No Alpha, no high-end PPC:/ (Power and weird Sun/Fujitsu chips still there. And yeah, I do understand that you mean AMD64 compatible processors. Maybe one day.)
But if it was all the new formats, would it be possible to solve your issue by using a software player? As in a PC with sound card (with multiple analogue outputs in that case.)
Or are there no such software?
Does any blu-ray players offer all the decoding on board?
No cheap home cinema receivers offer line-outs on all channels I assume?
Suck that a standalone decoder / DA converters will have to cost much more than a integrated device with more functionality.
Maybe you should start making them yourself and sell them to other audiophiles (if you use high-end DA converters at least.)
Your amplifier can't decode DTS? Or is it stereo? If it's stereo I don't see why the number of channels matters. If it's not stereo I wonder why it doesn't decode DTS itself. Is it some ProLogic equipment? Expensive (but old) gear?
Personally I wouldn't buy a DVD player today in the first place, but regardless I'd rather have my decoders in the receiver (if it's not the very last ones I don't know if it matters that much, don't know how big noticeable gain there is of using any of the newer ones (if the movies at least also supply some backwards compatible or old format.))
I'm foreign (to you) and all our films suck way beyond anything American.
British and German TV may be OK, don't know, got some German news in the morning (DW, no BCC or CNN.)
Top Gear, Scrapheap challenge, (Married with children, How I meet your mother) are all nice.
As far as TV shows goes I suppose the national ones may be very good, especially comedies, but maybe because that's because those are the ones I like to see.
Anyway, low budget, low ideas, low standard, government subsidized socialist movies aren't the best either..
Anyway, if he don't like it don't watch it. Very easy to avoid:)
Yeah, a much more likely factor for this is that the gods has probably moved to the other side of the pond and hence only notice the gifts over there and brings back plenty of fish for the people to feed on until the crops are ready.
Muslims only want to.. uhm, scrap that, are supposed to only marry Muslims (or atleast the women? Or something such?)
For everyone else of us there's always the option to not breed with another religious being. And hence try to evolve into a world without them.
Sadly considering the amount of religious people the odds may be in favor of the opposite reaction.
Personally I don't have to care for or live by any such rules or ideas. It's meaningless, avid Slashdot reader as I am and for a whole bunch of other reasons breeding and evolving is out of the question for me.
More Muslims, less me. Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
Under those circumstances, the LAST thing you need is a finicky, brittle abstraction layer standing between you and the bare metal to introduce even MORE opportunities for it to not work.
The hardware levels are all OK, but what about the guy at the other end from the RS-232?
MeeGo 1.1 was released 28 October. MeeGo 1.2 is scheduled for release in April 2011 and will have all applications.
I don't know where that puts a handset but I'm not convinced it's anytime soon.
There is a convention 15th November or something such, maybe we'll know more by then.
Also Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 doesn't really seem to exist as such any more. It's supposed to be one steady flow of improvements of whatever your phones runs ATM instead.
2000 SEK used here in Sweden, warranty replaced so as new I assume.
I don't really need a new phone but it cost 3995 SEK new in store, which I think is to much considering the age and that I assume MeeGo will take some time and not run well very soon.
Still atleast it would be modern. And quality hardware I assume.
Yeah, I want a phone which is open for the _USER_.
Would be a treat if Nokia would had let the user download all software source code (except maybe some proprietary modules/applications instead provided as binaries), download it, build it into an OS installation (call it firmware if you want to) for your phone with a supplied tool, re-flash your phone (closed binaries thrown into the image at your choice) and of you go.
Since that would let me: 1) Always upgrade, stock, wait for no-one. 2) Apply patches/hacks made by someone else. 3) Write them myself if I could.
Android seem to mostly be open to the manufacturers of the phones. Sure, great for them, modify and tweak it anyway they want, sell the phone. They get a nice base, Google get the consumers data. Win for everyone, except the consumer...
I want something starting from the opposite direction:)
A photo taken in a public park is not "owned" by anyone. The light bouncing off your body is the common property of all.
Bullshit, atleast here in Sweden.
The photo is never the property of the subject, not inside your home either, unless you paid for it. The property is always that of the photographer. Whatever on or inside public or private property.
Here in Sweden more or less the only thing you're not allowed to take photos of is "Skyddsobjekt" - areas such as military objects, eventually infrastructurly important objects and such.
And I could shoot photos of your private property and get away with it. If you asked me to leave your property you would have had the right to do so and I have to leave, but you can't for instance enforce some removal of the photos.
Anyone using an Apple has enough extra money to waste it on hipster cred.
Somewhat correlated though anyone using Apple seem to be happy to pay more than necessary, so why offer them lower rates? It's not like price matters for them anyway.
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Compare that to the DS ;)
Maybe in the ARM vs Atom championships?
No Alpha, no high-end PPC :/ (Power and weird Sun/Fujitsu chips still there. And yeah, I do understand that you mean AMD64 compatible processors. Maybe one day.)
I agree with this statement, this is indeed the birth of new opportunity - A new technology to replace Java...
You know a product is dead when even Microsoft offering is better.
But if it was all the new formats, would it be possible to solve your issue by using a software player? As in a PC with sound card (with multiple analogue outputs in that case.)
Or are there no such software?
Does any blu-ray players offer all the decoding on board?
No cheap home cinema receivers offer line-outs on all channels I assume?
Suck that a standalone decoder / DA converters will have to cost much more than a integrated device with more functionality.
Maybe you should start making them yourself and sell them to other audiophiles (if you use high-end DA converters at least.)
What's your point?
Your amplifier can't decode DTS? Or is it stereo? If it's stereo I don't see why the number of channels matters. If it's not stereo I wonder why it doesn't decode DTS itself. Is it some ProLogic equipment? Expensive (but old) gear?
