I have an Optoma H56 projector strapped to the ceiling beaming a 1024x768 3 meter image at a prepared section of wall and it looks incredible.
The problems are you have to eliminate as much ambient light as possible for the best image (I only bother for movies and good TV) and I had a color wheel die after 1200 hours, but I had that replaced under warranty (careful with all DLP devices to get a 2 year).
It'll do HDTV though not natively and quake 3 or any car racing game is quite involving at that size, I've had a lot of movie nights and nobody has complained of rainbow effect (I gather it's very rare for people to be able detect it with the 2x DLP chips) and I'm very happy.
If I was buying now (not 2 years ago) I'd get an H77 or 79 and I'll upgrade when half the DVDs I rent or the TV I watch is 720p but for the moment the H56 makes a good fist of HD content and it has a great line doubler so standard content look good too.
In terms of price per square inch nothing comes close to a beamer.
ATM I'm in an NTSC region (Philippines) for 6 months so I only have one channel (Hauppauge WinTV 401) but when I return to Hong Kong, I'll get one or two PAL PVR 500s which will enable me to record up to 4 channels simultaneously, never again will I miss a good movie, documentary, MotoGP race because the Girlfriend wants to watch a Chick flick or friends.
BwaaHaaHaa WoaaaHaaHaa, and then I shall get some hamsters and strap freekin' lasers to their heads and take over the world.
And NT5 to NT5.5 didn't?
If MS thought they could get away with charging for service packs, they would.
In fact I'm waiting for them to unveil "Internet Accessible Operating System Upgrade Packs" that replace service packs, supply all the updates and stick.1 on the end of the version number as a precursor to charging for them.
a. compile on an AMD CPU, compiler detects that it runs on an AMD and generates a binary that runs slower on both AMD and Intel CPUs, or...
b. compile anywhere, generated binary checks whether it runs on Intel or AMD and runs slower on AMD?
Can someone answer this?
I hope these allegations are unfounded but if they turn out to be true I hope the European and American courts give Intel such a kicking as to seriously discourage such underhand tactics, they should probably impose permanent financial, environmental and moral auditors on the lot of them as they seem incapable of playing nice.
I wonder if all of those fans are blowing outward...if so, it wouldn't be surprising that the results weren't any better.
Slap, read, slap, the damn, slap, article.
Quote: There are 70 case fans in total, covering over 95% of the case AND THEY ALL WORK!
Looking from the front of the case, air flows in through the left side and out the right side. The front an back blow air into the case and air flows from the top of the case down and out the bottom... theoretically anyway.
Though I think there are probably more effective layouts.
A vegetarian diet is tastier and better for you than...
It appears that during the Hominid diaspora and the evolution of Homo sapiens, warm adapted Hominid types were omnivorous while the later cold adapted ones became carnivorous, since it makes sense that the conditions we evolved under are probably the conditions we are best suited to I'll stick to eating a bit of nearly everything.
When any of my or my family's keyboards get too dirty, I just put it in the dish washer, in my experience about 1 in 5 of the basic non-wireless with no wizzy electronics variety don't object to this treatment and earn a special place in my heart as a keeper.
Because I prefer things in moderation, (even moderation it self, because if you're passionate about nothing, what's the point) and don't want the world dominated by a bunch of people who scrunch up their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears, and sing "la la la la, not listening" any time someone produces a fossil that's more than 6000 years old. If they're prepared to ignore that kind of evidence then it's no wonder they found sufficient cause to go to war on Iraq.
Ahh yes, re-reading his post you're probably right, though it's meaning is ambiguous.
On the subject of Hobbes, am I the only one that's concerned about the Christian fundamentalism taking hold in the US, Oz and now, depressingly, the UK, this threatens these countrys status as counter
Hobbesian or more accurately
leviathan states,
secularism is a vital component of Hobbes' vision for a stable society.
Seriously though a world with only one superpower is less stable than one with two or three, fortunately there are 1.3 billion Chinese people and another billion or so Indians so the status quo won't last.
Unfortunately those 1.3 billion Chinese people all want the ridiculously consumptive western lifestyle with 2 cars, 3 fridges, 3 TVs and a garage full of under utilised sporting equipment. If half a billion Euromericans have polluted the planet this badly achieving that lifestyle the planet is, I'm afraid, fucked.
