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It depends. Some titles look a lot better on HDTVs with progressive scan DVD players. Others don't. I saw a lot more problems with 3:2 pulldown - basically bad film-to-DVD transfers than I noticed on my first actual TV (which I bought maybe 2 years ago). Also. DVD=Shrink DVDs don't look as...

No. There are just things I don't want to deal with, and frankly something like this is *really* high on the list, since I'm the party in the middle with no idea what's going on. I slap a new PC in place, and make someone pay me for it. Much less hassle. To top it off, my boss sent me an email...

OK, not really. It's not like he's George W. Bush or anything. But he's pretty bad. This guy moved in about two weeks ago. He works from home and talks on a 2.4GHz cell phone constantly. He has an 802.11 AP (with, hey, all the defaults left in place). These things didn't cause a problem for...

I mean, really, if a technician says "Is there anything else wrong with your computer?", isn't that usually an invitation to respond with the litany of problems one has with one's PC? When I asked them on the phone the contact said "I thought that was the problem you were fixing." I hate...

I got a call from my weekday job on Friday. My boss had a server built and installed at a client site - didn't tell me anything about it. Guess what? Her "server" (nforce2, XP2500 in a ricer case with a for-crap PSU) doesn't work - it crashes every 20 minutes. I visited their site once, to do a...

The guy at the camera store sold me an Image-Stabilizing 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. The guy at the counter said it was a good "starter" lens, and it was the first thing he recommended. I tried a number of other lenses but ultimately came back to that one. I think the IS really helps a lot.

100 people on an AP is *way* too many, Blake. Remember that 802.11 is shared bandwidth to the AP. If you're doing 11Mbit wireless then you're talking about splitting ~7.5Mbps (actual wireless throughput) among however many people happen to fall into the same AP's coverage area. Hopefully you'll...

A projector with similar specifications is the this one. Infocus does make good projectors, your cousin's experience notwithstanding.

I didn't like it either. I think I turned it off about 15 minutes after I got the laptop. I more or less use it on my lap in my living room, or on a desk while at a client site. I don't carry it around much while it's on, so I just decided the drive protection thing was a gimmick that I didn't need.

The amazing thing to me is, Cosby is getting a TON of flack over this from mainstream Black intelligentsia. Michael Eric Dyson and Tavis Smiley both sounded extremely upset when discussing his comments on Smiley's radio program. Now, I may be wrong about this, but if anyone has the right to...

My money says "In god we trust." When I'm bored I've been known to cross those words out of my bills. I certainly don't trust whatever god is involved in this. Christmas is a federal holiday. Why? Ever been to court? The standard oath ends "So help me God." and is sworn with one's hand on a...

I'll use very small words, so it'll be easier for you: When the state makes rules regarding the practice of one religion or other, it is favoring or disfavoring that religion. Holding to the words you've so helpfully defined for us, doing so would in fact be an establishment, one way or the...

I think it's like $320/month for me. I might be wrong, but it's something like that. All out of pocket. Insurance that covers mental health needs is stratospherically expensive. Which is why I asked about samples. :) (Note: Anyone wonder why I work a lot? $300/month could get me a decent German...

Have you decided on a specialization yet, AD? What rotations do you have coming up? As far as things go, I wouldn't turn down a dozen or so sample boxes of Zoloft... you wouldn't believe how much that crap costs me. :|

So the part about slaves being 3/5 of a person is the fault of my interpretation? 'Cause 60% seems like a pretty hard figure to me. Not a lot of wiggle room there. And the continual use of the gender specific pronoun "Men"? Are you suggesting that the founders really meant "...and women and...

HTTrack. I use it all the time. There's even a Firefox extension to automatically launch it.

Bother - I mean Brother - is not my favorite company in the laser printer world. They're actually somewhere near the bottom of my list. I've no experience with Samsung, but at that price point, I can't see how they'd be good printers. HOWEVER, I suggest you ignore everyone else's perfectly...

Sush, you!

I have a set of perl scripts that move stuff around to my file shares in a fairly automated fashion, but the business rules you're dealing with are way more complicated than my set-up. :(

PM me.

Obviously there was "better" to be had. Slavery lasted another 100 years. African slaves were 3/5ths of a person. Women had no rights. And they weren't clear enough about the whole "well regulated militia" thing. There wasn't strong enough language WRT state's rights, so every time there's been...

