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HardOCP seems to have some sort of elaborate testing rig. They even go so far as to test at temp.

How come no one suggested lowering the speed limit? That would be the easiest and have the most immediate effect on fuel consumption. And, all the local towns could watch their revenues skyrocket on tickets.

Isn't that what we have now in your standard average mid size car? Note they don't get 35MPG though. Which are you willing to give up to get to 35MPG or better?

Well sure over a long enough period of time the population goes up and traffic would increase. I thought you were trying to say that as soon as they improved the flow of traffic, there would suddenly and instantaneously be more cars on the road.

There's a flaw in your assumption. Basically everyone already takes their car and uses the roads. Improving them would not bring more cars or people to the roads because there basically aren't cars or people left to put on the road.

I don't follow you... So, if we widened the freeways, and surface streets and optimized the traffic lights (or changed the intersections to eliminate a lot of them) more people would magically have to drive themselves to work and make traffic worse? Come take a look at an average US city and...

You can have a car that is any two of the following. Your choice... 1) very safe 2) very fuel efficient 3) very low emissions Right now US auto makers are forced by regulations to do 1 and 3. Which two do you want?

Alternative energy sources are nice, but I'm not a big fan of running my car on food. Ethanol from corn is not a workable large scale solution. It's not even a workable small scale solution. Look at what has happened to the price of basic groceries already and we've hardly begun to use it...

Those two are almost comparable... :rolleyes: Why doesn't the gov't rework our roads so people don't spend time stopped at traffic lights or in stop and go traffic wasting gas? Cars get much better fuel economy running at a constant speed instead of constantly accelerating. They could save...

Bicycles belong on a bike path, not in the street.

Really, where did I say that?

We'll be waiting... :rolleyes:

Why is trying to use less oil the only solution? If we really wanted to be less dependent on foreign oil shouldn't we also get our own supply of oil? The US has tons of oil... There's a bunch in Alaska, off the coast of California, off the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, etc, etc...

People don't need 3Ghz quad core processors to surf the web, but we let people buy them anyway. The gov't shouldn't be regulating what kind of cars people drive or can buy, which is effectively what they are doing, but that's how gov't likes to work... Nanny state here we come!

Looks like they ended up coming out today...

Call 3ware?

At an owners house who lives nearby? Some brands also offer free return shipping if you're not satisfied.

In the $1000-1500 price range I would definitely be considering some of the internet direct brands.

Use the torrent instead, or use all 5 or 6 servers at once. :D

The boost is maybe 10-15 seconds. Where I live it seems to boost to about 20-25Mbit/sec Speedboost is included in the standard Comcast HSI.

Well, unless I misread something you didn't have a F30/F31fd. The F10 isn't exactly comparable to the F30/F30fd. First the F30/F31fd have less noise than the F10. Second, the F31fd also address some of the quirkiness of the F10/F30. From dpreview.com, I have a Canon EOS 10D, and Canon...

MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It's basically the instructions to play music. Note, volume, duration, etc. The second one doesn't have MIDI, so it should make things easy for you.

Well most soundcards don't have MIDI on them anymore. I think those are really targeted at MAC users who don't have the ability to put a PCI card in their system to improve upon the built in sound card. But, since they are USB they will also work on a PC. Does your customer need MIDI? Those...

Why don't you go budget on an integrated amp? http://www.emotiva.com/bpa1.html

How far away from the people would you be shooting? Are you trying to shoot from the edges of the room, or are mixed in with the people? I don't think you need a 1Ds MkII, but a DSLR like the Digital Rebel XTi will be better than the Fuji. However, the F31fd may be good enough depending on...

The F30/F31fd is not better than most in regards to noise. It is better than every P&S. It's has the lowest noise of any non DSLR digital camera. I don't understand why you're relating noise performance to IS. IS can't and won't give you nice clean noise free image.

I don't see anything in his post. Am I missing something, or is that the joke?

On a somewhat related note to the topic I have a Fuji F31fd en route to me. UPS estimates delivery on the 9th. I'm looking forward to getting a P&S without a pile of noise.

Seems that way.

And here I thought you were just a day early...

Feel the burn of my work connection... :(

More what I was expecting: (taking wireless out of the loop)

Yawn: The wireless and encryption probably had something do with with the low download numbers. On my desktop I usually have no problems getting the whole 6Mbit/sec.

We'd better keep you away from Merc's pr0n collection when you're tired then.

And you don't have a "genny" in the Outer Limits?

Well... I don't play games, so that doesn't matter to me. However, if I recall correctly the top end nVidia 8800GTX has enough oomph to play games at that resolution.

I never ended up buying a 24" LCD monitor. I'm currently thinking of getting a 30" Dell 3007WFP-HC now instead or maybe two. :D I have an AGP 7600GT on the way with two dual-link DVI outputs for my desktop PC so I'll be able to drive 'em should the need arise.

Haha... I wonder if he will get the name of butterfingers.

In the list of connected clients of the AP it's connected to via Wi-Fi?

It's actually just a difference in the front polarizer. The traditional LCD screen has a front polarizer with a very heavy anti-glare coating on it. The new style are either clear, or a few have an anti-reflective coating on them.

It was pretty hot when I got to Munich on Monday. It was over 30C. The weather since then has been much cooler, but they tell me its cooler than normal the last few days. It's also rained off and on the last 3 days.

Getting this back on topic: Well, I can throw in my $.02 about the train/subway system in Germany after having ridden it in Munich and Frankfurt, as well as taking the ICE (InterCity Express) between Munich and Frankfurt. The S-Train (Surface) and U-Train (Underground) system works pretty...

It might. I'd look for some reviews first.

The real question is how many will sue Merc later for exposure to some chemicals found in the PCBs of they system. :p

I thought it didn't make the cut for Leopard.

I'm not sure why you're surprised by this development... I told you so :p Or is my word not worth anything? :(

Fujitsu has some models with "proper" 4:3 screens.

All the reviews I've seen show the 2600 and 2400 as complete dogs in games.

I think the SPCR review mentioned that the rails aren't completely independent and that they will share power if one is overloaded.

Good choice! That's a good supply. I'm using that in my HTPC. It's very, very quiet