Don't worry - States' rights is a major part of the Republican platform.
You know - along with smaller government and less federal spending.
Right?
Whenever I hear a Republican utter the phrase "tax and spend Democrat," I almost bust a gut laughing (and crying inside) thinking about the current deficit.
Not for people doing video production, but then again, people doing video production should be using external storage solutions anyway, which brings me to a gripe:
Why no eSATA connection?
Is there anything preventing the MacPros from sporting 8x8GB FB-DIMMs or 4x750GB drives?
I'm not sure. If you look at the way the HDs are mounted, they're each in a little metal cage that snaps in place (with no data or power cable). Nice. I'm assuming if those 750GB Seagates have all the connections in juuuust the right places, it should go fine, but I've no idea about heating requirements. My 400GB WDs are freaking HOT in my machine (so much so that I'm worried, even with my PSU fan pulling air directly over them).
Another disappointment is the lack of the 10,000 RPM WD Raptor drive, at least as an option for the boot drive. This *is* supposed to be a Pro-class machine. And what's with the videocard selection? NVidia 7300GT as base, but not even an option for a 7600GS/GT or 7900? Very odd.
The specs say you can configure your drives in RAID 0 or 1, but no mention of 0+1 or 10, which is another bummer.
I really wish they'd offered a Raptor boot drive option and an eSATA connector. And I'm with the other posters in wishing for a lower tower or higher-end Mac Mini, with normal size HD and upgradable discrete videocard. There IS definitely a big-ass hole in the lineup still. Maybe next year, when all the dust from the Intel move has settled...
I heard pixar got the contract to create the moon base...
I'd rather it was Studio Ghibli. Or at least WETA.
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Not a problem anymore. Just store the spent fuel near the Jewish Anti-Defamation League and give Mel Gibson a few drinks and have a news reporter standing by. The chill from the ADL will zap that spent fuel down to absolute zero in no time.
The question becomes - will the problems with Blu-Ray titles continue, or will they improve? Judging by the first few titles released is perhaps not wise. Speaking of wisdom - what idiot decided to skimp out on the production of the first Blu-Ray titles? Ridiculous.
A lot will also depend on the prices of the players and discs. Most people don't even have TVs capable of playing full DVD resolution, much less HD content, so I doubt you'll see much difference switching out your DVD player for an HD player. Even going from a DVD-capable display to an HD-capable display isn't going to be anywhere near as big a difference as it was going from, say, cassette to compact disc. Nothing beyond the CD has succeeded in the audio world mainly (I think) because it's more than good enough.
With the advent of relatively inexpensive big-screen displays of the last few years, though, I think being able to see HD content in HD resolution _will_ be a big enough incentive for many (like me!) to make the jump. But cable & sat companies are certainly going to have to step up to the plate to help make the transition worthwhile for a large number of people, and hopefully the HD camps will learn from Sony's UMD mistake about pricing. I don't think the vast majority of the public is going to bother with anything that costs more than DVD discs do now. The benefit delta just isn't there.
And for god's sake, let's not bother with interlaced displays. I'd take 720p over 1080i or 1280i any day of the week. The difference between progressive and interlaced displays was made quite apparent to me back in my Amiga days. I'm not going back.
I could just as easily say that comparing the motor in a Mustang to the motor in a Corvette is pointless because it's two different cars and wouldn't be an apples to apples comparison.
An analogy that actually compares to what I said would be more like comparing the seat stitching between the Mustang and the Corvette, and saying that the Corvette won based on the seat stitching. Sure, the seat stitching is more comfortable in the Corvette, and it may make a big difference to people sitting in them, but it has nothing to do with how fast the Corvette and Mustang are, or what the Mustang is actually capable of.
The issues mentioned that I complained about have nothing to do with the format, but with how badly those specific Blu-Ray titles were put together. If a Blu-Ray disc is put together badly, why does that mean that the Blu-Ray format is worse than HD-DVD format? It doesn't. It means these specific Blu-Ray titles were put together worse than these specific HD-DVD titles, and that's ALL it means.
