Say 1 CD at 192 is about 100MB so 500CDs= 500 x 100 MB = 50,000MB so about 50GB, given that you can get a 120GB IDE disk for under $90 easy, I think it is safe to say that ripping 500 CDs is more likely limited by ability to find 500 CDs worth ripping, rather than disk capacity.
So if the ABS misinterpets it's input as "wheels locked", it won't brake?
No, even in that case it will still brake, just allow the wheels to move a little. The effect will be similar to you pumping the brakes really fast.
The worst failure of ABS will only be noticable in an emergency high-speed braking situation as a skidding during braking. in 99% of cases ABS will not even be used.
Yeah, I want to see someone going jogging while playing MP3's on their laptop. (Sales pitch - It is a music player AND a piece of excercise equipment!!!)
On the flip side, the device is about the size of a PocketPC - wouldn't it be nice to have a PocketPC (running MS, or Linux, or PalmOS, or anything programmable and extendable) in the same form factor with a Hard Drive. When will those come out??? Now THAT would be something!
One can just as easily install another operating system on that as any other laptop, you're not locked in to Microsoft...
Although I would disagree with you on your choice of word "easily" - it is not the point. I did not say it HAS to run Microsoft, I said it DOES. Take a poll of a random 100 people you run into with laptops in an airport, and I would be surprised if you find more than one running Linux. But that again is not the point.
The point is that Linux will not make it any lighter, at least not in physical sense, and will add as much (if not more) complexity (relative term here) than Windows to get it to work. All this vs. a 10 Oz device that just works when you turn it on.
I think it is not meant to replace a real PVR. More of a personal PORTABLE accessary. They really should make it able to INTERFACE with a PVR like replay or tivo, rather than BE a PVR.
If you have to carry a notebook anyway with sufficient battery life, by all means - take that instead, but given a choice, i'd rather carry a 10oz device that works vs a 8 lbs device that runs microsoft.
Besides the Buran program being able to be Piloted via Remote, they also had the ability to handle a larger payload compared to a US Shuttle. Problem with the Buran Shuttles was that they could not get around problems with sustaining a Suitable Life Support System, Computer Bugs and Crashing (Not Windows back then! =) ), and a list of other problems that ultimately forced the program to be scratched.
Well, that and the fact that program was going in late 80's when money became a huge issue for Soviets. I think the financial problems coupled with impending doom of the USSR are the main problems that canceled Buran program.
For home users anyway. I still need a phone line for DSL. I still need a phone line for emergency services (VOIP won't work if the rest of the power is out, the regular phone was). I rarely make long distance calls. Maybe it's just not for me?
A - Cable modems or non-phone based "DSL" (wireless broadband, etc.)
B - Business uses - especially intersite PBX bridging and off-site extensions
C - Cheap international
D - A great deal of POTS service network is running or planning to run VOIP behind the scenes instead of analog connection with SS7 control protocol.
I think it was about '89 when Q-Link (C64 service which eventually became AOL) introduced ClubCaribe (or something like it) where you can get an Avatar and walk around an island and chat with other people - all on a C64 with a 300-1200 baud modem. It cracks me up that it took a better part of a decade to get AOL/Prodigy/CompuServe/ etc. up to similar level of technology that Q-Link had and apparently it is still going.
Most people are asuming this means listing service - but what if it WAS CDDB-like. Not the listings but ability to get full info on any episode of any show or movie. IMDB is good for movies, but not so much for TV shows. There are lots of epsiode guides but no centralized way to ID and describe shows. This is what CDDB did for CD's. It's a harder thing to do for TV shows, but would be very nice service to have.
It seems great for cable, but how well does it interface with a satellite-based service such as DirecTV? Since in that case, all tuning is controlled by the receiver, MythTV would be helpless - unless you could wire an IR emitter to it. But even then, the software would still have only passive control over the receiver (what if it goes to change a channel, but the reciever is off?).
MythTV does support IR or Serial changing of the channel, but if you have DirecTV you'd be foolish not to use DirecTivo - at prices anywhere from free to $100 and direct recording of MPEG stream from the satelite (I.e. no transcoding, same exact quality as original) plus support for 2 tuners in each Tivo unit.
Of course DirecTivo does not offer anything other than recording and playback of TV, so you will still need something to play MP3s, video files, etc.
