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The mere mention of Paris Hilton makes me cringe. This spoiled, stupid, tacky, and I might add ugly bimbo has regularly been on the front pages of the NY Daily News for the last few weeks. Prior to her, it was Jessica Simpson, and Britney before her, etc. In any case, Paris is pretty near the...

It's good to know I'm just not imagining that. If it weren't for a few dozen regulars(and I'm noticing some are posting less and less) there would be nothing there worth reading these days. I think it's mostly the RAID0 and "what's the fastest drive" threads that bother me, but it seems the...

The general idea here is that certain jobs don't require much skill and therefore there should be no point in having high wages or benefits which encourage people to remain there for years. Granted, these menial tasks are important, and I don't look down on the workers doing them. However...

That should be savings to checking account, not the other way around. :oops:

I don't know about CityK, but what I do each month is transfer money at Chase online for my bills from my checking to savings account. After that I pay my CC bill online at the same site(and same session). They debit my checking account immediately but there is a delay before the amount gets...

Thanks for mentioning another of my pet peeves-those asinine blank checks. I called and had them stopped ages ago. I recently started getting them occasionally with my CC statement rather than in a separate envelope. I can't believe people actually use those things. You pay a fee up front...

Chase Mastercard and Chase Visa. The Mastercard gave me problems but I'm sure the Visa would have as well(except I never use it). Chase sucks but sadly there aren't many alternatives. Citibank is even worse.

This sounds almost identical to what happened to me, including the BS about waiving the fee being a "one-time courtesy". If nothing else, the bank should have provided some warning that online payments would take longer than usual after whatever changes they made. I wouldn't be surprised if...

Not in so many words, but there was a vague mention that I should stick to talking about storage rather than "things that don't concern me". The mention of the word storage immediately made me realize what the phone call was about. Also, it wasn't a death threat in so many words, but rather I...

My brother pays by mail, I pay online. For the longest time I would pay a few days before the due date, and my account was generally credited the next business day after I paid. Last year, I ran into problems. For a few months in a row, the payment wasn't credited until a week to ten days...

It seems economists have found a new form of inflation-stealth inflation. Basically, what this amounts to is all sorts of new fees and charges being added to bills but not counted in the CPI. In addition to the charges mentioned, you also have credit card companies not crediting payments...

If it was anyone on SR(which I highly doubt) I haven't a clue how they could get my phone number. Truth is based on the person's tone of voice I didn't think it was some prankster. I took it seriously enough to gracefully end the topic. Maybe one day when I have more proof to back up my...

For what it's worth we all have irrational beliefs. The moon landing hoax theory is not quite as out there as some of the other ones some people believe in, and it's no more illogical than the Kennedy conspiracy theories. I still believe the US government was involved in 9/11. A while back I...

I tend to think the company getting rid of the job should pay for the retraining. After all, it is one step in the direction of making employers treat employees better, and they will save a ton of money eventually by replacing their $15/hour worker with a few $100/month ones. Only fair they...

I don't know about everyone else here, but I recommended moving those people to a higher skilled job where they are really worth paying $15/hour, and retraining them to do so. I also recommend growing the economy with R&D to create new industries which will employ these displaced workers in...

I think the problem here isn't capitalism so much as it is unregulated capitalism. Left to its own devices, capitalism will create a very few wealthy along with huge numbers of poor. Just witness the working conditions that existed at the turn of the century for proof. Few employers will...

In a nutshell this story encompasses everything wrong with unions these days, and why people like myself see them as no longer serving any useful purpose. I seem to recall somewhere that criminal actions were adequate grounds for dismissal from any job. Why the union would be so dumb as to...

I don't see that cold temperatures are a problem. The only time cold may be an issue is when you bring something into a warmer environment and have condensation. If the device remains in a cold environment then this isn't a problem. I think disk drives are speced to operate down to 0°C(32°F)...

You really don't understand American politics, its.fubar. There are no clear lines any more on which party is better for the average person. The Democrats generally try to help people with regulations that stifle business and handouts that the middle class ends up paying for but is rarely...

Thanks, Coug. For what it's worth, actually being 41 is better than I thought it would be when I was 19 or 20. I had visions of myself at 41 as a fat, bald, white-haired old man. Thankfully, that isn't true. Besides, celebrating your 41st, 51st, 61st, whatever birthday sure beats the...

BTW, Merc, I just spent the better part of an hour reading those porn clerk stories. They tend to reinforce my feelings that society is falling to its basest level. I wouldn't even think to do the stuff that some of those customers do, let alone actually do it. While you or anyone else of...

Yep. I saw it back in the day. And it is very prophetic. Another movie I think is relevant in this context is Soylent Green. Global warming, overpopulation, and an even wider disparity between the haves and have nots than today. Sadly, I think this is what the next century will be like...

It may or may not-I just don't know the exact design of the data inputs. The problem is caused by the protection diodes on the inputs. If there is no power applied to the drive, then if a data input from the controller card goes high it will be clamped to about 0.7V by the protection diode...

I think anyone who has spent enough time doing things they mostly dislike, whether at work or school, ends up feeling like that. For a really long time after graduating school I wasn't passionate about anything. I chalked it up to burnout, a tragic love affair, an abortive suicide attempt, and...

You didn't have the drive data cable connected with the Molex power plug pulled, did you? :o That's what it sounds like from your post, anyway. That could possibly kill the drive(s) depending upon how the inputs are designed. Because the machine works fine except when one of the WD drives...

