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  1. David Hingtgen
    Is there an easy way to convert MKV's (say, those with subtitles...) to MPG? Last time I tried it, it took forever and a lot of work----most programs won't keep the subtitles. But it's been a good number of months since then.
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    Gah, 9 secs to load the forum's main page. WTF? IE is like 1.1 secs.
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    13 hops, but the first one always times out.
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    Took 7+ seconds to load this forum's main page, before coming to this thread. Seriously, MW should never take more than like 2 secs, if that. Really, that's the annoying thing. Fine 5 times in a row, then takes 10 times longer the next. Observation: if the computer has been sleeping, idling, or just about anything else (like browsing another tab for 10 mins)--Firefox always seems to be really slow the first time you ask it to do anything again. It's like Firefox itself (or even just a single tab) "goes to sleep" whenever it's not being used, and spends a lot of time "waking up".
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    Are you sure you loaded everything at BBC? It'll look fairly "complete" at 6 secs. But there's more to come, if you keep waiting.
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    Since regult brought it up: Real military jets tend to be assembled modularly, often with pre-painted sections. I know the F-14 for sure was assembled from pre-painted sections. Thus, a brand-new Tomcat would probably be several slightly different shades of the same color. A custom-repaint after assembly like Brera's would likely be all one color, but the "standard finish" for the green ones could easily have some variations. Interestingly, the color demarcations on the toy follow "real variations" quite well--tailfins and nosecone. Heck, go look at any F-15E nowadays--their nosecones rarely match the rest of the fuselage.
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    Nah, you'll get a frame of Leon.
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    Ok, did as many of those tweaks as I could (some don't seem present in the latest version of Firefox). Firefox seemed to tie IE for Boeing.com re-load, and BBC.co.uk non-cached. (BBC is 17 secs, yeesh) Still---I had to mod/tweak just to match IE's fairly default settings? (I've made a zillion changes to IE, but 99% are for security/ads, not speed) PS---is there a way to disable recent history, or have it clear it automatically? I can only find the "automatically delete ALL history when browser is closed" option. I like history---I just don't want it to always show my past 10 sites to anyone who might look over my shoulder or something. Oh, one more thing---if the cursor is over a video, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. This is annoying---if I'm using the mouse wheel, I want it to scroll, period--encountering an unexpected embedded video instantly stops my scrolling. Workaround/fix?
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    Re-loaded Boeing.com front page, presuming it's cached: IE7: 3 secs for "main" stuff, 4 secs for everything. Firefox: 13 secs for main stuff, 15 secs for everything. About 10 secs of that was "transferring data from Boeing.com". Seriously, 10 secs to analyze something that should mostly be cached? Firefox takes from 70 to 200 megs of RAM. IE 7 very similar.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Well, I tried removing "offending" ad sites from my hosts file etc, and it seems to make little difference. Firefox just seems to "interpret" ads different or something. And it sure doesn't explain the delays at MW and other sites, with no ads. Boeing's front page was a huge difference. From having nothing at all cached, IE needed 6 seconds to have the page displayed/done, with 2 more secs to get their fancy flash intro finished. Firefox took over 20 secs just to get past a blank white screen.
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    Ironically, Firefox froze for about 30 secs when I brought up the list of add-ons. Currently installed: NoSquint (disabled) Customize menus (because otherwise right-clicking brings up like 20-30 options) RightClick (disabled) Searchbar autosizer (because my searches are usually more than 10 characters long) Firefox just likes to "freeze" a lot. Sometimes 2 secs, sometimes 20-30. But it does, and often. And even when it doesn't--every site loads slower than with MSIE. It's especially noticeable in forums, where I swear it "grabs 3 posts, waits for you to scroll down, then grabs 3 more, and repeats"--it's like it loads one post at a time, as needed. I run my PC as stripped down as possible--if I don't need it, my PC doesn't load it. I have disabled many of Windows' default "services" etc. There's not many things to interfere with. My anti-virus is currently Avast 5. Really, I wonder if hosts/adblocking etc are causing an issue--Firefox seems to like to "keep trying" to get something that's blocked--like ads! My hosts file has quite a few ad-sites listed, but it sometimes seems like Firefox is trying to still connect, and delaying loading the rest of the page because of it---whereas as IE simply "skips" those sites. Neogaf really brings out the difference between IE and Firefox--especially in the ad category. They flat-out simply don't appear on IE, but Firefox seems to try hard to get ads that are blocked, brings up ads IE doesn't even seems to be aware exists, and does the "load posts 3 at a time" thing.
