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I thought HGST (the brand name) went to Toshiba.

Does she know that yet?

There's still HGST as well.

It is about 20% cooler.

I don't know what a top gear is but actual lady (including stripper) feedback indicates that my car makes them more interested my wang.

Excuses, excuses. I guess you can't all be Element drivers like me. Unfortunately for your ladies. Who don't get to be Element riders. Was that too subtle?

From an undisclosed location at a minimum safe distance.

Sometimes the Cougtek's soundtrack takes a break from the Arnold Schwarzenegger musical oeuver to do something like this instead.

The confident Element driver is that rarest of man; one who who exudes confidence and virility, yet also the gentle patience of a devoted lover.

And of course it's Friday night and we're all on here. Don't you people have women to pay attention to?

I have zealous followers who will murder at the slightest provocation for that sort of thing. :P

Yes but those people are WRONG.

Option one: Buy a cheaper car and pay down your mortgage that much faster.

You're in the vanishing market segment that might legitimately benefit from a hybrid drive right now. Personally I didn't think a Momentus XL did much besides make startup and resume faster but I guess that's still better than a kick in the teeth. Do remember that some notebooks offer the...

No, no. Being the Cougtek is kind of like being Tekno Viking except the soundtrack is the theme from Conan the Barbarian and the chorus dancers are various sorts of angry mustelids. It's pretty hard to miss that kind of thing. "Cougtek, what is best in life?" "To crush your mini-towers, see...

What ARE you people doing in that thread? It's a car. There can't possibly be that much to talk about.

How the hell do you break a debit card? Did you accidentally drop it on some kind of edged weapon? Was it frozen at the time? Were you half-stepping on it when you tried to pick it up? I joined a gym this week. It's air conditioned so it's automatically more comfortable than my apartment all...

DMVs are never that crowded. And the Apple Store people aren't really all that indolent. They're just really happy and want to talk to you about Hare Krish^H^H^H^H^H^Hitunes.

We don't need 1TB consumer SSDs. We need $75 250GB drives and magnetic drives at Q2 2011 prices.

I visited a mall today to buy fancy and stupidly-expensive tea for a ladyfriend. Just outside the tea shop was a Sprint kiosk, so I spent a few minutes drooling over the X One. When I brought up the S3, the Sprint guys were forced to admit that they didn't have one, but the bored looking...

I have a customer complaining that his machines haven't been updating. So... yeah, probably.

I've been saying that for about a week. There was a huge drop about a month ago. Maybe 25%? This is a very good time if you're a builder, because consumers haven't caught up with the change yet; my $425-including-the-Windows-license machines sold for $700 apiece and the people who got them...

I've been advocating IBM M1015s. Same deal, a $50 LSI rebadge that supports SAS or SATA, expanders and drives larger than 3TB. There's a 30 second process for flashing the firmware to allow individual drive access if that's something you need. They don't seem to be as well known as the PERC...

Apple Store: Filled to capacity with smelly people[1] buying crap for their iphones or waiting in line for someone to fix their broken computers. Microsoft Store, 100m away: Utterly devoid of consumers, filled with staff who are more than happy to talk about Microsoft's new consumer and...

Veronica Corningstone: My God, what is that smell? Oh. Brian Fantana: That's the smell of desire my lady. Veronica Corningstone: God no, it smells like, like a used diaper... filled with... Indian food. Oh, excuse me. Brian Fantana: You know, desire smells like that to some people. News Station...

No one. We're talking about phones. Now ask who wants a phone with that resolution.

... nope. That's up from a maximum of 800x480, the resolution my six year old HTC6100 had.

I was rather more surprised to learn that Windows Mobile 8 is going to be upgraded to allow a maximum screen resolution of 1024x600.

I think there will be a never-ending comparison to Apple that Microsoft can't possibly win since it's not a sufficiently religious experience, no matter how powerful or capable the devices are.

Windows 7 once told me that a machine with a Vertex 3 on a 6Gpbs SATA port only scored a 5.9 on the experience index. I re-ran the tests a couple times and on the third run it jumped up to 7.8. I really don't think the Experience Index measures anything meaningful.

I not feeling a subjective difference between my Samsung 830 and the X25M I pulled for it. But having four times the capacity is still quite nice. Makes my VMs load up nice and quick.

I don't like the precedent, really. But it's not like I print all that much, either. A ($45) 1500 sheet cartridge will probably last me a few years. At which time it will probably be cheaper to buy yet another printer. In contrast, HP wants $80 for a new, 2500 sheet black toner cartridge.

It was cheaper for me to buy a brand new Samsung color laser printer today than it was to get the four toner cartridges my HP1600 needs.

Not as such.

I made it to the Indiana Dunes National Lake Shore last weekend. For the first time. Kind of weird since I've worked less than a quarter mile from one of the main public beaches for the past seven years or so. Anyway, it was also devoid of pirates.

My weeks of waiting for RMAs to even be acknowledged certainly suggests that to be the case.

As a well known hardware/tech site owner, Anand clearly has access to and relationships with OEMs that the rest of us can only dream of. I have no idea if he takes direct advertising or not, but given the fact that vendors bend over backwards to offer him pre-release products and special units...

I suspect he's been bought and paid for a few times by different OEMs, much like Tom of Tom's Hardware. With a little help from a friend and a planned stop at Microcenter, I'm going to be able to build two i3-2100 systems with 120GB SSDs for a total of $704 this week. How sweet is that?

All your drunken sexcapades. Duh.

My biggest problem with Samsung devices is with Touchwiz. I don't really mind the goofy connector. At least it's easy to identify from the mass of other weird charging tips I have.

It's worth pointing out that RIM had already stated that it wants to simplify its manufacturing and logistics chain. Though, with a billion dollars in inventory on hand, it sounds like it could simplify way, way more. Did anyone else catch this little tidbit on the Galaxy SIII? AES encrypted...

Might be more that he wishes he hadn't.

I walked a mile because I ate a handful of them.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox just now, to no great effect. Haven't done a profile yet.

I spoke too soon. I'm still having issues on this desktop, albeit they seem to happen in a more narrow set of circumstances.

A scanning electron microscope can resolve images down to .2nm. I suspect that pissing off the wrong first world power could lead to a demonstration of just what the state of the art in data recovery really is. I pretty much figure that at the point that the drive has been purposefully...

These are a very good reason to walk an extra mile this evening. Either that or they were put on this Earth to torment me. One of those.

I'm really liking the sudden, amazing price drops on 120GB SSDs. In the last week or so, I've found Kingston, Verbatim and Corsair units at or a little under $1/GB, which is cheap enough that I can realistically contemplate using one in a mainstream build. In a year I'm sure I'll look back at...

I guess it could have been. Video Downloadhelper is an addon I keep installed, though it was also one of the first ones I disabled when I ran into issues.

Everyone who uses Verizon knows that they're paying extra for the assrape and that Verizon is neither gentle nor considerate about it.