Hmmm, I'll have to check that out. Honestly, TWM isn't all that pretty to me, and I have to have sloppy focus and autoraise or else life just isn't worth living. Autosnap is a wonderous thing, but I can survive without it. Other than, the more minimal the better.
Dang, Afterstep might be becoming too advanced for my tastes. Time to switch to TWM!
On a more serious note, 8 years ago I used Afterstep. It was the easiest thing to hack through the config files and make it do what ever I wanted to with a minimum of fuss, real estate, processor time, or color space allocation (a big thing on a Sun Classic sporting only a CG3).
Between then an now I've lived with Enlightenment, Window Maker, Gnome, KDE and OSX, yet for my work box I still use Afterstep. Maybe it's because it has a minimal number of doodads to distract me from doing actual work?
It would probably be worth noting that Samsung has started making a name for themselves with having the good stuff first. The 931 is actually their second DVD player with DVI out. The first one was a bloody pile of money for a DVD player, but it existed a year ago.
Oh, and if you're out and about, be sure to check out Samsung's DLP rear projection TV. It's head and shoulders above the other rear projection sets out there. It doesn't really have any of the downsides of the normal rear projections TVs (glare, burn in, viewing angle), while it has the positives of a plasma (super bright and clear picture, small size).
Donations are tax deductable. Theoretically, if they donate enough, they'll eventually wipe out all their taxable income.
"Sure Mr. Elementary School Principal, every one of your students needs XP Super Advanced Enterpri$e on their desktops. Let me just fire up the printing presses!"
Ever notice how the large majority of speaker companies have speakers that look like a box?
Ever wonder why after decades of research they're still a box?
Ever notice that B&O likes to make non-conventional looking stuff and then charges an arm and a leg?
They're selling you functional art at really high prices folks.
If you want speakers that actually sound good, then try an electrostatic or planar speaker. Magnepans aren't a kajillion dollars and are a damned good place to start looking for planars.
I have a Sony HS10 in my home and XBOX is awesome on an 8 foot wide screen.
A good screen will help compensate for ambient light while making the picture much brighter. Additionally, the newer projectors are leapfroging each other getting brighter and brighter. I watch mine during the day, though I do have to draw the blinds. Also, the HS10 is considered one of the lower end projectors. The more expensive ones are several times as bright.
Most of my TV viewing is in the evening anyway which is when watching HBO is like going to the movies.
Yes, but they're blinding expensive. Poke through http://www.projectorcentral.com for specs. Just get a 1280x720 and shut up. You'll be damned happy enough.
Splotches are actually particles of dust blocking some light on one of the color panels. Take the projector far out of focus and the dust particle will come into perfect view. Just attack it with a can of compressed air. Also, really old projectors are going to look like hell if for no other reason that the new ones look really good.
Well, except for CRT projectors. Those things are still cherished even if the unit is 10 years old.
Dude, totally different. The chroma bug is an artifact of the fact that colors on a DVD are actually at a different resolution than luminence (black and white) data. Most new DVD players are chroma bug free. The Panasonics are the safest bet.
The short answer is that there's a small panel (DMD, digital mirrored device) with one tiny mirror per pixel (aka, over a million). Each mirror is individually motorized and flutters back and forth. One position reflects the light from the bulb down through the optics and to the screen. In the other position, it reflects the light into what's basically a light absorber.
Total light output is modlated by how much time the mirror is in the on position. The can each litterally flutter on and off over a thousand times a second. On dark areas of dark scenes you can see little scintelations of when individual mirrors flutter to the on position for a fraction of a second.
The fancier projetors have a light beam that's broken into red blue and green which then bounces off of three DMD panels before being recombined. The cheapie (less than $15K) ones have just one light beam that passes through a color wheel.
The color wheels typically have either RGB, RGBW (white), or RGBRGB. Better projectors have the RGBRGB wheels and spin at a higher rate. The result is that the projector winds up displaying a red image, a blue image and a green image in sequence. On fast moving items certain people (like me) are suscepible to seeing the different colors individually unless they spring for a higher speed color wheel, a triple DMD projector, or some other technology like LCD.
One last tidbit on the color wheel is that there is a new scroll color wheel coming out where at any given time there is a red, blue and green section being displayed over one third of the screen. They look like a pinwheel or one of those swirly lollypops. The trick to them is that the colors are actually dichoric mirrors so that only one given color light passes through while the other colors are then reflected back and hopefully recycled through one of the other two colors. It should more than total brighness while also lessening the effect of a slower speed colorwheel. Should be interresting.
