Oh, and the higher up the screen is mounted, the less likely the viewers are to get carsick; having the screen on the ceiling or headrest is better than looking down at an ipad in your lap.
When I'm driving, I try to pay attention to the road. If we're going to be in the car for 30 minutes on the DC beltway, why not let them watch something while I concentrate? They don't watch much TV at home, there are no ads on our dvds, and we're generally on our way to do something as a family. I think it's a perfect time for them to watch something. On longer trips we tend to listen to books on cd etc, because you can't watch tv for that long, but for running around town the dvd is great.
I was "stupid enough" to buy the built in system in 2002, and I haven't regretted it even though it cost $1500. The system is well integrated, so it's easy for the driver to control, which was important when the kids were toddlers. Fiddling around with portable players gets old fast; we've used both DVD & PMP players on trips abroad & they're a much bigger pain. When we got the system we thought we'd use it mostly for long trips, but in actuality we we use it more for the 20 minute around town type stuff, which is where the convenience really pays for itself. It has worked well for 8 years now, and judging by the prices used head units go for on ebay (~$75) no one else is having any problems either (the one in our Odyssey is made by Pioneer) - that's not bad for something that endures a lot of shocks and temperature extremes. Sure, now that the kids are older, if we were buying a new vehicle I'd weigh the options, but especially with really young kids the built in systems are really worth paying a little more for.
But flash in general seems to be holding steady, or even going up a bit. The same 16bg SDHC card I bought a year ago from Newegg for $30 is right now around $34. That could be explained by a combination of reduced capacity & larger SSDs taking up more of the reduced production.
Honestly, for things like this that I don't have the time to do right I prefer to let someone else do them. In this case, why not route your mail through Postini or another service? I'm pretty sure that I can't hope to do a better job filtering than Google...
I had the exact same experience with Avatar and the Alice trailer. I had hoped they had just overdone it for the trailer, but the Alice 3D didn't get any better for me when I saw the movie. I won't be seeing any more 2D conversions in 3D if I can help it, it's just irritating to me. The rest of my family, however, don't seem to mind.
I thought that's how all of Texas is (having only been to a few parts). There's a LOT of space there, things seem way too spread out to someone who grew up on the East coast.
I was just there for yesterday's launch. We drove into Titusville & went along the riverbank Sunday evening, a lot of places with parking lots or fields will let you park for $20 or so. We parked & set up a tent around 7pm, we were the second car back from the water with a clear view & by the time we got up the field we were on was totally packed. Lots of families & a nice festive atmosphere. It was awesome, and totally worth it, though there's always the risk that it won't go - for example, there was a chance of fog which might have canceled it. It's really amazing to be sitting on a van 10 miles across the water from the launch site and to feel and hear it when it's already pretty high up - the whole car was shaking. It's one of the coolest things we've ever seen, up there with the aurora borealis. We heard there were 100,000 people in town for this one, and it took an hour to get back onto 95, and the crowds will probably just get bigger for the next three. So, in short, yes it's worth it, the tickets will be sold out, but you'll be able to watch from anywhere along the river in Titusville. You won't regret it.
cruise control is usually liked by people who aren't bothered about driving and just want it to be as painless as possible. i find it quite boring.
I just drove overnight from FL to MD (saw the shuttle launch!) and for long drives on the highway I think cruise control should be mandatory. People who speed up & slow down constantly are just making it difficult for everyone else. Pick a speed, stick with it, don't floor it to get past me and then ease off as soon as you're in front. Highway driving should be as painless as possible, if you want fun driving get out on fun roads.
Third this, though I'm leaning towards the $320 one with dual core Atom, extra RAM & Win7, since it looks like Win7 is a better choice for recording OTA HD right now. Lots of people seem to be running Win7 on the $200 one too, but I'm not a student so I don't have a cheap copy on hand. Check out revohtpc.com for basic setup info.
But he's not really talking about "walking around blind", he mentions concrete skills like measuring. They could still get a feel for concepts without the arithmetic drills that are common in schools.
