Even if they do have what I need, it's usually hideously overpriced. I've given up on Radio Shack (or The Source or whatever it's called now) for my parts. As nice as it is to be able to get things from a brick-and-mortar (since I'm very impatient), I've found that using http://www.digikey.com/ is just better all-around.
He gets offtopic too? Not all slashdot discussions confine themselves to only the immediate topic discussed in the article. I'd say by the third post, we've got a legitimate discussion going. Pfft.
What registry entry is that? I'd love to be able to spin down my disk (laptop w/ 1.5GB) occasionally while in Windows. Something always seems to be swapping.
I got an XBox 360 and a brand new HDTV. I retire the XBox, plug everything in and play. The next day I get home later than my girlfriend, who is staring unhappily at the new set up. She plaintively asks why DOAX isn't working on the 360? She likes collecting bathing suits. I check the list. It's not there.
Now, she paid for the HDTV too. DOAX looks all pretty-like in HD. I've only got two component inputs. So I've had to move my PS2 (making a moot point of my $35 component cables) onto an S-Video feed (I still cry at night over the loss of Shadow of the Colossus in progressive scan) and have the XBox consume precious HDTV inputs for the sole purpose of running DOAX.
"If Radiohead really wanted you to listen to the whole album, they'd make it one long track."
I've got it! If they pull their CDs off shelves and replace them with cassettes, they can legitimately claim that the one-song buying technique on iTMS is fucking them over! After all, you could argue that tracks on a CD are just convenient markers to which your player can jump, like chapters on DVDs, and not an indicator of what consitutes a complete work.
"It is relatively painless to convert existing DVDs to the PSP's format and load them onto a memory stick."
I've found this to be particularly painFUL. I've actually never gone DVD -> PSP mostly because PSP Video 9 (the only software whose videos my PSP seems willing to play) can't go straight from a DVD. I realize I probably have to rip/decrypt VOBs to my HDD or something and then encode those through PSP Video 9, but that doesn't seem painless to me.
Do you have an elegant, 1-step solution for doing this? I don't mind waiting for a video encode, but I do mind it requiring a lot of my attention.
Just in case you're interested, you can pop open the.vmx file for your virtual machine and add the following line:
svga.vramSize = "67108864"
That'll give you a 64 Meg card. Just enter any number in bytes to get whatever amount of video RAM you want.
For the curious, you can also add
mks.enabled3d = "TRUE"
and enable (very) basic 3D support. I mean basic though. I think the spinning cube in dxdiag works, but that's about it. Anyway, VMWare is a bit more video-capable than it seems, but you do have to change a couple configuration items.
True, and they could have mentioned that during the games test if they included the N64. However, for the test where the systems are simply at dashboard, none of them are spinning a game disc, so the N64 would fit right in. I'd be interested in how the PS1 compared to its largest contemporary....
Although, did the N64 even *have* a dashboard? I can't remember.
"They found it 2,256 meters below the ocean floor." (emphasis mine)
I dunno about you, but to my knowledge things that sink in the ocean don't usually sink beyond the bottom. That said, this could be an unbelievably dense knucklebone, in which case you're absolutely correct.
"Look carefully at VMware or Xen, and you'll notice that the "video card" inside the guest OS is a very barebones VESA card with minimal hardware accelleration features, and no hardware-accellerated GL/D3D at all."
Strictly speaking this isn't true. VMWare 5.5 has (albeit very basic) 3D acceleration, and it is getting better with time. It's been awhile since I screwed around with it (enabling Aero Glass in a Vista beta was a total no-go) but when running XP as the guest OS I could run the basic DirectX spinning cube test in dxdiag, IIRC.
For those interested, it's pretty easy to set up.
Most interplanetary vehicles are absolutely tiny. They are also lightweight. Increasing the diameter of the receiver and adding mirrors and lenses would drastically increase the mass of the craft, let alone the size. Doing that when a solution like this is available would be an almost criminal waste of space/weight on the spacecraft.
Yeah, seriously. Can we (the Slashdot community) officially retire the term 'killer' and replace it with 'competitor'? It is possible for multiple manufacturers and products to exist in a market space simultaneously. Competition is good! We don't need or want new products to kill anything.
You probably wouldn't have to recode very much for DOA: Extreme Ping Pong. I mean, the er.. important portions of the physics engine code base are already done, right?
You're absolutely right about AU innovating and attracting new customers. A good example:
A parent I was chatting with the other day was saying that she is going to drop DoCoMo for her entire family and switch them all to AU, because AU has special plans for pre-paid phones for kids that include, among other things, GPS trackers.
DoCoMo, on the other hand, is about to terminate their one-way, pager style cellular position trackers and go to GPS phones only for kids. They refuse to offer a kids pay-as-you-go plan because they will, of course, make a mountain of money off eight year olds who don't know how to limit their usage. DoCoMo is trying to cash in on the paranoia of parents with this one, and AU is going to undercut them in what is becoming a very large market (i.e. GPS phones).
You're certainly correct about that - whenever I need a bizarre connector, box or even chip at a moment's notice I can get it as long as I'm willing to drive a bit. However I find these days that I'm more likely to decide to take a break, have a beer and visit Digikey.
If Radioshack goes under, you'll still be able to get all sorts of weird parts at relatively short notice (albeit not immediately).
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Even if they do have what I need, it's usually hideously overpriced. I've given up on Radio Shack (or The Source or whatever it's called now) for my parts. As nice as it is to be able to get things from a brick-and-mortar (since I'm very impatient), I've found that using http://www.digikey.com/ is just better all-around.
