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Standard notebook hard drives. I don't think anyone's made a 2.5" TB drive yet. I think Samsung was bragging about a 750GB one that they're not even selling yet. Newegg's only got up to 320GB.

I think they updated it to 9,999.

I agree. A remake of either Robocop or Highlander would suck. And I'm waiting for Lucas to beat everyone to the punch and announce he's remaking the original Star Wars Trilogy. It's clear that Hollywood is completely out of original ideas. If they're not remaking older movies, they're adapting comic books, novels, TV shows, video games, and foreign films. With that in mind, how many crappy remakes of classic movies do I have to stomach before I get a live-action Gundam movie trilogy? And no, G-Saviour doesn't count. I mean either an adaptation of the animated original Gundam movies, or an adaptation of Tomino's original novels.

I have and recommend Tomino's original Gundam novels, collected in this handy English editon.

Mach Go Go, Casshern, Tekkaman, Samurai Pizza Cats, the SoulTaker, etc. And why not Macross? Yeah, no Valkyries, but Roy Focker would be my first choice for a Tatsunoko character to hit a Street Fighter.

Ditto. I've watched pretty much every episode on my home theater computer, connected to my DLP HDTV via HDMI, if that matters.

Hey, the couple of people that could take the time off to drive to Botcon, then play a small fortune for a quintet of repaints, are likely a minority compared to the number of people who were pissed of that they couldn't get Thundercracker at a reasonable price.

AFAIK, the 80GB unit is still technically on the market, but difficult to find. You could always wait and see what's in the oft-rumored 120GB version. Another alternative is to shop around for a used unit. The PS3's a pretty solid unit, and I occasionally see a 60GB unit turn up at stores like the Exchange and CD Warehouse. While I'm not sure if you have either of those where you live, I'm sure you've got places like 'em. Well, it's the only one I own, so I can't comment from much personal experience, but from what I've read on tech sites and home theater mags, the PS3 is one of the best Blu-ray players you can buy, especially since it's one of the easiest to get and apply firmware updates to. Even if you're not too interested in the gaming side of the PS3, a case could be made that the PS3 is worth buying for Blu-ray playback alone. It's quite good, actually. Occasionally I'll have a movie where I can't quite get the right aspect ratio to display (and even then, I might have jerked with the settings), but the picture quality is fantastic. I use my PS3 as my sole DVD player in my living room. Have standalone Blu-ray players come down in price much? I think the PS3 is worth it, even if you wind up buying a separate HDMI cable and Bluetooth remote. I mean, I already had a 360 and I'm still content to buy multi-platform games for it, so I got my PS3 pretty much for Blu-ray and the odd PS3 exclusive. Considering that you don't have a 360, and will also buy games for it that are multi-platform, I definitely recommend it to you. Fun tip, not just for DT but for everyone on this thread, Target seems to clearance PS3 games faster and cheaper than Xbox 360. So even though I usually buy multi-platform games for 360, I've been buying PS3 games lately on clearance. For example, last week I snagged the Orange Box for $15. At that price, I figured it was worth it just for Portal.

On the whole, I appreciate the efforts of anyone and everyone who wants to bring Macross to me in a language I don't have to work to understand. With that said, do we have anything approaching a consensus on who's fansubs are preferred? So far, I've been doing AiA and Shinsen, with AiA being my favorite and Shinsen being the one that's going to end up on a DVD I can watch on my DivX-compatible DVD players. But by the same token, they both tend to release later than Gattai (and this week, at least, gg as well), and I am getting kind of tired of wanting to participate in episode discussions that have 30-40+ pages of posts before I even watch the episode in question. Not that picking a faster group will help... we have a good number of posts before the raw even hits, let along a subbed version.

Seconded. I don't know much about programs randomly shutting down, but crashes and weird graphics glitches could be a sign that something's overheating.

Now all I have to do is find a place to preorder him.

Well, don't thank me now. You should probably wait and see if I'm right first! But seriously, other posters in this thread have helped me from time to time with sticky problems. I'm just giving back to the community.

