if they had, there would be no reason to continue working on CEP/Audition as it would compete with Pro Tools. Avid owns DigiDesign(ProTools) and M-Audio.
you hear it's good, but when you watch it you realize how campy it is. thw writing is horrible (makes Atlantis look good), the special efx look like early 1980s rejects, etc...
granted, I havent watched this new season with the new Dr, but I hope its better than the last 2 seasons. I tried numerous times to get into it but to no avail.
I use this at my office for certain systems that need to be locked down (mainly warehouse systems so the workers dont slack off by surfing the net all night long). setup is easy and relativly intuitive and the price is right.
I have this on old PIII 600mhz machines w/ 128 ram running 2000 and xp and there is no noticeable slowdown in performance
yes, TDS rants out about the current Repbulican administration. but what many of todays "conservatives" tend to forget is that when TDS started, the main news topic was bashing Clinton and the Democrats. (likewise with moveon.org)
TDS has always bashed whomever was in power at the time.
makes me think back to when I was entering college.
there were no AP courses. there were AP tests the college administered to all incoming freshmen, but you didnt get credits for the courses the AP results allowed you to skip. the school also wouldn't allow anyone to take more than 20 credits/semester; not that I would have regardless...
Digital Networks is still in business and they werent sued. they didnt market themselves like Tivo so they didnt make as much money. the ended up selling the company to Digital Networks. while they dont make hardware anymore, but they still release software updates for the existing Replays.
does the new series 3 Tivo still require a landline for intial setup of the box? if you want lan connectivity, do you still have to buy the usb adapter? how long did it take Tivo to enable(without hacking) you to tranfer recorded programs from your Tivo to your pc? do I need to go on about the superiority of the ReplayTV box or should I stop now?
having used both, there are 2 things Tivo did better than ReplayTV: 1) marketing 2) channel guide layout
hold on, you have to program/hack a Tivo to skip in 30 second increments?! yet another reason why I'm glad I got ReplayTV instead...it's skip button is 30 seconds by default.
ReplayTV came out before Tivo and had much better functionality before Tivo. it took Tivo YEARS to catch up to ReplayTV in some functionality such as copying programs to a computer and other ReplayTVs, and using a network jack instead of a landline. having owned both, the ONLY thing Tivo did better was the channel guide.
admittedly, ReplayTV didnt have the foresight to set aside a huge marketing/promotional budget like Tivo did which led to the demise of the ReplayTV hardware. they are involved in the software side of things but I havent heard anything from them in the last year or so.
that said, I still prefer my ReplayTV over my Tivo!
every single one we have purchased this year has had hardware failures out of the box. whether it's bad ram, shorted out keyboard, bad optical drives and even bent dock connectors, EVERY single D820 has had to be worked on!
the local Dell tech that services our hardware is saying he has never seen a new product with as many problems as the D820 and he's been recomending against it to all his corporate customers.
has anyone heard anything on when Adobe/Macromedia will fix the flash player audio issue on OSX (at least on Tiger) when using a external soundcard? it broke in ver8 and is still broken in ver9.
it still works fine using the built-in speakers or built-in line out.
"Noone's really saying that Futurama is better than Dr Who"
I'll say Futurama is better than Dr. Who(the tv show on SciFi). I havent met the first person who thinks Dr. Who is even remotely good! horrible writing, and even worse special effects.
myself and a friend each have 2 Minis (all G4 models, 1st gen and 2nd gen) and none of the 4 have exhibited any discoloration. you are the first person I have ever heard of saying their Mini has a coloration problem.
ok, this is slightly off-topic, but can someone explain, or point me to a site, that fully explains what 1080p means vs 1080i and all of these other video resolution mumbo-jumbo.
I'm still just a plain old DVD user on conventional CRT television through RGB cables (is this composite or component?)
all of this video stuff has always given me headaches and no ever expains what it means, rather they just use jargon that most people have no clue about. pretty much the only thing I understand is NTSC (North America and Japan) vs PAL (pretty much rest of the world)
I'm a hobbyist recording engineer and have done a few demos and live multitrack recordings over the past few years. The MOTU 896HD works great and is super easy to use. 8 preamps via XLR or 1/4" plus additional flexibility of S/PDIF I/O, MIDI, ADAT(via lightpipe) and you can chain up to 4 of them togethor. Primarily I use DP on a Mac, but have also used this with Vegas and Cubase on a PC with the same great results.
the card will run about $950 through places like Sam Ash or Guitar Center. You may find it cheaper online...
the MOTU 828mkii works as well, but the mixer functions and I/O settings can be a pain to work with as it is all menu driven from the LED display. Of course, with the 828mkii you are limited to 2 preamps.
