Since you haven't used the program (or taken the 10 seconds to read its website) you probably should not have commented. It is no where near as intitive as iMovie. However, iMovie is no where as powerful as Cinelerra.
Cinelerra is meant for people who know exactly what they want. Personally I find it a little too cumbersome most of the time. I prefer Adobe Premiere. However, if I'm not in a hurry I'll sit down and use Cinelerra instead. Sometimes the pain of copying a couple gigs of DV-AVI from my Linux computer to my windows laptop outweighs the learning curve of Cinelerra.
I own the machine for a variety of reasons. Not watching commercials is not why I ran out to purcahse one. Personally I travel a great deal. When I do get home, I like to be able to watch the TV shows I missed while I was gone. Sure I could that with a VCR, but it would be a pain. (of course the VCR also lets me skip commercials, but its not why I bought it a long time ago.) TiVo makes it simple to do that. When I'm home on Thursday night and Friends is coming on, I don't wait for it to be over. I watch it live. Most people are not going to waste 30 minutes of their life so that they can watch 20 minutes of TV by skipping commericals.
If TV show producers would make shows so interesting to watch that I would always want to see it ASAP (aka Live), then I wouldn't have an oppertunity to skip commericals.
Its not as if Nielson is going to base ALL of their statistical data on the TiVo's viewer's habits. The percentage of TiVo viewers is very small. However, we are real people and so it simply broadens their sample with little effort on their part.
Careful. The cartridges included with HP printers are only filled half way.
And your point is what? It doesn't matter if the carts are filled half-way or filled entirely. When they run out you are still going to have to drop $50+ to replace them. So why bother buying full carts for over $50 when you can simply buy an entire printer for $50? I'd rather just keep replacing my printer. Personally I (and I suspect many people) don't print enough that it makes a difference how full the carts are. I pratically have to buy new ones everytime I need to print something since the ink has dried up.
Also, has ANYONE ever seen a Itanium system? I thought not.
I have. Quite often. I have worked with both Merced and McKinley systems. The company I work for sells the logic analyzers and probes for them. I support those products.
They all but give them away, hoping to make their money back on expensive cartridges.
Exactly. So if you can find a color inkjet for $49.95, buy a couple of them. If its $24.95 for the black cartridge and $34.95 for the color cart, then you'll be saving money. Not to mention the fact being a cheap low-end printer its probably better to replace it every couple of months anyway.
I'm really not sure where your concern is... If you are a credit card fraud victim, it doesn't matter if its a perfect digital signature or if its a handwritten one. You report both instances to your credit card company. I'm pretty sure they would clue-in if they noticed that all of a sudden you went on a $10,000 shopping spree and digitally signed your receipts exactly the same way every single time. (Again this is if you report it.) BFD, with these devices you can get a perfect digital signature. Well last time I checked, we are not digital machines. We are incapable of doing anything perfectly the same twice--including signing our name.
I would be more concerned with the fact that these stores store our credit card NUMBERS, or when you order something over the phone (who knows if they aren't writing it down while typing it in?), or the clueless SSL "secure" websites that email you a confirmation with your CC number. Oops. I probably just gave you some more reasons to add a 3rd lock to your windowless house.
.. but he said that using a cell phone while going down I-70 wouldn't be a smart idea. He made it sound like it wasn't safe... but apparently using IRC while driving is...
At first I thought "what a complete waste. Cool, but useless." Then I realized, it has a very good practical use. It would be ideal for viewing training videos. The test equipment I work with is pretty complex. It'd be nice to have a small display that you could easily move around while you're watching. If your computer (laptop or desktop) is on your desk, and your equipment is in a lab, this would be much easier to move around. Just a thought before everyone says "stupid idea." (makes you wonder... posting a message saying "lame" or doing something cool but preceived as lame. I wonder which is actually useless.)
I guess I'm kind of curious if there are games you want to see with dual head support. Personally when I play a game, I play it because I enjoy it. Not because there are specific features in it.
So my question is, what games would you LIKE to see dual-head support in? I think the obivous have been stated... but that being the case, if you could have it, where would you want it?