No. And yeah, I know, that's going to freak out Windows anyway, but I thought it was in a more "hey, your copies not genuine" fashion than a crash/restart fashion. I'm going to try swapping the RAM in it with the RAM in my HTPC. If that doesn't work, well, there's a reason I backed up the drive, right? I'll try giving it one more fresh Vista install, or start digging for my XP disc. EDIT: It seems you might have been spot on, Az. The Vista disc I burned with SP1 slipstreamed onto it has what looks almost like a burn on it. And I was too lazy to actually pull out my HTPC to steal its RAM, so I just got Vista disc I started with and tried reinstalling from it. It seems okay so far. I was pleased that this computer, even with its borrowed parts, is a 4.5 (the Lenovo only ranked a 3.4). And of course, it's the RAM holding me back. I was somewhat surprised to see that the Wolfdale in there only rates a 5.6. I guess when buy my own RAM, I'll buy it one speed higher than the stated standard for the mobo, and overclock a little until I bump that 5.6 to a 5.9. Shouldn't be too hard. I've heard people overclocked Wolfdale's above 4GHz. And it runs cooler stock than the 3.0GHz 65nm Core 2 Duo, so I can probably bump it up without shopping for a new CPU cooler. The fact that the case has 3 120mm fans will help there anyway.

Hey, what do you guys make of this? I'm setting up my new computer. I tried installing Vista, and it rebooted during installation at a point where it shouldn't. I installed XP, and XP installed without an issue. I didn't run it long, since I was tossing my Linux box and I needed Kopete to chat with my wife (long story), so I reformatted the drive and installed Kubuntu Linux. Ran it for two days, and I never had a single issue. But, since the new computer is supposed to become my super Windows machine, I took the Kubuntu drive out, stuffed it into a Lenovo I refurbed, and took the Lenovo's Vista drive and stuffed it in the new computer. Suddenly, I've got issues. It gets to the black screen with the green loading bar, flashes a blue screen of death almost too fast for the eye to catch, let alone read, and reboots. Even though the computer ran XP and Kubuntu Linux just fine and dandy, my gut really wants to say it's a RAM issue. For the record, the components installed are as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz Wolfdale DFI LanParty DK P35-T2RS motherboard 1GB Kingston DDR2 PC5300 667 RAM nVidia GeForce 8500GT 512MB VRAM video card Pioneer 20x IDE DVD burner 80GB SATA HDD (didn't look at the brand) Antec TruePower Trio 650w PSU.

It could be, but only if you had used that USB stick before (and had problems with it before). Otherwise, it wouldn't have shown up in the Device Manager prior to plugging the stick in. Knowing that it's a Sony laptop, I'd bet dollars to donuts that there's a Sony Memory Stick or Memory Stick Duo reader built into the laptop. I don't know if you have any Sony Memory Sticks to test it with, but the Memory Stick reader would be my primary first suspect.

Don't forget Dinosaucers. Honesty, I thought the Transformers movie turned out pretty good, even with Michael Bay at the helm. I'm going to give live-action movies based on 80's cartoons the benefit of the doubt until I see some previews and hear some reviews. Besides, Thundercats could suck and still be better than a lot of the crap that Hollywood's been pushing lately. I was actually thinking the other day that it'd be cool if someone adapted a Gundam movie trilogy. Maybe closer to Tomino's novels than the animated movie trilogy.

You're not getting screwed. For some stupid reason, Cartoon Network took a week off from new episodes, but the station airing it in Canada didn't, so we're a week behind them.

I think David's got the camera stuff covered pretty good. In other news, I know I ran out of money, but a friend of mine bought parts out of my old VAIO (after five years of faithful service, it's officially gone), and I got an Antec TruePower Trio on clearance at Best Buy. So, my new computer is up and running, albeit with borrowed RAM, a borrowed DVD-ROM, and a borrowed video card (although I managed to come up with a PCIe x16 GeForce 8500 for that), so for now it's my Linux box. After my wife gets home and the need for IM software goes away, I'll probably swap the hard drives and the optical drives in the new box and Lenovo, then go back to saving for RAM, a newer HDD, and a new video card.

