Even many TVs with appropriate inputs will not scale the output of old game consoles properly.
Old game consoles used non-standard hacks to get 240-line progressive video out of a 480-line interlaced display. Many newer TVs will incorrectly interpret these "240p" signals as 480i signals and attempt to deinterlace them. This not only results in terrible picture quality but also introduces a ton of lag. You need a proper upscaler to correct this.
Well, input lag exists and can be measured, that much is not up for debate. Whether you notice will depend on the severity of the lag, the types of games you play, and, to put it bluntly, how skilled you are. You can adapt to a certain degree of lag, but once it gets very bad, it will impact your ability to play the twitchy action games that were the bread and butter of the Sega Genesis. Cheap upscalers tend to add several frames of latency on top of your TV's latency. It's cumulative and can easily add up to over 100 ms, which even casual players will notice.
Any A/V-to-HDMI converter you could reasonably call "fairly cheap" is going to have horrendous amounts of input lag and be total crap for playing games on. There's a reason people spend several hundreds of dollars importing Micomsoft's XRGB-series upscalers from Japan.
I can definitely corroborate your findings. I also have an Eee 900A (with the even slower 4GB SSD) that I use to do my engineering homework when I'm away from my desktop. It can't even run Windows XP SP3 to a useful extent, but Arch + KDE 4.6 is perfectly usable with all the eye candy turned on (except blur, which is a known bug with the Intel drivers, apparently). I don't see much of a performance difference versus Gnome, either.
Three hundred dollars? I mean, yeah, I'm sure a good number of hardcore gamers will spring for it, but I can't imagine the masses are going to be too thrilled at that price point. Even if it ends up releasing at $249.99 in the States, that's still a big chunk of change for a handheld. That's the same price as the PSP was at launch, and... well, it wasn't exactly the resounding success that Nintendo is used to from its handheld systems.
I'm sure they've done their market research and everything and decided that that was the correct price point, but it seems like a pretty ballsy move, especially for Nintendo.
I find that eight characters fits the vast majority of length requirements. Occasionally I run into one that requires a non-alphanumeric character or something, but there are only a few of those that I have to deal with, and I can remember a handful of passwords for those.
Generates reasonably strong passwords that I don't have to worry about forgetting or storing. Works well for me.
http://www.hashapass.com/
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I also have an RT2500 chipset and had the same problem. I found that forcing it to 54 Mbps (i.e. with "sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M") makes all my connection and speed issues go away.
After checking, I see that you are right. I was under the impression that PMP was not part of WS2K8. However, I never said I hated Vista. Quite the contrary, actually; Vista is a step up from XP in my (not very popular) opinion. But of course I prefer 2K8 over Vista, since it's noticeably faster (even with indexing, the Desktop Experience package, Aero, etc. enabled) and doesn't treat you like quite as much of an idiot. It also includes some nice power-user features that Vista doesn't, like Hyper-V and the System Resource Manager.
It's a free download on Microsoft's website, good for a 60-day trial, extendable to 240 days. I'm a diehard Linux user, but I actually was pleasantly surprised when I tried it (not enough to keep it around, but it's probably my favorite Windows). Relatively snappy, PowerShell is built in, and no DRM crap. It's what should've been released as Windows Vista, IMO.
I didn't feel the need to get into that in my post, but you're absolutely correct. When most people talk about "mid-engine" cars they are really referring to the "rear-mid-engine" layout. "Front-mid-engine" cars are actually fairly common in rear-wheel-drive cars now. In fact, I drive one myself (Mazda RX-7).
On a mid- or rear-engine car the hood is in back, and the trunk is in front. The engine is still under the hood, it's just that the hood isn't where you're used to it being.
I signed up for a MySpace account several months ago but ended up never touching it again.
A few weeks back I went to the site for some reason or other and my inbox was full of spam. I'd done NOTHING with the account and had no information on it other than what's required to sign up, yet I still managed to have an inbox full of spam. It amazed me given that I almost never get spam even to my regular email accounts, since I'm careful about who I give them out to.
Want to know something? I was a happy Mozilla/Firefox user for almost two years and knew I would never switch back. I recommended it to all my friends, and they loved it too.
Then, one of said friends showed me what tabs were and how to use them.
Believe me, tabbed browsing is not by any means the only thing Firefox has going for it. Adding tabs to IE might keep a few users from switching, sure, but there's no way Firefox's market share would go down.
Due to scheduling issues, the Windows PowerShell, code-named Monad will not be included in Windows Vista. However, Microsoft has announced that it will be available as a separate download in the fourth quarter of 2006 (Emphasis mine.)
So it's going to be available before Vista ships, but won't be inlcuded in Vista? Methinks Microsoft might want to update Monad's release schedule, too...
