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Lucky you, although at least I had both parents living with me(still do), which was a plus. I also had a gun pointed at me once, in the subway about 14 years ago. The guy was stoned, and I managed to disarm him, but it was still scary, nonetheless. I actually saw a dead body on the Times...

Another Slackware Linux. :-? This is starting to get freaky. My favorite question was which villian would you be. Naturally, I choose Darth Vadar. He's the person I would least like to meet in a dark alley. I could picture myself now:"President Bush, you have failed me for the last time!"

You couldn't be more wrong, and that is precisely why I support some system like you mentioned where only the gifted and financially able are allowed to have children. I lived in a NYC Housing project for the first 15 years of my life. We didn't even have a car until I was 9, not that you...

I look forward to your reply, Mercutio. We don't usually disagree on many topics, at least not this strongly. It seems that one of the reasons you like public schools is because you can have some input on the curriculum through local school boards. Think again. Local school boards have...

I used to be a big supporter of public education but as of late I find the concept less and less appealing. First and most importantly, the public schools by and large are failing miserably at what they do. They have become patronage mills for labor unions and political hacks. Teachers seem...

I found this comment on that site Tea linked to particularly disturbing: If that ever comes to pass, I think I'll just cancel my Internet service. :( All the bad points about Flash that the author alludes to are so true. Anything that Flash can do HTML and animated GIFs can do as well or...

Here's some FAQs about white LEDs that I just found: http://www.caves.org.uk/led/led-myths.html Some other interesting links: http://www.osram-os.com/news/news_luzern.html http://www.ccrane.com/120_volt_white_led_bulb.asp http://www.osram-os.com/news/news_worldpremiere.html...

I guess "squiggle" was the first word that came to me to describe those. :) Not as accurate as "spiral" but it conveys a similar picture. And yes, it's amazing how much better and cheaper those spirals have gotten. I remember when they cost $25 and were much larger than a bulb(they weren't...

As I said, the warm whites are not bad, much better than a standard incandescent anyway. In fact, the light coming from the "squiggles" seems to approximate halogen pretty well, so at least it's a fairly "good" type of incandescent lighting that they try to approximate, not those awful bulbs...

It looks like Eugene removed that disgusting thread. Better late than never.

For point of comparison, I have some 23-watt squiggle fluorescents(OK, iGary?) that give off the light of a 100-watt incandescent bulb, last 8000 hours(instead of 750), and only cost me $4 each(a bargain when you consider that bulbs run at least $1 and this replaces about 11 of them). The same...

They've been down for me all day as well. Yesterday, SR was down for a while, and then SF not too long after. I also had some problems with train-sim.com and uktrainsim.com. The denial of service or whatever it is seems to be making the rounds.

You might also try to find one of those Evergreen 486 upgrades on EBay that turn a 486 into the equivalent of a Pentium 75, or perhaps even look for a Pentium or Pentium MMX motherboard+processor instead. Many of these come in the AT form factor, and you can usually get them fairly cheap(<$20)...

I wasn't sure which you meant, but a flourescent flicking at 60 times per second is definitely noticeable, which is why they've used the full wave for quite some time. At 120 times per second it isn't, but the flicker still makes a great strobe which I've used to get a rough approximation of...

Read all about it here: http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,107744,00.asp http://www.beststuff.com/article.php3?story_id=4393 Even though it's classified as a TV, it has enough resolution(1920x1080) to make a decent monitor. I would love to see MS Train Simulator on this...

Tungsten lights give off their light solely by heating a filament. The time it takes the filament to heat or cool is up to a few seconds long. Even the time to cool enough to give a noticeable change in light output is longer than the period of one AC wave, so you would not get noticeable(or...

Thankfully, I didn't notice that thread on SR. And even more thankfully, I wasn't eating when I viewed it just now. :crap: SR seriously needs some moderation. And the jerk that posted that garbage should apply for a guest slot on The Jerry Springer Show instead of defiling SR. SR is a...