The truth is neither party really knows what they're doing as far as running the country or creating jobs. Democrats will bring the economy under with taxes, handouts which discourage working, and too many regulations. Republicans will bring it under with deficit spending, too little...

I almost fell out my chair laughing when I read your response to that guy. However, I do agree with you about spreading misinformation. I think I'll vomit if I see one more RAID0 thread on SR. :puke-r: :puke-l:

Thanks, Howell. I was thinking of that and yesterday I took the 100GB drive of out the machine(it is in a removeable drive bay). The problem hasn't remanifested itself yet, even when I was playing MS Train Simulator for an hour. I'm going to just do what I normally do, leave the PC on 24/7...

The hard drives check out error-free with PowerMax, I fixed the pins to make better contact, and the problem still persists. At this point I think it is probably not hard drive related because it seems to occur whenever there's a lot of activity on any of my drives. I'm thinking my power...

Interestingly, I needed to do something like this a few days ago. I remembered this thread after I had figured out how to do it(which is exactly as you said). I had no header on the title page and the same header on all the other pages. Once I typed in the header it appeared on all the...

Welcome back, Tony. The place just hasn't been the same without you and your simian friend. I look forward to reading about your adventures. Were you able to find Tea a mate in your travels? If so, are you going to be best man?

I completely understand what you're going through, i. In fact, I've never really had a job which I enjoyed or wasn't underemployed. When I graduated college in 1985 I sent out over 100 resumes and didn't get a single interview. Maybe two dozen companies sent me back form letters. There just...

I tend to think something like device 0 and device 1 would be more appropriate given the way everything really works. With S-ATA the whole master/slave designation is out anyway. Wait a minute? Isn't motherboard a degrading, sexist term as well? Wouldn't mainboard be more politically...

I think it just has to do with what different age groups like to do. Keeping diaries has always been a big teenage thing, shopping for all sorts of junk a twenties thing, and research and news an older person's thing. Of course, that's just a generalization. I've never kept a diary and I...

Well it's good to know it'll work without that huge fan. That thing will make the adjoining slots useless if the cards are a bit too tall. The huge heat sink is good provided it doesn't interfere with anything nearby. You should be able to cool a video card(and also M/B chipset) passively...

I think your experiences with both XP and Office 2003 show that upgrading makes no sense if you're happy with the way things work now. I'm still using Office 97. Would it ever make any sense for me to upgrade to 2000? Did you find that Office 2000 offered anything that Office 97 didn't...

Thanks for the ideas. I'll check the power connections and use the PowerMax utility. I think the drive may still be under warranty. I back up regularly so no worries there but I think I'll start using my 80 GB for my boot drive. I was planning to switch soon anyway as the 40 GB is getting a...

I thought the huge heat sinks needed on processors were bad enough. Now we're starting with graphics cards as well. :o Seriously, who in their right mind would buy that thing? The extra noise alone would be annoying, and I don't see why passive cooling wouldn't work either. We have lazy...

The last few weeks I've noticed something strange going on. Generally, after my computer has been on for a few days straight, I 'll hear one of the hard drives shut down and restart. This totally freezes the system, and the drive won't recognize again until I power the system on and off...

560 kph=348 mph=mach 0.458 :D I think the train has enough power stored on board to allow it to levitate long enough to come to a stop. The best maglev designs only require ~3W per ton of weight to levitate. For an average maglev this is not much more power than a PC takes. An onboard...

I suppose incremental change is better than none, although I still think there is some truth to the statement that a revolution every now and then is a healthy thing. I think the world of transportation is seriously in need of a revolution after essentially stagnating for 30+ years. Consider...

I've had patentable ideas as well, including one device I've made several working models of. In that case, I actually paid $5K to one of those invention places to market the idea and got nowhere with it. Nobody has come out with one yet, but I won't produce it myself until I get it patented...

In that case you would need two conductors for the comm channel(even a serial channel still requires ground for reference, and using the charging ground is prone to interference), or some form of wireless communication. Other than that nitpicking on my part, your idea is feasible. I guess you...

6/10. You can usually tell the psychos by their cold stare. Unfortunately, I imagine programmers get the same stare from looking at code all day.

Perhaps, but I'm kind of bothered that straight electrics are being largely overshadowed by hybrids or fuel cells, especially in light of ever improving battery technology and the fact that they would be an ideal car for urban areas. I can't for the life of me see why somebody who lives and...

Actually, the current won't be carried thousands of miles but likely only tens of miles. The current distribution problems are similar to those faced by electrified railways(which is what my idea is similar in concept to), and those have largely been solved. You just use very high voltage(~25...

Good idea except for one possible problem-the probes would have to be capable of taking a huge amperage, especially if 1 hour recharge was desired. Say you want to recharge at 25 KW input power. If the mat is, say 25V, you need 1000 amps! You can't have the mat any higher voltage because of...

You could probably have transformer or microwave coupling. The big problem with either scheme is that you lose quite a bit of power(at least 10% or 20%) in the transmission process. Additionally, such a device wouldn't take the form of a mat or anything relatively compact that can use a wall...

For what it's worth even if 100% of the electricity for electric cars were to be produced by fossil-fuel burning power plants, it would still be a good idea if everyone switched over. For starters the power plant produces useful energy from fuel more efficiently that a car can(~50% vs 20%)...

Agreed, that's definitely a problem, and the only possible solution I see to it would be if roller crankshaft bearings were used. Maybe that's part of the reason hybrids cost more money. Anyone know more about this than I do? I agree that if most of your trips are maybe 50 miles or less(round...