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If you actually look at those links, you'll see that there are multiple phonetic pronunciations, probably from other dumbshits who don't have any idea either.

Whoops. It was in March. My thing isn't until NEXT month. Oh well. What goes on at a PAX, anyway? My friend from Wyoming swears she's the person who introduced whichever of the Penny Arcade guys to the term "yaoi" (Japanese romantic gay porn cartoons), an experience which wound up in an...

VMware might not be the best solution if, for example, the machine needs to run some dedicated process control hardware. I have customers with machines that still need DOS and ROX (obscure realtime OS that installs from two 3.5" floppies), respectively, to run something they do. Anyway, get...

I believe the Iridium stuff is not maintained. Those satellites are eventually going to fall out of the sky without any replacement.

Mahn-yee Coors?

Does anyone know how to pronounce Mangy-Cours? I'm assuming it's something like "Man-yee Coors" but francophones are sticklers for pronunciation. I figure Coug will know.

4 cores at 5GHz can't be economically manufactured and you know it.

Something like 60% of guests and commentators on NPR programs are explicitly right of center. Lots of Cato Institute and American Enterprise Institute talking heads wind up on NPR. If you look at PBS, Newshour had a rightward bias for years. Both NPR and PBS are frequently cited for maintaining...

For future reference, I'm more or less always interested in excess SATA cables. I managed to get 100 for $50 from an Ebay auction, but then I had to pay $15 for shipping and suddenly that didn't seem reasonable any more.

Seems like a draw overall, though I guess a draw is actually good news for AMD at this point.

Thinkpads also use magnetic connections for quick-release, so that extra play might be part of the overall design. I think the idea is to prevent a snagged cord from causing a notebook to take a tumblel the cord just pops out instead. Again, it's a tiny detail but it makes a huge difference.

The best radio broadcasting in the USA is commercial free National Public Radio. You're probably close enough to the border to get a CBC station, too. Even Newt Gingrich, once a champion of de-funding PBS and NPR, has come around to the value of their programming.

That's fine, until you want to have the content of more than one list. I use four subscriptions (two for mainstream ads and two more for adult content). and all of them are updated regularly. People DO want ad blocking. They want it from the moment they become aware of it. I've seen this first...

As I understand it, the phone companies are there now. They've adjusted their thinking from "circuits" to "packets" and the engineers doing the work do know what they're doing. QoS is hard. It needs to operate in both directions, and involves the cooperation not just of the communication...

Opera has a lot of things I'd consider half-finished ideas. In a couple cases, I can see the use (the zoom feature, for example), but a lot of the other things, I either don't see the appeal (gestures, the built-in web server) or don't think the tool is useful enough (Opera's content blocking).

It's deeper than that. Adblock Plus is subscription based, meaning that every time the maintainer updates the block list, ABP updates, too. So as more ad servers are brought online, ABP kills those ads. Opera can import a block list, but doesn't check for updates. As I recall, the process of...

Take that, Hyperthreading! Actually, eight real cores for $266 is not outlandish, though it'll be interesting to see what each of those cores is actually capable of.

That is what I was thinking of, yes. I'd love to know why they don't all do that.

Does Opera have subscription-based ad blocking? That's a minimal criteria for me to take a browser seriously at this point. Chrome recently grew up and joined that club, though it's still missing most of the other features Firefox's addon system provides. Chrome is a good choice for machines...

Opera has consistently refused to follow UI conventions, both in screen elements and keyboard shortcuts. It's never been right.

Diet soda is still very acidic. Last time I was at the dentist was September 11th, 2001, but I brush four or five times and floss at least once a day.

I've never been on Facebook either.

If you'd care to go back and look, I've ragged on Opera's UI for as long as there's been a Storageforum.

I can't believe it took Tannin this long to realize that Opera has an utterly shameful UI.

I don't support ownership of handguns to begin with, but then there's this special class of people who deserve as much scorn and disgust as I can possibly communicate. I'll be direct: I think people who carry handguns in public are largely some combination of stupid and/or paranoid. Those are...

I do not trust the judgment of a person who feels the need to carry around a firearm in public. Legal concealed carry just enables people who have some paranoid gun-nut fantasy to live in whatever delusional world they're in that they think they need a handgun everywhere they go. I'm not...

There's a different product group that works on Thinkpads compared to the unit that deals with Ideapads. Ideapads are less sophisticated products, missing little touches like channels in the keyboards for liquid spills, hardened frames, gyroscopes for hard drive protection and removable internal...

I don't give a shit about criminals. They're criminals. They'll get caught and they'll be punished. I have sincere reservations about the responsibility and judgment of people who are presently legal handgun owners.

