The problem is that all machines aren't "fully loaded" equally. A system with a given cpu running full tilt at 3GHz at 50W is going to drain a battery faster than the same cpu at 2GHz at 35W, even if the same amount of work is accomplished. A notebook with a powerful GPU running a game like oblivion will suck a battery flat in no time, but isn't comparable to an Intel or lowend AMD/NV system because you couldn't even run the program on them usably. This is also true of minimal use scenarios, of course. Atoms, Nanos, Turions, and C2 cpus don't give the same performance at any given frequency. Light use of a quick C2D notebook might have it running at 1.2GHz, wheras the Atom is running at 800Mhz and doing the work of a 600MHz P-3. Predefine the task and the C2D could wind up having a better battery life.
What I want to generate is a "medium" multiprogram workload on a bleeding edge machine. Something that stresses the highend components for brief periods of time and then compare battery life to slower machines that spend more time running at 100% power, because they take longer to get the work done. Balance this with other tasks that are commonly done solo, like watching YouTube or Hulu full screen.
I personally prefer to just know how much power components draw at peak and idle usage and what the battery is rated to supply in AH at a given Voltage. It won't give me an exact number of minutes of use but it will give me a general idea of whether the battery is good enough.
I guess now that AMD now has systems that run more stem to stern on their own hardware (CPU, Chipset, and GPU) they are now in a position to define optimal usage of that hardware. That's a good thing. When you have your CPU running on a Via board you don't get a lot of say in what best practice is on building the system. But I don't think 3dMark 2006 is going to help me decide anything.
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That doesn't always work. I have encountered many times that offline mode shows me its hand, for no readily apparent reason. To get it to work again I have to connect first. It happens maybe once every couple of months with my laptop which I frequently use without an internet connection. It would be really annoying if my home internet connection went down and it happened.
I HATE having to find a disk just to play an installed game. What I like about Steam is that I can keep a backup of everything. If I get a new computer all I have to do is copy that backup to the new computer and download the steam client. It's much faster than reinstalling, and doesn't need to have patches applied (usually), keyboards remapped, mods reconfigured, etc...
How big is the download? That, for me, is the biggest determining factor. I bought Fallout 3 on disk because I didn't want to wait a whole day for it to download. I'm assuming there's a DL for FO3 of course, I didn't look. It's a given that games will soon be distributed on multiple DVDs if they aren't already. So I think I'll find myself continuing to buy physical media as long as $20/mo doesn't get me more than a 1.5Mb connection.
I don't mind downloading my games mind you. Steam has been a pretty satisfactory service so far. I have one computer with all my steam stuff on it (16GB worth iirc) and several others with subsets of the steam purchased games. But I don't redownload from Valve each time, I prefer to just transfer the files on the LAN or via DVDs over sneakernet.
It's an ultraportable notebook from 2005, except the ultraportable from 2005 had a better LCD.
The idea of the netbook was to take a bunch of very low cost parts that were unsuitable for running MS Windows Vista and build a cheap, notebook out of them running something less demanding/bloated. Low LCD resolution, 3cell battery by default, and limited storage because better quality reserved for ultra portable 12" notebooks with ULV Core processors.
These monster notebooks in specialty configs that can't be purchased from larger OEMs often cost in excess of 5 grand. I think they had a Core2Quad with a Quadro card and RAID running 8grand in 2007.
They don't make a lot of sense unless your time is really valuable.
Eurocom has been offering different "workstation class" notebooks for several years. They frequently try to be first to market in things like SLI Cards, Quadro hardware, the biggest LCD, RAID, or Core2Quad in a "notebook". This time they're first with i7. I doubt I'll ever get one, but I can see the market for this stuff.
It was pointed out to me not so long ago that the term "natural" refers to a specific dogmatic ordering of what/who effects events in the universe. Anything effected by mankind is unnatural. The affects of everything else is natural.
This is actually what the word means. It might come from the judeo/christian belief that God gave us freewill and mastery of the world. Kinda like how "Alchemical" describes the belief in the Ptolemaic system.