Thanks for that - I never knew about the altitude & speed restrictions on GPSs. I can imagine that would cause some head scratching if you bought the wrong one for one of these projects.
If you're doing wireless, sending high quality images back continuously can really chew up your bandwidth. If the camera has enough smarts to only send events it can make things easier. Plus using less bandwidth makes things like having your Zoneminder box be an offsite VM easier too.
I have to agree with the summary; I thought that Avatar's 3D was well done and unobtrusive, but I saw Alice in Wonderland this weekend & the 3D was really annoying to me. It's hard to describe but it seems like moving objects in the foreground get kind of transparent. I had noticed it during the 3D ad before Avatar, and it made me think that Avatar would be the same, but since Avatar was ok I figured maybe they'd just overdone it a bit for the trailer. I liked Alice, but I was wishing I was in the 2D version for most of the movie. The rest of my family, however, had no complaints, so I'm probably just weird.
OT, but that problem is solved for dogs by the radio invisible fences - there's a zone created outside of which the beep/shock starts. It encourages them to stay in that zone. The downside is that the zone is roughly a circle around the transmitter, so it doesn't correspond closely to property lines, but it works great with a traditional fence to delineate the boundary.
I wasn't addressing the "testing rig, spare desktop and spare laptop" - of course I have that stuff. I was addressing the "have a backup of every piece of equipment", which is just unnecessary in most cases.
The only way to keep data from entering/leaving the country would be to shut down travel entirely, shut down the mail, shut down the parcel services, and turn the US into North Korea.
If by "turn the US into North Korea" you mean no internet, maybe. I don't see why you would bother with smuggling flash memory when you could just FTP (or SFTP) anything you want inside a TrueCrypt container. Much easier & safer.
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Oh, and the higher up the screen is mounted, the less likely the viewers are to get carsick; having the screen on the ceiling or headrest is better than looking down at an ipad in your lap.
When I'm driving, I try to pay attention to the road. If we're going to be in the car for 30 minutes on the DC beltway, why not let them watch something while I concentrate? They don't watch much TV at home, there are no ads on our dvds, and we're generally on our way to do something as a family. I think it's a perfect time for them to watch something. On longer trips we tend to listen to books on cd etc, because you can't watch tv for that long, but for running around town the dvd is great.
I was "stupid enough" to buy the built in system in 2002, and I haven't regretted it even though it cost $1500. The system is well integrated, so it's easy for the driver to control, which was important when the kids were toddlers. Fiddling around with portable players gets old fast; we've used both DVD & PMP players on trips abroad & they're a much bigger pain. When we got the system we thought we'd use it mostly for long trips, but in actuality we we use it more for the 20 minute around town type stuff, which is where the convenience really pays for itself. It has worked well for 8 years now, and judging by the prices used head units go for on ebay (~$75) no one else is having any problems either (the one in our Odyssey is made by Pioneer) - that's not bad for something that endures a lot of shocks and temperature extremes. Sure, now that the kids are older, if we were buying a new vehicle I'd weigh the options, but especially with really young kids the built in systems are really worth paying a little more for.
I think they've developed a 3D Spirograph...
But flash in general seems to be holding steady, or even going up a bit. The same 16bg SDHC card I bought a year ago from Newegg for $30 is right now around $34. That could be explained by a combination of reduced capacity & larger SSDs taking up more of the reduced production.
Honestly, for things like this that I don't have the time to do right I prefer to let someone else do them. In this case, why not route your mail through Postini or another service? I'm pretty sure that I can't hope to do a better job filtering than Google...
Mod this up - this is especially relevant when it's a former coworker.
Well, you'd need to factor in the additional cooling costs associated with the higher power drives too, so you'd recoup in closer to 41 years...
I had the exact same experience with Avatar and the Alice trailer. I had hoped they had just overdone it for the trailer, but the Alice 3D didn't get any better for me when I saw the movie. I won't be seeing any more 2D conversions in 3D if I can help it, it's just irritating to me. The rest of my family, however, don't seem to mind.
I thought that's how all of Texas is (having only been to a few parts). There's a LOT of space there, things seem way too spread out to someone who grew up on the East coast.
