Yup HEC is really cool, there is also the control protocol which works over HDMI so your TV's remote can send commands to attached devices all over the HDMI cable.
I really like the idea of the new Roku which is the size of a thumb drive and powers off the TV. I don't know if it supports HEC though, I thought I read it has WiFI support.
I'd be surprised is the Steam box has HEC though, no consumer video cards support CEC right now, I'd be surprised if they suddenly started supporting HEC. It's possible, but I'm not sure how custom Valve will go with the hardware.
Depending on your setup you will need a power cable and HDMI cable to carry both audio and video. Network access could be via WiFi and wireless input devices.
If Valve keeps the platform open maybe something like XBMC could be easily packaged for deployment. Then it would need some type of remote input, but you could toss the POS Apple TV that can't output 1080p and have a nice all in one HTPC that doubles as a high powered gaming rig.
iPhone, iPad, iPod. This is Apple we are talking about hear. What is the MicroSD card you speak of? If a user ever needs more space they've made it never easy to just needing to buy a new larger capacity.
I wouldn't be surprised if they do this. Ford already offers an option for blind spot warnings which turns on a warning light in side mirrors when a car is in your blind spot. It piggy backs on the parking sensors like you mentioned.
Being responsible with handling debits like student loans and a card loan are a great way for a bank to calculate their risks when giving you 100k+ for a house. Sure Johnny might be very responsible and has worked hard all his life paying off this education in cash as well as buying a car with cash. But to a bank they have no record that he has made monthly payment in a timely manor.
I had a co-worker buying a house about five years ago. He always used a debit card and didn't have a credit history. He had a difficulty getting a long as he had a provide proof of monthly bill payments. This amounted to his apartment rent, and his monthly WoW charge. I think he still ended up needing a co-signer.
Bank transfers aren't common in the US like they are in Europe. The person paying with a credit card isn't charged a fee unless the company accepting the charge charges more to do so. This however is against the agreements with the Credit Card Companies. Many credit cards also offer bonuses for purchases where you earn points can get you gift cards, or over priced things.
I'm don't know how protection works in Europe with fraudulent charges but using a debit card that takes money right out of a checking account can have your money locked up for several weeks while a fraud investigation is being ran. With a credit card, the money that is the locked up in the investigation is the banks and your available balance is just lowered while the investigation is ran. Credit cards also offer a maximum of $50 you are responsible for by law, however; I haven't seen a card that doesn't waive that and make the card holder not have to cover anything with fraudulent transactions.
The US is really behind when it comes to direct payments. Most banks are now offering automatic bill payment where if an agreement between the bank and payee exists, then an electronic payment is made. Otherwise, a printed paper check will be sent for the payment and arrive on the scheduled time. This service is free, and is really the only fee free way I've found to send money to a family member on a monthly basis, so every month they get a printed check from the bank in the mail.
The Vita can only run digital version of PSP games since it doesn't have a UMD drive. But Vita games are available day one as digital or you can go to a store and buy it on a small cartridge. So how will this kill off used game sales?
But I have rid with people who call themselves good drivers, they are tailgating and swerving around people trying to drive safely and complain about them all the way.
Well granny should just get off the road if she is driving 25mph under the speed limit on the freeway. If she was a good driver and going the speed limit I wouldn't need to swerve around her.
The next step is for Apple to then make more videos making funny of Microsoft. You just tried opening my file.docx in Word, do you want to allow Word to access my file.docx?
If his TV only supports composite video he really needs to upgrade as that is the single yellow plug that maxes out at 480i. If he said component RGB plugs, then yes the Google TV could have been supported with those input/outputs.
Component supports up through 1080p, not just 1080i. However, composite video does not support 1080i and with how crappy the picture quality is with just 480i verses an S-Video connection which is also limited to 480i I don't think you'd want to try a 1080i signal over that cable. You have to go to Component if you want to go to a higher resolution even just 480p.
But if you want to use some of the cutting edge technology, you need to move out from under a rock which you are under if your TV doesn't have at least one HDMI port. The Logitech Revue Google TV passes though an HDMI signal so it doesn't take up its own port. It's supposed to go between your DVR/Cable/Satellite box and overlay information into the video stream to enhance the experience.
It is completely possible the HDMI only support is there to cut costs as you would need to have an Analog decoder and encoder as well as the digital ones that are already there.
