About 2 years ago I bought a new 32" Sony WEGA tv. Since it had the component inputs I went out and got the cables. Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the output on a composite cable vs. a set of component cables for my DVD player. (Yes, the DVD player is capable of progressive scan output, to bad my tv can't handle it). PC video cards are already designed to handle HDTV resolutions, some do it for 2 monitors. DVD players are generally targeting 480i or 480p output. Now, if nVidia or ATI got into making chipsets for DVD players then you might be able to ask a preium for them and have a decent amount of the market pick them over the walmart special.
This is one of the many reasons why I haven't drop the boatload of cash to buy these TVs. In fact is this is probably the number 1 reason on the list. Here's one of the TVs that is on my short list for an HDTV set. I'm still leaning towards the CRT TVs. Honestly, I would like to watch the content in HD, but let's face it a lot of the stuff is still in SD and I want that to look good. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report don't gain anything by broadcasting in HD.
>Exactly, this was cleaned up so fast because it was so blatantly exposed (through tv how old media) to the public and wikipedia. In fact, I would say that Wekipedia embodies truthiness" it's "truthy, not facty". It's what "feels right" to the content's contributor. I bet most contributors are trying to put the facts into the content. Unfortunately it is possible for people to eradicate the facts they don't like.
I own a TiVo and I skip commericals all the time. Though every once and a while a commerical will catch my eye and I'll watch it. In fact that last commerical that I liked was a VW rabbit commerical. I watched it, backed it up and called my wife into the room to see it. If TiVo can report on that kind of watching then maybe they'l have some data worth selling. In genreal, I skip commericials because the same one will be in the be shown again in the next commerical break. I feel the advertisers are fighting against the law of diminishing returns. The first time I saw it, I was entertained. The nth time I saw it, I was bored. Stop boring me.
Back in the days when Macs had viruses (yes they do exist or existed), I was using a program called Gatekeeper. Instead of knowing about certain virus it monitored system activity and alerted you when virus type activity was happening. You the user would either deny or grant the action.
So given my experience with GateKeeper, the ideas of this malware detection seem obvious. Why did it take this long to apply these ideas to windows malware? Is the problem commerical anti-virus software? They prefer you to keep paying for updates, instead to shut down potential malware until they software knows about it?
Sometimes you know the cause of the problem and sometimes you don't. When the shit hits the fan, you shoot first and ask questions later. Getting the system running takes priority over figuring out why it happened. Once running, you figure out what caused it as best you can and try to takes steps to prevent it from happening. This may not be the best approach, but it aligns with the goal of maintaining/improving uptime that most operation groups are given. I should know, I lived it in the dot-com era.
You and others have given various options that are available. These options cost money or require the command line. (Note: the terminal.app is in my dock and almost always running.) I want this feature in the workstation version, not the server version. If Apple recognized the fact that people will buy the family pack (which I did) when they don't really need to, maybe they can consider adding this feature to the workstation version.
This works when there is only 1 software update available. This solution gets ugly when there are multiple updates to install. Doing these updates via the command line end up requiring multiple reboots, where the software update panel will only require 1 reboot if needed. I may need to review doing updates from the command line so that I can do multiple installs.
I'm lazy.;-) In the wonderful world of Apple's "it just works", I want the pref panel for software update to have a checkbox that says cache all updates and a textbox that indicates my local update cache.
If we can share the software updates between macs, it would be a good thing. With 3 macs in my house, why should I have to download the updates 3 times? I should be able to get a copy from the mac on my local net that downloaded it first. I just hope they allow the torrent client to have a throttle on it.
I don't think that OS X is spending time to defrag contiguous files. The file system driver does a check on the file being read/write. If it determines that the file needs to be defraged then it will perform that action. The article mentioned that 5 conditions had to be met before a file would be relocated and defraged. A contiguous file will not have more then eight extents and thus not be relocated. So yes, the OS is spending CPU cycles to defrag, but it is not putting a lot of wear and tear on your HD.
So you're saying the PS3 won't sell that hot and Sony will come out with some derivative product that will be considered superior to it's competitors, but will only end up with a moderate or tiny ammount of the market share? >;-)
I'm a bit of a nintendo fanboy and look forward to the Revolution coming out. The article may be jumping to conclusions, but they may not be that far off. Does it really matter if the Revolutions is just an updated GC? Other than the new controllers, Nintendo is just intergrating alot of existing technology.
Wireless controllers rock. I think this technology is mature and cheap enough to build it in.
Ethernet adapters. When the GC came out, I don't think the market was ready for online consoles. The Xbox changed that, just throw the ethernet chipset in and be done.