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    Ok, am I doing something wrong or what? I finally tried Firefox. And IMHO, it sucks. It loads much slower, every site is slower, and it loves to "pause" all the time while loading sites/pages. It has frozen more in the past 2 days than IE has in the past 2 years. However, MSIE 7 is now so old, not all sites work well with it. But I intend to continue using IE7 as my primary, and Firefox only when needed. (IE 8 sucks, hate it, and IE 9 requires Vista/7) For being so raved about, I have yet to see what's so great about Firefox. Just to type this post, I had to wait about 20 secs for "read Macrossworld.com" and "gathering data from Macrossworld.com". While IE 7 takes about 0.25 secs to load everything... (annoyingly, the last big MW update doesn't work well with IE7, but IE7 is so much faster I intend to keep using it for MW)
  13. David Hingtgen
    The pessimist in me says some gimmick that'll compromise sculpt/articulation. Like quad-light-up forearm blades or something.
  14. David Hingtgen
    A big consideration was simply "I ran out of space". I really have to sell some stuff off. (plus, frankly---MP Grimlock is little more than a bigger G1 Grimlock) I'm a big Grimlock fan, but cost/size considerations sealed it for me. As for new Prime--probably, but will it be better than ROTF Prime? Or are they going to simplify it so that Prime+trailer is cheaper than it'd otherwise be? Or just reduce the paint apps even further, to cut costs.
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    Ironically, I just cancelled mine.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, I was thinking of that, could be "only" 9 months or so until the TF3 stuff comes out---surely they'll add SOME paint apps when they re-release that mold. (or, an all-new mold with trailer--though I fear that they may simplify the bot so as to reduce the overall cost)
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    I'm thinking of cancelling my MP Grimlock order and using the money for a Buster Prime or something. (I do not have the 09 Leader Prime mold at all---I refused to buy the US version due to lack of paint on the doors/windows, etc). However, Buster Prime is still fairly rare/expensive. (of course, I would like the 2-pack faceplate version better and even much prefer the recolored Jetfire to my own, but that's way too much money to justify on a minor repaint of one I already have) But I am a fan of transformation over most anything, and Buster Prime blows away MP Grimlock in that regard. (plus, I still have my minty G2 Grimlock) Comments/opinions? PS--my Jp chromed 07 movie Prime is for sale, to help fund this either way. PPS--sigh, if only Hasbro had released a version of 09 Prime that at least had the doors painted--I don't NEED the chrome and pinstripes, but I do want the entire cab itself painted...
  18. David Hingtgen
    MP Grimlock and Animated Rodimus out at TRU in the US, multiple sightings today. I just happened to be by mine today looking for something else but saw nothing.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Gah, I could swear it was Lilformers style, and not Shortpacked... Mental error!
  20. David Hingtgen
    I can't find a comic I know I saw recently: It was either drawn by Matt Moylan/Lilformers, or a VERY good copy of his style. It was panels of WFC Prime saying "node". I've checked everywhere, and can't find it.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Looks like an airport firetruck.
  22. David Hingtgen
    The pic that wasn't there back when I made my post 3.5 days ago? Yeah, NOW there's pics showing more of the trailer and RP's back, but when I originally posted--there was little more than "that's a lot of back kibble" and "that one bit looks like Hot Rod's rear tailight/fender"--which could still of course, be what RP's rear tailight/fender looks like. Nobody wants there to be a perfect car-mode Hot Rod in there than me, but I'll wait until Takara says/shows it.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Is there a bigger version? Hard to follow some of the lines.
  24. David Hingtgen
    protostar--you can't quote my 3-day-old post and then say "no, the latest is this"... It was the latest at the time I posted. RDblade--as I said before, simply having HotRod-esque details doesn't mean it's HotRod---what does the back end of Rodimus' cab look like? Probably a lot like Hot Rod's, just not as sleek. At the moment, I'm still pessimistic, but slightly hopeful, that a perfect Hot Rod vehicle is in there.
  25. David Hingtgen
    I keep wondering--are the prototype pics they show the actual ones Wheeljack made, or their own versions? I know Wheeljack put noseart on most of his, but the pics igear show usually hide where it'd be. (of course, I still have serious issues with the Dirge one--Thrust and Ramjet were done much better IMHO) (not real fond of Thurst having Bullpups, but it's better than Dirge's obvious "stabs as canards, with nav lights and ECM still attached"
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