I don't think think Mountain Dew ever had as much caffeine as coffee. If I remember fifteen or so years ago, wasn't Jolt Cola advertised as the pop with twice the caffeine? I just remember it had pretty much the same amount of caffeine as coffee.
Why does Mozilla go out of their way to ignore their users? Why do they go out of their way to mess with these projects that don't actually fix any of the serious problems that users point out time and time again, for years and years?
Chrome isn't any better with the developers holier than though attitudes. There have been feature requests that have been very highly voted for they they just keep turning down even though it would be a simple toggle on and off feature that could default to off. One such example is type ahead search which removes the need to press ctrl-f to search inline text. It is possible for some sites to have issues with, but I find it very useful, there is an extension for Chrome which worked about 20% of the time. Firefox has actually made great strides in 7.0 for memory usage, and I still have never seen this reported performance issues people have complained about.
Firefox has its issues, but I moved to Chrome after all the crashes in Firefox that started in the 6.0 release continued in 7.0.1. However, Chrome was very limited especially in regards to Ad Block Plus and Noscript. Ad Block on Chrome downloads everything and then hides elements, so a hacked payload image is still on your machine, Notscript was no where near the level of functionality of Noscript and this is due to Chrome not exposing critical parts in an API that would make this very useful extension work.
I wish Firefox would move to a multi threaded application like Chrome so that a crashed tab doesn't kill everything, but after about three weeks using only Chrome I gave up. Uninstalled Firefox and killed every trace of data from application data directories before a clean install and reinstall of all of my extensions and the crashes have stopped.
If you don't like the UI changes to Firefox, Chrome also isn't a solution as most of those features are just mirroring Chrome. One saving grace of Chrome was its excellent web developer tools. Firebug on Firefox has been slowly become unusable, but Chrome's built in tools are better and work perfectly.
I'm running a board with UEFI and I couldn't agree more. I have about 20 seconds from press the power switch til I see the Windows 7 start screen. Which then shows the desktop and is usable in about 14 or so seconds thanks to the SSD.
One thing I did notice is that my older laptop I have for work has a BIOS that only take around 3-4 seconds. Now I understand that laptops have set hardware so they don't need to do a lot of checks to load other things, but isn't UEFI supposed to be modular? Why not allow a configuration to be set and the machine just tries automatically starting with that unless the user enters the configuration screen to change settings. Or am I just wrong and the different between the desktop and laptop is that the desktop has three different SATA/eSATA controllers in it and their ROMs take forever to initialize while the laptop has only a single controller since they mainly have a max of three devices on them.
The cartridge reader would work fine for console games; however, since he's using MAME he's interested in arcade games.
He could just build is JAMMA compliant cabinet and then he could just swap in the actual boards to play the games. He'll be limited to JAMMA games so older classics won't be compatible, but it will allow for a very large number of games.
I not sure if I had a 387, but I also had a AMD 386DX-40 and that was a great chip. Sadly newer games required a 486 and wouldn't run on it anymore.
Years later I kept the case and floppy drives but upgraded the guts. I have a 486DX-33 in a 586/686 board with 32MB of RAM. It has a real Sound Blaster 16 and it is a great machine for old gaming. Sadly I haven't booted it in a while since DOSBox does the job now.
I would try another 3d movie, maybe catch a matinee to see if you have the problem there as well.
If you still have an issue you might want to talk to your optometrist about it. People are finding they have vision problems when they can't see the 3d effect at all, but you might have a minor issue that you've learned to compensate for in normal day to day situations. But is you really do have a vision problem, isn't it better to know for sure?
It depends on the IR receiver you are using, but I'm using a Windows MCE receiver and I have the Harmony setup as a standard MCE remote all of the mappings for the Live CD version worked correctly without modifying any of the configs.
Did you play Shadowrun on the PC? The console version had aim assist like all FPS games on consoles. The PC version had floaty unresponsive mouse movement that was put in place the name of leveling the playing field.
You could do what some BIOSes already do, which is hold down a key. Just hold down the key as you turn the computer on and it would go into the settings menu.
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Yup HEC is really cool, there is also the control protocol which works over HDMI so your TV's remote can send commands to attached devices all over the HDMI cable.
I really like the idea of the new Roku which is the size of a thumb drive and powers off the TV. I don't know if it supports HEC though, I thought I read it has WiFI support.
