I wasn't 100% sure about the numbers but knew they were close, thanks for fixing them. As for the shift key, I use it when I feel it's necesary, and IM conversations and slashdot posts rarely seem formal enough to warrant such grammar nazism. But I will make an effort for you.
the 42 inch is HD compatable, meaning it will accept a component input that's HD and downconvert it to the TV's native format, EDTV. EDTV = 480p, or standard resolution but progressive scan. HDTV = 780p or 1060i. having viewed HDTV signal (from dish network) on said plasma screen, i can say that it looks awesome, and might be a good set now while the cable companies & TV stations sort out the transition to being fully HD. for reference, all (most?) DVDs are EDTV, such that any dvd with a progressive scan player hooked to the gateway or a $6k sony/philips/whatever will look nearly identical. can't speak to much on the projector issue, but i've heard bulbs can be rather costly, and ambient light is always a consideration. the gateway 42" plasmas are in their 3rd if not 4th generation, and previous complaints about contrast ratio and how 'black' the darkest colors are have been addressed, such that owners of older models might be complaining about issues not present in the one you'd buy today.
hope this helps.
other features in the gateway TV: standard analog tuner, inboard speakers (pointing out the sides of the tv, but not bad sounding at all), wall mount bracket was $179 when i left, they may have changed the price, extended warranty options, including accidental damage protection (trust me, you dont' want to have to pay to get it fixed), a host of monster cables available, professional installation available, standard floor stands if you don't feel like haning it on a wall. etc.
i don't care what it looks like, i'm just glad it works and i did it myself from scratch, for right around $100. in fact, i literally described my computer as looking like something dr. frankenstein would have built to someone yesterday.
or you could do what i did and have money left over...
Viaaqua 1300 pump - $20 Gemini high flow waterblock - on sale for $33 heater core from 91 ford escort - $19 tubing & fittings from Home depot - $27 free sample of zerex super racing coolant gallon of distilled water $0.99 tupperware reservoir found around house - free
total cost (not including shipping or taxes) $100
keeps my athlon tbird 1.1GHz between 30 and 40c (using an in-wall AC unit to cool radiator) whereas i was getting between 55 and 65c with a volcano 5.
yes, some parts could be better but there's always room to upgrade later.
being the geek that i am i hit view source for that page. it's all one long javascript string, completely obfuscated. very interesting indeed. meta content generator says frontpage, though. i'd like to slashdot the server the actual script sends to. this person appears to be smarter than they appear. just a sec, lets see here.... here we go, page properties courtesy of mozilla firebird. form method = post, action = http://ns.terraserver.nl/cgi-bin/web2mail.cgi unfortunately no apparent hidden field for the info to be mailed to, such that it must be inside the cgi script. hrmmm....... no luck getting the source of that cgi, mebbe someone with more talent than i can go for it.
it's being a whitehat to hack spammers/scammers, right?
it sucks to be forced to sit at number 6 in this economy where i can't even go back to number 4 in a job because there are few jobs out there for someone of my skill level (4 years ago an AS and school certs in web programming sounded so good). but i'm working through it. i'm hoping to join the local LUG and get some person-to-person time (ok, geek-to-geek time) and get over it. but alot of the things that i want to do to move to number 7 require money (mountain biking, martial arts lessons, etc.) and that takes us back to 6 that much harder. oh well life goes on, and for now i email resumes by the boatload (and go fill out applications in person) and hope for the call from some cool employer. and read slashdot. alot. which doesn't really help any. oh well.
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+5 insightful, now i'm sorry i used my mod points up already.
the easiest way to see if this is something useful for the non-hearing/speaking community is to ask them. i agree with your point that most people in certain situations don't see it as a disability or hinderance in day-to-day life, it's just part of life and who they are. along the same line of thinking, i have mixed feelings about documentaries or special clips on the news saluting people 'living with such a hard problem' or whatever. they get along alright, they don't have a problem with their difference, and when it comes down to it, every person in the world has his or her own difficulty in life (mine and probably a good chunk of the/. crowd's being face to face people skills), but we don't see news spots about the 28 year old geek living in his mom's basement overcoming obstacles and going out and getting a non-tech job and having his own apartment and enjoying his city's night life, do we? nor do you see anyone engineering any sort of chip or device to help people with problems like that. all that being said, i think it's cool that someone is thinking about helping another community 'fit in' better with the 'rest of us' but (as technologically cool as it is, and i hope it gets developed for other uses like computer games/operations) a poll of said community might indicate better what they want from 'us' to feel more a 'part of the crowd'.
