The number of editorial errors involving misspelled and/or missing words seemed relatively high;
While this is a printed book, and I understand the need for well-formed english, I am glad that the reviewer didn't subtract from the books overall score just because of this. Too many people these days spend too much time looking at the presentation of the subject matter instead of looking at the subject matter being presented.
A second audience for this book is the project manager and/or CTO in most corporate IT shops
Having read this book, I would have to disagree with this. Project Managers and CTOs would probably not get more than three pages before the book was discarded to the pile of "might have an underling review this."
The best place (imnsho) for this book is in the hands of a well-versed and well-spoken advocate with friendly access to those CTOs and Project Managers. Other than that, I would agree with the review completely. An outstanding book. Great content, very informative. Two Thumbs up.
I think that you must have a different definition of zero than I do.
The reason I take note of this is because I have no idea how to control Burnout 3. In order to play, surely I would have to either be told or deduce the correct buttons. Sure, I might get the right button the first time, but that's not the result of having no learning curve. It's the result of sheer dumb luck.
I take zero to mean 0, nothing, absolutely none; the way you've used it, it means "very little", "almost none" or "barely any". It's almost as if you used the wrong word, but I have a hard time believing anyone would exaggerate on such an oustanding tome of information such as the site you posted to.
I am not trully stupid. I'll thank you not to drop to that level again, I'm not interested in flame wars, and I'll not perpetuate them.
Honestly, I do not care how the site owner makes money. I signed up for inFone service (that cost me nothing, and got me a $10 gift card to amazon.com). I never even had to worry about cancelling a trial. Read this carefully, it is a NET GAIN for me. I used a throw-away email, so bonus, I dont get any spam. If you still dont understand this, then read it again below:
This - Cost - Me - Nothing - But - My - Time
This - Cost - My - Referrals - Nothing - But - Their - Own - Willingly - Donated - Time
Every person I know who submitted five referrals has received an iPod. Now, if someone wants to give up half way through their referrals, that's their own problem. It's not the fault of the site operator, and it's no reflection on my own intellect.
Now if I was the only person I knew who received an iPod, then yes, I would say they were giving a few our to incent the crowd; but as far as I know and can tell, that is not happening.
Thus far, your argument has been a sum total of "Some people don't have patience, and you're stupid!". That's not very convincing, is it?
On the other hand, I have contributed "I received mine in a timely manner, as has everyone else I know who completed the requirements."
Who do you suppose people are more likely to believe?
If you have anything further of interest to share then feel free to reply, but I'll not continue to reply to insults and ill thought out arguments. You do not appear to be convincing anyone else, and you certainly are not convincing me.
A) Just because it's NOT a camera phone doesn't mean it can't have a color display. A> no camera means the picture is much more difficult for John Citizen to get into his phone.
B) I never said a thing about the quality of these cameras. B> It's just the usual argument (jack of all trades does none of them well), but you never mentioned it, point ceded.
C) Why are you calling your toddler on a cell phone (as implied by your "[Mommy/Daddy]")? C> Your toddler has never asked to call you, or for you to call them? (perhaps you don't have kids? If you do... I'm terribly sorry that this wonder has never happened for you)
All I am pointing out is that there are *good* uses for a camera in a phone other than featurama. What I left inferred, but unsaid, in my previous comment is that there are many more people than just toddlers who cannot read yet. People whose memories fail them. There are also people who just find a photo of someone calling much more pleasant than just some tiny text of the number and name of the person calling.
I'm not saying that it is the way they are used most often, but I am saying it is more than just another feature added to incent consumers to spend more money.
Featurama does exist, and it _is_ usually at the detriment of something else, but cameras are not it.
I once had this book that had a lock on the outside of it. Every time you wanted to open the book, you had to insert this dumb little key. It was like a diary or something.
One day I had this bright idea to use my scissors (sp: dmca violating device) to cut the lock off so I didnt have to insert that dumb key all the time to open it. Imagine my surprise when I notice that the ink on the paper had all disappeared!
0h nos! My w3rdz 4re b33n st0l3n!
Now I cant read the book, it's as good as a doorstop. I called the publisher, and they said "Hey, man, you only bought a license to read the book IF you use the key to open it! Even if you glue the lock back on, you still lose, space cadet!".
