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That's not true. The Dell U2711 27” does 2560x1440 (OK, lower Y res. than the one you mentioned due to the 16:9 aspect) but you will pay $900 for that vs ~$200 for a 24" 1920x1080 screen
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Most people were happy enough with their old standard definition CRT. I think these sorts of changes take time, much like the CD player slowly supplanting records and tape and DVDs slowly replacing VCRs. Current full HD as broadcast on free to air is crappy a lot of the time due to the heavy compression used at times by the network. A good case is sports with lots of movement or camera flashes on the news breaking out into what resembles a Lego(TM) rendition of the scene.
SD-TV as TV production and editing hardware has been upgraded from PAL/NTSC conversion to full and proper 16:9 digital versions, has started to look a lot better of late. Even on my 1024x768 Panasonic Plasma a lot of new SD Australian productions look terrific. Compare the new shows to imports like the US version of the Amazing Race or Survivor that until recently were still shot in blurry 4:3 format.
What I do think was good planning on the part of producers ~20 years ago was to shoot shows like Seinfeld or Friends on film. Those shows re-mastered for 16:9 HD/SD have taken a whole new dimension with the improvement in picture quality. I just wish Frasier could be remastered in the same way, but I think they used video cameras.
Anyway, the full potential of 1920x1080p as used in broadcast TV hasn't been reached and I doubt that it ever will be as TV stations try to cram as many channels as they can onto a 6/7/8MHz block of bandwidth. SDTV really is good enough for most people and the jump from a CRT to a cheap LCD or plasma will be plenty good enough for a long time.
This may be due in part to the way github integrates social networking and coding-- I'm unaware of anything similar for SVN, Perforce, Bazaar, Mercurial, etc...
What's that you say? Social networking and Git?! Now there's an idea! I'll go set up a new site - I'll call it GitFace! Who's in with me on the IPO in 2 years?
Somehow I doubt that telling those white supremacists that they're the ones descended from Neanderthals and that the Africans are the only group lacking Neanderthal DNA would do anything to change their perspectives.
Well, it explains the white supremacists jutting eyebrows, sloping foreheads and rather dimwitted world view. Maybe they should be called NeoNeanderthals.
WTF? Is you effects software written in Javascript? Convolutions on an i7 should barely wake the CPU up let alone struggle. I think there is some sort of I/O problem instead. Does it use a frickin' spinning while() loop as a wait function for the next sample tick?
I know someone who wrote a popular VST plugin and being a numbers n00b kept hitting the floating point denormal slowdown. I suggested he ditch floats and doubles and just use fixed point with careful scaling in each stage. He hadn't a clue what to do there and suffered the gripes from users about performance. That said, his plugin made wicked sounds.
I'd say the musos plugins are somewhat poorly optimised.
Sure. That's exactly what's started to happen here - the olde phone networke is being put out of action and replaced entirely. The NBN as it's called is already being rolled out. All the copper pairs are being decommissioned and replaced with fibre to the premises. In relation to this article the magic box they supply to the dwelling sports an ethernet port and a phone port so you can still plug in your existing analogue telephone and keep your existing phone number. So really, the PSTN is staying, it's just being replaced by fibre.
Hahaha suck it USAians. Here in Australia the GOVERNMENT has solved this problem and taken it upon itself to replace every single copper pair with gigabit capable fibre into most dwellings and businesses.
That's fine, but if they are aware you speak Mandarin they'll just use their regional language or dialect and once again become unintelligible. My German friend will use his thick Schwebian dialect when he doesn't want a Hoch Deutsch speaker to understand what he's saying.
You shouldn't have this problem if your ugg boots are made from real sheep skin and wool. My sheep skin slippers are falling apart from 4+ years of use but don't stink. The cheaper synthetic wool boots and slippers take about 2 weeks to start ponging to high heaven.
You can get a 3br bunghole in need of serious renovation here in sleepy Warrnambool (Australia) for US$250,000. Either the US housing market is screwed or the Australian market is screwed. I am not sure which is the case....
The article is interesting and has a fair point. I have worked at three companies now where compliance was very much an afterthought and was charged at each company to get them over the line before the items went to market. Luckily I have been able to make various combinations of hardware and firmware meet C-Tick (CISPR21/22), A-Tick (S-001/2/3/4), IP-52, EN60950 etc.) with judicious application of capacitors to ground, sticky metal foil, clip on ferrites and firmware corrections. On the other hand, hardware I have designed has considered these things first up an resulted in quick testing and no revisits to the test labs. You software types have no idea!