Starbucks can neither press charges nor get their employees thrown into jail. A common misconception is that any average joe can "press charges" like on TV and in movies. What Starbucks can do is sue its employees for violating their employement contract which I am sure prevents employees from engaging in this type of act. SB would then have to present this case to the local District Attorney who would determine if 1) a criminal law has been violated and 2) said law requires "pressing charges."
In any event SB would spend very little time getting them put into jail. They would spend a considerable amount of money working with the DA's office to provide them with the evidence to convict the employees. Instead, SB would probably rather sue them. This would look good in a lawsuit from the company's box who has been hacked. It would solidify the point that SB did not condone the actions of its employees (even though they may be held responsible for them.)
Remember that there is a huge difference between criminal and civil laws.
(Kind of the way I would not do hydrodynamic modelling to build a rowboat.)
Yes your are right. You probably wouldn't do hyrodynamic modelling. However, I'll bet you would at least throw the boat into your pool to make sure it floats. This guy doesn't really seem interested in doing even that step.
Okay so maybe they do have a significant amount of inventory that they need to move. The hardware group would be crazy not to still be enganged in R&D operations. Maybe this Palm is simply going to end up as a marketing prototype. Palm will get a market group together and see what their comments are on it. There are always products that companies engineer and do not release. It is very possible we might not see this one, but instead one similar to it.
According to VW's site the TDI Manual only gets 49 MPG on the highway. Here is the link to the link to the specs. While the Civic Hybrid is rated at 51 MPG on the highway. The link (pdf) to the Civic's specs is here. Neither of these compare to Insight which gets 68 MPG, according to edmund's listed specs.
Now I'm not sure how you can say that the TDI has the best mileage for any vehicle that uses fossil fuel, when, it does not get the best mileage.
It should also be noted that the Jetta TDI burns diseal fuel instead of Unleaded gasoline. I do not, however, remember if diseal or unleaded burns cleaner.
" an application that runs on modded Xboxes and is completeley legal"
I'm pretty sure the EULA for the XBox hardware states that you can not modify it and that you can only run authorized applications (games) on it. That being the case, how is this "completely legal"? It seems to me that in order to be completely legal, the software would have to have the proper license from Microsoft in order to run.
In that case www.advantech.com is really good. They have an online store for just that case. I found when I was looking for a SBC in situations where there were no prices online, a simple email worked. I would explain I'm looking at doing a school project (of course now I'd say personal project) and only require 1 unit. This allowed some grunt (or sales rep) to fire back a simple email. If the sales rep wanted to waste time on me, they now had the option to do so.
The best case was when I was looking to purchase a touchscreen. Elo didn't really have an online order method, but I interacted with a sales rep via email. Then when it was time to make payment, she gave me a call.
I do not know what kind of performance you are looking for, but a SBC might work for you. They typically have high end 486's or low end 586's running on them. I have a 586 with LAN, 1 channel IDE, VGA and LCD controller, serial, parallel, and a single SIMM slot that fits in the size of a 3.5" hard drive. (Though it isn't as thick). Some offer DOC has an option so you can boot entirely out of flash memory. Here's some links
www.advantech.com (where I bought mine)
www.embeddedx86.com
www.emacinc.com
www.linuxdevices.com (they have a list of different SBCs)
I think the term DC-DC inverter is misleading. Anything that does DC-DC conversion is a regulator. Linear regulators consume power like there is no tomorrow. They also produce a sizable amount of heat (imagine that.)
You are assuming that all timing in a system is dependent on the CPU's clock. This usually isn't the case. Most real-time dependant applications rely on another clock to 'keep time' for them. This enables games, for example, to run at any given CPU speeds and have similiar performance. Of course actual game speed would depend on if instructions are executed fast enough. (If your RTC is ticking away at 1ms and it takes a slower processor 3ms to finish its last instruction set, then you are going to see significant slowdowns.)
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they've got tons of stuff for the DVD now!
Yeah because if Paramount has shown anything, it just loves to pack extras into their Star Trek DVDs.
All I remember is... "Whoa! The Power Glove!!"
Since you haven't used the program (or taken the 10 seconds to read its website) you probably should not have commented. It is no where near as intitive as iMovie. However, iMovie is no where as powerful as Cinelerra.
