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Oh, yes. They DID it.
Jan. 28th, 2009 01:49 pmObama 1/6 Action Figure :: DID Corporation.: I want to get one of these. And maybe the G. W. Bush figure wearing the flightsuit. And then make them battle it out!
Amazon.co.jp： 【ホット・エンジェル】 『AVP』 1/6スケールフィギュア シー・プレデター/マチコ: おもちゃ&ホビー: against all rationality, I want this Aliens VS Predator not-really-angelina-jolie figure.
Xbox Team : December 2007 Video Playback FAQ: With this next update, my 360 will be getting AVI/Divx playback. I am mucho mas happy.
I just KNEW there was more music in my iPod than I was hearing! Despite clearly setting preferences to be as random as possible, I kept hearing the same songs over and over. So I made a new Smart Playlist which contains only songs which haven't been played in the last two weeks, and it auto-updates every time I sync my iPod.
Now I'm hearing the other half of my library. Woooooot!
Now I'm hearing the other half of my library. Woooooot!
suggested items on Amazon.com
Oct. 13th, 2007 11:43 amZombie: complete child costume: Something is inherently wrong with this. I like it, but it's still wrong.
It's a me!
Oct. 12th, 2007 01:21 am( mildly nsfw picture of nintendo's mario toys behind cut ) IMG_3376, originally uploaded by McWild.
hypnotic, dreamlike remote control toy
Sep. 6th, 2007 04:50 pmDear Santa, I know what I want for Christmas:
Festo - Air_ray
more than meets the eye
Aug. 25th, 2007 11:04 pmI had a day to myself - well, the afternoon and evening, which is a full 10 hours to myself more than I usually get. It was great. Among other things, I saw Transformers which I thought was going to be a slow motion car accident (get it?) but turned out to be ALL KINDS OF FUCKING GREAT.
I don't care about plot holes. I don't care about plausibility. I don't care about Top Secret installations having SD Flash Memory slots in secure computers. Right. NO! I care about INSANE SPECIAL EFFECTS and BOOMING SOUND EFFECTS. And whomever the hell that hot chick is that looks like a young version of Jennifer Connely, except the young Jennifer Connely couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. (ref. Labyrinth)
Michael Bay has redeemed at least half of the animosity I generated toward him for The Island. Someone let him know, please. :-/
Of course, had I seen it on an airplane, with airplane headphones and a washed-out contrast 5" screen, I don't think it would have resonated as well. Stunning what full theatrical presentation can do. I loved it.
I don't care about plot holes. I don't care about plausibility. I don't care about Top Secret installations having SD Flash Memory slots in secure computers. Right. NO! I care about INSANE SPECIAL EFFECTS and BOOMING SOUND EFFECTS. And whomever the hell that hot chick is that looks like a young version of Jennifer Connely, except the young Jennifer Connely couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. (ref. Labyrinth)
Michael Bay has redeemed at least half of the animosity I generated toward him for The Island. Someone let him know, please. :-/
Of course, had I seen it on an airplane, with airplane headphones and a washed-out contrast 5" screen, I don't think it would have resonated as well. Stunning what full theatrical presentation can do. I loved it.
whisky. tango. foxtrot.
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stanthebat: What the hell were the toy designers thinking when they made this Dora The Explorer toy?
stanthebat: What the hell were the toy designers thinking when they made this Dora The Explorer toy?PIRACY ENABLING DEVICE, GO NOW!
Nov. 14th, 2006 12:18 amI just bought a ¥5600 dealy from the local electronics district. It plays MP3, JPEG, MPEG4, WMV, and a mess of other formats off of USB keychain drives or SD flash media (which it navigates by directory, through a browser), and appears to ignore region coding on DVDs. I am as pleased as punch.
So far it doesn't like the .MP4 files that can be downloaded from Google Video, so I am not sure what's up with that. It's hard to dislike a machine that lets me play all the DVDs I own, and not just the ones from a given region. Golly, gosh, darn it, I fucking hate region coding.
Correction: It, and most units like it, appear to support WMA, not WMV. Audio, not video. Crapx0r!
So far it doesn't like the .MP4 files that can be downloaded from Google Video, so I am not sure what's up with that. It's hard to dislike a machine that lets me play all the DVDs I own, and not just the ones from a given region. Golly, gosh, darn it, I fucking hate region coding.
Correction: It, and most units like it, appear to support WMA, not WMV. Audio, not video. Crapx0r!
question #2
Aug. 14th, 2005 11:12 pmWhat is the difference between an LCD monitor and an LCD TV? For a 15" monitor, I am seeing the damned things for about ¥25,000 (recently ¥109 = US$1), and 15" TVs are still running ¥40,000. I am assuming that there is a TV band tuner in the latter; apparently those cost a lot of money? TV Capture devices run about just under ¥20,000 here for an external unit, though it is now par for the course for midrange PCs now include an internal unit. Speaking of "par for the course" Samsung's recent range of TVs also have a 15-pin connection and advertise their use as a monitor as one of the primary features. I am also seeing not-unreasonably priced WindowsXP home entertainment setups with widecreen LCDs running about 24"-27" - These have a P4 2.8GHz in 'em, and a 300GB HDD, and are running about US$2400.
So LCDs, the de facto choice for monitor in space-starved Japan, are coming down in price, but at the same size scale the TVs are still expensive. The standard NTSC picture displayed on them looks like crap compared to a high resolution Windows screen, but that's probably a source signal issue. What am I missing, and what should I beware when looking at monitors vs. TVs?
So LCDs, the de facto choice for monitor in space-starved Japan, are coming down in price, but at the same size scale the TVs are still expensive. The standard NTSC picture displayed on them looks like crap compared to a high resolution Windows screen, but that's probably a source signal issue. What am I missing, and what should I beware when looking at monitors vs. TVs?
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