Though called a beta, I haven't been able to find a way to report these bugs/flaws/'features' to MS.
MS has a newsgroup for this purpose. Yeah its lame, but its findable and web accessible.
Fun bug: Put your task bar on the side of the screen (I keep mine there hidden but wide, when it pops out, lots of tasks are very readable). Now write a batch script and try to run it. A popup is triggered asking if you really want to do that, problem is it "scrolls" into the screen, but since there's no task bar in the way it keeps scrolling right off the screen! So you can't run your script and you can't clear the popup, which remains in highest in your - list till you reboot:)
Also on that same note, if you have a dual core proccessor with hyper threading, creating the illusion of 4 cpu's would this be able to run under MS windows Pro or would it need a "server" edition version of software which supports 4 CPU's
Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP Pro both run fine on a Dual Xeon P4 w/ HT enabled. Task Manager sees 4 CPU's as expected. Pre-SP4 systems might complain because they are unaware of Hyperthreading, but I think MS had not really gone into the overkill mode that highlight XP. Prior to XP they were pretty trusting of folks, license limits were managed via trust. In other words is an 11th client tried to connect it worked, instead of rejecting you with a nasty message about how you need to upgrade to server edition.
This old saw needs to die, now. It's completely false to say that "the whole graphics subsystem is built on PDF." That simply isn't so. Let me explain where that came from.
Back in the olden days, there was this thing called QuickDraw.
You're forgeting your history. On the original MacOS, there was a thing called QuickDraw. The Steve Jobs left Apple and founded Next, whose graphics Subsystem was based on a thing called "Display Postscript". MacOS X has at its core NextOS. Part of the transition from NextOS to MacOS X was extending Display Postscript to embrace the PDF extension. However, due to licensing disagreements with Adobe, this was dropped and the system was re-written in a unencumbered manner. One of many reasons Rhapsody/MacOS X was late.
Implying Quartz is an outgrowth of Quickdraw or has nothing to do with Postscript/PDF is Completely false; though I''ll bow to your knowledge of how to program in the two.
There was a recent CSI:Miami episode which implied women were getting embedded RFID chips with their Credit Card numbers so they didn't need their purses to go out for the night (theft proof).
Anyone know if that sort of tech is really in use? I know CSI is infamous for insane tech, but that usually in the crime solving, not in the day to day stuff. Just Curious...
Me thinks you're putting way too much faith in the "invisible hand".
The invisible had has the uncanny ability to "bitchslap" the unaware; the sting comes quicker in these days when information is so readily available. An independant insurance agent (ie, not Geico, State Farm, or other agent with an exclusive arrangement) can now bring up 5 or more quotes different insurers afetr entering the information; its simple enough for him to drop firms that are way out of spec.
A well known "Bitchslap":
Beer company A decides to save a bit on an ingredient; ony 1 in 50 drinkers can tell the difference; they'll make money even if that one stops drinking. As a result, that one tells his 5 freinds of the change, who tell 5 other freinds. Within months, Beer company A has the 4th most popular beer in America. Shame it was number 1 when they made the change...
Do not mock the invisible hand. If it doesn't respond the way you expect, its likely you have misunderstood your market...
What bugs me is the limitation about VPN's. All I want to do is VPN to my company every once in a while to work from home or avoid the hour round trip to reboot a misbehaving server. And while usually it worked (I had some users that it was blocked for); I was always concerned about being discovered and having the port blocked. The nail in the coffin was when they decided they were going to charge me for a second IP address because I had two computers behind my NAT box accessing the internet.
So now I'm happily using a DirecTiVo and a 1.5/384 DSL line; and I receive monthly come on's from the fools asking me back...
I'm curious who's operating this datacenter without proper KVM or a crash cart. Since I'm guess its a low budget Hell Hole, I doubt this is a solution, but...
