1080p means Glee for Me
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Al Beback wrote:
Not so fast, pig. How's the contrast when your room is fully lit?
I use it strictly for movies (and the occasional video game) pretty much only at night. The picture is washed out quite a bit with the lights on, but is still far superior to my last projector (which, being 5 years old, only had a contrast ratio of 1000:1 compared to 11,000:1 for this one). But for my intended purpose, it's like looking through a window into a mystical land of computer effect and joy. I originally had it in 480p mode (the default for the XBox) and the difference between 1080p is quite stark.
Al Beback wrote:
Congratulations, BTW.
Thanks! (Stupid hippies)
Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall
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Last night I hooked up my brand new Panasonic[^] home theater projector (which was completely free, courtesy of those hippy burglars and my excellent insurance company) with a brand new HD DVD drive for my brand new XBox 360 (also both completely free) and I must say that it makes me 1080p my pants. The HD DVD drive came with a King Kong HD DVD disc and it looks nothing short of absolutely amazing. The picture is 10 feet diagonal (OK, actually 9'11") and even at that size exceeds any LCD or Plasma I've seen in terms of picture quality. Halo 3, though not in 1080p, is also amazing. Yes I'm totally bragging for no reason, but there is a moral to this story and that moral is: I win, hippies...I win.
Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall
Make sure and lean the TV against the door when you go to sleep at night, so you feel secure in your own home. How much was your piece of mind worth? I guess we just found out! The hippies, who never paid a penny to your insurance company and got away with your stuff lost, though. I guess whatever helps you sleep at night. :(
Since CodeProject's privacy policy states that they will not distribute personal information -Eric Speirs, AKA Red Stateler
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Last night I hooked up my brand new Panasonic[^] home theater projector (which was completely free, courtesy of those hippy burglars and my excellent insurance company) with a brand new HD DVD drive for my brand new XBox 360 (also both completely free) and I must say that it makes me 1080p my pants. The HD DVD drive came with a King Kong HD DVD disc and it looks nothing short of absolutely amazing. The picture is 10 feet diagonal (OK, actually 9'11") and even at that size exceeds any LCD or Plasma I've seen in terms of picture quality. Halo 3, though not in 1080p, is also amazing. Yes I'm totally bragging for no reason, but there is a moral to this story and that moral is: I win, hippies...I win.
Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall
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Jealous Kyle?
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Make sure and lean the TV against the door when you go to sleep at night, so you feel secure in your own home. How much was your piece of mind worth? I guess we just found out! The hippies, who never paid a penny to your insurance company and got away with your stuff lost, though. I guess whatever helps you sleep at night. :(
Since CodeProject's privacy policy states that they will not distribute personal information -Eric Speirs, AKA Red Stateler
I don't get the deal with his personal information? What's the point? I think you're enthralled by him.
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I don't get the deal with his personal information? What's the point? I think you're enthralled by him.
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
More like obsessed.
Perhaps - it's something bizarre, anyways. Did you have any luck in finding a suitable textbook?
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
More like obsessed.
Perhaps - it's something bizarre, anyways. Did you have any luck in finding a suitable textbook?
Yes, ordered "Core Maths for Advanced level" but as the level is aimed at the entry requirements for university, I thought a stepping-stone book might also help. So I also ordered "Letts AS & A2" study guide. Both arrived from Amazon this morning. The Core Maths starts by assuming that students have some understanding of lower level maths so the amount of hand-holding is at a minimum, although the first couple of chapters is in the format of a review of knowledge. However, although I have just only glanced the pages of this book, it gets hard pretty quickly. Regarding the Letts AS & A2 book, the explanations are more in-depth and also gives timelines when certain lessons should ideally be learned by, and the approach taken is rather more gentle, but by my remark above, it does not go into the depth required at Advanced Level, as the AS level is designed to be a lower grade. So after my daughter had her breakfast, she picked up the AS level book, took it to her bedroom, and I haven't seen her since. Changing subject ... Just installed Ubuntu on a desktop pc in my network, was surprised how easy it was to do, not like the linux installations of yesteryear.
