Regular DVDs are encoded as interlaced, and one laptops they are re-integrated (whether you view them as progressive or not) as laptop screens are progressive. All PC (CRT and LCD) and laptop screens are progressive, and take interlaced videos and un-interlace them. All LCD and Flat pannel screens are progressive, and un-interlace.
Fox in HD broadcasts in 720p, rather than the 1080i most everyone else broadcasts in. Again, because of the optical effects of interlacing which removes 30% of the percieved resoultion, 720p and 1080i are about the same. 720p has the advantage of being a progressive scan, however.
That's why I'm rooting for Blueray, as it's the only standard that support 1080p. There doesn't need to be any weird 3-2 pulldown to get a progressive image (film) into an interlaced screen, so there's no loss in resolution, and it's the same way film is done.
There are new LCDs (I haven't seen any plasma) that are true 1920x1080, which will do 1080p. The 1366x768 can do 720p and 1080i. 1080i is interlaced, and interlacing (why we still use it is beyond me) reduces the observed resolution by about 30%, so 720p is roughly the same as 1080i. At Bestbuy at least now, you can see demonstrations of 1080p (only Blu-ray does 1080p I believe, HD-DVD only does 1080i) on a 1080p LCD screen. Holy shit, it looks nice.
I love my Aeron chair. They're expensive, but you can usually get good deals on ebay and other online places. They really are worth the money.
Think about it, you spend hours every day sitting in a chair, might as well make it a pimped out one. It's comfy and it breaths, and because it's a mesh instead of cloth, it doesn't "remember your farts" or stain like cloth chairs.
If he's such a good sales person, where are the sales? If he's "speaks the language of business", then were are the revenues? If he's so good an incentives, where are the developers? Where are the quality people?
The toughest job in tech right now must be a SCO sales person. The swear words they must have learned from cold calling...
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They talk a big talk about free markets, while at the same lobbying for legislation that makes it decidely unfree. The Internet right now allows for very little in the way of required capital to start up a business. If the Telcos get their way, they'll gladly raise that cost, even if it means an overall worse economy, even if it implodes the Internet as we know it, even if that impedes on the American dream (you know, work hard, build a business).
To those that hate government intervention on principle, I'm not big on it either. However, in this situation, we'd end up worse off with the few network providers with an iron grip on who gets to see what. It's just a matter of who gets control.
They've got more in common with Tony Soprano than any business visionary. "That's a nice website, it'd be a shame if no one saw it. Telcos and cable companies are tripping over each other on the way to congress and the courts to try to each other from entering their markets. They'r threated by civic minded citizens in townships sick of listening to telcos tell them how great the network connectivity they get will be, and how they're doing them favors, but they'll just have to wait a few more years to get fiber out there.
It's a simple money grab, they see the cash Google and them make and they want to wet their beak. Right now the content providers have been outlobbied. They haven't been out-argued, just out-lobbied. Being a monopoly is great work if you can get it. You don't have to worry about competition, just the occasional complaints from the people that don't much like that they pay more.
I've never belonged to a union, and I don't really want to. Tech people especially tend to really the despise the idea of seniority over merit, and when I've been in those situations few things make my blood boil hotter.
At the same time, the conviction with which a lot of the anti-union people speak of their own job security. It's a bit of a dichotomy when someone says that jobs aren't guaranteed, but that they couldn't possibly be fired. (I think I remember a famous quote by Carly Fiorna). When they do get laid off, they whine the loudest of all, usually by blaming everyone else.
I remember one guy who ranted about how they'll never replace his job at a chemical company as a chemical engineer with some Chinese guy who didn't finish grade school. Well, they probably won't. However, there are lots of PhDs in China, some of them even smarter than him, that will gladly work at a quarter of the price (and live like a king!). One of the brokerage firms just recently offshored a huge arbitage organization to India. That's not a call center, that's highly sophisticated financial number crunching and analysis.
I suspect when we start outsourcing CEOs, then senior executives will start to decry it. I for one welcome our new Indian CEO.
We do live an interesting lifestyle here in the US. We're so badly positioned in general if our job goes south, that even a few months out of work can put us into deep debt, just to get by. Part of it is a lack of self control, and part of it is that we, as a society, act like jobs are guaranteed. The booming economy in many ways depend on it. People buying new TVs, new cars, adding on more and more debt.
Tivo has done an amazing job at branding. They're synonymous with good DVR, and I even reffer to my generic Time Warner DVR as "Tivo", and when I record a show I reffer to it as being "Tivo'd".
Part of it is RAM (I've got 2 Gigs, or 1 fuckton [FkT] of RAM by your measure), and that RAM does go a long way to making the system snappy.