Umm....2 Chips on a Single die is dual core. So an overglorified dual cpu system on a single chip is a dual core chip. What else do you think a dual core chip is? Besides the Advantages of what you call shared cache are none. If essentially 2 (different) cores/chips share a single cache the performance could possibly be less than optimal. The only benefit of 2 cores sharing a single cache is to save on die size
I think the implication is that this was Dual die - single package rather than "Single die"
I think people often confuse the packaging of a chip and the "chip" itself (silicon) thinking that the plastic they see is the chip itself
#10 #9 Earth: FC #8 #7 Any Gene Rodenbery show/movie(ST, Andromeda, etc) #6 SeaQuest #5 Plan 9 #4 Fox News/Fahrenheit 911 (two sides of same lies) #3 Sliders #2 Century City #1
It's like saying shows are same because they both have characters in them.
Andromeda's main premise is an attempt to (re)build a huge empire. It is highly political (and not in a smart, B5ish way) and highly idealistic (tada - everything is "Good Vs. Evil" like Star Trek and other idealistic "sci-fi")
Firefly's main premise is to keep flying and stay below radar, noone is good or evil, just people who can help and people who can hurt. Main theme is survival.
I think survival is something more people can relate to and makes for a much better science fiction (as opposed to "sci-fi")
She was on Wondefalls... before that got canned (or to be more exact, AFTER if got canned, her episodes never hit the air). And a brief guest spot on Dead Like Me. It always surprises me to spot her though, because she somehow looks MUCH different in Firefly that in anything else.
Data cable on my phone (non-bluetooth) is for using it as a GPRS modem, grabbing pictures off of it, uploading new ringtones, etc, etc. It's a Motorola. I don't actually use the sync phonebook feature.
I am saying that if your phone could NOT do the sync phonebook feature, you would not consider other features you are using useless. Likewise if the phonebook sync works, and picture transfer doesn't, it really does not make the cable useless for someone who wants to prevent the loss of their phonebook data.
Great. But it can also be used for syncing, file transfer, business card pushes, gaming, etc.
Yes, it can, but your original arguments were that:
a - Verizon is blocking ability to transfer pictures between PC and phone
and
b - Bluetooth and data cable on this phone have no use.
Neither of these statements are actually true.
YES! Why would someone have to buy the phone, and then spend another 40 dollars for the datacable when you could do it via bluetooth if Verizon hadn't crippled it?
I suggest you ask this question of thousands of people who WILL be buying these phones. (And don't ask ME because I am not planning to be among them.) If the phone does not have the features you want, do not buy it. It's pretty simple. But it does not mean other people want or even care about these features. And it does not man it is useless. Besides, if you are going to use price as example, how much is the bluetooth adaptor for your PC? I bet it's not much cheaper then the data cable, especially if you get the data cable from someone other than Verizon (will probably cost $10-$20, I would guess it is same cable as for T720).
Verizon's *main* reason for disabling the OBEX functionality on this phoen is simple... they do not want you to be able to take pictures from your phone and send them to others via bluetooth. If the disabling of BT was simply for security, you'd be able to transfer pictures using that nice 40 dollar data cable they'll happily sell you. But you can't with that either
Erm, according to the PC Magazine Article linked in story you can use flash cards to transfer pictures between PC and the phone.
The point is that EVERYONE will be paying more in the long run, INCLUDING the ones that modify their behavior. So now the end user is paying more on average, and can do less and is restricted as to where driving is allowed, lest he pay even MORE.
This happened with electricity - the many hourly/time-of-day plans local utilities been pushing since the "energy crisis".
That was the case with telephone service.
Bottom line is that the amount of accidents will not decrease, so insurance companies will be spending same amount of money, and the insurance companies will invest more money in new equipment, so I'll leave it up to you figure out who is going to pay for it in the long run.
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while I generally agree, some math shows:
Say 1 CD at 192 is about 100MB
so 500CDs= 500 x 100 MB = 50,000MB so about 50GB, given that you can get a 120GB IDE disk for under $90 easy, I think it is safe to say that ripping 500 CDs is more likely limited by ability to find 500 CDs worth ripping, rather than disk capacity.
-Em
Ballpark numbers:
Used xbox = $110
Used xbox DVD kit (for remote) = $10
Mod for xbox = $60 (installed)
120GB drive = =$90
Install XBoxMediaCenter. Total cost $270
Additional stations probably do not need the hdd, so they are $180 a piece
Optional $10 for a used component output, which includes optical out.
Done. All you need is some networking gear to connect them and it will do MP3/photos/videos/etc.
