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Should be.

Scratch that... Get a 10x BD-ROM. :twistd:

Get an 8x reader then :p

Interested in selling any of those? :)

That's a prerequisite for a diatribe? :rotfl:

I'm sure Uda will be along shortly to post some diatribe on it. :thumbright:

Wow, so you agree with me. Fannie and Freddie buying up a lot of the loans (especially the bad ones) only encouraged the banks to make bad loans. That's basically what I said. The gov't interferes in the market and then blames the banks.

If the price was right and the drive didn't suffer from Jmicron-esqe stuttering I might be interested in a PATA SSD.

Recover from what? Accidental deletion, accidental format, hardware failure?

I wouldn't be so certain about that. They would do well at SIMD computing. I'm not sure if circuit simulation is something that could be sped up by a GPU. On a somewhat related note, someone wrote a FLAC compressor for CUDA. You can read about it here

Idle power consumption is dominated by leakage current. Maximum power isn't.

FWIW, the local news in our area are all in HD now.

Which LG drive do you have? I have an LG GGC-H20L and it goes a lot faster than that.

Sure, because that is done by AnyDVD. Same result. It just rips faster.

He could have gotten a low end modern PC and he'd still be blown away. ;)

It's 2010. You don't need an argument for HD. All TV should be HD. It's not the late 90's anymore.

I think the Detroit station has ~4 months of pledging. I never watch it. The picture quality is abysmal.

:erm: PBS would instead intermingle the Olympics with their pledging drives and then show it letterboxes and pillarboxed on a heavily degraded HD feed that shares ~19Mbit/sec with their half dozen other subchannels. No thanks.

The key is that no one involved with it is going to raise their hand and say that it's flawed. They're all milking the contract. They'll keep doing so until it get canceled. Then, after it gets canceled they'll get paid for enhancements, tweaks, and upgrades to the current aircraft. They...

I found AnyDVDHD + Imgburn only took about 60% of the time of AnyDVDHD alone did.

There's part of your problem. Use AnyDVDHD (on the fly decryption) + IMGburn (read image). It's noticeably faster.

How are exactly are you ripping them?

Are you sure about that? I thought some of the drives could get up to 8x. link

I'm sure other people will make Sandforce based drives.

If you bought it though the Amazon marketplace you can file a claim and get your money back. They have some sort of buyer protection system.

That would be the Raptor X.

No, I didn't really. I figured they were all basically equivalent and there were rebates + Bing CB on the Spyder's at the time. I also liked that the Spyder3Elite can be used on projectors and had what seemed to be a more flexible feature set (custom gamma target, custom white point, etc).

So far all the monitors I've used it on have manual hardware adjustments to correct the white point. The gamma adjustments are done in software, but have been quite minor. I did use it to quasi calibrate my LCD TV. I got the white point set exact, and used its gamma correction curve to dial in...

I went with the Datacolor Spyder3Elite myself. IMHO, it's most useful to get the white point dialed in to 6500k. It can also make corrections to the gamma curve where needed. I've found the difference in the gamma corrections to be rather subtle on the monitors I've used it on. Meaning the...

I know I'm not...

I use Tomato on my WRT-54G and haven't had any issues. It's gotta be pushing ~6 years old by now.

Sounds like you got EDID'd by ATI and their inability to write a driver that can parse basic 128 byte strings.

I had a bad experience with an ATI 4550 (no audio at all due to their crap EDID parsing). My GF9300 IGP on my motherboard on the other hand works flawlessly for 7.1 LPCM over HDMI.

But what were the audio capabilities of the device you had it plugged into?

The answer depends on your OS. Using XP, yes if you don't encounter an EDID issues. Using Vista or 7, most likely... There's a work around for the EDID problems for those two.

Are you sure about that? I thought that was the combination that worked? There are are a lot of people on AVSforum who are doing just that. Arcsoft has a working beta also.

The Strolling Bones baby!

I'd be happier if someone were to figure out how to get Remote Desktop Server working in Windows 7 Home Premium instead.

Got a dremel? :geek: Seriously though, no one puts open ended PCIe slots on anything I've ever seen.

Pay to play... If you want to play Blu-Ray and get full quality audio your only choice is to pay via HDMI. Come 2013 they are going to sunset the analog outputs for Blu-Ray players, so any new players will only have digital outputs (HDMI).

Its further compounded that you can't teach someone to be an engineer IMHO. A person either thinks like an engineer or they don't. You can't teach someone who doesn't how to do it. You just end up with a book smart person who can solve structured problems, but is lost when you throw them into...

Yes Public schooling (K-12) mostly. Federal Income Tax State Income Tax* State Sales Tax* City Income Tax* City Property Tax *Not all places have these. Most States have Sales and Income Tax, but a few don't have one or the other. City Income Tax is fairly uncommon (at least in Michigan)...

College is a waste of time IMHO. Unfortunately, many jobs require the degree as a requirement for consideration. None of the jobs I've had actually needed a BSEE to do them, but I couldn't have gotten the jobs without it.

:confused: Memory standards change more frequently than video slots.

It mostly useful for online dick waving contests. :rofl: I don't have a Raptor or VR. I was referring to all the Raptor and VR benchmarking.

Well, I feel left out. I don't have one to benchmark. :(

The rates don't match the risks. That's the fault of the FHA. The federal gov't effectively caps the interest rates that private lenders can charge by contaminated the market with artificially low interest rates for high credit risk clients though the FHA. Ever heard of the Community...

Right, and subprime loans are loans given to people who shouldn't have gotten a mortgage. The banks knew they were bad loans and figured out a way to unload them reducing their own risk. Crazy things happen when the gov't tampers with the credit markets and pressures banks into loaning to...

Passmark scores aren't comparable between Vista and Windows 7. Unfortunately they didn't sort it for that, so their database and the scores are all now worthless.

Yes, assuming the EDID bug doesn't get you.