This might sound silly, but can we divorce the idea of guns from the notion of self-defence? I don't think I can defend myself with a gun, especially given all thing things that might, in theory, kill me. Things I couldn't shoot. I certainly don't see guns as essential to protecting myself.

Is there anything wrong with disagreeing with them?

That is correct.

What are you using to benchmark? What kind of controller are you using? Do you have a Seagate drive or an OEM model? What else is on your cabling? What kind of cabling do you have? Uh, we need a little more info.

I'd be happy to give you $100 for it. :)

I would contend that there are very few legitimate reasons for ANYONE to have a gun (unlike, say, a joint. Or a hooker). Having a gun == criminal? Fine by me.

HEC makes a 385W PSU that's really, really nice for the money. I don't know how much they are in Finland, but they're $32 locally and $40 from newegg. It's nice and quiet, too.

If someone can convince me to do a home job I usually either bill $65/hr or $100 flat-rate. Sometimes I even let them pick. :)

I haven't yet. I'm going to take my camera to a store and try a few different ones out. Canon Lenses, at least, are really easy to find.

If it's got MyDoom, it has known security holes. Shouldn't be that hard to get it to remote execute a "shutdown" command. Or maybe you could write a .VBS to replace their IE start page with a friendly note to run housecall, then jam a pencil through their left eye socket. Is it illegal? Maybe...

Ordered a 10D. I absolutely can't find a D70 at retail. I looked for what, a month? Anyway, I hope to have it in a week or so.

I don't use AV software on my home machines. I check my machines with housecall about once a month. I don't use IE or Outlook. I keep all my PCs patched. I have a solid internal firewall in place. I sell Symantec AV to customers. Mostly 'cause I hate McAffee even more, hate dealing with the...

Where I live there's a coin show three times a year at the county fairgrounds. ... and for you nutcases, I think there's a gun show at least once a month. Same basic thing, except that sort of geekcraft doesn't lend itself to things like discussion panels. ;)

You really can't have a convention without the blatant commercialism. It kinda goes without saying, and in part it's also the profit center that'll bring the con back the next year. One nice thing about conventions is that the dealers are usually fans of <whatever>, too, and even moreso, they...

<Those with weak Sarcast-o-meters should turn them up now> NAV/McAffee didn't find all the viruses? Say it ain't so! <OK, I'm done now>

When I went to a comic convention last year I saw dozens of people dressed up. Y'know what? It was really cool. You can say "Oh, that guy must have an awful life that he put together a Klingon outfit to wear in public", but on the other hand, he's also making a public show of devotion, and he's...

Indeed Streambox is very available. I have it, if nothing else. I use it to save copies of This American Life.

Good of you to drop by, HD. Perhaps it's time for me to update my local copy of the Flashblock .xpi now...

I'm "making an effort". :P My favorite TV show is ending this week, and I got to see its star, to hear what he had to say about it. I thought that was worth the discomfort. Besides, there were only maybe 200 people there, and I didn't have to be near or speak to any of them. Fushigi was...

Left the house today. Went to Buffy convention. Lots of cute goth chicks, and I got see David Boreanaz and some other people from "Angel". Yes, I am huge, tremendous geek.

1. What's in Chicago? 2. There really isn't a happy medium. You're either the guy who wants to go too fast or the guy who needs to get out of the way. Add to that the construction nightmare that starts in March and ends in October or November, and frankly I'm amazed we haven't added turrets to...

Could be worse. Ever had a real System Operator job? It goes like this: Bored, Bored, Bored, SWITCH THE TAPES *NOW*, bored, bored, SWITCH THE TAPES *NOW* bored, time to go home.

OK. Here you go..

I saw it. Then I clicked the little "Adblock" button underneath the ad. And now all is right again with my browser.

Van Helsing is... not good. Underworld wasn't either. Both movies could be reduced to the heroine doing squat-thrusts in their leather outfits for two hours and been much, much improved. Serendipity is the kind of movie we now call a "chick flick". John Cusack is a favorite actor of mine...

I don't see any flash on newegg.com.

X800 v. Geforce 6800.

Not too long ago on one of my machines, thunderbird's adaptive spam filtering decided that mail from the people I work with should be considered spam. I had to completely reset the spam filters to make it stop trashing their mail.

Hate to spoil the suspense, but no Seagate drive wins a performance test. :) There is a shock, though, that the Samsung SP1213C (the SATA one) comes out in the top 3 in an awful lot of the tests, basically keeping company with the 7k250 through all the tests. Samsung drives just keep looking...