Here I would have thought that at least one time in the last 30 years Apple (or any other major manufacturer) would have paid Microsoft for something, at some point, whose costs would have been passed on to the consumer. That's never happened? Crazy!
What nefarious things could be done, honestly? On my android based phone they could send email, make phone calls, send some texts...that's about it. Although if they wiped my Hex Defense scores I'd be pretty pissed.
I gotcha. I did 'calibrate' my TV based on some settings from a popular HDTV website (forgetting the name) to be best tuned for movies. It's in my basement (no windows), but I'll check out the settings...can't remember what it's set at. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have to give it another shot.
I admit I've never watched that many movies in the theatres, but when I finally came home with a massive TV and a BluRay player (PS3) that supported 24p, I couldn't wait. 24p is what the source material is really shot in, it was going to be epic. Set up everything, made sure 24p was on, and got rolling.
It sucked. Sucked bad. Maybe it's the movies I chose, but any time the camera even somewhat slowly panned across the screen it the limitations of 24p became glaringly obvious. After my wife and I watched a few different movies I was ready to return my TV thinking there was something wrong with the HDMI input. Then I remembered the 24p factor, disabled it on the player, and watched in glory as the screen refreshed at a rate that supported my brain.
I don't get the draw of 24p...is it a videophile thing, like people who only listen to vinyl?
Anyone get this version yet for the 360? Ordered mine through Amazon but their release day shipping failed, kind of want to just pick it up locally. Is the regular edition the same minus the pre-order email activation code?
I'm gonna make the general assumption that the US military doesn't have it's number crunching cluster hooked up to the public Internet to stay up to date with every firmware, so they're probably still using the cluster just fine.
Can't tell if you're trolling or serious. Install a whole new server just to run PMS (which runs on Windows just fine already anyway...) to transcode video files (which the GP said they didn't want to do)?
Thanks for tossing numbers to this, as the article, the articles links, xda, etc make no mention or comparison to the Optimus that I could see.
Couldn't you also assume a similar situation with an overclocked Tegra2 as well? 20% increase would put it at over 2100.
Lighten up, Francis; the Nintendo bit was a joke. I'm not saying everyone does it, but there are the "special kind of stupid" group of people that you are lumping me into that would. Not everything is a huge conspiracy though; look at the guy that was involved with the Iraq leak. He was just an idiot, not some anti-war insider protester that you're alluding to.
Why would someone release that preview DVD they got of an unreleased movie? Or of a bootleg copy of the next awesome Guns 'n' Roses album? Or a PDF of Harry Potter part 8?
Because they're people, they realize what kind of power they're holding, and stupid people crack and want to brag about it.
Remember when you were a kid and you snuck a peak in your parents closet and saw that Nintendo you were going to get for christmas, and it was so difficult not to brag to all your friends that you were getting it, but you ended up cracking and telling your neighbor billy, and your jerk neighbor billy cried to his parents that he wasn't getting one and your parents found out that you found out and then you got the belt? Kind of like that, too.
So just design the structure so that it floats. Maybe call it a boat, or a ship or something. Probably something that cruises around the ocean.
I mean it worked for houses with wheels...you never hear of a trailer park getting hit by a tornado.
I'm not opposed to new input layouts, I've tried several for smartphones over the years, but this doesn't seem to be that alternative for me. The amount of gesturing required for a single letter is ridiculous, especially compared to something like swype. It may be more accurate, but looks extremely time consuming. Maybe a combination of swype and T9 (or whatever recognition (not keyboard layout) blackberries use for their Pearl style keyboards) would work better?
I have to admit it's been a while since I set up QOS on my home router. I seem to recall setting up some very basic things:
-Max download
-Max upload
-IP address, port number, priority level
By setting the max download to 4Mb (pretty sure dd-wrt recommended 80% of max) it should limit your connection. At least that's what I saw on my router when I set the max up to low.
In the time it took you to write this post you could have googled your router model + set up QOS and had the issue taken care of. I'll take Netflix's dynamic quality-change-based-on-available-bandwidth any day.
Engadget is reporting that the disks will stop working after 31 days, however it's not clear if that's all disks or just those that downloaded the update.
Anyone know for sure for those of us that are holding out for OtherOS?
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Here I would have thought that at least one time in the last 30 years Apple (or any other major manufacturer) would have paid Microsoft for something, at some point, whose costs would have been passed on to the consumer. That's never happened? Crazy!
What nefarious things could be done, honestly? On my android based phone they could send email, make phone calls, send some texts...that's about it. Although if they wiped my Hex Defense scores I'd be pretty pissed.
