I have seen this on alot of gps, including my tomtom. The main issue I see is that usually GPS's dont understand that sometimes its quicker to go further and then turn around. An example of this is my exit home from the interstate. All GPS's tell me to get off an exit early and go through some local roads. The actual fast way is to go down one more exit, turn around and go backwards parallel to the interstate that I was just on and drive on a road for.5mi. I have seen this happen multiple times where gps's just refuse to understand that sometimes its faster to go down one more exit and turn around.
Yup, there were a bunch a long time ago, I used to order from them as well. The one I used the most was cheapbytes, http://www.cheapbytes.com/ , however there were a few other good ones too.
Just a question for ya. I have a 54gs buffalo at home, was wondering if you used the same or similar. Ive thought about moving to ddwrt or tomato but was never sure if it was worth it so I wanted to see if you had more detail on your experiences with it.
As I said above, Purdue doesn't have the ridiculous entrance essay requirement. What they do have however is multiple essays throughout the engineering stint there that check and make sure you can adequately convey a technical idea. Once a year or so in your generic engineering lecture you are given a technical topic and asked to write a few page essay explaining how something works, or some sort of process. This is expected to be read by someone slightly versed in the topic but not an expert, so the writer has to be able to condense information and explain it clearly without too much jargon unless necessary.
This to me would seem to be a much more valuable tool then asking a student to write 'what was your favorite summer vacation' or 'tell us about a life changing experience'. Generally the kids that wouldn't pass these essays were usually foreign and so it was not so much a lack of writing skill as a lack of understanding of the language and writing skills in English that would bring them down, and in those cases they had tutors that would help them the rest of the semester until they could write adequately.
This is exactly how Purdue does it. When I applied it was a single page application, that was it, no essays, no extra bullshit. If your scores showed you had the potential to succeed in the field you were interested in, you got in as long as there was room. They did early acceptance in September, which meant I got to sit around in senior high school english and sleep since that class was focused on writing your college entrance essays.
Most electronic musicians arent going to be using the built in sound cards as they are crap, but I know the external one I use, native instruments audio4, is supported by linux as is the whole audio line. The article does have the artists solution to all the complexities of linux audio, which basically boiled down to alsa and jack.
But why would I want to sell it after a year or two. So far its 2 years old and still plays every single new game that I would ever want to play with almost no reduction in quality. It chews through every professional audio application I throw at it. I really dont see a need to buy a new one for at least a few more years, and who would buy a 4-5 year old laptop no matter what brand it is.
I also dont understand the dell hate. Like I said I've been using it for 2 years just fine, even used it out in dj gigs so its not like its been packed away in a safe location, and yet I have never had a single hardware failure. Yet I know many people who have purchased macs around the same time I got my dell and they have all had some sort of failure that required apple to intervene and provide support. So while my experience amongst a few people is not the norm, just randomly hating on dell just because is also unfounded, along with the belief that apple has that much better reliability. In the same vein there was a recent story from a professional audio site about a performers switch to using a pc with ubuntu for all their work because they had gone through 2-3 mac book pros all having failures and were sick of it.
That may be true under the same circumstances, purchasing a pc with absolutely no discounts or freebies thrown in. If you are willing to wait you can purchase a pc with the exact same specs as an MBP for half the price. I did this 2 years ago when I bought my dell. It actually had better specs than the current gen MBP at the time with better graphics and a larger hard drive for half the price of the MBP. So no, it is not true that they cost the same. You just have to time your pc purchase correctly. During the holiday season they offered 400 off any laptop valued at 1100 or more, plus a 100 gift card on top of it. So let alone that the pc was already better than the MBP at 1400$, the extra 400 off really beat the mac.
+1 for rez, I hooked by dc back up again just to play that game. Its always a nice relaxing experience to zone out to. Then again they did port it to the ps2 and release for the 360, but since I own neither I stick to the DC.
