I thought the IBM/Intel/AMD processor wars have been good for users, no? Wihout Intel, wouldn't AMD just be a "horrible monopolist." I think the last decade has shown some really great swings from IBM to Intel to AMD and now back to Intel in terms of pure performance, and even price/performance. The tech that is coming out of the market is pretty sweet. Intel's chips are now faster and cooler- thanks to AMD- and it looks like AMD will continue to bring the market around to more efficent processors. It's seems all good to me...
not sure what MYthTV uses, but MCE has about the same data requirements because it encodes in mpeg2- so it doesn't have to convert before burning to DVD- mpeg2 is the DVD compression of choice.
Other codecs offer much better compression and can even keep close in quality- divx, wmv,.h264 they offer much better size and bandwidth issues than the outdated mpeg2
Youtube is flash driven- isn't it motion jpeg for video and mp3 for audio?
It's still too confusing to decide which format will be supported by the most releases, what tvs/monitors display the content best, and where to find current content... how many movies are out now anyway? 3? I am still miffed they are confusing consumers with 480, 720 and 1080 both "i" and "p." let alone tv resolutions vary in between each and up and down scale. I wish I was getting off-topic, but it is all so closely related it's frustrating. ug!
I wonder how this is going to effect the PS3 as well. It's all a bit nutty.
I guess it's back to watching Anchorman in regular-def dvd for the weekend.
"Mr, burgundy, you have a massive erection" "It's the pleats."
Owning stock in no way means that they cease to become competitors. It might've been traded for technology, it might have been to keep the long tentacles of antitrust at bay, it might be for public image. (As for modding, I was going for 'funny' more than 'insightful', but whatevs.)
AOL is a sinking ship, only now realizing that revenue will slowly stop coming from the consumer end of the equation because of google, yahoo, et. al. Their biggest asset is subscriber base and they should have already made the switch to free (with advertising) content so they could maintain their gi-normous user base a while ago.
you are forgetting- mac OS is what people love and no one else runs it (legally). so it's 'back to mac' for most of the mac user base that has faulty hardware...
Demand? Aren't the majority of Dell consumer machines set with media center edition? so do most (alright, maybe a little more than half)laptops from all manufacturers? Apple, once they solve movie DRM, will announce something, perhaps at their product event (not the recent developer conference).
I personally own a media center box in addition to my main pc. I love it. looks fantastic, works better than other options out there, and the interface is really top-notch. It's probably the only think I like from Microsoft. And I love it...
It's "howstuffworks.com" not "how real things work dot com." What if someone saw the movie and wanted to know how those light sabers worked? They might just try typing in howstuffworks.com
It's actually a clever little marketing ploy with the movie coming out and all.
Besides, your title says "dumest.story.ever." I would vehemently disagree and say most stories suck on slashdot these days. Either they are dupes, days old, or advertisements. The old, beloved slashdot is dead. At least this post made me smile a bit. You're a troll.
I just started using the 795 and after a quick glance at their product page, almost evey single one of their flash players can play.ogg files. They make a quality player and are actually wildly popular... I am not sure how you missed them.
Scopes "monkey" trial. Look it up here: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/f trials.htm
(I highly recommend this site- it even scales down to a palm quite nicely so you can tote it to show the folks in the bible belt if you happen to pass through)
Who spent the money to make these stickers? Who let some group with an agenda disrupt the public school forum? If there were stickers on every book preempting the information inside, how can kids be expected to absorb facts with an open mind? These are the people stunting their own children's potential to contribute great things to the world. Let them absorb! Teachers are there to offer explanations, inspire and challenge- the greatest job in the world. Text books are there to reflect where we have come as a culture and a race (the human one) and build a foundation for students to help explain and discover the world around them.
I really can't stand these people. Reminds me of the lunatic judge that commissioned an expensive sculpture of the 10 commandments and put it on the courthouse steps! I bet he was one of the kids in school with a sticker on his book! I mean, really!! The courthouse steps!!
... is HTML. people often overlook the fact that it's a simple way to start out 'coding.'
As far as the general question of what lured slashdotters to computing? Yikes, what a dream question! Don't you know that's all slashdotters talk about?! As in "when I was starting out the commodore 64 back in the day" or "You think your pentium 3 can't compile fast enough? Try waiting for a Pc Jr!" all the while stroking the white cat in their laps.
Please... Please! Enough with posting press releases on slashdot.
