Those are fakes. There's been no release that I've seen, and the places I see are the ones responsobile for supplying channels on IRC networks.
One easy way to check on these pirated releases is through VCDQuality. They post the NFOs (text documents containing information on the group who released the movie) and JPEG samples of the releases. It's very rare that any decent release of a movie doesn't get posted to the site (usually within 2-60 minutes of the initial upload/release/spread of the movie). With something as huge as The Two Towers, if it were released, you'd better believe the group who brings it to the community first will want to be known for it.
Not really, AC3 audio is just audio, and this technique has been around for quite some time. Nandub has been available to interleave and mux AC3 audio with DivX encoded video for quite some time, and no one seems to have cared until now.
Electronic music is unbelievaly vast. Drum and bass, techno, trance, house, trip-hop, ambient, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.
You will probably fine trance to your liking, most people do. I'd HIGHLY reccommend di.fm, it's a European streaming site with 5 different streams at all sorts of rates, Trance, Eurodance, House, Hard House and Hard Trance. See what you like and what you don't, and buy from there. My personal favorites include:
Tall Paul (Clubbers Guide to Ibiza) Paul Oakenfold Paul Van Dyk (Live at Knebworth and Live at Home London are great) Matt Harwick (Gatecrasher) DJ Fuzion (Countdown to Wintergalactic)
For Sasha and Digweed, the San Fransisco Global Underground CDs are absolutely essential.
By going with a more integrated system, cutting back on peripherals and having a less powerful system than Microsoft chose, I'm actually suprised that it took Nintendo this long to cut their prices.
Playstation 2 has the software edge(more titles out for it than anything right now), XBox has the hardware edge, and Nintendo has a price advantage. With a weaker console(hardware wise) and less titles, the price war is how Nintendo will stay competitive.
Er, it's slower than similarly clocked Celerons at most tasks, it's big and heavy, can get quite hot(due to it's complete lack of exhaust fan(s)), and it's over $2000+.
Aside from the general coolness factor, it's main point is flexibility. From the article..
"Almost everyone who saw the PaceBook while we had it commented "cool" upon first glance. The problem is that being cool does not sell a notebook, tablet, or desktop; being useful does. Although a good concept, PaceBook is a bit before its time"
It's a TeleSync. High quality camera pointed at the screen, audio from a direct source. Screeners are labeled as such, and more coveted than the DivX/SVCD that was released yesterday.
No audience members if the stadium is setup correctly, or the guy with the cam has any intelligence. Cam wouldn't be off kilter, TS almost always denotes a tripod. Cell phone and coughs aren't heard because it's direct from the audio source, not a mic.
is a comparison between the 64MB and the 128MB version. He tests the 64MB version time and time again, but then tosses in a reccommendation for the 128MB card at the end? A little explanation would be nice.
The 64MB card, at the stock clock of 500Mhz, outperforms the 128MB card at 444Mhz in almost every single test, obviously because of the large difference in memory bandwidth available from memory to core and back. The HardOCP review of the same card shows the 64MB card beating the 128MB by a few FPS in almost every test. The 128MB card should be the one sought after, but only because the memory on the 128MB card can be overclocked to exceed to 500Mhz memory spc on the 64MB card. You can always overclock the 128MB card, but you can't add more memory to the 64MB one.
Wish reviewers did a little better job of explaining why the reccommend things.
USB works. I've never had a USB problem I couldn't easily fix.
Why integrate things? Yeah, being able to essentially run your system from the board is SUCH a pain. Don't like integrated LAN and Audio? Turn them off in BIOS. That too much to ask? 9 seconds of your time?
PS/2 is antiquated. Out with the old, in with the new. These boards aren't designed to be drop in replacements and work with your old hardware, they're designed for NEW systems.
You use old hardware, why should NEW boards pander to your antiquation? USB is great. Plug in my printer, it's autoconfigured. Digital camera? Same. Webcam? Same. Mp3 player? Same.
Why would you buy a USB mouse? Oh yeah, an optical USB mouse that works on any surface and never needs cleaning is such a PITA.
SCSI is not for consumers. It's too expensive. Always has been, always will be.
"Legacy free" = Realizing that most consumers looking to buy such a board are on the cutting edge of hardware and technology, not stuck in 80s.
It 100% depends on your setup and the level of intelligence of the overclocker.
If you take a bunch of cheap, bargain basement systems in cramped mini-towers with few or no case fans, then decide to run PC133 RAM at 150Mhz and run at 1Ghz system at 1.2Ghz, you will obviously freeze up.
When you get to nice systems, spacious and roomy cases, quality heatsinks and a case fan or two, you can easily run an Celeron 1.2Ghz Tuatulin 1200 at 1500, or in my case, you can run a 900 Athlon at 1.12Ghz and have your PC133 RAM running near PC2100 DDR speeds and see a 25% increase on your MIPS/MFLOPS for basically pennies on the dollar.
Buy a couple of steps below the current "top end" systems, spend $40 on a case fan or two and a decent heatsink and you'll be able to meet or beat the performance of those top end machines.
I'm not really sure why overclocking doesn't show itself more in the corporate enviroment. *shrug*
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Those are fakes. There's been no release that I've seen, and the places I see are the ones responsobile for supplying channels on IRC networks.
