I have the MyHD card and I like it. The avsforum seems to have pretty good communication w/ the developers(look for Cliff Watson). There are 2 things this card won't seem to do(tho I don't really buy thier explainations of why). 1) it doesn't "timeshift" like Tivo. You can record and watch later, and you can record now and watch now, but you can't record now and watch something else or record now and watch in a few seconds, and you can't pause live tv. 2) no cable decoding, tho it has the hardward. The company claims legal issues, tho everyone else in the world seems to be fine with this and hasn't had any legal problems. Another warning is that the software leaves some to be desired. A new version is due out soon tho and they claim many many many bugs have been squashed and many features have been updated and added.
I have a sinking feeling this is not going to benefit the artists monetarily at all. The companies are probably going to say something like "Well, it's not the whole album, and it's not a single, it's BARC(Big-ass Record Company) sampler, so you don't really get royalties for it" or something equally lame...
I considered joining the navy several months ago and I went on a tour of a nuclear trident sub out in GA. The systems aboard the ship were rediculously old, considering their purpose is to control enough nuclear payload to wipe out most of the life on this planet. The fire control room was probably 20x30ft filled w/ rows of equipment which had the combined processing power of, and I quote, "an atari 2600". I'm almost amazed that those things could calculate a firing solution in any reasonable amount of time...
I checked/. about 10 minutes ago... no new on netscape, but I decided to upgrade(because netscape was already on my machine, it was just 10 versions old and I thought I'd see if they were making any progress... install version 7(not realizing it was brand new), set/. as my home page, and voila, notice that version 7 is out. creepy.
strap? weld? If you're talking about what i think you are... the head of the screw that holds it onto the armband and beltclip popped off... it's not broken. I thought mine was, but apparently the head of that screw is just pressed on, it'll slide on and off the threaded part pretty easily. Glue it back together... and are you sure the switch is broken? There are two of them... you check both?
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back in HS, I had a program that would work just fine on my home DOS PC w/ Borland C++ but would give me "Cannot divide by 0" at school on a very similar PC... Never did figure that one out... the most annoying thing... there was no division in any of MY code...
uhm... can I start calling you Microsoft Tech support?
Yes, OBD-II is pretty slick.. yes you can scan it with a laptop(if you buy the $80 connector)...
Yes Carbs can be a pain to adjust...
but what do those really have to do w/ each other?
not much... I know chevy has a programmable system built into their OBD-2 so you can adjust some things... most cars, do not. You can look at things, but you can't really do anything with them... and circumventing, or altering the OBD-2 computers on these cars is a very large undertaking. There's an aftermarket for this sort of thing, but it's probably cheaper to buy all the equipment to calibrate and meter carbs...
...not that I'm a fan of carburators, or against OBD-2... I'm just saying...
If I were to make an educated guess on the proper writing of that term I would probably choose e'mail. This makes entirely more sense in reference to the rest of the english language...but then again, the english language has hardly ever made sense before, why should it start now?
Is this sort of release really neccessary? While I'm not currently running Woody(unstable now) when slink and potato were unstable, I ran those w/ only minor glitches, mostly in the package management, where something would require another package that no longer exists, but this was easily remedied by forcing the install and it almost always worked. Debian's unstable always seemed about 10 times more stable than some *ahem* officially released commercial products...
The nice thing about debian is the apt utility. If you want a "sludgey" release, just don't update every day, just once a week perhaps from the unstable tree. It won't change much and most of the changes will be improvements.
A new tree just seems like it will cause more work for the Debian people who(no offense) tend to move a little slowly already.
