David Hingtgen

I would so buy one of those... (a VF-19 with boobs, that is)

That's historic--isn't it Graham's first video?

I think you'd technically want this now: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/sis/index.html

Hey, one guy in the US bought an F-18. Partially disassembled, but the real deal. Made the news, and I think the govt confiscated it, but it happened. And there's of course big problems with F-14 parts getting out now.

This may be a stupid question/comment but: You can at least read the numbers of the decals, right? Shouldn't that plus a scan of the decal sheet showing the numbers be enough? Here's the Max & Milia in high-res: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...j/MM-Decals.jpg

Time Crisis is always popular, for some reason. Haven't been to an arcade for a while, but the latest version of that is ALWAYS being played.

Are the ones at 1999.co.jp any better/good enough? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10013237 I often go there for instruction scans.

And there were also "half versions" without stickers, like mine.

Any rumors on a Classics Thundercracker? I'll be ticked if it's a Botcon exclusive or something...

I'm wondering if the fan being "low and small" in the intake is an attempt at forced perspective. But that doesn't work when you're trying to make 1mm of depth look like 100. Just for comparison, here's both types of F-16 intakes----which are quite short and straight as modern jets go, intake-wise. The fan is only a couple feet back from the intake, and the entire intake is painted bright gloss white, and polished until its smooth and shiny. And all you can see is black. Now, having stuck my head inside several F-16 intakes, I can tell you you can easily see the fan--IF YOUR EYEBALLS ARE INSIDE THE INTAKE. You really can't see it from the outside, unless it's like sunrise or sunset, and a ray of light hits the intake from a low angle, illuminating the fan directly. Intake fans on a model=pointless. Unless you tend to shine flashlights down the intakes and use angled mirrors to see around in the internal bends.

Possibility: The VF-11 was primarily designed for anti-rogue-Zentradi ops, like we see in the beginning of M+. Thus the bayonet and rapid-reload gunpod---it's optimized for close-range, hand-to-hand, etc. Not zillions of missiles against zillions of other planes, Regults, etc. Later, when the need for missiles reappears, we get the VF-11C, which much like the F-15E almost always has FAST packs attached, and are pretty much required for its missions.

It doesn't count because in real life, an F-22 wouldn't just turn around, shut off its radar, and go home because "it was time to start round 2". PS--F-22 doing the longest, slowest Cobra and Kulbit I've ever seen, about 1:20 in. Cool pic: The Northern lights in Alaska, from an Alaska 737 in flight: http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1183...d=&next_id=

That doesn't count as a kill. No more than if he was "shot down" 20 mins later while flaring to land. Best story I ever heard of an "exercise" kill was when a couple Jaguars took down an entire flight of F-15's.

I considered having "low-speed mod" as my title... And FYI, I didn't use the low-fi version of the page. I basically just never clicked on any attachments. I just found out Roy was on dialup until November.

Had some issues the past 2 days, back now. To reply to multiple questions: GeForce 4 4800--thanks but no thanks. Plan to go with GeForce 6 7600GS. Servicing a computer: The one time I had a PC with a problem that even I couldn't fix--the manufacturer couldn't really fix it either. They replaced the entire motherboard and formatted the drive and reinstalled all programs. (thankfully under warranty). Yeah, that worked, since it was practically a new PC at that point... Net Speed: well, I actually am back to my original 2002-era Ethernet driver, instead of the 2005/2006 update. And now I'm getting 7-8Mbps tonight. Woo! Sometimes older IS better. I'm paying for 8Mbps, and I got 7.976 last check... Not going to mess with any settings or drivers with results like that! FYI: not only was I on dialup, but our phone lines are so bad (due to them being accidently chopped then spliced back together so many times due to construction, not age) I didn't ever even get 56k. I usually had around 24-26k. 30-32k on a good day. And yes, I downloaded the first ep of Macross Zero like that. Took days...

Finally found the Magnus/Skywarp two-pack--my first copy of each mold. Pretty nice, though I found that Magnus' large "arm armor" doesn't lock onto the grill well in truck mode. Just mine, or inherent to the mold? Also, does the roof fairing lock at all, or just lie there on top?

My question (going back to Yamato's VF-1)--is why have the fans molded there in the first place? It just really looks bad to have them RIGHT THERE when you look. If you can't have them way back inside (you know, where the engines actually) are---just don't have them at all. Mold nothing, or have it taper into blackness. "Blackness" looks just like the real blackness you see in real jet intakes. Trust me, 99% of the time, you can't see a fighter jet's fans by just looking. You pretty much have to literally stick your head up inside the intake, and use a flash (which I have done many times--I also like to yell to see how much the intake echoes).

I know there's a few places that sell them, but it was a long time ago that I read anything about them. (many of the places that sell them are the official suppliers, and military orders take precedence over civilian, so you may have to wait a while)

Well this afternoon I made the most important upgrade by far---from dial-up to broadband. Due to old wiring in the house, and it being the afternoon, I'm currently only getting about 30x faster than before, I want 100x faster!

