This is why you ignore that court ruling, deny the bench trial and take it to a jury trial - bypass judges who are too stupid to understand technology and educate the lower people to get them to make the right decision.
1. T5HO won't do this - invest. 2. This is a nonissue because a single 54w T5HO lamp at the moment of turn-on will blind you. 3. T5HO isn't affected by this in my experience, and I've had these things on a timer for well over a year. Give it another two years and we'll talk again about this subject, as by then they may burn out, or may keep going past their rated life. 4. T5HO can be started in -40F and actually runs more efficiently the hotter it gets, like HID lights. a 10F increase in temperature gives roughly a 5% increase in efficiency and lumen output. 5. T5HO doesn't et very hot. Anyone that says otherwise has either an old system or bad tubes. 6. You have the point here, but that's getting worked on and will eventually work. I think the closest thing available right now is the Lotus Light. 7. Ditto from 6, but they're working on that. Till then, check out T5HO or T12VHO bulbs with the ballasts to dim, like an Icecap. 8. Dead silent. I can't even hear it over my near-silent air pump. 9. Don't break it!
If you have problems with dimmable CFLs you're buying ones with crap ballasts.
If you want dimmable mood lighitng go buy some Philips Primary Color T5HO lamps, run them to an Icecap balast, and set the thing to VHO to overdrive the bulbs a bit and because they're designed to work on dimmers - voila, great mood lighting.
Incidentally, the red and blue-only primary color T5HO lamps are AWESOME for horticultural use, well, the blues are better than the reds.
Well, if it's radar-guided missiles, just blasting it with radar signals across a wide range should fuck with the guidance system enough to throw a missile off course.
Fly by Wire might be a little harder to deal with.
Laser guidance - good luck doing anything to stop it except EMP the area and fry the electronics or attempt to intercept it with an anti-missile missile or some antimissile ordinance
UT99 - for no damned reason the engine itself would fail to work properly any longer. You'd play a game, leave, and the next time you tried to boot up, you got this insanely long error message concerning engine and renderer.
total wipe and reinstall was the only fix, and this was after full patching to the latest supported version. It would just happen about four or five months after install.
Surprisingly, Creative's USB-bus soundcards are just about as lag-free. Maybe an extra 30 milliseconds in lag? Audigy works.
Hell, build yourself a cheap-ass P4 with 512 megs of RAM, Windows XP, and an SBLive! card. As noted before, as long as you can either cover up for or eliminate the line noise issue on the line-in, it's a rock solid piece of recording equipment.
Avoid using Vista - they crippled it so much it became useless for hardware-based guitar playback using just the hardware on your system. Now you have to buy stupid extraneous crap just to hear your guitar instead of simply going to the volume mixer and unmuting your line input.
The font rendering for MPC is horrible when subtitle files are included with a video. Only hard-coded subs look good because it's a fixed font. MPC also has the tendency to layer subtitles on top of each other, making part of the conversation unintelligible in some scenes. Zoom Player doesn't give me this issue with the same file.
And no, nothing is misconfigured - MPC is on install defaults.
Using VLC for HD video, especially 1080p video, is horrible compared to Zoom Player. Most anime I get now is in high-def, and VLC has issues with keeping up with the video when I skip to points - it takes about 10 seconds for VLC to catch up and display the video. Zoom Player is instantaneous. MPC isn't as fast but you don't get the annoying compression blocks like VLC gives you when skipping around a video file.
Also, on VLC, when I try playing an MP3, I have to reset the damned EQ every time the song changes - that gets annoying as hell.
Try Zoom Player. It comes with the CCCP pack and much easier to use than VLC, looks better, may not have some of the same functionality but for playback it's unbeatable. Also, the scroll-wheel zoom in/out feature rocks.
VLC still has issues on my machine where I'll hit the spacebar to pause, then hit it again and the file will 6 out of 10 times start playback at half speed.
Here's what really cheeses me off about movie theaters.