However, when you've alt-tabed over, the second core makes everything really snappy, since the game is often still eating up a lot of CPU time on one processor, while the other processor is handling my pr0n browsing. Because that's what I do when I alt-tab out of games.
As sombody who has been using dual processors on his desktop PC since 1996 (It was a Dual Pentium 133 back then), I'd like to ask: Where are you suddenly getting all the memory bus bandwidth to make "Alt-Tabbing" from a game in windows 'snappy'? It must not be a very resource intensive game...
Quake 4, ut2k4, few others in the FPS category. It really makes quite a bit of difference, being able to alt-tab.
While it doesn't help with disk I/O, dual cores really do make a system much more responsive. Alt-tabbing over to another app during a game is instantaneous and snappy, where on a single-core processor alt-tabbing brings the sounds of "chariots of fire" into your mind as it moves in slow-motion.
A dual-core really doesn't make games snapper, as I can't think of any that are designed as multi-threaded, but it means you can leave a lot of other stuff running (assuming you've got enough memory) without worrying about how it might drag the game down.
And in the somewhat frequent instances where one app might consume 100% of the CPU through either design of flaw, the system is still responsive because you've got another CPU handling your requests.
We are in the midst of the Glorius Geek Revolution. Sure, high school sucks for geeks. It sucked for me, and it still sucks for most geeks today, but the life after high school has dramtically changed for the geek, for the better.
A lot of the rags to riches stories involves geeks. South Park's creators, Family Guy's creator, Matt Groenig, Woz and Steve Jobs.
We live better lives than our geek forefathers. A smart, industrious geek these days often earns a better living and lifestyle than our jock counterpart.
Society is getting geekier. Take cops shows. They used to be buddy films, the cool guys with street smarts driving cool cars in chase scenes. Now the top cop show is CSI. Geeks with badges, walking around with black lights, analyzing semen. NCIS, Law and Order, The West Wing, Adult Swim... culture has definately taken a turn for the geekier end of the spectrum.
Nerd girls are doing well as well. I read somewhere that SNL producers were worried about Tina Fey in glasses, but it turns out it totally works, and she has tremendous appeal and talent.
Of course, as we start having kids and they grow up, maybe they'll be jocks, and maybe they'll be teased unmercifully by the geeks.
I know the poster said he was right-handed, but for lefties, you might want to consider using your mouse on the left side of your keyboard. Access to the numeric keypad is amazing, and you can program the bejesus out of it for FPS games (0 = jump, Enter = secondary fire, Plus = zoom, etc.).
I've been using my mouse left handed for close to 9 years now, and other than bugging the shit out of people who sit down to use my computer (which can be a tremendous advantage itself), it works out great.
After I lost my second finger in the sharp guts of a whitebox system while trying to fix it (again), I decided to go with brand-name and I never looked back.
If the windowing system and graphical environment (Aqua/Cocoa/etc) were open sourced and could run on top of Linux/FreeBSD/etc., I'd never touch X again.
Are you kidding? It's easy to hold the doors. Will you can't force them open, they don't apply that much closing force (to keep from severing limbs) and if they face any resistence, they open back up (letting you slip in). Stick and arm or bag, and it'll open back up. Even if someone has their back to the door and their bag gets caught, the door will open back up again.
I live 1 block from the L, and it's the main train I take. This should be... interesting.
The guy could be looking for people's experiences rather in additional to any technical documentation, which is not only smart, but the hallmark of a responsible sysadmin (where knee-jerk comments tend typically aren't).
I bought a 27 inch Sony HDTV a few months ago. It wasn't that much more expensive than a Sony SD TV. While the other brands of TVs have really caught up (and in some cases surpased) Sony in regulat TV quality, the comparison between Sony and non-Sony HDTVs (tube-based) at least was quite dramatic. Sony was just much crisper, much clearer.
I got a 4:3 TV since most of the content I'll be watching is regular (Adult Swim, HGTV), and either stretching or showing the gray bars on the sides of a 6:9 was more annoying than black bars above and below.
On Time Warner, there are only 5 or 6 HD channels, 2 more if you subscribe to HBO HD and Showtime HD. So there isn't that much choice.
I'd say I only watch one or two shows in HDTV a week. The networks that do have HD, most of the programs with the exception of some prime time shows, are in regular definition.
If you're a DVD movie buff, DVDs will play better on an HDTV, even though DVDs are standard defintion. If you've got a progressive-scan DVD player and a 480p input for your HDTV, film-based DVDs (not video/TV-based) will play about 30% sharper on an HDTV (interlaced TV reduces apparent resolution by about 30% because of the optical effect of interlacing).
