I'll be sad to see CRTs finally become extinct. Although LCD and plasma screens have come a long way in the last few years, there's nothing like a good CRT when picture quality really matters, and this news of Sony cutting back production brings back nostalgic memories of the old days.
Many people today don't realize how far CRT TVs have come in quality and usability. I got my first TV set, a 19" Admiral B&W set, for my 8th birthday back in the 1960s. Admiral was one of the big brands back then, along with such former household names as Philco, Zenith, and Packard Bell. Japanese TVs were as rare as Japanese cars.
My TV was a tube set, of course. Not just the CRT itself, but all of the active circuit elements were tubes. If you think today's CRTs generate heat, then you've never seen a tube set--they're in a totally different league. I don't miss the heat, but back then TVs had a warm, satisfying orange glow eminating from the rear of the set, and a peculiar smell as well.
Tuners were not digital PLL back then either. They were analog with click stops for the VHF channels and a fine tuning ring around the main tuning dial to make fine adjustments. UHF tuners didn't even have click stops--you tuned until you found the station you wanted--and the channel numbers on the dial sometimes weren't even close.
Then there were the controls I haven't seen on a TV in 30 years--horizontal and vertical hold. These were used to prevent the picture from "jumping" vertically and smearing out horizontally. The settings would drift, requiring frequent readjustment, and a trip across the room, as remotes were nonexistant.
When a TV broke down back then, fixing it was an adventure. You took the back off the TV and removed all the tubes and took them down to the supermarket or drugstore and plugged them into a tube tester. You'd look up the settings for the particular tube in a book, set a bunch of dial settings, and then push the "test" button. If the meter needle moved into the green, the tube was OK. After buying replacements for the bad tubes, you went home and plugged them all back in and hoped everything was fixed. In my experience, replacing tubes fixed 90% of all TV problems.
It's not broke, but it also doesn't support HDTV resolutions, which is one of the reasons for the new formats. You may not have HDTV, but I do and I want to watch movies in something other than lo-res 480p. I want 1080p, not a format designed in 1950.
Did you protest the introduction of DVDs so that you wouldn't have to replace your VHS tape collection?
Microsoft has been saying for some time now that it licenses XP Pro by socket, not core. So a system with two dual-core Xeons with hyperthreading turned on still counts as only two sockets.
Every other distro I've tried--including SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake and Knoppix--were somehow broken out of the box (usually, a key piece of hardware wasn't recognized), and I could never find an easy solution.
This illustrates the reason why Linux will never succeed on the desktop. There are too many distros out there dissipating all of the development resources in dozens of different directions. It all boils down to a strong "not invented here" outlook: if something doesn't work the way someone thinks it should, do they work with the group to fix it or improve it? Hello no! They start their own distro to do it their way.
The real concern of much of local LE and other public safety was the loss of ham radio and other shortwave regional backup systems should their microwave links fail in a disaster.
During a disaster the power lines would likely be down, so this really isn't an issue. If the lines are not down, and interference is an issue, then the emergency management agencies could ask (or order) the utilities to turn off BPL for the duration of the emergency.
Living as I do at the base of Mt. Diablo, I hope this discovery doesn't result in a stupid knee-jerk reaction such as banning hiking and mt. biking on the mountain (which is a state park) in order to "preserve" this weed.
You're a fool. I live in China, and people routinely talk about how corrupt the CCP is, or how much Hu or Jiang was/is an idiot, and get this, they don't get thrown into prison!
If that's the case, then why are you posting as an ananymous coward? Why not use your real Slashdot user ID?
Charles Lindbergh was a vehement anti-Semite and a Nazi symphathizer, so you might want to be even more careful about who you put the mantle of "hero" on.
The U.S. government officially put the mantle of "hero" on Lindbergh by awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor for his trans-Atlantic flight.
Here's the citation:
For displaying heroic courage and skill as a navigator, at the risk of his life, by his nonstop flight in his airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York City to Paris, France, 20-21 May 1927, by which Capt. Lindbergh not only achieved the greatest individual triumph of any American citizen but demonstrated that travel across the ocean by aircraft was possible.
In contrast, though, we remember Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin more than we remember all the folks at Mission Control or all the engineers at NASA, Grumman, Bell, Lockheed, Delco, etc. that made Apollo 11 possible.
Yeah, but Armstrong and Aldrin (and Collins) were the guys with their asses on the line during the mission. If anything went wrong, they were the ones who might have paid with their lives.
You may wish to use it to only refer to people who have done something risky, but that is not the entire meaning of the word.
It may not be the entire meaning of the word, but it is certainly the meaning that has stood the test of time--except perhaps in the current Age of the Wimp where people such as sports stars, movie stars, and rappers are considered heroes.
