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19" and 20" wheels also give you less sidewall and a much harsher ride, in addition to weighing more costing more and being more fragile. Going from the stock A3 suspension and 17" wheels on my wife's car to the Ti (lower) suspension and 18" wheels on mine was a significant change. I wouldn't be...

Could be grey, but it is certainly a tone compressed image, so not trustworthy for such things. I've never seen a matte PC, so I didn't know they existed.

Yup, the regular icons are too similar/confusing, so I just look for the blue arrow now. ;)

Everyone else followed suit, there was no way to compete with Apple's form factor otherwise, and people that don't know don't care.

I'm now having 40GB SSDs fill just due to Win7 and Office2010 updates, even with all data kept elsewhere. 80 would be my minimum recommendation, with 160 giving you a nice quick place to work with images.

So look for open envelopes? I just look for the "jump to new posts" button now.

I like the matte black as well, I don't think there is any way to get that with a power coat finish, though. Edit: And that blue is really nice.

That is a significant drop. I would be seriously concerned about ride quality with that little suspension travel.

I don't use x10, I use Insteon. I've kitted out my whole house with stuff from SmartHome.

Do you intend to replace the 2 500GB drives with the two 1TB drives? Or simply use the new drives for more storage?

Wow, I had no idea that was even an issue. I thought that the wheels always hung from the lugs. Thanks for the info!

Yeah, I'm not into throwing that much money at this particular problem yet. I do have a good enough backup/failover strategy that it isn't really an issue.

No idea. That disk will now go into a high-end workstation and will likely never have an issue again. From Intel drives I expect more ;)

I have a bunch of member's actual addresses, as well as actual names, but I try to be non-specific and use handles where possible. No need to make that information too easy to find :batman:

I plug in all my devices at the nightstand every night. I don't even pay attention to charge. I know this isn't good for the batteries, but it isn't worth worrying about.

I believe both of them (and Lunar) are in southern California (~500km, might as well be another state).

Meeting people on forums that live close to you is an interesting concept. I suspect I live closest to Silicon Valley of everyone here (60 miles from Google HQ, 70 from Xerox PARC's original HQ). And the closest member is probably Santilli (~140 miles?). In this digital home of geekdom, why...

It is currently listed as "pre-order" I suspect they will never be in stock. ;)

Have one coming now. I'll stick it in a DB VM and see how long it lasts. The last drive in that machine (480GB Corsair Force GT) kept disconnecting itself under really high IO.

Some shopping site, I've lost it now. Those Forgestar wheels do look awesome, and have some technical cojones behind them, but they are hard to find at the larger outlets (tire rack, etc).

I wouldn't know how to check. If you have a test I can run let me know.

Sweet. I've had a number of friends who were strippers. They all had a reasonable (if somewhat cynical) outlook on life. They could also lie in ways that blew my mind.

Sweet. I might get one of those next year. This year not so much. Still in the office...

Usually. Depends on the user.

What size is the S4? The site just recommended 215/45/18, 225/40/18 or 235/40/18 for that wheel.

Yup. They just moved it much further up the page.

Current best price I can find for the Forgestar F14 in 18x8.5 and the Pirelli PZero Nero AS 215/45-18 is $2260 after shipping. Anyone done better?

If I'm spending other people's money, I'm doing the Intel 5xx series SSDs. If I'm spending my own, I'm doing OCZ Vertex/Revo.

Top Gear is likely my favorite show at this point, my wife is actually a fan as well. Only when they start intentionally screwing stuff up do I get bored.

And a Turbo button. I think I still have an AT chassis with one around here somewhere...

That looks pleasant.

I suspect that the wealthiest individuals in each country either directly or indirectly run every country. The only exception would be some of the smaller useful nations (tax code, labor practices, natural resources, extradition treaties) that are "run" by the wealthiest people in the world. The...

Did a 'Busa Turbo (guy claimed ~500hp) when I was a kid...not dumb enough at this point.

Apparently there is a community who trespass just to take cool pictures and be somewhere interesting. It is a good thing I didn't know about this when I was younger, because I would have gotten into so much trouble. Illegal, dangerous, and fascinating. I also really like some of the photography.

I have that hardware configuration, but in Win7, and without error. Nice kit, but one of the Linux guys around here will need to help you. Shouldn't be long ;)

I just keep my two Google apps for domain accounts (personal and work) open simultaneously in two tabs in Firefox. This seems the simplest way to use both and keep them separate?

Under the full version it is at the top under the "Forum Actions" menu.

Might I also recommend some anger management? I can only imagine what your heart rate is like during a destruction session...

I think I'll be going with the Forgestar as well. The last time I was at the dealer I overheard a salesmen telling another customer that their old car was worth more at trade-in because all the services had been performed at the dealership. Does performing the service yourself affect the...

The AudiCare is convenient, and a high-margin item, so there is negotiating to be had there.

I sat in the CTS-V, and the quality of the materials you are surrounded by simply aren't as good. And a wagon that still doesn't have all the features I want is over $72k.

I pretty much have it spec'd in my head, depending on what the final feature list looks like: White with black everything else. Every option. Should be around $63k.

I'd probably switch to that first one.

Sweet! Looks great. Thanks for all the time you put into this place!

This one was $15k. That is a pretty big stretch. And I dislike Sony fairly strongly.

According to our new forum software, 1,956 of the 9000+ posts in this thread are mine. Sorry about that.

My father (a programmer) just got a Das Keyboard Pro S (with lettering, quiet) and is marginally happy with it. It is still noisier than he likes, but you can't help that with a buckling spring keyboard. He also says that the transfer rates from the built-in USB hub suck.

My phone (Motorola i1) has the worst camera of all time. You may as well draw it based on my description and you'll get a better result. We'll be going again in a couple weeks and I'll bring the camera then.

But more recently McLaren has stomped all but Red Bull, including Ferrari (though the Red Bull cars run Ferrari engines).

I am looking for good examples of higher-res stuff as well, just to appreciate on my 2560x1600 screen.