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Except they're not the same length, so it's a moot comparison. Look, I get it. You have a fear of flying. That's okay, but lets not try to massage the data into some sort of sound scientific basis for not flying.

Per passenger mile traveled planes are dramatically safer than cars. To the tune of several orders of magnitude. They also get you where you're going in a timely fashion.

Sure you can. They're called aisle seats.

Let me know how you stop your body from having it's internal clock all messed up. You just will yourself into it?

Obviously he hasn't or he'd be singing a different tune. As much as a middle seat in the cattle car section of a plane sucks for a 14 hour flight it beats the alternatives. Can you even take a boat to Asia? You travel as a passenger on a container ship or something?

I'll be back at work tomorrow. I did get some Glenmorangie 18 from the Duty Free store in PVG. About $20-25 less for the bottle than the price in MI ($115) depending where the exchange rate lands. Of course they have super stupid rules flying out of Shanghai for liquids on the plane. You...

Well, I successfully made it back to the states from China. Now my week of jet lag begins. I do pretty well going West. I never do well going East.

I work in the display industry. For a company that makes the panels. I don't think there's a single one of them I'd want to work for. They're all based in Asia and will likely all have similar issues. I should go back to the semiconductor industry that I worked in prior to this job. There are...

Well, they do tend to drop over time. :p Have you had any GPS problems with it? I've seen some people complaining about that.

The Sony SRS-XB3's are $99.99 at Amazon as of now. I brought my pair of them with me to China. They've been great for listening to music in my hotel room as well as sending the audio from my tablet to when I've watched TV shows / movies.

And by King King you mean King Kong right?

Price on the phone or the service? Best Buy had (has?) a deal where you could get the G5 for $120 on AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint but you had to finance it for 24 or 30 months (reportedly it could be paid off early). No T-Mobile option though. Supposedly the AT&T model has all the right bands to...

Better than lossless... Maybe if they're using 16/44.1 as their lossless baseline. A lossy compressed format could yield higher fidelity if it accepted and decoded more than 16-bits. As to whether it would be sonically better is another question. It would depend on whether the extra...

I called customer service over WiFi just now and changed my plan to T-Mobile One and added the two lines. They're sending two SIM card kits to my house. Sim cards were $25 each. Some people online reported a promotion for $3.99 for the kits. I didn't get that, but I'm not going to stress over...

The Moto G5 won't be sold in the US. The G5 Plus will be. It has an IPS type LCD screen. Not sure when it will be released though. The T-Mobile promotion is supposed to end at midnight on 3/5/2017 from what I saw on Slickdeals. I won't be home by then, but reportedly I can do it over the...

I've heard the same thing. That's exactly why I used them in my random thought. FWIW, I don't get the feeling from my interactions with the people that work there that the staff is incompetent or there because they're poorly motivated in life as Coug suggests.

Months? Already got that covered. I want years worth of living expenses saved. Then I can be free to walk at a moment's notice. I'm not sure I buy the argument that I have some sort of obligation to society to use my full potential and suffer in a job I don't like. If someone wants to go cut...

I've gotten e-mails and texts from T-mobile about this plan in the past two days stressing I should act now as it's limited time (but no expiration date stated). I won't be back from China until Monday. With my luck they will probably pull the plug before I get back. :frusty: If it's still...

I wish I had colleagues with competence. Instead I'm a bi-directional information filter / incompetence compensator. In one direction my basic job is to keep the end customer from discovering how utterly incompetent and inept the organization I work for really is so they'll buy our product...

What's the catch with this eBay listing aside from the slow shipping? http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-in-Sealed-Box-T-Mobile-LG-G5-H830-32-64GB-5-3-4G-LTE-Unlocked-Smartphone-/252795574456? I see that the seller is not actually located in the US, but that's not really an issue as far as I see it...

Yeah well, I sure don't have job satisfaction at this one. Pretty much never did. I knew I was in deep trouble within a month of starting when I went to China for "training" last year. I had it for a while at my last job, but the company slowly changed around me for the worse.

So I'm back looking at cell phone plans again. I'm currently paying Verizon about $96 a month (after taxes and fees) for 4 lines. It's a really old family plan with no data or text messaging and only 700 minutes. Since I got divorced only 3 of the lines are used. My parents have 2 lines and...

