"Standard TV", at least NTSC analog, is 720x480 interlaced. Realistically, an s-video connection with a good TV can resolve ~400 lines of resolution.
Close but no cigar, NTSC standard is 640x480 a DV tape for a digital camera records 720x480 and looses some of its data when it becomes analog.
DV PAL is 720x540, this is stupid because "true" PAL is 768x576 analog, so a DV video camera never records at full res.
to cover the US (unscientifically a zillion times the size) it would take Zillion x X cellstations and it will cover all N Million Americans
In Australia we have 3G networks in all of the capital cities (bar one).
You don't HAVE to instantly have access in every part of the country.
3G internet access rocks BTW.
Firewire is all well and good, indeed it's certainly the highest performance consumer level external drive interface (a nice sucessor to SCSI now that it's more or less dead).
But it's been a real pain to get working on linux, I bought an external firewire drive because I wanted to backup my data/wipe HDD/install linux, but my plan was foiled when I found linux does not yet have drivers for the SiS firewire chipset on my Alienware laptop.
Take a look at the linux firewire page and look at all the crap you have to do to get things working!
If I had to do it over I'd just use Hi-Speed USB even though it's slower than firewire.
You know the ones... You misstype the address for one of your regular sites (or possibly a site out of a computer magazine thats three years old). And you get a generic page with info on "www.whateveryoutypedin.com".
When you close the window you're asked if you'd like to set your homepage to www.searching.net?
Yeah right...
If Firefox could communicate with a central server and look for similarities of pages like this and when it hits a page like this it just has a simple message that this website has been hijacked, that would be handy. (and would protect dumb users).
Wow there is so much wrong with your post I don't know where to start.
So, they put WiFi on a ship... When they're out at sea they still have no access
Not true, Greenpeace has previously used wireless connections between aircraft and boats to send compressed video of "actions" down to the ship to be sent via their sattelite connection to media outlets.
and when they park their boat at whatever place they decide they're going to protest next, hopefully someone will just have a big antenna pointing out into the middle of the ocean to give them access?? Seems far fetched and stupid to me.
How many ports that they goto will they be in range of a WiFi accesspoint? I would say most - since they often stop at major cities.
Besides all of my dislike of greenpeace this just seems pointless (like most of what greenpeace does). Why doesn't greenpeace use all their man hours of volunteer work to try to create technology that supports their movement?
Greenpeace's mission statement defines them as an organisation focused on exposing global enviormental problems.
A technology company they aint. And anyway do you really think that a large number of people would continue to donate money to them if they stopped being such a visibly campaining organization?
Heck, they could sell that boat (I bet they'd fetch at least 10-15 million for it), take that cash and buy a bunch of solar panels, take their volunteers, buy some land in the desert somewhere, and build a solar generation plant... Then wow they've got renewable revenue, proving their point, and making money to support more renewable power generation elsewhere... But wait that would be capitalist and thats bad (to them..) so they'll just continue with their eco-terror tactics and hope someone starts taking them seriously.
Solar power plants are not financially viable... Look it up.
Greenpeace does not use "eco-terror tactics" it ONLY uses non-violent direct action.
In conclusion - don't confuse Greenpeace with other eviro organisations.
No, in 95/98, all they needed to do was click escape at the login box
While that's true, it's important to remember that if you did choose cancel on the login box you would loose access to all network resources (not just the ones that you need a password for).
EQ LANs my friend throws
Everquest LANs!?!? Is there such a thing as a everquest server emulator? Or does your friend just share his broadband connection with his friends when they come over?
Woha! I just had this image in my head like a cabbagepatch kids(tm) field full of little nerd heads with little shirt pen holders.
Man I gotta get some sleep - 24hrs without sleep does funny things to your imagination.:-\
And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd love a 2-way or 4-way Efficeon SMP motherboard. It would always be snappy and responsive, would have plenty of power for my day-to-day tasks, and could still be really quiet or (I hope) totally silent.
You've just described my dream workstation! I wish it made economic sense to produce a product like that...
Wow that brought back memories. There was a copy of AOL for PC GEOS that came pre-installed on my 286 (1992). I often wondered what would happen if I tried to connect for trial period:)
(Unfortunatley since I was in Australia there was no AOL connections available until the internet days).
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Look I detest stupid users as much as the next person, but come on! If you want Graphic artists to use this and make it popular you have to make it easy for them. Not because they are dumb, but because they have a different speciality to you.
