At $300, it's probably VGA or SVGA res, good enough for DVD, but blow it up too large and you'll be seeing the gaps between the pixels. HD projectors run over $1000. A good 1080p projector can be had for about $2000 now, and they're generally quite beautiful.
But that's not really what is being requested. As often happens, the slash headline doesn't represent the slash article. Neither appears to represent what's said in the real article. The code wasn't subponaed, the author was. What they are looking for are lists of texters and the text contents.
The Fox animated shows appear to be 480i, I recall seeing interlacing problems. I thought Unhitched and Miss Guided were 480p but maybe they used cheaper film or something, it's not as impressive as other HD shows.
Given that just about no one uses Middle English anymore, and that almost no one uses the term that way, the more current definition applies. This is just another example of the many words we use that effectively don't mean what they originally meant, just like the surname "Smith" doesn't mean you're a blacksmith.
What about OTA, you say? Yeah, OTA broadcasts only have to be *digital*, not HD.
Digital is generally a huge improvement for OTA, even if they split an old NTSC channel into four SD ATSC channels.
Also, most prime time stuff is in HD, so the time when most typical people are most likely to be watching TV, it's usually in HD, though it looks like FOX is still sticking to 480p.
Some of the macroscopic things that we understand almost intuitively don't hold very well in the micro world. For example, DLP projection uses mirrors that twist on a sliver of aluminum hundreds of times a second, but they're reliable for many billions of actuations.
Because the monopolist can set in a set of market conditions that make it extremely disfavorable, if not impossible for competition to form. Because the monopolist usually has deep reserves, they can sell below cost should competition arise, drive them out of business, then raise the prices again. So you have to wait until some competition comes along with even deeper pockets, assuming that ever happens. The monopolist would also have the power to set up long term exclusive contracts such that an entity can only deal with one company. If the contract isn't accepted, the entity is deprived of what they need, because there is no alternative. So they can't ride it out until competition arives, and if it does, they are either locked or no longer exist to take advantage.
The idea of free market should be a tool, not an ideological club, free market for its own sake is absurdity.
The extreme perspective on something is usually the least useful one.
I would rather have a somewhat "broken" free market than one that allows a misuse of monopolies. In the long run, no one benefits from monopolies other than the monopolist. I don't think societies benefit unless there is viable comptition.
I wish it was backward compatible. There's a chance I might consider a SAS drive to get a drive that spins faster and seeks faster, but I don't want to also have to buy a controller for it.
SATA is SCSI over a special serial cable. Meaning - only obsolete PATA disks are non-SCSI. All CD drives are SCSI this or another way.
Exactly where does that leave SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)?
I think another thing is that SATA can't be chained, and ATAPI could only allow two drives on a chain.
The protocol lives on, but the 40 pin, 68 pin or 80 pin SCSI ports are gone. I personally still use them, but there's almost no point in buying a new machine with it, unless you have a very special or obscure device. The machines I have are about five years old and they have a pair of U160 ports in them. I buy a 36GB 15k hard drive on eBay for $40 and I'm plenty good for holding my OS and data, and surprisingly, they aren't as terribly loud as some 10k hard drives. I keep my data on a server or a separate, larger, slower drive.
I call BS. I just uninstalled iTunes and there's no background process or anything like that running, and no executable remaining. Maybe the program should have offered to remove the program preferences in your account, but there's no binary there.
That "spyware" service you refer to is just a notifier to open iTunes when an iPod is connected. That's all it does. It's hardly malicious, and it doesn't report to Apple what you do with your computer.
I was commenting on this: "have watered down poly counts and lower resolution textures."
Does the PS3 port compromise on those two? If it is, it doesn't appear to be compromised such that I notice bad textures or too-low polygon count.
I really don't know if the PS3 is doubling up on frames, but the projector takes in a 60fps signal, possibly 72. Above that is kind of irrelevant for LCDs, even the newest crystals just can't shift fast enough.
I think the complaint was that the quad SLI is of almost no benefit above and beyond dual SLI. This was the problem with dual SLI for some time, it took a while for it to be worthwhile. Except as a curiousity, and for developers, there's not a point to using quad SLI right now.
Actually, most console versions of PC games have watered down poly counts and lower resolution textures. They've been able to get away with sub par graphics for years because standard def TV is only 640x480 at 24 FPS. Compare that to people running PC games on wide screens at 2048x1024 and pushing 60+fps.
I don't think that is really true of *current* console games. I don't have a PC game rig, but PS3 games look VERY nice on a 1080p projector.
Maybe the 700MHz band would be more useful,but I'm not counting on it.