We've been rebuilding our infrastructure, and discovered the Dell 2650's have a built in "Dell Remote Access Console" which actually gives VNC access to whatevers on the screen. I can powercycle remotely, update BIOS settings, etc. Very cool. I still have a KVM solution in place, but use it less and less.
Why did you enter the apartment and erase his hard drive and remove 275 lbs of material?
I'm sorry, officer, I had "Porn Buddy" duty. If you want to look at the 275 lbs its in my "Porn Wing" now...
Re:You might wanna check out the G4 forums.
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Much more in detail about WHY there dropping the techtv name too, evedently people where actually calling them saying things like "You killed techtv, so why dont you drop the name" so there PR department said they should....
Why I'm sure some folks were, given the big change in focus, but its very common in corporate renaming to run both names for a while. Its so people understand "its the same product, new name". Otherwise folks would be calling their cable companies complaining that they want their TechTV channel back, and to dump that new G4 channel.
Try telling the old lady whose credit card was swiped that you just gave the thief a six-figure salary and a supercomputer.
A six figure salary and a supercomputer? Re-watch the end of "Catch Me if You Can"; he'll get a low-grade government salary, half of what the guy whose paid to watch everything he does gets, he won't be allowed computers at home, not even a game console or Internet enabled refrigerator. If he objects, the government will just re-instate those other 999 charges, which he's probably waived his rights to the statute of limitations, meaning they can charge him in 15 years if they so choose. When its all done, he'll get a questionable recommendation and a small government pension.
There was no way he could afford to pay back what he'd stolen, but my parents got all their money back (Even the $50 limit they had to pay initially) through the credit card company, who have systems in place to protect themselves against things like this.
Umm, sorta...
The anti-fraud halted the theft after three days, in that time he bought a lot stuff (>$1000). Since they have identified the charges as fraud, they'll not pay the charges, meaning the stores that sold the DVD's get shafted for the payments. They might get their merchandise back, but it will be open, used, worth a fraction of it value. Fortunately, in this case most went to bills that weren't going to get paid anyway...
He was harping about now finally Mac users can use two button mice, as if it were never an option before. Either he was clueless about the Macs evolution over the past 15 years, or he was trolling. I made no statement about the superiority and/or inferiority of Apple'd decision or of 1 (apple), 2 (Microsoft), 3 (Unix), or even 4 (my own choice at the time, which was overkill) button mice.
Oh well, fanatics will be fanatics...
Yeah, thats it, anyone with a different perspective is a fanatic. Or is it because I used a Mac 9 years ago? Just beause some people who use/used the Mac are fanatics doesn't mean everybody is.
Native resolution of even a lowly 23" Apple HD Display can do your 1080i with room to spare.
That's the problem. Native resolution on the Cinema HD is 1200 veritical pixels, 120 too many. So you can either sacrafice 10% of the screen and run it natively, or you can interpolate those 1080 pixels onto those 1200, so about half the native pixels are actually showing two "blended" pixels. The quality of the resulting image can vary considerably. You would think the result might be better with 720p, where every signal pixel is stretched accross 1.65 native pixels, but again, the quality of the resulting image can vary considerably.
Although I would say that if the crime in question was breaking in to my home and endangering myself and my family
But you just changed the crime from defending your property to defending your family, unless you consider them to be your property (and certainly many early cultures used this convenience). Defence of life is a very strong defence, you can get away with a lot using it. They key is to stop once the threat ended. Its very hard to defend dismembering a corpse and trying to burn the remains as "self-defense", though its been tried.
And its not the current culture, its the current RIGHT, an important distinction. But take away that right, and you open a whole other can of worms. I hit you on the head with a bat and knock you out while your robbing my house, fine. If I continue to beat you with said bat until you need dialysis for life and can no longer use your higher brain functions, is that fine? If I come a group of Neo-Cons^H^H^HNazis not wearing their costumes and the 10 of them say I tried to rob them with the gun they planted on me, and I to sit peacefully in jail knowing my lack of protection keeps innocents from being inconveinenced?
