I'm sorry, but this decission is along the lines of allowing Mailboxes Etc. to read your postal mail because it is stored there, this will be overturned (I hope).
*DOH*, sorry, it is 2.0, was going to stroke it out to 2.2 but then decided to wait and just do an sti engine transplant at a later date (close to the same price for a lot more power). One of the downsides of posting too late at night:)
I've only changed everything but the block/heads;-) (VF34, new fuel system w/rails, cold air intake, ecu reprogram, etc, etc.). My only real complaint with the wrx is that the 5m is not a very strong tranny so I've had to stop tweaking until I have the $ for a 6 speed swap,(just about 350hp crank:) )
I do have to say however, that the wrx engine loves to be tweaked (so far anyways;) )
'02 WRX Wagon (2.2l 4cyl turbo, 5m), moderately tweaked:
In the city driving I can get a range of 10mpg to 18mpg (Depending on the right foot)
Highway (80mphish) 27mpg.
Still, a great car. Hopping into the wayback machine, my 1982 Chevy Citation (4cyl 4m) w/o air would maintain mid 20's in the city and low 30s on the highway.
Cheers!
School yard sort of way? For weeks solid everywhere you looked, people would say, or write, gore said he created the internet, he's a dumba$$... we'll vote for bush. He's not very bright, but at least he's honest. In fact, my parents, both reasonably intelligent people (having both completed at least the master level of grad school) thought that Gore actually meant he created the internet. Only one of my parents is a republican, so it's not because of party lines...
While it is true that costs will keep this from changing anything IMMEDIATELY. If he is successful, and he's able to eventually create a viable 3d image on a "wall", then this will completely change a lot of things in the not so distant future. People who build houses will easily adopt this. Imagine you can have the picture window of your dreams, but won't have to "do" windows. You won't lose heat or cold through the windows, sound won't enter the house through the windows, a baseball won't break your windows (just possibly a camera that is at that time cheaper to replace then a 12'x12' double paned picture window). Also, in theory you would be able to pipe *any* suitably encoded image/movie through this "window". You could have the aurora borealis on the ceiling of your bedroom, or a view of the ocean (or the ocean depths) from your 2 bedroom flat in Iowa. Or for the more adult minded people, a view of your favorite strip club / nudist beach. There are a lot of privacy concerns to be ironed out in the future, but this technology (once proven) is priceless.
However, not everyone will like it, even if it's affordable. I just spent at least 5 minutes arguing the "coolness" factor of the "invisible" wall... Hell, even if it's expensive high priced day spas and yoga escapes would kill for this. You could create the perfect environment for whatever mood you are charging your customers out the nose for. Eventually, combine 6 of these (curved around a person) with the latest surround sound (7.1 is not uncommon today) and you've come damn close to virtual reality. Imagine (insert popular game title here) through that sort of monitor... especially the games along the lines of grand prix 4. These games inspire the sort of devotion that causes people to buy $500 video cards every 12-18 months today...
Very cool technology, I hope he's successful, and this isn't classified by the time I'm ready to build/remodel a house.:)
Just so you guys know, nasa seems to broadcasting most of their available Venus video footage. For those of us with directv it's on channel 376. One would assume they will also broadcast the crossing.
Cheers
The NOx problem could possibly be addressed by a specifically designed cat (e.g. because the biodiesel engine cuts down the other pollutants, they *might* not need to be filtered, so you could use a cat that is specifically designed to reduce/break up the NOx.) A further pipe dream(?) would be some way to split and clean up the exhaust causing primarly Oxygen to be released.
I must say I'm very surprised it's taken this long for biodiesel to hit/. we hack our computers, we hack our computers (tweaks/ecu reprograms), so why not hacking our fuel. If nothing else, this might give farmers in America a new market to sell to. This and some more research into Solar would be a major step forward towards self reliance for this country's energy needs.
AMD has announced it will be producing even lower cost chips that while rated for lower resolution, achieve higher resolution, but only when used with much larger cooling solutions.
Wonder how hard it is to mine and separate platinum from the iron.... This could solve the EU space program's lack of financing, now all they need is a bidder for the platinum;-)
give it time, there will be encrypted filesharing out the yin-yang if they actually do come down hard on people doing filesharing... esp since so many tech people are unemployed and have a bit of free time on their hands;-)
For what it's worth (not terribly much), HDTV's will be able to make use of the higher quality of the (true) Progressive scan players, 540p or 480p (guess what the P stands for?).
As far as completely digital HDTV's, you might not want one of those, well, it depends, do you want to be able to choose what to record, or would you like big brother to decide for you?
