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Roast them slooooowly over an open pit first. :bibber: Spammers are evil incarnate. :arge:

Better start staking out land in Alaska then. In 50 years NYC will probably have a tropical climate, and most of the southern US, especially the desert areas, will be too hot to be habitable (think temps >150°F for most of the year, with peaks probably well over 200°F). This isn't even getting...

I've noticed that pattern myself-an usually hot summer is generally followed by a very cold, snowy winter. I wouldn't be surprised if we have a couple of rare below 0°F days over here this winter. In fact, I'm actually looking forward to it.

I'd like to see their salaries equal to the average wage along with a clause forbidding outside income of any kind (let's see them try to make it on $25K). :diablo: This way it's in their best interests to raise the standards of living for everyone. Beyond getting reelected, right now they...

Tea, Ebay is famous for selling old hard drives at ludicrous prices. Dig around a little more and you'll probably find 10 or 20 GB drives with closing bids for not much less than a brand new 80 GB drive goes for. Seriously. I wouldn't be surprised if this drive fetches $10 US or more. I...

Sorry, that's 4.5 million songs and 22.5 TB. Still a gargantuan amount of storage to fit in a PC.

I'd love to know what kind of storage this kid is using. Even going at the highly inflated price of $20 per song that means he had 45 million songs on his machine, and at an average of 5 MB each they would have required 225 TB! Atomic level storage anyone? Seriously, on this issue songs...

Find a good lawyer and I'll join you.

Interesting but I'd say the lawsuit will go nowhere. What these people did basically amounts to carpooling, and they had valid reasons for doing so. Instead of suing, the bus company might have asked why did they choose to do this instead of taking the bus. I'm all for public transit. Always...

No, I mean $10K. I'm in business for myself with one client. The future may very well see $100K or perhaps even optimistically $500K, perhaps within 10 years if I'm lucky. I decided to do what I do for two reasons. First of all, decent-paying jobs seem to exist less and less in today's...

Same here. I haven't paid a dime in interest on my credit card purchases ever. I limit myself to what I can pay in full at the end of the month. BTW, I have $14,000 in credit despite the fact that my usual annual income is well under the $10K mark. Go figure.

It hit 106°F during that heat wave we had on the East coast about two weeks ago. I was as pissed off as hell having July weather in early June. The summers have definitely gotten hotter. When I was a kid 90° days were relatively rare. 100° was practically unheard of. During the last ten...

I've never had a car or a license. I live in a place where they're a luxury, not a necessity. For all the talk about the freedom having a car gives you I find that not having one gives you greater freedom. I'm free from worrying about registering, renewing my license, car payments, car...

I'm keeping my old battery as a paperweight/doorstop. Very handy sometimes actually.

I have the exact same UPS and had the exact same problem. You can get a brand new battery right here on eBay for only $23.95 shipped. Much better than the $35 to $40 most places charge just for the battery. I bought one, it fits fine, and it works well. I think it's normal for the battery to...

Well, not serious to the point of having ever considered a career in bicycle racing, but I think riding 55,000 miles since 1980 does make me a bit more of an ethusiast than the average occasional rider. And yes, I still ride, but only about half as much as I used to in my prime. Anyway, I...

I can count the number of really good days in my life on my fingers and toes. Besides that, I'd say general bad days outnumber general good days, at least in my life, by at least 20 to 1. And no, I'm not prone to bouts of depression for no good reason. When I say bad days, I literally mean...

All I can say about this ultrasonic directional sound is WOW! 8) The applications seem virtually endless, and the physical principles certainly seem sound. Excellent reading, e_dawg! :) I long for the day I can buy a set of directional speakers and watch TV without disturbing those around...

I'm not looking at DLP sets at all because I don't have the room (most are 40" or larger) and they look dark compared to a CRT or a backlit LCD. Brightness is a big concern to me since I sometimes have the main light on when I'm watching TV. The "main" ceiling light in my bedroom has 4 32W T-8...

A while back I started a thread after I broke my TV. I haven't bought one yet because my brother let me borrow his 27" until I saw one I liked. I initially was going to get a flat screen, and then when I saw the prices dropping I decided to wait for a CRT HDTV. Anyway, my dad recently...

Thanks for the compliments, Gilbo. I try to do my part on SR along with a few others to keep at least some semblance of civility and intelligence there. Sadly, I rarely find threads worth posting to in either forum. Not much is happening on the hardware front, which I suspect is partially...

The sad thing is that you would be hard pressed to find something new from the big three which is any better than what you're driving. That's part of the reason GM is hurting. Nobody is going to want to buy a new car if it's technically no better than what they're driving in terms of economy...

I read here that for various reasons GM credit is close to junk bond status at this point. All three domestic automakers are hurting and will continue to hurt even more as gas prices go up. Instead of making the more efficient cars and EVs that people will want in a few years, they'll continue...

I heard somewhere that new coatings may actually enable the head to ride right on the platter. In effect, the drive would be "crashing" all the time. 30 atoms separating you from destruction of your data is rather scary. I also tend to think by 2010 or so SSDs will make huge inroads into...

If/when it happens. That's been talked about for years. So has NYC seceding from NYS or even the US, and becoming its own city-state like Hong Kong or Singapore. Somehow I doubt either will happen for a long time, if at all. I'd love to see NYC as its own entity. Since we send out more in...

