Firstly, not what I'd call a good review of sound cards - where's the output signal analysis and such?
Of course the uselessness and idiocy of this article was revealed as soon as I saw the Quake FPS graphs!
They also claim that the SB Audigy doesn't do 24-bit/96KHz - which is sort of true and sort of not true - more not true than anything. The audio processing chip mixes internally at 128-bit(I could be wrong here - it might be higher. I know the SBLive does it at that) then downsamples to 24-bit/96KHz to put out to the DAC. Whilst it might not be able to play anything better than 16-bit/48KHz it doesn't mean that it doesn't output 24/96.
Anyone with a clue about sound mixing can tell you that if you mix at the same rate/resolution as your input samples the output quality decreases in proportion to the number of channels due to clipping. Ever listened to a 32-channel mod with 16-bit samples being mixed at 16-bit versus an 8-channel mod? It sounds terrible, so you mix at 32-bit and downsample to 16-bit when you output.
Not that 99% people could tell the difference between 16-bit/44.1KHz and 24-bit/96KHz anyway with their shitty speakers and amp.
"But d00d! I paid like $250 for this surround setup! Hear the bass? That means it's good." - hate to tell you mate, but it's still a shithouse setup. When you buy a pair of thousand dollar speakers and a quality amp to match you may then argue with me.
Obviously, it has been delayed to help disassociate the whole free software movement from the communist movement. As no doubt you will be aware, Microsoft and other people and companies have been equating the use of free software with communism in the popular press recently.
Imagine the bad PR that could have been caused when Joe Sixpack sees socialist uni students wearing Linux t-shirts (obtained for free from trade shows because they're all so poor) rioting and desecrating monuments to capitalism!!
It would set the movement back at least 10 years!!
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Is this the anthem of the anti-copyright crowd?
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From Biohazard's latest album Uncivilization, track 10 - Domination, is a fearsome collarboration with Slipknot and Hatebreed - 3 of the meanest and hardest motherfucking bands out there, and one fucking mean album - there's also other tracks with Pantera, Type-O Negative, Cypress Hill, Agnostic Front, Skarhead and Sepultura. It's just another Biohazard album that you play like Evan (frontman, bass and vocals) tells ya to: "get off this computer shit, put it in your stereo, tell your parents to go fuck themselves, open the windows, turn up the volume and blow up your neighbourhood". By the time the album finishes you'll be a bloody pulp on the floor.
www.biohazard.com for more info and to get Down For Life motherfuckers.
You can also get a few tracks from Uncivilization at http://artists.mp3.com/artists/295/biohazard.html
Anyways, now you all know that Biohazard is the greatest fucking band in the world, here's the lyrics for Domination (which should be our anthem!):
"The confrontation was not created by the police, the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
Chorus: DOMINATION You can't get me DOMINATION You'll never get me
Keep us thinking of how to pay our bills while "they" roam through our lives with flashlights Keep our attention away from issues that "really" affect our society While "they" are busy creating problems and offering solutions! Keep us busy with our "simple" lives While "they" make decisions in disguise of our benefit.
Chorus
Keep us in the dark about the system, keeps us confused and distracted Turn your shoulder, I'll never give them total fucking control. Keep us preoccupied with bullshit while our defenses are lowered Tighten the reigns and gain control Confusion, confusion brings profit
Chorus
Broken backs and bloody knuckles Forgotten fathers and long lost uncles Who fought for freedom through piles of lies It was for our rights our ancestors died War brings profit and profit breeds greed For those who died in vain, god speed And to those who rewrite the constitiution Fuck off and die motherfucker, it's our revolution! It's our revolution! REVOLUTION
The thing that would make this case look so much cooler would be to have it anodised! Imagine it anodised blue with those lights! You could anodise that at home with some time, battery acid, battery charger and fabric dye.
I think i'd rather have had those logos laser etched and burnt than cut out though.
I'd say most of the cost in this thing would have come from the fact that it's a one-off, but if you compare it to Lian-Li cases, it's about the same price as one of their full towers. Since it's all laser cut, they could be manufactured in automated batches for quite a saving on both materials and labour - with a simple instruction sheet you could ship them as assemble yourself kits - thus making freight costs cheaper because they'd pack flat with no wasted space. I'd bet that with 3-4mm ally it'd weigh a fair bit even though it is ally.
