My guess is that we can thank the Windows XP installer, and the requirement that your RAID or SATA drivers must be on a floppy disk for the longevity of the floppy connector on so many gamer/enthusiast boards. Perhaps that may change soon.
It's pretty amazing that you've never seen them. I guess you could miss out if you stuck to CRTs for a long time, or only used the low-end LCDs that were VGA-only. However, DVI has been ubiquitous on both ATI and nVidia chipset graphics cards for something like 10 years now, dating back well into the AGP-era. Hard to believe that you didn't at least run into a computer with a DVI port at some time.
HDMI only supports up to 1920x1200 resolution, so I don't think an adapter would help you (well, assuming you want to run native resolution). Well, actually HDMI 1.4 now supports higher resolutions, but if your monitors are three years old they won't support that.
Well, that's a step up for Dell. Not long ago we bought a bunch of new computers from Dell and they were VGA-only, a port that should have been phased out a decade ago on a bunch of new computers in 2011.
I've noticed that a lot of motherboards now omit the Firewire port, mostly in favor of USB3 or e-Sata now. I think Firewire peaked with the LGA775-generation chips. It's still fairly available, but you better check the specs first if you need firewire instead of assuming it will be there.
I've seen plenty of them, usually bundled with smaller monitors as it must save them a few cents per unit. Though my favorite are the ones I saw that had a DVI-I connector on one end and a DVI-D connector on the other.
Wow, a whole $10 a year? By the time you get done dealing the the idiots on craiglist for a cheap used monitor that may or may not actually work properly, then dealt with the hassle of getting rid of the CRTs which would almost certainly involve having to haul them to the recycle center and paying money for them to take them, your better off just using the monitors you have if you're happy with them and eat the slightly higher electric costs.
My failure rate for LCDs hasn't been as good. I've seen plenty succumb to bad capacitors. I've had a pretty good success at repairing them, but overall I'm not impressed with their reliability. With that said though, at my workplace the failure rate is much lower which goes to show that if you stick to some of the better "enterprise" grade hardware they do seem to be a bit better built.
Well, Semite is a race, so to be anti-Semitic is to be racist. The problem is that the article made a very common mistake, and that's to confuse the Semites with the Jewish faith.
You got $2 for an old CRT? Around here, you generally have to pay the recyclers to take the things off your hands. While they may have valuable materials in them, it costs more to extract them (safely) than they are worth hence the reason you have to pay to recycle them. It's also illegal to throw them in the landfill, though people do it.
Also, good luck selling one. If it is in good working order, is clean, and is a high end screen like a Sony Trinitron you might be able to get someone to take it off your hands for free. If it's something that cost $200 in 2001 it's pretty much junk.
A good low-power solution is the second generation P3 "Coppermine" chips in around the 500-650Mhz range. These are around 15W chips, still have plenty of processing power for a router/firewall, and they are basically as cheap as free. Hardware usually predates the capacitor plague which makes them more reliable than some newer hardware. If you can get your hands on an ex-corporate desktop is usually pretty quiet, easy to work on, and still pretty reliable despite the age. There are, of course, lower power solutions but usually those involve having to buy hardware as opposed to the kind of stuff that can be found just laying around.
That, and the bags themselves are usually semi-translucent to visible light. They probably only get away with it so long as the agents don't realize that the disassembled gun bits are different from other small random pieces of metal that would typically be found in a car.
By your logic, we need to give every snake-oil salesman out there with their extra-ordinary claims a chance. I'm sure people like Rossi love people as gullible as yourself. Current scientific theories says his device should not work. Now, they could be wrong, and if wanted to explain how people would listen. But he refuses to give details. People have every right to be skeptical.
Heck, one of the things I love about the Apple notebooks is that they don't have two dozens "Intel inside", "NVidia! Yeah!", "Designed for Windows FuckME", "Free Virus Inside!", "Buy 2, get 1 for the prize of 1" and so on stickers.
But then Apple makes up for it with the gigantic tacky glowing Apple logo on the back of the screen. At least I can peel the stickers off of my laptops.
You assume a lot from the typical person who might try such a thing. Nevertheless, policies like those do date back from when "cooking the books" involved things made out of dead trees.
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Those won't help most people. HDMI is digital, VGA is analog. Apparently there are a few devices that have non-standard HDMI ports that will output an analog VGA when they sense that those cables are plugged in, however, those are the exception. Most people will need an active digital HDMI to analog VGA converter along the lines of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Brainydeal-Vga2HDMI3-5mm-VGA-to-HDMI/dp/B003VJ9RCO/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1327196304&sr=8-26
At only $35, at least it's a bit cheaper than I expected.
