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I'm pretty sure they don't have the drainage capacity to handle a hurricane. I also wouldn't be surprised if some of the tunnel walls disintegrated were they to be submerged.

Wow. What a mess. 72F and sunny here, 93F in the valley on the way to San Jose.

*cough* ;)

I haven't tried 1920x1200 personally, but you are right that is the top spec.

It does, but it uses a hell of a lot more bandwidth than the 14.4kbps that it does natively.

Sprint Overdrive -> DD-WRT'ed router in bridge mode -> Vonage Adapter -> Fax Machine All this just to get an old fax to work in the middle of nowhere.

Yup. I've slept through bigger than that. Once they get in the 7s (10+ times larger?) it gets the heart rate up a bit.

Indeed. If you connected a single SATA 3.0 link to 120PB, it would take 5.3 years to fill it.

This is why I like earthquakes. None of this suspense or anticipation. By the time you know it, it's over, and it's time to put the books back on the shelves.

With my last car, when the warranty had expired I stopped all maintenence. I did an oil change whenever the low oil light went on (about every 50k miles) and didn't do anything else. It ran for another 135k after that, and the guy I sold it to now has nearly 300k miles on it. Yay for VW...

Several Terabytes per second. Sweet. I wonder what kind of SSD cache they have strapped on the front end?

...and the poles it's attached to ;)

The dealer is expensive, I know I won't be going there when I am out of warranty, but it is the only number I am familiar with at the moment. Here is the PDF that spells out what is involved.

Is the restriction a chip thing? Can you have the software re-flashed after the first year?

Honestly not something to worry about. From what I understand, HDMI has the DVI pinout spec in the cable. There is no tricky conversions or software, just moving pins to the different plug. So long as you intend to run resolutions below 1920x1080 I've done this dozens of times without issue.

That isn't where mine was lagging, it was during what used to be the "starting windows" screen.

The maintenance is still complimentary on my cars, but after that expires, were I to have it done at the dealership, I would be spending $500-$750 every 10k miles.

Polk Audio LC80i - It is steerable/directional. Should be fine. After the new bicycle.

Yup

They are aimed at an angle, not straight down. The problem is that the screen and seating area are in the middle of a larger space, with no walls nearby to put them.

Still planning on some in-ceiling speakers when I have the money.

I had a machine stall massively during startup, and disconnecting some USB peripherals sped it up dramatically. Reconnecting the same devices once the system was up worked great.

If there were any, I'm glad the filter took care of them ;)

I don't think so. I've started a few companies in my life, some of them grew considerably before being sold. At the moment I (mostly) work for someone else. I did stop working for myself because I didn't want to deal with stuff. Taxes, regulations, and government bureaucracy played no role...

I think that is a very optimistic view, jtr. I believe most of the problems in that bottom 20% are cultural, with the biggest problem being massive family sizes. #1 cause there is religion, specifically Catholicism and Christianity. Studies have shown that people who are less in control of their...

I completely agree with you on what the problem is. The solution, however, is more elusive. I heard an interesting analysis of our unemployment system compared to those used elsewhere. It seems that the only systems that actually worked were ones where more carrots and more sticks were involved...

Market share is also required for their "walled garden" concept to work. If you lock everyone out but those that use large parts of your product ecosystem, it gets claustrophobic unless there are a lot of people on the inside.

Apple survives on high margin. As soon as a product becomes a commodity that anyone can make the margin is shot. Android is the key to tablets becomming a commodity.

I actually am in about the 6-7th percentile. I don't feel "rich", but that is mainly because many of my friends are in the 1%-0.1% range. The concept of wealth redistribution as a whole seems to be what this conversation is boiling down to. Should everyone be allowed to keep their own...

Conditions are nice and all, but how often do you want to sleep alone? Choose your battles, and get more action ;)

Is it Android 2.2? Yes. Does it support the App market? No. Does it come with GPS? Yes. Does it have a GPS app installed by default? No. Now I need to find out how to root the thing. It would be awesome if I could somehow get it to work with ANT+ sensor networks. Music+navigation+cadence+heart...

3-4 hours a night is enough to keep you going for at least a year (in my experience).

Unlikely. 300+ maybe. Unless you are already there. If so, it might not be a good idea.

Creative Zen2/GPS. Unboxing impressions: 1. Obvious that this product was opened before (two layers of "tamper proof" stickers, the bottom one broken). This was purchased from Creative via their Amazon store. At least all the accessories were sealed. 2. Getting started guide. It is one of those...

What does your cholesterol look like? Your blood pressure? I've done it (if by "nutritional supplements" you mean soda), and was as fine after as I was before. It's kind of like a diet, really. You become so sick of the food that you only eat enough to stave off hunger.

The top 10% have 90% of the money and pay 70% of the taxes. That looks like a discrepancy to me.

I'm not sure how you get the impression that I don't understand it. Those numbers look about right to me. If your computer needs to be load-tested, you can check out the US National Debt Clock webpage. Based on your numbers in post #168, doubling taxes on the bottom 50% of wage earners would...

I don't see a difference in those two statements other than spin. If 10% of Americans make 90% of the money, taxing them 10% more allows you to cut the taxes of everyone else by 90% and keep revenues roughly equal. If that is the case, it is not possible that increasing taxes on the rich...

I was able to manage it strictly by spending cuts, mainly to the military and entitlement programs. That doesn't mean that I don't think the wealthy should pay their share, or that tax loopholes and shelters should be plugged, just that that could lower everyone elses taxes considerably.

This is fun.

You're broadening the argument. Your original statement in this line was that taxing the rich more couldn't put a dent in the deficit. This is a simple math problem were one to have the numbers. You are now arguing fiscal policy, which is a much broader argument where you and I are more in...

Sol nailed it. I prefer a keyboard with buckling springs, and I prefer one that is fairly quiet. That one qualifies as both.

Keep it simple if possible. If FTP is enough, then use that.

Yup. Most of the boards I have don't have PS/2 at all. And spraying a cheap keyboard wouldn't fix #1.

It is steep because of the growth potential. If it wasn't for their anticipated expansion, I would stick a pair of 3TB drives in the CAD workstation in RAID-1 and call it the server. That would save them considerable money. It also doesn't seem like a whole lot for an office start up cost. I...

Very weak, Stereodude. It isn't simple. If we wanted to do simple, common sense math we could look at the income distribution and to the math ourselves. Of course, that doesn't work because many at the top hide their earning elsewhere. This is a complicated matter because those with interests...

1. It is actually a very high quality keyboard as far as the mechanics go. 2. They claim that your typing speed increases substantially very quickly due to the fact that you can't cheat.

I'm not qualified to argue the numbers, and neither are you. The best we can do is get expert opinions. You brought some, and I'm disputing their credibility. That is the advantage to Warren Buffet making this argument; it is clearly not in his best interest to lie. Also, if there is any score...

How about questioning the source as well?

I'm questioning the legitimacy and independence of that site.