Windows XP has always (for me, at least) been exemplary when it comes to detecting hardware. The fact that the setup (after copying files for less than a minute) leapt into high colour mode was impressive to say the least.
On my IBM Thinkpad and home brewed PC, everything worked straight out the box, apart from the TV card (which didn't work in Linux at all!).
I have had nothing but trouble configuring X for graphics - this is a bit of a cheap shot and the author should know better.
Erm - in the Creative settings, I just turned on digital output and told it I had a 5.1 setup. The amp (a Creative something-or-other) is set to default mode and I know it works, because I get surround sound in games.
I wish I could give you more detail but the computer in question is 400 miles away.
I disagree. My Audigy will output a 5.1 signal via SPDIF to my surround sound amp for decoding. Works fine. Alternatively, the card will just send a Dolby Digital stream to the amp which it also handles fine.
Or is he just being sarcastic? One would imagine PSP format is designed to be played on the Sony PSP... you know, the strange black thing generating so much fuss.
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If you have one of the newer Windows Smartphones, the OS can pick a phone number out of an email or text and ask you if you want to call it or save it.
In addition, to use the phone book, you just start typing in either the first few digits of the phone number you want to call or the first letters of the caller's name. The 200MHz CPU in it is pretty nippy too.
When landing a commercial airliner, the rader altimeter only gives the height of the wheels above the ground to the last 5 feet. The rest of it is down to the pilot's gut instinct and flying ability.
Believe me, I've been on planes where they've just dropped the last few feet, and the autoland system on an Airbus can apparently never make a smooth landing.
So how would you suggest that a small website that doesn't sell anything and doesn't want to go subscription based sell anything?
You start to find that when ad revenues aren't up to scratch the owners start to corrupt the news stories with advertisments. It's already happened to a lot of major sites.
You seem to have missed out the whole Microsoft / Palm battle, and the newest evolution of Pocket PCs, with VGA screens, 3D accelators and 624MHz processors.
You can even get a Playstation emulator to run smoothly on the newest ones.
Yeah... the majority of people in other countries who download it on the day of release are either never going to get it shown in their country, or are dedicated enough fans to watch it on TV when it comes around anyway.
Microsoft has tried to do this already with the Smartphone. I have a C500 running Windows Mobile, with a 512MB Mini-SD card. I'm with him that soon we'll have mini hard disks in the phones.
What I don't buy is that people will use it as an iPod replacement. Why? Because it's designed by committee. The headphone jack is on the bottom of the phone. It's 2.5mm so you have to carry around a bulky adaptor.
The phone ships with Media Player 9 as default which sucks. You have to navigate to Media Player to change a song, and if someone rings you have to unplug the headphones. (I guess this wouldn't matter but they provide such shit ones with the one that you have to use your own.
Yes, but the connectors are tight because they're designed with grease in mind. Don't forget they've also got long prongs to go into the channel, and only two nice thick ones have to connect.
With PCI, several hundred narrow copper channels (not rods) have to be in perfect contact.
Also British, and had broadband installed when I switched telephone lines. I had to cancel the existing contract and renew it on the new line, but my ISP (Pipex) kindly swallowed all the fees.
At my home they're renting out a number of holiday cottages as full term lets now so there aren't enough phone lines serving the place. Next week, rather than install a splitter and cause us to lose our ADSL, BT are going to replace six miles of cable to our house, as we live out in the sticks.
Please note that this cable is of sufficiently high quality to sustain a 2Mbit ADSL connection over a loop distance of 12 miles.
And a final comment to the author - you NEVER get anything out of a company by bitching on at their telephone staff. You think they've never heard it before, cause they have. If you're polite and hit it off they'll try to move heaven and earth for you... or at least that's been my experience.
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Windows XP has always (for me, at least) been exemplary when it comes to detecting hardware. The fact that the setup (after copying files for less than a minute) leapt into high colour mode was impressive to say the least.
On my IBM Thinkpad and home brewed PC, everything worked straight out the box, apart from the TV card (which didn't work in Linux at all!).
I have had nothing but trouble configuring X for graphics - this is a bit of a cheap shot and the author should know better.
>> We were hit by network outage, nothing worked (even Slashdot :( ) for about 30 minutes.
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Yeah, but Slashdot doesn't work anyway.
Erm - in the Creative settings, I just turned on digital output and told it I had a 5.1 setup. The amp (a Creative something-or-other) is set to default mode and I know it works, because I get surround sound in games.