But they didnt count that you couldn't see that it was a license until you unlocked it the first time, and there on the first page was "By opening this book, you have agreed that..."... nobody would take the book back cause it was opened.
It was really sad... I dont think I'll ever get over it.
When that low frequency on the street in front of my house (or the corner down the street!) is making things on my desk at the BACK of my house jump off, I really don't care whether you call it noise, ufo's or the fucking force.... It still gives me a headache, and I still want it GONE.
High's, mids or lows, legal or not, I dont care. If it gets through four walls and is still enough to significantly bother me, something is wrong and something needs to be done.
causing over 1000 pounds of Tang from the cargo bay to come crashing down into the crew compartment
And as long as it is evenly distributed amongst ten women, that sounds about the most pleasant way to break a leg imaginable.
If, on the other hand, it all belongs to one, then that's about the most horrific way imaginable to break a leg I've ever heard. Very, very disturbing.
Bear in mind the following: 1) I got the (dual 633mhz PIII) PC with TV-out for free. It isn't *quite* fast enough sometimes. Most (95%) of the time it's fine. 2) I got the TV Tuner cards with hardware MPEG encoders for $50 each... 1/3 the normal price. 3) I traded a laptop hard drive for an ultra quiet Seagate Barracuda V 120GB 4) The other $50 was for an I/R keyboard.
My machine is definitely is not quiet, but it can be done (for more money). Case wise, a lot of people are happy with the ASUS pundit. A lot just use something painted gloss black.
A few people have reported 802.11g to have enough bandwidth to handle video playback. 802.11b will definitely not cut the mustard. I got rid of my wireless gear after getting MythTV and wired my house up. It is (much) cheaper than getting wireless gear, and now I can copy the 2GB video files off at a decent speed. Wireless (802.11g) was SO slow. And the microwave next door or a cordless phone would kill it.
But yes, MythTV is pretty mature these days... In fact, my hardware let me down before the software did. (old 10GB os drive died).
Quoted: MythTV does not perform much better when video is downloaded at high quality, but we have the option to transcode, or re-render the MPEG stream into something a little more versatile.
This is what I was commenting on. MythTV will transcode a recording after it is recorded into a different format.
So they are encoding a stream that was already captured in the background (I assume while other encoding could be going on) which would make for a SERIOUS CPU hit because they chose to save a couple extra bucks by not using the hardware MPEG encoder.
The PVR-250 (most commonly used hardware encoder in conjunction with MythTV) encodes into MPEG2 which is the codec they were taking issue with. There are MPEG4 encoders, but they mostly deal with DVB signals rather than standard analog cable.
Compressing to DivX/MPEG4 from MPEG2 can yield tremendous savings. I personally dont do it, but I understand those that do. I would rather spend the extra $$$ from the cpu on a (much) larger hard drive to host the recordings.
To be honest though... there's not much else to do with your CPU. If you have a hardware encoder on your tv capture, and a hardware decoder in your video playback.... what else are you going to do with your CPU?
It will very likely never be cheaper to build a MythTV box rather than buy a Tivo. I had been very lucky up until recently and got *amazing* deals on all the hardware I bought... but I still eneded up paying about $150.
MythTV will never be the "cheaper" alternative, but it will always be the superior alternative in my opinion. The extra features (MythMusic, MythWeb (!!!), MythDVD etc) are determining factors that keep me with Myth instead of buying a Tivo.
How well would the transcoding to XViD work when they have sacrificed the CPU to the encoding gods? Wouldn't the machine take a serious hit trying to record and transcode at the same time when they aren't using a hardware encoder?
Transcoding happens after the program is finished recording. For best results though, use something with a hardware MPEG encoder to avoid said sacrifices. A Hauppauge PVR-250 does the job nicely. Two do it even better.
I love my MythTV HTPC... I thought about acquiring a Tivo several times, but the benefits of MythTV are too attractive for me.
I've read the patent on it, it's really quite interesting. What they've noted is that either endian-ness will have delays paid at either the high or low order, depending on which system you are using and which order you are trying to access.
