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Nallown

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  1. That's true aswell but the poll rate would be turned down to a much lower frequency compared to if you were to usd DVI so frame skipping would be much more common over HDMI then DVI.
  2. Since this month I've also got some friends coming over from other countries to visit me and also will be going to a few conventions I won't be spending too much money and chose to get the monitors only but next month I'll be getting this monitor stand aswell. Of course I'll be asking suggestions and some other recommendations from other people from the LTT community before I'll be placing orders but that's what I've got in mind atm.
  3. Considering that eyefinity would send the display data asynchronously would mean that they'd have to poll at the exact same rate or they'd be out of sync and since the refresh rate on HDMI would be lower then DVI would mean that it would essentially cause some stutter over all other monitors.
  4. what about running them in eyefinity? that's what I'm sort of worried about.
  5. That's true aswell but I haven't really bothered looking into whether the monitor supported HDMI or not but I just checked and turned out that they don't.
  6. mainly for its refresh rate limitations which the other ports don't have so it would be kind of out of sync
  7. So I just ordered 3 monitors which support DVI and DisplayPort and I'm trying to think of how I should hook this up to my GPU. My GPU has 2x DVI and 2x Mini DisplayPort and 1x HDMI (Not going to use.) So I'm wondering whether I should use a DisplayPort Adapter so I can have 1 DisplayPort be hooked up to 2 monitors or should I dedicate each output from the GPU to its own monitor so I'd use the 2 mini DisplayPort for each monitor and one DVI for another monitor. What would be the best?
  8. at the bottom of the page next to the RSS feed button choose "change theme"
  9. Thanks this is much needed as the story is quite big.
  10. I'm actually willing to put this to the test, I'm not kidding. upcoming month I'll be having a 3 week holiday off from work. I might consider trying to get a job at these places just to see what they expect and how easy it is. This will be a part time job and I'll see how it works out. If enough people are interested in me doing this then I'll give it a shot and we'll see what's gonna happen because this is just ridiculous.
  11. my style of writing . I'll try to clean it up and make it better
  12. So I went to the local hardware warehouse store and some very bad stuff happened. Let's just say that it was horrible. > Green Text version thanks to @Mooshi http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/224006-my-experience-at-a-hardware-store/?p=3068574 Here it goes. --- So I've been planning on getting a new triple monitor setup for a while now and since I saw a few monitors on a huge sale I was considering on buying them but then I found a few better available choices on sale. When it came to placing the order it went successfully but then after I proceeded with the payment I received a email stating that they went out of stock so I chose to get a refund and instead look for some other choices. When I found a few other options I considered on getting one of the choices that I discovered but the one that I was planning on getting had a silver bezel which would have stand out because of my furniture and gadgets being black. So I thought let's go and look in store what they had, and this is where the fun happened. So I went to the closest big warehouse stores that specify in computer hardware and luckily there were 3 of them near each other so I thought that I would have walked away with something useful at least, not specifically a monitor but some information or tips to look out for. Well...... I was wrong. So I chose to go to the nearest one first which I knew would have had something good in stock and so I entered the shop. From the first look it seemed like a bad choice but I thought let's look deeper and maybe I'd be able to find something at the back which I did. There were a few pretty good looking monitors in stock but non of them met my requirements of at least having DVI input, 23-24" in size, and having a IPS or PLS panel so I went and asked one of the sales assistants for whether they had any suggestions or they'd recommend something else over these requirements well they had nothing to say. First person I walked up to seemed like a good listener so I expected him to at least know what I was talking about well I was wrong, again. Right after I finished explaining to him what my requirements were he said "have you looked on the website?" and I said "Yes I did but I thought I'd come and have a look in store my self and see what you guys would have have in stock and what you'd recommend." So he ended up showing me the available monitors and specifically pointed out one of the out standing monitors from Samsung. So I mentioned that the Samsung monitor did seem to look good but it neither supports DVI or Displayport and also doesn't have a VESA mount so he mentioned that to find out whether it does or doesn't support those things I should have a look at the back of the monitors. So he turned around the monitor and the Alarm went on. The people in store looked at me as if I did something wrong so I looked away with my face down since I don't tend to like attention. The sales assistant finally went and got the key to turn off the alarm so it stopped. I said "don't worry about it, it's fine accidents do tend to happen." and he said "That's true let's just leave that alone." So I had enough of his bullshit since he was no help and also he didn't seem to know a thing about monitors, not even the basics of panel types so I chose to walk up to another sales assistant and hoping that he'd know what I was talking about. Well that person seemed to try and avoid me by going up to other people and asking them whether they'd need any help while I was following him so I had enough of him and stepped right in front of him and said "O, hey there would you mind quickly helping me out" since luckily the person he tried to walk up to said that he's willing to wait and that he should help me out first he finally chose to listen to me. I explained to him my situation and what I'm looking for and he kept on asking me the same questions over and over again. These questions included things such as what screen size are you looking at, what manufacturer (which I said I didn't care about as long as they meet my requirements) and also what I was going to be using it for. After