Since gamers upgrade their machines every 1-2 years instead of 3-5 like everyone else, it makes sense for the industry to focus tech advances on them. Gamers tend to spend 2-3 times as much on their machines, making room for the manufacturers to actually turn a profit (rather than buying the cheapest PC with 512MB ram). Lastly, gamers are almost the only ones still buying large CRTs, so it makes sense for LCD makers to specialize a product for the holdouts.
Which stores or companies use this? Everyone I'm seen just uses high quality inkjet or dye sublimination.
Even home based photo printers are at least 600dpi. You shouldn't notice the grain, and as long as you use decent software, any reasonable jaggies from lower resolution photos will be smoothed out.
the benefits of hard copied prints are diminishing in the face of digital convenience
You must not have kids if you think that paper photos are chasing the dinosaurs.
[I have an epson r300, retails for about $150, minus whatever MIRs you can get]
1: Yes, if you indiscriminately print every photo you take, you'll run up a much larger bill printing at home.
2: My printer does edge to edge printing, don't most others?
3: I haven't noticed any fading at all after 20 months.
4: I had that problem when I was printing on the cheapest glossy photo paper I could find, something from Burlington (the ink never even felt dry). I switched to Epson's paper and haven't had any problems.
Do any stores actually use real photo paper that has to be chemically developed like from film? I thought they all print photos inkjet style.
I usually run my photos through Corel Draw to print them. I can easily and quickly crop, rotate and adjust the color balance just right. I can also queue up a job of hundreds of photos with different quantites of each. At a store, you have to learn a new software package with deep and slow menu driven choices. After crashing a Walgreens photo kiosk twice in two hours with a 150 photo print job, I pretty much swore off the machines.
Phishers don't steal information from the bank, they con it out of you. It's the difference between someone forging checks on your account and giving someone $20 for the old 'I bet I can tell you where you got your shoes' routine. Making the bank responsible isn't going to stop people from doing stupid things with their financial information.
Anyone who logs into www.thisisntPAYPAL.com or www.CITYBANK.asdf.fr should be somewhat responsible for the screwing they've earned. The people who think they've won the canadian/nigerian lottery really deserve it.
Pharming, OTOH, is a completely different story. Banks should be responsible for monitoring the DNS entries for their transaction sites. If their site ever gets compromised, they should bear the burden of verifying customer IDs and getting customers to change passwords.
So you'd be charging your car with electricity bought at full retail then. Having solar panels isn't actually saving you any money on the cost of running the car. If you're concerned about the environment, you're still most likely running the car off electricy from coal or nuclear.
Do they buy it at wholesale rates during the day and charge you retail at night, or do they take it off your bill at 1-1 vs what you take from them?
There's a big difference between using solar cells to run your AC during they day vs selling solar energy back to the power company so you can reduce the bill for charging your car with their energy at night.
I'm thinking that you made your choice when you took that job in the first place. I highly doubt your college major was "satellite thermal systems".
Next to Hawaii, California probably has the nicest weather in the USA. Unlike Hawaii, the state pastime of California seems to be bitching about the cost to live there. The fact is, if California land prices were very much less, then everyone would probably live there.
A SHITTY house here costs 600k.
So MOVE already! I'm so damn tired of people bitching about how their hovel costs half a million dollars. There are plenty of mid sized cities in america where you can buy a well maintained house in a nice neighborhood for about $100/sqft (1500 to 4000 sqft, your choice). If you're used to working 12 hours a day, you're probably not getting out much, so where you live shouldn't be an issue. If you have to take a pay cut from $150k to $100k, it will be well worth it. You'll likely save enough on taxes and mortgage interest to offset the income, and probably won't have to work such long hours. Plus, you're a lot less likely to lose your ass if the value of your house drops.
You seem to hate it so much, what the hell made you want to live there in the first place?
You do back up your data anyway, don't you? Or do you have really bad luck with drives going bad? Anyone buying this system can afford an external 300gig hard drive to back up the important stuff anyway. For most people, a 40 gig drive should hold all the files that aren't just installation files. Raid 0 is for people who want their games and apps to start up twice as fast.
