1080i is 1920x1080 at 60 fields per second. Each field is 1920x540 pixels in size, which is about as many pixels as an 1162x864 frame.
Answer : 1600x1200x60hz is far and away a higher resolution then 1080i.
I've got one. My website (see sig) doesn't have the bandwidth to support this stuff, so lets see how long comcast lets me serve it from their servers. 3dfx-modmed.mov
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I'm all for nuclear power, but overregulation is the only way I'll let it happen. I'd rather have more expensive pwower and a regulator for every employee then risk a disaster related to negligence or other preventable failures.
There is this one game that I've been playing a lot on my new gentoo box. The game is called emerge. First you type emerge and guess the name of the program you really want to install. Then you watch your computer do all kinds of crazy shit for somewhere between 10 minutes and 6 years before you get dumped back to a shell with no idea as to what just transpired!
The LCD is wired right onto the board like the vast majority of notebooks laptops. It'd be easier (and cheaper) to just buy a small lcd screen for your project.
You know, I found myself marveling at the quality of 3d graphics that can be done on today's hardware. I remember my Super Nintendo, and how great the graphics on it were. Then I remember buying a 3d accelerator card, a Voodoo Blaster Banshee (16MB PCI) and playing OpenGL quake2 for hours. I swore to myself, "It'll never get any better then this" Boy was I wrong. I can remember a dozen games that wowed me at the time, but are now totally unimpressive. That is the nature of computer generated graphics. As computers and their addin cards get faster, we can push more polygons, use higher resolution textures, and play with complicated lighting and surface manipulation in a way that no one was able to before. Yea, those screenshots are impressive. So what if they won't run on consumer grade stuff yet? Give it a year or two and we'll be looking back at Doom3 and wondering what was so impressive.
Not to mention that the production of aluminum is extremely energy demanding. It's cheaper to recycle scrap aluminum then smelt the brand new stuff from bauxite.
$400 is what I spent on books this semester. I live at home with my mother (big surprise, I'm on slashdot right?) and work part time for about 12k a year. Books really really hurt my pocketbook. I'd never feel bad about copyright violations against bookmakers who make huge profits off of people when they're the least likely to be able to afford it.
Initial setup? Every wireless router I've ever used is "set up" once plugged in. Since you're never forced to do anything in the router's config page to actually use the thing most people don't. There really isn't anything to do to keep it convenient. You could require that people log into the router config before it allows them to use the internet, but then you're going to have people wondering why it didn't work when they plugged it in and detected it with their laptop.
There are all sorts of programs to be found that can crack WEP, but they do so by capturing packets and analysing them for weakness. I've heard that it takes somewhere between a gig and two gigs of captured packets to break WEP. If someone has a fast internet connection and is actively downloading, you may be able to crack it in 15-20 minutes. Otherwise you're going to way a very long time. Point is, if someone wants to crack your WEP and is determined enough, they can. You can't just drive by and crack them though.
2 to 10 hours doesn't average out to 6 hours. It means that if you push it hard you'll get two hours, and if you hardly use it at all you'll get 10. If you're playing a video game that is powering the screen, UMD disk, audio, and processors, you can bet you won't get 6 but something closer to 4.
Well, twenty minutes is long enough to enable their WinXP firewall. Even the one that comes with an unpatched XP box is sufficiant to protect a box on the next once its booted. Sure there is some concern about loading certain TCP modules and connecting before loading the firewall, but then all you have to do is install XP, boot unconnected, turn on firewall, connect, download patchs.
Finally someone realizes that nuclear power isn't all bad. The palo verde nuclear power facilicy is the largest in the U.S. and produces 28 million kilowatt hours per year. Assuming that natural gas has about 1,027 btu per cubic foot and a 50% efficiency, you'd need to burn about 4.4 million acrefeet of natural gas to replace the plant. Mediocre to good coal will give up 24 million joules per kilogram. Factor in your 50% efficiency and you need to burn 9.4 million tons of coal. Both of the fossil fuel methods put millions of tons of CO2 into the air.
According to this HardOCP article, textures are already uncompressed in high with the only difference being that lighting maps are uncompressed in ultra. But then maybe I'm just reading it wrong.
Because for what they're designed to do, the Itanium 2 is a damn fast processor that no opteron could keep up with. Its only at 32 bit processing that the Itaniums suck.
I picked up a refurbished Dell 21" Trinitron monitor a few years back and it does 1600x1200x85. 2048x1536 makes me drop down to 60hz which I don't quite care for. I could never go back to a low resolution monitor after this. In fact, I'll probably buy an even better 21" next.
NiMH batteries are considered mostly non-hazardous waste, one of their huge advantages over lead acid and NiCad batteries. They can be recycled to reclaim the nickel metal, sometimes used in the production of staineless steel. I'm sure it isn't feasable to recycle small batteries, but I don't think we'll have a problem dealing with these large ones a few years down the line.
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1080i is 1920x1080 at 60 fields per second. Each field is 1920x540 pixels in size, which is about as many pixels as an 1162x864 frame.
Answer : 1600x1200x60hz is far and away a higher resolution then 1080i.
I've got one. My website (see sig) doesn't have the bandwidth to support this stuff, so lets see how long comcast lets me serve it from their servers.