(I'd like to see you create a stylish piece of artwork in Quark/Illistrator/Photoshop, it's a real skill - that's why they get paid decent amounts of money).
I can purchase Fallout 2 instead, and there is some price sensitivity there. However, I would not necessarily purchase Fallout 2 over Diablo if Fallout was $10 less. Game companies run the demand curve, and price their games accordingly - $50.
$50? I should be so lucky! I went out and paid $99.95 for Battlefield Vietnam on the day it came out from an EBgames store here in Sydney.
Even with the current exchange rate (AU0.78==US$1.00) that's just unfair.
I acctually did this once, I thought it would be cool to work out the exact amount of time it would take to blow up and then do it for a couple of seconds less every time.
Super convienient hard boiled eggs!
Unfortunatly on my first attempt I discovered what a mess it made and abandoned the project... (who whoulda thunk it!?)
It was acctually on the last second of the pre-set time I had given it which made it quite dis-hartening to hear a -BANG- and then immediately a BEEEEP of the microwave having finished.
Now, people look at the law as a neverending set of snares that can catch even the most "upright" among us, for things that no one in their right mind considers an actual crime
Ned Flanders is an excellent example of how ridiculous things have become, you have to be insanely pedantic to avoid breaking any law.
Oh...my...god I can't believe this got moderated up Interesting, perhaps this is flamebait?
I have mod points but instead of modding you down I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and try and explain to you.
We are not talking about faster CPU's, we are talking about new 64bit architectures!
That means:
- More memory can be accessed by the OS
- More executions can be done in parallel
- More bandwidth is available
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"Standard TV", at least NTSC analog, is 720x480 interlaced. Realistically, an s-video connection with a good TV can resolve ~400 lines of resolution.
Close but no cigar, NTSC standard is 640x480 a DV tape for a digital camera records 720x480 and looses some of its data when it becomes analog.
DV PAL is 720x540, this is stupid because "true" PAL is 768x576 analog, so a DV video camera never records at full res.
I remember when you could map a drive from Windows to \\ftp.microsoft.com\data
Really? What was in there?
to cover the US (unscientifically a zillion times the size) it would take Zillion x X cellstations and it will cover all N Million Americans
In Australia we have 3G networks in all of the capital cities (bar one).
You don't HAVE to instantly have access in every part of the country.
3G internet access rocks BTW.
Ha ha! Now I just need to rush out and patent the name "Magnetic Silly Putty" and the world will be mine...all mine!!
/too much caffine...
Most people who would steal a laptop wouldn't be smart enough to change it
You can change a MAC address? I thought it was in the firmware of the network card?
Firewire is all well and good, indeed it's certainly the highest performance consumer level external drive interface (a nice sucessor to SCSI now that it's more or less dead).
But it's been a real pain to get working on linux, I bought an external firewire drive because I wanted to backup my data/wipe HDD/install linux, but my plan was foiled when I found linux does not yet have drivers for the SiS firewire chipset on my Alienware laptop.
Take a look at the linux firewire page and look at all the crap you have to do to get things working!
If I had to do it over I'd just use Hi-Speed USB even though it's slower than firewire.
I run Windows, get over it
:)
Yes you do, the dreamcast runs on Windows CE (look at the frount of your DC
You know the ones... You misstype the address for one of your regular sites (or possibly a site out of a computer magazine thats three years old). And you get a generic page with info on "www.whateveryoutypedin.com".
When you close the window you're asked if you'd like to set your homepage to www.searching.net?
Yeah right...
If Firefox could communicate with a central server and look for similarities of pages like this and when it hits a page like this it just has a simple message that this website has been hijacked, that would be handy. (and would protect dumb users).
Be sure to change it to a readable set of fonts first...non-anti-aliased text in PDFs is just plain ugly.
You can't choose weather or not text in a PDF file is anti-aliased when viewed - that is determined by the client reader.
Wow there is so much wrong with your post I don't know where to start.
So, they put WiFi on a ship... When they're out at sea they still have no access
Not true, Greenpeace has previously used wireless connections between aircraft and boats to send compressed video of "actions" down to the ship to be sent via their sattelite connection to media outlets.
and when they park their boat at whatever place they decide they're going to protest next, hopefully someone will just have a big antenna pointing out into the middle of the ocean to give them access?? Seems far fetched and stupid to me.
How many ports that they goto will they be in range of a WiFi accesspoint? I would say most - since they often stop at major cities.
