Bookfinder used to be the king of used book searches. It would search all the other sides like Albris, Half, ABE, Amazon, B&N, Powells and others. But now it's a sad shadow of it's former self. Somehow it's data is now long outdated, like it's only updated once a month or worse.
So now you need to search all those sites manually to be sure to find a particular book.
I start with Amazon to find the book and get the ISBN, and make note of Amazon's used price.
Then I look at Half (because it's so damn easy! and I trust the eBay ratings system). Usually the best place for recent books.
Then the dreaded ABEbooks where it's a zillion little dealers, each with their own shipping rates, and method of payment. ABE is what used book buying via email and BBS used to be like (except now we have PayPal).
I was amazed to find the best price via Bibliofind even though it's a branch of Amazon. Seems Bibliofind searches ZSHOPS, while the normal page in Amazon didn't list the ZSHOP copy. The best price I found anywhere else was over $40 (for a less than 10 year old Del Rey paperback!). The ZSHOP price? $2.50! Yes! The joy of buying used.
Of course the shipping kind of kills those wonderful deals. Nothing could beat walking out of a used bookstore with huge stack of paperbacks for $20 ($1 to $2 a book). Thats how you really discover authors (and accumulate shelf after shelf of stuff you will never get around to reading).
Not only are Anandtech's results coming from Matrox, the results are for a board no one has even had for testing yet! So not only is it impossible to verify, it's for a board no one can buy!
GeForce4 has 10bit DAC as well. So ho-hum, pity you got moderated up so fast for a completely baseless statement.
Here is confirmation:
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/people/b_singer/Rad eo n10BitGamma/
Also as for the comments about Matrox having better 2D, why is no one saying ATI has better 2D display?
Because ATI now sells chips to OEMs, so whatever arguments anyone had about many NVIDIA cards being cheap clone crap (cutting corners) now apply to ATI.
What? ATI 8500 (and 7500) do not have 10-bit alpha/overlay. Where would the extra bit's come from? 32bits per pixel, 24 bits for RGB, 8 bits for Alpha/overlay.
Perhaps what you mean is they are using a 10bit DAC for output (a claim going back to the Rage128 cards from ATI).
How about providing some proof. A link or something, I find nothing on a search on Google that mentions 10bit overlay, only the 10bit DAC.
On Maxtrox they've actually gone to 2bit Alpha/Overlay, and 10-bits for each R G B for more color depth.
I've experimented with a popular fingerprint reader.
If the previous person to use the reader had greasy or sweaty hands, and they don't intentionally wipe or smear the plate you can fake their print easily.
Either hold your palm closely over the plate, or breath gently over the reader. Enough to create enough warmth to simulate a finger.
With a little practice I could do it over and over. Quite fun giving a demo to security people!
Their new stuff costs nearly as much as 802.11a!
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802.11a has dropped drasticly in price and continues to fall.
There is no reason for this silly US Robotics specific solution. (except marketing to fools)
If you want more speed, pay a little more and get 802.11a, or wait a short while for it to be in the same price range.
Or, put your money into a better antenna on your WAP since few get the full bandwidth with existing 801.11b because of those tiny cheap antennas built into most WAPs.
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Bookfinder used to be the king of used book searches. It would search all the other sides like Albris, Half, ABE, Amazon, B&N, Powells and others. But now it's a sad shadow of it's former self. Somehow it's data is now long outdated, like it's only updated once a month or worse.
So now you need to search all those sites manually to be sure to find a particular book.
I start with Amazon to find the book and get the ISBN, and make note of Amazon's used price.
Then I look at Half (because it's so damn easy! and I trust the eBay ratings system). Usually the best place for recent books.
Then the dreaded ABEbooks where it's a zillion little dealers, each with their own shipping rates, and method of payment. ABE is what used book buying via email and BBS used to be like (except now we have PayPal).
I was amazed to find the best price via Bibliofind even though it's a branch of Amazon. Seems Bibliofind searches ZSHOPS, while the normal page in Amazon didn't list the ZSHOP copy. The best price I found anywhere else was over $40 (for a less than 10 year old Del Rey paperback!). The ZSHOP price? $2.50! Yes! The joy of buying used.
