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Re:That bad? by grasshoppa · 2012-12-06 12:07 · Score: 1 · on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate'

Either the shills are all reading from the same play book, or you operate under the "heatlessun" moniker over at http://hardforums.com./

Re:I had never actually thought of this before. by Mistakill · 2009-09-30 11:00 · Score: 1 · on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API

Supposedly its very possible if you use early 186.xx drivers... http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1445861 has a bit of a post about it

Nothing To See Here by _Neurotic · 2003-01-03 01:23 · Score: 2 · on Wahoo P4 Stratagem System Review

I agree with many of the comments so far. This really isn't anything special. There are plenty of vendors out there that sell better systems for less money.

This box is nothing more than an overstuffed behmoth. If you want to see some really cool systems, look to the [H]ard|Forum and you'll be blown away at what a bunch of [H]ardcore [H]ardware geeks can do in their garages.

And if you really want someone else to build it for you, look around, there are much better deals out there.

Re:A custom case is not news. by iwearnosox · 2003-01-02 23:58 · Score: 0 · on Wahoo P4 Stratagem System Review

Computers are not cars?

They can be anything you want them to be!

Nothing new by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-13 13:32 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Streaming DVD Video over the Internet

A couple of guys from Hardforums and I played with this codec back in early July. There is a writeup here about how to create a file. At the time we were using it, it was a pain to compress and decompress. At the time the encoder required a YUV file and the decoder produced a YUV file. On a 1.2 TBird it took about 14 hours to encode the Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within Trailer. It was about 2:45 I think. The file produced was 11.2MB. A comparable (quality as best we could tell) Divx 4 encoding was about 35MB, both started from DVD and contained no audio. Decoding was about 2fps on my machine. Remember that these times are using files that were written to be correct, with no efficency added in. In fact, one of the guys on the JVT team told us if we were able to improve the compression at all to let them know.

Btw, JVT stands for Joint Video Team, which is the group resposnible for developing the standard. It used to be H.26L, and looks now to be called H.264. The ftp below is the once that is used by the people developing the standard, so don't hit it too hard ;)

And here's what you all have been waiting for. the Source Code to it. I dunno how it's changed since I used it last, but the newest version we had available was 3.2 and they are now on 4.2. Version 3.7 came out shortly after we finished our tests, but there were no compression speed changes from the few quick tests we ran on it, as well as no file size changes.

Also, one intereting thing that I didn't see when glancing over the linked article was that the server's software will monitor the connection and playback and if there are too many dropped frames it will decrease the quality. The opposite is true as well, the quality will increase based on the connection and playback. Of course the server would be able to disable this as well, but would be nice if a video stream got /.ed to be able to still see it, just at a lower quality.

Interesting thread at [H]ard|Forum by Elledan · 2002-09-12 20:13 · Score: 1 · on AMD Delays Hammer

Is the delay of the Hammer CPU due to design- and production-issues? Also some notes on AMD's financial situation.

Re:sorta useful, but short of the mark by Zathrus · 2002-09-12 03:47 · Score: 4, Informative · on Secrets Of BIOS Tweaking

And not every PC is equipped with AGP

Well, every PC built in the past 3 or 4 years is... and, frankly, if your main PCs are older than that you're not likely to be reading ArsTechnica or something about a BIOS tweaking guide.

But like most 'BIOS' guides I've read, this gives alot of info on 'tweaks', with little mention of the damage that the wrong settings can do

Obviously a problem... I haven't read the article yet (didn't feel like it this morning, and it's toast now), but they should really mark the settings that are potentially dangerous. Screwing around with your RAM timings, CPU clock, etc. can release the magic smoke awfully quickly.

There's also a disproportionate amount of Soundblaster-bashing going on here

Not really. Creative Labs has long made the worst hardware they could get away with, and did so thanks to having created the original standard for PC sound. They've never been high quality cards, and have often caused problems with other hardware and software. Go talk to someone who tried putting an SB Live in a dual processor NT4 system about it for example.

Frankly, if you're looking for a new soundcard then there's little reason to buy Creative. For general use (games/music) both Hercules and Turtle Beach make better cards for less. For games alone, Hercules or Philips are better (Philips mentioned purely due to QSound). If you're talking about just playing music, doing a home theater PC, or mid to high end audio then a more expensive card that does real 24/96 or 24/192 audio is preferred - M-Audio and many others fit the bill here.

I do think that the incompatibility bit is somewhat overstated (I don't have any problems with my SB Live or my much older SB64 ISA), although SB's are notoriously bad about sharing PCI IRQs and the like, but the poor sound quality and total lack of compliance to industry standards are not. The digital out on the Live series doesn't comply to any spec known to man -- its voltage is roughly 10x the allowed spec. Even the Audigy continues to resample everything to 48 KHz, which plays hell with CD Audio, and their claims of 96 KHz sampling rates are deceptive at best (only applies to the digital outputs, and only sometimes at that).

If you want more details, I suggest either the PC AV Tech or [H]ardOCP's Audio forum. If you're interested in HTPC's in particular, then take a look at AVS Forum's HTPC forum.

Wal-Mart selling IN STORES! by |<amikaze · 2002-06-19 05:30 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Mandrake to Come Preloaded on Wal-Mart PCs

Just a slight correction to the previous stories about Lindows being pre-installed on Wal-Mart PCs, people on HardForums claim to have seen the Lindows machines IN STORES>

Re:But do they handle COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME???? by db_two · 2001-04-30 05:03 · Score: 1 · on Review: Ergo Interfaces Evolution Keyboard

Do you want your environment Ergonically Adaptable to suit your computing needs?

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Soon we hope to have these out in many varieties of keyboards.... like Standard 104, Wave/Split Ergonomic model, Laptops, PDA's , and wireless RF keyboards.

However , I am interested to try this keyboard... for experience sake if nothing else. There are some other cool keyboards and sites on how to MOD your own....

Anyway check out these pages

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Illuminated Laptops ????
Panasonic Toughbook - Brochure
Says it is Backlit keyboard but not very apparent

Another Backlit Laptop No pic listed

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