The iPod does need to be connected via a special mode that allows Sync to control it and stream the media through the USB interface. This allows it to play the protected tracks. It supports most normal MP3 players that function as a flash drive and I am current using it with a USB thumbdrive with MP3s on it.
Sync also allows audio via a 1/8" jack so anything that will output to headphones will work, it also supports A2DP via Bluetooth for wireless streaming of music off your phone.
Gametap http://www.gametap.com/ has a great selection of kids game with a ton of the Broderbund games. It's a monthly pay as you go service; however, you can purchase access for a full year for $60. The nice thing is that it doesn't require you go install each individual game as you just download and launch them. The service has same issues with Vista; but is almost flawless in XP, however, don't expect to run any games in a x64 version of Windows.
The nice thing is that aren't any CDs to switch. And DRM is handled by the client. They offer a free trial and it's a great service for people with kids.
Thanks for pointing out the Bluetooth error. I linked the wrong product, he has the Logitech Cordless Mediaboard Pro which is bluetooth. I think the RF vs Bluetooth is also the only difference between the normal and pro versions.
My friend is using one for just this purpose. And he's about 30' or so away, and he's going through from the first room of his house to his basement and it's working great.
As for the wireless video? Are you using so type of VGA wireless solution? With an LCD TV you should be able to receive 720p or even 1080p connect. This would require either a component or HDMI/DVI connect. There are actually DVI over ethernet adapters which will send your single over the long distance without losing quality which the wireless solution I used to use has issues with. You could also just hit up http://www.monoprice.com/ and pick up a 40" HDMI cable for about $40 or so shipped. If you didn't know you can get adapters that convert DVI->HDMI and some even support sound as well.
A US copy of Orange Box is the same as you buy on Steam and will work fine in any reason. The distributor in Thailand had a contract not to sell the retail game outside of Thailand because it was being sold at a large discount $20. Valve deactivated the access to Orange Box for people with these Thailand copies and there was even a major delay for many people who just wanted their TF2 fix but they couldn't even purchase a normal full price copy.
But if you got hit with a voltage spike while burning the TB-BR disk the burner may have been fried. However, any other disk you burned should still be working just fine after you replace the drive.
As for FireWire S8000 being four times faster. Please show me the hard drive that can sustain 400MB writes. It also does really matter that the backup drive is an external. If it's connected it likely has its own power adapter that it's connected to. Lightening can easily kill more than just the computer when you have multiple things connected. You may get lucky and only have the HDD's enclosure's power adapter fry, or even the SATA/USB/Firewire interface getting zapped from the PC so you can just take out the drive and run it. But it's also possible for the HDD's controller board to also be fried. It's true that you might be able to just swap that out, but having optical media allows you to just pop the disk in a new drive.
As for eSATA compatible PCs being in the wild. Where have you been living? It's been over two years since I've seen laptops that have included this functionality. Many motherboards are also coming with them now.
Call what you will but something was messed up in Azureus's disk caching that was eating all of the RAM on my XP box about two years ago. I switched to uTorrent and never looked back.
I can't comment on Azureus's CPU load, but I've seen Azureus go over 2GB of memory addressed, and running the same torrents in uTorrent uses 16MB of memory.
The only issue using Sharpdevelop is that I don't believe that you can use the Microsoft PocketPC emulator which means you have to keep compiling, uploading, and remote debugging your code.
Visual Studio includes the emulator and would be a good tool for you to learn. The jump from using notepad to a full IDE programming suite can be intimidating at first but it will really help your career as a programmer.
The only reason it's not already down is due to legal issues. Back in 2000ish there was an exploit for I believe IIS. Someone made a Perl module people put on their Linux Apache servers in the location of the exploit on the Windows box. When the exploit was trigger, the Linux box connected to the Windows Server using the same exploit, patched the box, and removed the worm, and forced a reboot.
This never caught on though because people were too worried about getting sued for hacking a server. The best solution would be configuring every single ISP router to watch for this traffic and then just deny any data coming from the account while flagging a record in their database. When the customer called complaining that there Internet was broken the support could say that it was disabled due to infection and would be enabled after the customer confirmed the infection was gone. Then just have a three strikes your out policy if the customer doesn't clean up their act. This is really the only solution because there are still a ton of old NT4 boxes in back rooms that are never used that are happily spamming the Internet looking for others to infect.
Thank you, someone else who seems to see past the bullshit and see Cory Doctrow for what he is. The only problem is that he has all of those twitter followers who seem to follow his every word. Thankfully for Virgin's survival I believe they are the same group of people who like to be classified as hipsters and are the 2% Mac owning populous.
8Mbps isn't anything to brag about, many cable companies offer that. FIOS on the other hand offers 15/2Mbsp service or even 15/15Mbsp. That right 15 down and 15 up. I'd also recommend search for a new ISP if they are throttling you for downloading 31.5MB+ in P2P traffic.
You're able to write protect the hidden area and write to the dummy partition. The only bad thing that it reports is that data written to the hidden partition area will appear as a write error. So you can technically have updated files in the dummy area.