VCR's: You're completely missing the point of HDTV, (current) vcr's do NOT record in High Def, or even medium def;-) S-Video VCR's are closer to DVD quality, but still not there, and for the price, it's not worth it.
Basically as with any new technology, there's always reasons to wait, and there's always reasons to buy now, I purchased my HighDef TV almost 2 years ago, and haven't regretted it since. The picture quality is fantastic, and in most of the major markets there's a terrestrial HighDef signal for the at least one network. If you're a DirecTV subscriber, there's the HighDef channel (name escapes me), Showtime-HD, HBO-HD, and more coming. (Dish I think has a few other channels, including Discovery HD).
Of course as has been mentioned cable companies also transmit HD TV in some markets.
Basically the question breaks down to:
1) do you have the money for a HighDef compatible TV (I wouldn't recommend tv's with built in HD receivers)?
2) Do you want the best possible picture?
3) Are you sure you don't want to wait for 6 months when the TV's are cheaper? (great part of this question is it can be used until slightly before the end of time:) )
If you answer yes to all of these questions, knock yourself out, perhaps buy the pioneer plasma version:)
God I've got too much free time!
Well, it CAN I'm sure (but only with nero 5.5 it seems;-) ), however the yamaha (44x)cd burner that does this is between 69 (refurbished) and 86+ bucks a pop (new) after being out for 3+ months. The refurbished price is more then lite-on's 52x24x52 drive is new... true you don't save much time, but since the tattoing also takes "a while", you're sacrificing even more speed. If I absolutely have to label a cd for others to read (remember, this is on the data side, so if you're giving it to a non tech person, and you do support be ready to support why the cd doesn't work if you don't make sure they understand that the label is on the bottom:) ), I'd label the top of a cd with a cheap cd label:)
But for the most part, I just use a sharpe, and try to read my handwriting:) (I keep one sharpe connected to my burning computer since I keep losing my sharpes;-) )
Some say it doesn't decrease the total writable area of the cdr (if you don't overburn), but since I haven't actually spent the $ to try this technology I can't confirm or deny that it will let you stuff a cd full of music/data and label it too, to quote the article:
"On a tattooed CD-R, there will be a zone with data encoded by the EFM process and another corresponding to the blank data-free spaces, where graphics and text will be visible. "
if your cd is 75% full it'll let you tattoo it, but at 100% or 101 I wonder if it still will, anyone have one of these and want to chime in?
To me it's useless, and I'm a gadget guy, I guess I just am more of a speed freak then a gadget guy (or maybe I'm just price concious...)
I'm guessing this "tattooing" drive didn't give Yamaha the boost they wanted.
a) burning "images" on a cd i just a marketing thing, generally speaking the average user that burns cds would like to use ALL of the cd for data (or music!!!!) storage.
b) as has been mentioned before, cdrws are cheap, they will remain cheap, therefor they can't mark up the cdrws to the place where they will be happy. (Thank companies like lite-on.... I do daily:) ).
Yamaha's have always been known as decent burners, if more then a little overpriced. They won't be missed by most of the community.
if you get 10 inquiries on your publicly accessable credit check in 12 months you've got more things to worry about then if a job that is paying you is one of them IMHO...
Also as I'm sure you know inquiries are classified differently, some only show up when YOU request your credit report, they are not shown when other people check your score. Of course your existing Credit Cards also pull your score occasionally (as does most car insurance companies), but I can't remember if those show up or not on the public Credit report...
Basicly, it's as simple as this: if you want to work for the company, you'll jump through their hoops, it's like highschool/undergrad all over again:)
Though one interesting thought, if they are checking your credit *AFTER* you're hired, they could be in for a bit of a lawsuit if they fire you JUST for having so-so/bad credit... (Employment at will is one thing, but you still need to show at least a small amount of cause to not get sued.)
It's called employment at will, if you want to work there, you follow their rules... even if that means they are logging all of your IMs, emails, and web views...
Doing a credit check is nothing new, if you don't want the position due ot this feel free to turn it down, they will have another director within a week or two.
In fact, if you do turn this down, feel free to send me information on the job;-)
Thinkpad batteries (esp 600*) are the WORST in the business, this is a well known fact. However, the extra batteries that fit in the cd slot last quite a bit longer. But the basic battery that comes with 600s SUCKS, after a few years, they're down to like 10 minutes of run time, thinkpads can take a beating, but their batteries blow... accept it and move on, buy a new battery, or better yet, a secondary battery.