Ever since SIS released its remarkable 735 chip-set I've been waiting (with not quite bated breath) for something remarkable from XGI. Maybe since they opened the source on volari they might be good candidates as a manufacturer for the open graphics project it also means they probably can't hide behind the old "driver issues" with out being discovered.
Failing that we have to wait for either Taiwanese ingenuity to produce the goods or the bean counters to shut them down.
You're right, oil probably has something to do with it, I quite enjoyed the various petroeuro conspiracy theories.
I think, on the whole, the world's a better place without Saddam and he probably deserved to go, what concerns me is the timing, why didn't we do it first time round when we already had the troops there, in place?
My other worry is that maybe a victory too easily won is not so valiantly defended, meaning that if the Iraqi people had fought for democracy and freedom themselves they would value it far more and make it work, I'm not sure the pride of the Islamic people of Iraq will allow them to accept a democracy forced upon them by infidels.
I do not like Bush and completely disapprove of his administration's handling of Iraq, but there is a big difference between 'may have weapons of mass destruction related program activities' and 'wow, that guy is killing thousands of people and burying them in mass graves.' I'd hope that in the latter case, we'd say 'That is wrong, and we can't stand by and let you do that.'
I think one of the most useful parts of a good design is a really good overview or statement of intent that should include logic trees / flow diagrams and a few other diagrams. It should be mainly written, in good, concise, accurate, English and should make sense in it's own right while not being too long or overly technical.
You know you've got it right when you can grab anyone with a logical mind and, though they have no contact with the project, they can read the overview and know what the project is trying to achieve and have a vague idea of how your planning on doing it.
These are very useful when a hole appears in the meat of the document because from the higher level overview you can see the direction the missing bits would have taken had anyone had ever written them.
Other than that there are a lot of good suggestions posted here, particularly on the need to update documents.
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I have an Optoma H56 projector strapped to the ceiling beaming a 1024x768 3 meter image at a prepared section of wall and it looks incredible.
The problems are you have to eliminate as much ambient light as possible for the best image (I only bother for movies and good TV) and I had a color wheel die after 1200 hours, but I had that replaced under warranty (careful with all DLP devices to get a 2 year).
It'll do HDTV though not natively and quake 3 or any car racing game is quite involving at that size, I've had a lot of movie nights and nobody has complained of rainbow effect (I gather it's very rare for people to be able detect it with the 2x DLP chips) and I'm very happy.
If I was buying now (not 2 years ago) I'd get an H77 or 79 and I'll upgrade when half the DVDs I rent or the TV I watch is 720p but for the moment the H56 makes a good fist of HD content and it has a great line doubler so standard content look good too.
In terms of price per square inch nothing comes close to a beamer.
ATM I'm in an NTSC region (Philippines) for 6 months so I only have one channel (Hauppauge WinTV 401) but when I return to Hong Kong, I'll get one or two PAL PVR 500s which will enable me to record up to 4 channels simultaneously, never again will I miss a good movie, documentary, MotoGP race because the Girlfriend wants to watch a Chick flick or friends.
BwaaHaaHaa WoaaaHaaHaa, and then I shall get some hamsters and strap freekin' lasers to their heads and take over the world.
They already have
If you want an easy life, go get reference hardware for KnoppMyth
And NT5 to NT5.5 didn't?
.1 on the end of the version number as a precursor to charging for them.
If MS thought they could get away with charging for service packs, they would.
In fact I'm waiting for them to unveil "Internet Accessible Operating System Upgrade Packs" that replace service packs, supply all the updates and stick
The upcoming ASUS WL-700g will apparently have a standard IDE hard drive inside & be just as hackable, thats the one I'm waiting for.
*Want*, it can even act as a frontend for MythTV
In other words, is it:
a. compile on an AMD CPU, compiler detects that it runs on an AMD and generates a binary that runs slower on both AMD and Intel CPUs, or...
b. compile anywhere, generated binary checks whether it runs on Intel or AMD and runs slower on AMD?
Can someone answer this?
I hope these allegations are unfounded but if they turn out to be true I hope the European and American courts give Intel such a kicking as to seriously discourage such underhand tactics, they should probably impose permanent financial, environmental and moral auditors on the lot of them as they seem incapable of playing nice.
