That supports both standard analog miniplug headphones and the digital optical miniplug. Both are very standard. They might not be the 1/4" connector or the TOSLINK, but that jack is very common, compact and serves your choice of analog or digital.
A lot of people be better off if they read the manuals that are included with PCs, for free.
Anyway, digital photography in itself in terms of how you treat your lighting, framing, exposure speeds isn't inherently different from film. The only reason to have it in the title is to make it more marketable.
IIRC, it used to be five years for most of Microsoft's Windows products.
In contrast, Linux's supposed #1 commercial distribution, Redhat? All official support was pulled after 16 months. I hope people can lobby to keep enterprise business away from Redhat.
Just to make sure you people know, the slippery slope argument is a fallacy in itself. It's not to say that it doesn't happen, one event does not always make a second event inevitable.
Well, hey, now maybe we can hope for some other distribution to include this, hopefully one that doesn't suddenly yank their maintainance support out from under you only sixteen months after introducing a product?
I'm not sure what your fees are, but some of them are hidden. For DSL, you generally have to pay for a land line for it to work. Of course, you get basic phone service, but that cost must be considered. It only looks like $25 or so if you already happen to have a land line in use. People seem to find out the hard way if they only had a cell phone or get a cell phone and try to cancel the land line.
I really don't think $50 is all that bad, cable internet near my area is $60, although that does include basic cable. There was a time even only a year ago where broadband was priced $40 and up even for the big nationwide providers.
If you buy his "you can resell your DSL bandwidth" argument which in 90% of cases is not true.
More like 99%, possibly four nines or so. DSL is rarely resellable. I'm pretty sure you have to buy a T1 or pricier to be able to resell according to the TOS.
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I say that caps lock and CTRL could be swapped.
I've seen some games and other software actally use scroll lock. The only reason I really know this is that sometimes I wonder why I can't scroll, and I find I've accidentally hit SCRLCK when I hit home.
You can emulate a center with stereo, but only from a small sweet spot. A good center is still needed for all the people that sit off-axis. IIRC, you can't do head-related transfer functions from stereo speakers very well, and they don't fool everyone even with headphones, I suspect because everyone has slightly different ears.
Twenty two channels may seem like overkill, but I won't write it off just yet. It's only till people experience it when people can truly tell what they have isn't everything. I expect this to be great in a movie theater where people could be anywhere in a huge theater.
Uh, I know Bill Gates didn't say this, but at one time, 640k really was enough for anyone. Obviously we've surpassed that by a factor of 1000 in twenty year's time.
It took decades for TVs to really take advantage of NTSC resolution, and only in the past decade did they surpass them. As it is, only a few displays can really display HDTV in its full detail, they all have some shortcomming, but it's doable with proper tweaking and not cheaping out.
IBM has LCD monitors of 4000x3000 resolutions NOW, for screens of about 23". They cost money, but some fields need it to get a DPI that approaches paper print. I think that IBM screen is bout 200dpi.
300dpi seems to be a good target to hit before the decade is out, at that DPI and with UHDV's resolution, the screen is 25" wide. I don't know about you, but a 25" wide computer monitor that laser-print crisp is very interesting.
It is at the point wheree going higher resolution is moot, but on a screen that is movie theater size, you'll want that resolution. IIRC, movie frames are often rendered in 4k pixel resolution.
Some people will say it is too sharp, but the beauty is that you can add analog-looking grain and probably make it indistinguishable from a good modern film projection. Personally, I prefer analog-looking artifacts more than digital-looking artifacts because they often represent reality better.
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It looks like it would easily be able to do light A/V editing, just not on that screen but when docked.
I don't think such a device was meant for such tasks. Keep in mind that this device isn't for everyone, and no device should be viewed as a do-everything device. Not many people edit AV files anyway, but rather just play videos, surf the web, write email, write an occasional Word file and so on, which are all tasks that the OQO should be able to do.
Well, video would be a bit tight on a 10GB drive with XP and no optical reader, but I imagine that larger capacity drives can be stuffed into that thing, but streaming video from a web site shouldn't be a problem, and files can be stored on nearby servers connected to the wireless network.
I doubt OQO would mean the end of laptops, because laptops haven't meant an end to desktops, and desktops haven't meant an end to mainframes, and the installed base of systems in all of those categories have grown. In this case, I think it might fill a good niche.
You mis-read the specs and didn't look at the photos. The dimensions are 4.9" x 3.4" x 0.9"
I think this is a case in point to show that a leading zero on sub-decimal numbers is necessary for best readability. Decimal points are tiny and can disappear, depending on the font chosen. I think leading zeros are dropped for aesthetic reasons, but I think it is helpful as a cue, because the decimal spaces the numbers apart.
