InFocus X1 that I bought off of eBay. It's hardware-identical to the ScreenPlay 4800, which is a home theater model, just has a different firmware which balances colors differently. I could flash it with the 4800's firmware, but I'm happy with it the way it is. I'm not picky, so having the largest TV in the dorm is more than enough for me.
Nope. I don't have the same projector, but mine is literally inaudible unless I mute the audio, and even then it would be masked by even a soft conversation.
Anything suitable for home theater use, even a repurposed office model like mine, is quite quiet.
I can't say the same about my GeForce 6600 video card, which screams the second I fire up anything that uses D3D or OpenGL.
I have a college internet connection. When you're peaking your downloads at 16-20mbps, you can rack up that kind of usage just by queueing up posts and downloading overnight.
and to the guy who claimed i was advertising, no, I just mentioned a service which I use and happen to like. If I say that I drive a Ford Crown Victoria, use only AMD processors, and have an nVidia graphics card, are those ads too?
A few terabytes of HD space, plus running a campus DC hub where people want to grab everything you have (distributed backup) means I never had to burn any of that. Plus it wasn't all stuff I ended up wanting to keep.
Here's what I always told people who for some reason downloaded that garbage client when it was still around.
Step 1: take any DC client Step 2: connect to a.i2hub.com Step 3: download massive amounts of porn at lightning fast speeds, without the ads and other useless crap
the system itself was literally nothing more than VerliHub running the standard DC protocol, so any client worked perfectly.
What better way to test the long-term reliability and performance of a data network then to have thousands of users transferring large and often uncompressible files over it 24/7?
Ha. Bearshare and gnutella are the problem, not P2P in general. They have no verification and basically lend themselves to the kind of fakes you mention. Personally, I just hit Newzbin and download a NZB for whatever I want, then load that in to my newsgroup client and it maxes out my internet connection downloading it. Thanks to a trusted network of humans posting the files and a large userbase commenting on them, I have never had a fake or even a corrupt file in over 3 TB transferred (and that's just in the last 2 months). If I don't find it on the newsgroups, I go to a few private torrent sites, or as a last resort public torrents. Again, thanks to a massive user network and verified/checksummed files, I've never had a fake or a bad file.
I was running a campus-only hub at the University of Toledo for quite a long time, but about a month ago it was shut down by UT's EIT department because they considered it a legal risk for them to know it exists on the campus. Colleges are cracking down on local P2P as well, so the only real option is a distributed network.
tell me something i didn't know....
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they basically said that for extremely high bandwidth or long range applications, fiber is the way to go. this is news? i've known this since I started networking (late '90s) and it was common knowledge well before then.
Doesn't help. The University of Toledo (where I attend) recently started heavily monitoring Facebook after a posting on it got the university sued. They've shut down a few groups, fired student employees over posts, and threatened me with legal action over a group that I led.
For those who also go to UToledo, the group that got the university sued and some employees fired was "I've seen the Spandex Man at the Rec" or something like that, and the one that got me threatened was "DC Toledo"
Well I did say it probably wouldn't have much in common design-wise with a classic 386. I'm just saying that if overclockers can regularly break 6GHz with a modern P4, then by applying the same design and fab technology to a simpler spec like a 386 one could easily make a new generation of 386 that runs at extreme clock speeds.
I am in no way a chip engineer (in fact I recently dropped out of a computer engineering program to switch to business), so it's just speculation on my part, but the logic seems to work. I would be interested to see if a 7 GHz or so 386 could keep up with a 2.6 GHz Athlon 64 in modern applications, of course comparing them in optimised form for each proc. I'm just curious to see how much all the new processor features have improved performance, or if we should have just kept trying to overclock the living shit out of our older CPUs....
Maybe not a early-90s era production 386, but given the relative simplicity of the 386 in comparison to a modern chip like a Pentium 4 (which is already nearling 4GHz from the factory, though it still gets beaten by far lower clocked Athlon 64s...), I believe producing a 80386 compatible chip that runs at over 5GHz on air cooling should be pretty easy.
I agree with many others around here that this guy totally failed at building this MCE. A friend and I built a Myth box out of spare parts (Athlon XP 2GHz, GeForce 5200, NF7-S) and a few things ordered from PCAlchemy, and when that failed (the ivtv driver didn't properly support the Hauppauge WinTV-500 dual tuner card at the time) we went to plan B, MCE2005. It installed flawlessly and after getting a MPEG2 decoder (nVDVD) we were in business. Two tuners of analog TV or one TV and one FM radio, DVD playback and recording, it all worked fine. I'll agree that the FM radio interface is really craptastic, but it's about on par with my Onkyo home theater reciever. We recently set it up with two cable boxes, one on RF and one on S-Video, and it worked fine. The IR blaster could address each box seperately with no problem.
