The five stages of equipment death greif: · Denial (maybe I can fix it) · Anger (Why did the stupid thing break?!) · Bargaining (Maybe I can just work around it...) · Depression (I miss my stuff) · Upgrade (Oooo, shiny!)

Quote: Originally Posted by Born2bwire At least it was a quick death. An emergency operation was attempted, yet was in vain.

Today we (the royal we) mourn the unfortunate passing of one of the central pillars of life. It is my unfortunate honor to inform myself that fate has called my V6s to a better place. A place where headphones may be truely happy. Such a cruel game is life; to tragicaly rip from the ears such...

A Muppet's Christmas Carol Chirstmas Vacation Home Alone

What makes me suspicious is just how damn complicated and full of loopholes the rebate procedure is. First: In the age where you can do just about anything online, they want you to mail it in. Why do this other than to annoy people into not sending in rebates? Second: They don't accept...

Brushed aluminum or steel looks best to me, or a black ceramic glazed finish. So I suppose that means silver most of the time because I never see the glaze on anything new that isn't priced in the upper stratosphere.

Never give your info out over the phone unless you initiate the call. Somebody likely pulled a printout with the site's name on it from your trash and decided to try their luck on getting your CC number from you.

I swear, he must have learned from watching the TV show. He even sits the exact same way: How many other people have pets that seem to resemble TV or movie animals?

Quote: Originally posted by ProFingerSk8er hum...weird.. in my area FedEx is a lot better then UPS, packages from FedEx were either on-time or early Same here. Airborne is cream of the crop, followed by FedEx Next or 2nd day and UPS Ground. There are actually two FedEx's...

Now, will the RIAA take it all the way to the Supreme Court and risk getting the whole law tossed out (I'm sure companies like Echostar/DirecTV and the DVD Forum would just love that)? I would think there would be pressure from other groups to let this battle go instead of risking the...

Quote: Originally posted by lan I think it's just fine to go alone. Since most of my friends are 9-5, I can easily catch matinee shows for cheaper and less crowds IF i even go. I've found out that all the theaters around here will give you matinee prices for regular evening shows...

There are two different types of messenger included with XP, both equally useless. #1, the more annoying of the two is the Windows Messenger Service. This can be used to popup advertisements or used/abused to send network-wide messeges using the command prompt (example: announcing server...

I'm likely gonna end up with a 3.41 for this semester. Not too shabby for a major in Physics. What makes me mad is I have a C in English. Of all subjects, why English? I've gotten A's in all my other English classes, where I could actually write. This time they decided to do something...

MS has a lot to lose with this gambit. They are banking that flash memory manufaturers would rather pay the fee than have people install drivers to read the volumes. But, how can MS tout the newest version of windows as a highly compatible multimedia platform if they don't support whatever new...

Quote: Originally posted by Trawlerman Does anybody else find the modern Windows/Multimedia keyboards to be totally worthless. Who uses the extra keys anyway? *waves hand* I use them a lot on my laptop, mainly the "windows key". I'm a bit paranoid, so I lock my laptop whenever I...

Quote: Originally posted by Earwax It seems like CD-RWs fail after somewhere around 30 to 50 re-writes (I'm guessing, not counting) They always fail during the write or erase, rather than while playing. Odd, I have a couple of 10x Imation cd-rws that have at least that many writes...

Quote: Originally posted by jpelg Actually, I work for a jewelry company. I will have to ask around what the buyers & planners think of this development in technology and its impact on future sales. You have your foot in the door. I don't understand how you could contemplate buying...

Clicky is preferred (I have an IBM model M for my desktop), but laptop keyboards are decent as well. I just require there to be a decent amount of initial resistance to the keystroke.

Quote: Originally posted by raymondlin I think he meant a little pic in the sig. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! No! I hate image sigs. They are useless, and they always result in a battle of colors, animations, and size as to who has the "coolest" image. I'm very glad head-fi does...

I get three to six a day but my filter catches every single one of them. All of them are either offering to "enhance the length and width of your willy!" (actual spam subject) or for prescription drugs, specifically viagra. The best thing I've done is to get bayesian spam filtering. I use...

My parents recently purchased a Hoover Windtunnel Premium or something like that (not the bagless type), which was pretty much top of the line. The first time through the house filled up a bag because our old one had left so much dirt and dust behind. It had two things on it that I really liked...

There is no substitute for real sleep. Power naps may make your body feel better but your mind doesn't relly refresh until it has had a good cycle or so of very deep REM sleep. I think the wonderful placebo effect in these recordings will get you to sleep quicker, and possibly make you "feel"...

Quote: Originally posted by adi He did say that it's a common problem everywhere here. I think he knows what's going on but he's not allowed to tell. -Adi- He knows what the problem is and was stalling. I bet they oversold their bandwidth. If it is a widespread problem then...

Eventually one will be put out, but I can't find any evidence of one.

I give another vote for Cowboy Bebop. Its the only show I have the desire to purchase a soundtrack from