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  1. udaman

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    ^too expensive 4 what u get...Red Scarlet 4 the win! I can't keep up with the ever changing models OCZ keeps putting out on a daily basis :p They're all too expensive any...just got to wait for memristors to come to market in 3+yrs for some significant cost competition...
  2. udaman

    photoshop witchcraft

    Yes, but as u will note, this is being done on a Mac OS X special version of PS. So you'll have to "Get a Mac" :p (ducks for PC crowd trying to clobber me... wha it's not OT, completely relevant) Did U see the comment field? Too bad the current 1Ghz A4 CPU in the iPad doesn't have the grunt...
  3. udaman

    iPhone syndrome

    150+ Apple h8rs posts & going :compress::compress::rotfl: iPhone OS 4.0 : 04/08/2010 1:21 - First feature: MULTITASKING. Double-tap the home button: shows currently running apps. Determined which services apps need to run in the background, so we made those as APIs to enable the feature but...
  4. udaman

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    2 BK Whoppers 4 lunch and u've consumed a whole days worth of calories & exceeded recommended fat levels. Veggies are no more expensive than most meats...think you should look at your comparisons more closely. Compared to takeout, or eating at a restaurant $2.50 is what you pay for a simple cup...
  5. udaman

    Something Random

    Just one night, when ur just a little more sleepy, eyes a little less able to focus, just a smidgen less microseconds of attention, that veer may come such that the suspension can't handle the abrupt maneuver ....and then we know why you stopped posting here :D Don't assume you'll always have...
  6. udaman

    128GB Pen Drives

    U don't need a PP acct. U can pay for ebay stuff, or other sites via PP using a CC (most sellers accept) w/o setting up an acct.
  7. udaman

    memristors- H.P. Sees a Revolution

    H.P. Sees a Revolution in Memory Chip For both CPU & storage uses...could be big, if and when it makes it into commercial scale production...@comparable or lower cost.
  8. udaman

    600GB Velociraptor

    ... or one of these when they ship Merc :D
  9. udaman

    Laptop with Warranty and RS-232

    Dell lists the Lat. e5500 starting @$1100, but Google Shopping shows retailers selling it 4 almost 1/2 that.
  10. udaman

    Laptop with Warranty and RS-232

    Well since ur going with old antiquated i/o, thought I should ask, cause originally like parallel (or scsi connectors for Mac :P ) they were all 25pin. Lots of older scientific/instrument equip still use that craptastic old 25pin config. Umm, don't know if it's internally just a USB to serial...
  11. udaman

    Laptop with Warranty and RS-232

    alright dd's apparently preoccupied, I'll come back later to see the replies :)
  12. udaman

    Laptop with Warranty and RS-232

    Define 'cheap' as a range, please. Can it be a new laptop, but discontinued model, foregoing the manufacturers warranty...if it's really 'cheap'?
  13. udaman

    Laptop with Warranty and RS-232

    See post directly above urs :D
  14. udaman

    Laptop with Warranty and RS-232

    Knock, knock...does it require a DE-9 connector (DB9)...9pin?
  15. udaman

    Laptop with Warranty and RS-232

    By warranty U mean, manufacturers? A laptop in production current, available for sale as new, as opposed to refurb./discontinued models? And a Express card >rs232 adapter is unacceptable, u've tried those?
  16. udaman

    dSLR thread

    btw, though it's not quite as good as the 7D in IQ (same sensor, shouldn't it be exactly the same IQ?)... dpreview seems to love the 550D Don't think it was an April fools review: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos550d/ If only it was a FF Rebel for $800 instead of a crop factor, I'd...
  17. udaman

    dSLR thread

    Hmm, I just might be skillier than SD, supposed he did a quickNdirty on the image, while I went and fired up Photoshop and tweaked it with 'curves' as well as desaturating. Looking at the histogram in PS, we see all channels, red, green, blue oversaturated, with red being the worst, so I took...
  18. udaman

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    Pretty typical of the crown here still obsessing with the iPhone's success in another thread, trying the absolute best to pick on flaws while the rest of the world buys them like hotcakes.... out of touch with what's happening with the rest of the world...conservative PC to the core :D. btw...
  19. udaman