And another thing, I am sick of all the b$stards out there saying "do we really need blah blah blah." We'll all wayd need more you fools! Faster and more I say!
Once C-net makes a front-page post on slashdot, the end of the world must be near. Come on! There are more qualified reviewers than the hams (and cash takers) at Cnet that you could link to. Besides, this phone isn't anything to hem and haw about: It's ugly (YES IT IS), and, by golly, the camera is crap. C'mon!/. fans should want more and demand the best out of their gadgets and their news. this is just plain lame.
I went on a trip with a buddy of mine in the august/spring of '99 and brought
along a laptop to update a website along the way (check
the site to see our route, pictures, and writings). It was great fun posting
it to a site as friends and relatives were able to follow, e-mail suggestions
and generally cause a little buzz and fun in other peoples lives. It worked
out well- doing the writing and image editing during the long car rides (rt
80 can be a BORE at times), and update to the site in 10 minutes via a hotel
room phone jack. I think trying to find wireless networks along the way might
be too much of a time-waster when all you are doing is sending small amounts
of data to your site anyway. Another poster suggested a data connection to a
cell phone. That idea would probably be best, followed by the telephone line,
and lastly, wireless. After all, you don't want to be limited by technology,
but served by it.
interesting- I always get PISSED when I hear numbnuts saying- "we don't need LCD's, there too expensive," or better yet "no-one needs more than 128 mb of memory, it's just rediculous" I don't understand how people piss on the companies that push the technology- LCDs are a GREAT thing that we ALL need. I don't think I have to extol the virtues to this crowd. And, BTW, the sentence at the end- "ever play a 640x480 game..." are you kidding? when the F did we last play a game that didn't have a resolution of at least 1024, or at LEAST 800. god save us from those holding us back.
Slashdot Mirror
displayport + wireless and usb is only like this thick:
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done.
I was going to write the below before I saw your post. I agree 100%
perfect example...
Chevy Volt.
went from bad-ass prototype that peeps were tripping themselves over to get to (me too).
Now it's a basically looking like a prius. Demand will suffer from those of us who would like some style points on a hybrid.
Chevy dropped it in this regard.
well said.
Using judgment and thoughtfulness in citing works, no matter where they are from, are a good result of the flexibility of wikipedia.
I thought the IBM/Intel/AMD processor wars have been good for users, no? Wihout Intel, wouldn't AMD just be a "horrible monopolist." I think the last decade has shown some really great swings from IBM to Intel to AMD and now back to Intel in terms of pure performance, and even price/performance. The tech that is coming out of the market is pretty sweet. Intel's chips are now faster and cooler- thanks to AMD- and it looks like AMD will continue to bring the market around to more efficent processors. It's seems all good to me...
not sure what MYthTV uses, but MCE has about the same data requirements because it encodes in mpeg2- so it doesn't have to convert before burning to DVD- mpeg2 is the DVD compression of choice.
.h264
Other codecs offer much better compression and can even keep close in quality- divx, wmv,
they offer much better size and bandwidth issues than the outdated mpeg2
Youtube is flash driven- isn't it motion jpeg for video and mp3 for audio?
Looks like they have a picture of an earlier screen, and not the current design they alluded to in the article?
"The anodized aluminum material from which it's made has the added advantage of light weight, so it can be tilted with little more than a nudge.
yet the image shows the plastic, 3 footed version...
just curious.
It's still too confusing to decide which format will be supported by the most releases, what tvs/monitors display the content best, and where to find current content... how many movies are out now anyway? 3? I am still miffed they are confusing consumers with 480, 720 and 1080 both "i" and "p." let alone tv resolutions vary in between each and up and down scale. I wish I was getting off-topic, but it is all so closely related it's frustrating. ug!
I wonder how this is going to effect the PS3 as well. It's all a bit nutty.
I guess it's back to watching Anchorman in regular-def dvd for the weekend.
"Mr, burgundy, you have a massive erection"
"It's the pleats."
Owning stock in no way means that they cease to become competitors. It might've been traded for technology, it might have been to keep the long tentacles of antitrust at bay, it might be for public image. (As for modding, I was going for 'funny' more than 'insightful', but whatevs.)
AOL is a sinking ship, only now realizing that revenue will slowly stop coming from the consumer end of the equation because of google, yahoo, et. al. Their biggest asset is subscriber base and they should have already made the switch to free (with advertising) content so they could maintain their gi-normous user base a while ago.
AOL releases free software- to compete with google.
