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I'm actually considering selling all my L-series lenses in preference to a simple point & shoot. Over the years I have found that I just don't take that many pictures anymore. The hobby isn't as appealing to me as it used to be. The one true benefit of buying high-end lenses is that they do...

I started out a big believer in splitters but over the years I've changed my mind. Repeatedly, I've had very bad experiences with splitters. They become intermittent connectors over time resulting in lots of time lost diagnosing problems that are not real HW failures but rather just...

Power supplies are not the place to be cheap. Buy a premium one and it will last through multiple machines.

Thank you all, even those that said HB yesterday. 9/11 is a hard date to forget. I can't wait till it is just a date in the history books and all the monitoring and security precautions are long forgotten. The world is a worse place to live in because of it. I don't think the bad guys...

I'd swear that old vintage desktops of that era were much more reliable then modern machines. Back then computers were expensive and expected to last. Now days the expectation is for a 2 year lifespan and are cheap enough that they are considered disposable items. I suppose that as...

Thank you all for th thought. Sorry, no new T-shirts.

Both of your video cards (GT440, GTX 560 Ti) should work fine. Neither is considered old and on the EOL list (Pre-fermi). So I need to see your logs, including the system and config portions to diagnose your problem and optimize the config.

What GPU? I don't know what GPU you are running but for older GPU's the server that handles them went down on Aug. 26 and hasn't yet come back on line. PG knows of the problem and has said it is working on a fix. That being said, I suspect that it isn't a high priority since they have also...

I'm using PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750 Quad on everything. Not perfect because they are big, relatively loud, over powered, and you can get more efficient now. However, I bought a whole bunch of them at $79 each, from a retailer that had an excessive number of them, which was a very good...

I have no problem receiving bad MB's. I use them to store old working but no longer used cards. I sit the MB's on 12 inch deep shelves and then fill up their slots. My theory is that the MB slots ground them so that static is less of a problem. It is also much easier to find any card that I...

It didn't surprise me. It seemed that Nokia took an extreme risk a couple of years ago, when Nokia decided to go entirely Windows phones to collect the Microsoft payments. Windows phones have never sold well but especially back then. My assumption, at the time, was that there had to be an...

Consider yourself lucky that that is the only damage. With an event like that, It would be very easy to lose control and for very bad things happen. You might want to have the front end examined for damage and re-aligned.

Mythbusters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y18mewmFNOQ

You'd not believe what kind of fantastic Hwy mileage I can get on a Rolls Royce being towed at 70MPH for 26 miles. I would argue that my being towed numbers have as much validity as your slip-streaming numbers. They're both junk numbers that has no useful basis in reality.

Don't worry if today folding isn't working properly: PG is doing some wholesale maintenance on their infrastructure and important components (like assignment servers) will be down today.

Lenovo certainly is getting bad press regarding their choice: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/start-menu-on-lenovo-windows-8-pcs-will-nag-you-to-install-apps/

Supposedly the 326.80 beta contains the fix for the 36 hour bug.

Solar battery charger with a spare battery and then you won't care nearly as much about battery longevity and can get whatever device works for you.

I just caught the end of an episode of Axe Cop "Birthday month" on TV. It was the strangest TV episode of anything I have ever seen. It felt like an extreme Tim Burton meeting an extreme version of the Grinch who stole Xmas. I had never even heard of Axe Cop and what I saw I really liked...

You have Titans? Nvidia is having stability issues for 7xx series drivers. Specifically, the Windows drivers reboot at least every 36 hours. Supposedly they now have a fix and it will be incorporated in the next driver release.

Those are not all drive heights: they are x, y, z measurements. Only 7mm is the drive height.

Aren't they shielded computer speakers so as to minimize the local EM field?

I had to get my Oregon automobile license renewed and I am very impressed with their efficiency compared to previous visits to bureaucracy central. It took a total of 15 minutes from taking a number to getting a temporary license including filling out the form, validating my documentation, my...

What everyone needs to carry with their notebook -- non-portable speakers!

No, I was just busy, so I didn't get my normal daily game play in.

Not all notebooks are thick enough to physically have a DVI plug. I say standardize by tethering the DVI socket to the back of the display or on the bottom so it can't lay flat (Sarcasm to all those (Tannin) that say there is no reason for a smaller plug). HDMI was not even developed for...

