Everything posted by Dusty Chalk
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What are you drinking now, pt 2.
Table for two -- Flying Dog/Brewer's Art collab -- kinda too generic Earlier: Brooklyn Banner (good not great), Belhaven Scottish (a standard) Sent from mah Droid So, how is it?
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What are you listening to Part the Third
Matt Elliott, "The Maid We Messed" Black Sabbath, "Hand of Doom"
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slower forum
OMG, really? This is hilarious: "...you missed your turn! Recalculating route...recalculating row-owt!..." I want a shoegaze version for long-distance trips.
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Thunderpants
Awsum sauce. Will have to try to figure out a way to need another pair of headphones.
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What are you drinking now, pt 2.
He seems pretty happy.
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Watches
Fuck that ceramic looks hot.
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slower forum
(wants flying car)
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Ye Macce Threade
So it's Jeff's fault. Like washing a car on a sunny day. Jeff, you don't think you can move your vacation up?
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Apple Tablet
Or you could start putting dents in your patients until they start complaining.
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Apple Tablet
^^ Win. (Nice Fifth Element reference.) Rotational symmetry, point symmetry, or line symmetry? Argh, decisions decisions.
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Deals
Damnit, $50 is too rich for my blood. I should just take it.
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What are you listening to Part the Third
Yes, do this, Chrome is the better album.
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Bypassing the iPod's DAC
Found out that the Onkyo unit from Japan is not iPhone compatible, so I'm going the Cambridge Audio route, myself.
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Deals
Well, moot point, deal's over.
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Deals
Is this a good deal? SANS DIGITAL RAID 0/1/10/5/JBOD 5-Bay Data Storage Subsystem w/ 6Gb/s dual-port eSATA PCIe controller card (TR5M+B Black) for $140, $60 off.
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Anyone tried EQ-ing their headphones?
Sounds like an overhead problem -- you ought to try cutting all the other bands. And: mmmm...Royer.
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What are you listening to Part the Third
I bet it's like speed-reading -- you get the gist of it, and can't quite put your finger on what's missing. (thinks about slowing down some Beatles)
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What are you drinking now, pt 2.
Alternating bet'n: Nemesio reserve malbec -- wtf? This is...kinda awesome. Will have to revisit, I didn't expect to like it this much Bodegas Carrau Tannat de Reserva -- they had me at "earthy" Sent from mah Droid
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Apple Tablet
Yo dawg, I heard you like Apple OS's, so we put an Apple OS in your Apple OS so you could instant-on after booting...wait, what? I like the idea of a dual-boot configuration better.
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Apple Tablet
Agreed -- that would be my optimal configuration as well. But I have to ask -- which OS would you be wishing for, OSX or iOS?
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Which Cooking Are You?
Last night I broke in my new crockpot -- used it for the first time. Garlic-marsala-chicken-EVOO. Came out a little chewy, but I think that's either operator error, or the fact that I used ancient chicken. Smelled and tasted great, though.
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Apple Tablet
I'm going to guess double, plus or minus $200. I'm thinking more likely minus, but only for the higher configurations -- I think the entry level 16/non-3G will be $999, and 16/3G will be $1199. I think the 32's and 64's will be $100 higher, similar to the extant pricing structure. So change that "double" to "$500 more expensive". Yes, I am pulling these numbers out of my ass. I've been wrong before. But I think demand for this screen resolution is going to be high, and it's still going to be expensive to manufacture until they manufacture a lot of them -- and I think they will -- so that's my guess. Early adopter prices.
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Post the last thing you bought!
"Polished" is not a word I'd use.
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Post the last thing you bought!
Okay, you're just retarded then, who in their right mind would prefer a phone that BSoD's to one that doesn't? Seriously.
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Post the last thing you bought!
"Platform success"? Or marketing, sales, business management, capitalism success? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but I don't think it's an indication of platform success. Market share -- numbers of phones -- and the ability to retain market share (I'd like to see that number) would both be better indicators of platform success. Now, I'm not either saying that Apple is a bad product -- I don't feel the need to badmouth the competition, like you do, Mr. Trash Talker. It's a good product. It's a very very good product. But it's also an expensive product. Let's not mince words. The have a very large overhead. I'm not going to compare them to Bose, because Bose is over-priced mediocre shit, whereas Apple is highly-priced good shit, but it's a similar strategy. And the converse of this, as you should know, is that expensive isn't necessarily better. Vetted better is better. Now, Apple is, indeed, vetted good. But better? Sorry, vetting still going on. Nothing you argue is talking to the power/price ratio, which I think Android wins handily. Even if you could legitimately say that Apple was better -- which you can't, repeating yourself doesn't count, it's Goebbel's Law of Propaganda, "if you repeat something enough times, it becomes true" -- it's not four times better, but it's four times more expensive.