I wonder if all of those fans are blowing outward...if so, it wouldn't be surprising that the results weren't any better.
Slap, read, slap, the damn, slap, article.
Quote:
There are 70 case fans in total, covering over 95% of the case AND THEY ALL WORK! Looking from the front of the case, air flows in through the left side and out the right side. The front an back blow air into the case and air flows from the top of the case down and out the bottom... theoretically anyway.
Though I think there are probably more effective layouts.
A vegetarian diet is tastier and better for you than ...
It appears that during the Hominid diaspora and the evolution of Homo sapiens, warm adapted Hominid types were omnivorous while the later cold adapted ones became carnivorous, since it makes sense that the conditions we evolved under are probably the conditions we are best suited to I'll stick to eating a bit of nearly everything.
When any of my or my family's keyboards get too dirty, I just put it in the dish washer, in my experience about 1 in 5 of the basic non-wireless with no wizzy electronics variety don't object to this treatment and earn a special place in my heart as a keeper.
Because I prefer things in moderation, (even moderation it self, because if you're passionate about nothing, what's the point) and don't want the world dominated by a bunch of people who scrunch up their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears, and sing "la la la la, not listening" any time someone produces a fossil that's more than 6000 years old. If they're prepared to ignore that kind of evidence then it's no wonder they found sufficient cause to go to war on Iraq.
Ahh yes, re-reading his post you're probably right, though it's meaning is ambiguous.
On the subject of Hobbes, am I the only one that's concerned about the Christian fundamentalism taking hold in the US, Oz and now, depressingly, the UK, this threatens these countrys status as counter Hobbesian or more accurately leviathan states, secularism is a vital component of Hobbes' vision for a stable society.
Oh yes, go America. w00t w00t
Seriously though a world with only one superpower is less stable than one with two or three, fortunately there are 1.3 billion Chinese people and another billion or so Indians so the status quo won't last.
Unfortunately those 1.3 billion Chinese people all want the ridiculously consumptive western lifestyle with 2 cars, 3 fridges, 3 TVs and a garage full of under utilised sporting equipment. If half a billion Euromericans have polluted the planet this badly achieving that lifestyle the planet is, I'm afraid, fucked.
Ever since SIS released its remarkable 735 chip-set I've been waiting (with not quite bated breath) for something remarkable from XGI. Maybe since they opened the source on volari they might be good candidates as a manufacturer for the open graphics project it also means they probably can't hide behind the old "driver issues" with out being discovered.
Failing that we have to wait for either Taiwanese ingenuity to produce the goods or the bean counters to shut them down.
Scratch n Sniff?
You're right, oil probably has something to do with it, I quite enjoyed the various petroeuro conspiracy theories.
I think, on the whole, the world's a better place without Saddam and he probably deserved to go, what concerns me is the timing, why didn't we do it first time round when we already had the troops there, in place?
My other worry is that maybe a victory too easily won is not so valiantly defended, meaning that if the Iraqi people had fought for democracy and freedom themselves they would value it far more and make it work, I'm not sure the pride of the Islamic people of Iraq will allow them to accept a democracy forced upon them by infidels.
I do not like Bush and completely disapprove of his administration's handling of Iraq, but there is a big difference between 'may have weapons of mass destruction related program activities' and 'wow, that guy is killing thousands of people and burying them in mass graves.' I'd hope that in the latter case, we'd say 'That is wrong, and we can't stand by and let you do that.'
Like in Zimbabwe you mean?
Oh hang on.
And, you forget to mention, that you can often take a *much* more efficient route.
I think one of the most useful parts of a good design is a really good overview or statement of intent that should include logic trees / flow diagrams and a few other diagrams. It should be mainly written, in good, concise, accurate, English and should make sense in it's own right while not being too long or overly technical.
You know you've got it right when you can grab anyone with a logical mind and, though they have no contact with the project, they can read the overview and know what the project is trying to achieve and have a vague idea of how your planning on doing it.
These are very useful when a hole appears in the meat of the document because from the higher level overview you can see the direction the missing bits would have taken had anyone had ever written them.
Other than that there are a lot of good suggestions posted here, particularly on the need to update documents.