I'm just sad that M$ has basically made it clear that they are giving Windows Media Center the shaft. I mean how hard would it be for them to update the WMC so that HDCP works over DisplayPort. (If you didn't know it only supports HDCP over HDMI and DVI-D)
I personally love my HTPC and the cable company can pry it from my cold dead hands. It has WMC, Plex, Netflix, Amazon Prime On-Demand, and Hulu. I can watch cable and even HBO/Showtime or other Premium channels on it through my HD HomeRun Prime (With Free Cable Card). I have all of the DVR features and through some folder mounted drive magic a ridiculous amount of hard drive space to record on. (6TB if you are wondering. 3x3TB WD Red's in RAID 5 in a server in my basement.)
The best part is that with a few plugin's I've added to my computer once a show that isn't marked "Record-Once" is downloaded it has it's commercials ripped off, and is then transcoded from WMC's format to H.264 in an mkv container and added to my plex server. I don't have to do anything but open my HTPC and schedule a recording and I have the show forever.
This is the kind of utility that the cable companies and other media providers will never let us have easily. I'm not doing anything illegal. This level of convinced is just a service they don't want to provide and that's what's really sad.
To be fair most of the review is graphs and to answer your question sometimes. I'm just hoping some 3rd party vendor will release this card with standard attachments for hose barbs so I can just drop this card into my already watercooled computer. I don't want another fan/pump/rad assembly when I can just add this card into my current loop.
The scary thing about Russia is that they don't need guided missiles to burn the world. They have enough nuclear bombs that they can just point all of them in a general direction and assume at least some of them will hit there targets.
“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.”
“What...what game?”
“The only game. The game of thrones.”
Sansa (V)—Lord Littlefinger and Sansa Stark
Politics, Diplomacy, Empire, War they are all the same game. And the game has existed as long as humans have realized that someone must be in charge.
To further this argument it only took 1 month for the US to defeat the Iraqi army. April 19 to March 20th. It was the unconventional insurgent war that caused so many casualties.
This is because these chips are meant for the Server and Workstation market where stability and longevity is more important than bleeding edge tech. As long as they stay the fastest chips you can buy who cares if they are a process node behind. Not the businesses actually buying them. If you want a "Kickass" gaming machine save your money and don't buy an E series Intel.
True enough. But when the car company's terrible media center software causes a buffer overflow in the memory shared by this system and it the sensor to think that I'm now my wife and it will move the seat to far forward and I won't be able to properly drive the car. CRASH!
Think that isn't possible, clearly you haven't driven a Ford built in the last few years. My uncle bought a new Ford Torus SHO and when you pushed a certain sequence of buttons on the radio while the car was at a red light (i.e. in 1st gear and not moving) the car would shift to reverse without indication. The only way to tell it had happened was to see that the backup cam was suddenly displaying on the review mirror. To get back out of reverse you had to put the car in neutral then back into first. Needless to say my uncle returned that car and now has an Audi.
I don't think I'm going to be buying a car with one of these new infotainment systems until they start physically separating them from the drive by wire systems.
I know riling up fan boys is bad tact and all but seriously:
It's 2x as powerful as the nearest console competitor and faster than any single-GPU gaming rig that's more than a year old. Dollar for dollar it outperforms everything.
Care to put the PS4 up against my computer with it's single overclocked GTX 680. I'll eat my hat if a PS4 gets better framerates than I do on the same resolution and graphics settings and my computer has to deal with the bloat that is M$ windows, a TS server, and a web server running in the background.
I won't argue with the dollar vs dollar argument though. For what I paid to build my watercooled monster of a computer in 2012 I could have bought 3 PS4's but when you need an Intel i7 3930K CPU because you use your computer for real work the cost difference isn't that important.
I didn't read all of your rant... because well it's long and i'm a slashdot user. But your argument about a watermelon being blue on the inside but turning red when cut open intrigues me. I think that it might be postulated that if a watermelon changes color when cut it must be because of some chemical reaction. Given this why not just put the watermelon in an air tight chamber filled with a noble gas and then cut it open from the inside. This should allow said watermelon hypothesis to be tested. An un-testable hypothesis isn't one at all. A hard to test hypothesis is just a challenge.
