and thats not even true in some cases, some players just seem to ignore the HDCP process from my exp (mostly weird brands made in places like china and Indonesia)
this was assumed to be true for a long time, but I have had a couple reliable sources tell me 1080p is quite doable over a proper component setup, note, i said component not composite, I have been told its "possible" to use composite to push 1080p BUT its not reliable in real world use because it requires very high grade cabling and shielding or you endup with signal noise.
Component video is fine IF your equipment and cables are good, if not, dont bother.
HDMI has some advantages, it can carry both digital and analog data, you dont need pricy high grade cables(we have tested this ourselves with cheap monoprice cables vs monster and other high grade cables, no diff at all...)
the biggest problem is that not all devices seem to properly comply with HDCP standards so they will at times not work...
a friend of mine has a brand new 56" plasma tv(beautiful unit, actually does 1920x1200 when hooked to a computer rather then 1080p) BUT his receiver dosnt see it as having HDCP....his ps3 however has no issue with it....from what we can find, hes going to have to buy a new box OR use a hacked firmware on his receiver to get around the problem....
personally I wish they had gone with the cat5e/cat6 idea would have made custom cables easier to make...and could easily move as much or more data then HDMI can....(i have used dvi-d to cat5e converter boxes to move data to HD projectors on a few jobs, they work great, even up to 2,048 × 1,536 (need good quality DVI cables and proper powered converters, will not work over a computer network, MUST be END TO END direct line)
still, Im really hoping display port catches on for PC, I like the demo's i have seen (in person) of what it can do....amazing stuff :D
no no no, your not seeing republican logic, PBS is a public service paid for by tax payer dollars and its not making rich people like Rupert Murdock money, so it must be defunded till it learns that it must whore itself out and run itself as a private "free market" business.
free market saves all....or didnt you get the memo.....
you cant put all the blame for the HDCP issues at the feet of companies like Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic/National/Quasar), Philips, Silicon Image, and Toshiba. having read some about how the standard become a standard and got approval by big content, many of them didnt like some aspects of the DRM employed, some didnt like any of it at all, but they wanted an easy to use convenient reliable connection type that the average user couldnt screw up(unlike component connections..)
Im not a fan of DRM or for that matter HDMI, but, it is better then svideo or a few other options I saw being pushed for the same job.....
I still say they should have just gone with the use of cat5e or cat6 with a modified clip or notching or something.....
anyway, HDCP has been a mess since it was designed by intel, even my friends who work for intel hate it
yeah but they also take up a hell of alot of space, those first editions that are worth alot are unlikely to be taken someplace to read for fear or loosing them.
hard covers are a bitch to carry around and read on the go(try reading one on a moving buss around here.....follow the moving letters....lol)
a cheap ebook reader could hold thousands of books, take up little space and is alot liter then a hard cover.
my issue with paperbacks(full price ones) is that they are fragile compared to hard covers, can tell you how many paperbacks I have had to re-spine or re-heat the spine on...real pain in the arse.....stupid brittle glue....(i think its intentional, they want you to buy another copy or 2 because they fall apart so easy)
no, honestly, I think a good ebook reader is more optimal for on the go, where a nice book shelf is nice at home....
(note: till my ex-gf I had thousands of books, down to 100 or less now, she destroyed so many before I found she had emptied boxes of books and tossed them into the neighbors pool....shes lucky shes alive...)
yeah but they also take up a hell of alot of space, those first editions that are worth alot are unlikely to be taken someplace to read for fear or loosing them.
hard covers are a bitch to carry around and read on the go(try reading one on a moving buss around here.....follow the moving letters....lol)
a cheap ebook reader could hold thousands of books, take up little space and is alot liter then a hard cover.
my issue with paperbacks(full price ones) is that they are fragile compared to hard covers, can tell you how many paperbacks I have had to re-spine or re-heat the spine on...real pain in the arse.....stupid brittle glue....(i think its intentional, they want you to buy another copy or 2 because they fall apart so easy)
no, honestly, I think a good ebook reader is more optimal for on the go, where a nice book shelf is nice at home....