If I had to do it over again, I'd probably just go with a regular defintion TV.
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Regular DVDs are encoded as interlaced, and one laptops they are re-integrated (whether you view them as progressive or not) as laptop screens are progressive. All PC (CRT and LCD) and laptop screens are progressive, and take interlaced videos and un-interlace them. All LCD and Flat pannel screens are progressive, and un-interlace.
Fox in HD broadcasts in 720p, rather than the 1080i most everyone else broadcasts in. Again, because of the optical effects of interlacing which removes 30% of the percieved resoultion, 720p and 1080i are about the same. 720p has the advantage of being a progressive scan, however.
That's why I'm rooting for Blueray, as it's the only standard that support 1080p. There doesn't need to be any weird 3-2 pulldown to get a progressive image (film) into an interlaced screen, so there's no loss in resolution, and it's the same way film is done.
There are new LCDs (I haven't seen any plasma) that are true 1920x1080, which will do 1080p. The 1366x768 can do 720p and 1080i. 1080i is interlaced, and interlacing (why we still use it is beyond me) reduces the observed resolution by about 30%, so 720p is roughly the same as 1080i. At Bestbuy at least now, you can see demonstrations of 1080p (only Blu-ray does 1080p I believe, HD-DVD only does 1080i) on a 1080p LCD screen. Holy shit, it looks nice.
Soon, we will have our promised ornithoptors!
I love my Aeron chair. They're expensive, but you can usually get good deals on ebay and other online places. They really are worth the money.
Think about it, you spend hours every day sitting in a chair, might as well make it a pimped out one. It's comfy and it breaths, and because it's a mesh instead of cloth, it doesn't "remember your farts" or stain like cloth chairs.
If he's such a good sales person, where are the sales? If he's "speaks the language of business", then were are the revenues? If he's so good an incentives, where are the developers? Where are the quality people?
The toughest job in tech right now must be a SCO sales person. The swear words they must have learned from cold calling...
Go fuck yourself.
welcome our new Google masters...
To those that hate government intervention on principle, I'm not big on it either. However, in this situation, we'd end up worse off with the few network providers with an iron grip on who gets to see what. It's just a matter of who gets control.
They've got more in common with Tony Soprano than any business visionary. "That's a nice website, it'd be a shame if no one saw it. Telcos and cable companies are tripping over each other on the way to congress and the courts to try to each other from entering their markets. They'r threated by civic minded citizens in townships sick of listening to telcos tell them how great the network connectivity they get will be, and how they're doing them favors, but they'll just have to wait a few more years to get fiber out there.
It's a simple money grab, they see the cash Google and them make and they want to wet their beak. Right now the content providers have been outlobbied. They haven't been out-argued, just out-lobbied. Being a monopoly is great work if you can get it. You don't have to worry about competition, just the occasional complaints from the people that don't much like that they pay more.
*Throws chair* I will fucking BURY YOU!
I've never belonged to a union, and I don't really want to. Tech people especially tend to really the despise the idea of seniority over merit, and when I've been in those situations few things make my blood boil hotter.
At the same time, the conviction with which a lot of the anti-union people speak of their own job security. It's a bit of a dichotomy when someone says that jobs aren't guaranteed, but that they couldn't possibly be fired. (I think I remember a famous quote by Carly Fiorna). When they do get laid off, they whine the loudest of all, usually by blaming everyone else.
I remember one guy who ranted about how they'll never replace his job at a chemical company as a chemical engineer with some Chinese guy who didn't finish grade school. Well, they probably won't. However, there are lots of PhDs in China, some of them even smarter than him, that will gladly work at a quarter of the price (and live like a king!). One of the brokerage firms just recently offshored a huge arbitage organization to India. That's not a call center, that's highly sophisticated financial number crunching and analysis.
I suspect when we start outsourcing CEOs, then senior executives will start to decry it. I for one welcome our new Indian CEO.
We do live an interesting lifestyle here in the US. We're so badly positioned in general if our job goes south, that even a few months out of work can put us into deep debt, just to get by. Part of it is a lack of self control, and part of it is that we, as a society, act like jobs are guaranteed. The booming economy in many ways depend on it. People buying new TVs, new cars, adding on more and more debt.
You forgot to say "a'doy"!
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Slashdot needs an 'Obnoxious snob' modereration option.
So the mouse is a cylon?
I mean, a'doy. Dr Baltar already figured this out. It cured President Rosylin's cancer, after all.
Tivo has done an amazing job at branding. They're synonymous with good DVR, and I even reffer to my generic Time Warner DVR as "Tivo", and when I record a show I reffer to it as being "Tivo'd".
