Considering that running dnetc on 3 machines at my place made about a $20 difference to the monthly powerbill vs having them idle at 0% cpu, I hate to think of the negitives of this with the added greenhouse gasses that this decision will create.
Also it will mean that PS3s sitting in closed up TV cabinets will still be pumping out heat possibly leading to overheating since noone will want to leave the console sitting out.
All up, stupid idea IMO
There isnt 1080 lines of information there anyway
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images destinted for interlaced display have to have there vertical resolution reduced anyway before display since there would be unacceptable flicker otherwise. This is the reason for the flicker filter on the ntsc/pal output on PC vga cards, it is also why no dvd titles I am aware of can offer the full vertical resolution the format is capable of as there is too much flicker when on an interlaced tv.
I recall a figure of 3/4 from somewhere, so your 1080 line display can only provide a stable image containing about 800 lines anyway.
If they were sensible when developing HDTV they would have only provided for 1080p 24 or 30 FPS modes, but the tube was still king back then so interlacing it was.
Interlacing was a kludge when it was invented, and should _never_ have being adopted in a 1990s standard.
It is possible to accuratly de-interlace things that were originaly progressive before interlacing (With the drop in vertical resolution noted above) but anything sourced from interlaced video can never be made progressive with out some form of artifacts. People in NTSCland dont see it often, but in PAL countries its very common for TVs to offer a 100Hz mode that deinterlaces and frame doubles the video to remove annoying 50Hz flicker, and all to often on these TVs there are artifacts on moving video like football or news footage.
Around here the towers are usually just on the side of a building or a lamp post or something.
Perhaps if they put a larger number of sites in, they wouldnt have to make them so damn high.
Scart is not great, I would go as far as saying its crap.
It assumes you are delivering the audio to the same place as the video, it uses an abortion of a connector that looks like it belongs in a 70's data centre, with nothing to stop the oversize plug pulling out. There is nothing in it to ensure the shield connects first like all BNC, and a lot of RCA connectors provide.
There are also issues of there being a total of 3 ways to send a widescreen selection via scart, and most equipment will use a different method to what evers at the other end of the cable.
Add that to all sorts of non standard ways that devices use the selection lines and you end up with TVs that wont change from the AV input when the connected DVD player is recording. About the only good thing scart has done is promote an input that doesnt destroy the colour information by putting it on a subcarrier like composite and svideo - component is available now so scarts day is over, and with the proliferation of home theatres now where people dont want the audio anywhere near there TV, it makes it easier to connect without scarts.
Not true, I have 2 sets of 4 seagate SATA drives RAID-5'd in a 2003 server machine for storign all my media on.
Twice now I have started to get write errors to the drives in the event viewer - Pulling the mentioned drive out and replacing it was a piece of cake to get going again, and running the seagate online drive test on that drive on another computer (The test wont work thru PCI SATA cards it seems) came back with smart threshholds exceeded. Drives have 3 year warente, so back they go for replacement. In 2.5 years when they have no more watentee left, I simply replace them with whatever drives are then available for cheap, hopefully 400-500 gigs a piece:)
Those are miles apart, here we have stations in the same city 0.4MHz apart, there i 93.4, 93.8, 94.2, all the same power all from the same transmission site. Works fine on anything better then an analog tuned $9 clock radio, and the ministry of commerce that oversees spectrum allocation basically says, you buy a cheap radio, you get cheap performance, tough luck.
Also, there are the LPFM allocations at each end of the FM band, its basically a free for all, but in any given area people are stacking them 0.2MHz apart, and so long as noone overmodulates, it all works fine on a 1/2 decent radio. 0.8Mhz seems somewhat excessive, perhaps in the days of non PLL tuning it was needed, but these days its just crazy
Here in NZ, I have to pay around NZ$40 for a phone line, $30 DSL costs to the telco (telecom) for the dsl service to be active on the line, and then ISP costs, these range from $20 to much more for flatrate ($130 i think) - all this gets you is 128k bidirectional connection.
Im on a typical plan from most ISPs, 10 gigs of international data, unlimited national. Total cost is $40+$30+$35 = $NZ105 or about US$70
The broadband ones can only be bought from the telco. However they still make you get an ISP account for some reason. Most ISPs are NZ$10 for that. All that gets you is a mailbox, DNS service and a bill each month.
