FYI, DVI also uses HDCP. HDMI is basically pin identical to DVI, it just includes support for audio as well, so it's really the DVI spec that supports HDCP. I'm running a HDMI-DVI cable from my cable box to my Samsung DLP. Every so often when I turn on the TV after the cable box I'll catch the HDCP warning message for a brief second before it display the picture.
Enterprise based mail offers more than traditional imap solutions. Good/Blackberry/ActiveSync (just gonna use AS after this) allow you to syncronize your contacts, mail, calendar, and even tasks with your work computer. Additionally they have support for instant notification and also allow tighter integration with your client. (Say for example you send an email from your phone, it does not go through the SMTP server, rather it follows the same path your client takes, looks like it was sent from your desktop client, deposits a copy in your sent items, etc).
Also if you get a meeting request, you can accept it, and it will automatically add it to your calendar. Same with new contacts. These are all things that IMAP just was not designed to do.
My biggest issue with taking this as anymore than a cell with games and keeping it out of the smartphone category is it's lack of any enterprise mail support. From what i have seen/read it does not support Good, Blackberry Connect or even Exchange ActiveSync. The latter would be one of the easiest to implement, even Palm has Exchange ActiveSync support on it's palm based Treo's.
Hopefully they'll include this at some point, but for now I (personally) just can't justify getting it for a smartphone, maybe a nice ipod/phone combination, but that's it.
That is a general problem with the way people view cell phones. I am sorry, but I am not there for the phone. It is there for me. If i choose to answer it i will. Otherwise, you can have a pleasant chat with my voice mail. Just because you are calling me, does not mean that I have to answer it.
towards turning ourselves into something unrecognizable as human by today's standards.
Playing devil's advocate here: And the problem with this is? Isn't it in man's nature to attempt to improve themselves? Assuming the negative impacts are not great, what is wrong with us having an extra limb (don't know the benefits, just for sake of argument)? It's just a natural process of evolution. We look nothing like the creatures we evolved from, but that is because our form is functional for what we do. In the future, this form may not be the most functional (i'd argue it's not right now, but all things take time).
Hence why I said "without even taking into account AMD.", They're just as bad at it. And they've been pulling an Intel quite recently too. Really clockspeed + codename should be well enough. If you want to know more about the specific chip, look up the code name info. Keep the marketdroids out of it (You know it wasn't a tech who came up with Core 2 Duo)
So now, now only have they gone back to pointing out the clock speed, they add the NVidia product name at the end? Surely there's got to be a simpler way to do this, without even taking into account AMD. I mean you have:
- Dual Processor Pentium - Dual Core Pentium D - Core 2 Solo - Core 2 Duo - Core 2 Quad - Dual Processor Core 2 Quad
Seriously, that's some major word jumble and you haven't even specified anything like clock speed (I know it's not all about clock speed, but uniform naming to differentiate would help).
On a side note, you can reinstall the Office XP version of Photo Editor without it messing up 2K3. Had a couple users who complained about 2K3 removing photo editor, did some research and reinstalled it no problem. Barring that little snafu, Office 2003 is really quite a bit better than the previous versions, especially Outlook.
Now, on the other hand, i completely agree with you about Vista.
You know that's one thing I think Microsoft got right in Outlook 2003. When you recieve an email you get a semi-translucent pop up in the lower right corner of your screen with the sender, subject, and the first two lines of the email. If you move your mouse to it, it'll turn solid and you can open it, delete it or flag it right then and there. If you choose to ignore it, it just goes away after about 3 seconds.
I've found it's really made things easier because I don't have to check every time I hear a new message come in. I can just quickly glance at it and decide if I need to take care of it now or later.
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a band made of giant Elvis man-dog robots that shook and gyrated,
You just brought back a very very bad childhood memory.
And given that, if the hijacker has grabbed a stewardess and is holding the boxcutter against her throat, what are you going to do?
I really hate to be so calous, but given her or the other almost 100 people on board, she can die. Hell if it were me, let him take me out and then take him out. Better than getting an upfront view of what's about to happen.
