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hardware pet peeve.
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jamestime88
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sweet software but not having the hardware to run it.
sweet hardware but not having the software to get full use out of it.
sweet hardware but not having the software to get full use out of it.
Black Morty Rackham
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Yeah, I agree! But you don't need to install drivers.... pfft. Mouse drivers are primitive!
Just use the built in, or USB Overdrive. Black Morty Rackham
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What I mind about such people is the "oh, there's no way I could do something that hard"-mentality many people get about computers.
"It's not really that hard, you know. Just press the little icon."
"Oh, why must computers be so complicated?"
"They're not. Just click the icon."
"lalalala, I'm not listening!"
I agree, or what if you WANT to build a computer, and your "computer STUPID" parents won't let you because they KNOW that i would screw up, break every piece of hardware... and he would have wasted his money. I hate my parents when it comes to computers.
Or like yesterday, when i might need to get a plat pannel moniter for college (my trinitron probably won't fit... unless i bring the hacksaw ^_^). So im like, ok... fine, can you get me the dell 2001FP, and there like... hm... 800$??? NO WAY. You can get that little 15inch with 500000ms response time, 0.5º viewing angle, and 0.5pixle pitch ratio (yea, i made up some of that stuff.. but you get the idea).
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Lol, well, for one, what the heck is an "Analigy"? And don't say soundcard comparison... (Bad joke.) All the rest was good except that I'm simply amazed the power supply could handle all that and the memory is a bit overkill (sure it doesn't hurt to have 2GB, but it doesn't help much for a few years yet, and that just makes it cost more when you could have just upgraded in a few years.) Seriously though, creative labs makes like two or three good soundcards and from there they just use their name because everyone assumes they are the greatest. Most likely any system anyone buys will have one of those stinking SBLive cards with their low stats and cheap resampling for anything that isn't 48KHz (aka 99.999999% of the games out there and 100% of applications.)
Oh, and about the F-Lock, I will admit that's just about the most amazingly idiotic thing either of them have ever done apparently just to show their stupidity (surprise, microsoft was involved...) The good news is that logitech had someone in their group who had an iq above 5, so their keyboard will REMEMBER whether you had the F-lock on when you shutdown your pc unless you cut the power (power supply or unplug.) For the microsoft keyboard, well, you can always remap the keys using some complicated processes I guess (saw info on this around this forum somewhere in fact.) Not exactly an easy task. Oh well, not coincidentally, I threw out that wireless ms keyboard to the first person who wanted it and I still am keeping my nice corded logitech navigator (believe it or not, I like the wheel built into the thing and the volume control has saved my headphones more than once when I was in the middle of something really loud.)
My point was that they dont include crap worth of PSUs in their PCs these days. My other point was that I'm not at all impressed with anything that creative labs sells. I have never been convinced any kind of SB card is better than the AC97 on my Abit KD7 mobo. Now that I have soundstorm I'm even less inclined to want one.
F-Lock DOES NOT remember whether it was on or not if your keyboard is plugged into the PS/2 ( err, whatever it's called for keyboards ) port. If it's plugged into the USB, f-lock prevents keyboard power on from working.
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Hrm, I think it must depend on the system. Well, I don't know about the PS/2 as I've always used USB (why not, you can plug, unplug, etc with no damage to your keyboard controller -- I blew one once back in the 486 days) but I haven't really had that sort of problem unless I misunderstand you. I think it depends on BIOS support because I can use the power on thing with my system, but my BIOS directly supports a USB keyboard, even legacy emulation for DOS or a boot manager (though this is mainly just needed for mice, it helps with a few hardware conflict issues in linux installers for me.)
Oh, and creative labs does pretty much suck, but when they made the Audigy 2, they actually got a thing or two right as the card is actually quite tolerable. Perhaps not the very best or anything, but probably one of the best for that price range. Anything below that though isn't worth bothering in this day and age. I will admit I'm not sure what soundstorm is, but when I tried my AC97, I wasn't particularly impressed, especially since I had to have my speakers turned practically all the way up to hear it at all and unfortunately, they don't have the best SNR out there...
