In my setup (playing DVDs), the AC3 audio is sent straight to the receiver. The receiver does the Dobly/DTS/THX/whatever decoding. So yes, it works with DTS, since Linux is just shoveling data off the disk and then onto the wire, no matter the encoding.
Here's my/etc/asound.conf where everything goes out the optical out:
pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "cards.pcm.iec958" }
pcm.!spdif { type plug slave.pcm "cards.pcm.iec958" }
pcm.!iec958 { type plug slave { pcm "hw:0,1" format S32_LE } }
I've been using a Chaintech AV-710 with my linux home theater PC for a long time now (a year?), outputs to my surround sound receiver. Fully supported under ALSA. mplayer, xine, and ogle all pass through the AC3 5.1 sound for my receiver to decode. I went for fiber optic, mainly because I didn't want to worry about grounding effects.
You're looking at this as though the glass were half empty. The higher ones property is valued the more one will be charged in taxes. So to say that lowering of property values harms neighbors might not be the case. I'm thinking you would first have to prove that someone lost money because of this before you could prove any harm done.
Tax collectors rarely lower property values because of asthetic issues, but the house will certainly not sell, or sell for less.
Is that really the way that you make houses in America? Plaster and wood?
In the vast majority of homes, yes - especially in subdivisions built by a single builder.
I am aware that brick houses in earth quake areas is obviously a really bad idea, but there's got to be something more sturdy than wood!
There are better, stronger, more fire resistant, more wear resistant, better insulating materials. But there aren't any cheaper materials, which is why plaster and wood are used.
Because you can start playing the system the day you buy it, with hundereds of games. For someone without the previous console (for example, someone with a PS2 but no Xbox), they could buy the Xbox360, the few launch titles, and maybe a few old Xbox games to keep them busy.
Now we know why Microsoft bought the company that made the best x86 emulator for PowerPC on the market. Actually, we might have guessed that earlier - nice to have it confirmed though.
Actually one of the biggest trends in data centers is server virtualization. Buy one big box, run Vmware, and get 8 servers that don't need 100% of the CPU/RAM/disk/network. Big savings not only in space, but electricity and heating/cooling.
Then why do they currently actively ban modded Xboxs from accessing Live?
Many organizations are strict with a few offenders to show that they are doing something, but in general allow the practice because it benefits them. Larger penetration of Windows and Office helps Microsoft, because "everybody runs it", even if a fair amount of them are pirated. They still bust pirates on a regular basis.
Likewise, selling x amount more consoles because people are hacking them up for other purposes will not only help them sell more consoles, but help them convince game makers to produce Xbox games. They'll still go after modders.
Sounds like this bank doesn't have shareholder value in mind. Which bank is it so I can be sure not to invest in them?
One $40k mistake is not a reason to not invest in a bank. Seriously. Banks have million dollar rounding errors and that's ok; the year after I joined (and I stayed 5 years), the bank had like a $1.4 billion dollar profit, then proceeded to trim 10,000 jobs because they weren't making enough money.:) As important as the proxy debate was to me, it didn't have any material effect on the bank's financials one way or the other.
OMG, someone who can admit that their job don't rule a $507 billion, 94,000-employee organization!
Anyways, the decisionmaker involved has since left the bank. We went with something from CacheFlow (now BlueCoat), something similar to this, because they were appliances, not subject to the OS limitation.
Not bad equipment, but guess what those things actually run inside? Linux and squid. LOL..
That makes no sense. Who would sue them? And why?
SCO, because open source stole code from them.
Nobody stole anything. The current lawsuit from SCO maintains that IBM used THEIR OWN CODE in Linux, and SCO seems to think that they were contractually prohibited from doing so. Nobody stole anything. IBM seems to think they are in the right, and I expect them to prevail in court.
I can't wait for IBM to win the suit so that this misinformation stops spreading. I swear, it's like people hear the loudest shouter and decide they're correct without ever reading the facts, though I don't think that's unique to this case.
I work at a major investment bank and just yesterday they decided to send a memo around saying that Firefox is not to be used. I wonder why that was? No, really does anyone have any suggestions.
Support is usually the reason cited. "We support this product, don't use any other ones because our help desk isn't trained on it."
When the proxy team at the bank I used to work for wanted to use Linux boxes instead of Solaris (self-supporting team) for 2x the speed and 1/3 the cost, we were told no. The decision maker was very pro-MS, had quite a lot of MSFT stock, and had recently been pitched by MS about anti-Linux. But we weren't allowed to use it for technical reasons. Really.