Yes, it's all nice that your video is being displayed in high-def on a 'digital screen' but the problem is that screen isn't digital at all, it's the projector that's digital and I *HATE* being able to see the goddamned pixels on the movie screen.
Well, in all the recording of music that I have done (almost always using MIDI for the drums and bass guitar, and live instrumetns for everything else,) I've not hadd any real latency issues with Cool Edit (Before Adobe bought it and screwed it up.)
Seriously. In Windows, with an SBLive! (which sucks because of noise on the line-in, but that's easily filtered out) using Cool Edit pro, doing a simultaneous playback of three or so tracks while recording a fourth never gave me any latency issues - everything stayed matched up very nicely.
Try the same thing with anything made by Realtek (the onboard sound card of choice, it seems.) You're not going to get anywhere without ASIO.
Re-read what you stated and to which you made the statement to.
"You clearly haven't set up to dual boot, because if you did you would realize it takes ten times longer to boot the thing and use it for things a simple as web browsing."
I'm sorry, but I have yet to find that to be true with ANY linux distro I've used, from slackware to gentoo to mandriva to linspire to ubuntu.
Boot up times are pretty damned comparable ONCE EVERYTHING IS SET HOW YOU WANT. I *QUAD* boot my system, so I know for a FACT what you speak of is pure bullshit. I boot:
Ubuntu MinuetOS Vista XP Pro
Between which is faster for booting up and usage, MinuetOs destroys every OS available today. Then comes XP, then it's tough to tell between vista and Ubuntu, mainly because I don't have a stopwatch for timing.
Your statement is pure bullshit. TEN TIMES, eh? Given vista on my Quad-boot laptop takes about a minute and thirty seconds to fully boot up and be usable, you're saying that Linux (any distro) would take FIFTEEN MINUTES. THIS IS A LIE.
"You clearly haven't set up to dual boot, because if you did you would realize it takes ten times longer to boot the thing and use it for things a simple as web browsing."
Nope, only a one second difference as I have to pick which OS I want to load.
If you want me to make a video of it, I will. I love proving people dead wrong, especially when it's obvious bullshit. Both OSes aren't running so just how is it wasting CPU cycles? It's a selection menu, if a selection causes your boot time to be TEN TIMES LONGER then YOU FUCKED UP.
I'll be more than happy to do a quick factory restore after I backup. I'll whip out my DXG HD camera and I'll record Vista's boot time before a dual boot, and after a dual-boot.
I run home premium on my laptop and find it woefully under-featured compared to XP for music production.
My HD Realtek audio in Vista will NOT allow for stereo mix output, wave output, or mono output, using Realtek's provided drivers. Vista's drivers for the card are basic crap, and laggy, also minus those features.
XP's WDM drivers by default had those features, and they were FAR more valuable to me than most any other feature.
Statistics are bullshit, too. I'm reading words and not seeing EVIDENCE. Gimme some recorded proof of said behavior or malfunction or perfect operation and then I'll start listening.
California doesn't care how many dildos you have in your house - Texas does.
In California they don't fly over your property for tax assessment - in Plano, Texas, they can fly over your property and spy on you, and tax you for adding even a vegetable garden on your property.
California doesn't interfere in personal business nearly as much as Texas does.
And Plano, eh? I was born there, and lived about half of my life there before moving out to Tennessee, and then to California.
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This is why you ignore that court ruling, deny the bench trial and take it to a jury trial - bypass judges who are too stupid to understand technology and educate the lower people to get them to make the right decision.
Many California courts have nullified EULAs. Do you read /., digg, or reddit, or do you just come to post nonsense?
1. T5HO won't do this - invest.
2. This is a nonissue because a single 54w T5HO lamp at the moment of turn-on will blind you.
3. T5HO isn't affected by this in my experience, and I've had these things on a timer for well over a year. Give it another two years and we'll talk again about this subject, as by then they may burn out, or may keep going past their rated life.
4. T5HO can be started in -40F and actually runs more efficiently the hotter it gets, like HID lights. a 10F increase in temperature gives roughly a 5% increase in efficiency and lumen output.