You know, I was wondering about that. I love Deus Ex, but for the life of me I tried the demo of DX2 and just could not get myself to like it. Actually I found that the game play and UI got in the way more than the story itself. If they would have kept the same UI I think I would have actually given the story more of a chance.
Though my only impression is from the demo. Is there anything serious I'm missing by not trying the full game?
calibrated censors there, coincidentally, these censors have been used WORLDWIDE
Wow, I didn't know that we sent those type of people to the moon, trained them and then used them all over the world. China may want to get ahold of these moon-savvy censors for their firewall. Perhaps you meant "sensor"
You know, I'm supprised with all the censoring and filtering they do, they just don't mandate all email be sent through government controlled servers and block port 25 on the "great firewall". That way they could say it's in the name of spam (or security, or whatever) and still read what they want. (I know, I know, stop giving them ideas)
Well what do you know, they did update the firmware.... When the MD1000 first came out it was only able to support SAS drives, had a big disclaimer too. Just went back to their product page to make sure and what do you know... I'd prefer SAS, but SATA is a bit cheaper to start.
A little OT, but there's a ranch here in Texas that does just that, you connect with your computer and can aim a rifle remotely. They use it for game hunting and it caused quite a large controversy here about a year ago.
I remember I had 2 controllers, SMB, duck hunt and the zapper, but no ROB. Though quite possibly i'm remembering the $80 part wrong, 21 years will do that, it just seemed odd that I recognized the $80 number as soon as it was mentioned. Oh well, thanks!
Actually I too remember getting a NES around christmas or shortly there after (definately within 6-8 months of launch) for about $80. I even remember a huge promotion about the $80 price tag. If it debuted for $200 when and why did the price take such a drastic nose dive?
I know you're trying to be funny, but for those who don't know they go into double letters starting at 'aa' and then 'ab' etc. That is why there is an 802.3ab standard for example
Funny, I just finished playing that game again right before I pulled up this article. 6 years later and it's still a great game (scary with the parallels though).
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FYI, DVI also uses HDCP. HDMI is basically pin identical to DVI, it just includes support for audio as well, so it's really the DVI spec that supports HDCP. I'm running a HDMI-DVI cable from my cable box to my Samsung DLP. Every so often when I turn on the TV after the cable box I'll catch the HDCP warning message for a brief second before it display the picture.
Enterprise based mail offers more than traditional imap solutions. Good/Blackberry/ActiveSync (just gonna use AS after this) allow you to syncronize your contacts, mail, calendar, and even tasks with your work computer. Additionally they have support for instant notification and also allow tighter integration with your client. (Say for example you send an email from your phone, it does not go through the SMTP server, rather it follows the same path your client takes, looks like it was sent from your desktop client, deposits a copy in your sent items, etc).
Also if you get a meeting request, you can accept it, and it will automatically add it to your calendar. Same with new contacts. These are all things that IMAP just was not designed to do.
My biggest issue with taking this as anymore than a cell with games and keeping it out of the smartphone category is it's lack of any enterprise mail support. From what i have seen/read it does not support Good, Blackberry Connect or even Exchange ActiveSync. The latter would be one of the easiest to implement, even Palm has Exchange ActiveSync support on it's palm based Treo's.
Hopefully they'll include this at some point, but for now I (personally) just can't justify getting it for a smartphone, maybe a nice ipod/phone combination, but that's it.
That is a general problem with the way people view cell phones. I am sorry, but I am not there for the phone. It is there for me. If i choose to answer it i will. Otherwise, you can have a pleasant chat with my voice mail. Just because you are calling me, does not mean that I have to answer it.
Playing devil's advocate here: And the problem with this is? Isn't it in man's nature to attempt to improve themselves? Assuming the negative impacts are not great, what is wrong with us having an extra limb (don't know the benefits, just for sake of argument)? It's just a natural process of evolution. We look nothing like the creatures we evolved from, but that is because our form is functional for what we do. In the future, this form may not be the most functional (i'd argue it's not right now, but all things take time).
I may have to ask around. There's also UIW, St. Mary's and OLLU. I'd put my money on St. Mary's though.