I guess if you read enough derp, occasionally you have to join in. lord knows I have :P
The magic ingredient is water. Yes, ordinary water. Laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.
Well, your 3rd point was a pretty ridiculous straw man argument. Like, really ridiculous.
I gotcha. I did 'calibrate' my TV based on some settings from a popular HDTV website (forgetting the name) to be best tuned for movies. It's in my basement (no windows), but I'll check out the settings...can't remember what it's set at. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have to give it another shot.
I admit I've never watched that many movies in the theatres, but when I finally came home with a massive TV and a BluRay player (PS3) that supported 24p, I couldn't wait. 24p is what the source material is really shot in, it was going to be epic. Set up everything, made sure 24p was on, and got rolling.
It sucked. Sucked bad. Maybe it's the movies I chose, but any time the camera even somewhat slowly panned across the screen it the limitations of 24p became glaringly obvious. After my wife and I watched a few different movies I was ready to return my TV thinking there was something wrong with the HDMI input. Then I remembered the 24p factor, disabled it on the player, and watched in glory as the screen refreshed at a rate that supported my brain.
I don't get the draw of 24p...is it a videophile thing, like people who only listen to vinyl?
Right, but I'm sure above poster is implying that said docked device will actually work properly.
Anyone get this version yet for the 360? Ordered mine through Amazon but their release day shipping failed, kind of want to just pick it up locally. Is the regular edition the same minus the pre-order email activation code?
"DMS" is a very, very common term when acquiring hardware, as is "spares". Any decent project plans for hardware failures and diminishing supplies.
I'm gonna make the general assumption that the US military doesn't have it's number crunching cluster hooked up to the public Internet to stay up to date with every firmware, so they're probably still using the cluster just fine.
Can't tell if you're trolling or serious. Install a whole new server just to run PMS (which runs on Windows just fine already anyway...) to transcode video files (which the GP said they didn't want to do)?
As in something with playlists that supports gapless playback? That's pretty common these days.
Roger Waters has owned the rights to "The Wall" since 1987, not Pink Floyd.
Holy mother of Moses, I get to brag about Windows Mobile for a second!
Every time I click a link in an email it displays the full text of the link and asks me to confirm that I want to go to that website.
Thanks for tossing numbers to this, as the article, the articles links, xda, etc make no mention or comparison to the Optimus that I could see. Couldn't you also assume a similar situation with an overclocked Tegra2 as well? 20% increase would put it at over 2100.
Yeah, I mean if something has been adopted by the masses then why bother questioning it?
Lighten up, Francis; the Nintendo bit was a joke. I'm not saying everyone does it, but there are the "special kind of stupid" group of people that you are lumping me into that would. Not everything is a huge conspiracy though; look at the guy that was involved with the Iraq leak. He was just an idiot, not some anti-war insider protester that you're alluding to.
Why would someone release that preview DVD they got of an unreleased movie? Or of a bootleg copy of the next awesome Guns 'n' Roses album? Or a PDF of Harry Potter part 8?
Because they're people, they realize what kind of power they're holding, and stupid people crack and want to brag about it.
Remember when you were a kid and you snuck a peak in your parents closet and saw that Nintendo you were going to get for christmas, and it was so difficult not to brag to all your friends that you were getting it, but you ended up cracking and telling your neighbor billy, and your jerk neighbor billy cried to his parents that he wasn't getting one and your parents found out that you found out and then you got the belt? Kind of like that, too.
So just design the structure so that it floats. Maybe call it a boat, or a ship or something. Probably something that cruises around the ocean. I mean it worked for houses with wheels...you never hear of a trailer park getting hit by a tornado.
I'm not opposed to new input layouts, I've tried several for smartphones over the years, but this doesn't seem to be that alternative for me. The amount of gesturing required for a single letter is ridiculous, especially compared to something like swype. It may be more accurate, but looks extremely time consuming. Maybe a combination of swype and T9 (or whatever recognition (not keyboard layout) blackberries use for their Pearl style keyboards) would work better?
I have to admit it's been a while since I set up QOS on my home router. I seem to recall setting up some very basic things:
-Max download
-Max upload
-IP address, port number, priority level
By setting the max download to 4Mb (pretty sure dd-wrt recommended 80% of max) it should limit your connection. At least that's what I saw on my router when I set the max up to low.
In the time it took you to write this post you could have googled your router model + set up QOS and had the issue taken care of. I'll take Netflix's dynamic quality-change-based-on-available-bandwidth any day.
Engadget is reporting that the disks will stop working after 31 days, however it's not clear if that's all disks or just those that downloaded the update.
Anyone know for sure for those of us that are holding out for OtherOS?
I assume you also submitted it with a better headline.