I'd be surprised is the Steam box has HEC though, no consumer video cards support CEC right now, I'd be surprised if they suddenly started supporting HEC. It's possible, but I'm not sure how custom Valve will go with the hardware.
Depending on your setup you will need a power cable and HDMI cable to carry both audio and video. Network access could be via WiFi and wireless input devices.
If Valve keeps the platform open maybe something like XBMC could be easily packaged for deployment. Then it would need some type of remote input, but you could toss the POS Apple TV that can't output 1080p and have a nice all in one HTPC that doubles as a high powered gaming rig.
iPhone, iPad, iPod. This is Apple we are talking about hear. What is the MicroSD card you speak of? If a user ever needs more space they've made it never easy to just needing to buy a new larger capacity.
I wouldn't be surprised if they do this. Ford already offers an option for blind spot warnings which turns on a warning light in side mirrors when a car is in your blind spot. It piggy backs on the parking sensors like you mentioned.
Maybe it's to prevent locking out a user if SOMEHOW THEIR CAPS LOCK GETS TURNED ON. It's still pretty idiotic.
Being responsible with handling debits like student loans and a card loan are a great way for a bank to calculate their risks when giving you 100k+ for a house. Sure Johnny might be very responsible and has worked hard all his life paying off this education in cash as well as buying a car with cash. But to a bank they have no record that he has made monthly payment in a timely manor.
I had a co-worker buying a house about five years ago. He always used a debit card and didn't have a credit history. He had a difficulty getting a long as he had a provide proof of monthly bill payments. This amounted to his apartment rent, and his monthly WoW charge. I think he still ended up needing a co-signer.
Bank transfers aren't common in the US like they are in Europe. The person paying with a credit card isn't charged a fee unless the company accepting the charge charges more to do so. This however is against the agreements with the Credit Card Companies. Many credit cards also offer bonuses for purchases where you earn points can get you gift cards, or over priced things.
I'm don't know how protection works in Europe with fraudulent charges but using a debit card that takes money right out of a checking account can have your money locked up for several weeks while a fraud investigation is being ran. With a credit card, the money that is the locked up in the investigation is the banks and your available balance is just lowered while the investigation is ran. Credit cards also offer a maximum of $50 you are responsible for by law, however; I haven't seen a card that doesn't waive that and make the card holder not have to cover anything with fraudulent transactions.
The US is really behind when it comes to direct payments. Most banks are now offering automatic bill payment where if an agreement between the bank and payee exists, then an electronic payment is made. Otherwise, a printed paper check will be sent for the payment and arrive on the scheduled time. This service is free, and is really the only fee free way I've found to send money to a family member on a monthly basis, so every month they get a printed check from the bank in the mail.
The Vita can only run digital version of PSP games since it doesn't have a UMD drive. But Vita games are available day one as digital or you can go to a store and buy it on a small cartridge. So how will this kill off used game sales?
Well granny should just get off the road if she is driving 25mph under the speed limit on the freeway. If she was a good driver and going the speed limit I wouldn't need to swerve around her.
The next step is for Apple to then make more videos making funny of Microsoft. You just tried opening my file.docx in Word, do you want to allow Word to access my file.docx?
I second the recommendation. Your tablet is a pad of paper and the app is a really cool pen. I just wish it was around when I was in college.
If his TV only supports composite video he really needs to upgrade as that is the single yellow plug that maxes out at 480i. If he said component RGB plugs, then yes the Google TV could have been supported with those input/outputs.
Component supports up through 1080p, not just 1080i. However, composite video does not support 1080i and with how crappy the picture quality is with just 480i verses an S-Video connection which is also limited to 480i I don't think you'd want to try a 1080i signal over that cable. You have to go to Component if you want to go to a higher resolution even just 480p.
But if you want to use some of the cutting edge technology, you need to move out from under a rock which you are under if your TV doesn't have at least one HDMI port. The Logitech Revue Google TV passes though an HDMI signal so it doesn't take up its own port. It's supposed to go between your DVR/Cable/Satellite box and overlay information into the video stream to enhance the experience.
It is completely possible the HDMI only support is there to cut costs as you would need to have an Analog decoder and encoder as well as the digital ones that are already there.
Google TVs only support HD output so you'll need a new TV then as composite only supports 480i.
