So unless each of the 40 data cables are [i]individually raped in a foil or copper AND grounded AT BOTH ENDS[/i] your cables are not sheilded AND you've been ripped off.
Perhaps I'm lost as to the cause of cross talk, but wouldn't a straight through cable be more likely to induce cross talk than a round cable? Now, perhaps they make round cables differently than I would expect them to, but isn't this why we use round ethernet cables with circuit pairs twisted together rather than straight cables with circuit pairs all in a line?
I know straight, flat phone cabling carring 2 phone lines creates lots of cross talk, while equal lengths of CAT 5 carring 4 phone lines won't create any (at least, noticable to the (my) human ear).
I'd venture that so long as the circuit pairs in the round IDE cable are twisted together, cross talk should be less of an issue in the round IDEs.. But then, perhaps there aren't pairs in an IDE cable the way there are pairs in a CAT5 cable...
But the parent is right, the sheilded cables are completely worthless.
Compare a nicely-fleshed-out Windows application, with automatic visual styles and Direct3D and OpenFileDialog boxes, with wonky Java applets that might run in a browser, and might just break.
The limits on your comparision suck. Why don't we just compare a nicely-fleshed-out Java application with visual styles, etc, etc with a wonky Windows application that might run on XP and might just break.
Better yet, why don't we compare Doom 3 to a website, or the Google Search Engine to a fish stick.
"That fish certainly looks good, but I'd have to say Google wins in web searches!!"
--TomsFakeware
I'm not sure you can draw that conclusion from that statement. They already sell slimline DVD and CD players in laptops. I think slimline just refers to the form factor of the particular drive they're selling. It doesn't mean that slimlin blu-ray drives are impossible or more difficult to manufacture
Well, your right... You do get a lot of computer in the Mac... They do know how to build them, and they do perform well.
However, therein lies the problem... They build it... The system I build won't perform quite as well, but for not too far behind I can save at least a grand.
I agree to an extent. Disabling right click is extremely annoying and it always fsks with my mouse gestures...
However, and I too would like firefox to disable right click blocking.
But bad reviews does not a security issue make, and that's the topic of this thread. While it's annoying and I'd like to see Firefox tackle the right click issue, I don't think we should go after the rest of what Google's DRM might entail.
(BTW, quick question.. If some of Google's DRM relied on a bug in Firefox, and that bug was later fixed to solve a problem unrelated to the DRM, would that constitute a violation of the DMCA, as Google's DRM would no longer work in the future releases?? Kinda makes you think...)
Ok, now I am trolling... How the hell did my comment get labeled troll??
I tend to find humor in the little things in life. It's not laugh out loud funny, but something that caused me to snicker just a little. "Child spending $30 wins $10 soap-box derby prize!" The kid wasn't able to sell his ideas afterwards or add great advancements to science, but both situations are slightly humorous.
I'm not trying to troll here or anything, but am I the only one who finds it somewhat humorous that they spent over $25 million to win a $10 million prize?
I mean, yay for space and everything, but take it out of context a little bit. I'm pretty sure TBS would rate it funny...
No. Because they starting using this goofy numbering scheme after Java2 came out. Check here for an explination of the number system. Note that J2SE 1.4 is Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 4.0. Java 2 is the language, and the link above shows how compatibility follows based on the version number (1.4, 1.5, etc)
This means they won't make a Java3 that is incompatible with Java2. They will make a Java2 2.0 and restart their goofy numbering system.
So that means that with Java 1.5 I can still run all of my old Java APs, but that some programs may require 1.5 as a minimum now?
~~ Geez, I have Java 1.4 apps that require at least a specific build of Java 1.4 if they don't work. Doesn't that show a break in forward compatibility? The program doesn't work on older Java 1.4 systems... ~~
Doubtful. They don't seem to be offering any areacodes ourside of what vonage does (actually fewer in many states it looked like) so they aren't even taking advantage of their existing networks. And, since AT&T owns massive infrastructure, they will be renting most of their bandwidth from themselves at cost, rather than other companies at markup the way Vonage and others have to. There's no way AT&T has a lower profit margin than Vonage...
