I noticed that newer drives are not including the write protection switch. Can anyone explain why that was ever useful? I'd figure that people would be more prone to accidently write protect their drive and not know why it doesn't work.
I don't understand why parents would want to use ClearPlay. I mean, you either watch the movie or if you find it objectionable, don't. If you used ClearPlay, you're still paying Holywood money to continue what they are doing by just censoring it yourself. I myself just won't bother to see a movie if I think I'm going to be offended. What's the point in seeing a movie you find objectionable if you're going to complain about it being objectionable?
Also, what if someone makes a movie to make a certain political statement, and ClearPlay skews that by censoring parts that were essential to the statement. This would be a misrepresentation of the original work. At the very least, some type of warning might be shown alerting the viewer that by applying this filter, it is no longer representative of the artist's original intent.
Then again, you could imagine quite a few awkward conversations talking about movies you saw through ClearPlay that your friends didn't...
Do you by any chance use your phone as a GPRS modem over bluetooth? I've been considering adding this service to my phone, but I'm not sure if it works.
That doesn't make any sense. My ping times are always consistently in the 20-100ms range. It really only depends on how far away the server is. Since I live in the CA bay area, there are tons of game servers very close by so most times my ping is less than 30ms if not less. As an example, a ping to yahoo.com:
Reply from 66.94.230.33: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=53
This is a typical latency from most pay area servers.
I've been landline free since 2000. It's nice to see others too. I think this is what Verizon is realizing. So many people have gone to the CableTV + CableInternet + Cellphone combination because of the immense savings compared to: Cable TV + Plain Telephone + DSL Line + Cellphone service.
I for one wouldn't mind switching to naked DSL if it means my internet is only 1.5Mbps (oh how slow!) at $30 month instead of 4Mbps at $60/month.
Think about how much more bandwidth is on a WiFi network than on a cellular network. More bandwidth == More redundancy, better audio codecs, clearer calls (CD quality anyone?).
I for one am sick of the low quality audio used in cellphone networks and I would like to see them put the additional bandwidth to good use.
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I use World Wind all the time and have about 38GB of cached data. I like how much faster it grabs data compared to web interfaces, and the fact that I can see things in 3D.
I wonder if Google would ever utilize the world wind engine for their data, or have some kind of cool Java plugin?
$49 monthly fee? What are you talking about? It's up to $60/month for cable internet access. (for those of us who don't watch cable TV).
I think possibly the reason Comcast is interested is because they are probably going to be pushing their own music/video services over the web in the future, and they want the RIAA's backing. A recent promotion provided a "free" subscription to Rhapsody. Of course, all they offer is a few radio stations, which are completely void of content compared to Shoutcast. Really, the only thing they want to do is sell you DRM music through this tool.
What about those of us who want higher storage capacity? I've always wondered why 5.25" form factor HDD are not made any more. I assume it has to do with rotational velocity somehow.
Yeah. I think Comcast's upgrade to 4Mbps from 3Mbps was just a way for them to justify future rate hikes. I mean, $58/month just for an internet connection? I think it's a bit pricey for one individual.
Do I have other choices? Hmm... DSL, but I'd have to pay around $50/month for a phone line and the DSL connection and then it would be a fraction of the speed.
Wireless? Nope. I don't believe there is anything like that where I live.
Satelite? Too much latency.
So really, there are very, very few corporations offering broadband service. It's a shame the FCC doesn't care about this.
The only time I had to use a floppy drive on my Windows XP machine.
Hated every minute of installing that stupid thing. Why won't you let the floppy disk die! It's not like we still have 5.25" floppy drives on our computers too just because a few people might have those lost behind their desks.
I experienced this too yesterday. I almost thought it had something to do with them upgrading their users from 3Mbps to 4Mbps recently but that doesn't make sense. I noticed that Winamp could play audo streams just fine, but that I had a 1 in 10 chance of getting to a URL address in a web browser.
With DVI I can tell subtle shades from pixel to pixel, tiny as they are at 1280x1024, yet with the softening of lossy D/A/D conversion it's far less obvious.
You mean DVI reproduces the image so accurately, that it actually makes out detail that is ACTUALLY in the original image that you would not like to see?
If you wanted a "softer" image, I'm sure there are probably some video card settings you could probably tweak to emulate this. Or, you could run at a resolution slightly lower than the native resolution, thus forcing the LCD to attempt to interpolate and blur the picture.
My main issue with analog connections to LCD's isn't so much the blur, it's the ghosting that I see around high contrast images. I still think it's more a matter of ignorance that people don't connect the DVI cable or buy one. Same thing with people using floppy drives instead of USB memory.
I think liquid cooling is a great idea, but they need to first: Standardize!
Have standard hoses, and connectors with quick disconnects. You buy a rack mount 1U server and it would have the standard cooling ports in the back of it. Then just design a central liquid cooling system. You could just put the cooling connections in the wall like you would the power outlets. Then just plug in the server to this connection. This way, you could have the heat transfered directly to an AC unit on top of the building instead of trying to inefficiently just cool the air in the room.
