I see all these posts about, "I don't see the benefit of upgrading, other than some more capacity on the disk".
I'm not following that line of thinking... This is/. so I assume everyone here is aware that DVD's only output 480p, which is only marginally better than a television broadcast.
The obvious reason to upgrade is to get substantially more pixels, 1080i, 720p, and I would assume 1080p at some point in the future. It seems like this would be pretty clear, I'm not sure why people keep asking why the new formats would be better.
Of course if you do not own a high-definition television of a reasonably good size then you probably don't need to upgrade, atleast not for a while until these type of discs become the norm. But if you are the owner of a standard-def television you should be aware of the resolution limitation and not have to ask why other people are interested in higher resolutions.
Those of us using DLP/Plasma/LCD television that are capable of 1080i/720p/1080p and that are of reasonably large size fully understand the need for a higher quality format to become standard. For us, the DVD looks awful in comparison to what we see on our HD television channels and our Xbox360's, or the output from our PC's. And we are clearly interested in being able to purchase a movie with twice as much data in it, to more accurately represent what you would see from film at the theater.
I will be curious to see how many of the hi-def dvds that are released are actually resampled from the film or original source as is required. Obviously sony is doing this for their initial releases, but I'm sure many movies will be converted to the new format in their 480p form.
Most of the developers I work with in contracting positions know less than the average Joe, even an excel macro would be stretching their abilities. Yet they all have Senior Programmer II titles or some such thing.
It started with VB, and will continue... More and more of these non-programmers start thinking they are developers, and getting hired into positions they don't belong in.... and America's corporations are paying for it in cold hard cash and wasted time.
Hopefully there will be a new paradigm in developer evaluation sometime in the near future, so that there will be a clear metric to determine a persons ability, and thus hire-ability.
Who will be the first to get some pics of this thing dissassembled, then install Linux and MythTV on it?
Apple says mine will be here thursday, maybe it'll arrive tomorrow if they ship tonight.
I'll have the results on my blog ASAP after it arrives.... I'm sure I won't be the only one trying to use those 4 usb ports to run 4 usb TV Tuners in mythTV.
I second that. I own several Via mini-itx boards, but with lackluster CPU support that requires me to manually recompile all my kernels, and obscure chipsets that require custom drivers or simply don't work at all, I'm not so hyped on them anymore.
This mythical nano-itx was exciting at first... And I actually saw one in person at a trade-show, but it seems that perhaps that was the only one they actually built, becuase this item has never surfaced for purchase.
Get on the ball Via. You got a huge following with your Mini-ITX boards, and you've fucked it off with shitty driver support, and not delivering on promises.
I bought my new mac mini already, and I'm sure that nano-sized-core-duo board will work better than any Epia's.
It's designed to hook to your widescreen HDTV to do 1080i, hence the max supported resolution. Will it do 1080p? I'm not sure how that works over DVI.
Mine will hopefully arrive tomorrow evening or thursday, and I'll hook it via HDMI/DVI cable to my HDMI HD Television. It looks like this graphics setup was designed especially for media center, with all the acceleration in the right spots.
Anyone else understand how they sent 50,000 emails to 1,200,000 people?
Each person got 0.0416 emails?
Or did they mean that 50,000 emails were sent to each of the 1,200,000 people? That'd be 60,000,000,000 emails total...
Am I just missing something here or is there some stupidity going on with these numbers.... Artifically making the numbers seem big by including the number of AOL subscribers?
Yep it's obviously the companies fault for not having people that can make good decisions. Although that doesn't explain some of the trash-hardware we get from them.
Unfortunately it seems to be a problem that plauges all large companies, constant waste on these sorts of purchases.
I just paid 20k to dell out of my projects budget for a server that I priced out for about 9k if I built it. Obviously dell offers warranties and such against the hardware, but does anyone have an opinion on whether this is worth anything? Personally I'd go without the warranties since I could replace all the hardware in it's entirety and still be below their cost. It seems to me like IT decision makers just want to have Dell to take the responsibility for any fuck ups.
Everyone knows you can't try to make logical conjectures from anything Dell does.
Why doesn't someone tell me why Dell screws my company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars each year selling them overpriced server equipment? Or why the Dell reps attempt to bribe our IT department with cash and free laptops if they'll continue to purchase only Dell equipment.