So if a bonobo sat down one day and made a cobalt bomb it would be natural. But if someone who decended from Lucy's genepool did it, it would be unnatural.
"I didn't see a single desktop PC at Office Depot that had S-video output."
Hence, a video card could be added. If one is afraid to open the case themself, they can pay someone qualified to do it or use another option. I'm not really interested in getting median end users to install their own upgrades.
As for your notebook ntsc video out can be added with a USB dongle, however I don't use that method.
Advantage to it is that it down-samples up to a 1280x1024 resolution to 480i. Most standard computer svideo/rca out seems to only support downsampling from 1024x768.
I've used a VGA to Component(RGB) input adapter that I picked up at my local Microcenter years ago. It has dipswitched (480i/480p/720p/1080i) output and works with many types of monitors, but doesn't rescale the computer's resolution.
You could also buy a videocard with s-video out for less than $20.
If you run the TV's channel scan and the TV appears to look for, but does not find, digital channels it is possible that the signal is just too weak. I use a $30 motorola signal booster which dramatically increases the number of OTA digital channels I receive. Without it I only get a Fox and a christian channel reliably and a couple of other channels that are unwatchable, with it I get 30 someodd channels (12 primary with subchannels for different programming). Your apartment's shared antenna should be powered and should probably have a signal booster on each floor before each splitter, but given that your analog signal is crap, it probably doesn't. You might be better off with a small powered antenna.
OK I'll probably be getting a Tivax box for the DVR (it has an HD TV Wonder and an Analog card.)
Have anyone seen an ATSC tuner box for an "HD Capable" TV though? I've got one of those LCDs with 1080i support and an NTSC tuner. I keep looking for something with DVI or VGA output, but no joy.
Raimi Vision is using the camera to represent the POV of some fast moving object or creature, usually Ultimate Evil. Also occasionally used to show the point of view of the arrow, bullet, or knife. It is usually shot in a Jitter Cam or handheld style, and with a fisheye lens or distortion effect.
Named for "Evil Dead" director Sam Raimi, who had almost no money at all for effects, and put a camera on a board strung on ropes between two people, running it through the forest, to represent the unspeakable horror terrorizing his cast. In Evil Dead 2, we finally get to see the monster, and it is appropriately horrific. Though the trope itself is played for laughs, as Ash runs away from the camera and we see scenes where the camera cuts to in front of him looking behind him, and it's just him running away from nothing.
Raimi's name for this contraption was Shaky Cam (after Steadi Cam).
B5 actually had a script/story bible and a planned 5 year story line that all the writing was supposed to conform to. I had thought Heroes might be doing the same thing, but it became pretty clear after season 1 that they're just winging it. BSG seemed more like a soap opera, that is. nobody cares what the story is leading up to as long as people tune in.
Personally I think the writers are going to pull a matrix on us. We've been here before, endless cycle, repeating past mistakes, etc. Everyone is a cylon, and the "cylon god" is a manufacturing ship that keeps trying to recreate a dead society off the recorded personalities of that society. Or something like that.
Not really what you're asking for, but here's an idea for you to chew on.
I currently use an older laptop with my HTPC via Synergy a software based virtual "KVM" (though it's a little different than that). The downside is the quality of a notebook's keyboard (I'm happy with the one I use). I don't have experience with the OSX version, but it's there for you to play with and free.
Upsides are it works just fine over 802.11 and works with multiple computer screens. I assign the HTPC's HDTV to the top of my notebook screen, and use between the two is pretty seamless.
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The problem is that all machines aren't "fully loaded" equally. A system with a given cpu running full tilt at 3GHz at 50W is going to drain a battery faster than the same cpu at 2GHz at 35W, even if the same amount of work is accomplished. A notebook with a powerful GPU running a game like oblivion will suck a battery flat in no time, but isn't comparable to an Intel or lowend AMD/NV system because you couldn't even run the program on them usably. This is also true of minimal use scenarios, of course. Atoms, Nanos, Turions, and C2 cpus don't give the same performance at any given frequency. Light use of a quick C2D notebook might have it running at 1.2GHz, wheras the Atom is running at 800Mhz and doing the work of a 600MHz P-3. Predefine the task and the C2D could wind up having a better battery life.
