Microdrives make horrible hard drives. They are not meant for any real duty cycles. From what I have heard, if they are used as a real hard disk, they never last more than 2 months. Use a laptop hard drive, a nice 1.8" hard drive if you want to spend top dollar.
Yes, some people do. I have done a lot with TV tuner cards. A lot. I have 3 of them. Two of them are non-compressed cards. Tell me, how often do you record and edit home video as opposed to watching commercial tv programming. Although a non-compressed card has slight advantages some of the time, they are a pain to use for watching TV, because if you want to use features such as timeshifting or recording, it takes all of your processor power, and skips frames and acts sluggishly. MPEG is lossy, but it is also not 1 Gb per minute, which was the rate that my old uncompressed card recorded to my hard drive.
Also, the quality of the actual tuner will more than compensate for the quality loss of MPEG. Since most MPEG encoder cards are more expensive, they use better tuners. This means a better picture, better clearness and better color. Although this is reduced somewhat by the MPEG format, it can still approach DVD quality if you have a good digital cable or satilite connection.
Thats not exactly what I was talking about. I know an uncompressed signal will fit on USB 2.0 (if it didn't, would this article exist?). 302 Mbps adds up quite fast when recording to your hard disk. With my measily 200 GB storage drive, I could fit a couple of hours.
You know, using uncompressed video over USB just uses lots of bandwidth and processor power, both to encode the signal in software for PVR, and to control the USB bus. Sometimes a good MPEG2 codec can look great AND be used for PVR purposes without sending your P4 or Athalon XP to 100% usage and filling up your RAM and diskspace with gigantic uncompressed video. I had a card that used uncompressed video, and one with hardware compression, trust me, there is no compairison in terms of performace. My dream would be a USB tuner with a decent and flexable encoder chip, so that I could stream video as MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX or XviD.
Yes [gigle] the last word [stifled laugh] in filesystems [uproarious laughter]... No really, there is not ever (in the forseeable future) going to be a last word in file systems. Sure this is nice, but hey, it is part of Solarus, which has a market share so small that not even the Earth Simulator can hold it in memory.
Not completely true. Many cleaning alchahols are denatured, which is a chemical process which renders ethyl alchohol almost as toxic as methyl alchohol.
I met the designer of the Rhoomba, and had the pleasure of him explaining in detail the workings of that robotic vacuum cleaner. How one would put a webcam on it I do not know, because the device has only 256 BYTES of RAM. Thats right. The new models have more but I think that it is still too little. The only way he could get a webcam on one of those would be to velcro or duct tape a laptop with wireless card and webcam on top, which is not a hard engineering feat, plus it might make the device too heavy to do anything.
I don't think this is the best administration to be getting into politics in. I can see the headlines now:
After a visit from campaign officials from the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign, CmdrTaco was found by neighbors dead. Special investigators appointed by the president released a report saying that he has apparently accidentally slit both his wrists shaving, then fallen down an elevator shaft onto 6 bullets. The investigators concluded that he had commited suicide and ruled out foul play.
Possibly the interlace the 3 CCDs in hardware to create a frame that is full sized. Either that or a typo 1960 vs. 960. Given Sony's history (anyone remember that 3 year long typo saying NETMD players could "play" MP3's, WAV's, and WMA's?), I would not be in the least suprised.
I don't think that XM was providing an easy to hack device on purpose. I think it is just another example of corporate stupidity, like making the Radeon 9500 easy to hack into a 9700. Because it is there does not mean it was supposed to be there.
You don't understand, this picture IS FAKE! It has the words "FAKE" hidden in the blue channel of the image. It may be that the actual iMac may look something like this, but this is a hoax, and any future coincidence is completely random, the person who did this had more idea of what the new iMac would look like than me or CowboyNeil.
Yes..[supressed giggle]...Longhorn will be a...[barely contained laugh]...complete rewrite! I have some prime property in Florida to sell you, and I need your assistance in moving some money around in Algeria...
Ok...So, Longhorn in 2006. Let me get this strait:
Not WinFS
Avalon will be in Windows XP SP3 or SP4
Enhanced security is already in SP2
2006 is 3 years after the original date
So what is left in Longhorn, do you pay $200-$300 for a new Microsoft cardboard box, boot screen and color theme?
Well, if you do manage it, then come to my house and bang on the door until I come out. Here is my address:
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
District Of Columbia
Feel free to hop the fence and scream a lot, I don't mind. The men in black suits will take you to collect the money.
Tell you what; to get things moving, I will start a challenge: The first commercially viable space elevator constructed before August 28, 2005 at a height of more than 100 km will win $1000000 from me.
Microsoft will secretly turn Windows XP SP3 into subscription based software, which will conviently expire just when Longhorn comes out. The pricing at that point?
Windows Longhorn - $200
Extension for Windows XP - $250
Yeah, whats the deal? I have a 10 or 11 year old DEC Alpha running at 333 Mhz in my office. 64 bit hardware (many others besides the Alpha 21164 chips) and software (many besides True64 Unix) has been around. Take a look.
Mac OS X is not 64 bit, did you not hear? It just runs on G5s in 32 bit mode, with 64 bit memory addressing somewhat enabled. Apple has announced that there will not be a native 64 bit OS for several more years. Longhorn is "supposed" to be 64 bit native. It was also supposed to have new security functions, revolutionize GUIs, have the first practical database based filesystem, and dust your furniture while you are out of the house. It was also supposed to be out in 2003...;)
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Microdrives make horrible hard drives. They are not meant for any real duty cycles. From what I have heard, if they are used as a real hard disk, they never last more than 2 months. Use a laptop hard drive, a nice 1.8" hard drive if you want to spend top dollar.
