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Yeah, a lot of people don't understand the conversions. a "40Mbps" connection is going to max out at around 5 Megabytes per second download, in actual real-life usage. Goddamn bit to byte conversion. Always have to take advertised internet speeds and divide by 8. 1000Mbit Google Fiber is...

Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that ISPs advertise speeds in megaBITS. a "40Mbps" connection is going to max out at around 5 Megabytes per second download, in actual real-life usage. Goddamn bit to byte conversion. Always have to take advertised internet speeds and divide by 8...

About 10 years ago, I got offered a promotion with my job that would have doubled my salary, but I would have been required to move to Detroit. I declined, and proceeded to quit and go into a different profession.

Budget? Would $1000 work? Thats about the sweet spot for a good, solid gaming PC nowadays. Does he need a monitor too?

Seriously, find a friend to split it with, you each save $100+ off on each card.

nice deals here for people interested in SLI/crossfire Pair of Gigabyte GTX 660 $241.99, Pair of XFX R9 280x's $348.99 @ Quill.com - Slickdeals.net 2 3GB 660s for $250 2 3GB 280Xs for $350 Thats a savings of about $50 on the 660s, and a $210 savings on the 280Xs(those are usually...

I'm assuming it's not possible to have "real" 5.1 in a headphone which is basically 2 speakers. You can only have "real" 5.1 if you have 5 speakers and 1 sub. edit - I guess they do exist, they are just a little pricier, I didn't see any under $150 or so when doing some quick googling. This...

The worst is when you parents divorce, your dad remarries, but your mom is still single and quite resentful about the whole ordeal. They haven't been in a room together in the last 10 years other than for my wedding and my 1 year olds 1st birthday. Makes holidays lovely, I'd like to start...

Maria Sharapova + Floyd Mayweather at the ESPY awards

Maria Sharapova + Floyd Mayweather at the ESPY awards:

I'm probably spoiled, but I grew up listening to Kevin Harlan and Len Dawson doing chiefs games on the radio. We'd always mute the TV and play the radio feed. Kevin Harlan is great(he mostly does NBA on tv now) Skip to 4:15

Ooma works great, my dad has it, pays like $3.40 a month or something like that(you just pay federal taxes and fees). The only odd thing that I'll warn you about, when he first hooked up his ooma, for the first couple of days there was a slight delay on the line, like you could tell there was a...

I have absolutely no knowledge of the hardware and technologies behind this stuff, but I've always found it odd that your cable line is sending you 200+ crystal-clear HD channels of video all the time, constantly, yet streaming 1 HD video via the internet on that same cable line can bog down...

I had an awesome aunt as a kid that always just mailed me a card with cash in it for my birthday and christmas. Finally one year she asked me if I'd rather her just skip the card and send an extra couple bucks instead, and I jumped all over that. I was happy because I got more money and she...

And make sure to smack them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper when they make a mess

This is how my family has always been for my entire life. Christmas is for the kids, the adults have never bought gifts for each other. Now my wifes family, everyone gets EVERYONE gifts. Its ridiculous, I don't need her 70 year old mother trying to buy me a gift each year, and I don't want...

If Hell exists, they would serve broccoli soup/puree on a daily basis

Yeah but you are a guy. We only call people if we need a specific piece of info. We get it, and we're done. We don't chit-chat about nothing for hours.

I'd like to see us get to the point where TV channels are just websites. Tune your TV to something like amc.tv if you want to watch the Walking Dead when it is on live. Arbitrary numbered channels that differ from carrier to carrier are dumb. I also see no reason that I shouldn't be able to...

Obligatory "People download and save porn?" post

My favorite national(I think) brand of Salsa is Mrs. Renfros. We have it in Missouri, and its made in Texas, so I assume it's fairly widespread. There's like 20 different flavors. The Mango Habanero is my favorite, but their Ghost Pepper Salsa was not as hot as I had expected(wasn't...

Flowers delivered to her office so she could brag to all her co-workers. Nice dinner and drinks out on the town.

You generally set up VOIP one of two ways 1) Plug 1 phone directly into the VOIP box(and it just needs a Cat-5 cable from your router/modem) 2) Plug VOIP box directly into a RJ11 phone jack, which then sends the signal to all jacks in the house on that same line, for use with multiple phones...

I foresee the option of purchasing internet separate from cable TV disappearing at some point. Cable companies will just offer "cable", and that includes whatever you want on TV or the internet, even if you don't use one or the other. It's all coming in to your home on the same lines anyways...

Wheres the cash scanning app?

I bet I haven't been to an actual bank in 2 years. Thank goodness for mobile check scanning

I just put mine together on the kitchen/dining room table. You want a hard(not fabric) surface to build on, and that gives you plenty of room to spread out all your shit, and also be able to walk around it at different angles and such, and also sit comfortably. I've been building computers for...

Get rid of that land line if you have cell phones, it's costing you a fortune. I have TW in an area that has basically no competition, so they gouge me good, but my internet(the fastest they offer here, 50Mbps) is still only $75 a month by itself. That landline is probably costing you about...

I've been carrying around $50 in my wallet for close to a month now, because my dad gave me $50, but I never use cash anywhere, and don't want to jack with change. Hell, it might as well be a gift card to Blockbuster as useless as it is to me.

We have Taco Bell, Taco Bueno, Taco Johns, and we used to have Amigos but I think they all closed down in the last decade or so. Amigos was great though, deep fried burritos were awesome(although not sure why they didn't just call them Chimichangas) and they had a nacho cheese pump/dispenser in...

I wouldn't trust any corporate-run pension program at this point. Take control of your own retirement and invest on your own. Stuff like this scares the crap out of me Is your pension safe? - - MSN Money Sure there are still risks in investing on your own, but I think I'd rather screw up...

It looks like it maybe lasts for a week. On slickdeals, today on July 14th a bunch of new Dell eGift card deals popped up, and it looks like the last round of Dell eGift card deals was on the 7th, and then June 30th before that. Slickdeals: Searching for "Dell eGift Card"

40 Vizio E400i-B2 1080p Smart LED HDTV $397.99 + $150 Gift Card + Free Shipping Dell.com 07-14-2014 - Slickdeals.net $400, comes with a Dell $150 gift card, pick up a free tablet or something to go with it

For newer comparisons, a 6950 is pretty equivalent to an R9 280 (non X) Heres a Battlefield 4 benchmark at 1080p, Ultra settings: Charts, benchmarks 2014 VGA Charts, 16 Battlefield 4 1080p Nvidia 770 = 66FPS Amd 280x = 64 FPS AMD 280 = 50FPS Nvidia 760 = 48 FPS So basically, the...

It's generally 100% dependent on your health in old age, some of it is luck, but a lot of it is how well you take care of yourself when you are younger. I saw two drastic differences just in my 2 sets of grandparents. On my moms side of the family, both grandparents smoked, my grandpa...

I've watched it 3 times now, and laughed through all 3. I swear I'm not drunk or high or anything.

It seems like a lot of major brands bring out their new lines for the year in the Spring, that's one of the best times to look for sales/clearance on last years models. March through May or so.

Or maybe they gave you a stupid high price because they didn't want to screw with a tiny 30 minute job, that's definitely a possibility too.

So buying a $1200 Japanese kitchen knife is basically means you have joined the Yakuza? I'm cool with that

I predict that it will be like and even campier and lamer True Blood. Take a book series that is only marginally decent to begin with, and make it even worse.