As a result of this research, they charged their top engineers to come up with a way to negate those delays. The general conclusion among the engineers was that the endian epidemic facing the computing community is much akin to a fat kid sitting on a see-saw. One end is going to be top heavy. So they devised a scheme in which the "endian-ness" is spread out evenly through-out the data.
This way *both* endians are succumbing to the same conversion, thus none pays a "tax" over the other. In this manner the read performance is increased 16 fold; while concurrently the write performance is increased four fold as a direct result of the physical media not having to dump more cream filling at either the "big" or "small" end. Early estimates are placed at $3.2bn annual market wide savings on filling refills.
There are two ways to get something done about bad (american) laws:
1) Get congresspeople and senators to add another act to either counter or ammend the law in question.
2) Get the supreme court to repeal them (or sections thereof)
The problem is that 1 is almost impossible with the current state of (legal) corruption in congress/the senate.
The problem with 2 is that in order for it to even get to the Supreme Court, somebody needs to convert it into a constitutional issue. Even then, it takes a terribly huge amount of money to hire attorneys of the caliber required to convince the panel of judges that the law in question really is unconstitutional.
With regards to the DMCA, you're not in any worse situation than any other law, but you're not in a good situation either... Some of the brightest legal minds in the country have tried to make the DMCA a constitutional issue and get the Supreme court to repeal it or sections of it. It hasn't worked yet... and there is not a lot of hope that it will in the future either.
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The number of editorial errors involving misspelled and/or missing words seemed relatively high;
While this is a printed book, and I understand the need for well-formed english, I am glad that the reviewer didn't subtract from the books overall score just because of this. Too many people these days spend too much time looking at the presentation of the subject matter instead of looking at the subject matter being presented.
A second audience for this book is the project manager and/or CTO in most corporate IT shops
Having read this book, I would have to disagree with this. Project Managers and CTOs would probably not get more than three pages before the book was discarded to the pile of "might have an underling review this."
The best place (imnsho) for this book is in the hands of a well-versed and well-spoken advocate with friendly access to those CTOs and Project Managers. Other than that, I would agree with the review completely. An outstanding book. Great content, very informative. Two Thumbs up.
I think that you must have a different definition of zero than I do.
The reason I take note of this is because I have no idea how to control Burnout 3. In order to play, surely I would have to either be told or deduce the correct buttons. Sure, I might get the right button the first time, but that's not the result of having no learning curve. It's the result of sheer dumb luck.
I take zero to mean 0, nothing, absolutely none; the way you've used it, it means "very little", "almost none" or "barely any". It's almost as if you used the wrong word, but I have a hard time believing anyone would exaggerate on such an oustanding tome of information such as the site you posted to.
Curiously Odd.
FYI, PCI-X is an entirely different technology to PCI Express... You almost certainly do not mean PCI-X.
I am not trully stupid. I'll thank you not to drop to that level again, I'm not interested in flame wars, and I'll not perpetuate them.
Honestly, I do not care how the site owner makes money. I signed up for inFone service (that cost me nothing, and got me a $10 gift card to amazon.com). I never even had to worry about cancelling a trial. Read this carefully, it is a NET GAIN for me. I used a throw-away email, so bonus, I dont get any spam. If you still dont understand this, then read it again below:
This - Cost - Me - Nothing - But - My - Time
This - Cost - My - Referrals - Nothing - But - Their - Own - Willingly - Donated - Time
Every person I know who submitted five referrals has received an iPod. Now, if someone wants to give up half way through their referrals, that's their own problem. It's not the fault of the site operator, and it's no reflection on my own intellect.
Now if I was the only person I knew who received an iPod, then yes, I would say they were giving a few our to incent the crowd; but as far as I know and can tell, that is not happening.
Thus far, your argument has been a sum total of "Some people don't have patience, and you're stupid!". That's not very convincing, is it?
On the other hand, I have contributed "I received mine in a timely manner, as has everyone else I know who completed the requirements."
Who do you suppose people are more likely to believe?
If you have anything further of interest to share then feel free to reply, but I'll not continue to reply to insults and ill thought out arguments. You do not appear to be convincing anyone else, and you certainly are not convincing me.
A) Just because it's NOT a camera phone doesn't mean it can't have a color display.
