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Living Room / Re: TOO AWESOME FOR WORDS!
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on January 17, 2013, 06:57 AM »Heh - yeah Helmut and 40hz are discussing much the same thing the next thread over. : )
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The video was annoying - rhetoric as well as voice. He also obviously tries to cash-in on the ZeroPunctuation style (colors, graphics, hyperbole) - but while it works wonderfully for Yahtzee and is a fine way to review games, it makes me want to smack the Boyko dude in the face.
He claims he's spent time with a bunch of other operating systems, even Linux back in the days... so, like, he did no RTFM'ing or googling or anything for any of those? Then he sits down with Win8, does no RTFM'ing (a few minutes on google would have solved any of this problems), and apparently doesn't even apply prior Windows knowledge (like Alt+F4)? Come on.
I'm not sure if it's plain stupidity or pageview-bleargh. I'd say a healthy dose of both.
Win8 still going strong on my work laptop, btw, and I'm hardly ever seeing Metro pop up.-f0dder (January 14, 2013, 01:01 PM)
http://www.facebook..../v/10151175716667142-alivingspirit (January 14, 2013, 11:58 AM)
What if the students deemed as deluded narcissists are being judged by the deluded narcissists of the previous generation which is why it's only reporting it as a 30% increase?-Paul Keith (January 13, 2013, 09:38 PM)
Or, being judged by folk who dislike/hate [perceived] narcissists?
I'm always a bit - often a large bit - suspicious of such studies, since I seldom know the true qualifications of those who make/made the study.-barney (January 13, 2013, 10:21 PM)
Meanwhile, I'm out of energy to track down the second article based on a 1 sentence conclusion. Overall, Ms. Twenge has been studying this stuff for a long time. ^^ Good grief! That's insane! What happens when the attack gets traced back to your computer and you get charged? Not well thought through...-Renegade (January 13, 2013, 03:13 AM)
It sounds like you're looking for an editor. GDT is meant for live playback and live manipulation, so it's pretty far away from what you're looking for. (The next version has much better functionality for saving new audio files with FX, looping, etc.)
If you try Audacity (or another audio editor), you can probably do all of that pretty quickly.
Deleting silence in an editor is pretty much trivial to do manually.
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Deleting ads... well, you're not likely to find anything that can do that automatically. I leave it to people's imaginations to figure out why - tonnes of reasons there.
Anyways, I think something like Audacity is going to be your best bet. (I use Samplitude mostly, but they're both editors.) It's pretty easy to do, though it is a few clicks per operation - not nearly as exposed & simple as GDT - they do different things for different purposes.-Renegade (January 12, 2013, 03:33 AM)
The U.S. has the finest government that money can buy.....-Tinman57 (January 11, 2013, 04:44 PM)
1) Do you need Java?
If not, uninstall it complete. If you're not sure, well, you're probably not a techy user - no fret, and it's not meant as a derogatory term - simply as a matter of fact (and count yourself blessed).-f0dder (January 11, 2013, 06:07 PM)
This makes it hard to gauge where the mid-way point of say a fictional story is.-Paul Keith (January 11, 2013, 10:34 PM)
The software is simple Audacity, and I only use about five features - the stuff I do is pretty simple, but I do a decent chunk of it.-TaoPhoenix (January 11, 2013, 08:19 AM)
I might be wrong but I don't think Audacity does any hardware accelerated processing, (ie. it doesn't make use of any DSPs), so the CPU will be doing it all.-4wd (January 11, 2013, 08:52 PM)
it squawks about the Creative applet that starts when I boot, and shuts it down. I'm not sure what to make of that.-TaoPhoenix (January 11, 2013, 09:43 AM)
The EMET notifier is part of Microsoft's extended mitigation experience toolkit. It's designed to detect exploitable and hack-vulnerable code on your system. Which is not the same thing as malware. It's just code that has the potential to be compromised by something or somebody else.
It's probably complaining about CTLTask.exe
(see attachment in previous post)
CTLTask.exe lets you ditz with your EAX effects on the soundcard. It's not something you need to have running at startup (or probably any other time) so I'd just disable it from autostarting with msconfig or a similar utility. You can always launch it later if you ever do want to play with it.
Onward!-40hz (January 11, 2013, 11:04 AM)
The thing I personally like about Win8 definitely isn't Metro (well, a few parts of it, like the Start Screen, but *definitely* not the whole package!) - I do like the kernel optimizations, the hybrid shutdown, the optimization focus (less services, tickless kernel, memory deduplication(!)) etc., though.-f0dder (January 11, 2013, 04:34 PM)
^The Audigy/SB line were great sounding soundcards. Nothing wrong with having one of those in your rig IMO. I think they sound noticeably better than the onboard audio chips found on most modern mobos. Sad to see they're tomb-stoning all support for all of them with Windows 7. (An EE I know said there's no reason why they couldn't continue to work with just about anything. They're extremely well-designed devices.)
Too bad Creative made such great hardware and such problematic drivers and software. If they had gotten their act together on that score I don't think you'd have seen onboard audio take off the way it did on desktop PCs.
-40hz (January 11, 2013, 09:08 AM)
Looks like it's an old, (by today's standards), Creative SB Audigy card that's been added - whatever software you're using is most likely leveraging the DSP on it.
Most modern CPUs would probably at least give it a run for it's money, especially given they can probably utilise their onboard stream processors to do the job.-4wd (January 11, 2013, 06:36 AM)
LookInMyPC is free, easy to use, and doesn't need an airline pilot's license to figure it out. It can create a comprehensive hardware profile report. It does a lot more too. It's a nice utility to keep on hand.-40hz (January 10, 2013, 05:56 PM)
I forget exactly what it was called, but I think I had my buddy put in a second special purpose data processing chip of some kind especially for media conversion.-TaoPhoenix (January 08, 2013, 11:37 PM)
I'd be very interested in learning more about that. Any possibility of getting additional details?-40hz (January 09, 2013, 08:53 AM)
Yep. All ya need is a good case o' consumption
-barney (January 09, 2013, 11:29 PM)
