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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.
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    Are you sure? It doesn't look like Macross to me.
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    SATA is just a crap standard, no two ways about it.
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    :'(
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    California has plenty of salt water already, though.
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    Is that from Orguss?
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    Nice squadron! ... Now you just need the coneheads.
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    It's very faint amounts of very salty flowing water. There's serious questions about how it's GETTING to the equator, since there shouldn't be enough atmosphere to carry water vapor that far and any near-surface ice should've evaporated ages ago. Nuking the poles is a bad idea. Better to attack an ion engine to an asteroid and drop THAT on the poles. Easier, cheaper, more effective.
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    I used to could spend an entire day mucking with Windows, back when I was in high school. Change the wallpaper, change all the colors to match it, change the system icons, change icon layouts to keep them in places they lookd good, and holy crap is it that late already? Thank goodness we moved to bitmapped themes and I can't do that anymore, right?
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    I just changed up my cellular PDA background. I have a theme going of only using androids and cyborgs for my Android wallpapers. It's nerdy as hell, but it makes me a tiny bit happier. We'll see how long it lasts. The last one didn't make it a day. It looked okay at first, but it just didn't sit right with me. Next time I change this up, I'm probably gonna find some good Ghost in the Shell cover/color page scans to use. The Major would be faithful to the theme, I like Shirow's stye, and I don't know why I only just now thought of it.
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    OBVIOUSLY it uses force projectors to turn, enabling it to spin on a dime. The power of the future, man!
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    Kirishima is best boat bear. (brings a whole new definition to "shipping", though)
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    I wonder how many of those wars Isamu STARTED.
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    She could wear it well, depending on how much time Megaroad spent in fold space and how fast it was going when outside of fold space. Time dilation is awesome that way.
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    Ah, but it's not a closed shape anymore! It's an OPEN shape! (And really looks more like an A now)
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    Sort of. It's an officially-sanctioned port of a commercial game, so it's not really straight homebrew. But it's definitely not a commercial release title like "Alice's Mom's Rescue" was back in March. While unlicensed, it IS still a commercial release. Or Ghost Blade, which came out last monday. ... Oh. No release in 2010, it looks like. The DC died in 2010. RIP in peace, Katana. Anyways, most defunct systems are dead for a decade or so before any major homebrew development starts. The DC's started before it died, and some folks actually make a living selling newly-developed games. The last licensed official release was in 2007. They killed the GD-ROM production lines that year, so there's no way to print official DC games anymore. But DC can boot CD-ROM media, and as long as there are cheap chinese CD presses, there will be new games! (And by most accounts, NG:DEV.TEAM actually makes pretty good games, as long as you like scrolling shooters.)
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    Good. It's in the part where the Megaroad 1 is, AMIRITE? (I kid)
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    http://volgarr.rkd.zone/readme.html Dreamcast: The soul still burns. In all seriousness, I can't think of any system that's had such a consistent release pattern for so long after it was discontinued. I don't think a year has gone by since 99 that there hasn't been A new Dreamcast game put out.
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    Yessssss. They also both have "extra" parts sticking out. A gunbarrel and hose in Shockwave's case, a big cannon on the shoulder in Perceptor's.
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