Finally, to all you lamers giving this great guy shit for spending 250 hours on it - do you understand what a hobby is?
Okay, besides the fact that my views are 'right wing' and this whole thing is a left wing pinko beatup to get the government being perpetuated by the socialist ABC, Labor (other major.au political party -- CONTROLLED BY UNIONS), Democrats and Greens, it's time to state the facts regarding this whole sham:
* Overcrowded boat heading towards Australian territory (Christmas Island)
* Boat starts to sink, closer to Indonesian port of departure than Christmas Island.
* Tampa rescues people from boat.
* International Law dictates they be taken to nearest port - which was Indonesian.
* Indonesia says get fucked, captain proceeds anyway.
* Rescued people THREATEN captain, PIRATE ship and it heads towards Christmas Island.
* Australian government tells them to get out, Tampa proceeds to get closer.
* SAS soldiers storm ship to regain control(everyone cheers when they hear about it)
All this happens to be at a time when an election is looming, hence why oppostion parties are screaming the government did it to help it win the election. Let's not forget the fact that the MAJORITY of Australians voted FOR the government, seems to me like a huge DUMMY SPIT by the pinko's.
Let's not also forget that in the year or two leading up to the whole affair, illegal immigrants (NOT asylum seekers as the pinko's in the media repeatedly label them) arriving by boat were on a dramatic increase. They all come from middle-eastern countries via Indonesia and travel through other assorted countries along the way.
IF THEY CLAIM THEY ARE FLEEING FROM PERSECUTION AND WHAT-NOT, THEN WHY DON'T THEY SETTLE FOR ANOTHER COUNTRY ALONG THE WAY????
Ever since the goverment stood up to the pinko's and cracked down (the evil 'populist' thing to do) the problem of illegal immigrants arriving via boats has vanished!
So fuck me if I'm a racist bastard, I'm entitled to my view just as much as you are to yours. But how does this view make me racist? The term 'racist' is way overused these days.
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Firstly, not what I'd call a good review of sound cards - where's the output signal analysis and such?
Of course the uselessness and idiocy of this article was revealed as soon as I saw the Quake FPS graphs!
They also claim that the SB Audigy doesn't do 24-bit/96KHz - which is sort of true and sort of not true - more not true than anything. The audio processing chip mixes internally at 128-bit(I could be wrong here - it might be higher. I know the SBLive does it at that) then downsamples to 24-bit/96KHz to put out to the DAC. Whilst it might not be able to play anything better than 16-bit/48KHz it doesn't mean that it doesn't output 24/96.
Anyone with a clue about sound mixing can tell you that if you mix at the same rate/resolution as your input samples the output quality decreases in proportion to the number of channels due to clipping. Ever listened to a 32-channel mod with 16-bit samples being mixed at 16-bit versus an 8-channel mod? It sounds terrible, so you mix at 32-bit and downsample to 16-bit when you output.
Not that 99% people could tell the difference between 16-bit/44.1KHz and 24-bit/96KHz anyway with their shitty speakers and amp.
"But d00d! I paid like $250 for this surround setup! Hear the bass? That means it's good." - hate to tell you mate, but it's still a shithouse setup. When you buy a pair of thousand dollar speakers and a quality amp to match you may then argue with me.
Obviously, it has been delayed to help disassociate the whole free software movement from the communist movement. As no doubt you will be aware, Microsoft and other people and companies have been equating the use of free software with communism in the popular press recently.
Imagine the bad PR that could have been caused when Joe Sixpack sees socialist uni students wearing Linux t-shirts (obtained for free from trade shows because they're all so poor) rioting and desecrating monuments to capitalism!!
It would set the movement back at least 10 years!!
--
From Biohazard's latest album Uncivilization, track 10 - Domination, is a fearsome collarboration with Slipknot and Hatebreed - 3 of the meanest and hardest motherfucking bands out there, and one fucking mean album - there's also other tracks with Pantera, Type-O Negative, Cypress Hill, Agnostic Front, Skarhead and Sepultura. It's just another Biohazard album that you play like Evan (frontman, bass and vocals) tells ya to: "get off this computer shit, put it in your stereo, tell your parents to go fuck themselves, open the windows, turn up the volume and blow up your neighbourhood". By the time the album finishes you'll be a bloody pulp on the floor.
www.biohazard.com for more info and to get Down For Life motherfuckers.
