In order for this thing to record to DVD, the algorithm that it is using is fixed (MPEG2). All you can really do is fiddle around with the bitrates some to vary the quality/size relationship. Unless of course it uses a high quality/low bit compression (DivX, Xvid, etc) and then transcodes on the fly when a disk recording is requested. If you had to transcode and then burn, it would take so long it would suck.
Damn right. Borland rocks. Hell, Borland pretty much invented the modern "visual" IDE. Ever notice how any visual studio product looks just like the borland equivalent that came out last year?
If Apple did this, they wouldn't be Apple anymore. That is one of the things that makes a mac so damn stable. There is a limited pool of devices you are going to encounter, and most of them connect by firewire/usb. Compare that to the horrible kluge of motherboard/chip/VGA card/memory types/network card/sound card combinations that PC's have to deal with. If Apple licensed its OS, they would quickly become irrelevant as a sea of cheap, unreliable knockoffs tarnished the Apple name.
The only thing the SciFi miniseries is doing right is the accuracy to the book. As for "great production values", I'll call you on that. The CG was dated and poorly integrated, the costumes looked cheap and over-the-top, and the sets looked about as substantial as the cardboard box the people responsible for this travesty will soon be calling "home". The acting blows, every line sounds flat and over-rehearsed. It is obvious the people that made both Dune mini-series have no real passion for the material, and that lack of passion comes through loud and clear in every shot.
Ok, so far this whole discussion has been filled with the statement
"you can't get more energy back from burning than you had to put in"
This is 100% correct. HOWEVER, your engine is running the alternator the whole time it is running anyhow. This thing doesn't have a clutch like your ac. When the engine is running, it is working. Now, knowing this, and knowing that the amp rating on your alternator is typically much more than your car needs (this is why underdrive pulleys are so popular with racers, reduce the alternator speed to get more hp), how exactly does this reduce efficiency? You are simply making use of energy that is being wasted anyhow. Now whether or not this waste energy is enough to make a difference in mileage using hydrogen production is another matter. Would certainly make an interesting experiment though.
Yeah, that's true. could use it to switch between banks of different LED's tho. Have each bank vary in color slightly, then you have 16 gradients to choose from. Or not. I'm no super hardware engineer guy.
easy, just hook 4 of the data pins rrom a parallel port to one of these 16 line decoders and that will give you control of 16 relays. add a second chip to the next 4 pins, and control 32. Once you have it set up, just write the value you want represented (ie, to turn on the first device, write out a 1, second device 2, third device 4, etc etc) out to the port.
I don't know about AOLTW's solution. But I recently got the Dish Network, with this receiver and I absolutely love it. I had purchased a replayTV first, and aside from the lack of an ethernet port, this is infinitely superior. The integration between the guide and the programming is excellent. The biggest beef I had with the Replay was the delay between the time I told it to change the channel and the time that the change actually happened. In addition, replayTV's guide kind of sucks, and I couldn't watch tv while surfing the guide like I can with this new unit. Best part? I got it for 50 bucks with my new dish service! and no extra monthly charge for the service either!
And US law cannot grant authority to arrest a Russian citizen who performed the illegal act in his own country. If this was a US citizen, our government's attitude would be completely different. He didn't sell anything. His company did. He is not an officer, owner, or anything else of consequence. He is simply an employee.
Well, aside from the fact that the law is an affront to all things free and right, the program in question was written in Russia. As far as I know, the DMCA has no authority there. If I am not mistaken, Russian law guarantees the freedoms that the eBookReader software returns to the user.
Very good point. mp3.com tries to put that together with their list of the most downloaded songs, but I don't think it is rated by quality, only by how often it has been downloaded.
I think you are kind of missing the point. The person who posted this didn't say that they were looking for higher quality music. They said they were looking for independent music. Big difference. I for one am willing to take the time to ferret out the 2% of local bands that are worth a shit and listen to them. They certainly can't be any less original than the Nirvana ripoffs and Britney clones that the labels flood the airwaves with. And as far as listening before you buy, that's what mp3.com is for, or just trek down to your localally owned shop. If they don't suck they will have plenty of local/regional bands to check out. Speaking of good local bands, if you live in the Southeast, check out The Avery Ellis Exhibits. Very cool stuff and completely label free.
Just focus on the advantages you have over your competition. Unlike many markets, yours isn't full of people that can't tie their shoes. These are the folks building the products and systems people depend on. Many of them are even responsible for making decisions about large technology puchases for their own companies. So basically, don't lie to them, don't overcommit, and simply show why your option is best. Also, having reasonable terms of use is helpful. Nobody I know likes to be told how to use a product that they just paid for.
