I agree wholeheartedly. This is about home *theater* right - so why not do it properly and use the same tech as theaters do? I bought a projector 2 years ago and would NEVER go back to a silly little TV. It is almost exactly as good as going to the cinema, without the irritations. Seriously: with your own projector, movies take on a whole new level of quality and immersion and you can enjoy ANY movie, not just the tiny selection currently at the cinema.
Good LCD projectors like the Panasonic PT-AE900 are a reasonable price (often cheaper than many large TVs), relatively risk free (no rainbow effects like DLP)), very large size (100-133"), good resolution, good contrast, good colour, compact (easy to move around - you can take it to a friends place casually).
The downsides to projection are basically - not bright enough to view in full daylight (you may be able to zoom it down to a much smaller picture to get For this reason, I still have a basic 29" 4:3 tv sitting in the corner for watching basic TV (which I hardly ever do).
- you need to arrange space for the screen. Most people won't find it too hard to have a wall, or you can pulldown a screen over paintings etc.
Everyone who tries it loves it. My flatmate is extremely pleased. For some reason though, projectors are a big blind spot for many people. I guess the one factor they DON'T have is the "big exciting status symbol" feature. A projector doesn't LOOK exciting, it just does the business.
(BTW: In recent years home projectors have improved immensely. Many people remember 3-5 years ago when they had poor contrast, poor color, and were noisy. That's no longer true, both DLP and LCD are now very good).
Worked much better that that for me - much like an average ground-based wifi connection. I was using ICQ and didn't notice much extra delay. That was probably somewhere over Asia also.
I know it's a slashdot tradition, but the italics fonts are really quite difficult to read on screen, especially in big blocks. Otherwise, I quite like Jason's design.
Peter's is good, but a bit cluttered with borders and lines in my opinion.
Almost left before the cutesy animation finished. Couldn't read the text once it was loaded (honestly, could not read any of the words without sticking my head next to the screen).
Wasted 75% of the page space.
The zooming is quite an interesting idea, a graphical animation of the drilling down process. But, once zoomed, it uses the same blocky unreadable font, now blown up so it looks really ugly as well! It also was quite tricky to figure out how to zoom out again. Probably because it has "designer phobia of contrast" and hence shows the navigation in medium gray on dark gray.
Can't select the text either, or use tabs on links.
Sorry, you were saying?
Slashdot would be one of those sites that is completely unsuited to text seeing as it as about lots of text and links (stories and comments) and flash is hopeless at that.
Sorry for responding to myself, but I must admit the actual customer sites are considerably better. Still, your own site should be the first thing to make look good...
You don't ever need to look at the sites, just look at the design of the design of fantasticdamage's own gallery. Hilariously bad! Entirely fixed size, custom scrollbar that works nothing like a real one (and is missing most of the features), a pathetically small iframe for the text content, a link font that changes size (to bold) and therefore makes the layout change just on mouseover?
To be honest I'm quite surprised that anyone who designs sites like that has the nerve to claim that they are a designer in public. I thought that mistakes like these had stopped being made 2-3 years ago.
It's not even attractive! At least with the classic fixed-size flash site built by game or movie companies, they are usually quite attractive.
Probably the default should be one with the full year in it. Seeing as so many people never figure out to go find the option (I didn't for years either).
This looks like early stages of fooling around with new security models. Interesting, but extremely irritating in implementation. To their credit, they seem to have finally accepted a decent security approach, but somehow I doubt they will try to force this on people or get it working managebly by 2007.
DO you have more info on this - usenet posts maybe?
I've had some weird experiences with threading and COM scheduling - like 20 second delays under loading just to enter a COM call. It could well be bugs in our software, but I can't find anything to discuss about this.
No, I'm not dense. When AGP originally came out there was a lot of hyperbole about how it was going to make everything so much better. But actual analysis showed that the AGP bus is still an order of magnitude slower than onboard video RAM, so if your game has to load any significant amount of data across the AGP bus, it will immediately drop to low frame rates.
The same is still true of PCI express: onboard RAM is much faster than the bus, so you can't afford to send much data across the bus. YOu need to pre-load most of the textures to video ram.