Yes, some people do. I have done a lot with TV tuner cards. A lot. I have 3 of them. Two of them are non-compressed cards. Tell me, how often do you record and edit home video as opposed to watching commercial tv programming. Although a non-compressed card has slight advantages some of the time, they are a pain to use for watching TV, because if you want to use features such as timeshifting or recording, it takes all of your processor power, and skips frames and acts sluggishly. MPEG is lossy, but it is also not 1 Gb per minute, which was the rate that my old uncompressed card recorded to my hard drive.
Also, the quality of the actual tuner will more than compensate for the quality loss of MPEG. Since most MPEG encoder cards are more expensive, they use better tuners. This means a better picture, better clearness and better color. Although this is reduced somewhat by the MPEG format, it can still approach DVD quality if you have a good digital cable or satilite connection.
Thats not exactly what I was talking about. I know an uncompressed signal will fit on USB 2.0 (if it didn't, would this article exist?). 302 Mbps adds up quite fast when recording to your hard disk. With my measily 200 GB storage drive, I could fit a couple of hours.
You know, using uncompressed video over USB just uses lots of bandwidth and processor power, both to encode the signal in software for PVR, and to control the USB bus. Sometimes a good MPEG2 codec can look great AND be used for PVR purposes without sending your P4 or Athalon XP to 100% usage and filling up your RAM and diskspace with gigantic uncompressed video. I had a card that used uncompressed video, and one with hardware compression, trust me, there is no compairison in terms of performace. My dream would be a USB tuner with a decent and flexable encoder chip, so that I could stream video as MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX or XviD.
Yes [gigle] the last word [stifled laugh] in filesystems [uproarious laughter]... No really, there is not ever (in the forseeable future) going to be a last word in file systems. Sure this is nice, but hey, it is part of Solarus, which has a market share so small that not even the Earth Simulator can hold it in memory.
Not completely true. Many cleaning alchahols are denatured, which is a chemical process which renders ethyl alchohol almost as toxic as methyl alchohol.
I met the designer of the Rhoomba, and had the pleasure of him explaining in detail the workings of that robotic vacuum cleaner. How one would put a webcam on it I do not know, because the device has only 256 BYTES of RAM. Thats right. The new models have more but I think that it is still too little. The only way he could get a webcam on one of those would be to velcro or duct tape a laptop with wireless card and webcam on top, which is not a hard engineering feat, plus it might make the device too heavy to do anything.
I don't think this is the best administration to be getting into politics in. I can see the headlines now:
After a visit from campaign officials from the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign, CmdrTaco was found by neighbors dead. Special investigators appointed by the president released a report saying that he has apparently accidentally slit both his wrists shaving, then fallen down an elevator shaft onto 6 bullets. The investigators concluded that he had commited suicide and ruled out foul play.
Possibly the interlace the 3 CCDs in hardware to create a frame that is full sized. Either that or a typo 1960 vs. 960. Given Sony's history (anyone remember that 3 year long typo saying NETMD players could "play" MP3's, WAV's, and WMA's?), I would not be in the least suprised.
As long as I still need to haul them around to customers to boot off of, floppies will never die for me.
Libertarians - Party of parent poster.
I don't get what all the fuss is about, I have these things installed on at least a 12 future girlfriend's cars.
I don't think that XM was providing an easy to hack device on purpose. I think it is just another example of corporate stupidity, like making the Radeon 9500 easy to hack into a 9700. Because it is there does not mean it was supposed to be there.
You don't understand, this picture IS FAKE! It has the words "FAKE" hidden in the blue channel of the image. It may be that the actual iMac may look something like this, but this is a hoax, and any future coincidence is completely random, the person who did this had more idea of what the new iMac would look like than me or CowboyNeil.
Think they will have cathode ray lights in Blackcomb (Windows 2010)?
Yes..[supressed giggle]...Longhorn will be a...[barely contained laugh]...complete rewrite! I have some prime property in Florida to sell you, and I need your assistance in moving some money around in Algeria...
Ok...So, Longhorn in 2006. Let me get this strait: Not WinFS Avalon will be in Windows XP SP3 or SP4 Enhanced security is already in SP2 2006 is 3 years after the original date So what is left in Longhorn, do you pay $200-$300 for a new Microsoft cardboard box, boot screen and color theme?
Well, if you do manage it, then come to my house and bang on the door until I come out. Here is my address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue District Of Columbia Feel free to hop the fence and scream a lot, I don't mind. The men in black suits will take you to collect the money.
Why, so we can devote our spare cycles to helping people search for porn?
Tell you what; to get things moving, I will start a challenge: The first commercially viable space elevator constructed before August 28, 2005 at a height of more than 100 km will win $1000000 from me.
Microsoft will secretly turn Windows XP SP3 into subscription based software, which will conviently expire just when Longhorn comes out. The pricing at that point?
Windows Longhorn - $200 Extension for Windows XP - $250
Yeah, whats the deal? I have a 10 or 11 year old DEC Alpha running at 333 Mhz in my office. 64 bit hardware (many others besides the Alpha 21164 chips) and software (many besides True64 Unix) has been around. Take a look.
Mac OS X is not 64 bit, did you not hear? It just runs on G5s in 32 bit mode, with 64 bit memory addressing somewhat enabled. Apple has announced that there will not be a native 64 bit OS for several more years. Longhorn is "supposed" to be 64 bit native. It was also supposed to have new security functions, revolutionize GUIs, have the first practical database based filesystem, and dust your furniture while you are out of the house. It was also supposed to be out in 2003... ;)
A lava lamp as a warning light? I had a Tandy once that's processor was a lava lamp. I just it just goes to show what kind of progress is being made.
As a matter of fact, yes, I do take issue with "gigabit ethernet".
Sorry, I haven't had my nap OR my medicine today...