16 might be a bit much, but 4-5 could be handy... I currently have to use two directivos (each can record 2 shows at the same time), and one stand alone tivo. I have having to watch a show at a specific time, and occasionally all the networks have something on that looks interesting;-)
Downside of these sort of devices, is they'll have to rely on cable for programing, and currently in many places in the country cable sucks compared to satelite...
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Actually that was a story... (I think...) however cell jammers that are sold are currently illegal however for private citizens to use depending on a variety of factors, if you dig around enough you can find them though.... either plans or the actual devices, esp if you look around in the UK...
Ahhhh, sorry, I was thrown off by the listing of the linux box on the 5th bullet point under what you'll need...
I'll prob. wait until I've upgraded to a tivo series 2 dvr before I try to rip via network due to fears of breaking an already so-so direcTivo...
good information tho, I'll bookmark it for later reference:)
Unfortunately the rippers for tivo to avoid the D->A conversion requires a linux box.
Also I'm more then slightly cautious installing a Nic in my tivo:) But for those that have the time, and the extra linux boxes, it works:)
For my uses, the dazzle dvd thingy works just fine via svideo or even rca.
Great news, then you can buy a cheaper replay tv and add space! I thought the dish PVR was a replay, but if you can upgrade a replay, it can't be. (The dish PVR isn't upgradeable)
thanks for the correction! However, why on earth did you only get 60hrs of recording? Or doesn't the stand alone replay allow you to adjust the quality?
(DirectTivos don't, but there's virtually no quality difference between live sat and recorded...)
It all breaks down to hopw much you want to play....
replaytv isn't as "hackable" so you can't add space, but it does allow you to offload shows to a pc/watch on a pc with 3rd party s/w. However, I'd still say get a tivo (if you have a satelite, it's your only real choice since you can record 2 shows at once) and then spend $100 on one of the dazzle capture/dvd creation station, then you can just burn from the tivo (or any svideo/rca source) to vcd or dvd's that can be viewed in most dvd players. With decent quality DVD-r's so cheap it beats the hell out of vhs copies...
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I'm sorry, but this decission is along the lines of allowing Mailboxes Etc. to read your postal mail because it is stored there, this will be overturned (I hope).
[insert 1984 reference]
*DOH*, sorry, it is 2.0, was going to stroke it out to 2.2 but then decided to wait and just do an sti engine transplant at a later date (close to the same price for a lot more power). One of the downsides of posting too late at night :)
;-) (VF34, new fuel system w/rails, cold air intake, ecu reprogram, etc, etc.). My only real complaint with the wrx is that the 5m is not a very strong tranny so I've had to stop tweaking until I have the $ for a 6 speed swap,(just about 350hp crank :) )
;) )
I've only changed everything but the block/heads
I do have to say however, that the wrx engine loves to be tweaked (so far anyways
'02 WRX Wagon (2.2l 4cyl turbo, 5m), moderately tweaked: In the city driving I can get a range of 10mpg to 18mpg (Depending on the right foot) Highway (80mphish) 27mpg. Still, a great car. Hopping into the wayback machine, my 1982 Chevy Citation (4cyl 4m) w/o air would maintain mid 20's in the city and low 30s on the highway. Cheers!
School yard sort of way? For weeks solid everywhere you looked, people would say, or write, gore said he created the internet, he's a dumba$$... we'll vote for bush. He's not very bright, but at least he's honest. In fact, my parents, both reasonably intelligent people (having both completed at least the master level of grad school) thought that Gore actually meant he created the internet. Only one of my parents is a republican, so it's not because of party lines...
Odd thing, this whole bush is dumb thinking... if you listen to one of George bush's debates from 10 years ago, and a recent debate/speech you'd notice he went from being very polished, neither making up words nor screwing up existing words. (sorry you have to actually listen to something... life goes on) Did Bush have a frontal lobotomy? I doubt it, he just thought more people would vote for him if he was a "common man". In a nut shell, Bush seems to think that the average american wishes an idiot in office. What really scares me is that ~49% of the voters proved him right.
While it is true that costs will keep this from changing anything IMMEDIATELY. If he is successful, and he's able to eventually create a viable 3d image on a "wall", then this will completely change a lot of things in the not so distant future. People who build houses will easily adopt this. Imagine you can have the picture window of your dreams, but won't have to "do" windows. You won't lose heat or cold through the windows, sound won't enter the house through the windows, a baseball won't break your windows (just possibly a camera that is at that time cheaper to replace then a 12'x12' double paned picture window). Also, in theory you would be able to pipe *any* suitably encoded image/movie through this "window". You could have the aurora borealis on the ceiling of your bedroom, or a view of the ocean (or the ocean depths) from your 2 bedroom flat in Iowa. Or for the more adult minded people, a view of your favorite strip club / nudist beach. There are a lot of privacy concerns to be ironed out in the future, but this technology (once proven) is priceless.
