I used to think like this as well, but as I've been on more and more projects, I've found that an interview with the stakeholder is typically well worth the time taken, even if they don't know what they want, you can provide options and allow them to pick.
Hindsight is always 20/20 but I promise you that if you ask the tougher questions by learning the business process behind it, your job will become much easier.
I think you may be confusing Composite with component. The site states the card has composite video in. This is different than Component Video in. With Component Video you will have 3 RCA cables, composite has one.
7 Inputs is overkill yes. However, consider hooking up a VCR and Cable TV. Now you have 2 inputs taken already. There are nights that I wish I could record 3 programs at once (Sci Fi, UPN and NBC). I think 4 inputs would be great. And yes, you *will* use your VCR for transfering old VHS Home Movies and such onto DVD.
Now, that 1 terrabyte drive. Yummm!!!! I'd be happy with just that.
When my dealer (Rick Hendrix Chevrolet of Cary, NC) lowers their hourly rate from the current $70 an hour, I'll agree with you. The problem is the car manufacturers charge soooo much for their information, making a small repair shop spend all profit on the books and special tools that are invented with each new car just to keep up. Don't believe? Try changing your spark plugs in your front wheel drive car.
A lot of the specifics you are looking for are probably already done by a speciality shop. For example, I love my Camaro Z28, and ls1edit.com has a $500 setup that will tell me everything about the car in real time.
I doubt though that car manufacturers are going to standardize on anything electric except the emmissions part, and that's probably the goverment forcing them to. Geez, take a look at aftermarket radios, If they could standardize on anything it could be that.
Now, if someone *would* build a custom touch screen LCD screen that fit perfectly where my radio and environmental controls are and then made it open enough I could plug a laptop into it (MP3s, Maps, etc..) then I would be one happy camper. Of course, it would have to be skinnable (for my mood) and environmental controls would have to be included in the touch screen LCD. Well hell, just include the lights, wipers, hazards, defogger, yadda yadda ya.
Hmmmm, I should get to work on that now. To the patent office! First comez za money, then comes zee power. Bwooo ha ha ha ha.
Why build your own PC? I built my HTPC with an Athlon 2600, 1 gig ram, 240 gig of drives, ATI 9600 (HD Output), Hauppauge vid capture for under $1,000. I got to rewind and pause Janet's boob all I wanted and Tivo never knew.
Why build my own car? Ummm, exactly how many people are doing this? I haven't seen that many home built ones on the road. Restored yes, home built no.
Why build my own house? So I can configure room layout, ceiling heights, carpets, windows and all the extras that don't cost much to change *before the house is built*
Why do any of the above? Because I just ain't average enough for the prebuilt stuff
CDE? You may have been misinformed. Eclipse supports many platforms. The windows platform is built directly ontop of the Win32 API, no MFC or extra crap as AWT is. The Linux platforms include a GTK version. Not sure about the Mac version
I was not hoping to start the same old argument 'Swing is god, SWT sucks' or 'SWT is god, Swing sucks'. So, give me a minute while I stoop way down to your level:
[Personally I'll use Swing any day over an overly thin wrapper like SWT.]
So what your saying there is that you would rather use the fat bloated API of Swing over the thin API of SWT and JFace?
Understand this: Swing is build on top of AWT. AWT is a wrapper. SWT is a wrapper. What this all boils down to is the lame argument of 'SWT is evil because it is a native wrapper' is crap. in the end Swing is using a very similar wrapper. IBM (for once) just happened to write their wrapper correctly while Sun just pushed crap out on us and never looked back, they just added more crap ontop of more.
Don't believe that Sun writes crap code? Check out the source for Swing. You'll be amazed. Then, check out their bug parade and look at all of the bugs that developers have been waiting to get fixed for years. Yes, years.
If you do prefer emulated Swing over anything native, do you then prefer to run your OS inside of VMWare?
I tried NetBeans a year ago and the UI was so unresponsive that menus would literally takes 10 seconds to come up. That's when a friend introduced me to Eclipse and I saw that Java IDEs don't have to suck. I have never looked back.
I noticed this version claims to increase UI Speed/Responsivness. Can anyone that is using it back that up? When you maximize the window, do you see painfull Swing repaints? How much memory does this thing chug up when initially started (Before loading projects etc..)
Actually, the articles state that MS should use a Sun compliant JVM and not Microsoft's old JVM. Sun is fighting to get their JVM into Windows which is the best way to go. If Sun was able to get into Microsoft's OS then that nine-figure payment would be made in profit and many developers would rejoice.
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I used to think like this as well, but as I've been on more and more projects, I've found that an interview with the stakeholder is typically well worth the time taken, even if they don't know what they want, you can provide options and allow them to pick. Hindsight is always 20/20 but I promise you that if you ask the tougher questions by learning the business process behind it, your job will become much easier.
Stop downloading Porn.