I understand what you mean, but frankly, both XM and Sirius agreed to never merge with another sat radio provider when they got their license. They are trying to back out of that agreement after they've nearly bankrupted themselves spending their money in incredibly unwise ways. I really don't see why we should pity them or throw them a line.
I wouldn't junk the most notable stuff. What would we know about the ancient Egyptians if they dismantled everything? Most ships are scrapped, but enough are saved so we have a vivid reminder of what things were like in the day.
The problem with privilege separation in Windows is that it's often not adequate. Too much stuff demands being run as a power user or administrator. I tried to do it with my parent's computers and there's always a hangup with one program or another. So you can use a plain user account, you're not going to be doing as much with it.
Concorde was not finished "because they can". It was started out that way but the realities set in quickly. Both Britain and France saw what a turkey SST was when the costs spiralled out of control, and both secretly wanted to cancel the project. It became a huge game of chicken because the penalties cancelling the contract had an even higher cost than continuing. They had to give away half the production run at $1 a machine. And for what? So the millionaires can save a few hours of flight time.
The nuclear cat is out of the bag, and as long as the US has a single nuke, they have no place to lecture others about non-proliferation.
Possession is not equivalent to proliferation. As long as the US isn't trying to sell the tech to other countries, I don't see the hypocrisy in this particular instance. Maybe the US is doing just that, I don't know.
Amidst all this whining, I really don't see the problem. Most of the benefits of SSDs are hype.
Mechanical notebook hard drives are very quiet. My notebook is so quiet overall that I have to put my ear next to it to hear the fan and hard drive.
Regular hard drives don't actually consume that much power. For example, a 1.8" SSD consumes 0.5 Watts max, a 1.8" mechanical hard drive consumes 0.8 Watts max. ULV CPUs consume 10 watts max. Normal notebook CPUs consume around 30 watts. Idle mode gives a smaller difference in power savings. How is 0.3 Watts going to noticeably extend your battery life if your savings is less than 1% that of the max system draw?
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At $300, it's probably VGA or SVGA res, good enough for DVD, but blow it up too large and you'll be seeing the gaps between the pixels. HD projectors run over $1000. A good 1080p projector can be had for about $2000 now, and they're generally quite beautiful.
But that's not really what is being requested. As often happens, the slash headline doesn't represent the slash article. Neither appears to represent what's said in the real article. The code wasn't subponaed, the author was. What they are looking for are lists of texters and the text contents.
The Fox animated shows appear to be 480i, I recall seeing interlacing problems. I thought Unhitched and Miss Guided were 480p but maybe they used cheaper film or something, it's not as impressive as other HD shows.
Given that just about no one uses Middle English anymore, and that almost no one uses the term that way, the more current definition applies. This is just another example of the many words we use that effectively don't mean what they originally meant, just like the surname "Smith" doesn't mean you're a blacksmith.
What about OTA, you say? Yeah, OTA broadcasts only have to be *digital*, not HD.
Digital is generally a huge improvement for OTA, even if they split an old NTSC channel into four SD ATSC channels.
Also, most prime time stuff is in HD, so the time when most typical people are most likely to be watching TV, it's usually in HD, though it looks like FOX is still sticking to 480p.
Some of the macroscopic things that we understand almost intuitively don't hold very well in the micro world. For example, DLP projection uses mirrors that twist on a sliver of aluminum hundreds of times a second, but they're reliable for many billions of actuations.
Because the monopolist can set in a set of market conditions that make it extremely disfavorable, if not impossible for competition to form. Because the monopolist usually has deep reserves, they can sell below cost should competition arise, drive them out of business, then raise the prices again. So you have to wait until some competition comes along with even deeper pockets, assuming that ever happens. The monopolist would also have the power to set up long term exclusive contracts such that an entity can only deal with one company. If the contract isn't accepted, the entity is deprived of what they need, because there is no alternative. So they can't ride it out until competition arives, and if it does, they are either locked or no longer exist to take advantage.
The idea of free market should be a tool, not an ideological club, free market for its own sake is absurdity.
The extreme perspective on something is usually the least useful one.
I would rather have a somewhat "broken" free market than one that allows a misuse of monopolies. In the long run, no one benefits from monopolies other than the monopolist. I don't think societies benefit unless there is viable comptition.
I wish it was backward compatible. There's a chance I might consider a SAS drive to get a drive that spins faster and seeks faster, but I don't want to also have to buy a controller for it.
SATA is SCSI over a special serial cable. Meaning - only obsolete PATA disks are non-SCSI. All CD drives are SCSI this or another way.
Exactly where does that leave SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)?