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Yes, ordered "Core Maths for Advanced level" but as the level is aimed at the entry requirements for university, I thought a stepping-stone book might also help. So I also ordered "Letts AS & A2" study guide. Both arrived from Amazon this morning. The Core Maths starts by assuming that students have some understanding of lower level maths so the amount of hand-holding is at a minimum, although the first couple of chapters is in the format of a review of knowledge. However, although I have just only glanced the pages of this book, it gets hard pretty quickly. Regarding the Letts AS & A2 book, the explanations are more in-depth and also gives timelines when certain lessons should ideally be learned by, and the approach taken is rather more gentle, but by my remark above, it does not go into the depth required at Advanced Level, as the AS level is designed to be a lower grade. So after my daughter had her breakfast, she picked up the AS level book, took it to her bedroom, and I haven't seen her since. Changing subject ... Just installed Ubuntu on a desktop pc in my network, was surprised how easy it was to do, not like the linux installations of yesteryear.
Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Yes, ordered "Core Maths for Advanced level" but as the level is aimed at the entry requirements for university, I thought a stepping-stone book might also help. So I also ordered "Letts AS & A2" study guide. Both arrived from Amazon this morning. The Core Maths starts by assuming that students have some understanding of lower level maths so the amount of hand-holding is at a minimum, although the first couple of chapters is in the format of a review of knowledge. However, although I have just only glanced the pages of this book, it gets hard pretty quickly. Regarding the Letts AS & A2 book, the explanations are more in-depth and also gives timelines when certain lessons should ideally be learned by, and the approach taken is rather more gentle, but by my remark above, it does not go into the depth required at Advanced Level, as the AS level is designed to be a lower grade. So after my daughter had her breakfast, she picked up the AS level book, took it to her bedroom, and I haven't seen her since.
Looks like it was a success, then... :)
Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Changing subject ... Just installed Ubuntu on a desktop pc in my network, was surprised how easy it was to do, not like the linux installations of yesteryear.
Yes, linux is not that difficult to install or use. It's quite powerful, but does require more computing knowledge than Windows. I found the worst thing about unix-based operating systems is the pathetic level of support. It's free software and thus you have to appeal to your user community for help - who, as has been my experience, are a greatly apathetic lot. Sometimes trying to squeeze an answer out is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. At the moment I'm using an Apple computer (one of those mac minis). I chose Apple mainly because the machine was on sale (for a steal) (I bought an HP LCD screen) and had what I wanted in terms of hardware, thereby saving me from having to do all the research to make sure all the hardware I wanted was unix compatible. I quite like it - it's very fast, starts up in about 15 seconds and hasn't crashed once. It easily runs everything I need in terms of software: Matlab, Microsoft Office, R, and has a C++ compiler (as well as Apple's own XCode environment, but I haven't used it yet). To be honest, I think the reason that Apple doesn't steal more market share from Microsoft is the cost of thei
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Yes, ordered "Core Maths for Advanced level" but as the level is aimed at the entry requirements for university, I thought a stepping-stone book might also help. So I also ordered "Letts AS & A2" study guide. Both arrived from Amazon this morning. The Core Maths starts by assuming that students have some understanding of lower level maths so the amount of hand-holding is at a minimum, although the first couple of chapters is in the format of a review of knowledge. However, although I have just only glanced the pages of this book, it gets hard pretty quickly. Regarding the Letts AS & A2 book, the explanations are more in-depth and also gives timelines when certain lessons should ideally be learned by, and the approach taken is rather more gentle, but by my remark above, it does not go into the depth required at Advanced Level, as the AS level is designed to be a lower grade. So after my daughter had her breakfast, she picked up the AS level book, took it to her bedroom, and I haven't seen her since.
Looks like it was a success, then... :)
Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Changing subject ... Just installed Ubuntu on a desktop pc in my network, was surprised how easy it was to do, not like the linux installations of yesteryear.
