got well over 6MB of stuff on that one DVD.
Most slashdot readers would be able to decipher these instructions. This is the easiest method I've found - and because it generates the iso, you can burn it with a free tool like ImgBurn.
2. Long-life - most of my floppies from the '80s and '90s are still readable.
And most manufactured after 2000 are dead.:P
Can't say the same for hard drives, and certainly not so for CDs/DVDs a few years old.
I can. I have CDs and DVDs from a decade ago that still work fine. Some friends of mine have a business computer running DOS off Fujitsu drives from ~1995.
3. I just drag-drop; no fucking burning/converting/e-mailing/something else process!
It's not *that* difficult to burn stuff or email it. You lose about 1 minute. You gain that back in transfer times to/from the floppy.
3. Everything boots from them. USB booting seems to be hit and miss on many motherboards, and software to support USB booting is more scarce.
Yes, USB booting is quite messed up on a lot of motherboards - but booting from CD always works. I haven't seen that fail in almost a decade.
SD cards have virtually no error correction. It's quite easy to get silent corruption on them. SSDs are in another league - but if you use them long enough, you'll get silent corruption too.
I like HDDs because you can usually hear them dying.:P
If she puts her diary in front of where I eat breakfast in the morning, then I may look at it and read whatever page it's on.
Privacy violation? Your call. If you want privacy, don't do un-private things, like leaving your diary lying around, or broadcasting network info to the world.
Now regardless of whether it's a privacy violation, there are things that Google should avoid that would turn into a security nightmare if they don't. One is publishing network MAC addresses, and the other is publishing security types. If you can easily bring up an index of all the WEP crackable networks within 20 miles so that something can't be tracked back to you... that's bound to attract pond scum.
I agree with parent, and have you considered that developers whose code quality is affected by seating arrangements relative to other developers might not be...um, the best developers? Otherwise, I'd say you might be overthinking the issue.
Or maybe they are the best developers. Look up Asperger's syndrome.
And yes, ask them. Also, be prepared to possibly replace the desk(s) if it doesn't work out.
The taxation levels on oil products are far, far too low. If we paid at the pump for the environmental damage and the foreign policy costs of our oil addiction, gasoline would be at least twice as expensive.
If your government forced them to clean up spills rather than screwing over hundreds of thousands of people, wildlife, and entire ecosystems, that'd drive the price up too.
Correction: The original article incorrectly implied that Google Desktop Search can track what's stored on a user's PC. The service does not expose a user's content to Google or anyone else without the user's explicit permission.
If a news site spread harmful FUD like that, I'd definitely ban them for a year.
Wasn't cnet one of the top news sites around 2005? I wonder if they got paid by Google's competitors to do it. I wouldn't put it past them, since they're all evil. Google is the only one that competes by innovating. Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. compete by doing expensive exclusivity deals.
This isn't really a privacy violation until they violate our privacy by publishing it.
Also, slashdot thought it was cool when some guy did this on a train, but when it's Google, they must be evil.
This is rather like recording house numbers - except that house numbers tell someone how to find me. What's a network name tell you? Publishing the MAC address would be a bit silly, and publishing WEP protected networks would be really silly - but just listing network name, and "secured" or "unsecured" doesn't seem like a violation to me.
It'd be handy for finding cafes with internet access while travelling.
How many people would *really* be able to tell the difference between a 96dpi and 200dpi display on their desktop (IBM makes 200dpi displays, by the way), let alone a 600dpi display.
I would. But then, I can identify the difference between 2xAA, 4xAA, and 8xAA, at close to 110dpi, at around 2 feet away.
I look forward to getting my Pandora. It has a ~215dpi screen.
If the figure really is less than 1%, why not offer one of those "extended warranty"-like deals the retailers like to offer... for a cost of say 3% to 5% of the purchase price... but in this case an "absolutely zero dead or stuck pixels no matter what... warranty"? If only 1% of units are bad, then they should make a killing at 3% to 5% of purchase price.