Personally I wouldn't buy a DVD player today in the first place, but regardless I'd rather have my decoders in the receiver (if it's not the very last ones I don't know if it matters that much, don't know how big noticeable gain there is of using any of the newer ones (if the movies at least also supply some backwards compatible or old format.))
If you're serious about quality, you should be renting the actual film from the studio!
FTFY.
Being a cinematophile will be so much more expensive than a vinyl head :D
I'm foreign (to you) and all our films suck way beyond anything American.
British and German TV may be OK, don't know, got some German news in the morning (DW, no BCC or CNN.)
Top Gear, Scrapheap challenge, (Married with children, How I meet your mother) are all nice.
As far as TV shows goes I suppose the national ones may be very good, especially comedies, but maybe because that's because those are the ones I like to see.
Anyway, low budget, low ideas, low standard, government subsidized socialist movies aren't the best either ..
Anyway, if he don't like it don't watch it. Very easy to avoid :)
Yeah, a much more likely factor for this is that the gods has probably moved to the other side of the pond and hence only notice the gifts over there and brings back plenty of fish for the people to feed on until the crops are ready.
It does.
Muslims only want to.. uhm, scrap that, are supposed to only marry Muslims (or atleast the women? Or something such?)
For everyone else of us there's always the option to not breed with another religious being. And hence try to evolve into a world without them.
Sadly considering the amount of religious people the odds may be in favor of the opposite reaction.
Personally I don't have to care for or live by any such rules or ideas. It's meaningless, avid Slashdot reader as I am and for a whole bunch of other reasons breeding and evolving is out of the question for me.
More Muslims, less me. Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
Under those circumstances, the LAST thing you need is a finicky, brittle abstraction layer standing between you and the bare metal to introduce even MORE opportunities for it to not work.
The hardware levels are all OK, but what about the guy at the other end from the RS-232?
The size of the extra hardware was mostly their stupid "let's bring all the pins out on a card"-card.
I'm sure it could be shrunk by a factor of 30 or something such.
People seem to be OK with an Apple-only phone.
Who knows what will happen with Symbian and MeeGo.
Anyway, I think there was a Pre2/WebOS2 on its way?
http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre2/index.html
Is probably sweet.
Back in the days where a phone where just a phone it would had been a non-issue. Now when it's a computer compatibility matters more.
We'll, as long as I can't get the source code (and actually modify it IMHO, though it may not be there by definition), I wouldn't call it open.
Or well, maybe open but locked down?
Still suck =P
MeeGo 1.1 was released 28 October.
MeeGo 1.2 is scheduled for release in April 2011 and will have all applications.
I don't know where that puts a handset but I'm not convinced it's anytime soon.
There is a convention 15th November or something such, maybe we'll know more by then.
Also Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 doesn't really seem to exist as such any more. It's supposed to be one steady flow of improvements of whatever your phones runs ATM instead.
2000 SEK used here in Sweden, warranty replaced so as new I assume.
I don't really need a new phone but it cost 3995 SEK new in store, which I think is to much considering the age and that I assume MeeGo will take some time and not run well very soon.
Still atleast it would be modern. And quality hardware I assume.
But you will be laughed upon for not buying IBM. .. wait...
Yeah, I want a phone which is open for the _USER_.
Would be a treat if Nokia would had let the user download all software source code (except maybe some proprietary modules/applications instead provided as binaries), download it, build it into an OS installation (call it firmware if you want to) for your phone with a supplied tool, re-flash your phone (closed binaries thrown into the image at your choice) and of you go.
Since that would let me:
1) Always upgrade, stock, wait for no-one.
2) Apply patches/hacks made by someone else.
3) Write them myself if I could.
Android seem to mostly be open to the manufacturers of the phones. Sure, great for them, modify and tweak it anyway they want, sell the phone. They get a nice base, Google get the consumers data. Win for everyone, except the consumer ...
I want something starting from the opposite direction :)
Yeah, I know. But MeeGo 1.2 is supposed to be released in april 2011 so it's a long wait. How long for the actual phones to arrive?
Maybe I should look for a used N900.
And where's the loss?
"OMG I WANTED MY CAR ON GOOGLE STREET VIEW TEH HORRORZ!"? :D
omgusingsoymanycapsisliketotallytehyellingaccorindto/.
Here in Sweden no-one would be allowed to publish photos where you're identifiable without asking for permission first.
In reality most people won't ask their friends if it's ok, but they should.
If nothing else at least maybe let people remove the tags or photos they don't want to be part of.
A photo taken in a public park is not "owned" by anyone. The light bouncing off your body is the common property of all.
Bullshit, atleast here in Sweden.
The photo is never the property of the subject, not inside your home either, unless you paid for it. The property is always that of the photographer. Whatever on or inside public or private property.
Here in Sweden more or less the only thing you're not allowed to take photos of is "Skyddsobjekt" - areas such as military objects, eventually infrastructurly important objects and such.
And I could shoot photos of your private property and get away with it. If you asked me to leave your property you would have had the right to do so and I have to leave, but you can't for instance enforce some removal of the photos.
But if you had RTFA you would had known this was indoor light simulating sun light.
Use the blinds and keep your turtles and cars outside and everything will be fine.
But pirates > ninjas.
Just Google for it, clearly Google search robots must get the best rates so that more people will follow the links.
Anyone using an Apple has enough extra money to waste it on hipster cred.
Somewhat correlated though anyone using Apple seem to be happy to pay more than necessary, so why offer them lower rates? It's not like price matters for them anyway.
Give them black boxes of high quality paper, brochures, glossy prints, gold lines and they will be happy to pay anything you ask.