This is a good point. I have money saved up just waiting to buy the latest greatest thing... yet it's not here? My 3.0GHz P4 I bought in Jan 2004 is within %20 of the speed of any of Intel's offerings now (within the same class: desktop/consumer). And even when the dual core devices are released, I'm not confident that they will provide a doubling of performance.
And what about Nvidia? They're last product jump from 5900 to the 6800 was absolutely amazing. A very clear %100 increase in performance. I'd be very surprised to see Nvidia be able to match that leap sooner than 4Q 2006.
I'm curious what part of a CPU they were saying was a couple cm accross. The die itself, where all the transistors are is probably less than a square CM in most cases. Given the fact that half or more of that is cache memory and the fact that most computation takes place within an area probably less than a few mm in length, it seems all they would need to do is repeat the signal every stage or so. But maybe this is why it's so difficult.
So how does this work, you buy a unit and you have a 1 in n chance of purchasing a unit with dead pixels? That's pretty ridiculus. I'd rather pay an extra $150 for a screen that I know is guaranteed not to have dead pixels. The manufactures should be held to higher standards. It's all about quality control and monitoring their processes.
It's bad enough that most employers force antivirus programs to scan EVERY file (even non-executables) for viruses. If you had something like this "silently" running on a laptop, the fan would run %100 of the time with full CPU load. All that extra heat would probably wear out the laptop far sooner.
I don't understand why they would just use employees computers instead of having a server farm dedicated to this task. I'm sure they have enough money and it would be cheaper in the long run.
"Computer users often experience system lockups that are often inexplicable, and many users will uninstall programs they don't understand," Lewis said. "As the user base becomes more educated with the program and how it functions, we certainly retain the ability to make it more visible."
And they usually lock up because of some background tasks that were silently installed. Of course the user would want to uninstall it.
You have to have it plugged into the wall for power. Even if it was battery powered, it would still need periodic recharging. Are you actually going to take it and carry it somewhere else? I have never understood people's need for wireless mice/keyboards when 95% of the time they keep them in the exact. same. place.
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I noticed that newer drives are not including the write protection switch. Can anyone explain why that was ever useful? I'd figure that people would be more prone to accidently write protect their drive and not know why it doesn't work.
I don't understand why parents would want to use ClearPlay. I mean, you either watch the movie or if you find it objectionable, don't. If you used ClearPlay, you're still paying Holywood money to continue what they are doing by just censoring it yourself. I myself just won't bother to see a movie if I think I'm going to be offended. What's the point in seeing a movie you find objectionable if you're going to complain about it being objectionable?
Also, what if someone makes a movie to make a certain political statement, and ClearPlay skews that by censoring parts that were essential to the statement. This would be a misrepresentation of the original work. At the very least, some type of warning might be shown alerting the viewer that by applying this filter, it is no longer representative of the artist's original intent.
Then again, you could imagine quite a few awkward conversations talking about movies you saw through ClearPlay that your friends didn't...
Do you by any chance use your phone as a GPRS modem over bluetooth? I've been considering adding this service to my phone, but I'm not sure if it works.
That doesn't make any sense. My ping times are always consistently in the 20-100ms range. It really only depends on how far away the server is. Since I live in the CA bay area, there are tons of game servers very close by so most times my ping is less than 30ms if not less. As an example, a ping to yahoo.com:
Reply from 66.94.230.33: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=53
This is a typical latency from most pay area servers.
I've been landline free since 2000. It's nice to see others too. I think this is what Verizon is realizing. So many people have gone to the CableTV + CableInternet + Cellphone combination because of the immense savings compared to: Cable TV + Plain Telephone + DSL Line + Cellphone service.
I for one wouldn't mind switching to naked DSL if it means my internet is only 1.5Mbps (oh how slow!) at $30 month instead of 4Mbps at $60/month.
Think about how much more bandwidth is on a WiFi network than on a cellular network. More bandwidth == More redundancy, better audio codecs, clearer calls (CD quality anyone?).
I for one am sick of the low quality audio used in cellphone networks and I would like to see them put the additional bandwidth to good use.
I use World Wind all the time and have about 38GB of cached data. I like how much faster it grabs data compared to web interfaces, and the fact that I can see things in 3D.
I wonder if Google would ever utilize the world wind engine for their data, or have some kind of cool Java plugin?
$49 monthly fee? What are you talking about? It's up to $60/month for cable internet access. (for those of us who don't watch cable TV).
I think possibly the reason Comcast is interested is because they are probably going to be pushing their own music/video services over the web in the future, and they want the RIAA's backing. A recent promotion provided a "free" subscription to Rhapsody. Of course, all they offer is a few radio stations, which are completely void of content compared to Shoutcast. Really, the only thing they want to do is sell you DRM music through this tool.
Maybe he's looking for a Perpendicular bitkeeper from Hitachi!
