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Banks in the US can and do the same thing. There are stories about banks going after people for the loss related to a short sale even though they signed off on it. On the education loan front, I agree that you should not be able to have them disappear with bankruptcy. Otherwise most people...

So what's that mean? Is that like saying someone is a jerk, but a nice jerk? :p

Hotwires are incandescent flashlights usually built into a Maglight body with a heavily overdriven bulb and a battery pack of something other than a few D cells like several Li-Ion cells. Frankly, there isn't a lot of point to them considering how bright LEDs have gotten in terms of a practical...

Do you have any HIDs? Played with any hotwires? The Eagletac MX25L3 / MX25L3C I have are nice.

They both have tiny potentiometers to adjust the voltage. If you want to adjust it on the fly they're not terribly useful.

C'mon join us. It's not that bad. We're friendly.

Is that some sort of test of how many butts you can light up at once?

You could just get a small DC/DC power supply like this or this. Then you can dial the voltage down to whatever you want.

Why imagine when you can buy them. :mrgrn:

Well now how am I supposed to talk you into buying a new TV? :frowner: j/k Congrats on your inexpensive repair. I will probably have to do the same in the future. I have a LCD that's one of the affected models. It's seen very little use though (it wasn't a very smart purchase).

That probably means the quality is only half there too. :p

Yeah, that's not too far from where I was. I had CDT components in the front in my Maxima. I had to build up custom mounting rings in the doors to hold the midwoofer so the windows would clear the motor on the back. I used a 25Wx4 (RMS) Alpine deck with built in a 3-way active crossover and...

I believe you're thinking of the RAID drives with the reduced error checking stuff, specifically TLER. My understanding is the AV drives were potentially optimized for noise and streaming and spinning 24/7.

Using a twin scroll turbo is currently the most common method of minimizing lag.

I don't exactly know why, but I wouldn't have pegged you for a car audio guy... Interesting... I put aftermarket stereos in all my previous cars (new head unit, amps, speakers, subwoofer, etc). Each car got a higher end and more sophisticated setup than the one before it. However, my Audi...

So my copy of FF on my work PC updated itself. After I moved around a few things on the toolbars it doesn't seem much different aside from the shape of the tabs from the way I had it before.

Yeah, there is definitely a lack of headroom in the backseat of the Regal. That one of the things that took it off my list.

I drove my coworkers ATS 2.0T with the 6MT and was not impressed. The shifter was so rubbery and the acceleration didn't seem very quick. I thought the Regal GS (2.0T) 6MT I took for a test drive was a much nicer car.

What'd they do?

Who are you calling? Samsung, or a local repair shop? Does the fact that you've poked around and already replaced components affect their willingness to work on the set? Or, are you planning to not mention that?

This video had me laughing out loud.

FWIW, I've got a typo up there. It's August of 2004.

Apologies if my comment came off snarky. That wasn't my intention. What I was trying to say is that in the past I've always focused on bang for the buck and tried to buy something that's at the knee of that "value" curve. More recently I've been much more willing to buy something that might...

I have a fairly new (for me) philosophy on buying things. Mainly that I'm willing to spend money to get exactly what I want. Sometimes you have to pay money to get nice things. I have a bonus (at work) coming in about 3 weeks and it should comfortably pay for a TV.

What's 150k between friends? Link

Have you priced out capacitors from someplace like Mouser?

You need to add another 0 to your budget if you want a 110" UHD Samsung. There are some options at 84-85". They're not FALD in you budget though. For example the XBR-85X950B is $25k.

Reportedly its a near beta pile of problems and quirks.

Close to nothing. Sony has some sort of 4k player that apparently isnt ready for primetime and Netflix is streaming House of Cards in 4k. 4k blu-ray is like 18 months out (best case). I don't care about 4k. I want the best picture quality I can get. For better or worse all the premium...

What do you mean? I move to full array backlights with local area dimming, a move to UHD, or something else? And how big is 80"+ 84" or are you talking 110"

The Full Array Local Dimming TVs of interest to me are: Sony XBR-65X950B - $8000 MSRP (shipping May/June) Vizio P652ui-B2 - $2200 MSRP (shipping fall) Vizio P702ui-B3 - $2600 MSRP (shipping fall) Vizio 65-inch Reference Series - ? MSRP (possible vaporware / end of the year) Toshiba 65L9400U -...

They do. LG uses White OLEDs with a color filter. Samsung uses RGB OLEDs. Samsung seems to have put their OLED TV on hold while LG seems to be trying to make hay with their TVs. Too bad they're really expensive and curved. They also don't seem quite ready for primetime based on owner...

No M's or P's have shipped yet, so it is hard to say. My gut tells me that 64 zones still may not be enough based on previous sets of years past. It all depends how aggressive they try to be with it. Too aggressive and you get blooming. There are rumors that Sharp sued Samsung years ago over...

I thought there was some class action lawsuits on Samsung TVs related to bad capacitors. I believe the settlement times have expired, but I read Samsung was still fixing them anyway. Yours doesn't seem to be an effected model though.

I'm looking for something larger, like 65-70". Nothing I can buy right now is good enough IMHO. Edge lighting is for the birds. I want a TV with a direct LED backlight with local area dimming. There are a few sets coming out this year that have potential. Vizio is moving to almost all full...

By the way, if you like plasmas the time to buy is near. Panasonic is already out of the business leaving only Samsung with a high end plasma and they're not coming out with any new high end models for 2014 just carryover. The F8500 is a 2013 model. I've auditioned it at several stores, but I...

You're talking to the wrong person. I'll talk you into spending a LOT on a new TV if you're not careful. :p I'm in the market for a new TV myself. I'm looking to get an image quality upgrade from my almost 10 year old read projection CRT.

I can't for the life of me figure out what Gimp is trying to be other than be extremely frustrating to use. It's similar enough to Photoshop that you would logically expect it to work like Photoshop, but it doesn't. In contrast to Gimp, Paint.net is a great program. It doesn't pretend to be...

Hey, they can pick their hill and die on it alone for all I care. But don't start whining about how Linux can't seem to expand it's desktop "marketshare" when they refuse to make a product that's intuitive for a Windows user to pick up. Open Office / Libre Office is a good example. It's very...

I wasn't suggesting they copy it pixel for pixel. It just needs to be functionally similar. Give a Windows user Ubuntu with the Unity UI, they'll be lost. Mint with Cinnamon they can probably handle. It seems that most Linux developers like that Linux is quirky and can't be instantly picked...

Only if the Linux clowns decide to stop intentionally trying to be different for the sake of not being Windows and, you know, do something crazy like copy the Windows US so the average Windows user can actually use Linux without having to relearn everything. Considering how well the Linux...

I for one must say I am shocked at this revelation!

Fasteners on US cars are pretty much all metric anyhow and have been for a long time.

Well that's a given right there. (that it won't be imported to the US)

I did a little better than that.

I guess you can tell I didn't even skim the article very closely.

Wasn't that a Kickstarter project like a year ago?

My S4 won't display any number under 5.0MPG for instantaneous fuel economy. You can get it down to 5MPG short of wide open throttle, so I'm quite sure they artificially limited the displayed number to 5. By the way you should be expecting a visit from one or more three letter agencies shortly...

It's a little late to be starting now

It has a large single sliding drawer / bin on the door, and inside there are two wire shelves. The upper one has the ice maker on the left and empty space for frozen stuff on the right of it. There is a pull out wire shelf below it. And of course the large wire bin attached to the sliding...