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This one has had a fix on the schedule (but not the budget) for about 10 years.

Re: being cold. I don't get cold easily, I can go the whole year without wearing a sweater or coat. Olga, from Moscow, always comments that the weather is too hot or too cold, and is always adjusting her wardrobe accordingly. My theory is this: If you are from a place with extreme...

I'll see if I can get a picture of the intersection I have in mind (from one of my clients). Hwy 101 north of Prunedale, left turn across 2 oncoming lanes, uphill. Avg speed? ~65mph. Unfortunately, you only have a couple hundred yards of visibility. Even if there was a big enough hole in the...

4 seconds? No, but 9+ would make the wait for a sufficiently large hole in traffic much longer. Same with passing; the size of the gap in oncoming traffic is not determined by the capabilities of the driver.

I'll second Tim on the stock cooler. They are much better than they used to be, even for overclocking.

Looks very well substantiated to me. Here is the product at Amazon. And all my AA are 2500mAh.

Where I will be living soon, 40-70mph acceleration is very important. Lots of 2-lane roads that go on for many miles. Lots of farm equipment and other trucks driving ~45mph. Not to mention freeways with left-turn lanes and stop signs instead of on-ramps. Those make 0-60 times quite relevant.

Customer service is much easier without customers ;)

Thinking on this further, perhaps they could just grade the quality of the language skills based on your support level. Platinum-Uber support: All techs have graduate degrees in English literature from Oxford. Super-Gold support: All techs have a working knowledge of English from old movies...

Does it tell you both things at the same time? Because they seem mutually exclusive to me. Either there is a legitimate problem with their customers not understanding their support staff, or there isn't a legitimate problem, and Americans are racist. Considering that #1 is an outright...

If it's going to be one printer for 12 workstations, I'd assume speed would be an issue. Is there an administrative console that the printer could be connected to? I'm not seeing many networkable photo printers that aren't HP or Lexmark.

Last year's local car show had one of these. Probably less than 10 million ;)

I'm game, though some rules might have to be implemented...a private forum? ;) JTR, Howell, and I got enthusiastic a couple days ago...it happens.

If I only had 10 million, I wouldn't buy this either. But if I had 100 million, this would make a nice addition. ;)

This is the prettiest car I've seen in a long time.

I just added all the numbers in the columns you provided...and made a few mistakes. I'll total up the numbers direct from the source. # of Photos (DSLR only) Canon: 97,290,741 Nikon: 68,301,578 Olympus: 6,126,820 Avg Daily Users (DSLR only) Canon: 18,322 Nikon: 13,087 Olympus: 1,443

Typically these things drop in price once they hit numbers that are just better than existing tech. As we discussed in the car thread, people aren't likely to buy something that offers less than they currently have in any category. So, for the laptop market, that means ~128GB and ~50MB/sec...

If interest remained at it's current levels and the technology proceeded at it's current pace, you would be right. While I don't share JTR's degree of optimism, I suspect most of us with tech fetishes will own an SSD by this time next year.

Interesting e_dawg, thanks for compiling the list. Olympus total: 5,404 Nikon total: 202,757 Canon total: 291,790

I can't visualize a truly resolution-independent display technology. The only thing I can think of is a display where the resolution is high enough that useful resolutions divide more evenly a 6400x4800 display would do pretty well at all the more sane resolutions. Of course, this would be...

Tannin, This is after I tell them. Either I set up the system with it's native resolution or they buy the PC from someone else (usually Dell) and it defaults to the native resolution. As soon as I turn it on, and they watch as I take their credit card and buy NOD32, they are already saying that...

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Wow mubs, that is a serious headache and some serious troubleshooting so far. I've had Alcohol 120%, Daemon tools, and older Roxio perform similar tricks to drive letters in the past. -pleading to the MS gods- Why does this have to be so hard?

So long as you are working in multiples, everything is fine. I have run quite a few 1600x1200 22" screens at 800x600. I almost feel bad having the customer pay for so much and use so little. To be honest, most of my clients don't notice the blurriness of 1024x768 on a 19" 1280x1024 screen; if...