My guess is that we can thank the Windows XP installer, and the requirement that your RAID or SATA drivers must be on a floppy disk for the longevity of the floppy connector on so many gamer/enthusiast boards. Perhaps that may change soon.
It's pretty amazing that you've never seen them. I guess you could miss out if you stuck to CRTs for a long time, or only used the low-end LCDs that were VGA-only. However, DVI has been ubiquitous on both ATI and nVidia chipset graphics cards for something like 10 years now, dating back well into the AGP-era. Hard to believe that you didn't at least run into a computer with a DVI port at some time.
HDMI only supports up to 1920x1200 resolution, so I don't think an adapter would help you (well, assuming you want to run native resolution). Well, actually HDMI 1.4 now supports higher resolutions, but if your monitors are three years old they won't support that.
Dual-link DVI can do 2560x1600. Crappy HDMI which is basically single-link DVI with audio and a lousy connector is limited to 1920x1200.
Well, that's a step up for Dell. Not long ago we bought a bunch of new computers from Dell and they were VGA-only, a port that should have been phased out a decade ago on a bunch of new computers in 2011.
I've noticed that a lot of motherboards now omit the Firewire port, mostly in favor of USB3 or e-Sata now. I think Firewire peaked with the LGA775-generation chips. It's still fairly available, but you better check the specs first if you need firewire instead of assuming it will be there.
I've seen plenty of them, usually bundled with smaller monitors as it must save them a few cents per unit. Though my favorite are the ones I saw that had a DVI-I connector on one end and a DVI-D connector on the other.
Wow, a whole $10 a year? By the time you get done dealing the the idiots on craiglist for a cheap used monitor that may or may not actually work properly, then dealt with the hassle of getting rid of the CRTs which would almost certainly involve having to haul them to the recycle center and paying money for them to take them, your better off just using the monitors you have if you're happy with them and eat the slightly higher electric costs.
In all seriousness, if there is a way to get a modern monitor to display a picture from an old monochrome video adapter I might be interested.
Where do you buy HDMI to VGA converters so cheap? I'm sure lots of people here would appreciate a link.
My failure rate for LCDs hasn't been as good. I've seen plenty succumb to bad capacitors. I've had a pretty good success at repairing them, but overall I'm not impressed with their reliability. With that said though, at my workplace the failure rate is much lower which goes to show that if you stick to some of the better "enterprise" grade hardware they do seem to be a bit better built.
Well, Semite is a race, so to be anti-Semitic is to be racist. The problem is that the article made a very common mistake, and that's to confuse the Semites with the Jewish faith.
Ooh, that's got some Sting to it.
I disagree. One fat-fingered mistake in the root shell and the system can be toast.
You got $2 for an old CRT? Around here, you generally have to pay the recyclers to take the things off your hands. While they may have valuable materials in them, it costs more to extract them (safely) than they are worth hence the reason you have to pay to recycle them. It's also illegal to throw them in the landfill, though people do it.
Also, good luck selling one. If it is in good working order, is clean, and is a high end screen like a Sony Trinitron you might be able to get someone to take it off your hands for free. If it's something that cost $200 in 2001 it's pretty much junk.
A good low-power solution is the second generation P3 "Coppermine" chips in around the 500-650Mhz range. These are around 15W chips, still have plenty of processing power for a router/firewall, and they are basically as cheap as free. Hardware usually predates the capacitor plague which makes them more reliable than some newer hardware. If you can get your hands on an ex-corporate desktop is usually pretty quiet, easy to work on, and still pretty reliable despite the age. There are, of course, lower power solutions but usually those involve having to buy hardware as opposed to the kind of stuff that can be found just laying around.
That, and the bags themselves are usually semi-translucent to visible light. They probably only get away with it so long as the agents don't realize that the disassembled gun bits are different from other small random pieces of metal that would typically be found in a car.
By your logic, we need to give every snake-oil salesman out there with their extra-ordinary claims a chance. I'm sure people like Rossi love people as gullible as yourself. Current scientific theories says his device should not work. Now, they could be wrong, and if wanted to explain how people would listen. But he refuses to give details. People have every right to be skeptical.
They probably come from people who upload content they downloaded from Usenet but are too lazy to unrar them first.
Where's the source for the OSX kernel?
But then Apple makes up for it with the gigantic tacky glowing Apple logo on the back of the screen. At least I can peel the stickers off of my laptops.
You assume a lot from the typical person who might try such a thing. Nevertheless, policies like those do date back from when "cooking the books" involved things made out of dead trees.
Does this mean that you purposely limit your vacation destinations and activities so that you won't be away from email for too long?
Even with 25 tries, you should be able to cover a decently-sized parking lot.