In September 2003 when Hurricane Isabel hit NC/VA, we lost power about six hours in, came back on after three days. Cable TV/Internet went out two hours after that, came back on around the time the electricity did. Cellular service was down within 24 hours, came back up 36 hours later. Still working during those 36 hours of cellular downtime, and in fact through the entire hurricane and aftermath without any interruption whatsoever, was our landline telephone service. Say what you will about landline service being obsolete, but you can't tell me it isn't a rock solid system that's designed to work through situations that would render cell phones useless.
Want to be the most popular guy at the airport? Throw a plug strip in your laptop bag. After turning two plugs into seven, all the tech addicts on the flight were buying me drinks. Good times.
If you really want to piss people off, use a busy ATM, then pull up just two feet so the rear driver side passenger can use it after you. You wouldn't believe how many people flipped me off and honked at me for pulling that one.
Not always. I thought it did, but apparently that's an option. I bought an N router, expecting it to be an N router, but it only works on the 11 US-standard 2.4 ghz channels. It won't give the full N speeds either, i'm stuck right around 100 to 120 mbps most of the time.
Does anyone else miss the old pressure-based trackpads? I had one of the original Toughbooks and it had one of these, I could use it with a stylus. Made my Photoshop work so much easier without having to buy (and then travel with and try to use in space-restrained situations) a separate drawing tablet. You'd think Apple, trying to sell to the artistic crowd, would offer this as an option.
I've always found that a light color on a dark background leads to MORE eyestrain. Whenever I read for a while under such conditions, I start to have trouble focusing on the words. Then, when I look away from the screen, all I see are contrasting lines of color and i'm unable to focus on anything for a few minutes. I think there's a technical term for that (something about burning? or maybe after-image?), and it's definitely annoying. I can only read for longer than five minutes if it's black letters on a white or lightly colored background.
First, get an S-VHS deck. They'll play back VHS tapes with higher quality than a standard VHS deck will. Then, run the footage through a time base corrector. Look on eBay for that, but expect to pay a decent amount of money (the one I use is part of a $1000 video switcher, i've seen basic standalone TBCs for around $400 if memory serves). Then use whatever capture card you can find that works well with whichever distro you're using. Don't bother using an s-video connection (assuming your deck has one, chances are good it won't) as VHS is a composite signal to begin with. There will be no quality gain using s-video over composite in this case. I don't know much about the software side of things, unfortunately, as all the tools I use are commercial software for Windows and Macintosh systems.
Good for him. Have you been to the library lately? Just try to get some work done on a computer there during the first few hours after school lets out. Every computer is some punk 15 year old on MySpace. Let's get library computers doing what they should be doing: helping people with legitimate research. Not helping emo kids whine about their girlfriends.
So why don't you just plug the keyboard you like into the Mac? PS/2 to USB adapters are only about five bucks, if that's the only thing holding you back. I use my awesome tactile feedback keyboard on my Mac thanks to one of these adapters.
Basically, you need to author your DVD. Authoring takes the AVI file output of Premiere, compresses the video to MPEG2, the audio to AC3, creates menus (if you want them) and prepares and burns the entire thing. Good authoring software does a MUCH better job at compression than the crappy encoder in Nero, since these programs are designed to create only video DVDs, whereas Nero is designed to do everything (and none of it particularly well). As you're already using Adobe products, you may want to try Encore. It's their DVD authoring application. However, if you're open to other options, I highly recommend Sony DVD Architect. Both of those programs will create splendid quality results; the difference is that Adobe's Encore will give you more options (but is harder/more confusing for beginners) while Sony's DVD Architect will be much easier to learn and use (however lacks some of the fancy features that Encore provides).
Yeah, because it's IMPOSSIBLE for Apple to change the way iTunes and iPod work for this instance if they make a deal that big. I forgot that software can never be modified!
Even if I max out my DSL connection, it'll still take about 32 minutes to download the video, and another 5 or so to sync it to the iPod. Meanwhile, there's a blockbuster two blocks from me. Five minute walk there, two minutes to find the video I want, five minutes to sync, five minutes home... 17 minutes, vs. 37. People with slower connections, especially those with dialup, will benefit even more.
Sprint PCS has had an unlimited plan for a while... i've had my plan for over three years, and i'm only paying $10 a month for unlimited data. That includes web, email, IM, SMS, and pictures/MMS. Not sure if they still offer that plan, but it exists somewhere, at least.
You'd think they'd have plenty of money from liscensing the logo alone, with all the Atari shirts i've seen the hip kids wearing the past few months.
