Sorry dude, it's even worse than you thought. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_telev isionWikipedia, two standards for HD are 720p/i (1280x720 px) and 1080p/i (1920x1080 px). The Blue-ray DVDs are specifically designed for 1080p video, so you're talking about a 300% frame size increase.
I work in computer graphics and true high definition scares the crap out of me and my current workstation.
Shaun
Alienware customer service is total B.S.
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Dell to Buy Alienware?
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In regards to Alienware's horrible customer service, I've got to weigh in. Last year I bought a laptop from them expecting a 15" 4:3 screen as pictured on their website when I ordered it. It took over a month to arrive, and what I got was a 15" widescreen with a 1680x1050 resolution -- I'm a young guy with decent vision (with corrective lenses) but this was too damn small for me and not what I ordered.
Add to that my X, C, and V keys were DOA, and when I powered up the computer it informed me the CMOS battery was dead. Alienware advertises extensive power-on load testing -- if any of that were true, they would have found and corrected this problem as soon as they tried to power it up! Additionally the video card and wifi drivers were not installed, so their marketing B.S. about fine-tuning drivers for you is just that.
To top this all off, I had to pay a 15% restocking fee to return my laptop for a refund. That was a $4k machine. Even after their false advertising as to the laptop design and absolutely no in-house testing -- despite the falsified testing sheet that came with it -- I lost $600 to them and it was two full months until I got the 17" Gateway laptop I now have. And it runs great.
So maybe Dell will bring some credibility to Alienware, because it's totally bullshit. Do some Googling and you'll find hundreds of stories like mine.
Because if this case were to, through some ridiculousness, be found in favor of the defendants, that would impune employees who the news media would love to exploit for zounds of leaks similar to the ones Apple has suffered. It's easy to find someone in a company dissatisfied with their job or their employer -- if they could be sure they would never be revealed as a source, what's to prevent them from leaking sensitive product development info for a quick buck at their company's expense?
If a legit journalist had broken this same story, his publication would have had quite a sales boost given the massive industry interest in everything that Apple does. It's a market of news they'd love to be able to tap.
That's not the point. Workers are continuously being squeezed while year after year CEOs and shareholders see their earnings wratchetted up. So in the end we won't have an "equalized" wealth table -- we'll all be slaves to the same 1000 rich fucks who dole out their obscene billions to whoever'll jump the highest for the smallest portion. That's your fucking equality.
That may be, dude. And I wouldn't be shocked if IBM's Linux desktop solution is widely liked by the Slashdot crowd. But you have to admit that it's still a major step simply because it will draw a huge audience away from Windows, spurring more development by other companies for Linux. The users that then become experienced enough will probably stop using IBM's version in time, and the rest will still be using an OS that furthers Linux's reach.
Dude, I'm from Maine, and I think a lot of us folks have a special distrust of people from Massachusetts. We've only been separate from them as a state for less than two centuries, and with amtrak offerring near-commuter service into York and Cumberland counties here, I fear they're taking us back acre by acre.
But get off your fucking horse -- I've spent the entirety of my young adult life hating the city of Boston for how ugly, backwards, and just plain notorious its traffic system is. Now I've seen the final visualization done by a Cambridge firm (that rivals my own) and I am thoroughly impressed.
I see Boston coming alive now that this new project is completed, and that really excites me. It was a city that I thought I could never love. Yeah, $16 billion is a lot of money. So is $93 billion -- which I believe is the "cost-overrun" of Gulf War II? You know, the occupation? Here's a fraction of that money that will make millions of American's daily lives fundamentally better -- and you're against it. I think that just makes you sad. Our money is mishandled in far more dangerous ways.
One of the guys killed on the Big Dig was a close friend of my family when I was just entering school. His name was Billy Juss, probably one of the most experienced divers in New England. They had him capping underwater lines on the dig when for some reason or another the men responsible for monitoring his oxygen missed some sign and he asphyxiated. As amazing as four fatalities on the project is, it's depressing to think that they weren't necessary.