So if the ABS misinterpets it's input as "wheels locked", it won't brake?
No, even in that case it will still brake, just allow the wheels to move a little. The effect will be similar to you pumping the brakes really fast.
The worst failure of ABS will only be noticable in an emergency high-speed braking situation as a skidding during braking. in 99% of cases ABS will not even be used.
Yeah, I want to see someone going jogging while playing MP3's on their laptop. (Sales pitch - It is a music player AND a piece of excercise equipment!!!)
On the flip side, the device is about the size of a PocketPC - wouldn't it be nice to have a PocketPC (running MS, or Linux, or PalmOS, or anything programmable and extendable) in the same form factor with a Hard Drive. When will those come out??? Now THAT would be something!
-Em
And who says that it has to 'run microsoft'?
One can just as easily install another operating system on that as any other laptop, you're not locked in to Microsoft...
Although I would disagree with you on your choice of word "easily" - it is not the point. I did not say it HAS to run Microsoft, I said it DOES. Take a poll of a random 100 people you run into with laptops in an airport, and I would be surprised if you find more than one running Linux. But that again is not the point.
The point is that Linux will not make it any lighter, at least not in physical sense, and will add as much (if not more) complexity (relative term here) than Windows to get it to work. All this vs. a 10 Oz device that just works when you turn it on.
-Em
I think it is not meant to replace a real PVR. More of a personal PORTABLE accessary. They really should make it able to INTERFACE with a PVR like replay or tivo, rather than BE a PVR.
-Em
If you have to carry a notebook anyway with sufficient battery life, by all means - take that instead, but given a choice, i'd rather carry a 10oz device that works vs a 8 lbs device that runs microsoft.
-Em
Besides the Buran program being able to be Piloted via Remote, they also had the ability to handle a larger payload compared to a US Shuttle. Problem with the Buran Shuttles was that they could not get around problems with sustaining a Suitable Life Support System, Computer Bugs and Crashing (Not Windows back then! =) ), and a list of other problems that ultimately forced the program to be scratched.
Well, that and the fact that program was going in late 80's when money became a huge issue for Soviets. I think the financial problems coupled with impending doom of the USSR are the main problems that canceled Buran program.
-EM
For home users anyway. I still need a phone line for DSL. I still need a phone line for emergency services (VOIP won't work if the rest of the power is out, the regular phone was). I rarely make long distance calls. Maybe it's just not for me?
A - Cable modems or non-phone based "DSL" (wireless broadband, etc.)
B - Business uses - especially intersite PBX bridging and off-site extensions
C - Cheap international
D - A great deal of POTS service network is running or planning to run VOIP behind the scenes instead of analog connection with SS7 control protocol.
HTH
Em
I think it was about '89 when Q-Link (C64 service which eventually became AOL) introduced ClubCaribe (or something like it) where you can get an Avatar and walk around an island and chat with other people - all on a C64 with a 300-1200 baud modem. It cracks me up that it took a better part of a decade to get AOL/Prodigy/CompuServe/ etc. up to similar level of technology that Q-Link had and apparently it is still going.
-Em
Most people are asuming this means listing service - but what if it WAS CDDB-like. Not the listings but ability to get full info on any episode of any show or movie. IMDB is good for movies, but not so much for TV shows. There are lots of epsiode guides but no centralized way to ID and describe shows. This is what CDDB did for CD's. It's a harder thing to do for TV shows, but would be very nice service to have.
-Em
It seems great for cable, but how well does it interface with a satellite-based service such as DirecTV? Since in that case, all tuning is controlled by the receiver, MythTV would be helpless - unless you could wire an IR emitter to it. But even then, the software would still have only passive control over the receiver (what if it goes to change a channel, but the reciever is off?).
MythTV does support IR or Serial changing of the channel, but if you have DirecTV you'd be foolish not to use DirecTivo - at prices anywhere from free to $100 and direct recording of MPEG stream from the satelite (I.e. no transcoding, same exact quality as original) plus support for 2 tuners in each Tivo unit.
Of course DirecTivo does not offer anything other than recording and playback of TV, so you will still need something to play MP3s, video files, etc.
Umm....2 Chips on a Single die is dual core. So an overglorified dual cpu system on a single chip is a dual core chip. What else do you think a dual core chip is? Besides the Advantages of what you call shared cache are none. If essentially 2 (different) cores/chips share a single cache the performance could possibly be less than optimal. The only benefit of 2 cores sharing a single cache is to save on die size
I think the implication is that this was Dual die - single package rather than "Single die"
I think people often confuse the packaging of a chip and the "chip" itself (silicon) thinking that the plastic they see is the chip itself
-Em
January 12, 2004 SCO hands infringing code to IBM
;-)
Did I miss something?