Making sure your SELV and hazardous voltage clearances right first time will save very expensive rework and restesting.
I was told about this sort of battery research 2nd hand about 8 years ago. Go to the 'petrol' station, attach a nozzle to the car, have the battery fluids replaced in a matter of a minute or two and off you go.
It's just adding to the plethora of patents Apple can use in it's Patent Big Stick. And someone at Apple gets to do Patent++ on their CV. I have noticed over the years that for some baffling reason some Americans like to boast about the number of patents assigned in their name.
Companies like Citect (http://www.citect.com) and users thereof might. There's plenty of legacy stuff out there still being actively maintained that has VB6 in it. Maybe VB6 can now go 64 bit?
Also Skype just works, in that it:
- Successfully negotiates and punches through most NAT and firewall setups.
- Doesn't need any configuration at all to get working, just log in after a simple initial registration.
- Has great audio and video quality.
- Your mother and her mother can use it.
Once the free and open source equivalents can deal with this issue of making it just work without any configuration then they'll be onto a winner.
Big Fucking Whoopee! Sick of Gnome 3 or Unity? Use Xubuntu or Kubuntu. Don't have Libreoffice on the CD? Get the DVD or use 'apt-get install libreoffice'.
It's a measure of your propensity and stupidity to buy into another form of elitism and exclusivity. Like the world doesn't have enough of those social partitioning devices already!
Well, that's great. The demos on SVG-WOW make my i7 break out into TurboBoost mode. So I can look forward to crappy 1996 era slowness on web pages again in the future. At least we'll know what to blame global warming on in the future.
Turn 5 again so the monsters can scare the bejesus out of you.
I loved to be scared by it in the Tom Baker days, especially by the Cybermen. I particularly remember being reduced to crying hysterics by them but I'd keep coming back for more.
As I got older it became more apparent that it is a CHILDRENS and adolescents show.
So move on and don't worry about it too much.
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That's not true. The Dell U2711 27” does 2560x1440 (OK, lower Y res. than the one you mentioned due to the 16:9 aspect) but you will pay $900 for that vs ~$200 for a 24" 1920x1080 screen
Most people were happy enough with their old standard definition CRT. I think these sorts of changes take time, much like the CD player slowly supplanting records and tape and DVDs slowly replacing VCRs. Current full HD as broadcast on free to air is crappy a lot of the time due to the heavy compression used at times by the network. A good case is sports with lots of movement or camera flashes on the news breaking out into what resembles a Lego(TM) rendition of the scene.
SD-TV as TV production and editing hardware has been upgraded from PAL/NTSC conversion to full and proper 16:9 digital versions, has started to look a lot better of late. Even on my 1024x768 Panasonic Plasma a lot of new SD Australian productions look terrific. Compare the new shows to imports like the US version of the Amazing Race or Survivor that until recently were still shot in blurry 4:3 format.
What I do think was good planning on the part of producers ~20 years ago was to shoot shows like Seinfeld or Friends on film. Those shows re-mastered for 16:9 HD/SD have taken a whole new dimension with the improvement in picture quality. I just wish Frasier could be remastered in the same way, but I think they used video cameras.
Anyway, the full potential of 1920x1080p as used in broadcast TV hasn't been reached and I doubt that it ever will be as TV stations try to cram as many channels as they can onto a 6/7/8MHz block of bandwidth. SDTV really is good enough for most people and the jump from a CRT to a cheap LCD or plasma will be plenty good enough for a long time.
This may be due in part to the way github integrates social networking and coding-- I'm unaware of anything similar for SVN, Perforce, Bazaar, Mercurial, etc...
What's that you say? Social networking and Git?! Now there's an idea! I'll go set up a new site - I'll call it GitFace! Who's in with me on the IPO in 2 years?
Somehow I doubt that telling those white supremacists that they're the ones descended from Neanderthals and that the Africans are the only group lacking Neanderthal DNA would do anything to change their perspectives.
Well, it explains the white supremacists jutting eyebrows, sloping foreheads and rather dimwitted world view. Maybe they should be called NeoNeanderthals.
WTF? Is you effects software written in Javascript? Convolutions on an i7 should barely wake the CPU up let alone struggle. I think there is some sort of I/O problem instead. Does it use a frickin' spinning while() loop as a wait function for the next sample tick?
