This is the same basic tech that was used to track position on the old Nintendo Power Glove, and having used it and written drivers to interface it to a PC, it isn't accurate enough to work for anything finer grained than what's shown in the video. So if you want to control something using large, sweeping, ungainly hand gestures this is the tech you want.
Exactly. Could someone point me to a company forum that DOESN'T do this (that is actually run by the company)? I spend more time on guitar forums than computer forums, but the two guitar manufacturer forums I visit occasionally, Ibanez and Ernie Ball/Music Man, do the exact same thing.... and those are general discussion forums, the Apple forum in question is a technical support forum. So why exactly would you consider a Consumer Reports review something that should be discussed on a tech support forum?
I'll keep my Speakeasy thanks. I've had it for several years, am always at least in the ballpark of my rated speeds, and have had a grand total of about 8 hours of downtime. A friend of mine has Comcast cable and his service goes down all the time. He's actually had to argue with Comcast to convince them his service is down, then wait days for the problem to be fixed. Pass. I work from home and need my connection to be reliable.
Comcast can't even get my TV cards to work consistently, I really don't want them anywhere near my internet.
So am I the only one noticing the growing trend to vilify capitalism and individualism in this country? Last I checked self-determination and free market capitalism were some of the founding principles of this country, yet I'm increasingly seeing these traits being blamed for all of society's problems. I find this highly disturbing, along with the disappearance of a major political party interested in smaller, less pervasive government.
You seem to miss the thousands of banks and financial institutions that were using it as well. OS/2 was far more prevalent in large businesses than it ever was with home users.
Just a note, there are no plans for the Saturn V booster. They were destroyed along with all other Apollo program blueprints when the program was cancelled. Which is really quite funny when you consider Orion is just a super-sized Apollo system. The only thing new is the computer technology... I read an article recently that they're concerned about the Orion heat shields because they don't know if they can replicate the process without the original workers that put them together.
Our tax dollars at work...
I've got to say of all the retro things that can be cool I don't think space technology is one of them. Not when we were damned close to a single stage to orbit fully reusable shuttle replacement ten years ago before all the programs were cancelled.
Ok given that Google does not post the content, and that they have removed copyrighted content when requested to by the copyright holder, they have been in compliance with copyright law. This is nothing but a profiteering attempt by Viacom. Now if Google had told Viacom to go screw themselves when Viacom requested they remove copyrighted content it would be a different story.
I guess I'm in a minority that believes this lawsuit is assinine and hope Viacom loses.
I have several domains registered with them using their DNS and I can tell you for a fact it was down for a few hours this afternoon, as were their account control pages. DNS is back up now, haven't tried to log in to my account.
Hmmm Vista is floundering and we need to distract the press from this and the piracy angle isn't working... what can we do... oh yeah, let's threaten open source, that should distract them.
Alternately
Hmmm Vista sales are floundering, and even I'm not stupid enough to really think it's piracy causing it, Hmmmm.... it must be that open source stuff, time to threaten to sue somebody.
It's called selective enforcement and it voids the trademark. The fact that iphone.com hasn't been targeted by Cisco means they're throwing money away on this lawsuit.
Considering MS has pretty much said they intend to kill Google as the dominant search engine, the competition is pretty obvious. Though to be more specific it's really more like MSN vs Google competing for web supremacy.
Nope. BearShare is dead and has been since the ruling last year that made this possible. The company is a shell that laid off all its developers and staff a year ago. I know this as a friend of mine was one of the main developers.
The really funny thing is the TiVo desktop does in fact work on the current version of OS X. I use it to stream music to my receiver from iTunes on my Powerbook all the time. What doesn't work is TiVoToGo. I agree it's inconvenient, but I transfer video to my Windoze box and convert the format before archiving. I still love my TiVos, as their value is in time shifting TV content for me. Archiving shows and making DVDs of things I can't buy are added bonuses for me.
Yeah, in corporate environments it's probably not as big of a deal but when you are talking 25+ of 10k+ machines that's a lot of cash you could have saved by going w/cheaper hardware and a free OS.
10k+? A loaded dual G5 with dual 30" displays doesn't even come out to 10k. Apples are a bit more expensive than Wintel machines, but they're not THAT expensive.
Nice, except the current prevailing theory is that our moon was formed by a massive impact after the primary planetary body of earth was formed. Also, Phobos doesn't fit the accretion theory that you expound in your post.
But you are most likely correct that Phobos will be dead.
A VCR lets you keep the tapes, you can't take any content off a TiVo. Once you run out of room, you have to delete the show. And you can't record and skip commercials. With a VCR you can pause during commercials.
