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Zygo writes "Hey everyone Merry Christmas! (Yes I'm a bit too late) Here's some Hardware & Modding news! :
At WinHQ the Xoxide X450 Case, Some pretty Cold Cathode lights over here, nice MX mouses at LANParty, At ClubOC the Swiftech MCX462+T, Some shocking Shockwave Fangrills over at ExtensionTech, Playing Mp3 with the iRock 530 here, a Big cooler here, OCIA brings you the Solarism LM-1711 17" LCD screen, Vantecs Fan Controller at ExtremeMHz, and a 8x GF4 Ti4200 at Viper's Lair"
Just look under the 'results' file under searches for the aforementioned parts. Seriously tho', I know this'll likely be modded down as flamebait, but I fail to see how this qualifies as 'news'...advertisements yes, news, no.
Don't park drunk, accidents cause people.
This isn't reserved for case modders only ...
Works for the following: ...) it was a movie!)
- Signifigant others (would you like someone with wonderful qualities that complement you, or do you want someone all your friends are going to be trying to get in the pants of)
- Cars (Just because you throw a sticker on a car with some fart can exhaust pipe doesn't make it fast! The fast and the furious (get this
- Homes (Adding cool rock gardens or other landscaping won't change your neighborhood or your massive termite problem)
I have always been a firm believer of judge what's inside as looks can always be deceiving. But here we are, promoting outer beauty yet again.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
*kisses karma goodbye* just my 2 cents
What happened to the quickies?
I want them back.
They were great news and cool stuff nibbits.
Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
A byte is 8 bits and a byte means 256 in base-2. There is only 9 b10 objects here so that means there is 1001 b2 hardware objects here, which is 4 bits.
So this means there are 1001 hardware bits.
why not link directly to their site?
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Please stop accepting stories that link to these 'review sites'- they're nothing more than mouthpieces for the companies hawking all sorts of trash. Just witness insights such as:
"Generally, CPU nowadays generates bigger and faster cycle-speed."
Direct quote there, folks. Most of these sites seem to have reviewers equipped with the grammar skills of a middle school student.
Notice also the banners advertising products from the same company(Zalman); hardware review sites are totally shameless when it comes to advertising and even selling what they review. The term "journalistic integrity" is not even in their (limited) vocabulary.
Even if they don't sell advertising for the product(or the product itself), they blatantly suck up to companies, just like certain digital camera review sites. Why? Because there are 5 billion review sites, and if they don't gloat about the product, the manufacturer won't ever send them a product again(nor is another manufacturer likely to take the risk.) If they don't get sent products to review, they don't HAVE anything to review because none of the "sites"(ie, some teenager and his 4 friends, or some unemployed guy) have money.
If they don't have anything to review(or, if they don't have the latest/hottest item), they don't get visits to their sites. That means no ad revenue...and that means they go out of "business".
Same thing happens in the automotive world, the consumer electronics world(ever notice stereo review magazine writers seem to have a LOT of VERY expensive toys that they own?), movie reviews, etc. It's all just a game to see who can do the best job of sucking up to the biggest audience to get the best perks from the companies.
I haven't trusted reviewers for about 4 years now...
I won't go over that issue here but I would like to state neither I nor Inside-hardware condone or approve the use of peer-to-peer file sharing.
Either this guy is a little dense or he's lying through his teeth.
Peer-to-peer file sharing is not immoral or illegal, it's only certain files (and I'd say that's just illegal, not immoral).
Personaly, I'm going to take a stand against CD-R's. I don't condone the use of CD-Rs or burners.
feh.
Its weird, I just went out yesterday and bought the MX 700 which is in the review. Personally I give the overall higher. Yes, it is more expensive, but I say well worth it. I have no problems with it. And with the right configuration in it, I got almost (all but the task-switching button) to work with Linux (Gnome 2/XFree86). I would really recommend it. If anyone does get this mouse, and they want my config for it, let me know I will send it.
That new Logitech MX 500 Optical mouse looks beautiful, but I won't be buying one. Unfortunately (and this isn't just logitech), us lefties are left out of the mouse market, no pun intended! Mice that are designed for right-handed users are just shy of worthless for us.
