I have a Mitsubishi HD RPTV. YOWZA! When watching HD content it is ASTOUNDING. Here is a metaphor you may be able to understand. It's like the difference between looking at an old, crusty, worn-out shadowmask CRT monitor then using an LCD display. You can see individual blades of grass in the background. Like most things when I think of the bourgeoisie, I cannot understand why people even put up with things like VHS and composite video when we have DVD and Component/DVI. Qui sais?
Like most advances, your best bet is to go with one new technology at a time. Meaning when getting an HDTV you should buy an older-technology option first like CRT or RP instead of also coupling the new technologies of Plasma or LCD (in reference to TV).
Or is this like [insert term here]? I don't know what [term] is, but I'll know it when I see it.
Some things cannot be explained but must be experienced. Most emotions work this way. You can explain what happens during a certain emotion but how would you describe the emotionally response during awe, ecstasy, humility?
It's like trying to describe "blue". It's an experience. You'll know it when you have it.
Episode II stunk. Clean and simple. However, the only thing I ever see people use to complain about Episode I is Jar Jar. Like, somehow the movie wasn't any good because some people were annoyed with Jar Jar, as if that little laughing Henson-esque lapdog Jabba had was so much different. I though Jar Jar was a little over-the-top but I thought Episode I was really good. I paid to see it 3 times in the theatre.
but it's reasonable to argue that if another company in the same sector (computer sales) infringes on a trademark they claim, hurting their search ranking in the process, then they've been injured by trademark infringement.
Assuming that the method for search engines page ranking remains static, which it does not. I don't think you can base a lawsuit around what another, non-partner, unrelated company will or won't do (the unrelated company being Google). Google doesn't guarantee returning any specific results unless you pay them for ad links.
I think the real issue is that over the last year or so, Tiger Direct has become more and more irrelevant as other bargain stores enter the market, and they are hurting financially.
A magazine ran an article when MacWeek turned into eWeek. I think it was probably MacWorld, who knows. The article talked about why Macintosh-only businesses become mixed Windows and Mac businesses.
The gist of the article was if a Mac-only business was turning mixed you could be sure they were having financial troubles and it was a last-ditch effort to begin to court Windows users. The problem is Windows users have never heard of you and if they have heard of you, they think you are Mac only. Mac users are put off because they expect first-in-class service and usually get the back burner suddenly because these businesses do not know how to appeal to Windows users and therefore are putting all their resources into that. The end result? The company tanks.
When MacWeek went eWeek there was maybe a few issues before it went web-only. Hmm, yes. Looks like the same sort of idea with TigerDirect.
I have a lot of ram 1.5 gig, and manipulate images in photoshop 7. Without core image acceleration its very good, especially with some of my larger images which can by 100 megs each.
Neat, when did Photoshop 7 get real-time, non-destructive effects? I don't even have them in Photoshop 8.
My understanding of core image api is if the machine can't send the operations to the unsupported video card it just uses the main processor. minis have 1.2-1.4 ghz so they should work prety well for any image task thrown at it.
All CoreImage units are written to take advantage of the new QuartzExtreme layer. About three quarters of those are written to degrade to AltiVec if you don't have a supported GPU. About a third of the CoreImage units run fine under software rendering. If you have a Mac with a G4 that supports QuartzExtreme but doesn't have a GPU for CoreImage you'll only be missing out on a few effects. Most notably the ripple effect.
This Longhorn beta might looks a lot like Windows XP, but Microsoft is probably saving the cool GUI changes until the last beta or RTM milestone. Betas of earlier Windows version did the same thing.
That just goes to show what a bolted on mess the GUI on Windows is if they can wait until the last beta to put it in.
give a four year old some marker pens (primary colours) and ask them do draw a UI.
Except if you matte and frame a four-year-old's drawings it actually looks like art. My flat panel already looks like a picture frame and it didn't help the screenshots any.
the UI in the betas right now is only temporary, and that they don't expect the new one to show up until 2006.
Totally bizarre. In the Apple world they sketch out what they want to do and then get it to work. Usually the interface is the first thing done. I don't understand how you could get the "under the hood" functions in order without being able to test them reliably with a GUI.
Actually, this is a case of Microsoft stealing yet another of Apple's features... "the sue the blogger for posting pictures" feature.
Um, actually Apple was suing the blogger for releasing a private beta of the software. Apple usually waits a few days before asking rumour sites to take down photos, of course it is the usual nasty cease and desist.
Last time I checked, those Virgin Moble and TracPhone cards were very expensive, over a dime a minute. If you talk 10 minutes a day, every day, that is 300 minutes a month, or $30 bucks in pre-paid. Many monthly plans start at $30 a month and give closer to 1000 minutes.
