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slackers two friggin weeks and no posts to the SR thread, you all ought to be ashamed :p http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f129/can-jam-2009-date-location-announcement-396027/ excellent PS work here: The new Sennheiser HD900 (which looks super cheap) costs only $1.4k, Stephan Audio Art upgrade...

As KR has already pointed out in terms of IQ, the D3X prwnd the 5DMKii...it only cost 3x as much. Not sure dpreview's timely (:D) review has much meaning now, nor the contention that IQ is what weighs heavily in the 5DMkII's favor...both D3x & 5Dmkii are too expensive, pure and simple. Wake me...

LMAO. Apparently Phelps isn't the only one suffering from ADD ...as a result of a bong hit :D. See that little question mark icon next to the deactivated text? (squint your blood shot, hazed/dazed eyes...it's there)...click on it! go ahead, I know you guys never click on any links. Looks like...

I wonder how many athletes will test positive for MJ when the next winter Olympics arrive in the heart of the Canadian MJ trade, beautiful 'supernatural' British Columbia? I thought in the Nagano games, that Canadian snowboarder who tested positive for MJ and was stripped of a Gold medal, should...

Chewy & Tannin (Tea might be in trouble, hanging out in the trees) are along the east coast IIRC, fires are in a different location I believe, worst on record (modern times). You live in So. Cal. LM, didn't know that. I live in So. Cal. and that's not my impression at all. Have you actually...

Awful judgmental there, aren't you Handy? Shows your ignorance & bias at the same time :D. *Bush* twins, need I say more? As opposed to Lindsay Lohan...get the difference? Bong Clinton, Obama? Get the difference...or similarity? Do you ever drive a vehicle on less than optimum sleep? Well then...

Congress delays shift to digital TV transmission, June 12, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/04/house-votes-postpone-transition-digital-tv/ Woot! In that amount of time, might have some of the newer large screen technology, trickle down to smaller size LCD TV's/Monitors. I get to...

Just 3 years late :D http://www.dpreview.com/news/0902/09020402fujifilmfinepixf200exr.asp#specs More efficient pixel binning, dropping resolution down to 3MP or less (which was fine 3yrs ago), you get 12,800 ISO...w00t. Finally a thin Fuji that has a wider angle lens 28mm-140mm equiv, and...

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/02/03/seagate.intros.2tb.hdd/ low power just like WD Greenie drives...but will they be as reliable enough as WD to make Merc want to buy them :D. Constellation 500GB 2.5in laptop drive, lower power than current 7200.4k Momentus...hmm, what kind of laptop...

No, *anyone* else would likely be using Mac OS X Snow Leopard or a version of Linux, lol. So PC centric of you Handy :D, reminds me of Eugene and his rants on what he claims are the important vs useless performance metrics :p. Well sever my dynamic dick! lol...that would hurt :D (as an Admn...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/30/installing_windows_7_beta_on_a_mac_with_sun_virtualbox.html Not sure why any sane person would want to do this...M$ beta software, beta 7 on a Mac? Windows 7 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard: competitive origins Windows 7 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10471051/Carbon-Big-Foot

Pastor Obama, err I meant motivational speaker Obama (also now US president :p ), said "change is coming".... well I must have misunderstood him then, taken his words out of context. :drinka: Carbon foot print :D :rr: Guess change will have to wait until we get some president with a radical...

I take it not one of you watched? Not a single comment, so I'll assume so, lol. Shall I post the entire transcript? (always works better when you have visual to go with text...but hey, wouldn't want to force feed any of you :p )

Judging by the current news, I'd say the guys at the top levels of the company are potentially the worst assets. Tax payer bailouts of companies that gave out $15B+ in bonuses...repeat that again, your bailout dollars are going to the top level execs as *bonuses*!!! What a country! Madoff was...

Hal9000... 'what are you doing dave?' :D Space missions typically have lots of redundancy, still the backup systems fail too :(

Or served up bloody and warm, as in sausage :p. Revenge? Hell hath no furry... Which is why you don't want to get piss drunk around a woman with known 'issues' who drinks hard-liquor as a refreshment, and wields a fine knife around her kitchen culinary skillz...speaking of 'her' jtr :p.

....if only I had a modern SATA 3Gb/s internal path. I'll wait for the Sandisk G3's this summer, IDE. Still, with 500GB laptop drives going for what 64GB drives cost now, probably not. Prelim testing on the 7200.4 500GB http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=271131&page=40 Where...

Continuing the dd 'Kingston' SSD thread ;) 1. Not known for high reliability from what I've read (kind of what Merc thinks of WD :p), Patriot announced a V3 of their 'Warp' series SSD @256GB, currently the only SSD I could find <$1k...until the Samsung shows up. PE256GS25SSDR (faster than...

If you're not getting a *huge* payback on this, just forget about it. Otherwise, you need to find out *all* of the how do we say it "conditional issues" "Bob" has with the items. If you can't determine those issues, you'll just end up biting your fingernails off, or pulling all of your hair out...

cynicism noted Merc, we all know your prior bias against WD :p. However, 'green' is just the Obamasized buzz word these days... marketing PR, doesn't mean the drives are slower because of that. WD is just adding another 500GB platter, kind of like the old Hitachi 500GB drive. Only time until...

"Standard"...hardly think so. Will be "optional" for a good long time. Can get 160GB 2.5 HHD for $60, when 128GB SSD's go below $100, then 'standard' http://forum.ssdworld.ch/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37 Maybe Anandtech didn't test correctly ;) ^^^ for the Intel SLC we get this...eh, too lazy to...