Absolutely right. I don't understand why some people have such a hard time with that simple little concept. Sure the apps are similar, but not the same. People have a hard enough time learning an application on Windows in the first place. Example: I had to train a dozen or so salespeople to use that godforsaken piece of dogshit known as ACT!. It took no less than 2 days of my time to drill it into their itty bitty brains just the basics of syncing data, etc. Now imagine retraining hordes of these people on applications that don't even look the same on the surface, let alone function identically. Nightmare time.
The problem with VMWare is that you have to have a copy of windows to run on the virtual machine. So there is actually a big cost problem there as far as TCO for the platform is concerned. If you have to purchase VMWare and windows, why bother running linux at all?
You are 100% correct. For the desktop user, the TCO is just too high. But that's OK, because I personally don't think that it is ready for the desktop yet. It is too hard to exchange documents with Office users, the available web browsers have problems with some content (yes I know that is the designers fault, but it remains a problem nonetheless), and it's just too damn technical for sales/accounting/management types to handle. Hopefully that will change. But for now, I'm very happy to see linux making good progress in an area that it is very strong.
UK Government will consider OSS solutions alongside proprietary ones in IT procurements. Contracts will be awarded on a value for money basis.
Maybe now we can get some real total cost of ownership analysis for linux systems. IMHO this is something that has been lacking (except of course for the TCO workups done by Microsoft, and those can't be considered accurate. Not because they are from MS, but because they are being used as tools to outsell a competitor, and therefore are immediately suspect.) Having those numbers, as well as some solid cost-benefit analysis should help speed corporate adoption.
Not only is it fast and featured, but it runs on clusters, using mpi-povray. This site has info on doing it with 3.1, does anyone know if 3.5 works w/clusters??
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Me and my E36 M3 go back a long way ;-)
What kind of BMW is it?
try this. The Terrapin recorder. about 250 bucks. I think it has been discontinued, but it was a hell of a cool idea.
You are forgetting one thing:
In order for this thing to record to DVD, the algorithm that it is using is fixed (MPEG2). All you can really do is fiddle around with the bitrates some to vary the quality/size relationship. Unless of course it uses a high quality/low bit compression (DivX, Xvid, etc) and then transcodes on the fly when a disk recording is requested. If you had to transcode and then burn, it would take so long it would suck.
Damn right. Borland rocks. Hell, Borland pretty much invented the modern "visual" IDE. Ever notice how any visual studio product looks just like the borland equivalent that came out last year?
If Apple did this, they wouldn't be Apple anymore. That is one of the things that makes a mac so damn stable. There is a limited pool of devices you are going to encounter, and most of them connect by firewire/usb. Compare that to the horrible kluge of motherboard/chip/VGA card/memory types/network card/sound card combinations that PC's have to deal with. If Apple licensed its OS, they would quickly become irrelevant as a sea of cheap, unreliable knockoffs tarnished the Apple name.
The only thing the SciFi miniseries is doing right is the accuracy to the book. As for "great production values", I'll call you on that. The CG was dated and poorly integrated, the costumes looked cheap and over-the-top, and the sets looked about as substantial as the cardboard box the people responsible for this travesty will soon be calling "home". The acting blows, every line sounds flat and over-rehearsed. It is obvious the people that made both Dune mini-series have no real passion for the material, and that lack of passion comes through loud and clear in every shot.
Dune was a good miniseries?
Ok, so far this whole discussion has been filled with the statement
"you can't get more energy back from burning than you had to put in"
This is 100% correct. HOWEVER, your engine is running the alternator the whole time it is running anyhow. This thing doesn't have a clutch like your ac. When the engine is running, it is working. Now, knowing this, and knowing that the amp rating on your alternator is typically much more than your car needs (this is why underdrive pulleys are so popular with racers, reduce the alternator speed to get more hp), how exactly does this reduce efficiency? You are simply making use of energy that is being wasted anyhow. Now whether or not this waste energy is enough to make a difference in mileage using hydrogen production is another matter. Would certainly make an interesting experiment though.
Yeah, that's true. could use it to switch between banks of different LED's tho. Have each bank vary in color slightly, then you have 16 gradients to choose from. Or not. I'm no super hardware engineer guy.
easy, just hook 4 of the data pins rrom a parallel port to one of these
16 line decoders and that will give you control of 16 relays. add a second chip to the next 4 pins, and control 32. Once you have it set up, just write the value you want represented (ie, to turn on the first device, write out a 1, second device 2, third device 4, etc etc) out to the port.
