I belive that UXGA is the same as saying "1600x1200", W means widescreen, and Q means Quad. However I agree with you and wish they'd just use numbers, don't they know that the masses like numbers anyway? Look at the GHz race.
I still have a hard time figuring out why people think $150 is too much for the software that lets you interface (pretty darn nicely) with your computer.
People have no problem going out and paying $50 for the latest game, but they have a problem with paying 3x that for the software that lets them run every single one of those games. It's not like you have to buy a copy of Windows every 30 days. $150 will get you an OS that will last long enough for your hardware to be obsolete.
Enough rambling, I just don't understand the logic you people use.
Reading through the comments and stuff, people seem to suggest that they would watch commercials if they were targeted towards them.
I agree with them, I would watch them if they were something I was interested in.
The thing is, Tivo could already do this, as if I recall correctly, every night at 2:20am (or so) my DirecTivo needs to change to a channel to download content. If they're downloading content on that channel, why not just record the video that's on that channel too? They could run 30 minutes of commercials and record them.
Then they could present them to you in categorys:
Automotive/Womens Products/Household/etc
They're already using 30 minutes of my recording time late at night to download stuff as it is, they could make the advertisers happy(er) and I would actually watch commercials.
In high school, some friends and I got laser tag guns and were playing in a park at night. A friend and I were hiding in a bush when we heard a vehicle pull up behind us. All of a sudden a spot light shines on us and we hear "TURN AROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" "Uh, oh, shit." Police pulled us out at gun point, everyone else had to come join us and we were all made to sit on the ground at gun point. Being the young easy going kids that we were, we laughed and chuckled at being drawn out at gunpoint over laser tag. Backup arrived and they were joking around with us and being cool. All in all the night ended with the original cops telling us they could give us trespassing tickets and giving curfew tickets to those who were under 18.
Why, oh WHY are shortcut keys different for Windows and linux? I love being able to use Ctrl+K in windows but never knew about the linux hotkey and always got really annoyed when I had to use the mouse to move to the googlebar on a computer using linux.
I thought the idea was to have a unified experience across platforms...
Last year there was a large blizzard in Colorado, we got several feet of snow. Durring the second day I decided to set up my web cam and snap pictures for 24 hours just to see what it looked like.
This is the movie I ended up with Go easy on me (Divx encoded)
Slashdoters inability to read. Even in the description of the article it says that this is what Microsoft projects a common computer will be about the time Longhorn is released. These are NOT system requirements of Longhorn.
A common new computer when XP came out was about a 1.4GHz If I recall correctly, but the system requirements are 400MHz...
This article explains nearly everything you could possibly want to know about SI's digital workflow. They even mention the pitfalls/gains in switching from film to digital.
I find it amazing that some photographers have upwards of 12 Canon EOS 1Ds's EACH. That's about $75,000 in equipment on JUST the camera bodys.
Amazing article, one of the best ones on slashdot in a long time.
Can't and won't are 2 different things. A relative of mine was a developer for Microsofts Intellipoint 5.0. They removed the Universal Scrolling mechanism from 5.0+ because it was a big hack and was very hard to maintain functionality of. Basically, if your applications don't use newer controls that implement scrolling properly, your application doesn't scroll with the wheel.
They chose to drop support because it was getting to ugly/buggy to continue to maintain. Which do you want? A buggy driver that you'll complain about? Or a push in the direction to make things work correctly?
It's been said a couple times before, but, you asked the wrong place.
Try a photography forum if you're serious about your question.
Here are a few good places: Photo.net - All around great place to learn about photograpy/different cameras. Excellent forums and reviews available. dpreview.com - Digital camera reviews. Check out some Digital SLRs, you might be pleasently surprised.
Looking at other network attached servers from either Dell or Apple brings a cost of $4360 for a 2.6ghz/400fsb P4 Dell Powervault for a one terabyte server and $5024 for a 1.33GHz G4 X-serve with 720GB.
What they forgot, is that included in (at least the Dell) price is the Operating System, AND Next day on-site support for a year, and parts support for 2 years after that initial year.
