Quote: Originally Posted by Comfy On another note, it's seems pretty hard to upgrade from a SRM-1 + SR-Lambda combo without really hurting my wallet. I find this a little saddening, as minor upgrades have always been a fun thing to aim for. In the stat universe it seems like the next...

Wow, $2 a resistor! I made a couple adapters using Vishay-Dale resistors (which are better than the cheapie Radio Shack ones by far), and they sounded just fine to me. They probably averaged out to $2 each though including shipping - even if the resistors are 15 cents each, you'll pay 6 bucks to...

Dunno what your deductibles are, but for $795 I think I'd go ahead and write a check. Unless your deductibles are amazingly low, you'll pay the bulk of it to your insurance anyway, with them covering a few hundred bucks and raising your rates by god knows how much a month.

He could probably get hired at Hot Topic

Quote: Originally Posted by Whitebread I am treating becoming independent and getting the loan as two different, exclusive items. I'm studying engineering, which is a fully private school at Cornell. Some of the colleges reside on land granted to the school by NY state. If I was in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by 003 The 20mb/s spike in comcast is powerboost, the first 20 seconds of a download it goes up to 30mb/s I think. rather pointless for p2p and server hosting. Ditch comcast asap dude. Search google for "comcast sandvine", you will see why. I don't...

A connection that fast is only going to be useful if you have something to serve you content that fast. It's probably pointless for anything short of media or disk images. You could do things like nightly offsite hard drive backups over your net connection with no problem. But mostly you would...

If you're at least 18, you can take out a loan in your own name without needing to be independent from your parents. You probably had to co-sign with your dad for the first loan because you don't have enough of a credit history or collateral to qualify for a 40k loan yourself. You may be...

Doesn't make sense to me either. Growing up, my parents gave me money, but not much. Basically, it taught me that if I wanted anything substantial, I had to save for it, and maybe save for a LONG time. So I had to choose between buying little things now, or waiting and buying bigger things when...

Her reaction seems like Step 1 on the road to Bridezilla. Ok, so maybe you didn't give her the perfect fantasy proposal. The whole point of the event is not for her to feel pretty and like she has a wonderful Hollywood life. It's for you to tell her you love her and that you want to spend the...

ER4s are great, although they're neutral enough that you may not like 'em at first listen if you're used to something more lively. I thought mine sounded cold and dead at first because I was used to my Senns, which are a lot more warm, lush, and airy in comparison. I had to spend a lot of...

You just need a 75 ohm resistor for each channel (that's two in total). You can mount them however you want - could put 'em on a board and wire up fancy jacks and stick them in a large metal box if you like I made one by buying a Radio Shack inline volume adapter, gutting the pod with the...

http://www.gandmcrabcakes.com/ Probably my favorite crabcakes in the area so far. It's up near BWI. If you want whole crabs you'll wanna go elsewhere.

Quote: Originally Posted by Febs Who is "they"? People trying to come up with ideas to reduce or eliminate spam. Sorry. The USPS doesn't give a crap. I don't think it's a for-profit operation anyway, so if nobody wanted to mail anything anymore, they'd happily close it down...

Super hot weather like that is still hot, but it really isn't as bad with low humidity. The air isn't all thick and humid, so you can still breathe without trouble. You're able to keep cool(ish) by sweating so long as you keep drinking water, unlike on a 95% humidity hot day. If you get out of...