Re:Eh... I Care, and so does everyone else.
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What 1.7Ghz Is Like
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who cares about the MHz?...the MHz doesn't make that much difference...At this point, there isn't really much difference between a few hundred MHz.
I care about the Mhz. With a faster CPU my computer will boot faster, compressing my MP3's from the CDs I buy will take less time, compiling my programs will take less time, and as yet another bonus I'll get better framerates in my games.
Let us not kid ourselves: Everyone wants faster computers.
I don't know, under 2k, my parallel zip is slow as shit and reading from the drive consumes nearly 95% of cpu resources.
This is because by default win2k does not assign an IRQ to the parralel port. Go to the port properties, tell it to use an IRQ and it will use less CPU and be alot faster.
This helps alot for printing too...
Andre060
Perhaps you have a bad *floppy drive*?
Same thing happend to me.. then I noticed my brother, who bought the same diskettes I did in the same store, never had a problem with them... So I changed by Teac floppy for a Matsushita (panasonic) one and bam! problem gone... never had a floppy problem since.
Andre060
90% of DVD players, due to the makeup of the laser, can't play CD-Rs
Bullshit!
Go to your local Future Shop (or Circuit City for the americans reading this) with a CD-R and try it out... The Sony unit mentionned is one of the only DVD players I have seen that cannot play CD-R audio discs..
CDRW is another story completely, mind you, but since the great majority of units (including others by sony) play CD-R, it seems odd that they wouldn't play them at all...
Is there really a point to doing this? Just get yourself some network cards with some copper or fiber cable - you'll get alot further and it'll cost you alot less...
Re:Get automatically sorted out
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Spambot Poisoner
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If you do this.. not only will you fool spambots, but you will fool *humans* as well!!
Personally, I always remove nospam from emails I'm trying to send... how would I know yours is genuine?
>On a command line, even after a DIR or LS, you still have to type the name of the viewer app (and potentially its full path) as well as the name of the document, even though it's RIGHT THERE, in front of you, you want to point to it and grab it
Not true.. under the MS command line, you can use "start document.ext" and it will do the same thing as double-clicking document.ext.
Divx movies have.avi extentions because they are just that - AUDIO VIDEO INTERLEAVED files.
The.AVI format does not require a file to be encoded in one codec or another. You can use any combination of avi-compatible audio & video codecs registered under the system (3 cheers for COM).
Mpeg1 and mpeg2 files are different - there is already file structures defined that are standardized for all operating systems. Since there is yet (to my knowledge) a standardized file structure for mpeg4 video, Microsoft took things in their own hands and just created an mpeg4 codec for windows media.
They don't care about other operating systems. As far as they are concerned, they have the AVI structure already and it works fine. Why bother re-creating the wheel?
Of course some time soon someone should/will create a cross-platform standard... but for now, only windows users get to enjoy pirated DiVX movies.
Never put sales & marketing next to R&D. Especially such departments with pple who just love to do conference calls on the speakerphone full blast.
AARRHG!
Also: Xerox color printers that emit 18khz sounds that apparently I can only hear are very bad. Anyone know of any good noise-cancelling headphones capable of filtering such things out?
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I care about the Mhz. With a faster CPU my computer will boot faster, compressing my MP3's from the CDs I buy will take less time, compiling my programs will take less time, and as yet another bonus I'll get better framerates in my games.
Let us not kid ourselves: Everyone wants faster computers.
I don't know, under 2k, my parallel zip is slow as shit and reading from the drive consumes nearly 95% of cpu resources.
This is because by default win2k does not assign an IRQ to the parralel port. Go to the port properties, tell it to use an IRQ and it will use less CPU and be alot faster.
This helps alot for printing too...
Andre060
Perhaps you have a bad *floppy drive*? Same thing happend to me.. then I noticed my brother, who bought the same diskettes I did in the same store, never had a problem with them... So I changed by Teac floppy for a Matsushita (panasonic) one and bam! problem gone... never had a floppy problem since.
Andre060
Bullshit!
Go to your local Future Shop (or Circuit City for the americans reading this) with a CD-R and try it out... The Sony unit mentionned is one of the only DVD players I have seen that cannot play CD-R audio discs..
CDRW is another story completely, mind you, but since the great majority of units (including others by sony) play CD-R, it seems odd that they wouldn't play them at all...Congrats! Your www-scorch is awesome!!! very addictive... I just spent 30 minutes on it, I can get hits in 1-2 shots now :-)
Andre
Is there really a point to doing this? Just get yourself some network cards with some copper or fiber cable - you'll get alot further and it'll cost you alot less...
If you do this.. not only will you fool spambots, but you will fool *humans* as well!!
Personally, I always remove nospam from emails I'm trying to send... how would I know yours is genuine?
Andre060
>On a command line, even after a DIR or LS, you still have to type the name of the viewer app (and potentially its full path) as well as the name of the document, even though it's RIGHT THERE, in front of you, you want to point to it and grab it
Not true.. under the MS command line, you can use "start document.ext" and it will do the same thing as double-clicking document.ext.
What resolution is your projector capable of?
HDTV is higher res than most monitors on the market today, let alone projectors...
I guess the card could have some sort of scale-down.. but still, you'd be losing pixels. I'd prefer a nice 16x9 HDTV set.
Take it from me..the best thing to do when you talk to tech support people like that is to LIE... "yes, im running windows..." Andre
Believe it or not there are alot of nutcases out there who actually don't care about the environment:
They claim that "God gave us the earth to live in and use. He won't let anything happen to it or us" (paraphrased).
Pretty scary....
Andre
Divx movies have .avi extentions because they are just that - AUDIO VIDEO INTERLEAVED files.
.AVI format does not require a file to be encoded in one codec or another. You can use any combination of avi-compatible audio & video codecs registered under the system (3 cheers for COM).
... but for now, only windows users get to enjoy pirated DiVX movies.
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Mpeg1 and mpeg2 files are different - there is already file structures defined that are standardized for all operating systems. Since there is yet (to my knowledge) a standardized file structure for mpeg4 video, Microsoft took things in their own hands and just created an mpeg4 codec for windows media.
They don't care about other operating systems. As far as they are concerned, they have the AVI structure already and it works fine. Why bother re-creating the wheel?
Of course some time soon someone should/will create a cross-platform standard
AARRHG!
Also: Xerox color printers that emit 18khz sounds that apparently I can only hear are very bad. Anyone know of any good noise-cancelling headphones capable of filtering such things out?
DCOM has already been ported to linux by Software AG.