Yes, linux is not that difficult to install or use. It's quite powerful, but does require more computing knowledge than Windows. I found the worst thing about unix-based operating systems is the pathetic level of support. It's free software and thus you have to appeal to your user community for help - who, as has been my experience, are a greatly apathetic lot. Sometimes trying to squeeze an answer out is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. At the moment I'm using an Apple computer (one of those mac minis). I chose Apple mainly because the machine was on sale (for a steal) (I bought an HP LCD screen) and had what I wanted in terms of hardware, thereby saving me from having to do all the research to make sure all the hardware I wanted was unix compatible. I quite like it - it's very fast, starts up in about 15 seconds and hasn't crashed once. It easily runs everything I need in terms of software: Matlab, Microsoft Office, R, and has a C++ compiler (as well as Apple's own XCode environment, but I haven't used it yet). To be honest, I think the reason that Apple doesn't steal more market share from Microsoft is the cost of thei
In days gone, linux was a pig to install. This Ubuntu install was so smooth it required almost no interaction from me whatsoever. All I need to do now is persuade the other WinXP computers and this linux box to see each other on the network. As far as Community Help is concerned, sometimes the quality of service and support equals and sometimes betters commercial products. There have been times when I have seeked support from certain well known commercial companies and it was either very slow or resulted in unsatisfactory answers. As far as Apple is concerned, they were the standard for DeskTop publishing and graphics manipulation, but since Win95, windows apps have caught up. Apple machines and applications have also been more expensive that Windows apps, I wonder if some degree of "snobbery" is involved, after all, look at the other Apple products - iPOD, iPhone - equally, they are also over priced compared to other makers offerings. Perhaps Apple think themselves as the "RollsRoyce" of consumer electonics.
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In days gone, linux was a pig to install. This Ubuntu install was so smooth it required almost no interaction from me whatsoever. All I need to do now is persuade the other WinXP computers and this linux box to see each other on the network. As far as Community Help is concerned, sometimes the quality of service and support equals and sometimes betters commercial products. There have been times when I have seeked support from certain well known commercial companies and it was either very slow or resulted in unsatisfactory answers. As far as Apple is concerned, they were the standard for DeskTop publishing and graphics manipulation, but since Win95, windows apps have caught up. Apple machines and applications have also been more expensive that Windows apps, I wonder if some degree of "snobbery" is involved, after all, look at the other Apple products - iPOD, iPhone - equally, they are also over priced compared to other makers offerings. Perhaps Apple think themselves as the "RollsRoyce" of consumer electonics.
Back in 1997 when I was still in graduate school, I setup a dual CPU Suse linux box (connected to the university's T1 line) in the graduate student office and ran it as an x-server for all the grad students. I also had it setup to receive dial-in connections so that all the grad students could phone into the office and use it as a (free) dial-up internet server. I registered the IP with the university's nameserver and ran it as an email server giving fellow students the option of keeping their email on my machine - computer services at the time had a reputation for reading people's mail. It worked great and saved people a tonne of money by not having to pay for internet service for their home. I still have that computer, but now it's in storage in Canada. It was so robust - I think when I shut it down when I moved out of the student office the uptime was approaching 3 years, although I forget the exact version of linux I was using. Never had a problem with it. I had it locked down pretty good too, never got hacked. Ah, I miss those days - they were good times. Apple is indeed synonymous with a little snobbery. I think that's why they feel entitled to ask the prices that they do. It's unfortunate, because they really could capture a larger portion of the market by adjusting their prices downward.
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Jealous Kyle?
What's the matter? Did your little Joshua Henize friend get tired of giving you attention?
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we drill! once we reach the center of hippie music festival, we upload this slayer cd. everybody knows hippies cant stand the sound of death metal...
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I never knew that? I've known hippies who have liked death metal. Oops! Did I say I'd known hippies?
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I don't get the deal with his personal information? What's the point? I think you're enthralled by him.
He hates it and I like it when he's angry. What's so hard to figure out?
Since CodeProject's privacy policy states that they will not distribute personal information -Eric Speirs, AKA Red Stateler
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I never knew that? I've known hippies who have liked death metal. Oops! Did I say I'd known hippies?
yeah, all the cool kids like metal, but the above is from a south park episode
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