This looks promising.. Apex makes cheap stuff of decent quality, and the specs on this look promising.
Basically what the Phantom plans to be (which is why I dont doubt the Phantom will exist). I predict tons of dvd-form-factor PCs marketed as PC/Console/PVR/etc...
by purchasing an XBOX without actually buying games you make MS lose money
Nope, this is a myth perpetuated by idiots..
Theres a one-time setup cost for production, then eventually you start turning a profit after so many units shipped. The xbox' major components were off the shelf, borderline obsolete parts, so they didnt cost much. Once the one time setup costs for production were made back, they start to operate in the black again.
Even IF Microsoft was selling them at a loss, which they surely arent, which is worse for their bottom line - you buying an xbox and not buying games, or the xbox sitting on a warehouse shelf collecting dust?
They make OK media players. SMB support sucks and I've never gotten that relax crap working from a linux server.
Know what? There are plenty of innovative, well planned and well executed games out there. Games keep getting better and better. The problem is, audiences expect more and more.
Back in 1982 it was easy to impress people with a blue square shooting red dots at a green square.
Games aren't becoming "safer", and the medium isnt dying.
People have been saying the same shit about movies, every movie has been made, theres no more innovation to do! Well, sure, there are a lot of crappy movies being made, but a handful of standout ones.
Which is the way it is with media/artform. Music, books, TV, movies, and video games.
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Thing is, the geeks are wrong.
Remember the DVD authoring article of yesterday? One dood got his +5 informative for a longwinded explanation of how to do it, which involved about a dozen complicated command lines to type.
Try to explain to anyone other than a linux zealot how that's superior to the two or three mouse clicks it would take to produce with Ulead MediaStudio, or Adobe Encore (the first of which shipped with my burner anyways).
Security, sure, reliability - arguably - I've had linux crap out plenty of times for no good reason, usability - you have to be kidding.
Imagine public records being accessable to the Public!?!
First the tinfoilers and whiners were bitching about crazy government secrets. We want access to all the information the government has!!!!! So they pass the Freedom of Information Act. Now everyone has access to all the information the government has. Now the cry is "We want privacy!!".
Meh, who gives a fuck.. All these idiots and their nazi germany references obviously have never read a history book, or hell, even seen any good WWII movies.
The government has ALWAYS had my address, phone and social security number (i mean for fuckes sakes, they issue that)
Cops have always had access to my arrest record via NIBRS, UCR.. Vehicle data through VINES, MILES, and other networks. So now they need "one resource to bind them all". One network to crash and become unusable, and believe me, the others I mentioned go up and down ALL the time.
The only thing that bothers me about this is they payed all that cash for a redundant system that no doubt wont work all that well.
The criminal data, for instance, where does it come from? From the court system, or perhaps from NIBRS, and even then only after the agencies send in their monthly submissions. It wont be updated on-the-fly. How do I know this? Because I would have had to write an interface to the system by now if it was any difference.
Anyhow, who cares, more paranoia and handwaving from michael.
For example, each participating state must provide a means for an individual to review and challenge the accuracy and completeness of his or her criminal history record
But it's not clear whether the method will ever produce fibres as strong as the individual nanotubes that comprise them: to do that, each nanotube would need to be as long as the entire fibre.
Nanotube is just another buzzword. Nothing special has been invented yet. The article says these are no stronger than regular textile fibers (like nylon, I assume).
It's not encryption, it's common sense driving the switch back to human intelligence.
You solve cases and find bad guys through good old fashioned police work. A well placed mole in the middle east could gather more information on Al Queda than all the wiretapping robots in China.
That's how all the big busts in police history have gone down, good informants, good information, good legwork.
Concreting the exterior walls and other load bearing members is fine and good.
You're right, I dont see this machine being cheap to run, and it takes a good crew about a week to build the forms and pour the old fashioned way. They have interlocking foam panels for the forms that just go together like lego and are tightened at the joints with wire ties. Simple, cheap and quick, and the foam stays for insulative value.
Do you want concrete walls in your bedroom? No, so the carpenters still have to come and fur them out with studs and hang drywall, run wires and plumbing and etc, etc, etc..
Finishing concrete walls is arguably more time consuming and labor intensive than finishing a wood framed house.
All in all, this is some neat technology that noone needs.
Of course they aren't impossible, not even using conventional methods (ie; framing lumber and drywall).
Plenty of modern homes have archways, curved entry spaces, curved baths and showers, curved closets, because they're practical there. Cabinetry is typically custom anyways, so it's not as big a deal to have a curved island between your kitchen and breakfast nook.
Curves dont catch on throughout because they're simply impractical. All that custom furniture, custom glasswork, custom *everything* costs custom bucks.