(note: till my ex-gf I had thousands of books, down to 100 or less now, she destroyed so many before I found she had emptied boxes of books and tossed them into the neighbors pool....shes lucky shes alive...)
yeah but they also take up a hell of alot of space, those first editions that are worth alot are unlikely to be taken someplace to read for fear or loosing them.
hard covers are a bitch to carry around and read on the go(try reading one on a moving buss around here.....follow the moving letters....lol)
a cheap ebook reader could hold thousands of books, take up little space and is alot liter then a hard cover.
my issue with paperbacks(full price ones) is that they are fragile compared to hard covers, can tell you how many paperbacks I have had to re-spine or re-heat the spine on...real pain in the arse.....stupid brittle glue....(i think its intentional, they want you to buy another copy or 2 because they fall apart so easy)
no, honestly, I think a good ebook reader is more optimal for on the go, where a nice book shelf is nice at home....
(note: till my ex-gf I had thousands of books, down to 100 or less now, she destroyed so many before I found she had emptied boxes of books and tossed them into the neighbors pool....shes lucky shes alive...)
you must still be installing XP for them, I have yet to see these issues even with up-to-date vista that I use to see ALL THE TIME with XP and 9x.
and for the kind of use your talking about, Linux is great, as long as they have no need to install their own software its perfect, and as long as they dont have to send/receive files and try and find them again, its great.
I say this because, most apps and services(web based) dont have instructions for finding where you downloaded something on *nix, and also dont have instructions on how to find a file they want to attach to an email.
I use Vector Linux for most of the old people situations where I find linux to be a viable option, its light, fast and dosnt break easily, and it comes with enough built in software for them to do whatever they want to do without need of me adding extra software.
For somebody with 7, and a system that can handle it, I wouldnt dream of replacing it with linux, I would just do a clean install, stick a good AV on the system as well as some anti-malware protection and crank UAC up to max or just below.
I have a few people I did the above for just after 7 came out, these are people who use to pay me at least every 2 months to reinstall windows for them(XP) because they managed to mess it up, with 7 they have had no problems outside getting use to the changes to the configuration options(screensaver and such)
I also have old clients who have vista on laptops or decent desktops that have had no issues since a clean install of an updated (sp1 or better as a starting point) vista.
I cant tell you how upset some of them where with a local shop that pressured them into letting them install linux(kbuntu), it didnt suit their needs from the system(enlarge that was the need for ms office, no libre/open office dont count in this case, but the shop was really pushy, so pushy they begged me to go back into doing support for them despite the fact I had tried to retire from doing computer repair work(because i was sick of doing the same thing for the same people over and over and over.....and over and over and over......and over and over and over.....
heres my rule, if its a system with XP and it really cant run 7 efficently/isnt worth buying 7 for, then I install vector, if th systems vista or 7 and runs them well, I do a wipe and clean install from a clean windows disk to get rid of the crapware that OEM and even "custom" systems tend to come with, then I setup a good free AV and some basic office software like abiword and a browser or 3(opera, chrome, firefox so they can choose what they like) then i let them have at it.
I have yet to have a 7 system brought to me that died from malware or user error...
WinXP was/is a bane on my excistance to this day.....horrible OS.....if only they had waited till it was really ready like they did with server 2003...(server 2003 is xp done right, as is xp x64 honestly....still more fragile then vista or 7 due to lack of uac, but far more robust then xp x86...)
again, no word doc cant be opened these days, the issue is most likely that they used WORKS, and MS WORKS uses a default save format thats a total and utter pain in the arse to deal with(you can do as you suggest but it also throws junk allover the file, real mess)
My suggestion for most people who just need a simple and good word processor is ABIWord, its free, small and lite(and open source) it also can save to and open from most other formats just fine even old word doc's.(but not WORKS)
this isnt really true for word, its true for WORKS, they are different products, and there are a few software options for converting them to a useable format...
MS word all the way back to its inception is still operational with my office 2010, or open office, or even using abiword or the like, works files ARE NOT(word perfect can read them i think...)
as to kindle, backing up isnt really the issue, its restoring and re-activating your books thats likely to be the issue....
this in part is why I recommend the nook to people asking me about ereaders, its EASY to strip the drm from nook books, (piss easy as my brit friend says), takes seconds.
also I personally feel the nook lineup is a better value and better quality then the kindle, having used both and having seen more kindles with issues and needing returned(despite the fact that people I know tend to have them in pretty even numbers some even have multi of each)
Amazon is unlikely to go out of business in the next 10 years, I really think their management are smarter then that(outside the audible exec's who think any audio book they sell needs to be DRM encrusted even ones from authors who dont want drm....)
its not really a racket, the main reasons directX is used is it works on any windows system that supports the proper version of windows.
Linux/Unix/OSX dont really have an equivlant of what DirectX offers.
DirectX isnt just D3D, its direct sound, direct draw(2d), direct input, among others, these are designed to work togather and work on pretty much any windows system.
