You haven't heard of chapter skips? Most DVDs are devided into chapters. Often this allows you to skip a five minute chapter with one button press. The menu often has an easy way to skip to a scene just by navigating through a few pages, and it often provides handy screen shots to jog the memory.
Only rarely are the pre-loaded trailers unskippable.
A lot of DVD players also have a "remember place" feature. Many of them don't do it automatically, usually one button press is enough, then turn the power off.
I don't want any information sent about me. I also have a problem with the business model of giving people a trinkety product in exchange for letting a company use you for market research or whatever. I won't use the product.
While there is a spectrum of behavior, I try to avoid allowing even tracking cookies.
1) True, I think, in terms of support of number of third party add-in boards.
2) There would have been an ia64 port (there might be an aborted one) had there been sufficient sales to justify the effort. IIRC, there's already a Linux port, so it is definitely behind on that platform. There's still a question of whether ia64 is an economically viable platform outside of certain high-availability, big iron and supercomputer systems niches.
There is an x64 port, Sun is selling Opteron based servers now.
Outside of conventional Sparc, x86 and x64 systems, I honestly don't see a point in regards to Solaris anyway. I really can't imagine a day any time soon where geeks would drool over Solaris-on-a-watch or Solaris-on-a-pda, so the embedded systems are kind of out of the question.
Banning bulletproof vests because of potential criminal use seems to be kind of silly. Would they be allowing exceptions for those who have recieved death threats? Will only politicians and law enforcement be allowed to use them?
The Lights of America fixtures I bought were shit. They weren't a whole lot better than incandescent. The manuals didn't say that they couldn't be used in a 3-way circuit. The warranty was crap too. Something like pre-paying $10 for the return shipping. For a $25 fixture, shipping it there, +$10, with the prospect of getting another crap fixture, I just bought a competitor's fixture instead.
I'd just run a three-way circuit, which is technically a two-switch. It is cheap but requires labor to install.
I never liked motion detectors, I can actually hear the sound most of them emit.
Flourescents do run more hours of you just leave them on than cycling them dozens of times a day. I think the long term cost savings of running flourescents, as well as the fact that they don't have to be replaced every year worthwhile because pulling out the step ladder can be a pain.
I noticed that the LED "bulbs" were wildly inefficient, and IMO, a bad choice.
At less than $5 bulb-replacement screw-in flourescent runs at 15W and emits the equivalent of 60W incandescent at roughly the same looking color as incandescent. Flourescents are available at many different color temperatures, so the complaint that they are too blue in general doesn't hold anymore.
It also doesn't seem to pulse noticiably unlike the older flourescents, and it doesn't require a massive heat sink either. I won't pay 10x more for a less efficient LED bulb.
In a way, yes, but for someone that reads the entire article, serving up the menus more times than really necessary has to be a drag on CPU and bandwidth.
That's nifty to know, although IIRC, the xw8200 uses Prescott cores, meaning they still consume a lot of electrical power even at no load.
I have a predecessor model, Compaq's Evo w8000 and I think it's a pretty nifty machine. I can still hear it but it is very quiet considering it has 2x 15000 RPM drives in it. The down side is that it appears to consume 200W at idle, and it only has one CPU in it. It does have a 9600 Radeon and a power-sucking deinterlacing board, and all other slots filled too, so I'm not sure how much the actual system is to blame or my add-in cards.
At least it's a lot quieter than a different computer was with the same PCI cards, because the w8000 is very good at removing the heat as it has ducts and somewhat isolated thermal zones, the CPUs, drives and card cage are more or less isolated, each with its own fan. I did still add a few sound dampening pads here and there, but the sound is more a low rumbling than a high pitched whine, high pitched annoys me more.
The difference being, that it appears that this CPU could be easily passively cooled at full load, full clock for an extended period of time, not just at 800MHz or whatever.
For a long time, the big driver for Intel v. AMD was that AMD CPU chips were often cheaper than Intel's CPU chips. The price differences of the boards they go onto wasn't so wide, but I hadn't looked at board prices lately.
