Your not kidding there. Even low end, almost entry level, jobs at my company end up being consultant jobs. No one at my company takes the time to teach things around here, so a somewhat trivial program gets outsource to the old employee.
Laptop users often require administrative rights when their on the road. Things break, they call in, you walk them through a restore point, setting up a replacement wireless card,.... Many things require admin rights.
Forget about educating these users the difference between an administrative account and an user account. They can not remember their different Windows network signon and AS400 signon.
Yep, Tech is just a tool and computers are dumb. They do exactly what you tell them to. Without a clear plan/vision all the tools in the world will not help.
The only real interesting thing about this series is the ability to do 100% offload of HD content. It looks like it could make playing BluRay and HD DVD movies on a midrange PC possible.
It means *NEW* HD-DVD and Bluray discs won't work on WinDVD 8. The key for WinDVD 8 has been revoked. Other players use different keys. Those have not been revoked. WinDVD has released a free update with a new key, and presumably an attempt to encrypt it.
This is why HD-DVD and Bluray players require a network jack. It allows for old keys to be removed and new ones to be implemented, among other things.
As much as I dislike Vista, I have to say you are wrong. Vista is precaching your most frequently used apps to RAM. When you open an app that requires 50% of your physical RAM Vista gives it the 50% it needs. If Vista needs to take it from the cached programs it does.
Having an OS with 2 gigs of RAM and 1.6 gigs free is a waste. Its good to have the OS cache apps and make use of ALL the RAM. Just as long as it gives it up to running apps, which Vista does.
I started burning CDs when a burner was $500.00 and only available as a SCSI drive. This is one rare times I'm glad I was on the bleeding edge. Back then you had to know what gold/gold , blue/gold , blue/blue. Was it made in Japan or Taiwan. Turn your screen saver off. Buffer under run protection did not exist. A 4x burner was fast.
Now people complain if you can't burn faster than 24x. Ask them what color their media was and you'll get something like, "Its magenta with Sony written across it." People just don't learn the basics anymore.
If you burn and it fails in a few years, then you need to: gold/gold has the longest lifetime, silver/silver is the most compatible, made in Japan, keep it out of sunlight, burn at 8x or less if you really want it to last.
Then he blames M$ for Creative's lack of support. Creative is terrible. They were part to blame with the VIA KT133 chipset compatibility problem as well. Instead of working with VIA, they dumped the blame on VIA, screw the customer. Windows 2000 is another. It took creative almost a year to release working drivers for many of their sound cards on Win2k.
He is not talking about WMF. H.264 encoded files. My AthlonXP 2500+ can handle WMF. H.264 is a different story. The industry is barely getting smooth playback with Core 2 Duo x6800 and high end nVidia cards:
Windows XP SP2 limits the number of half-connections to 10. This limitation can impact your bittorrent experience. To increase the limit,
1. Go to this site - http://www.lvllord.de/
2. Click on Downloads.
3. Right-click the link and click "Save Target As".
4. Save it in your Desktop.
5. Open the file and run the program located inside the archive, agreeing to the security warning.
6. Some text should scroll by in a MS-DOS window, after it ends, type C.
7. Enter 100 for the number of concurrent half-open connections and press Enter.
8. Type Y and the file should be patched. Cancel any Windows XP warnings that should appear, its part of Microsoft's way to ensure its files are not tampered with (the utility tempers them to break the limit on purpose).
"Initially, Apple was pushing to sell all films for $9.99, just as it sells songs for a flat price of 99 and all TV shows for $1.99. But due to studio pressure, it will launch with two price points: $9.99 for library titles, $14.99 for new pics in the DVD window."
LOST is a great example. Season 2 is selling for 35.99 at Amazon with free shipping. That is 1.50 per episode, 24 episodes. You get 8 hours of extras and DVD quality. 1.99 / show will not make it.
The really sad part of is that it will drive up the cost for IT people - the economies of scale. People who need to permanently archive data in unlimited quantities to media like BD.
Here is my "Media PC" 1.13 GHz Pentium 3 256 MB RAM 250GB HDD remote keybaord with a built in pointing device Windows 2000 The whole system costs less than $300.00
We watch recorded TV shows, downloaded with uTorrent We also use it as the central repository for our home movies and photos
No web surfing - No email
Video goes out through an ATI Radeon 7000's DVI port to the TV's HDMI port.
What I'm waiting for is a low power motherboard with integrated graphics that can decode h.264 at 720p - the technology is too new for that.
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Your not kidding there. Even low end, almost entry level, jobs at my company end up being consultant jobs. No one at my company takes the time to teach things around here, so a somewhat trivial program gets outsource to the old employee.
Laptop users often require administrative rights when their on the road. Things break, they call in, you walk them through a restore point, setting up a replacement wireless card, .... Many things require admin rights.
Forget about educating these users the difference between an administrative account and an user account. They can not remember their different Windows network signon and AS400 signon.
I wouldn't expect that to change. ATI's open drivers will give limited functionality. There will be no 3D acceleration with those drivers.
Yep, Tech is just a tool and computers are dumb. They do exactly what you tell them to. Without a clear plan/vision all the tools in the world will not help.
