and the fact that Blu-ray includes native timing for 1080p 24fps whereas HD-DVD uses 30fps timing which may result in stuttering (according to the Wikipedia article on Blu-ray). Better HD-DVD players should be able to convert back to the original timing, however, by detecting and removing the repeated frames in the MPEG stream.
HD-DVD encodes the film on disc in 30fps, with "pulldown flags" that instruct the player to decode at 24fps. This is the same as DVD does currently. No HD-DVD player will have stuttering problems because of this, even if it's not a "better HD-DVD player."
A Blu-ray writer that can also write to all other optical disks (apart from HD-DVD of course) is coming in cheaper than the first gen cd *players* did.
Yeah, then you look at the prices of Blu-Ray media and you realize how pointless it would be to use them for storage.
And your HD-DVD-R drive will still have the advantage of being able to write extra capacity to DVD-R media if HD-DVD-R media is driven from the market;
Huh? A DVD-R has a finite capacity. You can't just magically increase it by using a different filesystem.
I do find this amusing though. Third place, how humble.
What I found interesting about that link was the description listed for google's entry:
Google - 11:54pm Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. www.google.com/ - 5k - Dec 5, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages
Where did they get that text from? It's not anywhere to be found in the source. Did they cheat? Or are they just tricky?
Advertisers are Google's customers. They are the ones who pay. Granted they treat their users well with their offerings, but in no way are you a customer of Google's.
Yeah, it's kind of like free newspapers.
I did a paper route a while back (unfortunately). But it was interesting that it wasn't as important that we consistently delivered the free weekly paper to customers as the subscribed daily paper. We were actually told to deliver the free papers to any box we could, whether they asked for it or not, as long as the stack was gone when we were done. The point was to please the advertisers that their ads were being seen by X number of people, not to actually satisfy the customers that requested and successfully received their free paper. In the case of the free paper, the customers were the advertisers, not the readers.
In Google's case, they need to at least somewhat please their visitors though, because they can't just force their website in your box.;-)
However, If you match the processors price-to-price, the E6300 matches up against the X2 4200 (both currently around $180), and there is relatively little performance difference. In other words, the price/performance metric really isn't in anyone's favor.
I'd personally rather buy an LGA775 core-capable motherboard right now than an AM2 or 939. It appears to be more future-proof, whether it's an Intel 965 or 975, or an nForce 570i or 580i. It costs more, but I'd rather buy a good one now, along with an E6400, then upgrade the CPU when the prices come down on the high end.
Why post on-topic when you can blatantly go off-topic and get modded up for it? This is a nuts and bolts Tivo article. It's not about considering one DVR solution over another. No other solution is even on the table here.
The article is about getting video files off your TiVo. GP pointed out that with MythTV (or any of the other FOSS and commercial apps), you avoid the problem of decryption altogether. Why start with an encrypted file in the first place?
I did, and I wasn't. It was a giant pain in the a** to set up and configure, it didn't work reliably, and the cost for hardware was way higher than buying a TiVo.
I already had another cable line running into my computer room. So I bought a Hauppauge card for ~$65 and SageTV for about the same. Really easy to setup, and cost about as much as 6 months of TiVo.
I bought a DVD-R/W DL burner for ~$35, and some apps for cutting out commercials, none of which would have been possible with TiVo. And I don't have to deal with DRM.
Using up to date encoders, for the vast majority of people, for the vast majority of tracks, 128 kbps is indistinguishable from source.
That's pretty sad. Most of my music is 192 kbps LAME-encoded mp3, and I can tell the difference on all 3 of my systems: 7-year old 500 Watt Pioneer component rack system, Alpine 60x4 car deck, and 200 Watt 5.1 computer system. None of those are even that new, and I could tell the difference between 192 kbps and CD, but it was a decent compromise when I had a smaller hard drive. It still sounded "good" even if not accurate. 128 kbps sounds tinny. 192 kbps doesn't sound as rich as CD, but still has fairly good range of bass and treble. With 256-320 kbps the difference would be pretty much imperceptible.
Either most people have really bad ears, really bad equipment, or really bad taste.