However, if the people putting out Blu-Ray discs keep putting out ones that aren't done as well as they could be, and, more importantly, aren't as well put together as their HD-DVD counterparts, then whether Blu-Ray itself is superior or not won't make any bit of difference, and rightfully so for MOVIE TITLES.
For data use, however, Blu-Ray is still the better technology, though I still wonder how blank disc costs per storage amount compared to HD-DVD. For that, we'll just have to wait and see.
They did mention that Blu-Ray has an irritating time lag when switching menus. Would that be format-related?
Possibly. I've seen DVD menus that were super fast, and some that were unbelievably slow.
This could be an issue with the player, that specific disc, or the format. I don't know if it's possible to tell yet which is which unless you have experience making menus for Blu-Ray.
...is for each state to split their electoral votes along the closest percentages of that state's popular vote. That way the smaller states get their inflated (per person) influence in the election, but the electoral vote would much more closely match the popular vote.
IE7 won't be winning any 'best designed' awards. The UI still looks and works like a Fisher-Price toy, though at least the standard menu bar has returned. The customization of the UI is still a joke, though. C'mon, MS, you're almost there!
I do like the 'Quick Tabs' feature, though - pretty slick.
So...someone gets your card with your biometric data on it, and the card gets hacked. Now they can make new cards with your info including your fingerprints on it. Fingerprint readers can be faked pretty easily these days, using all sorts of products available in the home. Once your fingerprints along with your ID are stolen, that's pretty much it. You can't change your fingerprints. With username/password or credit card info, if it gets stolen, you can simply change all that info or get a new card with a new #, but if your biometric data is stolen and copied/faked, then that's pretty much it - your identity is stolen forever. This is why fingerprints, specifically, are a horrific idea for security.
Perhaps something like retinal scans are more secure, or typing patterns, or vein patterns and suchlike, the problem with biometric data will ALWAYS be, "What happens if this data is stolen and cracked?" Many of them will be hard or impossible to fake in person at a store with even a halfway alert shopkeeper, but when this info is to be used for purchases online, forget about it.
I think the days of remote payments that only work in certain ways are sure to come sooner rather than later. Why debit cards can be used as a credit card with just a signature is beyond me. Sure, it's convenient. But it's also convenient for someone to steal your debit card and use it as a credit card once they've learned your signature on the back of your card (and many places don't even bother to compare them, much less require some photo ID). And that's not even taking the hacking of the data on a debit card into account, assuming that's easily done (I don't know what kind of security the data in those strips have).
Intelligent ID theft monitoring services combined payment methods that REQUIRE some type of real authentication, and ID confirmation that can be changed if hacked seems to be the recommended course to me.
But then again, all of that doesn't fit into a nice soundbyte for the news media.:(
Apple's currently using 32-bit ones, since the 64-bit ones (Core 2 Duo as opposed to the current Core Duo) aren't out yet. The 64-bit ones start coming out in July.
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Well, this isn't for discrete graphics cards, right - it's for the built-in graphics in the 965 family chipsets. That's my understanding, anyway.
Still, a very nice move.
I'd buy it if had a better name. Something like Xtreme NIC Ultra or something.
And some VTEC stickers and a big-ass wing on it.
Yeah, that'd be phat, yo!
Pimp my NIC, bitches!
Don't worry - States' rights is a major part of the Republican platform.
You know - along with smaller government and less federal spending.
Right?
Whenever I hear a Republican utter the phrase "tax and spend Democrat," I almost bust a gut laughing (and crying inside) thinking about the current deficit.
16GB RAM and 2TB of disk is overkill, but...
Not for people doing video production, but then again, people doing video production should be using external storage solutions anyway, which brings me to a gripe:
Why no eSATA connection?
Is there anything preventing the MacPros from sporting 8x8GB FB-DIMMs or 4x750GB drives?