I was just there for yesterday's launch. We drove into Titusville & went along the riverbank Sunday evening, a lot of places with parking lots or fields will let you park for $20 or so. We parked & set up a tent around 7pm, we were the second car back from the water with a clear view & by the time we got up the field we were on was totally packed. Lots of families & a nice festive atmosphere. It was awesome, and totally worth it, though there's always the risk that it won't go - for example, there was a chance of fog which might have canceled it. It's really amazing to be sitting on a van 10 miles across the water from the launch site and to feel and hear it when it's already pretty high up - the whole car was shaking. It's one of the coolest things we've ever seen, up there with the aurora borealis. We heard there were 100,000 people in town for this one, and it took an hour to get back onto 95, and the crowds will probably just get bigger for the next three. So, in short, yes it's worth it, the tickets will be sold out, but you'll be able to watch from anywhere along the river in Titusville. You won't regret it.
cruise control is usually liked by people who aren't bothered about driving and just want it to be as painless as possible. i find it quite boring.
I just drove overnight from FL to MD (saw the shuttle launch!) and for long drives on the highway I think cruise control should be mandatory. People who speed up & slow down constantly are just making it difficult for everyone else. Pick a speed, stick with it, don't floor it to get past me and then ease off as soon as you're in front. Highway driving should be as painless as possible, if you want fun driving get out on fun roads.
No Hulu. No DVD ISO menu support. Otherwise it's a nice little unit.
Third this, though I'm leaning towards the $320 one with dual core Atom, extra RAM & Win7, since it looks like Win7 is a better choice for recording OTA HD right now. Lots of people seem to be running Win7 on the $200 one too, but I'm not a student so I don't have a cheap copy on hand. Check out revohtpc.com for basic setup info.
But he's not really talking about "walking around blind", he mentions concrete skills like measuring. They could still get a feel for concepts without the arithmetic drills that are common in schools.
Thanks for that - I never knew about the altitude & speed restrictions on GPSs. I can imagine that would cause some head scratching if you bought the wrong one for one of these projects.
If you're doing wireless, sending high quality images back continuously can really chew up your bandwidth. If the camera has enough smarts to only send events it can make things easier. Plus using less bandwidth makes things like having your Zoneminder box be an offsite VM easier too.
SheevaPlug is $99 with no screen or battery. A tablet at that price would be really something.
I've been playing around with Zoneminder a bit & this could be a way to use decentralized cheap cameras to send events to a ZM server. Pretty neat.
Cool, we're in Silver Spring - it's actually my wife who does the web design, I just help out with the geekier stuff...
I have to agree with the summary; I thought that Avatar's 3D was well done and unobtrusive, but I saw Alice in Wonderland this weekend & the 3D was really annoying to me. It's hard to describe but it seems like moving objects in the foreground get kind of transparent. I had noticed it during the 3D ad before Avatar, and it made me think that Avatar would be the same, but since Avatar was ok I figured maybe they'd just overdone it a bit for the trailer. I liked Alice, but I was wishing I was in the 2D version for most of the movie. The rest of my family, however, had no complaints, so I'm probably just weird.
OT, but that problem is solved for dogs by the radio invisible fences - there's a zone created outside of which the beep/shock starts. It encourages them to stay in that zone. The downside is that the zone is roughly a circle around the transmitter, so it doesn't correspond closely to property lines, but it works great with a traditional fence to delineate the boundary.
I know, shouldn't reply to AC but... stuartsilver.com sites are not hosted in my basement.
I wasn't addressing the "testing rig, spare desktop and spare laptop" - of course I have that stuff. I was addressing the "have a backup of every piece of equipment", which is just unnecessary in most cases.
The only way to keep data from entering/leaving the country would be to shut down travel entirely, shut down the mail, shut down the parcel services, and turn the US into North Korea.
If by "turn the US into North Korea" you mean no internet, maybe. I don't see why you would bother with smuggling flash memory when you could just FTP (or SFTP) anything you want inside a TrueCrypt container. Much easier & safer.