Cell Processor. The GC was already using a PowerPC chip, it'll just have one that is going to be about 5x faster.
Same thing with the video chipset. They market has moved forward, take something off the shelf and keep moving. While no HD resolutions may be a drawback. Nintendo isn't about pushing more polygons on your screen, they are about making fun games.
I think if they can keep the core of the Revolution similar to the GC, then Nintendo might get third party developers on board a bit easier. They're keeping the learning curve low.
Yeah, I don't think he gets truthiness! Who does he think he is bring facts into the discussion. Americans can't deal with facts anymore, we only want to hear what's true to our gut.
I've been a long time TiVo user and have seen the pros and cons of a lifetime subscription. Pros: No monthly fees and will pay for itself in about 2-years. Cons: The subscription is tied to the TiVo you bought. If for any reason you want to upgrade your tivo you have to get another lifetime/monthly subscription. I always went with the monthly subscription as I didn't think I would keep a TiVo more than 3 years. I probably should've gotten a lifetime subscription for my Series 1 TiVo. I upgraded to a Series 2 with a DVD burner. I'm avoiding the lifetime subscription because I expect to upgrade the 2nd TiVo around the 2 year mark.
Honestly, I think TiVo wants to be an IP/service company. They want other companies to take on the cost of manufacturing the TiVo hardware. While they get nice licsencing and servicing fees from their partners. The lifetime subscription was good for getting early adopters on board and spreading the word. At this point they are established and need to reduce their losses.
Their new saftey checks are pissing me off. I just recently made 2 ~$700 purchases for a personal file server. On the 2nd order I entered the expiration date wrong. That apparently set off alarms at the credit card company and called the house. My wife told them to approve the purchases.
So I had to go back to newegg and update my credit card info. The order never updated it so I canceled it and made a new one. The new one didn't go through because they couldn't confirm my address because they didn't like the credit card phone number I gave them Here's the list of credit card items I had to give them:
Credit Card Number
Expiration Date
Name on Card
Billing Address
Security Code on back
Card Issuer Telephone "(800 number on back of card. Please provide for fast verification)"
Now newegg didn't like the number on the back of my card (888 45-YAHOO). My IMing with customer support didn't get anywhere as they wanted another number that I didn't have. A phone call to my credit card company didn't get anywhere as they don't want to issue me a credit card with an number on it acceptable to newegg. There also appears to be some new "Verified by Visa" program, which requires more information to comfirm the order. I didn't want to deal with that. So I ended up cancelling the order with newegg, went to zipzoomfly and used a Master Card. I'm willing to jump through some hoops to prove I am who I say I am. If I have to make phone calls and IM customer support to get an order completed (which I didn't) I don't want to deal with that credit card or merchant.
Wouldn't now be the time for the software houses work on different/quirky games for the current consoles? Now I understand that it takes a lot to get a game out on a console, but it seems to me that there is a lull in the gaming market. Other than the 360, most consoles should have well developed/tuned library that they could churn something out easily. What if they did a google labs kinda thing? Take a quarter or two and incubate some low budget games. Peridocially you see what's sticking and cull the stuff that's not. Who knows, maybe this will give them a new franchise to run into the ground or even better a new genre of game.
Since this is a more family friendly game from Rockstar the secret patch will not have any sex.
Hot Cocoa v1 - This patch will not make the players naked/nude. Instead the clothing will become very sheer so that we all the boobies bouncing as they hit the ping pong.
Hot Cocoa v2 - This is the patch from the Rockstar that we know and love. The user can switch from paddle to 9mm so they can put a cap in the opposing player.
Of course the v1 patch will be the one that will have everyone raising a stink about this game. >;-)
Now for something on topic: I think they should've let the user choose their character class instead of assigning it to them. Sticking them with the dancer class would suck. The dancers are NPCs.
XINS does appear to be a close java equivilent compare to my examples. Either way I read the title and description which lead me to think this was an IDE for Python.
While this may be an interesting project, it is not a development environment. It appears to be a framework/library for building services. If this were java, then this project would be similar to tomcat or jboss.
I made my comments based on the assumption that internet video will be different than satellite TV. In the satellite TV model, all subscribers pretty much agrees to use standardized/approved hardware that is allowed to decode the signal. On the internet side as I mentioned, expect that the content providers will be encrypt the video to your individual key, thus making it unique and useless to a proxy cache. A model could be setup so that the video is encrypted via a public key system. This then requires 2 calls to the service. 1 to get the video and a 2nd to get the key. The video in this model is very cache friendly. I expect that if a key is in a seperate call to the server, then it is easy to isolate the key to make available to others on the internet. Content providers don't want that, they only want you the payee to view the video. If possible they want to know how many times you watched the video and even more joyous to them would be to only let you watch it once or for a 24hr period. Given how I'm seeing the big content providers play ball, I don't expect them to make cache friendly content for downloading.
