and when someone, for whatever reason, wants audio to go over the HDMI cable. This would be useful if someone has a receiver that supports HDMI and has no authentication problems with HDCP, but if your receiver only has optical/coaxial input, you're going to have to have another cable going from TV to the receiver. In the case of my HDTV, the TV doesn't have any sort of digital sound output, so you'd only get 2-channel analog when using sound over HDMI.
I think the subset of people that actually use a TV's internal speakers (opposed to an external receiver) and care about quality enough to use HDMI instead of component are very small.
And thanks to 5C, you can't get every channel. They do have to provide Firewire, and they usually do, but often times lots of content is protected with 5C. 5C basically sets a code that defines what you can do with a given set of content (copy freely, copy once, no copies, etc.) With a D-VHS (digital VHS) HDTV recorder, you will be able to record copy freely and copy once material.
On my Time Warner cable system, all the channels that are copy freely are available freely, either via unencrypted digital cable (and those are HD over the air channels anyway) or via analog cable. The analog channels end up looking better at least when using an interlaced CRT because of the high compression used on the digital versions of the channels.
I'm not aware of any crack or workaround for these limitations.
User on Vista: Is Windows Explorer supposed to crash this much?
That was the first and primary reason why I didn't bother giving Vista a chance for more than a few hours. Just typing in the name of another computer in the Run box caused it to crash; I got to \\e before Explorer locked up and then crashed.
That is specifically prohibited by Visa/MasterCard regulations. If the restaurant in question is still doing this, you should report them and send them copies of the relevant pages from the Visa and MasterCard merchant manuals (which are available on the Internet).
I'm not sure about charging without authorization, but I know that my bank will allow anyone, anywhere, for any reason to put a hold on my card for any amount.
Putting a hold is actually placing an authorization without submitting the charge for the full amount of the authorization.
To charge without authorization, the merchant simply needs to skip the authorization process and submit the charge.
I've had to call more than once to have overdraft charges reversed after some company placed a hold for much more than my charge amount on the account
I'm not sure why they would charge an overdraft for an authorization. My bank does not actually deduct funds from the account balance until the charge is submitted and received. (They display it as "Pending"). Chase credit cards let you authorize an amount that would put a credit card over the limit (and only when the charge is submitted and the balance is greater than the limit do they charge an overlimit fee). PayPal debit cards clearly place a "temporary hold" of any money in the account needed to meet the authorization amount, but do not actually mark this money as being no longer in the account until the transaction has been completed and the charge submitted.
They can't charge your card without your authorization, right? RIGHT?!
Sure they can! Authorizing a charge is different from actually submitting the charge. Normally the authorization is obtained immediately and then the actual charge is submitted later. For online orders, this should be when the order ships (per Visa/MasterCard merchant guidelines). A merchant can submit a charge/receipt with a minimal amount of information without first getting authorization and it should normally be accepted. Of course, this makes for an easy chargeback...
What do two or more generations old Intel IGPs and ATI graphics cards have to do with the Intel IGP sold in most laptops and desktops with Intel integrated graphics within the past year?
Intel chipsets 945 and greater will run Aero (GMA950, X3000) as will recent ATI/nVidia integrated graphics and the bottom-line ATI/nVidia cards from the past two to four generations (X?00/X1?00 and 5200+). The higher 9x00 series cards work too.
It doesn't require a mid-range video card. Only if you want to run the Aero Glass interface do you need something decent; and even then, any recent ATI or nVidia card will suffice or even the Intel GMA 950 integrated chip that has been shipping on even laptops for over a year.
Except Vista's new interface runs fine with all the fancy 3D effects on "underpowered" integrated Intel graphics solutions. When not charging the battery, and with the screen at full brightness and CPU at full speed, my laptop with the Intel GMA950 draws about 20-25w.
- The Wiinja chip was announced first. - No chip is actually shipping yet to end users -- CycloWiz has however been shipped for review to MaxConsole. Foundmy lists it as being in stock starting Thursday. - The CycloWiz appears to be selling for around $40, not $50. - The CycloWiz (NOT CychloWiz) is NOT firmware upgradeable. - The WiiKey is reportedly firmware upgradeable.
