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One day I wondered why my basement computers started having flakey wireless. Picked up the wireless router that was on the cement floor, and realized it had been colonized by ants. They were everywhere. Nice and warm for them. The vacuum cleaner fed well that day. It now sits in a bowl...

Another member [H]oping for Portland soon.

Well done! Thanks for sharing with us. I really liked seeing the first person view -- made it seem much less like a game than the overhead one.

M-W adds "common usage" to their dictionary, making it not very useful as a reference. I'm actually surprised they haven't added "teh" as an alternate spelling of "the". (Obligatory rant: "lense" is not an alternate spelling of "lens")

My interactions haven't been this epic, but they have all gone something like: "Me: Issue with item. Them: Terribly sorry. A new one is being 1-day shipped to you with postage paid return box for the old one. Will that be ok? Me: Sure! Them: Have a great day." This even happened with a 1...

Some good choices there. I went with the Rampage IV Extreme, the G.Skill memory linked above, Seasonic X-750, Corsair H100 (with extra set of fans), and a HAF XM case. I don't think the RIVE is buying me much over the Sabertooth given that I'm not pushing the overclock at all, but it's a nice...

I got 32GB for my X79+3930K and went with this, which is working well: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231480 If I were getting 64GB I'd probably do http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231513 since that would work well with the Asus RIVE MB, it's...

Yet another pointer to the Seasonic X-650 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088 Very quiet, efficient, well built. I found it was worth the effort for me to watch for a newegg special on one of the X series and get them for $20-$40 off, even if it meant having the...

I looked into replacing a workstation this week, and also thought about a dual Xeon. What I saw was: dual 2011 MB ($400-500) + dual E5-2609 ($300ea) = $1000-$1100 for 8c at 2.4GHz vs. single 2011 MB ($300-430) + 3930K ($570) = $900-$1000 for 6c at 3.2 - 4.5GHz (OCd) More money certainly can...

After 20 years of building PCs, and over 30 PSUs, I've come to the conclusion that I will no longer try to save money or get suckered by a special. I will buy Seasonic, and it's what I recommend to anyone who asks me. I got two of the X750's when they went on sale. Currently using 5 Seasonic...

Life imitating comedy? Voice Recognition Elevator

Quality and efficiency.

I am a car person, and I think it looks like a well done Morgan. However, given that I think Morgans are hideous.... As others have pointed out, the Tesla is nice and it's been out quite a while. The Fisker isn't too bad, although from other angles it looks like someone put a Cars-animation...

I didn't have crash issues with FO3 on this machine, but oh boy, New Vegas crashes on me a LOT. I haven't played it in over a week, since I just got too frustrated with crashes every 20 minutes. That was the last straw -- I'll wait for a patch. It sure was fun when it worked though.

It's done with heuristics. Your PC could do what they've written for the phone. If you take someone who really knows fluid mechanics and tell them to draw a picture of what the flow would look like in a channel with a cylinder at some Reynolds number, I bet they could sketch something pretty...