Plus, human nature is such that we dont like curved walls. You can call it creative or artistic or whatever, but its discomforting and awkward to live in such a place.
Test of some scenes from copyrighted movies? What're the results for? What format is best downloaded off of Kazaa?
And the samples are all live action.. Test encoding some hand drawn animation (ie; an old bugs bunny), a computer generated animation, a anime style animation, a dialogue type scene, a live action scene with a lot of action, black and white vs color, etc, etc.
The types of images on screen greatly affect the performance of different algorithms.
Plus, each codec has about a million tweaks and optimizations for different types of footage.
I doubt highly that there's one clear "winner". It's really not that simple.
Which is why I hate sites like ExtremeTech that always have to boil it down to "this product is the best, the rest suck!".
Like the ATI vs nVidia flamewars. ATI may benchmark faster, yet nVidia has effects in games ATI lacks. There is no clear "this one is the best". Or Intel vs AMD or Linux vs Windows, etc, etc..
Nothing in the realm of computer science is that simple.
I'm quite sure either Toro has permission to reprint the article, wrote the article for PM, or (most likely) both are owned by the same parent corporation.
Toro's one of the largest manufacturers of lawn equipment, hardly on the level of a nickel and dime webscraper.
We accept article submissions to our site and have had another webmaster copy these articles. We are unable to do anything about it (not our copyright) and the authors seem unconcerned that their work appears on a site designed specifically to generate advertising revenue.
It's a slap in the face to all the hard work I've done contacting people and seeking permission to use their work, for someone to come along and copy it on a daily basis to make a quick buck.
Fortunately, most of our content is original and written in house so we can protect our own copyright, so the other site is far from a carbon copy of our own.
In situations where our own work has been copied, the offenders have removed the material either on request or when we contacted their hosts.
There should be more legislation in place to protect copyright interests. As it is, information is a free for all and simply removing the evidence when asked to removes all responsibility.
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Yeah, whatever.
There's so much missing structurally for that to even be considered. You know, silly stuff like reliable, robust video and sound drivers.
Cart before the horse.
So the answer was, they suck.
OBD codes aren't secret.
WTF was the shop down the street looking at the onboard computer for, if it was a brake problem?
Either they suck, or you're lying.
an me way smarter than u!!!11!!! lOlOL arofol
extended warranty? how can i go rong!
This looks promising.. Apex makes cheap stuff of decent quality, and the specs on this look promising.
Basically what the Phantom plans to be (which is why I dont doubt the Phantom will exist). I predict tons of dvd-form-factor PCs marketed as PC/Console/PVR/etc...
by purchasing an XBOX without actually buying games you make MS lose money
Nope, this is a myth perpetuated by idiots..
Theres a one-time setup cost for production, then eventually you start turning a profit after so many units shipped. The xbox' major components were off the shelf, borderline obsolete parts, so they didnt cost much. Once the one time setup costs for production were made back, they start to operate in the black again.
Even IF Microsoft was selling them at a loss, which they surely arent, which is worse for their bottom line - you buying an xbox and not buying games, or the xbox sitting on a warehouse shelf collecting dust?
They make OK media players. SMB support sucks and I've never gotten that relax crap working from a linux server.
we got until 9/8/2006 to get MATRIX operational!
Or maybe, 9/9 or 9/10.. Al Queda sucks at math.
It's spelled K.O. (knockout).. Never seen it spelled phone-et-ick-all-ee before.
Like people who type teevee, i guess.
912 days. Al Qaeda probably didn't know about leapyears when they planned it.
that is all
Know what? There are plenty of innovative, well planned and well executed games out there. Games keep getting better and better. The problem is, audiences expect more and more.
Back in 1982 it was easy to impress people with a blue square shooting red dots at a green square.
Games aren't becoming "safer", and the medium isnt dying.
People have been saying the same shit about movies, every movie has been made, theres no more innovation to do! Well, sure, there are a lot of crappy movies being made, but a handful of standout ones.
Which is the way it is with media/artform. Music, books, TV, movies, and video games.
Thing is, the geeks are wrong.
Remember the DVD authoring article of yesterday? One dood got his +5 informative for a longwinded explanation of how to do it, which involved about a dozen complicated command lines to type.
Try to explain to anyone other than a linux zealot how that's superior to the two or three mouse clicks it would take to produce with Ulead MediaStudio, or Adobe Encore (the first of which shipped with my burner anyways).
Security, sure, reliability - arguably - I've had linux crap out plenty of times for no good reason, usability - you have to be kidding.
YES!
However the 'man picks his nose with electric drill' story is not.
Imagine public records being accessable to the Public!?!
First the tinfoilers and whiners were bitching about crazy government secrets. We want access to all the information the government has!!!!! So they pass the Freedom of Information Act. Now everyone has access to all the information the government has. Now the cry is "We want privacy!!".
