justinb138

Lawmakers doing what they do best, spending taxpayer money working on laws that will accomplish absolutely nothing. You'd think that people would have figured out that criminals, by definition, break laws. It's already illegal to shoot people, what difference is passing a law banning these guns going to make? I'd be interested to see the crime statistics involving "assault weapons" in the state. I'd bet than less than .01% of gun crime involved the weapons listed in the bill, if not less.

Well, the link showed the HV10, but I haven't heard anything about the HV20 (which I assumed was a typing error until I saw the other thread) so it may be something that works.

The HV10 has an optical image stabilizer which won't work for skydiving. If you do a search you'll probably be able to find some video of a jump someone did with one, but it didn't work out well.

So we're not allowed to talk about black history any month but February? Seems kinda like a racist policy to me.

Herpes....The gift that keeps on giving.

Yep, it is.

You know, I've read through that section numerous times, and never caught the fact that it lists "under the direct supervision of" for the main, but only a rigger for the reserve.

If you get a chance sometime, check out the video of him flying that canopy. It's pretty amazing. I think it's on skydivingmovies.com.

You are correct. How is B? Last time I saw him he was doing good, although I haven't seen him out at the DZ a whole lot over the past few months.

You're going to find different opinions from lots of different people when comparing them. IMO, I'd be happy to have either one of them. I've jumped both, and both landed and flew great. Both are well-built. Some people are more comfortable with PDR's than Smart reserves since they've been out longer, and have worked very well for a long time.

One of the guys out at SDD used to jump a VX55, and I'm sure he was 220+ otd. As far as I know he never took it to terminal, just hop n pops, but he did jump it regularly.

Love mine. Only used it once, but it opened nicely and landed well.

I know of one that used to jump over 4.0+ on a regular basis, but IIRC, only doing hop n pops.

Now that's just funny.

It's easier. My machine runs certain things much faster overclocked than stock. I have two profiles saved, one stock, and one OC'd about 1GHZ over the stock settings. I only use the OC'd setting when I'm doing CPU-intensive stuff (rendering a video, etc..). Lowers the life? Yep. Significantly? Maybe. Am I likely to replace the CPU before it does die? Absolutely. The new Core2 chips run very cool. They can be overclocked on air fairly easily and effectively. A failure would be no worse than a normal cooling failure, oc'd or not. It's not that difficult. I've got 1260GB of storage on my desktop PC, and I could easily fill that if I wanted to. Video takes up alot of space.

Not really. The newest video cards can draw an amazing amount of power.

What OS are you planning on using? If you're going to use XP, I may have an extra copy of XP Home lying around the house (a legal one) that I could send ya. I've got a few PCs in parts with licenses I'm not using for it.

It is a 1080p tv right? Have you tried it at 1280x720 just to see if it'd work?

If it was me, I'd go with the 1GB sticks. They're a little cheaper, and by the time 4GB isn't enough memory, I'm sure that there will be something completely new out. I've been running 2GB with my E6600, and have had absolutely no trouble running anything, games, HD video editing in Vegas and Canopus, etc. Check out the Corsair XMSII PC6400 stuff too, I think they run 4-3-4-12, and they overclock pretty well also. If you're planning on getting one or two of the DX10 cards eventually, it's not a bad deal, they'll run pretty much anything that's out right now, and do it well. There aren't a whole lot of DX10 games out right now, and once ATI releases their DX10 stuff, prices are sure to come down some too.

I love the PCP power supplies, they're some of the best currently available. E6600's great, and can easily overclock to outrun the faster stock Intel chips, even on air. Is the G-Skill a 2GB stick, and do you know the timings? If it's a single stick, keep in mind that you'll lose the dual-channel capability if you're using only one stick to start out with. What's the 7950 running right now? If it's in the $300 range, I'd recommend just picking up one of the 8800GTO's instead, I've seen them for under $400 in some places recently.

AMD's stuff is nowhere near the Intel Core2 stuff right now, especially with the prices. I've got one of the Core2 E6600's up to 3.6GHZ on air with little trouble, so if you're looking to OC, they're great for it. I believe that a few people have had the E6700 and X6800's over 4Ghz on air, and a little higher with water cooling. If you're going to OC, be sure and stick with the Intel 965 chipsets, they're doing better than the newer 975's right now. I recommend the Asus P5B-Deluxe. The Quad cores are cool, but there isn't much out that has been designed to take advantage of them. As far as drives go, you can and pick up two or three Seagate 250/320GB 7200.10's for 75-85$ each, run RAID 0+1 with Intel's new Matrix RAID setup. It'll get you nearly the same bandwidth as the Raptors, but not the seek times. With the video cards, I'd just pick up an 8800GTO and wait until more games that support DX10 are released, then upgrade once some newer stuff is out and prices drop a little bit. The 8800GTO will easily outperform the 7950's, and does a little better than even two of them in SLI if I remember correctly. If you plan on going SLI, might want to look at a 1kw PS. These newer cards are real power hogs. Whatever you decide to get, Newegg.com is the way to go.

Glock .40?

I've only come across one like that, and it was a 250sq ft canopy.

who wants a jeagerbomb? I haven't had one since the the beginning of December.