VMWare and Parallels for the OSX both support up to Direct3D 9; however, the Windows versions of both only support up to Direct3D 8. Hopefully they will release versions that support D3D9 sometime in the near future. I'd love to be able to move fully to Vista 64 and utilize all the Ram in my PC, but I have a program that will not function correctly and requires 3d support and the current emulated 3d doesn't work with it.
And this would work great except that it's a huge hassle to keep reboot from being able to browse the web to playing games. Another option would be to have the Windows game OS be the machine's main OS, and then use VMWare or Virtual machine to load a Windows or Linux VM that you do your browsing it. You'll get the same security without the reboot hassle.
Running most games in DirectX 9 in XP and Vista and you will get a difference of around 2-3fps in game. Enabling all of the eyecandy in DirectX 10 will bring most systems to their knees. This is mostly and issue that current videos cards aren't very efficient at DirectX 10 gaming. Most games are playing fine under Vista; however, some games like The Witcher have major crashing issues under Vista that I haven't been able to resolve. Vista 64 is supposed to fix the issues by enabling more RAM to be used but I'm running a program that uses encrypted disks and it's driver isn't compatible with 64 bits OSes which I hope will get resolved in the near future. With RAM so cheap right now I just threw 8GB in my new rig since it was only $110 for all of it after rebate.
My friend had one of the backpack ones when we were growing up. It was better than the normals ones we had. But it lost to the old school fire extinguisher when you filled it with water and pressurized it with the air compressor.
Unfortunately no, they generally don't release roll out schedules. This supposedly prevents the competition from planning around their plans. This does screw the consumer thought since we're stuck in limbo dreaming of the fast cheap web access.
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I don't have an iPod but the Sync user forums have people using them. They are also on the list of supported devices http://www.syncmyride.com/OWN/SUPPORTCONTENT/PDF/IOP_MEDIA_V100_US_EN.pdf
The iPod does need to be connected via a special mode that allows Sync to control it and stream the media through the USB interface. This allows it to play the protected tracks. It supports most normal MP3 players that function as a flash drive and I am current using it with a USB thumbdrive with MP3s on it.
Sync also allows audio via a 1/8" jack so anything that will output to headphones will work, it also supports A2DP via Bluetooth for wireless streaming of music off your phone.
Why would that ever be a problem? They could just drink Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator. It's got electrolytes, It's got what plants crave.
http://www.brawndo.com/
Except that if you are using it as a Bluray player it's counter productive. Sony gets money from licensing for every Bluray movie sold.
Gametap http://www.gametap.com/ has a great selection of kids game with a ton of the Broderbund games. It's a monthly pay as you go service; however, you can purchase access for a full year for $60. The nice thing is that it doesn't require you go install each individual game as you just download and launch them. The service has same issues with Vista; but is almost flawless in XP, however, don't expect to run any games in a x64 version of Windows.
The nice thing is that aren't any CDs to switch. And DRM is handled by the client. They offer a free trial and it's a great service for people with kids.
Thanks for pointing out the Bluetooth error. I linked the wrong product, he has the Logitech Cordless Mediaboard Pro which is bluetooth. I think the RF vs Bluetooth is also the only difference between the normal and pro versions.
http://reviews.cnet.com/keyboards/logitech-cordless-mediaboard-pro/4505-3134_7-32656425.html?tag=also
http://reviews.cnet.com/keyboards/logitech-cordless-mediaboard-for/4505-3134_7-32319140.html
My friend is using one for just this purpose. And he's about 30' or so away, and he's going through from the first room of his house to his basement and it's working great.
As for the wireless video? Are you using so type of VGA wireless solution? With an LCD TV you should be able to receive 720p or even 1080p connect. This would require either a component or HDMI/DVI connect. There are actually DVI over ethernet adapters which will send your single over the long distance without losing quality which the wireless solution I used to use has issues with. You could also just hit up http://www.monoprice.com/ and pick up a 40" HDMI cable for about $40 or so shipped. If you didn't know you can get adapters that convert DVI->HDMI and some even support sound as well.
A US copy of Orange Box is the same as you buy on Steam and will work fine in any reason. The distributor in Thailand had a contract not to sell the retail game outside of Thailand because it was being sold at a large discount $20. Valve deactivated the access to Orange Box for people with these Thailand copies and there was even a major delay for many people who just wanted their TF2 fix but they couldn't even purchase a normal full price copy.
But if you got hit with a voltage spike while burning the TB-BR disk the burner may have been fried. However, any other disk you burned should still be working just fine after you replace the drive.
As for FireWire S8000 being four times faster. Please show me the hard drive that can sustain 400MB writes. It also does really matter that the backup drive is an external. If it's connected it likely has its own power adapter that it's connected to. Lightening can easily kill more than just the computer when you have multiple things connected. You may get lucky and only have the HDD's enclosure's power adapter fry, or even the SATA/USB/Firewire interface getting zapped from the PC so you can just take out the drive and run it. But it's also possible for the HDD's controller board to also be fried. It's true that you might be able to just swap that out, but having optical media allows you to just pop the disk in a new drive.