Of course the shipping kind of kills those wonderful deals. Nothing could beat walking out of a used bookstore with huge stack of paperbacks for $20 ($1 to $2 a book). Thats how you really discover authors (and accumulate shelf after shelf of stuff you will never get around to reading).
the video quality has nothing to do with the chipset (as you are saying), and everything to do with the quality of the RAMDAC.
Ummm, you did realize the RAMDAC is built into these newer chipsets like the GEForce4 MX I mentioned. Right?
Not only are Anandtech's results coming from Matrox, the results are for a board no one has even had for testing yet! So not only is it impossible to verify, it's for a board no one can buy!
We are talking about existing products here.
GeForce4 has 10bit DAC as well. So ho-hum, pity you got moderated up so fast for a completely baseless statement.
d eo n10BitGamma/
Here is confirmation:
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/people/b_singer/Ra
Also as for the comments about Matrox having better 2D, why is no one saying ATI has better 2D display?
Because ATI now sells chips to OEMs, so whatever arguments anyone had about many NVIDIA cards being cheap clone crap (cutting corners) now apply to ATI.
You are more then welcome to check with a percise measurement equipment the output of Matrox VGA out connector and NVidia's one..
... I thought so.
Matrox leads on that, even compared to GeForce4
If it's not a myth, please provide proof.
Something besides the typical subjective web review (and even those are admiting Nvidia has caught up).
How about a review that uses "precise measurement equipment" as you describe.
(and as someone else said, please test against a quality card, not the cheapest clone card you can find).
Oh wait, you mean there isn't any such review?
What? ATI 8500 (and 7500) do not have 10-bit alpha/overlay. Where would the extra bit's come from? 32bits per pixel, 24 bits for RGB, 8 bits for Alpha/overlay.
Perhaps what you mean is they are using a 10bit DAC for output (a claim going back to the Rage128 cards from ATI).
How about providing some proof. A link or something, I find nothing on a search on Google that mentions 10bit overlay, only the 10bit DAC.
On Maxtrox they've actually gone to 2bit Alpha/Overlay, and 10-bits for each R G B for more color depth.
You are looking at old Nvidia cards.
Look at a GeForce4 MX, the matrox having better 2D quality is now a myth.
Powered by Iron Chef... for the best in quality open source Video Drivers look to Iron Chef.
Makes just as much sense.
Why support ATI only?
Why not use existing drivers for other video cards instead? (like NVIDIA)
Did they buy a stack of these ATI 8500 cards only to discover they won't do what they need to do?
Why?
How exactly is this little charity project going to benefit the Weather Channel?
1. Encourages use hacked PGP which supports longer key lengths making it even harder for NSA to listen in.
2. Based in Lebanon, one of those axis of terror countries if I ever heard of one.
Yee-Haw - Sure sounds like one of those terrorist rag heads to me!
Imad's PGP Page
He's been updating the latest source release of PGP (6.5.8), adding features, and fixing bugs. The latest solid release if Build 08
Imad is based in Lebanon (so you can guess what he thinks of US IP Lawyers' threats)
I've experimented with a popular fingerprint reader.
If the previous person to use the reader had greasy or sweaty hands, and they don't intentionally wipe or smear the plate you can fake their print easily.
Either hold your palm closely over the plate, or breath gently over the reader. Enough to create enough warmth to simulate a finger.
With a little practice I could do it over and over. Quite fun giving a demo to security people!
802.11a has dropped drasticly in price and continues to fall.
There is no reason for this silly US Robotics specific solution. (except marketing to fools)
If you want more speed, pay a little more and get 802.11a, or wait a short while for it to be in the same price range.
Or, put your money into a better antenna on your WAP since few get the full bandwidth with existing 801.11b because of those tiny cheap antennas built into most WAPs.
I guess when the attack of the smart elephants starts we really will be able to build concrete rockets powered by nuclear bombs!
Who knew Jerry Pournelle was a true visionary?