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"Stocking issues" is a myth. Every store i've been to in the last few months has had multiple xbox 360 units in stock. Just three days ago at Best Buy, they had a stack of 20 of them right on the sales floor.
Oh, please. This is just more useless drivel written to sell magazines. Just because something makes your life easier or more fun, doesn't mean everyone is "addicted" because they enjoy using it. Are Americans adicted to tooth brushes, too? 99% of us admit to using them at least daily! OH NO!
About half of the hotels i've been at in recent years (let's say, the last decade) have a composite video input on the back that is unused by the hotel. It used to be that there was only coax in and the cable was bolted on, but this isn't the 80s anymore.
While it's clearly not a 100% accurate figure, I don't see why 80 million can't be considered a decent estimate of how many users Firefox has. Look at it this way: i've downloaded Firefox five or six times. But i'm not a Firefox "user." I only open it in the rare event that a page doesn't work right in Opera, so I use it maybe once a month.
On the other hand, a friend of mine downloaded it once and put it on his USB memory card, and installs it on many friends' computers, several of whom became full-time FF users. People like me balance out people like my friend, in general.
So to review... 80 million = a guess, but there's no reason why we can't consider it a good enough guess to just accept it.
Learn to read. It says 35% of MUSIC LISTENERS are paying for downloads, and 40% are downloading illegally. The other 25% is either buying albums at a store or listening to the radio. In other words... NOT DOWNLOADING!
You seem to be assuming that everyone already owns the original Xbox. Backwards compatibility is for people who don't have the first system. I only have a GameCube now, and if I decide to buy the new Xbox, it would be nice to be able to play the already large library of games. You're right that it doesn't matter to current Xbox owners, but that isn't who the feature is aimed at.
It's called a loss leader. Stores will sell some items at a loss, just to get you in the store in hopes that you'll buy other high-profit things while there. Usually it works, and even though they're losing money on that one item, it brings enough people in to the store that week to raise their overall profits.
Just because you aren't booting from a HD doesn't mean you don't have access to it. I'd assume that apon the first boot of the CD/DVD, it would make a folder on your hard drive for storing such files.
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In September 2003 when Hurricane Isabel hit NC/VA, we lost power about six hours in, came back on after three days. Cable TV/Internet went out two hours after that, came back on around the time the electricity did. Cellular service was down within 24 hours, came back up 36 hours later. Still working during those 36 hours of cellular downtime, and in fact through the entire hurricane and aftermath without any interruption whatsoever, was our landline telephone service. Say what you will about landline service being obsolete, but you can't tell me it isn't a rock solid system that's designed to work through situations that would render cell phones useless.
Want to be the most popular guy at the airport? Throw a plug strip in your laptop bag. After turning two plugs into seven, all the tech addicts on the flight were buying me drinks. Good times.
If you really want to piss people off, use a busy ATM, then pull up just two feet so the rear driver side passenger can use it after you. You wouldn't believe how many people flipped me off and honked at me for pulling that one.
Not always. I thought it did, but apparently that's an option. I bought an N router, expecting it to be an N router, but it only works on the 11 US-standard 2.4 ghz channels. It won't give the full N speeds either, i'm stuck right around 100 to 120 mbps most of the time.
Does anyone else miss the old pressure-based trackpads? I had one of the original Toughbooks and it had one of these, I could use it with a stylus. Made my Photoshop work so much easier without having to buy (and then travel with and try to use in space-restrained situations) a separate drawing tablet. You'd think Apple, trying to sell to the artistic crowd, would offer this as an option.
I've always found that a light color on a dark background leads to MORE eyestrain. Whenever I read for a while under such conditions, I start to have trouble focusing on the words. Then, when I look away from the screen, all I see are contrasting lines of color and i'm unable to focus on anything for a few minutes. I think there's a technical term for that (something about burning? or maybe after-image?), and it's definitely annoying. I can only read for longer than five minutes if it's black letters on a white or lightly colored background.
You're right, I don't need all my music with me all the time. I do, however, WANT all my music with me all the time.
First, get an S-VHS deck. They'll play back VHS tapes with higher quality than a standard VHS deck will. Then, run the footage through a time base corrector. Look on eBay for that, but expect to pay a decent amount of money (the one I use is part of a $1000 video switcher, i've seen basic standalone TBCs for around $400 if memory serves). Then use whatever capture card you can find that works well with whichever distro you're using. Don't bother using an s-video connection (assuming your deck has one, chances are good it won't) as VHS is a composite signal to begin with. There will be no quality gain using s-video over composite in this case. I don't know much about the software side of things, unfortunately, as all the tools I use are commercial software for Windows and Macintosh systems.