Nope. Vista scaling is better than XP, but still breaks lots of things.

Interesting last paragraph you have there JTR. I've been working for myself and billing hourly for nearly 8 years. I'm now playing with the idea of going exempt/salary for one of my largest clients. I'm exited by the idea of being part of something bigger, having a hand in more of the long-term...

Another thing to do would be to check some local shops (if there are any), to see if they have some older back stock.

Can you give the rest of your specs? What GPU did you have? What apps do you use? If you could get by with onboard video, a new solution might not be that expensive.

And you believe that people would work if we trained them? As we talked about further up the thread, if someone is really willing to work, there are plenty of opportunities as it is.

JTR, You use words like couldn't, can't, stuck, and unable when all you describe is your own choices. Don't get me wrong, you aren't going to get any crap from me about needing to be productive; you seem well established and don't complain about your situation. You are, of course, free to do...

Looks perfect. Thanks!

I agree that this is a software problem and not a hardware problem. A higher number of pixels and lower dot pitch should be a good thing, provided you can still get text and buttons the size you want them. I suppose this will not change until we get a truly vector-based desktop, which won't...

Wow, so many responses while I slept...time to try and catch up (not in order). Less than a year after leaving my parent's house, I ended up on the street in Berkeley. Why? I hadn't been flexible enough in my thinking, or willing to compromise enough to make it work. Solution? I became more...

Re: Scientists who eventually might make good. This sounds to me like a return on investment calculation. Just like current big business mindsets, you are concerned about short-sightedness. Let's explore that a bit. Why are corporate executives not interested in the long-term best interests of...

Nice Handy. Gotta let your hair down sometime ;) Might as well be in a really long thread in the B&G...

Yup, it's actually still phasing in (my domain doesn't have it yet).

3840x2400 22-inch LCD for $18k? Heh, amazing.

JTR, I was going to quote you, but including all your text for my little bit of text looked silly. 1. Paying people because they work hard at something that isn't in demand doesn't make sense. It makes sense to pay for things based on their demand, not their difficulty of manufacture. As long...

Nice bike, blakerwry. That Colorado trip looks awesome.

This generation? I'll go for 2 weeks 'til they are listed, and a month until they are in stock at MSRP.

~60% of my customers complain about 1280x1024 on a 19" screen. This isn't an unusual thing. Hell, I didn't like 1600x1200 on a 22" myself. Some people don't mind squinting at small text or putting on glasses, but I do. I like sitting back at my desk without my glasses and browsing the forums. ;)

My argument would be that humans are innately rabidly individualistic. It is, at it's core, a survival instinct and has been reinforced by every competition anyone has ever done. [indefensible half-baked theory] The only people that want socialism are those that would benefit by it. Because...

The stretch of 101 that I drive regularly was widened from 2 lanes each way to 4 about 7 years ago. The original lanes (outside / slow) are still asphalt while the new lanes (inside / fast) are concrete. From the day they were installed to today on my drive home, the asphalt has been quieter and...

When I lived in Eugene, OR, I had a little house on an alley. The alley wasn't an official road, so it had no official maintenance. There were about 15 small houses on this road, mostly populated by students. How good was this road? Exactly as good as it needed to be (not very). I hear what you...

$600 with a touch-screen :shrug:

I get my clients what I got for myself; an LCD HDTV. Even 1920x1080, spread over 42", is quite readable. The start bar is 1.25" tall.

Yeah, me too. Is this the second or third generation? I lost count.

To add to your paranoia, don't trust the refresh rates! The crappier screens will actually advertise faster G-G speeds. I also wouldn't put much stock in the viewing angles. Just pay the extra ~$20 and get a known good one.

This is where I disagree. People are greedy. Government projects = extreme corruption/inefficiency. What we need is a way to encourage private development of an effective system. Tax breaks on income after the route is complete that cover the initial bid? "Eminent domain" clearing of proposed...

Just to touch on the "oil in roads" point, many here are built using concrete. Cheaper (reportedly) to build and maintain, but much worse on the vehicles. Again passing costs to the consumer.