eBay. Samsung and Motorola have several different models. Another popular option is to use a set-top-box from Voom (defunct HD satellite provider), which includes an OTA tuner. You'll find many for under (sometimes well under) $100 shipped.
He should have shot it in 0:0. That way, I wouldn't have wasted however much time necessary to watch that piece of crap. I don't even want to look up how long it was, because it would require yet more time. Then again, so did typing that sentence...
On the other hand, file manager could check for execution bit on file.pl before running perl on it (bash works this way, if I'm not mistaken)
You're mistaken. bash cares not what you pass to perl -- or anything else -- on the command line. It would be both difficult and stupid if a shell worked this way.
Why do people want a flat-panel so much? Your component stack is >= 20" anyway, so what's the point?
In my particular case, the room it's in lends very well to a flat-panel. We have a large great room with lots of windows on the back wall, and a fireplace in the middle of this wall. Any screen except for a flat panel above the fireplace would focus our attention away from the windows and the view.
And yes, my component stack is fairly large. It's also tucked away in a corner, about 20' from the set, with the wiring run through the basement.;-)
Incidentally, I share your view regarding "What's the point?" for someone who places it on a dedicated stand where another display technology would work well. My room is a gathering room first, and the plasma has a very high WAF. I will soon have a dedicated home theater to supplement, which will get an LCD or DLP RP, for sure. For this room, at this time, and at the price, it was a clear winner.
As far as the "flaws": every display technology has flaws. I don't think it's a matter of keeping people "snowed". It's a matter of taking those into account and making the best decision for your particular situation. People are pretty smart and do their research when spending this amount of money. I know I did. As far as SDE and color gamut, I guess ignorance (or imperceptiveness) is bliss, in this case. I'm thrilled with my plasma, and it's the most stunningly beautiful picture I've seen. No regrets for me. YMMV, and obviously does.
For me I just replaced my primary home tower PC with a new one, installed two digital HD tuner cards in the old tower, bought MCE, the MCE remote, and the MCE keyboard, installed MCE, reinstalled MCE, reinstalled MCE again, investigated my MCE problems for about 2 weeks on the net, upgraded motherboard, reinstalled MCE, downgraded drivers, upgraded drivers, upgraded BIOS, reinstalled MCE, installed rollup 2, rolled back to previous motherboard, reinstalled MCE, reinstalled rollup 2, and that was it. I now have a stable system. Easy as that.:)
And still, it probably took you about 1/8th of the average time it takes to get a MythTV installation running!:-)
I kid, I'm about to embark on this (MythTV install) myself.
Uh, what? Please explain. You're certainly not referring to black levels on a plasma, which will trounce any LCD flat panel on the market.
the bad screen door
Bullshit. At this moment, I'm watching a Panasonic ED plasma from about 9'. Screen door effect is imperceptible from this distance.
the higher electricity usage
Peak rated electricity usage on plasma screens is far higher than actual use. There's a great thread on avsforum.com about this. You're right in that it's higher than LCD/DLP, but it's not all that bad.
When you factor all that in, along with the fact that plasma screens are much MUCH cheaper than equivalent-sized LCDs, they make a whole lot of sense.
By "biggest" I mean "most copies installed." But you say that in any case, OS X isn't the answer... so which Unix OS has more copies installed than OS X? Seriously! I want to know.
When you make a statement, it is your responsibility to back it up. We're talking logic 101 here.
As for your question: there isn't really an easy way to determine the answer. It's easy to get a good guess of OS X licenses, as another poster noted.
I would guess that the answer is Linux, and this is the most difficult to determine because of all the distributions. Also, are you counting the US, or the world? In other parts of the world (Europe in particular), I would venture that Linux is more widespread than it is and the US, and probably outnumbers OS X installs by a significant margin. And we're talking about servers and desktops here. Look at netcraft and check out the stats. Most are running apache, probably on Linux, and that millions in itself, even accounting for virtual hosting.
As for the scoffing by another poster about the Solaris install base: 3.4 million licenses of Solaris 10 alone have been distributed. Consider that few serious production systems have been updated to it (since it's still in its first release). My pretty small company has over 1000 installed systems. A large bank I know of in town has over 30,000. I'd bet that the worldwide total is greater than the cited ~17 million OS X installs.
Again, I don't have solid numbers and my claims are essentially baseless. But so are yours. You can't make a claim without backing it up, period. But we've wasted enough time on this. I'm going to go enjoy my weekend. You should do the same.:-)
What do you mean by "biggest"? Further, what do you mean by "Unix"? Depending on the answer to the previous two, the answer is likely Solaris, Linux, or FreeBSD. In any case, it's almost certainly NOT OS X, which is the least Unix-like of any of the other choices.