I havent worked with the Presonus Firepod myself, but if it is anything like the Firebox(smaller 2 channel version) then the hardware is very good, but the driver/mixer leaves a bit to be desired.
some people say the ADC in the MOTU arent that great but I personally have heard no complaints from clients...
1984 Commodore Vic-20 1987 Commodore C-64 1989 Apple IIc 1992 Apple Proforma ?? -------- 1994...got out of computers...1998 -------- 1998 white box Pentium 166mmx 1999 IBM Thinkpad 760 2000 HP Pavilion 533 Celeron 2001 white box AMD 1ghz 2002 white box PIII 1.3ghz 2003 Apple Powerbook 867 titanium 2004 Apple eMac 1ghz 2004 white box AMD 2.4ghz Barton 2005 Apple Powerbook 1.67 HR
I remember starting college in 1990 that my Comp-Sci professor was so excited about this new/state-of-the-art os called Windows...coming from GEOS on Commodore I thought Windows was a piece of crap. needless to say, my professor was less than thrilled with my enthusiasm.
over the last 2 weeks I've been in the CompUSA and a couple of BestBuys and they all had units sitting on the shelf. possibly some of the smaller shops like EB may be experiencing a shortage, but not the big retailers.
now, I cant say if they were the base units or the all-included ones as I'm not much of a gamer
they will spend vast amounts of money on a pair of shoes simply because they have a checkmark (Nike) on them
I wish I could find people willing to spend vast amounts of $$ on shoes with a "checkmark", but unfortunately, they want the shoes with the "swoosh" instead.
it may be the particular mirror you were looking at, but when I grabbed 1.5 yesterday afternoon from a Virginia, US mirror, they had a EN-UK version available as well as other EN versions.
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Adobe did not buy out Avid.
if they had, there would be no reason to continue working on CEP/Audition as it would compete with Pro Tools. Avid owns DigiDesign(ProTools) and M-Audio.
you hear it's good, but when you watch it you realize how campy it is.
thw writing is horrible (makes Atlantis look good), the special efx look like early 1980s rejects, etc...
granted, I havent watched this new season with the new Dr, but I hope its better than the last 2 seasons. I tried numerous times to get into it but to no avail.
Dr. Who just screams "B" scifi!
http://www.softheap.com/index.html
I use this at my office for certain systems that need to be locked down (mainly warehouse systems so the workers dont slack off by surfing the net all night long).
setup is easy and relativly intuitive and the price is right.
I have this on old PIII 600mhz machines w/ 128 ram running 2000 and xp and there is no noticeable slowdown in performance
yes, TDS rants out about the current Repbulican administration. but what many of todays "conservatives" tend to forget is that when TDS started, the main news topic was bashing Clinton and the Democrats. (likewise with moveon.org)
TDS has always bashed whomever was in power at the time.
makes me think back to when I was entering college.
there were no AP courses.
there were AP tests the college administered to all incoming freshmen, but you didnt get credits for the courses the AP results allowed you to skip. the school also wouldn't allow anyone to take more than 20 credits/semester; not that I would have regardless...
way to be offtopic...
Digital Networks is still in business and they werent sued. they didnt market themselves like Tivo so they didnt make as much money. the ended up selling the company to Digital Networks. while they dont make hardware anymore, but they still release software updates for the existing Replays.
does the new series 3 Tivo still require a landline for intial setup of the box?
if you want lan connectivity, do you still have to buy the usb adapter?
how long did it take Tivo to enable(without hacking) you to tranfer recorded programs from your Tivo to your pc?
do I need to go on about the superiority of the ReplayTV box or should I stop now?
having used both, there are 2 things Tivo did better than ReplayTV:
1) marketing
2) channel guide layout
hold on, you have to program/hack a Tivo to skip in 30 second increments?!
yet another reason why I'm glad I got ReplayTV instead...it's skip button is 30 seconds by default.
while ReplayTV came out before Tivo, Ampex released the first commercial DVR in 1967!
by that logic, Microsofts Vista was before Apples OSX Panther (Panther came out almost 3 years ago)
according to wiki(take with requisite grain of salt) both were announced at the CES 1999 show.
hell, Ampex released the first commercial DVR in 1967!
Tivo was NOT the first.