My PC full of shows off the TiVo seems to prove you wrong. Granted it sucks that playback of.TiVo files only works on Windows at the moment, but I have a gaming box so it's not a big deal. Next step is decoding them to normal mpeg2 and throwing them on a RAID array in my basement. That will allow me to share the storage and play back the shows on any of the machines on my network, including a box hooked up to the tv.
I'm actually using Firefox to download shows, since TiVoToGo doesn't support the TiVo and PC being on different subnets. The TiVos have a built-in web server that lets you access the now playing list.
You can also fast forward through commercials at up to triple speed (yes the same as on a VCR), or edit them out once the files are on the PC. Pausing live tv shows is also a bonus.
Also, a VCR won't automatically track when a show is on and record episodes you haven't already recorded. I'm currently collecting a number of series by recording them then archiving them on my PC. Because it's a subscription and it tracks what it's recorded in that subscription, it only tapes an episode once, even if I delete that episode off the TiVo.
I'll give one more example of why TiVo sucks. I was going to work late one friday night, and called a friend of mine to record a show. He said he only had a TiVo, but would record it. He was leaving saturday morning to go home for the weekend. If he had a tape, I could have stopped to pick it up. But TiVo requires I be in his house to see it.
You can burn archived shows from the PC to a DVD using Sonic MyDVD. So if your friend had a network and some software he could have given you a DVD to take home and watch.
Lol, sorry to tell you, it'd be just as ugly if it were an Apple design. The difference is Apple wouldn't release something that looks that bad. That's not anti-Microsoft sentiment, that's simply the fact that Apple is famed for elegant industrial design.
The problem here is it looks like MS tried to emulate an Apple product look and failed miserably. It's better than the look of the original XBox, but still ugly.
Actually, out of that list Oracle really doesn't care. As long as a platform has the features to support their products and the demand is there for them Oracle is happy.
Actually, assuming you have digital cable your Comcast system shouldn't need a phone line either. They haven't informed most of their customers of this, but Comcast's cable boxes no longer use the phone to call home, communication goes over the cable line.
The last time we had the Comcast service tech at our place the guy actually told us this and we unplugged all the phone lines. Everything still works fine.
The benchmark you linked said the single processor handled dvd playback flawlessly, and played divx movies "perfectly with no slowdowns or stutters"
You're overlooking the bit that the chipset has mpeg hardware acceleration. How fast it decoded dvds has nothing to do with the overall system performance. These boxes are generally SLOW. They have hardware acceleration that does in fact make them cool for DVR applications, but that has nothing to do with using it as a desktop system.
Microsoft has been working on this for ten years. It is never going to happen. This was supposed to have been in 'Cairo' and has been a listed feature in every development OS since then. It is never going to release.
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This is the same basic tech that was used to track position on the old Nintendo Power Glove, and having used it and written drivers to interface it to a PC, it isn't accurate enough to work for anything finer grained than what's shown in the video. So if you want to control something using large, sweeping, ungainly hand gestures this is the tech you want.
Exactly. Could someone point me to a company forum that DOESN'T do this (that is actually run by the company)? I spend more time on guitar forums than computer forums, but the two guitar manufacturer forums I visit occasionally, Ibanez and Ernie Ball/Music Man, do the exact same thing.... and those are general discussion forums, the Apple forum in question is a technical support forum. So why exactly would you consider a Consumer Reports review something that should be discussed on a tech support forum?
I'll keep my Speakeasy thanks. I've had it for several years, am always at least in the ballpark of my rated speeds, and have had a grand total of about 8 hours of downtime. A friend of mine has Comcast cable and his service goes down all the time. He's actually had to argue with Comcast to convince them his service is down, then wait days for the problem to be fixed. Pass. I work from home and need my connection to be reliable.
Comcast can't even get my TV cards to work consistently, I really don't want them anywhere near my internet.
So am I the only one noticing the growing trend to vilify capitalism and individualism in this country? Last I checked self-determination and free market capitalism were some of the founding principles of this country, yet I'm increasingly seeing these traits being blamed for all of society's problems. I find this highly disturbing, along with the disappearance of a major political party interested in smaller, less pervasive government.
You seem to miss the thousands of banks and financial institutions that were using it as well. OS/2 was far more prevalent in large businesses than it ever was with home users.
Just a note, there are no plans for the Saturn V booster. They were destroyed along with all other Apollo program blueprints when the program was cancelled. Which is really quite funny when you consider Orion is just a super-sized Apollo system. The only thing new is the computer technology... I read an article recently that they're concerned about the Orion heat shields because they don't know if they can replicate the process without the original workers that put them together.
Our tax dollars at work...