Compared to my Series2 TiVo, the MCE box has a few less features and needs a bit of interface work, but the ability to play more than just TV I've recorded is nice (though my modded Xbox fills in this task), and the MCE is an order of magnitude more responsive.
Myth is by far the most featureful DVR system I've seen, but when also counting ease of setup and hardware, MCE is my current favorite.
According to you, they have two options: a: Shoot at the US troops, thus "proving" Bush's point and allowing him to keep saying there are more "terrorists" to flush out b: "bend over" and allow the occupation
There's a whole spectrum of things they could do, not just the two extremes.
Protesting with violence doesn't get your cause anywhere. Last weekend here in Toledo there was a planned Nazi march over their percieved "problem" of black gangs. Guess what happened? (if you watched the news anywhere in the US, you already know, but whatever) Pretty much every gang member in the city showed up, the march was cancelled, and the gangs tore the living shit out of part of town (not to mention putting a rock through a window of my car....). In a sense, by turning so violent, the gangs proved the Nazi's point. It's the same situation over in the middle east. By attacking the troops, all they're doing is providing more fuel for the war. If they put the same effort in to getting their government re-established and then had that government tell the US to get the fuck out, IMNSHO it would be far more productive.
Here's the thing dumbfuck, it's perfectly fine to object to the occupation. When you use your weapons to object against the strongest military in the world, you basically dug your own grave. If these people were killed, it means that they were either using or attempting to use their weapons against soldiers.
Plain and simple, shooting at a soldier = death. That's not hard to understand, nor is it hard to avoid, just DON'T FUCKING SHOOT AT THE SOLDIERS!
Tourists are a problem everywhere, no matter where they're from or where they're at now. It seems that some people believe that going on vacation gives them the right to dress up like a total idiot and be obnoxious as hell. I can't count how many times I've seen 300+ pound people (men and women) wearing thongs tinier than those in the SI Swimsuit Issue when I go to Daytona Beach.
Pilots firing missles and dropping bombs don't need "realistic" training. If you can hit a target out in the middle of the desert, you can hit anything else. Oncer you lock on, the computers basically take care of the rest. On the other hand, sonar operators must be able to listen to the sounds being picked up and make a judgement call of what the object they're pinging is. The only way to get good at this is practice, so they must practice in a crowded environment, which may include various sea life as well as other vessels.
Speaking as a programmer who primarily works in LAMP (not out of preference, more out of pure laziness), PHP is definately inferior to a huge list of other languages when compared just as a programming language. It's interpreted, so it's not exactly fast. OOP in PHP sucked badly until version 5.
On the other hand, it serves the needs of a very large market. It was built from the ground up for use in dynamic web sites, it's integration with MySQL is quite good, it is readily extendable, and it's easy to learn. It's also a safe language. This is something that shared hosting companies love. They can give their customers the flexibility to run their own programs without much worry of a server-wide breach. On a properly configured server, a badly coded application can only cause problems for the user running it.
Well the first hint would be the GL_ lines in the config file.....
Then there's this. Note that Doom 3 and Riddick are used as OpenGL performance benchmarks.
And finally, this, particularly the quote "The Doom 3 engine is important to the gaming community as it continues id Software's commitment to OpenGL."
If I was in front of my desktop right now, I'd take a look at what libraries Doom 3 and Quake 4 link to for further proof, but alas, I'm on my Tablet PC which has no hope of even running Half-Life 1 at a decent framerate.
Sorry dipshit, but Doom 3 is OpenGL. So is Quake 4. They both also use OpenAL for 3D audio support. DirectX is only used on Win32 for input as far as I can tell.
I have a few friends who drove close to 50,000 miles without performing any regular maintainance before their (domestic) vehicles started to show problems. At that point it took some strong cleaners to get the sludge from the 3 year old oil out, but the engine still ran. Domestics are nowhere near as bad on reliability as the import snobs love to claim.
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InFocus X1 that I bought off of eBay. It's hardware-identical to the ScreenPlay 4800, which is a home theater model, just has a different firmware which balances colors differently. I could flash it with the 4800's firmware, but I'm happy with it the way it is. I'm not picky, so having the largest TV in the dorm is more than enough for me.