What's the point of having quick launch thumb buttons, when the mouse is designed for a right-handed user? Those buttons would be worthless to me, and the mouse becomes counter-intuitive to use. There seems to also be more of a push towards right hand contoured mice; I can barely even find decent symmetrical optical mice anymore (besides Logitech's low-quality offerings)!
I'm sick of this! Does anyone know of any good optical mice that are either symmetrical or come in a left-handed model?
...that in almost every Apple article here on /. there's always a few assholes mocking the aesthetics of the Mac designs-- but the same idiots who do that are the ones who post verbal drools of envy when the story is about some jackoff who puts a window and a colored light in his Windows box?
Moronic hypocrisy like that just pisses me off. Casemodding is nothing but a new forum for cock-measuring. Since vast processing power is available for next to nothing these days, it's hard to play the 'my CPU is faster than yours, neener neener neener' game-- now, it's a contest to see whose case would be most likely to be driven by a 70's pimp, if it were a Cadillac instead of a computer. Anyone who takes part in such nonsense is just a dingus, IMHO.
Smell ya later.
Gotta love dem nice mouses. I just loooove meeses to pieces (old cartoon show, if you've seen it, you'd know) :p
Go ahead and mod me down for this, guess I'm burning Karma today...G oatse.cx posts, I'm talking about all the bitchbitchbitch posts from otherwise possibly intelligent folks who use the AC button to hide behind the I'net's anonymity. Jesus, I thought for a while that /. was somewhat above all that carp. You've got a login/voice...use it, if you know you're going to burn Karma, so what!? It's not red blood cells people. It's honestly gotten to the point where I auto-filter out all the AC's I can, sadly tho', some of them make valid/good posts. It's gotten to the point where I'm ready to see Taco and the Gang (wasn't that the band that went up on the space shuttle recently?) remove the option to post anonymously...it's been abused to the point that it's now useless. No one uses it for good anymore. If you've got something to say, use your login, if you don't want to login/use login, piss off. We don't need nor want you here. MODS: GO AHEAD AND DO YOUR WORST. (Karma to burn today.)
Anyone besides me getting tired of all the AC bitch posts? I'm not talking about the obligatory, AllYourBaseInSovietRussiaImagineBeowulfClustersOf
Don't park drunk, accidents cause people.
If it doesn't have chicks and beer, then it's not a party.
"LANGathering" maybe, or "LANGet-together" why not, but I'm sorry it's not a party.
The geek subculture is cool and all but still.
Although strictly speaking it is a "party" I'd say the name should be changed lest some poor soul wonders into one of those things expecting to get laid.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
I've said it before on this forum; Consumer Reports
The only problem with them (probably only a problem to slashdotters) is that they don't do in-depth computer hardware reviews; general computer reviews are about all you get.
and no... I'm not affiliated with them in any way, aside from being a happy subscriber. They accept no advertisements at all, and are entirely member-supported. If something sucks, they say so... an invaluable service for those of you that don't like throwing your money away.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
That pretty much leaves me with the Microsoft optical wheel mouse as my choice. My Logi cordless sits in a crate somewhere.
It isn't just you lefties that are getting shafted. Many of us righties use our meeces with both hands as the work demands.
KFG
Bastards review an LCD monitor and complain about lines on the display, but never connect the DVI connector to anything.
Hopefully the net won't become just one big batch of shitty reviews.
If you're talking about the wireless one that uses BlueTooth, that mouse is Windows only. (read: worthless).
Yup, gotta love Microsoft. Only they could take a technology designed to allow all sorts of devices from many manufacturers to talk to each other, and design a device with it that only works with a Windows PC. This must be the 'embrace' part, so I guess pretty soon the Windows-only extensions to the BlueTooth protocol will be forthcoming very soon.
If something sucks, they say so... an invaluable service for those of you that don't like throwing your money away.
So it has no value? I could swear it's worth about $24 a year...
mopeds.
I don't know about anyone else, but when the author of the mp3 player review claims to be an mp3 user on the one hand, and then later claims to be an audiophile on the other hand...he kinda lost me.
Either you are an audiophile, OR you like mp3. I wonder if this guy has 5Watt altec lansing speakers hooked up to his Onkyo amp at home.
