would I want Vista anyway? I have XP and I don't have any need for Vista. Of couse at on point, support stops for XP. But then Linux for the desktop will hopefully be awesome.
Or, like they have been doing more and more, they are going to move to blatant advertising inside programs via product placement, Well, it can't be worse that all the very annoying blurring all the time, that almost ruins everything for me. I HATE that.
The users, it sure will kill flatrate traffic. And so a lot of online services will be a lot less attractive, such as broadband streaming, the concept of renting programs and other services online.
Yes and it's not like one should have expected it to work in the OS they are current offering. Come on, "improved networking stack". Haven't they had time enough to perfect a vital part of their OS? Their networking stack should have been perfected by w2k So what are their current operating systems, toys?
I don't think my screen will accept 1080p, only 1080i sadly. and it has a slight flicker for some reason, must be the conversion from interlace in the tv, because the 720p is rock solid.
Excellent, I think I will spend a week reading the forums there before making any further investments in hardware.:D I think one of my current problems is scaling of the image right now, I can not get any picture if I send it something close to it's true resolutions but something 1286x689(not the excact numbers), gives me a image where something is cut out and I can use overscan to adjust the viewable area. But I need to play with it a bit more.
Ok, I don't know myspace, never visited the site, don't know what it is about. So I followed the link and went to their front page. and there were nothing at all that told me what it was about and no reason for me to stay. Well I clicked around and found out that it was another site for those people who like to see themself on a website. I guess I am not the Myspace generation.:)
I was at the local computerparts shop, you know the kind that has lots of all the stuff you want crammed in a closet size shop. I was looking for a fanless gfx card because I wanted to get started with a media PC myself. Anyway, they build their own fanless Microsoft media PCs with dual tuner etc. It looked nice and your choice of harddrive was the factor dertermining the noise leves. Granted it wasn't a high power machine, it was not a gamer PC. I have always buyed bleeding edge hardware that needed a lot of cooling. But if you are willing to stay just a step behind the ultra cool, it's easy to build a very quiet machine these days.
Now the big deal(for me) is to get your gfx card and flatscreen tv to play together. Now I am happy that I have only choosen to use 60$ on a Geforce 6200 for testing. I am plugging my DVI on the pc into my HDMI port and I just can't get a resolution of 1366x768 which is the resolution of my tv, to work. of course I could just go for the S-VHS output or the analog d-sub PC port. but those won't give me 720p resolution. So I need to find a solution for this before I spend more money on that project. I did manage to get a usable image using 1080i and running 1900x1000(or someting) which the TV then downscales with a ATI x800 card. The picture were very crisp and with that Microsoft media keybord, I could thow my PC out of my living room and just use the media pc. But for some reason the picture were more fuzzy with the 6200 card.
And unless I am getting something for uploading, I will not be doing so. not for stuff I paid to watch. Maybe if I got it 30% cheaper if I had a good upload rate I would, otherwise I'd just use my slow upstream speed for something else
right on. closed standards are how they can control the market and make life difficult for open source. People in general should be focusing on open standards more than open source since we need that before we truely could get the freedom to choose the software we please.
Just a filter that would only accept calls with IDs and/or only from those who are in the phones directory would be fine for me.
Must be annoying for people on night shifts who still would like their family to be able to call them. One shouldn't have to unplug the cord or turning the phone off.
Must be one of those I got, because ME was very stable on my PC and I never understood why people said it was unstable. I even installed w2k at one time and then went back to ME again, beause of some games. Of course, once I upgraded my HW, I stuck with w2k.
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I am not a karma whore, I am too old for that. here's something to mod down with karma bonus on.
would I want Vista anyway?
I have XP and I don't have any need for Vista.
Of couse at on point, support stops for XP. But then Linux for the desktop will hopefully be awesome.
Or, like they have been doing more and more, they are going to move to blatant advertising inside programs via product placement,
Well, it can't be worse that all the very annoying blurring all the time, that almost ruins everything for me. I HATE that.
Will the madness never end?