Protection of one's property is not a vigilante action.
Protection of ones property is not a blank check to mayhem. Walk next door and kill the kid whose been spraying herbicide on your hydranga's and you'll get the chair. Take his barrel of herbicide away and you go to jail for stealing. Put a beartrap in your back lawn to protect it and you'll get locked in jail. Throw a fence around it and you might have a case. Put up a "Danger: Keep out" sign and you'll likely be ok, though I'd still no place a bet on the outcome.
Protection of property is one of the weakest defences in the book, for good reason.
So, Texas Instruments, if you're lurking, please get to work on a 1080p version of your HD3 DLP chip.
Bah!
1080p chips will need to interpolate 720p broadcasts, and they will look crappy. You have three standards that matter in HDTV (there are more, but only three are actively being used):
EDTV, 480p: Most stuff produced pre-HDTV get shown as this, and the TV networks are trying to convince us this is "HDTV" so they can create multiple chennels on each slice of the spectrum. Bad networks!
720p: Most sports are broadcast like this, because the progressive image handles rapid movements far better. Sports are what is really driving HDTV's, because nobody has step up to offer HDTV porn, and do you really want them to?
1080i: Those gorgeous landscapes PBS etc broadcast are likely done in this, since there is about 1/3 more vertical data. But fast movement gets motion blur as the odd lines out show the old location, and the new lines show the new locale. Icky.
So let me know when they introduce a 2160p panel. Light three pixels for 720p, two for 1080i, (or better yet, line double the resolution up). The tech exists, and the panels aren't that big a part of the expense...
4. Everybody who says they would never buy one of the current Macs, but would buy this one for $500 out of impulse, is a damn liar. You can already buy a headless G4 Mac for under $600. Just go to eBay and buy an old G4 tower from about two years ago. Hell, for that matter, you can buy an old G3 tower which will run OS X just fine for about $300. Add a $100 CPU upgrade, and there's your G4 right there.
But I want a "Cube", and they are still selling for "much bucks". I'm hoping this thing will be a new cube, or at least something I wouldn't be embarassed to have on my desk, unlike the current eMac. And being able to plug it in to my KVM> Bonus. I'll hide it behind my desk and tell my boss its the new Blue Man Group Linux...
This thing ain't no workstation. Most likely its a "Media Center" with PC capabilities, a place to centralize all your iPod songs, load your iPod, browse the web, edit a document in Office:Mac 2004, sync your cell phone via Bluetooth, etc. So few people really need the heavy lifting of a 3+ Ghz computer.
Heck, the lack of constant spyware invasions are enough to make me think I'd be ahead of the game replacing a few relatives PC's. Those 3-hour spyware removal missions get annoying every three months
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MS has a newsgroup for this purpose. Yeah its lame, but its findable and web accessible.
Fun bug: Put your task bar on the side of the screen (I keep mine there hidden but wide, when it pops out, lots of tasks are very readable). Now write a batch script and try to run it. A popup is triggered asking if you really want to do that, problem is it "scrolls" into the screen, but since there's no task bar in the way it keeps scrolling right off the screen! So you can't run your script and you can't clear the popup, which remains in highest in your - list till you reboot :)
Mmmm, Microsoft goodness
Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP Pro both run fine on a Dual Xeon P4 w/ HT enabled. Task Manager sees 4 CPU's as expected. Pre-SP4 systems might complain because they are unaware of Hyperthreading, but I think MS had not really gone into the overkill mode that highlight XP. Prior to XP they were pretty trusting of folks, license limits were managed via trust. In other words is an 11th client tried to connect it worked, instead of rejecting you with a nasty message about how you need to upgrade to server edition.
Back in the olden days, there was this thing called QuickDraw.
