Quote: Originally Posted by Alu Kubrick's movies, The Godfather, Fight Club also is a pretty close call. Fight Club book was WAY better than the movie. The mood, the confusion, it all permeated the scenes in the book; less so in the movie. Plus the ending of the movie ruined...

This video is awesome. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...44027821122670

Quote: Originally Posted by bahamaman Ouch, my head hurts! I know now why I do so poorly at math. Care to provide a simple explanation? Basically, when you initially choose the door, there is a 2/3rds chance that you choose a goat. Given this situation, as soon as the...

Taking 2nd semester latin right now... I'm liking it way better than Spanish back in high school.

60C will NOT hurt your chip. They're designed to withstand higher temps than that.

Quote: Originally Posted by DrewWinters The first time I noticed a cable difference was actually video quality. When your S-video looks better than your Component, you know you have a problem. It was a mildly-upgraded S-video cable (Monster Power) vs. stock super-cheapy component cables...

Quote: Originally Posted by ken36 What does lame mean? 2 : lacking needful or desirable substance : WEAK, INEFFECTUAL <a lame excuse>

I'm a big fan of the HP line. I have a 49G+. Very nice. Can't live without RPN. I had an 83+ in highschool, and I've used 89s a fair bit before, but man, there's no turning back now that I've gone down the HP path. But yeah, if you want spreadsheet-esque stuff, it seems like it'd just be...

Quote: Originally Posted by dhwilkin And of course, whenever a rpg thread comes up, it's mandatory I recommend my favorite of all time, Final Fantasy IV. Yes, IV. Final Fantasy IV is really really fun. Definately the best replay value of any of them. I think VI is a better game...

Quote: Originally Posted by Claus1100xx What programs are you thinking about. Are you a senior allready? For programs specifically, I'm not to that point yet. I'm still trying to get a feel for all the different programs, their admission expectations, and the like. Getting into a...

So there are only half a dozen of us here? How disappointing!! I'm majoring in economics (+ math + philosophy). I intend to go to grad school. However, given the low-prestige of my university, with virtually no chance for undergraduate research, I'm extremely apprehensive about my chances...

If you're concerned about pricepoint as well, you can get a 5GB Rio Carbon for really rather cheap nowadays. It's a nice, small little player.

Quote: Originally Posted by TheReds IstariAsuka, i was wondering, do any creative cards have a bitperfect dig out? i game a good amount and if i could just find an audigy *maybe x-fi* that has a bit perfect dig out, then i could attach a dac to that and my "music" cans to it and my...

Quote: Originally Posted by krazygluon Regarding a dac, what would adding a dac to an audigy do? It seems slightly redundant, although I guess it makes sense in terms of having the audigy do all the 5.1 decoding, pumping that out the digital out and using the dac's presumably better...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kestrel Oversimplifying however? Distortion issues I can understand. But to claim improved musicality / bass / treble / whatever when double amping is a joke... Nothing is going to increase beyond the capabilities of the original amp in this case. Well...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kestrel The amp CANNOT make the music "better" - only play it back more true to the original source. You're getting caught up on an ambiguity of language, I think. When people say that the amp is making the music better, they mean this: it sounds...

Quote: Originally Posted by PFKMan23 Gilmore Reference Headphone Amplifier from Headamp perhaps? Why get that when you can get a Dynamight, for the money he's talking about?

Quote: Originally Posted by Thaddy Are you locked in with the purchase of the X-Fi? I'm not sure how good for music it is (never heard it), but the EMU-0404 is a huge favorite around here. Just something to keep in mind You will need an amp for the Emu though, since it outputs L/R...

Quote: Originally Posted by noah11 Well, ipods and sony streetstyle phones apparently comprise of 95% of the headpohne population at UofA. I've seen some koss and a couple bose. No iems except for me. Although, one time I did see a real old guy walking around campus with an ipod driving...

A few days ago I saw someone wearing some SR-80s, just walking to class. It was awesome.

Quote: Originally Posted by headphone-n00b ... if I'm going to get an EMU 1212, wouldn't it be better to get an X-fi? You'd have to buy the $400 X-Fi card to get the same audio quality as you get out of the 1212m. The only advantage the X-Fi card really has is for gaming (and, I...

Oh man, what they did with the movie version was just a travesty... So awful...

Speaking of textbooks, has anybody heard about these guys? RS e Terminal Pvt. Ltd. http://210.210.17.241/cgi-bin/bookstore/index.html Apparently based in India, they don't have the largest selection, but what they do have is quite cheap, even when you factor in $18 shipping. Any...

Quote: Originally Posted by ry_goody ABX'ing is kind of like a skill in itself. This really makes me disregard ABX as a valid test to see if it's placebo or not because doing an ABX test and trying to pinpoint the differences is really alot different than just relaxing and listening...

Well, at least this will make gamers' ARMS strong, even if they still don't work out any.