D3D is also far more advanced now days then OGL, this isnt MS's doing you can blame kronos and car manufacturers/cad software companies for holding OpenGL back for so long(they couldnt stand the thought of loosing ogl 1.x native comparability)
*nix has its good points, but gaming will likely never be among them for average users, this has many reasons, from the fact that the linux community cant agree on any one set of standard ways to do anything, each distro has its own way of doing things, each developer/group has their own "best" way to do things....its a mess, and its why linux on the desktop is still not common, and wont be for quite some time....
when a simple kernal update breaks your drivers and software, thats not koo.....and it happens alot on linux, lack of stable driver abi/api really dosnt help.
lack of unified installer package type across linux distro's makes many software developers who would be interested shirk away.
lack of unified support for audio/video/input methods/standards also has the same effect....again, I cant blame them, if you think trying to support gaming on windows is a pain, try it on linux with the thousands of different distros out there in various patch states.....the dependency hell linux can be....there is a reason i only use linux in specific situations for people, and not all the time...
I do not hate linux, I use it on some systems myself, I do think the hate for Windows and MS are misplaced in this day and age, sure the price isnt dirt cheap for windows/office, BUT they are still 2 of the best "it just works" options out there, and they at least work with what your work likely has(not many companies out here use *nix/osx or non-ms solutions)
windows 7 has its flaws, but, i will take it any day over *nix for the average user, and I will take OSX over windows for the below average user(its amazing at hand holding, even more so then 7)
and if you want a racket, try apple with osx charging for service packs.....
but according to Derek Kerton they spend millions or billions a year upgrading and maintaining their infrastructure.....
and their under engineering their network is a good thing and smart move on their part.....i mean if they sell you 5mbit and can only give you 768k.....
having delt with att and some others, this is sad to say, but im glad im on comcast here, at least they are reliable around here, call and they get somebody out ASAP and they dont blame our end EVER :D
but according to Derek Kerton they spend millions or billions a year upgrading and maintaining their infrastructure.....
and their under engineering their network is a good thing and smart move on their part.....i mean if they sell you 5mbit and can only give you 768k.....
having delt with att and some others, this is sad to say, but im glad im on comcast here, at least they are reliable around here, call and they get somebody out ASAP and they dont blame our end EVER :D
its not just that, if they removed legacy code to support old apps, they would have some cop orate clients go spare, because they use apps that date back to the windows 3.x days and even dos days that they dont want to replace(would cost money to have a modern replacement made)
having worked in that kind of job, I can tell you, its not that MS wouldnt LOVE to dump suport for pre NT4(or even pre NT5) apps, the problem is, they CANT without pissing alot of people off....and those people/companies spend alot on MS contracts.
I know of one large company thats still using a program that requires they run a nt3.51 server(in a virtual machien) because it wont WONT run on anything newer....the user interface app barely runs with hacks on windows above nt4.....yet they wont replace it because it would cost money to do so....idiotic....i feel sorry for ms....lol
I doubt the population control of one child per family will be an issue, they have a HUGE population, and if it became an issue, they just hand out more authorizations to have more kids to more people(from what I gather its hard but possible to get approval to have more then 1 kid)
I doubt their laws will hamper them at all where IP is concerned, again, HUGE population willing to spend on stuff, and they dont give a flying f**k if its legal here or not.
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: whats the combination to this lock?
"1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"
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Component video is fine IF your equipment and cables are good, if not, dont bother.
HDMI has some advantages, it can carry both digital and analog data, you dont need pricy high grade cables(we have tested this ourselves with cheap monoprice cables vs monster and other high grade cables, no diff at all...)
the biggest problem is that not all devices seem to properly comply with HDCP standards so they will at times not work...
a friend of mine has a brand new 56" plasma tv(beautiful unit, actually does 1920x1200 when hooked to a computer rather then 1080p) BUT his receiver dosnt see it as having HDCP....his ps3 however has no issue with it....from what we can find, hes going to have to buy a new box OR use a hacked firmware on his receiver to get around the problem....
personally I wish they had gone with the cat5e/cat6 idea would have made custom cables easier to make...and could easily move as much or more data then HDMI can....(i have used dvi-d to cat5e converter boxes to move data to HD projectors on a few jobs, they work great, even up to 2,048 × 1,536 (need good quality DVI cables and proper powered converters, will not work over a computer network, MUST be END TO END direct line)
still, Im really hoping display port catches on for PC, I like the demo's i have seen (in person) of what it can do....amazing stuff :D
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free market saves all....or didnt you get the memo.....
