Firewire capture from the Motorola DCT 6200 cable box or a Scientific Atlatic one that I can't remember the model number. At least I assume that is what he is talking about. Works great provided your cable company doesn't use 5c encrytion on the channels.
Here is what I did and it works flawlessly. Buy a cheap IR keyboard, the keyboard doesn't really matter, you want is the ps/2 IR sensor. Then buy a learning remote control, I got a $30 sony. Then teach the learning remoter the key presses for whatever you want. I.e. the P key is mapped to the play button. The great thing about this is no config files to mess with or screw up.
Get an Nvidia 7600GS. Not the GT, the GS. Almost all I've seen have been fanless and should run even new games at lower resolutions. Also EVGA make a fanless 7600GT if you need the extra oomph.
Man, from the title of this article I thought it was going to be about Activision discounting downloadable games to a price less than a box copy, as obviously their costs would be lower, passing the savings on. I'm still waiting for a company to do this, although I guess Steam sometimes is cheaper online. So stop using homonyms in the article titles, especially confusing ones. I get dissapointed enough with the shit going on in our world, I don't need slashdot making me think I can get my games cheaper and then dashing my hopes with an opposite story...
But I agree with you that the drivers for laptop gpu's are horribly managed. Unless I misunderstand you, nv isn't any better, their unified drivers are only for desktop and a few highend laptop gpus, most laptop chipsets are stuck with manufacturer provided drivers, as is my HP laptop with ATI x200m so I think Acer is not the only one...
Yup, all 1 key inputs for all functions afaik. The only limitation is that key repeat doesn't work for me (as in I have to press the down key over and over to get through a list rather than holding it down) but I believe that has to do with the way I capture the ir codes/programmed the remote, I think I could get it working with some more fiddling but at this point I don't care, it works great for my purposes.
No kidding about the ease of use, I see people banging their heads agains lirc tring to get these cheesy hauppauge remotes working while I have a fully customizable remote that has way more buttons and also controls my tv and stereo functions.
For a cable capture card I would suggest a hauppauge pvr-150 non mce. They can be had for around $70 (got mine from buy.com) in the non mce version (means no remote). It is a hardware capture card so no system load, good quality too.
For input I found the easiest way to go is to buy an infared keyboard mouse combo (liteon makes a nice one for around $30) and then also buy an ir learning remote of your choosing (as cheap as $20, Sony's are easy to setup). Then you use the IR keyboard to teach the remote whatever key presses you want to map to each button. Very easy to setup and infinetly customizeable without any pesky config files. Plus then you have a wireless keyboard handy for when you need to hack.
KnoppMyth is the best!!
TS3 was practice for Disney's 3d animation team...
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At least it seems obvious to me. When faced with the loss of Pixar, Disney decided they would need their own 3d animation team. It would be impossible for a new team to immediately match the quality that Pixar has honed over the years, so they decided to do a warm up movie. Toy Story came out in 1995, that means that Disney's in house 3d animation would only have to match the quality of an 11 year old movie in order to be visually acceptable to an audience. TS3 would have given Disney much needed practice in putting together a 3d animated movie all on their own, a familiar ground so to speak. With Pixar now back in the fold Disney has no reason to push a hasty TS3 out the door. I suspect we will eventually see a TS3 movie come out, but it will be a quality movie, not a training feature.
Well I couldn't find video but there have been transparent engines built before for flow analysis. Here is a link with some pics of/from a single cylinder one, scroll down a ways: http://www.tvu.com/PSCylTEngweb.htm
Try knoppmyth, a knoppix based distro: www.mysettopbox.tv
Makes the hardware stuff way easy, I had mine working the first time in about 2 hours and now I can setup a system in under a half hour, and I consider myself to be just barely knowledgeable using linux.
Dude you can get DVI to component adapters for $10, so for $30 you could have your special component video. My that's spendy...
And I guess you don't understand much about video cards because that is what they do, output video at variable resolutions and scan rates. The nvidia card in the xbox is nothing special, the same type as in your computer. Maybe your laptop had a shitty video chip.
My point is you can buy a computer with the same if not better hardware specs for the same price as the xbox and then you aren't limited to one os. There are plenty of easy ways to make input simple. An xbox offers no funcional advantage to a computer once you realize it is just a restricted computer, and it offers no price benefit once you realize just what a slow ass p.o.s. the xbox is. If it works for you great but realize it is not the ideal you make it out to be.
I thought about the same as the reviewer after trying the demo, the carnival comparison is appropriate. Way to many stupid flying enemys to pop, no sense of fear or urgency. And the 2 cutscenes in the demo were awful, so I can only imagine it went downhill from there...
