I must agree this is total BS. I don't have cable to my building here in Brooklyn and had to get DSL (this wasn't so traumatic since SpeakeasyDSL has to be better than any crap ass cable provider) the extra $20 a month for a phone line I never use really blows though. However the $20 plus the $40 for Vonage turns out to be less monthly than Verizon was screwing me for anyway.
Yep I use vonage too. It is scwheet. better than any POTS I have ever had. Also dumping your local bell might be one of the best feelings you ever have.
RealPC is on the way and is reported to be must faster than VirtualPC. Beta program starts in a month or so (or so they say). It reportedly does not support XP yet, but does support 3D accel on the Mac so you should (theoretically) be able to play windows games with minimal slowdown on the Mac. Whatever that is worth.
yep, and this is sad. Having read a fair amount of the Infiniband Spec I have to say it was really damn nifty. I think perhaps manufacturers realized how cheap and flexible IB would have made everything... and promptly killed it.
Yeah but they are just adapters. You really need stuff that embodies the entire spec. So (with increased bandwidth) you replace thw PCI Bus, your Networking, and your storage bus all with infiniband. I think it's a little bit of too little too late though. The concepts however are sound.
Though it's not the latest and greatest. I grabbed an old Blue and White G3 and popped a G4/550 in it and hooked up my old 19" SGI monitor (Sony) to it. Didn't cost much at all, and now I have an excellent platform for editing DV, compositing, and everything else I do.
My AMD/XP box can only occasionally capture DV without dropping any frames and this is with cheetahs for drives.
So sure it's "slower" but not having to redo everything because it is f*cked up it comes out much much faster.
It's UNIX and runs all of the fancy apps. Yes I am running Final Cut Pro and PostgreSQL on the same box:P
Looksl ike we are in agreement on the usefulness of the plasma display then.
I was certainly aware that LCD and Plasma were different and didn;t mean to imply that they were.
The tearing I was refering to wasn't the usual partial frame stuff (so maybe I used the wrong term) it was the the inability of the display to update an entire frame if too many of the pixels had to change.
Any opions on Plasma vs. Single Chip DLP with Color Wheel?
> It's for television viewing. It is not really >intended for use as a PC monitor, but would be >really great for video editing applications IMO.
Actually it would be awful for video editing, it may be good for showing your NTSC projects to the customer in order to impress them but for real video work you would be much better off with even a 9" pro NTSC monitor with features such as Blue Only and Underscan etc...
You could pick up a real NTSC monitor a Vector Scope and a Waveform Monitor for far far less than the cost of this puppy
LCDs are currently too damn slow and you get frame tearing (perhaps this has changed recently)
The upside of CRT and DLP is that they are bright, look damn good and can do HD. (I know LCD can do this also)
3 chip DLP is where it's at (or perhaps the very high end CRTs)
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I must agree this is total BS. I don't have cable to my building here in Brooklyn and had to get DSL (this wasn't so traumatic since SpeakeasyDSL has to be better than any crap ass cable provider) the extra $20 a month for a phone line I never use really blows though. However the $20 plus the $40 for Vonage turns out to be less monthly than Verizon was screwing me for anyway.
Yep I use vonage too. It is scwheet. better than any POTS I have ever had. Also dumping your local bell might be one of the best feelings you ever have.
RealPC is on the way and is reported to be must faster than VirtualPC. Beta program starts in a month or so (or so they say). It reportedly does not support XP yet, but does support 3D accel on the Mac so you should (theoretically) be able to play windows games with minimal slowdown on the Mac. Whatever that is worth.
I was about 2 days away from buying :) :)
I can't believe my luck!
yep, and this is sad. Having read a fair amount of the Infiniband Spec I have to say it was really damn nifty. I think perhaps manufacturers realized how cheap and flexible IB would have made everything... and promptly killed it.
Yeah but they are just adapters. You really need stuff that embodies the entire spec. So (with increased bandwidth) you replace thw PCI Bus, your Networking, and your storage bus all with infiniband. I think it's a little bit of too little too late though. The concepts however are sound.
All of this is available in the Infiniband Spec... now if someone would just build it... and then we could all buy it.
http://www.mackie.com/sr/srm450/index.html
Ok I bought them for other reaons, but damn do they make great computer speakers.
I have USB2 on my G3/333 from 1997. I think it cost me about $35 and 2minutes and 35 seconds of my time. (Apple Cases are SWELL)
:)
Works great under OS X
Though it's not the latest and greatest. I grabbed an old Blue and White G3 and popped a G4/550 in it and hooked up my old 19" SGI monitor (Sony) to it. Didn't cost much at all, and now I have an excellent platform for editing DV, compositing, and everything else I do.
:P
My AMD/XP box can only occasionally capture DV without dropping any frames and this is with cheetahs for drives.
So sure it's "slower" but not having to redo everything because it is f*cked up it comes out much much faster.
It's UNIX and runs all of the fancy apps. Yes I am running Final Cut Pro and PostgreSQL on the same box
For an example from the same manufacturer try:
b 2c _product_detail.jsp?eUser=&prod_id=HLM437WX%2f XAA
http://www.samsungusa.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/
Looksl ike we are in agreement on the usefulness of the plasma display then.
I was certainly aware that LCD and Plasma were different and didn;t mean to imply that they were.
The tearing I was refering to wasn't the usual partial frame stuff (so maybe I used the wrong term)
it was the the inability of the display to update an entire frame if too many of the pixels had to change.
Any opions on Plasma vs. Single Chip DLP with Color Wheel?
> It's for television viewing. It is not really >intended for use as a PC monitor, but would be >really great for video editing applications IMO.
Actually it would be awful for video editing, it may be good for showing your NTSC projects to the customer in order to impress them but for real video work you would be much better off with even a 9" pro NTSC monitor with features such as Blue Only and Underscan etc...
You could pick up a real NTSC monitor a Vector Scope and a Waveform Monitor for far far less than the cost of this puppy
LCDs are currently too damn slow and you get frame tearing (perhaps this has changed recently)
The upside of CRT and DLP is that they are bright, look damn good and can do HD. (I know LCD can do this also)
3 chip DLP is where it's at (or perhaps the very high end CRTs)
that makes 2 (or ~25,000) of us :)
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You have made my day :)
so if this pans out, maybe I could convince New York to pay part of my Tunnel tolls if they want me to keep living here...