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It has more resolution. That's the only place I see it outperforming the C3x. How much is the bulb for the C3x? $1k?

I made note of the Switch bulbs here last month. The "100W" version isn't expected to be available until early 2012 (along with the "40W"). Even the "60W" and "75W" versions can't be bought yet and they're supposedly available.

I think you're delusional if you think a cheapo noisy conference room projector is a suitable replacement for the Sim2 projector. One is a 3 chip DLP which doesn't suffer from rainbows and the other is a color wheel equipped rainbow delivering special. The Sim2 does have better contrast. Is...

I think you'd be more likely to ski the internet on Cyberpowder.

Somewhere there are a lot of Intel Engineers giggling this morning. 2x as many transistors, a clock speed advantage and a 50% larger die and you get a part that embarrasses itself in single threaded use, and still struggles in multi threaded use. Oh, and it sucks power like a hoover.

Doesn't Verizon offer Push to Talk on some of their phones?

Way to jump to conclusions.

I've seen CyberPower, but never Cyberpowder. ;)

Is that some sort of internet fairy dust? :rofl:

People still use Nextel? I thought Sprint killed it off already.

Perhaps. It depends on what you mean by reliable or durable. If you're talking about longevity sitting on a shelf for 10 years the answer may be different than if you're talking about dropping it on the ground 10 times. You probably weren't thinking about burning the same things I am. It's a...

Yikes! Can you get a 2nd opinion on any of that stuff?

I tried some other BD-R's from Optical Quantum & Memorex and from the scans I posted earlier you can see they're not quite as good as the Verbatim BD-R's (though they are cheaper), but they're pretty decent. They're much better than the Merax / Optodisc disasters I mistakenly tried. Someone...

These are read errors on a completed disc. The burner has a preset write strategy for a particular blank disc and it will follow it. AFAIK, burner don't monitor discs while they're being burnt, so the burner blindly follows the write strategy. Doing a quality scan on the finished disc (with a...

It's just personal interest. My criteria is making sure I'm getting good quality burns out of my burner.

So I bought a Lite-On Blu-ray burner so I could quality scan burned BD-R media. Clearly not all blank media is created equal. Memorex 4x Burned w/ ImgBurn @ 6x in Pioneer BDR-206 Merax 4x Printable Burned w/ ImgBurn @ 4x in Pioneer BDR-206 Optical Quantum 4x Burned w/ ImgBurn @ 4x in...

A switch mode power supply should be able to take just about any power input. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Those don't look like well fed deer to me.

What's it do if you unplug it while that is going on?

Das Boot is available on Blu-Ray. :bomb: link

After you pay $150 for a flashlight you don't misplace it. :rotfl:

At those prices you might as well mount a decent handheld flashlight (or two) to the handlebars like this or this. It'll be far more useful since you can use it as a flashlight when it's not mounted to the bike.

You could always get the new Sharp 80" set.

I think you'll have to roll your own by combining something like this plug with this cable. Cut of the 1/8" male end and solder on the new R/A 1/4" one. Alternatively you could use this adapter on the end and avoid cutting and soldering.

Can you charge and drive?

4.3MHz?!?!?! You're out of control!

Variety 8-)

There's always a catch. Limited number of tracks it can support, some goofy file / folder arrangement, like no more than 100 items per folder and a max number of folders. Show me one I can plug a 500GB 2.5" drive into with >25k songs on it in basically any folder structure and we'll talk. I'm...

That doesn't sound like a very good place to be. :bstd:

If you've got an older car and the CEL isn't nearly permanently aglow you're doing something wrong.

HDCP problem?

The idiots in Washington will have to learn how to balance a budget and the people suckling at the teats will find out what happens when the sow runs dry. Everyone else will enjoy watching their savings become worthless and enjoy taking a wheelbarrow full of hundreds to the store to buy groceries.

If you start with faulty numbers you end up at faulty conclusion. Your starting point is wrong. Does the TSA suck, sure. Is the security theater at airport absurd? Sure. Should we have tucked tail and pretended that radical militant Islamist don't want to kill us? Not a chance.

I responded to DD's nonsensical & factually baseless post and then got blindsided by time who apparently agrees with DD that we should have just ignored the attack and by not ignoring it we gave the terrorists exactly what they wanted. In both cases I was illustrating the absurdity by being absurd.

You know what. You're absolutely right. We should let unarmed civilians in tall buildings do battle with terrorists with trucks filled with explosives and planes loaded with fuel we must not give in to terror. And, we should apply the same rules to all crime and just ignore the criminals...

I don't want to interrupt your copy and paste from some left wing lunatic fringe talking points memo with the truth and actual facts, but the attacks of 9/11/2001 aren't included in those murder statistics. Regardless of the facts I totally know what you mean. We should have turned a blind eye...

So Lenovo has come out with a 2nd generation unit. It is backlit and replaces the ball with an IR trackpad / virtual trackball like is found on later Blackberry phones. link Youtube Preview w/ comparison to the first gen unit It's currently $39.99 after coupon code: USP1S36678

That doesn't usually happen until retirement. :king:

Why not get an alarm that syncs to the Atomic Clock broadcast signal that has a battery backup (or is battery operated)?

You can't be serious. :scratch:

I've had 2 PERC6i card in a single PC before. They each had their own 8 drive RAID-6 array on them. I didn't try any sort of 16 drive RAID-6 array.

Features for the price.

The real question is will the 4TB drives require another round of firmware / drivers updates for all the SATA controllers since they only support up to 3TB drives? :rofl:

But why do we have to use IDE mode?

If you do decide to use Blu-Ray as a back up be sure to stick to quality BD-R discs like Verbatim (non LTH) discs. They're about $2 each though they can get as low as $1.50 or so on sale.

CFL's don't have a long life in many situations (enclosed fixtures where they get hot or applications where they are turned turned back on while still hot) and most have terrible spectral color output. At least per the Wired article the Switch bulbs are at least equivalent to an incandescent in...

Clusters are typically -40 to 85C rated applications. And yes, the LCDs work in those temps. They use wide temp LC fluids and polarizers.

No, they're not available yet. I'm tempted to get a 75W equivalent when available for the light over my kitchen table, though the prospect of paying $30 doesn't exactly get me real excited.

-40 to 85C operation is expected at a minimum for electronics in a car. Some applications in the car require -40 to 105C or -40 to 125C.

You have a thermal chamber in your basement? Pretty cool project. For the rest of us these look like an interesting replacement bulb. There was an interesting article in Wired on them.