Recent Purchases Thread...

[Lean]

Those kicks are not even comfortable and they get your feet wet when it rains, but they're just cool as hell.

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me.

[formx]

A 46" BRAVIA HX800 Series 3D HDTV with 2 free 3D glasses and a free Blue ray Player. It also came with a voucher for 3 free 3d PS3 games.

[[Q]]

Those kicks are not even comfortable and they get your feet wet when it rains, but they're just cool as hell.

oh man ive balled in them once or twice and it hurt a lot. and then a couple weeks ago when we had a torrential downpours here i went to the movies and sat there with wet socks and shoes for 2 hours. stupid holes on the sides of the shoes

[Lean]

Yes on the uncomfortable part since I decided to do a "stress test" on them hours ago. Did a "walkathon" of sorts going back home. But later on it feels like my old Puma Cat Camo, only stiffer under the feet.

[Stress Fracture]

A 46" BRAVIA HX800 Series 3D HDTV with 2 free 3D glasses and a free Blue ray Player. It also came with a voucher for 3 free 3d PS3 games.

Wow. So much freebies!

[JaoSming]

Kathryn just broke my controller (fell off the table, landed in a cup of water) so yay replacement/upgrade

[shadowgrin]

How does a controller as big as the 360 one fit in a cup filled with water? Wii controllers, I can understand, but 360 controller? And how can you know the difference between Y and A in your controller when both buttons look the same!

[Lean]

I got a new gamepad too.

[Patr1ck]

Remember, Jaosming is huge, so his cups are the size of buckets.

[shadowgrin]

Jaosming is huge

Not that huge if what Lean told me is correct.

[Lean]

Yep, like half a foot shorter.

[George7]

Got the AdiZero Derrick Rose shoes from Adidas store in Strassburg 3 days ago!!Well they were on a great bargain,as they were limited number on stock and got them 60 euros less than the original price!!

[Lean]

The fucking lovely black! Awesome loot sir.

[deihatein]

Bought a Portable Hard Drive,

EDIT: It says it has 320GB but in reality it only has 300GB. Fuck that

[Lean]

Hard drives always have an "extra" filled out, something to do with its file system as far as I can remember.

[Andrew]

Yeah, that's the norm when it comes to hard drives, internal or external.

[Martti.]

My laptop has 500 GB, but I can use just 449. Over 15 is a recovery drive with the back-up files. There are three in total and it still comes up to about 465.

[Patr1ck]

No, it's the manufacturer versus software. Software considers 1024 megabytes to be a gigabyte. Manufacturers consider 1000 megabytes to be a gigabyte. That's why you get "less."

[rise]

Still doesn't explain my friend's 80 GB iPod Video only having 61 GB.

[Stress Fracture]

That's kinda weird. I think that should be 75 GB.

[Lean]

Got a new PSU since the stock that came with my rig died yesterday. And a new generic mouse too.

[Bruce]

That's kinda weird. I think that should be 75 GB.

That is because he illustrated it in megabytes, not in gigabytes. So, adding it up...

80 x 1000 X 1000 x 1000 = 80,000,000,000 bytes = 80Gb as stated on the package.

80,000,000,000 divided by (1024 * 1024 *1024) comes out to 74.

This is confusing stuff that they should have gotten rid of years ago. The hardware and OS access data in multiples of 2 anyway. This is further compounded on machines/devices that need to have a master boot record (MBR) on storage that is never recorded as used space. I was scratching my head over the same thing when my new Ipad was reporting 14Gb instead of 16Gb, when the OS is just about 500mb.

[Andrew]

I think Stress Fracture was referring to z02's friend's 80 GB ipod only having 61 GB of available space (presumably before loading anything on it); as you showed it should be 74 GB, making SF's guess of 75 GB fairly accurate.

As for me, a Nokia X6:



Not really a purchase per se, at least the phone itself. I went into a Vodafone store as I was having some phone issues which turned out to be a faulty sim card, which they replaced. While I was there they mentioned a new plan that included my choice out of a few different smartphones free along with $180 of credit per month and 200 MB of data. Since the plan was the same as I was already paying for $130 of credit (and no data) per month and I liked the idea of a new phone, I decided to go ahead with it. The catch of course is signing up for another two years but there was also a deal going for $10 off the first 12 months of the contract so I figured sure, why not.

[Bruce]

I think Stress Fracture was referring to z02's friend's 80 GB ipod only having 61 GB of available space (presumably before loading anything on it); as you showed it should be 74 GB, making SF's guess of 75 GB fairly accurate.

oops, I was explaning the exact same thing to someone else. But theirs had some other stuff loaded. I got it mixed up. My bad. I really try to stay away from MAC stuff, once I had to fix my nephew's mac book, It really is a strange OS for me even if I know Unix/Linux. Fiddling with the Ipad is no picnic either. Jailbreak is a real pain in the ass, but hopefully I can borrow my nephews macbook and try to make some homebrew stuff and run on it.

Was thinking about getting the X6 myself, symbian seems like a solid phone OS. I've been on symbian the last 7 years. Too bad it seems like Nokia is going to abandon symbian. I am feeling a bit adventurous, so I think I am getting the droid 2 soon.

[rise]

(presumably before loading anything on it)

yeah, we did that. It wasn't a huge deal though, seeing as three years later, he still has it only about 20% full.