Yes, but wouldn't it be niftier to have 4 times the screen size as a big screen? A common quote is "heh, you measure your screen in inches".
As an aside, InFocus projectors will actually burn out a fuse on the bulb casing after going several hundred hours past the EOL of the bulb. Some devious people will actually pop the bulb out and solder around the fuse so they can get more life out the bulb.
Probably not the best thing to do being that its circumventing a safety feature.
Umm no, they don't die. You do have to replace the bulb after several thousand hours, but the projector doesn't catch on fire and explode. The bulb is typically about 10% of the price of a new projector.
Plasma's are good for about 10000 hours. But then again they get screen burn like a traditional CRT does. Also, if you put it at more than a 30 degree angle, or hit the screen oh not so hard at all the thing's a total loss.
Ummm, crackpipe? The only LCD out there without an screendoor effect is the Panasonic PT-L300U and its brother the PT-AE300. Everything else has a screendoor effect including the DLPs. One of the advantages of the DLP is that it has a very thin screendoor that can only be seen if you're sitting about two feet from the screen. Even then taking the projector ever so slightly out of focus makes it go away.
From the couch you can't see any screendoor on just about any modern projector even if it is in perfect focus.
Two, I've owned a DLP and I couldn't stand the damn thing (headaches, rainbows...), so I have an LCD now. DLPs are probably going to win out on other merits like contrast ratio, or a large lumen advantage when the new scroll wheel color wheels come out. However longevity sure as heck isn't going to be the deciding factor.
The average purchasor of a projector doesn't really care about longevity as most projector owners sell or upgrade their projectors either before or right after they need to replace the bulb. I'm willing to bet that its because they see what's out there while shopping for a new bulb.
Also, if you're ever thinking about being in the market for a big screen or a plama, then you'd be a fool not to check out a projector. Yes, they're about ten grand over at the botique stores that sell the electostatic speakers, however the projectors for real humans are starting these days at around $1200.
I hear you. I had been one of those "upgrade every 6 months" lunatics until I bought my dual 266. I then had it for a year and a half before I bought a celery 533. The sad thing is that I went back to th e dual. It just felt like nothing would ever slow it down. Yes I'm sure the 533 was faster, but the 266 just felt faster.
Currently, I'm drooling over the dualie G4s knowing the same thing versus my spending habits.
Let's face it, they're little pipsqueeks going up against a foreign corporation.... fat chance. They need to rile up someone who is big enough to give Sigma hell, and make mend their ways.
Just think of what happens to IBM if the GPL is crap. They've invested how many billions of dollars on stuff that's built on the GPL? Granted, their swing on things is from the services perspective, but still they have a large vested interest in seeing the GPL stand on its own, or else Sun or HP or Microsoft could steal JFS, incorporate it into their OS and they couldn't do jack.
Yes, IBM is someone the xvid folks might do well to poke with a stick.
Edison was asked what was the best way to kill someone, and he had suggested AC current because he wanted to get an edge on his competitors over at Westinghouse who were pimping AC current. This is literally where the electric chair came from. Nige guy, huh?
The good news is that his bid lost out, however we still fry criminals because of Edison's recomendataion regarding the lethality of alternating current.
There is no physical difference between the mechanism of a "real" Spaceview and a "fake" Spaceview. The case is the same as well. More than likely the leather strap will have disintegrated by now, so that's not going to be original. The "fakeness" is simply from poping them open, pulling the face and putting on the appropirate crystal. Being that's exacly how they came out of the factory there's really no way of differentiating a real one and a fake one provided there's no blatent BS.
You could look for one with a chapter ring, but realistically its still a real Accutron.
Oh, and mine is one of the younger ones and still humming strongly, gaining about a minute a month, as in within engineering spec. Not bad for 31 years old. Really, its truly the ultimate gadget lovers watch. I've never seen anything like them.
There's a few things that won't compile out of the box for cygwin, but for the most part the X stuff's pretty good at being an xserver. I've mostly got cygwin installed as a devel env for windows opengl stuff though.
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Hmmm, I'll have to check that out. Honestly, TWM isn't all that pretty to me, and I have to have sloppy focus and autoraise or else life just isn't worth living. Autosnap is a wonderous thing, but I can survive without it. Other than, the more minimal the better.
Dang, Afterstep might be becoming too advanced for my tastes. Time to switch to TWM!