Plug it in and boot it up! do not let it go to waste. Our school district bought us brand new pentium(when that was impressive) systems, and (because the budget wasn't there to pay someone to set them up) put them in a warehouse for a year and a half. Our CS class would have been happy to set up the machines for free anything to get off the decrepit old machines we were using. Give it to the students to figure out! Someone I'm sure would be willing to admin it for you. They'd learn a valuable skill for the future. You can learn from them. And the machine you were generously donated will not go to waste! Plus its FREE. For the sake of the kids and taxpayers, don't let it sit and become outdated before it is ever turned on!
the package maintenence system is simple, but apt is much nicer. You don't even have to download the package before hand, it gets all the dependencies(instead of just telling you they are not met), it handles conflicts. It does everything that pissed me off about any other system not doing. The only problem is when the package maintainer manages to screw up a dependency(rare, but it happens), it's not fun to fix, but it can be done.
I've used FreeBSD, NetBSD, Redhat, and Debian. You're right in that the BSD's give you a trimmer system. Redhat is the worst at putting stuff on your machine you didn't want, and not letting you remove it. The startup process of the BSD's does seem very nice, but Debians init scripts are very good and it is not tricky at all. As for package maintence, debian wins hands down. When GNU/Debian BSD comes out, I may move to that. I don't know how it's gonna turn out, but if they go w/ all ANSI standards, and the apt package mantence system, that'd be great. The BSD package systems are probably better than RPM IMHO, but they still leave alot to be desired. Also configuration tools in BSD are weak, and why the hell did it take my dual ppro 2 and a half hours to compile the kernel in BSD? linux took less than 30 minutes.
This is the first time I've seen any interest in racing games for Linux. but NASCAR? come on... lets go in a circle as fast as we can. rally's are where it's at. hairpins, powerslides, gravel, tarmac, mud, snow... rally has it all! Personally I'd like to see Sega Rally Championship 2 or Rally Chamionship 2000. Need for Speed III, obviously, just because its fun. We also need to get some force feedback support in linux, or has that been done, already and I'm just out of the loop? Maybe some F1 games. or something like Hi-Octane!
I don't know which Atari Lynx system you are talking about, because a friend of mine has one of these and it's graphics are probably the best of any handheld i'd seen even up to last year... The screen was bright and the colors were vivid and it was fast... things even the GB Color doesn't have... as for the sega hand held, I never even like the Master System. There were like two games that were fun to play, but nothing spectacular... I think I'll stick w/ my Intellivision...
Actually... I see it as more of the guy outside the bank giving you the combination to go look at your own money that you have in the bank. Which you could do anyway, by withdrawing all your money and closing the account(analgous to using a "supported" operating system instead of *nix). It's basically an alternative way to see your own money. No one is stealing, assuming the guy outside aquired and disclosed the combination in a legal manner. Which he did by reverse engineering, and that is legal.
ok... I'd like to know if anyone out there has listened to the same song on the same system in both analog and digital format... I have... the only way I can hear the difference(and I'd say I have keen hearing because I can hear almost every electronic device power up, even in non-adjoined rooms) is the clearity of silence. The analog is always a little staticy. I can set up a system to sound great w/ analog by spending several hundred or thousand dollars on a state of the art turn table, or set one up to sound great w/ digital w/ a state of the art cd-player(of course the quality of the original recording is always a factor), but the truth is, under the same circumstances there isn't much difference... sometimes the static is a good thing. I also find it funny that LP aficondo's don't seem to complain when the analog output from the needle goes thru a DSP on some systems... to each his(or her) own
ok, do you bother reading the original message before you reply? First off, he was talking about the people in the film. Second, of all the movies I've seen dealing w/ computers(aside from perhaps Wargames, but I have issues with the fact that the monitors projected sharp images on peoples faces of what they displayed) it was the most well thought out. If you just didn't like the movie, that's one thing, but think about this : super-secret crypto black box == quantum computer theory(forget that the actual method wasn't 100% sound, but how many people out there really understand the physics of it?) It's really not all that far off... At least they gave some information on how cryptography works...
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I have the MyHD card and I like it. The avsforum seems to have pretty good communication w/ the developers(look for Cliff Watson).
There are 2 things this card won't seem to do(tho I don't really buy thier explainations of why).
