8051? This processor is as old as bacteria... useful for some but It can't measure with AVR by any means. The instruction set is making even simple operation (say a=b;) tens instructions long, and these usually are 4 clocks per instruction. Dog slow by architecture and implementation.
duh, look at modern versions like from Silicon Labs -- single-clock instructions, real I/O ports. Nobody uses the Intel 12-clock 8051s any more.
How often does one need a JTAG debugger anyway? You can do plenty without one.
I tend to use it all the time. Beats the pants off of adding a resource-using monitor, or trying to blink LEDs, or spit things out the serial port, or whatever.
Sure, if you're God's own programmer, you don't need a debugger, but us mortals like to use it when things don't go as expected.
I'm so tired of non-engineers puffing up the lame Arduino platform. Why bother with Arduino when you can get a Silicon Labs 8051 board, with an excellent USB JTAG dongle, for a hundred bucks? You can't buy the debugger for the AVR for that.
MASH did a pretty impressive long-take episode about a shot up kid who needed a critical procedure in a very limited time. I don't know if it was done in a number of takes, but it was in real time.
It had a small clock running in one of the lower screen corners, too; it counted down the 26 minutes or whatever the doctors said the kid had left. Definitely one of the best episodes of a television series ever.
I always get a laugh out of people who pronounce gif as jif - and yes, I know the creators of the format used a soft G, but that is wrong. Acronym letters should take the sound of the letters in the word they replace.
What about the illiterates who pronounce, "gigabyte" with a hard G?
It's the same root as the word, "gigantic." Get it right.
So use your guns. Isn't this what American have been saving their guns for?
The 2nd Amendment Absolutists (read: bedwetters) should've been out in force during the GW Bush years, yet not a peep. (This is why I presume that they are bedwetters.) Now that there's a black dude in the White House, well, time to start stockpiling ammo, boys!
Since I doubt many of India's power systems have things to handle the potential of overload (like street lamps in a majority of the outlying city areas,) I think they'd be happy enough to have the extra draw on the grid to keep the voltage semi-regular.
That's one reason why the USA has so many streetlights, after all. A great deal of our power stations run unthrottled and so to prevent our lines ending up over 130v and frying everything we put extra draw on the grid. This is also a reason why the government will be slow to adpot LED technology for major road and lot lighting, unless we come out with solutions that are drawing that much power (defeating the whole purpose and adding more light scatter.)
Wow, you have no idea what you're talking about, yet you feel compelled to post anyway.
Either that, or the highway departments can pull their heads out of their asses and let us drive 100 MPH.
Most drivers are incapable of handling their vehicles at half that speed. Raising the speed limit to 100 mph would result in carnage on the highways.
(Some chick in an X-Terra ran me off the road this morning. She needed to get into the right lane, for no reason, and was yapping on the phone and didn't bother to look, she just turned into my lane. She ignored the horn and the yelling. I called on Our Lady Of Blessed Acceleration by downshifting from 6th to 3rd, pulled in front of her, then made sure she couldn't pass me. THIS is why I oppose higher speed limits.)
"If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product." (I wish I could claim credit for the quote, but I can't. And I've heard it from so many sources that I don't know the origin.)
As the great Aussie band the Saints sang, "Know Your Product," alternately, "No, You're Product."
what they do here for pawnshops. Put a four week hold on all payments.
That sucks. Half the point of a pawn shop is "oh shit, I have to pay rent in 2 days but don't get paid for 4!" A short term loan where you get to choose your collateral (and which, if you default on, they're not going to come after your house or whatever).
Too fucking bad. Stop trying to sell stolen goods.
Not if your company pays for it or if you write it off as a business expense.
Even if you write it off, you still paid for it. The write-off reduces your taxable income by the amount of the write-off, which reduces the amount of income tax you must pay by your tax rate times the amount of the write-off.
So if you're in the 30% tax bracket and you paid $500 for Office, you can write $500 off of your income, which means your tax is reduced by $150. In other words, you still spent $350.