I question that, The perceivable difference between slower and even significantly faster SSD's is negligible. Where you notice the gain is from HD to SSD. On the other side, there is a noticeable boot-time speed increase from Win7 to Win8 (after a half dozen boots to allow Win8 to optimize...

America's Best for me. Super cheap at $69 (including frames and eye exam) for two single-vision very low-end plastic lens glasses. I found that I would typically pay more than that just for an eye-exam. I've found little difference between their eye exam and any other. I typically get a...

I agree with you, but he still has to know and be willing to reconfigure Windows not to use a password if he is GPU folding or reconfigure folding for service mode for any machines just CPU folding.

You also have to setup Windows to login without asking for a password (assuming GPU folding). If only SMP then you can configure it as an auto-starting service and you don't have to login.

I'm assuming the blistering is an indication of outgasing from the paint itself chemically changing while the clearcoat is just trapping that gas till it fails. Is just removing the currently failed portions of the paint/clear coat sufficient? Even if covered by new paint, won't the old paint...

I really never considered painting/dipping my own car: My skills don't generally run that way, but fair enough as it will be much cheaper. My first question is how do I remove the old paint? My problem is not rust (yet) however, the surface of the car is not smooth anymore. The clear coat is...

I went to 3 good local Auto-body shops (Lovejoy, Leifs, and Jacksons) and $4,500 was the cheapest estimate. The most expensive was $6,500. I also tried to get an estimate from Macco (A chain with a reputation for very cheap paint jobs) but they had permanently closed a couple of months before...

I think the Impala is a fine car. A bit on the spendy side, for my taste, but that is to be expected for best in its class. A bit low on the mileage figures considering the price of gas, but not much and not surprising for such a big car. I'm leaning towards a 2013 Toyota Camry Hybrid LE as...

Kindle!

People (including you DD) have before massively outproduced me before. As long as I keep producing at what I normally do, I'm happy. I assure everyone that I do not need to be #1. DD, Coug, Handy, or whomever you are all welcome to it. All you have to do is produce more points than me. I...

I gave up on pride and my ego a long long time ago.

I Googled Koenigsegg having never heard of it before. Consider me impressed with their car specs. Unfortunately, i'm pretty sure it is in the category of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" range.

Is there any simple way of indicating in the activity stream what posts I have read and what I have not?

Scary, you really can't know what if anything was done. You could run the standard anti-malware and see if anything is detected but there are no guaranty's even if nothing is detected. The only safe solution is a re-image or re-install from scratch (with a new username & password) and that...

still vapor-ware. There will be a true choice when both are shipping.

While I too would appreciate an improved computer experience but unless that was what the customer came for I wouldn't do it. It would be like hiring a person to refinish the floors of my house and finding that he had also replaced all the carpeting because it had offended him. I would be very...

If you are dealing with other people's computers, you shouldn't be installing Classic Shell (or another shell) on it so you can move around easily while working on it. You really need to be able to deal with native Win8. A client as a reasonable expectation that he will get back the same basic...

Car headlights are fixed and aimed specifically not to blind coming drivers and even then they have rules when you can and can not use high-beams. Can you say the same for a bicycle light?

The behavior of the "what's new" button has changed from showing a list of changed threads to what is described as an activity stream list. Not saying it is bad but rather it is different (I reserve judgement). Obviously, the update did more than security updates and bug fixes...

Not being able to OC is not the end of the world. It just means you get what you paid for with no extra's.

Probably not (yet), but if you are going to be running future virtualization products (like Win8) then eventually very likely. Note, I can't use the Win8 virtualization features (or even server 2012 Hyper-V but 2008 hypwer-v is fine) on core2duo processors and I can't install Win8 at all on any...

It is like the old P4 days where you could get P4's at the same clock speed with different features (x64 versions; X32 only versions, and with or without virtualization support (VT-x)).

It was my understanding that Haswell non-K versions are not overclockable at all and the K-Versions, while overclockable have transactional memory (TSX) and I/O virtualization (VT-d) features removed.

Correction! Upon reading the above post it should read: Do the heated seats in a 100K+ car really do better than a 50K car?