[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;28724236]Proprietary chargers (microusb please ffs), chiclet keyboards[/QUOTE]
It's so you have to buy a charger from the company of the device you need the charger for. Otherwise known as corporate greed.
[editline]21st March 2011[/editline]
Bandwidth limits.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;28651249]uh 8x bandwidth had little to no effect on the performance of a 480, somehow I doubt it would make any difference to an 8800
and I doubt it would completely stop you plugging in any front panel connectors[/QUOTE]
Memory bandwidth being 8x can have quite an impact on performance in a lot of games actually. And yes, the stupid cooler on the 8800gts covered the WHOLE front panel area, with about a millimetre between it and the sockets.
stop talking out of your arse
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[QUOTE=reapaninja;28735470]stop talking out of your arse
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I had no idea there were benchmarks out there for this. Good to know.
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Those unopenable plastic packages, normally I would use these big ass scissors to open them but those damn scissors are in one of those packages too!
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Those unopenable plastic packages, normally I would use these big ass scissors to open them but those damn scissors are in one of those packages too![/QUOTE]Oh! Speaking of which!
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[editline]21st March 2011[/editline]
Scissors to open scissors!
oh you guys are going to love this.
i have a dell xps gen 2, i bought it because they said it was very modifiable and upgradable.
4 years later my parents get me a 7800 gtx for christmas which causes me to discover my fucking computer was [B]made[/B] so that if you ever wanted to upgrade, you'd have to buy a new one.
when the stock graphics card blew it was a 3 month ordeal finding one that would work and installing it.
upgradable my ass, while i'll admit i was completely inept at computers back then the main point still stands, preassembled fat cat corp computers suck balls.
the moral of the story? [I]ALWAYS BUILD YOUR OWN FUCKING COMPUTER UNLESS IT'S A LAPTOP[/I] and for god's sake don't use the laptop as your main platform. unless you're filthy fucking rich
Any company that alows [B]ANY[/B] bright stuck or dead pixel on their screens, and/or doesnt allow trades, that dont fall into their own definition of what is a defective product. [B]Any[/B] broken pixel makes the screen defective. I thought after a decade of production lcd screens would have worked out any of the possible ways of being defective.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;28735470]stop talking out of your arse
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Wow, what the fuck is the point in having all 16x or 16x with an 8 if they're the same (or just about...)
[editline]22nd March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=redwinterwol;28737192]Any company that alows [B]ANY[/B] bright stuck or dead pixel on their screens, and/or doesnt allow trades, that dont fall into their own definition of what is a defective product. [B]Any[/B] broken pixel makes the screen defective. I thought after a decade of production lcd screens would have worked out any of the possible ways of being defective.[/QUOTE]
I think it's absolutely disgusting that the companies who produce these defective monitors refuse to replace it unless the dead pixel ratio is like, 1:500. A single dead pixel means that the product is not in 100% working condition and should be replaceable... iirc this was on Watchdog a few months ago in the UK.
more bandwidth
except current graphics cards don't need that much bandwidth (well probably the 6990)
[QUOTE=reapaninja;28737441]more bandwidth
except current graphics cards don't need that much bandwidth (well probably the 6990)[/QUOTE]
Heh, whoever told me it was important is an idiot then. I know where I'll be putting my second 480 now. :smile:
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Those unopenable plastic packages, normally I would use these big ass scissors to open them but those damn scissors are in one of those packages too![/QUOTE]
I agree 100%. Amazon is thinking about not accepting products that come in them, I read in the paper a while ago.
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Those unopenable plastic packages, normally I would use these big ass scissors to open them but those damn scissors are in one of those packages too![/QUOTE]
use a manual can opener
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Those unopenable plastic packages, normally I would use these big ass scissors to open them but those damn scissors are in one of those packages too![/QUOTE]
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Medical Shears or Tactical Shears, available in some hardware stores and on eBay for under $10. I don't own a pair, though apparently the slightly better quality ones can cut through pennies.
