I was at EB Games in the mall here in Indianapolis today. They already had the games displayed, and the systems, unless I was seeing things. There was also a public play machine running PGR. It looked pretty nice. Seems it is already "out" though...
More importantly it pushes standards compliant video and audio formats. There is no secret voodoo about creating video for it, they tell you exactly how to make them on their website. No DRM needed. The fact that QuickTime just happens to be the defacto player for this standard is just a nice bonus (ok, a really nice one). If you don't like QuickTime player, you don't have to use it. You may not be able to view the FairPlay wrapped files, but that is a small loss for some.
I see a rash of emails to that address coming now, lets see if comcast can handle an email/.ing. At least you can narrow down the subnet to find ole Jack's woefully insecure windows machine connected directly to the cable modem with the 800 gigs of beastial porn. You know, "research material".
Have you seen the teens today? Most of them would go into anaphylactic shock if they were to be suddenly removed from the feeding tubes implanted by the eMpTyV people and thir dealers at the Record Industry Ass. of America. I'm not sure it would be quite the success you think it would be.
More power isn't always just to get more loudness, it can also increase clarity. With more power given to the speakers, there is less need to increase the gain all the way up to listen at normal volumes, which increases distortion. Using an amp that puts out more power than your speakers can produce won't blow them unless you crank the volume to absurd levels. I've seen more speakers blown from having a low power amp cranked causing distortion than ones blown by using a powerful amp with clean sound joined with weaker speakers.
All DLPs are not created equal. In my shopping, I found many had a bad screen door effect (gaps between pixels). I cannot see the gaps in my set at all. Most sets have a 4 color wheel (RGB and clear, to boost brightness), which from what I saw created very pixelated shadow areas. The 3rd gen DLPs are of much better quality than the 1st and second gen, which I think you may have seen in the stores. I think the 5th gen sets are starting to come out soon, which offer true 1080i/p resolution (versus 720p native of my set, 1280 x 720). I think a 3 chip 5th gen system will be impressive.
I have a 50" Samsung 3rd Gen DLP TV ($1600 at Best Buy a few months ago, 0% APR for 2 years). I could not be happier with it. Not only does it have more HD ports than any TV I found in its price range (VGA, DVI, HDMI, 2 x Component), the color and contrast ratio are outstanding (1500:1 claimed) using a 7-segment color wheel (and no, I do not see the rainbow effect, I believe partly die to the higher rotation rate of the 7 segment wheel). Not only that, but it does not suffer from burn-in or fading the way plasma does (important for me for gaming). The only part that needs periodic replacing is the lamp unit itself, which you can find online for around $200, and according to other people with similar sets to mine, each lamp lasts 2-3 years, depending on use. The power savings of DLP over plasma or CRT more than makes up for it, I believe the set I have uses 60-70 W during normal use. In the long run, I don't see plasma sticking around. I see technologies like DLP and LCoS (or D-ILA as JVC calls their version) being the market leaders in 5 years. Plasma always looks over-saturated and grainy to me, not to mention the heat that comes off those things. They might be a little brighter than most DLPs, but I do not believe they are worth it. The only plus side is their depth, 4" versus 14" or so for my DLP.
"Apple "controlling" their hardware market is unfortunately limiting your choices for no good reason."
You've never had a problem with Windows not detecting a video card. When you control what hardware is made, you ensure the drivers work as advertised, right out of the box. Apple really does a good job with plug and play, and it isn't by accident.
The treaties are still valid with Russia. There are a lot of treaties Russia and the US still enforce despite being signed during the times of the USSR. We don't ignore them if they are signed by a president who is no longer in power, do we?
People seem to forget or ignore the fact that deploying space-based wepondry goes against the ABM (Anti Ballistic Missile) Treaties signed by us and the USSR. Bush has already broken these treaties in testing many of his toys. Does no one care that he has such disregard for them? He has stated that the treaties are too limimting and therefore aren't in the best interest of our country, a fact I wholeheartedly disagree with.