What the hell? I mean, I'm no fan of fat capitalists, but the Gates Foundation's unwavering funding of vaccinating children in Africa to stem the tied of rampant disease on the continent is admirable as hell, and should be the top priority of every industrialized nation's foreign policy. Explain the corporate benefits for Microsoft there, sir.
I know this is off topic and nitpicky, but Scotty never said "loves to change things" -- McCoy said in the motion picture "I know engineers, they love to change things" when imagining his new sickbay.
Actually dude, you are wrong. I happened to be at a church one day to see a presentation by one of their representatives, and the Gideons very much encourage you to take Bibles from hotels if you're so inclined. They consider that spreading the word. Oh wait, it's probably the Word, no? In any event, while it doesn't specifically say that you're free to take them, that is the intent of the Gideons if you are so moved by the Word.
ShaunDon
Dude, I was pullin' down nearly a meg a second -- and I'm only payin' $18k a year. Sorry to rain on your parade, but I think you're bein' over charged.;-)
Shit dude, I like where you're going with this! Bring on the hardware piracy! Download board configurations from Kazaa, output 'em to the Epson... alright, this is entirely impractical, but Christ, it's been my dream for fuckin' five years now.
I've been trying to remember where I read/heard this all day, but it hasn't come to me. In any case, years ago, perhaps discussing the Challenger disaster, I heard that statistical estimates say every one in 100 shuttle launches is likely to end in cataclysmic failure. I think today's flight was #113? So we're talking about nearly double the rate of expected failure, but in any case these missions have never been thought to be anything but extremely dangerous.
ShaunDon
Not likely, I should think. The cockpit is well enclosed, as posters pointed out earlier on the first story. It's possible some of the astronauts survived until impact.
ShaunDon
Alright, it's simple, we DON'T have to upgrade to Palladium... but Microsoft has a way of incorporating *just enough* (except in the case of ME) incremental improvements to make it worth our while. What if this is the watershed Windows platforms that finally delivers on all its promises? Across the board, including security? I'm afraid far too many people, people who even ordinarily would know better, might be enticed by that.
But seriously. This definitely warrants a serious grass-roots counter-PR campaign. I'm certainly game. *grin*
ShaunDon
"I swear I way more than half-believe it when I say that somewhere love and justice shines" - The Weakerthans
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I work in computer graphics and true high definition scares the crap out of me and my current workstation.
Shaun
In regards to Alienware's horrible customer service, I've got to weigh in. Last year I bought a laptop from them expecting a 15" 4:3 screen as pictured on their website when I ordered it. It took over a month to arrive, and what I got was a 15" widescreen with a 1680x1050 resolution -- I'm a young guy with decent vision (with corrective lenses) but this was too damn small for me and not what I ordered.
Add to that my X, C, and V keys were DOA, and when I powered up the computer it informed me the CMOS battery was dead. Alienware advertises extensive power-on load testing -- if any of that were true, they would have found and corrected this problem as soon as they tried to power it up! Additionally the video card and wifi drivers were not installed, so their marketing B.S. about fine-tuning drivers for you is just that.
To top this all off, I had to pay a 15% restocking fee to return my laptop for a refund. That was a $4k machine. Even after their false advertising as to the laptop design and absolutely no in-house testing -- despite the falsified testing sheet that came with it -- I lost $600 to them and it was two full months until I got the 17" Gateway laptop I now have. And it runs great.
So maybe Dell will bring some credibility to Alienware, because it's totally bullshit. Do some Googling and you'll find hundreds of stories like mine.
Shaun
Move to mod parent as "crotchety!"
Because if this case were to, through some ridiculousness, be found in favor of the defendants, that would impune employees who the news media would love to exploit for zounds of leaks similar to the ones Apple has suffered. It's easy to find someone in a company dissatisfied with their job or their employer -- if they could be sure they would never be revealed as a source, what's to prevent them from leaking sensitive product development info for a quick buck at their company's expense?
If a legit journalist had broken this same story, his publication would have had quite a sales boost given the massive industry interest in everything that Apple does. It's a market of news they'd love to be able to tap.
