from the requirements page:
Microsoft Windows ® NT, 2000, XP
Pentium III 800 Mhz recommended
20 GB system drive
256 MB RAM
A/V rated hard disk (able to sustain at least 20 Megabyte data throughput, using a stripe or raid) - disk size depends on how much uncompressed video storage you need. Preferably a separate drive from system drive.
64 bit PCI slot
ViewGraphics VideoPump 701 capture card with SDI input
Graphics card - at least 16-bit
Sound card with either speakers or headphones
Serial port for attaching hardware key
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who has a 64 bit pci slot in a home pc, much less a hard drive that's a/v quality
the quality looks better then divx but if most people cant even use the encoder I do not see it lasting long
Poor standard indeed. I've YET to go in to a grocery store and mistakenly give the cashier a 50. I tend to look at the numbers printed all over the face or back of a bill before I let go of it.
I used to work for target not to long ago and every time I was on the register at least two times an hour someone would hand me 20 instead of a 5 , or even a 100 instead of a one. It happens and it was not just morons ether , 9 out of 10 it was a yuppie who was not paying attention
Before everyone jumps for joy over a window-less pc from wal-mart think about this who would buy a pc from wal-mart, I realy dought that anyone who buys PCs from wal-mart is going to install linux, I would immagin that wal-mart hopes that people who buy these PCs will most likly be surprised when they try to boot up and see an error messege insted of a WindowsXP welcome screen, and I would think there first response would be for them to call tech support and hear that they need to purchase " Windows XP Home ed." from there local wal-mart for 200$. Nothing like saving 50$ on a computer to be charged 200$ on an OS
For some reason every store here (Best buy, circuit city, ultimate electronics,ect.)is sold out of tivos and have been for months. Anyone know why? are they planning a new version or what
the problem with this theory is that the fuel would have to be pushed out faster then the burn rate, not to mention I don't think the plastic would withstand the heat longer then a second or two, make for a nice explosion thoe
<sarcasm>but, like, its our RIGHT to surf the web download porn and play games, I dont care if like im being paid to work its my right to slackoff waisting valuble company time and bandwith, its Information! it wants to be free!</sarcasm>
this isnt new people you pritty much lose your right to privacy when your no longer in a private place private places are basicly limmited to house/apartment and public restrooms(for the most part)
a 56k modem not using any compression can get up to 7kB/s how did I get this figure? 56k modems get 56kilobits you have to divide by 8 to get kilobytes of course this doesn't include things like line max speed or quality, or things like compression.From my exp. 5kB/s is about the average speed you can get downloading compressed files
uhh, are you going to trust MSN messenger to anything more then just frends and famly contacts, unless you were stupid enofe to put your boss or clients on it without them having any other way of contacting its just an inconvienance
.net isn't going to use Java cause of MS loosing that lawsuit to sun a wile back, if I remember correctly, MS could use Java in existing products and support it up to 6 years but no more new products.
AM I the only one who tired of people calling porn , pr0n. when I see pron, I think of seafood,as in the little shrimp-like things. I think most people here are old enofe that they don't have to worry about that copy of "net nanny" their mom stuck on the family pc. and if your not old enofe you shood be able to figure out how to get around it by now.
just my $0.02, I'll shut up now
the ricochet modems they sell here in san diego act like standerd hayes compat. serial modems ether thrue a real serial cable or over USB , both methods work in linux, I can connect at 240k with the usb cable and 80k with the serial, to bad usb is a bitch to setup in linux(with this modem anyway) I gave up on setting up a usb connection and just set up a small home network useing windows as a server. People have claimed to have set it up over usb in the linux I just dont know that much about linux usb to do anything with it
in my area, useing nearly any isp I get ping from 600 to infinity, with earthlink I can get 300 for 10min and unable to connect for 10min, ive lived in areas ware I could get 150 from a 33.6 modem I was also able to run 4 download streems, play an online radio and be in a chat room without any lag, (this was 3 years ago in another town) not bad for a 33.6 modem, now im lucky to get one download to compleate without stalling much less do anything else on a 56k modem@44k even on my connection I can still play q3 most of the time(assuming im not at 999ping and everyone else is also on dial-up)what Ive found interesting is when I play phantasy star online for the dreamcast even when im way laged I can still keep on playing and an almost seemless resync when im no longer laged. still cant wait till I move to San Diego and can get on cable modem, not just good for games ether, be nice to be able to download the latest ver of the linux kernal/kde/xfree without spending a few days connected or waiting for the next distrabution. sigh, I remember downloading linux slackware for the first time 3 years ago in just 4 hours on a 33.6 modem , full working distrabution gcc, xwindows everything, now I cant get less then 250megs not without loosing too many things
I think chances are this thing will let you just copy mp3s(wavs or whatever) to just like mp3 players so the thing is what if you just dont set the copy protection bit, if the thing is truly a cd-r no ones going to buy it if they have to use thier software that will only let you d/l from a perticular site in some unknown format. If thier just a replacemnt for music cds (i.e. purchase in stores) whats the point of cdr. im sure its one of thoes things like windows media ware you can have copy protected/unprotected in the same format and the player realy doesnt care ware it came from. what im saying is chances are you'll be able to copy all your curent mp3s that are not copy protected to it and it will work just as well as any that you download that are protected, I could be compleatly wrong and the thing will only work with its format, if so its doomed for failure
come on now, woohoo 32megs, thats what NS6, most 1.44 meg floppies cant even hold 1.44 megs for more then a few years. Id hate to see how well they do with 32megs. I used to have a zip drive and found 100megs just not enofe for a good backup. and with the cost of cdrw drives, seen them under 100$ now and cdrw disks for under 1$ and you can boot off them too if you wish. the only downside being you cant just copy to them like a floppy *yet* without useing some propritary software/filesystem.