8% is nice if you were expecting less, like 0. But, if you're expecting something more like 16-33% it's disappointing. I'm rather unhappy with my job and somewhat unhappy with my career. I keep finding myself at bad companies with considerable challenges to overcome. I keep wondering if I...

Well, it not a total disappointment, but it still doesn't seem to have the single threaded chops of Intel's parts. It's better, but they try to make up for it by offering more cores in the consumer parts than Intel offers for less money. For some workloads I guess that's a benefit, but overall...

It was about 1/2 a month of salary. When I interviewed they told me how the company usually paid around 2 months of salary in each bonus period. I haven't seen that yet, but factored in getting at least 1 month salary each time when I looked at compensation and whether it was worth changing...

So, I received my "bonus" for the 2nd half of 2016 on the 28th. My job hunt starts in earnest as soon as I return from China.

Treatment for what? Yikes, are you going to be our first bionic member?

I'm wondering on what planet this seemed like a good idea. I've been accused of having minimal filtering between my brain and mouth in an annual performance review no less, and even I wouldn't even dare try to pull this stunt. I think it's a really horribly bad idea, but bet case scenario it...

Enjoy your unemployment. Hopefully you can line up your next job elsewhere in short order.

Well, most countries have limits on how long you can stay when you arrive as a tourist or for a business trip so they want to see you at least have a plan to leave within the allowed time.

I'll wait for the reviews. I've heard this song and dance from the AMD fanboys before and subsequently seen an underwhelming product.

I wish I wasn't, but I'm still at the same job. FWIW, I've never had a job where I've flown business class internationally.

It's for same job I've had for the past 15 months. BTW, I made it. We basically flew over the North Pole.

Would we be able to tell them from your normal posts? :rofl: Edit: Actually, when we see someone making well written, clear posts without spelling errors under your name we'll know your account has been hacked.

I'm off across the big pond to Asia today. Somehow I got stuck with a middle seat. :cursin:

Tidal masters... :rofl: MQA seems to be a scam. They boost the high frequencies with noise. See: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/91-audio-theory-setup-chat/2708577-high-resolution-audio-pavilion-ces-2017-a.html#post49910017

Are you buying me one to play with? Otherwise the world may never know. :p I did order a Sandisk CZ88 yesterday though.

Well yes, but this isn't straight copy or writing. This is reading music files for format conversion. It's obviously of a corner case. This is the first time I've had that process saturate a 1GbE with a single computer doing that task. I thought it was interesting enough to make a post. I...

I have a couple of them. My server has one in it but it's currently got nothing connected to it. I used another in my old server to connect the two together when I did the mass data migration from old to new. However, I don't have a 10Gb switch or the in wall infrastructure for SFP+.

Random fact: You can saturate a 1GbE connection reading FLAC files while converting them to AAC. It took a dual processor E5-2670 v1 system doing 32 conversions at the same time and it runs along at ~800x, but it is possible! :bomb:

It finally arrived today and it seems the 4th time is the charm. It passed FakeFlashTest just fine and I was able to fill it with data without any write errors. Now I'm copying the data off it. Write speed was ~12MB/sec for the lossy music files I wrote. Read speed of those files is in the...

What the heck are you talking about? I don't know anything about the encryption. I haven't tried it and don't plan to.

I decided to use moving static with the concentrated inverse images above as a mask instead of stationary white / gray image as show in the pictures. I've got 60 seconds of static on each image with 30 seconds of area static (no image) between each. It seems much less prone to image retention...

It's not in a dark area.

VPN for what?

It's there.

Well since they're for other people and you probably don't like them too much I'm sure they're fine. If it was for you, I'd suggest better.

I think that's a reasonable capture of what it looks like.

I ran the video for 2 hours, but the high contrast edge of the image caused some image retention which caused the "burned-in" logo to be much more visible after returning to normal content than normal. That image retention slowly faded with normal TV programming on the screen. After about 90...

How is your capacitor fix holding up? :cursin: I'm in the process of trying to mitigate some burn-in on my Samsung F8500 plasma. I've been very careful with the TV (or so I thought). When it was brand new I put 200+ hours of nothing but full screen RGBW fades before watching any programming on...