Whips, baby. It really whips the llama's ass. ;-)
That's not the point. Workers are continuously being squeezed while year after year CEOs and shareholders see their earnings wratchetted up. So in the end we won't have an "equalized" wealth table -- we'll all be slaves to the same 1000 rich fucks who dole out their obscene billions to whoever'll jump the highest for the smallest portion. That's your fucking equality.
That may be, dude. And I wouldn't be shocked if IBM's Linux desktop solution is widely liked by the Slashdot crowd. But you have to admit that it's still a major step simply because it will draw a huge audience away from Windows, spurring more development by other companies for Linux. The users that then become experienced enough will probably stop using IBM's version in time, and the rest will still be using an OS that furthers Linux's reach.
ShaunDon
Dude, I'm from Maine, and I think a lot of us folks have a special distrust of people from Massachusetts. We've only been separate from them as a state for less than two centuries, and with amtrak offerring near-commuter service into York and Cumberland counties here, I fear they're taking us back acre by acre.
But get off your fucking horse -- I've spent the entirety of my young adult life hating the city of Boston for how ugly, backwards, and just plain notorious its traffic system is. Now I've seen the final visualization done by a Cambridge firm (that rivals my own) and I am thoroughly impressed.
I see Boston coming alive now that this new project is completed, and that really excites me. It was a city that I thought I could never love. Yeah, $16 billion is a lot of money. So is $93 billion -- which I believe is the "cost-overrun" of Gulf War II? You know, the occupation? Here's a fraction of that money that will make millions of American's daily lives fundamentally better -- and you're against it. I think that just makes you sad. Our money is mishandled in far more dangerous ways.
ShaunDon
One of the guys killed on the Big Dig was a close friend of my family when I was just entering school. His name was Billy Juss, probably one of the most experienced divers in New England. They had him capping underwater lines on the dig when for some reason or another the men responsible for monitoring his oxygen missed some sign and he asphyxiated. As amazing as four fatalities on the project is, it's depressing to think that they weren't necessary.
ShaunDon
What the hell? I mean, I'm no fan of fat capitalists, but the Gates Foundation's unwavering funding of vaccinating children in Africa to stem the tied of rampant disease on the continent is admirable as hell, and should be the top priority of every industrialized nation's foreign policy. Explain the corporate benefits for Microsoft there, sir.
ShaunDon
ShaunDon
Actually dude, you are wrong. I happened to be at a church one day to see a presentation by one of their representatives, and the Gideons very much encourage you to take Bibles from hotels if you're so inclined. They consider that spreading the word. Oh wait, it's probably the Word, no? In any event, while it doesn't specifically say that you're free to take them, that is the intent of the Gideons if you are so moved by the Word. ShaunDon
Dude, I was pullin' down nearly a meg a second -- and I'm only payin' $18k a year. Sorry to rain on your parade, but I think you're bein' over charged. ;-)
ShaunDon
Shit dude, I like where you're going with this! Bring on the hardware piracy! Download board configurations from Kazaa, output 'em to the Epson... alright, this is entirely impractical, but Christ, it's been my dream for fuckin' five years now.
ShaunDon
I've been trying to remember where I read/heard this all day, but it hasn't come to me. In any case, years ago, perhaps discussing the Challenger disaster, I heard that statistical estimates say every one in 100 shuttle launches is likely to end in cataclysmic failure. I think today's flight was #113? So we're talking about nearly double the rate of expected failure, but in any case these missions have never been thought to be anything but extremely dangerous. ShaunDon
Not likely, I should think. The cockpit is well enclosed, as posters pointed out earlier on the first story. It's possible some of the astronauts survived until impact. ShaunDon
Alright, it's simple, we DON'T have to upgrade to Palladium... but Microsoft has a way of incorporating *just enough* (except in the case of ME) incremental improvements to make it worth our while. What if this is the watershed Windows platforms that finally delivers on all its promises? Across the board, including security? I'm afraid far too many people, people who even ordinarily would know better, might be enticed by that. But seriously. This definitely warrants a serious grass-roots counter-PR campaign. I'm certainly game. *grin*
ShaunDon
"I swear I way more than half-believe it when I say that somewhere love and justice shines" - The Weakerthans