Something Random

[Howell]

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.

The child of a friend of mine was allowed to have OJ without brushing before bed. Good thing he has another set coming in.

 

[ddrueding]

So how is it all connected? How do they know?

One of the 'tools' that they encourage you to use is to give them the username and password of your e-mail account. They will then go in and extract your contact information, automatically adding anyone who is already a member as a friend. A side effect is the e-mail that I got.

It is amazing how much some of us fight government intrusions into our lives, while so much of the population is happily giving away every ounce of privacy to feel a little more popular.

 

[Chewy509]

Facebook is evil.

So true. I've received many invitations over the years, and now anything from FB is automatically marked as spam. If I want someone to be able to contact me, they already know how to.

Despite the many flaws been found with their system**, people still sign-up in droves.

** My favourite flaw was, you could view *any* image within ther system, just by modifying the imageid field in the URL. You didn't even need to be logged into facebook, for this to work! (Note: this has been fixed, but does show the lack of thought into the implementation).

 

[Chewy509]

It is amazing how much some of us fight government intrusions into our lives, while so much of the population is happily giving away every ounce of privacy to feel a little more popular.

Amen to that!

 

[mubs]

Last time I was at the dentist they warned me to stay away from the hard bristled brushes. Said they don't clean any better but wear the teeth down. I hadn't really thought of that before.

One dentist I went to said hard bristles should be outlawed by the FDA. He said to only buy the soft-bristled ones. But using those, after 3 days, it feels like you never brushed; the clean feeling just isn't there.

 

[MaxBurn]

I know what you mean there but I think we have lulled ourselves into thinking that hard bristled clean feeling is good when it really isn't.

 

[Will Rickards]

I went to see Panasonic's 3D TV display and to enter the drawing.
www.panasonic.com/future
They could have mentioned where in the king of prussia mall they were at. It is huge and took us a while to find it.
3D TV was cool but you needed the glasses. 3D gaming (car racing) was cooler. But still not immersive.
Here's hoping I win.

 

[ddrueding]

As soon as a good 3D driving simulator comes out, I'll be getting an ~50" 3D screen.

 

[LunarMist]

A hard drive is slower with only the last 12KB free.

 

[LunarMist]

As soon as a good 3D driving simulator comes out, I'll be getting an ~50" 3D screen.

Oh man, you must be a glutton for punishment. That is last thing I would want to do after driving home in traffic amidst all the real-world maniacs.

 

[ddrueding]

Oh man, you must be a glutton for punishment. That is last thing I would want to do after driving home in traffic amidst all the real-world maniacs.

While driving in the real world, there are many things I want to do (pass on the right, overtake on blind corners, cut people off, etc). I have some semblance of decency, so I don't. It is nice to get it out of my system after I get home.

Besides, for the last 18 months and the next 3, I walk to work

 

[udaman]

Oh man, you must be a glutton for punishment. That is last thing I would want to do after driving home in traffic amidst all the real-world maniacs.

LOL, just wait until they have a Wii 'Pornstar' *interactive* simulation, on a 3D 4k res screen.

Think of all the hospital emergency room 'explanations' ... 'well doc, ya see I fell while using the Wii golf simulation' 'I got a little carried away on that Rockstar/Guitar player game', lol.

 

[MaxBurn]

Oh man, you must be a glutton for punishment. That is last thing I would want to do after driving home in traffic amidst all the real-world maniacs.

Try out one of the Grand Theft Autos, the later ones I had fun simply creating mayham on the highways exactly like this.

 

[mubs]

Interesting reading:

End the War on Fat. It could be making us sicker.

Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch?

 

[LunarMist]

The socket in my notebook can be removed and replaced fairly easily, but it is not like that one.

 

[Handruin]

Are you sure those will work? It doesn't specify the spacing of the screw holes. I compared several PCI cards that I had lying around and they all had different spacings.
I have a goofy upside down Lian-Li ATX case, so I hung the fan from top with zip ties and adhesive cable tie mounts.

