Nitrousbird

Niffty - learned a few things from there as well.

I was thinking the same thing. "dl movies through netflix and watch them in bluray" Umm, no. - Downloading would be in reference to grabbing the material, saving it to be able to use it later on. Netflix does streaming, not downloading. - Blu-ray is a disc media. This media, when most commonly used in a movie-format, uses a UDF 2.5 filesystem with specific rules on file structures, movie container files (.m2ts files contain the film content), etc. - Netflix streams video using a VC-1 format, which is about the only commonality to Blu-ray films, which typically use either h.264 or VC-1 format (split is about 50/50 in my experience). The quality isn't Blu-ray, and in no way could ever be. Blu-ray main movie files, on a typical newer 1.5 hour film, tend to be at least 30GB with even the HD audio stripped out. To stream 30GB in 1.5 hours, it would require a constant bandwidth of 45Mb/second. No ISP around here offers anything close to that. And though there are some in the nation that do, and they eventually will here, Netflix servers and connections could never handle that kind of bandwidth from its large user base. Instead, Netflix is of varying quality, ranging from nearly unwatchable, You-tube quality videos up to near HD quality videos. Most are in the DVD quality range, and it varies from content to content. Your quality will vary depending on your ISP speed as well.

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. Just ordered another 25 cake pack for $24.99 off of NewEgg (free shipping) a couple weeks ago; single layer BD-R. I was buying them at about $2.40/disc over a year ago. As far as Blu-ray burners go, I have a LG 8x, it's the BH08LS20. They have a 10x and probably higher than that out now. It has worked great on everything except some real junk media I bought a year ago, but I think it can even do that with the Firmware updates that were put out several months ago. I believe mine can also burn LTH discs. They are "supposed" to be cheaper to make, and therefore purchase, but so far that hasn't been the case. They are also not compatiable with all Blu-ray players. I personally haven't messed with any other burners other than my own, but I have had my LG for almost 2 years, have burned a couple hundred Blu-ray discs with it (and a number of DVD's as well).

Sean, bring it over, I have a handheld OBD-II scanner. That will make troubleshooting the problem a lot easier.

Your driveway isn't as wide. It is longer by quite a bit, but take away that width and that is where you lose the square footage. Sure, PM it.

You do yours by hand because gravel is a PITA with a blower. My driveway is abour 1500 sq/ft. I calculated yours out to be 2000 sq/ft (assuming you did your parking area, and driveway edge-to-edge...I didn't look on my way to work). Add in what I clear out in front of my driveway + the back patio, I am about 2500 sq/ft.

WTF is "Sirus?" Some kind of knighthood program I assume?

They replaced the O-ring. Took them for freaking ever to do it (1PM to 7PM), and that's with them giving multiple wrong estimates of when it would be done, so we got to spend an hour sitting in the dealer. At least got to hear them start up and move the DBS that was in the showroom.

Finally got to break the snow blower out. Last year, I spent a good 1-2 back breaking hours shoveling, either the snow or the drifting snow. I was hating life. Bought a 24" Troy-Built 2-stage on a Labor Day sale, and finally broke it out today. DAMN, life is so easy with that thing. Made short work of the snow at about 1/10th the time it would have taken me to shovel. I do need to buy a ski mask, as that shit blows all in your face. I'm never going back to a shovel again! Did my 17x90' driveway + another 20' into our court, sidewalk to the front door, and our 18x35 back patio (all measurements courtsey of Google Earth...the lazy tape measure). Hopefully I did enough of the court so the A-hole snow plow driver doesn't plow us in like he usually does.

Have you considered an Alaskan Malamute? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Malamute

That's why you get a GTX instead.

Then why do you live in one?

My wife's Audi, 2006 that she bought in 08, factory + CPO warranty and 24k miles, 60 months, 0 down, 0.9% through Audi. Jones got the same deal on his S-line as well...and that's for a USED car.

If only this could happen to my rental property so I could collect the insurance and run...

I don't need anything. MAG needs to have them in stock though. Nope, still under warranty. Plus she loves this car; I think the only thing she would want to replace it with is a B8 A4/S4.

I bet Monoprice has a better selection, higher quality stuff, at a lower price. I hope that adapter is just for general web browsing through a TV feature, and not for an Xbox 360 (as PS3/Wii have it built in already). Streaming anything good through wireless is the suck...hard wired is the only way to go.

He posted a CD-RB20...the exact thing I stated in my first post.

Check your math. 0% rate would put him into about an 18k loan.

You could buy a new Ferrari for $300 a month with enough money down. Since no money other than a payment is mentioned, the default assumption would be very little to no money down.

Monoprice. Any use wallplates. Cables hanging out of walls looks like shit.

I already covered that, look at the first post below the original.

Wife's 06 A4 2.0T Auto. Went into the garage this morning (wife already left for work), noticed a wet spot on the garage floor. Sure enough, orange coolant on the ground. Towards the front driver's side of the motor. I haven't looked at the car yet, and it is still under the CPO warranty, so I probably won't look at it at all. I told her to call the dealer ASAP and make an appointment. Is this a common problem with these motors? Her car was just in for service a month ago (did coil pack recall and an oil change, as she gets the oil change for about what it would cost me to do it myself).

I have a Pioneer Premier DEH-980BT, feeds Kicker componets in the front, Infinity Coax's in the rear, and a Eclipse mono-amp feeding two Kicker 10's. I also have Pioneer's iPod adapter; I have an old 20GB iPod that always stays in the truck, and services as a music hard drive, as the head unit controls it. This unit will NOT work with the iPhone; I contacted Pioneer and they have no solution for this. Some of the newer Pioneer units (with USB interfaces) will hard wire to an iPhone. I bought my unit mid 2006, a week after it was released, so iPhones weren't popular back then. They just updated my model this past year, so oddly enough, it is only barely out of date now being 4 and a half years old! For some reason they updated the lower models, while keeping this one as-is for years. My unit also has Bluetooth - it auto-syncs with my iPhone. It works really well, as I can take calls through it, listen to music/Pandora/etc through my system, and when I am using navigation, it speaks through my stereo system as well. Your unit is stuck using the same iPod controller as mine, but doesn't have the Bluetooth. You could use something like the CD-RB20 to hook into your head unit via the headphone jack, but you probably won't like that. Your other solution is to update to a higher optioned head unit.

You are asking the money rate wrong. Only an idiot negotiates a monthly payment, as some others have said. You should go in already pre-approved somewhere, and if their financing is better, sweet. If not, you can fall back on your own. You should ONLY negotiate on price. With 0 down, 60 months (do not go longer than that), and 4% interest rate (this could vary and make a big difference, depends on your credit), you are looking at ~$16,000 loan for slightly under $300/month. So assuming you have no money to put down and decent credit, your question should be what reliable, warrantied, semi-fun, decent fuel mileage vehicle can I get for 15k after negotiating (as taxes/fees/etc. will eat up the rest of your 16kish budget). You could easily find a 2010 Ford Fusion within your budget...or less; they are a dime a dozen and enough listed in your price range that you could be picky about a few colors/options as well. That said, screw a Ford Fusion. You could get into a 2007 Cadillac CTS for your budget, which will likely have a bit of warranty left in it as well. Far better choice IMO.