Well, not really. Since they designed it for interoprability, I can embed any IE functions I want to in my own applications and not have to worry about which version of IE the user will be using. The.dll has the same name, the same interface, etc, so if I'm developing an app, it's all seamless to me.
I believe it would be easier actually to have separate libraries. As it is, you have a moving target. You may need to update your app-with-embedded-IE for compatibility with the new IE7 library, whether you wanted to or not.
The majority of web developers I know develop on the mac anyways.
To put it nicely, you could not be more wrong.
Most web developers (coders), as well as web designers (graphics/layout), use Windows and test in IE6. They'd be crazy not to, considering the large 85%+ of web users that use IE, and all the tweaking necessary to get sites to look right in IE6.
Additionally, a larger percentage of web developers design sites first in Firefox compared to the rest of the population*. No more than 20-30%, but that's higher than the 10-15% of everybody else. Even then, with those developers focusing on standards, they follow up with tweaking for IE6. Meaning they still use Windows (2000/XP) for that.
"According to Griffiths, the problem with online games is there will never be a point where the player has battled the final boss, tied up the story, and can turn the computer off with a feeling of satisfaction."
I agree that the quote doesn't tell the whole story. Online games are more addictive because they're less boring than playing the AI. They also fulfill a social need. I know I like playing an FPS after work occasionally because I get to chat with generally like-minded people (and shooting people is a good stress-reliever too). Getting involved with a clan/guild/etc., you can actually get to know the people you play with and make a few friends. I'm not big on MMORPGs, but I'd imagine they're even more social.
Tomb Raider exponentially increased the value of that franchise. Most of that has to do with being cast with Angelina Jolie. But most of the rest were not-so-notable. Seems like it's pretty hit-or-miss.
Google is actually being pretty generous in providing a Google Earth/Maps API as they're going out on a limb licensing content from other vendors. There's a reason all of the images have Google logo watermarks or watermarks of the company that collected the data.
I used to work for one of the companies named in those watermarks, who provides GIS datasets of the US and a few other countries. They purchase datasets from smaller companies/localities and merge and improve them to provide data to Google, in-car nav companies, and routing for businesses. One dataset that we had purchased from a county government cost the company $30,000. Almost all of the datasets required the company to agree to a Data Usage Agreement. Every street, water, rail, etc. segment that was modified in our database was tagged with the source of the data. I designed the database that cataloged those datasets, imagery, and maps to record the restrictions of each dataset. I was not privy to our sales contracts, but I would assume sales to Google involved passing along many of the same Data Usage Agreements, for a much larger amount of data and of course a much larger sum of money.
And our work probably wasn't nearly as expensive as sending satellites into space like the data from Space Imaging. Their Data Usage Agreements are likely even more limiting, and their data more expensive. My former employer buys satellite images from Space Imaging and more accurate aerial imagery from USGS flyovers to improve the accuracy of their GIS datasets, but they do not produce or distribute the images themselves.
Google did the right thing in abiding by the contracts they signed to license the data from companies like mine. We are already fortunate enough that Google absorbs the cost of that data to provide it through their API like they do, and that Google even managed to negotiate a contract allowing its use through their API.
Disabling images likely wouldn't do anything. For one thing, the page would load with a placeholder for the missing image anyway. Also, the images are on a different server, so loading them doesn't even slow down the page you're trying to load. FlashBlock might have helped, as flash ads can cause the tables they're in not to reflow until the ad is loaded on some pages with tables. And using the IP instead of the domain name likely would have helped, because it may have been their DNS server that got overloaded.
Make a 8" square motherboard, with the same power and expandability as current machine, and you'll make cube shaped cases and built into monitor style designs more possible.
It's called a Shuttle (most popular of many brands in that form factor).
And yeah, like the other poster said, it is Mini-ATX.
That sounds like the ability to perform network installs.
Which doesn't really make sense to me, because businesses are the ones most likely to perform network installs, and they'd be more likely to use the Business/Enterprise editions.
It's not like they're shipping these things out with Counter Strike installed. These machines could become a keystone in fighting bullshit like illiteracy. They can learn the dangers of certain water sources and make better decisions on what crops grow best under conditions that these people can directly interact with.
A lot of the third world's problems would become vapor with a bit of the education that you and I take for granted.
