It also up-converts conventional DVDs to 1080p to improve video quality and comes with HDMI, Component, S-video, and composite outputs.
You know, I've always wondered about this, so someone help me out here. Let's say I have a 1080p HDTV. As it's a discrete pixel device, not a CRT, it's got one native resolution, right? And when I plug my 480i/p DVD player into it to watch a movie, the TV is upsampling the signal to use all of the pixels on the display, right? So why is this a feature on the player? How does it improve image quality? Is it using a blingy-er algorithm than the TV would be using? Marketing fluff?
1 Truck Big-ish, holds about, I don't know, 12,000 Pop-tarts boxes. Registered in Hong Kong (License: MTHRLOD) Buyer responsible for tag and title. Comes with full tank. Might want to sanitize the back.
If you would like some changes to the current Silicon Valley, what would those be?
1. I would double the size of the East Palo Alto IKEA. Nay, triple it. I simply do not spend enough time lost in their bazillion cubic meter zipcode.
2. I would move Google and MS closer together. I know they're in mortar range, but think of the small arms possibilities!
3. I would clone Ridge Winery and place one every five miles rimming the valley. Every three to be safe.
4. All "boat track"-style sushi joints would linked by a secret underground canal system. By the time the hamachi gets around to me at Yo-yo, it feels like it's travelled forty miles anyway; let's make it formal.
5. [serious] Jazz club. [/serious] Whoa, where'd that shit come from?
6. I'd raise the speed limit on I280 from 120mph to maybe 140mph. Might as well keep up with the flow.
7. I'd raise the speed limit on 101 from 25mph to 30 or so. Honestly, who drives this piece of shit?
8. I'd make the application of "My other box is your Linux box" bumper stickers to an automobile a federal offense. No, seriously. We're *all* savvy here mate, get over it.
9. I'd give myself veto rights over anything Benchmark funds. They don't have to listen, but I'd like to be on record.
I could go on, but sooner or later the state-subsidized vino is going to kick in, and then I'll start getting unrealistic.
So, if you haven't seen these charts [curmudgeongamer.com], view them... now.
Immediately afterwards, superimpose the "how did this do in the marketplace" chart. From where I'm standing, it's pretty clear why we argue over Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, not Philips, SNK, and 3DO.
If more IS professionals spent their time actively understanding their clients' business drivers and protecting their interests, rather than submitting links to Slashdot for their Google Ads-linked blogs, mayhaps we'd be in a slightly better position.
We don't need more Steve Gibsons. My two incendiary cents.
Hear hear. My strictly stock 330i ZHP (hardly BMW's high end) pulls at 5.7 -- another ten grand would have put me in an M for 0-60 runs at 4.8. That's still 25 grand less than Kit, here.
On another tangent, putting Ferrari, Porsche, and "high-end tuning car" in a performance phrase in the same sentence is pretty gratuitous. Enzo calling, he wants his 3.28 back.
Probably the managers who didn't do their job and keep upper management up to date with correct project status. Anyone else? Yeah. Those managers who took a ship or die attitude and will end up burning their teams out in the next year. And finally those managers who knew reality but continued to live in their fairyland (not the Mac one) where products are developed by sheer management willpower alone.
How about the coders who couldn't hit the originally agreed upon deadline? I know this is slashdot and all, and beating up on management is fun, but how many of you are supposed to be slinging semi-colons right now?
I'm talking showstoppers like OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Cygwin, all the really critical tools I use every day.
Ain't trying to be a dick here, but why would you run *any* of those in an emulated environment? OpenOffice and Firefox have excellent native builds, and all Cygwin is doing is de-emulating you back into your (presumably) native GNU environment.
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It also up-converts conventional DVDs to 1080p to improve video quality and comes with HDMI, Component, S-video, and composite outputs.
You know, I've always wondered about this, so someone help me out here. Let's say I have a 1080p HDTV. As it's a discrete pixel device, not a CRT, it's got one native resolution, right? And when I plug my 480i/p DVD player into it to watch a movie, the TV is upsampling the signal to use all of the pixels on the display, right? So why is this a feature on the player? How does it improve image quality? Is it using a blingy-er algorithm than the TV would be using? Marketing fluff?
By referring to TPB's actions as illegal, you are helping to perpetuate a fraud against the entire planet.
Tell them they kill younglings, too. Rub it in.
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Big-ish, holds about, I don't know, 12,000 Pop-tarts boxes.
Registered in Hong Kong (License: MTHRLOD) Buyer responsible for tag and title.
Comes with full tank.
Might want to sanitize the back.
$50 OBO.