I think you may be confusing Composite with component. The site states the card has composite video in. This is different than Component Video in. With Component Video you will have 3 RCA cables, composite has one.
7 Inputs is overkill yes. However, consider hooking up a VCR and Cable TV. Now you have 2 inputs taken already. There are nights that I wish I could record 3 programs at once (Sci Fi, UPN and NBC). I think 4 inputs would be great. And yes, you *will* use your VCR for transfering old VHS Home Movies and such onto DVD. Now, that 1 terrabyte drive. Yummm!!!! I'd be happy with just that.
Would have the password 12345 on his luggage!
Carpet padding is a cheap alternative to Dynomat (usually put in cars to silence road noise). Dynomat has a stick back.
Works a lot better than carpet padding however does smell like tar
When my dealer (Rick Hendrix Chevrolet of Cary, NC) lowers their hourly rate from the current $70 an hour, I'll agree with you. The problem is the car manufacturers charge soooo much for their information, making a small repair shop spend all profit on the books and special tools that are invented with each new car just to keep up. Don't believe? Try changing your spark plugs in your front wheel drive car.
A lot of the specifics you are looking for are probably already done by a speciality shop. For example, I love my Camaro Z28, and ls1edit.com has a $500 setup that will tell me everything about the car in real time.
I doubt though that car manufacturers are going to standardize on anything electric except the emmissions part, and that's probably the goverment forcing them to. Geez, take a look at aftermarket radios, If they could standardize on anything it could be that.
Now, if someone *would* build a custom touch screen LCD screen that fit perfectly where my radio and environmental controls are and then made it open enough I could plug a laptop into it (MP3s, Maps, etc..) then I would be one happy camper. Of course, it would have to be skinnable (for my mood) and environmental controls would have to be included in the touch screen LCD. Well hell, just include the lights, wipers, hazards, defogger, yadda yadda ya.
Hmmmm, I should get to work on that now. To the patent office! First comez za money, then comes zee power. Bwooo ha ha ha ha.
Kit kars are one thing, mostly the exterior. Guess I was thinking of someone fabricating everything from the frame to the paint :doh!:
Why build your own PC?
I built my HTPC with an Athlon 2600, 1 gig ram, 240 gig of drives, ATI 9600 (HD Output), Hauppauge vid capture for under $1,000. I got to rewind and pause Janet's boob all I wanted and Tivo never knew.
Why build my own car?
Ummm, exactly how many people are doing this? I haven't seen that many home built ones on the road. Restored yes, home built no.
Why build my own house?
So I can configure room layout, ceiling heights, carpets, windows and all the extras that don't cost much to change *before the house is built*
Why do any of the above? Because I just ain't average enough for the prebuilt stuff
CDE? You may have been misinformed. Eclipse supports many platforms. The windows platform is built directly ontop of the Win32 API, no MFC or extra crap as AWT is. The Linux platforms include a GTK version. Not sure about the Mac version
Not FP
I was not hoping to start the same old argument 'Swing is god, SWT sucks' or 'SWT is god, Swing sucks'. So, give me a minute while I stoop way down to your level:
[Personally I'll use Swing any day over an overly thin wrapper like SWT.]
So what your saying there is that you would rather use the fat bloated API of Swing over the thin API of SWT and JFace? Understand this: Swing is build on top of AWT. AWT is a wrapper. SWT is a wrapper. What this all boils down to is the lame argument of 'SWT is evil because it is a native wrapper' is crap. in the end Swing is using a very similar wrapper. IBM (for once) just happened to write their wrapper correctly while Sun just pushed crap out on us and never looked back, they just added more crap ontop of more.
Don't believe that Sun writes crap code? Check out the source for Swing. You'll be amazed. Then, check out their bug parade and look at all of the bugs that developers have been waiting to get fixed for years. Yes, years. If you do prefer emulated Swing over anything native, do you then prefer to run your OS inside of VMWare?
I tried NetBeans a year ago and the UI was so unresponsive that menus would literally takes 10 seconds to come up. That's when a friend introduced me to Eclipse and I saw that Java IDEs don't have to suck. I have never looked back. I noticed this version claims to increase UI Speed/Responsivness. Can anyone that is using it back that up? When you maximize the window, do you see painfull Swing repaints? How much memory does this thing chug up when initially started (Before loading projects etc..)
Ummm, I don't remember seeing 'Harry Potter and the Two Towers'. Was it good? What courageous stunt did Harry do with those two towers?
Ummm, correct me if I am wrong but Outlook uses the IE ActiveX engine to display eMail that is formatted in HTML.
Actually, the articles state that MS should use a Sun compliant JVM and not Microsoft's old JVM. Sun is fighting to get their JVM into Windows which is the best way to go. If Sun was able to get into Microsoft's OS then that nine-figure payment would be made in profit and many developers would rejoice.
I have starband and the latency sucks. Telnet/SSH is painful at best. VPN - Dialup speeds AT BEST, and that is only for certain VPNs.