It seems to me that betavoltaics could allow us to turn all the nuclear waste that nobody wants into a small power plant. Can anyone provide some more insight in to why this wouldn't work? (or why nobody's done it yet?)
The point you are missing is that the team with better tactics is also going to end up with the better equipment.
If one group gets on top through tactics, and therefore gets the good equipment, and stays there forever, then yes, that's no fun. This can happen on either situation (partitioned vs. one large server).
We were originally discussing partitioned servers vs. one large server, remember? I gather that you're arguing that one large server is going to be better for preventing one group from getting on top and staying there? I don't see it.
I think one uber-team ruling everyone has more of a chance of happening on one large server. It'd be like assembling all the greatest basketball players in the world, putting them on a team, giving them better shoes, and then having everyone else play against them.
I'd much rather play against the people in my neighborhood, even if Michael Jordan was one of my neighbors. Because even if he is, the chances of another superstar player being in my neighborhood are slim, which means I have a much better chance of being able to win once in a while.
The other fun thing is that Battlegrounds is self-reinforcing. The side that does well will get better equipment, skewing the game towards their favor.
Good equipment can often be overcome with better tactics. If you manage to pull a guy with the best equipment in the game by himself and hit him with 5 guys, better equipment or not, he's probably going down. (I'm not advocating zerging; since Battlegrounds will be matched 1:1, you'll have to work hard to separate the other team and keep your team together, rather than just bringing 5x the number of people to the fight)
I'd rather have more people to play with than play against the same group of level 60s repeatedly. Especially since losing makes the other side stronger.
So far you've said that you'd rather have 2000 level 60s that repeatedly kick your and everyone else's butt than 10 that may or may not be fighting you. There's your "more options". (assuming you're the same AC due to writing style and content)
You'd love to play with your friends across the hall, but you can't because they aren't on the same server.
Guild Wars doesn't have that fatal flaw because all characters play on the same "server" so to speak. Not so with World of Warcraft.
True, you can only play with people on the same server. You call it a fatal flaw - I happen to think that it's much nicer to compete against a smaller set of people. I actually have a chance of being in the top 10 on my server, whereas if it was all servers combined, there's be no way.
To use your roommate analogy - You have a good chance of being better than your neighbor. Even a decent chance of being better than your neighborhood. But you've got almost no chance of being better than everyone in the city.
you don't even need to do that -- some (most?) cells there's a special key which performs the function of terminating the wait -- try space, or next buttons.
How fast does a Jedi need to be to stop something moving at lightspeed?
Not that fast, he just needs to know that it's going to happen before it does, so he can move his blade to intercept.. explained in episode 1 as a kind of pre-cognition
Many local calls in Europe are metered per minute or per call. As are calls in NYC (11 cents per call when I lived there, on top of the base $25/month or so).
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In my setup (playing DVDs), the AC3 audio is sent straight to the receiver. The receiver does the Dobly/DTS/THX/whatever decoding. So yes, it works with DTS, since Linux is just shoveling data off the disk and then onto the wire, no matter the encoding.
Here's my /etc/asound.conf where everything goes out the optical out:
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Tax collectors rarely lower property values because of asthetic issues, but the house will certainly not sell, or sell for less.
In the vast majority of homes, yes - especially in subdivisions built by a single builder.
I am aware that brick houses in earth quake areas is obviously a really bad idea, but there's got to be something more sturdy than wood!
There are better, stronger, more fire resistant, more wear resistant, better insulating materials. But there aren't any cheaper materials, which is why plaster and wood are used.
Not unless they switch to port 80. Some of us surf at work, and can't access 8090 or whatever stupid port they decided upon.
Requires a WSJ subscription, that's why.
Because you can start playing the system the day you buy it, with hundereds of games. For someone without the previous console (for example, someone with a PS2 but no Xbox), they could buy the Xbox360, the few launch titles, and maybe a few old Xbox games to keep them busy.
Actually one of the biggest trends in data centers is server virtualization. Buy one big box, run Vmware, and get 8 servers that don't need 100% of the CPU/RAM/disk/network. Big savings not only in space, but electricity and heating/cooling.
Many organizations are strict with a few offenders to show that they are doing something, but in general allow the practice because it benefits them. Larger penetration of Windows and Office helps Microsoft, because "everybody runs it", even if a fair amount of them are pirated. They still bust pirates on a regular basis.
Likewise, selling x amount more consoles because people are hacking them up for other purposes will not only help them sell more consoles, but help them convince game makers to produce Xbox games. They'll still go after modders.