I don't even want a tuner or speakers on my tv; just a 42"-52" display. You'd think they'd be cheaper than a tv.
Indeed, you're right. All that's necessary is a large monitor with a bunch of inputs: HDMI, YCrCb, S-Video, whatever new and obsolete formats you can think of. No tuner necessary. Just let me plug in my sources.
If I bought the GoogleTV or AppleTV for my nearly 80-year-old parents would it (1) be able to connect to their old composite-only set? What about S-video?
Buy an HDMI to composite adapter for $10.00.
Ten bucks WHERE? If I could find said box, I'd buy an AppleTV today. Everywhere I've looked I've seen those converters costing more than the AppleTV.
Go to Apple and look what accessories cost (in general).
There is no way that Apple will be the low cost option.
Given that I already have machines capable of running iTunes and serving up content from that, the only accessory I need is a TV with an HDMI input. And that's a pretty pricey accessory. (And it's not much cheaper to get an HDMI-to-NTSC converter box.)
Yep, still running an old-school glass standard-def CRT for TV viewing. Why? It works. The cableco still sends standard-def video down the wire (HD content requires a converter box and they charge $$$ for the HD service), and I got one of the antenna converter boxes (which works quite well). I don't have a BlueRay player or discs, just a bunch of DVDs.
I'd rather have my two-year-old touch the CRT while watching "SuperWhy!" instead of touching an LCD or plasma panel. Not that I want him that close to ANY screen, but YOU try to keep a toddler away!
The things you use to get content have far shorter lifecycles than the products you use to view content. Embedding one within the other is a WOMBAT: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time.
At least until they really standardize things and everyone gets onboard and the technology gets worked out. MP3, FLAC, and WAV are all pretty old, and all are still being used for audio. The problem is in thinking you want *Napster* built into your stereo. The truth is, you probably do want some kind of MP3 streaming built into your stereo so you can house your library in a central server, but you want that streaming to be open and platform agnostic.
I have zero interest in MP3 streaming to my stereo. Songs in a lossless compression format, or straight.WAV or AIFF? I'll take that, thanks. Oh wait, I already have that -- iTunes handles these formats without complaint. Why do I want to depend on a decoder built into the TV?
I think the issue is that getting your content INTO iTunes is the difficult proposition. If your content needs to be re-encoded, it's a pain in the butt.
Getting content INTO iTunes is as simple as choosing File->Add To Library... from the main menu. At least it works with the various video clips with which I've tried it. The difficult part is ripping a DVD or BlueRay disc.
I just unplugged and am in the process of getting rid of my HTPC. I spent a lot of money on a fancy home theatre case, Hauppauge HD PVR, SageTV, etc. etc. I think I spent almost as much time over the years trying to get/keep it working as I actually spent watching TV. OK maybe I'm exaggerating but still it was a lot of effort.
I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 that would work when it felt like it. I think the hardware is sound, but the software is a disaster. Too many separate packages to install, none of it is clear which is actually required. I believe that there's a Mac driver and software package for it, but since we have the eyeTV in the living room, the Hauppauge box just sits. (And yes, I've tried to sell it on eBay and craigslist, and never got any bites.).
I'm going to replace it with either an Apple TV or a mac mini server, depending on how rich I feel and what I decide I want to do with it. I'm looking forward to the easier maintenance, quieter living room, and lower power bills.
Wish I could justify the price of the mini server; the standard mini does just fine. Also, we use our mini as our DVD player and the server flavor doesn't have a DVD drive, so spending a few extra bucks for that is kind of annoying.
I'm also dumping satellite TV and I seriously doubt I'll be spending $65/month on rentals & purchases, given how little I actually watch.
I want to get rid of cable and use one of these boxes, but I want to be able to download shows, or alternatively, play downloaded video. Also, I want to be able to use a real keyboard. Can you recommend a device that would most easily accomplish this? Thanks.