5. T5HO doesn't et very hot. Anyone that says otherwise has either an old system or bad tubes.
6. You have the point here, but that's getting worked on and will eventually work. I think the closest thing available right now is the Lotus Light.
7. Ditto from 6, but they're working on that. Till then, check out T5HO or T12VHO bulbs with the ballasts to dim, like an Icecap.
8. Dead silent. I can't even hear it over my near-silent air pump.
9. Don't break it!
If you have problems with dimmable CFLs you're buying ones with crap ballasts.
If you want dimmable mood lighitng go buy some Philips Primary Color T5HO lamps, run them to an Icecap balast, and set the thing to VHO to overdrive the bulbs a bit and because they're designed to work on dimmers - voila, great mood lighting.
Incidentally, the red and blue-only primary color T5HO lamps are AWESOME for horticultural use, well, the blues are better than the reds.
The Harpoon missile's RGS isn't easily fooled by metallic chaff countermeasures.
"Apple claims a patent on a stealth method."
Microsoft already own the portfolio on this nonsense!
No, 436 didn't fix it - I'm on 451 and it still repeats this behavior.
Well, if it's radar-guided missiles, just blasting it with radar signals across a wide range should fuck with the guidance system enough to throw a missile off course.
Fly by Wire might be a little harder to deal with.
Laser guidance - good luck doing anything to stop it except EMP the area and fry the electronics or attempt to intercept it with an anti-missile missile or some antimissile ordinance
UT99 - for no damned reason the engine itself would fail to work properly any longer. You'd play a game, leave, and the next time you tried to boot up, you got this insanely long error message concerning engine and renderer.
total wipe and reinstall was the only fix, and this was after full patching to the latest supported version. It would just happen about four or five months after install.
Surprisingly, Creative's USB-bus soundcards are just about as lag-free. Maybe an extra 30 milliseconds in lag? Audigy works.
Hell, build yourself a cheap-ass P4 with 512 megs of RAM, Windows XP, and an SBLive! card. As noted before, as long as you can either cover up for or eliminate the line noise issue on the line-in, it's a rock solid piece of recording equipment.
Avoid using Vista - they crippled it so much it became useless for hardware-based guitar playback using just the hardware on your system. Now you have to buy stupid extraneous crap just to hear your guitar instead of simply going to the volume mixer and unmuting your line input.
Sometimes Winamp just borks itself for no reason and won't work until I download the latest version and reinstall.
That's how I found the EQ bug in VLC, was just trying it out as an MP3 player.
The font rendering for MPC is horrible when subtitle files are included with a video. Only hard-coded subs look good because it's a fixed font. MPC also has the tendency to layer subtitles on top of each other, making part of the conversation unintelligible in some scenes. Zoom Player doesn't give me this issue with the same file.
And no, nothing is misconfigured - MPC is on install defaults.
Using VLC for HD video, especially 1080p video, is horrible compared to Zoom Player. Most anime I get now is in high-def, and VLC has issues with keeping up with the video when I skip to points - it takes about 10 seconds for VLC to catch up and display the video. Zoom Player is instantaneous. MPC isn't as fast but you don't get the annoying compression blocks like VLC gives you when skipping around a video file.
Also, on VLC, when I try playing an MP3, I have to reset the damned EQ every time the song changes - that gets annoying as hell.
Try Zoom Player. It comes with the CCCP pack and much easier to use than VLC, looks better, may not have some of the same functionality but for playback it's unbeatable. Also, the scroll-wheel zoom in/out feature rocks.
VLC still has issues on my machine where I'll hit the spacebar to pause, then hit it again and the file will 6 out of 10 times start playback at half speed.
MPC has issues with subtitles.
I don't hope they catch whomever did this.
They fucked up Deadpool, and a good chunk of this is absolutely non-canon. It's a movie made to suck money out of suckers.
Here's what really cheeses me off about movie theaters.
Yes, it's all nice that your video is being displayed in high-def on a 'digital screen' but the problem is that screen isn't digital at all, it's the projector that's digital and I *HATE* being able to see the goddamned pixels on the movie screen.
