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Do me a favor. Start your Touch playing, then drop it in your pocket. Now change tracks. Even asuming the capacitance sensors WORK through the pocket... Old-fashioned or not, the Touch fails the blind playback test. I don't want to look at the player just to change tracks. It's been a common gripe I've seen with the iPhone, though on the phone side instead of the media side. It's a pain to dial/text-message with no keypad ridges. There's a reason that no-button control surfaces died almost as fast as they appeared back in the 79-81 period. On a related note, the modern iPods would benefit greatly from 1 change, IMNSHO. I'd put a rim on the scrollring so you have some tactile feedback before you slide off it. That's a big gripe I've had when I messed with the demo units. My thumb slides right off the scrollring if I try to do a full circle instead of using it as a single vertical stripe(which defeats the purpose of having a ring, yes?). The flush control surface is a serious case of form over function if you ask me. On a wholely unrelated note, I'd also like them to straighten their product line out a bit. The Touch has the screen size of a video player, and the storage space of a music player. The standard iPod has the screen of a music player, and the space of a video player. But now I'm veering off-topic. I'm not really anti-Apple. Just unimpressed with the iPod line as it stands now. I think Apple needs some real competition to give them a good kick. (Hey, at least I spared everyone the Shuffle rant...) I've messed with exactly 0. I BRIEFLY toyed with the idea of getting an Archos 604 Wifi for that option, but... it was a stupid reason to pick an MP3 player and there were compelling reasons to NOT get a 604. And the 605 makea it an extra feature that costs more money, so it's no longer a point of interest. Then the entire upgrade plan was put aside. Need to get back to that.

Only if you were flying a Fire Bomber jet when you reached the boss(final boss excepted, since you're forced to Basara for that one). If you're NOT Fire Bomber, you can blow 'em to Hell. Honestly, I had trouble dodging attacks while hitting the beat. And since later bosses were more aggressive AND had more complex beats.... yeah, I never finished it, despite it being a rather lightweight shooter.

That's a bit outdated, really. I mean.... you can get a few models of flash-RAM player in 32GB now. The 1.8" HDD capacities have also gone way up. The MacBook Air, as a current highly visible(highly over-rated) example, has an 80GB 1.8" drive. And the "full-size" HDD players? Extinct. Even the 2.5" laptop drive players are almost gone. Cowon is a highly respected brand. They don't have the budget of some other companies, but they take their work seriously. Archos is hit-and-miss from what I gather. They've had some quality control issues in the past, but they make pretty decent hardware when it works. Creative... I cannot in good conscience recommend a Creative player. I like their hardware, but... they suck. And that Zen Xtra I mentioned owning? Even though it's a 4-year old player, I got mine about a year ago. Creative released a new firmware to upgrade the Xtra to PlaysForSure... unfortunately, it was a buggy firmware that bricked pretty much every Xtra it was installed on. People that sent it to Creative were told it was out of warranty, and the cost to fix it was high enough that it was generally more practical to go buy a new MP3 player. So Creative polished the big pile of Xtras people didn't want back, got them working again on an older firmware revision, and released a metric butt-ton of refurb Xtras into the marketplace. And to this day they STILL have the fatal firmware up for download on their website. Their newest Zen player has apparently been plagued by issues, both in terms of hardware reliability and firmware issues.

The latter. The GU-11 has no provision for reloading in the field. Nope. Two reasons: 1. The VF-1 "engine" isn't really similar to the jet engines used in the VF-0. You'd have to do a massive overhaul to make it work. 2. The VF-0 was never intended to be a service plane. It's a one-off testbed platform. There's no real point to upgrading the engines instead of just borrowing a few VF-1s once production gets up to speed.

To add to the not-FLAC lossless... Zune WILL do WMA Lossless. Which is lossless, but not FLAC. Or Apple's lossless format, the name of which escapes me at the moment. As far as actual FLAC support.... Cowon's players will do it with official firmware. .... Which is basically a more to-the-point version of what Azrael said. Anything compatible with Rockbox will play it after you reflash it with Rockbox. http://www.rockbox.org/ Might get some useful info at http://dapreview.net/ And as far as input goes... I refuse to buy a player without tactile feedback. The iPod Touch is an abysmal nightmare of style over substance IMO. But then, I'm kicking around an old Creative Zen Xtra I was given as a christmas gift. Need to upgrade it, really. There's some annoyances in the firmware that Creative's never gonna fix(and it doesn't use MTP or or MSC, so it's dependent on Creative's drivers).