They are marketing this as the audiophile's music player, yet no where in their datasheet do they list the signal to noise ratio this thing uses. They also say it has a unique playlist editor, but from what I can tell, it is just a rehashed version of the iTunes interface, complete with "smart" playlists. For $900, this thing seems way overpriced and way under-innovated. It uses industry standard parts; CD-R, 2.5" notebook HD, and most likely a 4x 10/100 PCI NIC. From the sounds of the headline, I was expecting a small form-factor computer that could go in my entertainment center. This is the price of one, but without the actual computer. They say it uses a "lossless" compression, which just turns out to be FLAC. How did this make the front page? I don't even see where it says it runs Linux... It just says it uses a PowerPC chip, and considering how aligned they seem to be to Mac OS X, I would not be surprised to find it running that instead.
wow, bravo. For some, it seems, I was providing useful info. For you, well... thanks for turning this into a 4th grade thread. Not everyone knew Vista was coming out at the end of next year. With all the free publicity it is getting on slashdot, cnn, etc, some would think it is coming out next month.
Um, hate to spoil your attempt at humor, but it is supposed to come out 2nd half of next year. This isn't new information. One of the senior guys in an interview accidentally leaked the holiday season as the target for it.
"Yeah, we should all wait until Apple has designed and shipped its new "Dells with dongles" and then complain. No sense making your views known early when it can make a difference... why not just wait until it's too late."
Or perhaps when the final kit gets shipped to developers, and not a hacked up PC box. I guarantee they are going to have at least a few months where the final product (if even just a hardware preview) is shipped out for final testing. The dev boxes out right now are so far from what the final versions are going to be they will have to have more testing. If there is DRM active at that point, I gurantee people will make it known, NDA or not.
From what I can tell, the music industry is doing it all by themselves. I turn on the radio these days just to make sure it still sucks (and it does) and ClearChannel is still playing the same damn songs they were 2 years ago. It all sounds the same, lacks innovation, and gives no one compelling reasons to purchase it. I have no idea how pirating the one good song they play on the radio is "damaging music". Aren't they worried that suing their potential customers is only going to make people neither buy music nor even want to pirate it, at which point they no longer have an audience even on the rare occasion something good does come out. These people are absolutely retarded in their mind set.
"Sure, Apple has coded up this DRM implementation for fun and has no intention of using it. Apple and Jobs has sold you out... get over it. They jumped to Intel to get this Trusted Computing stuff and now they are using it.
You can put your hands over your ears and sing lalalalalala, but it won't change anything. The message that has to go out from here is simple and the same one that should go out to any software/hardware company that involves itself with this anti-customer bullshit: Don't buy Apple. If their sales drop because of this action, then perhaps they'll listen... but if idiots like you continue to defend their actions with ever more ludicrous excuses that won't happen."
So you'd rather get your panties in a bunch speculating about a product that doesn't exist yet, and won't for another year. You'd rather spread FUD about a nonexistant product and tell people to boycott Apple. How is that productive? If when the Macintels come out, they do have restrictive DRM, by all means start shouting. Right now you're just looking like a paranoid loon and if I had mod points right now I'd do my part to make your post go away. You just sound like a troll.
"Actually, when the shuttle was originally designed, it was supposed to be robust enough to not need to be totally stripped down and rebuilt between each flight. The intent was for shuttle flights to occur maybe every week or two.
Your notion of a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure doesn't jive with that at all."
Well, if it was going up every 2 weeks, at 1 in 52 that would make for one crash every 2 years. I'd think that is pretty reasonable given the nature of the vehicle.
I can't remember the source, but when the shuttle was designed, I believe it was stated that every mission there was a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure. The shuttle has actually shown itself to be much more reliable than that, in fact. I don't see what the panic is, it isn't like the astronauts don't assume some risk when they take the assignments. Let's face it, hurling a chunk of metal into space going in excess of 12,500 MPH isn't ever going to be 100% safe.