Or howabout why our Dell contract reads that installing any non-dell equipment on our network violates our warranties? Or how we can't put non-dell ram into our desktop machines, even when Dell has no ram available to sell us.
Dell can go fuck itself. It makes all its money by ripping off companies, bribing those that do know better and lying to those that don't. Not to mention the shit hardware they deliver...
Go ahead and order 10 identical desktops from Dell. You'll get 10 boxes that look identical on the outside, but you'll be pleasantly surprised to find they've got 10 different motherboards and ram configurations in them. This is AWESOME for imaging disks! fuck dell.
To make it more personal I'll mention that my company is one of the largest fast food chains in America, so depending on how you look at it, Dell is directly responsible for high priced fast food. Revolt!
No need to dance around the point. Why don't we all just admit that we hate the myspacer's and if they are dumb enough to get themselves raped or killed becuase they post oodles of personal information on the site, then good riddance.
That is what most of us are thinking isn't it? <\NaturalSelection>
Alot of grief being given to NBC about their broadcast, but I'd point out that I was really impressed by the High Definition Simulcast this year. They seem to have solved some technical issues that their HD broadcasts had been plauged with in the past. There used to be some excess compression in their video feed, probably cuased by bandwidth limitations somewhere, but the Olympics broadcast looked spectacular.
Of course NBC is still broadcasting in 1080i instead of 720p. The interlaced broadcast certainly doesn't lend itself to the high-motion video in the olympics, but even so, the detail was impressive and watching the games was substantially more enjoyable than it would have been over 480i.
Giving things away for free, in my experience, typically pays you back pretty quickly. And in more ways than just adding points to the great Karma tally in the sky.
If you make an open source project that gets any sort of attention, you typically find yourself bombarded with job offers and requests for consulting work, which can easily turn into a consulting company, etc, etc.
Just becuase you give away something for free doesn't mean people want to use it for free, they often will pay a good fee for support, customization, etc.
Probably it is not all that malicious. More than likely it is just silly bueracracy wherein some paper-pusher just realized that document X was supposed to be classified 50 years ago, so he went ahead and did it. I doubt there was a big tin-foil-hat meeting with alot of execs where this sort of decision was made.
Your right about the sales people, they are asshats.
I don't need help doing my shopping at RadioShack, so I'd just assume they left me alone, yet they constantly chime in with random lies which I'm sure cuase big problems for customers that actually need advice/help in choosing a product.
As a recent example, I went into the local RS to try to grab an HDMI cable to hook my HDMI DVD player to the HDMI port on my television. There was a place for them on the rack, but none hanging there, so I went to ask the clerk if there were any more elsewhere in the store. He then started trying to make conversation as these RS clerks always do, and asked me what I was hooking up. When I said I was hooking up my DVD player, he responded: "What are you going to use to hook up the video? You need some component cables too?".
I explained that the video would be going through the HDMI cable, that IS what they are for after all.... But he tried to convince me that HDMI was only for audio. I went and got the cable from BestBuy btw.
I can only imagine the trouble a customer would go through if they didn't have prior knowledge of the technologies.
I don't see what it is even news that the CIA is doing things secretly. They are a frickin' secret intelligence agency, their entire job is to do things secretly. Why are we surprised that they do things without alerting the New York Times? Why do we care?
I understand that now days alot of people are rightfully concerned about anything being done without public oversight, but we have to make some compromises... and we have to let people like the CIA keep to themselves as that is the only way they can do their job.
Oh and would people please get the fuck over that google video... that's not censorship you idiots. Go add a video to google video yourself and see that there are checkboxes for what countries you want it to be available in. Whoever added it just decided to exclude america.
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I see all these posts about, "I don't see the benefit of upgrading, other than some more capacity on the disk".
/. so I assume everyone here is aware that DVD's only output 480p, which is only marginally better than a television broadcast.
I'm not following that line of thinking... This is
The obvious reason to upgrade is to get substantially more pixels, 1080i, 720p, and I would assume 1080p at some point in the future. It seems like this would be pretty clear, I'm not sure why people keep asking why the new formats would be better.