Maybe their "gaming" server would work for someone at home, but not a real buisness. Then again, a home user would probably just slap a couple large drives in their old K6-2 300 box and call it good.
Sometimes this is a problem with system hardware. We once had an NT machine that, without a PS/2 mouse plugged in, would give us the same error. Plug in a PS/2 mouse and bang, started right up.
nVidia has yet to make a clean installer [not that it would be hard todo].
Odd, in the past week I've installed the nVidia driver on 2 machines. One with a GeForce 2 MX, another with a GeForce 3 Ti200. All I did was download the installer binary, switch runlevels, run the installer, follow the steps that it told me to, and restart X. Very simple.
Did anyone bother to READ the quote?
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You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the OS Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the OS Product that will be automatically downloaded to your computer.
Now, am I the only one that caught "downloaded to your computer."? It doesn't say that it will INSTALL them, it just says that it will automatically download them. This option is already in use with windowsupdate, you have the option to automatically download updates and have it prompt you to install them.
It's clearly a throwback to the first Rio that Diamond released a few years back (which I still have in a box somewhere in the basement);
Wanna send that to me?
I think it sucks because I was told that Qwest waited to patch their servers not thinking that this was a big problem. A company as big and powerfull (bandwidth wise) as Qwest is should be carefull with their servers, especially with things like this that could take out service for everyone.
Luckily my company was able to eventually get through to some semi-compietent people at tech support that helped us through it. Unfortunately my dads company wasn't so lucky. They had 6 hour waits just to get hung up on, and call back, wait 4 more hours just to get someone that avoided the fact that it was there.
I eventually ended up giving him the way to fix it and they were up again in a few minutes. But without experiances with Qwest we are not in a position to highly reccomend them as an ISP. Though, when they're up, they're good. But so goes the story of broadband connections, right?:)
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"New console outsells remake of old console that everyone who wants one already has."
Please.
It's nifty, now how do I get rid of it?
I belive that UXGA is the same as saying "1600x1200", W means widescreen, and Q means Quad. However I agree with you and wish they'd just use numbers, don't they know that the masses like numbers anyway? Look at the GHz race.
I still have a hard time figuring out why people think $150 is too much for the software that lets you interface (pretty darn nicely) with your computer.
People have no problem going out and paying $50 for the latest game, but they have a problem with paying 3x that for the software that lets them run every single one of those games. It's not like you have to buy a copy of Windows every 30 days. $150 will get you an OS that will last long enough for your hardware to be obsolete.
Enough rambling, I just don't understand the logic you people use.
Reading through the comments and stuff, people seem to suggest that they would watch commercials if they were targeted towards them.
I agree with them, I would watch them if they were something I was interested in.
The thing is, Tivo could already do this, as if I recall correctly, every night at 2:20am (or so) my DirecTivo needs to change to a channel to download content. If they're downloading content on that channel, why not just record the video that's on that channel too? They could run 30 minutes of commercials and record them.
Then they could present them to you in categorys:
Automotive/Womens Products/Household/etc
They're already using 30 minutes of my recording time late at night to download stuff as it is, they could make the advertisers happy(er) and I would actually watch commercials.
In high school, some friends and I got laser tag guns and were playing in a park at night. A friend and I were hiding in a bush when we heard a vehicle pull up behind us. All of a sudden a spot light shines on us and we hear "TURN AROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" "Uh, oh, shit." Police pulled us out at gun point, everyone else had to come join us and we were all made to sit on the ground at gun point. Being the young easy going kids that we were, we laughed and chuckled at being drawn out at gunpoint over laser tag. Backup arrived and they were joking around with us and being cool. All in all the night ended with the original cops telling us they could give us trespassing tickets and giving curfew tickets to those who were under 18.
Good times.
Why, oh WHY are shortcut keys different for Windows and linux? I love being able to use Ctrl+K in windows but never knew about the linux hotkey and always got really annoyed when I had to use the mouse to move to the googlebar on a computer using linux.
I thought the idea was to have a unified experience across platforms...
Last year there was a large blizzard in Colorado, we got several feet of snow. Durring the second day I decided to set up my web cam and snap pictures for 24 hours just to see what it looked like.
