22-04-2005 02:04									#1
	I'm going to buy myself a bigger penis Increase Your PM Length

http://www.meshcomputers.com/update...reblade_sli.htm



Few weeks work to save up what with my ridiculous amount of outgoings but hey.... me want! Thoughts?

Ok it's not exactly philosophy but I've discovered I'm quite the gamer now I've chucked a 6600 into my 2 year old box.

	22-04-2005 02:07									#2
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somehow I doubt this thread title will stay that way for long. It won't pass moderator muster.

	22-04-2005 02:09									#3
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Save the $$ and actually buy the bigger penis instead. It will come in more handy. Or in your hand more. Or something.

	22-04-2005 02:10									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident somehow I doubt this thread title will stay that way for long. It won't pass moderator muster.

No ****

	22-04-2005 02:12									#5
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What a dull thread title, Whaleboy.

	22-04-2005 02:12									#6
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Damn you Ming!

	22-04-2005 02:14									#7
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As if a penis is something dirty.

Well, if it's Whaleboy's penis, I couldn't comment, though...

	22-04-2005 02:18									#8
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Real men build it themselves.

	22-04-2005 02:20									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Real men build it themselves.

you can build your own penis?

	22-04-2005 02:21									#10
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Out of lumber.

	22-04-2005 02:21									#11
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That's taking "got wood" far too literally.

	22-04-2005 02:31									#12
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As expected... this is going downhill REALLY QUICK...
If it continues, this thread won't be long for this world

	22-04-2005 02:39									#13
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we'll get it back on topic.

speaking of building a computer. Does anyone know if power switches for computers are pretty standard? Or do they have different voltages and stuff?

Mine isn't a built computer, but a refurbished computer I got real cheap. Of course now the power switch is wearing out. sometimes it won't turn on. I went about 2 weeks without turning it off for fear it wouldn't turn back on, but that's a waste of energy. I've been turning if off the past few days, and it hasn't been giving me any problems (knocks on wood).

Getting that power switch out of there looks to be a *****. I might have to remove my hard drive to get any kind of tool in there. And then I could damage my motherboard if I'm not careful.

	22-04-2005 02:42									#14
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quote: As expected... this is going downhill REALLY QUICK... If it continues, this thread won't be long for this world

It's your own fault, Ming. It happened because you changed the name of the thread. Had it remained, noone would think of developing the subject more, since it would be considered too obvious, and lame.

	22-04-2005 03:08									#15
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I don't have the time/energy to build my own PC. But I want to get a new machine that's A) great for games, B) very reliable and C) won't cost me a bazillion dollars. I have a Dell that's about 3 years old now. I'm generally happy with it, but I've heard murmurings that their quality has gone down a lot in recent times.

	22-04-2005 03:14									#16
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yeah ever since they fired that pot smoking guy, they suck.

	22-04-2005 03:35									#17
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Boris, how is your digitizing doing?

I suggest you try Exact Audio Copy for the purest .wav rips.

	22-04-2005 03:48									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Real men build it themselves.

	22-04-2005 04:04									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Oncle Boris Boris, how is your digitizing doing? I suggest you try Exact Audio Copy for the purest .wav rips.

It goes slowly, FB. Haven't had much time to rip stuff lately.

.wav files are too big. I only have 40 gb.

	22-04-2005 06:01									#20
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On the plus side, I just ordered some kick-ass headphones for the Zen and got a pretty sweet deal. Booyah!

	22-04-2005 06:49									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov It goes slowly, FB. Haven't had much time to rip stuff lately. .wav files are too big. I only have 40 gb.

I'm not the expert to be talking about that, but from what I've read, most "pure" wav rips are just 92-95% accurate. EAC is a freeware tool that rips slower but gets accuracy close to 100%.

From then, you can get the better rips and convert them in whatever format you wish. Since it's free anyway, you might as well give it a go and see if you can hear the difference? (Personally I sure don't... )

	22-04-2005 06:58									#22
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quote: .wav files are too big. I only have 40 gb.

Hope you're kidding.

	22-04-2005 07:02									#23
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quote: On the plus side, I just ordered some kick-ass headphones for the Zen and got a pretty sweet deal. Booyah!

What did you get? I'll probably get Sennheiser PX-100s. I'll wait till I get to hear them. If I'm not happy with what I hear, I'll probably get Grados GR-60s. But the Grados are a bit expensive here and Canada and they're ugly.

	22-04-2005 07:46									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Az Had it remained, noone would think of developing the subject more, since it would be considered too obvious, and lame.

Oh come on, this is Apolyton.

	22-04-2005 08:20									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident Getting that power switch out of there looks to be a *****.

Find an el cheapo case.

	22-04-2005 08:21									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Oncle Boris I suggest you try Exact Audio Copy for the purest .wav rips.

It doesn't matter. It's all digital.

	22-04-2005 08:50									#27
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quote: It doesn't matter. It's all digital.

There's a difference between a song ripped in AAC @16 kbps and the same song ripped in AAC @224 kbps. Granted, it's all digital, but one of them sounds like crap. I'll let you guess which one

	22-04-2005 08:52									#28
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UR needs to read up on the definition of lossiness.

	22-04-2005 08:56									#29
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As anybody here tried to rip SACD's or DVD-audio's? Are they a lot bigger than CD's? For example, if you rip a 10 minutes song from a standard CD in WAV, you get a 100 MB file. How much bigger would it be if you ripped it from a SACD or a DVD-Audio?

	22-04-2005 09:29									#30
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quote: Originally posted by nostromo As anybody here tried to rip SACD's or DVD-audio's? Are they a lot bigger than CD's? For example, if you rip a 10 minutes song from a standard CD in WAV, you get a 100 MB file. How much bigger would it be if you ripped it from a SACD or a DVD-Audio?

Calculate it.

CD is 16-bits @ 44,100Hz per channel = 705600 bits per second = 689 Kbits/sec x 2 channels = 1411 Kbits/sec

DVD-Audio (5.1) is 24-bits @ 96,000Hz per channel= 2304000 bits per second = 2304 Kbits/sec x 6 channels = 13824 Kbits/sec

DVD-Audio (2 channel) is 24-bits @ 192,000Hz per channel = 4608000 bits per second = 4608 Kbits/sec x 2 channels = 9216 Kbits/sec

So!

A 10 minute .wav = 600 second .wav

600 seconds of CD-quality = 846720000 bits = 105840000 bytes = 103359 Kbytes = 100.9MB

600 seconds of 5.1 channel DVD-Audio = 8294400000 bits = 1036800000 bytes = 1012500 Kbytes = 988.8MB

600 seconds of 2 channel DVD-Audio = 5529600000 bits = 691200000 bytes = 675000 Kbytes = 659.2MB