One $40k mistake is not a reason to not invest in a bank. Seriously. Banks have million dollar rounding errors and that's ok; the year after I joined (and I stayed 5 years), the bank had like a $1.4 billion dollar profit, then proceeded to trim 10,000 jobs because they weren't making enough money. :) As important as the proxy debate was to me, it didn't have any material effect on the bank's financials one way or the other.
OMG, someone who can admit that their job don't rule a $507 billion, 94,000-employee organization!
Anyways, the decisionmaker involved has since left the bank. We went with something from CacheFlow (now BlueCoat), something similar to this, because they were appliances, not subject to the OS limitation.
Not bad equipment, but guess what those things actually run inside? Linux and squid. LOL..
SCO, because open source stole code from them.
Nobody stole anything. The current lawsuit from SCO maintains that IBM used THEIR OWN CODE in Linux, and SCO seems to think that they were contractually prohibited from doing so. Nobody stole anything. IBM seems to think they are in the right, and I expect them to prevail in court.
I can't wait for IBM to win the suit so that this misinformation stops spreading. I swear, it's like people hear the loudest shouter and decide they're correct without ever reading the facts, though I don't think that's unique to this case.
Support is usually the reason cited. "We support this product, don't use any other ones because our help desk isn't trained on it."
When the proxy team at the bank I used to work for wanted to use Linux boxes instead of Solaris (self-supporting team) for 2x the speed and 1/3 the cost, we were told no. The decision maker was very pro-MS, had quite a lot of MSFT stock, and had recently been pitched by MS about anti-Linux. But we weren't allowed to use it for technical reasons. Really.
That makes no sense. Who would sue them? And why?
It seems to me that betavoltaics could allow us to turn all the nuclear waste that nobody wants into a small power plant. Can anyone provide some more insight in to why this wouldn't work? (or why nobody's done it yet?)
If one group gets on top through tactics, and therefore gets the good equipment, and stays there forever, then yes, that's no fun. This can happen on either situation (partitioned vs. one large server).
We were originally discussing partitioned servers vs. one large server, remember? I gather that you're arguing that one large server is going to be better for preventing one group from getting on top and staying there? I don't see it.
I think one uber-team ruling everyone has more of a chance of happening on one large server. It'd be like assembling all the greatest basketball players in the world, putting them on a team, giving them better shoes, and then having everyone else play against them.
I'd much rather play against the people in my neighborhood, even if Michael Jordan was one of my neighbors. Because even if he is, the chances of another superstar player being in my neighborhood are slim, which means I have a much better chance of being able to win once in a while.
SMS and its competitors will keep you from having to ever leaving your desk.
On OSX and *nix side, use a common shared drive for binaries.
It's sometimes more *fun*, yes.
The other fun thing is that Battlegrounds is self-reinforcing. The side that does well will get better equipment, skewing the game towards their favor.
Good equipment can often be overcome with better tactics. If you manage to pull a guy with the best equipment in the game by himself and hit him with 5 guys, better equipment or not, he's probably going down. (I'm not advocating zerging; since Battlegrounds will be matched 1:1, you'll have to work hard to separate the other team and keep your team together, rather than just bringing 5x the number of people to the fight)
I'd rather have more people to play with than play against the same group of level 60s repeatedly. Especially since losing makes the other side stronger.
So far you've said that you'd rather have 2000 level 60s that repeatedly kick your and everyone else's butt than 10 that may or may not be fighting you. There's your "more options". (assuming you're the same AC due to writing style and content)
Guild Wars doesn't have that fatal flaw because all characters play on the same "server" so to speak. Not so with World of Warcraft.
True, you can only play with people on the same server. You call it a fatal flaw - I happen to think that it's much nicer to compete against a smaller set of people. I actually have a chance of being in the top 10 on my server, whereas if it was all servers combined, there's be no way.
To use your roommate analogy - You have a good chance of being better than your neighbor. Even a decent chance of being better than your neighborhood. But you've got almost no chance of being better than everyone in the city.
Pros and cons to both approaches.
I tried, but my aim isn't so good, and so it got in her hair.
I'm the half-assed kind. A full-assed geek wouldn't go outside, right.
So meet in a public place. Duh.
On many phones, # will do it.
Not that fast, he just needs to know that it's going to happen before it does, so he can move his blade to intercept.. explained in episode 1 as a kind of pre-cognition
The story is about Seattle. Will these couple of companies you know run fiber from Austin to Seattle? :)
As opposed to what?
Many local calls in Europe are metered per minute or per call. As are calls in NYC (11 cents per call when I lived there, on top of the base $25/month or so).