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As far as I can tell, HD manufacturers don't want to supply any warranty other than paid 3rd party warranty's. From my experience, recent HD's, regardless of manufacturer, are not reliable period. From their point of view any warranty, even a short one, is simply an insurance policy that costs...

Well, I've had my phone line running on MJ+ for a couple of days. The voice quality is not delectably different either sending or receiving calls. When I called myself on my original line there is a time delay but I don't think it would be noticeable when there is no reference. Hardware is...

Those preferences are not accessible in Chrome since it has no about:config

I got one at Radio Shack today specifically because I can return it to a local store rather than to the MagicJack people. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll give a report when I do.

I agree, but browser cookies are independent to the flash cookies. So unless you are deleting both sets you are not getting rid of cookies. The flash cookies were not mentioned...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/oblivious-supreme-court-poised-to-legalize-medical-patents.ars I can't begin to describe how bad I feel this is going to be for society. Giving someone exclusive rights to a diagnostic process or a method of treatment seems obscene. I want the...

Santilli, I really thought that you were a big believer in the try-it and return-it philosophy considering all the TV's and monitors that have been returned to Costco. Under your current rules you would have tried it, returned it and said I'll never buy anything from Costco again. Costco...

Doesn't flash have its own cookie system that is independent of the browsers cookies. Thus, you can clean the browsers cookies all day long and still have cookies...

I rather look at the changes as the equivalent to a service pack. The main change is the die-shrink from 32nm (Sandy Bridge) to 22nm (Ivy Bridge). A smaller chip is directly equatable to fewer defects/chip (unless they really screwed up in the die-shrink); more chips/wafer; and significantly...

What I would like to know are prices on the new Ivy-Bridge LGA 1155 chips. Since this is basically just a die-shrink, Intel's costs per chip will significantly decrease. So the question is -- Will the savings be passed along to the consumer, or will Intel use it to significantly increase their...

I wouldn't buy it for it uses non-standard fans.

I just found out that there is an $79.99 reactivation fee for Ooma telos for used or refurbished units. I find that to be unacceptably high. At that point, I'd be better off buying new...

I put in an ebay bid using a sniping service for a used Ooma Telos. There are lots of them offered so I suspect that if not this auction, another will appear. I read reviews and it seems to be a very good option though it costs more than MagicJack+. At least they support their product. One...

I don't know that you can use a MagicJack experience to judge MagicJack+. The main reason is basic HW. The original MagicJack connected to your computer using USB then used software to drive the Ethernet port on your computer while the MagicJack+ has the HW built in and directly connects the...

I am impressed by Merc reaching 15K. Congrats! I know that I don't have nearly that much to say.

I'm interested in other possible ways of VOIP, but I haven't seen anything else cheaper. No, I don't have a smart phone. At some level, one needs some form of HW to plug a phone into (not interested in just computer-phone for I still need it to ring throughout my apt.). Then in addition to...

I'm seriously considering getting MagicJack+ with a standard wireless phone to replace my landline as a cheaper alternative to even the standard VOIP options like Vonage or Comcast's VOIP. My first priority was that I wanted to keep the same phone number of 40 years. Cheaper is a secondary...

Simple: It is a deposit, if you can get it back. It is a tax if you can't... You may not choose to get the deposit back, but it is still a deposit if you can. Well, which is it?

Why are you responding to a simple spammer? I think, that you believe that if you respond, they will simply go away.

The new bulldozer server chips are going to suck at folding comparatively. Each two cores have to share one FP unit. Folding uses FP, so you only get 1/2 the cores. A 16 core 6200 series chip effectively only has 8 FP cores. The older 6100 Mangy-Cours series has one FP per core so a 12 core...

The Americanization of Emily - I strongly recommend it as his best. It rarely shows up on TV, so when it does ...

AMD's Mangy-Cours seems to be a good deal if one needs lots of cores (but not a lot of Horse power per core) or lots of RAM at a reasonable price. It certainly is much cheaper than trying to do these things on a multi-socket Intel platform.

That is one impressively bad security hole! On any of my cell phones, the only thing I've ever been able to do, without entering a pin, was to call 911. In my mind that is about what it should be like.

Sorry, but it just looks like a very bad screensaver; Nice music track though. I prefer 997 as a screensaver, but the music isn't as good.

I thought the Revue was recently discontinued. I would think that including a discontinued product in your class wouldn't be your best idea. Perhaps one of the other Google TV set top boxes would be a better alternative.