Ever hear of alternate accounts?
Well, in all the recording of music that I have done (almost always using MIDI for the drums and bass guitar, and live instrumetns for everything else,) I've not hadd any real latency issues with Cool Edit (Before Adobe bought it and screwed it up.)
Seriously. In Windows, with an SBLive! (which sucks because of noise on the line-in, but that's easily filtered out) using Cool Edit pro, doing a simultaneous playback of three or so tracks while recording a fourth never gave me any latency issues - everything stayed matched up very nicely.
Try the same thing with anything made by Realtek (the onboard sound card of choice, it seems.) You're not going to get anywhere without ASIO.
"Also, I think you are making the classic mistake of measuring time for Windows to paint your desktop image."
Slow down, yourself!!!!
I actually count a full load-up as all hard disk activity ceasing - that little red light on the front of my computer case absolutely stops blinking.
MinuetOS - from power-on to full HDD activity ceasing - 15 seconds
XP - even with more shit than you can shake a stick at installed on it, 40 seconds.
Vista and Ubuntu both take about a minute and a half. It's hard to accurately tell due to Vista's tendency to continually scan drives to index stuff.
Most onboard audio isn't made to handle low-latency stuff.
Just grab an SBLive! or Yamaha card for MIDI and never worry about MIDI latency again - no ASIO drivers needed.
Re-read what you stated and to which you made the statement to.
"You clearly haven't set up to dual boot, because if you did you would realize it takes ten times longer to boot the thing and use it for things a simple as web browsing."
I'm sorry, but I have yet to find that to be true with ANY linux distro I've used, from slackware to gentoo to mandriva to linspire to ubuntu.
Boot up times are pretty damned comparable ONCE EVERYTHING IS SET HOW YOU WANT. I *QUAD* boot my system, so I know for a FACT what you speak of is pure bullshit. I boot:
Ubuntu
MinuetOS
Vista
XP Pro
Between which is faster for booting up and usage, MinuetOs destroys every OS available today. Then comes XP, then it's tough to tell between vista and Ubuntu, mainly because I don't have a stopwatch for timing.
Your statement is pure bullshit. TEN TIMES, eh? Given vista on my Quad-boot laptop takes about a minute and thirty seconds to fully boot up and be usable, you're saying that Linux (any distro) would take FIFTEEN MINUTES. THIS IS A LIE.
"You clearly haven't set up to dual boot, because if you did you would realize it takes ten times longer to boot the thing and use it for things a simple as web browsing."
Nope, only a one second difference as I have to pick which OS I want to load.
If you want me to make a video of it, I will. I love proving people dead wrong, especially when it's obvious bullshit. Both OSes aren't running so just how is it wasting CPU cycles? It's a selection menu, if a selection causes your boot time to be TEN TIMES LONGER then YOU FUCKED UP.
I'll be more than happy to do a quick factory restore after I backup. I'll whip out my DXG HD camera and I'll record Vista's boot time before a dual boot, and after a dual-boot.
And you will stop uttering this nonsense.
I run home premium on my laptop and find it woefully under-featured compared to XP for music production.
My HD Realtek audio in Vista will NOT allow for stereo mix output, wave output, or mono output, using Realtek's provided drivers. Vista's drivers for the card are basic crap, and laggy, also minus those features.
XP's WDM drivers by default had those features, and they were FAR more valuable to me than most any other feature.
Statistics are bullshit, too. I'm reading words and not seeing EVIDENCE. Gimme some recorded proof of said behavior or malfunction or perfect operation and then I'll start listening.
California doesn't care how many dildos you have in your house - Texas does.
In California they don't fly over your property for tax assessment - in Plano, Texas, they can fly over your property and spy on you, and tax you for adding even a vegetable garden on your property.
California doesn't interfere in personal business nearly as much as Texas does.
And Plano, eh? I was born there, and lived about half of my life there before moving out to Tennessee, and then to California.