If doubling your failure rate of a particular drive puts you over the threshold, then you should probably stay away from that particular drive in the first place. Nearly everyone already runs systems that completely fail if one drive goes bad anyway, so what's the difference? We're probably talking about raising your yearly failure rate from 1% to 2%. As long as the drives you use don't have a history of going bad, you won't notice the difference.
we could set off a hydrogen bomb inside the storm, disrupting its circular flow
Hurricanes are formed by warm water evaporating and causing the air to rise. I think the last thing you want to do is add more heat energy to the situation. Plus, if you fail to stop the hurricane, you've just added radioactive fallout to the victims' problems.
by 2025 they may well have a 6 gHz laptop with 2TB of disk space
I hope this'll be readily available by 2010-2012. By 2025, I'm expecting those specs on the cell phone PDA implanted in my arm.
It just sucks because we're the people who have to take it up the ass first.
You bent over and spread your cheeks for them by buying the SUV in the first place; quit bitchin about whatever they decide to stick in there.
It's not like SUVs are the cheaper alternative. SUV owners made a conscious decision to spend more money up front for a vehicle that they knew would cost the most to drive. I have no sympathy for anyone who is complaining about the costs of driving the most option that has always been the costliest. Especially since they're the ones unnessecarily driving up the costs of gas for the rest of the planet.
/I'm not including farmers, construction or other heavy labor people who regularly need a vehicle that can haul 2000+ pounds. I'm ranting about the idiots needing to seat 6-7 people who could have bought a minivan, but don't like the style. I'm especially ranting about the urban idiots who buy SUVs and never even get them into 4WD. And anyone who makes less than $20/hr really shouldn't have sprung the extra $ for the SUV in the first place.
3 to 4 bucks in ink
I have an Epson r300, and I can easily say that printing a DVD and a single photo quality page would not come anywhere near $3-4 in ink costs. Somewhere in the 30-50c range would be more accurate.
That's assuming that you're not waiting a few months between each individual DVD so that you have to run the printer through a priming cycle.
What about when you slashdotters went to see the original Star Wars at the threatre. Were you against theatres at that time?
Back then my family had just replaced our 13 inch TV with a $500 (iirc) 20 inch TV. There was really no comparison.
Um, new movie releases make up a very small portion of the video that the average american watches. Most people who get expensive home theaters watch their regular TV shows, older DVDs and sports. New DVD releases are far from being the only reason to get a big screen setup. A nice setup will only cost you about $1 per hour over 5 years if you watch about 2 hours a day.
If all you ever watched was newer movies, it would still be worth a fair amount of money to not take an hour out of your day travelling back and forth to the theater and waiting for the movie to actually start. For me, a 2 hour movie means 3 gone from my day. Also, at home you can have dinner delivered and eat while you're watching the show, probably saving an extra hour. If you earn a decent wage, the two hours you save are well worth the up front cost.
Of course, if you're a broke ass student, you don't have any good excuse for buying luxuries like a home theater.
Jesus, just go to best buy, walmart, local hospital or university central stores. You can usually find someone willing to help you find lots of large boxes free for the taking. As long as you're willing to break them down and carry them yourself, they're happy to be relieved of the extra work. Just be nice about it and don't go in late june or august.
Last time I moved, I was able to pick up about 30 dell monitor boxes for free. The best part is they held a lot more weight than the $5 boxes from the moving company.
Unfortunately for MS, the Lexmark decision already stops them from suing (or at least winning) someone for cracking their DRM. The DMCA protections for digital encryption have already been struck down in regard to physical devices. There's no laws stopping the third party use of a game conroller, even if you have to crack encryption on the system. I bet MS is just hoping to keep the competition at bay for the first 6 months while people work to crack the system and get compatible controllers to market.
It's bad enough that you have to buy all new controllers every time a new console comes out, for each console. This is bull$hit.
there ARE places where a real PC can be better than a real router
Yes, but only because you're using it to replace both a web server that would be a PC anyway, and a $500 professional router. This is far beyond the scope of the $50 'gaming router' that the article was trying to replace.
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Since gamers upgrade their machines every 1-2 years instead of 3-5 like everyone else, it makes sense for the industry to focus tech advances on them. Gamers tend to spend 2-3 times as much on their machines, making room for the manufacturers to actually turn a profit (rather than buying the cheapest PC with 512MB ram). Lastly, gamers are almost the only ones still buying large CRTs, so it makes sense for LCD makers to specialize a product for the holdouts.