Nope. I don't have the same projector, but mine is literally inaudible unless I mute the audio, and even then it would be masked by even a soft conversation.
Anything suitable for home theater use, even a repurposed office model like mine, is quite quiet.
I can't say the same about my GeForce 6600 video card, which screams the second I fire up anything that uses D3D or OpenGL.
No, HD is 720p. 1080i is just wierd, and 1080p, while supported by a few large-screen displays, is still the realm of PC monitors for the most part.
I have a college internet connection. When you're peaking your downloads at 16-20mbps, you can rack up that kind of usage just by queueing up posts and downloading overnight.
and to the guy who claimed i was advertising, no, I just mentioned a service which I use and happen to like. If I say that I drive a Ford Crown Victoria, use only AMD processors, and have an nVidia graphics card, are those ads too?
A few terabytes of HD space, plus running a campus DC hub where people want to grab everything you have (distributed backup) means I never had to burn any of that. Plus it wasn't all stuff I ended up wanting to keep.
Here's what I always told people who for some reason downloaded that garbage client when it was still around.
Step 1: take any DC client
Step 2: connect to a.i2hub.com
Step 3: download massive amounts of porn at lightning fast speeds, without the ads and other useless crap
the system itself was literally nothing more than VerliHub running the standard DC protocol, so any client worked perfectly.
Last time I checked, the i2hub software was nothing more than a rebadged and ad-infested version of DC++
Call it experimentation.
What better way to test the long-term reliability and performance of a data network then to have thousands of users transferring large and often uncompressible files over it 24/7?
Ha. Bearshare and gnutella are the problem, not P2P in general. They have no verification and basically lend themselves to the kind of fakes you mention. Personally, I just hit Newzbin and download a NZB for whatever I want, then load that in to my newsgroup client and it maxes out my internet connection downloading it. Thanks to a trusted network of humans posting the files and a large userbase commenting on them, I have never had a fake or even a corrupt file in over 3 TB transferred (and that's just in the last 2 months). If I don't find it on the newsgroups, I go to a few private torrent sites, or as a last resort public torrents. Again, thanks to a massive user network and verified/checksummed files, I've never had a fake or a bad file.
I was running a campus-only hub at the University of Toledo for quite a long time, but about a month ago it was shut down by UT's EIT department because they considered it a legal risk for them to know it exists on the campus. Colleges are cracking down on local P2P as well, so the only real option is a distributed network.
they basically said that for extremely high bandwidth or long range applications, fiber is the way to go. this is news? i've known this since I started networking (late '90s) and it was common knowledge well before then.
Doesn't help. The University of Toledo (where I attend) recently started heavily monitoring Facebook after a posting on it got the university sued. They've shut down a few groups, fired student employees over posts, and threatened me with legal action over a group that I led.
For those who also go to UToledo, the group that got the university sued and some employees fired was "I've seen the Spandex Man at the Rec" or something like that, and the one that got me threatened was "DC Toledo"
yes
works nicely, actually.
Well I did say it probably wouldn't have much in common design-wise with a classic 386. I'm just saying that if overclockers can regularly break 6GHz with a modern P4, then by applying the same design and fab technology to a simpler spec like a 386 one could easily make a new generation of 386 that runs at extreme clock speeds.
I am in no way a chip engineer (in fact I recently dropped out of a computer engineering program to switch to business), so it's just speculation on my part, but the logic seems to work. I would be interested to see if a 7 GHz or so 386 could keep up with a 2.6 GHz Athlon 64 in modern applications, of course comparing them in optimised form for each proc. I'm just curious to see how much all the new processor features have improved performance, or if we should have just kept trying to overclock the living shit out of our older CPUs....
Maybe not a early-90s era production 386, but given the relative simplicity of the 386 in comparison to a modern chip like a Pentium 4 (which is already nearling 4GHz from the factory, though it still gets beaten by far lower clocked Athlon 64s...), I believe producing a 80386 compatible chip that runs at over 5GHz on air cooling should be pretty easy.
I agree with many others around here that this guy totally failed at building this MCE. A friend and I built a Myth box out of spare parts (Athlon XP 2GHz, GeForce 5200, NF7-S) and a few things ordered from PCAlchemy, and when that failed (the ivtv driver didn't properly support the Hauppauge WinTV-500 dual tuner card at the time) we went to plan B, MCE2005. It installed flawlessly and after getting a MPEG2 decoder (nVDVD) we were in business. Two tuners of analog TV or one TV and one FM radio, DVD playback and recording, it all worked fine. I'll agree that the FM radio interface is really craptastic, but it's about on par with my Onkyo home theater reciever. We recently set it up with two cable boxes, one on RF and one on S-Video, and it worked fine. The IR blaster could address each box seperately with no problem.