As for eSATA compatible PCs being in the wild. Where have you been living? It's been over two years since I've seen laptops that have included this functionality. Many motherboards are also coming with them now.
Call what you will but something was messed up in Azureus's disk caching that was eating all of the RAM on my XP box about two years ago. I switched to uTorrent and never looked back.
I can't comment on Azureus's CPU load, but I've seen Azureus go over 2GB of memory addressed, and running the same torrents in uTorrent uses 16MB of memory.
Sharpdevelop supposedly supports the .NET Compact Framework: http://www.sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx
You can also find tutorials to help get you started here: http://netcf2.blogspot.com/
The only issue using Sharpdevelop is that I don't believe that you can use the Microsoft PocketPC emulator which means you have to keep compiling, uploading, and remote debugging your code.
Visual Studio includes the emulator and would be a good tool for you to learn. The jump from using notepad to a full IDE programming suite can be intimidating at first but it will really help your career as a programmer.
Thanks, that would be it. It was too many years ago to remember exactly.
The only reason it's not already down is due to legal issues. Back in 2000ish there was an exploit for I believe IIS. Someone made a Perl module people put on their Linux Apache servers in the location of the exploit on the Windows box. When the exploit was trigger, the Linux box connected to the Windows Server using the same exploit, patched the box, and removed the worm, and forced a reboot.
This never caught on though because people were too worried about getting sued for hacking a server. The best solution would be configuring every single ISP router to watch for this traffic and then just deny any data coming from the account while flagging a record in their database. When the customer called complaining that there Internet was broken the support could say that it was disabled due to infection and would be enabled after the customer confirmed the infection was gone. Then just have a three strikes your out policy if the customer doesn't clean up their act. This is really the only solution because there are still a ton of old NT4 boxes in back rooms that are never used that are happily spamming the Internet looking for others to infect.
Thank you, someone else who seems to see past the bullshit and see Cory Doctrow for what he is. The only problem is that he has all of those twitter followers who seem to follow his every word. Thankfully for Virgin's survival I believe they are the same group of people who like to be classified as hipsters and are the 2% Mac owning populous.
8Mbps isn't anything to brag about, many cable companies offer that. FIOS on the other hand offers 15/2Mbsp service or even 15/15Mbsp. That right 15 down and 15 up. I'd also recommend search for a new ISP if they are throttling you for downloading 31.5MB+ in P2P traffic.
You're able to write protect the hidden area and write to the dummy partition. The only bad thing that it reports is that data written to the hidden partition area will appear as a write error. So you can technically have updated files in the dummy area.
You mean sometime like DHT which is the peer to peer distributed tracker? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker#Trackerless_torrents
VMWare and Parallels for the OSX both support up to Direct3D 9; however, the Windows versions of both only support up to Direct3D 8. Hopefully they will release versions that support D3D9 sometime in the near future. I'd love to be able to move fully to Vista 64 and utilize all the Ram in my PC, but I have a program that will not function correctly and requires 3d support and the current emulated 3d doesn't work with it.
And this would work great except that it's a huge hassle to keep reboot from being able to browse the web to playing games. Another option would be to have the Windows game OS be the machine's main OS, and then use VMWare or Virtual machine to load a Windows or Linux VM that you do your browsing it. You'll get the same security without the reboot hassle.
Running most games in DirectX 9 in XP and Vista and you will get a difference of around 2-3fps in game. Enabling all of the eyecandy in DirectX 10 will bring most systems to their knees. This is mostly and issue that current videos cards aren't very efficient at DirectX 10 gaming. Most games are playing fine under Vista; however, some games like The Witcher have major crashing issues under Vista that I haven't been able to resolve. Vista 64 is supposed to fix the issues by enabling more RAM to be used but I'm running a program that uses encrypted disks and it's driver isn't compatible with 64 bits OSes which I hope will get resolved in the near future. With RAM so cheap right now I just threw 8GB in my new rig since it was only $110 for all of it after rebate.
I really wish Sony would release some of the tech demos they are making for the EyeToy. Being able to have the camera capture your drawing and interact with them in the games would be great for kids. You can see Lunar Lander and Tanks with custom scanned objects in the videos here: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/11/14/video-of-new-research-conducted-with-playstation-eye/comment-page-2/
I have high hopes for Little Big Planet as well as this will also allow easy creation of game content to play around in.
My friend had one of the backpack ones when we were growing up. It was better than the normals ones we had. But it lost to the old school fire extinguisher when you filled it with water and pressurized it with the air compressor.
Yes they can. http://librenix.com/?inode=10106
I purchased the US retail package and also received Peggle Extreme.
Unfortunately no, they generally don't release roll out schedules. This supposedly prevents the competition from planning around their plans. This does screw the consumer thought since we're stuck in limbo dreaming of the fast cheap web access.