The Wiinja requires wires to older it in, while the CycloWiz has a "quicksolder" interface that lets you directly solder the chip to the motherboard. (I think I'd prefer wires -- but you can still use wires with the quicksolder interface.) The WiiKey supports both, apparently -- I assume this means that you can solder the chip using wires if you prefer and that the chip facilitates this easily by having pads for soldering wires directly.
my laptop's GMA 950 and my HTPC's GMA 900 both have never been the cause of a driver crash. I can't say that about the ATI 9600 in my old desktop or the X1400 in my old laptop. the GMA 900 outputs 1080p (1920x1080) to my TV and the GMA 950 in my laptop outputs two 1280x1024 (total 2560x1024) displays.
My current laptop is rated for 3/4 the battery life when fitted with an ATI X1300 GPU.
Has anyone done any testing comparing different virtualization products recently? I have looked in the past, but I could never find anything scientific enough to be considered as a reliable source.
HSDPA is here and I'm using it. Cingular does a horrible job of reporting their covered markets. For example, Canton OH has been covered since (at least) November 2006, yet their website still does not report any coverage in this area. The Cingular store has updated coverage maps that clearly show the Canton area covered with 3G and I have used the network personally.
Qualcomm still wins: my Samsung Blackjack has a Qualcomm HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE/GSM chipset. That's right; a phone with a Qualcomm WCDMA chipset operating on Cingular's GSM network with a SIM card. In fact, you can interact with it using Qualcomm's own drivers, using Qualcomm's service tools, and open-source tools like BitPim -- all in addition to using the standard Windows CE ActiveSync tools.
From what I understand, at least a few -- perhaps most, or even all -- 3G GSM phones are using Qualcomm WCDMA chipsets.
Most people use PDA phones or Smartphones (Treo, T-Mobile MDA, Cingular 2125/3125/8125/8525, Motorola MPx, Samsung Blackjack, HP iPAQ hw6..., Motorola Q)
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and when someone, for whatever reason, wants audio to go over the HDMI cable. This would be useful if someone has a receiver that supports HDMI and has no authentication problems with HDCP, but if your receiver only has optical/coaxial input, you're going to have to have another cable going from TV to the receiver. In the case of my HDTV, the TV doesn't have any sort of digital sound output, so you'd only get 2-channel analog when using sound over HDMI.
I think the subset of people that actually use a TV's internal speakers (opposed to an external receiver) and care about quality enough to use HDMI instead of component are very small.
On my Time Warner cable system, all the channels that are copy freely are available freely, either via unencrypted digital cable (and those are HD over the air channels anyway) or via analog cable. The analog channels end up looking better at least when using an interlaced CRT because of the high compression used on the digital versions of the channels.
I'm not aware of any crack or workaround for these limitations.
That was the first and primary reason why I didn't bother giving Vista a chance for more than a few hours. Just typing in the name of another computer in the Run box caused it to crash; I got to \\e before Explorer locked up and then crashed.
I remember reading that early Xbox 360 devkits were actually Apple G5 machines, and I believe they were said to be running Windows 2000.
That is specifically prohibited by Visa/MasterCard regulations. If the restaurant in question is still doing this, you should report them and send them copies of the relevant pages from the Visa and MasterCard merchant manuals (which are available on the Internet).
Putting a hold is actually placing an authorization without submitting the charge for the full amount of the authorization.
To charge without authorization, the merchant simply needs to skip the authorization process and submit the charge.
I'm not sure why they would charge an overdraft for an authorization. My bank does not actually deduct funds from the account balance until the charge is submitted and received. (They display it as "Pending"). Chase credit cards let you authorize an amount that would put a credit card over the limit (and only when the charge is submitted and the balance is greater than the limit do they charge an overlimit fee). PayPal debit cards clearly place a "temporary hold" of any money in the account needed to meet the authorization amount, but do not actually mark this money as being no longer in the account until the transaction has been completed and the charge submitted.
Sure they can! Authorizing a charge is different from actually submitting the charge. Normally the authorization is obtained immediately and then the actual charge is submitted later. For online orders, this should be when the order ships (per Visa/MasterCard merchant guidelines). A merchant can submit a charge/receipt with a minimal amount of information without first getting authorization and it should normally be accepted. Of course, this makes for an easy chargeback...
What do two or more generations old Intel IGPs and ATI graphics cards have to do with the Intel IGP sold in most laptops and desktops with Intel integrated graphics within the past year?