1) it doesn't "timeshift" like Tivo. You can record and watch later, and you can record now and watch now, but you can't record now and watch something else or record now and watch in a few seconds, and you can't pause live tv.
2) no cable decoding, tho it has the hardward. The company claims legal issues, tho everyone else in the world seems to be fine with this and hasn't had any legal problems.
Another warning is that the software leaves some to be desired. A new version is due out soon tho and they claim many many many bugs have been squashed and many features have been updated and added.
It's going to drive me crazy, and I know that's from some movie or something....
I have a sinking feeling this is not going to benefit the artists monetarily at all. The companies are probably going to say something like "Well, it's not the whole album, and it's not a single, it's BARC(Big-ass Record Company) sampler, so you don't really get royalties for it" or something equally lame...
I considered joining the navy several months ago and I went on a tour of a nuclear trident sub out in GA. The systems aboard the ship were rediculously old, considering their purpose is to control enough nuclear payload to wipe out most of the life on this planet. The fire control room was probably 20x30ft filled w/ rows of equipment which had the combined processing power of, and I quote, "an atari 2600". I'm almost amazed that those things could calculate a firing solution in any reasonable amount of time...
I checked /. about 10 minutes ago... no new on netscape, but I decided to upgrade(because netscape was already on my machine, it was just 10 versions old and I thought I'd see if they were making any progress... install version 7(not realizing it was brand new), set /. as my home page, and voila, notice that version 7 is out. creepy.
strap? weld?
If you're talking about what i think you are... the head of the screw that holds it onto the armband and beltclip popped off... it's not broken. I thought mine was, but apparently the head of that screw is just pressed on, it'll slide on and off the threaded part pretty easily. Glue it back together... and are you sure the switch is broken? There are two of them... you check both?
back in HS, I had a program that would work just fine on my home DOS PC w/ Borland C++ but would give me "Cannot divide by 0" at school on a very similar PC... Never did figure that one out... the most annoying thing... there was no division in any of MY code...
uhm... can I start calling you Microsoft Tech support?
Yes, OBD-II is pretty slick.. yes you can scan it with a laptop(if you buy the $80 connector)...
Yes Carbs can be a pain to adjust...
but what do those really have to do w/ each other?
not much... I know chevy has a programmable system built into their OBD-2 so you can adjust some things... most cars, do not. You can look at things, but you can't really do anything with them... and circumventing, or altering the OBD-2 computers on these cars is a very large undertaking. There's an aftermarket for this sort of thing, but it's probably cheaper to buy all the equipment to calibrate and meter carbs...
...not that I'm a fan of carburators, or against OBD-2... I'm just saying...
Will there be compression algorithms to make me look thinner?
I'd always heard Bill Gates reads his enemy's websites... now I have proof... Nice try, Bill
Guns don't kill people... I do.
If I were to make an educated guess on the proper writing of that term I would probably choose e'mail. This makes entirely more sense in reference to the rest of the english language. ..but then again, the english language has hardly ever made sense before, why should it start now?
Is this sort of release really neccessary? While I'm not currently running Woody(unstable now) when slink and potato were unstable, I ran those w/ only minor glitches, mostly in the package management, where something would require another package that no longer exists, but this was easily remedied by forcing the install and it almost always worked. Debian's unstable always seemed about 10 times more stable than some *ahem* officially released commercial products... The nice thing about debian is the apt utility. If you want a "sludgey" release, just don't update every day, just once a week perhaps from the unstable tree. It won't change much and most of the changes will be improvements. A new tree just seems like it will cause more work for the Debian people who(no offense) tend to move a little slowly already.
