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None that I can think of. Usually the first three things I would look for are 1080p, LED backlighting, and 120+ refresh rate (in that order). Everything else, like ability to read SD cards or USB drives, more HDMI ports, and so forth depends upon what you'll be doing with the TV. As for 3D...

Yep, and not just nowadays. I remember back in 1989 in the same year my company claimed they couldn't afford $1 an hour raises for me and another guy they spent $40,000 on travel. I was so pissed off when I heard that. Ostensibly the salesmen traveled to bring in business, except they mostly...

Same here on both counts. So far I haven't needed it. I think it's safe to say the floppy really is dead at this point. Now what the do with all those disks I picked up for nearly free when Staples and CompUSA used to have their specials?

What parts aren't working? I still have a bunch of stuff (some found, some bought on eBay) for older machines (i.e. 386/486 vintage). I might be able to help. I definitely have ISA hard drive cards if that's all you need.

That's exactly why I picked titanium over carbon. I guess since the roads by you are smooth, the primary way you can crack a carbon frame is by crashing. On the roads here, I suspect just riding will eventually cause something to crack.

Trinity benefits greatly from greater memory bandwidth, so I would probably go with DDR3 1600. It's only a few dollars more than DDR3 1333. Since you picked Crucial, there are two offerings to choose from: 2x4GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148662 1x8GB...

I used to thoroughly enjoy the original version of SimCity but haven't bought any of the newer versions (mostly because the machines I had when they came out didn't have the grunt to run them). It sounds like SC4 is the best bet unless they lose the "always online" requirement for SC5. Also, I...

That was when I first assembled the bike. I had to lower the seat a bit to fit me, although not by too much (previous owner was also 5'9"). Don't forget this is a compact frame, so the seat post is much longer than a conventional frame. For scale, the top of the third drawer on the file cabinet...

Same here. At this stage all I can get is something I would have to pay for, and usually that comes with STDs at no extra charge. For a moment though I seriously thought Merc hit upon a sure-fire path to success. Would a nice titanium bike work as well as Samsung SSDs? Hey girls, come on, you...

Hopefully we'll see more CCT options as LEDs catch on. For a while it was difficult to find anything except 2700K or 3000K CFLs, and now we have 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4100K, 5000K, and 6500K. I think purpose-built LED fixtures make more sense when you want a large output. An A19 light bulb is a...

You're right if 2700K is what you're looking for. In 5000K the only thing Philips offers is a 40W equivalent at $21.97. Mouser is charging $5.87 to $8.00 each in 1000s for the MK-R. That gives about $3 to $4 each in 100Ks direct from Cree. It might be feasible them to use two or three of these...

I think the CRI has to be at least 80 to qualify for the Energy Star rating. The 5000K bulb is the one which interests me the most, too. EDIT: Actually, all three bulbs have a CRI of 80 according to this.

I would love to design something with a lot of MK-Rs. Driving them at 1 watt, the best bins will get ~200 lm/W. Moreover, given the ability of LEDs to direct all of the light where you want it, you might only need 50% or 75% of the lumens of the source you're replacement. ~4500 lumens of LED can...

This new Cree bulb uses 20 LEDs and is retailing for $13.97. As for the MK-R, given the prices distributors like Mouser are charging for it in large quantities, it probably costs not much over a dollar for Cree to make. If Cree designed their own bulb with the MK-R, they could use two to four...

Nothing exciting from what I can see. Prices seem to have stopped dropping, at least for the time being. I'm patiently waiting until terabyte class SSDs hit the $100 mark but I suspect that won't be for a few years at least.

About 2" here but it was heavy, wet snow, closer to slush actually. And welcome back, Doug! :cheers:

My point is that outside of possibly <500GB models, most people are using 3.5" drives solely for bulk storage where speed isn't necessary. SSDs changed the entire storage paradigm, to the point where anybody interested in a fast drive will just get an SSD, not a mechanical disk with a higher...

I agree that hybrid drives are a product in search of a market. I do however see less and less point to 7200 RPM drives in both 2.5" and 3.5" form factors. Real world performance increase over 5400 RPM is marginal at best. Also, at this stage SSDs are cheap enough to use for boot drives, with...

Well, it looks like I'll be getting 10,000 miles out of my rear airless tire, about twice that out of the front. I could probably live with a $2 a tire tax even though I'm philosophically against it. That would come to about 0.0267 cents per mile for me.

You aren't aware of the half of it. Dig around Streetsblog a bit to see how ridiculous the situation with bicycles has become in the US. In NYC last year one of the major news stations ran a series called "Bike Bedlam" where they implied that cyclists were causing mayhem in the city. Meanwhile...

Actually, wear and tear on the roads is proportional to weight to the fourth power, meaning bikes cause negligible wear. The only time it might make sense to have cyclists pay for infrastructure is when something completely new and exclusively for bikes is built. Even then I question charging...

More on Ed Orcutt here When one of the Streetsblog readers wrote him a letter, he apparently "backpedaled" quite a bit: First of all, let me apologize for the carbon emissions line of an e-mail which has caused so much concern within the bicycle community. It was over the top and I admit is...

I get nauseous myself just watching it. It's not so much the height which bothers me, but being completely out in the open. I've been on the platform on the roof of the World Trade Center 1320 or so feet up and I was just fine. I can't say the same had I been hanging on to a big pole at the same...

Not a phone, but my Garmin Legend HC GPS endured a couple of hits to the pavement at 20+ mph when the bike mount failed. It works just fine, although it can no longer read the map on the SD card (that problem was actually occurring intermittently before the first fall). I've since made a better...

