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Oddly prescient that Lunar mentioned Graviton, since that's who Dr. Franklin Hall is within the Marvel Universe. Graviton was also the first villain the team faced in "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes", the middle of THREE Avengers cartoons that have been on the Disney channel in the last five...

In my experience the 4TB Seagates are faster than both the 7200rpm Hitachi models.

No. She's in some of the same social circles as my best friend. The somewhat more amusing bit is that she's affiliated with this commuter campus of Purdue that really has no facilities at all to speak of, that has historically done everything possible to minimize its association with the main...

The head of my local Purdue campus's physics department was one of the people awarded a Nobel prize today. I know her through Amy and I'm more than a little amused that anyone affiliated with Purdue's Hammond Campus would ever have been involved in Nobel-worthy work. I can only imagine what...

You antipodeans are always going to be on the shit end of the stick as far as fast internets go and I've yet to hear any talk over the last 20 years that made me think anyone down that way had any idea what the hell they're doing with internet services. On the other hand, we here in the US are...

Not everyone who goes to jail is an irredeemable scumbag and that man sounds like he had quite a life no matter what we might say about how he chose to live it.

I leave all but the mail shield on. The Mail shield can't scan secured connections, so for anyone using a local email client to communicate with any common SMTP server, it's going to be pretty worthless.

I have Vocalocity ($15/month/line), but I haven't tried to make calls using a tablet. I'm not sure if I can or not, though I know I can from my phone. I know Google Voice won't let me initiate a call from my tablet.

No. I believe Samsung has released at least one 8" tablet with phone capabilities, and you can do some things with Skype and/or Google Voice (or some other VOIP app; I can talk on my office phone line from my mobile devices with a pretty minimal amount of effort), but for the most part you're...

The keyboard I'm most familiar with is Swype, which has a "social" dictionary, meaning that words get added to user dictionaries based on common usage by other signed-in users. I was a bit surprised that Swype knew the word "Nas" for example, until I found out that "Nas" is also a rapper.

I'm glad they're finally getting affordable. Which really means that we'll be getting 5TB drives any day now.

Because it's unironically entertaining and enjoyable; charming without being treacly. Much like the three seashells, if you give it a chance you'll at least see how it's supposed to work. I'm really more of a Twilight Sparkle (big purple star) fan in general. Also, Chewy: Girls like pony...

That is Pinkie Pie's cutie mark.

In my experience, SSDs quickly in soft- and hardware RAID configurations, though performance while they're working is excellent. Yes, even RAID1. I've experimented with building small servers with SSD RAID1 setups to maximize performance and found that I was having to break a lot of arrays and...

Honestly, I'm not worried about the NSA, simply because I'm not doing anything the NSA would find terribly interesting. I'm more interested in avoiding the notice of media companies and the like, who probably wouldn't like many of my online activities. I doubt the NSA shares all that much data...

The absolute ONLY SSD RAID setup that has been qualified for any configuration at all is RAID0 on Intel 7-series boards under Windows 7 and 8. That's it. As far as I know, nothing else passes TRIM commands, which means anything you'd choose to do would result in swift memory cell death.

I finally got to mess with a Chromebook. Wow are they stupid. No local app support at all and too stupid to even open an .apk. They do Chrome. Nothing but Chrome. If it's not Chrome, they don't do it. There is also no concept of a multi-window interface, though the UI does for some reason allow...

It's like the darkest corners of tumblr, but in ebook form.

Second Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. really didn't hit any of the right notes for me but it did have Samuel L. Jackson in it. Still gonna watch, but it just didn't feel like anything special.

Really, the only thing you could do is end participation in the walled app gardens, force a VPN connection to a trusted service provider and only use audited open-source client software. Which is closer to the tiny blip on the market that is the Mozilla Smartphone than anything else that...

I already have a number of ways to sandbox in the browser I'm most comfortable using. The place where I'm most theoretically concerned with this is actually on my mobile devices, but given the way mobile operates, I'm not sure it's even remotely possible to have truly private communications...

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If nothing else, that's a shockingly comprehensive review of a shittastic DVD burner.

She had to sign a contract detailing the conditions under which she can stay with me. The contract was witnessed and notarized. Basically she gets until the end of the year to work and build up some savings and then she's either on her own or she can start paying rent. I think the biggest...

My go-to CPU for just about everything right now is the $66 Pentium G2120. It's a Sandy Bridge CPU, so it works on anything LGA1155. It's essentially an i3 without hyperthreading, but paired with a Samsung 840, it's unlikely that anyone will have any complaints. Which is what everyone else is...