If you would like some changes to the current Silicon Valley, what would those be?
1. I would double the size of the East Palo Alto IKEA. Nay, triple it. I simply do not spend enough time lost in their bazillion cubic meter zipcode.
2. I would move Google and MS closer together. I know they're in mortar range, but think of the small arms possibilities!
3. I would clone Ridge Winery and place one every five miles rimming the valley. Every three to be safe.
4. All "boat track"-style sushi joints would linked by a secret underground canal system. By the time the hamachi gets around to me at Yo-yo, it feels like it's travelled forty miles anyway; let's make it formal.
5. [serious] Jazz club. [/serious] Whoa, where'd that shit come from?
6. I'd raise the speed limit on I280 from 120mph to maybe 140mph. Might as well keep up with the flow.
7. I'd raise the speed limit on 101 from 25mph to 30 or so. Honestly, who drives this piece of shit?
8. I'd make the application of "My other box is your Linux box" bumper stickers to an automobile a federal offense. No, seriously. We're *all* savvy here mate, get over it.
9. I'd give myself veto rights over anything Benchmark funds. They don't have to listen, but I'd like to be on record.
I could go on, but sooner or later the state-subsidized vino is going to kick in, and then I'll start getting unrealistic.
M
So, if you haven't seen these charts [curmudgeongamer.com], view them ... now.
Immediately afterwards, superimpose the "how did this do in the marketplace" chart. From where I'm standing, it's pretty clear why we argue over Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, not Philips, SNK, and 3DO.
Speaking as an Information Security Professional:
If more IS professionals spent their time actively understanding their clients' business drivers and protecting their interests, rather than submitting links to Slashdot for their Google Ads-linked blogs, mayhaps we'd be in a slightly better position.
We don't need more Steve Gibsons. My two incendiary cents.
M
To quote the bot . . .
"I'm Bender, baby! Please insert liquor!"
I'm hoping he gets his direction straight . . . seeing as 237 T-bones into El Camino Real.
Ouch.
About 55 percent of players are male and approximately 43 percent are female.
I'd make the Unix joke, but I've already been in front of a firing squad today, once was enough.
California?
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Um, unless your desktop is Windows-only?
I'd be far more concerned about the performance gap. But then, I've alway leaned towards the Linus end of the Torvalds/Stallman axis.
I can guarantee you, the only party involved in the process who will see that twenty grand is the insurance industry.
M
Circumference of Earth: 40,000 km.
Speed of Sound: 340 m/s
Amount of time for a Magnitude V bitch slap to be heard around the world: 1.36 days.
*salute*
Hear hear. My strictly stock 330i ZHP (hardly BMW's high end) pulls at 5.7 -- another ten grand would have put me in an M for 0-60 runs at 4.8. That's still 25 grand less than Kit, here.
On another tangent, putting Ferrari, Porsche, and "high-end tuning car" in a performance phrase in the same sentence is pretty gratuitous. Enzo calling, he wants his 3.28 back.
M
Why am I not posting anonymous coward when Im giving them such obvious information as to who I am?
Because I'm not afraid of telling the truth.
Or, alternately, you're lying through your virtual teeth. Column A or Column B, your balls are dragging as you walk, so you earn yourself a salute:
*snap*
Can I just go on record as saying "Well, if you think things are bad here, look at *Europe*" isn't really a fantastic defense?
This, of course, at the one time I don't have any mod points -- so I can mod you "+1, I'm one of the six people in here who got that."
Probably the managers who didn't do their job and keep upper management up to date with correct project status. Anyone else? Yeah. Those managers who took a ship or die attitude and will end up burning their teams out in the next year. And finally those managers who knew reality but continued to live in their fairyland (not the Mac one) where products are developed by sheer management willpower alone.
How about the coders who couldn't hit the originally agreed upon deadline? I know this is slashdot and all, and beating up on management is fun, but how many of you are supposed to be slinging semi-colons right now?
but I do recall loving the country's people. Except for all the 6'6" women :)
*Except* the 6'6" women? What is this, Slashdot?
oh, wait, what?
An Atari 800, followed almost immediately by an Atari 800XL. Nothing like it, before or since. I'd kill for that game selection today.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
I'm talking showstoppers like OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Cygwin, all the really critical tools I use every day.
Ain't trying to be a dick here, but why would you run *any* of those in an emulated environment? OpenOffice and Firefox have excellent native builds, and all Cygwin is doing is de-emulating you back into your (presumably) native GNU environment.
Am I missing the boat?
Wait a minute, you're using definite articles, prepositions, and proper plurality! You're not from Nigeria!
Scam! Scam!!