I said 2 GB because that's what HP "recommends" for this PC as the max,(and they recommend actually doing that as 4x 512MB). 4GB is the physical max, not the "it'll actually use it" max AFAIK. But I know it'll accept 3200 1GB chips, it's been done. I swear I noticed a difference when I just swapped around mine to experiment--single channel took slightly longer to load XP. New BIOS for my board really doesn't update much--it just locks out even more controls/adjustments. I still run the original BIOS for that reason. (have the new one available if ever needed, but I can't go back to the original if its ever changed) Latest Googling seems to indicate that my 1.5GB plan *should* work--so long as each pair is identical within itself, it should work fine. All 4 need not be identical. (and that thread specifically mentioned black/blue RAM pairings---which is exactly how HP colors their dual-channel slots--though maybe others do as well, I know there's many other color combos out there but black/blue is usually found with HP) Now, it is possible to have, say, a matched pair, and then a 128 and a 256. The matched pair will operate in dual, but the other "pair" of course won't. That's dual/single. Dual/dual (what I want) just requires 2 matched pairs, not all four. (Otherwise it'd be quad-channel or something). From what I can tell, only PAIRS of memory slots can operate in dual-channel mode--hence the name, and they really won't care about what the other pairing is. If you had 6 slots, you could probably have 0, 1, 2, or 3 pairs operating in dual-channel. But you'd never need all 6 to match. (You could, you'd just have 3 separate pairs all in dual-channel, not one giant 6-channel RAM block) It seems the "all 4 same" theory might originate from HP boards of the same era with THREE slots. Where you have to have the odd slot equal the other 2 combined. So if you have two 256's in the pair, the odd one has to "balance" with a 512 chip. (As you can see, RAM for HP's isn't easy)

Thanks much for your post, answered a lot of questions. As for my 4 slots of RAM--hey, it only takes me 30 secs to change them, I can try plenty of configurations to try to get dual channel for all 4 of them--and if all else fails, I can get rid of the two 256's and live with it, or replace them with more copies of the new RAM. One thing I'm debating though--I was planning on going with 2x 512MB PC2700 RAM, as both the speed, latency, and timing match my current RAM, and I *should* get nice, matched, dual-channel RAM of 1.5GB across the board. But if the motherboard etc won't allow dual-channel that way, there's little point, and I should just ditch the original RAM and go with all-new PC3200. However, that would take it to the motherboard's max recommended total RAM, and I suspect that power-wise, it won't like 1GB chips nor especially the slightly higher voltage 3200 needs. (Which is part of why I want to go with 2x 2700 512's now--also it's half the price) (that is not a powersupply issue, but an "old motherboard" issue--which is NOT going to be replaced, that'd defeat the purpose of a cheap upgrade) My theory is that if I go with 2700, and it doesn't like the old 2700 chips--I can just buy another matched pair of new 2700, and still have paid almost exactly the same as if I went with 2GB of 3200 in the first place--but save a hundred bucks if I don't need to. PS--I just went to the garage to get my old PC, and removed the power supply just for practice. (And snagged its ethernet card for a spare--have there been any changes/revised standards for that?, it's some 7 years old now, but totally mint--hope it works if I need it)

Umm, I thought that WAS wireless girl (Hana).

::nevermind, ranting:: :editing to reply to a future post: JBO--I'm aware my GeForce "4" MX440 is really a GeForce2. Which is why I'd just like SOMETHING that won't require a massive powersupply unit--even cards 4 years old would be superior. Anything would be an upgrade.

Hurin--that exact one is very high on my list at the moment. Basically, the only thing I want is: Noticeably better frames rates and better anti-aliasing than my MX440. Even if it's only 1/10 as good as other current stuff and can't even run a lot of current games---if it'll be noticeably better than what I have now--I'll be happy. (So long as it's quiet and doesn't overheat)

I've found a few reports of people upgrading my PC, but most are from 2004 or 2005---several had changed power supplies, but never saw a problem. There are a LOT of HP's out there with weird powersupplies, but mine isn't one of them. And the motherboard, while "HP exclusive" is physically identical to another ASUS, it simply has many parts of the BIOS locked to prevent the average stupid HP owner from ruining the system. (many people have been able to overwrite the HP BIOS with ASUS's standard one) Ok, new question: Fans/noise/heat for graphics cards. Related to my last question about card brands. Nobody seems to agree---a guy will say card has a nigh-silent fan, another guy says its the loudest thing he's ever had. And there's so many people making nVidia (who I plan to go with) I have no idea where to look/what to buy. And newegg.com is like going to avsforums.com---according to the reviews, every product sucks and has a 50% failure rate the first day. I just want a card that's better than my GeForce4 MX440, and runs either cool enough to get by on passive cooling, or has a very quiet fan. (Way too many fanless cards seem to run way too hot for my tastes---I want a rock-solid super-stable system--I will not trade stability for performance) Mechafan---a new Nvidia DirectX 10 AGP card? I might just wait for that--though it all depends on how much they'll cost. I still want to stay around 100-125.