Yes, now they want it back!
I think I know the quote on your signature but I don't remember where is from.
From another "cancelled before it aired" show - "Crusade" - a helpful advice about the apocalypse box by it's former owner.
I filled in some
#10
#9 Earth: FC
#8
#7 Any Gene Rodenbery show/movie(ST, Andromeda, etc)
#6 SeaQuest
#5 Plan 9
#4 Fox News/Fahrenheit 911 (two sides of same lies)
#3 Sliders
#2 Century City
#1
It's like saying shows are same because they both have characters in them.
Andromeda's main premise is an attempt to (re)build a huge empire. It is highly political (and not in a smart, B5ish way) and highly idealistic (tada - everything is "Good Vs. Evil" like Star Trek and other idealistic "sci-fi")
Firefly's main premise is to keep flying and stay below radar, noone is good or evil, just people who can help and people who can hurt. Main theme is survival.
I think survival is something more people can relate to and makes for a much better science fiction (as opposed to "sci-fi")
-Em
She was on Wondefalls... before that got canned (or to be more exact, AFTER if got canned, her episodes never hit the air). And a brief guest spot on Dead Like Me. It always surprises me to spot her though, because she somehow looks MUCH different in Firefly that in anything else.
-Em
i) Sign up at school
ii) Fail to follow school rules
iii) Bannination occurs.
iv) Obtain job at favourite fast food outlet
v) Start using words like "Bannination"
-Em
Data cable on my phone (non-bluetooth) is for using it as a GPRS modem, grabbing pictures off of it, uploading new ringtones, etc, etc. It's a Motorola. I don't actually use the sync phonebook feature.
I am saying that if your phone could NOT do the sync phonebook feature, you would not consider other features you are using useless. Likewise if the phonebook sync works, and picture transfer doesn't, it really does not make the cable useless for someone who wants to prevent the loss of their phonebook data.
-Em
Great. But it can also be used for syncing, file transfer, business card pushes, gaming, etc.
Yes, it can, but your original arguments were that:
a - Verizon is blocking ability to transfer pictures between PC and phone
and
b - Bluetooth and data cable on this phone have no use.
Neither of these statements are actually true.
YES! Why would someone have to buy the phone, and then spend another 40 dollars for the datacable when you could do it via bluetooth if Verizon hadn't crippled it?
I suggest you ask this question of thousands of people who WILL be buying these phones. (And don't ask ME because I am not planning to be among them.) If the phone does not have the features you want, do not buy it. It's pretty simple. But it does not mean other people want or even care about these features. And it does not man it is useless. Besides, if you are going to use price as example, how much is the bluetooth adaptor for your PC? I bet it's not much cheaper then the data cable, especially if you get the data cable from someone other than Verizon (will probably cost $10-$20, I would guess it is same cable as for T720).
-Em
Great... what's the data cable for then? What's the bluetooth get you?
Data Cable is for syncing your phone book, same as any other phone.
Bluetooth is for wireless speakerphone/headset/car kits.
Any other questions?
-Em
Verizon's *main* reason for disabling the OBEX functionality on this phoen is simple... they do not want you to be able to take pictures from your phone and send them to others via bluetooth. If the disabling of BT was simply for security, you'd be able to transfer pictures using that nice 40 dollar data cable they'll happily sell you. But you can't with that either
Erm, according to the PC Magazine Article linked in story you can use flash cards to transfer pictures between PC and the phone.
If so, it seems they should simply send Verisign a bill for infinate number of domains. (Is there a limit on how long a domain name can be?)
I can just picture the look on the face of the Verisign employee opening a bill with a big infinity sign in the amount column.
-Em
The point is that EVERYONE will be paying more in the long run, INCLUDING the ones that modify their behavior. So now the end user is paying more on average, and can do less and is restricted as to where driving is allowed, lest he pay even MORE.
This happened with electricity - the many hourly/time-of-day plans local utilities been pushing since the "energy crisis".
That was the case with telephone service.
Bottom line is that the amount of accidents will not decrease, so insurance companies will be spending same amount of money, and the insurance companies will invest more money in new equipment, so I'll leave it up to you figure out who is going to pay for it in the long run.
-Em