Those dimensions are still pretty much demanding cargo pants to make it "pocket" capable.
I have some softcover books about that size and they don't fit well into normal pants or shirt pockets. You can force them in, but it's uncomfortable, and the OQO is probably inflexible so it's going to be a big flat bulge, bigger than anything else I cram into pockets.
Mind you, it still is a very interesting little device, simply not all that "pocket"-fitting to me.
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I tried an iPaq but solely Bluetooth didn't cut it, and text input was too hard.
I've seen an iPaq that has both 802.11b and bluetooth. You can buy little keyboard add-ons for them too, and it would cost less than half as much as OQO.
So, free speech now means being silent when corporate cash is used to spread FUD diluting the truth?
Who said that not boycotting isn't a form of speech? Isn't boycotting in this case is trying to exclude one form of speech? Why does it have to be mutually exclusive?
Has the ad money been proven to affect content?
In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot itself has pro-Microsoft banner ads. Maybe you should exclude your voice from slashdot by boycotting?
No one has said McD's is healthy. Saying McD's is killing people is like a person that buys a gun to shoot themselves. Is Smith & Wesson in any way really responsible for the conditions that caused that guy to do so? Put it this way: I can kill people with a Craftsman hammer. Is SEARS responsible for selling me the hammer?
But then, I'd say Ford is probably responsible for Pinto because there was no way for the first buyers to know about the flaw. The danger there was exaggerated, but real. The sad thing is that current Crown Victorias have a similer flaw, although less severe, it shouldn't be there.
People being down on corporatism - buy the book! At the biggest store you can find! Um, isn't the publishing industry heavily dosed corporatism, one that stands to gain something if they exaggerate things to get people riled up to buy a book to find what they are upset about? Don't laugh, take a look at the glut of partisan books out there now.
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no headphone output or proper audio connectors
Then what the hell is that audio connector?
AirTunes Express Specs
That supports both standard analog miniplug headphones and the digital optical miniplug. Both are very standard. They might not be the 1/4" connector or the TOSLINK, but that jack is very common, compact and serves your choice of analog or digital.
I think one quick, easy fix is to disallow hyperlinks in the comments / guest book. If it isn't an "a href" then Google's spider won't take it.
I think it stands to reason that Google shouldn't give ANY opening to competition. If there is a major complaint about how the system works, fix it.
If Google just sits around then the competition will likely catch up.
A lot of people be better off if they read the manuals that are included with PCs, for free.
Anyway, digital photography in itself in terms of how you treat your lighting, framing, exposure speeds isn't inherently different from film. The only reason to have it in the title is to make it more marketable.
Are you geek version of Grandpa Simpson?
Numlock is used in some older games, makes moving diaganol easy.
Which isn't too bad to lose that key because there currently are only about thirty commercial games for Apple machines.
IIRC, it used to be five years for most of Microsoft's Windows products.
In contrast, Linux's supposed #1 commercial distribution, Redhat? All official support was pulled after 16 months. I hope people can lobby to keep enterprise business away from Redhat.
Just to make sure you people know, the slippery slope argument is a fallacy in itself. It's not to say that it doesn't happen, one event does not always make a second event inevitable.
Well, hey, now maybe we can hope for some other distribution to include this, hopefully one that doesn't suddenly yank their maintainance support out from under you only sixteen months after introducing a product?
I'm not sure what your fees are, but some of them are hidden. For DSL, you generally have to pay for a land line for it to work. Of course, you get basic phone service, but that cost must be considered. It only looks like $25 or so if you already happen to have a land line in use. People seem to find out the hard way if they only had a cell phone or get a cell phone and try to cancel the land line.
I really don't think $50 is all that bad, cable internet near my area is $60, although that does include basic cable. There was a time even only a year ago where broadband was priced $40 and up even for the big nationwide providers.
If you buy his "you can resell your DSL bandwidth" argument which in 90% of cases is not true.
More like 99%, possibly four nines or so. DSL is rarely resellable. I'm pretty sure you have to buy a T1 or pricier to be able to resell according to the TOS.
I say that caps lock and CTRL could be swapped.
I've seen some games and other software actally use scroll lock. The only reason I really know this is that sometimes I wonder why I can't scroll, and I find I've accidentally hit SCRLCK when I hit home.
The AOLers probably have a program to permanently set the caps lock on.
That means MS has already got their marketshare boost
Uh, make that an installed base boost. It's not much of a market share, that implies money changed hands for that licence, when it did not.
You can emulate a center with stereo, but only from a small sweet spot. A good center is still needed for all the people that sit off-axis. IIRC, you can't do head-related transfer functions from stereo speakers very well, and they don't fool everyone even with headphones, I suspect because everyone has slightly different ears.
