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 Tyrion
06-29-2007, 10:09 PM
#2351
That "certified for Vista" logo just means that it's compatible with Vista's standard(like the HDCP-qualified DVI port), even though no one with sanity or a properly functioning cerebral cortex would use it over XP at this point.

But then again, on the picture it's running Mac. I guess either way they'd have to be nutty.

Zing!

I'm sporting 24" Dell widescreens and yeah,

Wait, widescreens? You mean you have more than one 24" monitors running together? While that would be a pretty awesome setup, I'm fairly sure it would qualify for the carnal sin of gluttony or something. Then again, I'm fairly certain you'd be safe from gluttony if the material didn't come from edible materials. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED)
 TiE23
06-30-2007, 1:25 AM
#2352
Wait, widescreens? You mean you have more than two 24" monitors running together? While that would be a pretty awesome setup, I'm fairly sure it would qualify for the carnal sin of gluttony or something. Then again, I'm fairly certain you'd be safe from gluttony if the material didn't come from edible materials. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED)
Careful there Tyrion, you're starting to show signs of envy. Also, I don't think OLED screens would make a tasty snack, either.
 Tyrion
06-30-2007, 1:51 AM
#2353
Careful there Tyrion, you're starting to show signs of envy. Also, I don't think OLED screens would make a tasty snack, either.

Oh comon, who wouldn't want to munch on some OLED crackers with toppings of thermal paste rinsed down with a glass of windex?

Mmm, chemical poisoning goodness.
 Negative Sun
06-30-2007, 7:21 AM
#2354
 TiE23
06-30-2007, 2:32 PM
#2355
Oh comon, who wouldn't want to munch on some OLED crackers with toppings of thermal paste rinsed down with a glass of windex?

Mmm, chemical poisoning goodness.
Sounds like a dangerous addiction there, Tyrion.

Anyway, cool thing is that I'm making this post from Wi-Fi equipped McDonalds near my work on lunch break on my DS. :D
But I had to work at 6:00pm this morning, not fun.
 Tyrion
06-30-2007, 3:18 PM
#2356
Sounds like a dangerous addiction there, Tyrion.

Yeah, I know. But what am I going to do: once you go silicon carbonic goodness, you can't go back.

But I had to work at 6:00pm this morning, not fun.

If your morning starts at 6PM then I feel really, really bad for you...
 MrWally
06-30-2007, 5:40 PM
#2357
w000000000000000000000000t!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Jimmie/BestOfPC.jpg)

O_o

How much?
 Negative Sun
06-30-2007, 6:23 PM
#2358
Ј24.99 on Amazon
 BongoBob
06-30-2007, 7:18 PM
#2359
If your morning starts at 6PM then I feel really, really bad for you...

Quoted for truth.
 TiE23
06-30-2007, 7:25 PM
#2360
Quoted for truth.
Too bad I made $80 today. Anyway, I'm still a morning person, even though I woke up at 5:56am and work started at 6:00am, I was showered and ready to go in 8 minutes. :D

Except for forgetting my wallet with my time card in it, nothing bad happened.
 Commander Obi-Wan
06-30-2007, 7:30 PM
#2361
Ј24.99 on Amazon

If I do the math correctly, that is equivalent to about $50 USD.

So, by the looks of it. I got a relatively good deal (http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?p=2236657&postcount=1786) (approx. $18.89 USD and approx. Ј9.43) or you just got ripped off. :p
 TiE23
06-30-2007, 7:56 PM
#2362
I've seen that Star Wars game pack in stores for like $30.

Anyway, here is the stuff I got, minus N3 and GHII.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/Tie23/P6304658.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/Tie23/P6304660.jpg)
 Pho3nix
06-30-2007, 8:23 PM
#2363
What's with the knife? :S
 Anthony
06-30-2007, 8:58 PM
#2364
He'll cut you
 Negative Sun
06-30-2007, 9:04 PM
#2365
If I do the math correctly, that is equivalent to about $50 USD.