I think AT&T is just betting that people will pay more because they are familiar with the AT&T name, but isn't quite matching other companies deployment because they are taking VOIP cautiously and don't want to invest a whole lot until it becomes more profitable. Vonage, a startup, must invest whatever they can cause they have no other products or services to fall back on.
They need to stop this monkey business!
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If they keep driving all over the surface of Mars, how will they ever tell the difference between their tracks and those made by the little green men?
We'll never prove the existance of life on Mars at this rate!
Check the download page. Freepops has a windows version as well. With the plugins, you can check Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and yes, even hotmail. Configuration is kind of a pain compared to other products, though.
But that's what you get for having something that's super flexible!
It used to be up till 2.1.0. Download v2.1.0 or you'll have to pay after 100 e-mails xfered.
I've used Yahoo!Pops for years to check my yahoo account (ever since they cut off free access to pop3). Too bad the parent's solution is shareware and not freeware.
Both work great, though. They use the standard HTTP interface like a webbrowser (http-get?) instead of that stupid WebDAV protocol. A little slower than WebDAV, probably, but better than using a browser.
No, no no.. you're talking about something else entirely.
First off, RTFA, his monitor has a 16ms response time.
Secondly: You're wrong. The refresh rate will cause the mouse to jerk from 1 location to another. For example, if the computer were sending data every 1ms, my 16ms monitor would not cache the first 16ms of movement and play them back over the next 16*16ms. It would just skip 15ms of video information and on the next ms refresh the screen again. Thus, while the computer showed a 1 pixel movement (for example) every 1 ms, my screen would show a sudden movenment of 16pixels 16ms after the start.
Looking at the article you'll see he describes his mouse and window movements are delayed horribly on the LCD while not on the CRT. This isn't a case of the monitor only refreshing every 16ms, it's a case of something feeding the montitor too slowly. Also, if the video weren't down I'd tell you to watch that.
Basically in the video he has his LCD and CRT hooked up in a dual monitor configuration. He drags a window so that it spans the two monitors and quickly moves it up and down. You can see when he pulls the window down that there is a good quarter to half of an inch between the window border displayed on the CRT and the border displayed on the LCD. When he drags down, the edge is higher on the LCD and when he drags up it's lower on the LCD, while they line up damn near perfectly when the window is stationary.
He says it occures even when the LCD is hooked up as primary and the CRT as secondary, so he claims it can't be the video card.
This video proves it's not the montiors 16ms response delay enacting. Were it that, the windows would still line up, but there would be ghosting in the LCD where it wasn't in the CRT. There was not ghosting in the video, it just took longer to start and stop moving. It looked like the screen was inserting a 250ms+ delay on movements. This could only occure if the video was buffered in some way.
I say it is the video card. Probably he has a higher resolution running on his LCD through a DVI connector then he's running on the CRT and the card isn't able to update them both simultaneously. Else it's probably just because the LCD is on the DVI and the CRT is on analog. If they were both the same, I'm sure he wouldn't see the difference between the two screens, although he'd probably still see the lag, just not between the two screens. More likely than not his "switching the LCD to primary" was done in the windows driver and not the physical connector, while delay might physically occure on that port in the video card.
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So unless each of the 40 data cables are [i]individually raped in a foil or copper AND grounded AT BOTH ENDS[/i] your cables are not sheilded AND you've been ripped off.
Perhaps I'm lost as to the cause of cross talk, but wouldn't a straight through cable be more likely to induce cross talk than a round cable? Now, perhaps they make round cables differently than I would expect them to, but isn't this why we use round ethernet cables with circuit pairs twisted together rather than straight cables with circuit pairs all in a line?
I know straight, flat phone cabling carring 2 phone lines creates lots of cross talk, while equal lengths of CAT 5 carring 4 phone lines won't create any (at least, noticable to the (my) human ear).
I'd venture that so long as the circuit pairs in the round IDE cable are twisted together, cross talk should be less of an issue in the round IDEs.. But then, perhaps there aren't pairs in an IDE cable the way there are pairs in a CAT5 cable...
