It meets the specs, and it gets the signal from one end to the other intact.
It might meet the specs for a lower resolution signal, but when you get to the higher resolutions, things get iffy. That's where build quality comes in. Cheaper cables are typically cheap because they use a thinner gauge of wire, and that means lower performance.
And for the 15' distances that you normally find home theater equipment, it works fine. You're not supposed to go past the rated distance... that's why it's rated for that distance. But in general (and I know there are special configurations out there), 15 feet is fine for the application.
Are you kidding? Projectors are a very common feature of a home theatre system. Not very many projectors can be installed with a 15' cable. It's hardly a "special" configuration, it's quite typical.
I don't think as much of the interface as you do it appears and find it clumsy to use (fat fingers?) in comparsion to something like on a nintendo DS with a stylus.
Well, the market seems to disagree, as most people are impressed with the usability, and will choose an easy-to-use device over one that may have more features, but less usability. And styluses? Do you really want to carry another device around just to use your phone? Something else to lose?
Opera wasn't that bad three years ago as was the nokia browser on the E70.
"Not that bad" is hardly a glowing endorsement. Fact is that no mobile browser was as capable when it comes to browsing normal websites until MobileSafari came along.
and there are a LOT of phones newer than the E70 with more features.
And there's the crux of it. You can't measure a device like this on features alone. What's the point of having every feature under the sun, if they are difficult to use, or the typical user will never touch them?
I thought six bucks for a fifteen foot cable was quite reasonable.
So, what's the wire gauge on that sucker? The build quality? And, as noted by other replies, not all of the world has cheap sources, and monoprice.com doesn't ship outside the US and Canada.
It's a cheap cable that does everything... or at least everything we will soon be doing wirelessly..
What the hell? HDMI is one of the most overpriced cables out there, for what it is.
And thanks to the digital nature, the cheapest HDMI cables work basically as well as the most expensive ones
No, you need expensive, high-quality HDMI cables if you want to do anything other than a short cable run. The "digital nature" doesn't help with this. Even though it's digital, the frequencies it operates at cause failure if you go beyond the rated distances. And the rated distances aren't very long at all.
No fucking way. The last thing I need is every second idiot asking me for tech support for their dodgy clone machine. It's easy enough now, I simply refuse to help anybody with Windows problems. Usually that ends it. Even if I refuse to support them, they'll still know that I know my way around a Mac, and will keep pestering me even if I say no.
I'm not sure why you think the average Mac enthusiast would want everybody to own one.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
Isn't that a problem that should be addressed from slashdot's end? There is obviously demand for such moderation descriptors, so slashdot should provide them, or people will simply continue to use the substitutes inaccurately. Additional mods we need: "-1 Factually incorrect" and "-1, Complete and utter horseshit."
Since this is/., 1 cron job and an addition to your/etc/rc.local(or distro equiv.) would do the trick.
Unless it's a Mac, as soon as the thief discovers it has Linux installed, he's going to wipe the system and install Windows, and cron or your scripts won't be available.
Yes, and the article clearly makes that comment in regards to NVIDIA making chipsets for netbooks. Which obviously has nothing to do with Microsoft or software.
And BTW: Rush Limbaugh has been noticing this same thing with ethanol. It's messing up the corn market and Mt Dew now has "Throwback" to make use of the now-cheaper cane sugar as an alternative.
Wait, since when was Rush Limbaugh an authoritative expert on fuels, or anything but a drug-addled simpleton appealing to the prejudices of the masses?
Actuallly, I had another look at the summary, and the "lucrative netbook market" comment is made in relation to NVIDIA, not Microsoft. So your interpretation makes no sense at all, as NVIDIA is not Microsoft, and is not a software company.
What's lost in margin can be recovered in turnover or volume. With such a low price of around $300 for a netbook, customers can easily justify purchasing one.
It's still risky territory - make it up in volume, and you might just see support costs skyrocket, especially with cheap netbook components. Or if you have a major product recall due to faulty batteries. It doesn't take much to go from making a slim profit to losing substantial amounts of money.
You make a good point about Dell. Nobody's really that interested in their stock anymore, are they? People don't really associate Dell with positive thoughts. It's a stagnating company with not much upside.
So, it's the market for operating systems, not netbooks. And there is no context which indicated they are talking specifically about the netbook OS market. It flat out states that the netbook market (as a whole) is lucrative, without offering any evidence of this.