Plug it in and boot it up! do not let it go to waste. Our school district bought us brand new pentium(when that was impressive) systems, and (because the budget wasn't there to pay someone to set them up) put them in a warehouse for a year and a half. Our CS class would have been happy to set up the machines for free anything to get off the decrepit old machines we were using. Give it to the students to figure out! Someone I'm sure would be willing to admin it for you. They'd learn a valuable skill for the future. You can learn from them. And the machine you were generously donated will not go to waste! Plus its FREE. For the sake of the kids and taxpayers, don't let it sit and become outdated before it is ever turned on!
the package maintenence system is simple, but apt is much nicer. You don't even have to download the package before hand, it gets all the dependencies(instead of just telling you they are not met), it handles conflicts. It does everything that pissed me off about any other system not doing. The only problem is when the package maintainer manages to screw up a dependency(rare, but it happens), it's not fun to fix, but it can be done.
now, if only I could learn to type... package maintenence... and my dual p-pro 200 took 2.5 hours...
I've used FreeBSD, NetBSD, Redhat, and Debian. You're right in that the BSD's give you a trimmer system. Redhat is the worst at putting stuff on your machine you didn't want, and not letting you remove it. The startup process of the BSD's does seem very nice, but Debians init scripts are very good and it is not tricky at all. As for package maintence, debian wins hands down. When GNU/Debian BSD comes out, I may move to that. I don't know how it's gonna turn out, but if they go w/ all ANSI standards, and the apt package mantence system, that'd be great. The BSD package systems are probably better than RPM IMHO, but they still leave alot to be desired. Also configuration tools in BSD are weak, and why the hell did it take my dual ppro 2 and a half hours to compile the kernel in BSD? linux took less than 30 minutes.
This is the first time I've seen any interest in racing games for Linux. but NASCAR? come on... lets go in a circle as fast as we can. rally's are where it's at. hairpins, powerslides, gravel, tarmac, mud, snow... rally has it all! Personally I'd like to see Sega Rally Championship 2 or Rally Chamionship 2000. Need for Speed III, obviously, just because its fun. We also need to get some force feedback support in linux, or has that been done, already and I'm just out of the loop? Maybe some F1 games. or something like Hi-Octane!
Inconsistent? you mean, like your spelling? =)
I don't know which Atari Lynx system you are talking about, because a friend of mine has one of these and it's graphics are probably the best of any handheld i'd seen even up to last year... The screen was bright and the colors were vivid and it was fast... things even the GB Color doesn't have... as for the sega hand held, I never even like the Master System. There were like two games that were fun to play, but nothing spectacular... I think I'll stick w/ my Intellivision...
Actually... I see it as more of the guy outside the bank giving you the combination to go look at your own money that you have in the bank. Which you could do anyway, by withdrawing all your money and closing the account(analgous to using a "supported" operating system instead of *nix). It's basically an alternative way to see your own money. No one is stealing, assuming the guy outside aquired and disclosed the combination in a legal manner. Which he did by reverse engineering, and that is legal.
ok... I'd like to know if anyone out there has listened to the same song on the same system in both analog and digital format... I have... the only way I can hear the difference(and I'd say I have keen hearing because I can hear almost every electronic device power up, even in non-adjoined rooms) is the clearity of silence. The analog is always a little staticy. I can set up a system to sound great w/ analog by spending several hundred or thousand dollars on a state of the art turn table, or set one up to sound great w/ digital w/ a state of the art cd-player(of course the quality of the original recording is always a factor), but the truth is, under the same circumstances there isn't much difference... sometimes the static is a good thing. I also find it funny that LP aficondo's don't seem to complain when the analog output from the needle goes thru a DSP on some systems... to each his(or her) own
it was there... remember... Muad dib is a killing word... it wasn't just in the movie
ok, do you bother reading the original message before you reply? First off, he was talking about the people in the film. Second, of all the movies I've seen dealing w/ computers(aside from perhaps Wargames, but I have issues with the fact that the monitors projected sharp images on peoples faces of what they displayed) it was the most well thought out. If you just didn't like the movie, that's one thing, but think about this : super-secret crypto black box == quantum computer theory(forget that the actual method wasn't 100% sound, but how many people out there really understand the physics of it?) It's really not all that far off... At least they gave some information on how cryptography works...