Re:Plasma is for sucks. DLP is the way to go.
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DLP is NOT a flat panel display. There are some applications that require flat panel displays. If someone wants big and flat (direct view) then they have to go with plasma unless the bigger LCD's are big enough.
Is the memory problem related to "image stick" that can happen in LCD's? From what I understand, if the LCD drive signal has a DC component to it then the liquid crystal may not relax back to an undriven state. This can be avoided if LCD drive electronics are designed properly.
Plasmas use expensive, bulky electronics due to the relatively high voltages that are inherent in Plasma screens. LCD's have yield problems as screen size increases. I don't think that this will help Plasma or direct view LCD's in bringing the price down considerably.
I don't think DuckMan was saying that the x86 based OS's should be running natively. I think he was referring to something more like: "if you are going to have a list of Powerbook OS's then the list should contain only ones that run natively." I agree with him about the cheating. If emulation is OK for the list - then why didn't the author run as many MAC emulated OS's as possible as well as any additional Windows ones? There was an article recently on Slashdot about replacing a TI calculator OS with an open source one - so don't forget calculator OS's in the list either.
$200 means a used Xbox. If you want new then it's going to cost more. Here is a list of stuff that are good to have (but not all needed) to turn an Xbox into a media center: - Xbox - $179 new - Mod Chip - $50 - Hard Drive - $40-$100 depending on size. Not needed for streaming from a PC. - DVD Remote Control - $30 - not needed but using the controller in the media player is lame. - Xbox 802.11b adapter - $??? - not needed but convenient. - Samsung DVD drive - $50 - Xbox comes with one of 3 different DVD drives. Only the Samsung will read CDR's. You can usually find someone to trade your DVD drive + $50 for a Samsung, or there is a mod to take a specific Samsung PC DVD drive and change the firmware to get it to work with an Xbox. Again, not needed unless you want to read CDR's.
The nice thing about a modded Xbox is besides MP3's the thing will play many other music and video formats, play Xbox games, and play emulated games.
"specific school policies" != "beyond campus grounds". I agree with you that policies that extend beyond campus grounds are overboard and unenforceable. However, I don't have a problem with schools making policies for student conduct on school premises. Read the "extreme" BBC article. Besides the web site, this girl was harrassed on school premises. The school should have a non-tolerant policy for on-school harrassment. Expell the students who conduct in this behavior. By forcing abusive students to stay at home, parents will have to deal with the problem instead of the schools.
I haven't seen the movie yet but I heard that there are references to a lot of diferent movies including Star Wars. After some digging I found the reference:
AGENT SMITH: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to this planet.
NEO: I'll never join you!
AGENT SMITH: If you only knew the power of the Matrix. Morpheus never told you what happened to your father.
NEO: He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
AGENT SMITH: No. I am your father.
Shocked, NEO looks at AGENT SMITH in utter disbelief.
NEO: No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!
AGENT SMITH: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
NEO: No! No! No!
AGENT SMITH: Neo. You can destroy the Architect. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and we can rule this planet as father and son. Come with me. It's the only way.
What hardware is used to grab video? Will it use one of those USB capture devices? I thought these were of rather crappy quality. The only thing your link specifies is: "Real-time capture/recording of external windows."
I once went to this convention center in Pennsylvania and obtained directions online. Got lost and stopped at the first convenience store. I asked the attendant where the convention center was. She handed me a piece of paper with the correct directions. I asked, "get people like me often?" She replied, "Yes. We have tried to contact Mapquest to correct the problem but they simply haven't."
So do you get a chuckle when you go up to security and say, "I'm one of those guys with four ess-es." I would be tempted to put a slight accent on the thing and make the "e" in "ess-es" sound more like an "a".
The difference is also that Joe Sixpack probably won't even know about this bug. There will be no report on mainstream news sites about it because it won't take down several computers. No scrambling by IT people to make sure that every single desktop in a company is patched since this exploit applies to a service that would *mainly* be found only on servers.
let's contact the papers and try to get out of this mess by way of our 12-year old daughter. It may or may not have been this girl who downloaded the music, this point is moot. The parents are responsible as they most likely set up the account.
