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recent purchases thread
2012-02-02, 7:19 AM #2241
Originally posted by Spook:
Right? Most of the money is coming from govt. grant so im not really out tha tmuch of my own money. Hopefully I'll be able to do some sort of work with raw RED footage. Remains to be seen, but I will certainly have fun compensating for my small penis with the ridiculous and possibly useless amount of RAM I have purchased

Make a 20GB ram drive and run Arma 2 off it.
2012-02-02, 4:29 PM #2242
Trying to discover why I would want to put a game on my work machine. Even more so, why I would ever play a military sim.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2012-02-02, 5:09 PM #2243
Spook don't you want to play a sim of something you've done the real version of a bunch of times?
>>untie shoes
2012-02-02, 6:28 PM #2244
Originally posted by Spook:
Trying to discover why I would want to put a game on my work machine.


take another look at the specs

now ask yourself why you wouldn't want to put a game on that
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-02-02, 7:16 PM #2245
Thats one sexy laptop Spook, but I hate the idea of trying to put that much power in a laptop. Unless you seriously need to be portable to anywhere, I'd wager it would cost less and you would get better performance building 2 desktops (a HomePC and WorkPC) and then just carrying a storage device between them. Also less risk of theft/damage.
My favorite JKDF2 h4x:
EAH XMAS v2
MANIPULATOR GUN
EAH SMOOTH SNIPER
2012-02-02, 8:18 PM #2246
I'm turned off by it on so many levels Antony. So many levels.

It's my work machine and I don't want games ****ing it all up! Plus I don't play video games.

triscuit, I agree with you, but moving into freelance motion picture work (going mostly in the direction of docu/commercial for paying work, narrative work is my primary artistic ambition, but I don't really want to try and eek out a living photographing people's poorly written Wes Anderson ripoffs) I really value the ability to have a powerful machine with me while I'm shooting to ingest files and view 'dailies' even when I am unable to return to wherever I'm living that night. I feel like it's a fair compromise for the way my career looks to be for what will be the life span of this machine.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2012-02-02, 11:25 PM #2247
Dark Jedi boots :D
Welcome to the douchebag club. We'd give you some cookies, but some douche ate all of them. -Rob
2012-02-03, 12:23 AM #2248
Originally posted by Spook:
Trying to discover why I would want to put a game on my work machine. Even more so, why I would ever play a military sim.

I only mentioned it because the system requirements are insane and it does a lot of hard drive streaming. It totally skipped my mind that you were a veteran.
2012-02-06, 4:08 AM #2249
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
Because it does all those things glacially slowly. Load up Engadget's main (not mobile) website for instance. Time it. Go ahead and do it on Wi-fi.

You don't need a top of the line phone. Even a $100 phone would run circles around what you picked up. That's why I am trying to stress it's a poor choice. My friend made a similar mistake, and he's been hating his decision ever since (after about a week of using it, that is).

Edit: Keep in mind you are under contract to keep said phone for two whole years as well. It was slow as hell when it came out. It's REALLY slow now. Imagine what it'll be like in two years. This is the equivalent of buying not just a celeron CPU, but an OLD celeron CPU, and being required to use it for 2 more years, just because you think you're saving $100. In reality, you'll probably end up not using it the phone to its fullest potential because it'll steadily grow more out of date and you'll get tired of it bogging down. It already runs on an ancient version of Android, and it's going to see even less compatibility over the coming years.

The phone will steadily decline in performance as well as you add more stuff on it. The incredibly limited internal memory also ensures you won't be doing much with it.


So, I loaded Engadget's main site on my phone on Wi-Fi, was pretty fast actually. Then DLed some game app for my kid (Talking Ben I think it's called), about 18 megs, downloaded in about 30 secs installed fully 30 secs later. Took less than a minute to DL Angry Birds, about same time to install... More internal memory'd be nice, sure, but so far I'm pretty happy with it. Might buy an extended battery for it, too (http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com/mugen-power-1300mah-extended-battery-for-sony-ericsson-xperia-x8.html), actually have a friend who works for these Mugen Power guys, apparently they make quality stuff. Though not sure if 8% is worth $50.00...
幻術
2012-02-06, 6:50 AM #2250
Download speed isn't the problem, that's why I asked you to time loading Engadget's website.
2012-02-06, 11:52 AM #2251
Btw, it automatically redirects to m.engadget.com when I go to the site, not sure if there's a way to stop it from doing that. I'm using the default browser so far, but might DL something better soon, will try with that. Will have to setup walrus at home first, though. :)

EDIT: Setup walrus. Installed Skyfire. Full site loads in a few seconds. No issues still.
幻術
2012-02-07, 2:02 PM #2252
[http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/SgtPnkks/purchases/2012/020712.jpg]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-02-07, 4:19 PM #2253
Originally posted by Koobie:
Btw, it automatically redirects to m.engadget.com when I go to the site, not sure if there's a way to stop it from doing that.