I know someone who wrote a popular VST plugin and being a numbers n00b kept hitting the floating point denormal slowdown. I suggested he ditch floats and doubles and just use fixed point with careful scaling in each stage. He hadn't a clue what to do there and suffered the gripes from users about performance. That said, his plugin made wicked sounds. I'd say the musos plugins are somewhat poorly optimised.
Sure. That's exactly what's started to happen here - the olde phone networke is being put out of action and replaced entirely. The NBN as it's called is already being rolled out. All the copper pairs are being decommissioned and replaced with fibre to the premises. In relation to this article the magic box they supply to the dwelling sports an ethernet port and a phone port so you can still plug in your existing analogue telephone and keep your existing phone number. So really, the PSTN is staying, it's just being replaced by fibre.
Hahaha suck it USAians. Here in Australia the GOVERNMENT has solved this problem and taken it upon itself to replace every single copper pair with gigabit capable fibre into most dwellings and businesses.
That's fine, but if they are aware you speak Mandarin they'll just use their regional language or dialect and once again become unintelligible. My German friend will use his thick Schwebian dialect when he doesn't want a Hoch Deutsch speaker to understand what he's saying.
You shouldn't have this problem if your ugg boots are made from real sheep skin and wool. My sheep skin slippers are falling apart from 4+ years of use but don't stink. The cheaper synthetic wool boots and slippers take about 2 weeks to start ponging to high heaven.
You can get a 3br bunghole in need of serious renovation here in sleepy Warrnambool (Australia) for US$250,000. Either the US housing market is screwed or the Australian market is screwed. I am not sure which is the case....
The article is interesting and has a fair point. I have worked at three companies now where compliance was very much an afterthought and was charged at each company to get them over the line before the items went to market. Luckily I have been able to make various combinations of hardware and firmware meet C-Tick (CISPR21/22), A-Tick (S-001/2/3/4), IP-52, EN60950 etc.) with judicious application of capacitors to ground, sticky metal foil, clip on ferrites and firmware corrections. On the other hand, hardware I have designed has considered these things first up an resulted in quick testing and no revisits to the test labs. You software types have no idea! Making sure your SELV and hazardous voltage clearances right first time will save very expensive rework and restesting.
I was told about this sort of battery research 2nd hand about 8 years ago. Go to the 'petrol' station, attach a nozzle to the car, have the battery fluids replaced in a matter of a minute or two and off you go.
It's just adding to the plethora of patents Apple can use in it's Patent Big Stick. And someone at Apple gets to do Patent++ on their CV. I have noticed over the years that for some baffling reason some Americans like to boast about the number of patents assigned in their name.
Oh goddammit. I didn't need that right before bed.
Companies like Citect (http://www.citect.com) and users thereof might. There's plenty of legacy stuff out there still being actively maintained that has VB6 in it. Maybe VB6 can now go 64 bit?
Also Skype just works, in that it: - Successfully negotiates and punches through most NAT and firewall setups. - Doesn't need any configuration at all to get working, just log in after a simple initial registration. - Has great audio and video quality. - Your mother and her mother can use it. Once the free and open source equivalents can deal with this issue of making it just work without any configuration then they'll be onto a winner.
Big Fucking Whoopee! Sick of Gnome 3 or Unity? Use Xubuntu or Kubuntu. Don't have Libreoffice on the CD? Get the DVD or use 'apt-get install libreoffice'.
It's nice to see there is someone who knows IT and is grumpier than me! I prostrate myself before you!
Haskell reminds me of glossolalia. Every time I take a look at it all I see is gobbledygook with the proponents of it claiming they have seen God.
It's a measure of your propensity and stupidity to buy into another form of elitism and exclusivity. Like the world doesn't have enough of those social partitioning devices already!
Well, that's great. The demos on SVG-WOW make my i7 break out into TurboBoost mode. So I can look forward to crappy 1996 era slowness on web pages again in the future. At least we'll know what to blame global warming on in the future.
It's about frickin' time! As usual MS take the longest to get on the trend train.
Turn 5 again so the monsters can scare the bejesus out of you. I loved to be scared by it in the Tom Baker days, especially by the Cybermen. I particularly remember being reduced to crying hysterics by them but I'd keep coming back for more. As I got older it became more apparent that it is a CHILDRENS and adolescents show. So move on and don't worry about it too much.
A proper trial of the EVP equipment would be too test it in a haunted Faraday cage. There must be plenty of those around!