Not for no $800. You have what maybe $400 of hardware there. Up the specs or drop the price. And why use a pvr-250 when a pvr-500 gives you dual capture for about the same price...
"If you want to disagree with me just fine but make sure you dont claim there is actually more information on a DVD than an SVGA/WGA can support"
Ok fine, I'll claim there is less. You also said: "Second, while the information content of a DVD is indeed equal to the number of pixels on a 800x600 projector"
How does a DVD with a resolution of 720x482 equal the number of pixels on an 800x600 screen?
How would you tell if someone pirated it? I believe the submitter is suggesting that the end user would make a copy, keep the copy, then send on the original, not the copy...
"First, the climate has become slightly warmer over the past hundred years. This is known fact, over the period for which accurate measurements and records are available."
Huh? Not saying I know one way or the other but I know I have seen more than a few climatoligists dispute that it is a fact. Temp measuring stations have been enroached upon by urban environments in that time frame, and I have no problem believing that much of the difference could be local variations rather than a global change (cities are warmer than country) . You do realize we just average a bunch of temp measurments to decide the "global temperature" and that recording stations older than 50 years were invariably located close to population centers...
What about some of the huge Chinese manufacturing plants? They have housing, food, entertainment, etc. I think they even try to keep their employees poor enough that they can't afford to leave;)
I believe you are after Native Command Queueing, which is a SATA spec, not a IBM/Hitachi only thing. Yes this drive does support it and the benchmarks in the article include it both turned on and off. Google NCQ for more info than you need;)
8,000 new viruses? Say what? How many of those are just viruses edited by some script kiddy to say "0wn3d by Fr0g3r" or some such shit? Like sobig.a, sobig.b, sobig.c, sobig.d, sobig.e, etc...
What I'd like to know is how many unique types of attacks are exploited by new viruses, that would be a useful statistic...
Yup good thinking, my apartment is way to small to have a server somewhere so all in one it was for me. If you do go for a frontend box look into the VIA nano itx boards, the lower power ones have no fan whatsoever, even for the cpu...
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Firewire capture from the Motorola DCT 6200 cable box or a Scientific Atlatic one that I can't remember the model number. At least I assume that is what he is talking about. Works great provided your cable company doesn't use 5c encrytion on the channels.
Here is what I did and it works flawlessly. Buy a cheap IR keyboard, the keyboard doesn't really matter, you want is the ps/2 IR sensor. Then buy a learning remote control, I got a $30 sony. Then teach the learning remoter the key presses for whatever you want. I.e. the P key is mapped to the play button. The great thing about this is no config files to mess with or screw up.
Get an Nvidia 7600GS. Not the GT, the GS. Almost all I've seen have been fanless and should run even new games at lower resolutions. Also EVGA make a fanless 7600GT if you need the extra oomph.
Man, from the title of this article I thought it was going to be about Activision discounting downloadable games to a price less than a box copy, as obviously their costs would be lower, passing the savings on. I'm still waiting for a company to do this, although I guess Steam sometimes is cheaper online.
So stop using homonyms in the article titles, especially confusing ones. I get dissapointed enough with the shit going on in our world, I don't need slashdot making me think I can get my games cheaper and then dashing my hopes with an opposite story...
P.S. this Kotick guy is an idiot.
I guess you can't write a book about linux with a penguin on the cover then. oops...
That is a great feature to add, I get pissed at vlc some times, it is not the ideal interface for sure. Keep up the good work!
Too bad with textbook prices these days they're almost as valuable as a laptop. :(
Good point though, I do the same thing, $15 neoprene sleve in my backback and my lappy is safe.
Try omega drivers:
http://omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php
Workd great with my x220m.
But I agree with you that the drivers for laptop gpu's are horribly managed. Unless I misunderstand you, nv isn't any better, their unified drivers are only for desktop and a few highend laptop gpus, most laptop chipsets are stuck with manufacturer provided drivers, as is my HP laptop with ATI x200m so I think Acer is not the only one...
Yup, all 1 key inputs for all functions afaik.
The only limitation is that key repeat doesn't work for me (as in I have to press the down key over and over to get through a list rather than holding it down) but I believe that has to do with the way I capture the ir codes/programmed the remote, I think I could get it working with some more fiddling but at this point I don't care, it works great for my purposes.
No kidding about the ease of use, I see people banging their heads agains lirc tring to get these cheesy hauppauge remotes working while I have a fully customizable remote that has way more buttons and also controls my tv and stereo functions.
For a cable capture card I would suggest a hauppauge pvr-150 non mce. They can be had for around $70 (got mine from buy.com) in the non mce version (means no remote). It is a hardware capture card so no system load, good quality too.