Bankers in the United States have a Legal responsibility to provide mortgages to low income families under the 1995 rewriting of the the Community Reinvestment Act, which put added pressure on banks to lend in low-income neighborhoods. This combined with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac's underwriting of loans that otherwise wouldn't have ever been in a banks best interest is what caused the housing bubble. Don't get me wrong greed helped, but it was the government that caused the rules and regulations to encouraging this behavior.
So no banks don't have the lions share of the blame. The US government's crazy everyone must own a house even if they can't afford it policy is to blame. But go ahead believing everything you read on some liberal blog if that makes you happy just stay out of government.
Wow, are you programming on an original Pentium or something? I mean seriously just because you can get Visual Studio to run on your 250 Character WISE terminal doesn't mean you should....
You know while I'll be the first guy to admit that NASA is a shell of its former self with no clear mission, I feel as if the "zero space stations" part is inaccurate as they own a part of the largest space station ever constructed which as of this morning was still in orbit.
As for Norway owning North America, I for one welcome our blond haired socialist overlords. Maybe they will put some of our defense budget back into NASA though it will probably go to Medicare instead. Tusen Takk.
I was just about to point out that it isn't that hard to store large amounts of power. We have been doing it since 1973 in Michigan with the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant why not just build more of those.
That hasn't been my experience. At my company they used to block all video and forums. Then my department (programming) needed some videos from M$ to run and access to some "forums" for documentation on a few libs. The director just gave the IT security department a call and ten minutes later the whole programming department had access to the sites we wanted. Sounds to be like you worked for a shitty company that can't control it's own filters.:)
Even better even in Chicago, the last hold out on a Handgun ban in the US which was overturned in 2010 by the Supreme Court, retired cops can get a license to carry.
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I'm just sad that M$ has basically made it clear that they are giving Windows Media Center the shaft. I mean how hard would it be for them to update the WMC so that HDCP works over DisplayPort. (If you didn't know it only supports HDCP over HDMI and DVI-D)
I personally love my HTPC and the cable company can pry it from my cold dead hands. It has WMC, Plex, Netflix, Amazon Prime On-Demand, and Hulu. I can watch cable and even HBO/Showtime or other Premium channels on it through my HD HomeRun Prime (With Free Cable Card). I have all of the DVR features and through some folder mounted drive magic a ridiculous amount of hard drive space to record on. (6TB if you are wondering. 3x3TB WD Red's in RAID 5 in a server in my basement.)
The best part is that with a few plugin's I've added to my computer once a show that isn't marked "Record-Once" is downloaded it has it's commercials ripped off, and is then transcoded from WMC's format to H.264 in an mkv container and added to my plex server. I don't have to do anything but open my HTPC and schedule a recording and I have the show forever.
This is the kind of utility that the cable companies and other media providers will never let us have easily. I'm not doing anything illegal. This level of convinced is just a service they don't want to provide and that's what's really sad.
Holy crap Idiocracy got it right!
To be fair most of the review is graphs and to answer your question sometimes. I'm just hoping some 3rd party vendor will release this card with standard attachments for hose barbs so I can just drop this card into my already watercooled computer. I don't want another fan/pump/rad assembly when I can just add this card into my current loop.
This statement may not apply to actual lawyers but I cannot confirm as IANAL.
The scary thing about Russia is that they don't need guided missiles to burn the world. They have enough nuclear bombs that they can just point all of them in a general direction and assume at least some of them will hit there targets.
The bell thing is interesting. Care to provide links. I tried googling but the results were useless.
“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.”
“What...what game?”
“The only game. The game of thrones.”
Sansa (V)—Lord Littlefinger and Sansa Stark
Politics, Diplomacy, Empire, War they are all the same game. And the game has existed as long as humans have realized that someone must be in charge.
To further this argument it only took 1 month for the US to defeat the Iraqi army. April 19 to March 20th. It was the unconventional insurgent war that caused so many casualties.
This is because these chips are meant for the Server and Workstation market where stability and longevity is more important than bleeding edge tech. As long as they stay the fastest chips you can buy who cares if they are a process node behind. Not the businesses actually buying them. If you want a "Kickass" gaming machine save your money and don't buy an E series Intel.
