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Venturing into the world of motorcycles, took my MSF class last weekend and bought this KLR today. Previous owner was top-class guy from Scotland who really kitted it out, a really good adventure bike.

Aye, I shot video of 2 hiking trips and a road trip over the summer with a dslr, bought a bunch of different straps and accessories but only ended up using the $5 wrist strap I got on amazon.

I'm still happy with my Vive purchase after 2 years, the controllers have never felt clunky to me but then i've never tried out the Rift's. My only problem with VR in general is that it takes up space to do properly and honestly standing gets tiring - so games like Skyrim or Fallout 4 it's hard to make progress because you can only really play them for an hour at a time, but other than that it's still fun. Pricing is a big issue as well though - you're rendering the game twice so you need a top GPU and the rig itself is expensive (double if you want the higher resolution Vive headset).

Yeah I have a blue and white G3 which can still access the internet.

When you're so good at your job you get dumped with more work load and more responsibilities at the same time but of course don't get a pay raise.

IIRC water pumps take longer to heat up but also take longer to cool down, if you're doing CPU-intensive tasks then go overkill on water cooling. On the flip side with air cooling the heatsink immediately heats up but also immediately cools down which is important when the CPU is working for hours on end. With both you need proper air flow but more so with an air cooler than an AIO which should already have plenty of fans included. If you're just doing gaming then a $100 AIO or a $50 air cooler will be just fine.

Had a 4S, never broke never had a problem until Apple nerfed it with an OS update so I got a Samsung Galaxy S5. Android is easy to use love the memory expansion feature and the camera was very nice, but the phone itself broke 4 times in a variety of ways: first the charging port cover snapped off, which eventually led to moisture damage when I went on a trip to Florida (never got wet, just the moisture in the air was enough), that required a new board which meant replacing the screen as well. The replacement screen broke, which required yet another screen. The front-facing camera then popped off the screen, then the main camera's protective glass shattered on its own. Then the 2nd replacement screen cracked in half on its own in my pocket. Then more moisture damage somehow. So I gave up and bought a 7, been good so far. I hate using iTunes, but at least I don't have to worry about the phone breaking in my pocket.

I would take XP's design over Windows 10's design, it feels like Microsoft is sniffing glue.

Linux feels to me like Windows did back in the early XP era.

People like this don't know when to quit, most programmers I know IRL are very passionate about their work and this type of personality would eventually get shoved aside, it's just too bad when somebody forces drama and ruins people's contributions for their own selfish gain.

Tbh I had a crappy work ethic when I went to college and didn't really know what I wanted to do, I wish I had gotten a job for at least a year before going. If nothing else it gets you away from the somewhat artificial world of education and helps build better work ethic and a better perspective upon actually attending. Not to mention universities are trying to appeal to people who are in the work force nowadays, so transitioning shouldn't be as hard today.

The new Vive head strap (which borrows ideas from both the Oculus and PSVR headstraps) is pretty comfortable, also tracking is to VR as handling is to a car. That said I don't really know if VR is worth as much as it costs, I mean I have a lot of fun playing Fallout 4 and Skyrim in VR and the arcadey games are fun but it's still a LOT of money to throw at something you can only have fun for short periods of time with...

As far as surge protection goes there's no difference between a regular surge protector and most consumer UPS's, also since it's just to protect a home theater system i'd just go with a good regular surge protector and instead make sure the house and outlets are properly grounded. If you want you can ground an individual outlet, that said lightning can arc pretty easily over any surge protector so the only full-proof protection is to just unplug stuff from the wall during a really nasty storm. Now there are UPS's that effectively act as a shield or buffer between electronics and the grid and they do this by powering everything off the battery at all times and charging from the wall but they're also very very expensive and mostly for commercial (ie: servers). Consumer UPS's (like the $150 ones) draw power directly from the wall, with a spare battery on the circuit that the UPS switches to in the event of a power outage however that can cause an issue as that switch over to the battery could be too slow for some setups (this is why servers use the really expensive UPS's).

My very first custom PC in 2001 I cheapened out on PSU and motherboard, ended up killing everything a few months later.