Given that the mount poing is based an open standard, I'd expect that third party telescoping mounts will be made available if there really is sufficient demand.
Huh? I'd call it a melding. Doesn't the phone network sell their back bone services to ISPs, and Internet backbone services sell some of their network services to the phone companies?
It isn't apparent for analog lines because it is transparently converted to digital at many COs and transmitted.
I think the compressor can be bypassed on the PVR cards when playing in real time, game play doesn't need to be time shifted. Software encoding adds lag too because encoding simply takes time, a CPU doesn't automagically make encoding instantaneous. Also for efficiency, you have this hot CPU doing what a cooler running hardware compressor could be doing instead.
You don't get all the TiVo code, do you? I remember reading that the file system is a proprietary module, and they do anything they can to put things in user space to avoid having to GPL that code.
I see it routinely for slashdot. I don't know why some posters try to ignore it or blame the user because a LOT of people have complained about that bug.
I don't see that bug as worthy of switching back to IE. Popup blocking, Javascript control, cookie blocking, flashblock and adblock are all reasons enough to stay. I'd rather quit reading slashdot than go back to IE. I almost did quit reading slashdot because of it, but I realized that hitting refresh was easier. I should stop using shitty web sites, but oh well.
Personally, I think death threats are going too far,
Hell yes. It doesn't seem like anyone here is condemning the death threats. It simply isn't the way people should behave.
Actually, "too far" doesn't describe it well enough, it is plainly criminal, likely a felony, and for good reason. People shouldn't be giving death threats simply because they don't like what someone else is doing. Even if death threats were "just" unethical, complaining by unethical behavior to counter unethical behavior is hypocritical.
I think you can probably pre-filter the video (assuming the system can be set to do that) and encode it at a lower bitrate. It isn't as if cable or antenna feeds are worthy of DVD bitrates.
Sheesh, it seems to take me at least fifteen minutes to get everything out of the boxes! Then I spend another fifteen putting the case together, a few more mounting the motherboard, more if I drop a screw and it gets caught in some cranny somewhere. I suppose these guys have done it alot, but that seems to be pushing it.
No thanks. Give me a cheap laptop or tablet with XGA.
I agree. I had bought a used PIIIm laptop with a 14" screen, weighing 5lb with an SXGA+ native resolution. It is a a handy little portable media device that can be used to surf the net, play videos, make drawings, write code, etc.
Before I sold it to buy this one, I had paid about $400 or so for a used PIIIm 14" XGA laptop which did all this for nearly the cost of the smaller portable video player.
All this out of a device I bought purely for wireless networking.
The laptop is 5lb and is bigger than the portable media players, that's still what I consider to be acceptable. The laptop is used but it is still going pretty strong.
Even at around $500 they will probably sell pretty well. They aren't that much more than a portable DVD player.
A portable DVD player can be bought for $250.
For $400 I bought a PIIIm 800MHz laptop with the earliest Mobility Radeon chip. Granted, it only got three to four hours of battery life, I prefer it to any dedicated portable media player. Still, I can use it for task, not just media. At 5
I see no point in forcing people to accept bills that they may get burned with. If the ATM is giving out bills too high, complain to the bank that operates it. I've only seen $20s come out of ATMs but I usually avoid them to avoid their fees.
Read your own links if you want to not contradict your case!
There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services
I've always read it corrected as a "holiday special". For some, the difference is nil, but for others, is pretty significant. For those that don't celebrate Christmas, that is.
I thought that some GFX cards already consumed about 150W of power and requires two slots to hold the heat sinks and cooling systems. Some GFX cards cost more than I'll usually spend on CPUs.
So the hardware will mandate compatibility with several different codecs in standard hardware. what is the problem with that? Otherwise you'd have to worry about which codecs your player has. That's like complaining that dual layer compatibility is mandated in all DVD readers. Why limit people to specific media?
Not mandating it would mean that some playes may or may not support it. That is very dumb because it will be confusing if an MPEG4 disc isn't supported but a movie is only available on MPEG4.
It's just that 32-bit computing is taking its last breath, and it's time to move on.
It depends what you mean by computing. Network appliances and embedded systems will be 32 bit for a looong time.
I also don't expect the HP IA-32 systems to all shift to Opteron. I think that was a hedged bet in case Intel didn't ship its chips with AMD64 compatibility soon enough. It isn't as if the two brands of chips can't coexist in the same model line either.
On my PowerBook, I was FORCED to buy 1 Gig of RAM off them, and my second Gig elsewhere, otherwise I'd have to throw out their default 512 meg stick in order to free up a slot.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just buy the minimum amount of memory, drop the included memory card and bought 2GB elsewhere? It isn't hard to sell off that card either. I think in the end, you'd spend less money overall.
What do you do with the system if you felt you needed to have 2GB RAM in it?
I make backups of CDs - one to keep in a CD changer, one to keep in a CD wallet, the original sits in its original packaging in a shelf in the back room.
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If iMac G5 really emits 25dB, then it is very good. That is quieter than most hard drives, I think Seagate rates their queter drives around 27dB or so
Given that the mount poing is based an open standard, I'd expect that third party telescoping mounts will be made available if there really is sufficient demand.
Huh? I'd call it a melding. Doesn't the phone network sell their back bone services to ISPs, and Internet backbone services sell some of their network services to the phone companies?
It isn't apparent for analog lines because it is transparently converted to digital at many COs and transmitted.