I'm not sure. If you look at the way the HDs are mounted, they're each in a little metal cage that snaps in place (with no data or power cable). Nice. I'm assuming if those 750GB Seagates have all the connections in juuuust the right places, it should go fine, but I've no idea about heating requirements. My 400GB WDs are freaking HOT in my machine (so much so that I'm worried, even with my PSU fan pulling air directly over them).
Another disappointment is the lack of the 10,000 RPM WD Raptor drive, at least as an option for the boot drive. This *is* supposed to be a Pro-class machine. And what's with the videocard selection? NVidia 7300GT as base, but not even an option for a 7600GS/GT or 7900? Very odd.
The specs say you can configure your drives in RAID 0 or 1, but no mention of 0+1 or 10, which is another bummer.
I really wish they'd offered a Raptor boot drive option and an eSATA connector. And I'm with the other posters in wishing for a lower tower or higher-end Mac Mini, with normal size HD and upgradable discrete videocard. There IS definitely a big-ass hole in the lineup still. Maybe next year, when all the dust from the Intel move has settled...
Oh wait, wrong generation.
"Do you like Quadrotriticale?"
"Sure."
"I got her communicator frequency. How do you like THAT Quadrotriticale?"
I heard pixar got the contract to create the moon base...
I'd rather it was Studio Ghibli. Or at least WETA.
Not a problem anymore. Just store the spent fuel near the Jewish Anti-Defamation League and give Mel Gibson a few drinks and have a news reporter standing by. The chill from the ADL will zap that spent fuel down to absolute zero in no time.
The question becomes - will the problems with Blu-Ray titles continue, or will they improve? Judging by the first few titles released is perhaps not wise. Speaking of wisdom - what idiot decided to skimp out on the production of the first Blu-Ray titles? Ridiculous.
A lot will also depend on the prices of the players and discs. Most people don't even have TVs capable of playing full DVD resolution, much less HD content, so I doubt you'll see much difference switching out your DVD player for an HD player. Even going from a DVD-capable display to an HD-capable display isn't going to be anywhere near as big a difference as it was going from, say, cassette to compact disc. Nothing beyond the CD has succeeded in the audio world mainly (I think) because it's more than good enough.
With the advent of relatively inexpensive big-screen displays of the last few years, though, I think being able to see HD content in HD resolution _will_ be a big enough incentive for many (like me!) to make the jump. But cable & sat companies are certainly going to have to step up to the plate to help make the transition worthwhile for a large number of people, and hopefully the HD camps will learn from Sony's UMD mistake about pricing. I don't think the vast majority of the public is going to bother with anything that costs more than DVD discs do now. The benefit delta just isn't there.
And for god's sake, let's not bother with interlaced displays. I'd take 720p over 1080i or 1280i any day of the week. The difference between progressive and interlaced displays was made quite apparent to me back in my Amiga days. I'm not going back.
I could just as easily say that comparing the motor in a Mustang to the motor in a Corvette is pointless because it's two different cars and wouldn't be an apples to apples comparison.
An analogy that actually compares to what I said would be more like comparing the seat stitching between the Mustang and the Corvette, and saying that the Corvette won based on the seat stitching. Sure, the seat stitching is more comfortable in the Corvette, and it may make a big difference to people sitting in them, but it has nothing to do with how fast the Corvette and Mustang are, or what the Mustang is actually capable of.
The issues mentioned that I complained about have nothing to do with the format, but with how badly those specific Blu-Ray titles were put together. If a Blu-Ray disc is put together badly, why does that mean that the Blu-Ray format is worse than HD-DVD format? It doesn't. It means these specific Blu-Ray titles were put together worse than these specific HD-DVD titles, and that's ALL it means.
However, if the people putting out Blu-Ray discs keep putting out ones that aren't done as well as they could be, and, more importantly, aren't as well put together as their HD-DVD counterparts, then whether Blu-Ray itself is superior or not won't make any bit of difference, and rightfully so for MOVIE TITLES.