... I'm terribly sorry that this wonder has never happened for you)
A> no camera means the picture is much more difficult for John Citizen to get into his phone.
B) I never said a thing about the quality of these cameras.
B> It's just the usual argument (jack of all trades does none of them well), but you never mentioned it, point ceded.
C) Why are you calling your toddler on a cell phone (as implied by your "[Mommy/Daddy]")?
C> Your toddler has never asked to call you, or for you to call them? (perhaps you don't have kids? If you do
All I am pointing out is that there are *good* uses for a camera in a phone other than featurama. What I left inferred, but unsaid, in my previous comment is that there are many more people than just toddlers who cannot read yet. People whose memories fail them. There are also people who just find a photo of someone calling much more pleasant than just some tiny text of the number and name of the person calling.
I'm not saying that it is the way they are used most often, but I am saying it is more than just another feature added to incent consumers to spend more money.
Featurama does exist, and it _is_ usually at the detriment of something else, but cameras are not it.
Picture Caller Id.
Yes, cameras in phones are usually not even reasonable quality.
No, not all uses of cameras require great quality.
Your "stupid extra" can easily be someone else's "I can't read or remember phone numbers, but I can recognize a picture of [Mommy/Daddy]!"
With the prices gasoline is at right now, it feels like you could almost buy liquid gold cheaper.
ugh.
But yes, biodiesel is both cheap, and snazzy.
AAAAAAAAAAAAH!
I once had this book that had a lock on the outside of it. Every time you wanted to open the book, you had to insert this dumb little key. It was like a diary or something.
... nobody would take the book back cause it was opened.
One day I had this bright idea to use my scissors (sp: dmca violating device) to cut the lock off so I didnt have to insert that dumb key all the time to open it. Imagine my surprise when I notice that the ink on the paper had all disappeared!
0h nos! My w3rdz 4re b33n st0l3n!
Now I cant read the book, it's as good as a doorstop. I called the publisher, and they said "Hey, man, you only bought a license to read the book IF you use the key to open it! Even if you glue the lock back on, you still lose, space cadet!".
But they didnt count that you couldn't see that it was a license until you unlocked it the first time, and there on the first page was "By opening this book, you have agreed that..."
It was really sad... I dont think I'll ever get over it.
Man oh man. Just wait till you hit tubgirl
All you can see is butterscotch pudding. I doubt ANYONE could hit the back button after that.
*shudder*
But I'd definitely like to see more of it.
Now picture RMS with spray on clothes... hell, or spray on stockings. Still want to see it more? =)
See, I would have sworn they were goldmining panners...
I guess that goes to show you can never be too sure.
When that low frequency on the street in front of my house (or the corner down the street!) is making things on my desk at the BACK of my house jump off, I really don't care whether you call it noise, ufo's or the fucking force.... It still gives me a headache, and I still want it GONE.
High's, mids or lows, legal or not, I dont care. If it gets through four walls and is still enough to significantly bother me, something is wrong and something needs to be done.
Naked people on bicycle seats. ... it is possible ... that I am going to be ... quite violently ill now.
One after another.
I think
causing over 1000 pounds of Tang from the cargo bay to come crashing down into the crew compartment
And as long as it is evenly distributed amongst ten women, that sounds about the most pleasant way to break a leg imaginable.
If, on the other hand, it all belongs to one, then that's about the most horrific way imaginable to break a leg I've ever heard. Very, very disturbing.
Err.... on these platforms, yes.
It may not always be the option they choose, and it may not be a viable option because of business related direction, but yes, it is always an option.
That's kind of the point in Free Software. To make it always be an option.
Anyway.
level 5000
runs doom 3 with full shadowing (black and white) above 30fps
Wow. let me crawl into a hole and die. Please accept my sincerest apologies, I am most certainly (and absolutely) wrong.
Um... no it's not. It's 256 Megabytes.
Bear in mind the following:
1) I got the (dual 633mhz PIII) PC with TV-out for free. It isn't *quite* fast enough sometimes. Most (95%) of the time it's fine.
2) I got the TV Tuner cards with hardware MPEG encoders for $50 each... 1/3 the normal price.
3) I traded a laptop hard drive for an ultra quiet Seagate Barracuda V 120GB
4) The other $50 was for an I/R keyboard.
