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Meh, you just got to take it with a grain of salt, it's whuffo fare after all. They don't know that 230 ft. BASE jumps are done everyday without rocket asisst, or that Troy Hartman was flying the Cessna for the aerial transfer, or that the canopy pilot shooting outside video for the shark cage swoop landed with the sharks. To me, by far the most impressive stunt on the show is Jeb and Eli keeping a straight face through out it.

The difference is that setup displays a normal resolution. The Triplehead2Go's resolution is 3840 X 1024! -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I preface this by saying that there is a possibility my suit's not measured quite right: On my Prodigy I have to release the wings before I can get to the toggles. Personally, I'd rather have zippers and a cutaway option than having to pop my snaps and then thread the strap back under the retainer loop before I can get my wing loose. Also, if you do something noob'ishly stupid like drop your gripper, it's damn near impossible to get it back. I burnt like 6 grand trying to do it,and when I finally got ahold of it again, I think I ended up grabbing it 180 degrees out cause the suit suddenly started trying to turn hard on me. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

We've got Stiletto SN#4 at our DZ. It's jumped like crazy by a video guy. The only thing that's ever been worn out on it is the lines. It's on it's third or fourth reline. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Ken, Likely as not you won't get a response. Due to liability issues, Paraflite prefers to deal only with the military and PMC's. There's a few civvies that can wheedle stuff out of them, but almost all of them were prior military. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Cause I'm in a rental where I'm not allowed to mess with the walls, and I have 1 toddler and another on the way. I'm not going to be bleeding-edge about it. So, with temp sensors and a fast automated SCRAM command, I should be ok. not trying to pick you apart here but you DID specify 'bare bones' Slight misunderstanding here. The final system will have somewhere between 5 to 7 grand invested in it, but I've only got about $1200 now (with the rest coming in 1 grand installments every 4 months). Because of that, I'm more interested in laying a good foundation so maybe bare bones was a bad choice of words on my part. 3D Animation rendering, video editing, bleeding edge gaming, and DVD watching. Yes, cause in reality I'll only have two. The 10K RPM drives will be in a RAID 0 config for high-end gaming while the 7200's will be in RAID 1 for redundancy. 300 Gigs isn't a whole lot for modern games, maybe 20 intalled at most. OTOH, I'm hoping the .5 Tb of main storage will last for awhile, but between my music, movies and porn, I've already got near 250 Gb on my current system. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

750 is the minimum wattage that NVIDA will endorse for a dual 8800 GTX setup. Tack on a Physics card, two DVD drives, multiple cooling fans, 8 gigs high end RAM, 4 high RPM hard drives, a wireless card and high end mobo and then overclock the whole mess, and I'm not sure 750 will be enough. But I'm hoping it is, cause the better 1Kw PSU's are running $500-600. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

You really shouldn't need too. The Prodigy has a wide enough leg stance that you should be able to do plenty of running with it fully hooked up. I fly my Prodigy with a Velo at 2.2 and have never had any trouble running out the landing with my leg wing in place. I've got video from the last time I jumped it. The suit binds my legs towards the end of my stride. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I don't think you can do that with the Mach1 either. Birdman is the only one with that option. I think BB means just unzipping the legs, like with pretty much any suit except the prodigy That will work too. Anything that lets me get a full stride. I'm a fat guy with short legs, I've already got the deck stacked against me enough!

Sweet, I was afraid I was going to have to go with some type of hybrid bastard, like a mach 1 top mated to a modified Prodigy bottom. That thrills me since I hate the fact that I can't cutaway the Prodigy's legwing to run out my landings. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Nope, I've put off this upgrade for way too long, all my cards are AGP's -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

How much range of motion do you have in your legs once a Mach 1 is fully buttoned up? I ask because my regular jumpship is a narrow body 182, and I'm so big that I don't have enough room to put on regular booties. So I don't see how it'd be possible to finish suiting up in flight. Given that, I need to be ready to go as I board the plane, but again, to fit in a full load, I need to be able to bring my legs up past a 45 degree angle at the knees. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I'm going with XP Pro 64 w/ the free Vista Upgrade -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

It's a single stick Latency 5 timing 5-5-5-15. Didn't realie that I'd take a performance hit by having only 1 stick, but then again I don't want to buy memory I can't use if I want to go up to 8 gigs either. What's your thoughts on that? The 7950 is running ~$250 with a game and game pad bundle. It'd be nice to go with a 8800GTS, New Egg has both a eVGA and Leadtek (I love both brands) version for ~$360 after rebate. I'd love to not have the waste of the 7950 when I ultimately plan to go with 8800's, but it adds an extra $150 to a shopping list that's already about 25% over budget. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Ok, how about this setup EVGA 680i SLI Mobo PCP Silencer 750 Quad PSU E6600 CPU G-Skill 2 Gig DDR 2 PC 6400 RAM Foxcon 7950 GT It's about 25% more expensive than the AMD setup, but that comes from the higher watt PSU and more expensive RAM. However, I've discovered I'd ultimately need the higher wattage anyway, and the RAM is more high end plus gives me the ability to have 8 vs 4 Gigs. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Yeah. The 7950 is just a stop gap for 4 months. Every 4 months I get to sink another grand into the system. I'm thinking the first upgrade would be to bump to 4 gigs RAM and go to an SLI config using a pair of cards from the NVIDIA 8000 family. Next upgrade would probably be some WD Raptors for RAID 0 goodness and probably a Physics card. Third upgrade cycle would probably see a faster CPU and move to a liquid cooled-system to explore OC'ing. Question for you though. I've been an AMD fan for a long time since Intel left a bad taste in my mouth back in the early 90's. I know that right now the Core Duo 2's have AMD beat hands down, but AMD's supposed to have something beefy coming out this year. Given that AMD is comitted to supporting the AM2 socket, do you think it's worth staying with the AMD given the plan to upgrade the CPU towards the end of the year? -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I want a really high end PC, but am on a bit of a budget constraint (~$1200). Rather than settling, I thought about getting just a bare bones foundation system and then adding more components every 4 months or so. I've got a Case and drives I can salvage from an older comp. The components I'm looking at are: DFI LANPARTY UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G Mobo AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ FoxCon 7950 GT Apevia Iceberg 680W SLI-Ready PSU 2 Gigs OCZ Gold DDR2 800 RAM I'm thinking that will give me a solid foundation to upgrade on, but would appreciate any input others might have. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

What's the best forward speed anyone's gotten with it? I'm getting a GPS this week, and want to see if I can get in the neighborhood with my Prodigy. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Visibility has never been an issue for me regardless of ligt levels. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Why not go the slacker's route? Buy a few of those missing Ruskie backpack nukes off the black market and build an Orion? -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Going to be in Reno for PIa, and would like to log Cali or Nevada if possible. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

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The LED you can attach to the Optima is also a nifty feature. IMO, it's definitely worth the extra $30-40 for it. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

you know, Matrox sells a box for ~$350 that takes a really, really wide resolution and parcels it out to the three screens. FPS players say it's about like having a 180 degree field of view. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I use a digitude and have had nothing but success with it. It's a simple, and time-proven, design. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."