Right.. But then you need to render them using VMR9/yv12. go read the www.avsforum.com boards. Many think that a 6600gt is a waste of time there (too weak).
If you want to get a really great image quality via an upscailing plug-in such as ffdshow, you most certainly need a high end gfx card. The 6600gt barely cuts it for 720p. I should know because I have one in my HTPC.
I've got two of those in my SLI gaming rig. At first I thought they overclocked fine until I threw Battlefield 2 at it. Using 3d mark and Aqua mark, I could overclock to 540/1.14. With battlefield 2 I'm at 533/1.11 and I'm still getting texture corruption after about 30 mins or so. It'll be sad when I have to lower the memory below what the card shipped at. If I could do it all over again, I probably would have gotten 1 6800. Oh well....
No offense, but you are obviously not in the know of what it takes to run a HTPC. Upscailing DVD to HD with an upscaling such as ffdshow is extremely GPU intensive. I am running a 6600gt and it BARELY makes the cut for 1280 720p. I have read that a 6600 won't do 1080i, but a 6800 will.
Thank god we've evolved to the point where we understand that you shouldn't mix wine and beer in a single brew. However this is a recent jump in evolution because "Malt Duck" (beer + wine) was still popular in the 70s and early 80s (my dad has the stories to prove it).
" This is actually a perfect example of what Apple does differently than the competition. They are forced to make it "harder" to do something, but it is trivial to bypass. I was surprised how easy it was when I needed to do it myself."
You mean just like the Windows Genuine Advantage check? It can be simply disabled by turning off that single active x componant.
Very true! Almost every upscailing DVD player that has come out since mid 2004 will only upscale over dvi/hdmi with HDCP. Most of these players will still output over analogue to any tv, but will not upscale the image.
" At least with.NET, it's still dependant on IE being used as the browser."
Are you talking about running winforms apps in the browser? As far as ASP.NET goes, very few things work in IE only, and most of those things still work in other browsers but require a round trip whereas they may not in IE.
One of the more subtle and scary facets of the peak oil event is that by the time we reach peak oil, there will not be enough quality oil to fuel (pun intended) a switch to another technology. If that is the case, we are all in for a severe disruption in our quality of life for a long time.
"In my experience, that's what most people agree with, and I'm one of them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is the Senator's actual position. Support for the right has never implied support for the act. It's a falacy promoted by the media and extreme right that anyone who's pro-choice is pro-abortion."
I buy what you are saying, but what the poster is saying is that this is the first time in her career that she is using this type of language. It started about 6 months ago.
Ok, I see where you are going here, however, in.NET it's much easier to write safe code. In order to write unsafe code, you have to do so on purpose. When you say "unsafe code" to most 9 to 5ers, the eyes begin to roll back into the head.
Actually this is the one part of the article that made me laugh. I know this man is much smarter than I am, so I must assume that I am missing the point. Unsafe.net code is just that... Unsafe like c or c++. I don't get what point he is driving towards.
Has anyone ever played Morrowind? It's basically a single player RPG, but the plot is fairly open ended and the word is roughly the size of a MMORPG. It's really fun, but it would really be something if you could play it with 2-64 other people on your server.
The community based Neverwinter Nights servers somewhat serve this purpose, but they typically have to use a series of kludges to have real persistence. It would be great if a company would develop such a game. You could run a private or public server, then buy world extensions/framework upgrades as they are developed. I guess what I am describing is a commercial graphic mud.
I am one of those antisocial mmrpg players, and I agree with you. That's why I just canceled my WoW subscription and picked up the Morrowind GotY edition. It's basically a single player open ended RPG with a world the size of an MMORPG.
At one of my previous jobs, they outsourced some work to India. The software had a splash screen of stock cars on a race track. The requirements said that there should be the sound of a race playing in the background. Well, when we got it back, there was the sound of a race in the background. The only problem was that it was a horse race. I'm not kidding. It was the typical horse race trumpet thing followed by the sound of hooves.
Yes, the shell syntax itself is object oriented and IIRC you can instantiate clr objects and manipulate system objects. The channel 9 vids of today and yore go into all of that. I've watched them and imho the monad shell is a different beast than your standard *nix shell.
I've got the MX1000. I more-or-less agree with what the review says about it except for two things:
1. An additional con should be that the recharch station is also the receiver, so you have to have that honkin thing sitting out in the open (relatively).
2. I find this statement at the end laughable - "Best Precision and Responsiveness: Logitech MX 1000". THIS MOUSE IS 800 DPI FOLKS! If you do precise graphics editing and/or you are a fairly skilled twitch gamer, this mouse is not for you. The mouse does work fine for mere mortal gamers like myself though.
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Right.. But then you need to render them using VMR9/yv12. go read the www.avsforum.com boards. Many think that a 6600gt is a waste of time there (too weak).
If you want to get a really great image quality via an upscailing plug-in such as ffdshow, you most certainly need a high end gfx card. The 6600gt barely cuts it for 720p. I should know because I have one in my HTPC.