Cinelerra is meant for people who know exactly what they want. Personally I find it a little too cumbersome most of the time. I prefer Adobe Premiere. However, if I'm not in a hurry I'll sit down and use Cinelerra instead. Sometimes the pain of copying a couple gigs of DV-AVI from my Linux computer to my windows laptop outweighs the learning curve of Cinelerra.
Why else would you own one of these machines?
I own the machine for a variety of reasons. Not watching commercials is not why I ran out to purcahse one. Personally I travel a great deal. When I do get home, I like to be able to watch the TV shows I missed while I was gone. Sure I could that with a VCR, but it would be a pain. (of course the VCR also lets me skip commercials, but its not why I bought it a long time ago.) TiVo makes it simple to do that. When I'm home on Thursday night and Friends is coming on, I don't wait for it to be over. I watch it live. Most people are not going to waste 30 minutes of their life so that they can watch 20 minutes of TV by skipping commericals.
If TV show producers would make shows so interesting to watch that I would always want to see it ASAP (aka Live), then I wouldn't have an oppertunity to skip commericals.
Its not as if Nielson is going to base ALL of their statistical data on the TiVo's viewer's habits. The percentage of TiVo viewers is very small. However, we are real people and so it simply broadens their sample with little effort on their part.
I believe the stipulation was "FREE" games. Most of the ROMs used by MAME are copyrighted and are NOT free.
Careful. The cartridges included with HP printers are only filled half way.
And your point is what? It doesn't matter if the carts are filled half-way or filled entirely. When they run out you are still going to have to drop $50+ to replace them. So why bother buying full carts for over $50 when you can simply buy an entire printer for $50? I'd rather just keep replacing my printer. Personally I (and I suspect many people) don't print enough that it makes a difference how full the carts are. I pratically have to buy new ones everytime I need to print something since the ink has dried up.
Also, has ANYONE ever seen a Itanium system? I thought not.
I have. Quite often. I have worked with both Merced and McKinley systems. The company I work for sells the logic analyzers and probes for them. I support those products.
They all but give them away, hoping to make their money back on expensive cartridges.
Exactly. So if you can find a color inkjet for $49.95, buy a couple of them. If its $24.95 for the black cartridge and $34.95 for the color cart, then you'll be saving money. Not to mention the fact being a cheap low-end printer its probably better to replace it every couple of months anyway.
I'm really not sure where your concern is... If you are a credit card fraud victim, it doesn't matter if its a perfect digital signature or if its a handwritten one. You report both instances to your credit card company. I'm pretty sure they would clue-in if they noticed that all of a sudden you went on a $10,000 shopping spree and digitally signed your receipts exactly the same way every single time. (Again this is if you report it.) BFD, with these devices you can get a perfect digital signature. Well last time I checked, we are not digital machines. We are incapable of doing anything perfectly the same twice--including signing our name.
I would be more concerned with the fact that these stores store our credit card NUMBERS, or when you order something over the phone (who knows if they aren't writing it down while typing it in?), or the clueless SSL "secure" websites that email you a confirmation with your CC number. Oops. I probably just gave you some more reasons to add a 3rd lock to your windowless house.
.. but he said that using a cell phone while going down I-70 wouldn't be a smart idea. He made it sound like it wasn't safe... but apparently using IRC while driving is...
At first I thought "what a complete waste. Cool, but useless." Then I realized, it has a very good practical use. It would be ideal for viewing training videos. The test equipment I work with is pretty complex. It'd be nice to have a small display that you could easily move around while you're watching. If your computer (laptop or desktop) is on your desk, and your equipment is in a lab, this would be much easier to move around. Just a thought before everyone says "stupid idea." (makes you wonder... posting a message saying "lame" or doing something cool but preceived as lame. I wonder which is actually useless.)
I guess I'm kind of curious if there are games you want to see with dual head support. Personally when I play a game, I play it because I enjoy it. Not because there are specific features in it.
So my question is, what games would you LIKE to see dual-head support in? I think the obivous have been stated... but that being the case, if you could have it, where would you want it?
