The question is what is your personal goal? Where does the weight tip in your personal life of home life over corporate ladder?
I work from home. I don't have to deal with traffic or bad weather. I probably work longer being that my office is readily available but that doesn't bother me. I get to see my kids in the morning, for lunch, and for dinner. Before telecommuting, I only saw them right at dinner. For me, telecommuting is a win-win.
What is missed from commuting is the errands that can be run whilst enroute to work/home. Groceries and things are planned now instead of being impulse tasks. I also fuel my car every 21 days.
My wife also works from home. She works for a big mega corp where there is a corporate ladder. She doesn't care about the ladder, only if her superiors value her input which can be measured from her output.
If you are the type where the position on the ladder matters to you, then you should probably be entrenched within the office dealing with the politics that go with it. A lot of experienced people have always said that they wished they had more time for family instead of work. I feel that I won't have that regret at this point in my life when I cash in my chips
The update in question enables dormant hardware that isn't being charged for in the purchase of the product.
It's the same as if Apple sells 2 types of iSight cameras. One that is the normal web camera that uses the visible spectrum and another that enables x-ray vision. The cameras are the the same but the software package that accompanies the camera is different. They could sell an update to those who purchased the visible camera to enable the x-ray vision at an additional cost.
I'm trying to not be an apple apologist as the $4.99 price is ridiculous but in the case of Microsoft vs X where X is Apple, your comment doesn't hold.
People buy computers to do N. Computer makers use Windows to make sure that said computer does N. If Computer Maker A sells you a computer with a dual DVI head yet only of them works, then the comparison is valid. Computer Maker A would then have to sell you the 'free' update.
Apple sells hardware. They include software to make the hardware usable. They also sell software but it only works on their hardware. The software update is for their hardware.
I am so f*king tired of that no-skip crap. That is worse than VHS. With VHS,
Fast forward through ads
Reset Counter
Rewind to 0:00 after tape is over
I rip and reauthor my kids DVDs (good backup plan too - I've had a DVD break once) to avoid that non-skip crap. It's fantastic to pop a DVD in and have the show just start.
There is one Kid G-rated DVD I have that has that seedy, loud music commercial about how illegal copying is bad. Sorry studio guys. That crap is scary to a kid. Why the hell do you force a viewing on a G-Rated DVD???????
Some of that non-skip you can fast forward through, some you fast forward the chapters. Apparently there are DVD players on the market that actually skip this. Anyone know what they are?
I am not on the bandwagon for this BD vs HD war. I doubt I will get on it as it is very anti-consumer from my point of view. The entire HDCP over HDMI crap penalizes consumers if they make a mistake. There are still TVs that have HDMI issues and that's a lot of change to lose to have a non-compliant piece of equipment that will show crappy SD content.
In the good ole VCR days, you unpacked the thing, screwed the cable in the back of the device, screwed the other end in your 300ohm connector (or if you had a cable ready TV, right into the thing) , tuned to channel 3 OR 4 on your TV (and that was the worst decision if you could call it that) and you're good to go.
Now, you have to buy not-so-expensive-anymore HDMI cables and pray it works. Then you may have to set on the monitor and the output device the resolution settings. If your HDMI is flaky or doesn't work, then your $40 DVD on your $800 DVD player is downscaled (not yet but the day will come).
So really in review, this HD thing is sill untested.
I read somewhere that the 'no burn in' factor of the newer plasmas is due to the fact that if the on board CPU determines a burn in a particular area, it adjusts the rest of the screen at a higher intensity to compensate thereby darkening the whole image slightly after the compensation.
I don't remember if I read on online or in a magazine. Sorry for no source.
It lost because it confused consumers. No one understood what L-250, L-500, L-750 meant except that L-750 should be better than L-500. Add to the fact that Beta 3 material wasn't compatible 100% with Beta 2 machines and vice versa.
Not that 10 connections in a home could be reached but it's possible.
