Timelines and on-the-way can change overnight. Look what happened with Intel being forced to adopt AMD64 instruction sets after their own 64bit chips failed.
Regardless, a dual core, cooler-running Pentium M derivative would probably be nice as long as the power consumption was low enough.
A Macintel mini DVR is the worst idea I've ever heard. People are already using the Minis as Mythtv frontends, and with the powerpc they run cool enough and are quiet. However, put an Intel chip into something that size and you've got a nuclear power plant. It's going to be hot and noisy regardless of the Intel chip you use. Unless you use a seriously underclocked Pentium M it's pointless. The P4's are out of the question in this respect. Sure, from the outset it sounds like a good idea, but think about it from a practical standpoint and it suddenly becomes a bad idea. Plus, just how big of a hard drive can you mash into one of these things? Will full size IDE/SATA drives fit or only low profile laptop drives?
Yeah, Chinese dialects are probably the world's most fragmented. While the written language is a standard, the spoken language is nuts. There are around 10,000 dialects in Chinese, and about 3 or 4 major dialects (mandarin, etc.).
English is becoming very popular in Asia just as a bridge language. Chinese may not be able to speak to Taiwanese or Hong Kong people, but if everyone knows a little English, they can get by (and do business with Europe, consequently).
Didn't work too well with Apple and Motorola/IBM after awhile. Although, Motorola doesn't have the same presence as Intel or AMD in the PC market, and they really don't care how many powerpc chips are out there. They've got phones and other crap they make their real cash from. To me, it's always seemed like Motorola/IBM has treated PowerPC chips like a hobby.
Apple is going Intel, and Dell is going AMD. It's a snowball fight in hell day.:)
Well, both operators had cue points on the records. Also, analog delay can be added or subtracted during the conversation. It's not really impossible at all, in fact, it's how they used to make extremely important calls in WW2.
Densities are nothing, it was the physical elegance of the design itself that lended it to longevity. Hard drives store alot of data, but you can't just pick up a few things lying around the house to pull that data off.
I'll never forget the first time I saw a vinyl lp as a child. It was incredible for me to think that with a sewing needle taped to the end of a cone-shaped tunnel of paper, I could clearly hear the recording by spinning the lp and holding the needle in the groove.
It's nostalgic stuff like this that keeps records around (that and DJ's). Vinyl is much more physical and 'real' than a chunk of shiny plastic you throw in a mystery device (cd player) and have music coming out of your speakers. You can SEE how records work. Records were just an extension of Edison's wax (or in some cases metal) cylinders; same principles at work and just about identical mastering methods.
One fascinating fact that's been touched on before is that during WWII vinyl records were used for telephone encryption. An operator on one side of the connection played a specially recorded white noise record while the operator on the other end did the same. Both records were identical and perfectly synchronized. Then, people on either end would start talking. Using analog sound hardware, both operators could subtract the noise and have the voice transmission come through clearly on both ends (realtime post-processing of sorts)..anyone listening in, without the precious 'decoder' records and settings, would hear nothing but noise. Since the white noise recordings were more than just loops, you needed the entire record and not just a 4 second snippet to decode the audio. It may even hold up in this day and age, sort of an audio one-time-key.
The latest versions of VMWare workstation (betas) support 64bit virtual machines, even under 32bit hosts. Crazy right? Alot of it is deemed experimental but it's pretty stable in my experience. At home, under Windows XP-32, I can run VMWare workstation and have a vm running Kubuntu64. It's not slow either, but having an athlon64 3200 and 2 gigs of ram helps a little. Once it goes full screen I can't tell which is the host.
Digging up a floppy for SATA isn't unusual for 32-bit XP also, even OEM or SP2 cd's that have come out recently. Disasters? Wait for the Windows defenders to show up and explain for the millionth time that 'it's the drivers, stupid', but in this case they'll be right. Alot of companies are lucky to have regular XP drivers, let alone new 64-bit drivers.
No no no, that's still too easy to read. Here's the real Babelfish in action:
More consistent: during go click happens, wreck is outcome direction.
Predictable: Destruction weekly at one times, you bet.
Easy to manage: set things unusual for people, not here, on extra glass panes indeed.
I hope you're kidding here, because your post is fundamentally flawed.
US corporations are not concerned with smarter and harder workers, they're concerned with *cheaper* workers. Any moron in India can read scripts off a page to be SBC tech support, sure, but it's their super low hourly wage and state-funded telecom connectivity that won them contracts. What US companies love more than anything are devastated economies and broke-ass 3rd world nations full of people that will work for next to nothing. Nike was a big pioneer when it came to exploiting desperate third world labor, and other companies followed their lead.