i used to work at a gateway in Grand Rapids, hoping to work at one of the 2 here in denver.
the gateway plasma TV, like the others in the sub $6k range, is not an hdtv screen, but rather has a downconverter in the tuner (built into the tv and included in the $3k price) that lets it be hdtv compatable. the screen itself is 480p, meaning progressive scan at standard tv resolution, aka edtv (extended defintion). i can say that dvd's look awesome on it (they're natively encoded at edtv levels, you need a progressive dvd player), and that when we had the hdtv signal from an echostar (dish netwrk) satelite, the performance was unbelievable. changing between 780p and 1080i on the dish did change the picture on the screen, i don't remember which we decided looked better. one had jagged straight lines, the other was missing frames about once a minute (both likely to be satelite problems). so no, the gateway tv isn't hdtv or capable of 1080i (though it will support a computer at 1024x768, it looks better at 800x600, which is just plain easier to read from 6 feet away), neither is the $4000 panasonic at best buy. you gotta shell out $$$$$$$ to get a hdtv native plasma screen. more bubbles of gas.:) as for the mp3 player? gateway is pushing to be more in competition with someone like sony, that does computers and home entertainment, rather than competing with dell, which is just computers. methinks they're trying to get the best of both worlds, i.e. custom computers and home electronics. i hope it works for them, i can't say anything bad about the company, and that's not just the NDA speaking:-p
komodo (a nice (rather big) IDE) from active state use(d?) mozilla as a basis. i'm interested to see if any other programs out there actually use anything from mozilla (other than the obvious firebird/phoenix and whatever that mail app is)
mozilla is on the right track to being bug free, standards compliant, and easy to use. yes, it's trying to be everything to everyone, but it's doing a rather nice job at it. other than opera, i'd be hard pressed to find a better browser (that's actually capable of running on stuff other than windows) or graphical mail client.
i bought a compusa store brand 400w supply for my new A7V8x based system, with an asus brand geforce4 mx 440 64mb graphics card. the manual for both the motherboard and the video card were very specific about the importance of enough power on the 3.3v rail for the graphics card to work. i put everything together and booted win2k (after reinstalling) i could get the graphics drivers to load but it wouldn't detect the card as anything more than standard vga. i popped up asus probe and lo and behold the 3.3v rail was at about 3.16 (confirmed in bios). i put my old 250w supply in and everything worked fine. i returned the compusa brand one and got an antec truepower 400w for $20 + tax more. i am amazed how straight the lines in asus probe are. there's next to no fluctuation in voltage on any rail, and all of them run much closer to spec (3.3 still registers as 3.26 but there's margin for mobo sensor error in there). even my old 250w (not el cheapo but it came with the case) would fluctuate when the system was a Asus P2b-b with a celeron 500 in it. i gotta hand it to antec, they know power supplies.
bottom line is this, after motherboard and processor, the next most important decision is to put some money (not too much, my antec 400w was only $70, compared to the store brand at $50) into a good power supply, you'll see the benefits (or rather, not see the disadvantages) for a long time to come. the 2 fans on the antec are much quieter than the one fan on the scrompUSA brand one, too.
as for sparkle noted above, they're good, better than the no name brands, and worth the extra $10, but only if you're replacing the power supply in an e-machine. i've never seen a sparkle more than a couple hundred watts, and even then they're only avialable to oems and VAR's (used to work at a small shop, replaced more e-machine power supplies than i can count on both hands and feet, and your hands and feet, and the hands and feet of that guy over there).
power supplies can make a big difference. note, though, that my old 250w no-name was also perfectly fine for 3 years on a lower powered system, and will probably be going back into something else when i build a router out of the celery 500. go antec, you won't be disappointed
could i have a beowulf cluster consisting of an athlon 1.1, a celeron 500, and my wife's k6-2 450?
