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Comment IMO - Here's what I'd done... (Score 1) 762

SG1 or another group finds an intact ship, really old, from the yet to be identified race, left out there with minimum power. Could have been planet bound or gate to required in space but not 'out of reach'. Then they could have had a season of getting to know the thing, founding out how to use it and find it can 'jump' via self made wormholes really great distances but only where it has been before in its' address database. Then the writers would have had a whole lots more playroom for adventure as Galaxy jumping and the whole gambit of possible lifeforms opens up.. Star Trek on roids!

Comment All the hi speeds?! (Score 1) 611

OK I must live in the "dark age" area of access speed... Oh wait that's right I have about 150 feet of copper between me and the fiber trunk and can see the teleco central switch through the trees off my back deck so I should be grateful for my 1.9mbps hi speed connection here in Atlanta. Customer no service states that is as fast as the fiber can go here in this area.. I am like WTF? as I know better. Before Bellsouth was consumed by ATT my speeds were an average of 9mbps - after ATT came the throttle down and was told as such by a neighbor employed there. I would love to have the speeds many of you posted. Buffering gets old fast.

Comment Re:If you've got a toll tag... (Score 1) 260

Not only toll tag readers on toll roads.. I my area on the interstate loops around the city and on the primary major routes through the city there are these covered square sensor looking gadgets that point at the roads, they are similar in appearance to the prepass sensors for Semi truck weight stations. HOWEVER they are placed at intervals along the road path, low and to the side. My conspiracy theory: they read car data that newer cars already spew out for ID and theft recovery. This information is already stored at the DMV by VIN, DVR license, name and SSN. Once you open any door to your home you have no reasonable expectation of privacy..Be it the front door or an electronic one to a cloud...

Comment Re:Bloody difficult. (Score 1) 1091

RARE????? The birth rate of intersexed abnormalities is 1 in 2000 births and that is not RARE... The average world birth rate is around 357000 a day that is 178.5 intersexed children born a day. There are other conditions that present less than this yet are considered mainstream conditions for research. Couple of examples: Cerebral Palsy; 1/4000, Cystic Fibrosis; 1/2500

Comment Re:Some streaming content does look bad - (Score 1) 277

Of course I know this tidbit of info.. I would not refer to the app on the PS3 as a 'browser'. While it does get you to pages it only works best with raw html4 as you may know. The PS3 quickly runs out of memory and there is the always "run this plugin" question when loading flash and/or java. With PlayOn this does not happen as it is streamed from a media server PC DNLA style. So while you can surf and view with the PS3 app it is limited and thus a poor experience in itself.

Comment Some streaming content does look bad - (Score 1) 277

However that depends on how you are streaming it to your HDTV. Examples: 1) PlayOn streaming of YouTube to PS3 connected via HDMI = Bad viewing experience with most content. 2) Streaming content via PC or laptop connected S-Video or component = slightly better experience. 3) Streaming content via PC or Laptop connected by VGA/DVI = Excellent viewing experience. #3 BTW is how we here at our place watch MOST of the TV content we wish to view. Both picture and sound are excellent and extremely close to our Roku box in performance. Now given this info it would depend on how a manufacturer presented the streaming content from the built in CPU (they should have done this a very long time ago) to the video processing side. They most likely already know that web content needs different conditional processing than that of a DVD player. I would assume that the video pre-processing would handle the scaling and other needs to present the flash or silverlight content correctly. Seems to Reason that if a PC or laptop can do it via VGA a HDTV with a built in box can do the same..

Comment Re:How does custom firmware "lose sales" (Score 2, Informative) 190

If you own a PSP (I do) and have not yet seen or just don't know what "custom firmware" really does maybe you should go see.. Custom firmware allows you to turn a stock PSP into something really usable. Everything from real time GPS mapping to SQL management to real time e-mail and messaging apps. There are several hundred high quality home brew apps and games available. Note these are not available with the stock firmware. Were it hit sales is in the game area as there are so many home brew games (free) that are better than what can be purchased. There is a point - more "might" buy a PSP for "increased usability and features" HOWEVER it does take a bit of hacker ability both in hardware and software to use custom firmware so it is not "for the masses" and only adopted by the few... Sony is Sony with the PSP just like the PS3. I am sure the new 'Go' will be no different. Sony always seems to blow their chances. If they did it right there would be no need for 'custom firmware' or other hack attempts to add something as simple as an IM, email or real browser to a device.

Comment Re:"Fresh new light" (Score 1) 248

The XP install is less than a year old. Built this computer August of last year. Both SATA drives are Seagate Barracudas SATA 3G, identical specs except in size xp-250G win7-500G split in to two partitions.. I did say IDENTICAL hardware and XP should not have "slowed" after such a short period of time. My laptop is over two years old with XP and it is not 'slow' by any sense of the word. Any poorly maintained OS environment will slow over time. IMHO the way you care for it makes a difference...

Comment Re:"Fresh new light" (Score 1) 248

No you are not the only one who feels that way. I installed a second SATA drive on my XP machine and installed Win 7 RC. Loaded all the same software as I have on the XP side, run the same services as I have on the XP side and low and behold Win 7 smokes XPs performance. The only real difference is the software/drivers install were some of the software/drivers are "vista" or Win 7 specific. However not all vista flavor drivers worked but XP drivers did. Other than two driver incompatibilities and a re-occurring issue with RealPlayer I have had no problems. I am not a big MS/Windows fan as my past post suggest but I am impressed with Win 7. They are doing somethings right but could still do way better in many area...

Comment Re:Oldest Working? (Score 1) 622

I have a TRS-80 16K Level II, still runs, loads by cassette. Amiga 500 from 1986 and an Amiga 2500 with over 500 disk loads of software, kernel manuals, several Amiga magazines with software. Many are Fred Fish Originals downloads years ago... Also Have many 'betas' made on the Amiga years ago of software in use today.. Amiga - The OS and computer that should have been and yes they both still work and are used by me at least a couple of times a month... Soundtracker Rocks...

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