A Mac mini will do ya fine. Or even that old laptop you're about to replace will work! Add Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you're good to go.
What do you use as the DVR software, and how do you get OTA stuff to the DVR? I hear mixed things about EyeTV, and don't understand why it is so hard to find something with a good built in HD tuner.
I have an old eyeTV 200 connected to a similar-vintage G4 Mac mini. I just upgraded to the latest eyeTV software (version 3-something, which is the end-of-the-line for Universal binaries, apparently). It's always been pretty excellent recording from either OTA or from cable, and its source can be via the antenna input or from S-Video or composite on RCA jack.
No, it's not high def. I don't doubt that the mini and its FW400 port are insufficient for 1080p hi-def sources, and obviously I would need a new eyeTV box that supports same. But since I don't have any hi-def sources (I'm not willing to give the cableco a hundred bucks a month or whateverfuck they charge for it), I've got no real reason to upgrade.
The ol' mini is perfectly fine as a home-theatre machine (plus it runs the house DNS and a Subversion server), with one exception: Hulu and its stupid Flash player. What's bizarre is that in the early days of Hulu, the mini WAS able to deal with whatever Hulu used as its player. Then either Flash got updated, or Hulu changed their player, or something, but Hulu is not usable on this machine any more.
Playing standard-def shows we get through iTunes has been uniformly problem-free.
That said, you wouldn't know a real leak from the constant rumors unless someone looses an iPhone at a bar that has Verizon in the top bar instead of AT&T
jeez a FOUR DIGITAL/. ID, and still you can't spell.
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8051? This processor is as old as bacteria... useful for some but It can't measure with AVR by any means. The instruction set is making even simple operation (say a=b;) tens instructions long, and these usually are 4 clocks per instruction. Dog slow by architecture and implementation.
duh, look at modern versions like from Silicon Labs -- single-clock instructions, real I/O ports. Nobody uses the Intel 12-clock 8051s any more.
How often does one need a JTAG debugger anyway? You can do plenty without one.
I tend to use it all the time. Beats the pants off of adding a resource-using monitor, or trying to blink LEDs, or spit things out the serial port, or whatever.
Sure, if you're God's own programmer, you don't need a debugger, but us mortals like to use it when things don't go as expected.
I'm so tired of non-engineers puffing up the lame Arduino platform. Why bother with Arduino when you can get a Silicon Labs 8051 board, with an excellent USB JTAG dongle, for a hundred bucks? You can't buy the debugger for the AVR for that.
Any list without the long take that opens The Player is suspect.
Absolutely. Altman was showing off, of course, since the movie about the movie industry, but man, it's great.
MASH did a pretty impressive long-take episode about a shot up kid who needed a critical procedure in a very limited time. I don't know if it was done in a number of takes, but it was in real time.
It had a small clock running in one of the lower screen corners, too; it counted down the 26 minutes or whatever the doctors said the kid had left. Definitely one of the best episodes of a television series ever.
I always get a laugh out of people who pronounce gif as jif - and yes, I know the creators of the format used a soft G, but that is wrong. Acronym letters should take the sound of the letters in the word they replace.
What about the illiterates who pronounce, "gigabyte" with a hard G?
It's the same root as the word, "gigantic." Get it right.
So use your guns. Isn't this what American have been saving their guns for?
The 2nd Amendment Absolutists (read: bedwetters) should've been out in force during the GW Bush years, yet not a peep. (This is why I presume that they are bedwetters.) Now that there's a black dude in the White House, well, time to start stockpiling ammo, boys!
Since I doubt many of India's power systems have things to handle the potential of overload (like street lamps in a majority of the outlying city areas,) I think they'd be happy enough to have the extra draw on the grid to keep the voltage semi-regular.
That's one reason why the USA has so many streetlights, after all. A great deal of our power stations run unthrottled and so to prevent our lines ending up over 130v and frying everything we put extra draw on the grid. This is also a reason why the government will be slow to adpot LED technology for major road and lot lighting, unless we come out with solutions that are drawing that much power (defeating the whole purpose and adding more light scatter.)