But the parent is right, the sheilded cables are completely worthless.
Compare a nicely-fleshed-out Windows application, with automatic visual styles and Direct3D and OpenFileDialog boxes, with wonky Java applets that might run in a browser, and might just break.
The limits on your comparision suck. Why don't we just compare a nicely-fleshed-out Java application with visual styles, etc, etc with a wonky Windows application that might run on XP and might just break.
Better yet, why don't we compare Doom 3 to a website, or the Google Search Engine to a fish stick.
"That fish certainly looks good, but I'd have to say Google wins in web searches!!"
--TomsFakeware
What're you two talking about? I'm using firefox PR1 .0 and it seems to look fine.
Where's this formatting error?
hmm... maybe.. but I can't imagine either of them is significantly larger than current CDs, what with the tend technology tends to take...
But I see what you're saying now.. that could be.
I'm not sure you can draw that conclusion from that statement. They already sell slimline DVD and CD players in laptops. I think slimline just refers to the form factor of the particular drive they're selling. It doesn't mean that slimlin blu-ray drives are impossible or more difficult to manufacture
They say the HD-DVD is better suited for laptops than Blu-Ray, but they don't say why?
Are they heavily invested in Blu-Ray? Is that maybe why? Or is there actually a technical reason?
and nanobots that will search your soul and reveal your innermost desires.
Don't forget the AdSense text-vertisements you'll see out of the corner of your right eye. How else do you expect them to give you free energy drink?
What's this OSTG and what happened to the OSDN? Is it just a new name? Or... what happenend?
What the heck are you refering to?
Well, your right... You do get a lot of computer in the Mac... They do know how to build them, and they do perform well.
;)
However, therein lies the problem... They build it... The system I build won't perform quite as well, but for not too far behind I can save at least a grand.
That's a big deal when your in college
Screw Steve's Vision. I agree with the Story Poster... MacOS = Good. Macs=Too Expensive.
No, it won't ever happen, but if it did I would definately switch.
Besides, with a BSD core, I don't think drivers would be any more of an issue on than on Linux.
I agree to an extent. Disabling right click is extremely annoying and it always fsks with my mouse gestures...
However, and I too would like firefox to disable right click blocking.
But bad reviews does not a security issue make, and that's the topic of this thread. While it's annoying and I'd like to see Firefox tackle the right click issue, I don't think we should go after the rest of what Google's DRM might entail.
(BTW, quick question.. If some of Google's DRM relied on a bug in Firefox, and that bug was later fixed to solve a problem unrelated to the DRM, would that constitute a violation of the DMCA, as Google's DRM would no longer work in the future releases?? Kinda makes you think...)
Oh no, I'm not too upset... it's just one of those WTF??? moments.
Anyone know where I can find a bridge with WiFi?
Ok, now I am trolling... How the hell did my comment get labeled troll??
I tend to find humor in the little things in life. It's not laugh out loud funny, but something that caused me to snicker just a little. "Child spending $30 wins $10 soap-box derby prize!" The kid wasn't able to sell his ideas afterwards or add great advancements to science, but both situations are slightly humorous.
But, now I'm a troll. =)
If anyone needs me I'll be under this bridge!
I'm not trying to troll here or anything, but am I the only one who finds it somewhat humorous that they spent over $25 million to win a $10 million prize?
I mean, yay for space and everything, but take it out of context a little bit. I'm pretty sure TBS would rate it funny...
No. Because they starting using this goofy numbering scheme after Java2 came out. Check here for an explination of the number system. Note that J2SE 1.4 is Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 4.0. Java 2 is the language, and the link above shows how compatibility follows based on the version number (1.4, 1.5, etc)
This means they won't make a Java3 that is incompatible with Java2. They will make a Java2 2.0 and restart their goofy numbering system.
So that means that with Java 1.5 I can still run all of my old Java APs, but that some programs may require 1.5 as a minimum now?