Too bad you don't have Bill Gates' wealth, Mercutio. You could undoubtably accomplish a great deal of good in this world. Many of those with wealth tend to spend it on stupid conspicuous or even contemptuous consumption rather than trying to do some good with it. If I had the resources, I...

Funny, I'm running a 15" KDS monitor at 1024x768 also at 60 Hz, and I don't get headaches or eyestrain most of the time, either. The only exception is when I'm at my computer for 24 hours straight or more. One time the lines of text were actually jumping out off the screen after I had been...

Tannin, my father likes to make lists of things also. Sounds like him and Tea would be a perfect match. When he had an aquarium he used to make lists whenever the fishes gave birth, as well as lists of his many collections. It drives me and my mom crazy. He doesn't even use a PC for his...

Here's some numbers from one week where I worked a lot of overtime back in 1990(deductions were made each week based on an annualized basis): Net Pay:$1076.00 FICA Tax: $82.31 Federal Income Tax: $227.58 State Income Tax:$67.24 Local income Tax:$28.88 Union dues: $2.77 Total...

:o I thought you were just suffering from multiple personality disorder but now I see you have other, shall we say, issues. I guess living with Tannin will do that to you. Poor Tea. :( I feel your pain. :cry: I really do. Are the numbers supposed to be pointing me at a web site, or...

I know a lot of people making $40,000 per year or more who pay nearly half in taxes. If there is to be a tax cut, it should be mainly for the $25,000 to $100,000 tax bracket. These people are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, yet they still pay up to half their income in taxes. As...

I think by insane I meant a danger to others, as in criminally mentally ill, not chronic organic depression. Given what happened to you during the last year, almost anybody would be severely depressed, even suicidal. I'm still very depressed over the death of Tiger almost 4 months ago even...

I got that part of it. By the definition of IQ, the average IQ, as measured by any tests, would always be 100, but the absolute intelligence(however you choose to measure it) would always be increasing. I'm not really too sure what constitutes intelligence myself, but it does appear that those...

Thankz, Tea. I'll be taking campaign contributionz via PalPal. ;) Now I need to think up a campaign slogan. Let's see.... "Vote JTR for a moron-free America" I'll put this next to my picture, and also have a red circle with a slash on a picture of Beavis and Butthead(two dim-witted but...

Blame the American public who goes and watches this garbage. If nobody watched it, they wouldn't make it. It's not our fault the average American is uneducated and has the IQ of a cabbage. On second thought, maybe it is for letting these morons procreate. Someone needs to invent a virus that...

I highly doubt it. Those are usually designed to interface directly to a microcontroller, so you need some sort of adaptor plus drivers to make it work with a PC. Remember what comes out of a monitor cable is analog, while this display needs digital input. Still, at $15.00 each and backlit...

I really hope this makes it out of the lab. 60 GB would be perfect for backup-everything I have will fit on one card and I don't even need to compress it with some backup software. Just copy the files straight from my hard drive. Something this size will also be ideally suited for video, so I...

Enterprise is about the only thing I watch on network TV on a regular basis, and I agree the Star Trek franchise is running out of gas. I'll watch the World Series and Olympics, and maybe an occasional special if it looks interesting, but nothing else on network. The plethora of inane sitcoms...

Note that they said from 100MB up to 5GB. It's probably the 100 MB size that's $15 for now. Still, an intriguing idea, and if the 5GB can eventually be made available for $15 to $20, we might finally have a decent floppy replacement at hand. Too bad it's still based on a spinning disk. I...

I kind of go in spurts with SR like Tannin does. One or twice a month there is some topic(usually in the B&G) that engages me for a couple of days, and then it's back to the usual one or two posts a week. By and large, though, the quality of discussion isn't what it once was, which is why I...

That reminds of Beavis becoming Cornholio after going into sugar shock. Yes, I actually did watch Beavis and Butthead on a fairly regular basis at one time. I think they're hilarious.