Wow, you have no idea what you're talking about, yet you feel compelled to post anyway.
Either that, or the highway departments can pull their heads out of their asses and let us drive 100 MPH.
Most drivers are incapable of handling their vehicles at half that speed. Raising the speed limit to 100 mph would result in carnage on the highways.
(Some chick in an X-Terra ran me off the road this morning. She needed to get into the right lane, for no reason, and was yapping on the phone and didn't bother to look, she just turned into my lane. She ignored the horn and the yelling. I called on Our Lady Of Blessed Acceleration by downshifting from 6th to 3rd, pulled in front of her, then made sure she couldn't pass me. THIS is why I oppose higher speed limits.)
Why would ANYONE use Safari on Mac when you have FF? ABP and NoScript for the win!
Ummm, AdBlock is now available for Safari, and Click2Flash neatly dispenses with Flash.
But, the battery-sucking aspect of Flash is old news.
Actually, go to the archives on the right. Those stories are still served without a password.
Nope, database errors returned there too. I checked www.bugmenot.com to see if anyone put up a password, but alas not.
Despite 20 years of criticism, Apple still makes sure that nobody can run a batch file.
Why run a batch file when you can run a proper shell script?
"If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product." (I wish I could claim credit for the quote, but I can't. And I've heard it from so many sources that I don't know the origin.)
As the great Aussie band the Saints sang, "Know Your Product," alternately, "No, You're Product."
what they do here for pawnshops. Put a four week hold on all payments.
That sucks. Half the point of a pawn shop is "oh shit, I have to pay rent in 2 days but don't get paid for 4!" A short term loan where you get to choose your collateral (and which, if you default on, they're not going to come after your house or whatever).
Too fucking bad. Stop trying to sell stolen goods.
Not if your company pays for it or if you write it off as a business expense.
Even if you write it off, you still paid for it. The write-off reduces your taxable income by the amount of the write-off, which reduces the amount of income tax you must pay by your tax rate times the amount of the write-off.
So if you're in the 30% tax bracket and you paid $500 for Office, you can write $500 off of your income, which means your tax is reduced by $150. In other words, you still spent $350.
I don't even want a tuner or speakers on my tv; just a 42"-52" display. You'd think they'd be cheaper than a tv.
Indeed, you're right. All that's necessary is a large monitor with a bunch of inputs: HDMI, YCrCb, S-Video, whatever new and obsolete formats you can think of. No tuner necessary. Just let me plug in my sources.
I guess the man page is correct: less is more.
"jeez a FOUR DIGITAL /. ID, and still you can't spell."
Apparently, you can't either
Goddamn iPhone!
If I bought the GoogleTV or AppleTV for my nearly 80-year-old parents would it (1) be able to connect to their old composite-only set? What about S-video?
Buy an HDMI to composite adapter for $10.00.
Ten bucks WHERE? If I could find said box, I'd buy an AppleTV today. Everywhere I've looked I've seen those converters costing more than the AppleTV.
Go to Apple and look what accessories cost (in general).
There is no way that Apple will be the low cost option.
Given that I already have machines capable of running iTunes and serving up content from that, the only accessory I need is a TV with an HDMI input. And that's a pretty pricey accessory. (And it's not much cheaper to get an HDMI-to-NTSC converter box.)
Yep, still running an old-school glass standard-def CRT for TV viewing. Why? It works. The cableco still sends standard-def video down the wire (HD content requires a converter box and they charge $$$ for the HD service), and I got one of the antenna converter boxes (which works quite well). I don't have a BlueRay player or discs, just a bunch of DVDs.
I'd rather have my two-year-old touch the CRT while watching "SuperWhy!" instead of touching an LCD or plasma panel. Not that I want him that close to ANY screen, but YOU try to keep a toddler away!
The things you use to get content have far shorter lifecycles than the products you use to view content. Embedding one within the other is a WOMBAT: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time.