Good for him. Have you been to the library lately? Just try to get some work done on a computer there during the first few hours after school lets out. Every computer is some punk 15 year old on MySpace. Let's get library computers doing what they should be doing: helping people with legitimate research. Not helping emo kids whine about their girlfriends.
So why don't you just plug the keyboard you like into the Mac? PS/2 to USB adapters are only about five bucks, if that's the only thing holding you back. I use my awesome tactile feedback keyboard on my Mac thanks to one of these adapters.
Basically, you need to author your DVD. Authoring takes the AVI file output of Premiere, compresses the video to MPEG2, the audio to AC3, creates menus (if you want them) and prepares and burns the entire thing. Good authoring software does a MUCH better job at compression than the crappy encoder in Nero, since these programs are designed to create only video DVDs, whereas Nero is designed to do everything (and none of it particularly well). As you're already using Adobe products, you may want to try Encore. It's their DVD authoring application. However, if you're open to other options, I highly recommend Sony DVD Architect. Both of those programs will create splendid quality results; the difference is that Adobe's Encore will give you more options (but is harder/more confusing for beginners) while Sony's DVD Architect will be much easier to learn and use (however lacks some of the fancy features that Encore provides).
Last I checked, cell phones run on batteries. You know, the whole portability thing.
Yeah, because it's IMPOSSIBLE for Apple to change the way iTunes and iPod work for this instance if they make a deal that big. I forgot that software can never be modified!
Even if I max out my DSL connection, it'll still take about 32 minutes to download the video, and another 5 or so to sync it to the iPod. Meanwhile, there's a blockbuster two blocks from me. Five minute walk there, two minutes to find the video I want, five minutes to sync, five minutes home... 17 minutes, vs. 37. People with slower connections, especially those with dialup, will benefit even more.
Sprint PCS has had an unlimited plan for a while... i've had my plan for over three years, and i'm only paying $10 a month for unlimited data. That includes web, email, IM, SMS, and pictures/MMS. Not sure if they still offer that plan, but it exists somewhere, at least.
You'd think they'd have plenty of money from liscensing the logo alone, with all the Atari shirts i've seen the hip kids wearing the past few months.
"Stocking issues" is a myth. Every store i've been to in the last few months has had multiple xbox 360 units in stock. Just three days ago at Best Buy, they had a stack of 20 of them right on the sales floor.
Oh, please. This is just more useless drivel written to sell magazines. Just because something makes your life easier or more fun, doesn't mean everyone is "addicted" because they enjoy using it. Are Americans adicted to tooth brushes, too? 99% of us admit to using them at least daily! OH NO!
About half of the hotels i've been at in recent years (let's say, the last decade) have a composite video input on the back that is unused by the hotel. It used to be that there was only coax in and the cable was bolted on, but this isn't the 80s anymore.
While it's clearly not a 100% accurate figure, I don't see why 80 million can't be considered a decent estimate of how many users Firefox has. Look at it this way: i've downloaded Firefox five or six times. But i'm not a Firefox "user." I only open it in the rare event that a page doesn't work right in Opera, so I use it maybe once a month.
On the other hand, a friend of mine downloaded it once and put it on his USB memory card, and installs it on many friends' computers, several of whom became full-time FF users. People like me balance out people like my friend, in general.
So to review... 80 million = a guess, but there's no reason why we can't consider it a good enough guess to just accept it.
I've bought a few of these $1 DVDs from Walmart. Mine had three episodes of Dragnet on each disc. Region 0, no CSS. So to answer your question, no.
Learn to read. It says 35% of MUSIC LISTENERS are paying for downloads, and 40% are downloading illegally. The other 25% is either buying albums at a store or listening to the radio. In other words... NOT DOWNLOADING!
You seem to be assuming that everyone already owns the original Xbox. Backwards compatibility is for people who don't have the first system. I only have a GameCube now, and if I decide to buy the new Xbox, it would be nice to be able to play the already large library of games. You're right that it doesn't matter to current Xbox owners, but that isn't who the feature is aimed at.
It's called a loss leader. Stores will sell some items at a loss, just to get you in the store in hopes that you'll buy other high-profit things while there. Usually it works, and even though they're losing money on that one item, it brings enough people in to the store that week to raise their overall profits.
Just because you aren't booting from a HD doesn't mean you don't have access to it. I'd assume that apon the first boot of the CD/DVD, it would make a folder on your hard drive for storing such files.