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Not everybody who takes off their clothes for money has baggage. I've met, like, two chicks who did it and were pretty well adjusted regardless. :P But anyway I know most of her issues. It's not stuff I can fix and I know it. But I think spending some time with somebody who is very different...

Someone in Quebec has a sense of humor about their electioneering.

That's what I was describing. I'm not annoyed, exactly. It's something I've done on accident, basically the result of being unused to the new forum and more used to other sites that have a "post" button right about there.

So far I've been using Quick Reply. I've used Firefox and Chrome. I've observed that the forum will restore things that I've typed after I've navigated entirely off the site and allowed a reasonable period of time to pass (~45 minutes?), as long as I'm typing in the same thread where I started...

I'm more curious to know if that's a characteristic of the qualification methodology they use. The conventional wisdom still says to keep SSDs out of critical business stuff unless there are a bunch of other layers of redundancy available. Did anybody at Corsair even test that kind of workload?

Be it known that Handy has also been a recipient of some pretty damned indulgent gifts that were basically my idea. :P I'm generous with my friends. People I *know* to be friends.

Every once in a while I navigate away and come back to write a post, it shows up. I also see when I write lengthier posts.

It bothers me a little to do that, if only because the devices generally aren't designed to allow for battery replacement.

I've seen 350lb. goiter-having land whales with some poor dude twisted around their finger. Not everyone is going to act that way.

Has anyone else accidentally clicked the "restore saved content" button instead of "post reply" and lost stuff they had typed yet?

I think I mentioned in another thread, the thing to do with the tablet is to just and keep the charger somewhere around your nightstand and plug it in every couple days just before bedtime . You're probably not going to kill the battery with one marathon session of use. I've done that; you have...

Funny story: I met her on another forum site and just knew that she worked somewhere close to where I live. It is possible to give directions to my apartment by strip clubs, adult bookstores and liquor stores; my town exists to give truckers a place to stop before they get to Gary, Indiana or as...

BofH hasn't really been funny in a decade or more. I have a date on Friday. With a stripper. Even if it's a train wreck, I'll always be able to say that I went out with a stripper and that is awesome. I'm just feeling rather pleased with myself.

I've read poo-flinging on Slashdot and Engadget about it. That's why I said "apparently." Both Engadget and Gizmodo are biased to the point of uselessness in favor of Apple hardware. It's almost impossible to discuss developments in Android devices on either site.

You certainly will eventually, especially after the ipad3 is released. Maybe you could start with something simple and inexpensive like a Kindle Fire (bleh) or a refurbished Galaxy 7" Tablet? I suspect we'll start to see 720p screens on tablets in the near future, even if we don't move all the...

I finally had the opportunity to test a Google TV under conditions that involve its actual feature set. The good: It DOES control your TV and your receiver. The program guide is kinda spiffy. The web browser is fully functional. The keyboard is a good size. The bad: Basically everything else...

EMC makes ridiculously high margins on its products. It's tough to blame a hardware company for moving into that space given how commoditized PCs and components have become.

On one hand I'm not sure why I need four cores in a phone but on the other hand I'm absolutely sure I want all of them.

I like the new mobile site quite a lot. I'm not completely enamored with the default theme though. I'm not really sure why, but perhaps it's that there's relatively little contrast screen elements. I'm sure it's something I'll get used to and I know full well that it can be a total PITA to...

At least you guys (and Canada, for that matter) have three major political parties to choose from. Here in the states we only have one.

I keep saying that form factor is critical in tablet selection, and it's on that basis that I've come to appreciate the 8.9" Galaxy. The 10" tablets are just too damned big. 7" with a high res screen would be great, but ~.5lbs. for an 8.9" leaves no good reason to complain. Everyone looks at...

The most convenient thing to do is configure a central Gmail account, authorize that account to send email as your other identities and use those Google credentials when sending e-mail. Everything will wind up in your Sent Items and it's reasonably straightforward to configure a label or folder...

