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With $1,500 you could buy a "low end" Asus RoG G750, a decent sized SSD to throw in it and still have a nice dinner.

Then just go to http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ and "fix" Windows 8. Pretty much the best $5 I've ever spent. =)

EDIT: I see you were already looking at the 750. You can't go wrong with it.

I think the important part looked over here is where the tech comes from. Current technology and fuel sources? There's a reason we don't have anything remotely practical for a giant robot, let alone a transforming fighter.

Drop in a spaceship full of tech to reverse engineer, a possible threat of 50 foot tall aliens and most of that goes out the window. The logistics of such a thing would, hopefully, go out the window too.

That said, I think the right type of dog could be trained to do anything.

1. YF-19

2. YF-30

3. VF-5000

I bought a GTX 780 and haven't looked back. /grumblesomethingabouttheTIcomingout20daysafterheboughtit

Still pissed about my POS motherboard but Christmas will be rectifying that soon. Yay Asus ROG.

Was [] close to buying a 4930k but it sold out before I could. It would have been super overkill but for the price it was, it was certainly warranted.

Kind of adding to the tv thing, I have a no frills Samsung plasma and it plays everything beautifully. I have some issues with light, but closing the blinds instantly fixes it. I've never noticed a thing playing my 360 on it. I even tried out PC BF3 set to ultra on it and had more issue with 60 inches just being too much to take in all at once. Nothing with ghosting.

Ruining?

It's gorgeous.

Canceled and reordered. Thanks for the heads up.

It's so pretty.....

Not available for preorder yet, right?

For Cali? Hell no man!

Thank you sir. =)

I've only ordered from HLJ once and it was a $8 wristband.

Will an item like this get hit with a customs fee?

I owned the original blue 1/72 for about a month. The only valk I own now is a V1 Yamato VF-1J.

I preordered from HLJ.

This is my favorite Valkyrie and I am excited. =)

Wonder what something like that would ultimately cost and if it became something they'd have to license, would it even be allowed for sale in the US?

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Said to hell with it and bought a GTX 780 with it. Thanks anyway. ^^

Side Scrolling Awesome Action of Awesome with MISSILES!

And this is how you make an entrance: full reveal baby!!

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/3rd-party-unlicensed-41/new-third-party-bruticus-in-the-works-178223/

This guys need to do a Superion too.

That is beautiful and amazing.

Been in a Star Wars mood lately.

Dunno how I feel about this color scheme. Linkin Park exclusive Soundwave designed by Joe Hahn.

http://store.suru-la.com/products/linkin-park-soundwave

While I shouldn't have had to, I bought and installed Start 8 from Stardock and haven't looked back to Windows 7 at all. 8 is delightfully fast and lean and once MS releases 8.1, hopefully after a bit more polishing, there will be very few things to hold people back from moving into it.....except their 15 year old XP machines that "do everything I want it to, just make it go faster please."

As for Chromecast, I think its biggest problem is people who saw "$35 steaming dongle thing" and had no idea what the hell it was, but knew they HAD to get one. My store was sold until last Thursday and we were STILL getting returns on them because people thought they would just take them home, plug them in and they would magically just stream the things they wanted. The amount of returns we took because they needed a power source....it hurt my head.

It's a great device if you can control it though,(lol) and I think the implications of what it can do for $35 will force a lot of TV manufacturers to rethink "smart" TVs in the very near future. That extra $400 for a TV that has wifi, a browser and Netflix capabilities just became prohibitively too expensive compared.

the difference is that those theaters and ticket sellers are only selling one thing at a time, or at most a few dozen distinct items (eg. different concerts, movies, etc.), and people they cater to are typically buying only one kind of item at a time and they specifically know what they want to buy, so transactions are expected to be quick hence the timeout counter.

for retail webshops like Amazon, Amiami, HLJ, etc., customers actually take quite a bit of time assembling their cart which consists of several items, particularly when free/discounted/combined shipping is involved. so it would be rather annoying for these customers to have to keep re-adding things to their cart because they were timed out while they were still shopping/browsing. plus there is a risk that they would forget which items they've had in the cart and therefore a lost potential sale. so it's actually in the interest of these kind of webshops to encourage customers to shop longer on their sites and keep the carts open, or set the timeout to a generous one, like a couple of hours or so.