Not sure if it matters who he thinks the bigot is. If he thinks it you at least he will avoid you. :D
True enough. But when the car company's terrible media center software causes a buffer overflow in the memory shared by this system and it the sensor to think that I'm now my wife and it will move the seat to far forward and I won't be able to properly drive the car. CRASH!
Think that isn't possible, clearly you haven't driven a Ford built in the last few years. My uncle bought a new Ford Torus SHO and when you pushed a certain sequence of buttons on the radio while the car was at a red light (i.e. in 1st gear and not moving) the car would shift to reverse without indication. The only way to tell it had happened was to see that the backup cam was suddenly displaying on the review mirror. To get back out of reverse you had to put the car in neutral then back into first. Needless to say my uncle returned that car and now has an Audi.
I don't think I'm going to be buying a car with one of these new infotainment systems until they start physically separating them from the drive by wire systems.
I know riling up fan boys is bad tact and all but seriously:
It's 2x as powerful as the nearest console competitor and faster than any single-GPU gaming rig that's more than a year old. Dollar for dollar it outperforms everything.
Care to put the PS4 up against my computer with it's single overclocked GTX 680. I'll eat my hat if a PS4 gets better framerates than I do on the same resolution and graphics settings and my computer has to deal with the bloat that is M$ windows, a TS server, and a web server running in the background.
I won't argue with the dollar vs dollar argument though. For what I paid to build my watercooled monster of a computer in 2012 I could have bought 3 PS4's but when you need an Intel i7 3930K CPU because you use your computer for real work the cost difference isn't that important.
Have you ever heard a car from a century ago. They almost make me want to go into a frenzy they are so loud....
Does this mean that the cubs can finally win a world series and the lions a super bowl in the same year! GASP!
I didn't read all of your rant... because well it's long and i'm a slashdot user. But your argument about a watermelon being blue on the inside but turning red when cut open intrigues me. I think that it might be postulated that if a watermelon changes color when cut it must be because of some chemical reaction. Given this why not just put the watermelon in an air tight chamber filled with a noble gas and then cut it open from the inside. This should allow said watermelon hypothesis to be tested. An un-testable hypothesis isn't one at all. A hard to test hypothesis is just a challenge.
I do hope you remove all the art and books before you burn it down. Maybe open a museum and use the money it generates for charity...
Bankers in the United States have a Legal responsibility to provide mortgages to low income families under the 1995 rewriting of the the Community Reinvestment Act, which put added pressure on banks to lend in low-income neighborhoods. This combined with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac's underwriting of loans that otherwise wouldn't have ever been in a banks best interest is what caused the housing bubble. Don't get me wrong greed helped, but it was the government that caused the rules and regulations to encouraging this behavior.
So no banks don't have the lions share of the blame. The US government's crazy everyone must own a house even if they can't afford it policy is to blame. But go ahead believing everything you read on some liberal blog if that makes you happy just stay out of government.
Damn, why did I go and waste my mod points on an article earlier today. Someone mod this guy up.
Wow, are you programming on an original Pentium or something? I mean seriously just because you can get Visual Studio to run on your 250 Character WISE terminal doesn't mean you should....
You know while I'll be the first guy to admit that NASA is a shell of its former self with no clear mission, I feel as if the "zero space stations" part is inaccurate as they own a part of the largest space station ever constructed which as of this morning was still in orbit.
As for Norway owning North America, I for one welcome our blond haired socialist overlords. Maybe they will put some of our defense budget back into NASA though it will probably go to Medicare instead. Tusen Takk.
I was just about to point out that it isn't that hard to store large amounts of power. We have been doing it since 1973 in Michigan with the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant why not just build more of those.
Sounds like the only sure way to not get screwed without getting to screw to me.
We do have that it's called a graduated income tax. Oh wait....
That hasn't been my experience. At my company they used to block all video and forums. Then my department (programming) needed some videos from M$ to run and access to some "forums" for documentation on a few libs. The director just gave the IT security department a call and ten minutes later the whole programming department had access to the sites we wanted. Sounds to be like you worked for a shitty company that can't control it's own filters. :)
Even better even in Chicago, the last hold out on a Handgun ban in the US which was overturned in 2010 by the Supreme Court, retired cops can get a license to carry.