I heard an interesting story from a Chinese friend of mine who immigrated here and is an LCD engineer. The company he used to work for here in the US would farm out his expertise to companies they did business with. If some mysterious control board fried on a machine, out he went. He can do component-level repair. On one occasion, he was sent to repair a machine, pulled the control board, and started diagnosing which chips and etc. needed to be replaced (i.e. desoldered, removed, replaced, resoldered). The boss at the plant approached him, incredulous, asking what the problem was. My friend replied that he'd isolated the problem to a handful of components and he was going to replace them. The boss laughed and said 'well hell we'll just order a new control board then'. My friend couldn't believe his ears. Why? Because in China, skilled labor is soooo cheap, that a guy sitting somewhere for 10 hours replacing components is actually cheaper than the value of the board itself. It's hard to understand from a US perspective just how valued skilled labor is here.
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The funny thing is, they'll still blow the doors off of 90% of production vehicles to this day. Dual overhead cams and an inline 8 cylinder for 265hp back in the 30's? Unbelievable..and they had hydraulic brakes to boot. First American win in Le Mans was in a Duesenberg also.
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Dammit, I just made a post with a ton of errors and keep wishing/. would get with the times and get an edit function.
Corrections: The Duesenberg brothers were born in Germany but built and designed cars in America. The actual cost for a Duesenberg in those days was closer to 250,000 USD. Needless to say, it's alot of money now, but it was a hell of a lot of money back then.
Next time I'll slow down and do a little fact checking first.:(
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Yep, it means extraordinary or highly sought after, one of a kind, etc. The term is derived from the legendary Duesenberg cars built in Germany in the late 20's, early 30's. It was so rare to own one, at one point in time they were considered almost mythical. Most people would never see one in person. The extreme price (about 1.5 million USD back in those days) along with the exclusivity (you had to be a VIP just to buy one regardless if you had the money) led to it's fame. Each car was built specifically for each owner, from measured dimensions of that owner. Each pedal, steering wheel height and depth, seat size, etc. was custom tailored to a specific person. In essence, it was the antipathy to the cookie-cutter cars that Ford and other manufacturers were turning out one after another on the assembly line.
Yeah, they have to provide battery backup for the digital phone services. It's part of some telecom law where they must provide x amount of uptime (6 9's or something) in order to be in the telephony market. I guess the fact that your fiber internet stays up is cool..coz you know...if the power goes out you can still surf on your laptop.
CAT5 outdoors? Madness. The installation would be more like..wire a fiber black box to the side of your house, split the connection inside the box, and have a cat6/cat5 line coming directly out of the back of the box, through a hole in the wall, and into the house.
Not to mention that the black box will probably need a power source. I did a few digital phone installs, which are a huge hassle, and they have small UPS's that require power, preferably nearby. Usually ended up installing the whole shebang on the outside wall of a garage, where a power outlet was available on the other side of the wall (inside the garage).
Thanks to everyone who replied, and a great big 'kiss my ass' to the moderators who gave me a -3 flamebait for the parent post. I already said at the bottom I wasn't trolling and wanted some real answers from people that know better.
Now, go ahead and waste the rest of your mod points modding this one flamebait.:p
That's fascinating, as the majority of Windows defenders here blame bluescreens on poor drivers and badly written applications. If Microsoft themselves are certifying the drivers and putting them through 'very rigorous driver tests', why the blue screens? Or is it that un-certified drivers are to blame? In my experience, there are 2 kinds of Linux drivers for any piece of hardware...ones that work, and ones that don't. I have yet to see any half-assed, barely working drivers in Linux thus far. Windows, OTOH, has always had flaky drivers. How can it be explained?
Not trolling, just wanting some enlightenment here.
That's assuming that you knew it was coming up and scheduled a recording in advance. Most of the time I know what I want to watch but occasionally I start watching a new show and want to see the back episodes of it.
I'm glad my MythTV box is working predictably now. I could get some.99c episodes, record them, then have the best of both worlds.
Too bad there's not a damn thing on The Big Three I'd pay money to watch. Also if you're paying for it, you should get it uncut with no commercials. I haven't read anything on that yet.
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That sounds like so much drama in the LBC, it must be hard to be Snoop D O double g.
Timelines and on-the-way can change overnight. Look what happened with Intel being forced to adopt AMD64 instruction sets after their own 64bit chips failed.
Regardless, a dual core, cooler-running Pentium M derivative would probably be nice as long as the power consumption was low enough.