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Im not a fan of DRM or for that matter HDMI, but, it is better then svideo or a few other options I saw being pushed for the same job.....
I still say they should have just gone with the use of cat5e or cat6 with a modified clip or notching or something.....
anyway, HDCP has been a mess since it was designed by intel, even my friends who work for intel hate it
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hard covers are a bitch to carry around and read on the go(try reading one on a moving buss around here.....follow the moving letters....lol)
a cheap ebook reader could hold thousands of books, take up little space and is alot liter then a hard cover.
my issue with paperbacks(full price ones) is that they are fragile compared to hard covers, can tell you how many paperbacks I have had to re-spine or re-heat the spine on...real pain in the arse.....stupid brittle glue....(i think its intentional, they want you to buy another copy or 2 because they fall apart so easy)
no, honestly, I think a good ebook reader is more optimal for on the go, where a nice book shelf is nice at home....
(note: till my ex-gf I had thousands of books, down to 100 or less now, she destroyed so many before I found she had emptied boxes of books and tossed them into the neighbors pool....shes lucky shes alive...)
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hard covers are a bitch to carry around and read on the go(try reading one on a moving buss around here.....follow the moving letters....lol)
a cheap ebook reader could hold thousands of books, take up little space and is alot liter then a hard cover.
my issue with paperbacks(full price ones) is that they are fragile compared to hard covers, can tell you how many paperbacks I have had to re-spine or re-heat the spine on...real pain in the arse.....stupid brittle glue....(i think its intentional, they want you to buy another copy or 2 because they fall apart so easy)
no, honestly, I think a good ebook reader is more optimal for on the go, where a nice book shelf is nice at home....
(note: till my ex-gf I had thousands of books, down to 100 or less now, she destroyed so many before I found she had emptied boxes of books and tossed them into the neighbors pool....shes lucky shes alive...)
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hard covers are a bitch to carry around and read on the go(try reading one on a moving buss around here.....follow the moving letters....lol)
a cheap ebook reader could hold thousands of books, take up little space and is alot liter then a hard cover.
my issue with paperbacks(full price ones) is that they are fragile compared to hard covers, can tell you how many paperbacks I have had to re-spine or re-heat the spine on...real pain in the arse.....stupid brittle glue....(i think its intentional, they want you to buy another copy or 2 because they fall apart so easy)
no, honestly, I think a good ebook reader is more optimal for on the go, where a nice book shelf is nice at home....
(note: till my ex-gf I had thousands of books, down to 100 or less now, she destroyed so many before I found she had emptied boxes of books and tossed them into the neighbors pool....shes lucky shes alive...)
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and for the kind of use your talking about, Linux is great, as long as they have no need to install their own software its perfect, and as long as they dont have to send/receive files and try and find them again, its great.
I say this because, most apps and services(web based) dont have instructions for finding where you downloaded something on *nix, and also dont have instructions on how to find a file they want to attach to an email.
I use Vector Linux for most of the old people situations where I find linux to be a viable option, its light, fast and dosnt break easily, and it comes with enough built in software for them to do whatever they want to do without need of me adding extra software.
For somebody with 7, and a system that can handle it, I wouldnt dream of replacing it with linux, I would just do a clean install, stick a good AV on the system as well as some anti-malware protection and crank UAC up to max or just below.
I have a few people I did the above for just after 7 came out, these are people who use to pay me at least every 2 months to reinstall windows for them(XP) because they managed to mess it up, with 7 they have had no problems outside getting use to the changes to the configuration options(screensaver and such)
I also have old clients who have vista on laptops or decent desktops that have had no issues since a clean install of an updated (sp1 or better as a starting point) vista.
I cant tell you how upset some of them where with a local shop that pressured them into letting them install linux(kbuntu), it didnt suit their needs from the system(enlarge that was the need for ms office, no libre/open office dont count in this case, but the shop was really pushy, so pushy they begged me to go back into doing support for them despite the fact I had tried to retire from doing computer repair work(because i was sick of doing the same thing for the same people over and over and over.....and over and over and over......and over and over and over.....
heres my rule, if its a system with XP and it really cant run 7 efficently/isnt worth buying 7 for, then I install vector, if th systems vista or 7 and runs them well, I do a wipe and clean install from a clean windows disk to get rid of the crapware that OEM and even "custom" systems tend to come with, then I setup a good free AV and some basic office software like abiword and a browser or 3(opera, chrome, firefox so they can choose what they like) then i let them have at it.