So, by the looks of it. I got a relatively good deal (http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?p=2236657&postcount=1786) (approx. $18.89 USD and approx. Ј9.43) or you just got ripped off. :p
The UK in general is a ripoff, try and find me something cheaper in the UK, you won't ;)
 Anthony
06-30-2007, 9:08 PM
#2366
The UK in general is a ripoff, try and find me something cheaper in the UK, you won't ;)

Red bull! and fish and chips.
 Negative Sun
07-01-2007, 5:07 AM
#2367
Try and find me the same product cheaper ;)
 TiE23
07-01-2007, 4:31 PM
#2368
He'll cut you
My brother got it for my for my birthday. He has one and I'm always using it or messing with it, so he got me one like his, only nicer.
 Det. Bart Lasiter
07-01-2007, 6:29 PM
#2369
 Negative Sun
07-01-2007, 7:40 PM
#2370
New tattoo:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Jimmie/XIIItat.jpg)

That is my collar bone in case you're wondering...
 Dath Maximus
07-02-2007, 2:15 AM
#2371
more coffee....please...someone help me
 BongoBob
07-02-2007, 3:14 AM
#2372
Dath, you may need to switch vices. I hear cocaine is real popular these days.
 Tyrion
07-02-2007, 3:27 AM
#2373
Cocaine is fine, but stay away from video games. I heard they make you kill people.
 TK-8252
07-02-2007, 3:28 AM
#2374
Cocaine is fine, but stay away from video games. I heard they make you kill people.

Try mixing the two. :xp:
 TiE23
07-02-2007, 3:39 AM
#2375
Cheaper than a bad Starbucks habit, too.
 Tyrion
07-02-2007, 3:47 AM
#2376
Cheaper than a bad Starbucks habit, too.

Yeah, but once you're hooked on Starbucks there's no coming back from that. I've seen a few people who had Starbucks addictions, it was scary. They needed to walk only a few blocks over and they could get a quick fix, in different potencies of "tall, grande, vende". That's how ****ed up the stuff was, they had to resort to Italian.

My friends were suckered into that lifestyle of high latte's and fast frappacinos. Some of the weaker willed ones even tried espresso's: man, that's an addiction I would never want to wish on anyone, even my enemies. They withdrew into shells of their former selves: broken husks that wander the streets for $5.95 in change in hopes of a small, ephemeral fix to a better time long gone by.

Long, long gone by.

(This post was created with special thanks to Talking Heads. Oh David Byrne, this is not my beautiful life. *sniff*)
 Dath Maximus
07-02-2007, 9:43 AM
#2377
I dont go to starbucks...their coffee is weak and crappy...my coffee is the consistency of tar.

Which I got more of yet again.....
 BongoBob
07-02-2007, 3:35 PM
#2378
Actually, forget cocaine. I heard that Totally Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake makes you blow chunks of your mind into the milky way.
 Datheus
07-02-2007, 3:38 PM
#2379
I abused the wire on my old monitor by transferring it from my computer to the xbox-360 and vice-versa so many times . . .

In other works, my wire for my monitor was fubar'd and since it was a CRT . . .

You must related to me your secrets of using a computer monitor for your game console.
 ChAiNz.2da
07-02-2007, 3:40 PM
#2380
Wait, widescreens? You mean you have more than one 24" monitors running together? While that would be a pretty awesome setup, I'm fairly sure it would qualify for the carnal sin of gluttony or something.
:lol: I'm a video editor by profession.. it's work-related, even for the home 'puter.
One would be enough If I didn't have a ba-jillion different progz and palettes in my face... :whacked:
 Tyrion
07-02-2007, 4:28 PM
#2381
You must related to me your secrets of using a computer monitor for your game console.

Hazzah, and be amazed!

Xbox 360 (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/?WT.svl=nav) + Xbox 360 Vga Cable (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/).
 Negative Sun
07-02-2007, 4:35 PM
#2382
 Datheus
07-02-2007, 5:26 PM
#2383
Hazzah, and be amazed!

Xbox 360 (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/?WT.svl=nav) + Xbox 360 Vga Cable (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/).

Good grief, answer me these questions three.

1. My understanding is that most CRTs computer monitors are progressive scan. You mentioned you had a CRT, so I am assuming this is true.

2. Does it allow for high def? I've been trying to figure out for the longest time how a next gen console on a computer monitor would work.. Does it default to 480p?

3. What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
 Tyrion
07-02-2007, 5:50 PM
#2384
1. My understanding is that most CRTs computer monitors are progressive scan. You mentioned you had a CRT, so I am assuming this is true.


Yeah, CRTs are progressive scan but they can display interlacing fairly well too.

2. Does it allow for high def? I've been trying to figure out for the longest time how a next gen console on a computer monitor would work.. Does it default to 480p?

The Xbox 360 upscales the input from either 480p or 720p, depending on the game, to the higher resolution. It's still upscaling, but from my own experience the picture looks better. The vga cable itself is plugged straight into the Xbox and not used as a converter, so that's why it can display those resolutions. Also, you can specify which resolutions(1024x768, 1600x1200, ect.) through the dashboard in the Xbox 360. It's more or less like setting the resolution for a regular pc game, although there is a lack of 16:10 resolutions...