NCIX (Canadian eTailer) offers this, for 5% of the purchase price. Zero dead pixels, and I believe it includes free RMA shipping both ways. If you're a good customer, they may even ship you a new one before you send them your old one.
I've got a Samsung 2343bwx - 2048x1152, 23.56 inches.
I didn't fully appreciate its resolution until I was designing a high DPI business card. It came in very handy.
They can make 4 inch 800x480 LCDs - DPI so fine that you can hardly make out the pixels from under a foot away - and yet they can't scale that to larger screens? Hmph...
I guess it really is just a case of demand. Tiny high res screens are great for video and webpages on your phone, PDA, portable DVD player, etc.; situations where you're up close. They just don't see a market for big high-DPI screens.
And that somewhat makes sense. Both my parents complained about the 17" 1280x1024 LCD they got a few years ago. It got replaced with a 20" 1440x900 LCD - the pixels were so much bigger that it looked ugly to me, but readable to them.
Keep in mind the delivery cost of these shows. It's not their backbone - unlike with Cable TV, they didn't have to deploy the network. Of course they can offer it cheaper or ad free.
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Yes, I have. I can only conclude that I'm encoding it wrong.
But I seem capable of making streamable/seekable vids in other formats, so why is it so difficult with ffmpeg2theora?
I've noticed the same thing. MP4, MKV, AVI, etc. are instant, but ogv (ogm according to GSpot) has multi-second delays when seeking to specific parts of the video.
I must be doing something wrong... and yet it's the same for every media player I try.
Yep, way better than Sony's response to bricking operating systems.
McAffee will probably only have a small percentage of their customer base take them up on the offer - but costs could be as high as $150 for every customer that does.
Hard drives seem to be cheapest in the US and Canada. I believe they're usually manufactured over here?
Handy, if you use Linux.
Cows eating grass, outside...where have you seen that? O_o
Alberta?
You can use floppy emulation on CD. I have one DVD that I use to flash BIOS's for plenty of different motherboards. Interestingly, it seems to get around the floppy size limit, too. I've got well over 6MB of stuff on that one DVD.
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootablecd
Most slashdot readers would be able to decipher these instructions. This is the easiest method I've found - and because it generates the iso, you can burn it with a free tool like ImgBurn.
2. Long-life - most of my floppies from the '80s and '90s are still readable.
And most manufactured after 2000 are dead. :P
Can't say the same for hard drives, and certainly not so for CDs/DVDs a few years old.
I can. I have CDs and DVDs from a decade ago that still work fine. Some friends of mine have a business computer running DOS off Fujitsu drives from ~1995.
3. I just drag-drop; no fucking burning/converting/e-mailing/something else process!
It's not *that* difficult to burn stuff or email it. You lose about 1 minute. You gain that back in transfer times to/from the floppy.
3. Everything boots from them. USB booting seems to be hit and miss on many motherboards, and software to support USB booting is more scarce.
Yes, USB booting is quite messed up on a lot of motherboards - but booting from CD always works. I haven't seen that fail in almost a decade.
You can get rewritable CDs and DVDs for under a dollar.
Be environmental! And get them to pay you a dollar, in case they forget to bring the DVD back. :P
SD cards have virtually no error correction. It's quite easy to get silent corruption on them. SSDs are in another league - but if you use them long enough, you'll get silent corruption too.
I like HDDs because you can usually hear them dying. :P
I've been slipstreaming SATA drivers since Windows 2000. Way easier than dealing with floppies.
I used to have to use floppy drives for BIOS flashing, but that changed about 5-6 years ago, too.
Here's some info on installing Tomato on the RT-N16.
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63587
The forums are temporarily down for upgrades. (good timing! :P )
If she puts her diary in front of where I eat breakfast in the morning, then I may look at it and read whatever page it's on.
Privacy violation? Your call. If you want privacy, don't do un-private things, like leaving your diary lying around, or broadcasting network info to the world.
Now regardless of whether it's a privacy violation, there are things that Google should avoid that would turn into a security nightmare if they don't. One is publishing network MAC addresses, and the other is publishing security types. If you can easily bring up an index of all the WEP crackable networks within 20 miles so that something can't be tracked back to you... that's bound to attract pond scum.