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I was at EB Games in the mall here in Indianapolis today. They already had the games displayed, and the systems, unless I was seeing things. There was also a public play machine running PGR. It looked pretty nice. Seems it is already "out" though...
More importantly it pushes standards compliant video and audio formats. There is no secret voodoo about creating video for it, they tell you exactly how to make them on their website. No DRM needed. The fact that QuickTime just happens to be the defacto player for this standard is just a nice bonus (ok, a really nice one). If you don't like QuickTime player, you don't have to use it. You may not be able to view the FairPlay wrapped files, but that is a small loss for some.
I see a rash of emails to that address coming now, lets see if comcast can handle an email /.ing. At least you can narrow down the subnet to find ole Jack's woefully insecure windows machine connected directly to the cable modem with the 800 gigs of beastial porn. You know, "research material".
Have you seen the teens today? Most of them would go into anaphylactic shock if they were to be suddenly removed from the feeding tubes implanted by the eMpTyV people and thir dealers at the Record Industry Ass. of America. I'm not sure it would be quite the success you think it would be.
I'm sure the Leer jet they gave him as a bonus cost more than $1... just a hunch.
So you're the guy who bought the P4EE chip, I was wondering who you were!
More power isn't always just to get more loudness, it can also increase clarity. With more power given to the speakers, there is less need to increase the gain all the way up to listen at normal volumes, which increases distortion. Using an amp that puts out more power than your speakers can produce won't blow them unless you crank the volume to absurd levels. I've seen more speakers blown from having a low power amp cranked causing distortion than ones blown by using a powerful amp with clean sound joined with weaker speakers.
What we need is an ActiveX control for IE which will let you run firefox inside of IE.
All DLPs are not created equal. In my shopping, I found many had a bad screen door effect (gaps between pixels). I cannot see the gaps in my set at all. Most sets have a 4 color wheel (RGB and clear, to boost brightness), which from what I saw created very pixelated shadow areas. The 3rd gen DLPs are of much better quality than the 1st and second gen, which I think you may have seen in the stores. I think the 5th gen sets are starting to come out soon, which offer true 1080i/p resolution (versus 720p native of my set, 1280 x 720). I think a 3 chip 5th gen system will be impressive.
I have a 50" Samsung 3rd Gen DLP TV ($1600 at Best Buy a few months ago, 0% APR for 2 years). I could not be happier with it. Not only does it have more HD ports than any TV I found in its price range (VGA, DVI, HDMI, 2 x Component), the color and contrast ratio are outstanding (1500:1 claimed) using a 7-segment color wheel (and no, I do not see the rainbow effect, I believe partly die to the higher rotation rate of the 7 segment wheel). Not only that, but it does not suffer from burn-in or fading the way plasma does (important for me for gaming). The only part that needs periodic replacing is the lamp unit itself, which you can find online for around $200, and according to other people with similar sets to mine, each lamp lasts 2-3 years, depending on use. The power savings of DLP over plasma or CRT more than makes up for it, I believe the set I have uses 60-70 W during normal use. In the long run, I don't see plasma sticking around. I see technologies like DLP and LCoS (or D-ILA as JVC calls their version) being the market leaders in 5 years. Plasma always looks over-saturated and grainy to me, not to mention the heat that comes off those things. They might be a little brighter than most DLPs, but I do not believe they are worth it. The only plus side is their depth, 4" versus 14" or so for my DLP.
You've never had a problem with Windows not detecting a video card. When you control what hardware is made, you ensure the drivers work as advertised, right out of the box. Apple really does a good job with plug and play, and it isn't by accident.
The treaties are still valid with Russia. There are a lot of treaties Russia and the US still enforce despite being signed during the times of the USSR. We don't ignore them if they are signed by a president who is no longer in power, do we?
Yeah, that's Gigabit. The ports on the $900 POS are 10/100 and wired to the MOBO.
