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Kyocera Echo. Engadget review here. Equivalent resolution to iPad that collapses into a phone form factor. Awesome, when can I buy one?

CougTek, an episode of QI explained that up to the 1940's, pink was considered a manly color best suited for boys, while blue was more appropriate for girls. You can confirm this for yourself on Wikipedia and other references.

I don't really see the raison d'être for the LianLi V354, except for the USB 3.0 ports and that it's available in red/pink ...

Stereodude, I owe you an apology. With the benefit of some wine under my belt, I've reread my earlier post and can now clearly see why you thought I was gloating. In fact, it was just an accident of composition. Linking the article made me think about some of the nuclear experts that have...

LunarMist! Don't frighten the cattles.

You could use a high chair. :idea:

That's actually too bizarre for me to be able to take offense. :dunno: I was more concerned that I was in a glasshouse throwing stones: My concern has been the extraordinary propagation of disinformation, only partly due to the language barrier and lazy journalism. There have been almost no...

Level 7 It seems to me, that the people who claimed that there was nothing much to worry about should be apologizing profusely to those they publicly denigrated. All I can hear are crickets chirping.

Clearly, you don't consume enough hard liquor.

Molyneux's Question solved

Cool. Does make you think; I wonder if it could be made efficient enough to work in any direction, by always pointing the propeller into the wind?

That would be $80.60 here, and I haven't seen a full-serve station in at least 15 years. I believe Toyota Landcruisers can take up to 35 US gallons; that's over $200 to really fill your car. :o

Does that include sales tax? If not, then you're finally within 10% of what we pay in Oz. Congratulations?

Is that one of the old 80GB Raptors?

Thanks Bozo, that's the same conclusion I had come to, so it's great to have someone else confirming their actual experience. I have my own arm strain problems. My desk has a corner cutout with a lowered tray for the keyboard. I have to use the mouse away from that and off to one side, which...

I mostly agree with Greg about the Samsung 23" LED - but it all boils down to Samsung charging way over the odds for a mediocre product because it has the magic word "LED" in its description. I'm really tired of Samsung inflicting TN crap on us, but that appears to be their business model. I...

Have to agree with LiamC. I really don't know where you would even send an LG monitor for repair these days - they sent previous service agents out of business. I guess they have stock of 'refurbished' models to offload on anyone who makes a warranty claim. In this country, LG has one of the...

Lunar, meet Greg. Greg, meet Lunar. It's a typo ...

Does anyone know what the person-who's-not-speaking-to-me is on about?

All the services you listed probably average $650 per month for us. Some are increasing at phenomenal rates. Electricity: $200-300 Garbage: >$50 Phone & Internet: >$100 Water & Sewer: >$100 Television: <$100 Electricity and Water are increasing at about 10-20% pA. Water is particularly galling...

1.8GHz Athlon Time to load CCC first time: 11 seconds Time to load CCC subequent times: 2 seconds 2.6GHz Athlon X2 Time to load CCC first time: 6 seconds Time to load CCC subequent times: 1 second 3.1/3.3GHz i5 Time to load CCC first time: 2 seconds Time to load CCC subequent times: <1 second...

ADDING ICE (from www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk) Adding ice to your favourite single malt Scotch whisky is such a shame. Putting ice in your whisky will only reduce the temperature of the whisky, freezing its aroma and the smell, and will only dull the taste of the whisky. Many people do add ice, if...

Which ISP are you with? I hate them all, but am currently with Internode. Telstra doesn't play nice anymore; ISPs have trouble reselling their service for a reasonable price.

Heavy smokers? Razor blades? Steady on, some of us have stopped drinking milk, you know. For me the smoky flavour of peat is what defines Scotch Whisky, and the Islay malts are the main source. Add a hint of salt and iodine and you have a uniquely complex taste experience, exemplified by...

Er, what do you mean by ".NET-crippled drivers"?

Hi, how's "retirement"?

I found a video that shows that the so-called barrier was just a pipe handrail hung with wire mesh. However, the video also shows that there were concrete stop strips and that they appear to be still intact. Further digging revealed that the vehicle was a Mitsubishi Outlander SUV, and that the...