Here's a good link to a page where you can buy some good ones, there's also some videos on there too: [url]http://www.countycomm.com/premiumshears.htm[/url]
VGA connecters with screws what turn THE WRONG WAY- annoys me so much when I spend 10 minutes undoing one of them.
[QUOTE=1solidsnake2;28744723][img_thumb]http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/professional-grade/texturepad_lg.jpg[/img_thumb]
Textured track pads.[/QUOTE]
Oh god [B]THIS.[/B]
[QUOTE=redwinterwol;28737192]Any company that alows [B]ANY[/B] bright stuck or dead pixel on their screens, and/or doesnt allow trades, that dont fall into their own definition of what is a defective product. [B]Any[/B] broken pixel makes the screen defective. I thought after a decade of production lcd screens would have worked out any of the possible ways of being defective.[/QUOTE]
When I got my laptop it had one. I flicked it with my finger and it cleared right up.
[QUOTE=short sentences;28744891]When I got my laptop it had one. I flicked it with my finger and it cleared right up.[/QUOTE]
My Samsung had a stuck pixel, stuck at red it took like a year to resume normal operation.
[QUOTE=aero1444;28642839]You have to run two copies of excel from the start menu, I think. I just started one excel and then began a new workbook and I had what you described, but when I ran excel twice and opened the documents it worked how I got it to work.
[editline]16th March 2011[/editline]
Yeah that's how you do it. Excel handles windows using the windows-in-a-window method by default, and there are options to cascade them, tile them etc. (in the views ribbon) but it's not always as useful as having two separate windows.
I think you can also have two separate instance windows for the same workbook but I'm not sure how that works compared to the default method.
[editline]16th March 2011[/editline]
Nah you can't do that, if you want the same workbook open in two views you have to have them in the same instance of excel.[/QUOTE]
I made a right-click context option to open a file in a new instance of excel. Saves me much time and rage.
[QUOTE=1solidsnake2;28744723][img_thumb]http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/professional-grade/texturepad_lg.jpg[/img_thumb]
Textured track pads.[/QUOTE]
Um, no... textured trackpads rock... i loved my trackpad on my dead HP, it felt so right.
Texture track pads....Nah I'll pass.
[QUOTE=Candice;28747865]Um, no... textured trackpads rock... i loved my trackpad on my dead HP, it felt so right.[/QUOTE]
and then it wears out and you get a glossy circle on the trackpad that looks weird
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Textured track pads.[/QUOTE]On my sister's Asus its not so bad. The bumps are recessed and are spaced out quite a ways. It still feels weird to me since I'm used to smooth track pads, but its not unbearable or causes your fingers to get sore.
[QUOTE=meppers;28748577]and then it wears out and you get a glossy circle on the trackpad that looks weird[/QUOTE]
mmm, no..? Not the one on my HP TX1000.
I hate textured track pads because after a while my fingertip feels like it got scraped off completely...
[QUOTE=Demache;28749397]On my sister's Asus its not so bad. The bumps are recessed and are spaced out quite a ways. It still feels weird to me since I'm used to smooth track pads, but its not unbearable or causes your fingers to get sore.[/QUOTE]
Some textured trackpads (Especially some of the Sony Vaio ones) actually did give me a sore finger just by using it like I would normally use my smooth HP trackpad.
Don't know if it's mentioned before, seeing as I missed more than a few pages but I just hit another one.
Following NPC's whose walk speed is slower than you. Walk, stop, walk, stop, walk, stop.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28754390]Don't know if it's mentioned before, seeing as I missed more than a few pages but I just hit another one.
Following NPC's whose walk speed is slower than you. Walk, stop, walk, stop, walk, stop.[/QUOTE]
Or NPC's who stand in your way and [i]wont fucking move[/i].
I'm not the first one to state this, though the Intel pushpin heatsink mount is worth mentioning again. I had an older one taken out of my desktop and wanted to put it into my server after getting some new parts... That thing took at least 5-10 minutes to install, and it's not my first by a long shot. Are screws and a piece of metal just too expensive for you Intel?
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