Re:nForce and SiS735 the future...?
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This puts it in a strange position in the market. The chipset is very powerful, yet the graphics will be decidedly average when the chipset is finally being sold on the market. It beats all the other integrated systems out there (the audio system is to die for, beating the SBLive! into a cocked hat) by a massive margin, but they only cost like $20 a pop anyway!
I've been wondering about this...what exactly have Creative's engineers been up to for the past 3 years? There have be no real upgrades to the SB Live! in that time, all they do is add neat little drive bay cable connections and change the box a little it seems.
So is this a case of "We don't have to release a better product, this one is selling fine..." or did they just fire all their engineers?
Seems like given 3 years of R&D time, Creative may have something up their sleeve. Or maybe not...who knows...
#1. We forced the people of the west side to keep thier sex offenders on their side of the state.
#2. The Washington State Penitentiary is just north of town, not a federal prison. And frankly, I think it deters crime to see where you have to go. Not that you can actually see the prison from most parts of town.
#3. I think congressional term limits are a bad idea to begin with. We already have term limits, they are called elections. If someone is doing a bad job, they get voted out. Oh, and if you show me one politician who hasn't "changed his mind" about something, I'll eat him.
But since you are obviously an authority on the Walla Walla valley, I'll concede to your better judgement as to whether or not this is a good area to live in. After all, all I do is appreciate our low crime, zero pollution, no traffic, robust economy, and excellent breadth of broadband options.
I was researching putting together a dual Athlon machine for a client a couple weeks ago and I wanted to know when I could reasonably expect the MB to be available, so I asked Tyan:
"Thank you for your inquiry. Although Tyan has no comment regarding AMD's
plans, nor any chipset issues, I can tell you that our dual Socket A
platform is tentatively scheduled for a mid to late Q2 release.
Regards,
Matt Vernon
Manager of Marketing Communications
Tyan - Innovative Internet Platforms"
California's power deregulation was flawed from the get go. While the wholesale power markets were pretty much completely deregulated, the retail markets remained pretty much locked up. So it's pretty simple really, power producers hiked up the rates they charged the power companies. (As far as I can tell, they did this just because they could and it would make them more money.)
The power companies were not allowed to pass this increase along to consumers, so yes, the power companies actually did start bleeding money. These companies went from having AAA credit ratings before deregulation, to not being able to pawn their firstborn for cash.
What I've heard is that it is not really a power production shortage in CA, it's that the power companies can't afford to buy any power from the producers. That's what the State was considering buying power directly from the producers and then basically giving it to the power companies.
If I were Texas, or one of the other states currently with deregulation plans, I'd make sure to think things through thoroughly (how'd you like that alliteration?) and maybe even check them over with an economics professor to make sure I didn't bankrupt my utilities.
Deregulation isn't bad...pseudo-deregulation is bad.
Even though some other solutions have been presented, I'm still curious about the feasibility of a device as I described. How would you folks go about hacking together a device like this? What all do you need to interpret a VGA signal and convert it back to a usable format? I assume that VGA LCD projectors do something similar to this, but instead of saving the converted input, they send it to the LCD unit. But maybe I'm wrong on this, anyone have some insight?
The primary loss of quality I was talking about was the digital -> analog -> VHS -> digital process, but also many Linux installs are no longer console based and I believe run at higher than TV resolution (although I may be wrong about that). Like I said, I think this system would be a decent solution as long as you weren't planning on bringing it back to a digital format from the VHS. Also, when someone views the screenshot at 1280x1024, a 320x480 pic wouldn't give you much detail.
That's a good idea. If one used a Y adapter type video cable, would there be a halving of the signal? I'll have to research these cards a bit more, looks like a workable solution, but it won't be as easy as a standalone solution and will require tying up another computer. I'd still like to see an external piece of hardware, but this may satiate me in the absence of such a device. Thanks.:)
Wouldn't that entail a pretty serious quality loss? Especially dropping the image down to TV resolution. If this device proves unfeasible, a digital camera in front of the monitor is probably the best solution.
Also, I have a Diamond Viper V550 with TV out, the problem is that I have to activate the TV out with Diamond's software from Windows.:/ Maybe the newer TV out cards don't have this limitation, in which case, yours would be a good solution if one were trying to make a video of a Linux install or something which could be useful in and of itself.