It's time to drop the gamepc link. Apparently they don't like the extra page views that /. is sending them.
Which stores or companies use this? Everyone I'm seen just uses high quality inkjet or dye sublimination.
Even home based photo printers are at least 600dpi. You shouldn't notice the grain, and as long as you use decent software, any reasonable jaggies from lower resolution photos will be smoothed out.
Your sarcasm meter is very broken.
the benefits of hard copied prints are diminishing in the face of digital convenience
You must not have kids if you think that paper photos are chasing the dinosaurs.
[I have an epson r300, retails for about $150, minus whatever MIRs you can get]
1: Yes, if you indiscriminately print every photo you take, you'll run up a much larger bill printing at home.
2: My printer does edge to edge printing, don't most others?
3: I haven't noticed any fading at all after 20 months.
4: I had that problem when I was printing on the cheapest glossy photo paper I could find, something from Burlington (the ink never even felt dry). I switched to Epson's paper and haven't had any problems.
Do any stores actually use real photo paper that has to be chemically developed like from film? I thought they all print photos inkjet style.
I usually run my photos through Corel Draw to print them. I can easily and quickly crop, rotate and adjust the color balance just right. I can also queue up a job of hundreds of photos with different quantites of each. At a store, you have to learn a new software package with deep and slow menu driven choices. After crashing a Walgreens photo kiosk twice in two hours with a 150 photo print job, I pretty much swore off the machines.
Phishers don't steal information from the bank, they con it out of you. It's the difference between someone forging checks on your account and giving someone $20 for the old 'I bet I can tell you where you got your shoes' routine. Making the bank responsible isn't going to stop people from doing stupid things with their financial information.
Anyone who logs into www.thisisntPAYPAL.com or www.CITYBANK.asdf.fr should be somewhat responsible for the screwing they've earned. The people who think they've won the canadian/nigerian lottery really deserve it.
Pharming, OTOH, is a completely different story. Banks should be responsible for monitoring the DNS entries for their transaction sites. If their site ever gets compromised, they should bear the burden of verifying customer IDs and getting customers to change passwords.
So you'd be charging your car with electricity bought at full retail then. Having solar panels isn't actually saving you any money on the cost of running the car. If you're concerned about the environment, you're still most likely running the car off electricy from coal or nuclear.
Do they buy it at wholesale rates during the day and charge you retail at night, or do they take it off your bill at 1-1 vs what you take from them?
There's a big difference between using solar cells to run your AC during they day vs selling solar energy back to the power company so you can reduce the bill for charging your car with their energy at night.
Too bad my car sits at work while the panels get peak output. At night when the car charges, I get to buy back electricity at full price.
I'm thinking that you made your choice when you took that job in the first place. I highly doubt your college major was "satellite thermal systems".
Next to Hawaii, California probably has the nicest weather in the USA. Unlike Hawaii, the state pastime of California seems to be bitching about the cost to live there. The fact is, if California land prices were very much less, then everyone would probably live there.
This is a great way to cut your fuel costs, assuming you use the AC mains on your neighbor's property.
A SHITTY house here costs 600k .
So MOVE already! I'm so damn tired of people bitching about how their hovel costs half a million dollars. There are plenty of mid sized cities in america where you can buy a well maintained house in a nice neighborhood for about $100/sqft (1500 to 4000 sqft, your choice). If you're used to working 12 hours a day, you're probably not getting out much, so where you live shouldn't be an issue. If you have to take a pay cut from $150k to $100k, it will be well worth it. You'll likely save enough on taxes and mortgage interest to offset the income, and probably won't have to work such long hours. Plus, you're a lot less likely to lose your ass if the value of your house drops.
You seem to hate it so much, what the hell made you want to live there in the first place?
You do back up your data anyway, don't you? Or do you have really bad luck with drives going bad? Anyone buying this system can afford an external 300gig hard drive to back up the important stuff anyway. For most people, a 40 gig drive should hold all the files that aren't just installation files. Raid 0 is for people who want their games and apps to start up twice as fast.
