Do you have any gathering professions? I can make 100+ just buy selling a few stacks of adamantite ore (plus the eternium and gems) that I get from mining in a short amount of time. When my first (and only) toon hit 70, he already had about 3000g mostly from the quests going from 60 to 70. On top of that, factor in daily quests which give you ~12g per quest, which you can do up to 10 of per day; 12g * 10 = another 120g per day per character.
Maybe if they want their precious movies to avoid this, they should consider using a media that physically has no computer-based player... Yes! Bring back LaserDiscs!
I prefer to compile MythTV from source instead of using a packaged distro - it gives me as much flexibility as I want, and in my experience MythTV isn't that difficult to get working. Plus it keeps me from being tied to a particular distro - my master backend and a 2nd backend are both on Debian, while my frontend is a FC 4 box. I'm researching building a dedicated frontend for my entertainment center, and maybe one of these prepackaged distros will seem more appropriate there.
From the article: According to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Senior VP Don Eklund, none of Sony's Blu-ray releases for the "foreseeable future" will use ICT to force downsampling.
This is only applies to Blu-Ray discs released by Sony, not other studios. Blu-Ray players will still support down-sampling, other studios will make this decision independently of Sony, and Sony isn't promising to continue the practice with its own releases indefinately.
Thanks for pointing that out! When researching televisions, I don't recall coming across any that had HDMI ports that didn't claim to be HDCP-compliant, so I just assumed (wrongly) that no one was bothering to make a TV with HDMI that wasn't HDCP-compliant. What's the point really? Non-HDCP-compliant DVI ports make sense, if you're going to use the DVI port for non-protected content (like output from a computer).
I've got to post to back this up. I've got a Harmony 880, and it does EVERYTHING that I need. The remote has state variables to keep up with the inputs/power status of your equipment (for devices that don't have discrete input/power commands). There user interface could be a little friendlier, and there are some minor improvements (mostly cosmetic, but a few functionality wise) that need to be made. This remote is amazing, and now my wife doesn't get as frustrated when she's using the entertainment center (there's only some much that I can make easy for her when she refuses to learn what an aspect ratio is...).
Will there be an HDMI output cable for the Xbox 360 then? AFAIK, HD DVD requires HDCP which requires HDMI (or a DVI port that supports HDCP). Just curios - anyone have any info on this?
I do. My TV (Samsung TX-P3071WH) has a built-in ATSC tuner for tuning over the air (OTA) HD channels. I use a Zenith ZHDTV1 indoor antenna to receive my local ABC and CBS affiliates' broadcasts over the air. My cable provider (Time Warner) doesn't include the ABC HD channel in their HD package, so I picked up the antenna and my reception is great. Check out AntennaWeb for information on broadcasts in your area to see what you might be able to pick up.
I didn't mean to imply that 1080p was bad, just that it wasn't readily available yet - and I agree with you that it's terrible that it's not. Interlacing really isn't necessary anymore, and I wish 1080i hadn't been included as an HD resolution. Now that it's out there, I see it being touted a lot more than 720p just because it sounds better to the un-informed. I've started seeing some DLPs in stores that support 1080p, but I don't want to upgrade to a new display until I feel like there's enough content out there to make it worthwhile.
It's kind of a silly option, but there is a HiDef VHS format out there that will let you record HD content to a D-VHS tape (or whatever they're calling it this week). It supports 480p up to 1080i (no 1080p, but honestly where are you getting a 1080p signal from anyway?).
Samsung announced plans to produce a dual-format player a while back, so that will be an option. Personally, I'd rather just sit back and wait for the 'format war' to be over (and prices to start falling on players) before picking one up.
I suppose I am the only person in the whole world who finds the ipod physical interface totally "the suck" and the software unintuitive.
No, you're not - but I think that you are in the minority. Most people that I see handling an iPod for the first time seem to be able to grasp the UI fairly quickly, however when I handed mine to my brother-in-law (who's 30 and relatively unafraid of technology), he couldn't make heads or tails of it. For me, the only thing that wasn't intuitive was toggling the power on and off (to do this, you hold down the Play/Pause button for a couple of seconds). Other than that, everything just made sense and just worked.
As for the 3rd party accessories, I hardly think that you can consider those a part of the iPod UI. The FM transmitters' interfaces vary from brand to brand and model to model. I have a Belkin one that doesn't work anything like how you describe - I just plug it into the audio out port on my iPod and then control my iPod as I normally would, so having the transmitter doesn't change the interface at all for me. Don't judge all of the iPod accessories based solely on one kludgy transmitter.
Speculation is (and I don't think that this has been confirmed, but someone will correct me if it has) that the Revolution will allow players to download ROMs of NES, SNES, and N64 games onto the internal storage (probably about a 1GB flash drive) from a Nintendo service.