:)
However, not everyone will like it, even if it's affordable. I just spent at least 5 minutes arguing the "coolness" factor of the "invisible" wall... Hell, even if it's expensive high priced day spas and yoga escapes would kill for this. You could create the perfect environment for whatever mood you are charging your customers out the nose for. Eventually, combine 6 of these (curved around a person) with the latest surround sound (7.1 is not uncommon today) and you've come damn close to virtual reality. Imagine (insert popular game title here) through that sort of monitor... especially the games along the lines of grand prix 4. These games inspire the sort of devotion that causes people to buy $500 video cards every 12-18 months today...
Very cool technology, I hope he's successful, and this isn't classified by the time I'm ready to build/remodel a house.
Just so you guys know, nasa seems to broadcasting most of their available Venus video footage. For those of us with directv it's on channel 376. One would assume they will also broadcast the crossing. Cheers
The NOx problem could possibly be addressed by a specifically designed cat (e.g. because the biodiesel engine cuts down the other pollutants, they *might* not need to be filtered, so you could use a cat that is specifically designed to reduce/break up the NOx.) A further pipe dream(?) would be some way to split and clean up the exhaust causing primarly Oxygen to be released.
/. we hack our computers, we hack our computers (tweaks/ecu reprograms), so why not hacking our fuel. If nothing else, this might give farmers in America a new market to sell to. This and some more research into Solar would be a major step forward towards self reliance for this country's energy needs.
I must say I'm very surprised it's taken this long for biodiesel to hit
AMD has announced it will be producing even lower cost chips that while rated for lower resolution, achieve higher resolution, but only when used with much larger cooling solutions.
Wonder how hard it is to mine and separate platinum from the iron .... This could solve the EU space program's lack of financing, now all they need is a bidder for the platinum ;-)
Nifty, something that's not available online advertised on slashdot. Now where's the real geek news?
give it time, there will be encrypted filesharing out the yin-yang if they actually do come down hard on people doing filesharing... esp since so many tech people are unemployed and have a bit of free time on their hands ;-)
For what it's worth (not terribly much), HDTV's will be able to make use of the higher quality of the (true) Progressive scan players, 540p or 480p (guess what the P stands for?). As far as completely digital HDTV's, you might not want one of those, well, it depends, do you want to be able to choose what to record, or would you like big brother to decide for you? VCR's: You're completely missing the point of HDTV, (current) vcr's do NOT record in High Def, or even medium def ;-) S-Video VCR's are closer to DVD quality, but still not there, and for the price, it's not worth it.
Basically as with any new technology, there's always reasons to wait, and there's always reasons to buy now, I purchased my HighDef TV almost 2 years ago, and haven't regretted it since. The picture quality is fantastic, and in most of the major markets there's a terrestrial HighDef signal for the at least one network. If you're a DirecTV subscriber, there's the HighDef channel (name escapes me), Showtime-HD, HBO-HD, and more coming. (Dish I think has a few other channels, including Discovery HD).
Of course as has been mentioned cable companies also transmit HD TV in some markets.
Basically the question breaks down to:
1) do you have the money for a HighDef compatible TV (I wouldn't recommend tv's with built in HD receivers)?
2) Do you want the best possible picture?
3) Are you sure you don't want to wait for 6 months when the TV's are cheaper? (great part of this question is it can be used until slightly before the end of time :) )
If you answer yes to all of these questions, knock yourself out, perhaps buy the pioneer plasma version :)
God I've got too much free time!
Well, it CAN I'm sure (but only with nero 5.5 it seems ;-) ), however the yamaha (44x)cd burner that does this is between 69 (refurbished) and 86+ bucks a pop (new) after being out for 3+ months. The refurbished price is more then lite-on's 52x24x52 drive is new... true you don't save much time, but since the tattoing also takes "a while", you're sacrificing even more speed. If I absolutely have to label a cd for others to read (remember, this is on the data side, so if you're giving it to a non tech person, and you do support be ready to support why the cd doesn't work if you don't make sure they understand that the label is on the bottom :) ), I'd label the top of a cd with a cheap cd label :)
But for the most part, I just use a sharpe, and try to read my handwriting :) (I keep one sharpe connected to my burning computer since I keep losing my sharpes ;-) )
Some say it doesn't decrease the total writable area of the cdr (if you don't overburn), but since I haven't actually spent the $ to try this technology I can't confirm or deny that it will let you stuff a cd full of music/data and label it too, to quote the article:
"On a tattooed CD-R, there will be a zone with data encoded by the EFM process and another corresponding to the blank data-free spaces, where graphics and text will be visible. "
if your cd is 75% full it'll let you tattoo it, but at 100% or 101 I wonder if it still will, anyone have one of these and want to chime in?