Starbucks can neither press charges nor get their employees thrown into jail. A common misconception is that any average joe can "press charges" like on TV and in movies. What Starbucks can do is sue its employees for violating their employement contract which I am sure prevents employees from engaging in this type of act. SB would then have to present this case to the local District Attorney who would determine if 1) a criminal law has been violated and 2) said law requires "pressing charges."
In any event SB would spend very little time getting them put into jail. They would spend a considerable amount of money working with the DA's office to provide them with the evidence to convict the employees. Instead, SB would probably rather sue them. This would look good in a lawsuit from the company's box who has been hacked. It would solidify the point that SB did not condone the actions of its employees (even though they may be held responsible for them.)
Remember that there is a huge difference between criminal and civil laws.
(Kind of the way I would not do hydrodynamic modelling to build a rowboat.)
Yes your are right. You probably wouldn't do hyrodynamic modelling. However, I'll bet you would at least throw the boat into your pool to make sure it floats. This guy doesn't really seem interested in doing even that step.
Okay so maybe they do have a significant amount of inventory that they need to move. The hardware group would be crazy not to still be enganged in R&D operations. Maybe this Palm is simply going to end up as a marketing prototype. Palm will get a market group together and see what their comments are on it. There are always products that companies engineer and do not release. It is very possible we might not see this one, but instead one similar to it.
it could be my crap-a-rific ie6 browser though thats making a mistake. i know its bad, no need to tell me.
So then why are you using it?
According to VW's site the TDI Manual only gets 49 MPG on the highway. Here is the link to the link to the specs. While the Civic Hybrid is rated at 51 MPG on the highway. The link (pdf) to the Civic's specs is here. Neither of these compare to Insight which gets 68 MPG, according to edmund's listed specs.
Now I'm not sure how you can say that the TDI has the best mileage for any vehicle that uses fossil fuel, when, it does not get the best mileage.
It should also be noted that the Jetta TDI burns diseal fuel instead of Unleaded gasoline. I do not, however, remember if diseal or unleaded burns cleaner.
" an application that runs on modded Xboxes and is completeley legal"
I'm pretty sure the EULA for the XBox hardware states that you can not modify it and that you can only run authorized applications (games) on it. That being the case, how is this "completely legal"? It seems to me that in order to be completely legal, the software would have to have the proper license from Microsoft in order to run.
In that case www.advantech.com is really good. They have an online store for just that case. I found when I was looking for a SBC in situations where there were no prices online, a simple email worked. I would explain I'm looking at doing a school project (of course now I'd say personal project) and only require 1 unit. This allowed some grunt (or sales rep) to fire back a simple email. If the sales rep wanted to waste time on me, they now had the option to do so.
The best case was when I was looking to purchase a touchscreen. Elo didn't really have an online order method, but I interacted with a sales rep via email. Then when it was time to make payment, she gave me a call.
I do not know what kind of performance you are looking for, but a SBC might work for you. They typically have high end 486's or low end 586's running on them. I have a 586 with LAN, 1 channel IDE, VGA and LCD controller, serial, parallel, and a single SIMM slot that fits in the size of a 3.5" hard drive. (Though it isn't as thick). Some offer DOC has an option so you can boot entirely out of flash memory. Here's some links
www.advantech.com (where I bought mine)
www.embeddedx86.com
www.emacinc.com
www.linuxdevices.com (they have a list of different SBCs)
It all depends on the group you're reading. alt.rec.videogames.playstation2 is full of them. While, sci.electronics.*, isn't.
but also probably has the lowest number of readers. >
Not only that but the lowest number of susceptiable readers. Nowadays very few stupid people know about USENET or how to use it.
er then do you mean regulators?
I think the term DC-DC inverter is misleading. Anything that does DC-DC conversion is a regulator. Linear regulators consume power like there is no tomorrow. They also produce a sizable amount of heat (imagine that.)
Here is the Press Release from AMD.
You are assuming that all timing in a system is dependent on the CPU's clock. This usually isn't the case. Most real-time dependant applications rely on another clock to 'keep time' for them. This enables games, for example, to run at any given CPU speeds and have similiar performance. Of course actual game speed would depend on if instructions are executed fast enough. (If your RTC is ticking away at 1ms and it takes a slower processor 3ms to finish its last instruction set, then you are going to see significant slowdowns.)