That's funny, because mine sure as fuck plays games, edits documents, and lets me use things like Skype, AIM, and web browsers just like a fucking PC. I can even plug in a game controller and use that to play games instead of relying upon touch screen controls.
Or did you forget PC = Personal Computer, which defines a smartphone almost to a T?
Um, I'm a guitar player with perfect pitch hearing. Go try it for yourself. As soon as I heard my warm up song in AIMP3 I nearly thought my hardware was going bad. Nope. Just a shit custom implementation of something that was far superior in the first place.
No, as if there were zero loss, a perfect pitch shifter wouldn't create artifacting that becomes apparent when you go more than a whole note up or down in pitch.
Sadly, every FLAC file does. Give it a shot and learn. Also, I can tell you right now that FLAC is lossy. I can pull thirty distinct waveforms out of a single note plucked on a guitar (look at your graph in AP Tuner.) FLAC can't encode every nuance of that, hence calling it lossless is sheer stupidity.
You really have no idea how pitchshifters and fourier transforms work, do you. Oh, nor Nyquist-Shannon Theorem.
Everyone that modded me down doesn't have a fucking clue and hasn't been studying the effect for over a decade like I have.
RAW PCM WAV beats out FLAC, especially when a pitch-shifter is introduced into the equation. Then you can tell that 'lossless' compression is bullshit. Truly lossless would introduce no artifacting by simple change of pitch.
Plenty of loss even in FLAC. Try pitch-shifting higher than 2 pitches even on some of the most expensive dedicated hardware pitch shifters that will resample at 512KHz. You still get shit sound. WAV works better.
AIMP3 SUCKS with that re-written wannabe BASS.dll.
The entire typical standalone DSP section (Pitch, Tempo, Speed, Voice Removal) is absolute fucking garbage compared to AIMP2. Horrible warble in FLAC files trying to shift up past half a step with AIMP3, I can do the full 10 half pitches in AIMP2 on the same file with far, far less artifacting.
"Same thing for your car every branch circuit has a fuse of a given rating try getting more than 15 amps through your 12v accessory outlet."
Wonder what my 500w Inverter pushing dual 250w Altec Lansings would have to say to that, considering in my car the 12V accessory has a 40 amp buss fuse (the original one that came with the car when it was made in 1998, at that.)
Oh, look, my 90's S-10 has a 40-Amp fuse. again, the original one.
Well, hey! My 87 Tercel has a 35A, but that's still better than your 15.
"That's because Bitcoin mining is not something critical,"
I guess you don't watch C-SPAN or pay attention to Bitcoin, otherwise you'd understand it's the most valuable currency on the planet right now. When a digital string of essentially randomly generated fucking numbers is worth more than PLATINUM, you'd better pay attention.
AMD makes you money. nVidia makes you broke and delivers not very much useful, it seems.
"Nintendo has never had launch issues with a console"
*coughs* Super Smash Brothers Brawl exposed a nasty flaw in Nintendo's Wii. Try again when you actually own some of Nintendo's hardware and have had to deal with the returns process.
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"Because a phone is not a PC, that's why."
That's funny, because mine sure as fuck plays games, edits documents, and lets me use things like Skype, AIM, and web browsers just like a fucking PC. I can even plug in a game controller and use that to play games instead of relying upon touch screen controls.
Or did you forget PC = Personal Computer, which defines a smartphone almost to a T?
"Know how many people get viruses or malware on their iPhone (without jailbreaking) ... 0."
Wrong. I just had to remove one from my fiance's iPhone 4S two days ago. It's a stock model, unmodified.
"Is there anywhere else you should buy computer parts from?"
Pricewatch.com. Monoprice.com.
Trust me, your ears would be able to tell in a side-by-side or blind comparison.
" I'm not sure where Creative comes from"
Creative's most popular card was the 3Dfx Voodoo2-based Creative Blaster.
Apparently the GP doesn't know the difference between a chip maker and a card maker.
"Smoke crack much? Games have always been either NVIDIA or ATI (read AMD now) based."
Or Matrox, or 3Dfx, or PowerVR (Verite Rendition Quake)
I think you should be putting your crack pipe down, Mr. Ford.
Um, I'm a guitar player with perfect pitch hearing. Go try it for yourself. As soon as I heard my warm up song in AIMP3 I nearly thought my hardware was going bad. Nope. Just a shit custom implementation of something that was far superior in the first place.
"There is zero loss in FLAC."
