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Urban centers also offer a much richer after-work culture of independent films, theater, music, and general night life that can't be found in the suburbs.

Well, don't do crazily illegal shit, and the tinfoil can stay in the kitchen cabinet.

Is there a way to filter out high-value transactions?

You have to look for it harder on the T-Mobile site for the $30 100 Minutes / "Unlimited Data" monthly pay-as-you-go.

http://consumerist.com/2013/06/07/t-mobile-has-a-30-unlimite...

Text Messages / SMS cost a LOT outside of the US. With very few offering decent text packages.

Everyone I met in Mexico City used Whatsapp. I suspect BBM caught on in England for the same reason.

That's a really depressing number.

I wonder if a first nations person in Canada can have the syllabics[1] put on their ID?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics

What a great idea.

Yes, event the Louvre has a giftshop.

Yes, but I hate it when the TSA agent writes all over my phone ticket.

If it ain't mechanical it's a toy.

Grandpa! Grandpa! Tells us the story of the Great Neckbeard War of 2013, when Arch-Duke Blinkentag was murdered!

Could explain all the advertisements for Hooked on Phonics.

Power Architecture is used in spacecrafts as well:

The [PowerPC] 603e processors also power all 66 satellites in the Iridium satellite phone fleet. The satellites each contain seven Motorola/Freescale PowerPC 603e processors running at roughly 200 MHz each.[1]

There is a radiation hardened version called "RHPPC" based on PowerPC 603e made by Honeywell & Freescale. RHPPC is equivalent to the commercial PowerPC 603e processor with the minor exceptions of the phase locked loop (PLL) and the processor version register (PVR). [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_600#PowerPC_603e_and_60...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHPPC

They probably are for awhile, then selling them. Hence the delay. Riding out some mining, then slowly releasing them.

I'm thinking if someones smart enough to built a specialized piece of hardware like this, they are smart enough to write up an algorithm that tells when to sell the hardware once the commodity hits peak level.

A mass dump of these would too quickly devalue the market since the increase in new Bitcoins would cause inflation.

edit: Ha, obviously they know it by taking Bitcoins and charging €700 difference in the price of one chip between a July & October delivery.

Something Awful's Hardware/Software forum has a huge thread on SSDs. The thread name is pretty explicit of what NOT to use:

"The SSD Megathread - Don't buy OCZ or Crucial drives, read the OP!"

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=345...

To summarize if you don't have an account:

I don't want to read anything just tell me what SSD to buy! (last updated: 07/25/2013)

The Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe is consistently the best value, get a 240GB or larger drive if you can for best results. The non-Deluxe version uses slightly slower memory, but the Deluxe is usually only ~$5 more expensive so get that unless the non-Deluxe is on sale. See the lists below for more options:

Great, rock-solid drives: * Samsung 840 Pro

* Intel SSD 520 (probably not worth the price premium, discontinued)

* SanDisk Extreme

* Intel SSD 330 (3K-endurance memory)

Good value drives: * Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe (best value, the non-Deluxe version is only a bit slower, but also usually not much cheaper)

* Intel SSD 335 (1.5K-endurance memory, 240GB+ only)

* Samsung 840 non-Pro (1K-endurance memory, 250GB+ only, 120GB version may only last ~3.5 years)

BAD drives to avoid: * OCZ drives have very poor reliability, probably due to insufficient memory validation.

* Kingston drives seem to have reliability issues, perhaps also due to insufficient memory validation?

* ADATA drives also seem to have issues due to memory validation.

* Crucial drives are plagued by firmware issues. The M4 has had a lot of problems but seems to have stabilized (but is a poor value today so shouldn't be purchased), the M500 is brand-new and has known issues, and the V4 is the worst SSD on the market (far slower than an HDD).

* Plextor drives benchmark well but have poorly-tuned firmware.

* SATA300 and other older/last-gen drives are not as reliable as modern drives.

NEW drives to avoid until they mature: * Samsung 840 EVO (potential to be the best SSD)

* SanDisk Extreme II (brand new, lots of potential)

* SanDisk Ultra Plus (would make a decent low-end drive, but isn't usually much cheaper than the other faster drives in the "Good" list above such as the Mushkin Enhanced Chronos)

* Seagate 600 and 600 Pro (new LAMD-based drives, seem to have potential)

* Crucial M500 (960GB model is interesting, but M500 has firmware issues, Crucial has a BAD history resolving those)

* Corsair Neutron (new LAMD-based drive with the same name and better performance, how to tell apart from old slower Corsair Neutron?)

Nothing personal/technological; the reviews of it have been very positive.

It's the $300 MSRP is a just a little ridiculous. (Though I know it takes a lot of R&D.. etc..., but this is just how Firewire devices were: full of promise, but are few and far between plus priced too high)

Ugh, don't get me started on the $300 Belkin Docks. ($250 for the Matrox DS1 / $400 for the Sonnet Echo 15!)

I feel like I'm living in the early days of VHS (USB3) vs. BetaMax (ThunderBolt) right now: Expensive, and while BetaMax is technically better, VHS will win on price & availability.

Can't just signup right away, they require:

Proof of ID:

    ID card
    Driving Licence
    Passport

Proof of address:

    Utility bill (Gas, electricity, phone)
    Bank statement
    Official correspondence

Yes, this is a head-scratcher for those that complain there is no 'upgrade' pricing when the cost of the full app is what the upgrade price /used/ to be.

Same could be said for FCP X: Used to sell for $1600 and new price is $300, and then complaining that there's no upgrade price.

Used for example only, I realize that it wasn't so much an upgrade as a step backwards for functionality.

I recently left a program manager job at an ad agency that got lots of sub-contracting jobs for interactive work. Really couldn't deal with getting to work at 7am to check-in with my developers.

Our entire team of developers is based in Iasi, Romania and our sales/managing is in Beverly Hills. Everyone was an employee and we sometimes lost developers to Amazon being right across the street.

st.nyc - The homepage for the hot-garbage and urine smell of the big apple!

Product of our culture more than anything. We'd all be buff if we barely ate and were outdoors/hunting all the time.

Time travelers from 2007, apparently.

Or have weeks of free time to root out issues with zero documentation except for random forum posts.

I had been using these to game my Dropbox account:

1. Configure the VM up the point of signing up / downloading the client. 2. Change the PC Name & spoof a new Mac Address in the VM. 3. Sign up under a referral code. 4. Rollback to the snapshot in step 1.

Looks like someone from Microsoft has some old warez scene habits.

My father, whom after having some terrible lymph-node cancer about 15 years ago, finally couldn't eat. Due to scar tissue he was breathing in more food than he was eating so now he taking what is more close to Soylent called Jevity through a stomach tube.

http://www.abbottstore.com/therapeutic-nutrition/jevity+reg/...

Comes in many varieties of being calorie dense, and can work out to almost 50 cents a day at 1200 cal diet.

So... expect numerous patent lawsuits in Kentucky?

Don't most people carry a mobile with them?