Oh, and creative labs does pretty much suck, but when they made the Audigy 2, they actually got a thing or two right as the card is actually quite tolerable. Perhaps not the very best or anything, but probably one of the best for that price range. Anything below that though isn't worth bothering in this day and age. I will admit I'm not sure what soundstorm is, but when I tried my AC97, I wasn't particularly impressed, especially since I had to have my speakers turned practically all the way up to hear it at all and unfortunately, they don't have the best SNR out there...
My [H]ardware pet peeve are the enthusiasts that know a lot about everything in thier system except for the Power Supply. They buy a case and "it came with a (no name) 475 watt power supply".
When I learned about the importance of power supplies, expecially the 12V and what is required to run a P4 Prescott, Nvidia 5950, WD360 10,000 RPM Raid 0, 3-7 fans, DVD burner, I ran out and bought the best power supply I could find. I found it was a toss up between the PC Power and Cooling 510 Deluxe and the Antec 550 True Power, $200.00 and $160.00 respectively. I now look and the Amps the power supply provides on the 12V rails. I always try to get a PSU that has at least 30Amps on the 12V rail, or 15A and 15A if the 12v rails are split, and the total output on a full load is the rating.
I've had so many PCs come across the bench with problems and the power supply weighed less than my mouse. I will see many more in the future with the Nvidia 6800 Ultra that requires (2) seperate 4 pin molex connectors, 12v rails earch to run it.
This is my pet peeve.
When I learned about the importance of power supplies, expecially the 12V and what is required to run a P4 Prescott, Nvidia 5950, WD360 10,000 RPM Raid 0, 3-7 fans, DVD burner, I ran out and bought the best power supply I could find. I found it was a toss up between the PC Power and Cooling 510 Deluxe and the Antec 550 True Power, $200.00 and $160.00 respectively. I now look and the Amps the power supply provides on the 12V rails. I always try to get a PSU that has at least 30Amps on the 12V rail, or 15A and 15A if the 12v rails are split, and the total output on a full load is the rating.
I've had so many PCs come across the bench with problems and the power supply weighed less than my mouse. I will see many more in the future with the Nvidia 6800 Ultra that requires (2) seperate 4 pin molex connectors, 12v rails earch to run it.
This is my pet peeve.
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Well, I guess I got lucky. I got a sweet Philips FW-C577 CD-player thing for X-mas, and it has a USB port to hook it up to the PC. W/ the driver, it acts as your soundcard, and has KickAss sound! Plus, you can control your WMP playlist w/ the remote!! (120gb of music goodness at the touch of a remote
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People who spend hundreds of dollars on the hotest 5 megapixel camera, yet they have no knowledge of basic photo composition (for lack of better word), like taking pics with flash in every fucking picture, blurred closeups, not knowing how to work with autofocus, and sending a pic to a friend thats in 1600x1200 res for a crappy fucking photo. That type of gay, annoying shit.
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Wow, I've never heard of this thing, but that sounds pretty darned neat. Though I personally HATE WMP with a vengance and use WinAmp for my music playing needs. I'll bet that has a plugin for winamp somewhere out there though.Originally posted by grantunderland
Well, I guess I got lucky. I got a sweet Philips FW-C577 CD-player thing for X-mas, and it has a USB port to hook it up to the PC. W/ the driver, it acts as your soundcard, and has KickAss sound! Plus, you can control your WMP playlist w/ the remote!! (120gb of music goodness at the touch of a remote
Anyway, to the previous post, I agree with that person, but also want to add the opposite direction. Those ultra-cheap digital cameras that companies make to get the interest of the people who don't want to pay $100+ for a digital camera. All of which seem to capture at 640x480 (max, they also have lower of course) have a grand total of 4mb of internal ram IF YOU ARE LUCKY, which isn't even flash, so you have to keep the battery running and naturally they make it look as if the picture were taken with 16-bit color and insanely dithered to try to fool people into thinking it was 24-bit... (For those who don't mess with imaging, 16-bit = 65536 colors, 24-bit = 16777216 colors, needless to say, 16-bit looks terrible and unrealistic...) My grandmother got one of these, the J@mCam back when they made those peice of crap and now she's looking at another at walmart that is even more generic (I've at least heard of KB Toys...) When you try to tell them that, though they don't need 200 megapixels, it sure wouldn't hurt to have better than such a low resolution their eyes kind of gloss over at the word resolution and they forget all the rest. Unfortunately, most don't seem to understand the importance of resolution (though at least I did convince her of the importance of not having the image dithered insanely.)