Obviously, PCI express is faster and better, and will have some impact, but I suspect not as much as marketing would suggest.
I did read the article, please don't be rude. I saw the mention that there were other ruins. That suggests a likely alternative to the idea of a pyramid, but it does not discuss what this guy has actually found, just assumes because he's an oddball that it's nothing.
Are you suggesting that as long as we can think of a possible alternative, we don't bother investigating anything? Cause we already know all the answers?
We're not talking about the article though, we are talking about the possibility of a pyramid. Someone used the article in archaelogy saying it totally disproves the possibility of a pyramid, and it does nothing of the sort.
Why so frustrated? Being modded up isn't the blessing of the gods, just some other person reading slashdot.
Second, the fellow cho claims it a pyramid ranks right up there with Uri Gellar as far as credibility goes, according to Archaology last week. That's all very well, but that Archaeology article spends all it's time slamming the person, not discussing his claims, and reads a lot like a personal attack. The guy may be a loon, but that doesn't mean we should dismiss this automatically.
The pyramid announcement does seem very premature and is probably something else (or a fake) but I'd like to see some discussion of what he's found, which is not in that article.
t'll always be limited by the bus speed. I doubt it. Like AGP before it, the PCIExpress bus is still far slower than onboard video ram, therefore it isn't especially important in terms of framerate.
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All those people you would like to contribute will refuse to use it because it's not microsoft word.
Even though Wiki tags are much easier than HTML, they still aren't WYSIWYG, so PHB types would still find them confusing.
What's the bug number(s)? These things look a lot clearer if you show us the actual bug.
I agree wholeheartedly. This is about home *theater* right - so why not do it properly and use the same tech as theaters do? I bought a projector 2 years ago and would NEVER go back to a silly little TV. It is almost exactly as good as going to the cinema, without the irritations.
Seriously: with your own projector, movies take on a whole new level of quality and immersion and you can enjoy ANY movie, not just the tiny selection currently at the cinema.
Good LCD projectors like the Panasonic PT-AE900 are a reasonable price (often cheaper than many large TVs), relatively risk free (no rainbow effects like DLP)), very large size (100-133"), good resolution, good contrast, good colour, compact (easy to move around - you can take it to a friends place casually).
The downsides to projection are basically
- not bright enough to view in full daylight (you may be able to zoom it down to a much smaller picture to get
For this reason, I still have a basic 29" 4:3 tv sitting in the corner for watching basic TV (which I hardly ever do).
- you need to arrange space for the screen. Most people won't find it too hard to have a wall, or you can pulldown a screen over paintings etc.
Everyone who tries it loves it. My flatmate is extremely pleased. For some reason though, projectors are a big blind spot for many people. I guess the one factor they DON'T have is the "big exciting status symbol" feature. A projector doesn't LOOK exciting, it just does the business.
(BTW: In recent years home projectors have improved immensely. Many people remember 3-5 years ago when they had poor contrast, poor color, and were noisy. That's no longer true, both DLP and LCD are now very good).
Worked much better that that for me - much like an average ground-based wifi connection. I was using ICQ and didn't notice much extra delay. That was probably somewhere over Asia also.
I know it's a slashdot tradition, but the italics fonts are really quite difficult to read on screen, especially in big blocks. Otherwise, I quite like Jason's design.
Peter's is good, but a bit cluttered with borders and lines in my opinion.
A completly flash-based design
Almost left before the cutesy animation finished. Couldn't read the text once it was loaded (honestly, could not read any of the words without sticking my head next to the screen).
Wasted 75% of the page space.
The zooming is quite an interesting idea, a graphical animation of the drilling down process. But, once zoomed, it uses the same blocky unreadable font, now blown up so it looks really ugly as well! It also was quite tricky to figure out how to zoom out again. Probably because it has "designer phobia of contrast" and hence shows the navigation in medium gray on dark gray.
Can't select the text either, or use tabs on links.
Sorry, you were saying?
Slashdot would be one of those sites that is completely unsuited to text seeing as it as about lots of text and links (stories and comments) and flash is hopeless at that.
Sorry for responding to myself, but I must admit the actual customer sites are considerably better. Still, your own site should be the first thing to make look good...