Also another good one that was much less known was Cosmic Smash. Its like single player racquetball against blocks, its pretty damn fun
Same here. I have a feeling like alot of the linux users I also got my start on slack back in the 90's, but there seems to be a point when the majority of people realize its just far easier to use an apt/yum/etc solution and just not deal with the headaches anymore of package management and what not and just want their system to work and to be able to use it without having to deal with the headaches of just getting it running.
That may be true under normal circumstances but that leaves out the ability to wait and price shop for a deal. When I got my Dell I waited for a big sale and managed to get 600$ off my laptop and in the end my laptop, whose processor and basic specs were the exact same as the current MBP at the time cost HALF the price. Thats also not including the actual upgrade that I got with the dell which included a better dedicated graphics card and a larger hdd than the mbp. Thats half the price with better specs than the equivalent mbp. Maybe if apple started offering any discounts this could hold true but they barely have sales or what anyone would call sales in comparison to every other manufacturer.
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But they do take them from the front, I got a cam truck picture ticket that took it from the front, scared the crap out of me too, but there are places where they take them from the front.
No they dont, they only do it if it is required by their content providers which none of them do at this point. Macrovision support is generally required to be available at the disposal of a content provider but none use it. The only sort of protection currently mandated by any provider is by HBO and Cinemax who both mandate CGMSA. CGMSA is not widely accepted by alot of recorders, there are 2 standards and luckily the content providers happened to be stupid and chose the one that most recording devices in the USA do not abide by, there are some exceptions though and some do listen to both so you should check before purchasing.
Macrovision only works on 480i/p signals anyway, so on a component output in HD it doesnt matter. Cgmsa just runs over a specific vbi line in the signal, so that can be easily ignored if need be.
look at just about any high def satellite receiver, they all have component outputs that you can record to your burner with. You can even get one of those boxes that has ota input on it and record both sat and ota over the component output. Its only cable that really limits you with their crappy boxes
Here here. Not just the classic versions but I used to love buying those boxed sets too of 3-8 games or whatever that generally contained all of a companys good games from a few years back. Loved the lucasarts, ea, and westwood boxed sets. Cant beat that much entertainment for only 20$
There is still great value in knowing assembly, those thousands of embedded devices that come out each year have programmers behind them, and the majority knowing at least a little assembly gives them a much better idea of what is going on in the hardware and how they can speed things up. This is even if they dont write a single line of asm for the product at least they have a better idea of what instructions take longer on a certain architecture.
Completely agree. Id also suggest skiing/snowboarding if possible where you live. When I first moved out here (CO) after graduating I was definitely overweight, but with a diet change to just not eating complete crap all the time, and going boarding for 4-8 hours each weekend in the winter I managed to drop 50lbs in 6mo. Since then ive remained pretty stagnant but it is much harder to get myself to go to a gym even after making it a routine for a few weeks in a row. It is much easier to get up and do something you love to do outside then to try to fit into some routine of something you dont like.
Alot of what you posted sounds like stupid engineering mistakes. Most of it sounds like issues with CEC, which is the communication standard over HDMI that lets the products actually communicate with each besides using the tx/rx lines. If the dvr shuts off when the tv goes into power saving, that is a problem with the dvr and either how it handles cec, or just how it handles the lines going down on hdmi. The att/2wire engineers need to fix it. The other issue of switching to an hdmi device should be able to be solved by turned off CEC on your tv/receiver/whatever is doing the switching. Of course its not always called CEC and this was addressed at the plugfest back in the winter, trying to force manufacturers to call CEC what it is and not their own made up name of communication protocol.
Definitely agree with this. I have a few friends that actually left verizon due to their nazi tactics on their phone. They had preinstalled banners and color schemes that the user was just flat out not allowed to change without hacking it all up. Back then there wasnt much knowledge on getting into the razrs to do it either. So they all left and went to either att or sprint.