Of course if you do not own a high-definition television of a reasonably good size then you probably don't need to upgrade, atleast not for a while until these type of discs become the norm. But if you are the owner of a standard-def television you should be aware of the resolution limitation and not have to ask why other people are interested in higher resolutions.
Those of us using DLP/Plasma/LCD television that are capable of 1080i/720p/1080p and that are of reasonably large size fully understand the need for a higher quality format to become standard. For us, the DVD looks awful in comparison to what we see on our HD television channels and our Xbox360's, or the output from our PC's. And we are clearly interested in being able to purchase a movie with twice as much data in it, to more accurately represent what you would see from film at the theater.
I will be curious to see how many of the hi-def dvds that are released are actually resampled from the film or original source as is required. Obviously sony is doing this for their initial releases, but I'm sure many movies will be converted to the new format in their 480p form.
Most of the developers I work with in contracting positions know less than the average Joe, even an excel macro would be stretching their abilities. Yet they all have Senior Programmer II titles or some such thing.
It started with VB, and will continue... More and more of these non-programmers start thinking they are developers, and getting hired into positions they don't belong in.... and America's corporations are paying for it in cold hard cash and wasted time.
Hopefully there will be a new paradigm in developer evaluation sometime in the near future, so that there will be a clear metric to determine a persons ability, and thus hire-ability.
Who will be the first to get some pics of this thing dissassembled, then install Linux and MythTV on it?
Apple says mine will be here thursday, maybe it'll arrive tomorrow if they ship tonight.
I'll have the results on my blog ASAP after it arrives.... I'm sure I won't be the only one trying to use those 4 usb ports to run 4 usb TV Tuners in mythTV.
I second that. I own several Via mini-itx boards, but with lackluster CPU support that requires me to manually recompile all my kernels, and obscure chipsets that require custom drivers or simply don't work at all, I'm not so hyped on them anymore.
This mythical nano-itx was exciting at first... And I actually saw one in person at a trade-show, but it seems that perhaps that was the only one they actually built, becuase this item has never surfaced for purchase.
Get on the ball Via. You got a huge following with your Mini-ITX boards, and you've fucked it off with shitty driver support, and not delivering on promises.
I bought my new mac mini already, and I'm sure that nano-sized-core-duo board will work better than any Epia's.
It's designed to hook to your widescreen HDTV to do 1080i, hence the max supported resolution. Will it do 1080p? I'm not sure how that works over DVI.
Mine will hopefully arrive tomorrow evening or thursday, and I'll hook it via HDMI/DVI cable to my HDMI HD Television. It looks like this graphics setup was designed especially for media center, with all the acceleration in the right spots.
Well to be fair, everyone knew an intel version of the mini was coming out, but I agree it is cool, I just purchased one.
Also, at the time the story was submitted, only the HiFi was available on the apple site so far, the mini's hadn't shown up.
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roflmao.
How do you blog in Arabic? Aren't there several more characters in written arabic than there are on a normal keyboard?
Do you have some cool Arabic keyboard? Is it dvorak?
Anyone else understand how they sent 50,000 emails to 1,200,000 people?
Each person got 0.0416 emails?
Or did they mean that 50,000 emails were sent to each of the 1,200,000 people? That'd be 60,000,000,000 emails total...
Am I just missing something here or is there some stupidity going on with these numbers.... Artifically making the numbers seem big by including the number of AOL subscribers?
Yep it's obviously the companies fault for not having people that can make good decisions. Although that doesn't explain some of the trash-hardware we get from them.
Unfortunately it seems to be a problem that plauges all large companies, constant waste on these sorts of purchases.
I just paid 20k to dell out of my projects budget for a server that I priced out for about 9k if I built it. Obviously dell offers warranties and such against the hardware, but does anyone have an opinion on whether this is worth anything? Personally I'd go without the warranties since I could replace all the hardware in it's entirety and still be below their cost. It seems to me like IT decision makers just want to have Dell to take the responsibility for any fuck ups.
Everyone knows you can't try to make logical conjectures from anything Dell does.
Why doesn't someone tell me why Dell screws my company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars each year selling them overpriced server equipment? Or why the Dell reps attempt to bribe our IT department with cash and free laptops if they'll continue to purchase only Dell equipment.