Just a followup on the back bracket that I linked to fits perfect on the Perc 6i. The only tricky part was using a 5/16th drill bit to widening the hole on the bracket a little bit to fit the screw that came with the raid card.

My case has a side mount for a 120mm fan that sits right above the card so I'm trying that to see if it cools it enough.

The cards came in working order (so far as I can tell) and the BBUs work fine. I don't have the SFF 8484 cables yet to try the drives, but I'm able to get into the BIOS on both cards just fine.

 

[Pradeep]

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers

 

[ddrueding]

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers

That is a fantastic read. I love rally racing.

 

[LunarMist]

Why are Newegg prices for memory cards so high? It is crazy.

 

[LunarMist]

One of the 'tools' that they encourage you to use is to give them the username and password of your e-mail account. They will then go in and extract your contact information, automatically adding anyone who is already a member as a friend. A side effect is the e-mail that I got.

It is amazing how much some of us fight government intrusions into our lives, while so much of the population is happily giving away every ounce of privacy to feel a little more popular.

Evil bastards! I have no societal networkers, fortunately.

 

[Pradeep]

That is a fantastic read. I love rally racing.

My favorite dream car when growing up was the Celica GT-Four:

http://www.noeman.org/gsm/cars-autos/51481-world-rally-championships-now-back-then.html

http://jalopnik.com/5457962/forzalopnik-round-two-group-iii-cars

I curse myself that I was too young to drive at that time, and therefore could not own such a car.

 

[ddrueding]

http://jalopnik.com/5457962/forzalopnik-round-two-group-iii-cars

That is a really great list.

 

[Bozo]

What! No XKE???

 

[LunarMist]

This would be my dream ride, with a driver and guard. I'd never drive again. 8)

 

[ddrueding]

This would be my dream ride, with a driver and guard. I'd never drive again. 8)

Check your link there...

 

[LunarMist]

Did a modernator or robot remove it? I swear it was G rated.

 

[ddrueding]

Not me....can we have the link? I'll fix it.

 

[LunarMist]

Here are 1-2 examples.

 

[LunarMist]

Check your link there...

Holy Moly! Look where the bogus link led.

 

[snowhiker]

car and driver

This would be my dream ride, with a driver and guard. I'd never drive again. 8)

I found your driver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5oRAVm_DDE

Check out the drift starting at 0:47sec into video.

 

[LunarMist]

I would probably :hurl:.

 

[ddrueding]

I found your driver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5oRAVm_DDE

Check out the drift starting at 0:47sec into video.

That is utterly nuts. I was convinced he was already halfway through a spin when it hooked back up.

 

[ddrueding]

At 4:30PM yesterday, tech support from a vendor told me it was OK to delete a log file. I've now been on the phone with his superior for 7 hours trying to put it back. Blah.

 

[ddrueding]

Just got off the phone with his superior. The CTO will be calling me tomorrow morning so we can go through a manual repair of their database. Yay.

 

[time]

You're in the wars lately. Hope they can fix it for you.

Out of curiosity, what DBMS (database server) are they using?

 

[Howell]

My favorite dream car when growing up was the Celica GT-Four:

I curse myself that I was too young to drive at that time, and therefore could not own such a car.

Heh, my favorite dream car growing up was the Ford GT40. I still have dreams of building an electric replica.

 

[LunarMist]

How are the hard drives distributed? Are they shipped directly from the Asian manufacturer to the Neweggs? It is interesting that Newegg is shipping drives that are less than a week old.

 

[Pradeep]

7 days from Malaysia to the US, you have to think that's air freight. Must be solid demand for them.

 

[LunarMist]

I thought it was Thailand. The drives must also clear customs.

 

[ddrueding]

Scroll to the bottom of this page and marvel at the Carbon Fiber SSD casing! Dude!