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I've been wondering about this...what exactly have Creative's engineers been up to for the past 3 years? There have be no real upgrades to the SB Live! in that time, all they do is add neat little drive bay cable connections and change the box a little it seems.
So is this a case of "We don't have to release a better product, this one is selling fine..." or did they just fire all their engineers?
Seems like given 3 years of R&D time, Creative may have something up their sleeve. Or maybe not...who knows...
-Sokie
Here are two wireless internet startups based in SE Washington:
:)
http://www.highspeed.com/
http://www.pocketinet.com/
Highspeed already serves several markets throughout the Western USA. Pocketinet is still local but I think they have bigger aspirations.
-Sokie
OK here we go:
#1. We forced the people of the west side to keep thier sex offenders on their side of the state.
#2. The Washington State Penitentiary is just north of town, not a federal prison. And frankly, I think it deters crime to see where you have to go. Not that you can actually see the prison from most parts of town.
#3. I think congressional term limits are a bad idea to begin with. We already have term limits, they are called elections. If someone is doing a bad job, they get voted out. Oh, and if you show me one politician who hasn't "changed his mind" about something, I'll eat him.
But since you are obviously an authority on the Walla Walla valley, I'll concede to your better judgement as to whether or not this is a good area to live in. After all, all I do is appreciate our low crime, zero pollution, no traffic, robust economy, and excellent breadth of broadband options.
Today's high temperature: 66F
-Sokie
I was researching putting together a dual Athlon machine for a client a couple weeks ago and I wanted to know when I could reasonably expect the MB to be available, so I asked Tyan:
:)
"Thank you for your inquiry. Although Tyan has no comment regarding AMD's
plans, nor any chipset issues, I can tell you that our dual Socket A
platform is tentatively scheduled for a mid to late Q2 release.
Regards,
Matt Vernon
Manager of Marketing Communications
Tyan - Innovative Internet Platforms"
Just thought I'd share...
-Sokie
California's power deregulation was flawed from the get go. While the wholesale power markets were pretty much completely deregulated, the retail markets remained pretty much locked up. So it's pretty simple really, power producers hiked up the rates they charged the power companies. (As far as I can tell, they did this just because they could and it would make them more money.)
The power companies were not allowed to pass this increase along to consumers, so yes, the power companies actually did start bleeding money. These companies went from having AAA credit ratings before deregulation, to not being able to pawn their firstborn for cash.
What I've heard is that it is not really a power production shortage in CA, it's that the power companies can't afford to buy any power from the producers. That's what the State was considering buying power directly from the producers and then basically giving it to the power companies.
If I were Texas, or one of the other states currently with deregulation plans, I'd make sure to think things through thoroughly (how'd you like that alliteration?) and maybe even check them over with an economics professor to make sure I didn't bankrupt my utilities.
Deregulation isn't bad...pseudo-deregulation is bad.
Even though some other solutions have been presented, I'm still curious about the feasibility of a device as I described. How would you folks go about hacking together a device like this? What all do you need to interpret a VGA signal and convert it back to a usable format? I assume that VGA LCD projectors do something similar to this, but instead of saving the converted input, they send it to the LCD unit. But maybe I'm wrong on this, anyone have some insight?
The primary loss of quality I was talking about was the digital -> analog -> VHS -> digital process, but also many Linux installs are no longer console based and I believe run at higher than TV resolution (although I may be wrong about that). Like I said, I think this system would be a decent solution as long as you weren't planning on bringing it back to a digital format from the VHS. Also, when someone views the screenshot at 1280x1024, a 320x480 pic wouldn't give you much detail.
That's a good idea. If one used a Y adapter type video cable, would there be a halving of the signal? I'll have to research these cards a bit more, looks like a workable solution, but it won't be as easy as a standalone solution and will require tying up another computer. I'd still like to see an external piece of hardware, but this may satiate me in the absence of such a device. Thanks. :)
Wouldn't that entail a pretty serious quality loss? Especially dropping the image down to TV resolution. If this device proves unfeasible, a digital camera in front of the monitor is probably the best solution.
:/ Maybe the newer TV out cards don't have this limitation, in which case, yours would be a good solution if one were trying to make a video of a Linux install or something which could be useful in and of itself.
Also, I have a Diamond Viper V550 with TV out, the problem is that I have to activate the TV out with Diamond's software from Windows.