It's too new to expect normal prices. They jack the prices up to start with to capture the price is irrelevant crowd. Give it a few months, while the early adopters get price gouged and the motherboards get publicly beta tested then wait a few more months so the flaws get identified and can be...

I like the last paragraph of the following review - Xbit Core i7 - 3960X review "... Today’s Core i7 from the new 3000-series are based on Revision C core with significant power consumption and not very high overclocking potential. Intel is planning to eliminate these issues, but only after the...

I would assume that the project isn't offered to just anyone but only to those with enough processing power to complete it in time. Normal folk need not apply and would never see such.

I think you made an error with your choice of WU's. I used a 6904 and the time per frame was aprox. 13 minutes (not 20 seconds) to get 800K. A time per frame of 80 minutes still gave a 300K points. A TPF of 81 minutes only gave 31K points (exceeded the preferred deadline?). I would contend...

Total speculation: 26 parts to be used as a serial to attract an audience for other G-rated major motion pictures. When finished with that release form, it will be re-released on TV as a weekly Saturday kids program which will be converted to total animation after the first 26 episodes. :rofl:

What's the difference between G560 and B560?

Have you considered the benefits of installing a Pizza Oven in your bedroom as your heating method? Seems to me that eating a fresh pizza in bed outweighs the benefits of computers (or warm bricks) in your bedroom and both will add heat. A secondary heating method that may be desirable...

Hiring an engineer will successfully make it expensive, even if it wasn't beforehand. I thought Ddrueding was an alias of MacGyver's.

At the same level is best! With any upward section of the tubing the pump has to work against gravity expending more energy therefore needing a bigger pump to compensate. You don't get that energy returned (to the pump) on the downward sections of the tubing.

#1: I do not understand why electric resistive heating is any less efficient than any other form of heating. A watt is a watt. Is the process of converting electricity to heat energy via computer somehow creating some other form of energy like light that is significantly robbing its...

If you have issues with Camry drivers then why wouldn't you have the same issues with Honda Accord drivers? Seems to me that they pull from the same basic market and if anything the Accord will have even more elderly clueless people. Personally, I prefer simplicity of the clueless driver to...

Supposedly, Wells Fargo has decided to abandon its ATM/debit card fee because of consumer backlash. i.e. an unsuccessful pilot project. Bank of America is said to be readjusting its plans to allow more ways to get the fee waved -- i.e required balances, required automatic deposits, or...

Supposedly, Wells Fargo has decided to abandon its ATM/debit card fee because of consumer backlash. i.e. an unsuccessful pilot project. Bank of America is said to be readjusting its plans to allow more ways to get the fee waved -- i.e required balances, required automatic deposits, or...

I doubt it. 3ware was a previous direct competitor to LSI, so allowing 3ware to die doesn't harm them that much for all they are doing is scavenging the market share. With the Sandforce purchase, LSI bought into IP that they have never had before. What I would worry about more would be that...

LSI agrees to buy Sandforce What are LSI's long-term plans? I'll leave speculation to the posters ...

If everyone ..., then there is no point to changing banks for anyone I change to will be part of the everyone group. At this point the only place I use that card is in the ATM because credit cards are inherently safer: With a debit card the money is removed immediately from your account and...

Debit card, but it is used in their ATM and the fees are for the use of their ATM. I'm supposedly in a test market for the fees. They are not everywhere with Wells Fargo, like they are with Bank of America.

Today I got my new Wells Fargo ATM card that updates the expiration date another 3 years. Whee! With it comes the new fees for its use of $3.00 per month and $1.00 for a statement printed out on the ATM. Since the fees only gets charged if I use it in a given month, I've decided to do all my...

P.S. Like Handruin's, it also an x64 bit install of Win 7

No -- For this install, SP1 refused to install. I've seriously considered an inplace repair re-install But the install works except for installing SP1, so thus far I have resisted the temptation.

I tried it. Got an error: I looked at the log, lots of text (about 26KB) but I didn't see an error there. WinSxS Folder size before 106MB after 106MB Now mind you, this Win7 install does not auto-update. I tend to do it manually and only very occasionally.

A reasonable explanation of the causes

I've used EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner. They both work and I consider them to be equivalents. The differences do not seem to be significant to me.

Lytros - Camera that focus, after the fact, in software Is it theoretically possible to do the same in a camera with changeable lenses?

At some point it gets to be better to replace the entire machine rather than fixing up an old machine. Personally, I think you've already gone past that point. i.e. -- isn't your time worth something or is this capacitor issue just a point of honor for you. For me, even one bulging capacitor...