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  1. JB0
    I'm toy-biased, so to me he ALWAYS had little feet.
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    I thought perfect transformation was, by definition, screen-accurate transformation. Which is not to say that I don't like the idea of reworking him so everything is PART of him. Loose parts are lost parts! I'm just not sure how you define "perfect" in this case.
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    This is what they call "damning with faint praise."And worst or not, it's definitely the most tortured production. Cast literaly didn't know what soript they were shooting until the day of the shoot in many scenes.
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    Holo fits a different niche, really. Augmented reality and virtual reality aren't in direct competition, as I see it. Sony has to overcome the Rift hype. Or steal it for themselves. That's their big roadbump.
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    That will depend on what it works with, and how well it does the job. I very rarely commit to buying things sight unseen with no real information to go on. Get back to me once it is actually available and there's some real reviews. While all we have to go on is paid promotional pieces masquerading as journalism and straight-up rewordings of press releases, all I know is Sony wants me to buy it, which is a lot like telling me water is wet. It's true, but not meaningful information. But right now, if I get a VR headset, one for my PC makes more sense.
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    Pretty good movie. Very realistic, for the most part, with a likable star and a good focus on aesthetics and hard science. (The computers are, as always, way too flashy and take a long time to display simple text files because "sweet animation for every letter", and they put the Vehicle Assembly Building in Houston instead of Florida for SOME REASON) Aesthetically speaking, I am particularly fond of the Ares space suits. And the Ares logo, which draws blatant inspiration from NASA's "worm" logo of the 80s(AKA the good logo). The iconic upside-down-V-as-A warms my heart every time I see it. I have not read the book yet, but it is on my short list of things to do.
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    Someone's livin' the dream. Personally, I don't want it without a young Carrie Fisher in it. But to each his own.
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    All makes sense from a professional standpoint. I was looking at it from the home user perspective. I'm curious why not use the integrated graphics. I'd figure most anything that takes out CPU-integral graphics would also take out the CPU itself, so it seems like a winner to me, unless it's for hardware consistency. Or is this a case of "we have a text terminal, graphics are for chumps"? Which is, again, a thing that makes sense. I have had motherboards where PART of the IO chip failed. Actually, I lost the keyboard and mouse ports, but still had everything else. This was a socket 7 board, so that was kind of a catastrophic failure. Didn't matter if the hard drive controller worked fine, I couldn't DO anything with it. And yeah, good luck finding a keyboard interface card to fix THAT.
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    That it sure is a VR headset.
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    Apparently, the Takara MP Shockwave has the barrel combine with the gun mode display stand to form a backpack.
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    Legs are huge. Head is super squat, eye is too small and recessed too far back. It's... pretty wrong. The backpack is WAY too busy. Even ignoring the big transparent purple piece sticking out, it looks like he forgot to put his access plates on when he got up in the morning. The back half of the lasergun mode is wonky as all get-out, and the gun lacks a trigger entirely. While not actually a sculpt issue... dear Primus that purple is a menace. Shockwave is DARK purple, not Barbie Fun House Purple. Note that I am extremely toy-biased on Shockwave's looks.
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    You know, I've thought before it'd be great to make the entire ATX backplane out of little lego blocks. Just run some PCIE lanes back there, and start snapping bricks on. Heck, even shifting to mini-PCIE cards for most purposes would be awesome. There's not really a good reason for us to be using the same expansion card form factor that we used in 1981 for the most part. Actually, we're shifting back towards integrated graphics for everything that isn't a gaming build. Intel builds a quite functional graphics chip into almost every processor they make these days. Incidentally, the reason IBM didn't make heavy use of integrated peripherals originally was reliability concerns with the parts of the era. And, of course, it kind of caused problems because the 5150 only had 5 slots, and any sort of functional machine was using ALL OF THEM. As reliability went up, and component size went down, we started seeing more integral peripherals(starting with serial ports and disk controllers). Now we're at a point where there simply isn't enough IO on offer to hook up everything people want, so you have to choose between more USB3 or more SATA or a second graphics card... you know what, if you have multiple graphics cards you deserve to suffer. Using multiple cards to render one screen is stupid and has been for a long time and you can quote me on that.
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    It's a little odd, but it makes me smile. And we can add Shockwave carrying a laser gun that looks like him to the list.
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    Well, PCIE lanes don't always go to PCIE slots. Interfaces for onboard controllers wire to PCIE, as does an M.2 SSD slot. And I would LOVE to see boards sporting M.2 become the standard.
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    It is. And the obvious solution is to not just add enough PCIE lanes to cover current usage, but to add WAY MORE PCIE lanes. I'm actually serious here. We need motherboards with far more PCIE lanes than they have, though Intel's newest chipsets go someway towards alleviating the situation.
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    Aww yeah! Chest electronics even look right! Cable looks to be on the right side to me. They always got that wrong in the cartoon. Half the time it looked like he didn't even HAVE a cable. Cartoon had a crappy opaque chest panel too. Shockwave without an image of capacitors and whatnot sticking out just isn't right. TOY ACCURACY YEAH!
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    I just meant SCSI was a better standard than ATA, and would've mostly removed any need for SATA in the first place. Not that it was faster. Speed of the interconnect is not the limiting factor on hard disks, and flash drives are gradually getting off of hard drive interfaces entirely. They're still flimsy connectors. The dang tongue is too narrow for my comfort. And yes, my very first SATA mobo(An Abit, may they rest in peace) DID have a connector pull up off the board while I was trying to route a locking cable. Plastic shell just came straight up, and I broke a pin off while trying to get it to line up and go back down. I studiously avoid using locking cables on SATA ports that stick straight up because of that experience. Try to avoid straight-up connectors entirely. Right-angle or GTFO. MORE PCIE LANES! MORE! Actually, it seems to me like a lot of boards have been IO-starved lately, and we really DO need more PCIE lanes in general. Putting drives directly on the bus just exacerbates an already-bad situation.
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    In my experience, they typically announce two weeks after you buy an upgrade.
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    The connectors are flimsy garbage they found in a cereal box, and the inability to chain multiple drives off one base connector is completely inept. Just because IDE did it wrong is no reason to insist it can't be done reasonably. ... We shoulda all just converted to SCSI in the 90s. You know it's bad when I'm advocating that we follow APPLE. The 6GB/s thing is because SATA wasn't ever designed for flash media. Solid state drives saturate every new version of the standard as fast as it's introduced, and hard disks still can't saturate the 3GB/s outside of cache hits. Not to mention high performance hard disks have followed the dodo and passenger pigeon into the next life. SATA folks basically decided to let PCIe take the SSD market instead of continuing to try and keep up with SSD, which was a losing proposition.
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    But she's out of scale with EVERYTHING ELSE YOU OWN. It will RUIN your display case!
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    In times like these, I like to ask ... What Would Ash Ketchum Do? The answer usually comes back to me, a voice in my head that tells me "gotta catch 'em all."
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    Well, the F117 isn't really a fair demonstration of ANY aerodynamic principle except "enough thrust will make anything fly". With aerodynamics like that, it's more surprising that they managed to get it to NOT fall from the sky like a bird having a stroke, elevons or not.
  23. JB0
    Are you sure? It doesn't look like Macross to me.
  24. JB0
    SATA is just a crap standard, no two ways about it.
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    :'(
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