Besides all of my dislike of greenpeace this just seems pointless (like most of what greenpeace does). Why doesn't greenpeace use all their man hours of volunteer work to try to create technology that supports their movement?
Greenpeace's mission statement defines them as an organisation focused on exposing global enviormental problems.
A technology company they aint. And anyway do you really think that a large number of people would continue to donate money to them if they stopped being such a visibly campaining organization?
Heck, they could sell that boat (I bet they'd fetch at least 10-15 million for it), take that cash and buy a bunch of solar panels, take their volunteers, buy some land in the desert somewhere, and build a solar generation plant... Then wow they've got renewable revenue, proving their point, and making money to support more renewable power generation elsewhere... But wait that would be capitalist and thats bad (to them..) so they'll just continue with their eco-terror tactics and hope someone starts taking them seriously.
Solar power plants are not financially viable... Look it up.
Greenpeace does not use "eco-terror tactics" it ONLY uses non-violent direct action.
In conclusion - don't confuse Greenpeace with other eviro organisations.
No, in 95/98, all they needed to do was click escape at the login box
While that's true, it's important to remember that if you did choose cancel on the login box you would loose access to all network resources (not just the ones that you need a password for).
I don't get your sig, isen't the "/" symbol either a door or an arrow? So if it's a door then there is no wall either side of it...
EQ LANs my friend throws
Everquest LANs!?!? Is there such a thing as a everquest server emulator? Or does your friend just share his broadband connection with his friends when they come over?
Young Nerdlings
:-\
Woha! I just had this image in my head like a cabbagepatch kids(tm) field full of little nerd heads with little shirt pen holders.
Man I gotta get some sleep - 24hrs without sleep does funny things to your imagination.
And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd love a 2-way or 4-way Efficeon SMP motherboard. It would always be snappy and responsive, would have plenty of power for my day-to-day tasks, and could still be really quiet or (I hope) totally silent.
You've just described my dream workstation! I wish it made economic sense to produce a product like that...
Wow that brought back memories. There was a copy of AOL for PC GEOS that came pre-installed on my 286 (1992). I often wondered what would happen if I tried to connect for trial period :)
(Unfortunatley since I was in Australia there was no AOL connections available until the internet days).
Look I detest stupid users as much as the next person, but come on! If you want Graphic artists to use this and make it popular you have to make it easy for them. Not because they are dumb, but because they have a different speciality to you.
(I'd like to see you create a stylish piece of artwork in Quark/Illistrator/Photoshop, it's a real skill - that's why they get paid decent amounts of money).
I can purchase Fallout 2 instead, and there is some price sensitivity there. However, I would not necessarily purchase Fallout 2 over Diablo if Fallout was $10 less. Game companies run the demand curve, and price their games accordingly - $50.
$50? I should be so lucky! I went out and paid $99.95 for Battlefield Vietnam on the day it came out from an EBgames store here in Sydney.
Even with the current exchange rate (AU0.78==US$1.00) that's just unfair.
You never know...The upcoming free-trade aggreement might cut both ways...
:)
(pardon the pun
I acctually did this once, I thought it would be cool to work out the exact amount of time it would take to blow up and then do it for a couple of seconds less every time.
Super convienient hard boiled eggs!
Unfortunatly on my first attempt I discovered what a mess it made and abandoned the project... (who whoulda thunk it!?)
It was acctually on the last second of the pre-set time I had given it which made it quite dis-hartening to hear a -BANG- and then immediately a BEEEEP of the microwave having finished.
Both of my flatmates allready have HDTV cards for watching TV. One of them is even running it with Linux (Nebula Digi-TV).
Now, people look at the law as a neverending set of snares that can catch even the most "upright" among us, for things that no one in their right mind considers an actual crime
Ned Flanders is an excellent example of how ridiculous things have become, you have to be insanely pedantic to avoid breaking any law.
Oh...my...god I can't believe this got moderated up Interesting, perhaps this is flamebait?
I have mod points but instead of modding you down I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and try and explain to you. We are not talking about faster CPU's, we are talking about new 64bit architectures!
That means:
- More memory can be accessed by the OS
- More executions can be done in parallel
- More bandwidth is available
Jeebus, this is slashdot!
BR
I'll have to remember that one...
...Very few really understand the limitations of floating point...
I am intrigued, could you recommend a ref that explains the issues with floating point calculations?