Does Circuit City sell a 30" computer monitor? I'm not sure they sell anything larger than a 22", which is a lower ppi monitor anyway. Something like this is probably for young whipper snappers that have more money than sense.
Dual link is definitely best, it's all in one connector. I've never tried to use two single link connectors, but that seems to be asking for trouble.
Anyway, the/. story mentions color smear. I don't understand what that means. Dual link DVI does fine, it doesn't color smear either that I've seen. The article itself mentions that it's for 10bit color at the 2560x1600 resolution, otherwise requiring three links to do the job, but is it ready yet? Is their new LCD good enough yet to display better than 8 bit color?
I wonder if this is an attempt to denigrate dual link DVI in an attempt to convince people to buy an incompatible standard? It looks like it is able to offer a DVI backwards compatibility through spare pins on the connector. Another potential issue I see is that it's not a secure lock-down connector, so the people that complained about HDMI's lack of a positive latching won't like this either. I liked ADC's lever latch mechanism, but DVI's thumb screw lock down was a bit tedious.
This is a fine press release product as well. Tell us it's been made, but oops, we can't buy one until next year anyway.
For me, the range is just enough to do my errands without going to the engine, though I wish there was a bit more of a margin for weather and battery age.
If you know where to look, you can get a stand-alone Toshiba HD-A2 for not much more, and it too is allowed in the five bonus movie mail-in offer, has a decent remote as well. $180 for just a tacky add-on drive in comparison doesn't do it for me. The $200 price was good when it was first launched, $180 now is still kind of an insult.
Doesn't each card have its own massive fan? Those cards shouldn't be taking two slot spaces for nothing.
I'm almost certain the fans are for show, I think side mounted fans can cause more problems than it fixes.
Is thing just a dual channel system? Given how people are screaming that Intel's quad core is choking on a lack of bandwidth, running four cores on dual channel memory would seem to be the next bottleneck.
That's the thing. I've had fairly good experiences with non-consumer networking hardware, whereas with Linksys products, half of the units I've worked with have given me hours of unnecessary grief each. I had a Linksys cable modem that wouldn't even do its job at all until it was re-flashed, and then, it wasn't very good at getting DHCP from the cableco, or handing out an IP through DHCP out to the router.
The funny thing is that the people that just want a phone complain that the "just a phone" phones are too hard to find. They are out there but not in the numbers that you suggest.
The original rant basically already said that the US carriers don't have to cover everywhere, they can generally pick and choose what their coverage is, though occasionally villages get picky about how they look or get all hateful of people that host cell towers.
Last I heard, coverage in Montana is weak anyway. I think those in MT are lucky to get coverage that hugs along an interstate highway.
The US might have more urban sprawl though, but I don't know if there are comprehensive figures to make an adequate comparison.
PATA has been around for such a long time though, and we got about a four hear transition time. I certainly wasn't the quickest to adopt it, I'm glad it wasn't forced on the market within a year like the AGP to PCIe seemed to be. Sure, you could get AGP cards but the standard was relegated to second class treatment almost immediately.
While I don't think I do anything that saturates a PATA connection, I like the fact that SATA drives can just be plugged into a backplane without fancy adapter circuitry, proprietery connectors or any cables at all, all that simply can't be done with PATA. External SATA has greatly improved the performance of external drives because it's a native signal end-to-end, I'm not stuck with having to use USB or Firewire.
What's missing from the home experience isn't the cabinet, its the people and the loud environment. North Americans are more interested in being frugal than social.
I'm not sure about that, it seems that a lot of people buy a lot of games, buy lots of hardware, accessories, TVs and such.
Maybe it's just antisocial, possibly having nothing to do with frugality.
Personally, I hated the loud environment.
Most of the places that had the machines didn't maintain them very well. Many machines had noticeable screen burn. Some of them had projection screens where the color guns were severely misaligned.
I think it was Newsweek that reported a couple years ago that vigilante violence by the most extreme of the "green" groups caused more damage in terms of dollar value damage, 9/11 and Murrah probably the exceptions. Each incident is usually very small but it adds up, so it doesn't get national attention like a big incident would.
And since we are on the subject of terrorism, what do you call a government that employs torture, detention without trial, starts wars, disegards international law and treaties? Perhaps the term is not terrorist, but the corrupt crew are still a bunch of totally evil bastards regardless.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be a different word, but I don't know what that word would be.
A friend of mine had a similar problem with his webpages. They were on a free host (rolls eyes).
