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Happy Birthday Shelly!

That better then much more expensive gear comment is so cliche I could die reading reviews playing that drinking game. It reeks of pandering while imparting nothing useful to me. I also wanted him to know why I didn't care to read his longish review. I just don't trust everyone's reviews, especially not from a stranger. Same reason I don't honestly care much about how you feel about my comment limp. I don't really know you two. So if I, who you don't really know, hurt your feelings, then go dry your tears and get some thicker skin. Or don't. Can't say I personally care.

I smoked a Padron 3000 last night, its likely a Padron anniversary or Opus X variety will be lost due to fire this weekend.

Definitely. And the digital attenuators to be paid in my case.

I don't even know why you would review an audio product's sound quality when you have less product listening experience and reputation for knowing what sounds good then the majority of your readers.

Nice, congrats Tmoney.

I was thinking more along the lines of not choking each other with rulers, put objects down their pants, and not to rub their crotch at adults with their pants below their ass. Today has been a day.

I don't know. There was said to be a firefight using a woman as a shield. Several others were killed including one of his sons. I don't see Osama being taken alive by choice. I'm fairly certain he is dead and pictures are coming to help prove it. Thanks for nothing Pakistani government.

Announcement is on.

I was also wondering. Thanks.

Watch Obama address the nation live shortly here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Rogue Dad's Little Helper Black IPA

Screenshots from gingerbread on Droid X: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/9858066/1/Droid%20X?h=522ba3 oh, VNC would be your best bet on the cheap then I suppose. There is this also: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winampdroid/ which you can use as just a remote.

I have two hitachi portable 7200 2.5" drives (travelstars). One lasted me daily use for a little over seven years (still works, but was getting noiser, so it was replaced). The other one is still pulling on in my over aged laptop doing great. I won't go seagate after their firmware causing problems for so long and doing fuck all to fix it. WD's green features have been iffy for me too. Though I would absolutely go for a SSD drive internally and strap a 1TB portable USB powered 2.5" external onto my lappy these days.

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Ryan! I'll have to toast you with some great beer to you tonight while I read through my own proctor's manual.

I'm poor at best at judging DACs by their design, but I can tell very little by the specs that underlie the tube stage. I guess someone who has knowledge of the Burr-Brown 1793 can chip in on that, but I don't have my hopes up for this DAC yet.

Connectbot is similar to xterm and comes with the options you need perhaps. Ssh, ftp, whatever for your server. Check it out.

Fancy widget pro is amazons free app of the day. I bought it a while back, fancy home and fancy forecast is great.

Laphroaig quarter cask out of the flask.

Nice Nate, I'm interested in seeing what you do with. If you haven't gotten gingerbread on your DX yet, you don't know what your missing. Its really really something. Verizon is rumored to be releasing the official build officially on May 10th. The overall speed difference and functionality is greatly improved, even the benchmarks are consistently about 1/3rd faster then on Froyo without overclock.

Night tripper is good. I will have to crack a bottle to ease the lack of dark lord in my life.

Good to hear that the pc is behaving again. Those dell IPS monitors go on sale from dell almost regularly on slickdeals.net. If you wait for a deal, you could save a few hundred perhaps.

Ok, I want to clear up some of the general statements being repeated here. The 6000 series recommendationby me was not based on gaming. Compared to the 5000 HD series, they have been designed for better color accuracy, better power saving, HDMI 1.4a, UVD3, Display port 1.2, and linear display correction for the pesky oversaturation of wide gamut displays. I know that is confusing. Basically it boils down to this card leading to better colors, much more bandwidth and support for hardware accelerated mpeg decoding (finally your cpu doesn't have to handle the entire load of watching blu-ray movies! Great if your not running a sandstorm core intel, similar to what ION did for the Intel Atom). It also allows for multiview video coding that allows 3D stereoscopy on H.264 (mkv files and such for 3D displays!). Because it includes display port 1.2, it has a huge amount more video bandwidth (great for multiple video streams used for 3D. None of those features does the 5xxx series have.... So if your just as interested in saving power and having superior video viewing and photo editing features as you are in gaming, I think you would be making a much wiser choice going with the quietest version of the 6xxx series such as the 6450 possible over a 5XXX HD. There is a reason for it. While I also said you don't need a quad core cpu (especially if your not doing hardcore video encoding), I'm not a big fan of the i3's chipset. You want your PC to handle HD flash streaming without having GPU acceleration (trust me, on a desktop PC you don't want the instability and blue screens that GPU acceleration causes if you watch or play a lot of flash. Its seriously unstable right now by my testing). I would rather recommend the i5 or the i7. The lowest most modern release of the i7 is a great little overclocker which is where you'll see the real benefit especially when you need to to get the right speed for the DDR3 PC1600 ram with tight timings. RAID 1 is a good choice for going with 2TB drives, you may still want to have an offsite backup through the cloud or such in the event of a natural disaster or fire for your important data.