Recent content by pwjone1

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    QOTD: Would You Pay For Content Online?

    Big caveat: I wouldn't mind paying, but if and only if the content was unique and of interest. For a lot of newspapers, the majority of content is articles from AP, Reuters, New York Times, or various other news sources. Very little is actually unique, local news. I wouldn't mind paying for...
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    American Cable Association Wants Bandwidth Caps

    This, plain and simple, looks like a stop-gap move by the cable companies to: 1) Stifle competition from Netflix, Hulu, etc. to their offerings 2) Make more money I wouldn't mind so much if I was paying for actual bandwidth, but the instances where the cable company runs near "quoted" data...
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    High End Audio: A Non-Consumer Show

    I guess I look at the $25k speaker pair the same way I might a $250k Lamborghini or Bentley automobile. Some of what they're selling may be legitimate, some of it may just be image. There are people out there where a $25k speaker is nothing (heck, there are speakers out there like Wilson or...
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    Data Recovery from Damaged Partitions on a HDD

    My deepest sympathies. As someone that's lost an awful lot of drives over time (somewhere around 5-6 and counting), I know the pain. Began running home systems in RAID 1, which helped the last couple of times before last, but the last one blew away two drives on what I assume was probably a...
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    Case Reviews need to Include Thermal & Noise

    The Tom's case reviews are nice, insofar as they go, in that a lot of cases get reviewed, and it is good to know if we'll get cut building a system, and what sort of board sizes and drives can be mounted, and so forth. However, I would really like to see the reviews extended to include a couple...