Compared to my Series2 TiVo, the MCE box has a few less features and needs a bit of interface work, but the ability to play more than just TV I've recorded is nice (though my modded Xbox fills in this task), and the MCE is an order of magnitude more responsive.
Myth is by far the most featureful DVR system I've seen, but when also counting ease of setup and hardware, MCE is my current favorite.
Geez, how dumb can people be?
According to you, they have two options:
a: Shoot at the US troops, thus "proving" Bush's point and allowing him to keep saying there are more "terrorists" to flush out
b: "bend over" and allow the occupation
There's a whole spectrum of things they could do, not just the two extremes.
Protesting with violence doesn't get your cause anywhere. Last weekend here in Toledo there was a planned Nazi march over their percieved "problem" of black gangs. Guess what happened? (if you watched the news anywhere in the US, you already know, but whatever) Pretty much every gang member in the city showed up, the march was cancelled, and the gangs tore the living shit out of part of town (not to mention putting a rock through a window of my car....). In a sense, by turning so violent, the gangs proved the Nazi's point. It's the same situation over in the middle east. By attacking the troops, all they're doing is providing more fuel for the war. If they put the same effort in to getting their government re-established and then had that government tell the US to get the fuck out, IMNSHO it would be far more productive.
Here's the thing dumbfuck, it's perfectly fine to object to the occupation. When you use your weapons to object against the strongest military in the world, you basically dug your own grave. If these people were killed, it means that they were either using or attempting to use their weapons against soldiers.
Plain and simple, shooting at a soldier = death. That's not hard to understand, nor is it hard to avoid, just DON'T FUCKING SHOOT AT THE SOLDIERS!
Tourists are a problem everywhere, no matter where they're from or where they're at now. It seems that some people believe that going on vacation gives them the right to dress up like a total idiot and be obnoxious as hell. I can't count how many times I've seen 300+ pound people (men and women) wearing thongs tinier than those in the SI Swimsuit Issue when I go to Daytona Beach.
Pilots firing missles and dropping bombs don't need "realistic" training. If you can hit a target out in the middle of the desert, you can hit anything else. Oncer you lock on, the computers basically take care of the rest.
On the other hand, sonar operators must be able to listen to the sounds being picked up and make a judgement call of what the object they're pinging is. The only way to get good at this is practice, so they must practice in a crowded environment, which may include various sea life as well as other vessels.
Speaking as a programmer who primarily works in LAMP (not out of preference, more out of pure laziness), PHP is definately inferior to a huge list of other languages when compared just as a programming language. It's interpreted, so it's not exactly fast. OOP in PHP sucked badly until version 5.
On the other hand, it serves the needs of a very large market. It was built from the ground up for use in dynamic web sites, it's integration with MySQL is quite good, it is readily extendable, and it's easy to learn. It's also a safe language. This is something that shared hosting companies love. They can give their customers the flexibility to run their own programs without much worry of a server-wide breach. On a properly configured server, a badly coded application can only cause problems for the user running it.
Well the first hint would be the GL_ lines in the config file.....
Then there's this. Note that Doom 3 and Riddick are used as OpenGL performance benchmarks.
And finally, this, particularly the quote "The Doom 3 engine is important to the gaming community as it continues id Software's commitment to OpenGL."
If I was in front of my desktop right now, I'd take a look at what libraries Doom 3 and Quake 4 link to for further proof, but alas, I'm on my Tablet PC which has no hope of even running Half-Life 1 at a decent framerate.
Sorry dipshit, but Doom 3 is OpenGL. So is Quake 4. They both also use OpenAL for 3D audio support. DirectX is only used on Win32 for input as far as I can tell.
This just doesn't look like typical Microsoft, and IMO that's a good thing...
Source code, a simple web site, and command line operation.....what more could I ask for?
Thanks, Microsoft (geez I still feel wierd saying that....)
Heh...yea.....I guess my 143k mile '93 Crown Vic isn't running either....
I have a few friends who drove close to 50,000 miles without performing any regular maintainance before their (domestic) vehicles started to show problems. At that point it took some strong cleaners to get the sludge from the 3 year old oil out, but the engine still ran. Domestics are nowhere near as bad on reliability as the import snobs love to claim.