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We don't do this very often, it's just that very occasionally we want to watch a downloaded video on one of our TVs, each of which has a DVD recorder attached. So there's no chance I'm going to spend anything other than a small amount of money, and that definitely excludes an HTPC or similar...

I think you've hit the nail on the head, LiamC. Chewy, how's this for a what if: Instead of a 1440x810 14" display, you could have a 1440x1080 15.3" display using the same size pixels but with a full third more lines, that fits in the same form factor notebook! Consumer-driven my ass. The...

But only with non-TN panels, given their polarization. Two or three non-TN panels adds up to a very expensive solution. Also, I'd suggest that 2160x1920 isn't necessarily an improvement over a single 2560x1600 30" monitor. I reckon it would be best with a trio (3240x1920) rather than a pair.

Actually, it's much worse. The newer ones are now 1366x768. I expect to have to compromise on lines in a sub-compact notebook, but not on a 15.6" screen! To put that into perspective, a 16:9 15.6" panel is the same height as a 16:10 14.4" panel or a piddly 4:3 12.7" panel. So can anyone tell...

Which were ideal for multi-monitor setups.

From Newegg, May 26th 2010: 26x 20" monitors 21x 21.5" monitors 33x 22" monitors 31x 23" monitors 12x 23.6" monitors 34x 24/24.1/24.6" monitors Of these 157 monitors, 12 are 1920x1200 but at least one is no longer available. In 123 20", 21", 22" and 23" models, there are none with 1920x1200...

So WTF has happened to LCD technology, that here we are, in 2010, with much the same number of f**king display lines as we had in 2004, or even earlier? What's the point in hex-core CPUs if we can't even buy a reasonable display? FFS, we've actually gone backwards, 1920x1200 used to be an...

Stereodude, this thread has gone dead because there aren't any new 16:10 displays. Only legacy laptops have them, and by definition they are obsolete and hard to find. Boy, do I sympathize with your Dad, but that's the way it is. The only option left is an iPad (16:12). Seriously though, I...

CityK, that's a really excellent summary of How Things Work. It's way better than anything that I've been able to find while scouring the Oz press (depressingly). The only thing I'd add is from an informed poster's comment on a blog: the Aussie is traded as a proxy for China (the Yuan can't be...

This is the common explanation, but on reflection I think it's overly simplistic. Greek workers and companies don't need to take a haircut in lieu of the ability to devalue the currency - it's purely the public sector that has a problem. Workers can freely move in and out of Greece and are all...

Super-High-Alcohol Beer Heads to the U.S. Love the names: "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" and "Sink The Bismarck!", not to mention their low-alcohol beer, "Nanny State".

I'm ashamed to admit I played the Google version until I scored about 60,000. :( I never played it with coins because I thought it was ridiculously simple and poor entertainment for the money. Defender was my tipple, I could play for an hour and a half on one coin. Mind blowingly difficult -...

So if I understand you correctly, progressives give you less height than bifocals? I thought they were supposed to be a replacement for bi and tri-focals?

Huh? I was talking about agencies/HR depts managing resumes. What do you mean?

That's because their software can only parse Word documents. And they want to reduce you to a few keywords in a database.

Fixed or progressive focal length? How much different is the Add when compared to your reading glasses? TIA.

You're right, I missed it. Sorry. We can also get fruit and veg deliveries to our door. Would that make it bearable for you guys?

Not quite, that's what the mining companies are saying will happen. Bluntly, Australian mining execs are frequently "prominent racing identities". One of the most outspoken recently managed to duck and weave past a "misleading and deceptive conduct" prosecution.

In the last week or two, the Australian dollar has lost more than 10% of its value. At one stage today, it had lost 3% from peak to trough. No-one really knows why, except for global uncertainty about future commodities (minerals) pricing. Down and down it goes, where it stops, nobody knows...

You're the only one to point out the bleeding obvious. I can see that Jamie Oliver has his work cut out for him. Where I am, emergency fruit and veg can be had from a convenience store 5 minutes walk away. A bit over 1km away, there's a shopping center with 2 (large) supermarkets as well as an...

Okay, fair cop, I assumed that anyone with a 40W fridge bulb would also leave the door open for extended period of time - sorry, my bad.

60W!? Jesus ...

Great testing, thanks Chewy. Have you considered extending your masochism to validating Win 7 as well? While not contributing any money whatsoever, we are happy to welcome the fruit of your labors. :salut:

No, I will stop you, Rational Man! (Apologies to Who's Line Is It Anyway).

Fair enough. Coolant is added to increase the boiling point of water, but more particularly, to substantially decrease the freezing point. Pressurization increase the boiling point much further. So, with an Internal Combustion Engine, cooling capacity is increased. However, with a PC and its...

