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I have prints from Deviantart and a bunch of stuff I got at comic book conventions. Unfortunately, not much of it is 8x12.

OK photo people: I want cheap frames in weird sizes. The best deal I can find is usually from Adorama Camera, but their shipping is pretty bad, and some sizes they don't have at all (e.g. 10x15).

I don't think she's more than generically attractive. Now that I think about it, she was really the least attractive woman in the cast.

I don't know anyone who would disagree, but the supporting cast was nine shades of awesome.

Most of the cast will be at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo in a couple weeks. The biggest problem is that the conclusion is tragically low budget.

It's awesome degrees in my pants. That is all.

I'd rather have vertical pixels than horizontal ones. Doesn't matter. I'm still going to buy one.

I don't think they run x86 code at all. They exist for computationally intense operations and apparently the architecture leans heavily on RAM and various levels of cache memory. Basically it's a chip one might use (in quantity) as the basis for a mainframe.

The T420 has a 16:9 screen and I would like to know what they are smoking that they think it's going to hit 15 hours of battery life.

The Slashdot discussion I mentioned earlier is actually a surprisingly interesting discussion between programmers and engineers. It's like the good old days over there.

Intel just released new ones. If they were being EOL'd I doubt they would make the investment. Somebody must be buying them. They do run all the big name DBMS packages (Oracle, DB2, MSSQL and MySQL, at least) so presumably they have some kind of market somewhere.

Inspired by a post on Slashdot that the silly things still exist, I just went and looked at Itanium systems on Ebay. $300 for a dual core 1.5GHz machine with 16GB RAM? Even without x86 compatibility it seems like that machine should be worth that to somebody.

Maybe fallout from the recent fiasco over mobile graphics chips.

A very interesting thing has happened in the USA. Porn companies started filing massive John Doe suits against downloaders, shopping them to venues where one might reasonably assume there is a lower level of technical sophistication among members of the court, liked West Virginia. The...

My ongoing exposure has been to more failed or flaky cards during that time period. We've had issues with mobile chipsets and I'd testify in court that every nvidia-based motherboard chipset I've deployed has had a shorter lifespan than other hardware of the same generation. My BFG 8800...

Dell and Gateway used to ship a lot of machines with discrete cards from Riva 128s up to Geforce 2s. They all sucked. The last nvidia card I bought for myself was an original Geforce, and it also died an early death. My working theory is that all nvidia cards ship with cooling that is to some...

It takes me a while to reach that point. I replaced hordes (dozens, easily) of nvidia cards before I decided that they're generally shit hardware. Too many overheating PCs and failed little fans. Same thing with WD: Way too many failures in my personal sample. When I finally decided to give them...

I was just asked to install Facebook on someone's computer. Now I want to hurt things.

But other than that, pot is pretty OK.

The members of this forum are not anatomically equipped to need such a thing, but I bet there's probably some alternate universe StorageForum where ddrueding's needs 440V and a diesel backup.

One of mine came off an old NE2000 clone.

Major? No. In fact I had to go in to Chicago to get a Simmons mattress because there are no local dealers. But I'm peeved enough now that I think I'm going to cancel my order and get one from overstock.com instead. They send me emails about mattresses at least once a week.

For my Perc5s, I just took the brackets off other old crap in my parts bins until I found things that fit reasonably well.

Note to Santilli: They've been testing this for a year. Seriously. This is by no means an untested product. I've had SP1 release candidates on one of my Thinkpads since June.

It basically just rolls up the first sixty Windows updates. Nothing too exciting, but it's handy for the builders and integrators.

The reviews on the Hitachi Magic Wand are pretty funny too.

People who don't have MSDN memberships can now download Windows 7 SP1 just like those of us who do.

Just in case anyone thought I was joking about Newegg selling Vibrators (completely SFW, unlike the same search on Amazon).

I do not know of any legal streaming services that does not have some kind of content protection on it. Why would you expect Amazon's to be any different?

During the run-up to Valentine's Day, Newegg got in a lot of trouble in the press for offering "girl" items like pink netbooks and, uh, personal massagers. They're trying to be Amazon. Think about it: They already have tons of connections to cheap Asian electronics suppliers and they have an...

That is a business that they've been in for a couple years. Amazon usually gives you $5 in streaming credit when you buy a BD and has for a while now. As I understand it, streaming delivery of a movie only costs Netflix about $.18 but a la carte pricing from Amazon is usually around $3/title...

Better than a P180?

My BFG 8800GTX failed roughly once every nine months for the duration of time that I used it. That seems typical of my nvidia experience. So anyway, paid Amazon Prime Members get streaming video stuff for free now. That's what I wanted to tell you people. How cool is that? It's on Amazon's...

Except for the fact that they get too hot and die early deaths.

This thingie was on Engadget this morning. It looks like a good mix of features for the cash.

A dozen or more years ago, I remember reading discussions on Slashdot about very specific technical issues related computer engineering. Now I almost can't stand to even look at a thread there that relates to computer hardware. There are just too many morons on the internet.

360s are pretty much the only non-PC consumer electronics devices with which I have experience. I managed to make two working units from five broken ones, basically just following instructions I found online. My Wii is louder than any computer that belongs to me. I can't even stand to have...

Yes, but it was scaled back somewhat. What I ended up building was basically an i5 760 in a Silverstone chassis and a pair of 2TB Hitachi drives in RAID1. It did turn out to be functionally silent with a Scythe HSF and a Seasonic PSU.

Northwest Indiana is basically a giant farm for trashy talk show guests. We have the incest-farm trailer parks and the blighted urban ghetto and when the two sides get over their mutual racism, probably with the help of crystal meth, they make babies that grow up to be restrained by Steve the...

First they said that the model I selected wasn't in stock and they would have to wait for the next time they got a delivery. Now apparently I'm waiting for the company to have enough orders that need to be delivered in my area. Or something like that.

They said a month. It's been almost six weeks.

I think the biggest thing would be finding motherboards that have a real IDE controller that isn't routed through a JMicron USB bridge. One of my customers still uses some DOS systems for instrumentation. The last machine I set up for him was a Pentium 4.

It's 59 degrees outside right now. In February. A mile from Lake Michigan. That's nuts.

USB3 is an available option on some $60 boards. Looks like solid caps don't start showing up until a lot higher on the food chain, but they're not on cheap Intel boards either. In general, I'd rather buy a slower CPU and pair it with generally nicer parts like a better PSU and a second hard...

I got a Simmons Beautyrest something-or-other and I'm still waiting for them to deliver the damned thing. Shoulda just gone with the one from Overstock.com.

I'm still fairly convinced that Intel-based motherboards are manufactured to higher standards. Or may just Intel branded ones. But that $45 worth of price difference is still an awfully compelling argument against the i3.

OK but what about the part where you shut things off?

I'm not sure what issues you could be having. I'm just using a Windows 7 machine with Media Player Classic with K-lite codecs, PowerDVD and WinAmp. The only concession I made to the living room setting was bumping the text size on everything way up. I haven't done anything on that machine except...

You don't think someone could assemble a functional, quiet and reasonably low-power PC for this application? Maybe something in a fanless Atom system that boots Linux off a CF card and uses a $30 video card to handle HD decoding? That would certainly be quiet and low-power while maintaining...

Why are we not back at this point back to discussing a low end HTPC for this scenario?