A. A US SNES can play Super FamiCom games. There's just 2 tabs in the back of the cart port that need removing. B. Emulation. Or you can play the game and earn the QRau legit. Pity it's not usable in story mode.

Well, two of the three fit nicely in a trash dumpster. KR2K was fun, but it's kinda unworkable at this point.

Haven't really had a gaming-grade PC in ages. And honestly, FPSes were never my strong point anyways. But I played the ever-loving crap out of Shogo.

With GM? The company that sent a legal notice to the producers requesting they not refer to KITT as a TransAm because they were sick of people asking dealerships for the TransAm with the Knight Rider computer in it?

Only FPSes I've ever really spent a lot of time with are Shogo, Dark Forces, and Duke Nukem 3D.

That's not new. The exact wording is, but the concept is expressed in pretty much every software license ever. Even most open-source licenses explicitly deny ownership except to the original author.

SLI as an upgrade path hasn't borne out like it was initially promoted. Either you upgrade so fast you should've bought a better card to start with, or by the time you upgrade, you can get a single card that will outperform your SLI rig for a similar cost. Assuming you can even still FIND a matching card. While this is easier now that the restrictions have been eased(originally the cards had to be identical models), it's still by no means guaranteed that the chipset you need will still be available at retail when you're ready to upgrade.

I propose a universal naming scheme. ブリタイ・クリダニク is henceforth to be referred to exclusively as "Chromedome" エキセドル・フォルモ shall be known exclusively as "Ol' Lumpy" ミリア・ファリーナ・ジーナス will be referred to as "Hot Mom" I feel this new naming scheme should remove any confusion, and make it quite clear that we're talking about the Macross characters as opposed to their Robotech counterparts, who are referred to under the new system as "Poopyhead," "Poopyhead," and "Hot Poopyhead.

That's actually controlled by the motherboard. The BIOS typically has an option to set it to "instant-off" or hold for 4 seconds. Buuuut... it won't instantly kill the system from within the OS. It'll send a shutdown command to your OS, which will put it's stuff away before it kills the system. All hail the soft power-switch in all it's shades of gray! By ATX spec, the only "hard" power switch is on the back of the power supply. And it's not intended to be used except in select circumstances.

Not this again.

I've almost grabbed First Strike Prime a few times. I keep realizing that, even if I like the paintjob, I STILL don't like the underlying design. And I'm still waiting for another Shockwave. A man can dream.

Primus dammit... now you're making me want one.

*blinks* DE CULCHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same. I was fortunate enough to have a cash infusion bucks come my way at the right time to preorder it, given I was a kid with no job.

The Animeigo release is about the highest quality possible, given the source. DVD passed the limits of the original film grain, and Animeigo actually had to add film grain back in after they restored it.

Ummm.... the Mac Plus DVDs have TWO SEPARATE SETS of subtitles. Depending on whether you select english or japanese audio, it selects a set of subtitles to match. Which line? I don't recall that issue. I remember V1 of the first OVA disk had some severe issues. That could've been part of it. Not that I think Manga did a great job with the franchise(I'm STILL waiting for them to do the movie DVD right), but...

That was a Robotech-ism. In real Macross, they all live. BOMBA! That's likely, actually. They injected Minmay and Sharon Apple, and even Mac2 for some reason, into Mac7.

Mao showing up in Frontier is stretching credibility a bit, really. Unless she was on Macross Island and caught up in the fold accident, she probably got toasted in the final battle of Space War 1. Of course, they DO have jets that completely seperate into multiple parts during the transformation, so...

Relativity experiments involving event horizons.

2 "words"... ZOMG RARE!11111 Seriously. Game collectors will pay absurd amounts of cash for anything if it's rare.