tvs allow a maximum resolution of 480 lines, and the luminence/chrominence signals are mixed in most sets (moreso if you use a composite video cable, s-video at least separates them for that part of the journey though they often get combined again by the tv itself) which causes lots of blurring. in addition, that is 480 lines interlaced at 60hz, or basically 480 lines 30 times per second. Damn hard on the eyes if you are reading text. On top of all this TVs were never really designed with text in mind, so they tend to blur images compared to monitors in order to give a softer picture, which is why most people don't even know they have a resolution to begin with. Watching a movie on your monitor, you get the full 720 lines of dvd resolution, progressively scanned at your monitor's refresh rate, and each pixel is crystal-sharp. But they do tend to be smaller:( This is one fellow who is looking forward to owning a HDTV and its 1080-lines of resolution. Then I can really use it as a monitor as well.
In 5 hours you could rewrite a VB script in sloppy C++ and have it run much faster. Why on earth if speed is an issue do you use VB in the first place? VB is for quick-and-easy, not clean and efficient.
just wondering, maybe even a stupid question, but... how do you keep upgrading apps that you previously installed from source? i mean, how do you keep track of what files you installed in order to remove them before upgrading?
This was off topic, but i'll answer anyhow. The reason chips keep getting hotter is that heat dissipation increases exponentially with clock speed. Even though die size has been shrinking by half every 18 months, heat is growing as a problem. Intel even says that without changing manufacturing processes they would theoretically dissipate nuclear reaction temps in the next 10 years. Fortunately though starting with the AMD Hammer architectures they will be moving to SOI (silicon on insulator) which will help solve the problem for now.
Well ok offtopic i know, but the reason console developers sell at a loss is because they make money off software licensing to the 3rd parties. No installed base = fewer 3rd party games = less licensing revenue, so the hardware itself is sold as cheap as possible, even loosing money, just to get the installed base up as fast as possible.
Yes, you can compile the Sun JRE from source provided you have a compiled copy of the JRE to fulfill it's circular dependency. Then it apparently works fine. This is what is unfortunately necessary with Gentoo 1.3+ right now. You are still hooped on flash support though.
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I know this was a joke, but in all fairness the CodeRed virus targetted IIS not.NET. As far as I know the only virus to target the.NET infrastructure is called "donut".
That is so weak. There is overwhelming evidence that I exist, such as the fact that I am responding to your grossly illogical post here. Sight is one way we have of collecting evidence, correct, but seeing != proof, as the senses can be deceived. Surely you can, if you concentrate really hard, think of some evidence other than direct vision that China exists. Having trouble? Here are some things to get you started - chinese food, chinese language, maps, the giant panda, chinese immigrants, products "made in china", blah blah blah.
you only spend $100 a year on your pc?? I spend that much on a new keyboard every 18 months, let alone my video card upgrades, mobo/cpu/ram upgrades etc. I would say $700 a year at least to keep up with the consoles.
Yes, decades before the fiber is used up, but it still costs $$$ to light the existing fiber, lasers don't grow on trees you know. Money will still have to be spent.
Water cooling has already been used successfully in millions of Sega Dreamcasts and I never heard once of one springing a leak. It is nice because you can cool all the chips with one fan placed wherever you wish.
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not to mention: 1700 license copies of windows? Owch!
I do know that AMD for instance filed for more patents last year than Intel did, but why the hate-on for Intel? Did they fire you or something?
faraday cage isn't encryption - its total physical blockage of certain wavelengths.
they should just wrap the whole plant in a faraday cage.
Mattel manufactured the Nintendo too, at the time at least.
Thats funny since i just finished ripping LOTR from disc to divx and it was very clearly encoded at 720.
tvs allow a maximum resolution of 480 lines, and the luminence/chrominence signals are mixed in most sets (moreso if you use a composite video cable, s-video at least separates them for that part of the journey though they often get combined again by the tv itself) which causes lots of blurring. in addition, that is 480 lines interlaced at 60hz, or basically 480 lines 30 times per second. Damn hard on the eyes if you are reading text. On top of all this TVs were never really designed with text in mind, so they tend to blur images compared to monitors in order to give a softer picture, which is why most people don't even know they have a resolution to begin with. Watching a movie on your monitor, you get the full 720 lines of dvd resolution, progressively scanned at your monitor's refresh rate, and each pixel is crystal-sharp. But they do tend to be smaller :( This is one fellow who is looking forward to owning a HDTV and its 1080-lines of resolution. Then I can really use it as a monitor as well.
There is no equivalent to the DMCA in Australia or pretty much any other country to my knowledge. I'm glad i live in Canada.
way to pick on me for misusing a word. god i hate the internet.
on 98? ahem, *COUbullshitGH*
In 5 hours you could rewrite a VB script in sloppy C++ and have it run much faster. Why on earth if speed is an issue do you use VB in the first place? VB is for quick-and-easy, not clean and efficient.
I always thought GTA3 was the exact opposite of linear. Perhaps my internal definition is wrong...
banking on user ignorance is money in the bank as far as I'm concerned.
just wondering, maybe even a stupid question, but... how do you keep upgrading apps that you previously installed from source? i mean, how do you keep track of what files you installed in order to remove them before upgrading?
This was off topic, but i'll answer anyhow. The reason chips keep getting hotter is that heat dissipation increases exponentially with clock speed. Even though die size has been shrinking by half every 18 months, heat is growing as a problem. Intel even says that without changing manufacturing processes they would theoretically dissipate nuclear reaction temps in the next 10 years. Fortunately though starting with the AMD Hammer architectures they will be moving to SOI (silicon on insulator) which will help solve the problem for now.
Well ok offtopic i know, but the reason console developers sell at a loss is because they make money off software licensing to the 3rd parties. No installed base = fewer 3rd party games = less licensing revenue, so the hardware itself is sold as cheap as possible, even loosing money, just to get the installed base up as fast as possible.
You needed proof of this?
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Geez people, its called robots.txt, just drop it in your web root:
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User-agent: *
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if you don't want to be indexed, for chrissake don't be.
Yes, you can compile the Sun JRE from source provided you have a compiled copy of the JRE to fulfill it's circular dependency. Then it apparently works fine. This is what is unfortunately necessary with Gentoo 1.3+ right now. You are still hooped on flash support though.
I know this was a joke, but in all fairness the CodeRed virus targetted IIS not .NET. As far as I know the only virus to target the .NET infrastructure is called "donut".
That is so weak. There is overwhelming evidence that I exist, such as the fact that I am responding to your grossly illogical post here. Sight is one way we have of collecting evidence, correct, but seeing != proof, as the senses can be deceived. Surely you can, if you concentrate really hard, think of some evidence other than direct vision that China exists. Having trouble? Here are some things to get you started - chinese food, chinese language, maps, the giant panda, chinese immigrants, products "made in china", blah blah blah.
studies have shown that over 67% of statistics are made up on the spot :)
you only spend $100 a year on your pc?? I spend that much on a new keyboard every 18 months, let alone my video card upgrades, mobo/cpu/ram upgrades etc. I would say $700 a year at least to keep up with the consoles.
Yes, decades before the fiber is used up, but it still costs $$$ to light the existing fiber, lasers don't grow on trees you know. Money will still have to be spent.
Water cooling has already been used successfully in millions of Sega Dreamcasts and I never heard once of one springing a leak. It is nice because you can cool all the chips with one fan placed wherever you wish.