One easy way to check on these pirated releases is through VCDQuality. They post the NFOs (text documents containing information on the group who released the movie) and JPEG samples of the releases. It's very rare that any decent release of a movie doesn't get posted to the site (usually within 2-60 minutes of the initial upload/release/spread of the movie). With something as huge as The Two Towers, if it were released, you'd better believe the group who brings it to the community first will want to be known for it.
Not really, AC3 audio is just audio, and this technique has been around for quite some time. Nandub has been available to interleave and mux AC3 audio with DivX encoded video for quite some time, and no one seems to have cared until now.
Electronic music is unbelievaly vast. Drum and bass, techno, trance, house, trip-hop, ambient, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.
You will probably fine trance to your liking, most people do. I'd HIGHLY reccommend di.fm, it's a European streaming site with 5 different streams at all sorts of rates, Trance, Eurodance, House, Hard House and Hard Trance. See what you like and what you don't, and buy from there. My personal favorites include:
Tall Paul (Clubbers Guide to Ibiza)
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Van Dyk (Live at Knebworth and Live at Home London are great)
Matt Harwick (Gatecrasher)
DJ Fuzion (Countdown to Wintergalactic)
For Sasha and Digweed, the San Fransisco Global Underground CDs are absolutely essential.
Check out tranceaddict for some listings as well.
All depends on what suits your fancy.
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By going with a more integrated system, cutting back on peripherals and having a less powerful system than Microsoft chose, I'm actually suprised that it took Nintendo this long to cut their prices.
Playstation 2 has the software edge(more titles out for it than anything right now), XBox has the hardware edge, and Nintendo has a price advantage. With a weaker console(hardware wise) and less titles, the price war is how Nintendo will stay competitive.
Er, it's slower than similarly clocked Celerons at most tasks, it's big and heavy, can get quite hot(due to it's complete lack of exhaust fan(s)), and it's over $2000+.
Aside from the general coolness factor, it's main point is flexibility. From the article..
"Almost everyone who saw the PaceBook while we had it commented "cool" upon first glance. The problem is that being cool does not sell a notebook, tablet, or desktop; being useful does. Although a good concept, PaceBook is a bit before its time"
It's a TeleSync. High quality camera pointed at the screen, audio from a direct source. Screeners are labeled as such, and more coveted than the DivX/SVCD that was released yesterday.
No audience members if the stadium is setup correctly, or the guy with the cam has any intelligence. Cam wouldn't be off kilter, TS almost always denotes a tripod. Cell phone and coughs aren't heard because it's direct from the audio source, not a mic.
Yes, yes.
Yes.
Not bogus, and not a disinformation campaign. The MPAA doesn't make NFO's like that.
is a comparison between the 64MB and the 128MB version. He tests the 64MB version time and time again, but then tosses in a reccommendation for the 128MB card at the end? A little explanation would be nice.
The 64MB card, at the stock clock of 500Mhz, outperforms the 128MB card at 444Mhz in almost every single test, obviously because of the large difference in memory bandwidth available from memory to core and back. The HardOCP review of the same card shows the 64MB card beating the 128MB by a few FPS in almost every test. The 128MB card should be the one sought after, but only because the memory on the 128MB card can be overclocked to exceed to 500Mhz memory spc on the 64MB card. You can always overclock the 128MB card, but you can't add more memory to the 64MB one.
Wish reviewers did a little better job of explaining why the reccommend things.
..then..don't..buy..it..
USB works. I've never had a USB problem I couldn't easily fix.
Why integrate things? Yeah, being able to essentially run your system from the board is SUCH a pain. Don't like integrated LAN and Audio? Turn them off in BIOS. That too much to ask? 9 seconds of your time?
PS/2 is antiquated. Out with the old, in with the new. These boards aren't designed to be drop in replacements and work with your old hardware, they're designed for NEW systems.
So don't buy the board, is it that hard?
You use old hardware, why should NEW boards pander to your antiquation? USB is great. Plug in my printer, it's autoconfigured. Digital camera? Same. Webcam? Same. Mp3 player? Same.
Why would you buy a USB mouse? Oh yeah, an optical USB mouse that works on any surface and never needs cleaning is such a PITA.
SCSI is not for consumers. It's too expensive. Always has been, always will be.
"Legacy free" = Realizing that most consumers looking to buy such a board are on the cutting edge of hardware and technology, not stuck in 80s.
It 100% depends on your setup and the level of intelligence of the overclocker.
If you take a bunch of cheap, bargain basement systems in cramped mini-towers with few or no case fans, then decide to run PC133 RAM at 150Mhz and run at 1Ghz system at 1.2Ghz, you will obviously freeze up.
When you get to nice systems, spacious and roomy cases, quality heatsinks and a case fan or two, you can easily run an Celeron 1.2Ghz Tuatulin 1200 at 1500, or in my case, you can run a 900 Athlon at 1.12Ghz and have your PC133 RAM running near PC2100 DDR speeds and see a 25% increase on your MIPS/MFLOPS for basically pennies on the dollar.
Buy a couple of steps below the current "top end" systems, spend $40 on a case fan or two and a decent heatsink and you'll be able to meet or beat the performance of those top end machines.
I'm not really sure why overclocking doesn't show itself more in the corporate enviroment. *shrug*
The solution to people wasting time on games is to spend more valuable time figuring out how the wasted time scales to modern achievements.
On that note, why am I replying..
They'll show up somewhere. They usually find a way.