Again I am disappointed in an 'advanced' guide that spends 90% of its time dealing with graphics and dedicates only a single half-heated page (a quote from the developer) speaking of the sound design. The goals of this guide are to provide, "an upgrade that will make a real difference and offer you the greatest improvement in gameplay for the money spent." GamePlay. Gameplay involves SOUND especially on this game.
How about mentioning the different sound cards? The quality difference between 24bit/96Kbps 5.1 on the Audigy 2 and the Dolby Digital 5.1 support the nForce 2 offers? Yeah, thanks.
What I suggest and use is the HP 4C scanner. It's a SCSI-II only scanner that can be found on Ebay for under $10 usually. They also have an automatic document feeder option that can be found on Ebay. This scanner was originally designed for both Windows and Apple compatibility as well. It cannot handle 2-sided sheets.
The scanner has four different pieces of software you can choose to use, I'd suggest Precision Scan Pro as that makes multi-document scanning easier.
I'd just like to give a big thank you out to your full team. (Including the two of you who share a slashdot number registered within minutes of each other, hah!).
This is the only fan movie that I feel not only reflected the source material but respected it as well. Wonderful job.
That's about the time HP's CEO changed to that woman. Ahh, after URLing, here she is. Carly Fiorina
She decided to move HP to a class-based inventory company to keep up with current competition. If you watch the history of the ScanJet line you can actually watch the trend. I am doing this in order of release date. Let us start from the HP IICX:
HP II CX (Disney still uses these) HP 3 C HP 4 C (600 Optical DPI, around $2,800) HP 4 P (300 Optical DPI, around $890) HP 4 S (Terrible device made with VistaScan. HP won't even own up to making it) HP 5 P
New CEO Based on the 5P Core but without the expensive metal casing and protecting for the scan bar: HP 5100C (What's happening here? Printer-port only scanner that breaks down every 300 scans when the head falls off the railing, giving a horrible grinding noise?) HP 6100C (SCSI only like almost all of the scanners above. Has a burnout problem with the power supply.) HP 5200C (Printer-Port / USB scanner, same trouble as the 5100C but after a year of service) First New Design, released with the same 'product line' number as above scanners. HP 4200C (USB only. Has similar grinding problem as 5100C. Lightbar is powered off in software only and crashes Windows '98. Costs $100 less than 5200C)
Still uses 5P Design: HP 6200C (USB / SCSI. Same grinding problem, more expensive case. Costs $100 more than 5200c and an additional $300 if you want the ADF/Negative 5in by 5in light)
New updated 4200 Core: HP 4300C (USB Only. If Serial number shows MY95XXXXX or less, scanner was manufactured incorrectly and will usually give an ERROR 42. HP made no announcement about the known hardware problems and only would repair if the customer called in. Note that there is no TOLL-FREE option) HP 5300C (Looks larger than the 4300C, but same hardware) Annndd lalalala down the line.
I own five HP 4C now days, all of which I picked up at the Dallas First Saturday Sale and I cannot express how EXCELLENTLY manufactured these scanners are. I even managed to pick up three ADFs [automatic document feeder 50x sheets] with the scanners. You can still find these scanners on EBAY for $10 or under.
I understand this entry appears Off Topic, but it is just a history of the HP quality through the new CEO's ownership using the ScanJet line.
The SURFboard modems check both sides. The Nortel CM200's and RCA 105's up to the 235's (with USB, yay) also hit the ethernet if they cannot reach a CMTS across the cable.
Interestingly, The CM100 (BayNetworks by Nortel) does not make that mistake.
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Again I am disappointed in an 'advanced' guide that spends 90% of its time dealing with graphics and dedicates only a single half-heated page (a quote from the developer) speaking of the sound design. The goals of this guide are to provide, "an upgrade that will make a real difference and offer you the greatest improvement in gameplay for the money spent." GamePlay. Gameplay involves SOUND especially on this game.
How about mentioning the different sound cards? The quality difference between 24bit/96Kbps 5.1 on the Audigy 2 and the Dolby Digital 5.1 support the nForce 2 offers? Yeah, thanks.
One must have an impressive grudge to consider using RICIN (which happens to be my favorite poison)
What I suggest and use is the HP 4C scanner. It's a SCSI-II only scanner that can be found on Ebay for under $10 usually. They also have an automatic document feeder option that can be found on Ebay. This scanner was originally designed for both Windows and Apple compatibility as well. It cannot handle 2-sided sheets.
The scanner has four different pieces of software you can choose to use, I'd suggest Precision Scan Pro as that makes multi-document scanning easier.
I'd just like to give a big thank you out to your full team. (Including the two of you who share a slashdot number registered within minutes of each other, hah!).
This is the only fan movie that I feel not only reflected the source material but respected it as well. Wonderful job.
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Ahahahahahahahaha. I also like the earlier, "navel-gazing" comment.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/201725 1&mode=thread&tid=133&tid=167&tid= 99 ...oops?
You're welcome. Love your tag, BTW =)
That's about the time HP's CEO changed to that woman. Ahh, after URLing, here she is. Carly Fiorina
She decided to move HP to a class-based inventory company to keep up with current competition. If you watch the history of the ScanJet line you can actually watch the trend.
I am doing this in order of release date.
Let us start from the HP IICX:
HP II CX (Disney still uses these)
HP 3 C
HP 4 C (600 Optical DPI, around $2,800)
HP 4 P (300 Optical DPI, around $890)
HP 4 S (Terrible device made with VistaScan. HP won't even own up to making it)
HP 5 P
New CEO
Based on the 5P Core but without the expensive metal casing and protecting for the scan bar:
HP 5100C (What's happening here? Printer-port only scanner that breaks down every 300 scans when the head falls off the railing, giving a horrible grinding noise?)
HP 6100C (SCSI only like almost all of the scanners above. Has a burnout problem with the power supply.)
HP 5200C (Printer-Port / USB scanner, same trouble as the 5100C but after a year of service)
First New Design, released with the same 'product line' number as above scanners.
HP 4200C (USB only. Has similar grinding problem as 5100C. Lightbar is powered off in software only and crashes Windows '98. Costs $100 less than 5200C)
Still uses 5P Design:
HP 6200C (USB / SCSI. Same grinding problem, more expensive case. Costs $100 more than 5200c and an additional $300 if you want the ADF/Negative 5in by 5in light)
New updated 4200 Core:
HP 4300C (USB Only. If Serial number shows MY95XXXXX or less, scanner was manufactured incorrectly and will usually give an ERROR 42. HP made no announcement about the known hardware problems and only would repair if the customer called in. Note that there is no TOLL-FREE option)
HP 5300C (Looks larger than the 4300C, but same hardware)
Annndd lalalala down the line.
I own five HP 4C now days, all of which I picked up at the Dallas First Saturday Sale and I cannot express how EXCELLENTLY manufactured these scanners are. I even managed to pick up three ADFs [automatic document feeder 50x sheets] with the scanners. You can still find these scanners on EBAY for $10 or under.
I understand this entry appears Off Topic, but it is just a history of the HP quality through the new CEO's ownership using the ScanJet line.
The SURFboard modems check both sides. The Nortel CM200's and RCA 105's up to the 235's (with USB, yay) also hit the ethernet if they cannot reach a CMTS across the cable.
Interestingly, The CM100 (BayNetworks by Nortel) does not make that mistake.