It is pritty cool that it can be done, but as far as usefullness, no 32megs isnt enofe to warent the cost of the drive. I only keep a floppy drive in my system to boot into beos to reinstall the bootmanager whenever I have to reinstall win9x
ISA is not supperior to PCI it cost more couse they have to add functions to the MB to handle it , as far as uses for ISA, as it stands now ISA true modems are curently the best modems avilable, not only are they 99% of the time true modems (i.e. NOT winmodems) you can use them in ANY OS that supports a com port , includeing dos,win,linux,beos,os2 ect. they are also cheap. the modem im useing now cost me 20$ 2 years ago and outperformed expensive pci true modems that I have tried.
I wasnt trying to ether I was messing around with real player and it started IE , IE popped up and started loading microsoft.com, all the buttons were messed up but the page loaded corectly , was able to click on links but couldnt enter urls by hand, wish I took a screen shot
Slashdot Mirror
was looking at the page for VP5
never mind
nothing more to see here
from the requirements page:
Microsoft Windows ® NT, 2000, XP
Pentium III 800 Mhz recommended
20 GB system drive
256 MB RAM
A/V rated hard disk (able to sustain at least 20 Megabyte data throughput, using a stripe or raid) - disk size depends on how much uncompressed video storage you need. Preferably a separate drive from system drive.
64 bit PCI slot
ViewGraphics VideoPump 701 capture card with SDI input
Graphics card - at least 16-bit
Sound card with either speakers or headphones
Serial port for attaching hardware key
--
who has a 64 bit pci slot in a home pc, much less a hard drive that's a/v quality
the quality looks better then divx but if most people cant even use the encoder I do not see it lasting long
Poor standard indeed. I've YET to go in to a grocery store and mistakenly give the cashier a 50. I tend to look at the numbers printed all over the face or back of a bill before I let go of it.
I used to work for target not to long ago and every time I was on the register at least two times an hour someone would hand me 20 instead of a 5 , or even a 100 instead of a one. It happens and it was not just morons ether , 9 out of 10 it was a yuppie who was not paying attention
Before everyone jumps for joy over a window-less pc from wal-mart think about this who would buy a pc from wal-mart, I realy dought that anyone who buys PCs from wal-mart is going to install linux, I would immagin that wal-mart hopes that people who buy these PCs will most likly be surprised when they try to boot up and see an error messege insted of a WindowsXP welcome screen, and I would think there first response would be for them to call tech support and hear that they need to purchase " Windows XP Home ed." from there local wal-mart for 200$. Nothing like saving 50$ on a computer to be charged 200$ on an OS
just for fun I tried the game out under win2k, the game still works in 4 color cga goodness
For some reason every store here (Best buy, circuit city, ultimate electronics ,ect.)is sold out of tivos and have been for months. Anyone know why? are they planning a new version or what
to switch to linux,,
I know I just did
on a video on cnet jobs called it as macos 10.1 he dint call it macos X at all, this was a at a mac world expo demoing the .1 upgrade
the problem with this theory is that the fuel would have to be pushed out faster then the burn rate, not to mention I don't think the plastic would withstand the heat longer then a second or two, make for a nice explosion thoe
free beos can be moved on to its own partiton after its installed, and there is a version for linux ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/beos/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
<sarcasm>but, like, its our RIGHT to surf the web download porn and play games, I dont care if like im being paid to work its my right to slackoff waisting valuble company time and bandwith, its Information! it wants to be free!</sarcasm>
this isnt new people you pritty much lose your right to privacy when your no longer in a private place private places are basicly limmited to house/apartment and public restrooms(for the most part)
am I missing something, but as of right now both lilo and my kernel are located well beyond 512megs, as in or around 11gigs
Isnt that what I said, when I was refering to 5k sec it was acounting for poor line quality and other factors.