To me it's useless, and I'm a gadget guy, I guess I just am more of a speed freak then a gadget guy (or maybe I'm just price concious...)
I'm guessing this "tattooing" drive didn't give Yamaha the boost they wanted.
a) burning "images" on a cd i just a marketing thing, generally speaking the average user that burns cds would like to use ALL of the cd for data (or music!!!!) storage. b) as has been mentioned before, cdrws are cheap, they will remain cheap, therefor they can't mark up the cdrws to the place where they will be happy. (Thank companies like lite-on.... I do daily :) ).
Yamaha's have always been known as decent burners, if more then a little overpriced. They won't be missed by most of the community.
if you get 10 inquiries on your publicly accessable credit check in 12 months you've got more things to worry about then if a job that is paying you is one of them IMHO... Also as I'm sure you know inquiries are classified differently, some only show up when YOU request your credit report, they are not shown when other people check your score. Of course your existing Credit Cards also pull your score occasionally (as does most car insurance companies), but I can't remember if those show up or not on the public Credit report... Basicly, it's as simple as this: if you want to work for the company, you'll jump through their hoops, it's like highschool/undergrad all over again :)
Though one interesting thought, if they are checking your credit *AFTER* you're hired, they could be in for a bit of a lawsuit if they fire you JUST for having so-so/bad credit... (Employment at will is one thing, but you still need to show at least a small amount of cause to not get sued.)
It's called employment at will, if you want to work there, you follow their rules... even if that means they are logging all of your IMs, emails, and web views... Doing a credit check is nothing new, if you don't want the position due ot this feel free to turn it down, they will have another director within a week or two. In fact, if you do turn this down, feel free to send me information on the job ;-)
Thinkpad batteries (esp 600*) are the WORST in the business, this is a well known fact. However, the extra batteries that fit in the cd slot last quite a bit longer. But the basic battery that comes with 600s SUCKS, after a few years, they're down to like 10 minutes of run time, thinkpads can take a beating, but their batteries blow... accept it and move on, buy a new battery, or better yet, a secondary battery.
16 might be a bit much, but 4-5 could be handy... I currently have to use two directivos (each can record 2 shows at the same time), and one stand alone tivo. I have having to watch a show at a specific time, and occasionally all the networks have something on that looks interesting ;-)
Downside of these sort of devices, is they'll have to rely on cable for programing, and currently in many places in the country cable sucks compared to satelite...
Actually that was a story... (I think...) however cell jammers that are sold are currently illegal however for private citizens to use depending on a variety of factors, if you dig around enough you can find them though.... either plans or the actual devices, esp if you look around in the UK...
the consumer superdvd burner will only burn at 2048k/sec for the first 6 months...
From yahoo's coverage of the story "Fans and critics of MandrakeSoft traded barbs on Slashdot, the software enthusiasts' online news site. " LOL
Ahhhh, sorry, I was thrown off by the listing of the linux box on the 5th bullet point under what you'll need... I'll prob. wait until I've upgraded to a tivo series 2 dvr before I try to rip via network due to fears of breaking an already so-so direcTivo... good information tho, I'll bookmark it for later reference :)
Unfortunately the rippers for tivo to avoid the D->A conversion requires a linux box. Also I'm more then slightly cautious installing a Nic in my tivo :) But for those that have the time, and the extra linux boxes, it works :)
For my uses, the dazzle dvd thingy works just fine via svideo or even rca.
Great news, then you can buy a cheaper replay tv and add space! I thought the dish PVR was a replay, but if you can upgrade a replay, it can't be. (The dish PVR isn't upgradeable) thanks for the correction! However, why on earth did you only get 60hrs of recording? Or doesn't the stand alone replay allow you to adjust the quality? (DirectTivos don't, but there's virtually no quality difference between live sat and recorded...)
It all breaks down to hopw much you want to play.... replaytv isn't as "hackable" so you can't add space, but it does allow you to offload shows to a pc/watch on a pc with 3rd party s/w. However, I'd still say get a tivo (if you have a satelite, it's your only real choice since you can record 2 shows at once) and then spend $100 on one of the dazzle capture/dvd creation station, then you can just burn from the tivo (or any svideo/rca source) to vcd or dvd's that can be viewed in most dvd players. With decent quality DVD-r's so cheap it beats the hell out of vhs copies...