~~
Geez, I have Java 1.4 apps that require at least a specific build of Java 1.4 if they don't work. Doesn't that show a break in forward compatibility? The program doesn't work on older Java 1.4 systems...
~~
Doubtful. They don't seem to be offering any areacodes ourside of what vonage does (actually fewer in many states it looked like) so they aren't even taking advantage of their existing networks. And, since AT&T owns massive infrastructure, they will be renting most of their bandwidth from themselves at cost, rather than other companies at markup the way Vonage and others have to. There's no way AT&T has a lower profit margin than Vonage...
I think AT&T is just betting that people will pay more because they are familiar with the AT&T name, but isn't quite matching other companies deployment because they are taking VOIP cautiously and don't want to invest a whole lot until it becomes more profitable. Vonage, a startup, must invest whatever they can cause they have no other products or services to fall back on.
If they keep driving all over the surface of Mars, how will they ever tell the difference between their tracks and those made by the little green men?
We'll never prove the existance of life on Mars at this rate!
Check the download page. Freepops has a windows version as well. With the plugins, you can check Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and yes, even hotmail. Configuration is kind of a pain compared to other products, though.
But that's what you get for having something that's super flexible!
Because yahoo has a SourceForge Project?
It used to be up till 2.1.0. Download v2.1.0 or you'll have to pay after 100 e-mails xfered.
I've used Yahoo!Pops for years to check my yahoo account (ever since they cut off free access to pop3). Too bad the parent's solution is shareware and not freeware.
Both work great, though. They use the standard HTTP interface like a webbrowser (http-get?) instead of that stupid WebDAV protocol. A little slower than WebDAV, probably, but better than using a browser.
No, no no.. you're talking about something else entirely.
First off, RTFA, his monitor has a 16ms response time.
Secondly: You're wrong. The refresh rate will cause the mouse to jerk from 1 location to another. For example, if the computer were sending data every 1ms, my 16ms monitor would not cache the first 16ms of movement and play them back over the next 16*16ms. It would just skip 15ms of video information and on the next ms refresh the screen again. Thus, while the computer showed a 1 pixel movement (for example) every 1 ms, my screen would show a sudden movenment of 16pixels 16ms after the start.
Looking at the article you'll see he describes his mouse and window movements are delayed horribly on the LCD while not on the CRT. This isn't a case of the monitor only refreshing every 16ms, it's a case of something feeding the montitor too slowly. Also, if the video weren't down I'd tell you to watch that.
Basically in the video he has his LCD and CRT hooked up in a dual monitor configuration. He drags a window so that it spans the two monitors and quickly moves it up and down. You can see when he pulls the window down that there is a good quarter to half of an inch between the window border displayed on the CRT and the border displayed on the LCD. When he drags down, the edge is higher on the LCD and when he drags up it's lower on the LCD, while they line up damn near perfectly when the window is stationary.
He says it occures even when the LCD is hooked up as primary and the CRT as secondary, so he claims it can't be the video card.
This video proves it's not the montiors 16ms response delay enacting. Were it that, the windows would still line up, but there would be ghosting in the LCD where it wasn't in the CRT. There was not ghosting in the video, it just took longer to start and stop moving. It looked like the screen was inserting a 250ms+ delay on movements. This could only occure if the video was buffered in some way.
I say it is the video card. Probably he has a higher resolution running on his LCD through a DVI connector then he's running on the CRT and the card isn't able to update them both simultaneously. Else it's probably just because the LCD is on the DVI and the CRT is on analog. If they were both the same, I'm sure he wouldn't see the difference between the two screens, although he'd probably still see the lag, just not between the two screens. More likely than not his "switching the LCD to primary" was done in the windows driver and not the physical connector, while delay might physically occure on that port in the video card.
We aren't really happy the artist isn't getting money. As far as I can tell, most of us want the musicians to earn a living.
It's that the recording companies don't get any money that makes us so ecstatic we dupe articles 6 hours after it appears on the main page.
Wow! A dupe of an article on the main page! That's pretty impressive. I always though time had to pass between origionals and reposts.