I wish I could give you more detail but the computer in question is 400 miles away.
I disagree. My Audigy will output a 5.1 signal via SPDIF to my surround sound amp for decoding. Works fine. Alternatively, the card will just send a Dolby Digital stream to the amp which it also handles fine.
That means it must be true...
How can it be the wrong story? The author discusses the codecs the show will be released in, and sticks an inane "what's that" next to PSP.
Dunno how you can mod that off-topic, especially when it points out what the format actually is.
Or is he just being sarcastic? One would imagine PSP format is designed to be played on the Sony PSP... you know, the strange black thing generating so much fuss.
Ah - Terry Wogan. The man no longer welcome in Denmark after he called their hosts "Dr Death and the Tooth Fairy."
Yes, the rest of the world uses kilograms.
If you have one of the newer Windows Smartphones, the OS can pick a phone number out of an email or text and ask you if you want to call it or save it.
In addition, to use the phone book, you just start typing in either the first few digits of the phone number you want to call or the first letters of the caller's name. The 200MHz CPU in it is pretty nippy too.
When landing a commercial airliner, the rader altimeter only gives the height of the wheels above the ground to the last 5 feet. The rest of it is down to the pilot's gut instinct and flying ability.
Believe me, I've been on planes where they've just dropped the last few feet, and the autoland system on an Airbus can apparently never make a smooth landing.
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A Pocket PC port of Vexed. (For all Pocket PC gaming news, check out http://www.pocketgamer.org/
No, the clever bit was that when they ran out of power for life support, everyone immediately started gasping for air.
So how would you suggest that a small website that doesn't sell anything and doesn't want to go subscription based sell anything?
You start to find that when ad revenues aren't up to scratch the owners start to corrupt the news stories with advertisments. It's already happened to a lot of major sites.
You seem to have missed out the whole Microsoft / Palm battle, and the newest evolution of Pocket PCs, with VGA screens, 3D accelators and 624MHz processors.
You can even get a Playstation emulator to run smoothly on the newest ones.
I don't see ads on the net
But no doubt you're the first to complain when things on the internet become subscription based?
ISOhunt has vanished overnight, have the MPAA bastards gone after them too?
Yeah... the majority of people in other countries who download it on the day of release are either never going to get it shown in their country, or are dedicated enough fans to watch it on TV when it comes around anyway.
Nooo....
BTefnet appears to have broken. Now how am I going to watch it tomorrow morning?
Whoah... dude. Don't you wear deorderant? I mean, my BO can be pretty bad after a hard day but I don't explode.
Microsoft has tried to do this already with the Smartphone. I have a C500 running Windows Mobile, with a 512MB Mini-SD card. I'm with him that soon we'll have mini hard disks in the phones.
What I don't buy is that people will use it as an iPod replacement. Why? Because it's designed by committee. The headphone jack is on the bottom of the phone. It's 2.5mm so you have to carry around a bulky adaptor.
The phone ships with Media Player 9 as default which sucks. You have to navigate to Media Player to change a song, and if someone rings you have to unplug the headphones. (I guess this wouldn't matter but they provide such shit ones with the one that you have to use your own.
Yes, but the connectors are tight because they're designed with grease in mind. Don't forget they've also got long prongs to go into the channel, and only two nice thick ones have to connect.
With PCI, several hundred narrow copper channels (not rods) have to be in perfect contact.
Since oil is electrically inert, how is he going to use any of the expansion slots on the motherboard should be decide to remove it from the oil?
I would imagine that even a thin film of oil on the electrical contacts will totally (to use the technical term) bugger it.
Also British, and had broadband installed when I switched telephone lines. I had to cancel the existing contract and renew it on the new line, but my ISP (Pipex) kindly swallowed all the fees.
At my home they're renting out a number of holiday cottages as full term lets now so there aren't enough phone lines serving the place. Next week, rather than install a splitter and cause us to lose our ADSL, BT are going to replace six miles of cable to our house, as we live out in the sticks.
Please note that this cable is of sufficiently high quality to sustain a 2Mbit ADSL connection over a loop distance of 12 miles.
And a final comment to the author - you NEVER get anything out of a company by bitching on at their telephone staff. You think they've never heard it before, cause they have. If you're polite and hit it off they'll try to move heaven and earth for you... or at least that's been my experience.
Actually, it'd look seriously cool in brushed aluminium, or have I just committed a home entertainment fashion faux-pas?
(Oh, and it needs blue LEDs. Blue LEDs make everything OK...)