I dunno the failure of the borken services at least gives us a chance for humour. I get a kick out of the "IT Professional Solution" guys. There are quite a few out there who have learned to set up "Moveable Type" etc and now advertise themselves as "IT Professionals". Priceless, but they never get the joke.
PenGun
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That's the only reason I install any of either gnome or kde's crap. I always hate it when some "thing' or other fires up kde runtime just for a borken fucking widget.
A curse on both their houses.
PenGun
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My Linux boxes both personal and servers have been online for over 10 years and have had not ever been compromised. Attacked... oh my yes, but never taken.
No firewalls, no nothin', just standard good practice.
FYI:
Incomplete... ohyeah!
Athlon 64 Venice 3000+ @ 2.7G... solid.
1 gig DDR 400
360G 2 x 160 HD
6600 GT > 20" Sony
M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 > Sonic Frontiers SFL1 Signiture, factory modded > Sonic
Frontiers SFM 75 monoblocks > BMW Matrix 1s
PenGun
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Hmmm, runs kinda slow on my x86-64 O/C'd Venice but I think that's just 'cause it's new n' raw. It's in the wild and runs most everywhere in x86 land, although the install can be tricky.
This guy is just wrong about a lot of stuff. Right place, right time, you know. Don't forget he is responsible for some of the original apple OS code, so not much slack cut for that eh'.
PenGun
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I dunno but it sounds like apple's imagemagic to me.
For Linux users, qiv will cruise yer photo dir, I just dump the SD-Card to a dir, and it lets you very quickly see what's worth keeping. It dumps rejects into a sub dir and is damn fast.
PenGun
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Nah, just dumb. Buy an nForce4 board and drop in an Opteron 165. Will utterly destroy the Mac for way less. OC it a bit and it'll beat everything for a year or maybe even two.
PenGun
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Audiophiles don't use gold. It's only 67% or so as conductive as silver at 100%. Generally rhodium is a pretty good connector and smears into a great connection. You can use silver but it oxidizes which is the reason gold is used on low end stuff.
PenGun
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Re:mnb Re:Sinister Voiceover
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My daughter's favorite weapon, after she heard "HUMILIATION" she would use it any time she could, favorite tactic was to rocket, carefully, a crowded room then run in and HUMILIATE as many as she could, cackling maniacly ths whole time. Some of you may remember "Lucretzia";).
PenGun
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Re:How does one get to the torrents?
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The Ali - Foreman fight, a round and a quarter million shots. No that must have been amateurs. If you have ever shot for a living you tend to use all the film or memeory you brought. I do nature stuff and water shots often require a massive number of shots to get the one I came for. You can often tell how pro a guy is by how much film he bought.
PenGun
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From a thread on Anadatech that kind of sums it up :
"I work with audio devices for a living. I've worked with the X-Fi since it was a prototype(as have a couple dozen other people in my lab). Certainly it is an improvement over previous Creative efforts, and at first we were a bit wowed by the paper specs and proposal. However after working closely with it for months, I honestly can say that no one here feels its anything special. Perhaps some of that is the novelty wearing off, but in any ad-hoc test with someone who hadn't heard it before, they could rarely tell the difference between it and an Audigy, and the M-Audio Revolution generally was said to produce clearer sound. Not that our tests were scientific or anything, we weren't trying to write articles for publication.
I'd really suggest some blind tests with a variety of content. I think you may be suprised to find that while for MP3's the X-Fi sounds good, for CD's and especially SACD's the mid-range is poorly reproduced. Make certain you use a wide range of music, and prefferably classical numbers that you know very well.
Something else is you could list what type of speakers/headphones and recievers you are using, if you are testing with something like Klipsch then your credibility would go down considerably for anything but games and action movies, after all the card cannot make up for poor speakers(when measured by reproduction accuracy, not volume).
I would suggest establishing a baseline and going from there. Based on my experience, in the 'consumer' segment the M-Audio Revolution 7.1 is a good baseline, however any baseline that you could compare against would be beneficial to strengthening the credibility of the review. Granted anything audio is subjective, but when you say something is 'better' you need to at least be able to point to some specific reasons as to why.
And finally, the section that read like Creative marketing PR was your explanation of their audio architecture. There is nothing inherantly 'better' about the approach Creative is taking, it is simply different, there are both advantages and drawbacks. Furthermore, while they make the product seem like the 'next generation of audio' no one has managed to get a commitment from them to support the upcoming Windows Audio Architecture that will be a part of Vista, without that support they will be behind several others. Their lack of support for Linux is also a drawback for many.
Thank you for the effort, I hope that this feedback will help you improve your audio reviews in the future. I have read AT since the beginning and rarely doubted what is posted here, there just seemed to be some rather glaring flaws in how this review was handled. At least in my humble opinion."
The card is hype. Get a M-Audio 24/96 for nice sound.
PenGun
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Slashdot Mirror
A useless set of near numbers. Just a few media types, poor tests, a waste of time. Tom has gone way downhill.
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PenGun
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Karma Whore ... nothing to see here, just /. in all it's glory.
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PenGun
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A leatherman is only useful if you don't have the proper tool. None uses the screwdriver on it if there is a real one available.
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Windose and Linux are a lot like that. Hope you don't have any serious tool using to do.
PenGun
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Really one of the best threads in weeks.
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PenGun
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Well I post at 0 so I gues I'm just a brave AC.
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The reason "you cannot just pack it up and move" is 'cause you are an user idiot and you would drown without a floatation device.
Users should be punished when useful and ignored the rest of the time. The ones that can type should be punished on a regular basis.
Outrage is what makes it all worthwhile.
