It has HW-H.264 decoding only if your file is encoded in a very specific way.
That's the problem with anything only-barely-powerful-enough. It sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't work. I use a real CPU for my HTPC for that exact reason. I want higher quality encodes of my DVDs than any "hardware" decoder is going to be able to work with.
All I did to "consolize" my Win7 install (running XBMC) is to drop a shortcut to XBMC into the startup folder, and turn on the automatic-login-upon-boot option.
The machine wakes itself up to install updates automatically, and goes back to sleep when it's done.
Every once in a while I install a new version of XBMC.
Once I uninstalled EventGhost because I didn't need it anymore. Now there's nothing on the machine except XBMC.
Exactly. I went up to the local university, bought me a $45 AMD something-or-other, threw a $45 video card in it, installed XBMC, and I "stream" movies off my SMB share over in the other half of the basement.
No transcoding, no limitation on CODECS, and I can encode my DVDs in h.264 using whatever high-quality parameters I want, not limited by the retarded hardware included in some "appliance".
The PC only runs when I'm watching something, and it automatically sleeps at all other times even if I forget to power it down (which I do from the $10 MCE knock-off remote I bought).
You say he "committed no crime", and then, in the same sentence, you say, "his deposits we designed to not trigger mandatory reporting requirements". You can't have it both ways. He committed a crime, he paid the price. He has a criminal record because he's a CRIMINAL.
I take no position whatsoever in this case, as I have nearly no information related to it (I was out of town for two weeks, and wasn't following the news), but I need to point out that what is or is not self defense in YOUR book isn't very relevant...
The problem with tankless water heaters is that those who advocate them fail to understand how efficient modern "tankful" water heaters are...
Your water heater doesn't spend much time "keeping" water hot, unless you use MUCH less hot water than the norm. It takes the same amount of gas to GET the water hot in either type.
0) The (potential) consumer gets to determine the value of a good. 1) I don't want the music/movie/game/whatever. 2) Therefore, its value is zero. 3) Therefore, I should be able to have it for free. 4) Therefore, I'm justified in copyright violation.
WOA already was a new platform. New form factors, new markets, new everything. Noone's going to be running a WOA desktop, because it wouldn't make sense for what most people use desktops for. Given the computing requirements of your average user, the CPU on the motherboard isn't the major driver of cost for the machine as a whole. A 1.2 GHz Cortex-A8 CPU has a ~$30 (or less) price advantage over a 2.5 GHz Llano.
Slashdot is inherently biased toward intelligence and freedom.
Well, Slashdot is inherently biased toward one possible interpretation of intelligence and freedom. Since those concepts are subjective, whether or not it's the correct interpretation depends on YOUR particular bias...
Am I correct in assuming that UCS-2 was used simply because UTF-8 hadn't been invented yet when MS and Sybase got together and started collaborating? It seems that UTF-16 didn't supersede UCS-2 until sometime in 1996...
I agree. That's why, as much as I dislike yet more government regulations, things like CAFE standards and disincentives for vehicle purchases in general might be the way to go. While I'm willing to take the position, I'm not confident enough to propose a solution.
... it's closer to a decade since I lost interest in Microsoft server products... so I pretty much ignore them.
Do you have some magical way to stay current on a topic, and ignore it at the same time? If you do, I think you're on to something, and you ought to look into selling it.
comparable to a Linux/BSD server
I suspect that we would disagree on what "comparable" means, so I'm not really interested in that debate.
I think you're making judgement calls, there. I've used many, many highly usable command-line interfaces. I use command-line interfaces all day, every day, even though most of my work is done on Windows.
You're making the same mistake he did. You're discounting the other side, simply because you do not agree with it or one of its proponents.
Getting our compact cars from the current ~35mpg to ~50mpg won't solve the problem, we need to get our SUVs and other wasteful vehicles from ~15mpg to ~30mpg. Massive improvement to be had, there. Look at the numbers in gallons/100mi instead of MPG and you'll see.
Going from 35mpg -> 50 mpg (an improvement of 15 mpg) saves 0.9 gallons per 100 miles. Going from 15mpg -> 30 mpg (an improvement of 15 mpg) saves 3.4 gallons per 100 miles.
So, squeezing out a few more mpg on already-efficient vehicles (hello Prius, hello TDI) isn't a good use of our brain-power/R&D dollars. The big improvements are to be had in the low end.
Out of sincere curiosity, what is the disadvantage of storing the data as UCS-2 vs UTF8? Is it simply the wasted space associated with the two-byte-per-character encoding?
Also, unless you mean something different than what I imagine when you say "arbitrary length text columns", varchar(max)/nvarchar(max)/varbinary(max) are probably what you're looking for.
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Well, there was that one time they just BURNED the C4 to cook stuff over it, that didn't involve explosions...
And what is the environmental impact of producing electricity from coal, and what is the environmental impact from digging for coal.
Producing electricity from coal: 12
Digging for coal: 8
Those are precise measurements, by the way.
Hey, I'm not commenting on whether it SHOULD be a crime, I'm just saying that you can't both commit a crime and not be a criminal.
It has HW-H.264 decoding only if your file is encoded in a very specific way.
That's the problem with anything only-barely-powerful-enough. It sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't work. I use a real CPU for my HTPC for that exact reason. I want higher quality encodes of my DVDs than any "hardware" decoder is going to be able to work with.
