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Poor me? My company pays for the device (and upgrades). They pay for the service. They pay for my broadband at home. They pay me. So once in a while I do work off-hours. No big deal; there are millions of people who take a little work home with them; my work is just a bit more 'official'...

Elves make cookies.

My Treo and several other current-generation Palm OS products continually back main RAM to NVRAM. Lose the battery and you can't access your data until it's recharged, but you don't lose the data itself. Being available 24x7 is a requirement of my job. A pager may suffice for notification...

Well, if it's XP, you could schedule SHUTDOWN -L at the end of the day to log the PC off automatically. I'm not sure about auto-logon in the morning, though.

CFDC was my soda of choice, but Diet Coke with Lime has recently risen to the top. Second place is now a tie between CFDC and the Lo-Carb (sugar free) Monster energy drink. Monster's a bit on the expensive side, though, so I buy it by the case at Sam's Club. Funny how I'll call a buck a can...

I had a teacher who told Ethnican jokes. That way he could either offend no one or everyone. Anyway, maybe this would be a little more amusing.

Legal? Sure. There's no law that I've ever heard of that says your tires have to match. Safe? Safe enough. If the spare is really old it's rubber may have deteriorated some but otherwise what you're planning is fine. You're taking the correct route by matching front-to-front for the new...

A quick Google is showing World Clock on the Visor. It's even pictured here. Of course, if you're looking to spend on a watch, you could instead pick up the new color Z22 that's $99. The specs show World Clock is included.

mubs, if you have a PDA there are "world clocks" that show, for instance, up to five cities at a time. A little less convenient than a watch, but not nearly as inconvenient as needing access to a PC or internet connection.

Right now, my current favorite brand is Citizen. Their Eco-Drive watches never need batteries but don't stink of "hey, I'm solar so look at me!" Analog faces have a more upscale look than digital, at least compared to the digitals I've seen. Street prices are usually from under $200 to around...

I picked up a half dozen bottles of red ice wine a couple of weeks back. First time I've seen it in red. e_dawg, I freely admit to liking the sweeter white wines. I just can't get my taste buds to like too dry of a beverage or one with too strong of an oaken taste. For instance, with...

You had 1 too many letters in the name. Witchblade. Based on a comic book series (or other source material; I know the comics pre-date the show).

I haven't seen anything helpful from sechs in this thread.

If you will allow a little sense to intervene, you would realize that "finance" is an accounting term.

Then you need to be more specific or quote the comment that you're replying to. My last post before yours only mentioned the kickbacks & referral fees and contained not a single mention of purchase/finance vs. lease accounting. And since you gave absolutely no information in your post, just a...

Congrats to Mark for passing 1 million points!

sechs needs a little more Google.

Actually, dealerships tend to get kickbacks, or "referral fees" from the banks they get customers to finance through, so car finance is a revenue source for them. As such, they'd encourage you to finance over paying cash.

Thursday & Friday are forecasted to only hit the 50s (°F). Gotta love the midwest weather.

Exactly. Autos are expenses; not investments. With few exceptions, motorized transportation depreciates over time. From a finance standpoint it makes sense to minimize the expense and the perpetual lease payment simply doesn't deliver. The monthly payment itself may be lower but the cost...

Penis envy. :rofl:

Of course not. Homosexuality is not the real problem; pedophilia is. I still wonder about our society when the public is letting the church get away with sending these rapists (under age = automatic non-consent) to other places vs. sending them to the county lockup where they belong.

I'll get to it... On a semi-related note, they're releasing a 40 DVD set of all of BtVS in November.

Considering how long a decently maintained modern car can last, leasing makes less financial sense than buying. I bought new in 99, paid it off in two years, and have enjoyed no payments for nearly the past 5 years. Just maintenance, which however you slice it is cheaper than lease/buy...

Friday: Day: Rochester, MN at an IBM briefing. Night: Out of town guests arrived for a wedding on Saturday. Saturday: Day: The wedding followed by some light shopping (I picked up a copy of Battle Royale). Sunday: Continuing the wedding theme, :D I saw Corpse Bride with a couple of friends.