So it has no value?
try again, genius.
Main Entry: invaluable
Pronunciation: (")in-'val-y&-b&l, -y&-w&-b&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: 1in- + value, v. + -able
Date: 1576
: valuable beyond estimation : PRICELESS
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"Beautiful, Available, Intelligent, Interested", pick any two.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Too many buttons. =(
I've actually held and tried the Logitech MX500 mouse and frankly, there are just too many buttons on the mouse to press, which can cause no end of confusion unless you have a really good idea how to use the supplied Mouseware software. Does anyone remember Logitech's bizzare Marble F/X trackball mouse? That thing confused the heck out of me figuring out how to use it correctly. (frown)
One thing I like about Microsoft's and Logitech's lesser optical mouse pointers is that you only have the scroll wheel and two buttons to deal with, which makes acclimating yourself to the pointer much easier.
Raymond in Mountain View, CA
Tell that to the people who have had their right hand (or more) amputated, have a birth defect, paralysis, or otherwise cannot use their right hand. How do you propose they operate a right-hand-only mouse?
Is it really so hard?
The plural of mouse is mice!!!
Hoo boy, the reviewer over at LANParty has really been around...
Since the introduction of optical mouse a couple of years ago, the technology has evolved many times already...
I had an optical mouse on my '286 - that would be back in '88 or '89, I think. It needed a goofy mousepad with gridlines on it, but just like the ones today, it didn't get gunked up and it worked pretty well. It's pretty pathetic to hear these "veterans" speak about hardware like they's seen a lot. Probably some snot-nosed 17-year-old who thinks Linus invented Unix a few years back...
-HL
Sorry you are wrong.
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Look it up
You people make too many generalizations. I wrote the Xoxide X450 case....here are my replies to many of your comments... 1) Why do you break up your articles? Like many people here, I do not enjoy excessive scrolling. No, I do not get more ad clicks from creating multiple pages. This is solely for ease of use. 2) You're in it for the money. What money? I haven't made a dime off of WinHQ. 3) You're in it for the review samples. If I was in it for the review samples, I would have many more reviews than I currently have. I mostly give away my free gear in contests and to friends. 4) You're in it for the ad clicks. This is closely associated with question #2. The only reason why I have ads is because I need to post them in order to receive samples. No samples==no review content. If you look at the ad URLs it does not link to any tracking system. The ad at the top of my site pays for the web hosting. I have and will continue to try to keep the amount of advertising to a minimum. 5) There are so many tech sites! Yes, there are indeed many tech sites. About 50% of them are pure shit. They are definitely in it for the sponsors and their reviews are filled with an absurd amount of grammar/spelling errors. I strive to not make my site like that. I started my site not even knowing the concept of free hardware, so why would my site have its foundation on free hardware? About the "bling" comment. I try to keep my site a little bit laid back, this is not a magazine.
Sorry about the format of the text, I didn't realize this comment system supported HTML. :(
It may be the "lower end" model to granny and pops, who think the 37 buttons on the MX700&500 are neat (not to mention the "oo, shiny"-factor), but for gaming, this is IMHO the best mouse on the market.
For gaming, three buttons + wheel is more than enough. It is simply impossible to maintain precise control of the mouse while using all of those buttons. If you look a foot to the left of your mouse, you'll find you have another hand as well, and a keyboard with over a hundred keys.
And wireless just doesn't cut it for gaming other than minesweeper and solitaire. The hassle of using a cable mouse is nothing compared to the lag and the weight of the batteries on a wireless mouse.
Another factor is the shape. The shape of the MX300 is the same as the Pilot wheel mouse, which is arguably one of the best ball mouse ever made. It is perfectly symmetrical as well, and should work just as well for you lefties as for the rest of us.
If you intend to use your rodent for playing games, I suggest you stay clear of the MX700, and take a look at the MX300. For the difference in price, you'll get a good mat as well, which will improve your gaming experience much more than the extra buttons.
An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a
great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures.
I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment.
I have given up everything I was asked to give up and I have suffered, but
I have not been enlightened. What should I do?"
Otis replied, "Give up suffering."
-- Camden Benares, "Zen Without Zen Masters"
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