ReplayTV came out before Tivo and had much better functionality before Tivo.
it took Tivo YEARS to catch up to ReplayTV in some functionality such as copying programs to a computer and other ReplayTVs, and using a network jack instead of a landline.
having owned both, the ONLY thing Tivo did better was the channel guide.
admittedly, ReplayTV didnt have the foresight to set aside a huge marketing/promotional budget like Tivo did which led to the demise of the ReplayTV hardware. they are involved in the software side of things but I havent heard anything from them in the last year or so.
that said, I still prefer my ReplayTV over my Tivo!
every single one we have purchased this year has had hardware failures out of the box.
whether it's bad ram, shorted out keyboard, bad optical drives and even bent dock connectors, EVERY single D820 has had to be worked on!
the local Dell tech that services our hardware is saying he has never seen a new product with as many problems as the D820 and he's been recomending against it to all his corporate customers.
its not just Apple!
has anyone heard anything on when Adobe/Macromedia will fix the flash player audio issue on OSX (at least on Tiger) when using a external soundcard? it broke in ver8 and is still broken in ver9.
it still works fine using the built-in speakers or built-in line out.
so, um are you referring to feb 1, 2012(usa) or jan 2, 2012(rest of world)?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4885700. stm
so, do we trust Wikipedia or BBC?
the article said the star was 5000 light years away from earth
"Noone's really saying that Futurama is better than Dr Who"
I'll say Futurama is better than Dr. Who(the tv show on SciFi).
I havent met the first person who thinks Dr. Who is even remotely good!
horrible writing, and even worse special effects.
myself and a friend each have 2 Minis (all G4 models, 1st gen and 2nd gen) and none of the 4 have exhibited any discoloration.
you are the first person I have ever heard of saying their Mini has a coloration problem.
ok, this is slightly off-topic, but can someone explain, or point me to a site, that fully explains what 1080p means vs 1080i and all of these other video resolution mumbo-jumbo.
I'm still just a plain old DVD user on conventional CRT television through RGB cables
(is this composite or component?)
all of this video stuff has always given me headaches and no ever expains what it means, rather they just use jargon that most people have no clue about.
pretty much the only thing I understand is NTSC (North America and Japan) vs PAL (pretty much rest of the world)
thanks in advance
I get tired of people who think of and use Excel like a database.
but what is worse is using Access for a multi-user database!
sorry, off topic.
I'm a hobbyist recording engineer and have done a few demos and live multitrack recordings over the past few years. The MOTU 896HD works great and is super easy to use. 8 preamps via XLR or 1/4" plus additional flexibility of S/PDIF I/O, MIDI, ADAT(via lightpipe) and you can chain up to 4 of them togethor.
Primarily I use DP on a Mac, but have also used this with Vegas and Cubase on a PC with the same great results.
the card will run about $950 through places like Sam Ash or Guitar Center. You may find it cheaper online...
the MOTU 828mkii works as well, but the mixer functions and I/O settings can be a pain to work with as it is all menu driven from the LED display. Of course, with the 828mkii you are limited to 2 preamps.
I havent worked with the Presonus Firepod myself, but if it is anything like the Firebox(smaller 2 channel version) then the hardware is very good, but the driver/mixer leaves a bit to be desired.
some people say the ADC in the MOTU arent that great but I personally have heard no complaints from clients...
1984 Commodore Vic-20
1987 Commodore C-64
1989 Apple IIc
1992 Apple Proforma ??
--------
1994...got out of computers...1998
--------
1998 white box Pentium 166mmx
1999 IBM Thinkpad 760
2000 HP Pavilion 533 Celeron
2001 white box AMD 1ghz
2002 white box PIII 1.3ghz
2003 Apple Powerbook 867 titanium
2004 Apple eMac 1ghz
2004 white box AMD 2.4ghz Barton
2005 Apple Powerbook 1.67 HR
I remember starting college in 1990 that my Comp-Sci professor was so excited about this new/state-of-the-art os called Windows...coming from GEOS on Commodore I thought Windows was a piece of crap. needless to say, my professor was less than thrilled with my enthusiasm.
not here in Richmond, VA
over the last 2 weeks I've been in the CompUSA and a couple of BestBuys and they all had units sitting on the shelf. possibly some of the smaller shops like EB may be experiencing a shortage, but not the big retailers.
now, I cant say if they were the base units or the all-included ones as I'm not much of a gamer
I wish I could find people willing to spend vast amounts of $$ on shoes with a "checkmark", but unfortunately, they want the shoes with the "swoosh" instead.
the only reason why I have SP1 loaded is because my USB drivers require it.
my XP box is strictly a DAW (audio workstation). SP1 adds some latency issues that I can work around/live with but I would prefer not to...
it may be the particular mirror you were looking at, but when I grabbed 1.5 yesterday afternoon from a Virginia, US mirror, they had a EN-UK version available as well as other EN versions.