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EyeTV only has composite inputs so it's worthless in the HD arena except for OTA.
I'm not saying it's a bad or worthless device but it's not versatile for todays and upcoming market.
I want the device that will record component or DVI or even HDMI for that matter. No such thing exists yet. I want to record content I want to record and stream to different devices of my choosing. Everything so far is vendor lockin.
Tivo requires a cablecard which doesn't work for everyone - mainly satellite subscribers. Satellite HD DVR's are all buggy and not worth the hassle. On top of that, satellite with local is buggy too. Better with satellite with OTA so far. Cable HD DVR's are worse than satellite offerings.
That leaves us with these vendors that are really reaching out to customers but aren't really giving us anything useful that we really want.
It's not worth the hassle to setup an EyeTV for just 11 digital(4 HD - the other 7 digital are weather, FM, and stretched SD content) channels in my market when satellite has and will have much more HD content.
Most of us would choke to do what's required to stop consuming. Very few of us know how to farm nor do we have the land for it so we're dependant upon the current status quo for food. Computers are entrenched as a necessity today so there's that petroleum/manufacturing link with excessive waste products every year. Nothing will happen within the next 20 years regarding consumer transportation so we're still stuck with that.
1 thing that would help, stop breeding. 6 Billion is probably too much for this planet.
Trees will grow however they're better off (at least in the US) under proper management so that seems that we're doing the right thing there.
People won't really notice until seafood restaurants start closing due to lack of seafood to provide.
Whatever we're doing to maintain the global 6+ Billion will continue until Terra Firma says 'no more' at which billions will have to die off and we'll all enter a dark age for a while. The Renaissance from that catastrophe will lead us to a better us.
So basically the qualty of the game is dependent upon the quality of the API that MS provides under Vista?
No thanks. I like DirectX fine but this enables mediocrity at the OS level.
If there is a piece of the game that seems glitchy and the programmer spend 2 weeks trying to tweak it and to an avail, he will have to have a work around when in fact the issue is with the DX API.
Looks like vendor lock in deeper than just a simple Win32.
If your apartment burns down, you still don't lose the data on a hard drive.
I had to recover data from some hard drives that used the IBM Thinkpads as the terminal for the POS. The restaurant burned down, had to crack open the case to get the hard drives out, put the drives in another machine and got the sales data.
Once HD can be recorded off another output device (component/HDMI) then I'm interested. Otherwise, it's a failure.
Cablecard and HD-DVR's are failures at this point. Equipment for cablecards doesn't meet spec for cablecards and vice versa. Your TV takes a cablecard but PPV doesn't work or any other extra that the crappy STB does.
HD-DVR's have nothing but bad news on all the forums I've read and people I've talked to - constantly rebooting, loss of recorded shows, noisy.
High end TV's now have a warm up time longer than a 25" TV did in the 1970s but that should get better in time as with most things electronic.
I want to be able to stream media to any TV in my home. I have F-connector and Cat5e jacks everywhere in my house as well as a centralized management center for the cabling. MythTV seems to be the only solution at this point to meet that need however the HD recorded is OTA only of which I only have access to 13 channels where 4 channels are 1080i.
I'd like to be able to have a PVR record HD and stream to any TV but I don't want to be tied to an expensive and buggy proprietary solution (DirecTV HD-DVR/Cox HD) for one TV just to have the ability to record ANY HD channel.
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Then why don't you code games for linux then??? There is an untapped market there.
Also, getting him off the street protects me somehow. I don't believe it but the authorities see fit that he is a threat to me.
I hope the rap labels boycott the RIAA.
The question is what is your personal goal?
Where does the weight tip in your personal life of home life over corporate ladder?
I work from home. I don't have to deal with traffic or bad weather. I probably work longer being that my office is readily available but that doesn't bother me. I get to see my kids in the morning, for lunch, and for dinner. Before telecommuting, I only saw them right at dinner. For me, telecommuting is a win-win.
