A P4-1.7ghz machine will peak (at boot) at 110w. While idling (most of the time) 60w. With powersaving, as little as 35w. I'd expect an old 486 to use considerably less than that, too.
Please calm down. If you'll note, he posted at 5:14PM. I posted at 5:16PM. When I first loaded the page, he hadn't even posted yet. Therefore, I never saw his comment.
... and then spend another $500-$1500 upgrading every 2-3 years because you're not happy that you can't play the lastest big and bloated games for the PC, whereas in 3 years time you would still be able to enjoy your "$150 toy"?
the WB is Warner-Brothers' American television network. It is available over-the-air in most areas; I get it here in Ontario via Buffalo.
It's main block of programming is basically crappy teen and family shows (Smallville, Everwood, 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls..) with the same, crappy recycled plots.
(After previewing I just noticed that you are Canadian as well and have a telus address.. this may explain things a bit better since it is only available through super-high-end premium cable where I am or by regular broadcast from buffalo, new york.)
Well, my 350mhz x86 (Pentium 2) is fast enough to play up to about 512x384x30fps at 1300kbps DivX/XviD video, so I'd think it likely that this handheld could.
For anyone who wants a good example of this, try using Plucker on the commandline with plucker-build:
plucker-build --pluckerdir=/tmp --doc-name="CafeteriaMenu"--doc-file=Menu --home-url="http://www.foo.com/cafe/weeklymenu.htm l" --maxdepth=1--bpp=0 --altmaxheight=100 --altmaxdepth=100 --zlib-compression --backup.. there's no good reason why this can't easily be done with a few mouseclicks.
Otherwise though, I do most of my config by editing text files.
NTSC is roughly 720 (this is the number people will argue over)x480 interlaced. I don't know what either of you are smoking, but any standard CRT TV will display 480 lines vertically. It has to, or do something else with the 480 lines of picture it is recieving (240 lines each field or half-frame). Therefore, on a full-screen DVD you are guaranteed to see 480 interlaced lines of vertical resolution, and a varying number horizontally, depending on the quality of the set.
Now, the widescreen DVDs are normally anamorphic, meaning the DVD player decides how to output the image. This image may vary well be 200-300 lines tall (not counting black bars) when output from the DVD player, as it is reducing the resolution vertically to show the movie at the correct ratio.
If you have a set capable of showing it, however, you will be able to see the full 480 lines of resolution (or close to it.. the DVD player will still have to reduce the vertical resolution slightly because the two film formats are slightly to a fair bit narrower than 16:9).
I've noticed a lot of newer 4:3 sets have a "16:9" feature (my JVC TV has this). This is how it works: You set your DVD player as if you have a 16:9 TV. The image you will get out of the DVD player will be less compressed vertically (higher resolution), but will look stretched on a 4:3 TV. Activating the 16:9 mode will adjust the TV so that it only scans in the area a 16:9 image takes up and squeezes the 480 lines of resolution into that space by reducing the distance between each line. This way, you get a higher quality picture.
That's why DVDs are encoded that way. (Sorry if that was a bit of a tangent.. my main point is above).
For the most part, yes, sound effects are recorded for each movie.
HOWEVER, am I the only one that notices that damn vault-door squeaking sound effect everywhere? It gets used in so many movies, it drives me up the wall.. for example... in Die Another Day.. near the beginning in a section with Tan Sun Moon. Somebody opens a door and you hear the sound effect (I don't know why they used THAT one.. it seems out of place..)
I have two theories as to why people have difficulty with the 'any' key.
First off, when you are talking to someone over the phone and tell them to "just press any key", I believe they parse that as "just press the NE key", since they are expecting some sort of jargon that they know they won't understand.
Now, obviously, this falls apart when they can't figure out the any key in a written instruction. In those cases, I guess people just read too much into it.
Right.. shift, because it's a modifier key and doesn't do anything by itself. Escape always seemed to work for me. (Not a modifier) So, to confuse things further, "Push any non-modifier key."
Don't worry.. I'm sure Microsoft will be making Longhorn nice and bloaty so you'll need at least 2.8ghz and 512mb of RAM to get the damn thing to boot in under 5 minutes..
It was big news a year or two ago.. a lot of ATMs and servers running Microsoft SQL Server (!!!) were brought down by Slammer (I believe), making it impossible or very difficult to get cash.
I'm afraid your post is a little inaccurate. Valve did a GREAT job with Half-Life and so it is playable on my P166 with NO hardware accelleration. I can get 15-20fps at 320x240 on it.
I'm afraid it's not that great a deal.. about CDN$29.99 for 10 kilobyte/second service from Roger's Cable, where I am. Considering you can get 1.5mbit DSL service for ~CDN$35, it's a bit of a ripoff.
