ddrueding
Fixture
If you start a sentence with "He didn't even, fuckin, um...." you can just stop there. I assure you that whatever you were about to say had no value.
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CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Aging isn't cool. The middle finger of my left hand is starting to show signs of a trigger finger. I wish it was a joke. It's annoying. I keep stretching it, but the feeling never goes.
Have you had steriods yet? The next step is surgery.
jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
Starting signs of carpal tunnel syndrome? Count yourself lucky that it took until well into middle age before this happened. I started in my mid 20s. By the time I was about 30 it was so bad I could no longer work full-time. It only got worse after that. It seems to have plateaued for the last few years, but at a very high level. My hands go numb about 15 minutes into a bike ride. By the time an hour rolls around I don't have enough strength to squeeze the brake lever by more than a hair. Some days when I wake up I have no feeling at all and my hands are virtually paralyzed for up to an hour. Once I'm up a while things get better, but occupationally I can rarely do anything productive for more than a few hours at a time. Unfortunately CTS is one of those things which runs in the family. My mother went out on permanent disability when she was in her mid 40s. Both her and my sister had carpal tunnel release operations but they didn't do much good. Anyway, I hope for your sake it doesn't get much worse. This is one of those things which while it won't kill you, it makes your life miserable.
Stereodude
Not really a
I guess you should have kept it simple.
Oh, it's really f*cking simple. I go in for one thing and I come out with an unrelated one.
making cookies today: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/cookie_recipe.htm
It may be an urban myth. Regardless, it still makes darn good cookies especially if you double the chocolate.
It may be an urban myth. Regardless, it still makes darn good cookies especially if you double the chocolate.
I just received my copy of this and when I looked at the CD-Key it was too small to read. Two lines of text a total of 3mm high. Length about 14mm. And 2/3 of the key was black printing on a blue background? WTF. I had to use a camera and take a zoomed in pic of the key.
It's a plot to force people to upgrade to Win8 so they can read their gdam key! LOL.
It's a plot to force people to upgrade to Win8 so they can read their gdam key! LOL.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'm still waiting for MS to support the webcam at that stage in the setup.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
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mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
I almost died laughing reading this. One of the best-written pieces I've read in a long time: Dave Barry Learns Everything You Need to Know About Being a Husband From Reading 50 Shades of Grey
Interesting stuff: See What’s Cooking in the Cognitive Kitchen
Interesting stuff: See What’s Cooking in the Cognitive Kitchen
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
50 Shades and the Twilight novels both have supremely vacant protagonists. The best theory I have about this is that the utterly generic non-persons at the center of the narrative can be a stand-in for the widest possible range of people in need of fantasy fulfillment. I managed to read about 70 pages of 50 Shades (which took about 20 minutes - the book is written on about a 4th grade level) after the eighth or ninth woman asked me if I could "find" it for them.
For the poor SOBs who will no doubt be dragged to the movie version with the idea that at least there will be some boobs in it, apparently it's going to be nudity-free.
For the poor SOBs who will no doubt be dragged to the movie version with the idea that at least there will be some boobs in it, apparently it's going to be nudity-free.
Stereodude
Not really a
So I have a pair of headphones I really like. I thought they offered great performance for the price. They're a pair of AKG K540 headphones that I picked up from a seller on ebay around a year ago for just under $80 new in box. I was turned on to this model by a coworker who had a pair. I liked the first pair I bought enough that I wanted buy another pair to leave connected to another PC. So after waiting for a while for the right deal I bought another pair new in box on ebay for $80.
They came yesterday and they don't sound like the first pair. The most recently purchased pair sounds noticeably different from the first pair and they sound worse with a sonic signature I find unpleasant. I picked this up pretty quickly without even an A/B comparison. A subsequent A/B comparison proved I was definitely right. FWIW, both were sealed in the box when I got them. I also have two coworkers who each have a pair of the same headphone. Now I haven't done a direct comparison of all 4 pairs we have between us at one time, but I have heard all of them and going from my auditory memory my most recently purchased pair is the outlier of the set and the other three are very similar.
I'm not really sure what to do. I bought them from an individual, not a store. I guess I could complain to AKG. For now I've got the newest set "burning in" even though I don't really believe in that sort of thing. I'll see what 100 hours of high SPL playback does for them. Grrr.... :cursin:
They came yesterday and they don't sound like the first pair. The most recently purchased pair sounds noticeably different from the first pair and they sound worse with a sonic signature I find unpleasant. I picked this up pretty quickly without even an A/B comparison. A subsequent A/B comparison proved I was definitely right. FWIW, both were sealed in the box when I got them. I also have two coworkers who each have a pair of the same headphone. Now I haven't done a direct comparison of all 4 pairs we have between us at one time, but I have heard all of them and going from my auditory memory my most recently purchased pair is the outlier of the set and the other three are very similar.
I'm not really sure what to do. I bought them from an individual, not a store. I guess I could complain to AKG. For now I've got the newest set "burning in" even though I don't really believe in that sort of thing. I'll see what 100 hours of high SPL playback does for them. Grrr.... :cursin:
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Could you just say you are unhappy with them and return them to the individual?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
timwhit, the Chicago Symphony, Symphony Chorale and Children's Chorus will be performing the full score to "Return of the King" on August 7th and 8th. It's $25/ticket + another $10 to park, though the tickets are not available for sale yet. This is your first warning.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Thank you for the info, do you have a link with more?
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Nevermind, I found it: http://www.ravinia.org/ShowDetails/Index?id=775
Stereodude
Not really a
Maybe, but that seems like a pretty crappy thing to do. It's not his fault.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
If you pay return shipping, it shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Stereodude
Not really a
It seems unlikely. He only had one pair to sell, and everything is spot on identical to the other pair, the packaging and everything.
So are they counterfeit or simply defective?
Stereodude
Not really a
At this point I'd say they're probably the latter. I'll know more after I compare all 4 pairs of the identical model.
Sure, but it is horrible and there is no treatment.
I do not wish to belittle your issue. Sorry, you are going through your personal health issues. It's never fair but it must be endured, mainly because the alternative is unthinkable.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
Tannin
Storage? I am Storage!
^ Nahh. They are on an island. There is proof.
Tea
Storage? I am Storage!
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Fatwah on Western Digital
As it turns out, "Chet Manhammer" is not considered a funny name for an internal reporting e-mail address even if only two people could potentially see it and one of them does not have a sense of humor.
Who?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Ok, how about :
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Apparently, the world's largest datacenter is (or was) in Québec, near Montréal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e97g7_qSxA