That tv has issues. It locks up about once a week and needs to be unplugged. The HDMI doesn't seem to work with the Toshiba HD-A20 hd-dvd player. It also lacks proper detection/stretching of 4:3 non-hd material. I still love it though.
They're the ones that do the research. These are patent lawyers that know what they're doing, but OTOH that probably means it includes a bit of what you're talking about since making these patents go through is very important to them.
Not only that but at least where I work we're not allowed to look for prior art. The lawyers won't let us due to liability for double damages should it be discovered in the future that we're infringing on someone else's patent and it was possible that we knew about it.
I doubt you'll be missing Gran Turismo once Forza 2 is unleashed upon the world. Yeah being able to add codecs would've been nice, however I found that if you use TVersity as your media sharing app on the PC it can realtime transcode any of your videos into the WMV format the 360 expects. This take a pretty hefty machine to do, but it works.
Vista's USB drivers are actually one thing that got better over XP. Transfers take about half the amount of CPU while the transfer speed is the same as it used to be.
Unfortunately you are wrong. MS refers to the AMD and Intel 64bit architecture with the same name. In fact they also call it amd64 since AMD did it first, despite those binaries also running in the intel 64 bit systems.
Developing Server 2003 and XP Service Pack 2. The amount of time actively spent working on Vista was actually a lot less than most people think. It is more like 2 years not 5.
Get with the times they changed that in Vista.:) It has nice skip/retry buttons when things like that happen. It also shows lots of file detail when it asks if you want to overwrite something. You can even keep both versions and it changes the name of one of them. That is but one of the possibly hundreds of "about damn time" features in vista.
Actually flash can be a lot faster than 10mb/sec. This one I'm using is nothing special and I just benchmarked it at 21mbytes/sec doing sequential reads and 16.3mb/sec doing sequential writes. While it is still slower than modern SATA disks, that is almost the same speed my old ATAPI drive would get. Running the benchmark only uses about 7% of my cpu. There were some big changes in USB in vista in terms of CPU use.
Indeed as the AC mentioned, the xbox 360 will scale the output of everything to whatever resolutions your TV can handle. In the settings you can say yes or no to each resolution. Most old CRT HDTVs couldn't take 720p, and they kept that in mind during the design.
AFAIK this is better than the way the PS3 does it, which I believe is to fall back to the next lower supported resolution.
I strongly disagree with that. If microsoft releases an OS you can be guaranteed that it will be shipping on almost every new PC sold after its release. I'd go as far as to say that the cost of getting your applications ready during pre-release stages of the OS is a lot less than the support hassle of pissed off customers calling you when the floodgates open.
There's no reason 1 person in your company can't install a public beta of a new OS or service pack and try out your programs. You get months or even years of time to get things prepared. Your company will also look a lot better in the eyes of your customers if your stuff already works when a new OS is released.
I think losing your sale due to a 20 cent part is more than saved over the millions of consoles they'll sell to people that don't care. Making hardware is a numbers game. If they can save 20 cents per unit they'll do it.
Proprietary networking? Wow you're really stretching there.. Who cares what it sends over the wire?? It is for playing games online ffs.
What does non-compressed HD output mean? Any output going to a display device from a console is uncompressed..
That is true. I don't think HD-DVD OR blu-ray has any chance of catching on anywhere near as quickly as DVD did. I think backward compatible hd discs will be crucial to migrating people to the new standard. I just don't like when people say that there's nothing wrong with standard DVD.. they only say that because they don't know any different. I think most people would be still happy using VHS if they didn't require rewinding.
You've apparently never seen how ugly DVD looks on a large screen. HD content looks a tremendous amount better than dvd on a 90+" setup. Many people (like myself), don't care if the new stuff is more expensive if it looks that much better. If you're copying dvds to a single layer dvd(+-)r disc most of the time you'll have re-encoded video anyway, so obviously quality doesn't matter to you.
Microsoft doesn't run around posting news stories every time they get something to boot. They also don't release things they just hacked together after staying up all night drinking mountain dew to make the front page of/. Chances are MS has had prototypes of these systems in their labs being worked on before the public even knew there was an Intel Mac. Getting the kernel to boot, kinda, is nowhere near the same as releasing a version of windows that runs on a particular platform.
I was thinking that was pretty amusing until I realized somebody got paid to sit there making that. I'm sure it took quite a while too. "yeah billy we need you to make a perpendicular flash movie, and can you please throw in a few bits with afros? thanks!"
They probably know they can't pull it off like MS did, so they aren't even going to bother. They're a few years behind now too. Better to not try at all than the spend millions of dollars and fail anyway.;)
yeah but if you're still generating the power just beacuse the wind is blowing you're still benefiting from it, even if you lose a huge amount of it in the process.
Some part of me thinks that moron belongs in prison. It seems like it should be illegal to get people to fund a company, then siphon millions of dollars out of it, drive it into the ground, then walk away leaving your investors screwed. Or they should get to approve his salary.
I remember reading that when they created THX a big part of it was making sure audio sounded as close to what the sound engineer heard as possible. They measured all kinds of thing and created EQ curves and whatnot to get as close a match as possible. I'm not sure if the game THX is anything like this, but it can't hurt.
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Well that's the way people working at Microsoft speak of different versions of a product. Get over it.
Sweet I'll fire up the grill.
That tv has issues. It locks up about once a week and needs to be unplugged. The HDMI doesn't seem to work with the Toshiba HD-A20 hd-dvd player. It also lacks proper detection/stretching of 4:3 non-hd material. I still love it though.