I have sprint and have never had any issues with them, also like the fact the phones are not really locked down at all, I can do pretty much whatever I want with mine. It also helps that a sprint plan compared to an att plan is almost 40/mo cheaper with a corporate discount that just about anyone working for a large corp can get, and thats just a regular talk+text plan
If you just want text only then there are plenty of free servers out there, just google for them. You can also use the google interface or any other number of free web interfaces. If you need binary access then Id suggest looking at either newshosting or usenetserver. I started out on newshosting and its pretty good all around, I just switched to usenetserver a year ago because their pricing for 3 months of service at a time was cheaper and they also had longer retention. Both support ssl at this point and I think they both have pretty much the same retention and speed as well. Either way those 2 are cheaper than most, though im not sure how good they are for posting, if your posting I think most use giganews or astraweb.
Just going by the specs on wikipedia for the wiz, the wiz is better in most aspects. It has a 533mhz proc vs. a 380-400mhz on the a320. 64mb ram vs. 32. The wiz also has a 3d accelerator and the a320 does not. On space the a320 has 4gb nand built in while the wiz only has 1gb, and both support some sort of expansion card. The wiz has an amoled screen while the a320 is just regular lcd, however they are both the same resolution. They both also have about the same battery life as well, the a320 may be a bit better since i have seen reports that it can last 8-9 hours, and thats not really holding back on doing anything, while the wiz only lasts 7 (going by wikipedia).
Of course the big difference is price, where the a320 is half the price of the wiz, for alot of people its actually in the range of not having to really think about it and its easy to splurge on it. The wiz on the other hand may make many people stop and think before buying since it is pricier.
It cant run mame yet, but zodttd who ported mame to the p2p and iphone has already been working on a direct port of it to the original shipped OS. No doubt if/when linux becomes more stable a mame port will be very easy as well. Personally I went with one of these, half the price of a wiz, smaller form factor (it actually fits in your pocket). I dont regret it at all since it plays pretty much everything out of the box as well as most videos without having to re-encode them.
The buttons really arent clicky at all. Most of the videos of these that make a clicking sound are just because the sound recorded from a mic sucks. I own one and have been working on making a uclibc toolchain for this so the porting efforts can more smoothly and make more efficient compiled code. It is very very good build quality. Most of those chinese products are pretty shoddy but this feels very solid in your hands.
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I have seen this on alot of gps, including my tomtom. The main issue I see is that usually GPS's dont understand that sometimes its quicker to go further and then turn around. An example of this is my exit home from the interstate. All GPS's tell me to get off an exit early and go through some local roads. The actual fast way is to go down one more exit, turn around and go backwards parallel to the interstate that I was just on and drive on a road for .5mi. I have seen this happen multiple times where gps's just refuse to understand that sometimes its faster to go down one more exit and turn around.
Yup, there were a bunch a long time ago, I used to order from them as well. The one I used the most was cheapbytes, http://www.cheapbytes.com/ , however there were a few other good ones too.
Just a question for ya. I have a 54gs buffalo at home, was wondering if you used the same or similar. Ive thought about moving to ddwrt or tomato but was never sure if it was worth it so I wanted to see if you had more detail on your experiences with it.
As I said above, Purdue doesn't have the ridiculous entrance essay requirement. What they do have however is multiple essays throughout the engineering stint there that check and make sure you can adequately convey a technical idea. Once a year or so in your generic engineering lecture you are given a technical topic and asked to write a few page essay explaining how something works, or some sort of process. This is expected to be read by someone slightly versed in the topic but not an expert, so the writer has to be able to condense information and explain it clearly without too much jargon unless necessary.
This to me would seem to be a much more valuable tool then asking a student to write 'what was your favorite summer vacation' or 'tell us about a life changing experience'. Generally the kids that wouldn't pass these essays were usually foreign and so it was not so much a lack of writing skill as a lack of understanding of the language and writing skills in English that would bring them down, and in those cases they had tutors that would help them the rest of the semester until they could write adequately.
This is exactly how Purdue does it. When I applied it was a single page application, that was it, no essays, no extra bullshit. If your scores showed you had the potential to succeed in the field you were interested in, you got in as long as there was room. They did early acceptance in September, which meant I got to sit around in senior high school english and sleep since that class was focused on writing your college entrance essays.
Most electronic musicians arent going to be using the built in sound cards as they are crap, but I know the external one I use, native instruments audio4, is supported by linux as is the whole audio line. The article does have the artists solution to all the complexities of linux audio, which basically boiled down to alsa and jack.