What about those of us who want higher storage capacity? I've always wondered why 5.25" form factor HDD are not made any more. I assume it has to do with rotational velocity somehow.
Yeah. I think Comcast's upgrade to 4Mbps from 3Mbps was just a way for them to justify future rate hikes. I mean, $58/month just for an internet connection? I think it's a bit pricey for one individual.
Do I have other choices? Hmm... DSL, but I'd have to pay around $50/month for a phone line and the DSL connection and then it would be a fraction of the speed.
Wireless? Nope. I don't believe there is anything like that where I live.
Satelite? Too much latency.
So really, there are very, very few corporations offering broadband service. It's a shame the FCC doesn't care about this.
"Please insert driver disk into floppy drive A:"
The only time I had to use a floppy drive on my Windows XP machine.
Hated every minute of installing that stupid thing. Why won't you let the floppy disk die! It's not like we still have 5.25" floppy drives on our computers too just because a few people might have those lost behind their desks.
I experienced this too yesterday. I almost thought it had something to do with them upgrading their users from 3Mbps to 4Mbps recently but that doesn't make sense. I noticed that Winamp could play audo streams just fine, but that I had a 1 in 10 chance of getting to a URL address in a web browser.
With DVI I can tell subtle shades from pixel to pixel, tiny as they are at 1280x1024, yet with the softening of lossy D/A/D conversion it's far less obvious.
You mean DVI reproduces the image so accurately, that it actually makes out detail that is ACTUALLY in the original image that you would not like to see?
If you wanted a "softer" image, I'm sure there are probably some video card settings you could probably tweak to emulate this. Or, you could run at a resolution slightly lower than the native resolution, thus forcing the LCD to attempt to interpolate and blur the picture.
My main issue with analog connections to LCD's isn't so much the blur, it's the ghosting that I see around high contrast images. I still think it's more a matter of ignorance that people don't connect the DVI cable or buy one. Same thing with people using floppy drives instead of USB memory.
I think liquid cooling is a great idea, but they need to first: Standardize!
Have standard hoses, and connectors with quick disconnects. You buy a rack mount 1U server and it would have the standard cooling ports in the back of it. Then just design a central liquid cooling system. You could just put the cooling connections in the wall like you would the power outlets. Then just plug in the server to this connection. This way, you could have the heat transfered directly to an AC unit on top of the building instead of trying to inefficiently just cool the air in the room.
Yeah, but does the wireless tester have SPINNERS on it?
I hate those things....
This is a good point. I have money saved up just waiting to buy the latest greatest thing... yet it's not here? My 3.0GHz P4 I bought in Jan 2004 is within %20 of the speed of any of Intel's offerings now (within the same class: desktop/consumer). And even when the dual core devices are released, I'm not confident that they will provide a doubling of performance.
And what about Nvidia? They're last product jump from 5900 to the 6800 was absolutely amazing. A very clear %100 increase in performance. I'd be very surprised to see Nvidia be able to match that leap sooner than 4Q 2006.
I'm curious what part of a CPU they were saying was a couple cm accross. The die itself, where all the transistors are is probably less than a square CM in most cases. Given the fact that half or more of that is cache memory and the fact that most computation takes place within an area probably less than a few mm in length, it seems all they would need to do is repeat the signal every stage or so. But maybe this is why it's so difficult.
Why on earth would you want to password "protect" a hard drive? How would that be any better than properly encrypting your files?
8am Sunday morning "pep" talk? I didn't know Best Buy was competing with the local churches...
So how does this work, you buy a unit and you have a 1 in n chance of purchasing a unit with dead pixels? That's pretty ridiculus. I'd rather pay an extra $150 for a screen that I know is guaranteed not to have dead pixels. The manufactures should be held to higher standards. It's all about quality control and monitoring their processes.
It's bad enough that most employers force antivirus programs to scan EVERY file (even non-executables) for viruses. If you had something like this "silently" running on a laptop, the fan would run %100 of the time with full CPU load. All that extra heat would probably wear out the laptop far sooner.
I don't understand why they would just use employees computers instead of having a server farm dedicated to this task. I'm sure they have enough money and it would be cheaper in the long run.
"Computer users often experience system lockups that are often inexplicable, and many users will uninstall programs they don't understand," Lewis said. "As the user base becomes more educated with the program and how it functions, we certainly retain the ability to make it more visible."
And they usually lock up because of some background tasks that were silently installed. Of course the user would want to uninstall it.
Why on earth would you only by five sharkes of a stock?? I can't imagine you made very much on that after you deduct all the trading fees.
The Atacama desert is in this region. I think that link will work, at least it did on my machine.
Okay, what's the point of a "wireless" monitor?
You have to have it plugged into the wall for power. Even if it was battery powered, it would still need periodic recharging. Are you actually going to take it and carry it somewhere else? I have never understood people's need for wireless mice/keyboards when 95% of the time they keep them in the exact. same. place.