Intel chipsets 945 and greater will run Aero (GMA950, X3000) as will recent ATI/nVidia integrated graphics and the bottom-line ATI/nVidia cards from the past two to four generations (X?00/X1?00 and 5200+). The higher 9x00 series cards work too.
It doesn't require a mid-range video card.
Only if you want to run the Aero Glass interface do you need something decent; and even then, any recent ATI or nVidia card will suffice or even the Intel GMA 950 integrated chip that has been shipping on even laptops for over a year.
Except Vista's new interface runs fine with all the fancy 3D effects on "underpowered" integrated Intel graphics solutions. When not charging the battery, and with the screen at full brightness and CPU at full speed, my laptop with the Intel GMA950 draws about 20-25w.
- The Wiinja chip was announced first.
- No chip is actually shipping yet to end users -- CycloWiz has however been shipped for review to MaxConsole. Foundmy lists it as being in stock starting Thursday.
- The CycloWiz appears to be selling for around $40, not $50.
- The CycloWiz (NOT CychloWiz) is NOT firmware upgradeable.
- The WiiKey is reportedly firmware upgradeable.
The Wiinja requires wires to older it in, while the CycloWiz has a "quicksolder" interface that lets you directly solder the chip to the motherboard. (I think I'd prefer wires -- but you can still use wires with the quicksolder interface.)
The WiiKey supports both, apparently -- I assume this means that you can solder the chip using wires if you prefer and that the chip facilitates this easily by having pads for soldering wires directly.
my laptop's GMA 950 and my HTPC's GMA 900 both have never been the cause of a driver crash. I can't say that about the ATI 9600 in my old desktop or the X1400 in my old laptop. the GMA 900 outputs 1080p (1920x1080) to my TV and the GMA 950 in my laptop outputs two 1280x1024 (total 2560x1024) displays.
My current laptop is rated for 3/4 the battery life when fitted with an ATI X1300 GPU.
Those effects are pre-rendered. That window isn't movable.
Has anyone done any testing comparing different virtualization products recently? I have looked in the past, but I could never find anything scientific enough to be considered as a reliable source.
That would be the Windows Vista Aero Basic theme, which does not require 3D acceleration.
HSDPA is here and I'm using it. Cingular does a horrible job of reporting their covered markets. For example, Canton OH has been covered since (at least) November 2006, yet their website still does not report any coverage in this area. The Cingular store has updated coverage maps that clearly show the Canton area covered with 3G and I have used the network personally.
My Samsung Blackjack has a 200MHz TI ARM processor and manages to render pages much faster on HSDPA than on EDGE.
1xRTT has less latency, which makes for a seemingly faster experience in most cases.
Qualcomm still wins: my Samsung Blackjack has a Qualcomm HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE/GSM chipset. That's right; a phone with a Qualcomm WCDMA chipset operating on Cingular's GSM network with a SIM card. In fact, you can interact with it using Qualcomm's own drivers, using Qualcomm's service tools, and open-source tools like BitPim -- all in addition to using the standard Windows CE ActiveSync tools.
From what I understand, at least a few -- perhaps most, or even all -- 3G GSM phones are using Qualcomm WCDMA chipsets.
Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET did not make use of the dollar sign, at least in any regular fashion.
This won't happen if you don't give companies enough information to touch your credit report.
Anyone have any ideas? How do companies match records in a credit report?
Most people use PDA phones or Smartphones (Treo, T-Mobile MDA, Cingular 2125/3125/8125/8525, Motorola MPx, Samsung Blackjack, HP iPAQ hw6..., Motorola Q)
Palm makes the Treo line.
Do the drivers really have to be signed by Microsoft/by a Microsoft approved signer, or can they be self-signed / can you add your own CA?
I would advise using ASP.NET in mono (if you can get it to work, I have had difficulties in the past) or Java.
Java is actually *used* by a great number of people, compared to the rabid fanboyism and hype surrounding some other technologies.
Whatever you do, don't use MySQL. PostgreSQL is many times better.
You're retarded.
Well, my friend has a Cingular 8525 (HTC TyTn) with HSDPA and gets similar results -- slower speeds on Bluetooth than via USB/the device itself.
His laptop has Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, but his phone does not have EDR (just Bluetooth 2.0). Seems like my devices don't want to use EDR for some reason.