A Macintel mini DVR is the worst idea I've ever heard. People are already using the Minis as Mythtv frontends, and with the powerpc they run cool enough and are quiet. However, put an Intel chip into something that size and you've got a nuclear power plant. It's going to be hot and noisy regardless of the Intel chip you use. Unless you use a seriously underclocked Pentium M it's pointless. The P4's are out of the question in this respect. Sure, from the outset it sounds like a good idea, but think about it from a practical standpoint and it suddenly becomes a bad idea. Plus, just how big of a hard drive can you mash into one of these things? Will full size IDE/SATA drives fit or only low profile laptop drives?
Yeah, Chinese dialects are probably the world's most fragmented. While the written language is a standard, the spoken language is nuts. There are around 10,000 dialects in Chinese, and about 3 or 4 major dialects (mandarin, etc.).
English is becoming very popular in Asia just as a bridge language. Chinese may not be able to speak to Taiwanese or Hong Kong people, but if everyone knows a little English, they can get by (and do business with Europe, consequently).
Didn't work too well with Apple and Motorola/IBM after awhile. Although, Motorola doesn't have the same presence as Intel or AMD in the PC market, and they really don't care how many powerpc chips are out there. They've got phones and other crap they make their real cash from. To me, it's always seemed like Motorola/IBM has treated PowerPC chips like a hobby.
:)
Apple is going Intel, and Dell is going AMD. It's a snowball fight in hell day.
Doh! Forgot the most important link, which backs up my original post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambler
That's what the primitive vinyl record system was called. And you're right, according to the article, syncing the records was a pain in the ass.
Well, both operators had cue points on the records. Also, analog delay can be added or subtracted during the conversation. It's not really impossible at all, in fact, it's how they used to make extremely important calls in WW2.
Now, the *real* fun stuff was the SIGSALY. This site http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00020.cfm details it nicely, and the wiki here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY is also an interesting read.
Densities are nothing, it was the physical elegance of the design itself that lended it to longevity. Hard drives store alot of data, but you can't just pick up a few things lying around the house to pull that data off.
I'll never forget the first time I saw a vinyl lp as a child. It was incredible for me to think that with a sewing needle taped to the end of a cone-shaped tunnel of paper, I could clearly hear the recording by spinning the lp and holding the needle in the groove.
It's nostalgic stuff like this that keeps records around (that and DJ's). Vinyl is much more physical and 'real' than a chunk of shiny plastic you throw in a mystery device (cd player) and have music coming out of your speakers. You can SEE how records work. Records were just an extension of Edison's wax (or in some cases metal) cylinders; same principles at work and just about identical mastering methods.
One fascinating fact that's been touched on before is that during WWII vinyl records were used for telephone encryption. An operator on one side of the connection played a specially recorded white noise record while the operator on the other end did the same. Both records were identical and perfectly synchronized. Then, people on either end would start talking. Using analog sound hardware, both operators could subtract the noise and have the voice transmission come through clearly on both ends (realtime post-processing of sorts)..anyone listening in, without the precious 'decoder' records and settings, would hear nothing but noise. Since the white noise recordings were more than just loops, you needed the entire record and not just a 4 second snippet to decode the audio. It may even hold up in this day and age, sort of an audio one-time-key.
I gotcha now, I have always heard Intel refer to the instruction set as EMT64, that threw me off. :)
The latest versions of VMWare workstation (betas) support 64bit virtual machines, even under 32bit hosts. Crazy right? Alot of it is deemed experimental but it's pretty stable in my experience. At home, under Windows XP-32, I can run VMWare workstation and have a vm running Kubuntu64. It's not slow either, but having an athlon64 3200 and 2 gigs of ram helps a little. Once it goes full screen I can't tell which is the host.
"both Intel and AMD have deployed AMD64 accross their entire desktop and server product lines, IIRC."
The subject says it all. Does Intel run AMD64 chips now? That'd be funny actually.
Digging up a floppy for SATA isn't unusual for 32-bit XP also, even OEM or SP2 cd's that have come out recently. Disasters? Wait for the Windows defenders to show up and explain for the millionth time that 'it's the drivers, stupid', but in this case they'll be right. Alot of companies are lucky to have regular XP drivers, let alone new 64-bit drivers.
No no no, that's still too easy to read. Here's the real Babelfish in action:
More consistent: during go click happens, wreck is outcome direction.
Predictable: Destruction weekly at one times, you bet.
Easy to manage: set things unusual for people, not here, on extra glass panes indeed.
Come on dude, we all watched Spielberg's E.T. We know how things turn out when scientists get involved!
I hope you're kidding here, because your post is fundamentally flawed.