I had a service plan with Cingular that looked pretty good to me, the price per minutes was the cheapest of all their plans (which was odd that the plan with more minutes was higher cost per minute).
I had rollover madness. I had so many minutes at the end of my first year I could have left my phone on for a month straight. You lose your minutes after a year, which they don't tell you that. You lose ALL your minutes, not just the ones that are a year old.
Now I prepay. It's 35 cents during the day and 10 after 7pm until 7am. Texting is 5 cents (to send a receive which is a joke because someone could "text-bomb" you and eat all your money). It's not that great but it is actually working out to be cheaper. Last month I didn't use my cell phone, I didn't have to pay anything.
I agree that prepay is still too expensive. The concept of locking people into plans is starting to fade away but I like the ability of being able to go from month to month on whoever has the cheapest prepay and just swap out my SIM and forward my landline.
Apple...will be switching to Intel-compatible chips this very year.
That rumour has been circulating since 1993 when Apple was readying the PowerMacs. If anything, they'd bring AMD in to pick up the slack of IBM and Motorolla.
Like the floppy disk, Apple's opinion now is that the POTS modem is sufficiently obsolete to remove it entirely and free up space inside the box, rather than leave it in and lose the $10 OEM or whatever it actually costs them.
Clearly you're used to the PC world where they send you off into the wilds of the internet with only a "Beware of the Malware!"
Not only is it the possibly $10 OEM that they are deducting from a million machines, it's the thousands of dollars in support they will spend not only repairing potentially wonky modems but also fielding tech support calls over dialing into the internet, connection issues once dialed-in, etc. The simpler you can make a machine the fewer dollars spent on tech support.
Also, are they still stuck on PCI-X? Is Apple going to move to PCI-Express anytime soon or will they be left behind for the time being?
PCI-X and PCI express are targeted to different markets. PCI-X is seeing a lot of use in servers and workstations which is where Apple wants to be hardware-wise with it's pro machines. PCI express is being pushed as a replacement for AGP and has not found much support outside of that. The 8x AGP slot on the G5s is more than sufficient for today's and tomorrow's graphics cards.
Apple will go where the cards are. When they introduced the Blue & White G3 they used a 66MHz PCI graphics card which was faster than AGP 2x. When AGP 4x came out and ATI and Nvidia were not making all their cards for 66MHz PCI, Apple added AGP.
The travesty is that Apple has not gone to PCI-X 2. Oh well, I've had a G5 for over a year and I have yet to find anything for PCI-X but fibre channel cards.
ISPs don't want to take responsibility. Well, that's not fair. Local/small ISPs are very good at this, while large ISPs don't seem to care what their users are doing.
Most ISPs do not want to spend the resources to fix what is essentially your problem. As long as the user is not doing anything illegal which would make the ISP liable it's not really their concern.
ISPs are not in the business of making sure your servers are safe.
If we had a king, he'd have simply have killed all his political opponents.
Who is to say that he won't declare himself king? If I believed in that sort of thing it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to consider Dubya a candidate for the antichrist according to John's Revelation.
I have plenty of ram as it is. What the hell am I gonna do with 2gigs?
Officially Apple supports 8 gig in the G5, but that's just because there was only 1 gig sticks when it came out. I've heard anecdotal evidence that it actually supports 2 gig sticks. It's rumoured that the memory controller can actually address 32 gig when 4 gig sticks come out if they make 4 gig sticks for PC 3200.
I'd love to be able to have even 8 gig in my G5 just to stop all the hard disk usage when rendering DVD video.
his will be tough thing to avoid. I've ready quite a few Star Wars novels in my day and all of them have noteable characters from the movies sprinkled throughout the plotlines.
A friend let me borrow the first two seasons of Voyager on DVD and I fail to understand why a "spinoff" that doesn't have any characters from the main franchise makes a difference in the quality of the story.
Microsoft estimates the retraining and lost productivity costs of upgrading from one version of Windows to a newer one at about $2000 per seat. So I'd estimate the costs of switching users to Linux is at least that.
Except that when switching from one version of Windows to the next you have to learn what's different and what's not, what now behaves different and what is no longer there or is now broken. All this while assuming that because it's still Windows, it shouldn't be difficult to figure out.
I remember, up until Window 2000 being able to easily change printer setting because it was on the Start Menu. I was having problem printing from my Mac to a shared printer in Windows (it worked and then it didn't). OK, so I go to the XP machine and I can't find anything on the Start Menu for the printer. No problem, I know that you can get to it in Control Panels. Where the hell has Control Panels gone? *sigh* Ok, now I found it. So now I open the printer interface. Can you believe there's no new features added but now the whole interface for something as simple as printing is so obfuscated by Microsoft's insistence that everything needs to be a web interface that it takes me another 10 minutes wrestling with where all the options have gone because they're not in a normal window but a damn web page.