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KB Toys has digital cams? HOLY SHIT.
But yeah, for anyone who just wants a camera for point and shoot, 3 megapixels is MORE THAN ENOUGH for that. Hell, I get by fine with a 2MP camera, and as long as you know how it reacts to light, etc, you can take some nice shots. OF COURSE I'M NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER, but I know what I'm talking about.
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creative lab's cards suck for the pure reason that you cant DOWNLOAD THE DRIVERS. you can download driver UPDATES but you still need the FUCKING ORIGINAL CD. plus the drivers are absolutly terrible, theres so much bloatware with them, its just astounding.
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Well, you don't need the plug-in for WinAmp, but WMP is the only one (of musicmatch (comes w/ it), WinAmp, and WMP) where you can have the app minimized and still be able to use the f-ing remote, so for me, its worthwhile to use WMP so that I can safely use the Alarm Clock function.
My pet peeve is buying a 512 stick of 2700 RAM and now wanting to OC by getting 2 more 256 sticks but those are gonna cost me an arm and a leg and the 512 stick I have now i wont be able to use if i wanna OC. So basically I hate buying something and finding out later I need something else
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aout the 1st thing... the rest of my system is much better then my weak little 5200. HOWEVER, the reason I got it was to be able to have video... maybe play some game until the 6800 comes out... Don't bash everyone with a nice system with a crap graphics card, sometimes there is a reason for it.
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I'm sure you will be really surprised, then, to hear that they discontinued those things a long time ago.
Anyway, about that graphics card thing, 5200 might be crappy, but I believe they mean worse than that. Like the people who have a > 2GHz cpu but an old TNT2 card (my dad.) Still, nvidia did rip people off very badly with the 5200. The GF4 Ti4200 was better and I think even cheaper though I don't know for sure since I bought one when they first came out and the FX was just a dream back then.
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Black Morty Rackham
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I hate it that every (digital, of course) camera manufactorer just tries to push the number of pixels, regardless of whether it's a consumer or pro camera... a normal person simply doesn't NEED 5 megapixels. It'd be way better if they spent the time building better optics or getting better color reproduction or whatever. Grr.
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Hardware fanboys. Look, I use AMD procs in most of my boxes, but I sure as hell try to keep up with Intel as well, if only with one box. I'm not against Intel, but I tried AMD, and they've worked great for me.
It also bugs me when someone buys something and asks "Should I get this". And then we tell them 'no'.
Another thing: people who buy crap quality hardware and then wonder why they have problems. i.e: "Well, I got this 600W PSU for $30 and I can't power up my new rig."
I also have something against trolls...
It also bugs me when someone buys something and asks "Should I get this". And then we tell them 'no'.
Another thing: people who buy crap quality hardware and then wonder why they have problems. i.e: "Well, I got this 600W PSU for $30 and I can't power up my new rig."
I also have something against trolls...
you don't need the original cd, i've installed the drivers fine without it and i have an audigy 2 zs.
creative has gotten much better since the sblive series and the original audigy... good enough that i was willing to pick up the audigy 2 the other week =b
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Oh yeah, another peeve, Fanboism. Like having to strictly stick to one brand for no real particular reason, other than "Fuck Intel" or "Fuck AMD", or "Fuck ATi/Nvidiots".
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Originally posted by Black Morty Rackham
I hate it that every (digital, of course) camera manufactorer just tries to push the number of pixels, regardless of whether it's a consumer or pro camera... a normal person simply doesn't NEED 5 megapixels. It'd be way better if they spent the time building better optics or getting better color reproduction or whatever. Grr.
i know what you mean.
My friend just bought a new 5 megapixel digicam...with a #@$ing 2x zoom. W.T.F? i would rather have a 3 megapixel cam with like a 5-10x zoom.
what's the point of having 5 megapixels if you can barely zoom in?
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Not really surprised at all...
Black Morty Rackham
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If you have a 5 megapixel camera, you can digitally zoom more than with a 1 megapixel camera, and get the same result (or just crop the picture afterwards)... however, better optics is ALWAYS a plus, and optical zoom is generally more usable than digital, since the result is easier to predict...