I still have my Intellimouse Explorer v1.0 that looks like it has been through hell and back. Well, it been to college and back a few times along with countless lan parties. The only reason I pushed it to the work bench is because the buttons where not working well in games, and the appearance was getting to the point that you wanted a shower before touching it (but it was clean). I followed up with the v3 mouse that looks just like it.

Now, at work I went through several of the v4 mice, they just wouldn't last 2 years.

It isn't hard to use 32GB between photos, home movies, and the handbrake rips of the kids favorite movies. My 32GB phone only has 15GB free (1300 photos and home videos with 1 kid movie, I don't have time I need to move the media to my fileserver). However, my 40GB mp3 player is half full with 128 bit songs and I'm in the process of flac'ing my collection. It will probably be converted to 256 bit when it is stored on my phone.

Sweet, but at what tech level?

How much spear could a spear chucker chuck....

I would like to see a followup to this one. Even if it is a "I'm alive and doing fine"

I'm one of the types that drink only soda at restaurants. I find it to be more consistent, and tastier than water. Once in a while I'll order water if I'm having a beer or I really need it, but most of the time I find it undrinkable at most places. At home, I'll drink water by the gallon, I have really good water at home, straight from the tap at that.

I can drink a 6 pack of standard Dew like it is water, but I can't drink more than 3 throw backs in a day. For some reason it is more filling to me. Now there is a difference in taste, but I preferred the green label throw backs to the white labels ones now.

I aggree, this does sound like an awesome feature. Even though I have a windows install for games, having a VM use it while I'm preping taxes would be great. Wouldn't Windows do its normal "OMG, my hardware changed, FML" freakout session though? I don't recall how much exposure the hardware gets through VM.

This explains why they raised my rates last month. I pay at least $10 dollars more with no change in service. Didn't even send a letter to tell me why.

I wonder that myself. A lot of people I graduated college with in 2004 in Computer Science work for Microsoft. Funny thing is that our school was very much Linux focused and these same people wanted nothing to do with Microsoft.

Make use the CD-R you use is a "vinyl" one:

http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Digital-Vinyl-Multicolor-Spindle/dp/B00009WO51/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354204783&sr=8-1&keywords=vinyl+cdr

I lived west of Dayton at the time and there was countless corn fields that had heavy damage along with many roofs with missing shingles

Odd thing about it was that at the time I was living in a trailer park and nothing happened there, power didn't even go out. All my co-workers in Dayton had to use the gym at the office to shower. Myself? I left for my honeymoon cruise that morning :)

There, fixed it for you

Time to shoot the lameness filter though. I can't fix your quote when the lameness filter gets in the way.

Isn't it easier to update sprite pages than remodel entire levels?

Sure, but tornadoes have this nasty habit of taking out your subscribers houses along with your poles.

No only if they would string up temp lines in the after math while they dig a new trench, but then the housing contractors will just dig it back up

I don't think that speedtest.net is a reliable source for that information. First, only the people paying for the fast speeds are the ones using it to verify, and second, how does the same person rerunning tests affect the statistics?