You don't ever need to look at the sites, just look at the design of the design of fantasticdamage's own gallery. Hilariously bad! Entirely fixed size, custom scrollbar that works nothing like a real one (and is missing most of the features), a pathetically small iframe for the text content, a link font that changes size (to bold) and therefore makes the layout change just on mouseover?
To be honest I'm quite surprised that anyone who designs sites like that has the nerve to claim that they are a designer in public. I thought that mistakes like these had stopped being made 2-3 years ago.
It's not even attractive! At least with the classic fixed-size flash site built by game or movie companies, they are usually quite attractive.
Probably the default should be one with the full year in it. Seeing as so many people never figure out to go find the option (I didn't for years either).
In other words (by this guy's statement) Linux does not want users.
THe appeal of GT is much wider than just handling. There's plenty of "accurate" simulators out there that just aren't fun to play.
Very nice site. I like the part about the Error:
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No. I'm talking about 150 degrees C (most of the world does, you know :)
Chips are rated to 125 or 150 degrees C, usually.
Boiling of water is not a significant milestone for silicon.
95 degrees is rather hot to touch, but chips are usually rated to 125 or 150 deg continuous.
Still, Apple seems to have goofed - the heatsinking should be done properly...
Doesn't sound quite so exciting now that the Bugatti Veyron is a "production" car with 1000 bhp.
Of course that was 40 years ago, but still...
This looks like early stages of fooling around with new security models. Interesting, but extremely irritating in implementation. To their credit, they seem to have finally accepted a decent security approach, but somehow I doubt they will try to force this on people or get it working managebly by 2007.
DO you have more info on this - usenet posts maybe?
I've had some weird experiences with threading and COM scheduling - like 20 second delays under loading just to enter a COM call. It could well be bugs in our software, but I can't find anything to discuss about this.
Thanks.
No, I'm not dense. When AGP originally came out there was a lot of hyperbole about how it was going to make everything so much better.
But actual analysis showed that the AGP bus is still an order of magnitude slower than onboard video RAM, so if your game has to load any significant amount of data across the AGP bus, it will immediately drop to low frame rates.
The same is still true of PCI express: onboard RAM is much faster than the bus, so you can't afford to send much data across the bus. YOu need to pre-load most of the textures to video ram.
Obviously, PCI express is faster and better, and will have some impact, but I suspect not as much as marketing would suggest.
I did read the article, please don't be rude. I saw the mention that there were other ruins. That suggests a likely alternative to the idea of a pyramid, but it does not discuss what this guy has actually found, just assumes because he's an oddball that it's nothing.
Are you suggesting that as long as we can think of a possible alternative, we don't bother investigating anything? Cause we already know all the answers?
We're not talking about the article though, we are talking about the possibility of a pyramid. Someone used the article in archaelogy saying it totally disproves the possibility of a pyramid, and it does nothing of the sort.
Why so frustrated? Being modded up isn't the blessing of the gods, just some other person reading slashdot.
Because lots of dummies will go and see the movie automatically because of the game. "Whoa that was a kick ass game I gotta see the movie".
Doesn't help that a lot of people actively avoid reviews, so they will always be surprised to find another crapfest.
Second, the fellow cho claims it a pyramid ranks right up there with Uri Gellar as far as credibility goes, according to Archaology last week.
That's all very well, but that Archaeology article spends all it's time slamming the person, not discussing his claims, and reads a lot like a personal attack. The guy may be a loon, but that doesn't mean we should dismiss this automatically.
The pyramid announcement does seem very premature and is probably something else (or a fake) but I'd like to see some discussion of what he's found, which is not in that article.
t'll always be limited by the bus speed.
I doubt it. Like AGP before it, the PCIExpress bus is still far slower than onboard video ram, therefore it isn't especially important in terms of framerate.
Interesting figures, but opposite to reality.
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According to
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2005/02
Dell's 2005 profit was $3.3 billion. Or roughly $1B per quarter, the figure you're probably thinking of.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/oct/11result
Apple's 2005 profit was $1.3 billion.
I think they want people to pay them for their software that the user is using.
Odd idea, I know.