What is missed from commuting is the errands that can be run whilst enroute to work/home. Groceries and things are planned now instead of being impulse tasks.
I also fuel my car every 21 days.
My wife also works from home. She works for a big mega corp where there is a corporate ladder. She doesn't care about the ladder, only if her superiors value her input which can be measured from her output.
If you are the type where the position on the ladder matters to you, then you should probably be entrenched within the office dealing with the politics that go with it.
A lot of experienced people have always said that they wished they had more time for family instead of work. I feel that I won't have that regret at this point in my life when I cash in my chips
Good luck enforcing it.
Web hosts aren't going to do it.
ISP's aren't going to do it.
If the heat gets turn up for the above to police it, this registration will die.
That feature has nothing to do with the hardware. Only how the data is handled after the hardware.
If EAP-FAST wireless authentication added FM tuning, then that is an additional feature.
What hardware did that enable?
The update in question enables dormant hardware that isn't being charged for in the purchase of the product.
It's the same as if Apple sells 2 types of iSight cameras. One that is the normal web camera that uses the visible spectrum and another that enables x-ray vision.
The cameras are the the same but the software package that accompanies the camera is different.
They could sell an update to those who purchased the visible camera to enable the x-ray vision at an additional cost.
I'm trying to not be an apple apologist as the $4.99 price is ridiculous but in the case of Microsoft vs X where X is Apple, your comment doesn't hold.
People buy computers to do N.
Computer makers use Windows to make sure that said computer does N.
If Computer Maker A sells you a computer with a dual DVI head yet only of them works, then the comparison is valid.
Computer Maker A would then have to sell you the 'free' update.
Apple sells hardware. They include software to make the hardware usable.
They also sell software but it only works on their hardware.
The software update is for their hardware.
Well, I thought it was funny.
With VHS,
I rip and reauthor my kids DVDs (good backup plan too - I've had a DVD break once) to avoid that non-skip crap. It's fantastic to pop a DVD in and have the show just start.
There is one Kid G-rated DVD I have that has that seedy, loud music commercial about how illegal copying is bad. Sorry studio guys. That crap is scary to a kid. Why the hell do you force a viewing on a G-Rated DVD???????
Some of that non-skip you can fast forward through, some you fast forward the chapters.
Apparently there are DVD players on the market that actually skip this. Anyone know what they are?
I am not on the bandwagon for this BD vs HD war. I doubt I will get on it as it is very anti-consumer from my point of view. The entire HDCP over HDMI crap penalizes consumers if they make a mistake. There are still TVs that have HDMI issues and that's a lot of change to lose to have a non-compliant piece of equipment that will show crappy SD content.
In the good ole VCR days, you unpacked the thing, screwed the cable in the back of the device, screwed the other end in your 300ohm connector (or if you had a cable ready TV, right into the thing) , tuned to channel 3 OR 4 on your TV (and that was the worst decision if you could call it that) and you're good to go.
Now, you have to buy not-so-expensive-anymore HDMI cables and pray it works.
Then you may have to set on the monitor and the output device the resolution settings.
If your HDMI is flaky or doesn't work, then your $40 DVD on your $800 DVD player is downscaled (not yet but the day will come).
So really in review, this HD thing is sill untested.
I got this off the internet:
I read somewhere that the 'no burn in' factor of the newer plasmas is due to the fact that if the on board CPU determines a burn in a particular area, it adjusts the rest of the screen at a higher intensity to compensate thereby darkening the whole image slightly after the compensation.
I don't remember if I read on online or in a magazine. Sorry for no source.
Thing reminds me of Ark IIi i/
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/644-ark-
$3,000 and Windows only. Wow.
This card probably won't be Vista compatible due to it's nature.
It lost because it confused consumers.
No one understood what L-250, L-500, L-750 meant except that L-750 should be better than L-500.
Add to the fact that Beta 3 material wasn't compatible 100% with Beta 2 machines and vice versa.
6 hour tapes made sense.