Sounds like someone's being a cheapskate. Paid hosting can be had where you get your own virtual server for $1 a month, though a domain name is extra. For as little as that costs, it's almost not worth any time dicking around trying to counter your free host's means of hosting his site.
I agree. I think maybe Jobs agreed too, which is why there are four or so buttons on the iPhone. One is for power / sleep, two for volume and one is a "home" button, which is the circle with a square in it at the bottom, it's a tactile button, not a touch sensing pad like I thought it was from the videos.
I've played with the iPhone for a few minutes, and I do appreciate its virtual keypad, I was up and running with it almost immediately. Most phones are way too stiff to use their buttons for any more than any amount of time, definitely not any good for typing, and the buttons are tiny too, making a tiny pressure area for the thumbs. I'm currently waiting for revision 2 though, EDGE is not something to browe the web with.
The part I would object to is the thought that maybe the rovers were designed to live three years but the publicly stated expectation was three months. I think a person that knows the history of how long rovers last would have made a more realistic statement.
Previously, I think the longest extraterrestrial rover live was about 85 days. There is no experience with or history of multi-year rover life like this. A few rovers didn't last for days.
Has a company legally been able to void warranty for installing unauthorized software? I can understand it only if the software caused physical damage or had to be serviced because of what the unauthorized software did.
I seemed to have a weird conincidence. This afternoon, I was not able to print a shipping label through UPS or Stamps.com. I was not able to access gmail or my site's regular email account. Actually, I was not able to get any HTTPS site to work. I don't understand why HTTP sites worked though when the HTTPS counterpart did not work. This is all weird. I was going to bug my ISP about this but it all started working again about 6pm EDT.
The problem is that for the GPL to be at all enforceable, you have to have copyright laws. All this about whether it's permissive or restrictive doesn't matter on that particular point.
I think qualifications and experience should come into play too. I don't think it matters what one's leanings are if they aren't qualified for the job.
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Does Circuit City sell a 30" computer monitor? I'm not sure they sell anything larger than a 22", which is a lower ppi monitor anyway. Something like this is probably for young whipper snappers that have more money than sense.
Dual link is definitely best, it's all in one connector. I've never tried to use two single link connectors, but that seems to be asking for trouble.
/. story mentions color smear. I don't understand what that means. Dual link DVI does fine, it doesn't color smear either that I've seen. The article itself mentions that it's for 10bit color at the 2560x1600 resolution, otherwise requiring three links to do the job, but is it ready yet? Is their new LCD good enough yet to display better than 8 bit color?
Anyway, the
I wonder if this is an attempt to denigrate dual link DVI in an attempt to convince people to buy an incompatible standard? It looks like it is able to offer a DVI backwards compatibility through spare pins on the connector. Another potential issue I see is that it's not a secure lock-down connector, so the people that complained about HDMI's lack of a positive latching won't like this either. I liked ADC's lever latch mechanism, but DVI's thumb screw lock down was a bit tedious.
This is a fine press release product as well. Tell us it's been made, but oops, we can't buy one until next year anyway.
For me, the range is just enough to do my errands without going to the engine, though I wish there was a bit more of a margin for weather and battery age.
If you know where to look, you can get a stand-alone Toshiba HD-A2 for not much more, and it too is allowed in the five bonus movie mail-in offer, has a decent remote as well. $180 for just a tacky add-on drive in comparison doesn't do it for me. The $200 price was good when it was first launched, $180 now is still kind of an insult.
Not only that, you get to watch HD movies using a lousy side-car add-on!
Doesn't each card have its own massive fan? Those cards shouldn't be taking two slot spaces for nothing.
I'm almost certain the fans are for show, I think side mounted fans can cause more problems than it fixes.
Is thing just a dual channel system? Given how people are screaming that Intel's quad core is choking on a lack of bandwidth, running four cores on dual channel memory would seem to be the next bottleneck.
That's the thing. I've had fairly good experiences with non-consumer networking hardware, whereas with Linksys products, half of the units I've worked with have given me hours of unnecessary grief each. I had a Linksys cable modem that wouldn't even do its job at all until it was re-flashed, and then, it wasn't very good at getting DHCP from the cableco, or handing out an IP through DHCP out to the router.
The funny thing is that the people that just want a phone complain that the "just a phone" phones are too hard to find. They are out there but not in the numbers that you suggest.
The original rant basically already said that the US carriers don't have to cover everywhere, they can generally pick and choose what their coverage is, though occasionally villages get picky about how they look or get all hateful of people that host cell towers.