No, the story mentioned "the lucrative netbook market" in general terms, not Microsoft-specific ones. Microsoft's market is for Operating Systems, they don't sell netbooks. And there's the assumption that it's a lucrative market, with no evidence provided.
How is a netbook software? They have screens and keyboards that seem pretty "hard" to me.
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Jeeze, seriously, I didn't even RTFA but I noticed TFS said Safari 4 was generating potentially gigabytes of cached info, which it did -not- delete when you "cleaned" the cache.
Yeah, slashdot summaries are known for being highly accurate and reliable, and not at all sensationalistic. Of course, anything could potentially generate gigabytes of data. My text editor could do it if I had enough monkeys. But is the average Safari user's cache weighing in at several gigabytes? I don't think so. That was just put there to cause alarm for attention-getting reasons.
... a new focus on power efficiency in order to cash in on the lucrative netbook market.
I don't think that word means what the writer thinks it means. In what way is the netbook a "lucrative market"? The profit margins must be almost non-existent. It's a race to the bottom, and I think many companies will regret chasing this market.
They DO have a right to selectively license MacOS X to a vendor who agrees to use high quality, consistent hardware. They could easily get a company like Dell or Acer to license it for one particular line of netbooks.
Contradict yourself much? Since when has Dell or Acer made high quality hardware?
which now sells un-DRMed music like everyone else was already using.
Excuse me, but what the fuck are you talking about? No mainstream online music store sold un-DRMed music until iTunes did it first. Apple fought hard to negotiate the right to sell major-label music without the DRM. And Apple was the only company in the industry making public statements about how futile DRM is.
It was only because of Apple that anybody else was subsequently able to sell the DRM-free tracks. By no means was "everyone else" selling major label music without DRM before iTunes.
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It meets the specs, and it gets the signal from one end to the other intact.
It might meet the specs for a lower resolution signal, but when you get to the higher resolutions, things get iffy. That's where build quality comes in. Cheaper cables are typically cheap because they use a thinner gauge of wire, and that means lower performance.
And for the 15' distances that you normally find home theater equipment, it works fine. You're not supposed to go past the rated distance... that's why it's rated for that distance. But in general (and I know there are special configurations out there), 15 feet is fine for the application.
Are you kidding? Projectors are a very common feature of a home theatre system. Not very many projectors can be installed with a 15' cable. It's hardly a "special" configuration, it's quite typical.
I don't think as much of the interface as you do it appears and find it clumsy to use (fat fingers?) in comparsion to something like on a nintendo DS with a stylus.
Well, the market seems to disagree, as most people are impressed with the usability, and will choose an easy-to-use device over one that may have more features, but less usability. And styluses? Do you really want to carry another device around just to use your phone? Something else to lose?
Opera wasn't that bad three years ago as was the nokia browser on the E70.
"Not that bad" is hardly a glowing endorsement. Fact is that no mobile browser was as capable when it comes to browsing normal websites until MobileSafari came along.
and there are a LOT of phones newer than the E70 with more features.
And there's the crux of it. You can't measure a device like this on features alone. What's the point of having every feature under the sun, if they are difficult to use, or the typical user will never touch them?
It has nothing to do with elitism.
Would you care to mention which phones? Which one had an amazing mobile web browser and friendly multi-touch interface, three years ago?
I thought six bucks for a fifteen foot cable was quite reasonable.
So, what's the wire gauge on that sucker? The build quality? And, as noted by other replies, not all of the world has cheap sources, and monoprice.com doesn't ship outside the US and Canada.
It's a cheap cable that does everything... or at least everything we will soon be doing wirelessly. .
What the hell? HDMI is one of the most overpriced cables out there, for what it is.
And thanks to the digital nature, the cheapest HDMI cables work basically as well as the most expensive ones
No, you need expensive, high-quality HDMI cables if you want to do anything other than a short cable run. The "digital nature" doesn't help with this. Even though it's digital, the frequencies it operates at cause failure if you go beyond the rated distances. And the rated distances aren't very long at all.
Mac fans should see this as a blessing.
No fucking way. The last thing I need is every second idiot asking me for tech support for their dodgy clone machine. It's easy enough now, I simply refuse to help anybody with Windows problems. Usually that ends it. Even if I refuse to support them, they'll still know that I know my way around a Mac, and will keep pestering me even if I say no.
