Set a memory reservation for those VMs and the problem is solved. Also, not every application is a good virtualization candidate. Oversubscription works very well for mixed workloads.
Not sure why you were modded down, but I definitely disagree with you. It's a principle thing. He did nothing wrong and now a multi-million (billion?) dollar company is trying to bully him. It's pure BS. I sure hope he doesn't back down.
I wonder if he could get away with a game simply called "TES?"
Re:Joe Sixpack isn't even using his 1080p right
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 1
This is what I purchased about 6 months ago - LG . The only issue I have with it (besides the resolution) is it's matte vs. glossy. I thought I would prefer a matte screen and I was wrong. I wonder if the LED issues you are referring to are more typical to TVs as they have a much larger screen to light up/refresh/etc.
I also got a Sager laptop a couple months ago and the LED screen it came with is absolutely fabulous and the best screen I have ever owned. It puts my Sharp Aquos LCD TV (~4 years old) to shame.
Re:Joe Sixpack isn't even using his 1080p right
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 1
No. I obviously do not have "Internet" where am I at right now. Fucking douche...
Since you are the master of the Internet, please find me a quality LED monitor for a reasonable price (less than $250) at resolution that is higher than 1080P. Thanks for showing me a link to monitors of old technology that I have no interest in. But I'm probably at fault by not implicitly stating LED in my original post./sadface
Re:Joe Sixpack isn't even using his 1080p right
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 1
I just (sadly) LOLed when I read your comment. It did make me wonder though. I cranked up a few movies with VLC and apparently the black bar/aspect ratio issue is determined by the movie publisher/distributor (?). If it makes you feel any better, there is either no black bar or much smaller black bars on my 16:9 monitor vs my 16:10 monitor. So for movie watching you are in good shape. Screen real estate for general computer use is another story.
Re:Joe Sixpack isn't even using his 1080p right
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 1
What the fuck are you using those resolutions for? You must have ASTOUNDINGLY good eyesight. I'm still legal to drive without glasses (just checked this month by an optometrist) and I still find i have to go BELOW 1920x1080. If anything I'm annoyed by blurries at non-native resolution on most LCD rather than by the lack of resolution.
More windows or whatever on the screen of course. My laptop with a 15.6" screen is at 1080P and I have no issues reading text, etc. I wish I could get a better resolution on my 23 and 24" desktop monitors as well (at a reasonable price).
Re:Joe Sixpack isn't even using his 1080p right
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 1
It may be bullshit to make the average joe spend more money than he needs -- but if it gets the displays I want back in production, and in quantities large enough to drive the price down to boot, I'm all for it!
Absolutely. This is especially a problem when these non-CRT displays look like crap at their non-native resolutions. I don't want a 27" display at 1080P when it's 10" from my face.
Re:Joe Sixpack isn't even using his 1080p right
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 3, Informative
A monitor has a different use case. I'm not watching movies on my monitor terribly often, but I may do video editing. I also have 3 monitors hooked up to my PC. But I only have one big TV for watching movies/TV/console games (media center PC for the video).
Yes, monitors do have much different use cases, but they have been royally screwed over by the TV 1080P standard. I recently purchased a 2nd monitor and could not find a match for my 3 year old 24" 1920x1200 display. I had to settle for a 23" 1080P. Very irritating to say the least. I guess the one good side effect is that monitors are dirt cheap these days.
Re:Joe Sixpack isn't even using his 1080p right
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 1
This whole "let's add even MORE resolution" thing is just industry hype.
I hope this is the case. The computer monitor industry has been totally hosed by this 1080P crap.
Is the original DS region locked? My Spanish mother in law has not had any issues buying games in Spain with an American purchased NDS. She did have to buy the appropriate adapter, but other than that, no issues. I was a little perturbed to find out the NDSes can't run on 220 like every other electronic device I seem to own.
The idea behind this article is that, people are willing to pay $50+ in game, IF THE GAME IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND USE
In other words, it is a micro-payment scheme. Give the main game away for free (like say Bloons, or Farmville), then charge people for add-ons.
The 95% of people that want the game but won't pay, get what they want. A playable game for free.
The 5% of people willing to pay for extra's, will pay a lot of money for them, far exceeding the small payments they could have gotten if they charged to download/continued use of the game.
I wonder if the Smurfs game was included in this study. It is my understanding that people spent hundreds of dollars on this game. They did not "willingly" spend that money however. Must have Smurfberries.
I was thinking more along the lines of a clothes dryer. Moving heat from a specific area (the "server" room) directly outside of the house. Using a simple damper mechanism to blow hot air into the house during the winter and blow that same hot air outside during the warmer months. Not exactly air conditioning.
For reference, the only way to cancel your account, without paying for extra membership time that you're not able to use, is to cancel your account ON THE REBILL DATE but BEFORE THEY REBILL.