On a more serious note, 8 years ago I used Afterstep. It was the easiest thing to hack through the config files and make it do what ever I wanted to with a minimum of fuss, real estate, processor time, or color space allocation (a big thing on a Sun Classic sporting only a CG3).
Between then an now I've lived with Enlightenment, Window Maker, Gnome, KDE and OSX, yet for my work box I still use Afterstep. Maybe it's because it has a minimal number of doodads to distract me from doing actual work?
It would probably be worth noting that Samsung has started making a name for themselves with having the good stuff first. The 931 is actually their second DVD player with DVI out. The first one was a bloody pile of money for a DVD player, but it existed a year ago.
Oh, and if you're out and about, be sure to check out Samsung's DLP rear projection TV. It's head and shoulders above the other rear projection sets out there. It doesn't really have any of the downsides of the normal rear projections TVs (glare, burn in, viewing angle), while it has the positives of a plasma (super bright and clear picture, small size).
Their remotes still suck though.
But but, I thought that by pirating stuff we're only screwing over the artists??? *Whimper*
The 7000 lumen JVC DLP projector that gets used for this stuff costs about $225K before you put a lens on it.
Donations are tax deductable. Theoretically, if they donate enough, they'll eventually wipe out all their taxable income.
"Sure Mr. Elementary School Principal, every one of your students needs XP Super Advanced Enterpri$e on their desktops. Let me just fire up the printing presses!"
Ever notice how the large majority of speaker companies have speakers that look like a box?
Ever wonder why after decades of research they're still a box?
Ever notice that B&O likes to make non-conventional looking stuff and then charges an arm and a leg?
They're selling you functional art at really high prices folks.
If you want speakers that actually sound good, then try an electrostatic or planar speaker. Magnepans aren't a kajillion dollars and are a damned good place to start looking for planars.
HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a Sony HS10 in my home and XBOX is awesome on an 8 foot wide screen.
A good screen will help compensate for ambient light while making the picture much brighter. Additionally, the newer projectors are leapfroging each other getting brighter and brighter. I watch mine during the day, though I do have to draw the blinds. Also, the HS10 is considered one of the lower end projectors. The more expensive ones are several times as bright.
Most of my TV viewing is in the evening anyway which is when watching HBO is like going to the movies.
Yes, but they're blinding expensive. Poke through http://www.projectorcentral.com for specs. Just get a 1280x720 and shut up. You'll be damned happy enough.
Splotches are actually particles of dust blocking some light on one of the color panels. Take the projector far out of focus and the dust particle will come into perfect view. Just attack it with a can of compressed air. Also, really old projectors are going to look like hell if for no other reason that the new ones look really good.
Well, except for CRT projectors. Those things are still cherished even if the unit is 10 years old.
Dude, totally different. The chroma bug is an artifact of the fact that colors on a DVD are actually at a different resolution than luminence (black and white) data. Most new DVD players are chroma bug free. The Panasonics are the safest bet.
Go try a 5x color wheel like the Sharp Z90, Z9000 or Z10000. I practically puke with a 2X colorwheel, but I can't see any rainbows on a 5X.
Well, technically they're 2.5X RGBRGB, but the effect is the same, just less noise.
The short answer is that there's a small panel (DMD, digital mirrored device) with one tiny mirror per pixel (aka, over a million). Each mirror is individually motorized and flutters back and forth. One position reflects the light from the bulb down through the optics and to the screen. In the other position, it reflects the light into what's basically a light absorber.
Total light output is modlated by how much time the mirror is in the on position. The can each litterally flutter on and off over a thousand times a second. On dark areas of dark scenes you can see little scintelations of when individual mirrors flutter to the on position for a fraction of a second.
The fancier projetors have a light beam that's broken into red blue and green which then bounces off of three DMD panels before being recombined. The cheapie (less than $15K) ones have just one light beam that passes through a color wheel.
The color wheels typically have either RGB, RGBW (white), or RGBRGB. Better projectors have the RGBRGB wheels and spin at a higher rate. The result is that the projector winds up displaying a red image, a blue image and a green image in sequence. On fast moving items certain people (like me) are suscepible to seeing the different colors individually unless they spring for a higher speed color wheel, a triple DMD projector, or some other technology like LCD.