I have yet to have a 7 system brought to me that died from malware or user error...
WinXP was/is a bane on my excistance to this day.....horrible OS.....if only they had waited till it was really ready like they did with server 2003...(server 2003 is xp done right, as is xp x64 honestly....still more fragile then vista or 7 due to lack of uac, but far more robust then xp x86...)
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My suggestion for most people who just need a simple and good word processor is ABIWord, its free, small and lite(and open source) it also can save to and open from most other formats just fine even old word doc's.(but not WORKS)
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I do agree MS should at least support all their own file formats in all their own software....but....well, there are always workarounds.
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MS word all the way back to its inception is still operational with my office 2010, or open office, or even using abiword or the like, works files ARE NOT(word perfect can read them i think...)
as to kindle, backing up isnt really the issue, its restoring and re-activating your books thats likely to be the issue....
this in part is why I recommend the nook to people asking me about ereaders, its EASY to strip the drm from nook books, (piss easy as my brit friend says), takes seconds.
also I personally feel the nook lineup is a better value and better quality then the kindle, having used both and having seen more kindles with issues and needing returned(despite the fact that people I know tend to have them in pretty even numbers some even have multi of each)
Amazon is unlikely to go out of business in the next 10 years, I really think their management are smarter then that(outside the audible exec's who think any audio book they sell needs to be DRM encrusted even ones from authors who dont want drm....)
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Linux/Unix/OSX dont really have an equivlant of what DirectX offers.
DirectX isnt just D3D, its direct sound, direct draw(2d), direct input, among others, these are designed to work togather and work on pretty much any windows system.
D3D is also far more advanced now days then OGL, this isnt MS's doing you can blame kronos and car manufacturers/cad software companies for holding OpenGL back for so long(they couldnt stand the thought of loosing ogl 1.x native comparability)
*nix has its good points, but gaming will likely never be among them for average users, this has many reasons, from the fact that the linux community cant agree on any one set of standard ways to do anything, each distro has its own way of doing things, each developer/group has their own "best" way to do things....its a mess, and its why linux on the desktop is still not common, and wont be for quite some time....
when a simple kernal update breaks your drivers and software, thats not koo.....and it happens alot on linux, lack of stable driver abi/api really dosnt help.
lack of unified installer package type across linux distro's makes many software developers who would be interested shirk away.
lack of unified support for audio/video/input methods/standards also has the same effect....again, I cant blame them, if you think trying to support gaming on windows is a pain, try it on linux with the thousands of different distros out there in various patch states.....the dependency hell linux can be....there is a reason i only use linux in specific situations for people, and not all the time...
I do not hate linux, I use it on some systems myself, I do think the hate for Windows and MS are misplaced in this day and age, sure the price isnt dirt cheap for windows/office, BUT they are still 2 of the best "it just works" options out there, and they at least work with what your work likely has(not many companies out here use *nix/osx or non-ms solutions)
windows 7 has its flaws, but, i will take it any day over *nix for the average user, and I will take OSX over windows for the below average user(its amazing at hand holding, even more so then 7)
and if you want a racket, try apple with osx charging for service packs.....
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and their under engineering their network is a good thing and smart move on their part.....i mean if they sell you 5mbit and can only give you 768k.....
having delt with att and some others, this is sad to say, but im glad im on comcast here, at least they are reliable around here, call and they get somebody out ASAP and they dont blame our end EVER :D
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and their under engineering their network is a good thing and smart move on their part.....i mean if they sell you 5mbit and can only give you 768k.....
having delt with att and some others, this is sad to say, but im glad im on comcast here, at least they are reliable around here, call and they get somebody out ASAP and they dont blame our end EVER :D
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having worked in that kind of job, I can tell you, its not that MS wouldnt LOVE to dump suport for pre NT4(or even pre NT5) apps, the problem is, they CANT without pissing alot of people off....and those people/companies spend alot on MS contracts.
I know of one large company thats still using a program that requires they run a nt3.51 server(in a virtual machien) because it wont WONT run on anything newer....the user interface app barely runs with hacks on windows above nt4.....yet they wont replace it because it would cost money to do so....idiotic....i feel sorry for ms....lol
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I doubt their laws will hamper them at all where IP is concerned, again, HUGE population willing to spend on stuff, and they dont give a flying f**k if its legal here or not.
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this is the Incorporated States of America after all....where war for the good of corporations and the rich is applauded.
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