I agree with parent, and have you considered that developers whose code quality is affected by seating arrangements relative to other developers might not be...um, the best developers? Otherwise, I'd say you might be overthinking the issue.
Or maybe they are the best developers. Look up Asperger's syndrome.
And yes, ask them. Also, be prepared to possibly replace the desk(s) if it doesn't work out.
The taxation levels on oil products are far, far too low. If we paid at the pump for the environmental damage and the foreign policy costs of our oil addiction, gasoline would be at least twice as expensive.
If your government forced them to clean up spills rather than screwing over hundreds of thousands of people, wildlife, and entire ecosystems, that'd drive the price up too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
Correction: The original article incorrectly implied that Google Desktop Search can track what's stored on a user's PC. The service does not expose a user's content to Google or anyone else without the user's explicit permission.
If a news site spread harmful FUD like that, I'd definitely ban them for a year.
Wasn't cnet one of the top news sites around 2005? I wonder if they got paid by Google's competitors to do it. I wouldn't put it past them, since they're all evil. Google is the only one that competes by innovating. Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. compete by doing expensive exclusivity deals.
This isn't really a privacy violation until they violate our privacy by publishing it.
Also, slashdot thought it was cool when some guy did this on a train, but when it's Google, they must be evil.
This is rather like recording house numbers - except that house numbers tell someone how to find me. What's a network name tell you? Publishing the MAC address would be a bit silly, and publishing WEP protected networks would be really silly - but just listing network name, and "secured" or "unsecured" doesn't seem like a violation to me.
It'd be handy for finding cafes with internet access while travelling.
Nonsense! I've seen the prototypes. That's more than I can say about DNF.
I get a kick out of craig. He's always spitting out funny quotes.
How many people would *really* be able to tell the difference between a 96dpi and 200dpi display on their desktop (IBM makes 200dpi displays, by the way), let alone a 600dpi display.
I would. But then, I can identify the difference between 2xAA, 4xAA, and 8xAA, at close to 110dpi, at around 2 feet away.
I look forward to getting my Pandora. It has a ~215dpi screen.
If the figure really is less than 1%, why not offer one of those "extended warranty"-like deals the retailers like to offer ... for a cost of say 3% to 5% of the purchase price ... but in this case an "absolutely zero dead or stuck pixels no matter what ... warranty"? If only 1% of units are bad, then they should make a killing at 3% to 5% of purchase price.
NCIX (Canadian eTailer) offers this, for 5% of the purchase price. Zero dead pixels, and I believe it includes free RMA shipping both ways. If you're a good customer, they may even ship you a new one before you send them your old one.
Most netbooks are 800x480 (7 inch), or 1024x600. (8.9 and 10.1 inch) There's also 1366x768 (11.6 and 12.1 inch)
Technically those are quite odd resolutions. Only the last one is close to 16:9
I've got a Samsung 2343bwx - 2048x1152, 23.56 inches.
I didn't fully appreciate its resolution until I was designing a high DPI business card. It came in very handy.
They can make 4 inch 800x480 LCDs - DPI so fine that you can hardly make out the pixels from under a foot away - and yet they can't scale that to larger screens? Hmph...
I guess it really is just a case of demand. Tiny high res screens are great for video and webpages on your phone, PDA, portable DVD player, etc.; situations where you're up close. They just don't see a market for big high-DPI screens.
And that somewhat makes sense. Both my parents complained about the 17" 1280x1024 LCD they got a few years ago. It got replaced with a 20" 1440x900 LCD - the pixels were so much bigger that it looked ugly to me, but readable to them.
Keep in mind the delivery cost of these shows. It's not their backbone - unlike with Cable TV, they didn't have to deploy the network. Of course they can offer it cheaper or ad free.
Haha... Dungeon Crawl!
Great games, btw. ;)
What were the manufacturers and motherboard models, so I can avoid them?
My Asus AM2+ board got updated with Phenom II support.