If doubling your failure rate of a particular drive puts you over the threshold, then you should probably stay away from that particular drive in the first place. Nearly everyone already runs systems that completely fail if one drive goes bad anyway, so what's the difference? We're probably talking about raising your yearly failure rate from 1% to 2%. As long as the drives you use don't have a history of going bad, you won't notice the difference.
we could set off a hydrogen bomb inside the storm, disrupting its circular flow
Hurricanes are formed by warm water evaporating and causing the air to rise. I think the last thing you want to do is add more heat energy to the situation. Plus, if you fail to stop the hurricane, you've just added radioactive fallout to the victims' problems.
by 2025 they may well have a 6 gHz laptop with 2TB of disk space
I hope this'll be readily available by 2010-2012. By 2025, I'm expecting those specs on the cell phone PDA implanted in my arm.
It just sucks because we're the people who have to take it up the ass first.
/I'm not including farmers, construction or other heavy labor people who regularly need a vehicle that can haul 2000+ pounds. I'm ranting about the idiots needing to seat 6-7 people who could have bought a minivan, but don't like the style. I'm especially ranting about the urban idiots who buy SUVs and never even get them into 4WD. And anyone who makes less than $20/hr really shouldn't have sprung the extra $ for the SUV in the first place.
You bent over and spread your cheeks for them by buying the SUV in the first place; quit bitchin about whatever they decide to stick in there.
It's not like SUVs are the cheaper alternative. SUV owners made a conscious decision to spend more money up front for a vehicle that they knew would cost the most to drive. I have no sympathy for anyone who is complaining about the costs of driving the most option that has always been the costliest. Especially since they're the ones unnessecarily driving up the costs of gas for the rest of the planet.
3 to 4 bucks in ink
I have an Epson r300, and I can easily say that printing a DVD and a single photo quality page would not come anywhere near $3-4 in ink costs. Somewhere in the 30-50c range would be more accurate.
That's assuming that you're not waiting a few months between each individual DVD so that you have to run the printer through a priming cycle.
What about when you slashdotters went to see the original Star Wars at the threatre. Were you against theatres at that time?
Back then my family had just replaced our 13 inch TV with a $500 (iirc) 20 inch TV. There was really no comparison.
Um, new movie releases make up a very small portion of the video that the average american watches. Most people who get expensive home theaters watch their regular TV shows, older DVDs and sports. New DVD releases are far from being the only reason to get a big screen setup. A nice setup will only cost you about $1 per hour over 5 years if you watch about 2 hours a day.
If all you ever watched was newer movies, it would still be worth a fair amount of money to not take an hour out of your day travelling back and forth to the theater and waiting for the movie to actually start. For me, a 2 hour movie means 3 gone from my day. Also, at home you can have dinner delivered and eat while you're watching the show, probably saving an extra hour. If you earn a decent wage, the two hours you save are well worth the up front cost.
Of course, if you're a broke ass student, you don't have any good excuse for buying luxuries like a home theater.
Heh, you didn't even factor in babysitting so you can go see an R rated movie once in a while.
translation:
I'm broke, I live in a cramped shithole, and I think that you people with lots of money are dumbasses for not living just like me.
BTW, you should spend less time in the theater and more time apologizing to your english teacher.
Jesus, just go to best buy, walmart, local hospital or university central stores. You can usually find someone willing to help you find lots of large boxes free for the taking. As long as you're willing to break them down and carry them yourself, they're happy to be relieved of the extra work. Just be nice about it and don't go in late june or august.
Last time I moved, I was able to pick up about 30 dell monitor boxes for free. The best part is they held a lot more weight than the $5 boxes from the moving company.
Unfortunately for MS, the Lexmark decision already stops them from suing (or at least winning) someone for cracking their DRM. The DMCA protections for digital encryption have already been struck down in regard to physical devices. There's no laws stopping the third party use of a game conroller, even if you have to crack encryption on the system. I bet MS is just hoping to keep the competition at bay for the first 6 months while people work to crack the system and get compatible controllers to market.
It's bad enough that you have to buy all new controllers every time a new console comes out, for each console. This is bull$hit.
there ARE places where a real PC can be better than a real router
Yes, but only because you're using it to replace both a web server that would be a PC anyway, and a $500 professional router. This is far beyond the scope of the $50 'gaming router' that the article was trying to replace.