Right. In Sony's defense, when they started developing Memory Sticks, Compact Flash was the market leader, and CF was just begging to be replaced. The cards, while small for a floppy, have thus far been the largest form factor for portable flash storage, and the pins on devices that use CF cards are easily bent and broken. But SD's really become the de facto standard since then, and as it's a bit cheaper than Sony's Memory Stick Duos, go with Canon unless you have a lot of other devices that share Memory Sticks. Like I had a VAIO computer with a Memory Stick reader, and my in-laws gave us a CyberShot, so it wasn't a big deal then. Now, though, my HTPC has slots for anything, my PDA wants SD, my Wii wants SD, my wife's laptop wants SD, the PS3 can do either, and I'm sure when I'm doing building my new desktop it'll have a card reader.

In typical Japanese fashion, no subject is given in the sentence. No watashi, boku, ore, etc. No kimi, anata, anta, etc. I don't believe that a subject is necessary, however. Oboeteru is a slangy way of saying oboeteiru. The te-form of a verb (our base verb being oboeru, to remember), plus iru indicates and ongoing state. Oboeteru or oboeteiru are more common in day-to-day Japanese, because simply saying oberu implies that remembering, then promptly forgetting. Now, for the record, the command form, I believe, is oboero. So he's clearly not telling Mihail to remember it (and he's definitely not saying "don't forget" either, which I believe is wasurenaide). Logically, Alto is declaring is own intention to remember the hazing. Yo is a particle in the Japanese language. It doesn't have a literal translation, but is often added to give a sentence emphasis. I'm going to be honest, my Japanese isn't good enough that I can actually make out what Mihail said. But let's use a little deductive reasoning. We've already seen Alto, among others, move with the Ex-Gears on. They just kind of float along, which apparently takes even less effort that walking unencumbered. In the scene that is causing such a stir, Alto is seen stomping around the hanger wearing the Ex-Gear with it turned off. It's clearly very heavy and he's having a hard time moving it. With this information in mind, why would turning the Ex-Gear on make it more difficult? If, as is visually indicated, turning the Ex-Gear on would make Alto's laps easier, subtitles suggesting the opposite must be mistranslated.

I say this as someone who's used both in the past, but both are really good brands. I'd say you narrowed it down to the two of the three brands I'd consider in the future (the other being Nikon, if I had the money for one of their high end units). If I was buying a new one today, though, I'd lean toward Canon. I think both brands are fairly equal in terms of quality and features, so the deal breaker would be the fact that SD cards are cheaper than Memory Stick Duos.

Do a Google search for Xandros 4 OCE. Xandros is kind of mum about it, since they want you to buy it, but there is an open edition out there. I also found a 30-day trial version of Xandros 4 Professional on one of the bittorrent sites. My wife went to visit her family in China, and she wanted to IM me while she was there. I don't want Yahoo on my computers anymore, since Yahoo Messenger has become irritating with recent revisions, so I decided to use Kopete. My trial of Xandros 4 Pro was up, so I needed something fast, and I went with Kubuntu (basically, Ubuntu with KDE as the default instead of GNOME). Version 8.04 just came out, and it's a new LTS version. Last time I tried Kubuntu, it was their previous LTS version, 6.06. I really did like it a lot, but I found Xandros to be a little easier to install on a Windows PC and a little more polished than Kubuntu 6.06, but 8.04 I think addressed A LOT of the concerns I had with 6.06. I'd recommend it. I installed it instead of going back to Xandros 4 OCE. It's a lot easier to get software for and customize than Xandros, but it installs just as easily. What's more, if you want to dabble with other desktops, you can use the Adept Manager to download other desktops. On the login screen, you can pick which desktop you want from the Sessions menu. I have KDE 3.5, KDE 4, GNOME, and XFCE all installed. GNOME is a little sparse for my tastes, XFCE strikes me as a watered-down GNOME, and while KDE 4 is certainly very slick-looking, it's a little buggy still. So I usually use KDE 3. I just changed the icons, the kicker, and replaced the KMenu with KBFX, and honestly it looks as nice as KDE 4.