People seem to forget or ignore the fact that deploying space-based wepondry goes against the ABM (Anti Ballistic Missile) Treaties signed by us and the USSR. Bush has already broken these treaties in testing many of his toys. Does no one care that he has such disregard for them? He has stated that the treaties are too limimting and therefore aren't in the best interest of our country, a fact I wholeheartedly disagree with.
They are marketing this as the audiophile's music player, yet no where in their datasheet do they list the signal to noise ratio this thing uses. They also say it has a unique playlist editor, but from what I can tell, it is just a rehashed version of the iTunes interface, complete with "smart" playlists. For $900, this thing seems way overpriced and way under-innovated. It uses industry standard parts; CD-R, 2.5" notebook HD, and most likely a 4x 10/100 PCI NIC. From the sounds of the headline, I was expecting a small form-factor computer that could go in my entertainment center. This is the price of one, but without the actual computer. They say it uses a "lossless" compression, which just turns out to be FLAC. How did this make the front page? I don't even see where it says it runs Linux... It just says it uses a PowerPC chip, and considering how aligned they seem to be to Mac OS X, I would not be surprised to find it running that instead.
wow, bravo. For some, it seems, I was providing useful info. For you, well... thanks for turning this into a 4th grade thread. Not everyone knew Vista was coming out at the end of next year. With all the free publicity it is getting on slashdot, cnn, etc, some would think it is coming out next month.
Um, hate to spoil your attempt at humor, but it is supposed to come out 2nd half of next year. This isn't new information. One of the senior guys in an interview accidentally leaked the holiday season as the target for it.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/04/ 1338205&tid=118&tid=158&tid=3
Jumping to conclusions a bit?
Or perhaps when the final kit gets shipped to developers, and not a hacked up PC box. I guarantee they are going to have at least a few months where the final product (if even just a hardware preview) is shipped out for final testing. The dev boxes out right now are so far from what the final versions are going to be they will have to have more testing. If there is DRM active at that point, I gurantee people will make it known, NDA or not.
From what I can tell, the music industry is doing it all by themselves. I turn on the radio these days just to make sure it still sucks (and it does) and ClearChannel is still playing the same damn songs they were 2 years ago. It all sounds the same, lacks innovation, and gives no one compelling reasons to purchase it. I have no idea how pirating the one good song they play on the radio is "damaging music". Aren't they worried that suing their potential customers is only going to make people neither buy music nor even want to pirate it, at which point they no longer have an audience even on the rare occasion something good does come out. These people are absolutely retarded in their mind set.
You can put your hands over your ears and sing lalalalalala, but it won't change anything. The message that has to go out from here is simple and the same one that should go out to any software/hardware company that involves itself with this anti-customer bullshit: Don't buy Apple. If their sales drop because of this action, then perhaps they'll listen... but if idiots like you continue to defend their actions with ever more ludicrous excuses that won't happen."
So you'd rather get your panties in a bunch speculating about a product that doesn't exist yet, and won't for another year. You'd rather spread FUD about a nonexistant product and tell people to boycott Apple. How is that productive? If when the Macintels come out, they do have restrictive DRM, by all means start shouting. Right now you're just looking like a paranoid loon and if I had mod points right now I'd do my part to make your post go away. You just sound like a troll.
Long answer?
No f'n way.
There, settled.
Your notion of a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure doesn't jive with that at all."
Well, if it was going up every 2 weeks, at 1 in 52 that would make for one crash every 2 years. I'd think that is pretty reasonable given the nature of the vehicle.
I can't remember the source, but when the shuttle was designed, I believe it was stated that every mission there was a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure. The shuttle has actually shown itself to be much more reliable than that, in fact. I don't see what the panic is, it isn't like the astronauts don't assume some risk when they take the assignments. Let's face it, hurling a chunk of metal into space going in excess of 12,500 MPH isn't ever going to be 100% safe.
IBM has had trouble meeting demand for the single core chips, I don't think having dual cores is going to help increase that rate. Don't be surprised.