Twenty two channels may seem like overkill, but I won't write it off just yet. It's only till people experience it when people can truly tell what they have isn't everything. I expect this to be great in a movie theater where people could be anywhere in a huge theater.
Uh, I know Bill Gates didn't say this, but at one time, 640k really was enough for anyone. Obviously we've surpassed that by a factor of 1000 in twenty year's time.
It took decades for TVs to really take advantage of NTSC resolution, and only in the past decade did they surpass them. As it is, only a few displays can really display HDTV in its full detail, they all have some shortcomming, but it's doable with proper tweaking and not cheaping out.
IBM has LCD monitors of 4000x3000 resolutions NOW, for screens of about 23". They cost money, but some fields need it to get a DPI that approaches paper print. I think that IBM screen is bout 200dpi.
300dpi seems to be a good target to hit before the decade is out, at that DPI and with UHDV's resolution, the screen is 25" wide. I don't know about you, but a 25" wide computer monitor that laser-print crisp is very interesting.
It is at the point wheree going higher resolution is moot, but on a screen that is movie theater size, you'll want that resolution. IIRC, movie frames are often rendered in 4k pixel resolution.
Some people will say it is too sharp, but the beauty is that you can add analog-looking grain and probably make it indistinguishable from a good modern film projection. Personally, I prefer analog-looking artifacts more than digital-looking artifacts because they often represent reality better.
It looks like it would easily be able to do light A/V editing, just not on that screen but when docked.
I don't think such a device was meant for such tasks. Keep in mind that this device isn't for everyone, and no device should be viewed as a do-everything device. Not many people edit AV files anyway, but rather just play videos, surf the web, write email, write an occasional Word file and so on, which are all tasks that the OQO should be able to do.
Well, video would be a bit tight on a 10GB drive with XP and no optical reader, but I imagine that larger capacity drives can be stuffed into that thing, but streaming video from a web site shouldn't be a problem, and files can be stored on nearby servers connected to the wireless network.
I doubt OQO would mean the end of laptops, because laptops haven't meant an end to desktops, and desktops haven't meant an end to mainframes, and the installed base of systems in all of those categories have grown. In this case, I think it might fill a good niche.
You mis-read the specs and didn't look at the photos. The dimensions are 4.9" x 3.4" x 0.9"
I think this is a case in point to show that a leading zero on sub-decimal numbers is necessary for best readability. Decimal points are tiny and can disappear, depending on the font chosen. I think leading zeros are dropped for aesthetic reasons, but I think it is helpful as a cue, because the decimal spaces the numbers apart.
Those dimensions are still pretty much demanding cargo pants to make it "pocket" capable.
I have some softcover books about that size and they don't fit well into normal pants or shirt pockets. You can force them in, but it's uncomfortable, and the OQO is probably inflexible so it's going to be a big flat bulge, bigger than anything else I cram into pockets.
Mind you, it still is a very interesting little device, simply not all that "pocket"-fitting to me.
I tried an iPaq but solely Bluetooth didn't cut it, and text input was too hard.
I've seen an iPaq that has both 802.11b and bluetooth. You can buy little keyboard add-ons for them too, and it would cost less than half as much as OQO.
So, free speech now means being silent when corporate cash is used to spread FUD diluting the truth?
Who said that not boycotting isn't a form of speech? Isn't boycotting in this case is trying to exclude one form of speech? Why does it have to be mutually exclusive?
Has the ad money been proven to affect content?
In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot itself has pro-Microsoft banner ads. Maybe you should exclude your voice from slashdot by boycotting?
The small-penis crowd needs to validate itself through what it owns.
I've always wondered why statements like this are misguided.
Fallacy: Appeal to Ridicule
In short, resorting to mocking people doesn't make the argument true.
McDonald's food is killing people.
No one has said McD's is healthy. Saying McD's is killing people is like a person that buys a gun to shoot themselves. Is Smith & Wesson in any way really responsible for the conditions that caused that guy to do so? Put it this way: I can kill people with a Craftsman hammer. Is SEARS responsible for selling me the hammer?
But then, I'd say Ford is probably responsible for Pinto because there was no way for the first buyers to know about the flaw. The danger there was exaggerated, but real. The sad thing is that current Crown Victorias have a similer flaw, although less severe, it shouldn't be there.
This is kind of interesting:
People being down on corporatism - buy the book! At the biggest store you can find! Um, isn't the publishing industry heavily dosed corporatism, one that stands to gain something if they exaggerate things to get people riled up to buy a book to find what they are upset about? Don't laugh, take a look at the glut of partisan books out there now.
What happened to the library again?