To be honest, I'd prefer to stick to an AMD chipset for an AMD chip, and an Intel chipset for an Intel chip. Other than price, I'm not sure what nVidia has going for it, especially with the demise of SoundStorm.
Does anyone know why SoundStorm is gone? That would seem to be nVidia's biggest chipset selling points.
Intel chipsets often don't need drivers but that's because basic drivers for Intel chipsets are usually included with Windows.
With my current computer, Windows 2000 did not have an AGP driver, so my AGP video card was running in PCI mode. Chipset drivers also enable performance features. IIRC, Windows defaults to PIO modes, chipset drivers allow users to enable UDMA.
Now, I'd probably never use a chipset with built-in graphics.
As far as I'm concerned, nVidia is a hardware company, not a software company. They can dick with little bits of semantics, but IMO, hardware companies should provide coding specs in how to use their hardware.
The area that is now the US didn't have much by the way of empires before the 1500's, but it did have a great many indiginous tribes and cultures, much of which is lost to time or legend because they didn't tend to build massive structures.
The US didn't have any world wars fought on its soil either.
On one hand, "fighting fire with fire" (or "stupid with stupid" is an appealing idea, but then considering that one loses their high ground.
Correlation is not equal to causation. Just as I'm not convinced porn does real damage in terms of addiction, I'm not convinced that religion's effect is similar or worse.
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You haven't heard of chapter skips? Most DVDs are devided into chapters. Often this allows you to skip a five minute chapter with one button press. The menu often has an easy way to skip to a scene just by navigating through a few pages, and it often provides handy screen shots to jog the memory.
Only rarely are the pre-loaded trailers unskippable.
A lot of DVD players also have a "remember place" feature. Many of them don't do it automatically, usually one button press is enough, then turn the power off.
I wonder where the OSS movement would be today with the Linux kernel.
You mean without the Linux kernel?
Um, wouldn't we be using BSD?
There is already an Intel-based PCIe board that has dual graphics slots, I think based on the 925 chipset.
The only thing different here is that nVidia might introduce a cheaper way to get such a board.
I play Dr. Mario (64 & GB) and Tetris with some regularity. And those games don't treat me like a criminal either.
IIRC, while you can play the game without the Internet, you still need to get an electronic validation to get it to play.
I don't want any information sent about me. I also have a problem with the business model of giving people a trinkety product in exchange for letting a company use you for market research or whatever. I won't use the product.
While there is a spectrum of behavior, I try to avoid allowing even tracking cookies.
1) True, I think, in terms of support of number of third party add-in boards.
2) There would have been an ia64 port (there might be an aborted one) had there been sufficient sales to justify the effort. IIRC, there's already a Linux port, so it is definitely behind on that platform. There's still a question of whether ia64 is an economically viable platform outside of certain high-availability, big iron and supercomputer systems niches.
There is an x64 port, Sun is selling Opteron based servers now.
Outside of conventional Sparc, x86 and x64 systems, I honestly don't see a point in regards to Solaris anyway. I really can't imagine a day any time soon where geeks would drool over Solaris-on-a-watch or Solaris-on-a-pda, so the embedded systems are kind of out of the question.
Banning bulletproof vests because of potential criminal use seems to be kind of silly. Would they be allowing exceptions for those who have recieved death threats? Will only politicians and law enforcement be allowed to use them?
Scary.
The Lights of America fixtures I bought were shit. They weren't a whole lot better than incandescent. The manuals didn't say that they couldn't be used in a 3-way circuit. The warranty was crap too. Something like pre-paying $10 for the return shipping. For a $25 fixture, shipping it there, +$10, with the prospect of getting another crap fixture, I just bought a competitor's fixture instead.
I'd just run a three-way circuit, which is technically a two-switch. It is cheap but requires labor to install.
I never liked motion detectors, I can actually hear the sound most of them emit.
Flourescents do run more hours of you just leave them on than cycling them dozens of times a day. I think the long term cost savings of running flourescents, as well as the fact that they don't have to be replaced every year worthwhile because pulling out the step ladder can be a pain.