If this works, anyone know what the minimum age a kid has to be in order for it to work. I have a son. He's almost 2. For the sake of argument, I will say he IS 2. Is 2 good enough your honor? I mean, he's able to climb into my computer desk's chair and move the mouse around. He must have been the one who downloaded all those songs.
Since this article lacks any humor, maybe we should start posting some funny signs/symbols of our own. Here is a link to some funny swat team hand jestures: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act=ST&f= 19 &t=92950&s=56a40001faa4bd14000861cbfa22fc0 2
I ran across a site containing funny interpretations of airplane safety literature but I couldn't find it at the moment.
I live just 1/2 mile to the end of the cable line. Time Warner keeps saying that any time now they will run cable to my house. Therefore I get TV from satellite. However, I must get local channels over the air because of copyright violations between the local channel affiliates that are in the area and the ones that are broadcast over satellite.
You don't have either if you mod an Xbox and use it as a media player. You can use either the joystick controller or the $30 IR remote to view your movies.
However, using this solution doesn't allow for easy trading of movies with family members. My non-technical dad doesn't have a computer so he cannot play my DivX's. I don't have a DVD burner yet so I just give him VCD/SVCDs of home movies for now.
Your joke is pretty old but you do have a point - we should band together. Let's setup a web site where people can donate money to a particular cause and vote on a selection of causes that the money will go to. The most popular cause wins the money. Then the admins of the web site takes the money to the political figure involved with the cause and blatantly bribes the figure to vote the public's way. The political figure is given a choice to choose between X dollars from Disney/RIAA/MPAA/etc. or Y dollars from the "public". Sure that it will be pretty obvious that the politician is really voting a particular way based on who provides the most money. However, it gives incentive for the politician to actually vote based on public opinion.//sarcasm off
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DLP is NOT a flat panel display. There are some applications that require flat panel displays. If someone wants big and flat (direct view) then they have to go with plasma unless the bigger LCD's are big enough.
Is the memory problem related to "image stick" that can happen in LCD's? From what I understand, if the LCD drive signal has a DC component to it then the liquid crystal may not relax back to an undriven state. This can be avoided if LCD drive electronics are designed properly.
Plasmas use expensive, bulky electronics due to the relatively high voltages that are inherent in Plasma screens. LCD's have yield problems as screen size increases. I don't think that this will help Plasma or direct view LCD's in bringing the price down considerably.
Never heard of that. Could you give some URLs that supports this and gives some details as to the type of changes that are done.
I don't think DuckMan was saying that the x86 based OS's should be running natively. I think he was referring to something more like: "if you are going to have a list of Powerbook OS's then the list should contain only ones that run natively." I agree with him about the cheating. If emulation is OK for the list - then why didn't the author run as many MAC emulated OS's as possible as well as any additional Windows ones? There was an article recently on Slashdot about replacing a TI calculator OS with an open source one - so don't forget calculator OS's in the list either.
$200 means a used Xbox. If you want new then it's going to cost more. Here is a list of stuff that are good to have (but not all needed) to turn an Xbox into a media center:
- Xbox - $179 new
- Mod Chip - $50
- Hard Drive - $40-$100 depending on size. Not needed for streaming from a PC.
- DVD Remote Control - $30 - not needed but using the controller in the media player is lame.
- Xbox 802.11b adapter - $??? - not needed but convenient.
- Samsung DVD drive - $50 - Xbox comes with one of 3 different DVD drives. Only the Samsung will read CDR's. You can usually find someone to trade your DVD drive + $50 for a Samsung, or there is a mod to take a specific Samsung PC DVD drive and change the firmware to get it to work with an Xbox. Again, not needed unless you want to read CDR's.
The nice thing about a modded Xbox is besides MP3's the thing will play many other music and video formats, play Xbox games, and play emulated games.
"specific school policies" != "beyond campus grounds". I agree with you that policies that extend beyond campus grounds are overboard and unenforceable. However, I don't have a problem with schools making policies for student conduct on school premises. Read the "extreme" BBC article. Besides the web site, this girl was harrassed on school premises. The school should have a non-tolerant policy for on-school harrassment. Expell the students who conduct in this behavior. By forcing abusive students to stay at home, parents will have to deal with the problem instead of the schools.
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-Triumph
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I haven't seen the movie yet but I heard that there are references to a lot of diferent movies including Star Wars. After some digging I found the reference:
AGENT SMITH: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet
realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power.
Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength,
we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to this planet.
NEO: I'll never join you!
AGENT SMITH: If you only knew the power of the Matrix. Morpheus never told
you what happened to your father.
NEO: He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
AGENT SMITH: No. I am your father.
Shocked, NEO looks at AGENT SMITH in utter disbelief.
NEO: No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!
AGENT SMITH: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
NEO: No! No! No!
AGENT SMITH: Neo. You can destroy the Architect. He has foreseen this. It is
your destiny. Join me, and we can rule this planet as father and son.
Come with me. It's the only way.
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What hardware is used to grab video? Will it use one of those USB capture devices? I thought these were of rather crappy quality. The only thing your link specifies is: "Real-time capture/recording of external windows."
I once went to this convention center in Pennsylvania and obtained directions online. Got lost and stopped at the first convenience store. I asked the attendant where the convention center was. She handed me a piece of paper with the correct directions. I asked, "get people like me often?" She replied, "Yes. We have tried to contact Mapquest to correct the problem but they simply haven't."
And do you blame them? The first paragraph alone has such poor grammer as to be barely coherent.
I live near Binghamton, NY and have one mounted to a pole (2 feet tall) in concrete. Price is: remove it yourself.
I've been labeled "SSSS."
So do you get a chuckle when you go up to security and say, "I'm one of those guys with four ess-es." I would be tempted to put a slight accent on the thing and make the "e" in "ess-es" sound more like an "a".
The difference is also that Joe Sixpack probably won't even know about this bug. There will be no report on mainstream news sites about it because it won't take down
several computers. No scrambling by IT people to make sure that every single desktop in a company is patched since this exploit applies to a service that would *mainly* be found only on servers.
let's contact the papers and try to get out of this mess by way of our 12-year old daughter. It may or may not have been this girl who downloaded the music, this point is moot. The parents are responsible as they most likely set up the account.
If this works, anyone know what the minimum age a kid has to be in order for it to work. I have a son. He's almost 2. For the sake of argument, I will say he IS 2. Is 2 good enough your honor? I mean, he's able to climb into my computer desk's chair and move the mouse around. He must have been the one who downloaded all those songs.
Since this article lacks any humor, maybe we should start posting some funny signs/symbols of our own. Here is a link to some funny swat team hand jestures:
= 19 &t=92950&s=56a40001faa4bd14000861cbfa22fc0 2
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act=ST&f
I ran across a site containing funny interpretations of airplane safety literature but I couldn't find it at the moment.
For example, in number "11", it's pretty clear it's not a fridge, but an A/V rack
Correct. Also, that particular symbol is rather standard. a UL engineer gave me the same symbol to use in my User's manual for a large LCD display.
No, notification is via MSN. If you don't respond to their MSN alert (3 alerts sent) within the 5 minute timeframe then you lose your winning status.
They managed to bundle Windows with a contest now. Quick, call the AG's!
I live just 1/2 mile to the end of the cable line. Time Warner keeps saying that any time now they will run cable to my house. Therefore I get TV from satellite. However, I must get local channels over the air because of copyright violations between the local channel affiliates that are in the area and the ones that are broadcast over satellite.
You don't have either if you mod an Xbox and use it as a media player. You can use either the joystick controller or the $30 IR remote to view your movies.
However, using this solution doesn't allow for easy trading of movies with family members. My non-technical dad doesn't have a computer so he cannot play my DivX's. I don't have a DVD burner yet so I just give him VCD/SVCDs of home movies for now.
Hmmm, eternal happiness for a dollar, you say? I think I would be much happier with the dollar.
Your joke is pretty old but you do have a point - we should band together. Let's setup a web site where people can donate money to a particular cause and vote on a selection of causes that the money will go to. The most popular cause wins the money. Then the admins of the web site takes the money to the political figure involved with the cause and blatantly bribes the figure to vote the public's way. The political figure is given a choice to choose between X dollars from Disney/RIAA/MPAA/etc. or Y dollars from the "public". Sure that it will be pretty obvious that the politician is really voting a particular way based on who provides the most money. However, it gives incentive for the politician to actually vote based on public opinion. //sarcasm off
a dupe of a four week old story from the Weekly World News
...with spelling/grammer errors.