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Sure, it's hilarious, especially the part about fire trucks no longer being able to get into the subway, but it's also amazing some people are making such a big fuss about this. When you talk to rank-and-file members of the general public, probably 95% either like the idea, or have no real...

Sadly, this is not parody.

My setup (A10-5800K and F2A85V-PRO) supports up to 4096x2160@60Hz through DisplayPort. DVI is limited to 2560x1600@60Hz, and HDMI is limited to standard 1920x1080@60Hz

That's both good and bad. Good news-they're making something which is actually designed as a 4K monitor, not a 4K TV, and thus acknowledging the need for such a thing. Bad news-the price, obviously, and for me the fact that it's not 21" to 24". Now if someone makes a monitor using the 230 ppi...

I'm glad I don't have a job like this.

I had something similar happen last year when the drain pipe in the kitchen sink leaked, and water was coming out of the basement ceiling right under it. You already cut a few holes to air things out which is good enough. Let it dry throughly for about a week, then patch it up. There shouldn't...

On the question of which laptop to put it in, the older, slower one would probably benefit more but if you really want to go all out put an SSD in both. :) I'm totally sold on SSDs after having one in my new build. 15 seconds from POST to Windows 7 desktop!

Probably a few hundred for train fare. You're right, there's no way I'm flying. Airports are totally inconvenient for someone who doesn't have a car or driver's license. And the fumes at airports make me physically ill (i.e. I have a severe allergy to aromatic hydrocarbons). I just need to find...

I concur with Merc-get either a Samsung or an Intel SSD. As for capacity, 200 to 250 GB seems to be the sweet spot in terms of cost per GB. Cloning the SSD to match your installed hard drive should be relatively easy. When you remove the Hitachi from your machine, connect both it and your SSD to...

Not my cat but this is one of the cutest things I've seen.

20 years ago I would have been able to do a hard ride in hot weather and on little sleep. Now all bets are off. And I unfortunately gained some weight also the last few months due to not riding as much as normal. Hopefully I'll have the time and money to take a trip to the West coast one of...

That's pretty interesting. I wonder how far ahead the grid projects? It needs to be at least 50 or 75 feet ahead for ample warning at high speeds. In NYC, something like this would be invaluable. I can't say how many times I ran right into stuff which looked innocuous until I was nearly on top...

Things seem mostly back to normal for me now, but the last few days before were pretty awful.

Is it just me, or are other people experiencing very slow internet connections lately? A few sites are loading quickly, many are taking literally forever (i.e. like over a minute) to load a page. Is some kind of cyberattack going on?

I don't think compilers these days even attempt to optimize things. I've been programming microcontrollers for the last few years. One thing I've noticed is often when I write a routine in assembly it will run MUCH faster than doing the same thing in a higher level language and letting the...

Man, that's brutal. Congratulations just for finishing. Last year I think the most climbing I did in one ride was about 1100 feet and it hurt. I'm not sure I even could have finished the route you did, at least not without being about 30 pounds lighter.

I'm not sure any prediction that far in advance is going to be accurate. 5 years in this industry is an eternity. It could be we have some breakthrough or some new form of NV RAM and prices per GB of SSDs fall much more rapidly. IMO, we're at the point where SSDs are inexpensive enough for every...

Lucky you. When I had air tires flats were a weekly occurrence. And 99% of the time it was the rear that flatted. I used to stay within a few miles of home just so I could walk back should a flat occur.

Try these when they come out (I'm on the waiting list). They're supposed to negate any of the drawbacks currently associated with airless tires, although the truth is after using these for 9000 miles, the slight loss of speed, and slightly worse ride quality, are more than compensated for by...

You could selectively apply compression only to folders which don't contain already compressed formats. Even my Windows folder compresses by over 10%. That doesn't sound like much, but I'm gaining over 2 GB just from that. NTFS compression seems to be mild enough that CPU time isn't a concern...

Shock resistance alone is a good enough reason to install an SSD. The speed is just the icing on the cake.

The wall in this case is behind a bookcase. Besides that, the issue is that I can't use a monitor more than about 18" away on account of my eyesight, so no big screen monitors for me in the future. I'm not wearing glasses to use the computer. Can't afford $1500 now anyway, as great a price as...

Yes, I'm aware that TVs don't necessarily make good monitors. Then again, I wouldn't be using a 50" screen for a monitor, no matter the resolution. Like Chewy, I'm severely constrained for desk space. Besides that, anything much taller than what I have would block access to the book shelf which...

"Just a TV" is fine for lots of people. I'd rather not pay extra for features which would be useless to me, like wifi.

You're probably right, although I tend to think smaller 4K displays might happen a bit sooner if they want to get people to buy new monitors. Right now, unless of course it breaks, most people who are using any monitor made within, say, the last 8 or 10 years have no compelling reason to replace...

It actually doesn't cost all that much more to make an LCD display with 3840 x 2160 resolution, as opposed to 1920 x 1080. The only reason it's taken this long is there just wasn't the market to sell enough of them. I think Apple got people to realize the advantages of ultra high definition with...

