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The Personal Analytics of My Life by Stephen Wolfram. How many emails and phone calls have you made since 1989? http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/

God Bless America! God Bless America! http://boingboing.net/2012/02/08/trailer-for-bobcat-goldthwaite.html

Ivy bridge for socket 1155 in a few months and then Ivy Bridge-E for socket 2011 in 2013? Is that the schedule of things to come?

via Anandtech, "Intel SSD 520 Review: Cherryville Brings Reliability to SandForce" and again quoting the Anandtech article, "Intel's strenuous validation will eventually make SandForce's drives better for everyone, but for now the Cherryville firmware remains exclusive. Intel wouldn't go on...

There are a bunch of free forums out there that he could setup and run (google "free forums") it would be a good way to get started and to find out if he really needs something that costs money.

Are you talking about some BS "private" dental insurance or employer supplied dental insurance? My dental insurance (through employer) is $2.31 per pay period ($60/year) with a $50/year deductible. I've had 2 crowns at $700'ish/each and insurance paid 50%. So I have already saved $700'ish on...

Small world. I lived in Santa Ana and Costa Mesa 36+ years before moving to AZ.

That is absolutely state-of-the-art compared to what I got.

Same story...with Youtube link. http://boingboing.net/2011/12/30/printer-malware-print-a-malic.html

My ps/2 Unicomp is dated Nov '04. Still responds to keystrokes like it did in '04. It's a tank. And that's a good thing as people always say to me, "Why are you pounding your keyboard." I'm not a light typist.

Exactly. Hair on head and eyebrows. Only.

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Miniatur Wunderland "Miniatur Wunderland" updated. http://boingboing.net/2011/11/30/new-video-of-incredible-model.html

# of times cut-off by BMW drivers > # of sub-atomic particles in universe. Of course that was when I lived in SoCal (Orange County, CA). Here in the greater Phoenix area it's the tailgaters that drive me crazy.

It is if you are looking at prOn. Oh. It's a game machine. Nevermind.

My pop picked up one of these: http://www.buy.com/prod/lenovo-g560-0679alu-15-6-notebook-intel-pentium-p6200-2-13ghz-4gb-ddr3/218755166.html From Fry's Electronics (Mesa, AZ) for $288 + tax. Basically going to be a web and facebook games only laptop. Seems crazy decent. Or is it ???? -...

Actually nice color scheme, but yeah....the chipset fan is retarded. ASRock used to be a subsidiary of ASUS (the budget division) but I think they are a completely separate company now.

I only use my debit card at Costco as they only take AmEx (and I think) Discover. Everything else goes on Chase rewards credit card. If I need cash, which is rare, I just get $20-40 cash back when buying something.

EVGA Dual-Socket 2011 http://vr-zone.com/articles/evga-sr3-super-record-3-cometh/13788.html http://twitpic.com/73bm7z/full --> larger pic.

OK now I'm intrigued and MUST know more. What character from what movie.

Dennis Ritchie http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html

OCZ Z-Drive R4 CM88 (1.6TB PCIe SSD) Review Anand reviews the OCZ Z-Drive R4 CM88 (1.6TB PCIe SSD) Review http://www.anandtech.com/show/4879/ocz-zdrive-r4-cm88-16tb-pcie-ssd-review

Regarding China and its real estate bubble... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E&feature=player_embedded Modern day ghost towns in China. According to this documentary by SBS Dateline (Australian TV) there are massive cities being built that nobody can afford to live in. One...

I figured $6-10/gallon gas practically overnight, but serious hyper inflation is some scary shit.

I was thinking China, EU, Japan, middle east and perhaps Russia ... "joining forces" and creating an alternative reserve currency when it looks like we might actually default, not that BS (not really going to happen) default earlier this summer.

World Reserve Currency debate Question: What happens when the U.S. Dollar is cast aside by the rest of the world and is no longer the worlds reserve currency? No big deal -or- OH SHIT!!! some random links via Google... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency...

Thanks for the quick replies. Lots to think about and mull over. Well hell, I was thinking those Athlon XPs didn't overclock all that well. Good to know. Maybe I should O/C my box (in sig) but I only have a stock HSF. Don't want to mess with pirated software. Nice, I'll check it out...

http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/arizona/surprise-2502669/ I'm really starting to hate this 6 month summer. I need to find a job in Flagstaff.

