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Member since May 21, 2001

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    ulrik loye

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  1. Review - nVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows

    40.72 Beta (Oct 4, 2002)

    Contrary to the guys below I experienced an inproved 3dmark score (+32). Which brings me to conclude that their latest driver is equal to or slightly better than 40.71.

  2. Review - Bouncer

    1.0 RC6 (Apr 25, 2002)

    emperorubby, the list of so-called commonly used ports is virtually endless. How about consulting the AIM manual for which ports it uses rather than picking on a perfectly sound product.

  3. Review - Winamp VQF Encoder Plugin

    1.0 (Jul 16, 2001)

    excellent plugin... too bad it can't help you edit the file info :/

  4. Review - mp3PRO Player/Encoder

    1.0 (Jun 14, 2001)

    The quality of mp3pro compared to 128kbps mp3 isn't good enough for me to want to begin using it. This of course is because I usually listen to mp3s being played on my computer connected to my stereo, thus the need for highly compressed files are much less important than the actual sound quality.

    However, this standard might have a future in portable systems, i.e. walkmen, PDAs, cellulars etc.

    Still, I'd go for the VQF standard (www.vqf.com). It provides a better sound-quality (approx. like mp3@160kbps or even mp3@192kbps) though it packs the sound at a factor ~17:1 where mp3@128 only does ~11:1

  5. Comment - Nullsoft Considers Charging for Advanced Player

    1.0 (Mar 31, 2002 - 7:47 PM)

    What he's saying is 'why pay for a program when you can get the same functionality for free elsewhere'.

    IMHO many producers of freeware and free-services are realizing that they've skiped one too many lessions in basic economics. To my knowledge there's no other industry who based their core business plans on giving away products for free. Today many producers are trying to add some kind of value to the exsisting products and thus charge a fee. The essential problem, however, is that users have been educated to believe these products are free and won't accept a sudden change of that, hence they'll migrate to other brands or keep the current free versions.

  6. Comment - The Truth About Windows Activation

    1.0 (May 21, 2001 - 3:33 AM)

    Windows activation is fine by me, but only if Microsoft cut their prices --- and they ought to be able to do this as they will be able to sell quite a few more copies of their products that would otherwise have been illigally copied. The arguementation is quite simple: it cost a certain amount of money to develop and produce a product - based on the cost they add some profit and divide this with the budgetted amount of sales... this is a simplified model for pricing a product. Now, with windows activation, the sales will increase thus the price can drop while still making the company earn what it hoped for.

    In other words, the lost income and profit due to piracy are today being payed by the people who actually buy the product... you could say that if every copy of Windows is being copied 3 times on average the person who bought the product actually pays for the copying too.

    And if Microsoft fails to lower prices? well, they aren't the only OS - and many of their competitors are completely free.