I've got two of those in my SLI gaming rig. At first I thought they overclocked fine until I threw Battlefield 2 at it. Using 3d mark and Aqua mark, I could overclock to 540/1.14. With battlefield 2 I'm at 533/1.11 and I'm still getting texture corruption after about 30 mins or so. It'll be sad when I have to lower the memory below what the card shipped at. If I could do it all over again, I probably would have gotten 1 6800. Oh well....
No offense, but you are obviously not in the know of what it takes to run a HTPC. Upscailing DVD to HD with an upscaling such as ffdshow is extremely GPU intensive. I am running a 6600gt and it BARELY makes the cut for 1280 720p. I have read that a 6600 won't do 1080i, but a 6800 will.
Thank god we've evolved to the point where we understand that you shouldn't mix wine and beer in a single brew. However this is a recent jump in evolution because "Malt Duck" (beer + wine) was still popular in the 70s and early 80s (my dad has the stories to prove it).
It's interesting what the game as evolved into. It is very, very different today than it was during the first 2 years of its life.
" This is actually a perfect example of what Apple does differently than the competition. They are forced to make it "harder" to do something, but it is trivial to bypass. I was surprised how easy it was when I needed to do it myself." You mean just like the Windows Genuine Advantage check? It can be simply disabled by turning off that single active x componant.
Very true! Almost every upscailing DVD player that has come out since mid 2004 will only upscale over dvi/hdmi with HDCP. Most of these players will still output over analogue to any tv, but will not upscale the image.
Now that would be flexible!
" At least with .NET, it's still dependant on IE being used as the browser."
Are you talking about running winforms apps in the browser? As far as ASP.NET goes, very few things work in IE only, and most of those things still work in other browsers but require a round trip whereas they may not in IE.
Non-standard but a word nonetheless.
Have you a link to your MITE project?
One of the more subtle and scary facets of the peak oil event is that by the time we reach peak oil, there will not be enough quality oil to fuel (pun intended) a switch to another technology. If that is the case, we are all in for a severe disruption in our quality of life for a long time.
Hey! If it's the cartoon version of Prime, then he'd refer to the veritech as Skyfire. If you're talkin Toy Prime, then you're dead on! http://www.unicron.us/tf1985/figures/jetfire.htm
Don't forget "Dare"!
"In my experience, that's what most people agree with, and I'm one of them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is the Senator's actual position. Support for the right has never implied support for the act. It's a falacy promoted by the media and extreme right that anyone who's pro-choice is pro-abortion." I buy what you are saying, but what the poster is saying is that this is the first time in her career that she is using this type of language. It started about 6 months ago.
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Ok, I see where you are going here, however, in .NET it's much easier to write safe code. In order to write unsafe code, you have to do so on purpose. When you say "unsafe code" to most 9 to 5ers, the eyes begin to roll back into the head.
Actually this is the one part of the article that made me laugh. I know this man is much smarter than I am, so I must assume that I am missing the point. Unsafe .net code is just that... Unsafe like c or c++. I don't get what point he is driving towards.
Has anyone ever played Morrowind? It's basically a single player RPG, but the plot is fairly open ended and the word is roughly the size of a MMORPG. It's really fun, but it would really be something if you could play it with 2-64 other people on your server. The community based Neverwinter Nights servers somewhat serve this purpose, but they typically have to use a series of kludges to have real persistence. It would be great if a company would develop such a game. You could run a private or public server, then buy world extensions/framework upgrades as they are developed. I guess what I am describing is a commercial graphic mud.
I am one of those antisocial mmrpg players, and I agree with you. That's why I just canceled my WoW subscription and picked up the Morrowind GotY edition. It's basically a single player open ended RPG with a world the size of an MMORPG.
I'm serious. It was one of the funniest gaffs I've ever seen in the workplace.
At one of my previous jobs, they outsourced some work to India. The software had a splash screen of stock cars on a race track. The requirements said that there should be the sound of a race playing in the background. Well, when we got it back, there was the sound of a race in the background. The only problem was that it was a horse race. I'm not kidding. It was the typical horse race trumpet thing followed by the sound of hooves.
Yes, the shell syntax itself is object oriented and IIRC you can instantiate clr objects and manipulate system objects. The channel 9 vids of today and yore go into all of that. I've watched them and imho the monad shell is a different beast than your standard *nix shell.
I've got the MX1000. I more-or-less agree with what the review says about it except for two things: 1. An additional con should be that the recharch station is also the receiver, so you have to have that honkin thing sitting out in the open (relatively). 2. I find this statement at the end laughable - "Best Precision and Responsiveness: Logitech MX 1000". THIS MOUSE IS 800 DPI FOLKS! If you do precise graphics editing and/or you are a fairly skilled twitch gamer, this mouse is not for you. The mouse does work fine for mere mortal gamers like myself though.