What I want to generate is a "medium" multiprogram workload on a bleeding edge machine. Something that stresses the highend components for brief periods of time and then compare battery life to slower machines that spend more time running at 100% power, because they take longer to get the work done. Balance this with other tasks that are commonly done solo, like watching YouTube or Hulu full screen.
I personally prefer to just know how much power components draw at peak and idle usage and what the battery is rated to supply in AH at a given Voltage. It won't give me an exact number of minutes of use but it will give me a general idea of whether the battery is good enough.
I guess now that AMD now has systems that run more stem to stern on their own hardware (CPU, Chipset, and GPU) they are now in a position to define optimal usage of that hardware. That's a good thing. When you have your CPU running on a Via board you don't get a lot of say in what best practice is on building the system. But I don't think 3dMark 2006 is going to help me decide anything.
Wizards was in that vein.
That doesn't always work. I have encountered many times that offline mode shows me its hand, for no readily apparent reason. To get it to work again I have to connect first. It happens maybe once every couple of months with my laptop which I frequently use without an internet connection. It would be really annoying if my home internet connection went down and it happened.
I HATE having to find a disk just to play an installed game. What I like about Steam is that I can keep a backup of everything. If I get a new computer all I have to do is copy that backup to the new computer and download the steam client. It's much faster than reinstalling, and doesn't need to have patches applied (usually), keyboards remapped, mods reconfigured, etc...
How big is the download? That, for me, is the biggest determining factor. I bought Fallout 3 on disk because I didn't want to wait a whole day for it to download. I'm assuming there's a DL for FO3 of course, I didn't look. It's a given that games will soon be distributed on multiple DVDs if they aren't already. So I think I'll find myself continuing to buy physical media as long as $20/mo doesn't get me more than a 1.5Mb connection.
I don't mind downloading my games mind you. Steam has been a pretty satisfactory service so far. I have one computer with all my steam stuff on it (16GB worth iirc) and several others with subsets of the steam purchased games. But I don't redownload from Valve each time, I prefer to just transfer the files on the LAN or via DVDs over sneakernet.
It's an ultraportable notebook from 2005, except the ultraportable from 2005 had a better LCD.
The idea of the netbook was to take a bunch of very low cost parts that were unsuitable for running MS Windows Vista and build a cheap, notebook out of them running something less demanding/bloated. Low LCD resolution, 3cell battery by default, and limited storage because better quality reserved for ultra portable 12" notebooks with ULV Core processors.
LOL. Stick it in a power strip. Mine has Ethernet jacks on on it already.
My little brother had that. I had the fuzzy headed GI-Joes, Big Jim and later Micronauts.
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Now you went and made me want to name a computer "Babby."
These monster notebooks in specialty configs that can't be purchased from larger OEMs often cost in excess of 5 grand. I think they had a Core2Quad with a Quadro card and RAID running 8grand in 2007.
They don't make a lot of sense unless your time is really valuable.
Eurocom has been offering different "workstation class" notebooks for several years. They frequently try to be first to market in things like SLI Cards, Quadro hardware, the biggest LCD, RAID, or Core2Quad in a "notebook". This time they're first with i7. I doubt I'll ever get one, but I can see the market for this stuff.
It was pointed out to me not so long ago that the term "natural" refers to a specific dogmatic ordering of what/who effects events in the universe. Anything effected by mankind is unnatural. The affects of everything else is natural.
This is actually what the word means. It might come from the judeo/christian belief that God gave us freewill and mastery of the world. Kinda like how "Alchemical" describes the belief in the Ptolemaic system.