You can also get a few tracks from Uncivilization at http://artists.mp3.com/artists/295/biohazard.html
Anyways, now you all know that Biohazard is the greatest fucking band in the world, here's the lyrics for Domination (which should be our anthem!):
"The confrontation was not created by the police, the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
Chorus:
DOMINATION
You can't get me
DOMINATION
You'll never get me
Keep us thinking of how to pay our bills while "they" roam through our lives with flashlights
Keep our attention away from issues that "really" affect our society
While "they" are busy creating problems and offering solutions!
Keep us busy with our "simple" lives
While "they" make decisions in disguise of our benefit.
Chorus
Keep us in the dark about the system, keeps us confused and distracted
Turn your shoulder, I'll never give them total fucking control.
Keep us preoccupied with bullshit while our defenses are lowered
Tighten the reigns and gain control
Confusion, confusion brings profit
Chorus
Broken backs and bloody knuckles
Forgotten fathers and long lost uncles
Who fought for freedom through piles of lies
It was for our rights our ancestors died
War brings profit and profit breeds greed
For those who died in vain, god speed
And to those who rewrite the constitiution
Fuck off and die motherfucker, it's our revolution!
It's our revolution!
REVOLUTION
The thing that would make this case look so much cooler would be to have it anodised! Imagine it anodised blue with those lights! You could anodise that at home with some time, battery acid, battery charger and fabric dye.
I think i'd rather have had those logos laser etched and burnt than cut out though.
I'd say most of the cost in this thing would have come from the fact that it's a one-off, but if you compare it to Lian-Li cases, it's about the same price as one of their full towers. Since it's all laser cut, they could be manufactured in automated batches for quite a saving on both materials and labour - with a simple instruction sheet you could ship them as assemble yourself kits - thus making freight costs cheaper because they'd pack flat with no wasted space. I'd bet that with 3-4mm ally it'd weigh a fair bit even though it is ally.
Finally, to all you lamers giving this great guy shit for spending 250 hours on it - do you understand what a hobby is?
Okay, besides the fact that my views are 'right wing' and this whole thing is a left wing pinko beatup to get the government being perpetuated by the socialist ABC, Labor (other major .au political party -- CONTROLLED BY UNIONS), Democrats and Greens, it's time to state the facts regarding this whole sham:
* Overcrowded boat heading towards Australian territory (Christmas Island)
* Boat starts to sink, closer to Indonesian port of departure than Christmas Island.
* Tampa rescues people from boat.
* International Law dictates they be taken to nearest port - which was Indonesian.
* Indonesia says get fucked, captain proceeds anyway.
* Rescued people THREATEN captain, PIRATE ship and it heads towards Christmas Island.
* Australian government tells them to get out, Tampa proceeds to get closer.
* SAS soldiers storm ship to regain control(everyone cheers when they hear about it)
All this happens to be at a time when an election is looming, hence why oppostion parties are screaming the government did it to help it win the election. Let's not forget the fact that the MAJORITY of Australians voted FOR the government, seems to me like a huge DUMMY SPIT by the pinko's.
Let's not also forget that in the year or two leading up to the whole affair, illegal immigrants (NOT asylum seekers as the pinko's in the media repeatedly label them) arriving by boat were on a dramatic increase. They all come from middle-eastern countries via Indonesia and travel through other assorted countries along the way.
IF THEY CLAIM THEY ARE FLEEING FROM PERSECUTION AND WHAT-NOT, THEN WHY DON'T THEY SETTLE FOR ANOTHER COUNTRY ALONG THE WAY????
Ever since the goverment stood up to the pinko's and cracked down (the evil 'populist' thing to do) the problem of illegal immigrants arriving via boats has vanished!
So fuck me if I'm a racist bastard, I'm entitled to my view just as much as you are to yours. But how does this view make me racist? The term 'racist' is way overused these days.