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    Corsair's Carbide or Obsidian series cases? Fractal cases? Any case can be made quiet with the right amount of work. I still use my trusty Coolermaster 690 II. Very meshy front and top but fairly quiet with 8 fans running. Probably no louder than when my frig turns on the fan. And most of the fans have LEDs. Try to look for decent fans that provide good airflow without generating too much noise. I use Cougar fans in my case and they deliver excellent air flow without being too loud. I could have gone with Noctua but their fans are quite expensive. It's probably best to look for fans that support PWM, which allows the motherboard to control fan speed if you don't have a fan controller. If you want silent, look at fan speed control as well as sound and vibration dampening. That should reduce the noise coming from your case.
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    Then 13"-15" laptops will probably work out. Core i5 ~2.0 Ghz 8GB RAM 500GB-1TB HDD or a 256GB SSD if you configure your desktop to share as mike suggested. You could go with a SSHD if you want performance like a SSD but with HDD storage capacity. Again, it might help to know what screen size you're thinking about.
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    So then screen size? There are options for high-res displays if you want. An SSD will likely speed things up but the $/GB still isn't as good as a HDD. So do you want storage space or do you want speed? That would probably resolve your large folder issue that you hate.
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    How much time do you plan to spend on it? More time, then I would look at a 15" screen. Moderate time? 13"-14" screen. If you're photoshopping a lot, you'll benefit from the real estate at 15". Do you plan on traveling with it? Larger laptops may feel light just carrying around the house, but when you have that thing in a bag or backpack, carrying around for an hour, it starts to weigh you down. Plus have fun yanking it out and putting it back in every time you pass through the security checkpoint.
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    You know...
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    They're pulling from Daredevil: The Man Without Fear and don't expect to see the red suit until the season finale. It is also suppose to tie-in to the Defenders series that's currently in development.
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    Yeah, I'm gonna follow (but I'm like that with lots of movies these days). Ridley Scott is well known and well-liked, yet we still got Prometheus.
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    Yes. Same release pattern as Unicorn.
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    Still going to be out before a RT movie.
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    Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
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    Sony still has the rights to all "Spider-Man" films. And Sony will be able to make more Spidey films and have majority control over those films (Kevin Feige will be listed as producer and Amy Pascal will retain the Sony side of things) But now, Marvel Studios/Disney can borrow the same Spidey for their films and Sony can do the same for MCU characters in Spidey films.
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    Tale of 2 posters: US Germany
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    Similar thread: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=37378
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    Since Marvel is folding the Ultimate-verse into the normal Marvel universe... What they could do "kill" or retire Peter in Civil War by him revealing his identity. Then bring in Miles for the Marvel side of things and revive Peter for the Sony movies. 2 Spideys at the same time. Jesus, they have the whole Spider-verse story running right now, why not have it for the movies.
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    https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/568650209581858817 We're going with the shirtless '90s!
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    Would it kill the author of that article to link to the petition and the blog post he mentions?
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    Cameron Monaghan did a great job with the insanity. I just wished they gave him a more demented scenario.
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    I've actually found the Mobile Suit Master Archives a better "read" at mechs of a franchise than the VF Master Files. Mostly due to the fact that there's more published data on MSs than VFs. One little thing I do love about the MS Master Archives is how they've incorporated the various Gunpla versions into the writings as "early" or "late" dated revisions and they didn't have to invent a new variant for the publication like the VF Master Files did. For examples, the Ver.Ka RX-78-2 became a later revision/repair to the original RX-78-2. We know the RX-78-2 was upgraded on the field using data from the RX-78-3 so why shouldn't it look like the Ver.Ka RX-78-2 Gunpla (It probably helps that the RX-78-3 was designed by Katoki). Or take the various Gunpla of Zeta Gundam. The MS Master Archive incorporates those as repairs and field upgrades that Zeta received during the Gryps Conflict. Which actually works. In anime, we won't see those minor repairs but we can see them in the Gunpla and the MS Master Archives do take advantage of it. If Macross had that, it would make the VF Master Files much more interesting. But not to knock on the VF Master Files, I found the VFMF's diagrams to be a great way to explain how things work like how EX-Gear as a cockpit seat works as at higher Gs, or how the pilot is oriented in a VF-25 in battroid mode or how the cockpit is arranged in a VF-0 and its variants.
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    That's up to you. OCR'ing is only as good as the program being used. And it has to be able to recognize different font families. Just looking at the diagrams vs text, the text uses a different font family than the text for the diagrams. As Monmar mentioned, it's hit or miss if the OCR program is able to recognize the characters properly.
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    As Tochiro mentioned, Japanese is written with 3 different alphabets or I would say, character sets. There is the basic one, Hiragana, one for foreign/borrowed words, Katakana, and Chinese script, Kanji. All 3 are mixed into the writings. And as Tochiro mentioned, there's a lot of technical jargon in the writings, including fictional words. And that's just the words. Just wait till we get the grammar, context, etc. It's not impossible, but for most normal speakers and translators, it's probably something that would require lots of time and brain-power to do. The guys (sketchley, Gubaba, Tochiro, just to name a few names) here have only covered a small portion of the available texts being published. Even I've tried reviewing the legal documents of the Macross-franchise and deciphering the words, the legal terminology, etc., is not easy. And those documents are not works of fiction, but real legal documents (Having spent a few years working with lawyers teaches you a few things). So you are welcomed to try but don't be surprised if the translator come back and say no thanks.
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    http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=37892&p=1179914 We don't know if Spidey will join this movie or an Avengers flick. Money is betting on this flick as Spidey is a key figure in Civil War.
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    Here's the formal announcement from Marvel: Sony Pictures Entertainment Brings Marvel Studios Into The Amazing World Of Spider-Man Anyone wanna bet Civil War then oh dear god, One More Day, then Brand New Day.
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    Had to do a 2-parter eh?
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    How long have we been watching this dance? Since 2007? 2008?
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