One last tidbit on the color wheel is that there is a new scroll color wheel coming out where at any given time there is a red, blue and green section being displayed over one third of the screen. They look like a pinwheel or one of those swirly lollypops. The trick to them is that the colors are actually dichoric mirrors so that only one given color light passes through while the other colors are then reflected back and hopefully recycled through one of the other two colors. It should more than total brighness while also lessening the effect of a slower speed colorwheel. Should be interresting.
Yes, but wouldn't it be niftier to have 4 times the screen size as a big screen? A common quote is "heh, you measure your screen in inches".
As an aside, InFocus projectors will actually burn out a fuse on the bulb casing after going several hundred hours past the EOL of the bulb. Some devious people will actually pop the bulb out and solder around the fuse so they can get more life out the bulb.
Probably not the best thing to do being that its circumventing a safety feature.
Umm no, they don't die. You do have to replace the bulb after several thousand hours, but the projector doesn't catch on fire and explode. The bulb is typically about 10% of the price of a new projector.
Plasma's are good for about 10000 hours. But then again they get screen burn like a traditional CRT does. Also, if you put it at more than a 30 degree angle, or hit the screen oh not so hard at all the thing's a total loss.
Ummm, crackpipe? The only LCD out there without an screendoor effect is the Panasonic PT-L300U and its brother the PT-AE300. Everything else has a screendoor effect including the DLPs. One of the advantages of the DLP is that it has a very thin screendoor that can only be seen if you're sitting about two feet from the screen. Even then taking the projector ever so slightly out of focus makes it go away.
From the couch you can't see any screendoor on just about any modern projector even if it is in perfect focus.
One, DLP is made by TI, and TI did the test.
Two, I've owned a DLP and I couldn't stand the damn thing (headaches, rainbows...), so I have an LCD now. DLPs are probably going to win out on other merits like contrast ratio, or a large lumen advantage when the new scroll wheel color wheels come out. However longevity sure as heck isn't going to be the deciding factor.
The average purchasor of a projector doesn't really care about longevity as most projector owners sell or upgrade their projectors either before or right after they need to replace the bulb. I'm willing to bet that its because they see what's out there while shopping for a new bulb.
Also, if you're ever thinking about being in the market for a big screen or a plama, then you'd be a fool not to check out a projector. Yes, they're about ten grand over at the botique stores that sell the electostatic speakers, however the projectors for real humans are starting these days at around $1200.
But, are you and Admiral Llama?
Ahhh, the TiVo faithful... possibly a group actually MORE ravenous about a product than Mac users. I should know, I'm both!
I hear you. I had been one of those "upgrade every 6 months" lunatics until I bought my dual 266. I then had it for a year and a half before I bought a celery 533. The sad thing is that I went back to th e dual. It just felt like nothing would ever slow it down. Yes I'm sure the 533 was faster, but the 266 just felt faster.
Currently, I'm drooling over the dualie G4s knowing the same thing versus my spending habits.
Let's face it, they're little pipsqueeks going up against a foreign corporation.... fat chance. They need to rile up someone who is big enough to give Sigma hell, and make mend their ways.
Just think of what happens to IBM if the GPL is crap. They've invested how many billions of dollars on stuff that's built on the GPL? Granted, their swing on things is from the services perspective, but still they have a large vested interest in seeing the GPL stand on its own, or else Sun or HP or Microsoft could steal JFS, incorporate it into their OS and they couldn't do jack.
Yes, IBM is someone the xvid folks might do well to poke with a stick.
Edison was asked what was the best way to kill someone, and he had suggested AC current because he wanted to get an edge on his competitors over at Westinghouse who were pimping AC current. This is literally where the electric chair came from. Nige guy, huh?
The good news is that his bid lost out, however we still fry criminals because of Edison's recomendataion regarding the lethality of alternating current.
There is no physical difference between the mechanism of a "real" Spaceview and a "fake" Spaceview. The case is the same as well. More than likely the leather strap will have disintegrated by now, so that's not going to be original. The "fakeness" is simply from poping them open, pulling the face and putting on the appropirate crystal. Being that's exacly how they came out of the factory there's really no way of differentiating a real one and a fake one provided there's no blatent BS.
You could look for one with a chapter ring, but realistically its still a real Accutron.
Oh, and mine is one of the younger ones and still humming strongly, gaining about a minute a month, as in within engineering spec. Not bad for 31 years old. Really, its truly the ultimate gadget lovers watch. I've never seen anything like them.
There's a few things that won't compile out of the box for cygwin, but for the most part the X stuff's pretty good at being an xserver. I've mostly got cygwin installed as a devel env for windows opengl stuff though.