You're forgeting your history. On the original MacOS, there was a thing called QuickDraw. The Steve Jobs left Apple and founded Next, whose graphics Subsystem was based on a thing called "Display Postscript". MacOS X has at its core NextOS. Part of the transition from NextOS to MacOS X was extending Display Postscript to embrace the PDF extension. However, due to licensing disagreements with Adobe, this was dropped and the system was re-written in a unencumbered manner. One of many reasons Rhapsody/MacOS X was late.
Implying Quartz is an outgrowth of Quickdraw or has nothing to do with Postscript/PDF is Completely false; though I''ll bow to your knowledge of how to program in the two.
Isn't it a Sci-Fi rule that every series that lasts more than 3 seasons needs an Alien Nazi? The Original Series definately had them...
Anyone know if that sort of tech is really in use? I know CSI is infamous for insane tech, but that usually in the crime solving, not in the day to day stuff. Just Curious...
Choose your response:
That's Disgusting!
They have a word for those pilots; fired.
Your answer here
The invisible had has the uncanny ability to "bitchslap" the unaware; the sting comes quicker in these days when information is so readily available. An independant insurance agent (ie, not Geico, State Farm, or other agent with an exclusive arrangement) can now bring up 5 or more quotes different insurers afetr entering the information; its simple enough for him to drop firms that are way out of spec.
A well known "Bitchslap":
Beer company A decides to save a bit on an ingredient; ony 1 in 50 drinkers can tell the difference; they'll make money even if that one stops drinking. As a result, that one tells his 5 freinds of the change, who tell 5 other freinds. Within months, Beer company A has the 4th most popular beer in America. Shame it was number 1 when they made the change...
Do not mock the invisible hand. If it doesn't respond the way you expect, its likely you have misunderstood your market...
So now I'm happily using a DirecTiVo and a 1.5/384 DSL line; and I receive monthly come on's from the fools asking me back...
We've been rebuilding our infrastructure, and discovered the Dell 2650's have a built in "Dell Remote Access Console" which actually gives VNC access to whatevers on the screen. I can powercycle remotely, update BIOS settings, etc. Very cool. I still have a KVM solution in place, but use it less and less.
Why did you enter the apartment and erase his hard drive and remove 275 lbs of material?
I'm sorry, officer, I had "Porn Buddy" duty. If you want to look at the 275 lbs its in my "Porn Wing" now...
Why I'm sure some folks were, given the big change in focus, but its very common in corporate renaming to run both names for a while. Its so people understand "its the same product, new name". Otherwise folks would be calling their cable companies complaining that they want their TechTV channel back, and to dump that new G4 channel.
A six figure salary and a supercomputer? Re-watch the end of "Catch Me if You Can"; he'll get a low-grade government salary, half of what the guy whose paid to watch everything he does gets, he won't be allowed computers at home, not even a game console or Internet enabled refrigerator. If he objects, the government will just re-instate those other 999 charges, which he's probably waived his rights to the statute of limitations, meaning they can charge him in 15 years if they so choose. When its all done, he'll get a questionable recommendation and a small government pension.
Woohoo!, where do I sign up!
Umm, sorta...
The anti-fraud halted the theft after three days, in that time he bought a lot stuff (>$1000). Since they have identified the charges as fraud, they'll not pay the charges, meaning the stores that sold the DVD's get shafted for the payments. They might get their merchandise back, but it will be open, used, worth a fraction of it value. Fortunately, in this case most went to bills that weren't going to get paid anyway...
He was harping about now finally Mac users can use two button mice, as if it were never an option before. Either he was clueless about the Macs evolution over the past 15 years, or he was trolling. I made no statement about the superiority and/or inferiority of Apple'd decision or of 1 (apple), 2 (Microsoft), 3 (Unix), or even 4 (my own choice at the time, which was overkill) button mice.
Oh well, fanatics will be fanatics...
Yeah, thats it, anyone with a different perspective is a fanatic. Or is it because I used a Mac 9 years ago? Just beause some people who use/used the Mac are fanatics doesn't mean everybody is.