i understand the concept of clustering but i've never really read anything about it other than stuff here on/. what kind of processing power would i have between these 3 machines? ~a 2ghz athlon or p4? (that's just adding the MHz together) or is it a more geometric equation such that it'd be faster than a 3ghz p4?
sorry, i didn't see it and it was screaming to be done. actually now that i think about it, isn't the term beowulf cluster limited to smaller machines anyway? wouldn't a huge multiproc machine be in some sense a cluster in and of itself? i dunno. need more coffee.
call it me being cheap but i can't wait for AMD to release 64bit procs to the desktop. why? cause after a quarter or 2, the cost of AthlonXP's will drop and i'll have a cheaper chip to drop in my mobo.
that being said, 64bit processing must be good for desktops or why would apple have gone with it? the fact that they run a BSD based os is a Good Thing(TM) because we already know BSD's will support 64bit procs already (and winders has no plans to support it till longhorn, IIRC) such that open source will be a better option for the people out there that just have to have the latest and gratest. i see the 64 bit processors as an advantage to people doing things like multimedia or 3d stuff (pixar moved to g5's, didn't they?). developers might like it but it'd be silly to develop on a 64bit machine when the target market is all 32 bit machines. i dunno, bigger is better, it's a step forward, and it might be one of those things we have to see to realise how great it is. (i.e. win2k _actually_ being a better os than it's predecesors, despite initial hiccups)
while you're in muir woods, take highway 101 north a little to see the Marin Civic Center. designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and featured in the movie Gataca (sp?). very cool architecture indeed. plus they have a great library with a dome cieling on the top floor.
Other note: i was born and raised in the northern end of Marin County in Novato, CA. go see PC Plus in the target shopping center just off highway 101. say hi to Jervis for me.
" The worst thing any of us can do is flood them with comments like "DRM Sucks CowboyNeal's Dirty Toes" and the like."
Saying that is kinda like saying "don't troll on slashdot". i.e. the same people that pay attention to the rules and common decency will of course make nice comments, and the rest of the 13 year old morons out there have already filled the mailbox beyond full with above comment and "digitally manage THIS!" type email.
although i'm wondering who's rights are in the "digital rights management" term, the artist's or ours?
i thought about burning pics into CDs about a week ago and have been seriously pursuing it since then (i just got a new plextor 24x10x40) and would like to build a ping2ISO type program
anybody interested email me please, if i can i'll even start a sourceforge project if we figure it to be doable
about a week ago i had the idea of burning pictures into CDs (before i even heard of yamaha's thing which i just found out about today) and tried it by making a perl script build 6 files of 100MB size, each filled with either 0 chars or 255 chars (doublechecked with a hex edoitor, 0000 and FFFF) and burned them alternating into a CD but coulnd't see a thing.
from other stuff i've learned today (8 to 14 encoding and such) it becomes more of a laser on/off spin to this area move head to here type deal
guess it'd be like using a burner as a radial printer with a stylus
for counterstrike i use the scroll wheel for weapon switching or q to switch between primary/secondary. and scroll wheel down is reload, this would leave just enough if you used the claw for : 4movements, jump, duck, walk, use, switch between last weapons.
but then you have all the radio commands and chat buttons, but you'd use the keyboard for chat anyway.
i dunno, i'm not spending any money on it.
Looking at Kemp's other work does nothing to persuade me that the "palm" mural is "great" art. However, his other art, specifically the stuff he did with his hand and other objects on scanner beds is quite interesting to look at. His other artworks remind me largely of chinese or japanese design, where the writing itself is considered an artform. I don't get as much from that as i do the scanner bed stuff. That's a good use of technology for atristic purposes. interestingly enough, the scanner bed stuff is something that we all (concieveably) could do. heck, i've played with moving objects on the scanner bed before, never considered it art, but it looks pretty cool.
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I wasn't 100% sure about the numbers but knew they were close, thanks for fixing them. As for the shift key, I use it when I feel it's necesary, and IM conversations and slashdot posts rarely seem formal enough to warrant such grammar nazism. But I will make an effort for you.