I don't know about AOLTW's solution. But I recently got the Dish Network, with this receiver and I absolutely love it. I had purchased a replayTV first, and aside from the lack of an ethernet port, this is infinitely superior. The integration between the guide and the programming is excellent. The biggest beef I had with the Replay was the delay between the time I told it to change the channel and the time that the change actually happened. In addition, replayTV's guide kind of sucks, and I couldn't watch tv while surfing the guide like I can with this new unit. Best part? I got it for 50 bucks with my new dish service! and no extra monthly charge for the service either!
Acutally, it does
Right here......
in the top 5 for clustered performance.
Yes, this is a tricky bugger to remove, unless you find the uninstall. Not documented, but thanks to some nice folks in the forum, here it is:
http://www.xupiter.com/uninstall/
And US law cannot grant authority to arrest a Russian citizen who performed the illegal act in his own country. If this was a US citizen, our government's attitude would be completely different. He didn't sell anything. His company did. He is not an officer, owner, or anything else of consequence. He is simply an employee.
Well, aside from the fact that the law is an affront to all things free and right, the program in question was written in Russia. As far as I know, the DMCA has no authority there. If I am not mistaken, Russian law guarantees the freedoms that the eBookReader software returns to the user.
Very good point. mp3.com tries to put that together with their list of the most downloaded songs, but I don't think it is rated by quality, only by how often it has been downloaded.
I think you are kind of missing the point. The person who posted this didn't say that they were looking for higher quality music. They said they were looking for independent music. Big difference. I for one am willing to take the time to ferret out the 2% of local bands that are worth a shit and listen to them. They certainly can't be any less original than the Nirvana ripoffs and Britney clones that the labels flood the airwaves with. And as far as listening before you buy, that's what mp3.com is for, or just trek down to your localally owned shop. If they don't suck they will have plenty of local/regional bands to check out. Speaking of good local bands, if you live in the Southeast, check out The Avery Ellis Exhibits. Very cool stuff and completely label free.
Just focus on the advantages you have over your competition. Unlike many markets, yours isn't full of people that can't tie their shoes. These are the folks building the products and systems people depend on. Many of them are even responsible for making decisions about large technology puchases for their own companies. So basically, don't lie to them, don't overcommit, and simply show why your option is best. Also, having reasonable terms of use is helpful. Nobody I know likes to be told how to use a product that they just paid for.
Umm, no you can't "get away with" less licenses than you have users. MS is very clear in their EULA. One copy to be installed on one machine. Period.
Absolutely right. I don't understand why some people have such a hard time with that simple little concept. Sure the apps are similar, but not the same. People have a hard enough time learning an application on Windows in the first place. Example: I had to train a dozen or so salespeople to use that godforsaken piece of dogshit known as ACT!. It took no less than 2 days of my time to drill it into their itty bitty brains just the basics of syncing data, etc. Now imagine retraining hordes of these people on applications that don't even look the same on the surface, let alone function identically. Nightmare time.
The problem with VMWare is that you have to have a copy of windows to run on the virtual machine. So there is actually a big cost problem there as far as TCO for the platform is concerned. If you have to purchase VMWare and windows, why bother running linux at all?
You are 100% correct. For the desktop user, the TCO is just too high. But that's OK, because I personally don't think that it is ready for the desktop yet. It is too hard to exchange documents with Office users, the available web browsers have problems with some content (yes I know that is the designers fault, but it remains a problem nonetheless), and it's just too damn technical for sales/accounting/management types to handle. Hopefully that will change. But for now, I'm very happy to see linux making good progress in an area that it is very strong.
Quoth the article:
UK Government will consider OSS solutions alongside proprietary ones in IT procurements. Contracts will be awarded on a value for money basis.
Maybe now we can get some real total cost of ownership analysis for linux systems. IMHO this is something that has been lacking (except of course for the TCO workups done by Microsoft, and those can't be considered accurate. Not because they are from MS, but because they are being used as tools to outsell a competitor, and therefore are immediately suspect.) Having those numbers, as well as some solid cost-benefit analysis should help speed corporate adoption.
Not only is it fast and featured, but it runs on clusters, using mpi-povray. This site has info on doing it with 3.1, does anyone know if 3.5 works w/clusters??