Google funds 'badware' company saying AOL is... bad.
that is pretty funny
you are forgetting- mac OS is what people love and no one else runs it (legally). so it's 'back to mac' for most of the mac user base that has faulty hardware...
Demand? Aren't the majority of Dell consumer machines set with media center edition? so do most (alright, maybe a little more than half)laptops from all manufacturers? Apple, once they solve movie DRM, will announce something, perhaps at their product event (not the recent developer conference).
I personally own a media center box in addition to my main pc. I love it. looks fantastic, works better than other options out there, and the interface is really top-notch. It's probably the only think I like from Microsoft. And I love it...
It's "howstuffworks.com" not "how real things work dot com." What if someone saw the movie and wanted to know how those light sabers worked? They might just try typing in howstuffworks.com
It's actually a clever little marketing ploy with the movie coming out and all.
Besides, your title says "dumest.story.ever." I would vehemently disagree and say most stories suck on slashdot these days. Either they are dupes, days old, or advertisements. The old, beloved slashdot is dead. At least this post made me smile a bit. You're a troll.
iriver.com
.ogg files. They make a quality player and are actually wildly popular... I am not sure how you missed them.
I just started using the 795 and after a quick glance at their product page, almost evey single one of their flash players can play
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/f trials.htm
Scopes "monkey" trial. Look it up here: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/f trials.htm
(I highly recommend this site- it even scales down to a palm quite nicely so you can tote it to show the folks in the bible belt if you happen to pass through)
Who spent the money to make these stickers? Who let some group with an agenda disrupt the public school forum? If there were stickers on every book preempting the information inside, how can kids be expected to absorb facts with an open mind? These are the people stunting their own children's potential to contribute great things to the world. Let them absorb! Teachers are there to offer explanations, inspire and challenge- the greatest job in the world. Text books are there to reflect where we have come as a culture and a race (the human one) and build a foundation for students to help explain and discover the world around them.
I really can't stand these people. Reminds me of the lunatic judge that commissioned an expensive sculpture of the 10 commandments and put it on the courthouse steps! I bet he was one of the kids in school with a sticker on his book! I mean, really!! The courthouse steps!!
ok... now what?
Not exactly news- but it is cool he began at 13! What would interest someone to host a mac rumor site at 13 !?
... is HTML. people often overlook the fact that it's a simple way to start out 'coding.'
As far as the general question of what lured slashdotters to computing? Yikes, what a dream question! Don't you know that's all slashdotters talk about?! As in "when I was starting out the commodore 64 back in the day" or "You think your pentium 3 can't compile fast enough? Try waiting for a Pc Jr!" all the while stroking the white cat in their laps.
Please... Please! Enough with posting press releases on slashdot.
And another thing, I am sick of all the b$stards out there saying "do we really need blah blah blah." We'll all wayd need more you fools! Faster and more I say!
ARG!!!!!
Once C-net makes a front-page post on slashdot, the end of the world must be near. Come on! There are more qualified reviewers than the hams (and cash takers) at Cnet that you could link to. Besides, this phone isn't anything to hem and haw about: It's ugly (YES IT IS), and, by golly, the camera is crap. C'mon! /. fans should want more and demand the best out of their gadgets and their news. this is just plain lame.
I went on a trip with a buddy of mine in the august/spring of '99 and brought along a laptop to update a website along the way (check the site to see our route, pictures, and writings). It was great fun posting it to a site as friends and relatives were able to follow, e-mail suggestions and generally cause a little buzz and fun in other peoples lives. It worked out well- doing the writing and image editing during the long car rides (rt 80 can be a BORE at times), and update to the site in 10 minutes via a hotel room phone jack. I think trying to find wireless networks along the way might be too much of a time-waster when all you are doing is sending small amounts of data to your site anyway. Another poster suggested a data connection to a cell phone. That idea would probably be best, followed by the telephone line, and lastly, wireless. After all, you don't want to be limited by technology, but served by it.
Have a blast!
interesting- I always get PISSED when I hear numbnuts saying- "we don't need LCD's, there too expensive," or better yet "no-one needs more than 128 mb of memory, it's just rediculous" I don't understand how people piss on the companies that push the technology- LCDs are a GREAT thing that we ALL need. I don't think I have to extol the virtues to this crowd. And, BTW, the sentence at the end- "ever play a 640x480 game..." are you kidding? when the F did we last play a game that didn't have a resolution of at least 1024, or at LEAST 800. god save us from those holding us back.