IAAFGE*
the 42 inch is HD compatable, meaning it will accept a component input that's HD and downconvert it to the TV's native format, EDTV. EDTV = 480p, or standard resolution but progressive scan. HDTV = 780p or 1060i. having viewed HDTV signal (from dish network) on said plasma screen, i can say that it looks awesome, and might be a good set now while the cable companies & TV stations sort out the transition to being fully HD. for reference, all (most?) DVDs are EDTV, such that any dvd with a progressive scan player hooked to the gateway or a $6k sony/philips/whatever will look nearly identical. can't speak to much on the projector issue, but i've heard bulbs can be rather costly, and ambient light is always a consideration. the gateway 42" plasmas are in their 3rd if not 4th generation, and previous complaints about contrast ratio and how 'black' the darkest colors are have been addressed, such that owners of older models might be complaining about issues not present in the one you'd buy today.
hope this helps.
other features in the gateway TV: standard analog tuner, inboard speakers (pointing out the sides of the tv, but not bad sounding at all), wall mount bracket was $179 when i left, they may have changed the price, extended warranty options, including accidental damage protection (trust me, you dont' want to have to pay to get it fixed), a host of monster cables available, professional installation available, standard floor stands if you don't feel like haning it on a wall. etc.
*I Am A Former Gateway Employee
i don't care what it looks like, i'm just glad it works and i did it myself from scratch, for right around $100. in fact, i literally described my computer as looking like something dr. frankenstein would have built to someone yesterday.
or you could do what i did and have money left over...
Viaaqua 1300 pump - $20
Gemini high flow waterblock - on sale for $33
heater core from 91 ford escort - $19
tubing & fittings from Home depot - $27
free sample of zerex super racing coolant
gallon of distilled water $0.99
tupperware reservoir found around house - free
total cost (not including shipping or taxes) $100
keeps my athlon tbird 1.1GHz between 30 and 40c (using an in-wall AC unit to cool radiator) whereas i was getting between 55 and 65c with a volcano 5.
yes, some parts could be better but there's always room to upgrade later.
being the geek that i am i hit view source for that page. it's all one long javascript string, completely obfuscated. very interesting indeed. meta content generator says frontpage, though. i'd like to slashdot the server the actual script sends to. this person appears to be smarter than they appear. just a sec, lets see here.... here we go, page properties courtesy of mozilla firebird. form method = post, action = http://ns.terraserver.nl/cgi-bin/web2mail.cgi unfortunately no apparent hidden field for the info to be mailed to, such that it must be inside the cgi script. hrmmm....... no luck getting the source of that cgi, mebbe someone with more talent than i can go for it.
it's being a whitehat to hack spammers/scammers, right?
it sucks to be forced to sit at number 6 in this economy where i can't even go back to number 4 in a job because there are few jobs out there for someone of my skill level (4 years ago an AS and school certs in web programming sounded so good). but i'm working through it. i'm hoping to join the local LUG and get some person-to-person time (ok, geek-to-geek time) and get over it. but alot of the things that i want to do to move to number 7 require money (mountain biking, martial arts lessons, etc.) and that takes us back to 6 that much harder. oh well life goes on, and for now i email resumes by the boatload (and go fill out applications in person) and hope for the call from some cool employer. and read slashdot. alot. which doesn't really help any. oh well.
+5 insightful, now i'm sorry i used my mod points up already.
/. crowd's being face to face people skills), but we don't see news spots about the 28 year old geek living in his mom's basement overcoming obstacles and going out and getting a non-tech job and having his own apartment and enjoying his city's night life, do we? nor do you see anyone engineering any sort of chip or device to help people with problems like that. all that being said, i think it's cool that someone is thinking about helping another community 'fit in' better with the 'rest of us' but (as technologically cool as it is, and i hope it gets developed for other uses like computer games/operations) a poll of said community might indicate better what they want from 'us' to feel more a 'part of the crowd'.
the easiest way to see if this is something useful for the non-hearing/speaking community is to ask them. i agree with your point that most people in certain situations don't see it as a disability or hinderance in day-to-day life, it's just part of life and who they are. along the same line of thinking, i have mixed feelings about documentaries or special clips on the news saluting people 'living with such a hard problem' or whatever. they get along alright, they don't have a problem with their difference, and when it comes down to it, every person in the world has his or her own difficulty in life (mine and probably a good chunk of the
i used to work at a gateway in Grand Rapids, hoping to work at one of the 2 here in denver.
