Shadowex3

Please, we all knew admin was a thankless job.

It's a matter of priorities. Some people buy $17-60 shirts and spend money on booze while having a shitty phone. I buy $1-3 shirts, don't buy alcohol, and thus have more for the occasional tech upgrade.... which I actually USE.

On a phone fast enough that it won't lag Swiftkey is at worst a decent enough tap keyboard, and at best a frighteningly accurate mind reader capable of getting you through entire conversations with only one or two keypresses inbetween predictions. Personally? As awesome as some of these new candybar phones are I still need my hardware keyboard. You just can't SSH or type up an essay on a soft keyboard.

The point here is he bought it off ebay instead of from Newegg.ca, which means it may well have been a bootleg or defective since Corsair's are notoriously durable and reliable.

Jesus man you're lucky it didn't kill you too, remember there's enough amps in a computer from the 90s to kill a human stone dead if it decides you're the shortest path to ground. And what the hell kind of power supply costs $300 and needs to come from ebay? Even a Corsair "Holy Fuckballs" 1,200 watt power supply costs less than $300 shipped from Newegg Canada. Also geeksquads full of shit, if you want to see if a motherboard is fine after a blowout like this you easter egg a power supply or, even easier, look for scorch marks and smell to see if the magic smoke got out.

Antec USED to be good when Seasonic was actually making their power supplies and antec just stuck a sticker on them but they're crap now. Stick with Seasonic, PC Power & Cooling and Corsair and anything with either an 80plus certification or, and this is a special exactly-this-unit-only exemption, if one particular model was tested and found to be good by Jonnyguru then it's trustworthy. Unless you're making a multi-gpu machine (SLI or Xfire) then you can easily get away with a 650-750w psu being overkill. Also help deciphering cosrair model names: HX will be modular, TX is fixed, and AX/CX are new lines I'm not familiar with yet.

Well it's a straight split. On the one hand, yeah basically everything from before the berlin wall fell but on the other hand I admit to being That Guy that wants to also play Canon Rock or the castlevania guitar arrangements and stuff like sabaton. Realistically I know that the actual sound is going to be all in the amp as far as "matching" a song goes, and that there's no way in hell even the best HSS or HSH could ever go from Misirlou to perfectly. From what I've heard though it can however be good enough that its not actually bothersome to someone learning to play. And yeah all the HSS (not sure about HSH... thoughts?) models I've seen are fat strats basically. I've linked to the ones I've found so far, a midrange SA series ibanez, a couple possible MIM fender fats (one HSH that looks like it might be an MIA I don't know yet), and one yamaha 412. Yeah I grew up with a toys r us harmony children's guitar, impossible to play or even tune, and although I've now got an Ibanez (they turn up used around here a lot) Artwood AW300 which is apparently a quite respectable acoustic the string height/action of roughly DOUBLE what it should be which could well be responsible for why it's a bitch to work with. I've kinda learned the hard way that it's going to be very much worth my time to research this thoroughly and make sure I get a solid guitar down to having the right neck radius (fenders are like 9" while ibanezes tend to be 12-15") for playing this stuff. I don't plan on getting anything for at least a month and likely more depending on how the research and saving goes and what comes up. The bright side is like my links to craigslist show I live in the hipster capitol of central florida, so there's a ton of quality used instruments floating around between them and the three largest colleges in state being RIGHT HERE. [edit] I think case in point would be This fat strat with dial-a-tap and dimarzio pickups for $400, which I might be able to talk down into the $360s. Would that be worth the $350-375 range?

I knew I could count on SG for a straight answer >P Loaf: Thanks for the really thorough writeup but those are all H-H guitars and since a lot of golden oldies stuff is cleaner I'm looking at HSS models so I can have that breadth and variety of sound. That's why about everything I've found is basically a Fat Strat model of some kind.

