Obviously I do know what it stands for, Anonymous Coward. You clearly don't know much about language usage. Think about why I used the "R" word twice in a row on the context of backing up RAID array to a RAID array.
You fucking moron.
Sure, why not use redundant RAID? I've got a 250GB RAID-1 array that I regularly back up to a matching array on another off-site machine. You don't get much safer than that, allthough I am tying up a TB of storage for 250 GB of usable capacity.
I'm actually not allowed to use two consecutive letters in my password to one government system. Every letter must be followed by a number. It also must be 8 characters, no more, no less, and can't contain any punctuation or special symbols. It changes every 90 days. And you can't reuse old passwords, either. Ever.
So, my first password was A1A1A1A1. Guess what my next one was?
For that matter, why don't we just put it on Mars and use the entire Hellas Planitia crater? Imagine what kind of image we'd get with a 2,000,000 meter reflector. We could call it the Helluva Telescope!
Steam is exactly why I haven't bought HL2, nor will I buy any future Valve products that use this ill-considered, poorly-designed and horribly implemented kludge. Steam was bad when they retrofitted it to HL1, it's worse now, and I'd be willing to bet it's actually cost Valve as many sales as it's gained them. I know a LOT of people who have also chosen to leave HL2 on the shelf because of Steam.
I'll never forget the first time I walked into a US Navy patrol aircraft and saw a Windows 2000 desktop at several of the crew stations. I had nightmares for weeks.
I'll freely admit that I resort to a similar method to avoid having to jump through the assanine Activation hoops every time I reformat or change hardware, which happens quite frequently. I do, however, own legit copies of XP for my two Windows machines, and I can produce the CDs and holograms to prove it.
Anyone concerned that MS can stop "pirated" copies from downloading updates can rest easy, because whatever steps MS takes are guaranteed to be circumvented by the underground community within days, if not hours of them going into effect
My e-mail address has been portable for nearly a decade. I use Bigfoot forwarding and update it every time I change service providers. My family and friends never know my "real" address, nor do they need to know it.
Use my receiver to switch video? Ugh. Why degrade the picture with those extra connections when I can use programmable remote macros to switch the video on the display at the same time as the audio on the receiver, all with a single button?
You can keep typing insulting statements until your fingertips wear off, but that won't turn your opinions into facts.
My response to the initial post was that cable quality can be the distinguishing factor on whether data is transmitted correctly. It's a fine point, so I can understand how you might have missed it.
Now, please grow up and stop being rude. You're not annoying me, if that's your intent. You're not even being more than marginally entertaining.
OK, you show me a cheap DVI cable that can do a 9m or more run without video degradation and you might have something. I'm sure the rest of the guys at AVS Forum will love to find out about it, and wonder how they missed it.
Oh, personal insults... The last resort of those unable to argue their position effectively.
Nobody is saying it doesn't matter at all? That's exactly what the original post I replied to said. Perhaps you should review it.
Well, I guess it's snake oil that keeps the white sparklies off my screen. So be it.
Not that I'm saying they WON'T sell you worthless stuff like gold-plated optical connectors, as they certainly will. But that's true of any business. The ignorant will always be taken advantage of.
But, that's not what we're talking about here. Rember that you do get what you pay for. A cheap cable gives me a crappy image. A more expensive cable gives me a pristine image. That's not a debating postion. It's simply a fact.
"In digital cables, it's just ones and zeros.. As long as the digital data is there, it's not any better or worse regardless of the type of cable."
That's a common misconception, but that's exactly what it is... a misconception.
I need a 9m DVI cable to reach from my DVD player to my projector, and I assure you that you can't do that with a cheap cable. Using your "just as good" cheap cable, I get sparkling white dots all over the screen. Using a better built, higher quality and therefore more expensive cable gives me a perfectly pristine picture.
A digital signal isn't an "all or nothing" situation. Individual bits can be dropped without loosing the entire signal, and it's blatantly obvious with a video signal.
Those cameras have been found to be illegal in some places and ordered taken down by the courts. That happened where I used to live, in Hawaii. Of course, that doesn't happen in other places if nobody fights them.
Does German law have double jeopardy provisions? I assume so. If a German citizen has already been "fined" for digital copying upon purchasing the PC, can they even be legally prosecuted for digital copying of copywrighted materials in the future?
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Obviously I do know what it stands for, Anonymous Coward. You clearly don't know much about language usage. Think about why I used the "R" word twice in a row on the context of backing up RAID array to a RAID array. You fucking moron.
Sure, why not use redundant RAID? I've got a 250GB RAID-1 array that I regularly back up to a matching array on another off-site machine. You don't get much safer than that, allthough I am tying up a TB of storage for 250 GB of usable capacity.