:) as for the mp3 player? gateway is pushing to be more in competition with someone like sony, that does computers and home entertainment, rather than competing with dell, which is just computers. methinks they're trying to get the best of both worlds, i.e. custom computers and home electronics. i hope it works for them, i can't say anything bad about the company, and that's not just the NDA speaking :-p
the gateway plasma TV, like the others in the sub $6k range, is not an hdtv screen, but rather has a downconverter in the tuner (built into the tv and included in the $3k price) that lets it be hdtv compatable. the screen itself is 480p, meaning progressive scan at standard tv resolution, aka edtv (extended defintion). i can say that dvd's look awesome on it (they're natively encoded at edtv levels, you need a progressive dvd player), and that when we had the hdtv signal from an echostar (dish netwrk) satelite, the performance was unbelievable. changing between 780p and 1080i on the dish did change the picture on the screen, i don't remember which we decided looked better. one had jagged straight lines, the other was missing frames about once a minute (both likely to be satelite problems). so no, the gateway tv isn't hdtv or capable of 1080i (though it will support a computer at 1024x768, it looks better at 800x600, which is just plain easier to read from 6 feet away), neither is the $4000 panasonic at best buy. you gotta shell out $$$$$$$ to get a hdtv native plasma screen. more bubbles of gas.
komodo (a nice (rather big) IDE) from active state use(d?) mozilla as a basis. i'm interested to see if any other programs out there actually use anything from mozilla (other than the obvious firebird/phoenix and whatever that mail app is)
mozilla is on the right track to being bug free, standards compliant, and easy to use. yes, it's trying to be everything to everyone, but it's doing a rather nice job at it. other than opera, i'd be hard pressed to find a better browser (that's actually capable of running on stuff other than windows) or graphical mail client.
i wish i had done that at first :(
i bought a compusa store brand 400w supply for my new A7V8x based system, with an asus brand geforce4 mx 440 64mb graphics card. the manual for both the motherboard and the video card were very specific about the importance of enough power on the 3.3v rail for the graphics card to work. i put everything together and booted win2k (after reinstalling) i could get the graphics drivers to load but it wouldn't detect the card as anything more than standard vga. i popped up asus probe and lo and behold the 3.3v rail was at about 3.16 (confirmed in bios). i put my old 250w supply in and everything worked fine. i returned the compusa brand one and got an antec truepower 400w for $20 + tax more. i am amazed how straight the lines in asus probe are. there's next to no fluctuation in voltage on any rail, and all of them run much closer to spec (3.3 still registers as 3.26 but there's margin for mobo sensor error in there). even my old 250w (not el cheapo but it came with the case) would fluctuate when the system was a Asus P2b-b with a celeron 500 in it. i gotta hand it to antec, they know power supplies.
bottom line is this, after motherboard and processor, the next most important decision is to put some money (not too much, my antec 400w was only $70, compared to the store brand at $50) into a good power supply, you'll see the benefits (or rather, not see the disadvantages) for a long time to come. the 2 fans on the antec are much quieter than the one fan on the scrompUSA brand one, too.
as for sparkle noted above, they're good, better than the no name brands, and worth the extra $10, but only if you're replacing the power supply in an e-machine. i've never seen a sparkle more than a couple hundred watts, and even then they're only avialable to oems and VAR's (used to work at a small shop, replaced more e-machine power supplies than i can count on both hands and feet, and your hands and feet, and the hands and feet of that guy over there).
power supplies can make a big difference. note, though, that my old 250w no-name was also perfectly fine for 3 years on a lower powered system, and will probably be going back into something else when i build a router out of the celery 500. go antec, you won't be disappointed
could i have a beowulf cluster consisting of an athlon 1.1, a celeron 500, and my wife's k6-2 450?