EDIT: Setup walrus. Installed Skyfire. Full site loads in a few seconds. No issues still.


You click the Desktop link at the bottom of the page. Also, Skyfire is a terrible browser. Dolphin Browser HD is the usual choice if you have to use a third party browser.

Your load times are likely double that of even an old phone right now. Just FYI.
2012-02-14, 2:53 PM #2254
[http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/SgtPnkks/purchases/2012/021412.jpg]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-02-24, 3:36 PM #2255
[http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/SgtPnkks/purchases/2012/022312.jpg]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-02-25, 4:56 PM #2256
An old guy at this church I went to as a kid talked to me once about being an extra in Tora! Tora! Tora! He said they were paid either hourly or per jump when jumping off ships pretending to die, so he and his buddies just decided to stay and do it all day. He claimed to have died like 20 times in the movie.
It took a while for you to find me; I was hiding in the lime tree.
2012-02-26, 8:27 AM #2257
Well besides the ash catcher I bought for my water pipe, I got some new PC speakers and an audio interface/mixer for just messing around recording guitar. All for under $200 shipped.

[http://www.m-audio.com/images/global/product_pics/big/studiophile_av40_v2008.jpg]

[http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/musical_instruments/detail-page/alesis-multimix-4USB-hero-450.jpg]
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2012-03-06, 8:33 AM #2258
A HAMBOIGRE
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2012-03-08, 2:58 PM #2259
[http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/SgtPnkks/purchases/2012/030812.jpg]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-03-09, 9:29 PM #2260
[http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/SgtPnkks/purchases/2012/030912.jpg]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-03-09, 10:04 PM #2261
Wait, they seriously put Clerks on Bluray?

For christ sake, it was already beyond improvable when it was on DVD!
2012-03-09, 10:13 PM #2262
But now you can see every single grain of silver nitrate the size of an pencil top eraser.
>>untie shoes
2012-03-09, 10:15 PM #2263
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
Wait, they seriously put Clerks on Bluray?

For christ sake, it was already beyond improvable when it was on DVD!


the fact that the bluray improves on the DVD only in the area of fewer compression artifacts is why i put off buying it for so long... the fact that my DVD is the old non anamorphic version with fewer bonus features is the only reason i went ahead and bought it
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-03-09, 10:40 PM #2264
Does it have all of the special features like Clerks X does? If not, I'd have just bought that instead. The documentary about the making of Clerks is better than the actual film, as is generally the case with Kevin Smith movies.
>>untie shoes
2012-03-09, 11:38 PM #2265
Originally posted by Antony:
But now you can see every single grain of silver nitrate the size of an pencil top eraser.


halide
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2012-03-13, 9:28 PM #2266
[http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/SgtPnkks/purchases/2012/031312.jpg]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-03-14, 7:56 AM #2267
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
A HAMBOIGRE


How about a hamboigre with bakon and barbueeq sauss
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2012-03-14, 8:21 AM #2268
Conveniently my latest purchase was yesterday and it was a... hamboigre! Quarter Pounder with cheese ... with bacon! Oh my. No albuquerque sauss tho' [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/garosaon/smiley/fgrsad.png]
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2012-03-14, 9:58 AM #2269
upload an mp3 of you saying 'Albuquerque' please. :D
2012-03-14, 10:39 AM #2270
Sorry, sab, the FGR voice will only be revealed every 6 years and even then the links are valid for just 2 weeks. So let's return to this subject in 2017!
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2012-03-14, 11:21 AM #2271
I will await with eager anticipation!
2012-03-14, 5:53 PM #2272
new phones!
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2012-03-15, 8:07 AM #2273
@DrkJedi82

SHAME ON THE NIGHT! Good taste, good taste. :)
幻術
2012-03-19, 2:48 PM #2274
[http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/SgtPnkks/purchases/2012/031912.jpg]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-03-20, 3:04 AM #2275
Originally posted by Ford:
new phones!


Got the same thing. Costco!
2012-03-20, 6:55 AM #2276
http://www.crutchfield.com/p_130P3300BT/Pioneer-AVH-P3300BT.html

$100 off, then they went OOS six hours later. :P
woot!
2012-03-20, 11:25 AM #2277
New Bike!

My favorite JKDF2 h4x:
EAH XMAS v2
MANIPULATOR GUN
EAH SMOOTH SNIPER
2012-03-20, 2:36 PM #2278
My first BluRay player
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2012-03-20, 7:12 PM #2279
what model?
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2012-03-24, 7:42 PM #2280
New tv to replace my old 1080i tv that I have in my room.
http://www.soniq.com.au/index.php/LCD-TVs/L42D11A-Available-only-at-JB-HIFI/flypage.tpl.html
got it for AU$399 + 18 delivery.
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