I'm in the market for an electric and I figure the more opinions I get the more informed I am. My budget's up to $150ish in the near term of a month and a half or so, and I can basically up that by another 30-40 every two weeks by saving a bit off each paycheck...but since I'm a newb here it needs to be something really worth getting at that price like a MIA fender or a MIM and a really nice amp. Since I live in Orlando, the hipster capitol of central florida, I'm basically swimming in used guitars which makes craigslist pickings nice. Now since I want to play a mix of golden oldies/classic rock and modern metal I already know to go for an HSS. The trick is which one. I've been warned off of squiers, starcasters, and there's mixed reviews of yamahas which is fine since there arent really any of those around atm anyway. What I've found so far is a $70 GSA60, a $150 SA Series ibanez that I THINK is an SA260FM or QM, and then at the very top end there's a few oddballs floating around like MIM Fenders, a "Deluxe Stratocaster" that's got a body, pickguard, and pickup color I've only ever seen on USA made models but the bridge and lower fret count of a MIM along with oddball wavy "stratocaster" text. What I'm wondering is if I'm heading in the right direction for the kind of music I want to play, what I should consider reasonable prices for these kinds of guitars, and any other models I might want to look at for a good value. Oh yeah and some guy wants to get rid of one of these badly enough that he's willing to sell it for $15, which means it's time for me to go turn that around for double that minimum at a pawn shop.

At least one tranny...

damn! my secret plan to singlehandedly control forum moderation and stock the positions with my supporters in order to create a new steamgamers order and eventually take over EGO followed shortly by facebook and then the US and the world is foiled!

There is not a normal computer out there that needs more juice than a 650 provides yet. Only multi-GPU computers or servers with a shitton of hard drives need anything beefier than that.

I know this is a little further down the evolutionary ladder from computers but it's still tech so I think I'm still in the right forum with this. A while back I barely managed to kludge together an RS232TTL circuit to tweak a *tron monitor I had, and despite the hairpulling nosebleed inducing frustration I pretty much enjoyed myself... especially when it finally worked. So I decided that along with a few other hobbies I had as a kid I'd pick electronics back up. I'm set for theory I think, pretty much everyone says that Forrest Mims' "Getting Started in Electronics" and the "Art of Electronics" are about as good as you get, it's just the practical side that I'm still looking at. I've seen a LOT of one-trick arduino kits with what's basically a bisquick recipe for baking something up, and the two that I've been most attracted to (and heard the most praise for so far) are the Nerdkit* and Make: Electronics (there's also a components pt2). Are there any electronics TFPers that could weigh in on this, giving an appraisal of either of those or suggesting something similar that's good? I'm planning to learn a bit of both analog and digital electronics, digital for the microcontroller hacks and some analog because it'll come in handy in other areas. *Ignore the $80 price, except for a handful of minor components and their PDF guide it's possible to build the entire thing for like $36.

It looks like the rigid body demonstration is still using the "lego" approach where everything's made up of predefined bits that it can break apart into. That'd probably be why you see artifacts like the house behaving oddly elastically instead of genuinely rigid like it ought. Lego-physics are the poster child for diminishing returns. The more you add the more computing power you need for really not that much more impressive results. What we need is a physics engine more like DMM that can take a solid and break it into smaller pieces of arbitrary size and shape. THAT'S going to be the real bitch to make because that requires the engine to keep track of what something's made of, what it contains, what kind of properties it has as a material, and then dynamically alter it's shape and possibly even mass and structural aspects.

It's probably got color enhancement and dynamic ocntrast enabled, you should be able to turn those off.

Pretty much every statistic except resolution is utter bullshit on flatpanels because there's no real standards on how to test, or ANY accountability when bullshitting tests or massaging the numbers. I would trust an IPS panel claiming 6ms more than a TN (read: shitty) panel claiming 2ms. If you actually care about response time get a CRT, otherwise get a quality panel.

Sounds sane. Just dont take too many pages out of Zyngas book, you don't want to turn being on the server into a kinda semi-chore for people MMO style. You also want people to be willing to actually leave the server on occasion so you can have some player turnover.

And, as always, TCP will eat them. Shredded lettuce Shredded turkey breast (steamed pref so its hot) melty jack mayo spicy brown mustard bit of salt toasted bread A good sammich is an orchestra not just of flavors but of textures as you bite through it and chew. Plus, unlike a pizza, it can have vegetables on it so it's one of the few sources of nutrition among manfoods.

Lol @ everyone talking like she's leaving. She's already said she's just retiring as an AO, she's still going to be around as an SGer. P.s. Everyone knows jen is secretly highsky in drag...