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  1. David Hingtgen
    I'm not going to pay that much initially, plus the $30+ extra month, to save a few button presses. That'd be like paying extra for a different font or something. It should be minor software revision, it's not physically a phone design thing. (they just all seem to be programmed that way) (which leads to another issue---there are very few non-smart QWERTY phones nowadays, and even fewer with decent cameras---nearly every "upgrade" phone out there for me has a WORSE camera---those that equal or surpass, require data plans etc--even if they utterly suck at browsing and no sane person would attempt to actually use them to browse)
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    I don't think we have a cell phone thread, so here goes: Is there a phone out there, that can initiate a new text message (as opposed to reply to one) with less than a dozen key presses? My current phone, as well as pretty much every one I try, goes like this: Select new message. Select *text* message. (as opposed to video, etc) Select "add". Select "from contacts". Mark the people you want to send it to. (99.99% of the time, it's just one person, and is my main source of annoyance). Then select "done". Then "ok". NOW you are ready to actually start typing. Is there any phone/carrier combo out there, where there's like a one button option for "start a new text message and send it to one person from my contacts list"----and it pretty much just goes straight to my contacts list, I select them by hitting "ok" and then I can go straight to typing. Frankly, if they were video games, cell phones would get a 0.0 in gui/menu, for having uber-common things like "new text to someone" require layer after layer of menus, and forcing you to go through rarely-used options and sub-menus even when you're not using them. (like the ability to select multiple people to send the text too, or "video+voice" messages). Even with a shortcut straight to "new text message", 90% of the time is still wasted by the very clunky "who to send it to" interface. And really, why can't I just manually type in "6" and it'll accept that as "speed dial #6". Instead I have to go through my contacts, find #6, mark it, add it, then hit "ok" then "done". Yeesh.
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    The past few times Adobe reader etc has updated, it seems to want to do it individually for each user. How/why? I mean, if I click "OK" on the admin account, and it updates---shouldn't that update it for the whole PC? But no, each account itself seems to require it. (that, or it just coincidentally updates during one of the few times another user account is being used)
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    I'm still waiting for either a VFX-2 or Milia scheme. The current offerings are very boring. (and I'm sick of the M+ scheme by now regardless)
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    I've always thought the YF-19 was inspired by the YF-23 in fuselage cross section, so when in doubt---make it hexagonal. (or, curved/rounded hexagonal). It's most obvious in the nose, but it's present to some degree in nearly the whole plane.
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    Terradive is an awesome mold, but poor colors IMHO. Hopefully he'll be repainted as quickly as Dirge was.
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    I need space, so I'm going to sell off some stuff. Before I try to do it at TFW, I'd like to do it here. (I have SO many people back out of deals after I've boxed them up over there, I'm really getting sick of it). Here's a quick preview of what I have before I type up full "for sale" threads for them: RiD Railspike RiD Megatron RiD Landfill RiD Ruination RiD Storm Jet (Jetfire colors) Many small/medium BM--most any show character, Scavenger, Nightviper, G2 Starscream G2 Optimus Prime (1984 mold) G2 Grimlock, silver/grey (depends on price and if I ever find MP Grim cheap)--may sell, may keep G2 Devastator (yellow) Animated--Swindle, Blitzwing, Grimlock, purple Shockwave, Blurr, Samurai Prowl Energon--Starscream, Snowcat, Long Haul, Demolisher Armada Tidal Wave *Japanese purple/grey version*, Jetfire (inked in panel lines in cargo bay), Starscream G1 Ramjet, Dirge (Ramjet has a KO nosegear, found out AFTER I bought it) Alternators Jazz, Hound, Grimlock, Sideswipe 07 *Jp* Leader Movie Prime--chromed, with rear bumper also painted silver, with all "extra" sticker sets from Reprolabels. Feel free to PM questions etc. (in fact, please do) As a rule, they have mint instructions/cards, excepting some G1/G2.
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    ??? Many F-4/5/14/16/18 have been shot down in Ace Combat as enemies...
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    Azrael---everything on the "LAN" menu is unchecked. (I don't think I've checked that for years, since switching from dial-up) (plus, this PC is 100% independent and hard-lined anyways)
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    787 at SeaFair, showing how steep an airliner can bank: http://vimeo.com/13990062 (wait for the 2nd pass)
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    Just got a message I've never seen before---Avast asked if it could send a file back to Avast HQ or whatever for analysis, as it had found a suspicious file using heuristics. It wouldn't show me the full file name, the only options were to delete or ignore. (I chose delete of course). Based on what I could see, it was in the IE cache, possible a cookie, and "ebayisapi" was part of the name.
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    Does Bandai typically region-code their anime releases? (because on the whole, Blu-Rays are far more likely to be multi-region or region-free than DVDs)
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    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.
  16. David Hingtgen
    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".
  17. David Hingtgen
    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.
  19. David Hingtgen
    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.
  22. 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.
  24. David Hingtgen
    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)
  25. David Hingtgen
    The pessimist in me says some gimmick that'll compromise sculpt/articulation. Like quad-light-up forearm blades or something.
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