All I did to "consolize" my Win7 install (running XBMC) is to drop a shortcut to XBMC into the startup folder, and turn on the automatic-login-upon-boot option.
The machine wakes itself up to install updates automatically, and goes back to sleep when it's done.
Every once in a while I install a new version of XBMC.
Once I uninstalled EventGhost because I didn't need it anymore. Now there's nothing on the machine except XBMC.
Maybe YOUR OS is a pain, but mine's not.
Exactly. I went up to the local university, bought me a $45 AMD something-or-other, threw a $45 video card in it, installed XBMC, and I "stream" movies off my SMB share over in the other half of the basement.
No transcoding, no limitation on CODECS, and I can encode my DVDs in h.264 using whatever high-quality parameters I want, not limited by the retarded hardware included in some "appliance".
The PC only runs when I'm watching something, and it automatically sleeps at all other times even if I forget to power it down (which I do from the $10 MCE knock-off remote I bought).
You say he "committed no crime", and then, in the same sentence, you say, "his deposits we designed to not trigger mandatory reporting requirements". You can't have it both ways. He committed a crime, he paid the price. He has a criminal record because he's a CRIMINAL.
Bleach. Soak them in bleach. Used to be all the rage, now it's falling out of favor, or so I've heard.
I take no position whatsoever in this case, as I have nearly no information related to it (I was out of town for two weeks, and wasn't following the news), but I need to point out that what is or is not self defense in YOUR book isn't very relevant...
The problem with tankless water heaters is that those who advocate them fail to understand how efficient modern "tankful" water heaters are...
Your water heater doesn't spend much time "keeping" water hot, unless you use MUCH less hot water than the norm. It takes the same amount of gas to GET the water hot in either type.
So, let me get this straight. This is your logic:
0) The (potential) consumer gets to determine the value of a good.
1) I don't want the music/movie/game/whatever.
2) Therefore, its value is zero.
3) Therefore, I should be able to have it for free.
4) Therefore, I'm justified in copyright violation.
That's some solid reasoning, there.
I like the cool bulbs, but my wife absolutely cannot be in a room with them. She'll keep the lights off. I also turn the colors on my monitors cool.
I want to point out that while it seems to have worked well for you, in general, threatening the court is NOT a good way to win cases. Just sayin'.
WOA already was a new platform. New form factors, new markets, new everything. Noone's going to be running a WOA desktop, because it wouldn't make sense for what most people use desktops for. Given the computing requirements of your average user, the CPU on the motherboard isn't the major driver of cost for the machine as a whole. A 1.2 GHz Cortex-A8 CPU has a ~$30 (or less) price advantage over a 2.5 GHz Llano.
Slashdot is inherently biased toward intelligence and freedom.
Well, Slashdot is inherently biased toward one possible interpretation of intelligence and freedom. Since those concepts are subjective, whether or not it's the correct interpretation depends on YOUR particular bias...
But it couldn't happen anyway... the cockpit doors are armored now, a hijacker couldn't get in to take over the plane...
Very informative, thank you!
Am I correct in assuming that UCS-2 was used simply because UTF-8 hadn't been invented yet when MS and Sybase got together and started collaborating? It seems that UTF-16 didn't supersede UCS-2 until sometime in 1996...
So stop using EF and start using database-independent tools!
I agree. That's why, as much as I dislike yet more government regulations, things like CAFE standards and disincentives for vehicle purchases in general might be the way to go. While I'm willing to take the position, I'm not confident enough to propose a solution.
What I can say, is CANYONERO!
... it's closer to a decade since I lost interest in Microsoft server products ... so I pretty much ignore them.
Do you have some magical way to stay current on a topic, and ignore it at the same time? If you do, I think you're on to something, and you ought to look into selling it.
comparable to a Linux/BSD server
I suspect that we would disagree on what "comparable" means, so I'm not really interested in that debate.
I think you're making judgement calls, there. I've used many, many highly usable command-line interfaces. I use command-line interfaces all day, every day, even though most of my work is done on Windows.
You're making the same mistake he did. You're discounting the other side, simply because you do not agree with it or one of its proponents.
Getting our compact cars from the current ~35mpg to ~50mpg won't solve the problem, we need to get our SUVs and other wasteful vehicles from ~15mpg to ~30mpg. Massive improvement to be had, there. Look at the numbers in gallons/100mi instead of MPG and you'll see.
Going from 35mpg -> 50 mpg (an improvement of 15 mpg) saves 0.9 gallons per 100 miles.
Going from 15mpg -> 30 mpg (an improvement of 15 mpg) saves 3.4 gallons per 100 miles.
So, squeezing out a few more mpg on already-efficient vehicles (hello Prius, hello TDI) isn't a good use of our brain-power/R&D dollars. The big improvements are to be had in the low end.
It's as if he believes that the price of a steak at Morton's has much of anything to do with the cost of raising a cow. How quaint.
Out of sincere curiosity, what is the disadvantage of storing the data as UCS-2 vs UTF8? Is it simply the wasted space associated with the two-byte-per-character encoding?
Also, unless you mean something different than what I imagine when you say "arbitrary length text columns", varchar(max)/nvarchar(max)/varbinary(max) are probably what you're looking for.
Why not PostgreSQL/PostGIS and .NET/C#? Using .NET doesn't tie you to MSSQL...