Last I heard, coverage in Montana is weak anyway. I think those in MT are lucky to get coverage that hugs along an interstate highway.
The US might have more urban sprawl though, but I don't know if there are comprehensive figures to make an adequate comparison.
PATA has been around for such a long time though, and we got about a four hear transition time. I certainly wasn't the quickest to adopt it, I'm glad it wasn't forced on the market within a year like the AGP to PCIe seemed to be. Sure, you could get AGP cards but the standard was relegated to second class treatment almost immediately.
While I don't think I do anything that saturates a PATA connection, I like the fact that SATA drives can just be plugged into a backplane without fancy adapter circuitry, proprietery connectors or any cables at all, all that simply can't be done with PATA. External SATA has greatly improved the performance of external drives because it's a native signal end-to-end, I'm not stuck with having to use USB or Firewire.
The basic problem is still there, to actually do the math and make credible figures, takes a lot of time and actual math.
Average people might make suggestions, but too often, won't understand why it's not feasible.
It won't replace the ego boost from the throngs of humans crowding over your shoulder in awe of your godlike playing skills,
Yeah, because a lot of people have that level of skills.
What's missing from the home experience isn't the cabinet, its the people and the loud environment. North Americans are more interested in being frugal than social.
I'm not sure about that, it seems that a lot of people buy a lot of games, buy lots of hardware, accessories, TVs and such.
Maybe it's just antisocial, possibly having nothing to do with frugality.
Personally, I hated the loud environment.
Most of the places that had the machines didn't maintain them very well. Many machines had noticeable screen burn. Some of them had projection screens where the color guns were severely misaligned.
It's still a little easier to watch at a distance.
That doesn't explain why email didn't pass though, and I did try fetching it without encryption.
I think it was Newsweek that reported a couple years ago that vigilante violence by the most extreme of the "green" groups caused more damage in terms of dollar value damage, 9/11 and Murrah probably the exceptions. Each incident is usually very small but it adds up, so it doesn't get national attention like a big incident would.
And since we are on the subject of terrorism, what do you call a government that employs torture, detention without trial, starts wars, disegards international law and treaties? Perhaps the term is not terrorist, but the corrupt crew are still a bunch of totally evil bastards regardless.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be a different word, but I don't know what that word would be.
A friend of mine had a similar problem with his webpages. They were on a free host (rolls eyes).
Sounds like someone's being a cheapskate. Paid hosting can be had where you get your own virtual server for $1 a month, though a domain name is extra. For as little as that costs, it's almost not worth any time dicking around trying to counter your free host's means of hosting his site.
That guy thinks the screen will smudge up and be unreadable, based on what again? I've never really had that problem with any PDA or phone.
I really don't think he's actually used it, and is going on a lot of assumptions. The quoted example is an excellent example showing this.
I agree. I think maybe Jobs agreed too, which is why there are four or so buttons on the iPhone. One is for power / sleep, two for volume and one is a "home" button, which is the circle with a square in it at the bottom, it's a tactile button, not a touch sensing pad like I thought it was from the videos.
I've played with the iPhone for a few minutes, and I do appreciate its virtual keypad, I was up and running with it almost immediately. Most phones are way too stiff to use their buttons for any more than any amount of time, definitely not any good for typing, and the buttons are tiny too, making a tiny pressure area for the thumbs. I'm currently waiting for revision 2 though, EDGE is not something to browe the web with.
The part I would object to is the thought that maybe the rovers were designed to live three years but the publicly stated expectation was three months. I think a person that knows the history of how long rovers last would have made a more realistic statement.
Previously, I think the longest extraterrestrial rover live was about 85 days. There is no experience with or history of multi-year rover life like this. A few rovers didn't last for days.
Has a company legally been able to void warranty for installing unauthorized software? I can understand it only if the software caused physical damage or had to be serviced because of what the unauthorized software did.
I seemed to have a weird conincidence. This afternoon, I was not able to print a shipping label through UPS or Stamps.com. I was not able to access gmail or my site's regular email account. Actually, I was not able to get any HTTPS site to work. I don't understand why HTTP sites worked though when the HTTPS counterpart did not work. This is all weird. I was going to bug my ISP about this but it all started working again about 6pm EDT.
I wonder if this is related.
The problem is that for the GPL to be at all enforceable, you have to have copyright laws. All this about whether it's permissive or restrictive doesn't matter on that particular point.
Is it a problem with just the scheduler or is it a problem that has its tendrils everywhere?
I think qualifications and experience should come into play too. I don't think it matters what one's leanings are if they aren't qualified for the job.