I hope that teachers and educational institutions around the world take advantage of the availability of these machines after their introduction and can develop common curricula, translated to the appropriate language, to rapidly teach large regions of the world. It's much cheaper to send out one $100 laptop than it is to distribute dozens of books per child. It's also much easier to keep the curricula up-to-date, simply by updating the material, translating it once, and distributing it.
This opens up a lot of doors for educators to participate in "open source" teaching.
Your hard drive, assuming a recent model of at least 7200 rpm, is capable of 50-135 MB/s (see Maximum Transfer Rate. Even connected to a PCI IDE controller, it would still run at up to 133 MB/s. So it's definitely not your hard drive responsible for limiting it to 12-25 MB/s, assuming you aren't doing anything else disk intensive at the same time.
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HD-DVD encodes the film on disc in 30fps, with "pulldown flags" that instruct the player to decode at 24fps. This is the same as DVD does currently. No HD-DVD player will have stuttering problems because of this, even if it's not a "better HD-DVD player."
Yeah, then you look at the prices of Blu-Ray media and you realize how pointless it would be to use them for storage.
$7.50 each? DVD-Rs can be had for $0.20 each.
25 GB / 5 GB = 5 DVD-5's per BD-R
$0.20 * 5 = $1.00
So you can get 7 times the storage space for the same price with DVD-Rs.
Hmm...would you rather spend $20 or $140 to get 500 GB?
Huh? A DVD-R has a finite capacity. You can't just magically increase it by using a different filesystem.
And Apple fans will herald it as the best innovation since Apple invented the mp3 player...Er, wait.
What I found interesting about that link was the description listed for google's entry:
Where did they get that text from? It's not anywhere to be found in the source. Did they cheat? Or are they just tricky?
Yeah, it's kind of like free newspapers.
I did a paper route a while back (unfortunately). But it was interesting that it wasn't as important that we consistently delivered the free weekly paper to customers as the subscribed daily paper. We were actually told to deliver the free papers to any box we could, whether they asked for it or not, as long as the stack was gone when we were done. The point was to please the advertisers that their ads were being seen by X number of people, not to actually satisfy the customers that requested and successfully received their free paper. In the case of the free paper, the customers were the advertisers, not the readers.
In Google's case, they need to at least somewhat please their visitors though, because they can't just force their website in your box.
It really whips the llama's ass!
I'd personally rather buy an LGA775 core-capable motherboard right now than an AM2 or 939. It appears to be more future-proof, whether it's an Intel 965 or 975, or an nForce 570i or 580i. It costs more, but I'd rather buy a good one now, along with an E6400, then upgrade the CPU when the prices come down on the high end.
If you want to tinker, MythTV. Otherwise, SageTV, BeyondTV, GB-PVR, Mediaportal, WinMCE 2005, etc, etc.
You also need a capture card. Hauppauge, ATI, and nVidia all make good analog capture cards. DVICO Fusion and AverMedia are good digital cards.
The article is about getting video files off your TiVo. GP pointed out that with MythTV (or any of the other FOSS and commercial apps), you avoid the problem of decryption altogether. Why start with an encrypted file in the first place?
I already had another cable line running into my computer room. So I bought a Hauppauge card for ~$65 and SageTV for about the same. Really easy to setup, and cost about as much as 6 months of TiVo.
I bought a DVD-R/W DL burner for ~$35, and some apps for cutting out commercials, none of which would have been possible with TiVo. And I don't have to deal with DRM.
You (sort of) can. Go to http://www.slashdot.org/tags/foo
Click the tags that are listed, rather than clicking the arrow. If the tags were meaningful you'd get similar articles.
That's pretty sad. Most of my music is 192 kbps LAME-encoded mp3, and I can tell the difference on all 3 of my systems: 7-year old 500 Watt Pioneer component rack system, Alpine 60x4 car deck, and 200 Watt 5.1 computer system. None of those are even that new, and I could tell the difference between 192 kbps and CD, but it was a decent compromise when I had a smaller hard drive. It still sounded "good" even if not accurate. 128 kbps sounds tinny. 192 kbps doesn't sound as rich as CD, but still has fairly good range of bass and treble. With 256-320 kbps the difference would be pretty much imperceptible.
