unfunnyryan

Its not that he has a cult following, its because he has created an incredible brand image of quality, luxury, and performance. Sort of what BMW pretends to be. Credit is due here, he is one hell of a businessman and CEO. He knows how to run a business, and make a fortune off it. I don't know what his political views are, but fuck it, Steve Jobs for President.

When the iPhone came out, there was no app store. At the time, it had less features than many other phones on the market.. This thing has what the iPhone spent years gaining in apps all at the start. This thing has a huge head start on the iPhone, and will probably sell just as well.

I did a little bit of research (I've been posting by phone, just got back to computer) and it seems like what I've found on the iGPU drivers were more about game performance, not really playback. It seems like it has video acceleration for some video formats, and it isn't all that bad. Thats the problem with mini-ITX. You have very, very limited future path. I say really, from a economic standpoint, go full or midsized. You have to get a decent sized case anyways to fit that bigass tuner. I think you should stick with ATX. It doesn't have to be a fullsized board, but you just get more features and performance out of larger motherboards. Not to mention other such problems such as heat, when you have so many things crammed together. Also, it wouldn't hurt to just go with LGA775. There is still some very fast core 2 processors that you can find really cheap at the right places. You don't need a super great video card either, unless you are looking for HDMI with sound output. A lot of on board sound cards have optical outputs, which is reasonably good. Might be able to save some $$ this route, even if you have to buy a video card. I haven't actually tried playing back from a DVD yet. I do believe there is a way to copy or rip DVDs to the hard drive, and it will put them into the movie library, but I'm not 100%. It WILL however display them very nicely (more so than the video section) and it will do this with movies recorded from your tuner as well. You also have the ability to read about the movie, see what its rated, etc. Something else to mention is the movies guide, which shows you what movies are on now and whats coming up. Really saves time if you want to record or watch a bunch of movies. There is a lot of cool plugins, such as Lifesaver, which skips commercials automatically on recorded TV (it takes a bit of configuring to get it right) Overall, the interface for WMC and navigating around it is very easy and intuitive. It behaves like you think it should, and I've never had it just crash on me. The TV guide just works, plain and simple. Recording is a snap, as is setting up advanced recording options. Have you started looking at remotes yet? I use both a remote I got with my tuners (which only half the buttons work in WMC, but its good enough) as well as a apple wireless keyboard I nagged cheap.

I'm shocked at how cheap it is. I can see it being a hit. Hell, with 3rd party accessories and apps, just about any business in the US could take advantage of these. Not to mention everything else. I still think it should of been called the MacPad.

Thats a DAMN fine tuner. I've read some about it, and shit you are going to be happy. I would say with that, you probably would be right with going for a i3/i5, because that thing has some high requirements to it. I use WMC on Win7 as well, and I gotta say it is rock solid. There is a few codec packs that you must have that I will post later when I remember which I installed. Depending on how you want your system to sleep, there's some other settings you will want to pay attention to. I guess if you are using a TV and not a monitor for a display, you probably won't have the same problems I do. The only thing wrong with my build is the drivers for the tuners aren't that stable (damn you ATI 650s) As for extenders, they are the shit. A few people in my dorm have their xboxes set up as extenders and its just amazing. I don't know if you've seen it done before, but it literally just brings up the WMC interface on the xbox, and lets you do just about everything the HTPC can do.

CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.

Neither. I have a HTPC that I use with a 28" MONITOR (yeah) at school as my primary TV. The integrated video is junk for playback right now. The driver support just isn't anywhere near complete. Do yourself a favor and avoid it, and go with dedicated graphics. The Nvidia 9300/9400 are perfect for HD playback, and well supported under all systems. Question: What OS and DVR software are you using? What tuner? I also hope you are planning on getting some quality hard drives. I use WD Caviar Black drives in my system, the 32mb cache really helps with recording. My system also isn't that powerful (you don't need a i5 if you have dedicated video doing the work!) I just have a Intel Atom 330@1.6ghz, 2GB Ram, Nvidia ION graphics, and 2x1TB WD Caviar Blacks. Here is the board I am using. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500036 It has everything you are looking besides a more powerful processor, and is actually smaller than micro atx. It has integrated video equivalent to a 9400, which is capable of playing back mkv bluray rips with no trouble. True, it only has 3 sata ports, but there is a 2TB caviar black drive (its pricey, but you are saving with this board over a i3/i5). If you need a bit of a power boost and your case cooling is good, you can overclock it to 2ghz in 1 simple step in the bios. My ventilation is good enough that I don't even use the included fan, system doesn't put out much heat at all. Let me know if you have any other trouble. Worst case scenario you could maybe return the board and try something else. Edit: Its understandable if you are against using a Atom, but there is also this board by Zotac that you can drop a core2duo into. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500035

1st&last - Juice Box

I don't know what to say about this... It's likely NSFW.

I've used 2.5 gb this month on my droid, most from tethering

You are playing the at&t blame game. "Yeah, our network can't do it BUTTTTTTTT theirs probably can't either!" Just keep on gloating. Verizon has a far more advanced network, and that's that.

These days you just aren't cool unless you are talking and surfing the web on your phone while driving.

You iPhone users don't understand multitasking. No, you don't. Not in the way that Android phones do. For the majority of apps on an iPhone when you hit the home button to return to the main screen, the process ends. You are not seamlessly switching between live apps.

so which of his physical features turn you on the most?

Neither at the moment. Wait and see if a new iPhone comes out in the next month. The software and hardware is due for a upgrade. It may also be coming to another carrier soon, so get ready for that. ...But really, nexus one or droid all the way I rooted my droid a few days ago and I'm having plenty of fun with it.

That then becomes armed robbery, and you are pretty much cleared to take a headshot at that point. Just make sure the first words out of your mouth are "Officer I was scared for my life."

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/unusualICeng/rotaryvalveIC/rotaryvalveIC.htm#alpha Came across this..lots of cool valvetrain designs. I'm surprised more of them aren't in use

No, there will still be people who think its a good idea. Overtime, there will just be less of them.

what has been seen cannot be unseen

Does it pop and crack right near where you plug in the power cable? If so, that's the solder points going bad. Its a common problem and quite easy to fix. Just open it up and dab some solder where it connects to the board, and anywhere else that looks loose.

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No see

Not a pickup either. http://www.snotr.com/video/3646 That guy has balls and skill for doing that.

I used to have a hat like this, that said marmot on it. http://www.skichalet.com/v/vspfiles/photos/1695060111586-1.jpg

I wonder what it would cost if you had it built?