now, one could argue that they could just enforce the timeout for selected items. but how would they know which items will be hot? if i was the procurement manager at one of these shops, i might know which Macross items would be hot, but know nothing about Saint Seiya, or K-On hairclips, or which variant of that. even for Macross, i'd be hard pressed to predict which new/re- release would be hot. remember the original YF-29? it was up for weeks. if i made the wrong call, that might mean lost sales because these not-so-hot-after all items would be timing out from people's carts and some of them might not be bothered to go search and re-add them again. with an inventory of hundreds, if not thousands of items, one can appreciate that this is easier said than done. not impossible, but a very big resource investment like what Walmart does.

i've been cart-jacked a few times myself and i know how frustrating it can be. but if i think about it, the luck needed to not lose out at the last checkout screen is the same as the luck one would need during the F5 refresh frenzy. if anything, having an open cart system encourages customers to sign-up/pre-register to gain a little bit of advantage during checkout. increasing registered customers potentially translates to future sales. i wonder how many have signed up at CDJapan even though they've never bought there previously? i wonder how many will now be getting newsletters from them, or even make a future purchase they might have bought elsewhere?

a better solution would be to do a one-click/express checkout (like what Amazon does) alongside the usual checkout button. it encourages registration/membership and offers customers the flexibility to do a quick purchase, or to shop around for longer, hence no need to predict which items will be hot. still, the company will have to weigh whether this will be beneficial for them or whether it would encourage their customers to make fewer/smaller purchases. and that will depend on what items they carry, and whether sales from hot quick-to-sellout items are a significant portion of their overall income for them to bother with the added IT investment.

These websites are also catering to someone buying one type of item. While I am sure there are a certain amount of added sales to those sites during the release of a certain item, I seriously doubt it's enough to sway them to not implement a queue system if it became necessary. It in fact could be turned on only for certain items. There's no loss from someone just perusing who happens to add said item to their cart and it removes itself. "Please be aware Mr. and Mrs. customer, this item you have just added to your cart comes with a specified time frame in which it can be purchased before being released" or some such nonsense.

It's not like people are just happening across these ultra rare and hard to get items either. "Oh, this looks cool, let me cart this for a few days to think about it." Odds of that on specific release days are slim to none. As a procurement manager, you would set a list, check it within a specified amount of time and check sales VS that. You have 9,465 units left out of 10,000 that are using the system 1 week in. You turn it off. No harm, and no lost sales. The prices of some of these items alone (simply referring to Macross) would prohibit spur of the moment buys for a lot of people.

Even then, using Blizzard as an example again, their store sells regular "every day" items. Things that are certainly nowhere near ultra rare or coveted anymore, but when they sell Blizzcon tickets, the very same store has added features for that specific item. Sure, Blizzard is a poor example because they have unlimited people to throw at this stuff, but it's also not rocket science or expensive to have a website designed in such a way. You don't need an IT team of 400 people to add a timer to a checkout process.

Traffic for those sites also plays a major factor in the first come, first checked out game. You click checkout after entering your CC information at almost the same exact time I do. You win because the page times out for me but lets you through or vice versa. The queue systems help alleviate some of that problem.

I agree that 1 click checkout would be awesome, and being registered for the website you're using ahead of time is also good. I just think it wouldn't be some ultra stretch to use a system like that.

Nope, that's where the term cart jacking came from.

Since people like to put things in carts and then leave the page.

These companies are forced to use open carts.

If there's one left, whoever checks out first is the winner.

It's the name of the game with highly wanted low run toys

All they would have to do is what a lot of movie theaters and high demand ticket sites do: A real time checkout timer. Gives you 3-5 minutes after putting something in your cart to checkout. If you don't enter all your info in that time, you lose out. You're also put back into a queue depending on how high demand the item is.

Blizzard does this for Blizzcon tickets. It was done for Star Wars Celebration VI tickets.

tl;dr version: The license is about to expire?

Not enough to get one.

Anyone willing to hook me up with an awesome deal on the last one? =D

I have a MIB Definitive KISS Collection for trade.

Yeah. >.>;;

I'm so happy I don't share the same level of criticism some of you guys do.

I saw it in 2D DBox (moving seats) theater and was giddy as a school girl, and bouncing with utter glee all over the place.

Yeah, it was transparent.

Don't care.

I would hope it's nowhere close.

The original Superman movies aren't all that great.