Recent content by punisher

It is not so much the elimination of jobs as it is shifting the location of the jobs....in this instance truckers. Long hauls are going to be automated, and it will happen quickly when liability and insurance regulations are hammered out. There is a lot of money behind this push, and it will...

Many years ago, when Schumacher was in the middle of his glory years at Ferrari, they showed cockpit video similar to that shown in the opening post. Before every turn, on every lap, his right hand would come off the wheel, and reappear less than a second later. The commentators were...

As was mentioned above this isn't in the same class as the D3 receivers. Pioneer/Onkyo just put an "Elite" badge on a VSX. Not knocking it as it is a pretty decent deal.

I used dial up so much I would know my connection speed just from the sound of the modem's handshake.

I had turned 30 about the time Duke was released. Doom, Duke and Quake were my intros to computer gaming (oh the joy of running GLQuake.exe the first time). Sadly, I don't think I ever finished Duke.

Ditto on Charter being one of the lesser evils of cable ISPs. Hoping for Charter take over Time-Warner, at least in my area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2RLTmqG4w

The Apple Corporation's primary responsibility is to it's stockholders. US lawmakers wrote the tax laws. Apple legally exploits those laws. Well done Apple....well done.

Really light this year. I got two SSDs, a 480gig Sandisk Ultra 2 and a 500gig BX100 for about $100 each to replace a pair of 256 gig SSDs in my lappy and Jr's desktop. Steam was finally getting the better of those previous SSDs. Couln't justify the cost of higher end SSDs as these are likely...

Could be best to avoid the 840 EVO series. I don't know if Samsung ever got their problems fixed with the firmware updates. That being said, I have a 500 gig 840 EVO in my gaming rig, and have had no problems with it. Been through a lot of firmware updates though.

"You purchased this item on December 17, 2013" Seriously, for under $50 (I paid $56), it is a deal.

You have different levels of "SHTF". At some levels gold and silver are valuable trading commodities and are a reasonably compact form of hard currency. Once you reach a level of mass shortages of water and food, then precious metals are just shiny things to play with. Ammo becomes the new gold.

Depends. I paid electrical on one of my rental houses while fixing it up. It was an all electric house, no natural gas and I remember it being under 5 cents. At the same time my house was about 8 cents but it has gas heating/water heater/stove.

Tried to edit my post saying that, but no go. Thought it would be neat to have a plug in hybrid to take advantage of this deal, but there is/was fine print about usage limits.

TXU and I think a few more utilities have the free night time electricity deal going on. If your house is occupied during the day, like mine, then it isn't such a great deal due to AC demand during the late morning/afternoon. Elon Musk and his home battery systems would be popular here.