By the time 56K was standard, people had had 8-20Gb discs. 2Gb?! I had a 1GB disc when I had a 14.4 Modem and an 8GB disc when I had a 33.6 Modem. Agreed that disc space was an important factor though.
All LPs have a super irritating background hiss. Maybe its because I've never heard them on a super-expensive ac-isolated properly grounded system, seems like my CDs, 320CBS or 192-320VBR MP3s are way more practical.
Is it just me, or is it impossible to find a dvd drive that reads faster than 16x? How is it that these things can burn at 22-24, but I'm lucky to read at 16?
Or you can use a PC that already supports s-video, like every pc I've owned in the past decade, including laptops.
Even so, $50 is less than the burner drive and a spindle of 50 discs. Not to mention wasted time burning things.
The 700MB episodes (and I haven't seen one in a while) were marked HR and were 576p I think and looked much better than the 350MB ones (often marked HDTV because of the SOURCE).
I typically get my shows like BSG in 1100-1300MB files for 720P which I stream using PS3 media center which transcodes them. Gigabit link between the desktop and the PS3 helps. Hard to believe Doug52392 sneakernets it with a flash drive when a 350MB episode should stream over crappy wireless just fine.
That argument doesn't make a goddamn bit of sense. By your logic, we should outlaw books, and all written communication, since it could contain information that could be used in a potentially harmful way, even if that was not the intention of the creator. The USER needs to take responsibility.
In fact the cost of replacing a CD Player is about the same as replacing one disc since discs are about $20 and cheap-ass dvd players with digital outputs are also about $20 and play audio cds just fine with huge buffers and tons of error checking.
I've had windows thinking it was on Drive G: after installing on a machine with several disks and existing partitions. Certainly it let me pick a drive that wasnt what the motherboard considered to be 0. This was XP Pro no service packs I believe.
Dude, the carrier frequency for my cable isnt even at 120Mhz. Hell, my Ethernet barely handles that.
On a side note, people should be using plasmas. 480Hz, very little lag. Its really funny to see people go all out and spend $$ on 120Hz or 240Hz LCDs.
Exactly. Ever see the credits for ADR? Thats Additional Dialogue Recording aka Automated Dialogue Replacement. This isn't just for dubbing foreign languages, they use it for pretty much all the dialogue you here in a movie today.
Casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas at least have state regulators there all the time. Certainly this wouldn't make it impossible to cheat, but theres someone watching closely. I don't know how this works for tribal casinos.
3.51 was a great system. Allowed me to run tons of Win32 application meant for 95 without all the suck of 95. I didn't realize until later it could run on non x86 cpus. Too bad most modern Win32 applications wont recognize it.
The installed got as far as making registry entries than just sat there on my Vista SP1 laptop. Had to cntrl-alt-del it since the cancel and x buttons were unresponsive. I wouldnt have bothered if I knew it was going to systray.
OMG I've never heard this before but I took several control systems classes in college and this is the most hilarious way of describing a PD (Proportional Derivative) control loop I've ever heard. Props.
Sure, you are in fact correct. It was just a thought experiment. I'm sure theres a few less catastrophic examples where this could happen so I was trying to explain Autodesk's possible reasons for not going with that kind of copy protection.
Suppose I'm a civil engineer designing a bridge in Autocad and my sneaky boss or IT department saves a few bucks by providing me with a cracked version using this model. Now what if someone goes and builds this subtly defective bridge, it collapses and kills people? Whos responsible? Autodesk would share some of the blame methinks.
This doesn't apply when one party lies. In any other transaction, they would have to give you your money back or go to jail for FRAUD.
Or, does the EULA explicitly say the game will no longer work after Jan 28th 2009? Even so you wouldn't know that until you unwrapped the game making it nonreturnable.
I use a custom LED PWM driver at work. 1.36 KHz, 8 bit control. You need a scope to see the oscillation. No headaches. I could sketch out how to do it with a simple rheostat as the input too.
You will not get a linear brightness control, you will limit the lifespan of the diode, and you will alter the color of the output by doing this. PWM is the only robust way of dimming LEDs. I used PWM driven LEDs for human psychophysics at work.
Shortly my company is going to be working on a way to detect and hopefully stage concussions using a portable non-invasive test. Looks like sports medicine will be our target (previously looked at military). It already works for neurodegenerative disorders, so it should be able to find traumatic neropathy as well.
Seems like a sound financial decision to me. If I was a comcast stockholder I would be all over them to do that. Too bad comcast is a bunch of sleazy liars who can't be bothered to tell you what service you will have the luxury to pay them for next month. Also their digital cable is the most overcompressed garbage I've ever seen.
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By the time 56K was standard, people had had 8-20Gb discs. 2Gb?! I had a 1GB disc when I had a 14.4 Modem and an 8GB disc when I had a 33.6 Modem. Agreed that disc space was an important factor though.