I guess you never saw the Anna Nicole Smith show. My mom put it on for about 1 minute out of curiosity, and quickly switched channels. One TV critic said after watching episode 1 that he didn't think anything could be worse-until he saw episodes 2 and 3. Crass, crude, vulgar, and obnoxious...

First Handruin, and now Fushigi. :o Who else here is/was under the threat of being laid off? It's really disgusting the way loyal employees are treated nowadays. All the more so when you'll read about some CEO making millions, and enjoying expensive perks, while 10,000 from the same company...

I think it's a nice change from today's world of mostly look-alike cars, and something I might not mind owning if I absolutely had to have a car. It's similar to my brother's Mark VIII, which is also a change of pace from the endless tide of ugly econoboxes, SUVs, minivans, and family sedans...

They won't solve all our problems, but they will let us get more mpg than current vehicles do. Long term, once we find better batteries and fusion becomes viable, we won't need fossil fuels any more. And that could be within ten years if we put our minds to it. Hydroelectric, wind...

I also forgot to add that electric motors have two more advantages. They are much more amenable to being precisely controlled, so that antislip traction control on rain, snow, and ice works much better than current implementations. In fact, locomotives use a carefully controlled small amount...

I'm guessing it was pressure from some oil company to drop the project since it would have greatly decreased demand for fossil fuels. The idiot that dropped it should be made to suck on an exhaust pipe until he croaks. I too have often wondered why we don't just do away with the mechanical...

That's certainly good news. Anything that improves fuel economy but is transparent to the driver is good news in my book. What kind of mileage improvement does DoD give on a heavy truck or bus, BTW?

Very interesting but WTF does anyone need 1000 HP for? At least anyone besides a locomotive engineer? I can imagine the performance figures for this- 0 to 60 in 1.5 seconds, top speed of 300 mph. Nice in the Indianapolis 500 but absolutely useless for real-world driving. Of course, at $250K...

The processor arrived today. It took me all of 2 minutes to connect everything and fire it up. It POSTed the first time at 100 MHz FSB and has been running stably all day at 112 MHz FSB. I tried going to 133 MHz but it wouldn't even post, and my M/B doesn't have any settings between 112 and...

I just resubmitted my avatar. Hopefully it should appear OK now.

For some reason my avatar is no longer appears in the gallery list of user avatars stored at the SF. Maybe this had to do with the recent move. I don't see Mercutio's there, either. We're the only two people here who have kept the same avatars we started with, so maybe this has something to...

Thanks anyway. That trick sounds interesting. Do you have any links to it? Moot point though. Yesterday I bought a 1.4 GHz Celeron and Powerleap adaptor for $128(a bit more than I had planned to spend). It is compatible with my M/B according to Powerleap's website. I may have been able to...

Try turning off your speakers and see if you still get the noise. I recently had a periodic high-pitched whine similar to what comes from a television sawtooth wave generator coil. It turned out to be coming from my speakers intermittantly whenever I was running Internet Explorer. I'm not...

Good riddance. 2002 and 2001 were the two worst years of my life. I can honestly say after ringing in 2003 that I'm not entirely sure if I want to be around for another New Year. So many of the problems today seem intractable. Terrorism, environmental destruction, consumerism, materialism...

Such a room may not exist in reality, but it exists in "The Twilight Zone". And the person you are about to meet is part of an imaginary group of people collectively called The StorageForum. These people and this room, up until now, have only existed in his mind. But a turn of events will...

On a 15" monitor? I like to watch TV on my bed in case I fall asleep(which is likely with the quality of most of today's programming), and that's 6 feet from my computer, plus it's at a right angle to the screen. Both factors make for rather uncomfortable viewing, to say the least. The room...

I've been thinking of doing something similar myself but instead running the TV output from the card to a regular TV and using the PC to store my shows. Problem is that TV resolution stinks and the flat screen HDTVs are still too pricey starting at about $5,000 for 40". Hopefully they'll have...