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About 2 years ago I bought a new 32" Sony WEGA tv. Since it had the component inputs I went out and got the cables. Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the output on a composite cable vs. a set of component cables for my DVD player. (Yes, the DVD player is capable of progressive scan output, to bad my tv can't handle it). PC video cards are already designed to handle HDTV resolutions, some do it for 2 monitors. DVD players are generally targeting 480i or 480p output. Now, if nVidia or ATI got into making chipsets for DVD players then you might be able to ask a preium for them and have a decent amount of the market pick them over the walmart special.
What clubs do you hang out at?
This is one of the many reasons why I haven't drop the boatload of cash to buy these TVs. In fact is this is probably the number 1 reason on the list. Here's one of the TVs that is on my short list for an HDTV set. I'm still leaning towards the CRT TVs. Honestly, I would like to watch the content in HD, but let's face it a lot of the stuff is still in SD and I want that to look good. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report don't gain anything by broadcasting in HD.
>Exactly, this was cleaned up so fast because it was so blatantly exposed (through tv how old media) to the public and wikipedia. In fact, I would say that Wekipedia embodies truthiness" it's "truthy, not facty". It's what "feels right" to the content's contributor. I bet most contributors are trying to put the facts into the content. Unfortunately it is possible for people to eradicate the facts they don't like.
I own a TiVo and I skip commericals all the time. Though every once and a while a commerical will catch my eye and I'll watch it. In fact that last commerical that I liked was a VW rabbit commerical. I watched it, backed it up and called my wife into the room to see it. If TiVo can report on that kind of watching then maybe they'l have some data worth selling. In genreal, I skip commericials because the same one will be in the be shown again in the next commerical break. I feel the advertisers are fighting against the law of diminishing returns. The first time I saw it, I was entertained. The nth time I saw it, I was bored. Stop boring me.
Back in the days when Macs had viruses (yes they do exist or existed), I was using a program called Gatekeeper. Instead of knowing about certain virus it monitored system activity and alerted you when virus type activity was happening. You the user would either deny or grant the action.
So given my experience with GateKeeper, the ideas of this malware detection seem obvious. Why did it take this long to apply these ideas to windows malware? Is the problem commerical anti-virus software? They prefer you to keep paying for updates, instead to shut down potential malware until they software knows about it?
My mother said it to me and I plan on saying it to my kid.
Sometimes you know the cause of the problem and sometimes you don't. When the shit hits the fan, you shoot first and ask questions later. Getting the system running takes priority over figuring out why it happened. Once running, you figure out what caused it as best you can and try to takes steps to prevent it from happening. This may not be the best approach, but it aligns with the goal of maintaining/improving uptime that most operation groups are given. I should know, I lived it in the dot-com era.
You and others have given various options that are available. These options cost money or require the command line. (Note: the terminal.app is in my dock and almost always running.) I want this feature in the workstation version, not the server version. If Apple recognized the fact that people will buy the family pack (which I did) when they don't really need to, maybe they can consider adding this feature to the workstation version.
There are 2 problems with this suggestion:
In the wonderful world of Apple's "it just works", I want the pref panel for software update to have a checkbox that says cache all updates and a textbox that indicates my local update cache.
If we can share the software updates between macs, it would be a good thing. With 3 macs in my house, why should I have to download the updates 3 times? I should be able to get a copy from the mac on my local net that downloaded it first. I just hope they allow the torrent client to have a throttle on it.
I don't think that OS X is spending time to defrag contiguous files. The file system driver does a check on the file being read/write. If it determines that the file needs to be defraged then it will perform that action. The article mentioned that 5 conditions had to be met before a file would be relocated and defraged. A contiguous file will not have more then eight extents and thus not be relocated. So yes, the OS is spending CPU cycles to defrag, but it is not putting a lot of wear and tear on your HD.
No, you were just in the wrong click. Cum to think of it, so was I. :(
So you're saying the PS3 won't sell that hot and Sony will come out with some derivative product that will be considered superior to it's competitors, but will only end up with a moderate or tiny ammount of the market share? >;-)
I'm a bit of a nintendo fanboy and look forward to the Revolution coming out. The article may be jumping to conclusions, but they may not be that far off. Does it really matter if the Revolutions is just an updated GC? Other than the new controllers, Nintendo is just intergrating alot of existing technology.
I think if they can keep the core of the Revolution similar to the GC, then Nintendo might get third party developers on board a bit easier. They're keeping the learning curve low.