I'm in Indiana, not Chicago. I think Chicago has the right idea. It can be pointed out that it's possible to have a country full of firearms and not have a major issue with gun violence, but this isn't that country, so I'm all about controlling and restricting handguns (particularly handguns)...

I used to live in a place where gangbangers would shoot at each other in the courtyard of my apartment complex. I saw the local Kwik-ee-Mart robbed while I was sitting at a red light. I realize my life was in danger from a ricochet or a large caliber bullet and a thin wall, but in all the time...

You shouldn't have to reactivate those machines. They use the same product key and the same base disk image. They both bypass activation through BIOS ID + royal.sys information. They're wide, but they're also relatively lightweight, unless you went with the nine cell battery. And the screens...

I've never seen that before, and I've used xcopy in that fashion to move hundreds of gigabytes of .jpg and .flac files. As has been pointed out, there are xcopy replacements. Teracopy, xxcopy etc. Teracopy is handy, but it hooks into the OS and brings up a user interface every time you copy a...

WiMax, bigger battery, HDMI and camera(s) capability are all pretty major improvements. I wouldn't mind WM6.5 on that hardware, but I want Sprint's network and Sprint apparently isn't getting the HD2.

Somewhere between probably and maybe. I have some misgivings about Android (No software on your storage card, for instance). I'll be interested in seeing how Sprint addresses the SERO account I'm absolutely not going to give up. Also, hard keyboards are a waste of space.

Bozo, if you can find a Mexican restaurant that still sells bottled Coke or Pepsi, the Mexican versions of those sodas are still the original recipe. But like I said, I think I'm better off for not having that stuff at all.

HTC Evo 4G: 4.3" 800x480 display 1GHz CPU 512MB RAM + MicroSD slot (ships with 8GB card) 8MP digital camera, capable of 720p video recording, and a 1.3MP front facing camera as well Capable of simultaneous 3/4G + CDMA Voice Android 2.1 Headphone and HDMI outputs Kickstand Very slightly larger...

As I understand it, you're better off with Diet Rite if you're going to do that, since Diet Rite doesn't make you retain water like other diet soda. I more or less gave up soda about three years ago and over time I'm down about 90lbs. from my all-time high. I think I weigh about 225lbs. right now.

I spent an insane amount of money so I have something to replicate my data, but I know full well that spinning disks are ultimately a dead end. I need tape for long-term reliability. I'm looking at $25 for 800GB/tape of storage and probably $2500 - $3200 for a drive that can support 8 or 16...

It helps if you're swapping out one board for an identical one. One of the tricks of dealing with activation is to install a PCI/PCIe NIC and have that as the interface that's connected to the internet when you actually activate. MAC address counts for some ridiculously high portion of the...

I've saving for a tape library system, myself. If I skip a generation of drive improvements that shouldn't be the end of the world, and a backup set of 24 or 48TB should certainly be plenty.

You're not a price-sensitive buyer and you know it.

Why would you give up the service, durability and support that come with a proper Thinkpad?

I could sort of see Google as a buyer, if only because they have piles of money, or Microsoft. A Microsoft Palm would be rather ironic, given the early history of mainstream handhelds. In either case, the purchase would be about the name and not the tech. I'm having a hard time thinking of...

I can say that in real world use a 14" SL-series is around 3:15 - 3:30 if you're using wireless networking and not using the DVD drive. It probably is 4:00 if nobody is doing 802.11 or bluetooth on one. I have no idea what laws of physics Asus is breaking to get 12 hours out of theirs, unless...

I saw this on Lifehacker this morning. It sounds interesting. Supposedly it makes DVDs and BDs into .mkv files while preserving audio and metadata.

The Thinkpad SLs are pretty nice units. They haven't been refreshed to support the i3/5/7, but that's probably so they don't cannibalize sales of the T-series. They do have really nice screens and touchpads. The thing I notice about the Asus is that its warranty claims to cover accidental...

Mozy can throttle its upload speed, only backs up file changes and keep multiple versions of backed-up files. I don't know what to tell you about your transfer limit, though.

In RAID Reconstructor there some settings you can play with to determine the interleave settings on the drives. If there were only two drives in the array then there should only be two choices, but for each member drive the possibilities increase exponentially. Basically, you have to do a full...

That's very close to how I usually get smaller orders of drives. Usually they'll give you a 10-seat half-carton if you order more than four drives and a full carton in the OEM shipping box if you order more than 10 drives. The OEM cartons are enclosed on both sides and in a custom-fitted box.

If they have forums or a comments system it's possible that someone on the same netblock as your home got banned for trolling or something.