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A P4-1.7ghz machine will peak (at boot) at 110w. While idling (most of the time) 60w. With powersaving, as little as 35w. I'd expect an old 486 to use considerably less than that, too.
Oh. Hmm. Maybe they implenented that in Award BIOS v6.. the latest on my machines is v4.51..
Summary: It was a coincidence.
Whose (what company's) BIOS is this? In my experience, neither Phoenix, AMI or Award BIOSes allow this, and those are the big 3.
... and then spend another $500-$1500 upgrading every 2-3 years because you're not happy that you can't play the lastest big and bloated games for the PC, whereas in 3 years time you would still be able to enjoy your "$150 toy"?
For everyone sake (and to preserve everyone's sanity) I certainly hope this isn't like RMS's free software song!
It's main block of programming is basically crappy teen and family shows (Smallville, Everwood, 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls..) with the same, crappy recycled plots.
(After previewing I just noticed that you are Canadian as well and have a telus address.. this may explain things a bit better since it is only available through super-high-end premium cable where I am or by regular broadcast from buffalo, new york.)
Well, we've got a whole province of francophones, so it's almost the same thing..
Well, my 350mhz x86 (Pentium 2) is fast enough to play up to about 512x384x30fps at 1300kbps DivX/XviD video, so I'd think it likely that this handheld could.
Great. So we've gone from "X open" to "you green"?
For anyone who wants a good example of this, try using Plucker on the commandline with plucker-build:
m l" --maxdepth=1--bpp=0 --altmaxheight=100 --altmaxdepth=100 --zlib-compression --backup .. there's no good reason why this can't easily be done with a few mouseclicks.
plucker-build --pluckerdir=/tmp --doc-name="CafeteriaMenu"--doc-file=Menu --home-url="http://www.foo.com/cafe/weeklymenu.ht
Otherwise though, I do most of my config by editing text files.
Now, the widescreen DVDs are normally anamorphic, meaning the DVD player decides how to output the image. This image may vary well be 200-300 lines tall (not counting black bars) when output from the DVD player, as it is reducing the resolution vertically to show the movie at the correct ratio.
If you have a set capable of showing it, however, you will be able to see the full 480 lines of resolution (or close to it.. the DVD player will still have to reduce the vertical resolution slightly because the two film formats are slightly to a fair bit narrower than 16:9).
I've noticed a lot of newer 4:3 sets have a "16:9" feature (my JVC TV has this). This is how it works: You set your DVD player as if you have a 16:9 TV. The image you will get out of the DVD player will be less compressed vertically (higher resolution), but will look stretched on a 4:3 TV. Activating the 16:9 mode will adjust the TV so that it only scans in the area a 16:9 image takes up and squeezes the 480 lines of resolution into that space by reducing the distance between each line. This way, you get a higher quality picture.
That's why DVDs are encoded that way. (Sorry if that was a bit of a tangent.. my main point is above).
It's highly inconvenient..
HOWEVER, am I the only one that notices that damn vault-door squeaking sound effect everywhere? It gets used in so many movies, it drives me up the wall.. for example... in Die Another Day.. near the beginning in a section with Tan Sun Moon. Somebody opens a door and you hear the sound effect (I don't know why they used THAT one.. it seems out of place..)
I have a single entry called "Shortcut keys on the desktop" in the windows 98se helpfile that says this. Only reference.
I'd think it would be to their benefit to get as many platforms as possible supported so they can popularize the iTMS.
First off, when you are talking to someone over the phone and tell them to "just press any key", I believe they parse that as "just press the NE key", since they are expecting some sort of jargon that they know they won't understand.
Now, obviously, this falls apart when they can't figure out the any key in a written instruction. In those cases, I guess people just read too much into it.
Just in case anyone is wondering.. I think Lispy means Linux but there actually is a Lunix for the C64/128.
Right.. shift, because it's a modifier key and doesn't do anything by itself. Escape always seemed to work for me. (Not a modifier) So, to confuse things further, "Push any non-modifier key."
Don't worry.. I'm sure Microsoft will be making Longhorn nice and bloaty so you'll need at least 2.8ghz and 512mb of RAM to get the damn thing to boot in under 5 minutes..
Weren't they supposed to stop bundling products?
It was big news a year or two ago.. a lot of ATMs and servers running Microsoft SQL Server (!!!) were brought down by Slammer (I believe), making it impossible or very difficult to get cash.
Come on.. do you really need a photo editor on your handheld?
I'm afraid your post is a little inaccurate. Valve did a GREAT job with Half-Life and so it is playable on my P166 with NO hardware accelleration. I can get 15-20fps at 320x240 on it.
I'm afraid it's not that great a deal.. about CDN$29.99 for 10 kilobyte/second service from Roger's Cable, where I am. Considering you can get 1.5mbit DSL service for ~CDN$35, it's a bit of a ripoff.