Anyway the "sixth sense" could tie into quantum mechanics? By observing an animate object you intend to destroy, that object's state is changed?
Sorry, LOST is on tonight. I expect jumps from shaky science to Einsteinian physics to be explained on message boards on Wednesdays.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/G84_G86
The only real interesting thing about this series is the ability to do 100% offload of HD content. It looks like it could make playing BluRay and HD DVD movies on a midrange PC possible.
It means *NEW* HD-DVD and Bluray discs won't work on WinDVD 8. The key for WinDVD 8 has been revoked. Other players use different keys. Those have not been revoked. WinDVD has released a free update with a new key, and presumably an attempt to encrypt it.
This is why HD-DVD and Bluray players require a network jack. It allows for old keys to be removed and new ones to be implemented, among other things.
As much as I dislike Vista, I have to say you are wrong. Vista is precaching your most frequently used apps to RAM. When you open an app that requires 50% of your physical RAM Vista gives it the 50% it needs. If Vista needs to take it from the cached programs it does.
Having an OS with 2 gigs of RAM and 1.6 gigs free is a waste. Its good to have the OS cache apps and make use of ALL the RAM. Just as long as it gives it up to running apps, which Vista does.
I started burning CDs when a burner was $500.00 and only available as a SCSI drive. This is one rare times I'm glad I was on the bleeding edge. Back then you had to know what gold/gold , blue/gold , blue/blue. Was it made in Japan or Taiwan. Turn your screen saver off. Buffer under run protection did not exist. A 4x burner was fast.
Now people complain if you can't burn faster than 24x. Ask them what color their media was and you'll get something like, "Its magenta with Sony written across it." People just don't learn the basics anymore.
If you burn and it fails in a few years, then you need to: gold/gold has the longest lifetime, silver/silver is the most compatible, made in Japan, keep it out of sunlight, burn at 8x or less if you really want it to last.
No kidding. The whole purpose of this card is for home theater. Not one home theater related test.
Yeah, China is the least corrupt nation in the world. They wouldn't charge $600 for a hammer, just $599.
Then he blames M$ for Creative's lack of support. Creative is terrible. They were part to blame with the VIA KT133 chipset compatibility problem as well. Instead of working with VIA, they dumped the blame on VIA, screw the customer. Windows 2000 is another. It took creative almost a year to release working drivers for many of their sound cards on Win2k.
He is not talking about WMF. H.264 encoded files. My AthlonXP 2500+ can handle WMF. H.264 is a different story. The industry is barely getting smooth playback with Core 2 Duo x6800 and high end nVidia cards:
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http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=289
OK, Mozilla Calendar is broke. Good thing I tested it before my wife, who actually uses it, updated.
Spell check is very cool.
It also depends on Intel. Can Intel get the Core2 mature enough for 2006/2007? That is the advantage AMD has now.
The Athlon 64 is bullet proof in the server market.
Windows XP SP2 limits the number of half-connections to 10. This limitation can impact your bittorrent experience. To increase the limit,
e /index.html
1. Go to this site - http://www.lvllord.de/
2. Click on Downloads.
3. Right-click the link and click "Save Target As".
4. Save it in your Desktop.
5. Open the file and run the program located inside the archive, agreeing to the security warning.
6. Some text should scroll by in a MS-DOS window, after it ends, type C.
7. Enter 100 for the number of concurrent half-open connections and press Enter.
8. Type Y and the file should be patched. Cancel any Windows XP warnings that should appear, its part of Microsoft's way to ensure its files are not tampered with (the utility tempers them to break the limit on purpose).
http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/BitTorrentGuid
It does not list if the source is High Def which is the most important thing.
"Initially, Apple was pushing to sell all films for $9.99, just as it sells songs for a flat price of 99 and all TV shows for $1.99. But due to studio pressure, it will launch with two price points: $9.99 for library titles, $14.99 for new pics in the DVD window."
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LOST is a great example. Season 2 is selling for 35.99 at Amazon with free shipping. That is 1.50 per episode, 24 episodes. You get 8 hours of extras and DVD quality. 1.99 / show will not make it.
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Complete-Season-Adewal
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16856110050
Here is the equivalent system without the distro. It shouldn't be too hard to configure Linux for this.
The really sad part of is that it will drive up the cost for IT people - the economies of scale. People who need to permanently archive data in unlimited quantities to media like BD.
Here is my "Media PC"
1.13 GHz Pentium 3
256 MB RAM
250GB HDD
remote keybaord with a built in pointing device
Windows 2000
The whole system costs less than $300.00
We watch recorded TV shows, downloaded with uTorrent
We also use it as the central repository for our home movies and photos
No web surfing - No email
Video goes out through an ATI Radeon 7000's DVI port to the TV's HDMI port.
What I'm waiting for is a low power motherboard with integrated graphics that can decode h.264 at 720p - the technology is too new for that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5229456.stm
except that a CPU and a GPU are 2 entirely different processors
http://sounds.wavcentral.com/televis/snl/scottish_ crap.mp3 its crap!