Nope. You're more than welcome to do so. Please feel free to re-post it as much as you wish. You may want to check my spelling though as you probably care more about type-Os than I do. ;-)

Yes, both are true. I'm merely a fucking vulgar incompetent proof reader that is prone to making type-Os...

...And IP lawyers are fucking morons that should all be fed to sharks.

...That's the real story here.

I'm going to have to go with input device, my Logitech Trackman wheel. I bought its predecessor originally for $100 back in the early 90's and have made sure I have one on every computer I use since.

But every time I upgrade some component it seems like a great thing. Going from monochrome to color monitors was fantastic. Then from a 15" to a 21" to dual 21" monitors was great. I like the extra screen real-estate and desk space with my current dual 24" flat panels, but I still think the dual Eizo CRT's looked better.

Going from a crappy VGA to a Matrox Millennium was a phenomenal improvement for 2D. Adding a Voodoo FX card took Quake and Hexen to a whole new level. Obviously every new card since has been a step up, but nothing as extreme as what those two cards were.

Having a system running on 4 Megs of RAM and going to 16 and then 32 megs was insanely noticeable. But these days unless you have a seriously under built machine, RAM doesn't have quite the same impact.

I noticed a big difference between my old 5400 HD and the Micropolis 7,200 RPM SCSI drives I upgraded to. Also a difference in decibels. When I went from 15,000 RPM SCSI to SSD, I noticed a difference, but not the golly gee wiz I was expecting.

I've had gigabit copper in my house for over a decade, so my memory has kind of faded about the jump from 10 to 100 to gig. But I never tried moving 5 GB files around on those very often either.

What about print quality and speed going from dot matrix and daisy wheel printers to modern laser printers. It's funny how we've long surpassed "photo realistic" ink jet printing. That seemed to be the big marketing buzz in the mid to late 90's. Scanner speeds have gotten dramatically better too.

Probably my second favorite upgrade is between dial-up and broad band internet. Frankly that dwarfs just about everything else.

On the off chance you ever meet one, I'd advise you keep that to yourself. ;-)

Actually kodiak bears are tied with the polar bear and both are estimated to have a max. peak weight of 1500 lbs. for males. Still, it's pretty damn small compared to 9 tons.

They both seem to be more interested in accumulating more power for themselves than doing what's right for the country. Granted they both have different ways of doing it. But they seem to be equally idiotic and are looking for the same outcome for themselves.

Just look at the Tea Party and the Wall Street protesters.To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi: The Teabaggers were corporate funded brown-shirt Nazi racists, similar to the violent groups of the 60's and 70's. The Wall street people are just a great grass roots group of patriots. If you ask a republican you will get just about the complete opposite description of each of those groups.

In all honesty the republicans are starting to look slightly (very slightly) less insane at the moment. However when you have two groups that are full-on bat-shit crazy, I'm not too sure how much that slight difference really matters. I've rarely voted for either of the major two parties, and I don't think I voted for anyone who currently holds a federal office.

Way worst [sic] than what? Oh, never mind. Go put on your Guy Fawkes mask back on and keep thinking there is a difference between people with a "D" or an "R" next to their name. Citizen protections have, at times, been much worse prior to Bush. (Un)fortunately "We the People" used to be much more naive in the past and believed everything our gov't told us.

Wasn't Canadian Thanksgiving yesterday?

I don't know about Hitler, but it's "photo terrorism" to be sure. ;-)

Fixed that for you.

Efilgnikcufecin.

Granted 2K had some driver issues in the beginning but once those were fixed I found it to be much better than XP. I was running 2K until just around two years ago. I finally went to XP because I got tired of dealing with some software I wanted to run that had to be on XP due to DRM requirements.and Vista had so many issues and I wanted to see how 7 ended up. I have Win 7 for work and one of my home systems now.

2K was by far better when compared to XP than Vista was at release compared to 7.

I'm sure I have some old laptop drives that are 4200 RPM too.

I would think that for a magnetic field of the magnitude claimed tesla would be the appropriate measurement. 10,000 gauss= 1 tesla.