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Yeah, I'm not into throwing that much money at this particular problem yet. I do have a good enough backup/failover strategy that it isn't really an issue.

No idea. That disk will now go into a high-end workstation and will likely never have an issue again. From Intel drives I expect more ;)

I have a bunch of member's actual addresses, as well as actual names, but I try to be non-specific and use handles where possible. No need to make that information too easy to find :batman:

I plug in all my devices at the nightstand every night. I don't even pay attention to charge. I know this isn't good for the batteries, but it isn't worth worrying about.

I believe both of them (and Lunar) are in southern California (~500km, might as well be another state).

Meeting people on forums that live close to you is an interesting concept. I suspect I live closest to Silicon Valley of everyone here (60 miles from Google HQ, 70 from Xerox PARC's original HQ). And the closest member is probably Santilli (~140 miles?). In this digital home of geekdom, why...

It is currently listed as "pre-order" I suspect they will never be in stock. ;)

Have one coming now. I'll stick it in a DB VM and see how long it lasts. The last drive in that machine (480GB Corsair Force GT) kept disconnecting itself under really high IO.

Some shopping site, I've lost it now. Those Forgestar wheels do look awesome, and have some technical cojones behind them, but they are hard to find at the larger outlets (tire rack, etc).

I wouldn't know how to check. If you have a test I can run let me know.

Sweet. I've had a number of friends who were strippers. They all had a reasonable (if somewhat cynical) outlook on life. They could also lie in ways that blew my mind.

Sweet. I might get one of those next year. This year not so much. Still in the office...

Usually. Depends on the user.

What size is the S4? The site just recommended 215/45/18, 225/40/18 or 235/40/18 for that wheel.

Yup. They just moved it much further up the page.

Current best price I can find for the Forgestar F14 in 18x8.5 and the Pirelli PZero Nero AS 215/45-18 is $2260 after shipping. Anyone done better?

If I'm spending other people's money, I'm doing the Intel 5xx series SSDs. If I'm spending my own, I'm doing OCZ Vertex/Revo.

Top Gear is likely my favorite show at this point, my wife is actually a fan as well. Only when they start intentionally screwing stuff up do I get bored.

And a Turbo button. I think I still have an AT chassis with one around here somewhere...

That looks pleasant.

I suspect that the wealthiest individuals in each country either directly or indirectly run every country. The only exception would be some of the smaller useful nations (tax code, labor practices, natural resources, extradition treaties) that are "run" by the wealthiest people in the world. The...

Did a 'Busa Turbo (guy claimed ~500hp) when I was a kid...not dumb enough at this point.

Apparently there is a community who trespass just to take cool pictures and be somewhere interesting. It is a good thing I didn't know about this when I was younger, because I would have gotten into so much trouble. Illegal, dangerous, and fascinating. I also really like some of the photography.

I have that hardware configuration, but in Win7, and without error. Nice kit, but one of the Linux guys around here will need to help you. Shouldn't be long ;)

I just keep my two Google apps for domain accounts (personal and work) open simultaneously in two tabs in Firefox. This seems the simplest way to use both and keep them separate?

Under the full version it is at the top under the "Forum Actions" menu.

Might I also recommend some anger management? I can only imagine what your heart rate is like during a destruction session...

I think I'll be going with the Forgestar as well. The last time I was at the dealer I overheard a salesmen telling another customer that their old car was worth more at trade-in because all the services had been performed at the dealership. Does performing the service yourself affect the...

The AudiCare is convenient, and a high-margin item, so there is negotiating to be had there.

I sat in the CTS-V, and the quality of the materials you are surrounded by simply aren't as good. And a wagon that still doesn't have all the features I want is over $72k.

I pretty much have it spec'd in my head, depending on what the final feature list looks like: White with black everything else. Every option. Should be around $63k.

I'd probably switch to that first one.

Sweet! Looks great. Thanks for all the time you put into this place!

This one was $15k. That is a pretty big stretch. And I dislike Sony fairly strongly.

According to our new forum software, 1,956 of the 9000+ posts in this thread are mine. Sorry about that.

My father (a programmer) just got a Das Keyboard Pro S (with lettering, quiet) and is marginally happy with it. It is still noisier than he likes, but you can't help that with a buckling spring keyboard. He also says that the transfer rates from the built-in USB hub suck.

My phone (Motorola i1) has the worst camera of all time. You may as well draw it based on my description and you'll get a better result. We'll be going again in a couple weeks and I'll bring the camera then.

But more recently McLaren has stomped all but Red Bull, including Ferrari (though the Red Bull cars run Ferrari engines).

I am looking for good examples of higher-res stuff as well, just to appreciate on my 2560x1600 screen.

It will only take 1080P input anyway. The additional pixels are just up-sampled via the internal video processor. The main advantage is on larger screens where the visibility of pixels was an issue (this one is about 30' wide)

Looks like I'll get a chance to put in a JVC DLS-RS65U at the boss' house once I upgrade the Theta Digital Casablanca to HDMI and get that damned Faroudja out of there. Should be able to do the whole upgrade for like $20k. Sweet.

No, we just stayed there last night. Dancing was down the street until midnight, and we had a meeting in town the following morning.

That was all before 10AM. After that I spent an hour in traffic and then had to work. So it wasn't all cherries and butterflies.

No, of course I didn't have the camera. ;)

An interesting car day so far. Just down the street from our hotel in Palo Alto was the McLaren dealership. Got to have a look inside the MP4-12C, as well as look at an exposed chassis/engine and old F1 car they had in the showroom. Then on University Ave I was overtaken by a Google self-driving...

I'll need to hit you up for that. How big was it?

All the time lapse stuff? 'cause it looks like that post was removed.

They are a big step up in cost at least. Once you have a touch screen remote, a couple candy-bar remotes, one in-wall panel, and the IR repeater stuff in back, you are nearing 6-figures. Want some whole-house audio distribution? Your surveillance cameras tied into the AV? You are talking more...

Look on the bright side...I'm working on one of these systems. And that price is a mere fraction of retail. It makes the Harmony software look like the best GUI of all time.

Trading in my 2011 A3 is a bad financial idea; most of the depreciation has just happened, and not getting some more miles/time on it before selling it means I eat all the depreciation. As the depreciation has now slowed, driving it for a few more months while it is still basically new makes...