Spent half an hour playing with a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch. The Touch-only variant is discontinued and very heavily discounted, but we reluctantly concluded it wasn't even worth the $25 asking price. Possibly not as bad as the cheapest touchpads that you tend to find on netbooks, but otherwise...

Please keep both hands on the keyboard when posting.

Why? What are you trying to achieve?

I would really appreciate people sharing any practical experience in dealing with hand/wrist tendonitis issues, i.e. RSI. My daughter is the sufferer. Mouse usage seems to be the trigger. She switched to her left hand and has now hurt that arm as well. For someone who's attached to one computer...

You're rather proud of that, aren't you? :) I don't know what CPU Greg's using, and 2GB isn't much RAM, but the times seem significantly slower than the Corsair Sandforce drive I had here.

Actually, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Some of those multi-story car parks have only a flimsy pedestrian barrier that you wouldn't want to even lean on, let alone push a car against - you wouldn't even feel it. What's missing is a concrete stop strip. I have no idea how this is...

Wow, thanks for the heads up. What are you replacing them with? I was considering Powerware.

Can you open the NAS admin page if you start Windows in Safe Mode with Networking? When you say you can't log into it, I assume you mean you can't load the page at all? You've tried different browsers? Does repairing the network connection achieve anything? Can you remap the NAS admin port to...

Meanwhile, Tepco is looking for 'jumpers'. Want to earn $5000 for less than an hour's work? Come on down!

Why don't you use the BIOS option to swap the Fn and Ctrl keys? You have a T410, right?

Cable Safe might interest a few people here.

I've been trying to find a justification to use a desktop (as opposed to tower) case, specifically the Silverstone ML-03 because it's cheap and has front-panel USB 3.0 ports. But it's too thick for height-adjustable monitors to sit on, and most people with more than one monitor wouldn't want...

That's really quite naughty of them (Tech ARP) - there are countless gullible people who will link to that article or make claims on the strength of it. The author's name is the only really obvious giveaway that I can see.

Er, was it a replacement for a return?

I've had much more success with FF 4 on a further two PCs. It's giving similar results to Chrome and Opera on a variety of javascript pages. I've even installed it on an Atom netbook, where again, it seemed mostly comparable to Chrome 11 and Opera 11.10. I've yet to see any benefit from...

1. Despite using the latest version of IE, they tested with older versions of Chrome and Opera (Firefox 4 is of course brand new). HTML5 support is constantly evolving, so even a point release can make a very big difference. 2. I tried the 'CPU power states meter' app from the IE 9 demo site...

1. It doesn't matter: the drive's wear levelling dictates which physical cells are actually written. It creates the illusion that you are writing to the same place again and again. 2. Yes, Windows cannot pass TRIM commands to physical drives in a RAID set. That's because Windows sees a single...

A bigger bird this time, a herring gull. Be sure to watch the separate animation to see how it works. Their brochure says it has a 2.0 metre wingspan and weighs around 400 grams. It has an electromechanical efficiency factor of around 45% and an aerodynamic efficiency factor as high as 80%. I...

Perhaps because Tepco has so far not allowed anyone else near it? Plenty of expert bodies have offered assistance, and the Japanese government has made appreciative noises, but I've yet to hear of foreign experts being involved in any way. Happy to be proved wrong in retrospect. The only...

After running some searches on that forum, the only clear information I could find that is that stuttering afflicts people with Marvell motherboard controllers - for them, the problem goes away if they use the Microsoft AHCI driver. Even that observation may be out of date.

Thanks, that's the sort of feedback I was worried about. Does this mean that Bozo is still running version 002?

After reading yet more benchmarks, I'm pretty much sold on the Crucial C300 - preferably the 256GB model because of its much higher write throughput. It has by far the best 4kB/8kB performance of any current SSD. There's also the distinct advantage that I can buy them directly from Crucial U.S...

Meanwhile, the misinformation spin that provides fertile ground for that kind of idiocy continues unabated. After a PR blitz claiming that 10 million times was a mistake, and that they really meant 100,000 times, Tepco came up with two alternative stories: a) It was only 100,000 times for water...