US corporations are not concerned with smarter and harder workers, they're concerned with *cheaper* workers. Any moron in India can read scripts off a page to be SBC tech support, sure, but it's their super low hourly wage and state-funded telecom connectivity that won them contracts. What US companies love more than anything are devastated economies and broke-ass 3rd world nations full of people that will work for next to nothing. Nike was a big pioneer when it came to exploiting desperate third world labor, and other companies followed their lead.
I heard an interesting story from a Chinese friend of mine who immigrated here and is an LCD engineer. The company he used to work for here in the US would farm out his expertise to companies they did business with. If some mysterious control board fried on a machine, out he went. He can do component-level repair. On one occasion, he was sent to repair a machine, pulled the control board, and started diagnosing which chips and etc. needed to be replaced (i.e. desoldered, removed, replaced, resoldered). The boss at the plant approached him, incredulous, asking what the problem was. My friend replied that he'd isolated the problem to a handful of components and he was going to replace them. The boss laughed and said 'well hell we'll just order a new control board then'. My friend couldn't believe his ears. Why? Because in China, skilled labor is soooo cheap, that a guy sitting somewhere for 10 hours replacing components is actually cheaper than the value of the board itself. It's hard to understand from a US perspective just how valued skilled labor is here.
The funny thing is, they'll still blow the doors off of 90% of production vehicles to this day. Dual overhead cams and an inline 8 cylinder for 265hp back in the 30's? Unbelievable..and they had hydraulic brakes to boot. First American win in Le Mans was in a Duesenberg also.
Dammit, I just made a post with a ton of errors and keep wishing /. would get with the times and get an edit function.
:(
Corrections: The Duesenberg brothers were born in Germany but built and designed cars in America. The actual cost for a Duesenberg in those days was closer to 250,000 USD. Needless to say, it's alot of money now, but it was a hell of a lot of money back then.
Next time I'll slow down and do a little fact checking first.
Yep, it means extraordinary or highly sought after, one of a kind, etc. The term is derived from the legendary Duesenberg cars built in Germany in the late 20's, early 30's. It was so rare to own one, at one point in time they were considered almost mythical. Most people would never see one in person. The extreme price (about 1.5 million USD back in those days) along with the exclusivity (you had to be a VIP just to buy one regardless if you had the money) led to it's fame. Each car was built specifically for each owner, from measured dimensions of that owner. Each pedal, steering wheel height and depth, seat size, etc. was custom tailored to a specific person. In essence, it was the antipathy to the cookie-cutter cars that Ford and other manufacturers were turning out one after another on the assembly line.
Yeah, they have to provide battery backup for the digital phone services. It's part of some telecom law where they must provide x amount of uptime (6 9's or something) in order to be in the telephony market. I guess the fact that your fiber internet stays up is cool..coz you know...if the power goes out you can still surf on your laptop.
CAT5 outdoors? Madness. The installation would be more like..wire a fiber black box to the side of your house, split the connection inside the box, and have a cat6/cat5 line coming directly out of the back of the box, through a hole in the wall, and into the house.
Not to mention that the black box will probably need a power source. I did a few digital phone installs, which are a huge hassle, and they have small UPS's that require power, preferably nearby. Usually ended up installing the whole shebang on the outside wall of a garage, where a power outlet was available on the other side of the wall (inside the garage).
Bah, don't bother replying to an obvious troll here.
The parent poster is the sysadmin of his parent's basement.
Thanks to everyone who replied, and a great big 'kiss my ass' to the moderators who gave me a -3 flamebait for the parent post. I already said at the bottom I wasn't trolling and wanted some real answers from people that know better.
:p
Now, go ahead and waste the rest of your mod points modding this one flamebait.
That's fascinating, as the majority of Windows defenders here blame bluescreens on poor drivers and badly written applications. If Microsoft themselves are certifying the drivers and putting them through 'very rigorous driver tests', why the blue screens? Or is it that un-certified drivers are to blame? In my experience, there are 2 kinds of Linux drivers for any piece of hardware...ones that work, and ones that don't. I have yet to see any half-assed, barely working drivers in Linux thus far. Windows, OTOH, has always had flaky drivers. How can it be explained?
Not trolling, just wanting some enlightenment here.
That's assuming that you knew it was coming up and scheduled a recording in advance. Most of the time I know what I want to watch but occasionally I start watching a new show and want to see the back episodes of it.
I'm glad my MythTV box is working predictably now. I could get some .99c episodes, record them, then have the best of both worlds.
Too bad there's not a damn thing on The Big Three I'd pay money to watch. Also if you're paying for it, you should get it uncut with no commercials. I haven't read anything on that yet.