Sad but true. Unfortunately, the PSU is the part I'd say I need the most. I bought an IDE Pioneer burner for a Lenovo I resurrected a few months back, OEM from Newegg. It'd be nice if it had LightScribe, but for $30 I wasn't going to complain. The thing's solid, fast, and quiet. I was thinking about getting a SATA one for this new build, but on the other hand, the board does have an IDE controller (right beside the 5.25" bays). I might save the SATA ports for more hard drives down the road (after all, the case does have 6 3.5" bays, and the board has six SATA ports, but there's a good chance I'll put a memory card reader in the one bay that has front-panel access). Honestly, though, I couldn't be happier with my choices so far. Intel's really got a winner with the Wolfdale cores, and while the mobo doesn't support SLI, I'm not really interested in it (I can't afford one video card, let alone two!). I'm more interested in potential over-clocking, which this board's supposed to be great for. And while I've heard some people gripe about the P132's unconventional layout, it's got plenty of room, its modular design makes adding/removing parts a breeze, and three 120mm fans keep everything nice and cool. All I need is another $600-$650 to finish it. *sigh* Anyone want to buy a kidney?

Not that anyone cares, but I got a new motherboard and processor today. Processor is a Wolfdale Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz, mobo is a DFI LanParty Dark P35 Series. I stuck both into an Antec P182 case. The thing's like a gleaming gunmetal obelisk. Unfortunately, I'm out of money, so I couldn't buy any of the other parts I needed. A friend brought a video card, RAM, optical drive, and a PSU, and I pulled a spare storage drive out of one of the computer this one's going to replace, and I set everything up and made sure everything fired up okay and that nothing was DOA, and it seems good. Even with just a gig of RAM, after XP was installed it goes from cold boot to Windows desktop in about 40 seconds. My friend told me I could keep the RAM, optical drive, and video card until I could afford to replace them (this friend of mine tends to pick up lots of stuff on clearance or on sale that he doesn't need, and he never throws anything out, so he doesn't need that stuff). Too bad, though, but he needed the PSU back right away. Now the rest of my shopping list for this computer, for the people who are curious (I'm guessing none of you), will be three 1GB sticks of Kingston PC 800 RAM, a Western Digital 500GB SATA II HDD, a Pioneer dual-layer DVD burner, probably an Antec True Power Trio 650w PSU, and either a BFG, PNY, or eVGA GeForce 9800GTX.

Continuing the discussion of the VF-25/VF-171 vs. the VF-19/VF-22, Kawamori's only given us his real reasoning. In-continuity, we're just left with speculation, so here's mine: When the UN Spacy became NUNS, NUNS might have been less than satisfied with the VF-19, and canceled the old Spacy's contract. We know for a fact that the YF-19 was difficult to fly, and I don't know what changes were made between between the YF-19 and the VF-19A that would have made a difference. As for the VF-19F/S, they obviously had significant revisions, and were just starting to enter service five years after Super Nova. The VF-19F/S, with its stubby little wings, might not have had the atmospheric performance they wanted. Wasn't that one of the reasons the VF-4 was dumped for the VF-5000? Another thing to consider, using the US military branches as a model, is that different NUN military branches might be buying different variable fighters (just like how the Navy and the Air Force operate different planes), and even within a single branch multiple fighters could be in use (just like how the USAF is using the F-22, F-15, and F-16, in addition to bombers and other aircraft lacking the F designation). Frontier could be using the VF-171 because it's easy to fly and maintain, and perhaps requires less resources on the part of a fleet that gets minimal resupply, but for all we know forces on Eden or Earth are stocked with the VF-19. As for the VF-22, it's not that surprising that we're not seeing it. Even though Max, Milia, and Diamond Force managed to get some, it was always clear that the VF-19 won Super Nova and that the UN would be buying VF-22s in very small numbers.