Either most people have really bad ears, really bad equipment, or really bad taste.
I believe it would be easier actually to have separate libraries. As it is, you have a moving target. You may need to update your app-with-embedded-IE for compatibility with the new IE7 library, whether you wanted to or not.
To put it nicely, you could not be more wrong.
Most web developers (coders), as well as web designers (graphics/layout), use Windows and test in IE6. They'd be crazy not to, considering the large 85%+ of web users that use IE, and all the tweaking necessary to get sites to look right in IE6.
Additionally, a larger percentage of web developers design sites first in Firefox compared to the rest of the population*. No more than 20-30%, but that's higher than the 10-15% of everybody else. Even then, with those developers focusing on standards, they follow up with tweaking for IE6. Meaning they still use Windows (2000/XP) for that.
* See W3Schools.com's stats for one example
Oooh flagellation. Sounds kinky.
I agree that the quote doesn't tell the whole story. Online games are more addictive because they're less boring than playing the AI. They also fulfill a social need. I know I like playing an FPS after work occasionally because I get to chat with generally like-minded people (and shooting people is a good stress-reliever too). Getting involved with a clan/guild/etc., you can actually get to know the people you play with and make a few friends. I'm not big on MMORPGs, but I'd imagine they're even more social.
Tomb Raider exponentially increased the value of that franchise. Most of that has to do with being cast with Angelina Jolie. But most of the rest were not-so-notable. Seems like it's pretty hit-or-miss.
I used to work for one of the companies named in those watermarks, who provides GIS datasets of the US and a few other countries. They purchase datasets from smaller companies/localities and merge and improve them to provide data to Google, in-car nav companies, and routing for businesses. One dataset that we had purchased from a county government cost the company $30,000. Almost all of the datasets required the company to agree to a Data Usage Agreement. Every street, water, rail, etc. segment that was modified in our database was tagged with the source of the data. I designed the database that cataloged those datasets, imagery, and maps to record the restrictions of each dataset. I was not privy to our sales contracts, but I would assume sales to Google involved passing along many of the same Data Usage Agreements, for a much larger amount of data and of course a much larger sum of money.
And our work probably wasn't nearly as expensive as sending satellites into space like the data from Space Imaging. Their Data Usage Agreements are likely even more limiting, and their data more expensive. My former employer buys satellite images from Space Imaging and more accurate aerial imagery from USGS flyovers to improve the accuracy of their GIS datasets, but they do not produce or distribute the images themselves.
Google did the right thing in abiding by the contracts they signed to license the data from companies like mine. We are already fortunate enough that Google absorbs the cost of that data to provide it through their API like they do, and that Google even managed to negotiate a contract allowing its use through their API.
Disabling images likely wouldn't do anything. For one thing, the page would load with a placeholder for the missing image anyway. Also, the images are on a different server, so loading them doesn't even slow down the page you're trying to load. FlashBlock might have helped, as flash ads can cause the tables they're in not to reflow until the ad is loaded on some pages with tables. And using the IP instead of the domain name likely would have helped, because it may have been their DNS server that got overloaded.
It's called a Shuttle (most popular of many brands in that form factor).
And yeah, like the other poster said, it is Mini-ATX.
That sounds like the ability to perform network installs.
Which doesn't really make sense to me, because businesses are the ones most likely to perform network installs, and they'd be more likely to use the Business/Enterprise editions.
18 is the minimum age for pornographic photos in most of the world, regardless of the country's (often lower) age of consent.
I hope that teachers and educational institutions around the world take advantage of the availability of these machines after their introduction and can develop common curricula, translated to the appropriate language, to rapidly teach large regions of the world. It's much cheaper to send out one $100 laptop than it is to distribute dozens of books per child. It's also much easier to keep the curricula up-to-date, simply by updating the material, translating it once, and distributing it.
This opens up a lot of doors for educators to participate in "open source" teaching.
Your hard drive, assuming a recent model of at least 7200 rpm, is capable of 50-135 MB/s (see Maximum Transfer Rate. Even connected to a PCI IDE controller, it would still run at up to 133 MB/s. So it's definitely not your hard drive responsible for limiting it to 12-25 MB/s, assuming you aren't doing anything else disk intensive at the same time.