I noticed that the LED "bulbs" were wildly inefficient, and IMO, a bad choice.
At less than $5 bulb-replacement screw-in flourescent runs at 15W and emits the equivalent of 60W incandescent at roughly the same looking color as incandescent. Flourescents are available at many different color temperatures, so the complaint that they are too blue in general doesn't hold anymore.
It also doesn't seem to pulse noticiably unlike the older flourescents, and it doesn't require a massive heat sink either. I won't pay 10x more for a less efficient LED bulb.
In a way, yes, but for someone that reads the entire article, serving up the menus more times than really necessary has to be a drag on CPU and bandwidth.
That's nifty to know, although IIRC, the xw8200 uses Prescott cores, meaning they still consume a lot of electrical power even at no load.
I have a predecessor model, Compaq's Evo w8000 and I think it's a pretty nifty machine. I can still hear it but it is very quiet considering it has 2x 15000 RPM drives in it. The down side is that it appears to consume 200W at idle, and it only has one CPU in it. It does have a 9600 Radeon and a power-sucking deinterlacing board, and all other slots filled too, so I'm not sure how much the actual system is to blame or my add-in cards.
At least it's a lot quieter than a different computer was with the same PCI cards, because the w8000 is very good at removing the heat as it has ducts and somewhat isolated thermal zones, the CPUs, drives and card cage are more or less isolated, each with its own fan. I did still add a few sound dampening pads here and there, but the sound is more a low rumbling than a high pitched whine, high pitched annoys me more.
The difference being, that it appears that this CPU could be easily passively cooled at full load, full clock for an extended period of time, not just at 800MHz or whatever.
Running out of DMA channels seems suspect, I've never seen it happen. I have had 6 drives in my computer, each on their own IDE channel.
I have an Intel 860 chipset with one 2.2 GHz Prestonia chip.
For a long time, the big driver for Intel v. AMD was that AMD CPU chips were often cheaper than Intel's CPU chips. The price differences of the boards they go onto wasn't so wide, but I hadn't looked at board prices lately.
To be honest, I'd prefer to stick to an AMD chipset for an AMD chip, and an Intel chipset for an Intel chip. Other than price, I'm not sure what nVidia has going for it, especially with the demise of SoundStorm.
Does anyone know why SoundStorm is gone? That would seem to be nVidia's biggest chipset selling points.
Intel chipsets often don't need drivers but that's because basic drivers for Intel chipsets are usually included with Windows.
With my current computer, Windows 2000 did not have an AGP driver, so my AGP video card was running in PCI mode. Chipset drivers also enable performance features. IIRC, Windows defaults to PIO modes, chipset drivers allow users to enable UDMA.
Now, I'd probably never use a chipset with built-in graphics.
As far as I'm concerned, nVidia is a hardware company, not a software company. They can dick with little bits of semantics, but IMO, hardware companies should provide coding specs in how to use their hardware.
I don't have problem family, but I do get paid.
I switched my parents to Firefox and Thunderbird a long time ago. The transition wasn't perfect, but I think it was worth it.
The area that is now the US didn't have much by the way of empires before the 1500's, but it did have a great many indiginous tribes and cultures, much of which is lost to time or legend because they didn't tend to build massive structures.
The US didn't have any world wars fought on its soil either.
How was that known to be fake?
On one hand, "fighting fire with fire" (or "stupid with stupid" is an appealing idea, but then considering that one loses their high ground.
Correlation is not equal to causation. Just as I'm not convinced porn does real damage in terms of addiction, I'm not convinced that religion's effect is similar or worse.
TV-viewers with VCRs and Tivos (and MythTV, you arrogant linux jerks)
One can use a TiVo and be an arrogant Linux jerk.
That does sound contradictory.
I also doubt that keeping performances "private" would hold up as a legitimate defense.
People seem to think that 5GB (or 4.5GB) is too small for backups. There are concerns about the reliability of dual layered DVDs.