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Of course the primary reason for checking larger items (like that monster television) before taking them home is that bringing them back is a major pain in the ass. Of course in many cases this is further complicated by lack of easy transportation and disability...

:) The original Comodore Pet computer had an ABCDE keyboard... WOW, what a pain that was! Well, then there is the Dvorak board... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard Most commonly used words can be typed on this keyboard witout curling or reaching more than one or...

The 30 day return policies of most stores are not about failures. They are intended to cover material defect and customer satisfaction. Essentially, if you get it home and it's scratched or not working, you can exchange it... but if it quits after a week, it is usually at store discretion...

A little blast from the past.... Back when Remington invented the typewriter, keyboard action was mechanical connected to flying bars that would swing up and impact the ribbon pressing ink onto the paper. What they discovered very quickly was that, given employer pressure, some people were...

Having worked in service almost all of my adult life, I might be able to offer a pointer here... Most stores have a "return policy" that will allow you to bring an item back for exchange or refund within a limited time (usually 14 days or a month). Take advantage of that... For anything...

Ummm... unless I'm missing something big here... you're only going to get 64 discrete colors from 6 bits ( 2 ^ 6 == 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 == 64) 8 Bits is only going to give you 256 colors. Now if you are talking about 6 bits per crystal which is 18 bits per pixel ... well that's...

LOL... somebody has way too much time on their hands!

True enough... What I was speaking about was the arbitrary decision to block 64bit programs from running on 32bit operating systems.

I never said you said it was a hardware limitation... but most people (around here anyway) do seem to think it is. They treat 32 and 64 bit systems like they come from 2 separate planets. The thing is that 32 and 64 bit compilers create different program images (the format of the program...

Actually, I was a little surprised when the 64 bit stuff started coming out. I fully expected a "Mode Bit" or some other means of separating the two CPU modes... but that's not what happened. What your basic AMD64 chip (and AM64 instruction set) actually does is execute 32bit instructions in...

There are very few people in this world I am glad I am nothing like... Conan is at least 3 of them. Funny videos.... Very Conan.

Well, going by the specs, I'd say they're not too bad. I do question the value of trying to get anything but stereo sound out of heaphones... If it is simply downmixing to stereo that's fine, but if it's trying to create positional audio using phase and time effects I think you will find the...

Yeah I do like dragon themes, got over 200 of wallpapers with dragons... I don't even know what got me started on it... But now every computer I build ends up with a dragon on it's desktop. The black one came from a PD wallpaper site a couple of years back. Ole "smokey" has been with me...

Way cool.

Here's my alternate for when I get tired of the other one...

Naaa... I like it! Nice picture.

Well... here's mine....

Excellent thread idea! 4:30pm on a March afternoon... I'm in Toronto and gets a service call in London... Now this in itself is not unusual, the boss usually lets me start later the next day... An hour and a half drive, leaving me 2 hours from home... "Hi, what's wrong with your...

Because it's sitting in a locked closet where nobody even knows you have it? I know... What's to stop them from breaking into the closet... Well, it's better than nothng. As long as you have a backup strategy that promises not to fail you, you're miles ahead of most people who just can't...

That is certainly a possibility. Our friend should take a small paint brush (new) and knock all the dust out of the heat sinks and sweep the board surfaces... even if it's only done as a precaution.