Meh, who gives a fuck.. All these idiots and their nazi germany references obviously have never read a history book, or hell, even seen any good WWII movies.
The government has ALWAYS had my address, phone and social security number (i mean for fuckes sakes, they issue that)
Cops have always had access to my arrest record via NIBRS, UCR.. Vehicle data through VINES, MILES, and other networks. So now they need "one resource to bind them all". One network to crash and become unusable, and believe me, the others I mentioned go up and down ALL the time.
The only thing that bothers me about this is they payed all that cash for a redundant system that no doubt wont work all that well.
The criminal data, for instance, where does it come from? From the court system, or perhaps from NIBRS, and even then only after the agencies send in their monthly submissions. It wont be updated on-the-fly. How do I know this? Because I would have had to write an interface to the system by now if it was any difference.
Anyhow, who cares, more paranoia and handwaving from michael.
For example, each participating state must provide a means for an individual to review and challenge the accuracy and completeness of his or her criminal history record
Cant you read?
That was mandated by the FOIA years ago.
And the hydrogen fired blast furnace is run by magic pixie dust!
But it's not clear whether the method will ever produce fibres as strong as the individual nanotubes that comprise them: to do that, each nanotube would need to be as long as the entire fibre.
Nanotube is just another buzzword. Nothing special has been invented yet. The article says these are no stronger than regular textile fibers (like nylon, I assume).
It's not encryption, it's common sense driving the switch back to human intelligence.
You solve cases and find bad guys through good old fashioned police work. A well placed mole in the middle east could gather more information on Al Queda than all the wiretapping robots in China.
That's how all the big busts in police history have gone down, good informants, good information, good legwork.
Concreting the exterior walls and other load bearing members is fine and good.
You're right, I dont see this machine being cheap to run, and it takes a good crew about a week to build the forms and pour the old fashioned way. They have interlocking foam panels for the forms that just go together like lego and are tightened at the joints with wire ties. Simple, cheap and quick, and the foam stays for insulative value.
Do you want concrete walls in your bedroom? No, so the carpenters still have to come and fur them out with studs and hang drywall, run wires and plumbing and etc, etc, etc..
Finishing concrete walls is arguably more time consuming and labor intensive than finishing a wood framed house.
All in all, this is some neat technology that noone needs.
Of course they aren't impossible, not even using conventional methods (ie; framing lumber and drywall).
Plenty of modern homes have archways, curved entry spaces, curved baths and showers, curved closets, because they're practical there. Cabinetry is typically custom anyways, so it's not as big a deal to have a curved island between your kitchen and breakfast nook.
Curves dont catch on throughout because they're simply impractical. All that custom furniture, custom glasswork, custom *everything* costs custom bucks.
Plus, human nature is such that we dont like curved walls. You can call it creative or artistic or whatever, but its discomforting and awkward to live in such a place.
Test of some scenes from copyrighted movies? What're the results for? What format is best downloaded off of Kazaa?
And the samples are all live action.. Test encoding some hand drawn animation (ie; an old bugs bunny), a computer generated animation, a anime style animation, a dialogue type scene, a live action scene with a lot of action, black and white vs color, etc, etc.
The types of images on screen greatly affect the performance of different algorithms.
Plus, each codec has about a million tweaks and optimizations for different types of footage.
I doubt highly that there's one clear "winner". It's really not that simple.
Which is why I hate sites like ExtremeTech that always have to boil it down to "this product is the best, the rest suck!".
Like the ATI vs nVidia flamewars. ATI may benchmark faster, yet nVidia has effects in games ATI lacks. There is no clear "this one is the best". Or Intel vs AMD or Linux vs Windows, etc, etc..
Nothing in the realm of computer science is that simple.
I'm quite sure either Toro has permission to reprint the article, wrote the article for PM, or (most likely) both are owned by the same parent corporation.
Toro's one of the largest manufacturers of lawn equipment, hardly on the level of a nickel and dime webscraper.
I am all too aware of the problems faced here.
We accept article submissions to our site and have had another webmaster copy these articles. We are unable to do anything about it (not our copyright) and the authors seem unconcerned that their work appears on a site designed specifically to generate advertising revenue.
It's a slap in the face to all the hard work I've done contacting people and seeking permission to use their work, for someone to come along and copy it on a daily basis to make a quick buck.
Fortunately, most of our content is original and written in house so we can protect our own copyright, so the other site is far from a carbon copy of our own.
In situations where our own work has been copied, the offenders have removed the material either on request or when we contacted their hosts.
There should be more legislation in place to protect copyright interests. As it is, information is a free for all and simply removing the evidence when asked to removes all responsibility.
It's captured a lot of really cool desktop wallpapers.
Kick ass telescope on the far side of the moon.
The end.