I'll take made in HK, happy CNY Hope LM doesn't consider this too political :p "Made" in USA vs made in HK :D http://chaxiubao.typepad.com/chaxiubao/2008/06/a-matter-of-cou.html#more

How now, brown cow? :D http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2009.htm ^^^Year of Earth Cow, CNY 2009....for LM :p : http://chaxiubao.typepad.com/photos/the_sum_of_hong_kong/p7040011.html Si jui jing ab ha pa oooh, even tastier: 明記雞什粥 (congee of rooster's testicle is available if you...

pretty much. "if you did any research"...you'd know of SD bias, so maybe better to just agree to disagree??? Other political stories we can argue that are on the plate, which is overflowing for Obama and his team. Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job...

Perhaps dd was refering to the jmicron jmf602 controllers in many MLC SSD's? http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=10 The Corsair I mentioned above will use a Samsung controller. hmm, guess dd drifted off again like he does with many a thread. No telling if he...

So it's official? The 5yr warranty is of little value? Will this mean the 3yr warranty new drives will fail 2x as much :p? There's always the SSD option...for only a little less than the price of a 1DsMkIII you can have a 512GB SSD now, that has higher performance than the Intel SSD's dd likes.

How much? Range?

? explain

Do you want higher performance than the Intel drives now, today, something in stock you can flip your CC over?

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/23/android.cupcake.update/ Cupcake...kind of grrly mon if you ask me :p :( Double damn Apple, the iPhone ^^^ don't they understand dd's backwards "business" mindset? :D http://www.talkandroid.com/766-android-cupcake-features/ Wait a few months...

Why yes, read the news section on SF :D. 250/70 RW...ah no. But Samsung & Toshiba will have drives on the market soon that surpass the Intel in both capacity & performance. Oh, did you mean Corsair? :p http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Corsair-SSD-S128,6871.html errr, double *yawn* Kingston...

Reading the fine print :) Why the Gitmo policies may not change http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17841.html Also, al Qaida Gitmo prisoners have already been released under the Bush admn, guess SD hopes a terrorist attack happens in Dallas and faults Bush too??? Ex-Gitmo detainee...

Now come on already! 1st it was the now ubiquitous 'California roll' Now it's 'authentic' Korean-American tacos!!! Give me a break. You're all twitterized here on SF, yes (you too jtr, I know you've read all of her twitter acct posts :p )? Lines of a thousand people waiting for $2 Korean...

F N Egg...communicationally challenged? STD postcards: You've got mail — and more Early data shows it helps to have partners break bad news online http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27205681/ Losers! If you can't tell a person, in a more direct way...for something as serious as this kind of...

Facebook marital status change results in murder A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7676285.stm Not the 1st time this has happened. WTF is wrong with...

cynical, glib exchange from both SD & fb. But SD is misguided (unless he voted for...??? the green party candidate :p ). If McCain where to have won the presidency, same result...yes? So might as well include the vast majority of people in the USA for your retribution SD :)...

Winblows software is archaic, tedious, bloatware...in short Merc, it sucks...get a Mac, iPhone rocks. For dd Sprint *may* have better coverage, but in LA and rural California (and I suppose other parts of the country?) Sprint is truly the worst mobile network...I know, been with Sprint since...

Since LSD cells are now available in all common sizes, aaa, aa, c, d, & 9v; I'd have to go with one of these, even if not 'advanced'. http://thomasdistributing.com/shop/chargers-by-battery-size--aaaaacd9v-chargers-c-147_149_242.html?osCsid=11i7k67r38pacn7dr90bkpib03 Sure would be nice to have...

Intel Will Sell Hard Drives With Double the Capacity http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKviuugHgmFE&refer=home Heh, quality reporting there from Bloomberg :). 1st I've seen of mention of 32nm process, it's a good thing. 320GB to provide more competition...but 4Q is behind...

update/full review of the 5DmkII on IR. http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/E5D2/E5D2A.HTM I would use 12,800 if necessary, even if LL thinks it's not real world worthy. But damn, check out the blow up of the D3X compared to 5DMkII @ISO 6400. Amazing stuff. Give me a D3X sensor in a...

However.... http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/big-three.shtml ^^^I concur, you all should get a Mac :D. But he was wrong about one part...sort of. DxO measured these, the D3X came out ahead :P. DxO's tests showed a full 1.5 stop difference btw the Canon & D3x, in most cases...

I think is was SD that said the Sony A900 had poor IQ...yes, based on what measure? http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/a900-5dmkii.shtml

Certainly not true in all locations, guess LM missed my SR rant about the twilight zone (TV series of the 60's :D) of my FedEx experience in Los Angeles. FedEx, unlike UPS or USPS, uses independent contractor truck delivery people...that can be a nightmare if you have a perishable product. I...

50 questions before we get an answer....tease :p

Obama is supposed to issue an order allowing the 17 states that want to impose greenhouse emission standards a go ahead. Auto manufacturers (Detroit) screaming bloody murder saying it could cost upwards of $5,000 addition to each vehicle to meet those standards. Mean while Honda says they are...

so did a lot of people, a decade ago. So did a lot of people think OLED would be here already with large size screens...still only prototypes...long way from ideas >>> to production product. Most don't make it. survival of the fittest (or best marketing/corporate pull)?

click(read/comprehend), ^^^link?

Coldest temp on record for NA was 1971 in Alaska -79F, but there have been other cold spells in the -60F range. At <-30F, even synthetic motor oil becomes so thick, you can't start an engine, -60F become a thick solid :).

*you* can stay out all day if you keep moving, keep body heat up; but others with poorer circulation can die quickly at those temps jtr. Those with poorer circulation include the elderly (ie. could be your mother, and you if you live another decade or two and don't maintain optimal health due to...