3. What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Depends. Do you mean an African swallow, or a European swallow?

Google proves that people have way too much time on their hands. (http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/)
 Datheus
07-02-2007, 5:56 PM
#2385
Are there any monitors that wouldn't work with this?

If I go out and buy a 360 right now and the cable, would I possibly be making a blunder? Or does it work with nearly every monitor?

And you're saying Dead Rising, for example, would output at 720p, but I could set the xbox to upscale to 1024x768? what I've heard is that it's impossible to read the text in that game in SD, but HD it looks just fine.

In fact, is there a way for me to contact you on IM?
 Tyrion
07-02-2007, 6:12 PM
#2386
Are there any monitors that wouldn't work with this?

If I go out and buy a 360 right now and the cable, would I possibly be making a blunder? Or does it work with nearly every monitor?

And you're saying Dead Rising, for example, would output at 720p, but I could set the xbox to upscale to 1024x768? what I've heard is that it's impossible to read the text in that game in SD, but HD it looks just fine.

Any monitor with a vga input would work in theory, but there's always the possibility that the universe hates you or something and it doesn't work. Be warned though that the xbox 360 will display only in aspect rations of 4:3 and 16:9, while most widescreen pc monitors display in 16:10 ratio, so there will be distortion. I use 1280Ч768 resolution to fix that up, as it's only 32 pixels from the 16:10 resolution of 1280x800. What monitor do you have, though?

Dead Rising works fine, text and all, on my CRT at 1600x1200 and on my LCD widescreen at the aforementioned resolution.
 Datheus
07-02-2007, 6:18 PM
#2387
I've got a http://www.amazon.com/ViewSonic-G90FB-2-Perfect-Flat-Monitor/dp/B00006B6WO)

I've never been too keen on monitors.. I know the native on this is 1600x1200, but I'm using 1280x720 right now because I was curious. I'm not sure if that has more to do with my video card/Windows or my monitor.

PM me an AIM name so we can stop spamming the boards. :p
 TiE23
07-03-2007, 9:18 PM
#2388
I play my 360 on my 1280x1024 LCD all the time. The only game of mine that doesn't size right is PGR3. Otherwise my games go into 720p (width is 1280) or 5:4 in some cases.
 Dath Maximus
07-04-2007, 12:03 PM
#2389
3 guesses to what I got...
 TiE23
07-04-2007, 2:34 PM
#2390
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Jimmie/PS2games.jpg)

4 (decent) games for Ј10 ($20), not bad!
Sweet shirt... And 3 decent games... XIII sucked.
 Darth Groovy
07-04-2007, 4:42 PM
#2391
I did not buy all of this stuff in one trip.

These are various items that I had reserved/picked up, traded for...etc over the past month. I just keep forgetting to post this stuff when I get it.

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/2562/dsc00174pj1.th.jpg) (http://img238.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00174pj1.jpg)
 TiE23
07-04-2007, 5:06 PM
#2392
I did not buy all of this stuff in one trip.

These are various items that I had reserved/picked up, traded for...etc over the past month. I just keep forgetting to post this stuff when I get it.

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/2562/dsc00174pj1.th.jpg) (http://img238.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00174pj1.jpg)
... Gamer overload...
 MrWally
07-04-2007, 5:09 PM
#2393
Hey Groovy, I've had my eye on Overlord for the PC for a while now. All the reviews I see say it's a "pretty good" game, essentially. What's your personal suggestion?

Not that I'll be able to play anything for a while, since I'm leaving for camp to work tomorrow and I'll be gone for 3 weeks, but I'm looking for something to quench my thirst when I get back.
 Darth Groovy
07-05-2007, 12:25 PM
#2394
Overlord is fun, funny, and refreshingly different.
 Det. Bart Lasiter
07-05-2007, 8:06 PM
#2395
onyx ds lite, pokemon diamond, bleach kokuihirameku requiem
 Rogue Nine
07-05-2007, 8:59 PM
#2396
oh **** jmac you need to tell me your friend code so we can tradez teh pokeymans
 Det. Bart Lasiter
07-05-2007, 10:10 PM
#2397
i'll im you later boo <3
 Datheus
07-06-2007, 1:37 AM
#2398
 Jeff
07-06-2007, 2:41 AM
#2399
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51q0dsTOlNL._SS400_.jpg)

My Pokemans, let me show you them. In 3D.
 Darth Groovy
07-06-2007, 8:39 AM
#2400
God I really HATE Pokemon...:fist:

There, now I said it and it feels good. :)
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