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I'll be going to work later today for just that reason.

It would be interesting to know how many unique members have been active for >2 years. I know many of us go back over 10 years here and many many more at SR.

Indeed.

Was I the only one that hadn't made this connection before now?

Wetsuits are remarkably buoyant. I bet you would need some weights even after the tank is strapped to your back.

Awesome. Congrats. When I was diving I had some strange combination of claustrophobia and acrophobia. Not debilitating, just not something I'd want to do for fun.

My father is a programmer, he is also left handed.

It was a car accident already. I'd built a different machine (latest i7 and 64GB of RAM) for her, and she changed her mind and wanted something more. For a $4k machine I don't worry about deposits, for a $10k machine I should have. But the ball was already rolling, so...

Not you, the person I built the system for. I didn't spend the money to build a folding machine, it was for a client. Of course, until she pays me it may as well keep folding.

That happens to be the very device I have in my hand now. The cable works great, but the power side of things is a pain. They ship with a power cable, but those are so useful they end up in use elsewhere.

I get to do emergency data recovery on a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB. I don't even have an IDE machine kicking around anywhere. Do they make a parallel IDE USB toaster?

I wish this person would pay me, but in the meantime, it's nice to be in the top 150 for daily production (was top 100 for a week).

Awesome.

I can cash out my PTO. It accrues until there are 200 hours, then I cash out back to 100. Nice little bonus.

I suspect Merc is in the same boat I am; while I am gone, nothing will happen. At best the work will simply pile up so that when you return you are colossally far behind. At worst you are called constantly while away, even being dragged home before you intended to.

Sounds like you get to go to a pair of rails 19" apart with the servers hung from them. I've had to do that before; it wasn't pretty. Or you can have some shelves installed and switch to (shallow) tower cases.

Awesome. Thanks!

The most I may have is a chain of e-mails. The average is probably a voicemail from a panicked manager. Worst case is a phone call that doesn't specify anything and just mentions "some issues".

Are you doing these analyses personally? What is the price for something like that?

Build some kind of redundancy into the platters? With that kind of density STR would be awesome.

My heartrate was fine (~150), I've just out-trained the group I was riding with I suppose.

Maybe lately or maybe soon?

You live in a different world to most of my clients. They tell me the day they realize they need it done, and I tell them when I think I can get to it.

The biblically scary part is cool, I can run with that ;)

Indeed. It makes my dream SL3 Roubaix with Di2 look cheap.

This one splits in half and is supposed to fit into a regular bike case for shipping. The one I'm interested in (mid-range) would be about $7k.

Awesome. That would be ahead of schedule, no? I can only hope for the same.

Looking at something like this for the wife and I. Can't find a price online so I suspect I can't afford it. Edit: Particularly considering we would each need a pair of Look Power Pedals so we could settle any argument over who is doing most of the work. ;)

AFAIK, Auto is the same as Comfort unless you go past the detent in the throttle or over 4500RPM, then it transitions to Dynamic. It may also be triggered by going to manual shifting in the DSG cars. No reference, but I think it was mentioned in an episode of Fifth Gear.

I'm fairly certain that the performance numbers will be significantly affected by having more than one benchmark going at once. In the spirit of most online forums, allow me to not answer your question but offer a different solution. Get an eSATA hotswap toaster. At least you won't have to open...

What is the service interval for the S4? After the first 5k, mine is every 10k.

I think the issue is that I'm not sure how much I have left as I ride, so the closer I get the less worried about reserve I become. The ride today was nuts. I lead out the first ~15 miles of a 40 mile ride, all between 20-23mph. Didn't realize it, but when I looked behind, I had busted the...

Nope, that is the one. And before we mark it as a failure, you should know that I'm not very clever on this kind of thing. Every test looks like it should work, so it might be a great product and I'm just missing something. I just haven't had the time to spend on it lately. Perhaps I'll have a...

If the product is available any other way, yes it is. If you are willing to bet on something that no corporation has, there are risks involved. But it also allows much more agility compared to a major corporation and normal market research based products.

Yeah, I'm sold.

Not a pyramid, just a single layer. They have an idea, you pay something in exchange for something when the project is finished, they take that money and do their idea. If it works you get your thing. Think of it as getting a business loan from your customers.

Good ride today. Put the new Mavic Ksyrium SL wheels on with Continental GatorSkin 700x23c tires and Michelin Airstop Butyl tubes. Only saved about 2lbs of rolling mass, but I did average 3mph faster over 20 miles than last week despite a stronger headwind. Still trying to figure out the Garmin...

I may actually buy a watch. If it actually becomes a real thing you can order.

I'd like to make the observation that Mercutio has made more than 16,000 posts in this forum, and thank him for his contribution to making this the kind of place it is. Thanks Merc!

I propose that the underlying reason is money.

Mine wasn't specifically a complaint, simply amazement. If it does indeed perform as advertised I'd pay five times that much to have it on my car right now. Concern one is that it might not; I've never heard of it before, and have heard no independent testimonials. Concern two is that anything...

Interesting. But $60/oz? Holy cow.

Just because I like being the third wheel, I recently ditched all my nVidia cards for ATI due to BSOD issues. Problem solved. Of course, I did switch from ATI to nVidia a couple years ago for F@H. Honestly, the only reason I care most of the time is because their driver packages are so darned...

Not in quite a while. Even when I got it dialed in the system would crash about twice as often. I don't consider it worth the hassle.

That is why I only post here.

I'm getting close to perfecting my OCC technique in Civ5. 1200+ hours of gameplay will do that...

Mine would have been nearly $64k...no way I could swing that.

I'll take that as a compliment, I love most of Merc's posts.

Anything as awesome as breasts deserve as many names as possible. In fact, I think all letter combinations not already allocated should be used for this purpose.

Think of the tatas...