Part of it is RAM (I've got 2 Gigs, or 1 fuckton [FkT] of RAM by your measure), and that RAM does go a long way to making the system snappy.
However, when you've alt-tabed over, the second core makes everything really snappy, since the game is often still eating up a lot of CPU time on one processor, while the other processor is handling my pr0n browsing. Because that's what I do when I alt-tab out of games.
Quake 4, ut2k4, few others in the FPS category. It really makes quite a bit of difference, being able to alt-tab.
While it doesn't help with disk I/O, dual cores really do make a system much more responsive. Alt-tabbing over to another app during a game is instantaneous and snappy, where on a single-core processor alt-tabbing brings the sounds of "chariots of fire" into your mind as it moves in slow-motion.
A dual-core really doesn't make games snapper, as I can't think of any that are designed as multi-threaded, but it means you can leave a lot of other stuff running (assuming you've got enough memory) without worrying about how it might drag the game down.
And in the somewhat frequent instances where one app might consume 100% of the CPU through either design of flaw, the system is still responsive because you've got another CPU handling your requests.
In short, I'm never going back to single-core.
I did do the nasty in the pasty
Verily!
We are in the midst of the Glorius Geek Revolution. Sure, high school sucks for geeks. It sucked for me, and it still sucks for most geeks today, but the life after high school has dramtically changed for the geek, for the better.
A lot of the rags to riches stories involves geeks. South Park's creators, Family Guy's creator, Matt Groenig, Woz and Steve Jobs.
We live better lives than our geek forefathers. A smart, industrious geek these days often earns a better living and lifestyle than our jock counterpart.
Society is getting geekier. Take cops shows. They used to be buddy films, the cool guys with street smarts driving cool cars in chase scenes. Now the top cop show is CSI. Geeks with badges, walking around with black lights, analyzing semen. NCIS, Law and Order, The West Wing, Adult Swim... culture has definately taken a turn for the geekier end of the spectrum.
Nerd girls are doing well as well. I read somewhere that SNL producers were worried about Tina Fey in glasses, but it turns out it totally works, and she has tremendous appeal and talent.
Of course, as we start having kids and they grow up, maybe they'll be jocks, and maybe they'll be teased unmercifully by the geeks.
I know the poster said he was right-handed, but for lefties, you might want to consider using your mouse on the left side of your keyboard. Access to the numeric keypad is amazing, and you can program the bejesus out of it for FPS games (0 = jump, Enter = secondary fire, Plus = zoom, etc.).
I've been using my mouse left handed for close to 9 years now, and other than bugging the shit out of people who sit down to use my computer (which can be a tremendous advantage itself), it works out great.
After I lost my second finger in the sharp guts of a whitebox system while trying to fix it (again), I decided to go with brand-name and I never looked back.
Everying single time...
if (DB == "mysql") {
whyNotPostgreSQL();
}
If the windowing system and graphical environment (Aqua/Cocoa/etc) were open sourced and could run on top of Linux/FreeBSD/etc., I'd never touch X again.
Are you kidding? It's easy to hold the doors. Will you can't force them open, they don't apply that much closing force (to keep from severing limbs) and if they face any resistence, they open back up (letting you slip in). Stick and arm or bag, and it'll open back up. Even if someone has their back to the door and their bag gets caught, the door will open back up again.
I live 1 block from the L, and it's the main train I take. This should be... interesting.
The guy could be looking for people's experiences rather in additional to any technical documentation, which is not only smart, but the hallmark of a responsible sysadmin (where knee-jerk comments tend typically aren't).
I bought a 27 inch Sony HDTV a few months ago. It wasn't that much more expensive than a Sony SD TV. While the other brands of TVs have really caught up (and in some cases surpased) Sony in regulat TV quality, the comparison between Sony and non-Sony HDTVs (tube-based) at least was quite dramatic. Sony was just much crisper, much clearer. I got a 4:3 TV since most of the content I'll be watching is regular (Adult Swim, HGTV), and either stretching or showing the gray bars on the sides of a 6:9 was more annoying than black bars above and below. On Time Warner, there are only 5 or 6 HD channels, 2 more if you subscribe to HBO HD and Showtime HD. So there isn't that much choice. I'd say I only watch one or two shows in HDTV a week. The networks that do have HD, most of the programs with the exception of some prime time shows, are in regular definition. If you're a DVD movie buff, DVDs will play better on an HDTV, even though DVDs are standard defintion. If you've got a progressive-scan DVD player and a 480p input for your HDTV, film-based DVDs (not video/TV-based) will play about 30% sharper on an HDTV (interlaced TV reduces apparent resolution by about 30% because of the optical effect of interlacing). If I had to do it over again, I'd probably just go with a regular defintion TV.