/. what kind of processing power would i have between these 3 machines? ~a 2ghz athlon or p4? (that's just adding the MHz together) or is it a more geometric equation such that it'd be faster than a 3ghz p4?
i understand the concept of clustering but i've never really read anything about it other than stuff here on
you were clicking submit as i was typing, damnit.
what about a beowolf cluster of THESE!!!
sorry, i didn't see it and it was screaming to be done. actually now that i think about it, isn't the term beowulf cluster limited to smaller machines anyway? wouldn't a huge multiproc machine be in some sense a cluster in and of itself? i dunno. need more coffee.
call it me being cheap but i can't wait for AMD to release 64bit procs to the desktop. why? cause after a quarter or 2, the cost of AthlonXP's will drop and i'll have a cheaper chip to drop in my mobo.
that being said, 64bit processing must be good for desktops or why would apple have gone with it? the fact that they run a BSD based os is a Good Thing(TM) because we already know BSD's will support 64bit procs already (and winders has no plans to support it till longhorn, IIRC) such that open source will be a better option for the people out there that just have to have the latest and gratest. i see the 64 bit processors as an advantage to people doing things like multimedia or 3d stuff (pixar moved to g5's, didn't they?). developers might like it but it'd be silly to develop on a 64bit machine when the target market is all 32 bit machines. i dunno, bigger is better, it's a step forward, and it might be one of those things we have to see to realise how great it is. (i.e. win2k _actually_ being a better os than it's predecesors, despite initial hiccups)
um, not to nitpick but how exactly did you get a pentium 4 when windows 2k was released? or was that when the p4 was released?
my post was supposed to be (+1 funny) but ended coming out (-3 retarded)
something gets lost in the translation from my brain to the keyboard
while you're in muir woods, take highway 101 north a little to see the Marin Civic Center. designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and featured in the movie Gataca (sp?). very cool architecture indeed. plus they have a great library with a dome cieling on the top floor.
Other note: i was born and raised in the northern end of Marin County in Novato, CA. go see PC Plus in the target shopping center just off highway 101. say hi to Jervis for me.
um.
i'm sure there's DDR ram inside the robot but what do you mean ddr playing robot?
although i'm wondering who's rights are in the "digital rights management" term, the artist's or ours?
been thinking about it the past week since i got my new CD-R. i still want to do it.
i thought about burning pics into CDs about a week ago and have been seriously pursuing it since then (i just got a new plextor 24x10x40) and would like to build a ping2ISO type program
anybody interested email me please, if i can i'll even start a sourceforge project if we figure it to be doable
PsychoI3oy@(ihatespam)linkline.com
about a week ago i had the idea of burning pictures into CDs (before i even heard of yamaha's thing which i just found out about today) and tried it by making a perl script build 6 files of 100MB size, each filled with either 0 chars or 255 chars (doublechecked with a hex edoitor, 0000 and FFFF) and burned them alternating into a CD but coulnd't see a thing.
from other stuff i've learned today (8 to 14 encoding and such) it becomes more of a laser on/off spin to this area move head to here type deal
guess it'd be like using a burner as a radial printer with a stylus
reeeeeallly tiny radio collars
for counterstrike i use the scroll wheel for weapon switching or q to switch between primary/secondary. and scroll wheel down is reload, this would leave just enough if you used the claw for : 4movements, jump, duck, walk, use, switch between last weapons. but then you have all the radio commands and chat buttons, but you'd use the keyboard for chat anyway. i dunno, i'm not spending any money on it.
Looking at Kemp's other work does nothing to persuade me that the "palm" mural is "great" art. However, his other art, specifically the stuff he did with his hand and other objects on scanner beds is quite interesting to look at. His other artworks remind me largely of chinese or japanese design, where the writing itself is considered an artform. I don't get as much from that as i do the scanner bed stuff. That's a good use of technology for atristic purposes. interestingly enough, the scanner bed stuff is something that we all (concieveably) could do. heck, i've played with moving objects on the scanner bed before, never considered it art, but it looks pretty cool.