Real heros are people such as Alan Shepard, Charles Lindbergh, and the men who participated in the Normany landings in 1944. To call people such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Shaquille O'Neil "heroes" is an insult to all of the true heroes out there.
Someone who accomplishes something important at great risk to his own life is a hero, not someone who plods along for years at a job no matter how important his contributions.
Which explains why they can have such fatties in the US; we just don't have space for 'em. Either that or it's the food over here...
I spent the last two weeks in the UK and he's absolutely right. The people there are nowhere near as fat as the people here in the U.S. Sure, I saw plenty of what I'd describe as chubby people in the UK, but very few of the huge lard asses we have so many of in this country.
I doubt it's the food, either, which seems to consist largely of fried stuff like fish and chips, and meat pies, puddings, etc.
during a WindowsXP install/setup, the user is asked to create additional user accounts. all those accounts (correct me if i'm wrong) have admin privledges (or at least enough to do some damage). also, i don't ever remember being prompted to set an admin password, meaning no pw required to log in as admin.
XP displays a set of radio buttons to select what privileges to assign new users. "Administrator" is the default, but it's not hard to click on one of the other buttons.
contrast that to a linux install/setup, where you have to set a root password during install (at least as far as i've ever seen) and users don't have much in the way of privledges outside of their own home directory.
Many Linux setup/install programs don't require you to create any users other than root, and some will even allow you to assign a null password to the root acount.
They've put the original concept of copyright on hold, and no one knows if politicians will be brave enough and responsible enough to the public good to press "play" again.
This is a prime example of politicians bowing to the monied special interests rather than paying attention to the wants and needs of their constituents.
I don't forsee this ever changing as long as the primary goal of a politician is to get re-elected and the best way to ensure that is through campaign contributions from special interest groups (e.g. the RIAA and MPAA).
Tiger will be 32 bit with the ability to do better 64 bit addressing. It can do it now, just they are adding more 64 bit abilities to Tiger over Panther. So it is still a 32 bit base I believe.
How does this compare to what Microsoft's doing in Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition? Are they taking the same approach of leaving most things 32-bit and just adding 64-bit memory addressing for applications that need it, or are they closer to having a fully 64-bit system?
I understand $500 is a new low price for a Mac, but is it so low that they couldn't include a keyboard and a mouse?
The keyboard and mouse aren't what I worry about--the amount of RAM is. The default configuration ships with 256MB. I know from experience that Mac OS X runs like a dog in this amount of RAM. It really needs 512MB to run well, especially on a 1.25GHz (or 1.42) G4.
This thing is worthless for those of us who like classical music, much of which consists of larger, multiple movement works. Playing these in random order will be a complete mess.
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That's the point. In my house there are three people and 14 devices that have IP addresses. That's almost a 5:1 ratio.
Agreed. This is yet another case of something (NAT) that people have gotten so used to that they no longer see it as the monumental hack it really is.
I, for one, will leave NAT for dead as soon as IPv6 becomes viable. Good riddance.
This is like a bank robber forcing a bank teller to sign a note at gunpoint saying "...by signing this note the bank agrees not to prosecute me."
Right. And 99.5% of the population didn't need more than 640K of RAM, or needs to drive faster than 65 MPH, etc.
Stop engineering things to the lowest common denominator and do it right. For once. Please.
"I do not believe that this generation of Americans is willing to resign itself to going to bed each night by the light of a Communist moon".
Maybe LBJ's words still ring true to the current generation...
I'll be sad to see CRTs finally become extinct. Although LCD and plasma screens have come a long way in the last few years, there's nothing like a good CRT when picture quality really matters, and this news of Sony cutting back production brings back nostalgic memories of the old days.
Many people today don't realize how far CRT TVs have come in quality and usability. I got my first TV set, a 19" Admiral B&W set, for my 8th birthday back in the 1960s. Admiral was one of the big brands back then, along with such former household names as Philco, Zenith, and Packard Bell. Japanese TVs were as rare as Japanese cars.
My TV was a tube set, of course. Not just the CRT itself, but all of the active circuit elements were tubes. If you think today's CRTs generate heat, then you've never seen a tube set--they're in a totally different league. I don't miss the heat, but back then TVs had a warm, satisfying orange glow eminating from the rear of the set, and a peculiar smell as well.
Tuners were not digital PLL back then either. They were analog with click stops for the VHF channels and a fine tuning ring around the main tuning dial to make fine adjustments. UHF tuners didn't even have click stops--you tuned until you found the station you wanted--and the channel numbers on the dial sometimes weren't even close.
Then there were the controls I haven't seen on a TV in 30 years--horizontal and vertical hold. These were used to prevent the picture from "jumping" vertically and smearing out horizontally. The settings would drift, requiring frequent readjustment, and a trip across the room, as remotes were nonexistant.