Oh well, A--hats will be A--hats...
I had a 4 button mouse on my Mac 9 years ago, this isn't even slightly new. The key is that the Mac is still oriented towards a 1 button interface.
Oh well, trolls will be trolls...
Britney Spears has a new album!?!? P2P, here I come!
That's the problem. Native resolution on the Cinema HD is 1200 veritical pixels, 120 too many. So you can either sacrafice 10% of the screen and run it natively, or you can interpolate those 1080 pixels onto those 1200, so about half the native pixels are actually showing two "blended" pixels. The quality of the resulting image can vary considerably. You would think the result might be better with 720p, where every signal pixel is stretched accross 1.65 native pixels, but again, the quality of the resulting image can vary considerably.
But you just changed the crime from defending your property to defending your family, unless you consider them to be your property (and certainly many early cultures used this convenience). Defence of life is a very strong defence, you can get away with a lot using it. They key is to stop once the threat ended. Its very hard to defend dismembering a corpse and trying to burn the remains as "self-defense", though its been tried.
And its not the current culture, its the current RIGHT, an important distinction. But take away that right, and you open a whole other can of worms. I hit you on the head with a bat and knock you out while your robbing my house, fine. If I continue to beat you with said bat until you need dialysis for life and can no longer use your higher brain functions, is that fine? If I come a group of Neo-Cons^H^H^HNazis not wearing their costumes and the 10 of them say I tried to rob them with the gun they planted on me, and I to sit peacefully in jail knowing my lack of protection keeps innocents from being inconveinenced?
Protection of ones property is not a blank check to mayhem. Walk next door and kill the kid whose been spraying herbicide on your hydranga's and you'll get the chair. Take his barrel of herbicide away and you go to jail for stealing. Put a beartrap in your back lawn to protect it and you'll get locked in jail. Throw a fence around it and you might have a case. Put up a "Danger: Keep out" sign and you'll likely be ok, though I'd still no place a bet on the outcome.
Protection of property is one of the weakest defences in the book, for good reason.
Bah!
1080p chips will need to interpolate 720p broadcasts, and they will look crappy. You have three standards that matter in HDTV (there are more, but only three are actively being used):
EDTV, 480p: Most stuff produced pre-HDTV get shown as this, and the TV networks are trying to convince us this is "HDTV" so they can create multiple chennels on each slice of the spectrum. Bad networks!
720p: Most sports are broadcast like this, because the progressive image handles rapid movements far better. Sports are what is really driving HDTV's, because nobody has step up to offer HDTV porn, and do you really want them to?
1080i: Those gorgeous landscapes PBS etc broadcast are likely done in this, since there is about 1/3 more vertical data. But fast movement gets motion blur as the odd lines out show the old location, and the new lines show the new locale. Icky.
So let me know when they introduce a 2160p panel. Light three pixels for 720p, two for 1080i, (or better yet, line double the resolution up). The tech exists, and the panels aren't that big a part of the expense...
I think its a measure of the true utility of the article. People are actually reading the article BEFORE posting, a rarity on Slashdot...
But I want a "Cube", and they are still selling for "much bucks". I'm hoping this thing will be a new cube, or at least something I wouldn't be embarassed to have on my desk, unlike the current eMac. And being able to plug it in to my KVM> Bonus. I'll hide it behind my desk and tell my boss its the new Blue Man Group Linux...
This thing ain't no workstation. Most likely its a "Media Center" with PC capabilities, a place to centralize all your iPod songs, load your iPod, browse the web, edit a document in Office:Mac 2004, sync your cell phone via Bluetooth, etc. So few people really need the heavy lifting of a 3+ Ghz computer.
Heck, the lack of constant spyware invasions are enough to make me think I'd be ahead of the game replacing a few relatives PC's. Those 3-hour spyware removal missions get annoying every three months
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