For data use, however, Blu-Ray is still the better technology, though I still wonder how blank disc costs per storage amount compared to HD-DVD. For that, we'll just have to wait and see.
They did mention that Blu-Ray has an irritating time lag when switching menus. Would that be format-related?
Possibly. I've seen DVD menus that were super fast, and some that were unbelievably slow.
This could be an issue with the player, that specific disc, or the format. I don't know if it's possible to tell yet which is which unless you have experience making menus for Blu-Ray.
Due to issues with image cropping, audio selection and supplemental features on the Blu-ray discs, the HD DVD versions win this first face-off.
Okay, so due to issues WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FORMATS THEMSELVES, HD-DVD won. This means nothing.
What are you talking about? Massachusetts has the best politicians money can buy!
Did you happen to notice the year that was published? Is this going to be relevant 3.5 years later?
...is for each state to split their electoral votes along the closest percentages of that state's popular vote. That way the smaller states get their inflated (per person) influence in the election, but the electoral vote would much more closely match the popular vote.
...for Elias. He's gonna go nuts over this.
Fry's. The local Fry's has a LOT more stuff along these lines than any Radio Shack you're ever likely to see.
Okay, so here's how I do it:
First start with one day: this is for a single page of static HTML with graphics.
For every buzzword the client uses, multiply by ten:
Can we have some Flash? (ten days)
And AJAX, too? (100 days)
etc.
Am I serious? You decide.
It's Still Fisher-Price. :(
IE7 won't be winning any 'best designed' awards. The UI still looks and works like a Fisher-Price toy, though at least the standard menu bar has returned. The customization of the UI is still a joke, though. C'mon, MS, you're almost there!
I do like the 'Quick Tabs' feature, though - pretty slick.
Coke. Outmynose.
Thanks for that.
Hey, at least you weren't eating Mentos. Coulda been fatal!
The article is a troll. Don't feed the trolls.
But what about the troll children? Won't anyone think of the troll CHILDREN?!
Actually in my Honda Civic the vinyl sounds mostly like a room full of cats regardless of the source material.
:)
Yeah, but that's probably the Civic you're hearing, not the vinyl.
What problems did you have with DD-WRT? I'm about to upgrade my v2.1 router with it, so I'd like to know what gotchas to watch out for.
So...someone gets your card with your biometric data on it, and the card gets hacked. Now they can make new cards with your info including your fingerprints on it. Fingerprint readers can be faked pretty easily these days, using all sorts of products available in the home. Once your fingerprints along with your ID are stolen, that's pretty much it. You can't change your fingerprints. With username/password or credit card info, if it gets stolen, you can simply change all that info or get a new card with a new #, but if your biometric data is stolen and copied/faked, then that's pretty much it - your identity is stolen forever. This is why fingerprints, specifically, are a horrific idea for security.
:(
Perhaps something like retinal scans are more secure, or typing patterns, or vein patterns and suchlike, the problem with biometric data will ALWAYS be, "What happens if this data is stolen and cracked?" Many of them will be hard or impossible to fake in person at a store with even a halfway alert shopkeeper, but when this info is to be used for purchases online, forget about it.
I think the days of remote payments that only work in certain ways are sure to come sooner rather than later. Why debit cards can be used as a credit card with just a signature is beyond me. Sure, it's convenient. But it's also convenient for someone to steal your debit card and use it as a credit card once they've learned your signature on the back of your card (and many places don't even bother to compare them, much less require some photo ID). And that's not even taking the hacking of the data on a debit card into account, assuming that's easily done (I don't know what kind of security the data in those strips have).
Intelligent ID theft monitoring services combined payment methods that REQUIRE some type of real authentication, and ID confirmation that can be changed if hacked seems to be the recommended course to me.
But then again, all of that doesn't fit into a nice soundbyte for the news media.
Apple's currently using 32-bit ones, since the 64-bit ones (Core 2 Duo as opposed to the current Core Duo) aren't out yet. The 64-bit ones start coming out in July.