Pricing on the broadband plans is horrendous, NZ$60 for 2 gigs of traffic at 256kbit. There are cheaper plans at half and 1 gig.
The full rate plans are insanely priced. All data over your monthly quota is charged at NZ20c per meg.
I think the rest of the world is laughing.
recently there was an inquiry into this, the outcome was that the recommendation is that they have to wholesale the 256k service to other providors. No mention of the issue that I am forced to get a analog phone line that I dont want in order to purchase an ADSL connection.
I recall a similar issue here in when somone started to use channel 41, which is just above channel 40 where a lot of VCRs have there RF output.
Basically it came down to tough luck to people that got interferance problems and had to pay someone to come and retune. As it should be. Broadcast bands are for broadcasting.
Simalar thing with CD changers that use an FM modulator. Mate has one that can switch between 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, and 88.7 - Big station on 88.6, and a LPFM on 88.2 and he cant use it - Ministry of economic development say tough luck...
This was designed to solve this issue, you get state information about the connection (external IP and speed etc) and are able to control the connection if thats enabled.
You can setup incoming NAT redirection remotely using it.
Why does noone like it? Oh yeah, microsoft had a lot to do with the engeneering of it.
maxim are helpfull with there sample policy. If you were to connect an array of red, green and blue LEDs inplace of the digits, you can change the brightness of each bank of them with 8 brightnesses,
In the data sheet they talk about 127 colours with bi-coloured LEDs, if you had tri-coloured then you would get... ooooh.. 16.8 million.
can be loaded by bit-banging the SPI or I2C interface from a printer port. Im sure someone has made a linux driver for it. Some code to do that was on there site when I looked but I cant find it now..
I had the HSF fall off my duron when moved, the machine died while the scsi bios was doing its thing on boot, before the temperature monitor stuff kicked it. This machine was not overclocekd or anything.
I think it is very pathetic of AMD for not including even a simple thing to shut down on an overheat in there CPU's and I intend to take this furthur. I had to shop around to find a HSF that used the extra tabs on the socket A as the middle one on the top of the board lost the end of it when the machine was moved.
There are 4 holes around the CPU socket for heatsinks, but no coolers out there will use them.
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Considering that running dnetc on 3 machines at my place made about a $20 difference to the monthly powerbill vs having them idle at 0% cpu, I hate to think of the negitives of this with the added greenhouse gasses that this decision will create. Also it will mean that PS3s sitting in closed up TV cabinets will still be pumping out heat possibly leading to overheating since noone will want to leave the console sitting out. All up, stupid idea IMO
images destinted for interlaced display have to have there vertical resolution reduced anyway before display since there would be unacceptable flicker otherwise. This is the reason for the flicker filter on the ntsc/pal output on PC vga cards, it is also why no dvd titles I am aware of can offer the full vertical resolution the format is capable of as there is too much flicker when on an interlaced tv. I recall a figure of 3/4 from somewhere, so your 1080 line display can only provide a stable image containing about 800 lines anyway. If they were sensible when developing HDTV they would have only provided for 1080p 24 or 30 FPS modes, but the tube was still king back then so interlacing it was. Interlacing was a kludge when it was invented, and should _never_ have being adopted in a 1990s standard. It is possible to accuratly de-interlace things that were originaly progressive before interlacing (With the drop in vertical resolution noted above) but anything sourced from interlaced video can never be made progressive with out some form of artifacts. People in NTSCland dont see it often, but in PAL countries its very common for TVs to offer a 100Hz mode that deinterlaces and frame doubles the video to remove annoying 50Hz flicker, and all to often on these TVs there are artifacts on moving video like football or news footage.
Around here the towers are usually just on the side of a building or a lamp post or something. Perhaps if they put a larger number of sites in, they wouldnt have to make them so damn high.
Scart is not great, I would go as far as saying its crap. It assumes you are delivering the audio to the same place as the video, it uses an abortion of a connector that looks like it belongs in a 70's data centre, with nothing to stop the oversize plug pulling out. There is nothing in it to ensure the shield connects first like all BNC, and a lot of RCA connectors provide. There are also issues of there being a total of 3 ways to send a widescreen selection via scart, and most equipment will use a different method to what evers at the other end of the cable. Add that to all sorts of non standard ways that devices use the selection lines and you end up with TVs that wont change from the AV input when the connected DVD player is recording. About the only good thing scart has done is promote an input that doesnt destroy the colour information by putting it on a subcarrier like composite and svideo - component is available now so scarts day is over, and with the proliferation of home theatres now where people dont want the audio anywhere near there TV, it makes it easier to connect without scarts.