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Do you have any gathering professions? I can make 100+ just buy selling a few stacks of adamantite ore (plus the eternium and gems) that I get from mining in a short amount of time. When my first (and only) toon hit 70, he already had about 3000g mostly from the quests going from 60 to 70. On top of that, factor in daily quests which give you ~12g per quest, which you can do up to 10 of per day; 12g * 10 = another 120g per day per character.
Whoever modded you interesting doesn't appear to have gotten it.
You might want to check to see if a copy of the page exists at the Internet Archive.
The MythTV devs, along with devs from other projects, have started the Schedules Direct project to address this issue.
Excuse me if I'm missing something, but what kind of IR remote doesn't require line of sight?
I prefer to compile MythTV from source instead of using a packaged distro - it gives me as much flexibility as I want, and in my experience MythTV isn't that difficult to get working. Plus it keeps me from being tied to a particular distro - my master backend and a 2nd backend are both on Debian, while my frontend is a FC 4 box. I'm researching building a dedicated frontend for my entertainment center, and maybe one of these prepackaged distros will seem more appropriate there.
AFAIK KnoppMyth hasn't been upgraded from Myth 0.19 to Myth 0.20, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
From the article:
According to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Senior VP Don Eklund, none of Sony's Blu-ray releases for the "foreseeable future" will use ICT to force downsampling.
This is only applies to Blu-Ray discs released by Sony, not other studios. Blu-Ray players will still support down-sampling, other studios will make this decision independently of Sony, and Sony isn't promising to continue the practice with its own releases indefinately.
Samsung is planning a dual-format player.
Thanks for pointing that out! When researching televisions, I don't recall coming across any that had HDMI ports that didn't claim to be HDCP-compliant, so I just assumed (wrongly) that no one was bothering to make a TV with HDMI that wasn't HDCP-compliant. What's the point really? Non-HDCP-compliant DVI ports make sense, if you're going to use the DVI port for non-protected content (like output from a computer).
That's a DVD player, not an HD-DVD player. Totally unrelated to this topic.
There's HDMI and DVI. You have to be careful with DVI though, because not all DVI inputs are HDCP compliant.
Wikipedia has the answer.
I've got to post to back this up. I've got a Harmony 880, and it does EVERYTHING that I need. The remote has state variables to keep up with the inputs/power status of your equipment (for devices that don't have discrete input/power commands). There user interface could be a little friendlier, and there are some minor improvements (mostly cosmetic, but a few functionality wise) that need to be made. This remote is amazing, and now my wife doesn't get as frustrated when she's using the entertainment center (there's only some much that I can make easy for her when she refuses to learn what an aspect ratio is...).
Will there be an HDMI output cable for the Xbox 360 then? AFAIK, HD DVD requires HDCP which requires HDMI (or a DVI port that supports HDCP). Just curios - anyone have any info on this?
I do. My TV (Samsung TX-P3071WH) has a built-in ATSC tuner for tuning over the air (OTA) HD channels. I use a Zenith ZHDTV1 indoor antenna to receive my local ABC and CBS affiliates' broadcasts over the air. My cable provider (Time Warner) doesn't include the ABC HD channel in their HD package, so I picked up the antenna and my reception is great. Check out AntennaWeb for information on broadcasts in your area to see what you might be able to pick up.
Only until that piece of hardware breaks and you need to replace it.
I didn't mean to imply that 1080p was bad, just that it wasn't readily available yet - and I agree with you that it's terrible that it's not. Interlacing really isn't necessary anymore, and I wish 1080i hadn't been included as an HD resolution. Now that it's out there, I see it being touted a lot more than 720p just because it sounds better to the un-informed. I've started seeing some DLPs in stores that support 1080p, but I don't want to upgrade to a new display until I feel like there's enough content out there to make it worthwhile.
It's kind of a silly option, but there is a HiDef VHS format out there that will let you record HD content to a D-VHS tape (or whatever they're calling it this week). It supports 480p up to 1080i (no 1080p, but honestly where are you getting a 1080p signal from anyway?).
Samsung announced plans to produce a dual-format player a while back, so that will be an option. Personally, I'd rather just sit back and wait for the 'format war' to be over (and prices to start falling on players) before picking one up.
The DC Metro system has had a trip planner availabe for years now:
Metro Trip Planner
I always though that most major metro areas with well-developed public transit systems had something like this.
What should it be doing in 3 years, when we all have our low power, high quality, ePaper editions?
Printing a review of Duke Nukem Forever on the Phantom Gaming Console?
Speculation is (and I don't think that this has been confirmed, but someone will correct me if it has) that the Revolution will allow players to download ROMs of NES, SNES, and N64 games onto the internal storage (probably about a 1GB flash drive) from a Nintendo service.