Yeah, I was a little surprised about that when I canceled. I'd be curious about the legality of it, but honestly I'm too lazy to care at this point.
That is true, but it took many many years for the various BIOS vendors to allow us to boot from them, which required most folks to keep that damn floppy drive around. I think the most recent computer I built (almost 3 years old now) was the first system I built without a floppy drive.
I think your time might be off a little as well. I worked at Best Buy between late 94 - early 96. I don't remember if all the new PCs we sold had CD drives at the time, but I do distinctly remember selling the hell out of those Creative Labs upgrade bundles (sound card, CDROM, crapload of software) for $400+. I don't think burners were in the $100 range at that point, but maybe just a bare bones readers.
When I finally got a "real" job in late 96, I believe that is where I was able to use my first CD burner (2x) on a Slackware workstation (using xcdroast I think?). We found a local dealer that sold 10 packs of writeable discs for ~$20 if my memory is not failing me..
Not quite. The majority of people cannot tell the difference in sound between an mp3 and the original CD. Especially when listened to through ear buds or small speakers. However, the majority of people can notice the difference between HD and non-HD video. Whether they care about it is a different matter, but it is noticeable.
I fall into this camp. Hell, half the time I'm in the mood for some music I just hit up youtube (usually several variations of the same song) and the quality is just fine for my ears. When it comes to watching a movie on the big screen LCD, I absolutely can tell a difference between blu-ray and dvd/streaming. If it's a random chick flick or whatever my wife wants to watch, I don't mind the lower quality. If it's a "blockbuster" movie with some nice FX, I have to watch the blu-ray version with the surround sound cranked up to really enjoy it.
the company's customers took to blogs and social networks in revolt, making empty threats to cancel their subscriptions.
FTFY.
I love how media consumers like to bitch about every little price increase (not that this is a small increase with NetFlix) and then threaten to leave. Make your idle threats all you want. It's become a case of the Boy Who Cried Wolf to those of us who work in such industries. You have to start actually canceling and citing the price increase as the reason why if you want any of the suits to pay attention. Otherwise, you're just "normal subscriber churn" to them.
I terminated my subscription last night and filled out their post-cancellation questionnaire. There was no option to cite that their recent price hike was the specific reason I was canceling. There was also no comment box for me to fill out and state this as well. The closest option was "I need to cut costs," which is certainly not the case. I don't think they will get the message based on the available responses unfortunately.
Look at other countries with successful, non-failing economies. Canada is a good example. They're even on the same continent. The big difference? The metric system... and the government.
Slashdot Mirror
It wasn't exactly hidden and was fully supported using the RCLI, which I agree was a major PITA to use. This made our lives easier - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/
Set a memory reservation for those VMs and the problem is solved. Also, not every application is a good virtualization candidate. Oversubscription works very well for mixed workloads.
Not sure why you were modded down, but I definitely disagree with you. It's a principle thing. He did nothing wrong and now a multi-million (billion?) dollar company is trying to bully him. It's pure BS. I sure hope he doesn't back down.
I wonder if he could get away with a game simply called "TES?"
I also got a Sager laptop a couple months ago and the LED screen it came with is absolutely fabulous and the best screen I have ever owned. It puts my Sharp Aquos LCD TV (~4 years old) to shame.
Do you not have the internet where you are? Here, if you don't count the out-of-stock ones, you have 11 monitors to choose from: Newegg is this cool new website where you can buy computer stuff
No. I obviously do not have "Internet" where am I at right now. Fucking douche...
Since you are the master of the Internet, please find me a quality LED monitor for a reasonable price (less than $250) at resolution that is higher than 1080P. Thanks for showing me a link to monitors of old technology that I have no interest in. But I'm probably at fault by not implicitly stating LED in my original post. /sadface
I just (sadly) LOLed when I read your comment. It did make me wonder though. I cranked up a few movies with VLC and apparently the black bar/aspect ratio issue is determined by the movie publisher/distributor (?). If it makes you feel any better, there is either no black bar or much smaller black bars on my 16:9 monitor vs my 16:10 monitor. So for movie watching you are in good shape. Screen real estate for general computer use is another story.
What the fuck are you using those resolutions for? You must have ASTOUNDINGLY good eyesight. I'm still legal to drive without glasses (just checked this month by an optometrist) and I still find i have to go BELOW 1920x1080. If anything I'm annoyed by blurries at non-native resolution on most LCD rather than by the lack of resolution.
More windows or whatever on the screen of course. My laptop with a 15.6" screen is at 1080P and I have no issues reading text, etc. I wish I could get a better resolution on my 23 and 24" desktop monitors as well (at a reasonable price).
It may be bullshit to make the average joe spend more money than he needs -- but if it gets the displays I want back in production, and in quantities large enough to drive the price down to boot, I'm all for it!