Not true, I have 2 sets of 4 seagate SATA drives RAID-5'd in a 2003 server machine for storign all my media on. Twice now I have started to get write errors to the drives in the event viewer - Pulling the mentioned drive out and replacing it was a piece of cake to get going again, and running the seagate online drive test on that drive on another computer (The test wont work thru PCI SATA cards it seems) came back with smart threshholds exceeded. Drives have 3 year warente, so back they go for replacement. In 2.5 years when they have no more watentee left, I simply replace them with whatever drives are then available for cheap, hopefully 400-500 gigs a piece :)
Those are miles apart, here we have stations in the same city 0.4MHz apart, there i 93.4, 93.8, 94.2, all the same power all from the same transmission site. Works fine on anything better then an analog tuned $9 clock radio, and the ministry of commerce that oversees spectrum allocation basically says, you buy a cheap radio, you get cheap performance, tough luck. Also, there are the LPFM allocations at each end of the FM band, its basically a free for all, but in any given area people are stacking them 0.2MHz apart, and so long as noone overmodulates, it all works fine on a 1/2 decent radio. 0.8Mhz seems somewhat excessive, perhaps in the days of non PLL tuning it was needed, but these days its just crazy
Here in NZ, I have to pay around NZ$40 for a phone line, $30 DSL costs to the telco (telecom) for the dsl service to be active on the line, and then ISP costs, these range from $20 to much more for flatrate ($130 i think) - all this gets you is 128k bidirectional connection. Im on a typical plan from most ISPs, 10 gigs of international data, unlimited national. Total cost is $40+$30+$35 = $NZ105 or about US$70 The broadband ones can only be bought from the telco. However they still make you get an ISP account for some reason. Most ISPs are NZ$10 for that. All that gets you is a mailbox, DNS service and a bill each month. Pricing on the broadband plans is horrendous, NZ$60 for 2 gigs of traffic at 256kbit. There are cheaper plans at half and 1 gig. The full rate plans are insanely priced. All data over your monthly quota is charged at NZ20c per meg. I think the rest of the world is laughing. recently there was an inquiry into this, the outcome was that the recommendation is that they have to wholesale the 256k service to other providors. No mention of the issue that I am forced to get a analog phone line that I dont want in order to purchase an ADSL connection.
I recall a similar issue here in when somone started to use channel 41, which is just above channel 40 where a lot of VCRs have there RF output. Basically it came down to tough luck to people that got interferance problems and had to pay someone to come and retune. As it should be. Broadcast bands are for broadcasting. Simalar thing with CD changers that use an FM modulator. Mate has one that can switch between 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, and 88.7 - Big station on 88.6, and a LPFM on 88.2 and he cant use it - Ministry of economic development say tough luck...
This was designed to solve this issue, you get state information about the connection (external IP and speed etc) and are able to control the connection if thats enabled. You can setup incoming NAT redirection remotely using it. Why does noone like it? Oh yeah, microsoft had a lot to do with the engeneering of it.
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maxim are helpfull with there sample policy. If you were to connect an array of red, green and blue LEDs inplace of the digits, you can change the brightness of each bank of them with 8 brightnesses,
In the data sheet they talk about 127 colours with bi-coloured LEDs, if you had tri-coloured then you would get... ooooh.. 16.8 million.
can be loaded by bit-banging the SPI or I2C interface from a printer port. Im sure someone has made a linux driver for it. Some code to do that was on there site when I looked but I cant find it now..
I got a MSI board with onboard realtek 8100 lan, and it has a boot agent on the motherboard.
I had the HSF fall off my duron when moved, the machine died while the scsi bios was doing its thing on boot, before the temperature monitor stuff kicked it. This machine was not overclocekd or anything. I think it is very pathetic of AMD for not including even a simple thing to shut down on an overheat in there CPU's and I intend to take this furthur. I had to shop around to find a HSF that used the extra tabs on the socket A as the middle one on the top of the board lost the end of it when the machine was moved. There are 4 holes around the CPU socket for heatsinks, but no coolers out there will use them.