Greg818
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The Learned People of Tested: Does WiFi/cellular belong in class?
on the General Discussion board.
@MAGZine: Indeed, or even better, do as I used to: sneak out and go have a McMorning (or a raspberry scone or whatever floats your boat), this way you won't disturb everyone with all the yawning and snoring, and you'll be ready for a huge lunch. Downside is, when you spend half your day eating, you're real sleepy, and you just can't do anything in the afternoon. Darn, it's a ...
4 days ago
Greg818
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The Learned People of Tested: Does WiFi/cellular belong in class?
on the General Discussion board.
Oh my! I'm king to do my "expression and communication" teacher proud with a three point argumentation (what is it again? Thesis, antithesis and conclusion? Darn I already screwed up).ThesisAccess to information should never, EVER, be forbidden. Plus, a cellphone (i.e. something you use to actually make a call) is a safety device, just as much as CB radio and whatever 'feces' (couldn't use the word I would have said) ...
4 days, 3 hours ago
@Fish_Face_McGee: I don't ever choose nitrate but compression or target size. But that was exactly my point, the nitrate is somewhat more important than just the raw resolution. But the quality was here in both files, that wasn't a problem. It's just that it's really not that obvious, plus once you're in the movie, watching, it just doesn't matter, unlike, well, for me at least, the audio quality. I'd rather ...
1 week, 5 days ago
@Arkasai: You seem to be confused OGG is the container, Vorbis a codec. Vorbis is lossy, but you can use FLAC. But yes, of all the remaining stuff today, and at the same bitrate, MP3 is probably the worst.And, that's what I was going to say, my girlfriend uses some lousy stuff at home, and that pains me dearly (it not like she can't afford better), so I made her ...
1 week, 5 days ago
@Jayross: Well, quite a few things actually. First, for me (I'm stressing that I'm only an amateur, and that this is my personal opinion), this is either too wide angle or not enough, the curve in the road should be entirely in the picture or not at all. I would say not at all, so you remove the trees in the front, which aren't adding anything to the picture. Also, ...
1 week, 5 days ago
Greg818
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Volkswagen and starwars, somehow they made it work...
on the Random/Funny board.
No they did not!You should check the bud light ones, especially the not too heavy not too light (with the redneck breakup, the waiter through the window and the nail gun to the 'privates'), but they're all fun. Not in the same register but you'll have plenty of them to watch...
1 week, 6 days ago
@MAGZine: Yes, but my allusion to cars is, well, as good as a car's equipment might be, you have a lot of parasitic sounds coming from the tires, the engine/accessories and stuff... so overall it's not necessarily that easy to hear the good/bad stuff.For the FLAC on Apple stuff beeswax, you can still have Plex over 3G on the iPhone (better have a sturdy data plan). Though the way things ...
1 week, 6 days ago
@IdosheJungo: Just to pill up, I'd recommend TumblR too. Just because you didn't have enough choice (though it's not really the same thing)
1 week, 6 days ago
@MAGZine: Darn, I know I would. Though, everything on my fruit devices is 128k AAC... and given the size (and ever growing) of my library, I would probably never switch them to FLAC. That and the fact that I listen to them in the car or street mostly, you see where I'm going with that?Back in the SD DVDs days, I used to encode them in RV9/OGG (Matroska), but, now, ...
1 week, 6 days ago
Greg818
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Need Help Finding a Burr Grinder Under $100 for French Press!
on the Coffee board.
@lane said: @Shivoa: I agree with everything you said about it. However, I find the grinding itself to be entirely satisfactory for the price, so I'm more than willing to live with the other quirks. I've worked in different shops in my time using grinders with four-figure price tags, and I think the Krups is a steal for what it is. I've got to agree on that. @Shivoa: Also, it's not ...
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Greg818
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Need Help Finding a Burr Grinder Under $100 for French Press!
on the Coffee board.
@DarkGamerOO7: I've used that for nearly two years now, and quite a few of us here do too. It goes coarse enough for French press, and fine enough for espresso.
1 month, 3 weeks ago
@Evelgest: I'd add to what lane said that you need a fine enough grinding too. (Not too much or it's gonna get messy)
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Greg818
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iOS5 Users: little note about iMessage (battery life)
on the General Discussion board.
Actually I think it had a lot to do with the fact that the app was constantly on, the constant refresh along typing and all, we might have exchanged more than a hundred messages. The thing is that it's incredibly fast, much faster than text messages, I noted that when we were almost back to back, when I touched send, I heard the sound on hers that she had received ...
3 months ago
Greg818
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$500 coffee upgrade budget, just spend it all on a grinder?
on the Coffee board.
@DefaultGen: I think that unless you run a coffee shop, spending more than $200 is a bit silly. You will only get something shinier, but doubtfully better results. My advise would be to get a decent grinder for $100-150 (there are plenty very good), then spend the rest on a decent espresso machine. A machine that will only do espresso, and nothing else, because as soon as you add extra, ...
3 months, 1 week ago
Greg818
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Best device to play music off my iphone while I take a shower?
on the General Discussion board.
I have a stereo in my bedroom, I just crank the volume and leave the bathroom door opened... Also, I would really recommend not to leave the iPhone in the bathroom out of consern for moisture, that could smear the humidity sensors, therefore void the warranty (if you take showers/baths as hit as I do sometimes, it' like San Francisco in there!)
3 months, 1 week ago
Well, the joe glo is what I've been using for nearly 10 years, and it does wonders. It is exactly what it's been designed for by the way, so it actually only does what it's supposed to. But if you can find a jar, you'll have it for years. And by the way, well I forgot where you can find it, but I'll ask again, at least I remember that ...
3 months, 1 week ago
Greg818
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Why hasn't sound become the next big thing in TV?
on the Home Theater board.
@diz: No no, it's just that I don't have the courage to explain because it's long, but just take a look at the small Bang and Olufsen speaker I linked... a few days ago, the a three way, with four drivers (so far so good?), with the said design, i.e. two drivers is one enclosure, with opposing movement (limiting vibration). I'll admit, it's not the best quality out there, but ...
3 months, 1 week ago
Greg818
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Why hasn't sound become the next big thing in TV?
on the Home Theater board.
@diz: No, the low frequency channel only has low frequencies (or is it only for 5.1?). Plus I'm not saying pick any given cabinet with a driver, then stick another one and you double the output. This is going nowhere. Mr Buick is WEB_War4 (his avatar is Buick's logo).
3 months, 1 week ago
Greg818
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Why is OSX Lion, such a piece of shit...?
on the General Discussion board.
@zomeck: I might state the obvious, but you never know: check all the soft that crash, make sure they're up to date. Also, why not just use Safari that works perfectly fine? For the RAID, are you using the internal RAID card provided by Apple, or is it external? I'd also check if everything's fine (disk utility). The disk utility might actually solve both the crashing RAID and slow boot up ...
3 months, 1 week ago
@schmitty: Like KarateKid hinted, but didn't say, you might (probably) have some oily build up in there. I use some Joe Glo , it's fast and easy. Just dump a spoon in your water, and make a cycle like that (w/o coffee, obviously) and since a few times (you'll know it's clean when the water stops smelling). It cleans in deep, and it's much more efficient than soap to remove ...
3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Paul_Lilly
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Just watched Paul Pierce drill a 3-pointer to surpass Larry Bird as 2nd leading scorer in Celtics history. Very impressive!
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bagels
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I never realized how absurdly large Bell's HSPA+ coverage area is in Alberta. Almost the whole province: http://t.co/eJ1cfI10
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Jeff
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