All LPs have a super irritating background hiss. Maybe its because I've never heard them on a super-expensive ac-isolated properly grounded system, seems like my CDs, 320CBS or 192-320VBR MP3s are way more practical.
Is it just me, or is it impossible to find a dvd drive that reads faster than 16x? How is it that these things can burn at 22-24, but I'm lucky to read at 16?
Or you can use a PC that already supports s-video, like every pc I've owned in the past decade, including laptops. Even so, $50 is less than the burner drive and a spindle of 50 discs. Not to mention wasted time burning things.
using the mexican localized version?
The state issues you a title even if you have no car?
The 700MB episodes (and I haven't seen one in a while) were marked HR and were 576p I think and looked much better than the 350MB ones (often marked HDTV because of the SOURCE). I typically get my shows like BSG in 1100-1300MB files for 720P which I stream using PS3 media center which transcodes them. Gigabit link between the desktop and the PS3 helps. Hard to believe Doug52392 sneakernets it with a flash drive when a 350MB episode should stream over crappy wireless just fine.
That argument doesn't make a goddamn bit of sense. By your logic, we should outlaw books, and all written communication, since it could contain information that could be used in a potentially harmful way, even if that was not the intention of the creator. The USER needs to take responsibility.
In fact the cost of replacing a CD Player is about the same as replacing one disc since discs are about $20 and cheap-ass dvd players with digital outputs are also about $20 and play audio cds just fine with huge buffers and tons of error checking.
I've had windows thinking it was on Drive G: after installing on a machine with several disks and existing partitions. Certainly it let me pick a drive that wasnt what the motherboard considered to be 0. This was XP Pro no service packs I believe.
Dude, the carrier frequency for my cable isnt even at 120Mhz. Hell, my Ethernet barely handles that. On a side note, people should be using plasmas. 480Hz, very little lag. Its really funny to see people go all out and spend $$ on 120Hz or 240Hz LCDs.
Exactly. Ever see the credits for ADR? Thats Additional Dialogue Recording aka Automated Dialogue Replacement. This isn't just for dubbing foreign languages, they use it for pretty much all the dialogue you here in a movie today.
Many DSPs for limited units are actually done on FPGAs. What you are describing works great on FPGA.
Casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas at least have state regulators there all the time. Certainly this wouldn't make it impossible to cheat, but theres someone watching closely. I don't know how this works for tribal casinos.
3.51 was a great system. Allowed me to run tons of Win32 application meant for 95 without all the suck of 95. I didn't realize until later it could run on non x86 cpus. Too bad most modern Win32 applications wont recognize it.
The installed got as far as making registry entries than just sat there on my Vista SP1 laptop. Had to cntrl-alt-del it since the cancel and x buttons were unresponsive. I wouldnt have bothered if I knew it was going to systray.
OMG I've never heard this before but I took several control systems classes in college and this is the most hilarious way of describing a PD (Proportional Derivative) control loop I've ever heard. Props.
Sure, you are in fact correct. It was just a thought experiment. I'm sure theres a few less catastrophic examples where this could happen so I was trying to explain Autodesk's possible reasons for not going with that kind of copy protection.
Suppose I'm a civil engineer designing a bridge in Autocad and my sneaky boss or IT department saves a few bucks by providing me with a cracked version using this model. Now what if someone goes and builds this subtly defective bridge, it collapses and kills people? Whos responsible? Autodesk would share some of the blame methinks.
This doesn't apply when one party lies. In any other transaction, they would have to give you your money back or go to jail for FRAUD. Or, does the EULA explicitly say the game will no longer work after Jan 28th 2009? Even so you wouldn't know that until you unwrapped the game making it nonreturnable.
I use a custom LED PWM driver at work. 1.36 KHz, 8 bit control. You need a scope to see the oscillation. No headaches. I could sketch out how to do it with a simple rheostat as the input too.
You will not get a linear brightness control, you will limit the lifespan of the diode, and you will alter the color of the output by doing this. PWM is the only robust way of dimming LEDs. I used PWM driven LEDs for human psychophysics at work.
The batteries cost way too much (>$100 for Li) and won't get the same lifespan as OLPC or new netbooks.
Shortly my company is going to be working on a way to detect and hopefully stage concussions using a portable non-invasive test. Looks like sports medicine will be our target (previously looked at military). It already works for neurodegenerative disorders, so it should be able to find traumatic neropathy as well.
Seems like a sound financial decision to me. If I was a comcast stockholder I would be all over them to do that. Too bad comcast is a bunch of sleazy liars who can't be bothered to tell you what service you will have the luxury to pay them for next month. Also their digital cable is the most overcompressed garbage I've ever seen.