finally answering those questions over and over again and he finally got it he went to the warehouse computer and typed in the following on their website 'monitor 24" in black'. I'm not so sure but I don't think that their site allows you to sort by colour or even recognizes what colour the product is but I didn't say anything. As expected the results were empty and he said that they don't have anything in stock... WTF!!!!!!! Right behind me at that time there were soo many black 24" monitors and he chose to accept the results available on the site!? What is he!!?? Stupid!? I'm going to be honest and I think that the only reason he did that was to try and get rid of me because I don't think that anyone would be this stupid and especially if they would be working in retail. So I thought alright I've had enough let's try another store and chose to "accept" what he said so I said thank you anyway. The second big hardware warehouse that I tried was only 100ft away so I ended up walking to it. When I entered, it looked pretty much the same, everything was in the same format only at different positions. I walked up to the monitor section and asked the person standing there the same question. He ended up admitting that he had no clue what I was talking about and that he only got hired externally on behalf of Asus to advertise their products so he told me to go and see a specific person who probably knew the most in that category but the person was busy at that time so I ended up waiting. While I was waiting I had a talk with the guy and he seemed like a really nice person, he told me what his original job role is, what he specializes in and even showed me some of the stuff that he created. Of which most were pretty cool. He turned out to be a industrial manufacturer for Asus and also does photography in his free time which I thought to be really cool. The person he recommended to go and see finally was free so I went up to her. I explained to her what I needed what I was looking for and she just seemed confusd aswell. I'm not joking but I think I started to see tears coming out of her eyes. She told me that they had nothing in stock under my requirements and walked away up to somebody else. I had enough and chose to leave it out and just order my monitors online instead. I find it redicolous that such people get employed as sales assistants to recommend products to people. No wonder why people end up blaming the manufactures for distributing bad products probably because they get recommended the wrong products under their requirements. I don't exactly blame the sales assistants as they don't know what's coming up but I would blame the reqruitment department as they get the wrong people for the wrong role. You should not be hiring somebody who doesn't know the basics of a search engine to recommend products to other people and neither should you be hiring somebody who would tell you to twist the monitor and look at the back of it to see whether they support the features.
  13. So guys I went and looked what they had at retail and something happened. I've written most things up. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/224006-my-experience-at-a-hardware-store/
  14. So I'm planning on getting a new triple monitor setup and had a look around and so far I'm thinking of getting 3 of the following monitors. http://www.aocmonitorap.com/root/my/product_display.php?id=449 OR http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/professional-model/UM.VB6EE.005 So I'm planning on getting either of these x3. Any better recommendations? Reason to why I might get one over the other?
  15. @MeepLikesToBuildPc's's Report the post so moderators get notified about it and they could move it to the appropiate board. Btw when you report a mistake like this then it won't be a issue, it's not like they're going to give you some sort of warning point or ban It's basically the way we notify mods and make requests.
  16. Download the Windows 7 ISO from here and use rufus to burn it to a usb drive. I got windows 7 from the same source and used rufus aswell to install it to my usb drive
  17. Laravel does it that way aswell. It's just a preconfigured htaccess file which routes to a server file and there it manages the links. So they'd have server.php which does all the routing seperate from the processing, it would just return links to pages.
  18. that's a strange one, I'll give it a try when I'm home.
  19. The - (Dash) is a syntax used in regular expressions to define a range. So for example if you want to grab the alphabet then you can do a-z and it would grab the range between and including a and z. You'd need to escape the dashes using the \ (backward slash). So anywhere you want to use a regex syntax as a character just use the \ to escape them but otherwise at times there are better ways to escape characters but here you're fine just using the \. So you'd have RewriteRule ^sign\-in$ signin.php [L]
  20. I haven't done game dev in such a long time and I'm too busy working on other projects. I'm literally overflown with other stuff aswell so I don't really have the time. This also reminds me, game dev does take allot of time so you can't get something done within a few months so it's worth making sure that you have the time to start a project. Unless if you're trying to learn the basics then have a mess about with game development libraries.
  21. There are a infinite amount of things that could be done by coding. "Code" it self is just a reference for something. In fact everybody can code! A language is a code, code is used to communicate with one another. You just used Code to ask us a question. You can literally do anything by coding.
  22. Did you try the Unity forum? I'd say that's worth asking on or otherwise try the opengameart forum. Some really skilled designers there.
  23. Why don't you make it a group project? Find people on Game Dev forums who enjoy creating sprites and ask them whether they'd be interested in joining your project. It's always fun to get multiple people involved and have it be a group project
  24. Look up the basics of C. Those are very simple questions. I'd say look up the equation online and then it wouldn't be too hard to build it in C. http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/ - This should teach you the C basics for the first, second and thirt question http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cmath/sqrt/ - This should help you with your 2nd question. I know that this is a C++ reference but it's the same in C. C++ is basically C with the ability to create Objects.
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