He gets offtopic too? Not all slashdot discussions confine themselves to only the immediate topic discussed in the article. I'd say by the third post, we've got a legitimate discussion going. Pfft.
"I googled for it and now I do."
Yeah but you didn't tell us what you found out in your post. If you had, I would've made some dynamite jokes out senators' computer knowledge.
What registry entry is that? I'd love to be able to spin down my disk (laptop w/ 1.5GB) occasionally while in Windows. Something always seems to be swapping.
Haha. Redundant.
I'm not really sure it's possible for the first thing said in a discussion to be "redundant".
Weee! Now I'm going to get an "offtopic". Sweet.
I got an XBox 360 and a brand new HDTV. I retire the XBox, plug everything in and play. The next day I get home later than my girlfriend, who is staring unhappily at the new set up. She plaintively asks why DOAX isn't working on the 360? She likes collecting bathing suits. I check the list. It's not there.
Now, she paid for the HDTV too. DOAX looks all pretty-like in HD. I've only got two component inputs. So I've had to move my PS2 (making a moot point of my $35 component cables) onto an S-Video feed (I still cry at night over the loss of Shadow of the Colossus in progressive scan) and have the XBox consume precious HDTV inputs for the sole purpose of running DOAX.
Tragedy.
"If Radiohead really wanted you to listen to the whole album, they'd make it one long track." I've got it! If they pull their CDs off shelves and replace them with cassettes, they can legitimately claim that the one-song buying technique on iTMS is fucking them over! After all, you could argue that tracks on a CD are just convenient markers to which your player can jump, like chapters on DVDs, and not an indicator of what consitutes a complete work.
Give it a rest.
"It is relatively painless to convert existing DVDs to the PSP's format and load them onto a memory stick."
I've found this to be particularly painFUL. I've actually never gone DVD -> PSP mostly because PSP Video 9 (the only software whose videos my PSP seems willing to play) can't go straight from a DVD. I realize I probably have to rip/decrypt VOBs to my HDD or something and then encode those through PSP Video 9, but that doesn't seem painless to me.
Do you have an elegant, 1-step solution for doing this? I don't mind waiting for a video encode, but I do mind it requiring a lot of my attention.
Help!
Sorry, not mks.enabled3d, just mks.enable3d.
Just in case you're interested, you can pop open the .vmx file for your virtual machine and add the following line:
svga.vramSize = "67108864"
That'll give you a 64 Meg card. Just enter any number in bytes to get whatever amount of video RAM you want.
For the curious, you can also add
mks.enabled3d = "TRUE"
and enable (very) basic 3D support. I mean basic though. I think the spinning cube in dxdiag works, but that's about it. Anyway, VMWare is a bit more video-capable than it seems, but you do have to change a couple configuration items.
Moore's law predicts transistor density, not clock speed. The law is pretty much holding up, for now.
Am I the only one who doesn't at all understand what the summary says?
True, and they could have mentioned that during the games test if they included the N64. However, for the test where the systems are simply at dashboard, none of them are spinning a game disc, so the N64 would fit right in. I'd be interested in how the PS1 compared to its largest contemporary. ...
Although, did the N64 even *have* a dashboard? I can't remember.
To say "that damned president" couldn't act before 2005 is to say that Sneakers is not in every way a perfect movie!
Isn't that forbidden under the Slashdot ToS or something?
"They found it 2,256 meters below the ocean floor." (emphasis mine) I dunno about you, but to my knowledge things that sink in the ocean don't usually sink beyond the bottom. That said, this could be an unbelievably dense knucklebone, in which case you're absolutely correct.
I think you meant 'ur'
"Look carefully at VMware or Xen, and you'll notice that the "video card" inside the guest OS is a very barebones VESA card with minimal hardware accelleration features, and no hardware-accellerated GL/D3D at all." Strictly speaking this isn't true. VMWare 5.5 has (albeit very basic) 3D acceleration, and it is getting better with time. It's been awhile since I screwed around with it (enabling Aero Glass in a Vista beta was a total no-go) but when running XP as the guest OS I could run the basic DirectX spinning cube test in dxdiag, IIRC. For those interested, it's pretty easy to set up.
Most interplanetary vehicles are absolutely tiny. They are also lightweight. Increasing the diameter of the receiver and adding mirrors and lenses would drastically increase the mass of the craft, let alone the size. Doing that when a solution like this is available would be an almost criminal waste of space/weight on the spacecraft.
Well, yeah, but theoretically every company wants that.
Yeah, seriously. Can we (the Slashdot community) officially retire the term 'killer' and replace it with 'competitor'? It is possible for multiple manufacturers and products to exist in a market space simultaneously. Competition is good! We don't need or want new products to kill anything.
You probably wouldn't have to recode very much for DOA: Extreme Ping Pong. I mean, the er.. important portions of the physics engine code base are already done, right?
You're absolutely right about AU innovating and attracting new customers. A good example:
A parent I was chatting with the other day was saying that she is going to drop DoCoMo for her entire family and switch them all to AU, because AU has special plans for pre-paid phones for kids that include, among other things, GPS trackers.
DoCoMo, on the other hand, is about to terminate their one-way, pager style cellular position trackers and go to GPS phones only for kids. They refuse to offer a kids pay-as-you-go plan because they will, of course, make a mountain of money off eight year olds who don't know how to limit their usage. DoCoMo is trying to cash in on the paranoia of parents with this one, and AU is going to undercut them in what is becoming a very large market (i.e. GPS phones).
If Radioshack goes under, you'll still be able to get all sorts of weird parts at relatively short notice (albeit not immediately).
You, sir, are absolutely correct.