The users, it sure will kill flatrate traffic. And so a lot of online services will be a lot less attractive, such as broadband streaming, the concept of renting programs and other services online.
yeah right. "Tech World's New Elite", what a bunch of CRAP.
Yes and it's not like one should have expected it to work in the OS they are current offering. Come on, "improved networking stack". Haven't they had time enough to perfect a vital part of their OS? Their networking stack should have been perfected by w2k So what are their current operating systems, toys?
I don't think my screen will accept 1080p, only 1080i sadly. and it has a slight flicker for some reason, must be the conversion from interlace in the tv, because the 720p is rock solid.
Excellent, I think I will spend a week reading the forums there before making any further investments in hardware. :D
I think one of my current problems is scaling of the image right now, I can not get any picture if I send it something close to it's true resolutions but something 1286x689(not the excact numbers), gives me a image where something is cut out and I can use overscan to adjust the viewable area. But I need to play with it a bit more.
Thanks.
I know, I have some old mounting brackets I found long time ago that really helps there.
Oh, interesting! thanks for that tip. As someone else suggested, I am already browsing through avsforum.com, there's a lot of good stuff there.
tnx
Ok, I don't know myspace, never visited the site, don't know what it is about. :)
So I followed the link and went to their front page. and there were nothing at all that told me what it was about and no reason for me to stay.
Well I clicked around and found out that it was another site for those people who like to see themself on a website.
I guess I am not the Myspace generation.
I was at the local computerparts shop, you know the kind that has lots of all the stuff you want crammed in a closet size shop. I was looking for a fanless gfx card because I wanted to get started with a media PC myself. Anyway, they build their own fanless Microsoft media PCs with dual tuner etc. It looked nice and your choice of harddrive was the factor dertermining the noise leves. Granted it wasn't a high power machine, it was not a gamer PC.
I have always buyed bleeding edge hardware that needed a lot of cooling. But if you are willing to stay just a step behind the ultra cool, it's easy to build a very quiet machine these days.
Now the big deal(for me) is to get your gfx card and flatscreen tv to play together. Now I am happy that I have only choosen to use 60$ on a Geforce 6200 for testing. I am plugging my DVI on the pc into my HDMI port and I just can't get a resolution of 1366x768 which is the resolution of my tv, to work. of course I could just go for the S-VHS output or the analog d-sub PC port. but those won't give me 720p resolution. So I need to find a solution for this before I spend more money on that project.
I did manage to get a usable image using 1080i and running 1900x1000(or someting) which the TV then downscales with a ATI x800 card. The picture were very crisp and with that Microsoft media keybord, I could thow my PC out of my living room and just use the media pc. But for some reason the picture were more fuzzy with the 6200 card.
what bothers me is that people expects that I have MS Office, which I don't.
And unless I am getting something for uploading, I will not be doing so. not for stuff I paid to watch.
Maybe if I got it 30% cheaper if I had a good upload rate I would, otherwise I'd just use my slow upstream speed for something else
I'd say it was rather the decision to use Windows as OS for a system that important that was the error here.
Seaching Google for "Did you mean: the simpsons" and it returns:
"Did you mean: the simpsons"
Damn right, Google.
Why not, it is a perfectly cromulent word!
right on.
closed standards are how they can control the market and make life difficult for open source.
People in general should be focusing on open standards more than open source since we need that before we truely could get the freedom to choose the software we please.
Just a filter that would only accept calls with IDs and/or only from those who are in the phones directory would be fine for me.
Must be annoying for people on night shifts who still would like their family to be able to call them. One shouldn't have to unplug the cord or turning the phone off.
Give me my C64 and "The Drum"!
yes, it means:
Mr. Sparkle.
I'm disrespectful to dirt!
Must be one of those I got, because ME was very stable on my PC and I never understood why people said it was unstable. I even installed w2k at one time and then went back to ME again, beause of some games. Of course, once I upgraded my HW, I stuck with w2k.
the suckiest place on earth.
worthless article. Not the least funny.
Zzzz
I believe the right answer is:
"All I want is a calculator that can calculate".
or something.