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    Well I'm shocked, shocked I tell u. no one here has posted their new iPad experiences. While picking up dim sum in Monterey Park this morning, @Sea Harbour Seafood restaurant (actually in Rosemead next door), while waiting for my 'to-go' order, just inside the front door, there was a table of 4...
  20. udaman

    Happy Easter Folks

    http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7354823 supposed to rain a little tonight^ I'm just watching that sexy butt, and quads...wish my quads looked like that :( She's got better definition and I've been walking 500-600mi since last summer, it's not right I tell u. I'll drink to that! Just got...
  21. udaman

    Socket G34, 12 cores @ 1.9 GHz or 8 cores at 2.4 GHz?

    name of a place can be trademarked, depending on the product/situation: http://www.law.uconn.edu/homes/swilf/ip/cases/in_re_nantucket.htm
  22. udaman

    >500GB Drives

    ^not if you get a Mac :D Come on LM, keep up with the program...already posted here: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8094 Best 640GB 2.5" drive?
  23. udaman

    Socket G34, 12 cores @ 1.9 GHz or 8 cores at 2.4 GHz?

    Not at present, no...but who knows in the near term future? Just like we're stuck around $1/watt solar panels, in 5-10 could possibly be 1/10th the cost! Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor, Nano Materials
  24. udaman

    dSLR thread

    Hmm, e_dawg said in Jan '09 he was getting married in the summer, so we can conclude the marriage is the reason he no longer posts on SR :D. Ergo, just rent women, might be much more expensive to maintain, but much easier to discard :)
  25. udaman

    Best 640GB 2.5" drive?

    WD Scorp Blu is now 9.5mm in 750GB size: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/30/wd.scorpio.blue.tops.750gb.in.slim.size/
  26. udaman

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    We could use a new food revolution, but how to go about it? Latest news, back OT w/respect to obesity: Compulsive eating shares addictive biochemical mechanism with cocaine, heroin abuse: study March 28, 2010...
  27. udaman

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    Well smoking is more of an health hazard than weed; more toxins, cancer causing agents in a processed commercial cigarette. In fact, some of the compounds in MJ are believed to help prevent lung cancer...so say you live in California's toxic death trap polluted air environs, u just might save...
  28. udaman

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    Why the iPad Will Change Everything Think Really Different http://www.newsweek.com/id/235565 So I take it dd will be out there in line with Bill Paterson, the Woz, and all the other geeks @Apple Palo Alto Fri night/Sat morning for the 'scene mang':jokecolor: ^uh oh, this is not good for dd...
  29. udaman

    Something Random

    LOL, just wait until they have a Wii 'Pornstar' *interactive* simulation, on a 3D 4k res screen. Think of all the hospital emergency room 'explanations' ... 'well doc, ya see I fell while using the Wii golf simulation' 'I got a little carried away on that Rockstar/Guitar player game', lol.
  30. udaman

    SATA 2 or 3 laptops?

    Do any exist? http://laptoping.com/intel-huron-river-laptop-platform.html ^may or may not support USB3.0, DT is not always an accurate source...might not even be correct on SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3 is incorrect nomenclature :p )...
  31. udaman

    Best 640GB 2.5" drive?

    All lies from the PC/Winblows infidels, is it the PC laptop that is having all the problems! Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say...That is all. "The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!" "I have detailed...
  32. udaman

    Opera 10.5: a PR disaster in progress

    Just U wait until the real "Abusive teolling" begins about all the posts after #32 here :D The OT Police R in da haus.
  33. udaman

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    Well it's F'in better than the other F'kin loudmouthed, F'ed up Brit- Gordon Ramsey. Yeah, the biggest thing missing from Obamacare, that could significantly cut healthcare costs for everyone, would be a national anti-obesity program that everyone is required to partake in on the same level of...
  34. udaman

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    iPhone seems to analogous to the movie Avatar...so will the iPad be a flash in the pan, big-budget movie that does well the initial weeks, and then tanks in sales??? Kind of hard to believe millions will have use for this device? For a few hundred more, I'd rather have a slightly larger...
  35. udaman