Anyway here is the article, http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/
But why would I want to sell it after a year or two. So far its 2 years old and still plays every single new game that I would ever want to play with almost no reduction in quality. It chews through every professional audio application I throw at it. I really dont see a need to buy a new one for at least a few more years, and who would buy a 4-5 year old laptop no matter what brand it is.
I also dont understand the dell hate. Like I said I've been using it for 2 years just fine, even used it out in dj gigs so its not like its been packed away in a safe location, and yet I have never had a single hardware failure. Yet I know many people who have purchased macs around the same time I got my dell and they have all had some sort of failure that required apple to intervene and provide support. So while my experience amongst a few people is not the norm, just randomly hating on dell just because is also unfounded, along with the belief that apple has that much better reliability. In the same vein there was a recent story from a professional audio site about a performers switch to using a pc with ubuntu for all their work because they had gone through 2-3 mac book pros all having failures and were sick of it.
That may be true under the same circumstances, purchasing a pc with absolutely no discounts or freebies thrown in. If you are willing to wait you can purchase a pc with the exact same specs as an MBP for half the price. I did this 2 years ago when I bought my dell. It actually had better specs than the current gen MBP at the time with better graphics and a larger hard drive for half the price of the MBP. So no, it is not true that they cost the same. You just have to time your pc purchase correctly. During the holiday season they offered 400 off any laptop valued at 1100 or more, plus a 100 gift card on top of it. So let alone that the pc was already better than the MBP at 1400$, the extra 400 off really beat the mac.
+1 for rez, I hooked by dc back up again just to play that game. Its always a nice relaxing experience to zone out to. Then again they did port it to the ps2 and release for the 360, but since I own neither I stick to the DC. Also another good one that was much less known was Cosmic Smash. Its like single player racquetball against blocks, its pretty damn fun
Same here. I have a feeling like alot of the linux users I also got my start on slack back in the 90's, but there seems to be a point when the majority of people realize its just far easier to use an apt/yum/etc solution and just not deal with the headaches anymore of package management and what not and just want their system to work and to be able to use it without having to deal with the headaches of just getting it running.
That may be true under normal circumstances but that leaves out the ability to wait and price shop for a deal. When I got my Dell I waited for a big sale and managed to get 600$ off my laptop and in the end my laptop, whose processor and basic specs were the exact same as the current MBP at the time cost HALF the price. Thats also not including the actual upgrade that I got with the dell which included a better dedicated graphics card and a larger hdd than the mbp. Thats half the price with better specs than the equivalent mbp. Maybe if apple started offering any discounts this could hold true but they barely have sales or what anyone would call sales in comparison to every other manufacturer.
But they do take them from the front, I got a cam truck picture ticket that took it from the front, scared the crap out of me too, but there are places where they take them from the front.
No they dont, they only do it if it is required by their content providers which none of them do at this point. Macrovision support is generally required to be available at the disposal of a content provider but none use it. The only sort of protection currently mandated by any provider is by HBO and Cinemax who both mandate CGMSA. CGMSA is not widely accepted by alot of recorders, there are 2 standards and luckily the content providers happened to be stupid and chose the one that most recording devices in the USA do not abide by, there are some exceptions though and some do listen to both so you should check before purchasing. Macrovision only works on 480i/p signals anyway, so on a component output in HD it doesnt matter. Cgmsa just runs over a specific vbi line in the signal, so that can be easily ignored if need be.
look at just about any high def satellite receiver, they all have component outputs that you can record to your burner with. You can even get one of those boxes that has ota input on it and record both sat and ota over the component output. Its only cable that really limits you with their crappy boxes
Here here. Not just the classic versions but I used to love buying those boxed sets too of 3-8 games or whatever that generally contained all of a companys good games from a few years back. Loved the lucasarts, ea, and westwood boxed sets. Cant beat that much entertainment for only 20$
There is still great value in knowing assembly, those thousands of embedded devices that come out each year have programmers behind them, and the majority knowing at least a little assembly gives them a much better idea of what is going on in the hardware and how they can speed things up. This is even if they dont write a single line of asm for the product at least they have a better idea of what instructions take longer on a certain architecture.