3dfx-modmed.mov
I'm all for nuclear power, but overregulation is the only way I'll let it happen. I'd rather have more expensive pwower and a regulator for every employee then risk a disaster related to negligence or other preventable failures.
There is this one game that I've been playing a lot on my new gentoo box. The game is called emerge. First you type emerge and guess the name of the program you really want to install. Then you watch your computer do all kinds of crazy shit for somewhere between 10 minutes and 6 years before you get dumped back to a shell with no idea as to what just transpired!
The LCD is wired right onto the board like the vast majority of notebooks laptops. It'd be easier (and cheaper) to just buy a small lcd screen for your project.
Don't talk about Jane like that!
You know, I found myself marveling at the quality of 3d graphics that can be done on today's hardware. I remember my Super Nintendo, and how great the graphics on it were. Then I remember buying a 3d accelerator card, a Voodoo Blaster Banshee (16MB PCI) and playing OpenGL quake2 for hours. I swore to myself, "It'll never get any better then this" Boy was I wrong. I can remember a dozen games that wowed me at the time, but are now totally unimpressive. That is the nature of computer generated graphics. As computers and their addin cards get faster, we can push more polygons, use higher resolution textures, and play with complicated lighting and surface manipulation in a way that no one was able to before.
Yea, those screenshots are impressive. So what if they won't run on consumer grade stuff yet? Give it a year or two and we'll be looking back at Doom3 and wondering what was so impressive.
Some people underestimage bittorrent's power to distribute files willy nilly all over your physical HD.
No, they fall upward.
Mining the stuff is probably a bitch too, not to mention the fact that 35% of it (the largest percentage) comes from Australia of all places.
Not to mention that the production of aluminum is extremely energy demanding. It's cheaper to recycle scrap aluminum then smelt the brand new stuff from bauxite.
$400 is what I spent on books this semester. I live at home with my mother (big surprise, I'm on slashdot right?) and work part time for about 12k a year. Books really really hurt my pocketbook. I'd never feel bad about copyright violations against bookmakers who make huge profits off of people when they're the least likely to be able to afford it.
I've tried! I'm on day 3! I think I should have started with something a bit easier.
Initial setup? Every wireless router I've ever used is "set up" once plugged in. Since you're never forced to do anything in the router's config page to actually use the thing most people don't. There really isn't anything to do to keep it convenient. You could require that people log into the router config before it allows them to use the internet, but then you're going to have people wondering why it didn't work when they plugged it in and detected it with their laptop.
There are all sorts of programs to be found that can crack WEP, but they do so by capturing packets and analysing them for weakness. I've heard that it takes somewhere between a gig and two gigs of captured packets to break WEP. If someone has a fast internet connection and is actively downloading, you may be able to crack it in 15-20 minutes. Otherwise you're going to way a very long time. Point is, if someone wants to crack your WEP and is determined enough, they can. You can't just drive by and crack them though.
2 to 10 hours doesn't average out to 6 hours. It means that if you push it hard you'll get two hours, and if you hardly use it at all you'll get 10. If you're playing a video game that is powering the screen, UMD disk, audio, and processors, you can bet you won't get 6 but something closer to 4.
Well, twenty minutes is long enough to enable their WinXP firewall. Even the one that comes with an unpatched XP box is sufficiant to protect a box on the next once its booted. Sure there is some concern about loading certain TCP modules and connecting before loading the firewall, but then all you have to do is install XP, boot unconnected, turn on firewall, connect, download patchs.
Finally someone realizes that nuclear power isn't all bad. The palo verde nuclear power facilicy is the largest in the U.S. and produces 28 million kilowatt hours per year. Assuming that natural gas has about 1,027 btu per cubic foot and a 50% efficiency, you'd need to burn about 4.4 million acrefeet of natural gas to replace the plant. Mediocre to good coal will give up 24 million joules per kilogram. Factor in your 50% efficiency and you need to burn 9.4 million tons of coal. Both of the fossil fuel methods put millions of tons of CO2 into the air.
According to this HardOCP article, textures are already uncompressed in high with the only difference being that lighting maps are uncompressed in ultra. But then maybe I'm just reading it wrong.
Not always. The 61.76 drivers are WHQL certified for all of the 6800 cards but not for my 5900u.
Because for what they're designed to do, the Itanium 2 is a damn fast processor that no opteron could keep up with. Its only at 32 bit processing that the Itaniums suck.
I picked up a refurbished Dell 21" Trinitron monitor a few years back and it does 1600x1200x85. 2048x1536 makes me drop down to 60hz which I don't quite care for. I could never go back to a low resolution monitor after this. In fact, I'll probably buy an even better 21" next.
NiMH batteries are considered mostly non-hazardous waste, one of their huge advantages over lead acid and NiCad batteries. They can be recycled to reclaim the nickel metal, sometimes used in the production of staineless steel. I'm sure it isn't feasable to recycle small batteries, but I don't think we'll have a problem dealing with these large ones a few years down the line.
Police officer vehicles are exempt from emissions laws in California. At least in Sacramento, the police cars don't even have catalytic converters.
Kind of like when no one downloaded video games because 700 megabytes was too big to be downloaded off the internet?