I think another thing is that SATA can't be chained, and ATAPI could only allow two drives on a chain.
The protocol lives on, but the 40 pin, 68 pin or 80 pin SCSI ports are gone. I personally still use them, but there's almost no point in buying a new machine with it, unless you have a very special or obscure device. The machines I have are about five years old and they have a pair of U160 ports in them. I buy a 36GB 15k hard drive on eBay for $40 and I'm plenty good for holding my OS and data, and surprisingly, they aren't as terribly loud as some 10k hard drives. I keep my data on a server or a separate, larger, slower drive.
I call BS. I just uninstalled iTunes and there's no background process or anything like that running, and no executable remaining. Maybe the program should have offered to remove the program preferences in your account, but there's no binary there.
That "spyware" service you refer to is just a notifier to open iTunes when an iPod is connected. That's all it does. It's hardly malicious, and it doesn't report to Apple what you do with your computer.
I was commenting on this: "have watered down poly counts and lower resolution textures."
Does the PS3 port compromise on those two? If it is, it doesn't appear to be compromised such that I notice bad textures or too-low polygon count.
I really don't know if the PS3 is doubling up on frames, but the projector takes in a 60fps signal, possibly 72. Above that is kind of irrelevant for LCDs, even the newest crystals just can't shift fast enough.
I think the complaint was that the quad SLI is of almost no benefit above and beyond dual SLI. This was the problem with dual SLI for some time, it took a while for it to be worthwhile. Except as a curiousity, and for developers, there's not a point to using quad SLI right now.
Actually, most console versions of PC games have watered down poly counts and lower resolution textures. They've been able to get away with sub par graphics for years because standard def TV is only 640x480 at 24 FPS. Compare that to people running PC games on wide screens at 2048x1024 and pushing 60+fps.
I don't think that is really true of *current* console games. I don't have a PC game rig, but PS3 games look VERY nice on a 1080p projector.
New emerging technologies like wimax may offer alternative ways of streaming music, news, talk shows, etc.
I wouldn't count on WiMax:
http://www.commsday.com/node/228
Maybe the 700MHz band would be more useful,but I'm not counting on it.
I understand what you mean, but frankly, both XM and Sirius agreed to never merge with another sat radio provider when they got their license. They are trying to back out of that agreement after they've nearly bankrupted themselves spending their money in incredibly unwise ways. I really don't see why we should pity them or throw them a line.
I wouldn't junk the most notable stuff. What would we know about the ancient Egyptians if they dismantled everything? Most ships are scrapped, but enough are saved so we have a vivid reminder of what things were like in the day.
He wasn't meaning tape drives.
Regular hard drives are magnetic in how they store their data.
I'd say that WoW is an outlier, it's a popular game but it's just one game.
Whereas the PS3, still a long way from being hacked, doesn't sell as well. Go figure.
First, correlation is not causation.
Second, NPD showed that PS3 has been outselling 360 in Jan '08 and Feb '08.
The problem with privilege separation in Windows is that it's often not adequate. Too much stuff demands being run as a power user or administrator. I tried to do it with my parent's computers and there's always a hangup with one program or another. So you can use a plain user account, you're not going to be doing as much with it.
Concorde was not finished "because they can". It was started out that way but the realities set in quickly. Both Britain and France saw what a turkey SST was when the costs spiralled out of control, and both secretly wanted to cancel the project. It became a huge game of chicken because the penalties cancelling the contract had an even higher cost than continuing. They had to give away half the production run at $1 a machine. And for what? So the millionaires can save a few hours of flight time.
I saw some program about that, it sounds like they make it as hard as possible for private astronaut programs as well.
Not only that, he's a CEO. People that keep track of what executives say know better than to trust what they say at face value.
The nuclear cat is out of the bag, and as long as the US has a single nuke, they have no place to lecture others about non-proliferation.
Possession is not equivalent to proliferation. As long as the US isn't trying to sell the tech to other countries, I don't see the hypocrisy in this particular instance. Maybe the US is doing just that, I don't know.
Amidst all this whining, I really don't see the problem. Most of the benefits of SSDs are hype.
Mechanical notebook hard drives are very quiet. My notebook is so quiet overall that I have to put my ear next to it to hear the fan and hard drive.
Regular hard drives don't actually consume that much power. For example, a 1.8" SSD consumes 0.5 Watts max, a 1.8" mechanical hard drive consumes 0.8 Watts max. ULV CPUs consume 10 watts max. Normal notebook CPUs consume around 30 watts. Idle mode gives a smaller difference in power savings. How is 0.3 Watts going to noticeably extend your battery life if your savings is less than 1% that of the max system draw?