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Even many TVs with appropriate inputs will not scale the output of old game consoles properly. Old game consoles used non-standard hacks to get 240-line progressive video out of a 480-line interlaced display. Many newer TVs will incorrectly interpret these "240p" signals as 480i signals and attempt to deinterlace them. This not only results in terrible picture quality but also introduces a ton of lag. You need a proper upscaler to correct this.
Well, input lag exists and can be measured, that much is not up for debate. Whether you notice will depend on the severity of the lag, the types of games you play, and, to put it bluntly, how skilled you are. You can adapt to a certain degree of lag, but once it gets very bad, it will impact your ability to play the twitchy action games that were the bread and butter of the Sega Genesis. Cheap upscalers tend to add several frames of latency on top of your TV's latency. It's cumulative and can easily add up to over 100 ms, which even casual players will notice.
Any A/V-to-HDMI converter you could reasonably call "fairly cheap" is going to have horrendous amounts of input lag and be total crap for playing games on. There's a reason people spend several hundreds of dollars importing Micomsoft's XRGB-series upscalers from Japan.
I can definitely corroborate your findings. I also have an Eee 900A (with the even slower 4GB SSD) that I use to do my engineering homework when I'm away from my desktop. It can't even run Windows XP SP3 to a useful extent, but Arch + KDE 4.6 is perfectly usable with all the eye candy turned on (except blur, which is a known bug with the Intel drivers, apparently). I don't see much of a performance difference versus Gnome, either.
Three hundred dollars? I mean, yeah, I'm sure a good number of hardcore gamers will spring for it, but I can't imagine the masses are going to be too thrilled at that price point. Even if it ends up releasing at $249.99 in the States, that's still a big chunk of change for a handheld. That's the same price as the PSP was at launch, and... well, it wasn't exactly the resounding success that Nintendo is used to from its handheld systems. I'm sure they've done their market research and everything and decided that that was the correct price point, but it seems like a pretty ballsy move, especially for Nintendo.
I find that eight characters fits the vast majority of length requirements. Occasionally I run into one that requires a non-alphanumeric character or something, but there are only a few of those that I have to deal with, and I can remember a handful of passwords for those.
Generates reasonably strong passwords that I don't have to worry about forgetting or storing. Works well for me. http://www.hashapass.com/
I also have an RT2500 chipset and had the same problem. I found that forcing it to 54 Mbps (i.e. with "sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M") makes all my connection and speed issues go away.
Craigslist doesn't have ads? News to me. I thought that was kinda the whole point.
After checking, I see that you are right. I was under the impression that PMP was not part of WS2K8. However, I never said I hated Vista. Quite the contrary, actually; Vista is a step up from XP in my (not very popular) opinion. But of course I prefer 2K8 over Vista, since it's noticeably faster (even with indexing, the Desktop Experience package, Aero, etc. enabled) and doesn't treat you like quite as much of an idiot. It also includes some nice power-user features that Vista doesn't, like Hyper-V and the System Resource Manager.
It's a free download on Microsoft's website, good for a 60-day trial, extendable to 240 days. I'm a diehard Linux user, but I actually was pleasantly surprised when I tried it (not enough to keep it around, but it's probably my favorite Windows). Relatively snappy, PowerShell is built in, and no DRM crap. It's what should've been released as Windows Vista, IMO.
I didn't feel the need to get into that in my post, but you're absolutely correct. When most people talk about "mid-engine" cars they are really referring to the "rear-mid-engine" layout. "Front-mid-engine" cars are actually fairly common in rear-wheel-drive cars now. In fact, I drive one myself (Mazda RX-7).
On a mid- or rear-engine car the hood is in back, and the trunk is in front. The engine is still under the hood, it's just that the hood isn't where you're used to it being.
I signed up for a MySpace account several months ago but ended up never touching it again.
A few weeks back I went to the site for some reason or other and my inbox was full of spam. I'd done NOTHING with the account and had no information on it other than what's required to sign up, yet I still managed to have an inbox full of spam. It amazed me given that I almost never get spam even to my regular email accounts, since I'm careful about who I give them out to.
Needless to say, I haven't been back since.
Want to know something? I was a happy Mozilla/Firefox user for almost two years and knew I would never switch back. I recommended it to all my friends, and they loved it too. Then, one of said friends showed me what tabs were and how to use them. Believe me, tabbed browsing is not by any means the only thing Firefox has going for it. Adding tabs to IE might keep a few users from switching, sure, but there's no way Firefox's market share would go down.
Due to scheduling issues, the Windows PowerShell, code-named Monad will not be included in Windows Vista. However, Microsoft has announced that it will be available as a separate download in the fourth quarter of 2006 (Emphasis mine.) So it's going to be available before Vista ships, but won't be inlcuded in Vista? Methinks Microsoft might want to update Monad's release schedule, too...