I recall the firmware stuff, but my mind doesn't normally retain specific dates very well for things of lesser importance so I didn't remember exactly when I had purchased it. At the time, it was bought to be my data drive (boot was - and is - an original 18GB X-15). The 10K II became the boot...

Wow! I've got 5 weeks of warranty left on the 10K II. :D I think I'll RMA that puppy and see what Quaxtor coughs up as a replacement. Thanks, LM, I wouldn't have even thought about validating the warranty without your comment.

Perhaps. I don't really remember when I bought it, just that I've had it for a while. If I get the chance I'll take a look at the manufacture date on the drive; I don't think I've thrown it out just yet.

Yeah, I could have phrased my question better. Not too long ago I purchased one of the Samsung 250s for my wife's PC. It replaced her Quantum Atlas 10K II that died after something like 7+ years of service.

Bozo - You can thank Reaganomics for the current state of public education. During his time in office Education spending was severely slashed, pushing the burden on to the states, which were ill-prepared to deal with it. The end result was increases in property taxes, which in some communities...

I agree on the 2-platter rule. Question: Can you get more than 250GB in a now-shipping 2-platter drive?

Tannin: I would think that one of these+ one of these would be easier to manage and quite a bit faster than burning to DVD while on the go. The right unit would draw power from the USB port so you wouldn't need a separate wallwart.

Auto-update just had me download 1.0.7.

Never Twice Same Color.

I use the MX-1000 'laser' mouse and like it a lot. But I'm not a gamer so I couldn't comment on how well it'd perform in a gaming environment. I also use Logitech MX-700s and a 510. I've used nothing but Logitech mice whenever possible since about 1985.

It's not FF. It works just fine for me using FF 1.0.6 and QT 6.1. In general, embedded media issues are more than likely the fault of the media player provider doing something they shouldn't be doing.

:) I'm nearing 40 years old & my eyes still test at 20/20.

I think that unless FF goes downhill, I wouldn't take the time to even look at alternatives.

Home: Mitsu DiamondPro 930SB 19" CRT @ 1600x1200 @ 85Hz driven by an ATI AIW 9600 Pro. I was doing 2048x1536 @ 76 Hz but still noticed a little flicker. Work: Dell 21" Trinitron CRT @ 1600x1200 @ 85Hz driven by my laptop's GeForce FX Go5650. Personally, I really can't stand less than...

So they invested one billion dollars dollars and a client saved 3 million pounds. The error is made more egregious by getting it wrong ($..dollars) and getting it right (£) in the same paragraph. This is from an email newsletter I recieved this morning.

Funny how they're equating 'monogamous for the season' with 'monogamous'.

Look at unitinfo.txt int he Folding directory. It contains the work unit info & your % done. I bookmark the file for easy access.

http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html

Unless it's 8PM, in which case it would be 5. :roll:

You are correct. Still, there are plenty of other instances like the above "ATM Machine" where people abuse the acronym. I agree that we accept it, but that doesn't make it right. :) BTW, what is it contracting?

Asynchronous Transfer Mode, actually. :) Do ATMs use ATM? Yeah, that's a pet peeve of mine. Acronyms were meant to shorten these terms to something manageable and yet here we are expanding them and actually making them worse. Another I see all the time: "DNS server" - Domain Name Server...

But the basic medical care here will drop precipitously. Medical education will suffer, GPs will wither and die, etc. The best doctors will flee to other countries or work at small, private hospitals that cater tot he rich. Correspondingly, the rich will fly to another country where they can...

My wife's PC uses a Netgear WG311T. Her PC is upstairs at the other end of the house from the den where our WAP, a Netgear 634U, resides. It's a wood construction house, but she has no problems maintaining a 108Mbps connection. Since so many people report Linksys stuff failing so often, why...

My wife had this happen, sort of, once. We went to a nice steak house. At some point she commented about sore shoulders or something so our waitress actually rubbed her shoulders for a couple of minutes.

Nah, that'll die off sooner as no one will have insurance or be able to afford to be worked on.