Recent content by or_smth

For anyone trying to look for this unit in Canada, just to let you know we just got it at the Future Shop store I work at sometime in the last week. We actually got 3 in store, and 2 are gone - I think Gateway is pushing them out pretty well. We did a side by side comparison with a Samsung...

I don't know, I wanted to get some feedback on a mod I created in about a day just out of shear boredom and that got me thinking that there are probably a lot of people out there that are in the same boat. So, post screens/whatever of any doom 3 mods you made/saw/whatever. Here's mine...

To latch on to the thread, has anyone found any 6800 (hopefully 6800GTs) available in Canada? The closest thing I have found is an $840 preorder for the MSI 6800 Ultra, which is absolutely ridiculous ($633 US at current exchange rates) on NCIX. The X800s seem to be a dime a dozen, but the 6800...

* The M60 (US) machine gun will only be useable while the player is prone. That's about all I ask. I honestly can't play because the m60 is so dominating. I've been all over UT waiting for this patch.

I just finished replaying Chrono Cross, and that is one game I can highly recommend that hasn't been mentioned yet. A lot of people don't like it because it takes too long to build up the story, and the fact that it is a departure from Chrono Trigger (over 40 playable characters to boot), but...

I know this sounds kind of strange, but I found that the highest quality headset I've had for my computer is the xbox live headset. My mom bought it for me, and I just bought a 3/25ths of an inch to 1/8th of an inch adapter, plugged it in and let it rip. I've done some quick recording with it...

I don't have knowledge of any off the top of my head, but honestly: if you can afford a reciever you might as well get some new (standalone) speakers along with it. That's part of the point of the reciever, it has a built in amp to use real speakers along with it. You might as well get an RCA...

If you are describing what I think you are describing... http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=42-2483 that goes into the cd player, goes from L/R RCA to 3.5MM http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=274-886 Goes from...

But of course, if you pick a better compression ratio codec (Monkey's seems to be popular), you can always write a quick script to transcode all your APE files onto your portable in FLAC or mp3 with no quality loss due to transcoding. It's the beauty of storing in lossless. Now if only iTunes...

You obviously know that you aren't going to be gaining quality, but you should also know you will be LOSING a lot of quality. Ogg and Mp3 work on totally different algorithms and systems, they work by taking aside different parts of data (frequencies you can't hear and such), but when you put...

Well, I don't know. If you look at the form factor difference between a cassette player and a cd player (try maybe a Sony one) it isn't that huge. If we really had a problem, mini-DVD-Rs could work. It just seems dumb to me to be putting such a delicate thing such as a hard drive in a...

Personally I found it very empty. Sure, I could take a dropship and hit up a continent, maybe even take over a base/outpost with my squad, but I would wake up the next day and they would be taken over again. There is very little reward for any of your actions, and no real penalty for dying. The...

Well, I mean, the average person doesn't have that much music. If you need 188 gigs of music (I'm assuming you did FLAC, Monkey's Audio or WAV), that's cool but no portable player is going to have even close to that capacity anyway. I would encode those to 192 kbit Mp3s for use on a portable...

DVD burners are on the cheap, and I couldn't be more pleased. What's the problem? It's missing a killer app, that could easily desaturate the market for hard drive MP3 players. Here is my question: Is there currently such thing as a portable "DVD" discman that plays mp3s right off the DVD...

Quake! I know, most people wouldn't think so but I've certainly had fun with it in school. Run the arena mod for the original quake in a small window. Quake will fit in about 30 megs compressed IIRC. Great if you want to do a quick owning of one of your co-workers/peers. Unfortunatly...