I don't know why a young lady such as yourself would have any experience with such things, but fortunately, the peppercorns were not included in this case. ;)

Amazon doesn't work for 100% of everything, but it does work for NEARLY everything. I've literally gotten a box with a personal massager, some little plastic interior pieces for my car, two hard drives and a pepper mill. So yeah, I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. Mostly because I can get...

Yeah. My place is clean. Cluttered, but clean. But she's used to trailers and and living places where the water or power might be turned off a few days a month because nobody can scrape together the $75 to pay the bill. It's sad, because I know from talking to her that she has a brain in her...

I believe he simply owns enough shares in the company so that he gets to do whatever he wants. I don't understand why he continues to run the business. It's clearly not a rational decision. He's an investment guy, not a leader or manager, but his political/philosophical beliefs and ego seem to...

She's one of the girls I know from her particular job.

I have a new, different roommate. She just got away from the latest in a string of douchebag guys and brought everything she has into my spare bedroom. When I brought her in, she said "This is the nicest place I've ever lived. I can't believe how clean it is." She's sleeping in my spare...

I recall seeing an Asus DVD burner a few years ago with gearing that was actuated with rubber bands. The kind that go around newspapers. I do not find this shocking in the least. I will say that when I have posted truly negative but relatively objective reviews on Newegg I have usually gotten a...

That was extremely well put. Thank you Chewy.

I can't lend any credence to Newegg reviews for most products. The people making the comments generally don't have enough experience with the products they're reviewing, or the alternatives, to place any faith in their rating. This is especially true on Newegg, where people often rate up or down...

WD clogs the marketplace by deliberately crippling firmware and multiple SKUs for what are ultimately the same part. Plus there's the whole born to die thing and oh hey I'm 0 for 2 on WD Reds so far. Seagate's standard warranty is two years right now for consumer drives. It also has the most...

The last Gigabyte board I stuck an unsupported CPU on gave the same beep code as unseated RAM.

Not every SAS adapter will actually negotiate a connection to a standard SATA drive. Or at least I've found that SATA drives aren't detected on the SAS ports found on some Intel and SuperMicro motherboards.

Whedon loves winsome science nerds and by my count Agents of SHIELD has three of them. Which leads me to believe one of them is destined for a short life. Probably Fitz or Sky since there's at least some functional overlap between the two. After a second viewing, I think my biggest problem is...

SAS is also more likely to give you compatibility with expander cards, should you ever want to blow $200 on attaching 36 SATA ports to one HBA. That setup does create performance bottlenecks, but for my application it's hardly an issue.

It's kind-of movie related: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered the other night. I loved all the call-backs to the movies and Clark Gregg and Colbie Smulders both being series regulars is obviously huge. PLUS it has a wet dream production team with Joss and Jeb Whedon and Bear McCreary doing the...

Don't get me wrong: You can have perfectly acceptable performance reading PDFs on Android. But layout-intensive stuff seems to be bad all the way around. Unfortunately, RPG rulebooks are ridiculously layout intensive. 50 pages of plain text with no image layer and everything is hunky-dory. 300...

Firefox for Android has a really interesting "Guest Mode" now, which lets you suspend your browsing entire browsing session (plus potentially sync'd tabs, bookmarks and passwords) so that someone else can use your mobile device in a clean and presumably non-incriminating environment. This is...

I'll see if I can modify it into something generally useful. The specific workflow the lady wanted was "Buy this song I heard on Pandora from Amazon" but I guess that little extra bit doesn't hurt, either. What I really want to do is add screen shots for doing it from Android as well.

I had to write up a document with a step by step explanation of how to buy a song from Amazon's MP3 store today. I made frequent use of the circle and arrow tools in paint.net and made sure that I used the same browser and screen resolution for my screenshot as the person who paid for my time...

As far as I can tell, PDF is just a lousy format on mobile. 150MB gaming rulebooks with multiple layers of images can take a couple seconds to page-turn even on the internal storage of my S4, even in Adobe's own native Acrobat app.

QuickOffice has returned as a free Android App after being locked away for just Google Apps customers. Also, if you log in to your Google Account through the app before September 26, 2013, they'll give you an extra 10GB of Google Drive storage for two years.

Is it possible that Autocad just sucks that much? Or, alternately, that it's time to begin some random mandatory drug testing that just happens to start in his office?

Accent isn't really a factor in choral singing ever. Proper vocal technique and decent direction general fix issues with diction and pronunciation. Classical ensembles sing in languages they don't speak all the damned time. It's not much of an issue.

Some (not a lot, but some) of them are using condensers, actually, though you can't see them in the cropped videos very often. Since they're essentially having every trick of pro audio production applied to the source videos, no, it wouldn't surprise me if there's some auto-tuning involved. It...