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Watch out for gout with the red wine.

I know you said no WD drives but in any case, Outpost.com has WD 200GB JB retail drives for $100, after $90 in MIRs. http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3483523

Can't you use a directional antenna to poach from your neighbours without leaving the house? Or is it too far away?

I'll give you a special price on a very quiet IBM 15K drive :D

I guess the thing with candid shots is that you may get a negative reaction if you have a hulking digital SLR on your chest. But IIRC there were plenty of SLRs at that event you went to last year anyway. Right now I''ve found that 3.3MP isn't enough to give me sufficient rez for letter size...

Put an array of functionless but impressive looking aeriels up, and make sure you have the cheap steel wheels with no covers. You should be fine. A mounted shotgun on the dash may be going too far tho....

True mubs. I imagine my XP1700s don't take up near the power of those greedy T-bird 1.2s etc.

That tool is borken. It told me I need a 620W PSU for my dual athlon machine, that runs just fine on an Antec 420W. That's four 15K drives, 3 IDE 7200rpms, SCSi card PCI IDE controller, two cpus, two HSFs, two system fans.

Plus it looks like you would have to pay AccessUSa via wire transfer, if you wanted them to pay with their credit card - since most tech companies won't accept an international CC.

Sorry to hear that Doug :(

No. The only way you can capture compnent output right now is to get a W-VHS deck, they were originally made for Japanese analog HDTV recording, they can capture fine thru component inputs, only downside is no digital audio, they capture analog stereo (DPL). No need to worry about copy never...

How about a retractable screen that covers the whole front windshield, and a projector mounted on the roof in the back. It would be a very nice widescreen theatre, just recline the seats and enjoy. Bit hard to do whilst driving tho. And a gyro stabilized Dish for content delivery.

Ok, last post about this, I promise time :D Look, I know it's hard to understand fubar, but the quote I gave you is from Kellerman him-bloody-self. Kellerman has his own agenda, he got funding from the CDC (i.e. from American taxpayers) to prove that legally owned guns cause crime. It is in...

I guess the benefit of having a retracting screen is that it wouldn't be as tempting for car thieves. How about getting a laptop, seperating the screen from the guts, and using a longer LVDS? cable so you can mount the brains in the boot or something? I belive it's illegal to have TV/video...

Funnily enough I remember listening to that episode on Triple J, where he was talking about the smoothness of the road where only the road trains go.

A friend of mine in Aus bought a second hand short wheel base LandCruiser. The springs on it were so hard then when on corrugated roads you could easily break kidney-stones without going to the hospital. Still plenty on room for all our gear when we went rock climbing.

Let us say that 30% of women are killed by their husbands/boyfriends. If twice the level of murder by stranger, that must mean that 15% are murdered by strangers. That leaves 55%. Who are these people? If not strangers, or partners? Acquaintances? Other women? Then the biggest killer of women...

Your hypothesis is fine. Unfortunately the real world is not that way. When you pass laws that restrict the ownership of firearms, they do not effect the criminals who already have guns. In a fantasy world you could pass a law banning all guns, knives and sharp pointy sticks. Then everyone...

Also where in your link does it mention whether a gun, a knife or some other implement was used? I put it to you that the knife was originally created out of flint, attached to a stick and used as a spear to kill animals in the time when man learnt to walk on two legs. It wasn't used to peel...

From your link: "WOMEN KILLED BY PARTNERS/SPOUSE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ According to FBI statistics, 30% of female murder victims in 1990, the last year for which statistics are available, were killed by their husbands or boyfriends. That is...

Merc: I'm afraid you have brought this thread back on on topic. I must leave now....

A knife is designed to cut. Whether it cuts living flesh (stabbing) or cuts your steak for dinner, it's up to the user. A firearm is designed to propel a projectile at high speed. Whether it's used to take an animal for consumption, or hit a paper target, or shoot someone in self-defense or...

Back in the days when you could get a Land Rover or Land Cruiser for $30,000, I would have said to get one of those. However the LandCruiser now starts at something unbelievable like $60 grand. And the LandRover isn't much better. The US 2004 RAV4 has stability control etc standard, which...

Have you ever owned or even used a firearm? Does your government even allow it? Sounds like fear of the unknown to me. A gun doesn't cause a murder by shooting any more than a kitchen knife causes a stabbing to occur. It's a tool. It can be used for good or evil. They are used for hunting...

