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"Just a TV" is fine for lots of people. I'd rather not pay extra for features which would be useless to me, like wifi.

You're probably right, although I tend to think smaller 4K displays might happen a bit sooner if they want to get people to buy new monitors. Right now, unless of course it breaks, most people who are using any monitor made within, say, the last 8 or 10 years have no compelling reason to replace...

It actually doesn't cost all that much more to make an LCD display with 3840 x 2160 resolution, as opposed to 1920 x 1080. The only reason it's taken this long is there just wasn't the market to sell enough of them. I think Apple got people to realize the advantages of ultra high definition with...

Nobody has their keyboard right in front of the display any more? I wouldn't even physically have the space to have a display 3 feet away. Well, I'll just have to wait and hope 4K trickles down to smaller sizes. Too bad 4:3 is dead for all intents and purposes. A 4000x3000 display about 21" or...

Pixels are moot for the PCB design I do. The CAD software does things to the thousanths of an inch, and represents it on screen with vector graphics. Even I wouldn't want or need a pixel pitch of 0.001". When I'm worrying about individual pixels with image editing, I'll typically have the image...

That's just about the same pixel size as the monitor I'm using but you're sitting 50% further away (I just double checked and my normal viewing distance is 16"). With a widescreen instead of 4:3 I would need to sit at least 19" away to keep the entire monitor in my field of view. Things already...

I don't need anything at all for close up vision. I still solder 0805 SMD parts just fine without magnification. In fact, I can still read the numbers off them no problem. My glasses at this point are used for one thing only-watching TV when I'm more than a few feet from the screen. Point of...

My glasses work fine doing what they're designed to do-namely looking at distant objects. Glasses don't work well for stuff that's far enough away to be blurry but still close enough to fill up a lot of your field of vision. Case in point-a 30" 4K monitor. In order to not notice the pixels, I...

I think people will soon tire of trying to surf the internet on a 7" screen. I personally don't see how that every caught on in the first place. Besides that, there are plenty of CAD users who would appreciate 4K, or even 8K screens. And not all of them want big ass 30+" displays either. In many...

I'm nearsighted, which means if I sit further away from my monitor than about 18" things start getting blurry. I'm not wearing glasses because a) they're annoying b) they introduce significant perspective distortion c) they cause eye fatigue. That and the space on my desk means nothing bigger...

I've love to get just the display. Seriously, why aren't 4K displays commonly available yet? In a 20" size, the pixels would be half the size of the ones on the 1600x1200 display I'm using. I probably wouldn't even notice them.

I have loads of cat pictures: Here's Jeannie. We got her from my brother about 20 months ago: This cute guy is "Baby". We started calling him that when we first got him as a kitten and that's been his name ever since. We also have his mother (lots of pics of her on my computer but I didn't...

At 22K RPM the edge of a 3.5" platter is going 229 mph. Putting aside the enormous forces, it takes a huge amount of power to keep a disc spinning at that speed. Now getting to the forces, at the edge of a 3.5" platter @ 22K RPM, you have a force of 24,000 times the force of gravity. An penny...

I personally feel for reliability reasons the lower the speed the better. A sore point with me is that 5400 RPM drives aren't made any more in higher capacities. I think reliability across product lines is suffering as a result. I also think from a logical standpoint it makes zero sense. Larger...

Congrats to you and your wife, Dave! Now both of you get some rest. You're going to need it!

Holy crap! I didn't realize RAM prices jumped this much so fast. A few weeks ago 2 sticks of 8 GB DDR3-1600 was around $80. Now it's at least $110. With PC sales being lousy, I would think RAM prices should be dropping, not rising.

I haven't tried that yet.

Like I said, either it'll work or it won't. For whatever reason my particular setup doesn't like the pagefile on an SSD. BTW, the SSD is working fine otherwise. I don't know why a pagefile on it caused issues. In any case, the system worked fine without a pagefile for a few months, so I'll just...

Just a word of warning here about putting pagefiles on SSDs. About maybe two weeks ago I decided to enable the pagefile just in case some app needed it. I put it on my SSD boot drive, with the minimum/maximum size set to 1 GB. Since then I've gotten 6 BSODs, including 3 on April 1. Prior to that...

I noticed that too when I first installed Win7. I immediately disabled hibernation and turned the page file off. Windows generally sets the page file to equal the amount of physical RAM. This may make sense on a machine with 2GB or 4GB, but not 16GB like I have. Assuming there's some esoteric...

Except the person who said that worked for the electric company. I might excuse misuse of units by somebody's grandmother, but here's a person who does this stuff every day who can't get the units right. No wonder the problem went on for over 20 years. Probably nobody there knew what they were...

In the article: "500 ohms of current" Amazing how technically illiterate the American populace is.

To update everyone on this, no problems getting my money back from Amazon. They didn't even wait until the card arrived to refund my money. As soon as they saw that the package was mailed with the shipping label they gave me I was issued a refund.

Look for the file EMP.EXE. It should be in the folder "C:\Program Files\nei\EMP Device Programming Software" if you did a normal install. Now open the file with a hex editor such as Neo Hex Editor. Use the search function of the hex editor to find the text string "Auto Search" ( it was at offset...

That makes three of us.

Indeed. I'm hearing through the pipeline that it uses advanced positronic technology and can get into the petaflop range. It also uses a new proprietary telepathic interface instead of a mouse or touchscreen.