My machine is definitely is not quiet, but it can be done (for more money).
Case wise, a lot of people are happy with the ASUS pundit. A lot just use something painted gloss black.
A few people have reported 802.11g to have enough bandwidth to handle video playback. 802.11b will definitely not cut the mustard. I got rid of my wireless gear after getting MythTV and wired my house up. It is (much) cheaper than getting wireless gear, and now I can copy the 2GB video files off at a decent speed. Wireless (802.11g) was SO slow. And the microwave next door or a cordless phone would kill it.
But yes, MythTV is pretty mature these days... In fact, my hardware let me down before the software did. (old 10GB os drive died).
Quoted: MythTV does not perform much better when video is downloaded at high quality, but we have the option to transcode, or re-render the MPEG stream into something a little more versatile.
This is what I was commenting on.
MythTV will transcode a recording after it is recorded into a different format.
So they are encoding a stream that was already captured in the background (I assume while other encoding could be going on) which would make for a SERIOUS CPU hit because they chose to save a couple extra bucks by not using the hardware MPEG encoder.
The PVR-250 (most commonly used hardware encoder in conjunction with MythTV) encodes into MPEG2 which is the codec they were taking issue with. There are MPEG4 encoders, but they mostly deal with DVB signals rather than standard analog cable.
Compressing to DivX/MPEG4 from MPEG2 can yield tremendous savings. I personally dont do it, but I understand those that do. I would rather spend the extra $$$ from the cpu on a (much) larger hard drive to host the recordings.
To be honest though... there's not much else to do with your CPU. If you have a hardware encoder on your tv capture, and a hardware decoder in your video playback.... what else are you going to do with your CPU?
It will very likely never be cheaper to build a MythTV box rather than buy a Tivo. I had been very lucky up until recently and got *amazing* deals on all the hardware I bought... but I still eneded up paying about $150.
MythTV will never be the "cheaper" alternative, but it will always be the superior alternative in my opinion. The extra features (MythMusic, MythWeb (!!!), MythDVD etc) are determining factors that keep me with Myth instead of buying a Tivo.
How well would the transcoding to XViD work when they have sacrificed the CPU to the encoding gods? Wouldn't the machine take a serious hit trying to record and transcode at the same time when they aren't using a hardware encoder?
Transcoding happens after the program is finished recording. For best results though, use something with a hardware MPEG encoder to avoid said sacrifices. A Hauppauge PVR-250 does the job nicely. Two do it even better.
I love my MythTV HTPC... I thought about acquiring a Tivo several times, but the benefits of MythTV are too attractive for me.
As a result of this research, they charged their top engineers to come up with a way to negate those delays. The general conclusion among the engineers was that the endian epidemic facing the computing community is much akin to a fat kid sitting on a see-saw. One end is going to be top heavy. So they devised a scheme in which the "endian-ness" is spread out evenly through-out the data.
This way *both* endians are succumbing to the same conversion, thus none pays a "tax" over the other. In this manner the read performance is increased 16 fold; while concurrently the write performance is increased four fold as a direct result of the physical media not having to dump more cream filling at either the "big" or "small" end. Early estimates are placed at $3.2bn annual market wide savings on filling refills.
It's really quite amazing.
For more information, look up the patent referred to. =)
In other news, the entire filling industry has just filed for chapter 11. News at 6.
There are two ways to get something done about bad (american) laws:
1) Get congresspeople and senators to add another act to either counter or ammend the law in question.
2) Get the supreme court to repeal them (or sections thereof)
The problem is that 1 is almost impossible with the current state of (legal) corruption in congress/the senate.
The problem with 2 is that in order for it to even get to the Supreme Court, somebody needs to convert it into a constitutional issue. Even then, it takes a terribly huge amount of money to hire attorneys of the caliber required to convince the panel of judges that the law in question really is unconstitutional.
With regards to the DMCA, you're not in any worse situation than any other law, but you're not in a good situation either... Some of the brightest legal minds in the country have tried to make the DMCA a constitutional issue and get the Supreme court to repeal it or sections of it. It hasn't worked yet... and there is not a lot of hope that it will in the future either.