As for the rest of your comment: if you install an HP printer driver, and it forces you to reboot, is it the driver installer's fault, or the OS? If the OS doesn't require it, and the driver installer does, will it work even if you don't? If your IBM printer works, the HP should also.
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I'm pretty sure the GP is referring to the/. headline. It doesn't say "Some Xbox 360's very unstable", it says "Xbox 360 very unstable". As in, the console as a whole is very unstable.
Shocking, I know, that/. would have a sensationalist story title about a MS product. If this was an Apple product, it would say "iBox completely stable".
How the hell did you find nothing? I went to dell.com, typed "AMD" in the search box in the upper right, and it was the first hit under "Recommended Links".
Good post. Though it wasn't the web that brought in the influx of everyone and all of everyone's uncles, so much as it was The September that never ended.
Chances are, you wouldn't go to the effort to figure everything out yourself. You'd wait a few weeks, and then find a write-up where someone told you step-by-step how to do it.
Also, I'm curious: are people you personally know moving in droves? I don't know a single person who has "switched".
I tried to, twice. Once with a iBook, and recently, a much more expensive trial with a Powermac G5. The hope was to have one desktop that would fill all of my (and my wife's) needs. It just didn't cut it, for several different reasons. Luckily, there was someone else wanting to try, so I was able to get most of my money back. I'm back to two nice little Shuttle systems, one with XP, and one with Linux. And a pile of money left over, to boot.
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eBay. Samsung and Motorola have several different models. Another popular option is to use a set-top-box from Voom (defunct HD satellite provider), which includes an OTA tuner. You'll find many for under (sometimes well under) $100 shipped.
He should have shot it in 0:0. That way, I wouldn't have wasted however much time necessary to watch that piece of crap. I don't even want to look up how long it was, because it would require yet more time. Then again, so did typing that sentence...
Do you live in an area where you can get OTA HD? If so, you can get the boxes pretty cheap, usually less than $100.
Go to http://antennaweb.com/, type in your address (they won't do anything Evil with it), and see.
It's very much worth it.
On the other hand, file manager could check for execution bit on file.pl before running perl on it (bash works this way, if I'm not mistaken)
You're mistaken. bash cares not what you pass to perl -- or anything else -- on the command line. It would be both difficult and stupid if a shell worked this way.
Why do people want a flat-panel so much? Your component stack is >= 20" anyway, so what's the point?
;-)
In my particular case, the room it's in lends very well to a flat-panel. We have a large great room with lots of windows on the back wall, and a fireplace in the middle of this wall. Any screen except for a flat panel above the fireplace would focus our attention away from the windows and the view.
And yes, my component stack is fairly large. It's also tucked away in a corner, about 20' from the set, with the wiring run through the basement.
Incidentally, I share your view regarding "What's the point?" for someone who places it on a dedicated stand where another display technology would work well. My room is a gathering room first, and the plasma has a very high WAF. I will soon have a dedicated home theater to supplement, which will get an LCD or DLP RP, for sure. For this room, at this time, and at the price, it was a clear winner.
As far as the "flaws": every display technology has flaws. I don't think it's a matter of keeping people "snowed". It's a matter of taking those into account and making the best decision for your particular situation. People are pretty smart and do their research when spending this amount of money. I know I did. As far as SDE and color gamut, I guess ignorance (or imperceptiveness) is bliss, in this case. I'm thrilled with my plasma, and it's the most stunningly beautiful picture I've seen. No regrets for me. YMMV, and obviously does.
For me I just replaced my primary home tower PC with a new one, installed two digital HD tuner cards in the old tower, bought MCE, the MCE remote, and the MCE keyboard, installed MCE, reinstalled MCE, reinstalled MCE again, investigated my MCE problems for about 2 weeks on the net, upgraded motherboard, reinstalled MCE, downgraded drivers, upgraded drivers, upgraded BIOS, reinstalled MCE, installed rollup 2, rolled back to previous motherboard, reinstalled MCE, reinstalled rollup 2, and that was it. I now have a stable system. Easy as that. :)
:-)
And still, it probably took you about 1/8th of the average time it takes to get a MythTV installation running!
I kid, I'm about to embark on this (MythTV install) myself.
Add in the bad color gamut
Uh, what? Please explain. You're certainly not referring to black levels on a plasma, which will trounce any LCD flat panel on the market.
the bad screen door
Bullshit. At this moment, I'm watching a Panasonic ED plasma from about 9'. Screen door effect is imperceptible from this distance.
the higher electricity usage
Peak rated electricity usage on plasma screens is far higher than actual use. There's a great thread on avsforum.com about this. You're right in that it's higher than LCD/DLP, but it's not all that bad.