The oath is actually contradictory when you look at the part about bearing arms. Many religions have strict tenets against killing, even for self-defense. So you swear to God that you'll bear arms (presumably for the purpose of taking lives) on behalf on the United States? That wouldn't even...

None that I can think of. Usually the first three things I would look for are 1080p, LED backlighting, and 120+ refresh rate (in that order). Everything else, like ability to read SD cards or USB drives, more HDMI ports, and so forth depends upon what you'll be doing with the TV. As for 3D...

Yep, and not just nowadays. I remember back in 1989 in the same year my company claimed they couldn't afford $1 an hour raises for me and another guy they spent $40,000 on travel. I was so pissed off when I heard that. Ostensibly the salesmen traveled to bring in business, except they mostly...

Same here on both counts. So far I haven't needed it. I think it's safe to say the floppy really is dead at this point. Now what the do with all those disks I picked up for nearly free when Staples and CompUSA used to have their specials?

What parts aren't working? I still have a bunch of stuff (some found, some bought on eBay) for older machines (i.e. 386/486 vintage). I might be able to help. I definitely have ISA hard drive cards if that's all you need.

That's exactly why I picked titanium over carbon. I guess since the roads by you are smooth, the primary way you can crack a carbon frame is by crashing. On the roads here, I suspect just riding will eventually cause something to crack.

Trinity benefits greatly from greater memory bandwidth, so I would probably go with DDR3 1600. It's only a few dollars more than DDR3 1333. Since you picked Crucial, there are two offerings to choose from: 2x4GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148662 1x8GB...

I used to thoroughly enjoy the original version of SimCity but haven't bought any of the newer versions (mostly because the machines I had when they came out didn't have the grunt to run them). It sounds like SC4 is the best bet unless they lose the "always online" requirement for SC5. Also, I...

That was when I first assembled the bike. I had to lower the seat a bit to fit me, although not by too much (previous owner was also 5'9"). Don't forget this is a compact frame, so the seat post is much longer than a conventional frame. For scale, the top of the third drawer on the file cabinet...

Same here. At this stage all I can get is something I would have to pay for, and usually that comes with STDs at no extra charge. For a moment though I seriously thought Merc hit upon a sure-fire path to success. Would a nice titanium bike work as well as Samsung SSDs? Hey girls, come on, you...

Hopefully we'll see more CCT options as LEDs catch on. For a while it was difficult to find anything except 2700K or 3000K CFLs, and now we have 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4100K, 5000K, and 6500K. I think purpose-built LED fixtures make more sense when you want a large output. An A19 light bulb is a...

You're right if 2700K is what you're looking for. In 5000K the only thing Philips offers is a 40W equivalent at $21.97. Mouser is charging $5.87 to $8.00 each in 1000s for the MK-R. That gives about $3 to $4 each in 100Ks direct from Cree. It might be feasible them to use two or three of these...

I think the CRI has to be at least 80 to qualify for the Energy Star rating. The 5000K bulb is the one which interests me the most, too. EDIT: Actually, all three bulbs have a CRI of 80 according to this.

I would love to design something with a lot of MK-Rs. Driving them at 1 watt, the best bins will get ~200 lm/W. Moreover, given the ability of LEDs to direct all of the light where you want it, you might only need 50% or 75% of the lumens of the source you're replacement. ~4500 lumens of LED can...

This new Cree bulb uses 20 LEDs and is retailing for $13.97. As for the MK-R, given the prices distributors like Mouser are charging for it in large quantities, it probably costs not much over a dollar for Cree to make. If Cree designed their own bulb with the MK-R, they could use two to four...

Nothing exciting from what I can see. Prices seem to have stopped dropping, at least for the time being. I'm patiently waiting until terabyte class SSDs hit the $100 mark but I suspect that won't be for a few years at least.

About 2" here but it was heavy, wet snow, closer to slush actually. And welcome back, Doug! :cheers:

My point is that outside of possibly <500GB models, most people are using 3.5" drives solely for bulk storage where speed isn't necessary. SSDs changed the entire storage paradigm, to the point where anybody interested in a fast drive will just get an SSD, not a mechanical disk with a higher...

I agree that hybrid drives are a product in search of a market. I do however see less and less point to 7200 RPM drives in both 2.5" and 3.5" form factors. Real world performance increase over 5400 RPM is marginal at best. Also, at this stage SSDs are cheap enough to use for boot drives, with...

Well, it looks like I'll be getting 10,000 miles out of my rear airless tire, about twice that out of the front. I could probably live with a $2 a tire tax even though I'm philosophically against it. That would come to about 0.0267 cents per mile for me.

You aren't aware of the half of it. Dig around Streetsblog a bit to see how ridiculous the situation with bicycles has become in the US. In NYC last year one of the major news stations ran a series called "Bike Bedlam" where they implied that cyclists were causing mayhem in the city. Meanwhile...

Actually, wear and tear on the roads is proportional to weight to the fourth power, meaning bikes cause negligible wear. The only time it might make sense to have cyclists pay for infrastructure is when something completely new and exclusively for bikes is built. Even then I question charging...

More on Ed Orcutt here When one of the Streetsblog readers wrote him a letter, he apparently "backpedaled" quite a bit: First of all, let me apologize for the carbon emissions line of an e-mail which has caused so much concern within the bicycle community. It was over the top and I admit is...

I get nauseous myself just watching it. It's not so much the height which bothers me, but being completely out in the open. I've been on the platform on the roof of the World Trade Center 1320 or so feet up and I was just fine. I can't say the same had I been hanging on to a big pole at the same...