Nobody has their keyboard right in front of the display any more? I wouldn't even physically have the space to have a display 3 feet away. Well, I'll just have to wait and hope 4K trickles down to smaller sizes. Too bad 4:3 is dead for all intents and purposes. A 4000x3000 display about 21" or...

Pixels are moot for the PCB design I do. The CAD software does things to the thousanths of an inch, and represents it on screen with vector graphics. Even I wouldn't want or need a pixel pitch of 0.001". When I'm worrying about individual pixels with image editing, I'll typically have the image...

That's just about the same pixel size as the monitor I'm using but you're sitting 50% further away (I just double checked and my normal viewing distance is 16"). With a widescreen instead of 4:3 I would need to sit at least 19" away to keep the entire monitor in my field of view. Things already...

I don't need anything at all for close up vision. I still solder 0805 SMD parts just fine without magnification. In fact, I can still read the numbers off them no problem. My glasses at this point are used for one thing only-watching TV when I'm more than a few feet from the screen. Point of...

My glasses work fine doing what they're designed to do-namely looking at distant objects. Glasses don't work well for stuff that's far enough away to be blurry but still close enough to fill up a lot of your field of vision. Case in point-a 30" 4K monitor. In order to not notice the pixels, I...

I think people will soon tire of trying to surf the internet on a 7" screen. I personally don't see how that every caught on in the first place. Besides that, there are plenty of CAD users who would appreciate 4K, or even 8K screens. And not all of them want big ass 30+" displays either. In many...

I'm nearsighted, which means if I sit further away from my monitor than about 18" things start getting blurry. I'm not wearing glasses because a) they're annoying b) they introduce significant perspective distortion c) they cause eye fatigue. That and the space on my desk means nothing bigger...

I've love to get just the display. Seriously, why aren't 4K displays commonly available yet? In a 20" size, the pixels would be half the size of the ones on the 1600x1200 display I'm using. I probably wouldn't even notice them.

I have loads of cat pictures: Here's Jeannie. We got her from my brother about 20 months ago: This cute guy is "Baby". We started calling him that when we first got him as a kitten and that's been his name ever since. We also have his mother (lots of pics of her on my computer but I didn't...

At 22K RPM the edge of a 3.5" platter is going 229 mph. Putting aside the enormous forces, it takes a huge amount of power to keep a disc spinning at that speed. Now getting to the forces, at the edge of a 3.5" platter @ 22K RPM, you have a force of 24,000 times the force of gravity. An penny...

I personally feel for reliability reasons the lower the speed the better. A sore point with me is that 5400 RPM drives aren't made any more in higher capacities. I think reliability across product lines is suffering as a result. I also think from a logical standpoint it makes zero sense. Larger...

Congrats to you and your wife, Dave! Now both of you get some rest. You're going to need it!

Holy crap! I didn't realize RAM prices jumped this much so fast. A few weeks ago 2 sticks of 8 GB DDR3-1600 was around $80. Now it's at least $110. With PC sales being lousy, I would think RAM prices should be dropping, not rising.

I haven't tried that yet.

Like I said, either it'll work or it won't. For whatever reason my particular setup doesn't like the pagefile on an SSD. BTW, the SSD is working fine otherwise. I don't know why a pagefile on it caused issues. In any case, the system worked fine without a pagefile for a few months, so I'll just...

Just a word of warning here about putting pagefiles on SSDs. About maybe two weeks ago I decided to enable the pagefile just in case some app needed it. I put it on my SSD boot drive, with the minimum/maximum size set to 1 GB. Since then I've gotten 6 BSODs, including 3 on April 1. Prior to that...

I noticed that too when I first installed Win7. I immediately disabled hibernation and turned the page file off. Windows generally sets the page file to equal the amount of physical RAM. This may make sense on a machine with 2GB or 4GB, but not 16GB like I have. Assuming there's some esoteric...

Except the person who said that worked for the electric company. I might excuse misuse of units by somebody's grandmother, but here's a person who does this stuff every day who can't get the units right. No wonder the problem went on for over 20 years. Probably nobody there knew what they were...

In the article: "500 ohms of current" Amazing how technically illiterate the American populace is.

To update everyone on this, no problems getting my money back from Amazon. They didn't even wait until the card arrived to refund my money. As soon as they saw that the package was mailed with the shipping label they gave me I was issued a refund.

Look for the file EMP.EXE. It should be in the folder "C:\Program Files\nei\EMP Device Programming Software" if you did a normal install. Now open the file with a hex editor such as Neo Hex Editor. Use the search function of the hex editor to find the text string "Auto Search" ( it was at offset...

That makes three of us.

Indeed. I'm hearing through the pipeline that it uses advanced positronic technology and can get into the petaflop range. It also uses a new proprietary telepathic interface instead of a mouse or touchscreen.

The oath is actually contradictory when you look at the part about bearing arms. Many religions have strict tenets against killing, even for self-defense. So you swear to God that you'll bear arms (presumably for the purpose of taking lives) on behalf on the United States? That wouldn't even...