    Opera 10.5: a PR disaster in progress

    ....so, have any of the users of the forum tried PM's with various members of the Mod team (Admn?) to ask why the threads like yours have been deleted? If you have, what was their rational in their response? How did you reply to that rational? Surely not all the Mod team have their PM...
  36. udaman

    dSLR thread

    Probably get clobbered for being OT by the PC police...but :D (when has that ever stopped me :P ): http://photorumors.com/2010/03/24/latest-sensor-developments/ I'm holding out until I can shoot a wedding in RAW 4k HD res, 30x optical zoom, no thicker than a iPhone, on a cam phone :). I want...
  37. udaman

    >500GB Drives

    LOL, I got trolled by U know who for mentioning that drive in the SR thread...thx 4 nothing...I guess :) ^yep, and I also mentioned that about the drive & that...shall I repeat with threat of trolling...all current MBP's can fit that drive, no problem. If U absolutely need to use a PC & 9.5mm...
  38. udaman

    Something Random

    Which is why there should be a ban on cell phone use of any kind hand free or not, with very steep penalties for violators; in all cars, except those involved with medical/emergency uses. People need to use their cell phones while driving *should* be required to pull over to the curb and stop...
  39. udaman

    Something Random

    So follow up on my post back a few weeks in this thread. After doing some searching I find that virtually no kind of dental plan or insurance, no matter how expensive will cover dental implants. Kind of sucks, since this is now considered to be a superior type of care as opposed to always...
  40. udaman

    Something Random

    Really? what strange location is this happening quite a bit? OT, but no iPhone, iPod, etc where ever I walk around here in la la land, and people regularly try to run me down at any given intersection where the light is green and I step into the crosswalk. It's like there's year round open...
  41. udaman

    Major Screwup

    I would imagine by 2019, most storage would be SSD? How reliable will the TB Raid SSD's be? How reliable are tape backups? Is there still a good use for them?
  42. udaman

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Y&wut kind of E? All my E, says otherwise. Y, plenty out already
  43. udaman

    Something Random

    ^Ah screw U Chewy :p, that's the same type of reasoning question they put on the standard SAT tests I took in high school decades ago...I'm quite sure I'd score *much* lower on the SAT tests now. ^bet that's 'childs play' 4 ur son *pun* :p? However since this is SR thread... (PC police...
  44. udaman

    Nichia Develops 60 Lumen Per Watt White LED

    vaguely related, mostly OT (for the PC crowd complainers :) ) Made in IBM Labs: IBM Sets World Record by Creating High-Efficiency Solar Cell Made from Earth-Abundant Materials Breakthrough holds...
  45. udaman

    ASUS K42F-A1 Notebook

    For a desktop replacement I'd go for the largest screen & lightest weight they would be comfortable with. Who uses a desktop these days with anything smaller than a 17in screen? Unless your parents plan to mirror the laptop screen on a larger stand-alone monitor @home? The fully spec'd...
  46. udaman

    PALM

    Lol, Apple has piles more money...and what of it? Google would be abandoning Andriod for WebOS, Merc? some investment pundits are saying Palm stock will drop to $0 given poor results recently: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/18/palm.winter.quarter.moves.just.408k.phones/ But Will...
  47. udaman

    Model Rocketry with Video

    ...or, use a dry lake, like I used to do as a child (requires parents willing to drive u out to the remote location)...near Edwards AFB in the Mojave. 12" chute with hole in the middle, preferably silk, was what I used...those cheap thin plastic Estes chutes didn't last long. Go visit some MR...
  48. udaman

    Something Random

    Here timwitless <lemme hold up the mirror so u can see yourself as u are, duplicitous hypocrite. FYI, my post was relevant & OT, go look @LM's switching drives from laptops thread. LM did not specify much in his post above, not that it *matters* to a troll like urself. Lacking info, I took...
  49. udaman

    Something Random

    ...what did u expect, get a Mac :diablo: U can fit a 12.5mm WD Scorp Blu 1TB drive inside all the newer MBP's :) http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD10TPVT/
  50. udaman

    Something Random

    ^lol, Handy, u musta missed the ones with guys beatin off (live) :poke:
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