Yeah, I don't think he gets truthiness! Who does he think he is bring facts into the discussion. Americans can't deal with facts anymore, we only want to hear what's true to our gut.
I've been a long time TiVo user and have seen the pros and cons of a lifetime subscription. Pros: No monthly fees and will pay for itself in about 2-years. Cons: The subscription is tied to the TiVo you bought. If for any reason you want to upgrade your tivo you have to get another lifetime/monthly subscription. I always went with the monthly subscription as I didn't think I would keep a TiVo more than 3 years. I probably should've gotten a lifetime subscription for my Series 1 TiVo. I upgraded to a Series 2 with a DVD burner. I'm avoiding the lifetime subscription because I expect to upgrade the 2nd TiVo around the 2 year mark.
Honestly, I think TiVo wants to be an IP/service company. They want other companies to take on the cost of manufacturing the TiVo hardware. While they get nice licsencing and servicing fees from their partners. The lifetime subscription was good for getting early adopters on board and spreading the word. At this point they are established and need to reduce their losses.
No, I didn't. If the form allows me to enter alpha characters in the field then that's the number on the back of my card.
Their new saftey checks are pissing me off. I just recently made 2 ~$700 purchases for a personal file server. On the 2nd order I entered the expiration date wrong. That apparently set off alarms at the credit card company and called the house. My wife told them to approve the purchases. So I had to go back to newegg and update my credit card info. The order never updated it so I canceled it and made a new one. The new one didn't go through because they couldn't confirm my address because they didn't like the credit card phone number I gave them Here's the list of credit card items I had to give them:
Now newegg didn't like the number on the back of my card (888 45-YAHOO). My IMing with customer support didn't get anywhere as they wanted another number that I didn't have. A phone call to my credit card company didn't get anywhere as they don't want to issue me a credit card with an number on it acceptable to newegg. There also appears to be some new "Verified by Visa" program, which requires more information to comfirm the order. I didn't want to deal with that. So I ended up cancelling the order with newegg, went to zipzoomfly and used a Master Card. I'm willing to jump through some hoops to prove I am who I say I am. If I have to make phone calls and IM customer support to get an order completed (which I didn't) I don't want to deal with that credit card or merchant.
Wouldn't now be the time for the software houses work on different/quirky games for the current consoles? Now I understand that it takes a lot to get a game out on a console, but it seems to me that there is a lull in the gaming market. Other than the 360, most consoles should have well developed/tuned library that they could churn something out easily. What if they did a google labs kinda thing? Take a quarter or two and incubate some low budget games. Peridocially you see what's sticking and cull the stuff that's not. Who knows, maybe this will give them a new franchise to run into the ground or even better a new genre of game.
Since this is a more family friendly game from Rockstar the secret patch will not have any sex.
Hot Cocoa v1 - This patch will not make the players naked/nude. Instead the clothing will become very sheer so that we all the boobies bouncing as they hit the ping pong.
Hot Cocoa v2 - This is the patch from the Rockstar that we know and love. The user can switch from paddle to 9mm so they can put a cap in the opposing player.
Of course the v1 patch will be the one that will have everyone raising a stink about this game. >;-)
Sorry, seems like it needs to be done:
- Episode I: The Phantom Assclown
- Episode II: Attack of the Assclowns
- Episode II: Revenge of the Assclown
- Episode IV: A New Assclown
- Episode V: The Assclown Strikes Back
- Episode VI: Return of the Assclown
Now for something on topic: I think they should've let the user choose their character class instead of assigning it to them. Sticking them with the dancer class would suck. The dancers are NPCs.XINS does appear to be a close java equivilent compare to my examples. Either way I read the title and description which lead me to think this was an IDE for Python.
While this may be an interesting project, it is not a development environment. It appears to be a framework/library for building services. If this were java, then this project would be similar to tomcat or jboss.
I made my comments based on the assumption that internet video will be different than satellite TV. In the satellite TV model, all subscribers pretty much agrees to use standardized/approved hardware that is allowed to decode the signal. On the internet side as I mentioned, expect that the content providers will be encrypt the video to your individual key, thus making it unique and useless to a proxy cache. A model could be setup so that the video is encrypted via a public key system. This then requires 2 calls to the service. 1 to get the video and a 2nd to get the key. The video in this model is very cache friendly. I expect that if a key is in a seperate call to the server, then it is easy to isolate the key to make available to others on the internet. Content providers don't want that, they only want you the payee to view the video. If possible they want to know how many times you watched the video and even more joyous to them would be to only let you watch it once or for a 24hr period. Given how I'm seeing the big content providers play ball, I don't expect them to make cache friendly content for downloading.