Yes EDGE is a whole lot faster than GPRS, but EVDO blows them both out of the water.
EVDO Rev. A (used by Sprint in the US) is capable of 3.1 Mb/s downstream. (from wikipedia)
I have a Treo 700p from Sprint. It is a GPRS phone, but uses EVDO for data. I regularly get +400 kb/s.
I wouldn't use Parallels for any professional-level CAD. Most CAD software uses the video card to render the display. Parallels does not provide accelerated graphics drivers that allow needed access to the video card, so any some-what complex designs will display very slowly.
Booting into Boot Camp DOES provide native accelerated graphics card drivers.
I'm all for showing where every one of my tax dollars is spent. I am even more for allowing me to choose where my tax dollars go.
For example, I wouldn't put a penny towards our military efforts to expand the United States Empire, but I would give enough money to federal parks and recreation so that no one has to pay an additional fee to go to a public beach or hike in a national park.
I know MythTV (http:llwww.mythtv.org) isn't for everyone, but nowadays just about any linux n00b can get one running perfectly without all too much effort. Take a look at KnoppMyth (http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html). For me it ran/installed straight off the CD and gave me a working ASTC MythTV box in a couple of hours.
I've never paid for cable or sattelite, I just use a rooftop antenna and get all my local channels in HD. I like the complete lack of DRM with MythTV. I can burn anything in full quality to DVD if I want to. Automatic commercial skipping works very well for me.
if at the moment they crank this thing up to full speed that the universe is suddently obliterated?
Who should then be blamed? The scientists that built this thing that makes Big Bang II or by a god with a really twisted sense of humor?
"Eurotech describes the WWPC as a "user-centric, ubiquitous computing" concept, suggesting that the device is not yet available in product form."
I'm announcing a tabletop fusion-powered electrical generator. I've got many details about it and even some pictures. But, I admit it is only a concept and not yet available in product form.
Uhhhh...
If I knew I couldn't peice buy part to upgrade my G4 Cube I wouldn't have done so...
As it was: 450 Mhz G4, DVD-ROM drive, 256MB RAM, 20GB drive, ATI Rage 128
Upgraded with: 1.4 Ghz G4 w/ 2MB L3 Caches, 2X Superdrive (DVD-R, -RW, and -RAM), 1 GB RAM and 120GB 7200RPM drive, ATI Radeon 9000...and still all in a 9" acrylic cube.
It could have easily lasted me a few more years if you hadn't told me it couldn't be upgraded.
I had to cut down my monthly expenses and I was torn between loosing the always-on DSL connection I had or saving $30/month by switching back to dial-up.
One day I was chatting with my neighbor and he was talking about his slow dial-up connection when I proposed sharing my DSL with him. So, he gives me the $15/month he was paying his ISP and gave him access to my wireless network (which is WAP encrypted and limited to specific MAC addresses).
Now he gets high-speed internet and it was much easier for me to chooose to keep the DSL. Oh, and there is nothing in ISP's service agreement against me doing so.
Yea, why remake a moving that has already been remade? Especially when the existing remake is one of the best and most perfectly directed horror movie ever?
Evil Dead II wouldn't be as great as it is if the effects people weren't on such a limited budget. Sam Rami's going to have millions of dollars and replace the inginuity with CGI?
There are plenty of iTunes users and iPod owners that have never bought, and will never be forced to buy, anything from iTMS. They just load their legally purchased music from Audio CD's.
The iPod and iTunes existed long before the iTMS and back then I ripped many of my legally purchased music into iTunes directly from CD. Then I got an iPod and it was months of me enjoying my music library on my iPod before I ever purchased a song from iTMS.
This sounds more like a feature than a bug. Kudos to Fedora for helping rid the world of those damn Windows viruses that are filling up my inbox.
Also, since when is a computer considered unbootable just because it won't boot into Windows. Sounds like Ferodra is just makes computers a bit more discriminating.
Uh..."winpc" users have to spend a lot more money and time puchasing, installing, and updating their anti-virus software, firewall software, anti-spyware software, and their anti-spam software. If time is money then "winpc" users spend a lot more that $130 a year just to keep their computer secure and usable.
With OS X, security is free and requires almost no time. If I do decide to spend $130, I'm doing it to get new features that I want, not to keep my computer secure and usable.
No, but what's to stop someone (a geeky engineer type) from opening their LCD HDTV and replacing the LCD with an A-to-D converter that renders the pixel data back into a digital stream?
Would that be circumventing the DRM and punishable via the DCMA? I don't think so since the DRM has already been removed by the circutry in the TV.
Is Microsofts DRM included in their purchased music store files (such as the ones purchased at Wal-Mart's site) that much harder than the DRM used with iTunes Music Store files?
What if I want to purchase $.79 songs from Wal-Mart and play them on my Linux box (or on my Mac)?
At this point if only Apple's DRM is cracked and not Microsofts then its got to be whole lot easier for Mircosoft to negotiate contracts with record labels/artists. Right?!
You can get a 23" Cinema display from Apple for $1999 (plus $100 for a DVI to ADC adapter if you don't have a Mac). It displays 1920 x 1200. Plus, Apple's LCD displays are beautiful is design and image quality. Also, if you decide you don't like it or want something else later on, Apple displays have a much higher resale value that any other LCD displays.
What's the resolution of these large HDTV displays? I wouldn't want anything less than Z x 1024 pixels. Z= the standard width in pixels for a wide-screen display when it is 1024 pixels high.
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Yes EDGE is a whole lot faster than GPRS, but EVDO blows them both out of the water. EVDO Rev. A (used by Sprint in the US) is capable of 3.1 Mb/s downstream. (from wikipedia) I have a Treo 700p from Sprint. It is a GPRS phone, but uses EVDO for data. I regularly get +400 kb/s.