When a TV broke down back then, fixing it was an adventure. You took the back off the TV and removed all the tubes and took them down to the supermarket or drugstore and plugged them into a tube tester. You'd look up the settings for the particular tube in a book, set a bunch of dial settings, and then push the "test" button. If the meter needle moved into the green, the tube was OK. After buying replacements for the bad tubes, you went home and plugged them all back in and hoped everything was fixed. In my experience, replacing tubes fixed 90% of all TV problems.
Ah, the good old days!
It's not broke, but it also doesn't support HDTV resolutions, which is one of the reasons for the new formats. You may not have HDTV, but I do and I want to watch movies in something other than lo-res 480p. I want 1080p, not a format designed in 1950.
Did you protest the introduction of DVDs so that you wouldn't have to replace your VHS tape collection?
Microsoft has been saying for some time now that it licenses XP Pro by socket, not core. So a system with two dual-core Xeons with hyperthreading turned on still counts as only two sockets.
Makes me wonder if the /. editors even read /.
This illustrates the reason why Linux will never succeed on the desktop. There are too many distros out there dissipating all of the development resources in dozens of different directions. It all boils down to a strong "not invented here" outlook: if something doesn't work the way someone thinks it should, do they work with the group to fix it or improve it? Hello no! They start their own distro to do it their way.
The real concern of much of local LE and other public safety was the loss of ham radio and other shortwave regional backup systems should their microwave links fail in a disaster.
During a disaster the power lines would likely be down, so this really isn't an issue. If the lines are not down, and interference is an issue, then the emergency management agencies could ask (or order) the utilities to turn off BPL for the duration of the emergency.
Living as I do at the base of Mt. Diablo, I hope this discovery doesn't result in a stupid knee-jerk reaction such as banning hiking and mt. biking on the mountain (which is a state park) in order to "preserve" this weed.
If that's the case, then why are you posting as an ananymous coward? Why not use your real Slashdot user ID?
The U.S. government officially put the mantle of "hero" on Lindbergh by awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor for his trans-Atlantic flight.
Here's the citation:
For displaying heroic courage and skill as a navigator, at the risk of his life, by his nonstop flight in his airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York City to Paris, France, 20-21 May 1927, by which Capt. Lindbergh not only achieved the greatest individual triumph of any American citizen but demonstrated that travel across the ocean by aircraft was possible.
Yeah, but Armstrong and Aldrin (and Collins) were the guys with their asses on the line during the mission. If anything went wrong, they were the ones who might have paid with their lives.
No. Someone who dedicates their life to helping others may be praiseworthy, but they're not a hero.
It may not be the entire meaning of the word, but it is certainly the meaning that has stood the test of time--except perhaps in the current Age of the Wimp where people such as sports stars, movie stars, and rappers are considered heroes.
Real heros are people such as Alan Shepard, Charles Lindbergh, and the men who participated in the Normany landings in 1944. To call people such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Shaquille O'Neil "heroes" is an insult to all of the true heroes out there.
Someone who accomplishes something important at great risk to his own life is a hero, not someone who plods along for years at a job no matter how important his contributions.
I spent the last two weeks in the UK and he's absolutely right. The people there are nowhere near as fat as the people here in the U.S. Sure, I saw plenty of what I'd describe as chubby people in the UK, but very few of the huge lard asses we have so many of in this country.
I doubt it's the food, either, which seems to consist largely of fried stuff like fish and chips, and meat pies, puddings, etc.
Tell that to Yahoo!, among others, who have been using FreeBSD in large production environments for years.
XP displays a set of radio buttons to select what privileges to assign new users. "Administrator" is the default, but it's not hard to click on one of the other buttons.
contrast that to a linux install/setup, where you have to set a root password during install (at least as far as i've ever seen) and users don't have much in the way of privledges outside of their own home directory.
Many Linux setup/install programs don't require you to create any users other than root, and some will even allow you to assign a null password to the root acount.
This is a prime example of politicians bowing to the monied special interests rather than paying attention to the wants and needs of their constituents.
I don't forsee this ever changing as long as the primary goal of a politician is to get re-elected and the best way to ensure that is through campaign contributions from special interest groups (e.g. the RIAA and MPAA).
How does this compare to what Microsoft's doing in Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition? Are they taking the same approach of leaving most things 32-bit and just adding 64-bit memory addressing for applications that need it, or are they closer to having a fully 64-bit system?
The keyboard and mouse aren't what I worry about--the amount of RAM is. The default configuration ships with 256MB. I know from experience that Mac OS X runs like a dog in this amount of RAM. It really needs 512MB to run well, especially on a 1.25GHz (or 1.42) G4.
This thing is worthless for those of us who like classical music, much of which consists of larger, multiple movement works. Playing these in random order will be a complete mess.