Posted 09/10/2009 at 04:51:25pm

Well, I want to run it with four midrange 1080P projectors @ 3840x2160. No bars in your screen.

Posted 11/03/2008 at 06:13:50pm

I, too, trusted your BotB recommendation and picked up two of these drives from NewEgg, ignoring the low user rating.  About six weeks after installing them, one has gone bad, consistently throwing IO errors and locking up my whole machine for 5-25 seconds at a time. The worst part is that i'm outside NewEgg's return window, and Samsung says that if their ES-Tool diagnostic software doesn't detect a failure they won't RMA the drive. Of course ES-Tool says the drive is fine, and even if I could return it Samsung would only give me a refurbished drive in exchange.  That stinks.

Posted 11/03/2008 at 05:59:13pm

'nuff said.

Posted 09/22/2008 at 12:39:58pm

From: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/history-of-august.html

Augustus for 'August' After Julius's grandnephew Augustus defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and became emperor of Rome, the Roman Senate decided that he too should have a month named after him. The month Sextillus (sex = six) was chosen for Augustus, and the senate justified its actions in the following resolution: Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextillis . . . thrice entered the city in triumph . . . and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus. Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius's month, July, had 31 days, Augustus's month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month. To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary: * The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year). * Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.

Posted 09/05/2008 at 10:41:03pm

August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.

This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the ancient Roman calendar, which started in March about 750 BC under Romulus. It became the eighth month either when January and February were added to the beginning of the year by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC or when those two months were moved from the end to the beginning of the year by the decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers disagree). It was renamed in honor of Augustus in 8 BC because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, which fell in this month. Lore claims August originally had 29 days in the Roman Republican calendar. Augustus took two days from February and gave it to August when Sextilis was renamed in his honor. See Month lengths how this commonly believed lore was proven wrong.

August's flower is the gladiolus or poppy, and its birthstone is the peridot.

From wikipedia.

Posted 08/13/2008 at 03:36:58pm

I bought a 60GB PS3 back in June, last year when the price dropped, expressly as a BR player. A year before I bought the PS3 I bought a HD home theater projector, so I was ready to go the day it arrived on my door step.  I haven't regretted my purchase once since I watched my first BR movie.  The fact that I use it for Rock Band parties is just icing on the cake.

On the other hand the only BR movie I've purchased is the BBC Planet Earth series.  Everything else is a Netflix rental.  I never really bought many DVDs either.  Netflix makes it so easy to get any movie you want in 48 hours I just don't feel compelled to buy movies anymore.

Posted 07/23/2008 at 04:23:02pm

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! June!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

that is all.

Posted 07/11/2008 at 03:23:08pm

Where is the June PDF???

Posted 07/11/2008 at 03:22:12pm

I would like to see a cummulative distribution graph on every Hard Drive box that displays the percentage of drive failures per year for five years for that particular model or series of drives.

 It would be more informative than a million-hours-plus MTBF rating.

For example:

1% of these drives failed in the first year

1.5% failed in the second year making the likelyhood of failing in the second year  2.5%

1.5% failed in the third year making the likelyhood of failing in the third year 4%

...

and so on

but, it's probably too much to expect from a company trying to sell a product.