I've got to say of all the retro things that can be cool I don't think space technology is one of them. Not when we were damned close to a single stage to orbit fully reusable shuttle replacement ten years ago before all the programs were cancelled.
Ok given that Google does not post the content, and that they have removed copyrighted content when requested to by the copyright holder, they have been in compliance with copyright law. This is nothing but a profiteering attempt by Viacom. Now if Google had told Viacom to go screw themselves when Viacom requested they remove copyrighted content it would be a different story.
I guess I'm in a minority that believes this lawsuit is assinine and hope Viacom loses.
I have several domains registered with them using their DNS and I can tell you for a fact it was down for a few hours this afternoon, as were their account control pages. DNS is back up now, haven't tried to log in to my account.
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Hmmm Vista is floundering and we need to distract the press from this and the piracy angle isn't working... what can we do... oh yeah, let's threaten open source, that should distract them.
Alternately
Hmmm Vista sales are floundering, and even I'm not stupid enough to really think it's piracy causing it, Hmmmm.... it must be that open source stuff, time to threaten to sue somebody.
It's called selective enforcement and it voids the trademark. The fact that iphone.com hasn't been targeted by Cisco means they're throwing money away on this lawsuit.
Yup, I would have bought one in a heartbeat if it was unlocked... but they'd have to pay me to switch to Cingular, as they are HORRIBLE in my area.
You're full of crap. the 0-60 time on the 2006 Accord Hybrid is ~6.7 seconds.
Considering MS has pretty much said they intend to kill Google as the dominant search engine, the competition is pretty obvious. Though to be more specific it's really more like MSN vs Google competing for web supremacy.
Nope. BearShare is dead and has been since the ruling last year that made this possible. The company is a shell that laid off all its developers and staff a year ago. I know this as a friend of mine was one of the main developers.
The really funny thing is the TiVo desktop does in fact work on the current version of OS X. I use it to stream music to my receiver from iTunes on my Powerbook all the time. What doesn't work is TiVoToGo. I agree it's inconvenient, but I transfer video to my Windoze box and convert the format before archiving. I still love my TiVos, as their value is in time shifting TV content for me. Archiving shows and making DVDs of things I can't buy are added bonuses for me.
10k+? A loaded dual G5 with dual 30" displays doesn't even come out to 10k. Apples are a bit more expensive than Wintel machines, but they're not THAT expensive.
But you are most likely correct that Phobos will be dead.
My PC full of shows off the TiVo seems to prove you wrong. Granted it sucks that playback of .TiVo files only works on Windows at the moment, but I have a gaming box so it's not a big deal. Next step is decoding them to normal mpeg2 and throwing them on a RAID array in my basement. That will allow me to share the storage and play back the shows on any of the machines on my network, including a box hooked up to the tv.
I'm actually using Firefox to download shows, since TiVoToGo doesn't support the TiVo and PC being on different subnets. The TiVos have a built-in web server that lets you access the now playing list.
You can also fast forward through commercials at up to triple speed (yes the same as on a VCR), or edit them out once the files are on the PC. Pausing live tv shows is also a bonus.
Also, a VCR won't automatically track when a show is on and record episodes you haven't already recorded. I'm currently collecting a number of series by recording them then archiving them on my PC. Because it's a subscription and it tracks what it's recorded in that subscription, it only tapes an episode once, even if I delete that episode off the TiVo.
I'll give one more example of why TiVo sucks. I was going to work late one friday night, and called a friend of mine to record a show. He said he only had a TiVo, but would record it. He was leaving saturday morning to go home for the weekend. If he had a tape, I could have stopped to pick it up. But TiVo requires I be in his house to see it.
You can burn archived shows from the PC to a DVD using Sonic MyDVD. So if your friend had a network and some software he could have given you a DVD to take home and watch.
The problem here is it looks like MS tried to emulate an Apple product look and failed miserably. It's better than the look of the original XBox, but still ugly.
Umh, yeah Apple dropped 10 points after a 2:1 stock split. Bad example, a 10 point drop under those conditions is unbelievably good.
Yup. I'll care when they do a Mac port.
Actually, out of that list Oracle really doesn't care. As long as a platform has the features to support their products and the demand is there for them Oracle is happy.
The last time we had the Comcast service tech at our place the guy actually told us this and we unplugged all the phone lines. Everything still works fine.
You're overlooking the bit that the chipset has mpeg hardware acceleration. How fast it decoded dvds has nothing to do with the overall system performance. These boxes are generally SLOW. They have hardware acceleration that does in fact make them cool for DVR applications, but that has nothing to do with using it as a desktop system.
Microsoft has been working on this for ten years. It is never going to happen. This was supposed to have been in 'Cairo' and has been a listed feature in every development OS since then. It is never going to release.