That's rubbish - everyone KNOWS that the bigger the zoom or digital zoom number printed on the side of the camcorder is, the better the camcorder is. You should ONLY go for a cam with at least 400X digital zoom, but preferably 560X or higher. One interesting side effect of a huge zoom range is that men tend to respect you slightly more and women find you marginally more attractive - particularly if you tell them about the interesting specifications of your new cam.
"average joe programmer will be much happier with a 20" LCD than a 21" CRT"
I'm not arguing against LCD screens from a technical standpoint, but the fact is that you simply cannot compare a $400-$500 21" CRT to an LCD that cost at least THREE TIMES as much, and offers better sharpness AT ONE RESOLUTION ONLY, as well as crappy colour and horribly slow refresh. LCD displays are excellent for some purposes, but for general PC with an emphasisi on games or multimedia especially, CRTs are still miles ahead and for a LOT less money.
Macs were intended to do a lot of black on white work, and the 1.8 gamma was more applicable for this - however, you'd be crazy to set up your Mac for anything other than D65 @ 2.2 gamma these days, unless you don't care about anyone else looking at your work...
Get a normal 32" CRT TV for daylight viewing and you get the best of both worlds - bring your screen in front of the CRT TV and you're back in cinema mode!
that's true - and their high brightness makes them great for daylight displays but fuck all use for anything else - resolution and dynamic range are ptitful by any standards, and power consumption just hilarious!
my 4 year old Sony 19" CRT is currently set to 1344x1008 @ 100Hz and I get >10 bits of colour per channel. It cost me less than $500 - so $125 per year so far an d still dropping. Even the best LCD tech cannot compete.
Oh yeah, you're a real genius. You buy a CRT and you get BETTER performance for about 1/3rd the cost - the only downside to CRT technology at this point is footprint, but if your desk can't handle a 19" CRT, it's really more of a shelf or occasional table.
The thing is - I LIKE the Tungsten T2, the hardware design is excellent and the screen is superb, but I'm stuck using the tragic WebPro V web browser because the FAR BETTER browser (Netfront)that came with my girlfriend's Sony Clie TG-50 (which has NEVER lost data...) won't run on my Tungsten despite them both running Palm OS 5.2.1. The same is true of ALL the best Palm Apps - blueboard won't go on the Clie; Clie Lancher won't go on the Palm; Aeroplayer's a no-go on the Clie; no Picsel viewer or Flash Player on the Palm!
The Palm "just works"? Man, you must have REALLY low expectations. My Tungsten T2 has given me more trouble in six months than my Newton MP2100 has in a decade. The Palm syncronisation system is complete and utter crap, the notion of a PalmOS application is an absolute fantasy, with most remotely cutting edge apps being pretty much machine specific and - worst of all - when it decides to freak and lock up, the only way to get it going again is a long charge followed by a hard reset, which kills all of your data and leaves you reliant on the utterly broken backup/sync system to get you going again.. PalmOS isn't really a playform at all, it's an embedded OS.
You've got it wrong - that iChat camera (iSight) is actually REALLY NICE and not that bad a deal. It really does outperform existing firewire webcams quite handily for picture and sound, the industrial design is LEAGUES better, and the price reasonable. I currently use a firewire equpped Sony camcorder for my iChat needs, but having demo'd the iSight, I may just buy one. Really impressive product IMHO.
Why would college age humans GIVE A FUCK about what flavour of coke was for sale? Surely they're far too busy getting royally pissed and/or dropping huge quantities of acid?
I don't think I ever bought a coke at university. I do remember doing amyl nitrate in an information theory lecture though...
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That's rubbish - everyone KNOWS that the bigger the zoom or digital zoom number printed on the side of the camcorder is, the better the camcorder is. You should ONLY go for a cam with at least 400X digital zoom, but preferably 560X or higher. One interesting side effect of a huge zoom range is that men tend to respect you slightly more and women find you marginally more attractive - particularly if you tell them about the interesting specifications of your new cam.
An E series? Is it really fair to compare the CHEAPEST Sony CRT to the extravagantly expensive Dell? Have a look at an F-series Sony and try again.