Or howabout why our Dell contract reads that installing any non-dell equipment on our network violates our warranties? Or how we can't put non-dell ram into our desktop machines, even when Dell has no ram available to sell us.
Dell can go fuck itself. It makes all its money by ripping off companies, bribing those that do know better and lying to those that don't. Not to mention the shit hardware they deliver...
Go ahead and order 10 identical desktops from Dell. You'll get 10 boxes that look identical on the outside, but you'll be pleasantly surprised to find they've got 10 different motherboards and ram configurations in them. This is AWESOME for imaging disks! fuck dell.
To make it more personal I'll mention that my company is one of the largest fast food chains in America, so depending on how you look at it, Dell is directly responsible for high priced fast food. Revolt!
I don't believe you.
rofl.
No need to dance around the point. Why don't we all just admit that we hate the myspacer's and if they are dumb enough to get themselves raped or killed becuase they post oodles of personal information on the site, then good riddance.
That is what most of us are thinking isn't it?
<\NaturalSelection>
It can't even find my address, says I don't exist. And yes, the address was in perfect format which works on google and yahoo maps.
Also, doesn't it just bother you that the entire live site is a complete intentially obvious rip off of googles portal and maps?
Alot of grief being given to NBC about their broadcast, but I'd point out that I was really impressed by the High Definition Simulcast this year. They seem to have solved some technical issues that their HD broadcasts had been plauged with in the past. There used to be some excess compression in their video feed, probably cuased by bandwidth limitations somewhere, but the Olympics broadcast looked spectacular.
Of course NBC is still broadcasting in 1080i instead of 720p. The interlaced broadcast certainly doesn't lend itself to the high-motion video in the olympics, but even so, the detail was impressive and watching the games was substantially more enjoyable than it would have been over 480i.
I dont know how you didn't get modded up, rofl... Props to u man.
This is surprising, given that the media companies do seem to be taking the Goldberg approach to DRM.
Sounds like an article sponsored by the Telco companies, to build support for their networking plans to charge providers for QOS.
Use VLC. IIRC it doesn't obey any 'user prohibited actions'.
Giving things away for free, in my experience, typically pays you back pretty quickly. And in more ways than just adding points to the great Karma tally in the sky.
If you make an open source project that gets any sort of attention, you typically find yourself bombarded with job offers and requests for consulting work, which can easily turn into a consulting company, etc, etc.
Just becuase you give away something for free doesn't mean people want to use it for free, they often will pay a good fee for support, customization, etc.
Unless the boss's daughter is fat and desperate, in which case it could be a Career Building Move.
Probably it is not all that malicious. More than likely it is just silly bueracracy wherein some paper-pusher just realized that document X was supposed to be classified 50 years ago, so he went ahead and did it. I doubt there was a big tin-foil-hat meeting with alot of execs where this sort of decision was made.
Zelda plays You!
Your right about the sales people, they are asshats.
I don't need help doing my shopping at RadioShack, so I'd just assume they left me alone, yet they constantly chime in with random lies which I'm sure cuase big problems for customers that actually need advice/help in choosing a product.
As a recent example, I went into the local RS to try to grab an HDMI cable to hook my HDMI DVD player to the HDMI port on my television. There was a place for them on the rack, but none hanging there, so I went to ask the clerk if there were any more elsewhere in the store. He then started trying to make conversation as these RS clerks always do, and asked me what I was hooking up. When I said I was hooking up my DVD player, he responded: "What are you going to use to hook up the video? You need some component cables too?".
I explained that the video would be going through the HDMI cable, that IS what they are for after all.... But he tried to convince me that HDMI was only for audio. I went and got the cable from BestBuy btw.
I can only imagine the trouble a customer would go through if they didn't have prior knowledge of the technologies.
I don't see what it is even news that the CIA is doing things secretly. They are a frickin' secret intelligence agency, their entire job is to do things secretly. Why are we surprised that they do things without alerting the New York Times? Why do we care?
I understand that now days alot of people are rightfully concerned about anything being done without public oversight, but we have to make some compromises... and we have to let people like the CIA keep to themselves as that is the only way they can do their job.
Oh and would people please get the fuck over that google video... that's not censorship you idiots. Go add a video to google video yourself and see that there are checkboxes for what countries you want it to be available in. Whoever added it just decided to exclude america.