I can't believe PC users put up with so much, I really feel bad for them sometimes. I know people think Linux may be difficult to use but I use GNOME on my Mac for GiMP, AMAYA and my obsession with Nautilus and I didn't have anywhere near the nightmare trying to get it to behave like I have with XP.
It's like, shut the hell up with the popups and the obfuscation already, the interface is giving me shingles.
why wouldn't you think that Windows, which is produced by a completely market-oriented company, would be shaped by the same influences? If people won't buy it, Microsoft will change it
You're adorable, totally cute...A/S/L?
Last time I checked, you couldn't walk into Best Buy or Frys or Circuit City or CompUSA or........and buy a PC without Windows on it. The only way (which is happening) to tell MS that you don't like Windows is to buy a Mac. The.5-1% of PCs sold that are built for Linux and do not have an MS OS license attached to them is a big threat to MS for sure.
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I have a Mitsubishi HD RPTV. YOWZA! When watching HD content it is ASTOUNDING. Here is a metaphor you may be able to understand. It's like the difference between looking at an old, crusty, worn-out shadowmask CRT monitor then using an LCD display. You can see individual blades of grass in the background. Like most things when I think of the bourgeoisie, I cannot understand why people even put up with things like VHS and composite video when we have DVD and Component/DVI. Qui sais?
Like most advances, your best bet is to go with one new technology at a time. Meaning when getting an HDTV you should buy an older-technology option first like CRT or RP instead of also coupling the new technologies of Plasma or LCD (in reference to TV).
Some things cannot be explained but must be experienced. Most emotions work this way. You can explain what happens during a certain emotion but how would you describe the emotionally response during awe, ecstasy, humility?
It's like trying to describe "blue". It's an experience. You'll know it when you have it.
Episode II stunk. Clean and simple. However, the only thing I ever see people use to complain about Episode I is Jar Jar. Like, somehow the movie wasn't any good because some people were annoyed with Jar Jar, as if that little laughing Henson-esque lapdog Jabba had was so much different. I though Jar Jar was a little over-the-top but I thought Episode I was really good. I paid to see it 3 times in the theatre.
Except Apple's trademark is "Apple Computer". Not "Apple". Oh, and the apple with a bite out of it is trademarked, too.
Assuming that the method for search engines page ranking remains static, which it does not. I don't think you can base a lawsuit around what another, non-partner, unrelated company will or won't do (the unrelated company being Google). Google doesn't guarantee returning any specific results unless you pay them for ad links.
A magazine ran an article when MacWeek turned into eWeek. I think it was probably MacWorld, who knows. The article talked about why Macintosh-only businesses become mixed Windows and Mac businesses.
The gist of the article was if a Mac-only business was turning mixed you could be sure they were having financial troubles and it was a last-ditch effort to begin to court Windows users. The problem is Windows users have never heard of you and if they have heard of you, they think you are Mac only. Mac users are put off because they expect first-in-class service and usually get the back burner suddenly because these businesses do not know how to appeal to Windows users and therefore are putting all their resources into that. The end result? The company tanks.
When MacWeek went eWeek there was maybe a few issues before it went web-only. Hmm, yes. Looks like the same sort of idea with TigerDirect.
I have transposition syndrome, you nisensitive cldo!
Neat, when did Photoshop 7 get real-time, non-destructive effects? I don't even have them in Photoshop 8.
All CoreImage units are written to take advantage of the new QuartzExtreme layer. About three quarters of those are written to degrade to AltiVec if you don't have a supported GPU. About a third of the CoreImage units run fine under software rendering. If you have a Mac with a G4 that supports QuartzExtreme but doesn't have a GPU for CoreImage you'll only be missing out on a few effects. Most notably the ripple effect.
The ripple effect makes my nipples hard.
Says XP not Server 2003. You've got your version that fits with what MS is saying, "desktop users do not need raw sockets".
That just goes to show what a bolted on mess the GUI on Windows is if they can wait until the last beta to put it in.
Except if you matte and frame a four-year-old's drawings it actually looks like art. My flat panel already looks like a picture frame and it didn't help the screenshots any.
Totally bizarre. In the Apple world they sketch out what they want to do and then get it to work. Usually the interface is the first thing done. I don't understand how you could get the "under the hood" functions in order without being able to test them reliably with a GUI.
Um, actually Apple was suing the blogger for releasing a private beta of the software. Apple usually waits a few days before asking rumour sites to take down photos, of course it is the usual nasty cease and desist.