And the day that happens is the day I'll join you in Canada. It's the extremists on both sides of the isle who scare the sh*t out me. And on this issue, I think Congress running with its hand up its behind to reconvene for an emergency session was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've...

I'd have to say that the backspace key is useful enough to me that I'm glad it's a little bigger. Often when you type fast you make a lot of mistakes and then need to backspace one or two characters to correct them. In fact, I hit the backspace key about 20 times just for this post alone. One...

I think maybe thermium, nuclium, or perhaps solarium would be appropriate given the number of BTUs these things put out.

Congratulations all! :beer: I'm guilty as charged, as is everyone else, for not noticing these milestones.

Why not bubble wrap? :mrgrn:

This will be the first nonstop, unrefueled, solo global circumnavigation. See here. The pilot will be Steve Fossett, who also went around the world in a sailboat and hot air balloon. In 1986 Dick Rutan (Burt Rutan's brother) and Jeanne Yeager set a record of nine days for a nonstop...

I like the solar tower. Very interesting. If nothing else a 1 km high structure would be very impressive. As for the other thing, I still don't get what the point of the so-called hydrogen economy is. You make hydrogen and then use it to make electricity in fuel cells which are way less...

I'd like to see a similar small vehicle using modern technology. That Myers Motors thing doesn't have regenerative braking, doesn't use an AC motor, and worst of all uses lead acid batteries. There's no reason in this day and age to use lead-acid batteries. The aerodynamics could be better as...

Exactly Buck. Some people don't need or want a huge car. For example, living in a city with no real need for any car, the only kind of car that I might consider buying would be one passenger with some space for groceries, weighing well under 1000 pounds, under 10 feet long, and of course...

I agree that hybrids have a place, and anything that fosters mass production of better batteries is a good thing. I just don't see why hydrids and BEVs can't coexist for a while before we go entirely to BEVs. BEVs are a natural in large cities where trips are short and large concentrations of...

If you really must know he had a habit of constantly posting the same off-topic religious nonsense in every thread much like its-fubar posted the same anti-capitalism, anti-Republican crap in every single thread he posted in here. Oh, and TA also used to post ridiculous things like claiming to...

What bothers me is that we're really not getting ready. The oil is going to start getting scarce within the next decade. They'll be huge price swings which cause global financial problems long before it runs out. We should have already converted a good part of the economy to non-fossil fuel...

Thanks mubs for the compliments. I was afraid I was in danger of hijacking your thread but I'm glad you saw my post for what it was-an attempt to start a debate of hybrids versus other technologies. I fully agree with everything else you wrote. Until the automakers change their business model...

Tony, you and your friend Tea are, um, special cases. :wink: Of course there are not going to be any recharging stations when you take your long trips across the outback. Then again there won't be any gas stations, either. Don't forget that battery technology is advancing at a rapid pace...

And I also need to add that no R&D is needed to make a good BEV today other than gearing up for mass production same as with any other car. Compare that to the fuel cells which have been researched since the 1960's and which will eventually be dismissed as unfeasible because of cost issues by...

A state of the art BEV (battery electric vehicle) can get a 300 mile range, recharge to 80% capacity in 15 minutes, doesn't pollute at all, can out-accelerate any gas car, will be much cheaper to refuel, and won't have the maintainance issues anything with an engine will have. A hybrid may be a...

I think it was simple demographics that caused MS to pull out-car and plane simulators sell better than train simulators. Or maybe they just couldn't get it to work right. The exact audience which would buy MSTS II would be more concerned with having realistic physics and realistic operation...

The only games I ever play are simulators. I just never got into all the other types of PC games. I have MS Flight Simulator, MS Train Simulator, and Fly currently installed. As far as I know, the physics on the two flight simulators are halfway decent but out of the box MS Train Simulator...

Looks like the 100 lumen per watt barrier for white LEDs has finally been broken! :cheers: Amazing! We went from 60 to 100 in less than two years. At this rate we may be at the 2012 goal of 150 lm/W far sooner than expected. The future certainly looks bright (pun intended).

I just want to point out that this election was mainly to elect legislators. They weren't choosing more important posts like president, prime minister, fuhrer, ayatollah, or whatever other name they may ultimately choose to hold the highest elected office there. Whenever elections for that...

Same here. It's above freezing after quite a few days of 20°F and much less. It looks like it'll be seasonal for at least the next week or so rather than below average. I might also add that it's odd how it can feel "warm" in the 30s in midwinter after a cold snap yet in fall the first day in...

Why on Earth would venture capitalists invest in screwing up people's computers? Adware makes machines unstable and slow to the point that they're unusable. What good is trying to sell stuff via adware if the adware renders the PC useless? I cleaned junkware from my sister's computer 3 times...

Last night it got down to 5°F. I actually went for a long walk earlier when we were having a heat wave (10°F). I enjoy this kind of weather. Very exhilarating. The snow's coming down hard now. Looks like about 4" so far with much more to come. Looks like I'll be busy shoveling on and off...

Now all we have to do is turn it into a commercially viable system. ;) Seriously, as much as I want fusion to be used as soon as possible, it looks like any practical implementations of it are millenia away. By then it'll simply be too late for the planet. Of course, if we put as much R&D...

I agree Tea. I just mentioned it because so little has been happening with hard drives these last few years that, well, I had to mention something else besides higher areal density and less noise. I have yet to own a SATA drive. I just don't see any compelling reason to. And yes, the...