That's probably a good limitation.
http://xkcd.com/865/
I don't think think Mountain Dew ever had as much caffeine as coffee. If I remember fifteen or so years ago, wasn't Jolt Cola advertised as the pop with twice the caffeine? I just remember it had pretty much the same amount of caffeine as coffee.
Chrome isn't any better with the developers holier than though attitudes. There have been feature requests that have been very highly voted for they they just keep turning down even though it would be a simple toggle on and off feature that could default to off. One such example is type ahead search which removes the need to press ctrl-f to search inline text. It is possible for some sites to have issues with, but I find it very useful, there is an extension for Chrome which worked about 20% of the time. Firefox has actually made great strides in 7.0 for memory usage, and I still have never seen this reported performance issues people have complained about.
Firefox has its issues, but I moved to Chrome after all the crashes in Firefox that started in the 6.0 release continued in 7.0.1. However, Chrome was very limited especially in regards to Ad Block Plus and Noscript. Ad Block on Chrome downloads everything and then hides elements, so a hacked payload image is still on your machine, Notscript was no where near the level of functionality of Noscript and this is due to Chrome not exposing critical parts in an API that would make this very useful extension work.
I wish Firefox would move to a multi threaded application like Chrome so that a crashed tab doesn't kill everything, but after about three weeks using only Chrome I gave up. Uninstalled Firefox and killed every trace of data from application data directories before a clean install and reinstall of all of my extensions and the crashes have stopped.
If you don't like the UI changes to Firefox, Chrome also isn't a solution as most of those features are just mirroring Chrome. One saving grace of Chrome was its excellent web developer tools. Firebug on Firefox has been slowly become unusable, but Chrome's built in tools are better and work perfectly.
I'm running a board with UEFI and I couldn't agree more. I have about 20 seconds from press the power switch til I see the Windows 7 start screen. Which then shows the desktop and is usable in about 14 or so seconds thanks to the SSD.
One thing I did notice is that my older laptop I have for work has a BIOS that only take around 3-4 seconds. Now I understand that laptops have set hardware so they don't need to do a lot of checks to load other things, but isn't UEFI supposed to be modular? Why not allow a configuration to be set and the machine just tries automatically starting with that unless the user enters the configuration screen to change settings. Or am I just wrong and the different between the desktop and laptop is that the desktop has three different SATA/eSATA controllers in it and their ROMs take forever to initialize while the laptop has only a single controller since they mainly have a max of three devices on them.
The cartridge reader would work fine for console games; however, since he's using MAME he's interested in arcade games.
He could just build is JAMMA compliant cabinet and then he could just swap in the actual boards to play the games. He'll be limited to JAMMA games so older classics won't be compatible, but it will allow for a very large number of games.
http://www.jammaboards.com/jcenter_arcade_cabinet.html
I not sure if I had a 387, but I also had a AMD 386DX-40 and that was a great chip. Sadly newer games required a 486 and wouldn't run on it anymore.
Years later I kept the case and floppy drives but upgraded the guts. I have a 486DX-33 in a 586/686 board with 32MB of RAM. It has a real Sound Blaster 16 and it is a great machine for old gaming. Sadly I haven't booted it in a while since DOSBox does the job now.
But why did the 360 have so many titles developed for it and then ported to the PS3 when the PS2 blew away the original Xbox in sales?
That's because it matters more for who gets out of the gate first, and who gets working SDKs to the developers first.
I would try another 3d movie, maybe catch a matinee to see if you have the problem there as well.
If you still have an issue you might want to talk to your optometrist about it. People are finding they have vision problems when they can't see the 3d effect at all, but you might have a minor issue that you've learned to compensate for in normal day to day situations. But is you really do have a vision problem, isn't it better to know for sure?
It depends on the IR receiver you are using, but I'm using a Windows MCE receiver and I have the Harmony setup as a standard MCE remote all of the mappings for the Live CD version worked correctly without modifying any of the configs.
I've heard farmers in the US midwest do the same thing with cow tails. You also get the dual use of it being able to detect alien encounters.
Did you play Shadowrun on the PC? The console version had aim assist like all FPS games on consoles. The PC version had floaty unresponsive mouse movement that was put in place the name of leveling the playing field.
You could do what some BIOSes already do, which is hold down a key. Just hold down the key as you turn the computer on and it would go into the settings menu.