At least until they really standardize things and everyone gets onboard and the technology gets worked out. MP3, FLAC, and WAV are all pretty old, and all are still being used for audio. The problem is in thinking you want *Napster* built into your stereo. The truth is, you probably do want some kind of MP3 streaming built into your stereo so you can house your library in a central server, but you want that streaming to be open and platform agnostic.
I have zero interest in MP3 streaming to my stereo. Songs in a lossless compression format, or straight .WAV or AIFF? I'll take that, thanks. Oh wait, I already have that -- iTunes handles these formats without complaint. Why do I want to depend on a decoder built into the TV?
I think the issue is that getting your content INTO iTunes is the difficult proposition. If your content needs to be re-encoded, it's a pain in the butt.
Getting content INTO iTunes is as simple as choosing File->Add To Library... from the main menu. At least it works with the various video clips with which I've tried it. The difficult part is ripping a DVD or BlueRay disc.
I just unplugged and am in the process of getting rid of my HTPC. I spent a lot of money on a fancy home theatre case, Hauppauge HD PVR, SageTV, etc. etc. I think I spent almost as much time over the years trying to get/keep it working as I actually spent watching TV. OK maybe I'm exaggerating but still it was a lot of effort.
I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 that would work when it felt like it. I think the hardware is sound, but the software is a disaster. Too many separate packages to install, none of it is clear which is actually required. I believe that there's a Mac driver and software package for it, but since we have the eyeTV in the living room, the Hauppauge box just sits. (And yes, I've tried to sell it on eBay and craigslist, and never got any bites.).
I'm going to replace it with either an Apple TV or a mac mini server, depending on how rich I feel and what I decide I want to do with it. I'm looking forward to the easier maintenance, quieter living room, and lower power bills.
Wish I could justify the price of the mini server; the standard mini does just fine. Also, we use our mini as our DVD player and the server flavor doesn't have a DVD drive, so spending a few extra bucks for that is kind of annoying.
I'm also dumping satellite TV and I seriously doubt I'll be spending $65/month on rentals & purchases, given how little I actually watch.
I want to get rid of cable and use one of these boxes, but I want to be able to download shows, or alternatively, play downloaded video. Also, I want to be able to use a real keyboard. Can you recommend a device that would most easily accomplish this? Thanks.
A Mac mini will do ya fine. Or even that old laptop you're about to replace will work! Add Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you're good to go.
What do you use as the DVR software, and how do you get OTA stuff to the DVR? I hear mixed things about EyeTV, and don't understand why it is so hard to find something with a good built in HD tuner.
I have an old eyeTV 200 connected to a similar-vintage G4 Mac mini. I just upgraded to the latest eyeTV software (version 3-something, which is the end-of-the-line for Universal binaries, apparently). It's always been pretty excellent recording from either OTA or from cable, and its source can be via the antenna input or from S-Video or composite on RCA jack.
No, it's not high def. I don't doubt that the mini and its FW400 port are insufficient for 1080p hi-def sources, and obviously I would need a new eyeTV box that supports same. But since I don't have any hi-def sources (I'm not willing to give the cableco a hundred bucks a month or whateverfuck they charge for it), I've got no real reason to upgrade.
The ol' mini is perfectly fine as a home-theatre machine (plus it runs the house DNS and a Subversion server), with one exception: Hulu and its stupid Flash player. What's bizarre is that in the early days of Hulu, the mini WAS able to deal with whatever Hulu used as its player. Then either Flash got updated, or Hulu changed their player, or something, but Hulu is not usable on this machine any more.
Playing standard-def shows we get through iTunes has been uniformly problem-free.
Apple is already making a CDMA iPhone, and it's on Verizon. Rolls out in Q1. Try to keep up.
Yeah, sure, right.
That said, you wouldn't know a real leak from the constant rumors unless someone looses an iPhone at a bar that has Verizon in the top bar instead of AT&T
jeez a FOUR DIGITAL /. ID, and still you can't spell.