I'd say that monitors deserve more attention than they get. Most desktop users basically hate using anything that isn't a mouse and the only people for whom the keyboard matters are people who type A LOT and gamers. People tend not to have so serious a relationship with they keyboard.

time, where did your signature go?

Timescapes, one of the videos I was talking about last weekend, has an entire 4k production process and has sample video available in that format.

Remember to mention my demands for apologies followed by ritual murder/suicide.

I had a student who found instructions and built a projection box with a stable mount for a modern-ish camcorder so he could transfer everything to a digital format. It was basically a large cardboard box and some towels, but with everything measured out so the camcorder was always in the right...

What is Yahoo Serious doing these days? ;)

The royal pain in the ass bit is tha MBAM no longer has a straightforward offline update system. I don't know why they stopped supporting it, but they did.

The most comfortable answer is that it's shady.

Dammit I've seen it at least two places.

4x makes more sense to me than 4k.

I found it on a well-known torrent site.

Also, for anybody who has a spare 8GB flash drive, there's a thing floating in various places that's called mObscene, which is the most ridiculously useful collection of techie tools I've ever seen in one place.

It's substantially bigger than my Sandisk Cruzer Contour and probably weighs twice as much as the 4GB PNY Attache drives I used to carry. It's large enough that it can be difficult to fit something in adjacent USB ports.

Do you still use Firefox or IE? One of my big problems is that there are times when I have a legitimate need to be logged in to four or five different Google accounts at the same time and I don't want anything to mingle from one to any of the others; computers where I do work wind up having a...

It wouldn't be so annoying, but in my opinion nothing Android is fully functional until I have superuser access (and I'm not sure that any istuff is EVER fully functional, given the app sandboxing and reliance on itunes). Things don't ship with the Google versions of tools, or they don't have...

30 - 50% better GPU performance over Sandy Bridge is certainly nothing to sneeze at, and those are the figures that are floating around the interwebs today. That would put Intel's IGP in-line with what AMD was offering two generations ago, or around half as fast as the current Radeon 6450 IGP...

Looking at all the ridiculous hoops I've jumped through, I think something I'd kill for is a single general-purpose Android rooting procedure. There isn't even a single procedure that works on every Samsung or HTC device. I don't mind the vendor-imposed UI irregularities or App markets, or the...

One of my students has been taking certification classes with me for the last nine months. Today was her last day with me. She's heard "Lord of the Rings" music coming from my office probably countless times. As a kind of going-away present she gave me a Samwise Gamgee action figure and an Eye...

Even 70MB/sec is pretty damned good for most needs. I did think stuff would be faster. I have a 128GB Patriot Supersonic that I kind of hate because it's so damned big, but since I could eliminate three other flash drives I was carrying I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

I've tried four USB3 flash drives (Transcend, Kingston, Patriot and one I don't recall). They all seem to transfer data at around 70 - 75MB/sec, which is suspiciously identical to the top speed on my USB 3 SATA drive cradle. I'm not completely convinced since my sample size is three PCs with two...

That thing probably has a steel bottom. As I recall, the last Model M I handled did too.

... not from what I could tell. They said they had an industry-specific focus, but there wasn't anything specific in their marketing materials that made me think they did anything but put a webDAV server someplace with a fat pipe and some decent backup and redundancy.

The videos? Well, there's 12.2GB of them from that one list.

One of my customers just got a quote from a "cloud" data service suggesting that his utterly paltry 16.5GB of company-wide data could go live on a server on the internet someplace for the low, low price of just $490 a month. Apparently all of us are in the wrong business.

I had to eat at a "Hooters" a couple weekends ago and I swear every other guy in the place was north of 250. Maybe it's flyover states in general.

That's too bad. But I got all of it anyway.

I actually went ahead and snagged all those videos from Vimeo. Now I have ~6GB of completely safe for work high definition video. It feels wrong somehow.

I'm guessing it will be an "extreme" variant and it will cost $1200.