Completely agree. Id also suggest skiing/snowboarding if possible where you live. When I first moved out here (CO) after graduating I was definitely overweight, but with a diet change to just not eating complete crap all the time, and going boarding for 4-8 hours each weekend in the winter I managed to drop 50lbs in 6mo. Since then ive remained pretty stagnant but it is much harder to get myself to go to a gym even after making it a routine for a few weeks in a row. It is much easier to get up and do something you love to do outside then to try to fit into some routine of something you dont like.
whoops, meant dvi can support hdcp
Are you sure your tv doesnt support hdcp? DVI can support hdtv, I have a couple dvi tv's on my desk that support hdcp
Alot of what you posted sounds like stupid engineering mistakes. Most of it sounds like issues with CEC, which is the communication standard over HDMI that lets the products actually communicate with each besides using the tx/rx lines. If the dvr shuts off when the tv goes into power saving, that is a problem with the dvr and either how it handles cec, or just how it handles the lines going down on hdmi. The att/2wire engineers need to fix it. The other issue of switching to an hdmi device should be able to be solved by turned off CEC on your tv/receiver/whatever is doing the switching. Of course its not always called CEC and this was addressed at the plugfest back in the winter, trying to force manufacturers to call CEC what it is and not their own made up name of communication protocol.
Definitely agree with this. I have a few friends that actually left verizon due to their nazi tactics on their phone. They had preinstalled banners and color schemes that the user was just flat out not allowed to change without hacking it all up. Back then there wasnt much knowledge on getting into the razrs to do it either. So they all left and went to either att or sprint.
I have sprint and have never had any issues with them, also like the fact the phones are not really locked down at all, I can do pretty much whatever I want with mine. It also helps that a sprint plan compared to an att plan is almost 40/mo cheaper with a corporate discount that just about anyone working for a large corp can get, and thats just a regular talk+text plan
If you just want text only then there are plenty of free servers out there, just google for them. You can also use the google interface or any other number of free web interfaces. If you need binary access then Id suggest looking at either newshosting or usenetserver. I started out on newshosting and its pretty good all around, I just switched to usenetserver a year ago because their pricing for 3 months of service at a time was cheaper and they also had longer retention. Both support ssl at this point and I think they both have pretty much the same retention and speed as well. Either way those 2 are cheaper than most, though im not sure how good they are for posting, if your posting I think most use giganews or astraweb.
Just going by the specs on wikipedia for the wiz, the wiz is better in most aspects. It has a 533mhz proc vs. a 380-400mhz on the a320. 64mb ram vs. 32. The wiz also has a 3d accelerator and the a320 does not. On space the a320 has 4gb nand built in while the wiz only has 1gb, and both support some sort of expansion card. The wiz has an amoled screen while the a320 is just regular lcd, however they are both the same resolution. They both also have about the same battery life as well, the a320 may be a bit better since i have seen reports that it can last 8-9 hours, and thats not really holding back on doing anything, while the wiz only lasts 7 (going by wikipedia).
Of course the big difference is price, where the a320 is half the price of the wiz, for alot of people its actually in the range of not having to really think about it and its easy to splurge on it. The wiz on the other hand may make many people stop and think before buying since it is pricier.
It cant run mame yet, but zodttd who ported mame to the p2p and iphone has already been working on a direct port of it to the original shipped OS. No doubt if/when linux becomes more stable a mame port will be very easy as well. Personally I went with one of these, half the price of a wiz, smaller form factor (it actually fits in your pocket). I dont regret it at all since it plays pretty much everything out of the box as well as most videos without having to re-encode them.
The buttons really arent clicky at all. Most of the videos of these that make a clicking sound are just because the sound recorded from a mic sucks. I own one and have been working on making a uclibc toolchain for this so the porting efforts can more smoothly and make more efficient compiled code. It is very very good build quality. Most of those chinese products are pretty shoddy but this feels very solid in your hands.