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If a toilet room is 2.1x1m or 2.3x0.9m with a ceiling of 2.4m, that's about 5000 liters. Unless they're jtr1962, most people would be happy with a 40W incandescent bulb in a room that size, especially if the walls are a light color. The interior of a domestic refrigerator is invariably white...

What makes a refrigerator European?

See, you've proved my point without even understanding it. Outside the US, 19 cubic ft is a big fridge, not a modest one. Even in Australia (the 52nd state), side-by-side door refrigerators are the exception rather than the norm, although that's been changing with the new 'McMansion' houses...

Unfortunately, I can believe that. 40W is enough to have some impact on the internal temperature if the door is open for a minute or two. What is it that drives Americans to excess in all things? Not meaning to be offensive, but efficiency just doesn't appear to be part of the DNA. Even the...

Just 15 lumens and a mind bogglingly poor CRI of 32! You'd get better results from a 1.7W bulb - oh wait, that's how much power this POS draws anyway ... AFAIK, the most common wattage for a refrigerator is 15W, although it ranges between 5 and 25W. 15W should be good for about 100 lumens.

Might be time to update this thread, I feel. Ddrueding's bubble happened more to CougTek's timescale, we're almost at mid 2010 and the DOW is currently above 10650. Two years ago, I (like Warren Buffet) was expecting the Euro to stay strong and the USD to sink. Two key causes that changed this...

Firstly, would you mind not referring to a 100 year old company, apparently the 3rd largest 'technology company' in the world with 400,000 employees, as a type of grill? I have nothing but fond memories of all sorts of Hitachi products over a 40-year span and I'd like to keep it that way. :p...

Greg, I guess you should have gone with the C905. It includes a fart filter: What’s that noise?

Thanks Bozo, but NCH Prism doesn't create VOBs, or even MPEG2. I would need NCH Express Burn Plus Video Edition, which is $80.

First, an update: WinAVI achieved most of what I was looking for, with a good quality-speed trade-off, given the low quality of most of the source material, that is. But it was single-threaded. Early this year, they released a newer, multi-threaded version. Speed is fantastic, the more cores...

F**k me, now it works! So it must have been a temporary glitch of some kind? I can't be certain that I tried rebooting the PC, but certainly it afflicted more than one browser over more than one day. Well, that mollifies me quite a lot, as well as making me look stupid. Although I stand by the...

It can't even do the basics: I didn't expect full compatibility, but it should at least be able to handle something that simple. I also put the boot into Open Office, but it's nowhere near as bad as this, and Open Office doesn't have a fraction of the development resources that Google has.

No responses, leading me to conclude that no-one here really uses this shit. Ddrueding, are you sure your users aren't stocking up on tar and feathers? I'm a bit fed up with the outrageous claims that alternative office software vendors come up with, starting with Sun. They all seem to be okay...

Yes, it allows them to be more conservative with areal densities if they choose.

Okay, I spent some more time on it. It always displays in draft view, there is no page view. So it is showing me the whole document, but without any page breaks. At the bottom, it says "Page 1 of 4", which is nonsense. Hence my confusion. It's incapable of previewing the document I linked...

Hitachi and Samsung appear to be more conservative when it comes to adopting new technology. Frustrating if you want the latest and greatest, but reassuring to the rest of us.

How about this Word 2007 document in a zip archive?

So, I tried Google Docs with both Chrome and Opera. Why can't I get to the second page of any Word document (2003/2007)? Is Google Apps somehow different, i.e. it actually works?

In Oz, our current government is attempting to rollout FTTP/FTTH (fiber to the premises/home) to 90-93% of premises. It is expected to be scalable for the next 40 years. It will replace telephony, cable TV and, of course, Internet access. Video on demand is expected to be just one service that...

Lunar, you're an especially frustrating person to try to help, revealing just enough to get us guessing but never the whole story. Any chance you could lift the veil and actually give us a history, as well as the full details of the PC concerned?

Flash the BIOS. If that doesn't fix it, turf the motherboard. Of course, it could be a 64-bit device driver, or the way that driver is initializing the device. You run some odd-ball stuff, so that's possible.

The larger the project, the less clearly the client and vendor are delineated. I wonder if that also is part of the problem? What I'm trying to say is, the client drives the solution to the extent of embedding innumerable consultants, analysts and PMs, and the vendor responds in kind (as a sort...

That's a pretty poor analogy. A more accurate one would be the car manufacturer dictating what sort of person can drive your car, or even ride in it.

It was still an inappropriate question. Do you really believe that is how you should manage risk, by blind process rather than proper analysis? The issue with the fans had absolutely nothing to do with the case, yet you were prepared to create a faux association between them; good for finding...