I'm actually not allowed to use two consecutive letters in my password to one government system. Every letter must be followed by a number. It also must be 8 characters, no more, no less, and can't contain any punctuation or special symbols. It changes every 90 days. And you can't reuse old passwords, either. Ever.
So, my first password was A1A1A1A1. Guess what my next one was?
For that matter, why don't we just put it on Mars and use the entire Hellas Planitia crater? Imagine what kind of image we'd get with a 2,000,000 meter reflector. We could call it the Helluva Telescope!
YES!
So was the cast of Seinfeld, I believe. A million per show isn't the norm, but it's not unheard of, either.
Steam is exactly why I haven't bought HL2, nor will I buy any future Valve products that use this ill-considered, poorly-designed and horribly implemented kludge. Steam was bad when they retrofitted it to HL1, it's worse now, and I'd be willing to bet it's actually cost Valve as many sales as it's gained them. I know a LOT of people who have also chosen to leave HL2 on the shelf because of Steam.
I'll never forget the first time I walked into a US Navy patrol aircraft and saw a Windows 2000 desktop at several of the crew stations. I had nightmares for weeks.
I'll freely admit that I resort to a similar method to avoid having to jump through the assanine Activation hoops every time I reformat or change hardware, which happens quite frequently. I do, however, own legit copies of XP for my two Windows machines, and I can produce the CDs and holograms to prove it.
Anyone concerned that MS can stop "pirated" copies from downloading updates can rest easy, because whatever steps MS takes are guaranteed to be circumvented by the underground community within days, if not hours of them going into effect
My e-mail address has been portable for nearly a decade. I use Bigfoot forwarding and update it every time I change service providers. My family and friends never know my "real" address, nor do they need to know it.
You can't get anyone to play your organ without paying them?
Use my receiver to switch video? Ugh. Why degrade the picture with those extra connections when I can use programmable remote macros to switch the video on the display at the same time as the audio on the receiver, all with a single button?
You can keep typing insulting statements until your fingertips wear off, but that won't turn your opinions into facts. My response to the initial post was that cable quality can be the distinguishing factor on whether data is transmitted correctly. It's a fine point, so I can understand how you might have missed it. Now, please grow up and stop being rude. You're not annoying me, if that's your intent. You're not even being more than marginally entertaining.
No, it's not really defective. It's just junk. White sparkles are actually very common if you try to do long DVI runs on cheap cable.
OK, you show me a cheap DVI cable that can do a 9m or more run without video degradation and you might have something. I'm sure the rest of the guys at AVS Forum will love to find out about it, and wonder how they missed it.
Actually, a less expensive cable DID give me a bad picture, as I clearly stated above.
Oh, personal insults... The last resort of those unable to argue their position effectively. Nobody is saying it doesn't matter at all? That's exactly what the original post I replied to said. Perhaps you should review it.
Well, I guess it's snake oil that keeps the white sparklies off my screen. So be it. Not that I'm saying they WON'T sell you worthless stuff like gold-plated optical connectors, as they certainly will. But that's true of any business. The ignorant will always be taken advantage of. But, that's not what we're talking about here. Rember that you do get what you pay for. A cheap cable gives me a crappy image. A more expensive cable gives me a pristine image. That's not a debating postion. It's simply a fact.
Sure, but it's the quality of the cable that determines whether or not the bits are getting through reliably. Cable quality definately does matter.
"In digital cables, it's just ones and zeros.. As long as the digital data is there, it's not any better or worse regardless of the type of cable." That's a common misconception, but that's exactly what it is... a misconception. I need a 9m DVI cable to reach from my DVD player to my projector, and I assure you that you can't do that with a cheap cable. Using your "just as good" cheap cable, I get sparkling white dots all over the screen. Using a better built, higher quality and therefore more expensive cable gives me a perfectly pristine picture. A digital signal isn't an "all or nothing" situation. Individual bits can be dropped without loosing the entire signal, and it's blatantly obvious with a video signal.
Are you insane? The airlines can't even get my baggage to where it's supposed to go, and you want to be baggage?
Those cameras have been found to be illegal in some places and ordered taken down by the courts. That happened where I used to live, in Hawaii. Of course, that doesn't happen in other places if nobody fights them.
Considering that a video card capable of running Longhorn costs less than a copy of a Microsoft OS, I don't really forsee this being a problem.
Does German law have double jeopardy provisions? I assume so. If a German citizen has already been "fined" for digital copying upon purchasing the PC, can they even be legally prosecuted for digital copying of copywrighted materials in the future?
Not true. Macrovision does degrade the image quality, and it's also easily stripped out for recording.