I had a service plan with Cingular that looked pretty good to me, the price per minutes was the cheapest of all their plans (which was odd that the plan with more minutes was higher cost per minute).
I had rollover madness. I had so many minutes at the end of my first year I could have left my phone on for a month straight. You lose your minutes after a year, which they don't tell you that. You lose ALL your minutes, not just the ones that are a year old.
Now I prepay. It's 35 cents during the day and 10 after 7pm until 7am. Texting is 5 cents (to send a receive which is a joke because someone could "text-bomb" you and eat all your money). It's not that great but it is actually working out to be cheaper. Last month I didn't use my cell phone, I didn't have to pay anything.
I agree that prepay is still too expensive. The concept of locking people into plans is starting to fade away but I like the ability of being able to go from month to month on whoever has the cheapest prepay and just swap out my SIM and forward my landline.
That rumour has been circulating since 1993 when Apple was readying the PowerMacs. If anything, they'd bring AMD in to pick up the slack of IBM and Motorolla.
Clearly you're used to the PC world where they send you off into the wilds of the internet with only a "Beware of the Malware!"
Not only is it the possibly $10 OEM that they are deducting from a million machines, it's the thousands of dollars in support they will spend not only repairing potentially wonky modems but also fielding tech support calls over dialing into the internet, connection issues once dialed-in, etc. The simpler you can make a machine the fewer dollars spent on tech support.
PCI-X and PCI express are targeted to different markets. PCI-X is seeing a lot of use in servers and workstations which is where Apple wants to be hardware-wise with it's pro machines. PCI express is being pushed as a replacement for AGP and has not found much support outside of that. The 8x AGP slot on the G5s is more than sufficient for today's and tomorrow's graphics cards.
Apple will go where the cards are. When they introduced the Blue & White G3 they used a 66MHz PCI graphics card which was faster than AGP 2x. When AGP 4x came out and ATI and Nvidia were not making all their cards for 66MHz PCI, Apple added AGP.
The travesty is that Apple has not gone to PCI-X 2. Oh well, I've had a G5 for over a year and I have yet to find anything for PCI-X but fibre channel cards.
In other news, the political motivation of schoolboys is on the rise.
Most ISPs do not want to spend the resources to fix what is essentially your problem. As long as the user is not doing anything illegal which would make the ISP liable it's not really their concern.
ISPs are not in the business of making sure your servers are safe.
Who is to say that he won't declare himself king? If I believed in that sort of thing it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to consider Dubya a candidate for the antichrist according to John's Revelation.
Officially Apple supports 8 gig in the G5, but that's just because there was only 1 gig sticks when it came out. I've heard anecdotal evidence that it actually supports 2 gig sticks. It's rumoured that the memory controller can actually address 32 gig when 4 gig sticks come out if they make 4 gig sticks for PC 3200.
I'd love to be able to have even 8 gig in my G5 just to stop all the hard disk usage when rendering DVD video.
A friend let me borrow the first two seasons of Voyager on DVD and I fail to understand why a "spinoff" that doesn't have any characters from the main franchise makes a difference in the quality of the story.
Do they still make games for the PC? I was pretty sure even MS admitted the consoles won with the advent of the XBox.
Except that when switching from one version of Windows to the next you have to learn what's different and what's not, what now behaves different and what is no longer there or is now broken. All this while assuming that because it's still Windows, it shouldn't be difficult to figure out.
I remember, up until Window 2000 being able to easily change printer setting because it was on the Start Menu. I was having problem printing from my Mac to a shared printer in Windows (it worked and then it didn't). OK, so I go to the XP machine and I can't find anything on the Start Menu for the printer. No problem, I know that you can get to it in Control Panels. Where the hell has Control Panels gone? *sigh* Ok, now I found it. So now I open the printer interface. Can you believe there's no new features added but now the whole interface for something as simple as printing is so obfuscated by Microsoft's insistence that everything needs to be a web interface that it takes me another 10 minutes wrestling with where all the options have gone because they're not in a normal window but a damn web page.
I can't believe PC users put up with so much, I really feel bad for them sometimes. I know people think Linux may be difficult to use but I use GNOME on my Mac for GiMP, AMAYA and my obsession with Nautilus and I didn't have anywhere near the nightmare trying to get it to behave like I have with XP.
It's like, shut the hell up with the popups and the obfuscation already, the interface is giving me shingles.
You're adorable, totally cute...A/S/L?
Last time I checked, you couldn't walk into Best Buy or Frys or Circuit City or CompUSA or........and buy a PC without Windows on it. The only way (which is happening) to tell MS that you don't like Windows is to buy a Mac. The .5-1% of PCs sold that are built for Linux and do not have an MS OS license attached to them is a big threat to MS for sure.