I wouldn't use Parallels for any professional-level CAD. Most CAD software uses the video card to render the display. Parallels does not provide accelerated graphics drivers that allow needed access to the video card, so any some-what complex designs will display very slowly. Booting into Boot Camp DOES provide native accelerated graphics card drivers.
I'm all for showing where every one of my tax dollars is spent. I am even more for allowing me to choose where my tax dollars go. For example, I wouldn't put a penny towards our military efforts to expand the United States Empire, but I would give enough money to federal parks and recreation so that no one has to pay an additional fee to go to a public beach or hike in a national park.
I know MythTV (http:llwww.mythtv.org) isn't for everyone, but nowadays just about any linux n00b can get one running perfectly without all too much effort. Take a look at KnoppMyth (http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html). For me it ran/installed straight off the CD and gave me a working ASTC MythTV box in a couple of hours. I've never paid for cable or sattelite, I just use a rooftop antenna and get all my local channels in HD. I like the complete lack of DRM with MythTV. I can burn anything in full quality to DVD if I want to. Automatic commercial skipping works very well for me.
if at the moment they crank this thing up to full speed that the universe is suddently obliterated? Who should then be blamed? The scientists that built this thing that makes Big Bang II or by a god with a really twisted sense of humor?
I know her too. She does some awesome voices. Quite sexy, but too bad she's married to my friend Mana Taria.
Open source, great support forums, easy scripting language called AutoHotKey. http://www.autohotkey.com/
Uhhhh... If I knew I couldn't peice buy part to upgrade my G4 Cube I wouldn't have done so... As it was: 450 Mhz G4, DVD-ROM drive, 256MB RAM, 20GB drive, ATI Rage 128 Upgraded with: 1.4 Ghz G4 w/ 2MB L3 Caches, 2X Superdrive (DVD-R, -RW, and -RAM), 1 GB RAM and 120GB 7200RPM drive, ATI Radeon 9000...and still all in a 9" acrylic cube. It could have easily lasted me a few more years if you hadn't told me it couldn't be upgraded.
So, do I have to pay royalties for not saying anything for a minute and 3 seconds in front of a large group of people?
I had to cut down my monthly expenses and I was torn between loosing the always-on DSL connection I had or saving $30/month by switching back to dial-up. One day I was chatting with my neighbor and he was talking about his slow dial-up connection when I proposed sharing my DSL with him. So, he gives me the $15/month he was paying his ISP and gave him access to my wireless network (which is WAP encrypted and limited to specific MAC addresses). Now he gets high-speed internet and it was much easier for me to chooose to keep the DSL. Oh, and there is nothing in ISP's service agreement against me doing so.
...Going a step farther, with blogs and Google who needs Usenet? [this is sarcasm]
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Yea, why remake a moving that has already been remade? Especially when the existing remake is one of the best and most perfectly directed horror movie ever? Evil Dead II wouldn't be as great as it is if the effects people weren't on such a limited budget. Sam Rami's going to have millions of dollars and replace the inginuity with CGI?
Sad state the US has come to... The only thing we can do to change things now is to suceed and start from scratch.
There are plenty of iTunes users and iPod owners that have never bought, and will never be forced to buy, anything from iTMS. They just load their legally purchased music from Audio CD's. The iPod and iTunes existed long before the iTMS and back then I ripped many of my legally purchased music into iTunes directly from CD. Then I got an iPod and it was months of me enjoying my music library on my iPod before I ever purchased a song from iTMS.
This sounds more like a feature than a bug. Kudos to Fedora for helping rid the world of those damn Windows viruses that are filling up my inbox. Also, since when is a computer considered unbootable just because it won't boot into Windows. Sounds like Ferodra is just makes computers a bit more discriminating.
I never pump my own gas. I couldn't even if I wanted to, which I don't. Isn't it this way in every state? Signed, An Oregonian
Uh..."winpc" users have to spend a lot more money and time puchasing, installing, and updating their anti-virus software, firewall software, anti-spyware software, and their anti-spam software. If time is money then "winpc" users spend a lot more that $130 a year just to keep their computer secure and usable. With OS X, security is free and requires almost no time. If I do decide to spend $130, I'm doing it to get new features that I want, not to keep my computer secure and usable.
No, but what's to stop someone (a geeky engineer type) from opening their LCD HDTV and replacing the LCD with an A-to-D converter that renders the pixel data back into a digital stream? Would that be circumventing the DRM and punishable via the DCMA? I don't think so since the DRM has already been removed by the circutry in the TV.
When it crashes does it become the BBOD (Blue Building of Death)?
Is Microsofts DRM included in their purchased music store files (such as the ones purchased at Wal-Mart's site) that much harder than the DRM used with iTunes Music Store files? What if I want to purchase $.79 songs from Wal-Mart and play them on my Linux box (or on my Mac)? At this point if only Apple's DRM is cracked and not Microsofts then its got to be whole lot easier for Mircosoft to negotiate contracts with record labels/artists. Right?!
Z=1280 is for a normal (a.k.a. oldschool) display. These HDTV displays are wide-screen so at 1024 pixels high, Z>1280.
You can get a 23" Cinema display from Apple for $1999 (plus $100 for a DVI to ADC adapter if you don't have a Mac). It displays 1920 x 1200. Plus, Apple's LCD displays are beautiful is design and image quality. Also, if you decide you don't like it or want something else later on, Apple displays have a much higher resale value that any other LCD displays.
What's the resolution of these large HDTV displays? I wouldn't want anything less than Z x 1024 pixels. Z= the standard width in pixels for a wide-screen display when it is 1024 pixels high.