It dissipates 100W, and the 18" Hitachi that I also looked at (which cost nearly $1500 at the time) was 59W by way of comparison.
"average joe programmer will be much happier with a 20" LCD than a 21" CRT"
I'm not arguing against LCD screens from a technical standpoint, but the fact is that you simply cannot compare a $400-$500 21" CRT to an LCD that cost at least THREE TIMES as much, and offers better sharpness AT ONE RESOLUTION ONLY, as well as crappy colour and horribly slow refresh. LCD displays are excellent for some purposes, but for general PC with an emphasisi on games or multimedia especially, CRTs are still miles ahead and for a LOT less money.
why compensate in software? you just reduce your working accuracy that way - you lose NOTHING by working in the correct space in the first place.
Macs were intended to do a lot of black on white work, and the 1.8 gamma was more applicable for this - however, you'd be crazy to set up your Mac for anything other than D65 @ 2.2 gamma these days, unless you don't care about anyone else looking at your work...
Get a normal 32" CRT TV for daylight viewing and you get the best of both worlds - bring your screen in front of the CRT TV and you're back in cinema mode!
Have you looked at the power consumption of a typical desktop LCD these days? 60W is not uncommon for an 18" panel now.
that's true - and their high brightness makes them great for daylight displays but fuck all use for anything else - resolution and dynamic range are ptitful by any standards, and power consumption just hilarious!
my 4 year old Sony 19" CRT is currently set to 1344x1008 @ 100Hz and I get >10 bits of colour per channel. It cost me less than $500 - so $125 per year so far an d still dropping. Even the best LCD tech cannot compete.
cheaper? where do you live?
Oh yeah, you're a real genius. You buy a CRT and you get BETTER performance for about 1/3rd the cost - the only downside to CRT technology at this point is footprint, but if your desk can't handle a 19" CRT, it's really more of a shelf or occasional table.
The thing is - I LIKE the Tungsten T2, the hardware design is excellent and the screen is superb, but I'm stuck using the tragic WebPro V web browser because the FAR BETTER browser (Netfront)that came with my girlfriend's Sony Clie TG-50 (which has NEVER lost data...) won't run on my Tungsten despite them both running Palm OS 5.2.1. The same is true of ALL the best Palm Apps - blueboard won't go on the Clie; Clie Lancher won't go on the Palm; Aeroplayer's a no-go on the Clie; no Picsel viewer or Flash Player on the Palm!
NOT A PLATFORM IMHO.
The Palm "just works"? Man, you must have REALLY low expectations. My Tungsten T2 has given me more trouble in six months than my Newton MP2100 has in a decade. The Palm syncronisation system is complete and utter crap, the notion of a PalmOS application is an absolute fantasy, with most remotely cutting edge apps being pretty much machine specific and - worst of all - when it decides to freak and lock up, the only way to get it going again is a long charge followed by a hard reset, which kills all of your data and leaves you reliant on the utterly broken backup/sync system to get you going again.. PalmOS isn't really a playform at all, it's an embedded OS.
You've got it wrong - that iChat camera (iSight) is actually REALLY NICE and not that bad a deal. It really does outperform existing firewire webcams quite handily for picture and sound, the industrial design is LEAGUES better, and the price reasonable. I currently use a firewire equpped Sony camcorder for my iChat needs, but having demo'd the iSight, I may just buy one. Really impressive product IMHO.
I hope I'm wrong about this but, in my experience, long distance relationships simply do not work.
So good luck.
I have an NR Reader that one of our clients left behind...
Correction - it'll be a Mac in a crappy, ugly box.
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Why would college age humans GIVE A FUCK about what flavour of coke was for sale? Surely they're far too busy getting royally pissed and/or dropping huge quantities of acid?
I don't think I ever bought a coke at university. I do remember doing amyl nitrate in an information theory lecture though...
least funny post ever
actually, that's interesting. I was wrong, but I don't have my prefs set to +1, though I DO have AC's pre-modded down.
More pertinently, why would ANYONE search for an ENGLISH LANGUAGE quote in languages other than English?
as he stated, ABOUT 700
I don't use an AV system, unless you call Mac OS an AV system...
I thought THIS WAS YELLING?