When I pick stuff for myself I usually tend to go cheaper. Like 7950 over 7990. Or i5 over i7. You can get some extra important stuff for the difference in money for those components. But my knowledge in camera department is worse than PC stuff. (Kinda funny if you consider that my main job is photography). I can afford D5100, but I also can afford D3100 with some extra stuff attached to it.


When I'm out of time and desperate enough I ll probably do that But I'm afraid she might be opposed to the idea of a new camera, cause our D40 is still good. But it's lacking in some departments, and sometimes we need to film a video, and our smartphones do that poorly.

Set fan speeds to low and install one big outtake fan instead. I find these almost enjoyable to have around. I'm so used to static noises when I go to sleep, I feel very uncomfortable in "total" silence. Because I'm starting to discern and pick out other random noises, like some distant barking outside, or a spider running on the wall, or rain, you name it.

Nikon D3100 body is 241EUR
Nikon D5100 body is 330 EUR

D5100 has better resolution, swivel LCD - which is good for making strange angle shots and video. It can film with a little bit higher fps. It has microphone jack. It supposedly has better HIGH ISO performance (although I rarely use ISO higher than 400). It has a newer sensor, but it's impossible to find side by side comparison photos on the net.
D3100 is almost 100EUR cheaper, which can buy me some extra lens or flash.

Anyone of you has D3100 and can swear by it? Or maybe 5100?

It's intended for my gf's birthday, and I don't want to spoil a surprise by asking her opinion. Canon and other brand's are out of the question, as we have some nikon lenses with our old d40 already.

Windows kernel works on every machine, even older ones.

Linux distros hiccup on less known/old hardware.

In the recent year I had two cases where Linux falls flat on unknown hardware.
But it's free of course, for some it's hard to beat.

you all forget that it also has to be safe from the user's forgetfulness

it has to have some backup options too

dog's collar? what the hell are you thinking? And if it runs off or something? Same goes to other examples.

love to see this drop it's price

sounds like a panic beafore an end of beta when blizzcon hits the ground (a week from here)

good luck with selling, lol.

There's no ideal solution. No utopia for you, sorry. Not in your lifetime, or in a lifetime of your kids. Only thing you can do is to steal/earn enough for yourself and those that are close to you, and live happily ever after in some remote corner, as far as you can be from any government. People are competitive by nature, they work in their own interests, and there are too many people with too many interests. It's logical that given the power you usurp that power. If someone is delusional enough to believe in some greater good, this is only a stage in his life, until a point where his delusions are replaced with common sense, coming in terms with his needs.

Прикольно. Я ща свои др праздную, так заодно за биток выпью. Хуззах!

Mass Effect series is one of the best in vg history. One of the reasons is the amount of work (and $) that went into it.

In theory - every W you draw to power something, turns into heat energy, one way or another. Even light from lightbulbs.

I'm heating my apartment with my last gfx card, it pays for itself ++, but with the cost of litecoin going down it will eventually end.
If I had no other use for this card, except for mining - I would probably sell it, because it can devalue fast. But if the card is so old, that you can't sell it - I guess it's ok to use it a crypto-heater.

Also videocards were not designed to run 24/365
Even at modest settings something is bound to go off, be it a fan, or something worse. If you have no warranty then this is worst idea ever.

Finally - electricity is usually the most expensive source of heat.

But... but...

Blasphemy!

Give it a week and you'll be fine.
Just delete unused tiles from start menu to make it clean and organised.
I personally skip it on auto and use icons on a taskbar/desktop

If you want to go to desktop Win+D
If you want to shut down - Alt+F4 from desktop with nothing in focus

On my gf's laptop - I've set the power button to shutdown, and closing lid to sleep,which is best I think.

If you miss start button too much - there's a lightweight fanmade software for that, butI don't think that's so necessary.

Funny thing - in win8.1 they have added (kinda) the start button back

and the MOST IMPORTANT combo -  WIN+X    (includes everything you need in 8, and even more in 8.1)

Or buy some bum a bottle of vodka for £10 and use his id.

Waiting for beta to end and spending that btc on packs will give you more juice, if paying for useless stuff is your thing.

Moderat - New error

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsdvv8LFrqY


Loving the distorted beginning. Video is subpar though.

I thought that twitter is the main tool of fast coordination?

I don't have a twiiter or facebook account myself, and I still cannot understand how people tolerate the way facebook changed things.

How about releasing a new fork of bitcoin marking that address as invalid? Of course it should be implemented as silently as possible, so no word gets out to cops. It would be a fun "politicalmove" an "exertion of power"

Of course it breaks the whole system, but once, just for this case? 

I wonder how those things can survive for that long

But I do not see a problem here either. Why it's ok to kill other animals on industrial scale while it's bad to keep a small animal in a small container for a period of time?

I can only agree that it's a "bad taste" but not the end of the world.

If you would like to touch China on animal issues, you should target poachers and such, who hunt rare animals pieces for boogey-woogey-woo-do medicine magic. Those animals are at least endangered.

don't be ridiculous, win8 is a big improvement

for example when swapping from intel to amd mobo, after 2 restarts it accepts new system. Win7 failed that test.
sure metro is unneded, but it's a matter of taste, and does not deserve all the bad mouthing it gets. Critique is from people who did not go further than a screenshot of metro in teh internetz.
ssd handling is improved, memory handling is improved and the goddamn thing  boots like a champ (which is a cheaply done hack, but still )

xp did it job, with little requirements, but it wasn't the most stable OS in the world, and when sp3 came out it was a pain
when i went to win7, I rarely got some lockups and was very impressed, although I went there very reluctantly and only after sp1
now on win8 I'm yet to experience one