PenGun
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I dunno the failure of the borken services at least gives us a chance for humour. I get a kick out of the "IT Professional Solution" guys. There are quite a few out there who have learned to set up "Moveable Type" etc and now advertise themselves as "IT Professionals". Priceless, but they never get the joke.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
The last time I used windows was NT 3.51. It at least was fairly stable. It's been downhill from there.
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PenGun
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That's the only reason I install any of either gnome or kde's crap. I always hate it when some "thing' or other fires up kde runtime just for a borken fucking widget.
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A curse on both their houses.
PenGun
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It's pretty simple really. Some people are _really_ afraid of the wild. My theory is they know they could not compete without an unfair advantage.
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PenGun
Do What Now ???
Hmmm a pissing contest ... cool.
... oh my yes, but never taken.
... ohyeah! ... solid.
... Standards and Practices !
My Linux boxes both personal and servers have been online for over 10 years and have had not ever been compromised. Attacked
No firewalls, no nothin', just standard good practice.
FYI:
Incomplete
Athlon 64 Venice 3000+ @ 2.7G
1 gig DDR 400
360G 2 x 160 HD
6600 GT > 20" Sony
M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 > Sonic Frontiers SFL1 Signiture, factory modded > Sonic
Frontiers SFM 75 monoblocks > BMW Matrix 1s
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Hmmm, runs kinda slow on my x86-64 O/C'd Venice but I think that's just 'cause it's new n' raw. It's in the wild and runs most everywhere in x86 land, although the install can be tricky.
... Standards and Practices !
This guy is just wrong about a lot of stuff. Right place, right time, you know. Don't forget he is responsible for some of the original apple OS code, so not much slack cut for that eh'.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
I dunno but it sounds like apple's imagemagic to me.
... Standards and Practices !
For Linux users, qiv will cruise yer photo dir, I just dump the SD-Card to a dir, and it lets you very quickly see what's worth keeping. It dumps rejects into a sub dir and is damn fast.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Nah, just dumb. Buy an nForce4 board and drop in an Opteron 165. Will utterly destroy the Mac for way less. OC it a bit and it'll beat everything for a year or maybe even two.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Audiophiles don't use gold. It's only 67% or so as conductive as silver at 100%. Generally rhodium is a pretty good connector and smears into a great connection. You can use silver but it oxidizes which is the reason gold is used on low end stuff.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
In the new Amerika only the Stainless Steel Rats run free.
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PenGun
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How in hell did a CD get root ... oh right windose will fuck anything.
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PenGun
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If you are running any x86-64 with Nvidia cards this fixes several things. Quake 4 for one ;).
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PenGun
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Get this one !
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PenGun
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Open Sores 2
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PenGun
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My daughter's favorite weapon, after she heard "HUMILIATION" she would use it any time she could, favorite tactic was to rocket, carefully, a crowded room then run in and HUMILIATE as many as she could, cackling maniacly ths whole time. Some of you may remember "Lucretzia" ;).
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Seeding ........ the torrent
The Ali - Foreman fight, a round and a quarter million shots. No that must have been amateurs. If you have ever shot for a living you tend to use all the film or memeory you brought. I do nature stuff and water shots often require a massive number of shots to get the one I came for. You can often tell how pro a guy is by how much film he bought.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Two ways. In a really cold country, leave your pillow outside for a couple of days at below 0, kill most of em'.
Nuke yer pillow if yer MW is big enough. Should get em' all
Lots of mites on em' too, they like to drink from your eyes at night.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
No it's just for us lowlife ;).
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PenGun
Do What Now ???
From a thread on Anadatech that kind of sums it up :
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"I work with audio devices for a living. I've worked with the X-Fi since it was a prototype(as have a couple dozen other people in my lab). Certainly it is an improvement over previous Creative efforts, and at first we were a bit wowed by the paper specs and proposal. However after working closely with it for months, I honestly can say that no one here feels its anything special. Perhaps some of that is the novelty wearing off, but in any ad-hoc test with someone who hadn't heard it before, they could rarely tell the difference between it and an Audigy, and the M-Audio Revolution generally was said to produce clearer sound. Not that our tests were scientific or anything, we weren't trying to write articles for publication.
I'd really suggest some blind tests with a variety of content. I think you may be suprised to find that while for MP3's the X-Fi sounds good, for CD's and especially SACD's the mid-range is poorly reproduced. Make certain you use a wide range of music, and prefferably classical numbers that you know very well.
Something else is you could list what type of speakers/headphones and recievers you are using, if you are testing with something like Klipsch then your credibility would go down considerably for anything but games and action movies, after all the card cannot make up for poor speakers(when measured by reproduction accuracy, not volume).
I would suggest establishing a baseline and going from there. Based on my experience, in the 'consumer' segment the M-Audio Revolution 7.1 is a good baseline, however any baseline that you could compare against would be beneficial to strengthening the credibility of the review. Granted anything audio is subjective, but when you say something is 'better' you need to at least be able to point to some specific reasons as to why.
And finally, the section that read like Creative marketing PR was your explanation of their audio architecture. There is nothing inherantly 'better' about the approach Creative is taking, it is simply different, there are both advantages and drawbacks. Furthermore, while they make the product seem like the 'next generation of audio' no one has managed to get a commitment from them to support the upcoming Windows Audio Architecture that will be a part of Vista, without that support they will be behind several others. Their lack of support for Linux is also a drawback for many.
Thank you for the effort, I hope that this feedback will help you improve your audio reviews in the future. I have read AT since the beginning and rarely doubted what is posted here, there just seemed to be some rather glaring flaws in how this review was handled. At least in my humble opinion."
The card is hype. Get a M-Audio 24/96 for nice sound.
PenGun
Do What Now ???