They're the ones that do the research. These are patent lawyers that know what they're doing, but OTOH that probably means it includes a bit of what you're talking about since making these patents go through is very important to them.
Not only that but at least where I work we're not allowed to look for prior art. The lawyers won't let us due to liability for double damages should it be discovered in the future that we're infringing on someone else's patent and it was possible that we knew about it.
I doubt you'll be missing Gran Turismo once Forza 2 is unleashed upon the world. Yeah being able to add codecs would've been nice, however I found that if you use TVersity as your media sharing app on the PC it can realtime transcode any of your videos into the WMV format the 360 expects. This take a pretty hefty machine to do, but it works.
Hmm I haven't had any issues with winamp on vista. Works great for me.
Vista's USB drivers are actually one thing that got better over XP. Transfers take about half the amount of CPU while the transfer speed is the same as it used to be.
Unfortunately you are wrong. MS refers to the AMD and Intel 64bit architecture with the same name. In fact they also call it amd64 since AMD did it first, despite those binaries also running in the intel 64 bit systems.
Developing Server 2003 and XP Service Pack 2. The amount of time actively spent working on Vista was actually a lot less than most people think. It is more like 2 years not 5.
Get with the times they changed that in Vista. :) It has nice skip/retry buttons when things like that happen. It also shows lots of file detail when it asks if you want to overwrite something. You can even keep both versions and it changes the name of one of them. That is but one of the possibly hundreds of "about damn time" features in vista.
Actually flash can be a lot faster than 10mb/sec. This one I'm using is nothing special and I just benchmarked it at 21mbytes/sec doing sequential reads and 16.3mb/sec doing sequential writes. While it is still slower than modern SATA disks, that is almost the same speed my old ATAPI drive would get. Running the benchmark only uses about 7% of my cpu. There were some big changes in USB in vista in terms of CPU use.
Indeed as the AC mentioned, the xbox 360 will scale the output of everything to whatever resolutions your TV can handle. In the settings you can say yes or no to each resolution. Most old CRT HDTVs couldn't take 720p, and they kept that in mind during the design.
AFAIK this is better than the way the PS3 does it, which I believe is to fall back to the next lower supported resolution.
I strongly disagree with that. If microsoft releases an OS you can be guaranteed that it will be shipping on almost every new PC sold after its release. I'd go as far as to say that the cost of getting your applications ready during pre-release stages of the OS is a lot less than the support hassle of pissed off customers calling you when the floodgates open.
There's no reason 1 person in your company can't install a public beta of a new OS or service pack and try out your programs. You get months or even years of time to get things prepared. Your company will also look a lot better in the eyes of your customers if your stuff already works when a new OS is released.
I think losing your sale due to a 20 cent part is more than saved over the millions of consoles they'll sell to people that don't care. Making hardware is a numbers game. If they can save 20 cents per unit they'll do it.
Proprietary networking? Wow you're really stretching there.. Who cares what it sends over the wire?? It is for playing games online ffs.
What does non-compressed HD output mean? Any output going to a display device from a console is uncompressed..
That is true. I don't think HD-DVD OR blu-ray has any chance of catching on anywhere near as quickly as DVD did. I think backward compatible hd discs will be crucial to migrating people to the new standard. I just don't like when people say that there's nothing wrong with standard DVD.. they only say that because they don't know any different. I think most people would be still happy using VHS if they didn't require rewinding.
You've apparently never seen how ugly DVD looks on a large screen. HD content looks a tremendous amount better than dvd on a 90+" setup. Many people (like myself), don't care if the new stuff is more expensive if it looks that much better. If you're copying dvds to a single layer dvd(+-)r disc most of the time you'll have re-encoded video anyway, so obviously quality doesn't matter to you.
Microsoft doesn't run around posting news stories every time they get something to boot. They also don't release things they just hacked together after staying up all night drinking mountain dew to make the front page of /. Chances are MS has had prototypes of these systems in their labs being worked on before the public even knew there was an Intel Mac. Getting the kernel to boot, kinda, is nowhere near the same as releasing a version of windows that runs on a particular platform.
I was thinking that was pretty amusing until I realized somebody got paid to sit there making that. I'm sure it took quite a while too. "yeah billy we need you to make a perpendicular flash movie, and can you please throw in a few bits with afros? thanks!"
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Where do I get that job?
They probably know they can't pull it off like MS did, so they aren't even going to bother. They're a few years behind now too. Better to not try at all than the spend millions of dollars and fail anyway. ;)
You figure out a way to teach the average idiot not to run unknown executables and you'd eliminate 90% of the problem.
It seems to me any OS where the user is logged in with super user access is going to have these problems.
Longhorn is supposedly going to make it possible to use your computer without having to be logged on as an administrator all the time.
The one in Seattle probably would too. :)
yeah but if you're still generating the power just beacuse the wind is blowing you're still benefiting from it, even if you lose a huge amount of it in the process.
Some part of me thinks that moron belongs in prison. It seems like it should be illegal to get people to fund a company, then siphon millions of dollars out of it, drive it into the ground, then walk away leaving your investors screwed. Or they should get to approve his salary.
I remember reading that when they created THX a big part of it was making sure audio sounded as close to what the sound engineer heard as possible. They measured all kinds of thing and created EQ curves and whatnot to get as close a match as possible. I'm not sure if the game THX is anything like this, but it can't hurt.