The screen is NOT tiny. You get a good angle of view when held normally, quite good for watching movies, in fact. Quality is really superb, picture size is 480x272 pixels. Sound quality is surprisingly good, too.
I've been working with one recently and the gfx look a lot more like enhanced PS1 than PS2. there are definitely some nice particle and lighting effects that the PS1 doesn't offer, but it definitely looks a LONG way down on polygons compared to the PS2.
It's till absolutely fantastic, though. I love the machine.
I OC'd my 450Mhz rated G3 to 600Mhz on the jumpers (been running at 600 now for nearly 5 years, 24/7/365) whereas my 300Mhz rated machine wouldn't even hit 400 and stay there.
I didn't state otherwise. The point is that the 1.25 rated CPU is MUCH more likely to fail at 1.42 than the 1.42 rated unit. I wouldn't even bother OCing a 1.25, it's just asking for trouble.
Well, they're RELATIVELY slow. DV only needs to use FW in 100 mode anyway, and it only uses around a third of THAT bandwidth running along at 1X. Modern external desktop FW drives give you pretty much continuous full FW 400 bandwidth, way more than enough for iMovie style usage.
Why the hell not? Some engineers like to take a little pride in their work and make things look neat - have you never seen the inside of a PowerMac G5?
They sell the best petfood by far - you should read the labels on stuff sometimes, you might learn about which companies it is that make the stuff you buy. Being an informed consumer only helps you in the long run.
MS is ATTEMPTING lock-in in the "mp3" world, they currently have virtually none. Apple is attempting the same thing, but succeeding. MS can't lose what it doesn't already have, can it? If MS made an iPod competitor ( and maybe used to XBox as its net connection, music store access point and charge station, they had a valid complaint against their employees.
I think MS controlling media access is just their egomaniacal wet-dream. It won't happen, it shouldn't happen and - if they bet the rest of the company that it will happen - they might take their eyes off the Office ball just long enough to lose that market too.
I didn't have a huge amount of experience working for large soft drinks manufacturers, but I have worked for Mars, and they offer their staff give-away discounts on a great many of their confectionary, food an pet-food products. I would imagine that Coca-Cola would - at the very least - offer their staff a substantial discount. We all know that MS offer their staff a pretty hefty discount on their software, it's not exactly unusual.
It's not a bit like Coke employees drinking Pepsi (which they'd be pretty dumb to do as they'd probably have access to all the free Coke they wanted). iPod is a neo-Walkman, the only way it threatens MS is in the fact that it totally ignores their pointless, me-too, proprietary.wma crapmat.
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DV certainly IS compressed. Uncompressed it would be 270mbits/sec rather than the 25mbits/sec that it actually runs at.
You've not heard of the Metal Gear series? What kind of a geek are you?
The screen is NOT tiny. You get a good angle of view when held normally, quite good for watching movies, in fact. Quality is really superb, picture size is 480x272 pixels. Sound quality is surprisingly good, too.
I've been working with one recently and the gfx look a lot more like enhanced PS1 than PS2. there are definitely some nice particle and lighting effects that the PS1 doesn't offer, but it definitely looks a LONG way down on polygons compared to the PS2.
It's till absolutely fantastic, though. I love the machine.
I OC'd my 450Mhz rated G3 to 600Mhz on the jumpers (been running at 600 now for nearly 5 years, 24/7/365) whereas my 300Mhz rated machine wouldn't even hit 400 and stay there.
I didn't state otherwise. The point is that the 1.25 rated CPU is MUCH more likely to fail at 1.42 than the 1.42 rated unit. I wouldn't even bother OCing a 1.25, it's just asking for trouble.
Well, they're RELATIVELY slow. DV only needs to use FW in 100 mode anyway, and it only uses around a third of THAT bandwidth running along at 1X. Modern external desktop FW drives give you pretty much continuous full FW 400 bandwidth, way more than enough for iMovie style usage.
The CPUs are clock rate classified for a reason, you know.
Why the hell not? Some engineers like to take a little pride in their work and make things look neat - have you never seen the inside of a PowerMac G5?
No wires.
Not one.
Buy a G5 if you want high performance. The 2.5Ghz has a 1.25Ghz memory bus.
Which western democracy has employment law so lacking that someone could actually be legitimately fired for drinking the wrong brand of soft drink?
It'll play .aif and .wav too.
That's ridiculous behaviour. That guy should have been disciplined or fired.
Think how much damage he can do in four whole years, though.
No they haven't. Before the IBM PC, Microsoft was just another app vendor for Apple's computer systems.
I find Coca-Cola a fairly tasty and refreshing drink when I'm hot and thirsty. I don't think it was ever intended as a replacement for water.
FairPlay isn't the crapmat, MP4/AAC is, and it's a pretty good crapmat as crapmats go. I use the lossless version for my stuff.
They sell the best petfood by far - you should read the labels on stuff sometimes, you might learn about which companies it is that make the stuff you buy. Being an informed consumer only helps you in the long run.
Wow. Mars wouldn't do that. They had CONFIDENCE in their products enough not to force them down people's throats, and that confidence is justified.
"He could have been fired for drinking Pepsi products or eating, watching a movie, doing any kind of business that served pepsi (and not coke)."
Fired for watching a movie with Pepsi in it? Are you tripping?
MS is ATTEMPTING lock-in in the "mp3" world, they currently have virtually none. Apple is attempting the same thing, but succeeding. MS can't lose what it doesn't already have, can it? If MS made an iPod competitor ( and maybe used to XBox as its net connection, music store access point and charge station, they had a valid complaint against their employees.
I think MS controlling media access is just their egomaniacal wet-dream. It won't happen, it shouldn't happen and - if they bet the rest of the company that it will happen - they might take their eyes off the Office ball just long enough to lose that market too.
I didn't have a huge amount of experience working for large soft drinks manufacturers, but I have worked for Mars, and they offer their staff give-away discounts on a great many of their confectionary, food an pet-food products. I would imagine that Coca-Cola would - at the very least - offer their staff a substantial discount. We all know that MS offer their staff a pretty hefty discount on their software, it's not exactly unusual.
Why the hell shouldn't they? MS makes some of the biggest Mac apps. after all.
It's not a bit like Coke employees drinking Pepsi (which they'd be pretty dumb to do as they'd probably have access to all the free Coke they wanted). iPod is a neo-Walkman, the only way it threatens MS is in the fact that it totally ignores their pointless, me-too, proprietary .wma crapmat.
I never liked the shuttle design much, far better were Gerry's "Eagles" from Space: 1999.