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Please continue to post, just understand that Merc and I consider the reviews on Newegg and the like completely without value. It isn't that they are occasionally right, or contain some kernel of truth, they are simply useless. I'm willing to bet that the bad pins referred to were user error...

It is...convenient that you hold that opinion, JTR. ;)

If reliability is high on your list, I would put the Intel drives on top. For price reasons the 330, 320, and 520 in that order. Then the Samsung, then the Corsair, then the Kingston.

In terms of bang/buck, reliability, or pure speed?

I have a pair of these I can send your way. Edit: Here is the full PDF

I'm on revision three already, and I haven't even presented it to the boss, much less HR. Fortunately legal won't have a chance to see it. I want to keep it to two pages of plain English, and that means no lawyers.

Currently writing the new cell phone policy for the company. I can't think of too many more boring yet mentally tasking projects.

Goooaaaaaaal!

Merc got it in one. This is California; our building codes mostly prevent that kind of damage. And quakes happen often enough that things that aren't stable don't accumulate. Of course, I suspect a hurricane would mess us up pretty bad.

I'm tempted to relocate my entire equipment rack to the garage and just run conduit for DVI/USB/Audio to the desks.

Meh, previous management took too short-term a view and dug themselves a hole. Not the end of the world, or even the company. The stock analyst the article talked to still has OCZ as a "hold" and not a "sell", meaning he thinks they took a bigger hit than they deserve.

Still good fun until 8.

Years ago someone posted about plumbing it in with their swimming pool. If you could resolve the contamination and corrosion issues that would be pretty sweet.

Heh, one of the guys on the game I'm playing just said they had one. Must be somewhere near you.

I don't have any of them, I was just checking the specs.

Which one? I know the StarTech puts out 900mA, which should be enough.

It isn't, you just need to run some conversion software. It is still stupid; even my phone supports the standard encoding formats.

That is excellent. Too bad you don't have any depleted uranium kicking around...

You can't do that with snail mail spammers, why would they make it easier in the digital age? If they aren't going to get anything from you, they clearly don't care if they piss you off. IIRC, FB's policies and pages were so complex that there were some third-party tools for managing privacy...

That does look really awesome.

You don't game at work Merc?

For the record, "Work" (see sig) idles at 140W. Not exactly efficient.

Well if this is where you decided to pop back in, allow me to post a greeting in it as well. ;) Glad to see you back, hope you are well.

It will quite easily. The only problem I have playing video from my 7D is that the format isn't compatible with my favorite video playback software (Media Player Classic Home Cinema)

Actually, my office is pretty much silent. I've already taken the major steps: Acoustic paneling, more on the way NZXT external fan controller, the computer is silent when not gaming Replaced the ballasts in the overhead lights with silent ones If I have a laptop on my desk, I can hear the fan...

If it makes you feel any better I procrastinated too long and didn't get the deal either. Just ordered the "4"s. Not sure what I'm going to do about the rest of the audio path, at the moment my motherboard has the following: Not sure how much more a USB soundcard would get me?

HD4000 in on CPU and it isn't bad at all. If you aren't gaming and don't care about GPU acceleration in newer versions of Photoshop, it will do fine.

Old enough to be a whole lot of things. First guess would be reseating the RAM, second would be to check for caps, third would be swap the PSU.

Since the topic of the thread is "solved", we may as well keep talking about SSDs. When it comes to hard drive reliability, I'm quite confident that SSDs are "good enough". Here is my reasoning: 1. Regardless of drive, only a fool would not have a backup, so data retention is a non-issue. 2...

1. All my workstation drives are SSD now. 2. The chassis they sell has mounting points above the tank for drives 3. Despite legit concerns, there are people on the internet who have HDDs submerged for years without issue, and I didn't find anyone who did have an issue.

And if you had to clean all the oil off/out of an electrical component, what would you use?

Nope, no possibility of warranty. Very tempting...

Honestly, if I were looking at having a server in the same space as my office I would submerge it in oil.

My fundamental complaint with the noise profile of 1U servers is that they contain many, many small high-speed fans. If you could instead take a couple large (say, 1m) slow (600rpm) fans and duct that air into the front of it the server would be much quieter. Of course, the fan blades would need...

Hasn't that been their only market for years now?

7D should be plenty good for any of the "L" lenses, it's not like they have too many models to test. In any case, I've unloaded the lens already.

I suspect you are correct, 1280x1024 should be child's play to any newish machine.

Handruin is correct that it is physically possible, but I can't see it being a rewarding experience.

Short answer is no. Video memory and bandwidth are important on that kind of thing. Even the 4GB on my $1k+ GTX 690 is stressed @ 2560x1600. It will probably run, but why would you plan to not have the resolution and eye-candy turned up to the max? Simulations are the most rewarding (IMO) when...

Yeah...I can think of many places that would be worse than where you are, but I can only speak to those I know to be better.

There is quite a bit of Clint Mansell in my Pandora lists already, so thanks for that. I would say that 80% of my friends are already in a relationship, and that they are the regulars at these events. But someone always brings a friend or two along, and sometimes it works. I would say I have a...

The 85/1.2 was great for studio work, the images were great. The downsides were that it weighed a ton and the autofocus was off by 5-10x the DoF @ 1.2 when it did eventually settle on what it thought was focus. If I was doing studio work and had a larger external monitor to use liveview and...

How fast/accurate is the auto-focus on that? The 85/1.2 sucked.

I don't think I would draw any interest on social websites or speed dating, either. I'm not much to look at and I can't help but denegrate myself or slip into some really geeky minutia about something very quickly. Every relationship I have been in was not their idea to start with. In fact, if...

I would argue that this hasn't been true for many years, at least with normal installations. Sure, try gaming on multiple monitors or SLI-ing several GPUs and you could find problems. And even the power consumption argument isn't as strong now that GPUs can power down and allow lower-powered...

Of course, the pros are shooting with RED Ones.

Very tempting, but with a kid coming I think I would be killed.

4K Video goodness

I'd only need 6 of those at the moment...

I can assure you that moving into the Silicon Valley, particularly around Palo Alto/Los Altos would increase your chances of finding someone tenfold. There are geeky graduate students and others more our age. I could introduce you to an entire house full of them.