So if a bonobo sat down one day and made a cobalt bomb it would be natural. But if someone who decended from Lucy's genepool did it, it would be unnatural.
It's true. If we got more water in the air here, it would just fall to the ground and make a puddle.
"I didn't see a single desktop PC at Office Depot that had S-video output."
Hence, a video card could be added. If one is afraid to open the case themself, they can pay someone qualified to do it or use another option. I'm not really interested in getting median end users to install their own upgrades.
As for your notebook ntsc video out can be added with a USB dongle, however I don't use that method.
Something like this costs about $60. http://sewelldirect.com/PC-to-TV-Converter_specs.asp
Advantage to it is that it down-samples up to a 1280x1024 resolution to 480i. Most standard computer svideo/rca out seems to only support downsampling from 1024x768.
I've used a VGA to Component(RGB) input adapter that I picked up at my local Microcenter years ago. It has dipswitched (480i/480p/720p/1080i) output and works with many types of monitors, but doesn't rescale the computer's resolution.
You could also buy a videocard with s-video out for less than $20.
Yeah, thst's what I'm looking for. I found another one made by KWorld (meh). Thx, I'll see if my account at avsforums is still good.
If you run the TV's channel scan and the TV appears to look for, but does not find, digital channels it is possible that the signal is just too weak. I use a $30 motorola signal booster which dramatically increases the number of OTA digital channels I receive. Without it I only get a Fox and a christian channel reliably and a couple of other channels that are unwatchable, with it I get 30 someodd channels (12 primary with subchannels for different programming). Your apartment's shared antenna should be powered and should probably have a signal booster on each floor before each splitter, but given that your analog signal is crap, it probably doesn't. You might be better off with a small powered antenna.
OK I'll probably be getting a Tivax box for the DVR (it has an HD TV Wonder and an Analog card.)
Have anyone seen an ATSC tuner box for an "HD Capable" TV though? I've got one of those LCDs with 1080i support and an NTSC tuner. I keep looking for something with DVI or VGA output, but no joy.
The Blair Witch Project has a lot to answer for.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RaimiVision?from=Main.ShakyCam
Raimi Vision is using the camera to represent the POV of some fast moving object or creature, usually Ultimate Evil. Also occasionally used to show the point of view of the arrow, bullet, or knife. It is usually shot in a Jitter Cam or handheld style, and with a fisheye lens or distortion effect.
Named for "Evil Dead" director Sam Raimi, who had almost no money at all for effects, and put a camera on a board strung on ropes between two people, running it through the forest, to represent the unspeakable horror terrorizing his cast. In Evil Dead 2, we finally get to see the monster, and it is appropriately horrific. Though the trope itself is played for laughs, as Ash runs away from the camera and we see scenes where the camera cuts to in front of him looking behind him, and it's just him running away from nothing.
Raimi's name for this contraption was Shaky Cam (after Steadi Cam).
B5 actually had a script/story bible and a planned 5 year story line that all the writing was supposed to conform to. I had thought Heroes might be doing the same thing, but it became pretty clear after season 1 that they're just winging it. BSG seemed more like a soap opera, that is. nobody cares what the story is leading up to as long as people tune in.
Personally I think the writers are going to pull a matrix on us. We've been here before, endless cycle, repeating past mistakes, etc. Everyone is a cylon, and the "cylon god" is a manufacturing ship that keeps trying to recreate a dead society off the recorded personalities of that society. Or something like that.
The HP Touchsmart has a VESA wallmount adapter.
You need to rent Clash of the Titans to complete your education.
Not really what you're asking for, but here's an idea for you to chew on.
I currently use an older laptop with my HTPC via Synergy a software based virtual "KVM" (though it's a little different than that). The downside is the quality of a notebook's keyboard (I'm happy with the one I use). I don't have experience with the OSX version, but it's there for you to play with and free.
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Upsides are it works just fine over 802.11 and works with multiple computer screens. I assign the HTPC's HDTV to the top of my notebook screen, and use between the two is pretty seamless.