I have two very old systems that I want to merge to make one "slightly-less-BS" computer. Computer will be for internet surfing and some "Lord of the Rings Online" MMO gaming. System will drive a 17" 1280x1024 LCD monitor (Oct'05 vintage) it's a crap TN, but still working monitor. Want to...

Gotcha! Single and no kids = YOU GOTTA PAY. 2-4 Rug rats = YOU NO PAY. Anybody have 2-4 extra kids I could claim next year?

http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102886,00.html Looks like my AGI is close to the median. Thanks for the explanation but I'm still confused. :scratch: The AGI on my 1040A was $32.6k and my taxable income was $23.2k. Subtracting my Fed refund from my Fed withholding I payed 2.7k in...

I hear the above quote (50% pay no tax) all the time from many different sources. 1) Now is that 50% of the all U.S. Citizens (50% of 312M) or 50% of tax payers (50% of say 150-200M)??? 2) Is that 50% don't pay any taxes or 50% don't have to pay taxes IN ADDITION to the deductions that come...

When a corporation passes the cost of higher taxes onto its customers it does results in higher cost products, absolutely. However this can help small businesses that don't have huge economies of scale and help them compete. I'd rather have 1000 small/independent neighborhood booksellers Vs...

Internet Explorer IQ report was a hoax ...and here... http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/03/explorer.report.faked/index.html I'm still running XP on my ancient system, so I must be losing IQ points by the second.

Worse case scenario for America? So what is the worse case scenario for America in the next 10-15 years? /crazy scenario/ http://www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires/list I wonder when a bunch of these folks are going to get together for a secret meeting on how to --REALLY-- save the American...

Absolutely correct. Been that way for years. ~~~~~ I think once (or if) the puppet masters (huge mega-corporations) see economic and/or social collapse negatively affecting their bottom line(s) they'll start pulling the necessary strings to get things "working" again.

Yep. Me too. Check my sig. A friend bought it in early '05 (I think) and I got it as a hand-me-down in Aug'07. I was actually going to get a Sandy Bridge system but then the Intel recall happened so I've decided to wait until Ivy Bridge.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4244/intel-ssd-320-review Anand takes a look at the new Intel SSDs.

That power supply received a very good review from HardOCP.com but it costs a bundle. Will the efficiency make up for the price?

That's the keyboard I have (except it's the white one). I love buckling spring keyboards so much I'm tempted to buy one of those used REAL IBM model M keyboards as the Unicomp ones arn't quite the same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4146/gigabyte-announces-6series-motherboard-replacement-program Gigabyte announces motherboard replacement program.

Any issues with that Gigabyte board? Seems the first round of Sandy Bridge Gigabyte boards are less polished. Love the color scheme of the board. Very sexy. 2600k = Overclock that sucker!

That makes sense of course. I was just wondering that if each subdomain is independently controlled, the vender could identify a dead subdomain during their quality control checks and compensate for that by altering the behavior of the other functional subdomain(s) in that subpixel...

...So if one of the subdomains in a subpixel is non-functional due to a manufacturing defect the other subdomains can be "turned up" to compensate for the defective one? Thus reducing/eliminating dead subpixels/pixels?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070 I've waited a million years already, but maybe I should just pull the trigger instead of waiting for socket 2011.

How come every other damn thing in life is an opt-out, cept for porn? The right to porn should not only be in the bill of rights, but the 10 commandments!

Arizona Sues Bank Of America Over Home Loan Modifications Arizona Sues Bank Of America Over Home Loan Modifications: http://consumerist.com/2010/12/arizona-sues-bank-of-america-over-loan-modifications.html BoA. The worse POS bank in America. I'm all for banks making all the money they can...

I don't want Google to know the real name/info on a person that (just for the F of it) searched for gay-beastality-porn, or some other crazy shit just to see what comes up. Of course Google has probably already bought every single personal info database in existence anyways so I guess "the...

Normally I buy used/out-of-print books through Barnes & Noble but they add $3.99 shipping/handling to the price of each book, even if you buy 5 books from the same reseller. So the $1.99-2.99 price for a 10-20 year old mass-market paperback book becomes $6-7 each. So I decide to cut out the...

Julian Assange interviewed at guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks Ron Paul defends Assange: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7518099-ron-paul-defends-julian-assange ...interesting reading.