Speaking of crapping in my pants, this would do it for me.

To add to what Coug said, motorcycle helmets would also be unbearably hot most of the time. People can tolerate them on motorcycles because they're not exerting themselves. I overheated wearing my friend's bicycle helmet when it was 38° F. I hate to think how hot a motorcycle helmet would be.

I stay safe by giving myself an "out". Basically, I assume any vehicle will do the stupidest possible thing at the worst possible moment, and leave myself enough space to avoid the situation. I'm rarely disappointed in my assumptions. NYC drivers are horrible, but at least they're predictably...

DD and Lunar, The last time I fell off my bike was in 1996. No, that's not a typo. It's been 17 years and counting since I've fallen. I never had anything worse than road rash except once (pulled ligament on my left leg). Ironically, the pulled ligament happened in a crash at only 20 mph, and...

I rode to apairofpcs place in Coney Island in mid December. 17.5 miles each way. I was fighting ~15 to 20 mph headwinds for the entire east/west legs of the journey. Both ways. The wind changed direction while I was at his place. By the time I started riding home around 1 AM, thinking I would...

I'm running 2 displays on my A10-5800K-one on the D-Sub output (1280x1024) and the other on the DVI (1600x1200). No problems whatsoever, works in both XP and 7, should work in Linux. I can even use the DisplayPort for a third display (up to 4096x2160). If you're interested in building a...

Those would make a good set for a James Bond movie.

Yes and no. You're going on the assumption that any genetic improvements allowing "immortality" couldn't also be accompanied by other changes. Also, on an evolutionary time scale 1000 years is really short. I doubt people who are born 1000 years from now would significantly differ from someone...

That's not really what I meant here. Yes, society requires people to fight basic biological urges where a man might want to screw an attractive woman he sees on the street right then and there but you can't suppress those kinds of things for years the way the Church's vow of celibacy requires...

Hence my suggestion of child robots to allow them to get their rocks off. A lot of these priests might otherwise be perfectly upstanding and valuable members of society if not for their sexual preferences. They just need a socially acceptable outlet for them. And the church needs to get over the...

I've thought about this a lot. A simple solution to the entire overpopulation issue is that you don't have any more children in exchange for immortality (perhaps making you sterile will be part of the process). That would keep you from increasing the world's population from the time you become...

That still might not fix things. The fact that quite a few priests choose altar boys (or girls) when I'm sure they would have some willing adult females in their parish (or perhaps males if they float that way) tells me they're pedophiles. The big problem with this (besides the fact that society...

There might well be hope for you (and me). The longer we can hang on, the more likely there will be advances to keep us from dying. It might go something like this: Live to 90, maybe science then will cure you of something which might have killed you, allowing you to live another decade. When...

I think "youthful brainwashing" is the major reason why religion persists. I wonder how many people would willingly believe in some faith after an upbringing which included reasoning skills and problem solving? My guess is not many. I think all forms of clergy and organized religion (as well as...

This looks like the answer to stolen packages. I'm sure if you're reasonably handy you can make something similar for under $50. In any case, it's probably less costly than putting in a bunch of security camera.

Yeah, pretty much. It'll probably be a while before much software which takes advantage of AVX is written. The latest version of Prime95 does, but that's about it as far as I know.

I have the same mindset. I generally won't even consider an upgrade unless the new stuff benchmarks at least ten times what I'm using. I actually did better than that with this upgrade-going from about 1.2 GFlops with my XP3200 to 45+ GFlops. I probably won't get upgrade fever again until we...

CPUs with AVX If your GFlops is more than number of cores x 4 x frequency in GHz then your processor has AVX. It sounds like your CPU has AVX. Even a 6 core CPU will have a hard time hitting 90 GFlops without it. I don't think any desktop CPU has hit 200 yet, but I've seen numbers in the 130...

Reading recently about CPU architecture and processor floating point performance, I was actually stoked to learn my new A10-5800K has AVX capability. It turns out AVX actually works exceedingly well in the real world. Here's Intel Burn Test with a regular (SSE?) floating point Linpack: And...

Are you talking about -30°C or -55°C? At -30°C, you probably need an engine block heater so the car will start (or use an electric car instead which should be good at any temperature the batteries function at, even as low as -40°C for LiFePO4). At -55°C you don't drive because the tires will...

For what it's worth, I've yet to see a bad stick of RAM in the 15 years I've been playing with PCs. Come to think of it, I haven't had a hard drive fail on me yet, either. Maybe I've just been exceeding lucky, or perhaps it's because I've taken certain precautions when dealing with anything...

The Montreal forecast calls for a low of -22°F on Wednesday (here in NYC it'll be a comparatively balmy 15°F). I don't like heat much myself, but these kinds of temps are starting to get a bit out of my comfort zone.

Welcome back, Merc! This place wasn't the same without you. And I glad to hear you've finally had a run of good luck!

Stretching your distances always hurts. Late this summer I was regularly taking 25 mile rides. Then I decided to try for 30 miles. It hurt. Once 30 miles was no problem, I went for 35. Again, pain. I only got as far as 40 miles by mid fall, and I think that would hurt pretty much no matter how...

Yes, please come back. Both of you.

Yes, I've tried it on the aforementioned iPhotoPlus software, and it does work. It allows a 32-bit program to access the entire 4 GB memory space under a 64-bit O/S. In case there are any issues, the original executable is saved when the patch is applied.