Hence why I said "without even taking into account AMD.", They're just as bad at it. And they've been pulling an Intel quite recently too. Really clockspeed + codename should be well enough. If you want to know more about the specific chip, look up the code name info. Keep the marketdroids out of it (You know it wasn't a tech who came up with Core 2 Duo)
2.66GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6700??
So now, now only have they gone back to pointing out the clock speed, they add the NVidia product name at the end? Surely there's got to be a simpler way to do this, without even taking into account AMD. I mean you have:
- Dual Processor Pentium
- Dual Core Pentium D
- Core 2 Solo
- Core 2 Duo
- Core 2 Quad
- Dual Processor Core 2 Quad
Seriously, that's some major word jumble and you haven't even specified anything like clock speed (I know it's not all about clock speed, but uniform naming to differentiate would help).
On a side note, you can reinstall the Office XP version of Photo Editor without it messing up 2K3. Had a couple users who complained about 2K3 removing photo editor, did some research and reinstalled it no problem. Barring that little snafu, Office 2003 is really quite a bit better than the previous versions, especially Outlook.
Now, on the other hand, i completely agree with you about Vista.
You know that's one thing I think Microsoft got right in Outlook 2003. When you recieve an email you get a semi-translucent pop up in the lower right corner of your screen with the sender, subject, and the first two lines of the email. If you move your mouse to it, it'll turn solid and you can open it, delete it or flag it right then and there. If you choose to ignore it, it just goes away after about 3 seconds.
I've found it's really made things easier because I don't have to check every time I hear a new message come in. I can just quickly glance at it and decide if I need to take care of it now or later.
You just brought back a very very bad childhood memory.
I really hate to be so calous, but given her or the other almost 100 people on board, she can die. Hell if it were me, let him take me out and then take him out. Better than getting an upfront view of what's about to happen.
You know, I was wondering about that. I love Deus Ex, but for the life of me I tried the demo of DX2 and just could not get myself to like it. Actually I found that the game play and UI got in the way more than the story itself. If they would have kept the same UI I think I would have actually given the story more of a chance.
Though my only impression is from the demo. Is there anything serious I'm missing by not trying the full game?
Wow, I didn't know that we sent those type of people to the moon, trained them and then used them all over the world. China may want to get ahold of these moon-savvy censors for their firewall. Perhaps you meant "sensor"
That's why I couldn't find the game! I was looking for 7UP Spot on the NES, not the Genesis. Thank you sir!
Wait, wait, wait. A version of IE you can actually uninstall? Did I miss something here?
You know, I'm supprised with all the censoring and filtering they do, they just don't mandate all email be sent through government controlled servers and block port 25 on the "great firewall". That way they could say it's in the name of spam (or security, or whatever) and still read what they want. (I know, I know, stop giving them ideas)
Well what do you know, they did update the firmware.... When the MD1000 first came out it was only able to support SAS drives, had a big disclaimer too. Just went back to their product page to make sure and what do you know... I'd prefer SAS, but SATA is a bit cheaper to start.
A little OT, but there's a ranch here in Texas that does just that, you connect with your computer and can aim a rifle remotely. They use it for game hunting and it caused quite a large controversy here about a year ago.
I remember I had 2 controllers, SMB, duck hunt and the zapper, but no ROB. Though quite possibly i'm remembering the $80 part wrong, 21 years will do that, it just seemed odd that I recognized the $80 number as soon as it was mentioned. Oh well, thanks!
Actually I too remember getting a NES around christmas or shortly there after (definately within 6-8 months of launch) for about $80. I even remember a huge promotion about the $80 price tag. If it debuted for $200 when and why did the price take such a drastic nose dive?
...your choice of traditional Gamecube or motion-sensing Revmote control
Shouldn't that be Wiimote control? (shhh... I'm hunting wabbits)
I know you're trying to be funny, but for those who don't know they go into double letters starting at 'aa' and then 'ab' etc. That is why there is an 802.3ab standard for example
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Funny, I just finished playing that game again right before I pulled up this article. 6 years later and it's still a great game (scary with the parallels though).