No, as if there were zero loss, a perfect pitch shifter wouldn't create artifacting that becomes apparent when you go more than a whole note up or down in pitch.
Sadly, every FLAC file does. Give it a shot and learn. Also, I can tell you right now that FLAC is lossy. I can pull thirty distinct waveforms out of a single note plucked on a guitar (look at your graph in AP Tuner.) FLAC can't encode every nuance of that, hence calling it lossless is sheer stupidity.
You really have no idea how pitchshifters and fourier transforms work, do you. Oh, nor Nyquist-Shannon Theorem.
Everyone that modded me down doesn't have a fucking clue and hasn't been studying the effect for over a decade like I have.
RAW PCM WAV beats out FLAC, especially when a pitch-shifter is introduced into the equation. Then you can tell that 'lossless' compression is bullshit. Truly lossless would introduce no artifacting by simple change of pitch.
And thus FLAC is bullshit.
Silicon provides no radiation protection. Why the fuck do you think we have to harden the electronics we send out into space?
Tell you what, why don't you pay attention in school so you can tell what is reality and what is fiction?
"Please seek psychiatric help."
Please seek help in spotting cultural references. Get the hell off your computer, and step the fuck outside and pay attention.
Try AIMP2.
" New players today still can't do that"
Oh yes it can.
Plenty of loss even in FLAC. Try pitch-shifting higher than 2 pitches even on some of the most expensive dedicated hardware pitch shifters that will resample at 512KHz. You still get shit sound. WAV works better.
2.71 was the last good version. Every other version since then has been a crashing unstable mess.
But that's okay, because AIMP2 (not AIMP3) works just as well and uses Winamp Plugins.
AIMP3 SUCKS with that re-written wannabe BASS.dll.
The entire typical standalone DSP section (Pitch, Tempo, Speed, Voice Removal) is absolute fucking garbage compared to AIMP2. Horrible warble in FLAC files trying to shift up past half a step with AIMP3, I can do the full 10 half pitches in AIMP2 on the same file with far, far less artifacting.
Cig lighter outlets. The kinds that can power real power inverters. I would have thought mentioning the year of vehicle would have made that apparent.
That isn't going to tell you how much power that port is capable of outputting or will output.
"Same thing for your car every branch circuit has a fuse of a given rating try getting more than 15 amps through your 12v accessory outlet."
Wonder what my 500w Inverter pushing dual 250w Altec Lansings would have to say to that, considering in my car the 12V accessory has a 40 amp buss fuse (the original one that came with the car when it was made in 1998, at that.)
Oh, look, my 90's S-10 has a 40-Amp fuse. again, the original one.
Well, hey! My 87 Tercel has a 35A, but that's still better than your 15.
"Oh my God people, turn in your fucking geek card:"
No, actually you should you fucking 7-digit nitwit. Here's why:
"I recommend USB adapters rated at least at 2 to 4amps"
USB 2.0 (currently the most ubquitous of the USB specs) does 500mA.
"My phone doesn't generally draw more than about 2."
Even USB 3.0 limits to 1.5A charging. USB 3.1 limits 5V devices to 2A.
4 amp rated charger? You won't even get 4A through USB for charging your shitty 3.7V phone.
Oh, and anyone worth their fucking salt doesn't need the multimeter. We know how to do the math by hand, unlike you digitally-crippled morons.
That's gotta be uncomfortable for your boyfriend.
"That's because Bitcoin mining is not something critical,"
I guess you don't watch C-SPAN or pay attention to Bitcoin, otherwise you'd understand it's the most valuable currency on the planet right now. When a digital string of essentially randomly generated fucking numbers is worth more than PLATINUM, you'd better pay attention.
AMD makes you money. nVidia makes you broke and delivers not very much useful, it seems.
It exposed a flaw in the launch consoles. Basically the DVD drives were useless. That's still a launch failure.
"They currently hold the high ground in GPU computing"
And yet they still can't even get a decent fucking hashrate with CUDA, meanwhile OpenCL and AMD stomps the fuck out of them for that.
AMD has essentially 'made' everything from Bitcoin to every game console this gen? What the hell is nVidia doing if they're so superior?
Unless your YLOD is for the HDD, you still have all of your data.
"Nintendo has never had launch issues with a console"
*coughs* Super Smash Brothers Brawl exposed a nasty flaw in Nintendo's Wii. Try again when you actually own some of Nintendo's hardware and have had to deal with the returns process.