When you factor all that in, along with the fact that plasma screens are much MUCH cheaper than equivalent-sized LCDs, they make a whole lot of sense.
By "biggest" I mean "most copies installed." But you say that in any case, OS X isn't the answer... so which Unix OS has more copies installed than OS X? Seriously! I want to know.
:-)
When you make a statement, it is your responsibility to back it up. We're talking logic 101 here.
As for your question: there isn't really an easy way to determine the answer. It's easy to get a good guess of OS X licenses, as another poster noted.
I would guess that the answer is Linux, and this is the most difficult to determine because of all the distributions. Also, are you counting the US, or the world? In other parts of the world (Europe in particular), I would venture that Linux is more widespread than it is and the US, and probably outnumbers OS X installs by a significant margin. And we're talking about servers and desktops here. Look at netcraft and check out the stats. Most are running apache, probably on Linux, and that millions in itself, even accounting for virtual hosting.
As for the scoffing by another poster about the Solaris install base: 3.4 million licenses of Solaris 10 alone have been distributed. Consider that few serious production systems have been updated to it (since it's still in its first release). My pretty small company has over 1000 installed systems. A large bank I know of in town has over 30,000. I'd bet that the worldwide total is greater than the cited ~17 million OS X installs.
Again, I don't have solid numbers and my claims are essentially baseless. But so are yours. You can't make a claim without backing it up, period. But we've wasted enough time on this. I'm going to go enjoy my weekend. You should do the same.
Sun or any of the other BSD's can boast a user base that size
You're putting words in the OP's mouth. See my first question in the post you replied to.
Thanks for playing.
Pescisely what has this to do with "signalling", as you call it?
What's the biggest then?
What do you mean by "biggest"? Further, what do you mean by "Unix"? Depending on the answer to the previous two, the answer is likely Solaris, Linux, or FreeBSD. In any case, it's almost certainly NOT OS X, which is the least Unix-like of any of the other choices.
As for the rest of your comment: if you install an HP printer driver, and it forces you to reboot, is it the driver installer's fault, or the OS? If the OS doesn't require it, and the driver installer does, will it work even if you don't? If your IBM printer works, the HP should also.
Wow. Been drinking? I think GP was agreeing with you...
Feel free to think of 4th and 5th...
4. ???
5. Profit!
Friday, couldn't resist...
I'm pretty sure the GP is referring to the /. headline. It doesn't say "Some Xbox 360's very unstable", it says "Xbox 360 very unstable". As in, the console as a whole is very unstable.
/. would have a sensationalist story title about a MS product. If this was an Apple product, it would say "iBox completely stable".
Shocking, I know, that
How the hell did you find nothing? I went to dell.com, typed "AMD" in the search box in the upper right, and it was the first hit under "Recommended Links".
So, it's sort of an email version of a smurf attack. Good to know!
Good post. Though it wasn't the web that brought in the influx of everyone and all of everyone's uncles, so much as it was The September that never ended.
Except that with the Open Office solution he would pay esentially nothing.
So, staff time is essentially free? If you think so, you can get a management position at my employer no problem.
Gee... I don't know... maybe because the internet was invented in the US.
use a static tool (perhaps a static busybox binary) to make the new one.
/. just a couple of months ago.
Or "sln", which is intended for this very purpose. Interestingly enough, I learned about this right here on
It was version 10.2*, so if anyone knows of a patch I can send this person, then please let me know.
Here you go: your patch.
Chances are, you wouldn't go to the effort to figure everything out yourself. You'd wait a few weeks, and then find a write-up where someone told you step-by-step how to do it.
Also, I'm curious: are people you personally know moving in droves? I don't know a single person who has "switched".
I tried to, twice. Once with a iBook, and recently, a much more expensive trial with a Powermac G5. The hope was to have one desktop that would fill all of my (and my wife's) needs. It just didn't cut it, for several different reasons. Luckily, there was someone else wanting to try, so I was able to get most of my money back. I'm back to two nice little Shuttle systems, one with XP, and one with Linux. And a pile of money left over, to boot.
many of the defects on the then new ibooks, powerbooks and imacs
Hey now, be fair. Don't forget about the Powermac G5 with its random crashing that produces gale-force winds.
How does the 100 song limit damage the iPod brand image? If anything, it improves it.
ROKR = "iTunes good, 100 song limit sucks."
iPod = "iTunes good, 100 song limit gone."
If you disagree, then explain the reason for the 100 song limit.
looks like it has an Export to QuickTime option
Great. I can't wait for my specialist to have to click past the "Why upgrade to Pro?" nag screen when he's waiting to do some life-saving surgery.