I think the compressor can be bypassed on the PVR cards when playing in real time, game play doesn't need to be time shifted. Software encoding adds lag too because encoding simply takes time, a CPU doesn't automagically make encoding instantaneous. Also for efficiency, you have this hot CPU doing what a cooler running hardware compressor could be doing instead.
You don't get all the TiVo code, do you? I remember reading that the file system is a proprietary module, and they do anything they can to put things in user space to avoid having to GPL that code.
Is the software any good? I had Pinnacle Studio 8 and it turned out to be the bane of most users because it was buggy and crash prone.
I see it routinely for slashdot. I don't know why some posters try to ignore it or blame the user because a LOT of people have complained about that bug.
I don't see that bug as worthy of switching back to IE. Popup blocking, Javascript control, cookie blocking, flashblock and adblock are all reasons enough to stay. I'd rather quit reading slashdot than go back to IE. I almost did quit reading slashdot because of it, but I realized that hitting refresh was easier. I should stop using shitty web sites, but oh well.
Personally, I think death threats are going too far,
Hell yes. It doesn't seem like anyone here is condemning the death threats. It simply isn't the way people should behave.
Actually, "too far" doesn't describe it well enough, it is plainly criminal, likely a felony, and for good reason. People shouldn't be giving death threats simply because they don't like what someone else is doing. Even if death threats were "just" unethical, complaining by unethical behavior to counter unethical behavior is hypocritical.
I think you can probably pre-filter the video (assuming the system can be set to do that) and encode it at a lower bitrate. It isn't as if cable or antenna feeds are worthy of DVD bitrates.
Sheesh, it seems to take me at least fifteen minutes to get everything out of the boxes! Then I spend another fifteen putting the case together, a few more mounting the motherboard, more if I drop a screw and it gets caught in some cranny somewhere. I suppose these guys have done it alot, but that seems to be pushing it.
My own web site has about 15% of Netscape-derived web clients, be it Navigator, Firefox or whatever.
I wouldn't get excited about it though. IE still accounts for most of the rest.
Uh, Doesn't AOL own Netscape or some Gecko based client? Are you sure AOL is still using IE?
Screen resolution: 320x240 pixels
No thanks. Give me a cheap laptop or tablet with XGA.
I agree. I had bought a used PIIIm laptop with a 14" screen, weighing 5lb with an SXGA+ native resolution. It is a a handy little portable media device that can be used to surf the net, play videos, make drawings, write code, etc.
Before I sold it to buy this one, I had paid about $400 or so for a used PIIIm 14" XGA laptop which did all this for nearly the cost of the smaller portable video player.
All this out of a device I bought purely for wireless networking.
oops, I hit the wrong button, I'll continue...
The laptop is 5lb and is bigger than the portable media players, that's still what I consider to be acceptable. The laptop is used but it is still going pretty strong.
Even at around $500 they will probably sell pretty well. They aren't that much more than a portable DVD player.
A portable DVD player can be bought for $250.
For $400 I bought a PIIIm 800MHz laptop with the earliest Mobility Radeon chip. Granted, it only got three to four hours of battery life, I prefer it to any dedicated portable media player. Still, I can use it for task, not just media. At 5
Oops, I am stupid. You did read it.
I see no point in forcing people to accept bills that they may get burned with. If the ATM is giving out bills too high, complain to the bank that operates it. I've only seen $20s come out of ATMs but I usually avoid them to avoid their fees.
Read your own links if you want to not contradict your case!
There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services
I've always read it corrected as a "holiday special". For some, the difference is nil, but for others, is pretty significant. For those that don't celebrate Christmas, that is.
I thought that some GFX cards already consumed about 150W of power and requires two slots to hold the heat sinks and cooling systems. Some GFX cards cost more than I'll usually spend on CPUs.
"I forget, what is 10% of nothing? Oh, that's right, it is nothing!"
- Jayne in Firefly -
So the hardware will mandate compatibility with several different codecs in standard hardware. what is the problem with that? Otherwise you'd have to worry about which codecs your player has. That's like complaining that dual layer compatibility is mandated in all DVD readers. Why limit people to specific media?
Not mandating it would mean that some playes may or may not support it. That is very dumb because it will be confusing if an MPEG4 disc isn't supported but a movie is only available on MPEG4.
It's just that 32-bit computing is taking its last breath, and it's time to move on.
It depends what you mean by computing. Network appliances and embedded systems will be 32 bit for a looong time.
I also don't expect the HP IA-32 systems to all shift to Opteron. I think that was a hedged bet in case Intel didn't ship its chips with AMD64 compatibility soon enough. It isn't as if the two brands of chips can't coexist in the same model line either.
On my PowerBook, I was FORCED to buy 1 Gig of RAM off them, and my second Gig elsewhere, otherwise I'd have to throw out their default 512 meg stick in order to free up a slot.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just buy the minimum amount of memory, drop the included memory card and bought 2GB elsewhere? It isn't hard to sell off that card either. I think in the end, you'd spend less money overall.
What do you do with the system if you felt you needed to have 2GB RAM in it?
Itanium isn't so poorly priced once compared to the 8-way Opteron 8xx series. 8 way and up computers are the current target market of Itanium.
I make backups of CDs - one to keep in a CD changer, one to keep in a CD wallet, the original sits in its original packaging in a shelf in the back room.
I agree proper handling is the way to go.