This is the movie I ended up with Go easy on me (Divx encoded)
Slashdoters inability to read. Even in the description of the article it says that this is what Microsoft projects a common computer will be about the time Longhorn is released. These are NOT system requirements of Longhorn.
A common new computer when XP came out was about a 1.4GHz If I recall correctly, but the system requirements are 400MHz...
Just some food for thought.
A little late in the game to be posting this, it'll probably never get noticed, but...
Does anyone else find it kind of ironic that they're selling computers running linux, yet their online music store requires Windows Media Player?
This article explains nearly everything you could possibly want to know about SI's digital workflow. They even mention the pitfalls/gains in switching from film to digital.
I find it amazing that some photographers have upwards of 12 Canon EOS 1Ds's EACH. That's about $75,000 in equipment on JUST the camera bodys.
Amazing article, one of the best ones on slashdot in a long time.
Can't and won't are 2 different things. A relative of mine was a developer for Microsofts Intellipoint 5.0. They removed the Universal Scrolling mechanism from 5.0+ because it was a big hack and was very hard to maintain functionality of. Basically, if your applications don't use newer controls that implement scrolling properly, your application doesn't scroll with the wheel.
They chose to drop support because it was getting to ugly/buggy to continue to maintain. Which do you want? A buggy driver that you'll complain about? Or a push in the direction to make things work correctly?
You could just buy only Outlook
Masssively multiplayer, you could play it on your P90 with 512K graphics card if you wanted to.
Beta 4 just started a new round today. Get in while you still have a chance to win!
AstroWars
It's been said a couple times before, but, you asked the wrong place.
Try a photography forum if you're serious about your question.
Here are a few good places:
Photo.net - All around great place to learn about photograpy/different cameras. Excellent forums and reviews available.
dpreview.com - Digital camera reviews. Check out some Digital SLRs, you might be pleasently surprised.
Looking at other network attached servers from either Dell or Apple brings a cost of $4360 for a 2.6ghz/400fsb P4 Dell Powervault for a one terabyte server and $5024 for a 1.33GHz G4 X-serve with 720GB.
What they forgot, is that included in (at least the Dell) price is the Operating System, AND Next day on-site support for a year, and parts support for 2 years after that initial year.
Maybe their "gaming" server would work for someone at home, but not a real buisness. Then again, a home user would probably just slap a couple large drives in their old K6-2 300 box and call it good.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Sometimes this is a problem with system hardware. We once had an NT machine that, without a PS/2 mouse plugged in, would give us the same error. Plug in a PS/2 mouse and bang, started right up.
Or, maybe you left a disk in the floppy drive?
7.1 audio on a handheld? With headphones like that, you'll look like a cyborg.
Odd, in the past week I've installed the nVidia driver on 2 machines. One with a GeForce 2 MX, another with a GeForce 3 Ti200. All I did was download the installer binary, switch runlevels, run the installer, follow the steps that it told me to, and restart X. Very simple.
Tell that to the owners of an XBox.
Now, am I the only one that caught "downloaded to your computer."? It doesn't say that it will INSTALL them, it just says that it will automatically download them. This option is already in use with windowsupdate, you have the option to automatically download updates and have it prompt you to install them.
I belive MacOS can do the same...
It's clearly a throwback to the first Rio that Diamond released a few years back (which I still have in a box somewhere in the basement);
Wanna send that to me?
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Let's hit it harder next time!
I suppose this all depends on location and such.
:)
I think it sucks because I was told that Qwest waited to patch their servers not thinking that this was a big problem. A company as big and powerfull (bandwidth wise) as Qwest is should be carefull with their servers, especially with things like this that could take out service for everyone.
Luckily my company was able to eventually get through to some semi-compietent people at tech support that helped us through it. Unfortunately my dads company wasn't so lucky. They had 6 hour waits just to get hung up on, and call back, wait 4 more hours just to get someone that avoided the fact that it was there.
I eventually ended up giving him the way to fix it and they were up again in a few minutes. But without experiances with Qwest we are not in a position to highly reccomend them as an ISP. Though, when they're up, they're good. But so goes the story of broadband connections, right?