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Yeah...I can think of many places that would be worse than where you are, but I can only speak to those I know to be better.

There is quite a bit of Clint Mansell in my Pandora lists already, so thanks for that. I would say that 80% of my friends are already in a relationship, and that they are the regulars at these events. But someone always brings a friend or two along, and sometimes it works. I would say I have a...

The 85/1.2 was great for studio work, the images were great. The downsides were that it weighed a ton and the autofocus was off by 5-10x the DoF @ 1.2 when it did eventually settle on what it thought was focus. If I was doing studio work and had a larger external monitor to use liveview and...

How fast/accurate is the auto-focus on that? The 85/1.2 sucked.

I don't think I would draw any interest on social websites or speed dating, either. I'm not much to look at and I can't help but denegrate myself or slip into some really geeky minutia about something very quickly. Every relationship I have been in was not their idea to start with. In fact, if...

I would argue that this hasn't been true for many years, at least with normal installations. Sure, try gaming on multiple monitors or SLI-ing several GPUs and you could find problems. And even the power consumption argument isn't as strong now that GPUs can power down and allow lower-powered...

Of course, the pros are shooting with RED Ones.

Very tempting, but with a kid coming I think I would be killed.

4K Video goodness

I'd only need 6 of those at the moment...

I can assure you that moving into the Silicon Valley, particularly around Palo Alto/Los Altos would increase your chances of finding someone tenfold. There are geeky graduate students and others more our age. I could introduce you to an entire house full of them.

I disagree. People who consider themselves "wholesome" are about as unattractive as it gets; usually religious or otherwise simple minded. What you want is functionally weird. I'm not saying that strippers are it, but that is a lot closer than "wholesome".

occasionally I have big stuff shipped to my house directly and they will leave anything on my doorstep. including pallets of servers. with big dell logos on them. no thefts so far.

Get a PO box from a 3rd party that will sign for packages. Before I had an office with a secretary to inspect and sign for everything that is what I did. A company just down the street will do it for a nominal fee, and I've even taken entire pallets of stuff (though they were anxious for me to...

You can tell it to only use WiFi, but I'm on an "unlimited" corp data plan, so I dare them to complain ;)

I'm just using the Amazon Cloud Player app at this point. Most of the music I'm listening to these days is stuff I've aquired recently, which means I got it on Amazon as an MP3 anyway. It is very useful and copies purchases down from the cloud automatically.

Any time I'm faced with more than a sentence of typing I wait to reply until I can get to a computer. For the most part I don't travel with a laptop, they are just "compact workstations" in the bedroom and server room. My tablets have also been relegated to music playback devices in the garage...

Sweet. You can never have enough of those...

MLC is worse than SLC, but they were able to mostly overcome the reliability and performance issues while bringing the price down. If they have enough redundancy and integrated checking to keep the reliability where it should be, I don't care what technology they use.

I love the 17-40/4, that lens is on the camera 90% of the time, and it is very easy to take good pictures with.

That does look pretty cool. That it can't use steering wheel controls speaks to how difficult such integration must be.

Thanks, the thing I want to do is set up a relationship between the speed of fans in the system and the temperature of the components therein. Speedfan isn't detecting the correct temp sensors or fan headers in my work machine (see sig).

I've liked speedfan, but it does still occasionally crash systems. Does anyone here have a preferred alternative? Thanks!

If you want a cleaner mount, I really like my ProClip. Edit: Just checked, and they don't have as clean an option as I had, but they look decent enough if you are able to hide the power cable behind trim pieces.

At the moment my complaint is that it thinks my 4Ghz Hexa-Core is only a 7.8; everything else is 7.9. I can get it to 7.9, but need to be at 4.5Ghz, and that gets a bit loud.

The steering wheel controls were what finally convinced me to leave the radio. Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, it looks like this, no? I mounted the Android in front of the radio, dremeled a hole in the frame, and wired directly into the back of the stereo. Not as clean...

Windows needs to up the max score on their performance index to at least 11, 'cause, you know, mine would go to eleven.

I had this idea for a while, and finally decided to leave the head unit in place and wire in an Android device as an auxiliary input and mount it to the dash. This way most things still work just as they did (Bluetooth for calls, steering wheel controls, radio, cd player, etc).

Wow....tempted to play with that, but it would be too much work to put it back together.

That is exactly what I had in mind. Converter + Player should serve your needs for free.

Here is the product page, but it seems that Verizon replaced the Samsung app store with there even crappier one and replaced Navigon with their own VZ Navigator which really sucks. I think I'll just roll with CoPilot.

Yeah, I hate it when that happens...

On average? Or if you happen to have one of the phones they just killed?

Still with the Galaxy S3. Searched for Navigon, and they want $50 for it.

Thermal mass is your friend. I have the walls of the server room filled with steel racks full of old towers (nothing flammable). Once they are all chilled to the 65F (18C) I keep the room at, they can absorb the heat of the servers for hours with just a fan running.

Interesting. My boss loved me going to VMs; 5 racks in the server room and 3 of them empty. He takes people in there and literally stands in one of the empty racks to make the point of how energy efficient we are.

Just installed it when Merc linked to it (I hadn't heard of it before). Works well, seems to be a straightforward UI with one exception. For some reason it has its own predictive text input that conflicts with the predictive text input on the phone, causing duplicate text.

Yup.

I would advise running your current xp environment in a vm on your new machine.

yup. and they can't charge for tethering.

Yup. All the badges on the rest of the car are gunmetal grey, the chrome on the front of the car (including fog light surrounds) is black.

An interesting idea. I'll try that tomorrow night.

Finally did something about my dislike of chrome.

It is quite possible that Verizon did a firmware update on your router (or something similar) that caused it to revert to default settings. It might be in the logs, but I doubt it.

You don't need 500W+ if you get a good one and have a "normal" workstation. My wife's new box draws 16W at the wall (22 under load). Coug is right JTR, let that thing die. I'll send you the bits you desire for some more LED goodness.

Great link Handruin, I'll check it out on Monday. I need to get out of the office ASAP tonight (already 9PM).

Actually, I have the 17-40/4L (no IS). I also have the 10-22, 40/2.8 and the 50/1.4 in that range. The 85/1.2LII is certainly on it's way out, and the next lens up is the 100/2 then the 180 Macro before the Sigma 175-500 crap lens. I think even without anything between the 50 and the 100 I...

Thanks for the info, Lunar. And thanks also for the concise post with flawless grammar and spelling!

I completely agree. I completely agree. This is one of the many reasons why women are (from a man's perspective, and possibly from an independant and rational perspective) crazy, and dating sucks.

I have a reportedly $50 android tablet here called the Hipstreet Titan. It does run ICS, it doesn't have the Play Store, and it isn't worth $50, much less the $100+ they are asking on Amazon.