a 56k modem not using any compression can get up to 7kB/s how did I get this figure? 56k modems get 56kilobits you have to divide by 8 to get kilobytes of course this doesn't include things like line max speed or quality, or things like compression .From my exp. 5kB/s is about the average speed you can get downloading compressed files
uhh, are you going to trust MSN messenger to anything more then just frends and famly contacts, unless you were stupid enofe to put your boss or clients on it without them having any other way of contacting its just an inconvienance
.net isn't going to use Java cause of MS loosing that lawsuit to sun a wile back, if I remember correctly, MS could use Java in existing products and support it up to 6 years but no more new products.
AM I the only one who tired of people calling porn , pr0n. when I see pron, I think of seafood ,as in the little shrimp-like things. I think most people here are old enofe that they don't have to worry about that copy of "net nanny" their mom stuck on the family pc. and if your not old enofe you shood be able to figure out how to get around it by now.
just my $0.02, I'll shut up now
in San Diego, Ricochet 128k service is 44.95$ /mth
and the 128k is a min connect speed I norm get 240k
the ricochet modems they sell here in san diego act like standerd hayes compat. serial modems ether thrue a real serial cable or over USB , both methods work in linux, I can connect at 240k with the usb cable and 80k with the serial, to bad usb is a bitch to setup in linux(with this modem anyway) I gave up on setting up a usb connection and just set up a small home network useing windows as a server. People have claimed to have set it up over usb in the linux I just dont know that much about linux usb to do anything with it
square-electronics arts is, most games are made by square-japan, then translated at square-usa
in my area, useing nearly any isp I get ping from 600 to infinity, with earthlink I can get 300 for 10min and unable to connect for 10min, ive lived in areas ware I could get 150 from a 33.6 modem I was also able to run 4 download streems, play an online radio and be in a chat room without any lag, (this was 3 years ago in another town) not bad for a 33.6 modem, now im lucky to get one download to compleate without stalling much less do anything else on a 56k modem@44k even on my connection I can still play q3 most of the time(assuming im not at 999ping and everyone else is also on dial-up)what Ive found interesting is when I play phantasy star online for the dreamcast even when im way laged I can still keep on playing and an almost seemless resync when im no longer laged. still cant wait till I move to San Diego and can get on cable modem, not just good for games ether, be nice to be able to download the latest ver of the linux kernal/kde/xfree without spending a few days connected or waiting for the next distrabution. sigh, I remember downloading linux slackware for the first time 3 years ago in just 4 hours on a 33.6 modem , full working distrabution gcc, xwindows everything, now I cant get less then 250megs not without loosing too many things
I think chances are this thing will let you just copy mp3s(wavs or whatever) to just like mp3 players so the thing is what if you just dont set the copy protection bit, if the thing is truly a cd-r no ones going to buy it if they have to use thier software that will only let you d/l from a perticular site in some unknown format. If thier just a replacemnt for music cds (i.e. purchase in stores) whats the point of cdr. im sure its one of thoes things like windows media ware you can have copy protected/unprotected in the same format and the player realy doesnt care ware it came from. what im saying is chances are you'll be able to copy all your curent mp3s that are not copy protected to it and it will work just as well as any that you download that are protected, I could be compleatly wrong and the thing will only work with its format, if so its doomed for failure
come on now, woohoo 32megs, thats what NS6, most 1.44 meg floppies cant even hold 1.44 megs for more then a few years. Id hate to see how well they do with 32megs. I used to have a zip drive and found 100megs just not enofe for a good backup. and with the cost of cdrw drives, seen them under 100$ now and cdrw disks for under 1$ and you can boot off them too if you wish. the only downside being you cant just copy to them like a floppy *yet* without useing some propritary software/filesystem.
It is pritty cool that it can be done, but as far as usefullness, no 32megs isnt enofe to warent the cost of the drive. I only keep a floppy drive in my system to boot into beos to reinstall the bootmanager whenever I have to reinstall win9x
ISA is not supperior to PCI it cost more couse they have to add functions to the MB to handle it , as far as uses for ISA, as it stands now ISA true modems are curently the best modems avilable, not only are they 99% of the time true modems (i.e. NOT winmodems) you can use them in ANY OS that supports a com port , includeing dos,win,linux,beos,os2 ect. they are also cheap. the modem im useing now cost me 20$ 2 years ago and outperformed expensive pci true modems that I have tried.
I wasnt trying to ether I was messing around with real player and it started IE , IE popped up and started loading microsoft.com, all the buttons were messed up but the page loaded corectly , was able to click on links but couldnt enter urls by hand, wish I took a screen shot