Absolutely. This is especially a problem when these non-CRT displays look like crap at their non-native resolutions. I don't want a 27" display at 1080P when it's 10" from my face.
A monitor has a different use case. I'm not watching movies on my monitor terribly often, but I may do video editing. I also have 3 monitors hooked up to my PC. But I only have one big TV for watching movies/TV/console games (media center PC for the video).
Yes, monitors do have much different use cases, but they have been royally screwed over by the TV 1080P standard. I recently purchased a 2nd monitor and could not find a match for my 3 year old 24" 1920x1200 display. I had to settle for a 23" 1080P. Very irritating to say the least. I guess the one good side effect is that monitors are dirt cheap these days.
This whole "let's add even MORE resolution" thing is just industry hype.
I hope this is the case. The computer monitor industry has been totally hosed by this 1080P crap.
Is the original DS region locked? My Spanish mother in law has not had any issues buying games in Spain with an American purchased NDS. She did have to buy the appropriate adapter, but other than that, no issues. I was a little perturbed to find out the NDSes can't run on 220 like every other electronic device I seem to own.
Yeah, those PS3 level graphics will be sweet on my phone for the 5 minutes the battery lasts.
The idea behind this article is that, people are willing to pay $50+ in game, IF THE GAME IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND USE
In other words, it is a micro-payment scheme. Give the main game away for free (like say Bloons, or Farmville), then charge people for add-ons.
The 95% of people that want the game but won't pay, get what they want. A playable game for free.
The 5% of people willing to pay for extra's, will pay a lot of money for them, far exceeding the small payments they could have gotten if they charged to download/continued use of the game.
I wonder if the Smurfs game was included in this study. It is my understanding that people spent hundreds of dollars on this game. They did not "willingly" spend that money however. Must have Smurfberries.
I was thinking more along the lines of a clothes dryer. Moving heat from a specific area (the "server" room) directly outside of the house. Using a simple damper mechanism to blow hot air into the house during the winter and blow that same hot air outside during the warmer months. Not exactly air conditioning.
I'm sure it would be trivial to create a system that moves the heat from inside of the house to outside of the house.
Umm. Google "Blockbuster" and click the 2nd sponsored ad - here.
For reference, the only way to cancel your account, without paying for extra membership time that you're not able to use, is to cancel your account ON THE REBILL DATE but BEFORE THEY REBILL.
Yeah, I was a little surprised about that when I canceled. I'd be curious about the legality of it, but honestly I'm too lazy to care at this point.
That is true, but it took many many years for the various BIOS vendors to allow us to boot from them, which required most folks to keep that damn floppy drive around. I think the most recent computer I built (almost 3 years old now) was the first system I built without a floppy drive.
I even found a link. Looks like $400 - $600 at the time (late 1994), depending on the bundle - http://www.thefreelibrary.com/CREATIVE+INTRODUCES+DIGITAL+SCHOOLHOUSE%3A+FIRST+'EDUCATION+ONLY'...-a015739809
When I finally got a "real" job in late 96, I believe that is where I was able to use my first CD burner (2x) on a Slackware workstation (using xcdroast I think?). We found a local dealer that sold 10 packs of writeable discs for ~$20 if my memory is not failing me..
Not quite. The majority of people cannot tell the difference in sound between an mp3 and the original CD. Especially when listened to through ear buds or small speakers. However, the majority of people can notice the difference between HD and non-HD video. Whether they care about it is a different matter, but it is noticeable.
I fall into this camp. Hell, half the time I'm in the mood for some music I just hit up youtube (usually several variations of the same song) and the quality is just fine for my ears. When it comes to watching a movie on the big screen LCD, I absolutely can tell a difference between blu-ray and dvd/streaming. If it's a random chick flick or whatever my wife wants to watch, I don't mind the lower quality. If it's a "blockbuster" movie with some nice FX, I have to watch the blu-ray version with the surround sound cranked up to really enjoy it.
the company's customers took to blogs and social networks in revolt, making empty threats to cancel their subscriptions.
FTFY.
I love how media consumers like to bitch about every little price increase (not that this is a small increase with NetFlix) and then threaten to leave. Make your idle threats all you want. It's become a case of the Boy Who Cried Wolf to those of us who work in such industries. You have to start actually canceling and citing the price increase as the reason why if you want any of the suits to pay attention. Otherwise, you're just "normal subscriber churn" to them.
I terminated my subscription last night and filled out their post-cancellation questionnaire. There was no option to cite that their recent price hike was the specific reason I was canceling. There was also no comment box for me to fill out and state this as well. The closest option was "I need to cut costs," which is certainly not the case. I don't think they will get the message based on the available responses unfortunately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw
Then how was Walmart $.50 cheaper than Walgreen's if they don't carry that item?!?
Look at other countries with successful, non-failing economies. Canada is a good example. They're even on the same continent. The big difference? The metric system... and the government.
And more money taken out of every paycheck....