For input I found the easiest way to go is to buy an infared keyboard mouse combo (liteon makes a nice one for around $30) and then also buy an ir learning remote of your choosing (as cheap as $20, Sony's are easy to setup). Then you use the IR keyboard to teach the remote whatever key presses you want to map to each button. Very easy to setup and infinetly customizeable without any pesky config files. Plus then you have a wireless keyboard handy for when you need to hack.
KnoppMyth is the best!!
At least it seems obvious to me. When faced with the loss of Pixar, Disney decided they would need their own 3d animation team. It would be impossible for a new team to immediately match the quality that Pixar has honed over the years, so they decided to do a warm up movie. Toy Story came out in 1995, that means that Disney's in house 3d animation would only have to match the quality of an 11 year old movie in order to be visually acceptable to an audience. TS3 would have given Disney much needed practice in putting together a 3d animated movie all on their own, a familiar ground so to speak. With Pixar now back in the fold Disney has no reason to push a hasty TS3 out the door. I suspect we will eventually see a TS3 movie come out, but it will be a quality movie, not a training feature.
And they shall call it Enforcement Droid 209. Oh wait, 8 legs, make that Ed-809 ;-)
Well I couldn't find video but there have been transparent engines built before for flow analysis. Here is a link with some pics of/from a single cylinder one, scroll down a ways:
http://www.tvu.com/PSCylTEngweb.htm
Try knoppmyth, a knoppix based distro:
www.mysettopbox.tv
Makes the hardware stuff way easy, I had mine working the first time in about 2 hours and now I can setup a system in under a half hour, and I consider myself to be just barely knowledgeable using linux.
Dude you can get DVI to component adapters for $10, so for $30 you could have your special component video. My that's spendy...
And I guess you don't understand much about video cards because that is what they do, output video at variable resolutions and scan rates. The nvidia card in the xbox is nothing special, the same type as in your computer. Maybe your laptop had a shitty video chip.
My point is you can buy a computer with the same if not better hardware specs for the same price as the xbox and then you aren't limited to one os. There are plenty of easy ways to make input simple. An xbox offers no funcional advantage to a computer once you realize it is just a restricted computer, and it offers no price benefit once you realize just what a slow ass p.o.s. the xbox is. If it works for you great but realize it is not the ideal you make it out to be.
I thought about the same as the reviewer after trying the demo, the carnival comparison is appropriate. Way to many stupid flying enemys to pop, no sense of fear or urgency. And the 2 cutscenes in the demo were awful, so I can only imagine it went downhill from there...
Not for no $800. You have what maybe $400 of hardware there. Up the specs or drop the price. And why use a pvr-250 when a pvr-500 gives you dual capture for about the same price...
"If you want to disagree with me just fine but make sure you dont claim there is actually more information on a DVD than an SVGA/WGA can support"
Ok fine, I'll claim there is less. You also said:
"Second, while the information content of a DVD is indeed equal to the number of pixels on a 800x600 projector"
How does a DVD with a resolution of 720x482 equal the number of pixels on an 800x600 screen?
Other than that good info, thanks.
How would you tell if someone pirated it?
I believe the submitter is suggesting that the end user would make a copy, keep the copy, then send on the original, not the copy...
"First, the climate has become slightly warmer over the past hundred years. This is known fact, over the period for which accurate measurements and records are available."
Huh? Not saying I know one way or the other but I know I have seen more than a few climatoligists dispute that it is a fact. Temp measuring stations have been enroached upon by urban environments in that time frame, and I have no problem believing that much of the difference could be local variations rather than a global change (cities are warmer than country) . You do realize we just average a bunch of temp measurments to decide the "global temperature" and that recording stations older than 50 years were invariably located close to population centers...
What about some of the huge Chinese manufacturing plants? They have housing, food, entertainment, etc. ;)
I think they even try to keep their employees poor enough that they can't afford to leave
I believe you are after Native Command Queueing, which is a SATA spec, not a IBM/Hitachi only thing. Yes this drive does support it and the benchmarks in the article include it both turned on and off. ;)
Google NCQ for more info than you need
8,000 new viruses? Say what?
How many of those are just viruses edited by some script kiddy to say "0wn3d by Fr0g3r" or some such shit?
Like sobig.a, sobig.b, sobig.c, sobig.d, sobig.e, etc...
What I'd like to know is how many unique types of attacks are exploited by new viruses, that would be a useful statistic...
Yup good thinking, my apartment is way to small to have a server somewhere so all in one it was for me. If you do go for a frontend box look into the VIA nano itx boards, the lower power ones have no fan whatsoever, even for the cpu...
Where are you getting Tivo for $5 a month? Even if you buy a year at a time it is $13...