I prefer the "free" uni education in Australia. The government will defer payments until you make over a certain income level, then they take a small percentage out at tax time. Cost me about US$1250 for tuition per year. At that time medical students payed the same rate as well, now it's up to...

Yeah I got knocked back for the Paypal one too. I thought I was a prime candidate for the <$300 limit and 25+% interest rate :D I still can't figure out how I was approved for the Sears card (Citibank).

How did your friend get a credit card with no existing credit history? Right now I'm stuck with a Sears card and a secured credit card. Never mind that I have an Aussie Visa card with a hefty limit, no use for proving yourself here. Apparently after about 6 months of on-time payments on the...

Just to state the obvious, you will need a 68->80pin LVD adaptor to run it with a controller card. Or use an SCA enclosure.

2006 it will be mandatory for stations to broadcast in digital, but HD has not been mandated. Meaning you may well see a digital Standard Definition picture.

Apparenly the latest NV and ATI "GPUs" have over 200 million transistors. That exceeds many general purpose CPUs. I can't see Intel and AMD doubling die size to get the graphics in the CPU, even if the die will be pretty tiny in 10 years time.

I got an "invalid post mode" or something like that an hour or so ago when trying to submit a reply. I went back and resubmitted, it worked fine.

Biggest problem I have with Outlook 2003 is that is often becomes unresponsive when dl'ing emails. If it's downloading messages and I click on a link in an email, I know I'll be waiting a good 30 secs before it wakes up and launches an IE window. I don't know if it's to do with the 13,000...

LOL, yeah it is certainly a wierd noise. When I first installed one and heard the noise, I thought one of the kids was having a nightmare in the other room. Took me a while to track it down.

Ah, thanks Howell. That makes more sense :)

Usually the creditor will resubmit the check in a few days and if it goes thru I don't imagine they will place it on your credit reports. If it does a hard bounce they prob would. As for your own bank, I'm not sure.

Is brick house a good term in the USA? Because in Australia when you say a girl is built like a brick [shit] house it ain't a term of endearment :D

I believe something like 90% of the Spanish people didn't want to enter into the war in Iraq. The Prime Minister went ahead anyway. Turns out the WMD was a bit of a boo boo. I imagine he would have lost the election anyway, terrorist bombings or not. Perhaps the new guy meant that the...

I'm all excited since the anti-gun "assault weapon" aka lets ban evil looking things law looks like it will expire in September. No more paying out the ass for pre-ban >10 round mags. Some people made a lot of money by stocking up on pre-ban gear before the law went into effect. I have no probs...

Most movie DVDs are dual layer (8.5GB). Now usually the movie itself only takes between 4-6GB, the rest is used for worthless bonus feature crap. If under 4.3GB, you can just put the movie on a standard DVD+R or DVD-R disc, it will work fine. If it's bigger than that, you can use free software...

That Philips drive looks sweet. Hopefully they will improve on the curren 2.4x burn speeds on the DL discs. I notice it consumes 25W? Isn't that high for a burner?

DVD+R DL will allow you to store 8.5GB of data on a single side, just like the dual layer commercial movie DVDs you buy.

You can get an 8x NEC dual format DVD+-RW drive from Newegg for $92. Say another $50 for an external FW enclosure and you are still better off. I wouldn't waste my money on a 4x at the present time, with dual layer drives becoming available in the next month or two the 8x single layer drives...

We've had about 4 inches since 10am this morning, will prob be a foot or more by tomorrow morning, with another snow system for Thursday arvo.

Class A motorhome with dual slideouts?

Dual Gigabit lan or just 10/100?

Buffy Season 7 on DVD April 5th (Region 2 from UK). Life is good.

Given the prices of the 147GB 10K drives, I don't think we'll be seeing the 300GB drives for anywhere near $250. Prob closer to $1K.

Actually the MS licensing for WMV9 has gotten better as time has gone on. One of the first retail titles, T2: Extreme Edition (or was it ultimate I forget), required a license to be downloaded before the HD content could be played back. I believe the license expired in a week, and had to be...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provider/film/ContentShowcase.aspx Three new clips available, Dawn of the Dead, Dust to Glory, and True Crime. All in 720p.

Nice work! :)