Don't forget that George Lucas built his empire on the merchandising - a throw away right back then.
You know, some jokes just get old but that one was pretty funny.
I think the Mac Mini is the size of that heat sink with fan and a hard drive.
At least servers in Arizona don't have to do anything.
Yeah, multiple servers and only 10 connections.
Not that 10 connections in a home could be reached but it's possible.
EyeTV only has composite inputs so it's worthless in the HD arena except for OTA.
I'm not saying it's a bad or worthless device but it's not versatile for todays and upcoming market.
I want the device that will record component or DVI or even HDMI for that matter. No such thing exists yet.
I want to record content I want to record and stream to different devices of my choosing.
Everything so far is vendor lockin.
Tivo requires a cablecard which doesn't work for everyone - mainly satellite subscribers.
Satellite HD DVR's are all buggy and not worth the hassle.
On top of that, satellite with local is buggy too. Better with satellite with OTA so far.
Cable HD DVR's are worse than satellite offerings.
That leaves us with these vendors that are really reaching out to customers but aren't really giving us anything useful that we really want.
It's not worth the hassle to setup an EyeTV for just 11 digital(4 HD - the other 7 digital are weather, FM, and stretched SD content) channels in my market when satellite has and will have much more HD content.
Most of us would choke to do what's required to stop consuming.
Very few of us know how to farm nor do we have the land for it so we're dependant upon the current status quo for food.
Computers are entrenched as a necessity today so there's that petroleum/manufacturing link with excessive waste products every year.
Nothing will happen within the next 20 years regarding consumer transportation so we're still stuck with that.
1 thing that would help, stop breeding. 6 Billion is probably too much for this planet.
Trees will grow however they're better off (at least in the US) under proper management so that seems that we're doing the right thing there.
People won't really notice until seafood restaurants start closing due to lack of seafood to provide.
Whatever we're doing to maintain the global 6+ Billion will continue until Terra Firma says 'no more' at which billions will have to die off and we'll all enter a dark age for a while.
The Renaissance from that catastrophe will lead us to a better us.
So basically the qualty of the game is dependent upon the quality of the API that MS provides under Vista?
No thanks.
I like DirectX fine but this enables mediocrity at the OS level.
If there is a piece of the game that seems glitchy and the programmer spend 2 weeks trying to tweak it and to an avail, he will have to have a work around when in fact the issue is with the DX API.
Looks like vendor lock in deeper than just a simple Win32.
You could run consumer grade graphics at 1600x1200 in 1995 with S3's graphics card.
Commercial graphic houses and CAD designers had 2048x1600 resolution back then.
If your apartment burns down, you still don't lose the data on a hard drive.
I had to recover data from some hard drives that used the IBM Thinkpads as the terminal for the POS. The restaurant burned down, had to crack open the case to get the hard drives out, put the drives in another machine and got the sales data.
Once HD can be recorded off another output device (component/HDMI) then I'm interested.
Otherwise, it's a failure.
Cablecard and HD-DVR's are failures at this point. Equipment for cablecards doesn't meet spec for cablecards and vice versa.
Your TV takes a cablecard but PPV doesn't work or any other extra that the crappy STB does.
HD-DVR's have nothing but bad news on all the forums I've read and people I've talked to - constantly rebooting, loss of recorded shows, noisy.
High end TV's now have a warm up time longer than a 25" TV did in the 1970s but that should get better in time as with most things electronic.
I want to be able to stream media to any TV in my home. I have F-connector and Cat5e jacks everywhere in my house as well as a centralized management center for the cabling.
MythTV seems to be the only solution at this point to meet that need however the HD recorded is OTA only of which I only have access to 13 channels where 4 channels are 1080i.
I'd like to be able to have a PVR record HD and stream to any TV but I don't want to be tied to an expensive and buggy proprietary solution (DirecTV HD-DVR/Cox HD) for one TV just to have the ability to record ANY HD channel.
And Creative had the name first on their Live! cards.