I'm not sure why you think the average Mac enthusiast would want everybody to own one.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
Isn't that a problem that should be addressed from slashdot's end? There is obviously demand for such moderation descriptors, so slashdot should provide them, or people will simply continue to use the substitutes inaccurately. Additional mods we need: "-1 Factually incorrect" and "-1, Complete and utter horseshit."
Since this is /., 1 cron job and an addition to your /etc/rc.local(or distro equiv.) would do the trick.
Unless it's a Mac, as soon as the thief discovers it has Linux installed, he's going to wipe the system and install Windows, and cron or your scripts won't be available.
Since when? A scanner most definitely has a sensor. How does it capture the image if it doesn't?
Yes, and the article clearly makes that comment in regards to NVIDIA making chipsets for netbooks. Which obviously has nothing to do with Microsoft or software.
And BTW: Rush Limbaugh has been noticing this same thing with ethanol. It's messing up the corn market and Mt Dew now has "Throwback" to make use of the now-cheaper cane sugar as an alternative.
Wait, since when was Rush Limbaugh an authoritative expert on fuels, or anything but a drug-addled simpleton appealing to the prejudices of the masses?
Actuallly, I had another look at the summary, and the "lucrative netbook market" comment is made in relation to NVIDIA, not Microsoft. So your interpretation makes no sense at all, as NVIDIA is not Microsoft, and is not a software company.
What's lost in margin can be recovered in turnover or volume. With such a low price of around $300 for a netbook, customers can easily justify purchasing one.
It's still risky territory - make it up in volume, and you might just see support costs skyrocket, especially with cheap netbook components. Or if you have a major product recall due to faulty batteries. It doesn't take much to go from making a slim profit to losing substantial amounts of money.
You make a good point about Dell. Nobody's really that interested in their stock anymore, are they? People don't really associate Dell with positive thoughts. It's a stagnating company with not much upside.
So, it's the market for operating systems, not netbooks. And there is no context which indicated they are talking specifically about the netbook OS market. It flat out states that the netbook market (as a whole) is lucrative, without offering any evidence of this.
No, the story mentioned "the lucrative netbook market" in general terms, not Microsoft-specific ones. Microsoft's market is for Operating Systems, they don't sell netbooks. And there's the assumption that it's a lucrative market, with no evidence provided.
How is a netbook software? They have screens and keyboards that seem pretty "hard" to me.
Jeeze, seriously, I didn't even RTFA but I noticed TFS said Safari 4 was generating potentially gigabytes of cached info, which it did -not- delete when you "cleaned" the cache.
Yeah, slashdot summaries are known for being highly accurate and reliable, and not at all sensationalistic. Of course, anything could potentially generate gigabytes of data. My text editor could do it if I had enough monkeys. But is the average Safari user's cache weighing in at several gigabytes? I don't think so. That was just put there to cause alarm for attention-getting reasons.
... a new focus on power efficiency in order to cash in on the lucrative netbook market.
I don't think that word means what the writer thinks it means. In what way is the netbook a "lucrative market"? The profit margins must be almost non-existent. It's a race to the bottom, and I think many companies will regret chasing this market.
Then call the new one by its actual title. [imdb.com]
"tt0438488" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, though.
You can get chlamydia from reading the Kama Sutra on the iPhone? In that case, I'm glad Apple's blocking it. Sorry, what was the question again?
They DO have a right to selectively license MacOS X to a vendor who agrees to use high quality, consistent hardware. They could easily get a company like Dell or Acer to license it for one particular line of netbooks.
Contradict yourself much? Since when has Dell or Acer made high quality hardware?
What about a Mac Mini-tower? That's what I'm waiting for.
Say hello to the monkeys for me, when they fly out of your butt.
which now sells un-DRMed music like everyone else was already using.
Excuse me, but what the fuck are you talking about? No mainstream online music store sold un-DRMed music until iTunes did it first. Apple fought hard to negotiate the right to sell major-label music without the DRM. And Apple was the only company in the industry making public statements about how futile DRM is.
It was only because of Apple that anybody else was subsequently able to sell the DRM-free tracks. By no means was "everyone else" selling major label music without DRM before iTunes.